The Ben Shapiro Show - Ep. 54 - Obama's Bestest Friends In Iran Humiliate Him

00:00:01.000 A bright new day has dawned.

00:00:02.000 President Obama is done with his final State of the Union address.

00:00:06.000 We will go through all of it.

00:00:07.000 Plus, President Obama, he told a lie about the Iran nuclear deal that's being exposed right now, and it's really quite horrifying.

00:00:15.000 We'll tell you what that is, plus things I like, things I hate.

00:00:18.000 Glad you're here.

00:00:18.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:00:19.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:00:28.000 Yes, indeed he do.

00:00:29.000 So, 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.

00:00:42.000 And he does.

00:00:43.000 He 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.

00:00:52.000 All of our enemies just love us.

00:00:54.000 Well,

00:00:54.000 Here's a bit of contrast.

00:00:56.000 So yesterday, we talked about this briefly.

00:00:58.000 Yesterday, the Iranian Navy, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Navy, they picked up a couple of U.S.

00:01:04.000 Navy ships in the middle of the Persian Gulf, and they took them back home.

00:01:08.000 You know, like toys.

00:01:09.000 They took them back home to what they call Farsi Island.

00:01:12.000 And there were two separate stories that emerged from this situation.

00:01:16.000 The Obama administration said that what actually happened is that these two boats, these two U.S.

00:01:21.000 Navy boats, broke down in the middle of the Persian Gulf at the same time apparently.

00:01:26.000 Supposedly.

00:01:27.000 And 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.

00:01:43.000 And virtually the entire Obama administration then celebrated that they were released this morning.

00:01:48.000 Overnight, 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.

00:01:55.000 They were released this morning, Iranian time.

00:01:58.000 And the U.S.

00:01:59.000 celebrated this.

00:01:59.000 This is a wonderful, wonderful thing.

00:02:01.000 So the U.S.

00:02:02.000 Naval Forces Central Command Public Affairs Office said, quote,

00:02:05.000 Ten U.S.

00:02:05.000 Navy soldiers safely returned to U.S.

00:02:08.000 custody today after departing Iran.

00:02:10.000 There are no indications that the sailors were harmed during their brief detention.

00:02:15.000 The Navy will investigate the circumstances that led to the sailors' presence in Iran.

00:02:19.000 Secretary of State John Kerry

00:02:21.000 Then issued a letter where he praised the Iranians to the skies for basically hijacking and kidnapping a couple of US ships.

00:02:29.000 He said,

00:02:43.000 I'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.

00:02:49.000 So in other words, the Iranians treated our mariners in distress just like we would treat their mariners in distress. 0.95

00:02:55.000 It was really all just beautifully handled.

00:02:58.000 Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, he added his voice to the chorus.

00:03:01.000 He said, quote, I am pleased that 10 U.S.

00:03:03.000 Navy sailors have departed Iran and are now back in U.S.

00:03:06.000 hands.

00:03:06.000 I want to personally thank Secretary of State John Kerry

00:03:09.000 And then there was Vice President Joe Biden.

00:03:11.000 Joe Biden was on NBC News.

00:03:12.000 And here's what Joe Biden had to say about the entire situation.

00:03:15.000 Here we go.

00:03:37.000 Well, 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.

00:03:47.000 The 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.

00:03:58.000 And realize they were there in distress and said they would release them and release them like, you know, ordinary nations would do.

00:04:06.000 That's the way nations should deal with love.

00:04:08.000 That's why it's important to have channels open.

00:04:10.000 Did we apologize to the Iranians? 1.00

00:04:13.000 No, there's no apology.

00:04:15.000 There's no apologize for.

00:04:16.000 When you have a problem with the boat, you apologize the boat had a problem?

00:04:20.000 No.

00:04:21.000 And there was no looking for any apology.

00:04:23.000 This was just standard nautical practice.

00:04:26.000 Okay, it's just standard nautical practice.

00:04:29.000 Okay.

00:04:30.000 Let's talk a little bit about standard nautical practice for a second.

00:04:33.000 The Iranians have now released photos of the confrontation with the U.S.

00:04:38.000 sailors.

00:04:39.000 Here are some of these photos.

00:04:40.000 So here is photo number one.

00:04:43.000 Oh, here we go.

00:04:45.000 These are American sailors.

00:04:46.000 It's a picture by the Iranians of American sailors.

00:04:49.000 They'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.

00:05:01.000 But you can actually get the straight story over here.

00:05:03.000 What you're seeing in this photo is all of the American sailors with their hands behind their head like prisoners of war.

00:05:10.000 You know, I remember when the helpful Honda people showed up to pick me up and help me when AAA showed up to help me.

00:05:15.000 I had a flat tire just a couple of weeks ago.

00:05:17.000 My wife was in the car.

00:05:18.000 The first thing they did is they told me to get on my knees and put my hands behind my head.

00:05:22.000 The second thing they did was they took my wife and they slapped her in a hijab.

00:05:27.000 So if you can't see this photo, here's a bunch of American sailors and one of them is a woman.

00:05:32.000 And the woman is now in traditional Islamic garb. 0.62

00:05:36.000 She's now wearing a headscarf. 1.00

00:05:38.000 I 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. 0.99

00:05:45.000 And what you can't see in those photos, by the way, is that none of our sailors are wearing shoes.

00:05:49.000 Presumably this has something to do with Islamic traditions about wearing shoes.

00:05:53.000 So this is normal naval procedure.

00:05:56.000 And you heard Joe Biden say there that we've not apologized to the Iranians.

00:06:00.000 We never apologized to the Iranians. 1.00

00:06:02.000 No one apologized to the Iranians. 1.00

00:06:03.000 They did not ask for an apology from the Iranians. 1.00

00:06:07.000 Okay, well, there's a video that's been released by the Iranians.

00:06:10.000 They played it on Iranian national television.

00:06:12.000 We had it up a second ago of that soldier.

00:06:15.000 And this particular soldier is about to do something that Joe Biden said never happened.

00:06:20.000 Not at all.

00:06:20.000 Here we go.

00:06:21.000 It was a mistake.

00:06:22.000 That was our fault.

00:06:24.000 And we apologize for our mistake.

00:06:28.000 Our vice president of the United States, we never apologized.

00:06:30.000 Quote, no, there was no apology.

00:06:32.000 There was nothing to apologize for.

00:06:34.000 When you have a problem with a boat, do you apologize?

00:06:36.000 This was just standard nautical practice.

00:06:40.000 So somebody's lying.

00:06:42.000 I don't think it's the Iranians. 0.96

00:06:43.000 The Iranian Revolutionary Guard, here's the story they told.

00:06:46.000 They said the Americans were quote-unquote snooping.

00:06:48.000 I don't think the Americans were snooping.

00:06:50.000 I think that they went out and they grabbed a couple of ships because they wanted to humiliate Obama.

00:06:54.000 They said, Iran's army chief,

00:06:57.000 He actually said the seizure of the boats itself was a rebuke to Congress.

00:07:13.000 It should be a rebuke to Congress.

00:07:14.000 Why not a rebuke to President Obama?

00:07:15.000 Because Obama loves them.

00:07:16.000 Because Obama's out there defending them.

00:07:18.000 Because Obama is sending out his Vice President to talk about how the Iranians are just doing everything right.

00:07:23.000 By the way, the photos, the video that you just saw, that's what we call a violation of I think Article 13 of the Geneva Conventions.

00:07:29.000 You're not supposed to use

00:07:31.000 Or abuse detainees for purposes of PR.

00:07:34.000 You're not supposed to take pictures of them and release them to the press.

00:07:37.000 That is against the rules of warfare.

00:07:39.000 But no, don't worry.

00:07:39.000 This is all handled perfectly.

00:07:42.000 According to Reuters, too, Biden was fibbing the Iranians he asked for an apology and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.

00:07:48.000 Who is apparently related to, I think he's a distant relative of Kerry's son-in-law, I believe.

00:07:54.000 He, in fact, led the way asking for an apology.

00:07:57.000 And 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.

00:08:09.000 And the president of the United States and the administration defending the Iranians and saying that the Iranians are just doing everything totally right. 0.96

00:08:17.000 Now, why do the Iranians do this? 1.00

00:08:18.000 They did it to humiliate the United States.

00:08:19.000 That's why.

00:08:20.000 Because honor culture demands that when you are given something by a greater power, you have to take it.

00:08:26.000 Right?

00:08:27.000 It's one thing for you to be given something by America.

00:08:29.000 That makes it look like you're America's running dog.

00:08:32.000 But if you take it,

00:08:33.000 If you take it from them through a show of strength, then you are, in fact, the person in the superior position.

00:08:38.000 So, the Iranians are about to be handed $100 billion today by President Obama in seized assets.

00:08:44.000 The 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. 0.51

00:09:01.000 It completely goes by the wayside.

00:09:02.000 No big deal.

00:09:04.000 But 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. 0.93

00:09:20.000 And the truth is they are dictating terms to us, because Obama wanted the Iran deal worse than Iran wanted the Iran deal.

00:09:25.000 And therefore, he basically gave away the store.

00:09:28.000 And this is not the first time they've tried this routine.

00:09:30.000 In 2007, Iran captured 15 British sailors and held them for 13 days, if you recall.

00:09:35.000 And eventually, the West stood down, and now the West is standing down again.

00:09:39.000 No surprise there.

00:09:40.000 Okay, so, against that backdrop, President Obama gave his State of the Union address last night.

00:09:45.000 Now, you would imagine that with 10 sailors being held,

00:09:49.000 In custody by the Iranians. 0.93

00:09:51.000 You 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.

00:10:00.000 You know, some of the glorious Syrian Muslim refugees were supposed to take in.

00:10:04.000 That President Obama might in fact talk about the threats to the United States and the threats to the world.

00:10:08.000 But no, this was a non-traditional speech. 0.99

00:10:11.000 Instead, he focused solely and completely on the fact that America sucks. 0.92

00:10:14.000 If 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 0.85

00:10:32.000 The magic of change.

00:10:33.000 Oh yes, change came back from the dead yesterday.

00:10:37.000 And President Obama used the word change dozens of times in this speech because change is what he is all about.

00:10:43.000 So we'll start with clip one.

00:10:44.000 Here is President Obama's opening talking about change and the magic of change.

00:10:50.000 Here we go.

00:10:52.000 America's been through big changes before.

00:10:56.000 Wars and depression.

00:10:58.000 The influx of new immigrants.

00:11:01.000 Workers fighting for a fair deal.

00:11:04.000 Movements to expand civil rights.

00:11:10.000 Each time, there have been those who told us to fear the future.

00:11:16.000 Who claimed we could slam the brakes on change.

00:11:19.000 Who promised to restore past glory if we just got some group or idea that was threatening America under control.

00:11:28.000 And each time, we overcame those fears.

00:11:31.000 Okay, we can pause it there.

00:11:33.000 President 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.

00:11:51.000 So what he's saying there is that we've had big changes before.

00:11:53.000 We've always gotten through them by ignoring Donald Trump, right?

00:11:55.000 That's really what he's saying right there.

00:11:58.000 He is, and it's a cynical trick, because the fact is that it was Democrats.

00:12:02.000 It's his own party.

00:12:03.000 They were the segregationists.

00:12:04.000 When 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.

00:12:13.000 And fear of Syrian Muslim refugees is not quite the same thing as fearing a bunch of westernized Jews from Eastern and Western Europe.

00:12:21.000 So let's talk about the future.

00:12:50.000 And 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.

00:13:02.000 First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy?

00:13:19.000 How do we make technology work for us, and not against us, especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change?

00:13:32.000 Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

00:13:45.000 How can we make our politics reflect what's best in us and not what's worse?

00:13:53.000 And there's Joe Biden who's desperately trying not to fall asleep during this.

00:13:56.000 So he says, four questions there are and four questions there shall be.

00:14:00.000 The first was, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity? 0.98

00:14:02.000 Well, the answer would be get out of their way, you jackass. 0.94

00:14:06.000 But that's not President Obama's answer. 0.96

00:14:07.000 We'll get to his answers in a moment.

00:14:09.000 The second was, how do we make technology work for us and not against us?

00:14:13.000 When has technology worked against us?

00:14:16.000 Did I miss the part where the rise of the machines is happening?

00:14:19.000 When exactly does Terminator begin?

00:14:21.000 Is he aware of a Skynet program with which we are not familiar?

00:14:24.000 Turns out the technology has generally worked for us because the free market has generated the technology. 0.88

00:14:29.000 And the beautiful thing about the free market is it gives us crap we like.

00:14:32.000 It gives us things that we want. 0.88

00:14:33.000 It gives us iPhones.

00:14:34.000 And it gives us better weapons, which we want, and which have been useful in quashing war, by the way.

00:14:39.000 Everybody likes to rip on the nuclear bomb.

00:14:42.000 Whenever you say, give me an example of a bad technology, oh, the nuclear bomb, that's a bad technology.

00:14:47.000 Okay, the nuclear bomb came at the end of World War II.

00:14:49.000 Between 1914 and 1945, significantly, significantly more people were killed in war than between 1945 and now.

00:14:58.000 You know why?

00:14:59.000 The threat of the nuclear bomb.

00:15:00.000 That's why.

00:15:01.000 Because you had two great superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, and they never went to full-scale war anywhere.

00:15:07.000 Why?

00:15:07.000 Because both of them had nuclear weapons and nobody wanted to get nuked.

00:15:10.000 The nuclear bomb is actually an amazing technology.

00:15:13.000 It's an amazing technology.

00:15:14.000 It's an amazingly destructive technology.

00:15:16.000 It's an amazingly destructive technology that exists so that you don't have to use it.

00:15:20.000 And guess what?

00:15:21.000 It's only been used once in human history, right?

00:15:25.000 To end World War II, the bloodiest conflict in the history of the planet.

00:15:28.000 So, 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.

00:15:41.000 We'll get to that question and his answer in a second.

00:15:43.000 And he says, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

00:15:47.000 And his answer is, false dichotomies and unicorn poop.

00:15:50.000 And finally, he says, how can we make politics reflect what's best in us and not what's worst?

00:15:55.000 This is the one where President Obama spent the most time.

00:15:57.000 We'll get to it in just a second.

00:15:58.000 Let 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.

00:16:08.000 This man has called the Tea Party terrorists.

00:16:10.000 This man has suggested that he would put his boot on the throat of British Petroleum.

00:16:14.000 This man has suggested that Republicans are his enemies. 0.75

00:16:17.000 This man has said that if you are a Democrat, you should bring a gun to a knife fight.

00:16:21.000 This 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.

00:16:31.000 This 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.

00:16:38.000 The cynicism and the lie is just breathtaking.

00:16:41.000 But, you know, that's what he's good at.

00:16:42.000 So, on to the lack of substance of his speech.

00:16:46.000 I have to say, at this point, I was watching the speech at home, and I had tickets, as I mentioned yesterday.

00:16:52.000 By the way, my prediction was spot on.

00:16:53.000 I said that he was going to talk for about one hour.

00:16:55.000 He talked for 59 minutes.

00:16:56.000 He lied before the speech.

00:16:58.000 He said he would give a uniquely short speech. 0.94

00:17:01.000 In fact, he gave the 16th longest State of the Union address since 1966, so he's a liar.

00:17:05.000 But 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.

00:17:13.000 She toddles up to me, and she puts her hands on the back of my laptop, and she starts pushing it closed, and she goes,

00:17:21.000 And I thought to myself, oh, if only I could give in to you.

00:17:26.000 If only I could give in to you, small child.

00:17:29.000 You have the right idea.

00:17:30.000 She's always been great about the State of the Union.

00:17:31.000 She was born during Obama's State of the Union a couple of years ago, so I didn't actually have to watch it.

00:17:36.000 And last night she tried to shut down his State of the Union again, so I really, really love my daughter.

00:17:39.000 In any case, President Obama

00:17:42.000 He 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.

00:17:51.000 Clip three.

00:17:53.000 I believe a thriving private sector is the lifeblood of our economy.

00:17:58.000 I think there are outdated regulations that need to be changed.

00:18:02.000 He says it's the lifeblood of our economy, and there's like one guy who applauds on the Democratic side.

00:18:06.000 He's like,

00:18:09.000 And then he shyly puts his hands back in his lap because Bernie Sanders is giving him a death glare.

00:18:14.000 If 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.

00:18:20.000 That's not how Democrats view the private sector.

00:18:22.000 The private sector is a necessary evil, according to Democrats.

00:18:25.000 Maybe not even necessary, but certainly evil.

00:18:28.000 They see that the private sector, yeah, we kind of have to give it its due, but it's really a terrible place.

00:18:33.000 And that's what he goes on to say right here.

00:18:34.000 Let's continue.

00:18:35.000 There is red tape that needs to be cut.

00:18:39.000 There you go.

00:18:49.000 Everybody laughing in the background.

00:18:54.000 All these people are so great.

00:18:56.000 But after years now of record corporate profits, working families won't get more opportunity or bigger paychecks

00:19:09.000 Just by letting big banks or big oil or hedge funds make their own rules at everybody else's expense.

00:19:23.000 Middle-class families are not going to feel more secure because we allowed a tax on collective bargaining to go unanswered.

00:19:32.000 Food stamp recipients did not cause the financial crisis.

00:19:36.000 Recklessness on Wall Street did.

00:19:46.000 Immigrants aren't the principal reason wages haven't gone up.

00:19:53.000 Those decisions are made in the boardrooms that all too often put quarterly earnings over long-term returns.

00:20:01.000 Okay, we can pause it there for a second.

00:20:02.000 All right, so he tells a string of lies. 0.98

00:20:04.000 So the private sector is great, but here are all the reasons it sucks. 0.83

00:20:08.000 Okay, the private sector, it's the lifeblood of our economy, and now, like a vampire, letting me get a taste of that.

00:20:13.000 Mm-hmm.

00:20:15.000 He says, after, there's so many lies in a row here.

00:20:17.000 First, he says there's red tape that needs to be cut.

00:20:19.000 This 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.

00:20:25.000 I mean, he's added just regulation on top of regulation on top of regulation.

00:20:30.000 And 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.

00:20:40.000 I wasn't aware that big banks and hedge funds had a separate set of rules, like a magical set of rules.

00:20:45.000 What's the set of rules that he's talking about?

00:20:46.000 Where can I find a copy?

00:20:48.000 Is it secret?

00:20:49.000 Is it the Jews? 1.00

00:20:51.000 Who's making these rules to quash working... Where is this conspiracy?

00:20:55.000 Did it meet at my synagogue?

00:20:56.000 Did I miss it?

00:20:58.000 This idea...

00:21:00.000 That families don't get more opportunity from big banks.

00:21:04.000 Where do you think you got your home loan?

00:21:06.000 Where do you think you got your student loan?

00:21:08.000 Okay, when he says that big oil won't give you your job, where does he think pretty much all the jobs have come from under his tenure?

00:21:14.000 It ain't coming from sectors that, it ain't coming from green stimulus packages.

00:21:18.000 It's coming from the fracking industry.

00:21:19.000 Okay, it's coming from the oil industry.

00:21:22.000 President Obama says in here, somewhere in here, he goes, and hey, we got two buck a, we got two buck a gallon oil too.

00:21:27.000 That ain't bad.

00:21:29.000 You're not doing it.

00:21:30.000 Okay?

00:21:30.000 It's big oil that's doing it.

00:21:32.000 And as for those hedge funds everybody's always bitching about, okay, all a hedge fund is, is an investment firm.

00:21:38.000 All a hedge fund is is a group of people who sit around making investments in particular companies.

00:21:43.000 And 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.

00:21:52.000 Instead, they're investing in things that have already started up.

00:21:54.000 They're taking their money and putting it into Google.

00:21:56.000 They're not trying to find the next Google.

00:21:58.000 That's because of President Obama.

00:22:00.000 And when he says, we can't allow a tax on collective bargaining to go unanswered, unions have bankrupted company after company in this country.

00:22:07.000 There's a reason that in the private sector, the unionization rate is at an all-time low.

00:22:12.000 I think it's 6% in the private sector.

00:22:14.000 Only the government has massive unions. 0.94

00:22:17.000 40% of the government workforce is unionized, which is why it's so expensive and crappy.

00:22:21.000 And then he says, food stamp recipients didn't cause the financial crisis, recklessness on Wall Street did.

00:22:26.000 Okay, I'm not sure who said that food stamp recipients caused the financial crisis, but let's be real about something.

00:22:31.000 There were some food stamp recipients who probably did cause the financial crisis if they took a subprime loan they couldn't pay back.

00:22:38.000 Right?

00:22:38.000 And 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.

00:22:45.000 That there would be bailouts.

00:22:46.000 That no matter what, the federal government would push them to give loans to people who could never pay them back.

00:22:52.000 So yeah, it was Wall Street.

00:22:53.000 But Wall Street is not capitalism.

00:22:55.000 Wall Street is just making money.

00:22:57.000 That's what Wall Street is.

00:22:58.000 Capitalism and making money are not the same thing.

00:23:00.000 You can make money in a lot of ways.

00:23:02.000 As Hillary Clinton knows.

00:23:04.000 As all of our Congress members know.

00:23:06.000 And then when he says, immigrants aren't the reason wages haven't gone up enough.

00:23:09.000 Those decisions are made in boardrooms.

00:23:12.000 Okay, there is no boardroom in America where they're thinking, okay, how can we depress wages more?

00:23:16.000 That's not how companies work.

00:23:17.000 Okay, I'm in a boardroom.

00:23:19.000 There's not a point at which we have said, how can we pay people less?

00:23:22.000 Right?

00:23:22.000 How can we take all these people and fire them and pay them less?

00:23:25.000 What we've asked is, what do we have to pay?

00:23:27.000 The same question every employer asks.

00:23:29.000 What do you have to pay to get quality people?

00:23:31.000 That's always, it's always the same question.

00:23:32.000 And immigration does drive down wages, of course, because this is basic supply and demand.

00:23:37.000 If there is more supply of labor, then it has met the demand and surpassed the demand and the price goes down.

00:23:44.000 But 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.

00:23:53.000 By the way, he's been president for seven years.

00:23:54.000 What has he done about these people?

00:23:56.000 And why is it that all of his measures to crack down on Wall Street, including Dodd-Frank, have done precisely the opposite?

00:24:01.000 Why is it the only people in America benefiting under President Obama are the people who own stock?

00:24:06.000 The fact is that if you're in the manufacturing sector under President Obama, you ain't doing well right now.

00:24:11.000 You're not doing well right now because no one's investing their money.

00:24:14.000 There are trillions of dollars sitting on the sidelines.

00:24:17.000 President Obama's second question was, how do we make technology work for us?

00:24:21.000 And the answer, of course, is always more government.

00:24:23.000 As though government created all the technology that's good around you.

00:24:28.000 By the way, if this were true, then kings long past would have developed the best technology because it's easy for them, right?

00:24:34.000 You'd always have the king and he could just take everybody's property and then spend it on whatever technology he thought was cool.

00:24:40.000 But Obama says that technology has to be directed by the government.

00:24:42.000 He called for a moonshot against cancer.

00:24:44.000 He's quoting Vice President Joe Biden on that.

00:24:47.000 I've never understood, by the way, the moonshot analogy when it comes to cancer.

00:24:50.000 Is cancer on the moon?

00:24:51.000 Did I miss it?

00:24:52.000 And also, government investment in cancer research is not going to cure cancer.

00:24:56.000 Drug companies trying to make a fortune off of cancer drugs is what is going to end up fighting cancer.

00:25:01.000 And this has been true for pretty much every disease in the United States.

00:25:05.000 Government research grants typically go to theoretical matters, and drug company research grants go to people who are trying to create drugs for profit.

00:25:15.000 Your plumber may not know how physics works, but he knows how to change a screw.

00:25:18.000 He knows how to change a pipe.

00:25:19.000 Well, when it comes to your body, your body is basically just a plumbing system.

00:25:23.000 And the people who know how to fix it are typically in the drug companies because they want to make money off fixing your plumbing. 0.86

00:25:28.000 If you think of it that way, you realize how silly it is.

00:25:30.000 This whole, oh, if we just throw money at the problem, that's the real problem.

00:25:33.000 If 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.

00:25:40.000 But then Obama moves on to his favorite thing in the world, climate change.

00:25:43.000 So here's President Obama getting all snarky with Republicans who doubt climate change, clip four.

00:25:48.000 Look, if anybody still wants to dispute the science around climate change, have at it.

00:25:54.000 You will be pretty lonely.

00:25:57.000 Because 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.

00:26:10.000 Okay.

00:26:11.000 So, President Obama, first of all, I wasn't aware that science was decided based on polling data.

00:26:16.000 This is a new one for me.

00:26:17.000 That you know something is scientific, you know something is science, if enough people agree.

00:26:22.000 Right, 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.

00:26:31.000 That's how we knew it was true.

00:26:33.000 And 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.

00:26:48.000 So he's gonna shut those industries down and he's going to invest in windmills.

00:26:50.000 He talked about windmills.

00:26:51.000 You know what percentage of American electricity is provided by windmills at this point in time?

00:26:56.000 It is less than 4%.

00:26:58.000 Less than 4% of all of America's electricity is provided by windmills.

00:27:01.000 Less than 2% is provided by solar energy.

00:27:04.000 All of the rest is gas, natural gas, and coal.

00:27:07.000 He wants to shut down the other 96%. 1.00

00:27:09.000 Brilliant.

00:27:10.000 He's just brilliant.

00:27:11.000 Then he got to foreign policy clip 5.

00:27:13.000 President Obama talking about his brilliant foreign policy.

00:27:16.000 I told you earlier, all the talk of America's economic decline is political hot air.

00:27:23.000 Well, so is all the rhetoric you hear about our enemies getting stronger and America getting weaker.

00:27:29.000 Let me tell you something.

00:27:31.000 The United States of America is the most powerful nation on Earth.

00:27:36.000 Period.

00:27:39.000 Period.

00:27:41.000 It's not even close.

00:27:45.000 It's not even close!

00:27:46.000 Okay, look at the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and I'll pause it for a second. 1.00

00:27:51.000 The Joint Chiefs of Staff are sitting here going, you are out of your damn mind. 0.99

00:27:56.000 Okay, this man has slashed the military, he has slashed the military down to the bone, and he says that we're not weaker? 0.99

00:28:02.000 Again, 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.

00:28:10.000 Don't worry, we're well respected around the world.

00:28:13.000 President 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.

00:28:22.000 Clip six.

00:28:25.000 But as we focus on destroying ISIL, over-the-top claims that this is World War III just play into their hands.

00:28:37.000 Masses of fighters on the back of pickup trucks

00:28:41.000 Twisted souls plotting in apartments or garages.

00:28:46.000 They pose an enormous danger to civilians.

00:28:49.000 They have to be stopped.

00:28:51.000 But they do not threaten our national existence.

00:28:57.000 That is the story ISIL wants to tell.

00:29:00.000 That's the kind of propaganda they use to recruit.

00:29:06.000 We don't need to build them up to show that we're serious.

00:29:12.000 And 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.

00:29:38.000 And here's the punchline.

00:29:40.000 We just need to call them what they are. 0.99

00:29:42.000 Killers and fanatics. 1.00

00:29:44.000 Who have to be rooted out, hunted down, and destroyed. 0.99

00:29:47.000 Oh, that's all we have to do.

00:29:50.000 It's that simple.

00:29:50.000 We just have to call them out.

00:29:51.000 They're killers and fanatics. 1.00

00:29:52.000 Boom! 1.00

00:29:53.000 In fact, Obama just did it.

00:29:54.000 ISIL's done.

00:29:55.000 Congratulations, gang.

00:29:56.000 We won the war.

00:29:58.000 It was awesome.

00:29:59.000 You may have missed the part where we won, but it did happen.

00:30:01.000 You just missed it. 0.94

00:30:03.000 So, he went on to lecture us all about how we're Islamophobes and we're terrible and we're horrible. 0.57

00:30:08.000 And of course he dropped the obligatory Osama Bin Laden reference. 0.52

00:30:10.000 I love it.

00:30:11.000 He said, quote, Dude.

00:30:18.000 Okay. 0.97

00:30:19.000 Have 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. 0.97

00:30:29.000 They're just like the people you see on the TV shows, the way that Hollywood prefers rednecks. 1.00

00:30:33.000 Have you ever met somebody like this?

00:30:35.000 Or seen somebody like this?

00:30:37.000 Barack Obama is that dude.

00:30:39.000 Okay?

00:30:39.000 Barack Obama is still living off the legacy of Bin Laden.

00:30:43.000 First of all, we don't have to go into the revised history on Osama Bin Laden.

00:30:46.000 It wasn't a gutsy call.

00:30:47.000 It was a very easy call. 1.00

00:30:48.000 Once you know where Bin Laden is, you kill him. 1.00

00:30:49.000 It's the end of the story. 0.99

00:30:50.000 And Obama delayed for literally weeks before making the decision, apparently.

00:30:54.000 But, beyond that...

00:30:56.000 High school quarterback time.

00:30:57.000 You 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.

00:31:08.000 That'd be me.

00:31:09.000 That's Barack Obama on terrorism. 0.81

00:31:12.000 I killed bin Laden.

00:31:14.000 Doesn't matter if ISIL killed 130 people in Paris. 1.00

00:31:16.000 I killed bin Laden.

00:31:17.000 Don't you forget it.

00:31:19.000 It was me.

00:31:20.000 I did it.

00:31:21.000 And he just grabs a beer from the fridge and swigs it. 0.79

00:31:24.000 It's such nonsense.

00:31:25.000 The part of the speech that was the most galling.

00:31:28.000 We're gonna play two more clips of President Obama, and then we'll move on.

00:31:33.000 But President Obama, there were two things that he did that were truly galling.

00:31:37.000 It's hard to choose the parts of his speech that are the most galling, is the truth.

00:31:40.000 Clip nine, I think, is definitely a strong contender.

00:31:42.000 This 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.

00:31:55.000 Are you listening? 0.97

00:31:56.000 Islam is not the problem. 1.00

00:31:58.000 You're the problem. 0.99

00:32:00.000 Tell him, President Obama.

00:32:02.000 And that's why we need to reject any politics.

00:32:08.000 Any politics that targets people because of race or religion.

00:32:16.000 Let me just say this.

00:32:29.000 This is not a matter of political correctness.

00:32:35.000 This is a matter of understanding just what it is that makes us strong.

00:32:42.000 The world respects us not just for our arsenal.

00:32:49.000 It respects us for our diversity and our openness.

00:32:54.000 Pause it for a second.

00:32:57.000 What the hell is he talking about?

00:33:00.000 What world respects us for our diversity and our openness?

00:33:03.000 What part of the world is he talking about?

00:33:04.000 Is he talking about the Muslim world that wants to convert us to Islam?

00:33:07.000 Is he talking about Europe, which couldn't care less about our openness and tolerance?

00:33:11.000 What is he even talking about?

00:33:13.000 When people say diversity is our strength, really?

00:33:16.000 I mean, if we had a room and in the room were me and a neo-Nazi and Barack Obama, would diversity be our strength?

00:33:23.000 I think not.

00:33:25.000 I think probably not.

00:33:25.000 I don't think diversity would be our strength.

00:33:28.000 But President Obama acts like all ideologies don't matter, Islam first and foremost.

00:33:32.000 And he dropped the line, when politicians insult Muslims, when a mosque is vandalized or a kid bullied, that doesn't make us safer.

00:33:38.000 Talk about a straw man.

00:33:40.000 He actually went to the original set of The Wizard of Oz, took Ray Bolger and set him on fire here.

00:33:45.000 When 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?

00:33:52.000 Like, who ever said that?

00:33:54.000 Was there anyone who said that?

00:33:55.000 But 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.

00:34:11.000 Okay, 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.

00:34:20.000 Clip 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?

00:34:28.000 And now he's going to lecture us on how we have a better politics. 0.98

00:34:31.000 After 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. 0.94

00:34:46.000 After all of this, President Obama is going to lecture us on our better nature. 0.96

00:34:50.000 So here we go. 0.99

00:34:51.000 President Obama, in his valedictory State of the Union address, lecturing us on how he's great and we all suck. 0.99

00:34:57.000 Here we go. 0.97

00:34:58.000 What I'm suggesting is hard.

00:35:03.000 It's a lot easier to be cynical.

00:35:07.000 To accept that change is not possible.

00:35:09.000 And politics is hopeless.

00:35:11.000 This kid's falling asleep, by the way.

00:35:13.000 And the problem is, all the folks who were elected don't care.

00:35:19.000 And to believe that our voices and our actions don't matter.

00:35:24.000 But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

00:35:31.000 Those with money and power will gain greater control over the decisions that could send a young soldier to war.

00:35:37.000 Okay, we can pause it here.

00:35:39.000 I mean, it's just, it's him talking about how cynicism can't be allowed to rule, that he is the most cynical politician of all.

00:35:44.000 This is a president of the United States who, in his State of the Union address, said he understands the state and federal balance.

00:35:49.000 He understands the balance of powers between the branches.

00:35:53.000 When does the man own a mirror?

00:35:56.000 For God's sake, I wrote an entire book about how he broke every rule in the book.

00:36:00.000 It's called The People vs. Barack Obama, available on Amazon for just $15.99.

00:36:04.000 President 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.

00:36:20.000 I 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.

00:36:26.000 Clip 12.

00:36:27.000 This is just stunning because this is the way the Democrats think that America works.

00:36:31.000 Listen to the moral equation he draws between various types of citizens in the United States and their level of bravery and heroism.

00:36:38.000 His litany here is pretty telling.

00:36:39.000 Here we go.

00:36:41.000 Our brand of democracy is hard.

00:36:43.000 No, it isn't.

00:36:45.000 But I can promise that a little over a year from now,

00:36:49.000 When 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.

00:37:06.000 Voices 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,

00:37:19.000 Not Democrat or Republican.

00:37:22.000 But as Americans first, bound by a common creed. 0.60

00:37:28.000 Voices Dr. King believed would have the final word.

00:37:34.000 Voices of unarmed truth and unconditional love.

00:37:37.000 Oh, preach it, President Obama.

00:37:39.000 Preach it.

00:37:40.000 And they're out there, those voices.

00:37:43.000 They don't get a lot of attention.

00:37:46.000 They don't seek a lot of fanfare.

00:37:49.000 But they're busy doing the work this country needs doing.

00:37:53.000 And here's the litany.

00:37:54.000 Here we go.

00:37:54.000 I see them everywhere I travel in this incredible country of ours.

00:38:00.000 I see you, the American people.

00:38:03.000 And in your daily acts of citizenship, I see our future unfolding.

00:38:10.000 I see it in the worker on the assembly line who clocked extra shifts to keep his company open.

00:38:17.000 And the boss who pays them higher wages. 0.92

00:38:20.000 Instead of laying him off.

00:38:24.000 I see it in the dreamer who stays up late at night to finish her science project.

00:38:29.000 And the teacher who comes in early.

00:38:32.000 Maybe with some extra supplies that she bought because she knows that that young girl might someday cure a disease. 1.00

00:38:42.000 No word on the aborted fetuses, by the way.

00:38:44.000 I see it in the American who served his time

00:38:48.000 Almost there.

00:38:49.000 Here we go.

00:39:18.000 To save his brothers.

00:39:23.000 The nurse who tends to him till he can run a marathon.

00:39:27.000 The community that lines up to cheer him on.

00:39:33.000 It's the son who finds the courage to come out as who he is.

00:39:38.000 And the father whose love for that son overrides everything he's been taught.

00:39:43.000 Okay, that's an amazing litany.

00:39:45.000 And Obama is all of these people, by the way.

00:39:47.000 Obama is all of you.

00:39:49.000 He encompasses all of you.

00:39:51.000 Like God Almighty, he encompasses every soul.

00:39:54.000 Okay, so in that litany, he equates Black Lives Matter protesters with cops, right?

00:39:58.000 He said the protesters insisting on justice and the cops who keep us safe, right?

00:40:02.000 They're all part of this great American tapestry.

00:40:05.000 And then he talks about the dreamer, right?

00:40:07.000 The illegal immigrant kid. 0.98

00:40:09.000 And he equates that with the line worker whose job that dreamer will someday take, presumably. 0.92

00:40:14.000 The best one is the back-to-back of the soldier and the gay kid, right? 0.99

00:40:19.000 The soldier who's out there defending freedom and the gay kid who has the courage to tell his father he wants to do dudes.

00:40:25.000 It's the same thing, right?

00:40:26.000 They're all just part of this rich America.

00:40:28.000 That's bravery.

00:40:30.000 It's that incredible country of ours that he loves.

00:40:32.000 And there's this emphasis from Obama on unconditional love.

00:40:35.000 Let me tell you something, folks, about unconditional love.

00:40:36.000 It doesn't exist.

00:40:37.000 It's a figment of your imagination.

00:40:39.000 The only person who has unconditional love for you isn't a person, it's God.

00:40:43.000 Okay, every person, every love is conditional.

00:40:45.000 There is no such thing as unconditional love.

00:40:48.000 Because 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.

00:40:54.000 Every person you know.

00:40:55.000 But Obama is making himself into a god-like figure and so he says that he is all about the unconditional love.

00:41:00.000 And the left loves unconditional love because it means there are no standards.

00:41:04.000 Right?

00:41:05.000 He celebrates the father who loves his son being gay despite everything that he's been taught. 0.94

00:41:10.000 Which is, by the way, Obama's way of slapping at religion and slapping at it hard. 0.90

00:41:14.000 Right? 0.99

00:41:14.000 If 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. 0.99

00:41:30.000 This is how leftists see the world. 0.99

00:41:31.000 This is why Barack Obama's dangerous.

00:41:34.000 And by the way, the danger is evident everywhere from the home front to the foreign front.

00:41:38.000 Okay, 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.

00:41:46.000 So, Obama lays out all of this.

00:41:47.000 It takes 59 minutes.

00:41:49.000 And 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.

00:41:59.000 Nikki Haley gets up, the governor of South Carolina, to give the response to the State of the Union Address.

00:42:03.000 And in her response to the State of the Union Address, Nikki Haley says a couple of things.

00:42:09.000 Here are the things that Nikki Haley said, and it's pretty clear what she's talking about.

00:42:13.000 Nikki Haley, clip one.

00:42:16.000 There's an important lesson in this.

00:42:19.000 In many parts of society today, whether in popular culture, academia, the media, or politics, there's a tendency to falsely equate noise with results.

00:42:31.000 Some people think that you have to be the loudest voice in the room to make a difference.

00:42:36.000 That's just not true.

00:42:38.000 Often the best thing we can do is turn down the volume.

00:42:41.000 When the sound is quieter, you can actually hear what someone else is saying.

00:42:47.000 And that can make a world of difference.

00:42:50.000 Okay, so she lays that comment out there.

00:42:53.000 I'm not sure she's looking on this camera.

00:42:54.000 There are multiple cameras in the room, so in fairness to her, she looks like she's looking off-camera.

00:42:58.000 She's looking at a different camera.

00:42:59.000 But there's comment number one.

00:43:01.000 Tone it down, guys.

00:43:02.000 Just tone it down.

00:43:02.000 So, Barack Obama, the worst president in American history.

00:43:05.000 We need to tone it down when we worry about him, because if you're too loud, then we could substitute voices for action.

00:43:12.000 So tone it down, all you Republicans.

00:43:14.000 Just calm down, you people in the base, and particularly you, Donald Trump.

00:43:18.000 Shut it down.

00:43:19.000 Shut it down.

00:43:21.000 And in case you missed the Donald Trump reference there, she clarified about one second later.

00:43:26.000 Let's go to clip two of Nikki Haley.

00:43:28.000 Today we live in a time of threats like few others in recent memory.

00:43:33.000 During anxious times, it can be tempting to follow the siren call of the angriest voices.

00:43:39.000 We must resist that temptation.

00:43:42.000 No one who is willing to work hard, abide by our laws, and love our traditions should ever feel unwelcome in this country.

00:43:52.000 At the same time, that does not mean we just flat out open our borders.

00:43:57.000 We can't do that.

00:43:59.000 We cannot continue to allow immigrants to come here illegally. 1.00

00:44:03.000 And in this age of terrorism, we must not let in refugees whose intentions cannot be determined. 1.00

00:44:11.000 We must fix our broken immigration system. 0.99

00:44:13.000 Okay, we can cut it off there.

00:44:15.000 That means stopping.

00:44:16.000 So what is she doing?

00:44:17.000 So 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.

00:44:25.000 And she hits Donald Trump.

00:44:27.000 The GOP establishment response has hit Donald Trump.

00:44:29.000 She was asked about it today.

00:44:29.000 She said, absolutely, I was speaking out against Donald Trump.

00:44:32.000 She said, I was rebuking him.

00:44:34.000 And then she was asked, well, why didn't you use the State of the Union to attack President Obama?

00:44:39.000 Why didn't you do that?

00:44:40.000 And she said it was, quote, not me.

00:44:42.000 So it is her to attack Trump, but not to attack President Obama.

00:44:45.000 Now, I want to call out the false dichotomy she's drawing.

00:44:48.000 She said that no one who is, A, who works hard, B, abides by our laws, and C, loves our traditions, should be turned away.

00:44:55.000 Even Donald Trump doesn't argue with that.

00:44:57.000 He just thinks that Syrian Muslim refugees don't, one, abide by our laws, or two, love our traditions.

00:45:02.000 Right?

00:45:02.000 At least, if you're given no other information.

00:45:05.000 And he doesn't trust our vetting process.

00:45:07.000 That's his entire case.

00:45:08.000 Nobody disagrees with the premise that she's stating there.

00:45:10.000 Everybody 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.

00:45:19.000 Nobody disagrees with that.

00:45:20.000 But her whole spiel here is that Donald Trump is bad. 0.97

00:45:24.000 Donald Trump is super bad.

00:45:25.000 I can't think of a speech better calculated to get Donald Trump elected than this speech.

00:45:30.000 Because the base is so angry at this point.

00:45:31.000 And here is the GOP establishment, in a nutshell, telling everybody to calm down.

00:45:35.000 By the way, Nikki Haley is clearly running for Marco Rubio's vice president right here. 1.00

00:45:39.000 I don't understand.

00:45:40.000 I mean, I actually only read the transcript of the speech yesterday.

00:45:43.000 I didn't actually stick around to watch it.

00:45:45.000 Once my daughter said night-night compootie for the fourth time, I let her night-night the compootie. 0.70

00:45:50.000 But this was widely praised.

00:45:52.000 I mean, people were saying, oh, Nikki Haley did a stellar job. 0.95

00:45:54.000 I'm watching this.

00:45:54.000 I'm not sure what the stellar job is.

00:45:57.000 She looks so awkward in front of the camera, actually.

00:46:00.000 And so I'm sort of confused by all that.

00:46:02.000 Also, it looks like she's doing this speech from a hallway somewhere.

00:46:06.000 The Republicans always pick the weirdest places to do these speeches. 0.59

00:46:08.000 It's always like a random hallway, or they've done it from... Bobby Jindal, I remember, did it in front of a banister.

00:46:14.000 They're always doing it in front of weird things.

00:46:16.000 But Nikki, the point is this.

00:46:18.000 The GOP establishment hates Donald Trump more than it hates Barack Obama.

00:46:21.000 Donald Trump frightens them. 0.71

00:46:23.000 Donald Trump is too loud.

00:46:24.000 He makes loud noises. 0.82

00:46:25.000 And I agree, he does make loud noises. 1.00

00:46:27.000 He says stupid things. 1.00

00:46:28.000 But, eye on the ball, gang. 1.00

00:46:29.000 You 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.

00:46:40.000 Like, really?

00:46:41.000 This was your priority?

00:46:43.000 This is why the GOP establishment is going down in flames, and they ought to.

00:46:46.000 Okay.

00:46:47.000 Very, very quickly.

00:46:48.000 One thing I like, and then one thing that I hate.

00:46:50.000 Okay, one thing that I like.

00:46:52.000 I'm gonna go conventional here.

00:46:53.000 People sometimes ask me what is my favorite book.

00:46:56.000 My favorite book is Moby Dick.

00:46:57.000 I think Moby Dick is a brilliant piece of literature.

00:46:59.000 I know there are people who think that it's too long.

00:47:01.000 I agree.

00:47:02.000 The wailing sections are difficult.

00:47:04.000 I get it.

00:47:04.000 If you sort of view them as the Leviticus of the book, then it's easier to deal with it.

00:47:09.000 But the story of Moby Dick is obviously phenomenal.

00:47:12.000 And the writing is just glorious.

00:47:14.000 It's a terrific, terrific book.

00:47:16.000 And 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.

00:47:26.000 But here is the thing that I hate for today.

00:47:29.000 Everybody's going nuts over this whole Powerball thing.

00:47:31.000 I don't know.

00:47:55.000 Treasure chest could float up to the top of my toilet like in the conversation.

00:47:58.000 Then, okay, fine.

00:48:01.000 That's your prerogative.

00:48:01.000 But the lottery itself is actually evil.

00:48:03.000 The government running a lottery is actually evil.

00:48:06.000 I remember a few years ago, the state of California ran an ad campaign.

00:48:11.000 You guys remember this?

00:48:11.000 They ran an ad campaign here in the state of California for Powerball?

00:48:14.000 And 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.

00:48:24.000 And the theme was Believe in Something Bigger.

00:48:26.000 Not God, not America, not your family.

00:48:28.000 Believe in your statistically non-available possibility of winning the lottery.

00:48:35.000 That's what you should believe in.

00:48:36.000 The chances of winning the lottery are infinitesimal.

00:48:39.000 You 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.

00:48:52.000 So in this particular Powerball, there will be over a billion tickets sold.

00:48:57.000 Apparently there's a 97% chance that somebody would win, and it could be you, but it won't be.

00:49:01.000 It definitely will not be you.

00:49:02.000 Okay?

00:49:02.000 Your chances of winning are 1 in 292 million.

00:49:05.000 You are not going to win the Powerball today.

00:49:07.000 If you're watching this and you win the Powerball, then you can yell at me from high atop your perch of money.

00:49:11.000 But, if not, then you're wasting your money.

00:49:15.000 And I think it's actually immoral, because it generates the idea in people that wealth is just a matter of luck.

00:49:19.000 That wealth just descends on you.

00:49:20.000 You take a shot,

00:49:21.000 And sometimes you make it and most of the time you don't, but it's all luck.

00:49:24.000 Wealth is not luck.

00:49:25.000 And by the way, the lottery proves that wealth is not luck because the people who win the lottery end up back in poverty.

00:49:31.000 70% of all people who make significant money from the lottery or from an inheritance blow through all of that money and end up poor again. 0.98

00:49:38.000 Because people who suck with money, it turns out they suck whether that money is $10,000,000 a year or $1.5 billion a year. 0.99

00:49:43.000 It's just the state taking advantage of people who suck with money. 0.99

00:49:46.000 Because disproportionately, the people who buy lottery tickets are poor. 0.93

00:49:50.000 There's a study that came out in 2008.

00:49:52.000 For families whose household income is $13,000, they spend in excess of $1,000 a year on lottery tickets.

00:50:01.000 They spend almost 10% of the money they make every year on lottery tickets.

00:50:05.000 That is a scam, and it's a sham, and it's really, really disgusting.

00:50:08.000 And every time the lottery lights up like this, it's because of a recession.

00:50:12.000 During the 2008 recession, 29 of the 42 states with lotteries, according to Michelle Malkin, lit up the bank.

00:50:18.000 I mean, they made all sorts of money.

00:50:19.000 So it's a way of the government suckering you. 0.96

00:50:21.000 It's a scam. 0.96

00:50:22.000 It takes advantage of degenerate gamblers and people who have no real path in life.

00:50:28.000 And it's really sad.

00:50:29.000 If you have $2 and you're a person who can't afford to buy a lottery ticket, please, don't buy the lottery ticket.

00:50:33.000 Go get some investment advice.

00:50:35.000 Because you're wasting your money.

00:50:37.000 I am Ben Shapiro.

00:50:38.000 This is, indeed, The Ben Shapiro Show.

The Ben Shapiro Show - January 13, 2016

Ep. 54 - Obama's Bestest Friends In Iran Humiliate Him

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