A bright new day has dawned. President Obama is done with his final State of the Union address. We will go through all of it. Plus, President Obama told a lie about the Iran nuclear deal that s being exposed right now, and it s really quite horrifying. We ll tell you what that is, plus things I like, things I hate. Happy New Year! Ben Shapiro (c) 2019, All rights reserved. Used by permission. The opinions expressed here are our own and do not necessarily reflect those of our government, the White House, the Department of Defense, the CIA, the National Security Agency, etc. etc. All rights are reserved for their respective owners and agents. This podcast is not intended to diagnose, treat, prevent, or prevent any medical or mental health problem. If you or someone you know is having a medical problem, or is in need of support, please talk to a provider. If that is not possible, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255 or visit a local Samaritans branch, or go to www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org. They are 24/7.org/sickness and support is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, seven nights a week. They can be reached by phone at 800-741-876-527-9066. If you are having trouble with your mental health or physical well-being, visit a Samaritans facility, or visit Samaritans 24/11, or call 1-866-467-8787-841-541 or visit www.U.S.PATHETIC.COM. Thank you, thank you, Thank you for being a beacon of hope and support us, and remember to take something like this in the or in a place like this Thank you today, we are on this podcast is at the website , thank you , Thank you to the ? thanks Thanks, Ben Shapiro: & " - # + . @ CRYING FOR THE SUPPORTED AND SUPPORTED BY THE PODCAST AND SUPPORT THE MENTIONED IN THE VIDEO AND LINKS IN THE LINKS AND TAYLOR MURDER AND SUPPORT US AND THE FABULARY?
00:00:29.000So, let's begin today with what's actually happening over in Iran, because you need to know the backdrop of what is happening in Iran to truly appreciate the alternative universe in which our President of the United States resides.
00:00:43.000He lives in a completely fictional universe where all glasses are half full, all horses are unicorns, and all countries, all enemies around the world, they love us.
00:01:27.000And drifted magically into Iranian waters, at which point the Iranians, like a naval AAA, like a helpful Honda people, Farsi edition, they showed up and they dragged them back to Iran for safekeeping and then released them the next day.
00:01:43.000And virtually the entire Obama administration then celebrated that they were released this morning.
00:01:48.000Overnight, while the State of the Union address was going on, our guys were being held, our guys, nine guys, one gal, were being held captive by the Iranians.
00:01:55.000They were released this morning, Iranian time.
00:02:43.000I'm proud of our young men and women in uniform and know how seriously they take their responsibilities to one another and to other mariners in distress.
00:02:49.000So in other words, the Iranians treated our mariners in distress just like we would treat their mariners in distress.
00:02:55.000It was really all just beautifully handled.
00:02:58.000Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, he added his voice to the chorus.
00:03:01.000He said, quote, I am pleased that 10 U.S.
00:03:03.000Navy sailors have departed Iran and are now back in U.S.
00:03:37.000Well, I can tell you that what happened was, apparently we had, from our military, one of the boats had engine failure, drifted into Iranian waters.
00:03:47.000The Iranians picked up both boats, as we have picked up Iranian boats that needed to be rescued, and took them to, I'm not sure exactly where, I don't want to misspeak here.
00:03:58.000And realize they were there in distress and said they would release them and release them like, you know, ordinary nations would do.
00:04:06.000That's the way nations should deal with love.
00:04:08.000That's why it's important to have channels open.
00:04:46.000It's a picture by the Iranians of American sailors.
00:04:49.000They've got their hands, for those who can't see because they don't subscribe, this is why you definitely need to subscribe to the Ben Shapiro show and to our podcast because the fact is that the images that we show are actually very important and you're going to see them on the news tonight.
00:05:01.000But you can actually get the straight story over here.
00:05:03.000What you're seeing in this photo is all of the American sailors with their hands behind their head like prisoners of war.
00:05:10.000You know, I remember when the helpful Honda people showed up to pick me up and help me when AAA showed up to help me.
00:05:15.000I had a flat tire just a couple of weeks ago.
00:05:38.000I guarantee you that she wasn't wearing a headscarf when she was serving on the boat, but now that she is in Iranian naval territory, she must put on the headscarf.
00:05:45.000And what you can't see in those photos, by the way, is that none of our sailors are wearing shoes.
00:05:49.000Presumably this has something to do with Islamic traditions about wearing shoes.
00:07:42.000According to Reuters, too, Biden was fibbing the Iranians he asked for an apology and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.
00:07:48.000Who is apparently related to, I think he's a distant relative of Kerry's son-in-law, I believe.
00:07:54.000He, in fact, led the way asking for an apology.
00:07:57.000And those pictures, I mean, there's nothing more humiliating, at least since Benghazi, than that picture of American soldiers on their knees with their hands behind their head to a bunch of Iranian Revolutionary Guard thugs.
00:08:09.000And the president of the United States and the administration defending the Iranians and saying that the Iranians are just doing everything totally right.
00:08:33.000If you take it from them through a show of strength, then you are, in fact, the person in the superior position.
00:08:38.000So, the Iranians are about to be handed $100 billion today by President Obama in seized assets.
00:08:44.000The people who put our soldiers on their knees and their hands behind their head, our sailors on their knees, hands behind their head, and slapped our female... I love that the Obama administration on the left, they're constantly talking about the wonders of female soldiers and sailors, but they go completely silent the minute that foreign nations slap our female sailors in hijab.
00:09:04.000But the idea here is that we're now freeing up hundreds of billions of dollars for the Iranians, and the Iranians don't want it to look as though the United States is doing them a favor, so they slap us across the face in the most public possible way, specifically so that it makes it look to their own people and the Islamic world like they're dictating terms to us.
00:09:20.000And the truth is they are dictating terms to us, because Obama wanted the Iran deal worse than Iran wanted the Iran deal.
00:09:25.000And therefore, he basically gave away the store.
00:09:28.000And this is not the first time they've tried this routine.
00:09:30.000In 2007, Iran captured 15 British sailors and held them for 13 days, if you recall.
00:09:35.000And eventually, the West stood down, and now the West is standing down again.
00:09:51.000You would imagine that with 10 more Westerners killed in Turkey yesterday, there were 10 Westerners killed in Turkey, 10 Germans killed by a Syrian Muslim refugee.
00:10:00.000You know, some of the glorious Syrian Muslim refugees were supposed to take in.
00:10:04.000That President Obama might in fact talk about the threats to the United States and the threats to the world.
00:10:08.000But no, this was a non-traditional speech.
00:10:11.000Instead, he focused solely and completely on the fact that America sucks.
00:10:14.000If it's good in any way it's because he's made it good, that anybody who opposes him is bad-hearted, and that the only reason we didn't give him everything he wanted over the last eight years is because of our deep and abiding cynicism, cruelty, and malice toward President Obama personally, but also toward
00:11:33.000President Obama here trying to draw a connection between Republicans who don't like Obama's brand of change and segregationists and people who are anti the women's vote and people who hate immigrants and people who reveled in depression and war, whoever these people might be.
00:11:51.000So what he's saying there is that we've had big changes before.
00:11:53.000We've always gotten through them by ignoring Donald Trump, right?
00:11:55.000That's really what he's saying right there.
00:11:58.000He is, and it's a cynical trick, because the fact is that it was Democrats.
00:12:04.000When it came to people attempting to shut down immigration, it was really Democrats in the North who were attempting to shut down immigration for large swaths of time, large periods of time.
00:12:13.000And fear of Syrian Muslim refugees is not quite the same thing as fearing a bunch of westernized Jews from Eastern and Western Europe.
00:12:50.000And four big questions that I believe we as a country have to answer, regardless of who the next President is, or who controls the next Congress.
00:13:02.000First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy?
00:13:19.000How do we make technology work for us, and not against us, especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change?
00:13:32.000Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?
00:13:45.000How can we make our politics reflect what's best in us and not what's worse?
00:13:53.000And there's Joe Biden who's desperately trying not to fall asleep during this.
00:13:56.000So he says, four questions there are and four questions there shall be.
00:14:00.000The first was, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity?
00:14:02.000Well, the answer would be get out of their way, you jackass.
00:14:06.000But that's not President Obama's answer.
00:15:21.000It's only been used once in human history, right?
00:15:25.000To end World War II, the bloodiest conflict in the history of the planet.
00:15:28.000So, you know, when President Obama talks about how do we make technology work for us and not against us, what he's really saying is, I want government to come in and create technological changes that I like, but I won't let the market do what it will do on its own.
00:15:41.000We'll get to that question and his answer in a second.
00:15:43.000And he says, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?
00:15:47.000And his answer is, false dichotomies and unicorn poop.
00:15:50.000And finally, he says, how can we make politics reflect what's best in us and not what's worst?
00:15:55.000This is the one where President Obama spent the most time.
00:15:58.000Let me just say as a preface, there is nothing more galling than listening to the most divisive politician of my lifetime lecture us on how we have to have an elevated discourse.
00:16:08.000This man has called the Tea Party terrorists.
00:16:10.000This man has suggested that he would put his boot on the throat of British Petroleum.
00:16:14.000This man has suggested that Republicans are his enemies.
00:16:17.000This man has said that if you are a Democrat, you should bring a gun to a knife fight.
00:16:21.000This is a president who has sicked the IRS on his political opponents, who has sicked the Department of Justice on his political opponents, who has sicked the NSA and DOJ on journalists.
00:16:31.000This is a man who has broken every rule of American government there is, and he's sitting there telling us that we need a more civil politics.
00:16:38.000The cynicism and the lie is just breathtaking.
00:16:41.000But, you know, that's what he's good at.
00:16:42.000So, on to the lack of substance of his speech.
00:16:46.000I have to say, at this point, I was watching the speech at home, and I had tickets, as I mentioned yesterday.
00:16:52.000By the way, my prediction was spot on.
00:16:53.000I said that he was going to talk for about one hour.
00:16:58.000He said he would give a uniquely short speech.
00:17:01.000In fact, he gave the 16th longest State of the Union address since 1966, so he's a liar.
00:17:05.000But about halfway through the speech, my daughter, who is just the cutest thing that ever was, she toddles up to me, and she's just under two years old.
00:17:13.000She toddles up to me, and she puts her hands on the back of my laptop, and she starts pushing it closed, and she goes,
00:17:21.000And I thought to myself, oh, if only I could give in to you.
00:17:26.000If only I could give in to you, small child.
00:17:42.000He decides to answer the economic question by basically telling lies about how much he likes the private sector, but he loves the private sector so much that he has to stop the private sector from doing things.
00:18:09.000And then he shyly puts his hands back in his lap because Bernie Sanders is giving him a death glare.
00:18:14.000If you believe that Obama thinks a private sector is the lifeblood of our economy, then you haven't been watching him quash the private sector.
00:18:20.000That's not how Democrats view the private sector.
00:18:22.000The private sector is a necessary evil, according to Democrats.
00:18:25.000Maybe not even necessary, but certainly evil.
00:18:28.000They see that the private sector, yeah, we kind of have to give it its due, but it's really a terrible place.
00:18:33.000And that's what he goes on to say right here.
00:20:15.000He says, after, there's so many lies in a row here.
00:20:17.000First, he says there's red tape that needs to be cut.
00:20:19.000This is a man who has added more regulations to the federal register in the last seven years than I think the last five presidents combined.
00:20:25.000I mean, he's added just regulation on top of regulation on top of regulation.
00:20:30.000And then he says, after years of record corporate profits, working families won't get more opportunity by letting big banks or big oil or hedge funds make their own rules at the expense of everyone else.
00:20:40.000I wasn't aware that big banks and hedge funds had a separate set of rules, like a magical set of rules.
00:20:45.000What's the set of rules that he's talking about?
00:21:32.000And as for those hedge funds everybody's always bitching about, okay, all a hedge fund is, is an investment firm.
00:21:38.000All a hedge fund is is a group of people who sit around making investments in particular companies.
00:21:43.000And one of the things that has happened under President Obama is that hedge funds have stopped investing in startup companies because the conditions for business are just too risky under President Obama.
00:21:52.000Instead, they're investing in things that have already started up.
00:21:54.000They're taking their money and putting it into Google.
00:21:56.000They're not trying to find the next Google.
00:22:00.000And when he says, we can't allow a tax on collective bargaining to go unanswered, unions have bankrupted company after company in this country.
00:22:07.000There's a reason that in the private sector, the unionization rate is at an all-time low.
00:22:12.000I think it's 6% in the private sector.
00:22:14.000Only the government has massive unions.
00:22:17.00040% of the government workforce is unionized, which is why it's so expensive and crappy.
00:22:21.000And then he says, food stamp recipients didn't cause the financial crisis, recklessness on Wall Street did.
00:22:26.000Okay, I'm not sure who said that food stamp recipients caused the financial crisis, but let's be real about something.
00:22:31.000There were some food stamp recipients who probably did cause the financial crisis if they took a subprime loan they couldn't pay back.
00:22:38.000And it was the federal government that caused the subprime crisis because it was the federal government telling Wall Street that they could have free money.
00:23:22.000How can we take all these people and fire them and pay them less?
00:23:25.000What we've asked is, what do we have to pay?
00:23:27.000The same question every employer asks.
00:23:29.000What do you have to pay to get quality people?
00:23:31.000That's always, it's always the same question.
00:23:32.000And immigration does drive down wages, of course, because this is basic supply and demand.
00:23:37.000If there is more supply of labor, then it has met the demand and surpassed the demand and the price goes down.
00:23:44.000But President Obama makes up all of this because he wants to say that there's some evil cabal in back rooms with their Scrooge McDuck money, making all these decisions to make the economy crappy.
00:23:53.000By the way, he's been president for seven years.
00:24:52.000And also, government investment in cancer research is not going to cure cancer.
00:24:56.000Drug companies trying to make a fortune off of cancer drugs is what is going to end up fighting cancer.
00:25:01.000And this has been true for pretty much every disease in the United States.
00:25:05.000Government research grants typically go to theoretical matters, and drug company research grants go to people who are trying to create drugs for profit.
00:25:15.000Your plumber may not know how physics works, but he knows how to change a screw.
00:25:19.000Well, when it comes to your body, your body is basically just a plumbing system.
00:25:23.000And the people who know how to fix it are typically in the drug companies because they want to make money off fixing your plumbing.
00:25:28.000If you think of it that way, you realize how silly it is.
00:25:30.000This whole, oh, if we just throw money at the problem, that's the real problem.
00:25:33.000If anybody thinks there's a shortage of money being invested in cancer research in the private sector, they seriously don't know what they're talking about.
00:25:40.000But then Obama moves on to his favorite thing in the world, climate change.
00:25:43.000So here's President Obama getting all snarky with Republicans who doubt climate change, clip four.
00:25:48.000Look, if anybody still wants to dispute the science around climate change, have at it.
00:25:57.000Because you'll be debating our military, most of America's business leaders, the majority of the American people, almost the entire scientific community, and 200 nations around the world who agree it's a problem and intend to solve it.
00:26:17.000That you know something is scientific, you know something is science, if enough people agree.
00:26:22.000Right, because this is how, because everybody, that's how we figured out the theory of relativity was true, is Einstein put it up for a poll, and then we went, oh, for sure, that's probably right, that's probably right.
00:26:33.000And then he says he's going to invest, this is the part that was crazy, so he just finished saying that everybody who's blue collar in the country is being hurt by Wall Street, and his first move is he's going to shut down the coal and gas industries, which is where all those people get their jobs, all of them.
00:26:48.000So he's gonna shut those industries down and he's going to invest in windmills.
00:27:46.000Okay, look at the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and I'll pause it for a second.
00:27:51.000The Joint Chiefs of Staff are sitting here going, you are out of your damn mind.
00:27:56.000Okay, this man has slashed the military, he has slashed the military down to the bone, and he says that we're not weaker?
00:28:02.000Again, I remind you, we began this program with 10 American sailors in the custody of the Iranians with their hands behind their head and our female sailor being put in hijab.
00:28:10.000Don't worry, we're well respected around the world.
00:28:13.000President Obama then jumped to how he's beating ISIL, and the way he's really going to defeat ISIL is by strictly refraining from ever mentioning the word Islam ever, ever, ever, ever.
00:29:00.000That's the kind of propaganda they use to recruit.
00:29:06.000We don't need to build them up to show that we're serious.
00:29:12.000And we sure don't need to push away vital allies in this fight by echoing the lie that ISIL is somehow representative of one of the world's largest religions.
00:30:19.000Have you ever met somebody who was a high school quarterback, and now they're fat, they have a big belly, they sit on their couch all day, and they work a crappy job, and they beat their wife.
00:30:29.000They're just like the people you see on the TV shows, the way that Hollywood prefers rednecks.
00:30:57.000You got the guys, oh man, back when I was in high school, I was the best quarterback there ever was, and if I hadn't blown out my knee, I'd be in the NFL right now, and I'd be nailing Gisele Bundchen.
00:31:25.000The part of the speech that was the most galling.
00:31:28.000We're gonna play two more clips of President Obama, and then we'll move on.
00:31:33.000But President Obama, there were two things that he did that were truly galling.
00:31:37.000It's hard to choose the parts of his speech that are the most galling, is the truth.
00:31:40.000Clip nine, I think, is definitely a strong contender.
00:31:42.000This is where President Obama lectures everybody about Islamophobia, because as Muslims kill people all over the world, what we have to be careful of, we have to be careful, do not have bad feelings about Islam.
00:33:40.000He actually went to the original set of The Wizard of Oz, took Ray Bolger and set him on fire here.
00:33:45.000When politicians insult Muslims when a mosque is vandalized... Like, who said when a mosque is vandalized or a kid is bullied, that makes us safer?
00:33:55.000But Obama has to make it that he is the great defender of all that is good and true, and if you have fears, rational fears, about a religion of a billion people, of whom a significant percentage say that they hate the West and want to destroy it, if you have concerns about that ideology, then you must want to bully children.
00:34:11.000Okay, the second clip, and again, it's very hard to choose the ones that drive you the most nuts, but what we'll choose, I think, I think that we will choose clip 11.
00:34:20.000Clip 11 is President Obama talking about his hopes for, you know, remember he posed four questions, and his fourth question was, how do we have a better politics?
00:34:28.000And now he's going to lecture us on how we have a better politics.
00:34:31.000After spending seven years degrading our politics, talking up Black Lives Matter, saying Trayvon Martin was his imaginary son, suggesting that cops are killing black people for no reason, suggesting that Americans murder Muslims for no reason, suggesting that all of us are Islamophobes, suggesting that religious people want to kill gays.
00:34:46.000After all of this, President Obama is going to lecture us on our better nature.
00:35:56.000For God's sake, I wrote an entire book about how he broke every rule in the book.
00:36:00.000It's called The People vs. Barack Obama, available on Amazon for just $15.99.
00:36:04.000President Obama, when he does this routine where he's going to lecture us on the better angels of our nature, he's going to be this Martin Luther King-esque figure bringing us together, he neglects the fact that he's been a political Malcolm X in his bad period, before the conversion to Islam and the let's all come together routine.
00:36:20.000I think that, honestly, my favorite thing that he did, I lied, there's one more piece of audio I want to play from President Obama.
00:36:45.000But I can promise that a little over a year from now,
00:36:49.000When I no longer hold this office, I will be right there with you as a citizen, inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.
00:37:06.000Voices that help us see ourselves not first and foremost as black or white or Asian or Latino, not as gay or straight, immigrant or native-born,
00:40:39.000The only person who has unconditional love for you isn't a person, it's God.
00:40:43.000Okay, every person, every love is conditional.
00:40:45.000There is no such thing as unconditional love.
00:40:48.000Because the fact is that every person you know could do something, could do something that would make you cut off the love for that person.
00:41:14.000If you're a religious parent and you think that it's immoral for your child to participate in homosexuality, for example, Obama thinks that you're a mean, nasty bastard who's given in to strictures that you don't understand in order to target a poor gay child, who, of course, is the same as a soldier.
00:41:34.000And by the way, the danger is evident everywhere from the home front to the foreign front.
00:41:38.000Okay, so briefly I want to discuss, I know we were very long here, but briefly I want to discuss Nikki Haley's response to the State of the Union address.
00:41:49.000And this is all happening, again, against the backdrop of 10 American sailors being held captive by the Iranian government, forced to apologize, humiliating pictures taken of them, distributed all over the world.
00:41:59.000Nikki Haley gets up, the governor of South Carolina, to give the response to the State of the Union Address.
00:42:03.000And in her response to the State of the Union Address, Nikki Haley says a couple of things.
00:42:09.000Here are the things that Nikki Haley said, and it's pretty clear what she's talking about.
00:42:19.000In many parts of society today, whether in popular culture, academia, the media, or politics, there's a tendency to falsely equate noise with results.
00:42:31.000Some people think that you have to be the loudest voice in the room to make a difference.
00:44:17.000So Barack Obama gives a 59-minute address summing up his leftist philosophy after seven years of the most leftist governance in the history of the nation.
00:45:08.000Nobody disagrees with the premise that she's stating there.
00:45:10.000Everybody thinks that if you want to come to the United States, and you love our traditions, you're abiding by our laws, and you're working hard, and you're not taking from the system, then we want you here.
00:46:29.000You got the most leftist president in American history and the worst secretary of state in American history running to succeed him, and you're attacking the loud-mouthed businessman who says impolitic things about Muslims.
00:47:16.000And I'll save my... You know, I was gonna talk comic books, but I'll save that for tomorrow because we had a long comic book discussion here at The Daily Wire after yesterday's show, so we'll save that for tomorrow.
00:47:26.000But here is the thing that I hate for today.
00:47:29.000Everybody's going nuts over this whole Powerball thing.
00:48:11.000They ran an ad campaign here in the state of California for Powerball?
00:48:14.000And it was called Believe in Something Bigger, and they played California Dreamin', and it was a bunch of people walking around on the street, and lottery balls, like ping pong balls, were falling from the sky, the whole deal.
00:48:24.000And the theme was Believe in Something Bigger.
00:48:26.000Not God, not America, not your family.
00:48:28.000Believe in your statistically non-available possibility of winning the lottery.
00:48:36.000The chances of winning the lottery are infinitesimal.
00:48:39.000You are, for this particular Powerball, and for the lottery in general, your chances are 17 times better of being hit by a piece of falling debris from a blown up airplane, seriously, than they are of winning the lottery.
00:48:52.000So in this particular Powerball, there will be over a billion tickets sold.
00:48:57.000Apparently there's a 97% chance that somebody would win, and it could be you, but it won't be.