The Ben Shapiro Show - January 07, 2016


Ep. 51 - Conservatives Question Obamatears, The Lying Left Weeps

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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?

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00:00:00.000 All right, well, here we are.
00:00:01.000 It is a Thursday.
00:00:02.000 We are nearing the end of the week.
00:00:03.000 We're almost there, folks. 0.91
00:00:04.000 We'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.
00:00:16.000 And 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.
00:00:23.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.
00:00:23.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:00:32.000 Okay, well, as you recall, President Obama, just a few days ago, he did his gun control presser.
00:00:37.000 Tonight, he's supposed to do his town hall event with Anderson Cooper, which will be an absolute testosterone-filled masculinity fest.
00:00:45.000 And 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,
00:00:55.000 He breaks down in tears.
00:00:56.000 For 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.
00:01:08.000 Now, when I say that,
00:01:10.000 Actors feel what they feel when they are actually in the moment crying.
00:01:14.000 If you're an actor, and if you've ever talked to an actor, actors can generate emotion in themselves that generates tears.
00:01:19.000 It's not like a physical manipulation.
00:01:21.000 It's not like they know how to make their tear ducts well up in some weird Orwellian way.
00:01:25.000 That's not how it works.
00:01:26.000 Actors get to an emotional place, they work themselves up emotionally,
00:01:29.000 And then they cry.
00:01:30.000 So when I say this is insincere, what I mean is that this is planned.
00:01:33.000 The feelings are sincere, but it's planned.
00:01:35.000 So he's really sad and he's really upset.
00:01:38.000 But I don't know whether he's thinking about whether his dog died or the kids in Sandy Hook.
00:01:41.000 Maybe he is thinking about the kids of Sandy Hook.
00:01:43.000 The bottom line is, this was a manipulation specifically put into his press conference so that we could have the following logic from the left.
00:01:51.000 Obama cries because he is a pure, glowing angel.
00:01:55.000 He loves children.
00:01:56.000 He's better than you, because you're not crying.
00:01:58.000 He's better than the parents.
00:01:59.000 The parents aren't even crying.
00:02:00.000 They're standing behind him, not crying.
00:02:01.000 He's Mother Teresa.
00:02:03.000 He has the greatest, biggest heart, this demigod. 0.99
00:02:06.000 And 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.
00:02:14.000 We should embrace him.
00:02:15.000 And then if you say, well, this seems a little bit manipulative and a little bit manipulated for me, then they say, no, no, no.
00:02:20.000 See, now you're callous.
00:02:21.000 You're just proving our point.
00:02:22.000 Because you don't understand the deep wells of emotion that spring from his gut and from his mind.
00:02:29.000 Right?
00:02:30.000 This is the idea.
00:02:30.000 So here's President Obama crying, and then we'll get to all of the response to President Obama crying.
00:02:45.000 Every time I think about those kids, it gets me mad.
00:02:51.000 And by the way, it happens on the streets of Chicago every day.
00:02:59.000 Okay, he's deliberately leaving the tears on his face, by the way, so that the cameras can hit him.
00:03:03.000 You 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.
00:03:15.000 And, 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.
00:03:24.000 When 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.
00:03:31.000 I don't think that's right.
00:03:32.000 I think Obama cries a lot, actually.
00:03:34.000 If you look at President Obama's history, he's cried at least 13 times in public.
00:03:38.000 He cries on a pretty frequent basis in public.
00:03:41.000 But not during press conferences.
00:03:42.000 It's a different thing during a press conference.
00:03:44.000 To cry during a speech or a press conference is a different thing.
00:03:47.000 You know the cameras are on you.
00:03:48.000 George W. Bush visited the 9-11 memorial where he was crying two days after 9-11.
00:03:53.000 That's a different thing.
00:03:54.000 President Obama has a planned press conference that he's been planning for weeks.
00:03:58.000 He knows he's going to be there.
00:03:59.000 He knows what he's going to talk about.
00:04:00.000 He knows what's happening.
00:04:02.000 And he's crying anyway.
00:04:03.000 Right?
00:04:04.000 And this is again, so here are the times President Obama has cried during his presidency.
00:04:08.000 He cried as he announced this, obviously.
00:04:10.000 He cried when he listened to Aretha Franklin sing, You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman, which is weird.
00:04:15.000 Over at the Kennedy Center Awards.
00:04:17.000 That happened back in December.
00:04:18.000 In May 2014, he was not crying, but they tried to make it out like he was crying over Benghazi.
00:04:24.000 He was not crying.
00:04:24.000 If you watch the video, he just has watery eyes.
00:04:27.000 And then in 2013, then he cried over Sandy Hook.
00:04:30.000 Sorry, he cried over the tornado in Moore, Oklahoma.
00:04:34.000 And nobody said anything about that.
00:04:35.000 Nobody thought that that was terrible.
00:04:36.000 Nobody mentioned anything.
00:04:37.000 Because again, when you're in the midst of an actual tragic circumstance, nobody is going to fault you for getting emotional.
00:04:43.000 Right?
00:04:44.000 In 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.
00:04:53.000 He cried as he listened to the Children of Gospel Choir in January 2013 during his post-inauguration service.
00:04:58.000 He cried actually twice within two days over his own inauguration because he's just that special.
00:05:03.000 He cried in December 2012 after he had the Sandy Hook press conference, right?
00:05:07.000 So during that press conference, he teared up.
00:05:10.000 Which at least that one makes more sense because that happened at the time.
00:05:13.000 It was contemporaneous, right?
00:05:14.000 It happened like right then and so he's talking about it.
00:05:17.000 He cried in 2012 when he was talking to his campaign staff.
00:05:20.000 He cried at his last campaign rally in November 5th 2012 because it was his last campaign rally ever.
00:05:26.000 So he cries about himself a lot.
00:05:28.000 He cried at the memorial for the people killed in Arizona.
00:05:32.000 That also was slightly manipulative, but he cried during the memorial service, not while he was speaking.
00:05:37.000 Again, when you're speaking, it's planned.
00:05:40.000 President Obama is the guy who has actually used teleprompters when speaking to kindergartners.
00:05:45.000 So I'm not going to believe that the first press conference of 2016
00:05:49.000 I don't know.
00:06:04.000 Now, people at Comedy Central have gone absolutely insane over this.
00:06:07.000 Comedy Central is now filled with unfunny people, unfunny leftists over at Comedy Central.
00:06:11.000 Larry Wilmore is the second least funny person in America, and he has a show on Comedy Central.
00:06:17.000 The most unfunny person in America is Trevor Noah, who also has a show on Comedy Central.
00:06:22.000 But here's Larry Wilmore slamming Fox over criticizing Obama for his tears.
00:06:27.000 But seriously, watching a sitting U.S.
00:06:29.000 president tear up over the deaths of children as he tries to effect change in a seemingly intransigent system?
00:06:35.000 Whew.
00:06:36.000 I mean, there's gotta be something really wrong with you if you find fault with that.
00:06:42.000 Or I could say, how did Fox News respond?
00:06:45.000 It's about something that feels political, that feels somewhat insincere.
00:06:49.000 It just didn't seem horribly authentic.
00:06:51.000 So I would check that podium for, like, a raw onion or some no more tears.
00:06:54.000 I mean, I just... It's not really believable.
00:07:00.000 The guy cries about dead children, and you've got notes?
00:07:05.000 I mean, first off, everyone knows if you want to make a grown man cry, you don't use onions.
00:07:09.000 You show him the bing-bong scenes from Inside Out. 1.00
00:07:11.000 You know? 0.98
00:07:14.000 Okay, there's enough of Larry Wilmore sucking at his job. 0.90
00:07:17.000 And Larry Wilmore, when he says, you know, he's crying over, a grown man crying over children? 0.95
00:07:21.000 You can't mock a grown man crying over children.
00:07:23.000 First of all, President Obama, shut down the government.
00:07:26.000 Shut down the government.
00:07:28.000 So that he could keep using your taxpayer dollars to kill 300,000 unborn children a year.
00:07:33.000 Okay, this is the guy who drones people so that he doesn't have to send troops on the ground among the many children abroad.
00:07:38.000 Okay, so let's stop with the whole he's crying about all the children routine.
00:07:42.000 Again, does he feel authentic feeling about Sandy Hook?
00:07:45.000 I'm sure he does.
00:07:46.000 I'm sure he feels authentic feeling about Sandy Hook because it's an issue for him where he feels a certain moral superiority.
00:07:52.000 Fine.
00:07:52.000 Whatever.
00:07:53.000 He feels authentic feeling.
00:07:54.000 This was not an authentic moment.
00:07:56.000 It wasn't an authentic moment, but it's crazy.
00:07:58.000 How could you criticize a man who's just, he's pouring out his soul before you.
00:08:03.000 I mean, can't you see it?
00:08:04.000 He's pouring out his soul before you.
00:08:06.000 This is terrible.
00:08:14.000 Okay, we can move on now.
00:08:16.000 So, Larry Wilmore does this routine.
00:08:18.000 And then Trevor Noah, over on Comedy Central, who is the most unfunny person in America, he does the exact same routine.
00:08:26.000 And so here's Trevor Noah being deeply unfunny and patronizing.
00:08:32.000 No 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.
00:08:43.000 Also, you would think.
00:08:44.000 Where was the wiping away of tears and the emotion after the Paris attacks?
00:08:49.000 He can't pull that kind of passion for anything but this, and I feel bad about those kids in Connecticut.
00:08:53.000 But it's only about this that he gets so upset about, and never about terror.
00:08:57.000 He didn't cry, I don't think, after San Bernardino.
00:08:59.000 Did he cry?
00:09:00.000 Did he cry after that?
00:09:01.000 No.
00:09:01.000 I don't think he cried.
00:09:02.000 No.
00:09:02.000 He didn't cry after Paris?
00:09:03.000 I would check that podium for, like, a raw onion or some no more tears.
00:09:07.000 I mean, it's not really believable. 0.91
00:09:10.000 Are you f***ing kidding me? 0.70
00:09:13.000 Shedding tears when you think of murdered children is not really believable? 0.72
00:09:17.000 You know what, there is something here that's not really believable.
00:09:21.000 The fact that the rest of us have to share the title of human being with you.
00:09:26.000 Oh, well, I mean, you're not a human being if you-if you doubt President Obama's authenticity at that moment.
00:09:31.000 Again, question for Trevor Noah and Larry Wilmore.
00:09:33.000 They're sitting there during the show, presumably thinking of the dead kids in Sandy Hook.
00:09:36.000 Why aren't they crying?
00:09:38.000 Are they also not human?
00:09:39.000 Are they also not authentic?
00:09:41.000 Are they also missing that deep well of human emotion and feeling? 0.97
00:09:44.000 Here's why I find this whole thing very, very cynical and very, very ridiculous. 0.78
00:09:48.000 Let's flashback just a few short years.
00:09:51.000 You're never supposed to doubt people's authentic emotion when they think about the good of the children of the United States.
00:09:55.000 The minute you think about the good of the children of the United States, all debate ends.
00:09:59.000 We are done.
00:10:00.000 We are settled.
00:10:02.000 Anybody who cries over the children, we can never doubt the authenticity of the man who cries.
00:10:06.000 The man who cries wins the debate.
00:10:08.000 The debate is over.
00:10:09.000 It's been won.
00:10:09.000 It's over.
00:10:11.000 Here is
00:10:12.000 John Stewart from a recent episode, this is from last year, talking about John Boehner, who is well known for crying.
00:10:19.000 Here is John Stewart from Comedy Central.
00:10:22.000 Does he respect John Boehner's tears?
00:10:23.000 Let's find out.
00:10:25.000 And no congressional self-backed padding would be complete without a tear.
00:10:33.000 This is a happy day indeed.
00:10:35.000 Uh, thank you for your leadership.
00:10:37.000 Uh, pleased to welcome our... Keep your eyes on Boehner in the back there.
00:10:41.000 Let's see.
00:10:42.000 Ooh, ooh, Johnny, you gonna cry?
00:10:43.000 Are you gonna cry?
00:10:44.000 Oh, I just... In such a special moment, you're gonna cry?
00:10:48.000 Oh, b-b-boy. 0.99
00:10:49.000 Oh, b-b-boy. 0.99
00:10:50.000 Look, everybody, a turtle can speak English.
00:10:52.000 Ooh, looky, looky, looky.
00:10:54.000 Oh, I can't believe it.
00:10:55.000 I'm so sad but happy.
00:10:57.000 I can't believe it.
00:10:59.000 This is unbelievable.
00:11:01.000 Look at this, man.
00:11:02.000 It's unbelievable.
00:11:04.000 Mm-hmm.
00:11:06.000 That's unbelievable.
00:11:06.000 But don't worry.
00:11:08.000 It's okay to mock John Boehner and his sincerity there, right? 0.99
00:11:11.000 He must be a crazy person. 1.00
00:11:12.000 He must be just a giant loon bag, giant crazy person. 1.00
00:11:15.000 But, you know, that's different. 0.99
00:11:16.000 That's different.
00:11:17.000 Comedy Central is saying that he must not be mentally stable.
00:11:19.000 Now, if I said about Obama that a man who cries routinely at press conferences is not mentally stable, no, you can't say that.
00:11:25.000 Don't doubt his authenticity.
00:11:27.000 He's such a deep wellspring of human emotion.
00:11:30.000 Okay.
00:11:31.000 But they're not doubting Boehner's sincerity, are they?
00:11:35.000 Let's go back to 2011.
00:11:36.000 Here's Jon Stewart, 2011, with Samantha Bee, talking about the brand new Republican Congress takeover.
00:11:44.000 Of course, the 112th Congress could not begin until the new Speaker of the House, John Boehner, was sworn in.
00:11:49.000 Here he is, walking into the ceremony, and he- Oh, come on, dude!
00:11:53.000 For God's sakes!
00:11:54.000 Are you crying again?
00:11:57.000 What's with you, man?
00:11:59.000 I mean, election night, you were all waterworks.
00:12:02.000 Your 60 Minutes interview!
00:12:04.000 I'm not sure that these kids have a shot at the American dream like I do.
00:12:11.000 It's important.
00:12:17.000 Yes, it is important and so is your dignity.
00:12:22.000 Here's Boehner just with friends at a hockey game recently.
00:12:27.000 Here he is losing his virginity.
00:12:30.000 Like these kids who have a shot at the American dream.
00:12:33.000 Like I did.
00:12:37.000 Been there.
00:12:39.000 What a weird thing to say during sex. 0.98
00:12:42.000 What a hilarious man.
00:12:44.000 By the way, he's talking about kids, right?
00:12:46.000 He's talking about suffering children.
00:12:48.000 And John Boehner is in that clip.
00:12:49.000 When 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.
00:12:56.000 Now, I'm somebody who made fun of John Boehner crying.
00:12:58.000 I don't think it's manly for men to cry in public office.
00:13:00.000 I just don't.
00:13:01.000 It's not my thing. 0.89
00:13:01.000 I think it's ridiculous. 0.89
00:13:03.000 I do think it's unstatesmanlike. 0.56
00:13:04.000 But the inconsistency here is stunning.
00:13:06.000 But we'll conclude this portion of the critique
00:13:11.000 With that same segment, Jon Stewart goes to Samantha Bee.
00:13:14.000 And Samantha Bee proceeds.
00:13:15.000 What you'll see here is Samantha Bee suggesting that Republicans are cynically using tears in order to generate support for their agenda.
00:13:25.000 Why, 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.
00:13:36.000 Here we go, 2011.
00:13:38.000 For more on the new Congress, Samantha Bee joins us from the Capitol.
00:13:41.000 Sam, 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?
00:13:53.000 Well, the key, John, is their leader, John Boehner.
00:13:56.000 I mean, that man can go from zero to snot in 6.4 seconds.
00:14:00.000 Yes, the Republicans are in the capable hands of Captain Blubberpants.
00:14:06.000 Sam, 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?
00:14:16.000 But, John... Sam, are you okay?
00:14:20.000 No, it's just... This was really important to me.
00:14:24.000 I really wanted them to repeal Obamacare without growing the deficit!
00:14:28.000 No, God, Sam, please, no.
00:14:29.000 They'll find some cuts in other areas, I'm sure.
00:14:32.000 Right?
00:14:33.000 You think so?
00:14:33.000 I'm sure.
00:14:34.000 And you know what?
00:14:34.000 Maybe the CBO estimate is wrong, and they won't even... Yeah.
00:14:37.000 See?
00:14:38.000 It's that easy.
00:14:39.000 You're winning the argument, I start crying, boom!
00:14:41.000 You fold!
00:14:43.000 Welcome to the John Boehner 112th Congress.
00:14:48.000 And there you have it.
00:14:50.000 In stark tape, right?
00:14:52.000 Nothing added, nothing subtracted.
00:14:54.000 There you have it. 1.00
00:14:55.000 All these idiots on Comedy Central, all these cynical leftists, oh, how dare you impugn the honor of President Obama? 1.00
00:15:02.000 Well, 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. 1.00
00:15:11.000 Okay, how many Republicans make fun of John Boehner for crying?
00:15:14.000 Raise your hand.
00:15:15.000 Okay, I've got both hands up, because I made fun of John Boehner for crying all the time.
00:15:19.000 I thought John Boehner was a sloppy drunk who cried too much.
00:15:22.000 Right?
00:15:22.000 And that's fine.
00:15:23.000 You know?
00:15:24.000 You can say that.
00:15:25.000 I'm cynical about politicians.
00:15:27.000 But you say it about President Obama.
00:15:28.000 And there's only one reason you would say this about President Obama. 1.00
00:15:31.000 And it's because you're a racist. 1.00
00:15:34.000 It's because you're a terrible person. 1.00
00:15:36.000 It's because you don't belong in the category of human beings. 0.98
00:15:39.000 One more time, I just have to play, one more time, that Trevor Noah piece.
00:15:42.000 Because it shows you, you can hear the worship in his voice and the star in his eye when his god has been attacked.
00:15:48.000 When they took the Paschal Lamb and put the blood over the doorpost. 0.52
00:15:51.000 His god had been desecrated, and you can see the rage that rushes through him.
00:15:55.000 He even goes into his sincere voice.
00:15:58.000 His sincere voice.
00:15:59.000 No 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.
00:16:10.000 Or so you would think.
00:16:12.000 Where was the wiping... Sorry, I need a... Aah!
00:16:13.000 Aah! 0.99
00:16:21.000 That was acting.
00:16:22.000 And so was President Obama when he was doing this crying routine.
00:16:25.000 Okay, now we can move on to more pressing matters.
00:16:27.000 But this actually is an important thing because democratic emotional manipulation is how they do things.
00:16:32.000 It's how they do things.
00:16:33.000 And if you refuse to buy into the paradigm, they portray you as unemotional.
00:16:37.000 They portray you as robotic if you refuse to buy into the emotional blackmail to which they subject the American people.
00:16:43.000 And guess what?
00:16:44.000 You don't have to be a part of it.
00:16:45.000 You don't have to be a part of it. 0.64
00:16:46.000 Trevor Noah and Larry Wilmore, all these people, they can go screw themselves. 1.00
00:16:49.000 Because they are all hypocrites and they are all liars and they are all cynics. 0.99
00:16:53.000 And 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, 0.99
00:17:16.000 Then you don't know the left as well as you should, because this is how deeply cynical they are.
00:17:20.000 Okay.
00:17:20.000 Now speaking of people who are deeply cynical, there have been a number of attacks on Ted Cruz in recent days over his eligibility.
00:17:26.000 And there are people who are trying to defend Donald Trump and company.
00:17:31.000 I don't
00:17:49.000 Sorry, it was December 2014, Donald Trump specifically said that he had questions about Cruz's eligibility.
00:17:55.000 Now that actually makes sense, that he has questions about Cruz's eligibility, because after all, Trump had questions about Obama's eligibility.
00:18:02.000 Now 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.
00:18:12.000 Right?
00:18:12.000 You were therefore ineligible.
00:18:14.000 So if Obama was born in Kenya,
00:18:16.000 And that means, by definition, that he can't be natural born, even though his mom is an American citizen.
00:18:22.000 So 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.
00:18:28.000 So it's exactly the same thing, it's just Canada versus Kenya. 0.78
00:18:31.000 Now, 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.
00:18:38.000 If he was born in Kenya, if his mom was a citizen, he was a natural born citizen, end of story. 0.86
00:18:42.000 Right, 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.
00:18:48.000 He should think it's a problem for Obama, and he should think that it's a problem for Cruz, right?
00:18:53.000 Well, 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.
00:19:00.000 And 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.
00:19:09.000 I'm really trying to do him a favor, because if I don't attack him, then certainly the Clintons will.
00:19:14.000 Certainly the Clintons will come after him.
00:19:16.000 I was talking with Jeremy Boring, managing editor of the site, and Jeremy made a great analogy.
00:19:22.000 He 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. 0.90
00:19:30.000 Right?
00:19:30.000 So 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.
00:19:38.000 Yeah, right.
00:19:39.000 It's a very cynical play.
00:19:40.000 What's even more cynical is that there are other people who are jumping on top of this.
00:19:44.000 So John McCain, right?
00:19:45.000 John McCain.
00:19:46.000 There 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.
00:19:53.000 He was born, I believe, in Panama.
00:19:55.000 And so there are people who said the same thing, right?
00:19:57.000 He's born outside the United States, and that means that he's not a natural-born American citizen eligible for the presidency. 0.65
00:20:03.000 John McCain rightly said, that's silly.
00:20:06.000 Today, John McCain came out and questioned Ted Cruz's eligibility for the presidency.
00:20:11.000 I do not know the answer to that.
00:20:13.000 I know it came up in my race because I was born in Panama, but I was born in the Canal Zone, which is a territory.
00:20:20.000 Barry Goldwater was born in Arizona when it was a territory.
00:20:25.000 When he ran in 1964... But you were born on a base too, were you?
00:20:28.000 Yeah, it's a U.S.
00:20:29.000 military base.
00:20:31.000 That's different from being born on foreign soil, so I think there is a question.
00:20:35.000 I am not a constitutional scholar on that, but I think it's worth looking into.
00:20:40.000 I don't think it's illegitimate to look into it.
00:20:43.000 Hilarious.
00:20:44.000 So 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.
00:20:52.000 But if you're born in Calgary, it is.
00:20:55.000 Somehow 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.
00:21:05.000 Cruz and McCain really, really despise each other.
00:21:07.000 And it's not just McCain.
00:21:09.000 The White House has jumped into this fray now, and the White House is saying, yeah, there are legit questions about Cruz's eligibility.
00:21:14.000 Not about Obama's, but certainly about Cruz.
00:21:16.000 Come on.
00:21:18.000 It would be quite ironic if after
00:21:22.000 Seven or eight years of drama around the President's birth certificate.
00:21:25.000 If 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.
00:21:40.000 Okay, first of all, the vast majority of Republicans thought the birther stuff was crazy anyway.
00:21:44.000 But Democrats like Obama wanted to magnify that to make it look as though everybody was going after Obama for his birther nonsense.
00:21:53.000 And 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.
00:22:00.000 The people who went after Obama on the birtherism are going after Cruz on the birtherism. 0.99
00:22:07.000 And 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. 0.99
00:22:13.000 And this is how Donald Trump goes. 1.00
00:22:14.000 It's a window into the mind of Donald Trump.
00:22:17.000 Because here's the thing.
00:22:19.000 Donald Trump is a street fighter, which means he has no strategy.
00:22:23.000 He doesn't walk into a room with a political strategy.
00:22:25.000 We've talked about this a lot on the program.
00:22:27.000 There's no point at which Donald Trump looks around and goes, I'm gonna plan for tomorrow.
00:22:31.000 Donald Trump is always, he's just a counterpuncher.
00:22:34.000 Somebody hits him, and he hits back.
00:22:35.000 Or 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.
00:22:46.000 When 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. 1.00
00:22:53.000 And 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.
00:22:58.000 And it just doesn't work.
00:23:00.000 He's a politician of convenience.
00:23:02.000 There's a good way to view that and a bad way to view that.
00:23:05.000 The good way to view that is that only a politician of convenience is going to be able to defeat Hillary. 0.98
00:23:09.000 Because if we have to throw everything at Hillary, it can't be that we're going to rule out certain tactics. 0.98
00:23:15.000 I saw Chris Christie and Carly Fiorina yesterday saying that only under certain circumstances should we really talk about Bill Clinton's
00:23:26.000 And I thought to myself, how many of these people have ever seen a political campaign?
00:23:33.000 If 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.
00:23:44.000 And Donald Trump is the kind of guy, because he just uses what's at hand, he'll actually use the rape allegations.
00:23:50.000 So that's a good way of viewing Trump, is that he uses whatever's at hand.
00:23:52.000 Sometimes that means he's inconsistent, but at least he's aggressive, right?
00:23:55.000 At least he fights.
00:23:56.000 That's the rule on Trump.
00:23:57.000 The other way to view Trump is that Trump is deeply unprincipled, and that his inconsistencies, that they are
00:24:07.000 They extend to his views of the Constitution, and his views of law, and his views of politics, and his views of values.
00:24:13.000 It's not just convenience with regard to hitting his opponents, it's convenience with regard to everything.
00:24:18.000 And I think there's a lot of evidence to suggest that Trump's positions are positions of convenience.
00:24:22.000 He 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.
00:24:31.000 I don't think that this is a strategic
00:24:33.000 Strategic chaos.
00:24:34.000 I 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.
00:24:51.000 That's right.
00:25:07.000 In order for you to really get a good piece of a pitch, you need to be able to extend your arms.
00:25:10.000 You need full extension.
00:25:11.000 That's why every home run is basically full extension.
00:25:14.000 So that means if somebody throws the ball inside, right toward your body, you're stuck.
00:25:19.000 You're doing the dinosaur arms and you tend to ground out or pop up.
00:25:22.000 So what pitchers will do in order to brush back the hitter is they'll be strategically wild. 1.00
00:25:27.000 They'll throw really hard
00:25:29.000 I think so.
00:25:48.000 So, if Trump is strategic wildness, then okay, fine.
00:25:54.000 That's something I can deal with.
00:25:55.000 It's the controlled chaos.
00:25:56.000 What I fear is that he's uncontrolled chaos.
00:25:58.000 He'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.
00:26:13.000 Trump, however, is hilarious, and so we'll finish the Donald Trump segment of today's show with this clip from a rally.
00:26:19.000 If 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. 0.71
00:26:29.000 Somebody shouted that Obama was a Muslim, and he didn't correct him, and everyone went out of their mind.
00:26:33.000 Well, yesterday, this is what happened at a rally when something similar happened in New Hampshire.
00:26:39.000 Why did you sit in here?
00:26:42.000 Okay, I didn't say it.
00:26:44.000 I didn't say it!
00:26:46.000 I refuse to get in... Oh, I'm supposed to reprimand the man... Who is the man that said that?
00:26:51.000 I have to reprimand.
00:26:52.000 How dare you?
00:26:53.000 Okay, have I rep...
00:26:55.000 I've reprimanded him.
00:26:57.000 Now the press can't be angry.
00:27:00.000 This 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.
00:27:07.000 And so this is the part of Trump where, again, the politics of convenience is very amusing.
00:27:13.000 Okay, time for some things that I like and some things that I really, really don't.
00:27:17.000 So let's start with something that I like.
00:27:19.000 There's a great series of books, starting with Shogun, and one of the books is also called King Rat.
00:27:25.000 There's a very good movie of it.
00:27:27.000 James Clavell is the author, and it's a very good series, and it's all about the relationship between the United States and
00:27:35.000 Old Japan, right? 0.92
00:27:36.000 And 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.
00:27:43.000 That's actually not what I'm recommending.
00:27:44.000 James Clavell wrote—it is very good.
00:27:47.000 And not all the books—King Rat and Shogun are both very good books.
00:27:51.000 James Clavell, who's the author, wrote another very, very short book.
00:27:55.000 It's about maybe 50 pages.
00:27:57.000 It's really a short story.
00:27:59.000 And I think they turned it into a play.
00:28:01.000 And it's called The Children's Story.
00:28:03.000 And 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.
00:28:14.000 This woman walks into a classroom with a bunch of kids in it and she's the substitute teacher. 1.00
00:28:18.000 And over the course of the class, she starts quizzing the kids about what it means to be American, what it means to be American.
00:28:25.000 And the kids don't know anything beyond the slogans.
00:28:26.000 They think, oh, the flag is great.
00:28:27.000 She says, well, why is the flag great?
00:28:28.000 It's just a piece of cloth.
00:28:30.000 And wouldn't it be a better piece of cloth if we just cut it up and handed you all an equal piece of the cloth?
00:28:34.000 Like, here it's all unified, but, you know, why should it just be unified up here?
00:28:38.000 Why don't we just cut it up and we'll just give you each a piece?
00:28:41.000 Okay, that's something that I like.
00:28:42.000 Now, time for some stuff that I hate.
00:28:43.000 I have discovered, and the media has been covering, there's something on Tumblr
00:29:06.000 It's a Tumblr account.
00:29:06.000 I don't really do Tumblr.
00:29:07.000 I guess Tumblr is like Instagram, right?
00:29:09.000 It's just pictures and you have your own account.
00:29:12.000 And so apparently somebody started an account called Male Feminists of Tinder at Tumblr. 0.83
00:29:17.000 And so they've been going across Tinder and finding men who say that they are feminists
00:29:22.000 I don't know.
00:29:40.000 Now remember, okay, people who use Tinder generally are looking for a hookup.
00:29:42.000 They're not generally looking for a long-term marital relationship, and they're certainly not looking for a long-term happy marital relationship.
00:29:51.000 They're usually looking for a quick nail. 0.99
00:29:52.000 That's pretty much what Tinder is for.
00:29:54.000 At least, this is what I have been told by those who have used it.
00:29:57.000 So, here's this guy, and this seems like a pretty good excuse, by the way. 0.97
00:30:02.000 When I say feminism has worked out to the benefit of pig guys, 1.00
00:30:06.000 Proof positive right here, right?
00:30:08.000 I mean, this guy Sean, 29, he's saying that out of respect for you, he won't pay for your dinner.
00:30:16.000 I'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.
00:30:30.000 And 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.
00:30:37.000 And 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.
00:30:48.000 But feminism has hurt everyone, and it's made either 1.00
00:30:52.000 Opportunistic jackasses or pansies out of men. 0.97
00:30:55.000 That's basically what feminism has done. 1.00
00:30:56.000 It used to be that women trained men to be better. 0.61
00:30:59.000 Men are savages and then women civilize us. 1.00
00:31:01.000 That's essentially the truth. 0.85
00:31:03.000 You're civilized by a couple of things in your life.
00:31:05.000 You're civilized by mom and dad, and then you are finally civilized by your wife. 0.85
00:31:09.000 Mom 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.
00:31:16.000 Well, 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.
00:31:23.000 And so what is that?
00:31:24.000 When men are liberated from having to protect women, that means that they tend to victimize women.
00:31:28.000 If you don't have to protect, men are binary.
00:31:30.000 Men who don't protect women tend to victimize them.
00:31:32.000 There's not really a neutral.
00:31:34.000 Either you protect women and their value, or you victimize them.
00:31:37.000 And 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.
00:31:45.000 So, Jeff, 25.
00:31:47.000 Feminist, etc. 1.00
00:31:49.000 I want to lie on your butt and ask you difficult questions. 0.99
00:31:52.000 Alright, so there's a man who obviously has really grasped what feminism is all about. 0.99
00:31:56.000 Josh, 24.
00:31:58.000 Come dismantle the patriarchy with me.
00:32:04.000 Will 30 doing a yoga pose. 0.99
00:32:06.000 Feminist in the street, misogynist in the bed. 1.00
00:32:09.000 And this is what these guys are doing. 0.98
00:32:11.000 And there's Adam 25 wearing a shirt that says feminist.
00:32:14.000 By the way, ladies, if you would date this guy whose shirt says feminist, that is a guy who 1.00
00:32:21.000 No polite way to put this. 0.99
00:32:22.000 He's going to cry during sex.
00:32:23.000 There's just no way that's... That right there. 1.00
00:32:26.000 Any guy who wears a shirt that says feminist is just pathetic. 0.99
00:32:29.000 Because modern feminism is not about equality for women. 1.00
00:32:33.000 It's about female superiority in every aspect of American life and male inferiority and subordination. 0.93
00:32:38.000 That's what feminism has become about. 1.00
00:32:40.000 And subordination of reality to utopian vision where femininity is better than masculinity. 0.99
00:32:46.000 And they're not even equal.
00:32:47.000 One is superior to the other.
00:32:49.000 So that's something I hate.
00:32:50.000 The male feminists of Tinder, although I will say some of them are very funny.
00:32:53.000 The 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.
00:33:05.000 Facebook is a private company.
00:33:07.000 They can censor people.
00:33:08.000 And they do.
00:33:09.000 They do censor people.
00:33:11.000 And 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.
00:33:18.000 And they did an experiment on Facebook because they've been hearing complaints that Facebook is anti-Israel and anti-Jew.
00:33:24.000 So there's an anti-terror organization called Shirat Hadin Israel Law Center.
00:33:28.000 And what they did is they set up
00:33:30.000 Two competing Facebook pages.
00:33:32.000 One page was designed to be against Palestinians.
00:33:36.000 The other was designed to be against Jews.
00:33:38.000 And we'll take a quick look at some of the images from this page.
00:33:41.000 So here, for example, is a page against Jews, right?
00:33:43.000 And you see that there's this Palestinian terrorist and he's looking to wipe out the Jewish state, right? 0.92
00:33:49.000 You've got the X across the Jewish flag. 0.98
00:33:52.000 Right, and the whole thing is about destroying the Zionists. 0.97
00:33:55.000 Here's another one, right, and it shows a map of Israel taking over for Palestine and destroying, destroying all of the Palestinian areas. 0.68
00:34:04.000 The Zionists bite Palestine part after part and the world is silent. 1.00
00:34:07.000 We'll stop them on any way we can, is what this says in its articulate manner.
00:34:11.000 Right, and then there's another page and it says, Today, more than ever, the Zionist army uses violence against Palestinian kids.
00:34:17.000 These children will liberate Palestine with blood and fire and demolish the Zionist invaders. 0.99
00:34:21.000 Okay, so this is one of the Facebook pages.
00:34:23.000 Let's move forward to the page that's designed on the other side, the one that's against the Palestinians.
00:34:27.000 So, now what do you see?
00:34:29.000 It's exactly parallel, right?
00:34:30.000 You see Israeli soldiers and then you see an X across the Palestinian flag.
00:34:35.000 Right, you see the X across the Palestinian flag.
00:34:37.000 Okay, next photo.
00:34:38.000 You see it's exactly the same.
00:34:39.000 Greater land Israel should return soon from the hands of the Muslim enemy back to Jewish sovereignty. 1.00
00:34:44.000 We'll do it in any way we can.
00:34:46.000 Which is actually less bad than the one on the Palestinian page, right?
00:34:48.000 The one on Palestinian page says we will use our children 0.99
00:34:52.000 To do this, whether we have to use blood and fire or whatever.
00:34:55.000 This is actually less bad than what's on the Palestinian anti-Israel page.
00:34:58.000 It says, more and more soldiers in the Israeli army know that there is a need to destroy the Arab enemy.
00:35:03.000 We are ready for war against the enemy.
00:35:05.000 So all of this is actually less bad on the Israeli side than it was on the Palestinian side, just in pure objective terms.
00:35:10.000 And finally, it says, death to Palestine. 0.99
00:35:12.000 The other one said, death to Israel and death to the Jews. 0.98
00:35:14.000 Okay, so, this group set up both of these pages. 0.94
00:35:18.000 And then, they simultaneously reported both pages to Facebook.
00:35:22.000 Shockingly, on the same day that the page inciting against Palestinians was reported, it was closed by Facebook.
00:35:29.000 However, complaints against the anti-Jew page?
00:35:32.000 Those were refused by Facebook, and that page stayed up.
00:35:35.000 They 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.
00:35:43.000 The pages were virtually identical.
00:35:46.000 We're good to go.
00:36:07.000 This is how the left also feels about the Palestinians versus the Jews.
00:36:13.000 It'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.
00:36:24.000 It is pretty amazing.
00:36:27.000 And it is, once again, evidence that even Facebook is a filter.
00:36:30.000 Even user-generated pages are filtered by Facebook.
00:36:33.000 So it's important to know that before you even look at Facebook so that you know what you're looking at.
00:36:38.000 I hope that you have a wonderful weekend.
00:36:39.000 I hope that you don't cry fake tears of sorrow at any point.
00:36:42.000 I hope that nothing forces you to vomit.
00:36:44.000 I hope that you don't bother watching President Obama on CNN in that testosterone fest with Anderson Cooper.
00:36:50.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.
00:36:51.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.