The Ben Shapiro Show

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00:00:05.000 Does the establishment even want to stop Hillary Clinton?

00:00:08.000 We'll talk about that.

00:00:09.000 Plus, the Golden Globes.

00:00:11.000 All 1,000 of them over at the Golden Globes last night.

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00:00:15.000 Ben Shapiro Show.

00:00:17.000 I am Ben Shapiro.

00:00:26.000 Okay, we begin today with the establishment Republican Party trying to determine desperately if they even want to win this election.

00:00:32.000 It's pretty clear that there is a segment of the Republican Party that would be very okay with losing to Hillary and spends most of its time demonizing other segments of the Republican Party.

00:00:42.000 And I'm not talking about the people who think that the establishment has the wrong tactics or that the base are just too hardcore.

00:00:49.000 I'm talking about people who actually seem to have a real level of discomfort

00:00:54.000 With one of the crucial elements of the Republican Party that would allow the Republican Party to win.

00:01:00.000 And one of those people is David Brooks.

00:01:01.000 David Brooks we've talked about on the program before.

00:01:03.000 David Brooks is a New York Times columnist and he is the supposed conservative columnist over at the New York Times, which is to say he's not conservative.

00:01:12.000 And David Brooks was on NPR with Judy Woodruff

00:01:16.000 Over the weekend, and while he was on NPR, he was asked specifically about Ted Cruz, and he proceeded to say this on your publicly funded news network, PBS.

00:01:25.000 It's just terrible.

00:01:27.000 And Cruz is somehow beginning to get some momentum in Iowa and elsewhere, and so people are either mimicking him, which Rubio's doing a little, by adopting some of the dark and satanic tones that Cruz has.

00:01:39.000 And so... What did you... Let me just... If you go to a Cruz... If you watch a Cruz speech,

00:01:45.000 It's like, we've got this enemy, we've got that enemy, we're gonna stomp on this person, we're gonna crush that person, we're gonna destroy that person.

00:01:51.000 It is an ugly world in Ted Cruz's world.

00:01:54.000 And it's combative, and it's angry, and it's apocalyptic.

00:01:58.000 Well, actually, if you go to a speech from his dad, who's a pastor, evangelical, Raphael Cruz, it actually is satanic.

00:02:06.000 I watched a speech in which he said Satan was behind the Supreme Court decision to legalize gay marriage.

00:02:11.000 So it's not... Okay, well, I withdraw the satanic, Ted Cruz.

00:02:14.000 It's metaphorical, but sometimes it's literal.

00:02:16.000 Mephistoclean maybe, but it's dark and combative and frankly harsh.

00:02:23.000 It's a harsh.

00:02:24.000 He gets some jokes in the beginning, but then it's just we have enemies.

00:02:27.000 We're in an apocalyptic situation.

00:02:29.000 We're on the edge of the abyss.

00:02:30.000 You need a tough guy to beat that back.

00:02:33.000 And that's his personality.

00:02:34.000 That is not Marco Rubio's personality.

00:02:37.000 He is a sunny optimist.

00:02:38.000 He's been running the youthful optimism campaign.

00:02:40.000 But he's beginning to prevent Cruz from getting lift off, to mimic sort of that, get a piece of that.

00:02:46.000 I personally think it's a mistake because inauthenticity almost never works.

00:02:52.000 And so if Cruz starts to go like, I mean if Rubio starts to go like Cruz, he just doesn't look like himself and that bothers me.

00:02:59.000 Okay, so what's really troublesome here is that Cruz is, in the self-congratulatory tone, Mother Jones is the most left-wing outlet there is.

00:03:07.000 Mother Jones is pretty much an openly communist outlet, and David Corn, who's the editor over there, is a Clinton flack and has been for many years.

00:03:14.000 So you've got the communist and the supposed conservative just arguing over the languages.

00:03:19.000 Are they satanic?

00:03:20.000 Is it mestaphalian?

00:03:23.000 And you can see that David Brooks is so pleased with himself that he has dropped the word mestaphalian that he can't contain himself.

00:03:30.000 I mean, he can barely just contain his glee at having used...

00:03:33.000 This multisyllable word, because those boobs, those rubes who don't understand polysyllabic English, those people will clearly not understand, but my people will understand.

00:03:42.000 And the problem that he sees with Ted Cruz is that Ted Cruz speaks in what he calls apocalyptic language.

00:03:47.000 Now we talked about this a little bit last week, and this sort of attitude has begun to infuse some of the places I actually like to read, like National Review.

00:03:55.000 We talked about the so-called rise of the doomsday conservative, and I explained how every good conservative is basically a doomsday conservative because you believe that if liberty is not fought for in this generation, it will be gone in future generations, and those future generations are not particularly far down the road.

00:04:11.000 I mean, Ronald Reagan said one generation down the road, freedom could be lost if you don't fight for it.

00:04:16.000 That's pretty apocalyptic language, isn't it?

00:04:19.000 President Reagan called the Soviet Union an evil empire and people on the left and the establishment right thought that was just terrible at the time.

00:04:26.000 Speaking in language of good and evil and right and wrong.

00:04:29.000 When he says that Cruz's language is this language in which here's an enemy and we're gonna crush him and here's an enemy and we're gonna crush him.

00:04:36.000 A couple of things are going on.

00:04:37.000 One is this tremendous ignorance of the other side.

00:04:41.000 It's as though he's never watched a speech by Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama.

00:04:44.000 Hillary Clinton spends her speeches talking in stark terms about how Republicans are going to, she said this over the weekend, put women back in the Stone Age.

00:04:54.000 Which she remembers.

00:04:55.000 I mean, she was there, so she knows how bad it was.

00:04:57.000 And when she says that they're going to put women back in the Stone Age, that's matched by Joe Biden in 2012 saying that Republicans wanted to put y'all, black people, back in chains.

00:05:07.000 That was a direct quote.

00:05:08.000 They want to put y'all back in chains.

00:05:10.000 Is that apocalyptic language?

00:05:11.000 Yeah.

00:05:12.000 Is that harsh language?

00:05:13.000 Sure.

00:05:14.000 And this brings us to the second point, which is that Brooks, number one, thinks that the left is civil, and people like Ted Cruz are not civil.

00:05:21.000 If only Ted Cruz were civil, things would be so much better.

00:05:24.000 Civility would reign.

00:05:25.000 Why does he think that?

00:05:26.000 Because he has a picture in his head as David Brooks, and so do many members of the establishment Republican Party.

00:05:32.000 They have a picture in their head of this day gone by, this golden age of politics, in which everybody got along, and they were all civil to each other, and they never insulted each other, and they never talked in terms of good and evil, and they never really felt a separation with people on the other side of the aisle.

00:05:49.000 We all had the same goal.

00:05:50.000 We all had the same utopian vision.

00:05:52.000 It was just a question as to how we got there.

00:05:54.000 There's only one problem, which is that this has never existed in the history of the country, in the history of politics.

00:05:59.000 It turns out that politics are a reflection of values, and values are what you think is good and what you think is bad.

00:06:05.000 It's what you think is right and what you think is wrong.

00:06:07.000 That's what values are.

00:06:09.000 And if politics are just another way of saying values, then of course your politics are a division between what you think is good and what you think is evil.

00:06:16.000 I think leftism as a philosophy is evil.

00:06:18.000 It's why I'm not a leftist.

00:06:19.000 I don't think that there are two ways of reaching this same utopia.

00:06:22.000 I think they have a very different idea, the left does, of what utopia looks like.

00:06:26.000 But for David Brooks, because he's lived in this sort of privileged, ensconced world for so long, he's convinced himself that all the people that he talks to, they all have the same goals that he does.

00:06:37.000 And it's clear that this is how David Brooks thinks.

00:06:39.000 Back in 2007, David Brooks wrote a piece about Barack Obama, and he said about Barack Obama this.

00:06:45.000 This is a direct quote from David Brooks, the so-called conservative at the New York Times, quote, Obama sees himself as a Burke-ian, or as an Edmund Burke, the great British philosopher who opposed the French Revolution because he said it was too radical.

00:06:57.000 Obama sees himself as a Burke-ian.

00:06:59.000 I divide people into people who talk like us and who don't talk like us.

00:07:03.000 Of recent presidents, Clinton could sort of talk like us, but Obama is definitely, you could see him as a new republic writer.

00:07:10.000 He can do the jurisprudence.

00:07:11.000 He can do the political philosophy.

00:07:13.000 He can do the politics.

00:07:14.000 I think he's more talented than anyone in my lifetime.

00:07:18.000 Right?

00:07:18.000 Why does he, why was he okay with Obama?

00:07:20.000 I mean, Obama was a far leftist.

00:07:21.000 He's always been a far leftist.

00:07:23.000 Why was he okay with Obama?

00:07:25.000 Because Obama exists in the same halls of power that David Brooks does.

00:07:29.000 And listen, I went to school where most of the people I was in class with were leftists, and they considered themselves intellectuals.

00:07:35.000 And because they were intellectuals, it was as though IQ conferred upon them a greater moral content.

00:07:41.000 It was as though being smart made you a better person.

00:07:45.000 Because I'm a religious person, I don't believe that being smart makes you a better person.

00:07:48.000 I think being a good person makes you a better person.

00:07:51.000 I think there are plenty of evil smart people, and plenty of terrific not-so-smart people.

00:07:55.000 I don't think that virtue and IQ line up.

00:07:58.000 What I do think is that if you think virtue and IQ line up, then you are making way for evil.

00:08:02.000 Because the truth is, that when virtue and IQ don't line up, and you think that they do, you're willing to allow smart people who do the wrong thing to get in through the front door.

00:08:10.000 And that's what David Brooks does.

00:08:11.000 Barack Obama talked nicely.

00:08:12.000 He had, literally, David Brooks said about Barack Obama, he would make a good president because, quote, I was looking at his pant leg and his perfectly creased pant.

00:08:21.000 He had a creased pant, which is supposed to be sort of a stand-in for

00:08:26.000 He's an upper-class, genteel, knowledgeable, crisp, well-spoken thought leader, right?

00:08:34.000 This was the idea from David Brooks.

00:08:35.000 He was a smart guy, the kind of guy who creases his khakis, and because he creases his khakis, we know he's not one of those hicks who wears rumpled jeans, and because of that, we know he'll be a good president.

00:08:45.000 Anybody who believes that an upper IQ crust should decide for the rest of us what is good and what is evil is actually not a conservative at all.

00:08:51.000 It runs directly counter to conservative principles to believe that if you're a member of an intellectual elite, you get to run the world for the rest of us.

00:09:00.000 And I speak as somebody who is a member of the intellectual elite, okay?

00:09:03.000 I went to Harvard Law School, and I know my IQ, and it's really high.

00:09:05.000 So the idea that smart people, and I've dealt with people who have way higher IQs than I do, by the way, and some of them were some of the worst people I have ever met in my entire life.

00:09:13.000 I went to a middle school called Walser Reed Middle School.

00:09:15.000 At the time, it was a magnet.

00:09:16.000 I think it still is.

00:09:17.000 And they had something called the IHP program, which was for highly gifted kids.

00:09:21.000 And you had to have a minimum IQ in order to get in, and that minimum IQ was at least two standard deviations

00:09:28.000 Above average.

00:09:28.000 So you had to have at least a 150 IQ to get in.

00:09:30.000 They gave you a straight IQ test and you had to get at least 150 in order to get in.

00:09:35.000 And I got in, but I was not, you know, top of the spectrum.

00:09:38.000 There were people in my class who had 180s, 190s, and I predicted back then, I mean, I remember turning to my parents and saying, most of these kids are going to end up being juvenile delinquents.

00:09:49.000 Or burnouts, right?

00:09:50.000 That's what they will end up being, because I didn't connect morality with higher thought, but when I got to Harvard Law School, which was another group of very high IQ people, the first thing that the dean said, and she's now a justice on the Supreme Court, so this tells you what the intellectuals think of the rest of us, the first thing that Dean Kagan said when we got there is a big room, mahogany, it looked like something out of Harry Potter, marble busts on the walls, and she says to us, your competition is over,

00:10:16.000 You got in, you're never gonna have to worry about a job the rest of your life, and all of you people are going to rule the universe.

00:10:22.000 We have a bunch of Supreme Court justices, and we've got one-third of the Senate, and we've got half the Congress, and you're those people.

00:10:28.000 You're going to decide how the world runs, basically.

00:10:33.000 Heady stuff based on IQ, which has no correlation whatsoever with virtue, and very scary stuff.

00:10:37.000 But that's how David Brooks thinks.

00:10:39.000 And because David Brooks thinks that way, and the establishment of the Republican Party thinks that way, they're going to lose to smart people on the other side who they respect for being smart, but who have no virtue.

00:10:49.000 So they respect Hillary Clinton because she's smart, but Hillary has no virtue.

00:10:53.000 They don't respect Donald Trump because they think he's dumb.

00:10:56.000 I don't respect him either, but that's because I don't think Donald Trump has virtue.

00:11:00.000 I think that Hillary has even less virtue than Donald Trump.

00:11:02.000 I don't think Hillary has any virtue at all.

00:11:05.000 And I don't judge virtue based on her IQ, but they see Hillary and they say she's smart, so I can trust her more than I can trust Trump.

00:11:11.000 And if we're going to attack Hillary, we can't attack her on virtue.

00:11:15.000 Because remember, she's smart, so that by nature means she's virtuous.

00:11:18.000 And thus, if we're going to attack her, we have to attack her on her policies.

00:11:22.000 If we attack her on her policies, then we're attacking her smarts, and then you can attack her on her virtue.

00:11:26.000 But you can't attack her on her virtue if she's still smart, right?

00:11:29.000 You see how these two are connected?

00:11:30.000 If she's intelligent, she must be virtuous.

00:11:33.000 If she is not intelligent, then maybe she's not virtuous.

00:11:36.000 They completely neglect the idea that somebody could be both intelligent and completely non-virtuous.

00:11:41.000 It doesn't even compute.

00:11:42.000 And the way that you can see this is how the establishment of the Republican Party are now treating Donald Trump's attacks on Hillary and Bill Clinton's sex

00:11:51.000 And I love the way the media treat these scandals.

00:11:54.000 The media treat these as though Bill Clinton just had a few affairs.

00:11:57.000 No, Bill Clinton allegedly raped people.

00:12:00.000 Multiple allegations of rape.

00:12:01.000 Multiple allegations of sexual assault.

00:12:03.000 Last week on the program, I read you a transcript of what Juanita Broderick said Bill Clinton did to her.

00:12:08.000 And that didn't even get into what Paula Jones said, or Eileen Wellstone, or a vast bevy of Christy Zurcher.

00:12:14.000 An enormous number of women said that Bill Clinton did to them.

00:12:18.000 Hillary Clinton was asked over the weekend about Donald Trump's attacks on her relationship with Bill, and here's what Hillary said.

00:12:26.000 Well, if he wants to engage in personal attacks from the past, that's his prerogative.

00:12:31.000 So be it.

00:12:32.000 I'm going to draw the distinctions between where I stand and where he stands when it comes to equal pay for women, raising the minimum wage, which affects

00:12:42.000 Two-thirds of the women are the ones receiving the minimum wage, protecting a woman's right to make the most personal health care decisions.

00:12:50.000 That's why I'm so proud to have the endorsement of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund that I'll receive today in New Hampshire, because I'm going to fight as hard as I can against any efforts to defund Planned Parenthood, something that he supports.

00:13:03.000 So there are very clear distinctions.

00:13:06.000 He can say whatever he wants to about me.

00:13:07.000 So there's the misdirect, right?

00:13:08.000 He asks her specifically about the question of Hillary's sexual assault scandals with Bill and the fact that she was the attack

00:13:33.000 Yeah, but I'm for abortion.

00:13:51.000 is associated with virtue.

00:13:53.000 They just believe that anybody who believes in abortion is totally cool, even if they rape people.

00:13:57.000 And this is how the feminist left believed back in the 90s is what they still believe now.

00:14:01.000 Rape is a convenient tool in their political arsenal, but it's not something in which they deeply care.

00:14:07.000 They really don't care whether a leftist politician is a rapist so long as he is okay with the woman aborting the product of that rape.

00:14:13.000 That means that he's totally cool.

00:14:15.000 So Hillary says that this is going to have no effect.

00:14:17.000 The character attacks on her have no effect.

00:14:19.000 Now,

00:14:20.000 Over here in the real world, where we actually know voters, and we deal with people on a regular basis, I've talked with a lot of Democrat voters, and one thing that they don't even know is that Hillary Clinton's husband was a rapist, or an alleged rapist.

00:14:34.000 They don't know that Hillary Clinton laughed.

00:14:36.000 At an alleged rape victim.

00:14:37.000 They don't know that Hillary Clinton threatened another alleged rape victim or that she attacked the various victims of Bill Clinton's sexual abuse and harassment.

00:14:45.000 They don't know any of those things.

00:14:46.000 And it does have an effect.

00:14:47.000 Because it means that Hillary can't be some great feminist hero.

00:14:50.000 Most people still exist, thank God, in the United States in the world of virtue and not in the world of intellect.

00:14:55.000 There's people on the left who exist in the world of virtue where the virtues and the sins are flipped.

00:15:00.000 There are people on the right who believe in virtue, where there is virtue and there is evil.

00:15:05.000 Most of the people in the middle of the country don't care about intellectual status as much as they do about what we call virtue signaling when they vote.

00:15:12.000 Which is, I have to show all of my friends that I get it.

00:15:15.000 Right?

00:15:15.000 I'm proud of who I voted for.

00:15:17.000 That's why most people will wear the I Voted sticker.

00:15:20.000 That's a form of virtue signaling, right?

00:15:22.000 I'm signaling to everybody else that I voted.

00:15:24.000 I'm a better person than you because I voted.

00:15:26.000 I did my jury service.

00:15:28.000 I'm a good person because I did all of these things.

00:15:30.000 The same thing is true in any election.

00:15:31.000 In any election, there are two candidates, and whoever wins the virtue signaling election wins the election.

00:15:37.000 Whoever wins the election of the people who think how I vote is a reflection of me as a good person or not, that's who's gonna win.

00:15:43.000 That's why attacking Hillary on her Libya policy is worthless.

00:15:46.000 But demonstrating to people that Hillary is a nefarious character who covers up for her husband's rapes and actually enables them so as to achieve political power, that has some more power.

00:15:55.000 And people on the left get this, right?

00:15:57.000 I mean, Mark Halperin of Bloomberg is a journalist of the left.

00:16:00.000 He says that this is going to have an impact on the Hillary campaign.

00:16:04.000 Harold said that, you know, Hillary Clinton said that people have a right to be heard until their allegations are disproven.

00:16:12.000 And I think that in some of the most prominent cases, not only were the accusations not disproven, they were confirmed and acknowledged by President Clinton.

00:16:21.000 How's that?

00:16:22.000 So, I think, well, he acknowledged he had a relationship with Jennifer Flowers.

00:16:28.000 He paid Paula Jones off in a settlement.

00:16:35.000 And then they pretend that none of this ever happens, right?

00:16:44.000 But here's the fact.

00:16:45.000 All of this does have an impact on Hillary.

00:16:46.000 Now, the reason I harp on this is because the same thing that's driving David Brooks is also driving some of the establishment candidates.

00:16:53.000 It's not just the commentators.

00:16:54.000 So, for example,

00:16:56.000 John Kasich, the Ohio governor, whose father I've heard, but it's not, I've heard that his father is a male man.

00:17:02.000 Just what I hear.

00:17:03.000 He said, quote,

00:17:04.000 Look, I just don't like that stuff.

00:17:06.000 It's been around American politics throughout our history, people calling people names.

00:17:10.000 But to me, Hillary would be defeated because I believe Micah, this would be Micah Brzezinski over at MSNBC, she has no vision.

00:17:16.000 I don't want to spend my time bashing Bill Clinton.

00:17:19.000 Governor Chris Christie, the American people have made their judgment on Bill Clinton.

00:17:22.000 There's a difference between discussing Secretary Clinton's conduct and President Clinton's conduct.

00:17:27.000 Jeb Bush, quote,

00:17:39.000 What do they think they're winning by leaving this massive and accurate character attack off the table?

00:17:45.000 What do they think they're winning?

00:17:47.000 They think that they're winning the intelligentsia primary.

00:17:50.000 Right?

00:17:50.000 They don't care about virtue.

00:17:51.000 Virtue doesn't matter.

00:17:52.000 They think that if they attack Hillary Clinton on her policies, the intelligentsia will say, oh, well, she must be stupid.

00:17:58.000 She must not belong in this category because she's dumb.

00:18:01.000 And then maybe we won't vote for her.

00:18:03.000 Here's the thing.

00:18:03.000 The intelligentsia does not decide who is going to be the next president of the United States.

00:18:07.000 Democrats understand this, which is why Democrats play a double game.

00:18:11.000 When they speak to the intelligentsia, like David Brooks, Barack Obama puts on the creased pant leg

00:18:17.000 Thanks for watching.

00:18:32.000 He plays a double game.

00:18:33.000 He tells the intelligentsia what they want to hear, and then he tells the people the way that they operate.

00:18:37.000 Republicans won't play that game.

00:18:39.000 So, Donald Trump is one side or the other, right?

00:18:42.000 He can't speak the intellectual language, so he speaks the virtue language.

00:18:45.000 The only candidate out there, whoever does both, is actually Cruz, but the establishment is trying to peg him to

00:18:51.000 He only does the character talk, and we don't like character talk, because after all, we know Hillary Clinton can't be bad.

00:18:57.000 She's too smart to be truly bad.

00:18:58.000 Bill Clinton can be an open rapist, but for the intelligentsia, he's not a bad guy, because he's too smart to really be a rapist.

00:19:04.000 I mean, if he were stupid, maybe he'd be a rapist, but he's too smart to really be a rapist, you know.

00:19:09.000 So that's how this is breaking down, and this is why it is imperative.

00:19:13.000 She was saying he has tendencies toward being sexist.

00:19:39.000 Talking about who?

00:19:40.000 You?

00:19:40.000 Talking about me.

00:19:41.000 And I said, wait a minute.

00:19:42.000 She's married to an abuser, a woman who claimed rape, and all sorts of things.

00:19:47.000 I mean, horrible things.

00:19:49.000 You read the books.

00:19:50.000 You do know, though, if you bring it up, people are going to bring up yours.

00:19:53.000 It's OK.

00:19:53.000 I mean, your first divorce was ugly.

00:19:55.000 Number one, it's fine.

00:19:56.000 All over the tabloids.

00:19:56.000 You know what?

00:19:57.000 I wasn't the President of the United States, and I wasn't dealing in the Oval Office, all right?

00:20:02.000 A big difference.

00:20:04.000 President.

00:20:05.000 And my first wife thinks I'm great.

00:20:08.000 And my second wife might and I have a great marriage.

00:20:10.000 I mean, I have a great marriage.

00:20:12.000 So I mean, it's fine.

00:20:14.000 I'm not saying don't bring anything up with me.

00:20:17.000 But when she says that I had to bring it up.

00:20:21.000 And he's right.

00:20:22.000 He does bring it up, and he does have to bring it up.

00:20:25.000 And people shouldn't be put off from making these character attacks.

00:20:27.000 And this idea of this halcyon past in which these things didn't exist ever, and the politicians were all mice to each other and everybody was civil.

00:20:34.000 Okay, let me read you a quote from John Adams about Alexander Hamilton.

00:20:38.000 Okay, this is John Adams about Alexander Hamilton shortly after Alexander Hamilton died, right, in a duel.

00:20:43.000 This is the time when everybody would have said, too soon, too soon.

00:20:46.000 Here's what John Adams said about Alexander Hamilton.

00:20:49.000 This is within a couple of years of Alexander Hamilton dying in a duel with Aaron Burr.

00:20:53.000 He said that Hamilton suffered from, quote, a superabundance of secretions which he could not find whores enough to draw off, and that the same vapors produced his lies and slanders by which he totally destroyed his party forever and finally lost his life in the field of honor.

00:21:07.000 Okay, he's saying that he was too horny.

00:21:09.000 There weren't enough prostitutes to provide oral sex for him.

00:21:12.000 That's what he was saying there, right?

00:21:14.000 And this is back in the early 1800s.

00:21:16.000 So let's put aside the whole everybody is genteel and wonderful because it just isn't true.

00:21:21.000 It just isn't true by any stretch of the imagination.

00:21:23.000 Okay, let's do a quick election roundup, and then I want to get to some cultural stuff.

00:21:27.000 So election roundup right now in the polls.

00:21:29.000 Donald Trump and Ted Cruz are basically within margin of error in both.

00:21:33.000 In Iowa, Trump is way ahead in New Hampshire.

00:21:36.000 I think right now that the expectations of Trump winning Iowa have basically been tamped down a little bit.

00:21:42.000 And what that means is that even if he loses Iowa, he's not going to go away.

00:21:46.000 And he could still win New Hampshire if he loses Iowa, so long as Cruz wins Iowa, Trump finishes second, and Rubio or somebody else finishes third.

00:21:53.000 If Rubio finishes fourth or fifth, Trump will run away with New Hampshire.

00:21:57.000 Now, if I'm still making the odds, the more I think about it, the more I think that Rubio still is the nominee, just because of the way that the primaries break down.

00:22:04.000 One of the really nefarious things about how the Republican primaries break down is that all of the red states, basically, are proportional representation states.

00:22:12.000 So if Ted Cruz wins 50% and Marco Rubio wins 20%, Cruz gets 50% of the delegates, Rubio gets 20.

00:22:19.000 Go to California, a blue state, and California has as many delegates as Texas, probably more delegates than Texas, and California, if Cruz wins 49 and Rubio wins 51, Rubio takes all of the delegates.

00:22:30.000 So that's obviously a built-in advantage for the establishment person.

00:22:35.000 But if Rubio starts to fall apart,

00:22:37.000 Which could happen if he loses a bunch of early primaries, then this could turn into a two-way race between Trump and Cruz, which is why Trump and Cruz are going after each other.

00:22:45.000 So the latest is that Trump and Cruz are going after each other.

00:22:47.000 Cruz is really interesting.

00:22:49.000 You would think that he would tack to the right further than he's tacked on immigration.

00:22:52.000 He really hasn't.

00:22:53.000 He was asked over the weekend about how he would do deportation policy, and he sort of avoided answering the question.

00:22:59.000 Here's what Senator Cruz had to say about deportations over the weekend.

00:23:04.000 Deportations are ineffective until you secure the border.

00:23:07.000 Why?

00:23:08.000 Because right now when we deport someone, often they come back in two, three days.

00:23:12.000 It's like if a boat is sinking, you gotta patch the hole first.

00:23:15.000 If you just start bailing and you never fix the hole, it doesn't work.

00:23:19.000 And he's right about that, but he also went on to say he wouldn't have a deportation squad or a deportation force.

00:23:24.000 Trump says that he will.

00:23:25.000 But what's interesting is that Trump must be really worried at this point, because Trump is, instead of attacking crews,

00:23:31.000 Over his immigration policy and saying that he's too wimpy on immigration, which is what you would expect.

00:23:36.000 Instead of that, Donald Trump is still hitting Ted Cruz over his supposed ineligibility for the presidency.

00:23:42.000 So here's Donald Trump over the weekend going after Cruz's eligibility yet again.

00:23:47.000 So the question is, is Ted Cruz, is he a natural born citizen?

00:23:53.000 If he were lucky enough to win, which I don't think he's going to, but if he were lucky enough to win, and he's your candidate, he's going to be sued by the Democrats.

00:24:02.000 They've already said they are going to be suing him on the definition, and it's right here, on the definition, is he natural born?

00:24:12.000 And a lot of people think that means you have to be born on the land, not born in Canada.

00:24:17.000 And he was born in Canada.

00:24:18.000 So, Professor Lawrence Tribe is the expert.

00:24:21.000 He says you got a lot of problems there.

00:24:23.000 Let's see what happens.

00:24:24.000 I mean, but...

00:24:26.000 There is a doubt.

00:24:28.000 We can't have a doubt.

00:24:29.000 We can win this election.

00:24:31.000 We can win it fast.

00:24:32.000 And I say this as a friend of the party and as a friend of Ted.

00:24:36.000 He's got to go in and get a declaratory judgment.

00:24:39.000 He's got to get a ruling to determine if he wins.

00:24:44.000 Can he run?

00:24:45.000 Is he allowed to run?

00:24:46.000 Is he allowed to serve?

00:24:46.000 Does that make sense to anybody?

00:24:49.000 Well, I believe Trump because old Liam Neeson on his back right there is nodding along with him.

00:24:55.000 And if you go back and you subscribe and you watch the tape, you'll know exactly the guy that I'm talking about.

00:24:59.000 But in any case, Trump is going after his eligibility.

00:25:01.000 So this battle has turned into, it's really fascinating, this battle has basically turned into Trump versus Cruz.

00:25:06.000 The name Trump comes up and they avoid the conversation.

00:25:08.000 And he does garner a lot of press.

00:25:29.000 I just envision him in Trump Tower on the 54th floor or whatever in his beautiful apartment and he'll call to Fox & Friends and then Morning Joe and the morning CNN and he's sitting there in a, you know, with a great bathrobe and nice slippers and he's... And he just, he opines, he consumes the space.

00:25:46.000 He has extraordinary ability to get a lot of press coverage.

00:25:50.000 He probably has more press coverage than all the other candidates including the Democrats combined.

00:25:55.000 And by the way, that is true, but it's interesting that Jeb thinks he's going to win points among any of Trump's voters by attacking Trump.

00:26:02.000 It's not going to happen.

00:26:03.000 But Jeb and Christie and Ruby are now battling it out.

00:26:07.000 For the establishment side of the aisle.

00:26:09.000 So Chris Christie is now running ads against Marco Rubio.

00:26:12.000 And Marco Rubio is... Actually, Rubio is pushing to the right.

00:26:15.000 So Rubio is both pushing against the other establishment candidates, and he's pushing against Cruz.

00:26:19.000 So Rubio was asked about Obama's policies on gun control over the weekend, and here's what the senator from Florida had to say about Obama's gun control policies.

00:26:27.000 Where has the president called proposals for taking away guns?

00:26:30.000 He has not done that.

00:26:32.000 Well, his proposal for everything is to infringe on the Second Amendment.

00:26:36.000 There was a terrorist attack in San Bernardino before even the facts are known.

00:26:39.000 He immediately jumps and says, we need gun control.

00:26:42.000 But take away our guns?

00:26:42.000 This is what he always resorts to.

00:26:44.000 Well, if he could, he would.

00:26:46.000 Obviously, he knows he's constrained by the Second Amendment, so what he tries to do is chip away at it every chance he gets.

00:26:50.000 So you can see he hasn't called for that.

00:26:51.000 And he wants this debate to be about

00:26:53.000 George, if he could, he would.

00:26:55.000 And let me tell you what he's trying to do.

00:26:56.000 He is trying to keep guns out of the hands of law-abiding citizens by continuing to put new restrictions on our gun rights.

00:27:01.000 Let me give you an example.

00:27:03.000 He says he wants... Barack Obama says he wants this debate to be about fact and truth.

00:27:06.000 Good.

00:27:07.000 Let's have it about fact and truth.

00:27:08.000 Here's the fact and here's the truth.

00:27:10.000 None of the attacks that he is talking about, none of these horrifying tragedies that have occurred that he cites as the rationale for these new measures that he's taking, not a single one of them would have been prevented by anything he's proposing.

00:27:22.000 And the reason why is because killers and criminals do not care what the gun laws are.

00:27:27.000 They are not going to go to someone that conducts background checks.

00:27:29.000 Okay, Rubio is completely right.

00:27:30.000 I want to point something out here.

00:27:31.000 Rubio is a very right-wing candidate.

00:27:33.000 There's a lot of talk about Rubio being establishment.

00:27:34.000 He is.

00:27:35.000 The establishment likes him because they like him on immigration.

00:27:55.000 The fact is, the grassroots should consider this election cycle a massive success simply by dint of the fact that Marco Rubio is now considered the establishment guy.

00:28:04.000 Right?

00:28:04.000 The fact that Marco Rubio is so much further to the right than John McCain or than Mitt Romney, it's almost astonishing.

00:28:11.000 So the fact that Marco Rubio, he has a 94% rating for most of the various conservative groups.

00:28:15.000 The area where he's not good is immigration.

00:28:17.000 Everything else, the guy is very, very conservative, much more so than his two establishment predecessors.

00:28:22.000 So that's a victory for the grassroots side of the Republican Party.

00:28:26.000 Okay, let's talk a little bit about culture.

00:28:28.000 Last night was the Golden Globes.

00:28:30.000 And the Golden Globes is the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which is basically a bunch of bloggers from Bulgaria who have votes, and nobody knows who they are, and nobody knows why we care about them, but they hand out these statues with Golden Globes, and a bunch of people, a bunch of actresses with Golden Globes show up to try and receive more Golden Globes, and so the Kardashian sisters show up, etc.

00:28:51.000 And before we get to that, I just want to point out one thing.

00:28:56.000 The people in Hollywood are even more disconnected than the Republican establishment.

00:28:59.000 The people in Hollywood are so disconnected that they think it's cool for us, in the middle of what is a continuing economic malaise, for them to down apparently 7,500 glasses of champagne and then curse out the rest of the American public.

00:29:13.000 I think if you had to pick one person who sort of signifies what Hollywood is all about, that person is probably Sean Penn.

00:29:18.000 Sean Penn has spent his entire life in Hollywood.

00:29:21.000 Here, of course, is Sean Penn shaking hands with El Chapo.

00:29:24.000 El Chapo is a drug kingpin in Mexico who's responsible for apparently hundreds, if not thousands, of deaths.

00:29:30.000 He escaped prison.

00:29:31.000 So Sean Penn was sent down there by Rolling Stone.

00:29:34.000 And I guess they had a hookup through a Mexican actress.

00:29:37.000 And he went down there to interview El Chapo.

00:29:39.000 And in this interview, El Chapo had final editorial control, so El Chapo got to read it and then edit the interview.

00:29:44.000 And Sean Penn, I guess he's lonely for his good friend Hugo Chavez, who's moldering in the grave, that big bloated body of his, moldering in the grave at this point, so he needs a new...

00:29:53.000 We're good to go.

00:30:12.000 And there's something about the Golden Globes that is particularly off-putting, but the one thing that was kind of great was Ricky Gervais.

00:30:19.000 Ricky Gervais hates Hollywood as much as I do.

00:30:22.000 He's not from Hollywood, he's from Britain, and so he really despises everything Hollywood is about, and he just goes and he roasts them.

00:30:27.000 So I want to play this one brief clip of Ricky Gervais because it's really entertaining.

00:30:31.000 Here's Ricky Gervais going on, doing what no one hath done.

00:30:35.000 Going off on Caitlyn Jenner, which you're not allowed to do in Hollywood.

00:30:38.000 And you can see, he's drunk as a skunk.

00:30:39.000 I mean, I think he went through six or seven beers in the course of the broadcast last night.

00:30:44.000 But as I say, I'm gonna be nice tonight.

00:30:46.000 I've changed.

00:30:48.000 Not as much as Bruce Jenner, obviously.

00:30:50.000 Now Caitlyn Jenner, of course.

00:30:54.000 What a year she's had.

00:30:56.000 She became a role model for trans people everywhere, showing great bravery in breaking down barriers and destroying stereotypes.

00:31:05.000 She didn't do a lot for women drivers, but... You can't have everything, can you?

00:31:14.000 And you can see everybody's laughing except Queen Latifah, who is very offended that anybody has made a joke about Caitlyn Jenner killing a person in a car crash, which is what happened, by the way.

00:31:23.000 And Ricky Gervais did a lot of that last night.

00:31:25.000 He made fun of the equal pay for equal work routine, too.

00:31:28.000 He said Jennifer Lawrence, you know, after she came out in favor of women should be paid the same as men, people all over the world marched

00:31:34.000 In favor of the idea that $52 million for a 25-year-old actress per year was not enough money.

00:31:38.000 They were very upset.

00:31:40.000 And then he made a joke about how he thinks women and men should be paid the same.

00:31:44.000 He's being paid the same as Tina Fey and Amy Poehler were last year.

00:31:46.000 It's not his fault that they decided they should be two of them last year.

00:31:49.000 That was their decision to take the pay.

00:31:51.000 Which, by the way, is actually true, right?

00:31:53.000 You get to take whatever pay you want in the country.

00:31:56.000 And so, good job by Gervais.

00:31:58.000 The part that was really gross about the Golden Globes, however, was not Gervais, right?

00:32:00.000 People making fun of Hollywood is the fun of this.

00:32:03.000 Right?

00:32:03.000 This is what Bob Hope used to do when he hosted the Oscars, was mock all the other people, including himself, in Hollywood.

00:32:09.000 And then there's the self-aggrandizing side of Hollywood, and that is Amy Schumer and Jennifer Lawrence.

00:32:14.000 Jennifer Lawrence has become such a disappointment, just as a human being.

00:32:17.000 I know a lot of people who were big J-Law fans and thought that she was kind of the young, up-and-coming, honest, cool girl, and it turns out that she's just another

00:32:26.000 Hollywood feminist who hates Jesus and dislikes Christianity because mommy and daddy were Christian, and she's very disappointed by all that.

00:32:32.000 And here she is standing next to the vulgarian Amy Schumer, who is a Cupid-faced vulgarian Amy Schumer, who is famous mostly for being borderline funny and borderline fat.

00:32:41.000 This is her shtick, right?

00:32:43.000 She's borderline funny and she's borderline fat.

00:32:45.000 And I can say that because she's the one who made a big deal out of her fatness.

00:32:47.000 If you go back about 20 episodes in the Ben Shapiro show, we did a very long segment on Amy Schumer's naked photo with Annie Leibowitz.

00:32:55.000 Where she decided to go in and basically dress herself down and sit like a manatee and drink a cup of coffee and then tweeted out that she was stunning and brave.

00:33:03.000 To which I have to say, by the way, that our definitions of bravery are constantly changing.

00:33:07.000 I mean, Jason Collins was brave for coming out of the closet and making millions of dollars while doing so.

00:33:12.000 Amy Schumer is brave for getting naked.

00:33:14.000 It seems to me that if a guy is going to call himself brave, like really call himself brave, he ought to take some sort of personal risk on behalf of others.

00:33:21.000 Like fight in Afghanistan and get wounded, right?

00:33:24.000 You can call yourself brave if you do that.

00:33:25.000 You pose naked and you get all sorts of plaudits from the media that's not brave.

00:33:28.000 Anyway, here is J-Law with Amy Schumer.

00:33:31.000 And Amy Schumer does what she does best, which is she says dirty words.

00:33:33.000 And because she's semi-cute, a cute girl saying dirty words is Sarah Silverman has found a career duff make in Hollywood.

00:33:39.000 Here we go.

00:33:40.000 I'm J-Law.

00:33:42.000 And I am a shoe.

00:33:44.000 I mean, you can't just give yourself a celeb nickname.

00:33:50.000 It has to come naturally.

00:33:52.000 Okay.

00:33:53.000 Like, what do people usually call you?

00:33:56.000 Usually they just call me...

00:34:00.000 And you can't see it because it's bleeped there, but she calls herself the C-word.

00:34:03.000 What a delight she is.

00:34:04.000 And this is how Hollywood sees itself, right?

00:34:06.000 And these kind of jokes were replete throughout the night.

00:34:08.000 Jonah Hill did something where he dropped the F-bomb a bunch of times.

00:34:11.000 They know they're on national TV.

00:34:12.000 They just don't care.

00:34:12.000 They're better than you, right?

00:34:14.000 Again, for the left, intellect equals virtue.

00:34:17.000 Fame also equals virtue.

00:34:18.000 If you're famous, you are virtuous just because you're famous, right?

00:34:21.000 If you're a big earner in Hollywood, not

00:34:24.000 Not in the actual real world, but in Hollywood, and that means that you're virtuous.

00:34:27.000 If you're famous, then you're virtuous, because we've seen you on screen, and that makes you a better person.

00:34:33.000 Okay, I know we're late on this, but things I like and things I hate.

00:34:35.000 We'll do this one quickly.

00:34:37.000 Okay, things I like.

00:34:38.000 My wife and I have been plowing through Blacklist, and we enjoy that show.

00:34:41.000 It is a fun show.

00:34:43.000 It's James Spader being James Spader all of the time.

00:34:46.000 It's 50 minutes of James Spader.

00:34:48.000 That's the show.

00:34:49.000 So you're either into it or you're not into it.

00:34:50.000 I think James Bader is hilarious, and so when I watch that show, it's him walking around being hilarious and shooting people.

00:34:57.000 That is basically Blacklist in a nutshell, and it's twisty-turny, and it's got plot, and it's pulp, and it's fun.

00:35:03.000 So if you want to watch a show that's not for the kiddies because it's kind of graphic, not in terms of sex, but in terms of violence,

00:35:09.000 Then you should take a look at Blacklist.

00:35:12.000 It is a fun watch.

00:35:13.000 Also, we just started the new season of Sherlock, but it's not a season, it's like a mini-movie.

00:35:18.000 And they set it back in the late 19th century, and so that's a lot of fun also.

00:35:22.000 So if you're just on Netflix or Amazon, and you're checking things out, check those out.

00:35:26.000 Okay, a couple of things that I hate.

00:35:29.000 So there was a big deal over Donald Trump's rally this weekend.

00:35:33.000 When this lady stood up at his rally, and she's a Muslim lady, and she was wearing a Jewish star.

00:35:39.000 And she was wearing a Jewish star not because she loves the Jews, haha, no.

00:35:43.000 No, she was wearing a Jewish star because she is the new Jew, you see?

00:35:46.000 She's just like, this is Nazi Germany, and Muslims are being treated just like the new Juden, and therefore, they're going to show up at Donald Trump rallies because Donald Trump is the new Hitler.

00:35:55.000 So here is this Muslim lady talking about how she was kicked out of a rally on CNN.

00:35:58.000 She's a heroine now.

00:36:01.000 I mean, did one person really say, you have a bomb, you have a bomb?

00:36:05.000 Yeah, one guy was saying, Get out!

00:36:07.000 Do you have a bomb?

00:36:08.000 And I said, No, do you have a bomb?

00:36:10.000 So no, they were saying ugly, ugly things.

00:36:14.000 One guy was saying, God is great.

00:36:16.000 I'm like, Yeah, God is great.

00:36:17.000 And one guy said, Esau loves you, which is the Arabic word for Jesus.

00:36:20.000 And I said, Yeah, I know.

00:36:21.000 And Jesus loves you too.

00:36:23.000 So it's the thing is that people

00:36:26.000 They don't even know what they're saying.

00:36:27.000 They just get riled up in the hate mongering, and they don't even know what they're saying.

00:36:32.000 So I basically feel sorry for them.

00:36:36.000 They just don't know what they're missing.

00:36:38.000 They don't know what they're missing.

00:36:39.000 Okay, so she's sitting there, wearing a button that was put on Jews before they were shipped into gas chambers, children to be gassed, and then their bodies cremated.

00:36:51.000 And people who are criticizing her don't know what they're saying.

00:36:53.000 Now, it's silly to say you're a carrying bomb, you're a carrying bomb.

00:36:55.000 No, she's not.

00:36:56.000 You're an idiot is more like it.

00:36:58.000 Or you're a moral dolt is more like it.

00:36:59.000 I mean, that just is vile.

00:37:01.000 I mean, as somebody whose entire extended family was murdered in the Holocaust, this is insulting.

00:37:06.000 It's deeply insulting, especially because Muslims in the Middle East are trying to perpetrate a new Holocaust, so I'm not going to sit here and have Muslims call themselves the new Jews, while the current Muslims try to kill the current Jews.

00:37:17.000 Especially as 10 million Muslims apparently are about to enter Europe, and as the entire Western Civilization- Like, we're Nazi Germany.

00:37:24.000 Really, we're Nazi Germany.

00:37:25.000 We're so much Nazi Germany that over the weekend, on Thursday, there was a Muslim guy in Philadelphia who walked up to a cop car and shot the cop point-blank

00:37:34.000 And the only reason that I can think of that the cop was not killed, and the guy was shooting him from about four feet away, the only reason I can possibly think of why the cop was not killed in this act is that this Muslim must have been in another life of stormtrooper because he's that bad a shot.

00:37:48.000 He got off 14 shots, only three hit the cop, and they hit him in the arm.

00:37:52.000 He's still in critical condition.

00:37:53.000 The guy said, I did this on behalf of Islam.

00:37:56.000 He said, I did this in the name of Islam.

00:37:57.000 The mayor of Philadelphia came out and said, this has nothing to do with Islam.

00:38:01.000 The federal government needs to crack down on guns.

00:38:04.000 Right?

00:38:04.000 That's just like the Nazis treating the Jews.

00:38:06.000 Like, it's just the same thing.

00:38:07.000 Because I remember back during the Holocaust era, I remember reading about cases in which Jews randomly murdered passers-by and cops and authorities, and everybody went, no, can't be Judaism.

00:38:16.000 I remember it was just the same.

00:38:17.000 It was just the same.

00:38:18.000 So, there's something that I hate.

00:38:20.000 Okay, here's another thing that I hate.

00:38:21.000 We've seen a spate of these various videos of idiot parents who have now decided that they want to use their children for virtue signaling and use them as props.

00:38:32.000 And usually it's their small children who- it's usually- it's almost always boys.

00:38:36.000 It's always young boys, and the young boy wants to buy a Barbie doll.

00:38:39.000 And so dad goes in the car, and he takes a selfie video of himself talking about what a good guy he is because he got his young boy a Barbie doll.

00:38:46.000 Because I'm not an intolerant homophobe, and if my kid ends up being gay, well, so be it!

00:38:50.000 That sounds great!

00:38:52.000 And they turn into Tony the Tiger, and it's- and

00:38:54.000 It's always ridiculous because the kid's like four or five.

00:38:58.000 Kids want to buy lots of crap when they're little.

00:39:00.000 Doesn't mean your kid's gay just because he wants to buy a Barbie doll.

00:39:02.000 And you're reinforcing the idea that you're pre-approving homosexuality in a kid.

00:39:09.000 It's just, it's ridiculous.

00:39:10.000 But it's even worse in this particular case.

00:39:12.000 So, in this particular case that I'm about to show you, it's another set of garbage parents from whom their child should be taken away.

00:39:19.000 And these garbage parents decide that an eight-year-old kid

00:39:22.000 And he's an eight-year-old boy.

00:39:24.000 Okay, when you're eight, you don't have any hormones.

00:39:25.000 Okay, when you're eight, the hormones have not hit.

00:39:27.000 You're not in puberty yet.

00:39:28.000 Season Willward.

00:39:29.000 Okay, the name says it all.

00:39:31.000 Season.

00:39:32.000 Season Willward is a mother from Port Charlotte, Florida.

00:39:36.000 And she arranged for her eight-year-old son, Ethan, to meet with a local makeup artist, Joey Kilmeyer, for a drag-style makeup makeover and selfie, so Ethan can, quote-unquote, explore and discover himself.

00:39:47.000 Willward then told- This is the kid.

00:39:50.000 This is the kid.

00:39:51.000 So I make the kid up like a drag queen.

00:39:53.000 Two things here that are utterly horrifying.

00:39:57.000 One is, number one, that you are greenlighting your kid's sexual confusion.

00:40:01.000 When you're eight years old, sexual confusion is not difficult.

00:40:03.000 And in fact, until you are fully mature, sexual confusion is not difficult.

00:40:07.000 This is why you are seeing elevated rates of homosexual experimentation among young people.

00:40:11.000 Because it turns out that young people are not always clear about their sexuality when they're young.

00:40:16.000 Which is why it's important for civilization to channel amorphous sexuality into productive sexual use.

00:40:22.000 Okay, that's number one.

00:40:23.000 Number two, if you were to just see a picture of this eight-year-old kid, just the headshot, right?

00:40:28.000 The goal of this is to sexualize the kid.

00:40:31.000 Is there any doubt about this, that this is a pedophile's dream?

00:40:34.000 That a male pedophile is looking at this somewhere and getting off on it?

00:40:39.000 Is there any doubt that you're sexualizing an eight-year-old kid?

00:40:41.000 Male, female, you dress the kid up like this, you're sexualizing the kid.

00:40:44.000 And when it's cross-dressing, you're for sure sexualizing the kid.

00:40:47.000 There's no doubt about it.

00:40:49.000 And Wilbert told the Daily Beast, Ethan has always been interested in makeup.

00:40:53.000 Really always?

00:40:54.000 Like from the time he was two?

00:40:55.000 And that one of his favorite makeup tutorials are drag style taught by a gay man who dresses in drag himself.

00:41:00.000 Why, it's almost as though parents aren't monitoring what their kids are watching.

00:41:04.000 So Wilbert deemed it essential to set up a meeting between Kilmeyer and her young son so he could explore this drag style look.

00:41:11.000 Kilmeyer was so touched by Wilbert's support for his son's interest in makeup that he posted a picture of him and Ethan in drag makeup on Facebook.

00:41:19.000 So the adult who was doing the makeup needed to post the pictures because he felt so moved.

00:41:25.000 Okay, let's say, just for the sake of argument, that the kid really felt the need to explore and mommy and daddy made the stupid and foolhardy decision that they were going to indulge every fantasy of a child, which is the definition of bad parenting.

00:41:36.000 Okay, parenting is about not indulging your child's every whim or fantasy.

00:41:40.000 It's about setting boundaries for children because children are little... they're...

00:41:44.000 They're not fully developed brain-wise, they're not smart, and they're not virtuous.

00:41:48.000 That's why you have to wait until they get smart, and you have to train them to be virtuous.

00:41:51.000 This is why civilization is good.

00:41:53.000 Okay, but let's assume that the parents made the right decision, and they wanted the kid to do the makeup.

00:41:57.000 Is there a rationale for posting all this online?

00:42:00.000 Is there a rationale for putting it on YouTube?

00:42:02.000 Is there a rationale for doing an interview with Daily Beast?

00:42:05.000 This is going to live forever.

00:42:06.000 This kid is going to live forever with the kid.

00:42:08.000 You just basically enshrined your kid's sexual confusion from the time that he's eight forever.

00:42:12.000 And you want to know the hypocrisy of the left?

00:42:15.000 The left thinks that Honey Boo Boo is disgusting and terrible, right?

00:42:18.000 For exploiting these crazy moms, these crazy pageant moms who dress up their eight-year-old girls like this?

00:42:24.000 Do it to a boy?

00:42:25.000 You're a leftist hero, immediately.

00:42:27.000 So there's something that I hate, and parents really ought to do a decent job of parenting.

00:42:32.000 Okay, I know we're extra long, but there's one final thing that I hate that I have to show, and this is, this Texas teen feminist has decided that she is going to set the internet aflame.

00:42:42.000 Why?

00:42:42.000 With her body hair.

00:42:43.000 So we have pictures, unfortunately.

00:42:46.000 of this Texas teen's body hair.

00:42:49.000 And she is trying to show you that body hair is sexy.

00:42:55.000 And apparently, I just have to say to you folks, just because you say something sexy, it ain't sexy.

00:43:04.000 Okay, just you saying things are sexy doesn't make them sexy.

00:43:07.000 Turns out that you have every right to not shave your legs or your stomach or whatever you're doing here.

00:43:12.000 You have every right to do that.

00:43:13.000 You have every right to look like Zach Galifianakis in a thong.

00:43:17.000 You have whatever right to do whatever you want to do.

00:43:19.000 It's a free country.

00:43:21.000 You don't have the right to expect that I am going to find you sexy.

00:43:25.000 I have my own standards of what I find sexy.

00:43:27.000 This does not fit, but this is setting the internet aflame, because anytime you do something stupid and ridiculous now, it sets the internet aflame, because you're brave.

00:43:36.000 You're brave.

00:43:37.000 You're super brave, because you did something really hideous.

00:43:41.000 It's just... Don't be surprised.

00:43:43.000 Just gonna say, don't be surprised when you have trouble attracting dudes.

00:43:48.000 I love this, what this girl said.

00:43:49.000 She says,

00:44:06.000 No, I'm mostly making fun of you because you posted a picture of your hairy belly on Twitter and then expected people to celebrate you as some sort of icon of femininity and genius.

00:44:14.000 Again, you choose to do this, you find a guy who's into it, more power to you.

00:44:18.000 But the idea that we all have to give in to your definition of sexy is beyond crazy towns.

00:44:25.000 Reality always wins in the end.

00:44:28.000 And the reality is that we all have very different perceptions of what is attractive.

00:44:32.000 And call me crazy,

00:44:34.000 But I really want to end the show so that you don't have to look at this image anymore.

00:44:37.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:44:38.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

Ep. 52 - The Intellectual Republicans Will Get Hillary Elected

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