Donald Trump is about to have a very good day, and Ted Cruz has a not good day. We ll talk about all of it, plus we ll get to Amy Schumer, among the things I do not like. - Ben Shapiro - Amy Schumer - Why Sarah Palin should have endorsed Donald Trump - Sarah Palin's flip-flop on Ted Cruz - Why Donald Trump is not a conservative - What would happen if Sarah Palin endorsed Trump? - How will this affect the primary race - Who's going to win the primary and what will happen if Ted Cruz gets the nomination - Is Amy Schumer a narcissist? And much, much more! Ben Shapiro is the host of The Ben Shapiro Show on Fox News Radio and host of the conservative podcast The Weekly Standard. See linktr.ee/TheBenShapiroShow Subscribe to the show Subscribe on iTunes Learn more about your ad choices. Become a supporter of the show by becoming a patron. Rate/subscribe in Apple Podcasts Learn about our sponsorships and get 10% off your first month with discount code: PODCASTLEPRODUCER at PODCOIN. Subscribe on Audible Learn more at Podcoin.me/thebenshapirott Rate, review and subscribe to our new podcast, and become a supporter for future episodes starting on October 31st, only through Podcoin Connect with a promo code Ben Shapiroism! and learn more about the show on Podcoin Subscribe and review using the promo code: at TheBen Shapiroism and get 20% off the deal code: BenShaperson Learn more like Ben Shapiro at The BenShoes at Ben Shapiro's Podcoin? and Ben Shapiro will be giving you a chance to win $10,000 to Ben Shapiro s new book, in the next episode on Tuesday, October 17th, November 13th, 2019 Thank you Ben Shapiro gets a discount on his new book out on The Six-day VIP promo code at . Thanks Ben Shapiro does not have a discount code on The Ben Shaperson's new book: The Best of the Ben Shapiro Podcasts to receive a discount of $10/day for Ben Shapiro works exclusively at The Six Weeks & Ben Shapiro also gets an ad on the show Ben Shapiro drops a free copy of The Six Days of Ben Shapiro Outtro?
00:00:18.000Alright, so the big news today out of Iowa is that Donald Trump said last night on Twitter that he was about to have a very special guest into Iowa to help him announce, and it was going to be a big announcement, something big was going to happen, and it wasn't going to be Oprah Winfrey, and there was a lot of speculation.
00:00:34.000Who was going to come in and endorse Donald Trump?
00:00:37.000And after a few minutes, the speculation centered on former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, the 2006-2008, sorry, Republican vice presidential nominee.
00:00:48.000And that has basically been confirmed at this point.
00:00:50.000Sarah Palin had her daughter, Bristol Palin, write a piece today.
00:00:53.000I'm not gonna say she forced her to do it or anything, but Bristol Palin wrote a piece today over her blog talking about how Sarah Palin ought to endorse Donald Trump, and then Sarah Palin promptly tweeted it.
00:01:03.000Her private jet was set to land in Des Moines today and then continue on to Tulsa, Oklahoma, which is where Trump is scheduled to campaign next.
00:01:11.000So all of the signs were out there that Sarah Palin was going to endorse Donald Trump.
00:01:15.000And with those signs out there, one of Ted Cruz's spokespeople appeared on CNN and was asked about this potential endorsement.
00:01:21.000Here's what Ted Cruz's spokesperson, I think his name is Rick Tyler, had to say.
00:01:25.000I think it would blow Sarah Palin, because Sarah Palin has been a champion for the conservative cause, and if she was going to endorse Donald Trump, then sadly she would be endorsing someone who's held progressive views all their life on the sanctity of life, on marriage, on partial birth abortion, he was a tarp, supported tarp bailout, I mean it goes on and on and on.
00:01:46.000Donald Trump claims he's changed all those views, but I just, I think, if it was Sarah Palin, let me just say I'd be deeply disappointed.
00:01:54.000Okay, so he's right that Sarah Palin is conservative and Donald Trump is not conservative.
00:01:59.000And in a minute, I'm going to go through all the reasons I know that Donald Trump isn't conservative for all of those of you who are big Donald Trump fans.
00:02:05.000And I've really tried my best to be as honest as possible about what I think of these particular candidates.
00:02:11.000I've told you before, if the primaries were held today, I would vote for Ted Cruz.
00:02:15.000I'd vote for him easily over the other candidates.
00:02:17.000I've also talked about a lot of the flaws I think I see in Ted Cruz as a candidate, a lot of the flaws I see in the Cruz campaign.
00:02:23.000I've defended Donald Trump from unfair attacks, but Donald Trump is not a conservative.
00:02:27.000Putting that aside for just a moment, Bristol Palin wrote today, quote, Cruz's flip-flop, turning against my mom who's done nothing but support and help him when others sure didn't, shows he's a typical politician, because Sarah Palin endorsed
00:02:39.000Ted Cruz back in 2012 against Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst.
00:02:43.000Bristol writes, how rude that he's setting up a false narrative about her.
00:04:08.000What happens if Ted Cruz gets the nomination?
00:04:11.000What happens if Ted Cruz gets the nomination almost entirely with the support of the Tea Party because the establishment hates Ted Cruz?
00:04:18.000Sarah Palin seems to fade into the woodwork at that point, right?
00:04:21.000Sarah Palin seems to sort of fade away.
00:04:24.000And so there's certain logic that suggests that perhaps Sarah Palin is supporting Donald Trump because if Donald Trump gets the nomination, then she remains the head of the Tea Party.
00:04:33.000Now that's a pretty cynical read, but politics is a cynical game.
00:04:38.000Okay, so let's talk about how this actually impacts the race a little bit.
00:04:42.000As we mentioned, the Cruz campaign takes it seriously enough that they're out there talking about it, but there are five main reasons why this could actually be a real problem for Ted Cruz.
00:04:50.000The first is that Palin's endorsement means conservative support for Trump.
00:04:54.000So lately, Ted Cruz has been going out there and bashing Trump up and down.
00:04:59.000And he's right to bash Trump up and down because Donald Trump, again, is not a conservative.
00:05:04.000So, for example, here is Ted Cruz this week bashing Donald Trump.
00:05:11.000Number one, if you're looking for someone to take you on the corruption of Washington, you should look to someone who has a record of standing up to the corruption of Washington, not someone who has been part of it.
00:05:24.000And whose explanation is, well, fine, I was buying politicians, but everybody does it.
00:05:28.000That's not, that is not how you break the Washington cartel.
00:05:42.000Look, Donald Trump's critique of me this morning.
00:05:46.000Is that I'm not going to be willing to make deals with the Democrats and go along to get along, and that's what we need.
00:05:51.000If you agree with that, if you want yet another Republican to cozy up to Chuck Schumer, by the way, he's written checks to Chuck Schumer, I never have, then you ought to be backing him.
00:06:02.000But if you think we need Republicans who are willing to stand up to Washington, then this decision becomes
00:06:45.000The two of them can't win this together in some sort of a bromance and come out as a united couple after either one of these primaries or after the whole process.
00:07:07.000She comes in, out of the wings, and she gives Trump that patina of conservative support.
00:07:12.000Cruz is saying that Trump is not a conservative candidate, but Palin is considered a hardline conservative with a lot of conservative support.
00:07:19.000So she comes in, she says, I'm conservative, you should support Donald.
00:07:49.000So he's now in the position of having to defend a gal who is giving her support to his opponent.
00:07:54.000The third reason is that, as we discussed yesterday, one of the big attacks by Ted Cruz on Donald Trump has been the New York Values attack.
00:10:21.000Trump and Cruz, they were at each other's throats all night, starting when Cruz attacked what he called New York values.
00:10:28.000Everyone understands that the values in New York City are socially liberal or pro-abortion or pro-gay marriage, focused around money and the media.
00:10:38.000Not a lot of conservatives come out of Manhattan.
00:11:03.000So, to get back at Cruz, Trump made it personal.
00:11:07.000When the World Trade Center came down, I saw something that no place on Earth could have handled more beautifully, more humanely than New York.
00:11:25.000I have to say, I've never been more impressed with Donald Trump.
00:11:29.000Because not only is he making Ted Cruz look like a dick, but because Trump brought up 9-11, Ted Cruz has to stand there and applaud Trump while he does it.
00:11:40.000That's like getting a guy to cheer for you as you make love to his wife.
00:11:45.000Excellent thrusting motion, Mr. Trump.
00:11:52.000The amount of scorn that the media and the establishment have for Ted Cruz is significantly more than for Trump.
00:11:57.000Because the reality is, if Ted Cruz had done the same thing to Donald Trump, is there any doubt the media would have jumped on him for invoking 9-11 cynically?
00:12:55.000But, but, the point is that Marco Rubio has sort of fallen by the wayside, which means you would think the establishment would say, okay, the best shot we have here is for Ted Cruz to win Iowa, and then go on and compete in New Hampshire, and then we throw our support behind Ted Cruz.
00:13:08.000The problem is, they don't actually want Ted Cruz to win.
00:13:13.000The developing feeling among House Republicans, Donald Trump is preferable to Ted Cruz, quote, If you look at Trump's actual policies, they're pretty thin.
00:13:21.000There's not a lot of meat there, said one Republican member in Ryan's inner circle, who requested anonymity to speak frankly.
00:13:27.000If Trump were to get the nomination, he would be, quote, And we will have that for him, says the member.
00:13:33.000In other words, Trump has no real ideas, we'll just give him all his ideas.
00:13:38.000Cruz has real ideas and we don't like those ideas.
00:13:40.000So we like Trump more than we like Cruz.
00:13:44.000The fact is that the Republican establishment for a long time has wanted Northeastern Republicans who are soft on social issues and who don't mind crony capitalism.
00:13:55.000Does that sound more like Texas Senator Ted Cruz or like New York business mogul Donald Trump?
00:14:00.000And by the way, we keep hearing from the Republican establishment, we need to win back blue-collar voters, reach out to minorities.
00:14:06.000Well, they don't like that Trump didn't reach out to Hispanics, but the fact is Trump wins a large segment of the black population and he wins a lot of Democrats.
00:14:14.000According to Reuters, about 1 in 10 Americans who plan to cast a vote this election will do so for the first time in years, if ever, and Trump has a decided edge with all those people.
00:14:23.000According to a Mercury Analytics poll, it shows 20% of Democrats would switch parties to vote for Trump.
00:14:29.000So the establishment actually backs Trump over Cruz, and they do so not just because they think that Trump is malleable,
00:14:36.000Well, because the fact is that Donald Trump is not conservative.
00:14:40.000So this is an important portion of today's show.
00:14:42.000You can clip this out, folks, and show it to all your friends.
00:14:44.000When they ask you, is Donald Trump conservative, we're going to go through his positions now, and we're going to discuss whether he is, in fact, conservative.
00:14:51.000And forgive me, I'm dying of the black lung, but aside from that, we are going to discuss.
00:14:55.000Okay, so here, let's go through some of Donald Trump's positions.
00:14:58.000First, on immigration, Trump is conservative, okay?
00:15:02.000He's taken a very right-wing position on immigration.
00:15:06.000He has flipped on those positions, however.
00:15:08.000In 2012, he ripped on Mitt Romney for being too conservative on immigration.
00:15:14.000When it came to Syrian Muslim refugees, originally he said we'd have to let all of them in before he said we have to keep all of them out.
00:15:45.000Those are his more conservative issues.
00:15:47.000Then there are the issues where he truly is not conservative.
00:15:50.000So on abortion, Trump says that he had a change of heart several years ago on the issue of abortion.
00:15:55.000In 1999, by the way, he endorsed partial birth abortion, which is to say, one week before the baby's born, you pull it into the birth canal and jack a hole in its skull, and then cut up the baby in the womb.
00:16:05.000Okay, that's what partial birth abortion is.
00:16:09.000He had to flip somewhere along the line, but
00:16:12.000Then he said in January 2015 he's pro-life with caveats of rape, incest, and where the mother's life is in danger.
00:16:19.000And then he said there may be more caveats, but he didn't want to discuss them.
00:16:22.000In August, he said that maybe he would fund Planned Parenthood before he turned around and said he wouldn't.
00:16:28.000He said in August also, in the first Republican debate, he said he flipped on abortion because a good friend of his was gonna have an abortion and she decided not to and then the kid ended up being just great.
00:16:46.000Okay, so in other words, if the kid had been aborted and then, if the kid had not been aborted and had ended up just being kind of like a dud,
00:16:54.000Trump presumably would still be for abortion.
00:16:55.000Does that sound someone deeply pro-life to you?
00:16:58.000In October, Trump said he would appoint his sister, who's a federal appeals court judge, to the Supreme Court.
00:17:04.000She has voted in favor of the notion that partial birth abortion is protected by the Constitution.
00:17:11.000On same-sex marriage, Trump says that he's anti same-sex marriage, but also that same-sex marriage is the law of the land and he doesn't want any sort of fight against same-sex marriage.
00:17:19.000He certainly doesn't want a constitutional amendment.
00:17:22.000On religious freedom, he has said nothing whatsoever about religious freedom restoration acts in places like Indiana.
00:17:29.000On entitlements, Donald Trump has said he won't do anything about Medicare or Medicaid or Social Security.
00:17:35.000He says all of those will be left alone to go insolvent, presumably.
00:17:40.000He said that he won't have to cut Social Security because, quote, I know where to get the money from to pay for it.
00:17:46.000So Donald Trump apparently has a secret stash somewhere, like when you're playing Monopoly with when you're a kid and you hide a bunch of cash under the board to surprise everybody with.
00:17:53.000So Donald Trump has a secret Social Security stash.
00:17:56.000Donald Trump is in favor of campaign finance reform.
00:17:59.000He's in favor of government involvement in the economy.
00:18:58.000This whole thing is just, it is amazing, it is amazing that there's so many people who are being bamboozled into the idea that Trump is a conservative.
00:19:05.000There's one, honestly, there's something to be said for the fact that Donald Trump's enemies are all obnoxious elitists.
00:19:36.000Just like I don't think it's a gotcha question to ask Donald Trump, what's your favorite Bible verse?
00:19:40.000I don't think that that was a gotcha question, but there were people who acted as though because there were lots of unwarranted attacks on Palin, every attack on Palin was unwarranted.
00:19:48.000And now it's the same thing with Trump.
00:19:50.000Because there are lots of unwarranted attacks on Trump, that means every attack on Trump is unwarranted.
00:20:22.000But to change the standard of conservatism to fit Donald Trump because Sarah Palin says so, for example, is to me a mistake.
00:20:29.000And Sarah Palin can endorse whom she wants.
00:20:31.000But I will say that if conservatives buy into the idea that because Sarah Palin is endorsing Donald Trump, therefore Donald Trump is a conservative,
00:21:20.000Meanwhile, the Obama administration continues to be incompetent beyond all measure.
00:21:25.000John Kerry yesterday was asked about Barack Obama's foreign policy, and here's what he said, and the disconnect between the Obama administration and reality is just massive.
00:22:08.000Not only do we now have verification that is unprecedented, but they have rolled back their program, sent their nuclear material out of the country, destroyed their plutonium reactor, ceased any enrichment activities at the hidden Fordow facility, and allowed 130 additional inspectors from the IAEA to come into the country to verify this going forward.
00:22:33.000So we have gone from a two-month breakout period, Joe,
00:22:37.000It's all just great stuff for you, John Kerry.
00:23:32.000And because he was very upset and frustrated, that means a lot to us, I think.
00:23:34.000I think that that means we should give them nuclear weapons.
00:23:37.000Because John Kerry was upset and frustrated.
00:23:39.000Tom Cotton, who I think is going to be at some point a good presidential candidate, he's the senator from Arkansas, former military member, served in Iraq.
00:23:46.000Here is Tom Cotton's response to John Kerry saying the world is going to be a safer place.
00:23:53.000Remember, this was a deal, if it was in fact about a weapons agreement before the Islamic Revolution in 1979, that we made with the pro-American government of Iran, that was then overthrown by a violent revolution led by the Ayatollahs.
00:24:09.000And we're rewarding them now by giving them back that previous regime's money with interest.
00:24:14.000Secretary Kerry talked about interest payments being required under the law.
00:24:17.000I'm not sure which law he's referring to.
00:24:20.000But it sounds to me like he's more interested in being the lawyer for the government of Iran than he is for standing up, for instance, as you say, Wolf, for the rights of those 52 Americans who still have lots of claims against Iran for the terrorism and the captivity in which they held them.
00:24:34.000And this, of course, is certainly true.
00:24:36.000By the way, worth noting, breaking news.
00:24:39.000It is amazing that the governor of Iowa has now come out and said that he does not like Ted Cruz and he wants Ted Cruz to be defeated.
00:24:46.000Because the reality is that, again, the Republican establishment, to go back to that point for just a second, the Republican establishment hates Cruz far more than they hate Trump.
00:24:53.000They're now clearing a path for Trump in Iowa.
00:25:14.000I'm fascinated with the mental health conditions of the country, and this book called The Insanity Offense is all about how the
00:25:22.000The country, the democratic process, our politicians have failed, the mentally ill in the country, and that's why you see tons of homeless people on the streets, and that's why you see increasing numbers of mass shootings by people who have mental illness, and he talks about how things got this way, the author does.
00:25:37.000The book is called The Insanity Offense, and on the fiction side, I just started a book called The Whites, which was a detective crime novel that was recommended to me, and so I will check it out and let you know if it's any good.
00:25:47.000Now, more importantly, here are some things that I hate.
00:25:49.000So, we've talked about Amy Schumer on the program before.
00:25:52.000Amy Schumer is, of course, the lady who's famous for being borderline funny and borderline fat.
00:25:59.000She's overweight, but not unbelievably so, and she's funny, but not unbelievably so.
00:26:04.000And she did a picture, as you recall, a while back in which she posed naked for Annie Leibovitz.
00:26:10.000And she said she was stunning, and if by stunning you mean you were hit in the face with a brick, then yes, she was stunning.
00:26:16.000If by stunning you mean she was beautiful, then not so much.
00:26:18.000But, Amy Schumer has made a career, like a real career, out of just saying dirty words, and saying dirty things, and talking about her vagina.
00:26:26.000I mean, honestly, this is what she's made a career off of doing.
00:26:29.000She's like Sarah Silverman, except blonde and fatter.
00:26:31.000Sarah Silverman is a comedian who's done the same thing.
00:26:34.000She's kind of quasi-cute, and so is Amy Schumer.
00:26:52.000Being blue is the standard for female funny.
00:26:54.000I mean, name a female comedian who's real famous right now who's not deeply blue, and it's very difficult to figure one out, right?
00:27:00.000I mean, from Sarah Silverman to Amy Schumer.
00:27:03.000To Lena Dunham, to Chelsea Handler, they all work blue.
00:27:09.000And, you know, I have nothing against a good dirty joke, but the problem is most of their jokes aren't even good dirty jokes.
00:27:14.000Most of their jokes are just dirty jokes.
00:27:17.000And they're really not that funny, and I actually find it kind of off-putting when females can do nothing but talk about their vaginas, just as I actually find it off-putting when men can do nothing but talk about their penises.
00:27:29.000Well, Amy Schumer got into a bit of a tiff because the Critics' Choice Award happened a couple of nights ago, and there's this 17-year-old reviewer who calls himself Lights Camera Jackson, and he tweeted this out.
00:27:42.000So, for those who can't see, there's a picture of this geeky-looking 17-year-old kid and Amy Schumer standing next to him looking like Alvin from Alvin and the Chipmunks, except with cleavage.
00:28:12.000I mean, I would have thought she's a whore because she always talks about being a whore, but it turns out that she actually spends her off hours in a nunnery, which I didn't know.
00:28:22.000I also didn't know, for example, that nuns make jokes about going down on Lily Tomlin, which is what she did this morning.
00:28:28.000I also didn't know that nuns do photoshoots, Star Wars photoshoots, in which they take lightsabers and put them in their mouth to simulate the act of oral sex.
00:28:36.000I also didn't know that nuns do pictures in which they go completely topless next to R2-D2 and C-3PO to demonstrate their love for Christ.
00:28:46.000Color me surprised, but I was always under the impression that in order for you to claim the class of being virginal, you actually had to be somewhat virginal.
00:28:55.000Amy Schumer's the lady who said, quote, I can catch a dick whenever I want.
00:29:00.000This is Amy Schumer, and here she's ripping on a 17-year-old kid for making a joke about the fact that she says she can catch a dick whenever she wants.
00:29:29.000It was supposed to be autobiographical.
00:29:30.000It's a lady who has sex with lots of dudes.
00:29:32.000And she said, for me, this is my experience, a lot of the women I am close to are the same.
00:29:38.000She said she even she's told jokes like this in in one of her recent tours quote my whole life I found friends that are just like me young girls that were just like me like me.
00:29:46.000We were all whores Oh, so but but here it seems like you're upset that you're being called a whore or that it's being implied But here you say that you were all whores and then she says in my group the slutty of us was this girl Katie She wouldn't own it like as soon as she had a boyfriend.
00:30:05.000I mean, I know it's hard to find a mirror big enough for Amy Schumer apparently, but is there a mirror anywhere in the vicinity?
00:30:11.000So the kind of self-righteousness of the folks on the left, and Amy Schumer, she's actually one of the few people who's blocked me on Twitter now.
00:30:17.000She blocked me on Twitter because bravery means tweeting out photos of yourself naked, calling yourself brave, and then blocking anyone who objects.
00:32:50.000I think we should go perfectly race and sex neutral on the Oscars, and that means that no women will ever be nominated for anything again, because the fact is that presumably men can be women, and apparently Eddie Redmayne has shown in The Danish Girl that men are better at being women than women.
00:33:03.000So, presumably, in the future, all nominees will be men or transgender women.
00:33:08.000But, what's amazing is that Spike Lee, apparently, he's very upset because there are not enough black nominees.
00:33:14.000Does this look like this ought to be nominated?
00:33:15.000Now, I've made the case that half of the things that are nominated shouldn't be.
00:33:19.000But I'm still gonna make the case that this movie does not look better than Spotlight.
00:33:24.000Okay, I'm gonna make the case that this movie does not look superior in any way, shape, or form to even Carol or The Danish Girl, both of which I think look awful.
00:33:34.000Hey, this movie looks worse than anything that has ever been made, and Spike Lee is one of the most overrated directors working today.
00:33:40.000I've seen virtually all of his movies, because I feel it's important to see what people who don't think like I do actually produce, and his movies are wildly overrated.
00:34:40.000To suggest that black people are of more worth than white people.
00:34:43.000The fact is that we are now at the point in American culture where Martin Luther King lost and Malcolm X won.
00:34:50.000So Martin Luther King promised us that we would have a unified vision of race in the country, and for a while it seemed like we were going to actually achieve that.
00:34:59.000After Rodney King, after the Clinton administration, it seemed like we were moving in the right direction on all this stuff.
00:35:07.000And it collapsed on us because there's more money to be made in racial polarization than there is to be made in racial unification.
00:35:14.000So now we're going back to racial polarization, and then pretending the Malcolm X, like, before-Islam conversion Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King were one and the same.
00:35:23.000And it's sad to me that we've reached that point.
00:35:25.000Because we should all be able to say, with full-throatedness, that Chirac looks like a piece of absolute garbage, without having to worry that we're gonna be called racist in the pursuit.
00:35:34.000We should all be able to say that, by the way, I think that if there's a case to be made that someone black should have been nominated, it's Idris Elba for maybe best supporting actor for Beast of No Nation, which I talked about on the show and thought was fine.
00:35:45.000But just because he wasn't nominated, I don't think that all the lefties in Hollywood are a bunch of evil racists trying to keep black people off the ballots.