In the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, President Obama breaks down in tears. Is this genuine or is it all a bigoted, cynical ploy to make us feel bad for him and make us embrace him even though we know he's not feeling well? Ben Shapiro argues that this is just another example of the left's obsession with President Obama's cry-fest and how it's meant to distract us from the real issue at hand, which is that President Trump is not running for president. He's running for re-election, and we should embrace him because he's got a heart and a big enough heart to do anything he wants to do, even if it means crying in front of the cameras. Ben Shapiro explains why this is a cynical ploy, and why we should be mad at the left for making fun of him for crying in public about something that's not even remotely genuine. He also points out that President Obama has cried at least 13 times in public in public, but it's a different thing from crying at a 9/11 memorial or during a press conference. That's a thing that happens on the streets of Chicago every day, and it happens in public every day. And, you know what, it's not about the kids? It's about the parents, not the parents. You're not crying because you're sad, you're crying because they're sad because you don't have the heart to cry, are you, right? And we're supposed to feel sorry for the president because he cares so much about them? and wants us to embrace him, because he loves them so much more than we care so much that he doesn't have a heart? What's wrong with that he cries because they care enough to care enough about them that they're better than us to cry because they should care enough that they should feel bad about it? Well, guess what? that's right, they don't even care about them, right?? they're not even though they're crying? . They care enough for him that they care about him. that he s crying because he s not crying. enough to cry about them and they don t care enough so they should be grateful for him that s not even enough that he cares enough to be upset about it or they should cry about it, right ? at least enough to feel bad?
00:00:04.000We've made it through the first work week of 2016 together, and we're going to talk about President Obama's weepy-fest a little more, how the left has gone absolutely bananas over this thing, and why they're giant, cynical douchebags.
00:00:16.000And we're also going to talk about Donald Trump's attack on Ted Cruz's eligibility for the presidency and why I think he's being cynical.
00:00:32.000Okay, well, as you recall, President Obama, just a few days ago, he did his gun control presser.
00:00:37.000Tonight, he's supposed to do his town hall event with Anderson Cooper, which will be an absolute testosterone-filled masculinity fest.
00:00:45.000And President Obama, a few days ago, he does his press conference, and in the middle of talking about how he wants more gun control, you know, the kind of gun control he didn't do in his executive orders, but pretended to do,
00:00:56.000For those who missed it, here's the President of the United States doing his model and crying routine, and as I said yesterday, the more I see this, the more I think that this is manipulation, that I don't think that this is authentic, I really feel.
00:01:30.000So when I say this is insincere, what I mean is that this is planned.
00:01:33.000The feelings are sincere, but it's planned.
00:01:35.000So he's really sad and he's really upset.
00:01:38.000But I don't know whether he's thinking about whether his dog died or the kids in Sandy Hook.
00:01:41.000Maybe he is thinking about the kids of Sandy Hook.
00:01:43.000The bottom line is, this was a manipulation specifically put into his press conference so that we could have the following logic from the left.
00:01:51.000Obama cries because he is a pure, glowing angel.
00:02:03.000He has the greatest, biggest heart, this demigod.
00:02:06.000And if you are not crying with him, that's because you don't have the heart that he does, and his heart means that we should listen to him on everything else, and we should not fear him.
00:02:30.000So here's President Obama crying, and then we'll get to all of the response to President Obama crying.
00:02:45.000Every time I think about those kids, it gets me mad.
00:02:51.000And by the way, it happens on the streets of Chicago every day.
00:02:59.000Okay, he's deliberately leaving the tears on his face, by the way, so that the cameras can hit him.
00:03:03.000You hear that pause, that pause is, I mean, I was counting in my head there, one one thousand, that's it, that's a seven second pause, while the cameras, which is a long time, that's a seven second pause while President Obama looks around the room and waits for the cameras to come at him.
00:03:15.000And, you know, and he's got the tears on his face and so we're all supposed to feel bad for him and feel bad for him because he obviously cares so much and he isn't getting his way.
00:03:24.000When people like me said this, Andrea Tanteros over at Fox News, she made a joke about how Obama was probably rubbing onion under his eyes to make himself cry.
00:04:44.000In 2013, February 2013, he wiped a tear from his eye before presenting the Presidential Citizen's Medal to military, healthcare, social, and civil service heroes.
00:04:53.000He cried as he listened to the Children of Gospel Choir in January 2013 during his post-inauguration service.
00:04:58.000He cried actually twice within two days over his own inauguration because he's just that special.
00:05:03.000He cried in December 2012 after he had the Sandy Hook press conference, right?
00:05:07.000So during that press conference, he teared up.
00:05:10.000Which at least that one makes more sense because that happened at the time.
00:08:18.000And then Trevor Noah, over on Comedy Central, who is the most unfunny person in America, he does the exact same routine.
00:08:26.000And so here's Trevor Noah being deeply unfunny and patronizing.
00:08:32.000No matter how opposed to Obama's policies some people may be, or how cynical their politics, they have to at least acknowledge and respect the raw authenticity of that emotion.
00:12:49.000When I think of these kids who are not privy to the American dream, and giving the ability to kids to have the American dream, and then he starts crying there.
00:12:56.000Now, I'm somebody who made fun of John Boehner crying.
00:12:58.000I don't think it's manly for men to cry in public office.
00:13:15.000What you'll see here is Samantha Bee suggesting that Republicans are cynically using tears in order to generate support for their agenda.
00:13:25.000Why, it's almost as though Comedy Central is inconsistently attacking Republicans for the same thing that they find inhuman when anyone suggests that President Obama does it.
00:13:38.000For more on the new Congress, Samantha Bee joins us from the Capitol.
00:13:41.000Sam, how do the House Republicans... How do they think... Sam, how do the Republicans think they're gonna accomplish an agenda that seems at odds with itself?
00:13:53.000Well, the key, John, is their leader, John Boehner.
00:13:56.000I mean, that man can go from zero to snot in 6.4 seconds.
00:14:00.000Yes, the Republicans are in the capable hands of Captain Blubberpants.
00:14:06.000Sam, how does that change the fact that if Republicans exempt themselves from paying for their own pet projects and tax cuts, they're actually going to end up increasing the deficit, the exact thing they were elected not to do?
00:14:55.000All these idiots on Comedy Central, all these cynical leftists, oh, how dare you impugn the honor of President Obama?
00:15:02.000Well, it seems like when the shoe's on the other foot, you're perfectly happy doing it to Republicans, so I'm not gonna buy your whole Obama's a demigod routine, and it shows the idolatry on the left, it really does, and it is idolatry.
00:15:11.000Okay, how many Republicans make fun of John Boehner for crying?
00:15:59.000No matter how opposed to Obama's policies some people may be, or how cynical their politics, they have to at least acknowledge and respect the raw authenticity of that emotion.
00:16:46.000Trevor Noah and Larry Wilmore, all these people, they can go screw themselves.
00:16:49.000Because they are all hypocrites and they are all liars and they are all cynics.
00:16:53.000And if they, honest to God, if you believe for one half of a millisecond that if a Republican called a press conference about abortion and started crying in the middle of the pre-planned press conference because they didn't get their way on abortion, if you don't believe they would be all over that person, right, and saying that person was crying deliberately in order to override women's rights,
00:17:16.000Then you don't know the left as well as you should, because this is how deeply cynical they are.
00:17:49.000Sorry, it was December 2014, Donald Trump specifically said that he had questions about Cruz's eligibility.
00:17:55.000Now that actually makes sense, that he has questions about Cruz's eligibility, because after all, Trump had questions about Obama's eligibility.
00:18:02.000Now if you go back to when he had questions about Obama's eligibility and look at the legal case there, the case that Trump was making is that if you had an American citizen parent and you were born abroad, you were not natural born.
00:18:16.000And that means, by definition, that he can't be natural born, even though his mom is an American citizen.
00:18:22.000So if that was something that deeply bothered Trump then, you would imagine it would bother him about Cruz, because Cruz was born to an American citizen in Calgary.
00:18:28.000So it's exactly the same thing, it's just Canada versus Kenya.
00:18:31.000Now, realistically, you know, really, Obama wasn't born in Kenya, he was born in Hawaii, but the point I'm making is that it wouldn't have made a difference.
00:18:38.000If he was born in Kenya, if his mom was a citizen, he was a natural born citizen, end of story.
00:18:42.000Right, so it doesn't make it, but if you believe that that's not enough, that you have to be born in the United States, then Trump should be consistent.
00:18:48.000He should think it's a problem for Obama, and he should think that it's a problem for Cruz, right?
00:18:53.000Well, then, back in September, when he was friends with Cruz, he said, I think all those questions have been answered about Cruz, which doesn't make any sense.
00:19:00.000And then, now, he brought it back up, and then he backed off of it, and he said, well, I think Cruz is okay, but I think just in case, he should probably go to court and get a declaratory judgment.
00:19:09.000I'm really trying to do him a favor, because if I don't attack him, then certainly the Clintons will.
00:19:14.000Certainly the Clintons will come after him.
00:19:16.000I was talking with Jeremy Boring, managing editor of the site, and Jeremy made a great analogy.
00:19:22.000He said, this is sort of like if I cheated with your wife and then told you that it was for your own good because you needed to find out whether she was a cheating floozy and now you know.
00:19:30.000So the idea is Trump attacks Cruz in order so that Cruz will do the right thing and go get a declaratory judgment to protect him from the Clintons.
00:19:46.000There were questions about John McCain's eligibility, if you remember, back in 2008, because John McCain was born on a military base outside the United States.
00:20:44.000So it's not worth looking into the question as to whether if you're born in a territory like Barry Goldwater, or if you're born on a military base abroad, that's not worthy of adjudication.
00:20:55.000Somehow I have my doubts that if Lindsey Graham had been born in Canada, John McCain would have quite the same questions about eligibility that he has for Ted Cruz.
00:21:05.000Cruz and McCain really, really despise each other.
00:21:22.000Seven or eight years of drama around the President's birth certificate.
00:21:25.000If Republican primary voters were to choose Senator Cruz as their nominee, somebody who actually wasn't born in the United States and only 18 months ago renounced his Canadian citizenship.
00:21:40.000Okay, first of all, the vast majority of Republicans thought the birther stuff was crazy anyway.
00:21:44.000But Democrats like Obama wanted to magnify that to make it look as though everybody was going after Obama for his birther nonsense.
00:21:53.000And now it's, oh look at these hypocritical Republicans, they were going after Obama on the birtherism and now they won't go after Cruz on the birtherism.
00:22:00.000The people who went after Obama on the birtherism are going after Cruz on the birtherism.
00:22:07.000And the whole thing is stupid and it is manipulative and I don't buy for a second the Donald Trump argument that he was just trying to help.
00:22:35.000Or he sees a target of opportunity, and he takes whatever is the closest object at hand, and it could be a kitty, or it could be a literal cat, or it could be a lamp, or it could be a hammer, and he hits you with whatever is available.
00:22:46.000When it comes to Hillary Clinton, it turns out that he has a chainsaw at hand and he hits her with the your-husband-is-an-alleged-rapist routine.
00:22:53.000And when it's Ted Cruz, the only thing that he can grab at is eligibility, so he grabs the kitty and hits him with the cat.
00:23:02.000There's a good way to view that and a bad way to view that.
00:23:05.000The good way to view that is that only a politician of convenience is going to be able to defeat Hillary.
00:23:09.000Because if we have to throw everything at Hillary, it can't be that we're going to rule out certain tactics.
00:23:15.000I saw Chris Christie and Carly Fiorina yesterday saying that only under certain circumstances should we really talk about Bill Clinton's
00:23:26.000And I thought to myself, how many of these people have ever seen a political campaign?
00:23:33.000If you really think the average voter cares more about Hillary's record in Libya than he cares about the fact that Bill Clinton allegedly rapes people and Hillary covers up for him, then you've never met a voter, ever.
00:23:44.000And Donald Trump is the kind of guy, because he just uses what's at hand, he'll actually use the rape allegations.
00:23:50.000So that's a good way of viewing Trump, is that he uses whatever's at hand.
00:23:52.000Sometimes that means he's inconsistent, but at least he's aggressive, right?
00:23:57.000The other way to view Trump is that Trump is deeply unprincipled, and that his inconsistencies, that they are
00:24:07.000They extend to his views of the Constitution, and his views of law, and his views of politics, and his views of values.
00:24:13.000It's not just convenience with regard to hitting his opponents, it's convenience with regard to everything.
00:24:18.000And I think there's a lot of evidence to suggest that Trump's positions are positions of convenience.
00:24:22.000He switches his positions routinely, he doesn't think them out, he backs off of them, he blames the media for misconstruing him, he's constantly going back and forth on everything.
00:24:31.000I don't think that this is a strategic
00:24:34.000I don't think that this is... There have been pitchers in the major leagues, in Major League Baseball, who have done what they call strategic wildness, where one of the advantages a batter can have is if you really crowd the plate, if you take away the inner half of the plate, it's hard to hit a ball in baseball.
00:25:56.000What I fear is that he's uncontrolled chaos.
00:25:58.000He's just chaos with everything, and I think there's more evidence to that effect than to the opposite effect, which is why I have said for a long time I don't believe Trump is a consistent conservative, and this attack is just more evidence of his inconsistency.
00:26:13.000Trump, however, is hilarious, and so we'll finish the Donald Trump segment of today's show with this clip from a rally.
00:26:19.000If you remember, just a few weeks ago, Donald Trump was at a rally, and some guy shouted out something about how Muslims are the problem, and Trump didn't correct him, and people went insane.
00:26:29.000Somebody shouted that Obama was a Muslim, and he didn't correct him, and everyone went out of their mind.
00:26:33.000Well, yesterday, this is what happened at a rally when something similar happened in New Hampshire.
00:27:00.000This is the part of Trump that's hilarious because, honestly, it's such a ridiculous rule that you're supposed to correct every protester who shows up at your rally.
00:27:07.000And so this is the part of Trump where, again, the politics of convenience is very amusing.
00:27:13.000Okay, time for some things that I like and some things that I really, really don't.
00:27:17.000So let's start with something that I like.
00:27:19.000There's a great series of books, starting with Shogun, and one of the books is also called King Rat.
00:27:36.000And all the way—and it traces the history of the U.S.-Japanese relationship all the way from the 1700s all the way up to modern times, and it's really good.
00:27:43.000That's actually not what I'm recommending.
00:27:44.000James Clavell wrote—it is very good.
00:27:47.000And not all the books—King Rat and Shogun are both very good books.
00:27:51.000James Clavell, who's the author, wrote another very, very short book.
00:28:03.000And The Children's Story is... It's a really fascinating piece of work because The Children's Story is about... It starts off with this... You really don't know what's going on.
00:28:14.000This woman walks into a classroom with a bunch of kids in it and she's the substitute teacher.
00:28:18.000And over the course of the class, she starts quizzing the kids about what it means to be American, what it means to be American.
00:28:25.000And the kids don't know anything beyond the slogans.
00:29:40.000Now remember, okay, people who use Tinder generally are looking for a hookup.
00:29:42.000They're not generally looking for a long-term marital relationship, and they're certainly not looking for a long-term happy marital relationship.
00:29:51.000They're usually looking for a quick nail.
00:29:52.000That's pretty much what Tinder is for.
00:29:54.000At least, this is what I have been told by those who have used it.
00:29:57.000So, here's this guy, and this seems like a pretty good excuse, by the way.
00:30:02.000When I say feminism has worked out to the benefit of pig guys,
00:30:08.000I mean, this guy Sean, 29, he's saying that out of respect for you, he won't pay for your dinner.
00:30:16.000I'll just tell you, when I was dating my wife, I took her out to dinner for our first date, actually I took her out to coffee for our first date, I took her out to dinner for our second date, and then on our third date we went out to dinner and I paid for dinner and then we went to sort of like a tea garden.
00:30:30.000And my wife insisted on paying, and I actually got angry at her, and I said, I'm the man, that's my job, I'm paying.
00:30:37.000And she later, now she'll say, yeah, I'm kind of embarrassed I did that, because I didn't want to be offensive to you, and I said, well, you sort of more offended me by suggesting that it's your job to pay on a date that I asked you out on.
00:30:48.000But feminism has hurt everyone, and it's made either
00:30:52.000Opportunistic jackasses or pansies out of men.
00:30:55.000That's basically what feminism has done.
00:30:56.000It used to be that women trained men to be better.
00:30:59.000Men are savages and then women civilize us.
00:31:03.000You're civilized by a couple of things in your life.
00:31:05.000You're civilized by mom and dad, and then you are finally civilized by your wife.
00:31:09.000Mom and dad have to do most of the work, and then when your wife comes in, she teaches you why it is that mom and dad were so focused on doing that work in the first place.
00:31:16.000Well, we've, as a society, we've gotten rid of the importance of mom and dad, and now we're getting rid of the reason why men need to be protective of women.
00:31:34.000Either you protect women and their value, or you victimize them.
00:31:37.000And so, one of these two things, maybe these people are delusional enough to believe they're protecting women by pansying out, but let's look at a couple more of these because they're sort of amusing.
00:32:50.000The male feminists of Tinder, although I will say some of them are very funny.
00:32:53.000The other thing that I have to point out hating today is Facebook, which I use frequently, and we have a big Facebook account, and I have a big Facebook account, and I really like Facebook a lot.
00:33:11.000And one of the ways you know that they censor people is there's a video that has now been released that comes out courtesy of something called the Israel Project.
00:33:18.000And they did an experiment on Facebook because they've been hearing complaints that Facebook is anti-Israel and anti-Jew.
00:33:24.000So there's an anti-terror organization called Shirat Hadin Israel Law Center.
00:34:46.000Which is actually less bad than the one on the Palestinian page, right?
00:34:48.000The one on Palestinian page says we will use our children
00:34:52.000To do this, whether we have to use blood and fire or whatever.
00:34:55.000This is actually less bad than what's on the Palestinian anti-Israel page.
00:34:58.000It says, more and more soldiers in the Israeli army know that there is a need to destroy the Arab enemy.
00:35:03.000We are ready for war against the enemy.
00:35:05.000So all of this is actually less bad on the Israeli side than it was on the Palestinian side, just in pure objective terms.
00:35:10.000And finally, it says, death to Palestine.
00:35:12.000The other one said, death to Israel and death to the Jews.
00:35:14.000Okay, so, this group set up both of these pages.
00:35:18.000And then, they simultaneously reported both pages to Facebook.
00:35:22.000Shockingly, on the same day that the page inciting against Palestinians was reported, it was closed by Facebook.
00:35:29.000However, complaints against the anti-Jew page?
00:35:32.000Those were refused by Facebook, and that page stayed up.
00:35:35.000They suggested, according to the Daily Wire today, that posts inciting hatred and violence against Jews were not in violation of any Facebook rules or standards.
00:36:07.000This is how the left also feels about the Palestinians versus the Jews.
00:36:13.000It's not that they're equivalent, it's that one side gets to stump for destroying the other side, and the other side has to be stopped from saying pretty much anything.