The Ben Shapiro Show - Ep. 58 - Sarah Palin's Ridiculous Trump Endorsement Betrays Conservatism

00:00:00.000 Here we are, it is Wednesday.

00:00:02.000 I'm suffering through the last stages of the bubonic plague, and the United States is suffering through the last throes of its death agony.

00:00:08.000 But we'll get to all of that.

00:00:09.000 Well, not the bubonic plague part, but the agony we'll get to.

00:00:12.000 I'm Ben Shapiro, this is The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:00:20.000 Ugh.

00:00:21.000 Yesterday was a very tiring day.

00:00:23.000 Yesterday was a very tiring day because yesterday, of course, was the day on which Sarah Palin announced her support for Donald Trump.

00:00:29.000 And it was very disappointing to people for a wide variety of reasons.

00:00:33.000 The top reason I think it was disappointing to people is because

00:00:36.000 Sarah Palin had been seen as a Tea Party conservative icon, and there she is endorsing, of the two candidates who are basically left, Ted Cruz and Donald Trump.

00:00:44.000 There is no question, as we went through on yesterday's show, there is no question that Donald Trump is the least conservative of those two candidates.

00:00:52.000 No question whatsoever.

00:00:53.000 In fact, Ted Cruz would be the most conservative Republican nominee probably in the history of the party.

00:00:58.000 Very, very conservative guy.

00:01:00.000 So Sarah Palin, who's supposed to be conservative, she decides, after all, no, not going to endorse Ted Cruz. 0.83

00:01:06.000 Instead, I will endorse Donald Trump, who is a charlatan.

00:01:11.000 And there's something that I need to explain, a couple things that I think I need to explain before we get to the Palin endorsement.

00:01:16.000 The first is that Donald Trump has unconsciously done an amazing job of unifying the Republican Party.

00:01:22.000 It's actually kind of astounding.

00:01:24.000 We talked about this a little bit yesterday.

00:01:26.000 Donald Trump has done something no one thought he could do.

00:01:28.000 He's brought people together.

00:01:30.000 Donald Trump, yes, he brought people together.

00:01:32.000 How?

00:01:32.000 Well, he started off his campaign by launching firebombs and brickbats at the Republican establishment.

00:01:39.000 Right?

00:01:40.000 I'm here.

00:01:40.000 They won't listen to you.

00:01:41.000 They won't listen to me.

00:01:42.000 And I'm gonna come and I'm gonna change everything. 0.98

00:01:45.000 And the Republican establishment, they said, that's a crazy dude! 0.99

00:01:47.000 We hate that guy. 0.99

00:01:48.000 They said, look what he's saying on immigration. 1.00

00:01:50.000 He's totally nuts. 1.00

00:01:51.000 Look what he's saying about Muslim refugees. 1.00

00:01:53.000 Totally out of his mind.

00:01:55.000 And so the grassroots said, well, if Trump is going after the establishment, and the establishment is going after Trump,

00:02:01.000 Well then, great!

00:02:02.000 Okay, well, we like Donald Trump now, because the establishment hates Donald Trump, and he hates the establishment.

00:02:08.000 So they sort of let their anti-establishment feelings overrun their conservative principles.

00:02:13.000 Then, what's happened in the last couple of weeks is that Trump has broken with Ted Cruz.

00:02:17.000 And this is where you would imagine the conservative base would say, okay, well, you know, there's anti-establishment, like Trump, and then there is actual anti-establishment, as in, I want to completely change the face of the Republican Party and remake it in a conservative mold.

00:02:32.000 There's a wide, wide difference between being anti-establishment, between hitting the right people, and having the right principles.

00:02:40.000 There are lots of people all over planet Earth who hit the right people, but have the wrong principles.

00:02:44.000 During World War II, Stalin was hitting Hitler.

00:02:46.000 That didn't make Stalin right.

00:02:47.000 Right?

00:02:48.000 Stalin was still a bad guy.

00:02:49.000 He just happened to be an alliance of convenience for the United States.

00:02:52.000 And as Winston Churchill, who hated the Russians, hated the Soviets, said, you know, this is just something we have to do in order to take out the worst guy.

00:03:00.000 So conservatives formed a de facto alliance with Donald Trump.

00:03:03.000 But that didn't mean Trump was conservative.

00:03:05.000 And now, Trump is attacking Ted Cruz from the left.

00:03:08.000 It's clear he's not conservative, Trump.

00:03:11.000 Yesterday, he was smacking Ted Cruz over failing to support ethanol subsidies.

00:03:16.000 He's been smacking Ted Cruz for not working with the people in the Senate better.

00:03:19.000 You know, all the establishment people in the Senate who he supposedly hates.

00:03:23.000 And so Trump is doing all of this stuff, and conservatives, now is the time to break with Trump and say, okay, you took us this far, you fought the good fight against the establishment, but now it turns out that you're not Winston Churchill fighting Hitler, you're more like Stalin fighting Hitler, meaning you have the wrong principles, but you're fighting the right guy.

00:03:39.000 But now we've reached the point where the establishment has basically been turned into a charred briquette, so let's move on to what are your actual principles.

00:03:47.000 Instead, what Sarah Palin's endorsement did is it sort of

00:03:51.000 Bridged the gap.

00:03:52.000 It gave Trump the patina of conservatism.

00:03:54.000 It allowed Trump to play at being a conservative even though he really is not.

00:03:58.000 Even though he really is not.

00:04:00.000 And I think there's another factor that's driving Trump's continued rise.

00:04:04.000 And there is no question that Trump is continuing to rise.

00:04:07.000 Florida poll.

00:04:07.000 Today.

00:04:08.000 Donald Trump, 48%.

00:04:09.000 Ted Cruz, 16%.

00:04:09.000 Senator of Florida, Marco Rubio, 11%.

00:04:11.000 Jeb Bush,

00:04:19.000 So the fact is that we are looking at a Donald Trump runaway.

00:04:24.000 One of the things that's happening here...

00:04:26.000 And it's kind of sad, is the cult of personality has now taken over the Republican Party.

00:04:31.000 Now, to understand what I mean by the cult of personality, I don't just mean that we worship personalities we find appealing.

00:04:37.000 This has been true throughout human history.

00:04:39.000 What I'm talking about is we stop vetting people because they are famous.

00:04:44.000 Fame is sort of its own vetting process.

00:04:46.000 And you hear this from Hillary Clinton, actually, a lot.

00:04:48.000 She says things like, of course I've been vetted.

00:04:50.000 I've been in the public eye for 30 years.

00:04:53.000 Well, that doesn't mean that you've been vetted, it just means you've been in the public eye for 30 years.

00:04:57.000 Fame, you know, Henry Kissinger once said that power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

00:05:02.000 The truth is that fame is the ultimate, kind of, it's the, fame is the ultimate roofie, it makes people forget things, right?

00:05:09.000 Fame makes people forget about what you're doing, because the way that the brain works, the way we as human beings work, the brain is inherently lazy.

00:05:17.000 And what we do is we take people's word for it.

00:05:20.000 So, when you go to a restaurant, what do you do?

00:05:22.000 Before you go to a restaurant, you've never been to the restaurant, what do you do?

00:05:24.000 You go to Yelp, right? 0.54

00:05:25.000 You check the Yelp reviews and you see, did people like this restaurant, or did they say that it was just garbage?

00:05:30.000 Right, when you go to Amazon to buy a book, when you buy my book, the first thing you do is you look at the reviews.

00:05:34.000 When you're at the bookstore, you look at the blurbs on the back.

00:05:37.000 The reason that movies, when they put the movie trailers up on the networks, the reason that they'll say five stars, and then in tiny little letters who it's from,

00:05:46.000 You know, Joe Blow Reviews.

00:05:47.000 The reason they do that is because they know your brain is too lazy to do your own research.

00:05:52.000 Instead, what you're going to do is take their word for it.

00:05:55.000 And most of the time in life, this actually works.

00:05:57.000 Most of the time, taking other people's sort of reviews for it generally works.

00:06:01.000 You figure you have a large enough crowd of people who like something, there must be something to it.

00:06:06.000 Now, as I've argued for years, this is not true of culture.

00:06:09.000 Otherwise, nobody ever would have heard of Lady Gaga, for example.

00:06:11.000 But, the fame is sort of its own inoculating power.

00:06:15.000 If somebody is famous, we assume this must not be a terrible person.

00:06:18.000 Everybody knows who they are.

00:06:20.000 And so, this shortcut that we use, where we kind of read other people's cues.

00:06:24.000 He knows who she is.

00:06:25.000 She knows who she is.

00:06:26.000 Therefore, she must be okay, right?

00:06:27.000 Everybody knows who she is. 0.59

00:06:28.000 She must be all right.

00:06:30.000 Do you vouch for this person, right?

00:06:32.000 Do you let this person into your party?

00:06:34.000 Yeah, well, we got 10 people who say that this person's fine.

00:06:36.000 Let them in, right?

00:06:37.000 The vouching system.

00:06:39.000 It's a shortcut. 1.00

00:06:40.000 The problem is, the human brain is susceptible to this shortcut in ways that are really stupid. 0.99

00:06:44.000 So, they've done social experiments, for example, where 0.99

00:06:48.000 They'll get one guy standing on a street corner looking up into the air like he's looking at something.

00:06:53.000 Most of the time, people will ignore him, right?

00:06:54.000 Because they figure, okay, he's a crazy guy looking up in the air.

00:06:57.000 If you get five to ten people standing on a street corner anywhere in America, just looking up into the air randomly, people who are walking around them will stop and look up, right?

00:07:06.000 Because why would five to ten people be looking up in the air if there were nothing to look at?

00:07:09.000 We read the cues, in other words.

00:07:11.000 So, they've done this experiment, and it's true every single time they do the experiment, people stop and people look.

00:07:16.000 That's what fame is.

00:07:17.000 The media tell you Donald Trump is worth looking at.

00:07:20.000 There's a lot of people in the press and on TV who tell you that Donald Trump is worth looking at.

00:07:25.000 So everybody stops, and they look.

00:07:27.000 They tell you Hillary Clinton is on every magazine cover.

00:07:30.000 You stop and you look, and what that really does is it means you no longer have to vet.

00:07:34.000 Means you no longer have to worry, is this person dangerous?

00:07:37.000 Because obviously, if you see them everywhere, they can't be that dangerous.

00:07:40.000 Right?

00:07:40.000 I mean, the people on your advertising, on your TV, they're not dangerous.

00:07:44.000 You see them everywhere.

00:07:46.000 Barack Obama, by making himself ubiquitous, doesn't feel dangerous.

00:07:49.000 People we see all over the place, people recommended by all of our friends, they're not dangerous, they're not scary.

00:07:54.000 Fame inoculates people to reality.

00:07:58.000 And that's what's been happening here.

00:07:59.000 So, Trump is succeeding because he's a cynical politician who doesn't act like a cynical politician.

00:08:05.000 Because he's not cynical, he's actually sincere.

00:08:07.000 He's cynical in the sense that he'll attack anybody at any time for his own personal benefit, but he's perfectly sincere about that.

00:08:13.000 It's not planned, I don't think.

00:08:14.000 I think he just does stuff.

00:08:16.000 And because he does stuff, people take it as he's sincere.

00:08:20.000 So when he attacks the establishment, conservatives go, yeah!

00:08:23.000 And then when he attacks Cruz, the establishment goes, yeah!

00:08:25.000 And suddenly he's got a support base.

00:08:27.000 A big support base.

00:08:29.000 And when it comes time to vet him, we all go, I'm not really gonna vet him.

00:08:32.000 Doesn't everybody know who Donald Trump is at this point?

00:08:34.000 No, you don't.

00:08:35.000 I mean, as I said yesterday on the program, most people have not taken the time to vet Donald Trump.

00:08:39.000 Which brings us to Sarah Palin's endorsement of Trump.

00:08:43.000 As I said yesterday, Palin's endorsement of Trump is a major blow to the Ted Cruz campaign.

00:08:47.000 And I've said on the program, if I vote in the primaries tomorrow, if I'm voting, I vote Ted Cruz.

00:08:54.000 This is a blow to Ted Cruz's campaign.

00:08:55.000 The reason is because there are a lot of conservatives who read Sarah Palin's queue.

00:09:00.000 Right?

00:09:00.000 It's like a blurb on the back of a book.

00:09:02.000 It's like a Yelp review.

00:09:03.000 Sarah Palin says he's conservative.

00:09:05.000 Therefore, he must be conservative.

00:09:07.000 The problem is, I don't think that Palin cares whether he's conservative.

00:09:10.000 I think that Palin is, in many... I think, deep in her heart, I think she's a populist.

00:09:15.000 I don't think she's a policy wonk.

00:09:16.000 I think she's somebody who scorns the elites, which is, again, having the right enemies doesn't mean you stand for the right principles.

00:09:22.000 I think she scorns the elites.

00:09:24.000 I think she is more along the lines of Donald Trump in many ways than she is along the lines of Ted Cruz.

00:09:29.000 But for a long time, she had been posing as a Ted Cruz kind of conservative.

00:09:32.000 Small government.

00:09:33.000 We're not going to get involved in all of this.

00:09:35.000 You know, let's keep the government out of your business.

00:09:38.000 And yesterday she took that and she used that on behalf of Donald Trump.

00:09:42.000 And so here was Sarah Palin yesterday standing next to Donald Trump in what had to be one of the worst endorsement speeches in the history of the Republic.

00:09:50.000 I mean, I have to say this is probably the worst.

00:09:52.000 I've never seen one that's worse than this.

00:09:53.000 This was, on any objective level, this was, it's an oral jackhammer.

00:09:57.000 I mean, A-U-R-A-L. 1.00

00:09:59.000 I mean, listening to this speech, or watching this speech,

00:10:02.000 It was an assault on the English language.

00:10:04.000 It was an assault on syntax.

00:10:05.000 It was an assault on basic rules of pronunciation.

00:10:10.000 But putting aside all of the stylistic problems with that, because the truth is, Palin's always had stylistic issues.

00:10:16.000 Putting aside all of that, in terms of content, it was absolutely, purely nonsensical.

00:10:21.000 Purely nonsensical.

00:10:22.000 So here's Sarah Palin endorsing Donald Trump.

00:10:25.000 And note, I'm pretty sure this entire endorsement, which was about 14 minutes long,

00:10:29.000 Was one sentence.

00:10:31.000 So here's Sarah Palin endorsing Donald Trump saying that you gotta like Donald Trump because he's not pussyfooting around the issues.

00:10:36.000 By the way, she's dropping G's like they're hot here. 0.92

00:10:39.000 Here we go.

00:10:39.000 We are ready for a change.

00:10:41.000 We are ready and our troops deserve the best.

00:10:46.000 A new commander in chief whose track record of success has proven he is the master at the art of the deal.

00:10:55.000 He is one who would know to negotiate.

00:10:59.000 Only one candidate's record of success proves he is the master of the art of the dill.

00:11:04.000 He is beholden to no one but we, the people.

00:11:07.000 How refreshing.

00:11:08.000 He is perfectly positioned to let you make America great again.

00:11:14.000 Are you ready for that, Iowa?

00:11:21.000 No more pussyfootin' around. 1.00

00:11:23.000 Our troops deserve the best.

00:11:25.000 You deserve the best.

00:11:28.000 Okay, so, aside from coining a new pickle company, The Art of the Dill, Sarah Palin talking there about, you know, Trump won't pussyfoot around, what she's bringing to Trump here is she's saying that he's blue-collar, and she actually said that in the speech.

00:11:42.000 In this little speech.

00:11:43.000 At one point, she actually said that Donald Trump, quote, he's a multi-billionaire, but he's not an elitist.

00:11:48.000 And she talked about he, quote, spent his life with the working man.

00:11:53.000 Uh, no.

00:11:55.000 No.

00:11:56.000 In what sense has Donald Trump spent his life with the working man?

00:11:59.000 Hey, Donald Trump, he didn't make himself from nothing.

00:12:01.000 His dad was worth, I think, $400 million.

00:12:04.000 So the idea that Donald Trump spent his life with the working man, if by spent his life with the working man, you mean he used government to pry land from the hands of working people to hand over to him under eminent domain, then sure.

00:12:16.000 But Donald Trump is no blue-collar guy, but Sarah Palin has a blue-collar feel, so the fact that she's lending this sort of blue-collar, down-home, grizzly-mama feel to Trump is a big win for Trump, even though I think this routine is tired, I think that it's old, I think that Palin... I feel bad saying this, because I actually like Sarah Palin, or at least I used to, and I think that Sarah Palin...

00:12:36.000 Just shoutin' at people!

00:13:02.000 And same thing has happened to Jack Nicholson and it's happened to Robert De Niro.

00:13:07.000 Great actors at a certain point, and Nicholson was never a great actor, but great actors at a certain point, they tend to get lazy and then they just play themselves in every part till the end of time.

00:13:17.000 Sarah Palin had the ability after 2008 to really do something special, and she didn't.

00:13:22.000 And I think she got lazy. 0.98

00:13:24.000 And I think that now that laziness translated into, who do people like?

00:13:28.000 Who's popular?

00:13:29.000 Who can I make some hay off of? 0.99

00:13:31.000 Donald Trump.

00:13:32.000 And so she lends him the grizzly mama feel. 0.80

00:13:34.000 I think, I gotta be honest, I think that a lot of people who are grizzly mama types even are starting to find this whole routine slightly grating, slightly irritating. 0.99

00:13:43.000 She continued by saying that Donald Trump attacks political correctness head on.

00:13:49.000 Well, he being the only one who's been willing, he's got the guts, to wear the issues that need to be spoken about and debated on his sleeve, where the rest of some of these establishment candidates, they just wanted to duck and hide.

00:14:04.000 They didn't want to talk about these issues until he brought them up.

00:14:07.000 In fact, they've been wearing a

00:14:10.000 This political correctness, kind of like a suicide vest.

00:14:14.000 And enough is enough.

00:14:16.000 These issues that Donald Trump talks about had to be debated.

00:14:20.000 And he brought them to the forefront.

00:14:22.000 And that's why we are where we are today, with good discussion.

00:14:26.000 A good, heated, and very competitive primary is where we are.

00:14:31.000 And now, though, to be lectured that, well, you guys are all sounding kind of angry, is what we're hearing from the establishment.

00:14:40.000 Doggone right, we're angry!

00:14:42.000 Justifiably so!

00:14:44.000 Yes!

00:14:46.000 You know, they stomp on our neck, and then they tell us, just chill.

00:14:50.000 Okay, just, yeah, just relax.

00:14:52.000 Well, look, we are mad, and we've been had.

00:14:57.000 They need to get used to it.

00:14:58.000 This election is more than just your basic ABCs.

00:15:04.000 Anybody but Clinton.

00:15:05.000 It's more than that, this go-around.

00:15:09.000 Trump is just standing there looking kind of embarrassed, honestly.

00:15:11.000 I mean, you look at Trump and he's standing next to her, and she's just going on like this.

00:15:15.000 And again, any hint of policy here, any hint of why he's the best conservative in the field, again, she was supposed to be a conservative spokesperson, and instead she's kind of dropping a lot of language about him that people like, but wearing political correctness like a suicide vest, I mean, these are just deliberately inflammatory lines for no particular purpose.

00:15:36.000 But again, aside from wearing the paperclip jacket, which is, I have to say, there's no way not to comment on this jacket.

00:15:43.000 I'm not sure what she was wearing yesterday.

00:15:45.000 I'm also not sure how she got through a metal detector to actually get to Iowa, Sarah Palin. 0.99

00:15:49.000 But the incoherence of this speech belies the impact that her endorsement could have

00:15:56.000 And it really was incoherent, and I know at this point it's really beating a dead horse to play more clips of the incoherence, but here was my favorite incoherent point of the speech.

00:16:04.000 Here's where Sarah Palin starts talking about what I could only assume to be drug use at the time, but was informed later was not.

00:16:10.000 Here is Sarah Palin talking about opium. 0.70

00:16:12.000 He being an optimist, passionate about equal opportunity to work, this self-made success of his, you know that he doesn't get his power, his high, off of opium.

00:16:27.000 What?

00:16:27.000 Other people's money.

00:16:28.000 Like a lot of dopes in Washington do. 1.00

00:16:31.000 They're addicted to opium, where they take other people's money, 0.94

00:16:35.000 And then their high is getting to redistribute it, right?

00:16:38.000 And then they get to be really popular people when they get to give out your hard money.

00:16:44.000 Well, he doesn't do that.

00:16:45.000 His power, his passion, it's the fabric of America.

00:16:49.000 And it's woven by work ethic and dreams and drive and faith in the Almighty.

00:16:54.000 What a combination.

00:16:56.000 Dreams and drive and faith in the almighty.

00:16:58.000 Yeah, those are the words that I would use to describe Donald Trump.

00:17:02.000 Faith in the almighty, yeah.

00:17:04.000 A very holy man, Donald Trump.

00:17:06.000 Sarah Palin doing this routine.

00:17:08.000 This sort of cutesy conservatism actually bothers me.

00:17:10.000 I have no problem with the slogan.

00:17:11.000 I have no problem with a cute turn of phrase.

00:17:14.000 But when that's your whole shtick, it starts to... And again, even then it would be okay if you weren't using it in service to a man who is not going to overthrow the establishment.

00:17:23.000 Okay, let's be frank about this.

00:17:25.000 Sarah Palin is saying that Donald Trump is going to fight crony capitalism.

00:17:29.000 On the same day that she said this, the same day, Donald Trump said that he wants more ethanol subsidies.

00:17:35.000 For people who don't know, ethanol is this crap corn fuel that is wildly inefficient and ruins your engine, and the federal government spends literally billions of dollars a year pushing money to the farmers of Iowa in order so that they can generate some of this crap corn fuel, which the government then mandates you put in your car.

00:17:50.000 Right, and Donald Trump says, I want more of that. 0.97

00:17:52.000 And Sarah Palin says, crony capitalism is bad, that's why I'm endorsing Donald Trump.

00:17:56.000 And you say to yourself, wait, what?

00:17:59.000 What?

00:17:59.000 And you talk about opium, okay, if you're talking about the opium of crony capitalism, that's not opium, that's heroin.

00:18:06.000 When it comes to establishment support, she's saying that the establishment hates Donald Trump.

00:18:11.000 Really?

00:18:11.000 Then why did Donald Trump brag yesterday, brag yesterday that establishment figures were centralizing around him to stop Trump?

00:18:17.000 He said this yesterday.

00:18:19.000 The Hill reported this morning, today, quote, Republican donors are quietly coming around to the idea that Donald Trump could be their party's nominee for president.

00:18:28.000 So donors are getting behind Trump now, because given the choice between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, the choice is clear for them.

00:18:34.000 Ted Cruz will tear them down, and Donald Trump will not.

00:18:38.000 And so, look, again, I understand the burn-it-all-down drive to support Donald Trump because you think he's gonna burn it all down.

00:18:43.000 Here's the sad truth.

00:18:45.000 Donald Trump is not gonna burn it all down.

00:18:48.000 He is not going to burn out the Republican establishment.

00:18:50.000 Donald Trump is not going to burn out the government.

00:18:53.000 Donald Trump is not going to make major changes to anything.

00:18:55.000 This man is going to go in and he's going to make deals where he feels like making deals and there's no guiding principle.

00:19:00.000 There is no centralizing principle to Donald Trump.

00:19:03.000 There is not a single major issue of consequence on which Donald Trump has not switched his position in the last six months.

00:19:09.000 Donald Trump, in 2012, Donald Trump was ripping Mitt Romney for being too harsh on immigration, and then he realized it would benefit him to be harsh on immigration, so he flipped.

00:19:18.000 Donald Trump was for partial birth abortion.

00:19:20.000 You know, there are people who say they've had an evolution on abortion, and I hear that. 0.99

00:19:25.000 Sometimes.

00:19:26.000 On partial birth abortion, I do not think there is an evolution.

00:19:28.000 I think if you were ever for partial birth abortion, I don't believe you that you evolved on the issue of partial birth abortion.

00:19:34.000 Unless you were fully ignorant of every facet of human biology.

00:19:37.000 Partial birth abortion, the idea that you can kill a baby one minute before it's born, I don't believe you when you say that you changed your mind on it. 0.94

00:19:44.000 I think you did that for political reasons.

00:19:46.000 Call me crazy, as someone who's been a lifelong pro-lifer, I just don't buy that very much.

00:19:51.000 I don't.

00:19:52.000 Maybe you ignored it.

00:19:53.000 Maybe you blinded yourself to it.

00:19:54.000 But that's not why Trump says that he's pro-life now.

00:19:56.000 Trump says he's pro-life because a friend of his was gonna get an abortion, had the kid instead, and the kid was wonderful.

00:20:02.000 That's not a case for pro-life.

00:20:03.000 That's a case for your friend not having an abortion. 1.00

00:20:06.000 The case for pro-life is that that is a human being in there.

00:20:09.000 So Trump has switched on all these issues, and this is why it's so frustrating to see Sarah Palin next to Trump, and the triumphalism with which the media is greeting this is really quite sickening. 1.00

00:20:18.000 The media, which declared Sarah Palin completely irrelevant, completely abnormal, stupid. 0.99

00:20:24.000 Sarah Palin was the lady who could see Russia from her house. 1.00

00:20:27.000 Now they're reviving the power of Sarah Palin to pump Trump. 0.50

00:20:30.000 Because the fact is that they know, they know, that if the conservative movement gets behind Trump, it is the death knell for the conservative movement.

00:20:37.000 And it really is.

00:20:38.000 It really is.

00:20:39.000 If the conservative movement gets behind Trump, because there are other candidates, folks.

00:20:42.000 We're not talking about a general election right now.

00:20:45.000 Now we're talking about conservatives.

00:20:47.000 Are you going to get behind a guy who is more liberal in every respect than Mitt Romney was?

00:20:52.000 Are you gonna get behind a guy who has said, who has praised the national healthcare systems of Scotland and Canada?

00:20:58.000 Are you gonna get behind a guy who doesn't believe in basic fundamental tenets of conservatism and who riffs through the Bible as though he's riffing through a set of vinyl CD, vinyl records?

00:21:07.000 I mean, it's just... I'm sorry, I don't believe he's conservative.

00:21:12.000 And that's okay if you want to vote for someone who's not conservative.

00:21:15.000 But don't say you're voting for him because he's the most conservative guy in the field.

00:21:19.000 Say that you're ignoring the conservatism because you think he can win.

00:21:22.000 Fine!

00:21:23.000 Say that you're voting for him because you think that he fights better than Cruz.

00:21:25.000 Fine!

00:21:26.000 But don't give me he's more conservative than Ted Cruz, which is the line some Trump supporters are using, and sort of what Sarah Palin was saying yesterday.

00:21:34.000 The minute that the Tea Party endorses Donald Trump, the Tea Party has ceased to be a small government party, and instead they've fallen into the, I think, gross, vile, nasty pit of populism.

00:21:46.000 I really don't like populism.

00:21:47.000 Populism is the...

00:21:49.000 Kind of shtick that Trump pitches, and it's pitched by Mike Huckabee, and it's this idea that... And Andrew Klavan and I were having this discussion this morning.

00:21:56.000 Populism is popular, right?

00:21:57.000 There's a reason that conservatism is not called populism, and the reason for that is because conservatism is about telling the truth, and populism is about appealing to the populace.

00:22:06.000 It's about suggesting that you're victimized by some unforeseen evil malignant forces in the universe, and if we only target those people, then things will be all better.

00:22:15.000 On Drew's show, which I listen to every day, and you should too.

00:22:17.000 That's why you should subscribe to both of our shows.

00:22:19.000 And you can with one easy purchase.

00:22:21.000 But if you do that, then what you'll hear Drew talk about is the fact that Trump appeals to a blue-collar set of workers.

00:22:27.000 That Trump appeals to blue-collar folks in the United States who feel like their jobs are being shipped overseas.

00:22:33.000 And my response to that is, I'm sure he does.

00:22:36.000 But he's also lying to them.

00:22:37.000 Because if he's saying that he's going to bring their jobs back, and everything is going to be hunky-dory, he's not telling them the truth.

00:22:43.000 You know, conservatism is about telling the truth.

00:22:46.000 And I know that the Republican Party is supposed to be a balance between telling the truth and winning, but if you're not telling the truth, you're not winning.

00:22:53.000 End of story.

00:22:54.000 If you're lying to the American people, there's no world in which you end up winning in the long run.

00:22:58.000 You just end up with a slower descent to hell, which is basically what the Republican Party has guaranteed over the last 30 years.

00:23:03.000 Well, the media, of course, are just over the moon about the Palin-Trump endorsement because it's great press.

00:23:09.000 I mean, let's face it.

00:23:10.000 A Trump-Bernie Sanders election would be basically

00:23:14.000 I think.

00:23:14.000 At this point, if you said, of all the people in the race, who's the one most likely to win both Iowa and New Hampshire?

00:23:18.000 Today you'd have to say it's Trump.

00:23:29.000 And I think

00:23:48.000 Yep, it is.

00:23:48.000 Unfortunately.

00:23:49.000 And again, I think that's because conservatives have to watch themselves here.

00:23:52.000 Charles Krauthammer, he said sort of the same thing on Fox News.

00:23:54.000 He said, yeah, this really does hurt Cruz pretty badly here.

00:23:57.000 This is all about Iowa.

00:24:14.000 Uh, and because again, if Trump wins Iowa, he's way ahead of New Hampshire.

00:24:19.000 I think he's at that point unstoppable.

00:24:21.000 And the reason I think this could be decisive is not because it helps Trump or it brings him additional support, but that it hurts Cruz.

00:24:31.000 The one thing standing between

00:24:33.000 Trump and success in Iowa accrues.

00:24:36.000 He attributes his success in becoming a senator to her.

00:24:40.000 She now turns against him.

00:24:42.000 I think this is a major blow to him and that's why I think it could be decisive.

00:24:48.000 You know, I think it's more of a major blow to Cruz, not because Palin personally turned against him, but because she lends a patina of gravity to Trump's conservatism.

00:24:55.000 It simply does not deserve, and Trump will say anything.

00:24:58.000 There's a lot of speculation, excuse me, about why Donald Trump would, why Palin would do all of this.

00:25:04.000 Trump was asked yesterday if Palin would be his VP pick, and here was Trump's response on that particular score.

00:25:09.000 Back to Palin for a moment.

00:25:11.000 Would you consider her as your running mate?

00:25:14.000 Well, I don't think, to start off with, I don't think that it would be something she'd want to do.

00:25:19.000 She's been through that.

00:25:20.000 And, you know, interestingly, Savannah, and this is a 100% fact, when she came to see me and when she talked to me and I could see that she really liked what we were saying, she never said, gee, I'd like to do this, I'd like to do that.

00:25:32.000 She never made a deal like so many people want to try and make deals. 1.00

00:25:36.000 I mean, she just said, I really like what's going on.

00:25:39.000 It's an amazing

00:25:41.000 I've never seen anything like it in politics.

00:25:42.000 A lot of people have said that.

00:25:44.000 Just read the cover of Time Magazine this week, right?

00:25:47.000 But she said, I've never seen anything like I've seen, you know, what you've been able to do in a short period of time in politics.

00:25:52.000 But to the question, would you consider it?

00:25:54.000 I haven't discussed it with her.

00:25:55.000 No, I haven't discussed anything with her about what she'd do, but she's somebody I really like and I respect, and certainly she could play a position if she wanted to.

00:26:03.000 You wouldn't roll her out as VP? 0.99

00:26:06.000 Well, I don't think she'd want to do it.

00:26:07.000 I mean, I don't think she'd want to do it.

00:26:09.000 And, you know, I really don't get into it right now because that question's always asked of me.

00:26:13.000 Who do you have in mind?

00:26:15.000 And I don't even think about VP right now.

00:26:17.000 And I just want to win.

00:26:19.000 I've always been a closer.

00:26:20.000 I get the deal done.

00:26:21.000 And I have to win before I start thinking about that.

00:26:24.000 There are a lot of good people in the Republican Party.

00:26:26.000 There are a lot of good people.

00:26:27.000 As far as Sarah's concerned, never asked me about that.

00:26:30.000 Never asked me about anything else.

00:26:31.000 Just wanted to support.

00:26:33.000 And it's such an honor because, as you know very badly, so many people are so disappointed that she didn't support them, but certainly there'd be a role somewhere in the administration if she wanted.

00:26:43.000 And I'm not sure that she does want that, but there would certainly be a role.

00:26:47.000 So there's Trump avoiding the question.

00:26:49.000 Let it be noted, in 2008 when John McCain selected Sarah Palin for the vice presidential nomination, Donald Trump said that it was a horrible idea.

00:26:57.000 He opposed Sarah Palin.

00:26:58.000 So now, obviously, he's flipped, just like on everything else.

00:27:02.000 On the other hand, there are people in talk radio, by the way, who are coming out against Palin on all this.

00:27:07.000 Cruz's people said yesterday they think that it'll hurt Palin personally to have endorsed Trump this way.

00:27:11.000 Glenn Beck, I know, was on a rampage against Palin.

00:27:13.000 He said that it's ridiculous that she abandoned her principles.

00:27:17.000 He posted this on Facebook.

00:27:18.000 Did Sarah Palin, small government, lower taxes, fewer regulations in the Constitution? 1.00

00:27:23.000 Not anymore.

00:27:24.000 Big government, bailouts, executive orders, not just abortion but partial birth abortion, nationalizing of banks, stimulus, pathway to citizenship.

00:27:32.000 All of these views were held by Donald Trump during this administration.

00:27:34.000 So, Beck, who's another Tea Party figure, is bashing Palin.

00:27:37.000 So, I think that the battle for the soul of the Tea Party is not over.

00:27:40.000 I don't think Palin's endorsement of Trump means the end of the Tea Party.

00:28:01.000 But if Trump wins the nomination with Tea Party support, it is the end of the Tea Party.

00:28:06.000 And again, folks, Donald Trump is the establishment.

00:28:10.000 Remember, conservatives who are—this is the falsehood of this whole dichotomy.

00:28:15.000 Yesterday I said that the battle between Trump and Cruz is really, do you want to blast the establishment or do you want a conservative?

00:28:21.000 That was the battle.

00:28:22.000 Even that's too simple.

00:28:24.000 It's a false battle.

00:28:25.000 Donald Trump is not going to touch the establishment in the way that Ted Cruz is going to touch the establishment.

00:28:29.000 Look, Terry Branstad, who is the governor of Iowa, and again, a big fan of ethanol subsidies, yesterday he came out and he said, he's an establishment guy, he said, I won't support one of these candidates.

00:28:40.000 Who is it?

00:28:40.000 Here's Terry Branstad from Iowa.

00:28:43.000 And I think that Ted Cruz is ahead right now, but what we're doing is we're trying to educate the people of Iowa.

00:28:49.000 He is the biggest opponent

00:28:51.000 of renewable fuels, and he actually introduced a bill in 2013 to immediately eliminate the renewable fuel standard.

00:29:00.000 He is heavily financed by big oil.

00:29:03.000 So we think that once Iowans realize that fact, they might find other things about him attractive, but I think it would be very damaging to our state, and that's the reason why he hasn't been invited to this, because he hasn't supported renewable fuels, and I believe that would be a big mistake

00:29:21.000 Thank you.

00:29:41.000 The establishment supports Trump over Cruz.

00:29:44.000 And there's a reason.

00:29:45.000 Trump is the guy who hobnobs with the Clintons.

00:29:47.000 Here's Donald Trump yesterday, yesterday, talking about why he gave money to the Clinton Foundation.

00:29:52.000 For God's sake, we're talking about a guy who's supposed to be the antithesis of Hillary Clinton.

00:29:57.000 The guy who's gonna fight her to a standstill.

00:29:59.000 The guy who's gonna fight the Democrats all the way down to the nub.

00:30:01.000 The guy who's gonna take apart the establishment and then rejigger the government in a more conservative way.

00:30:05.000 And he's on national television explaining why it doesn't matter that he gave money to Hillary Clinton.

00:30:10.000 Here's Donald Trump.

00:30:12.000 Let's change to the Clinton Foundation. 0.83

00:30:14.000 Some of your opponents have said, look, Donald Trump gave $100,000 to the Clinton Foundation.

00:30:20.000 And you say?

00:30:23.000 Well, over the years, I've been called a great businessman.

00:30:26.000 They just said in one of the articles, a world-class businessman, which is what I was and what I'm not now.

00:30:30.000 I'm a politician, if you can believe it.

00:30:32.000 I hate the term politician, but I guess that's what I am.

00:30:35.000 And I would take care of everybody.

00:30:36.000 I'd give to everybody.

00:30:37.000 I got along with Clinton.

00:30:38.000 I got along with

00:30:40.000 The Speaker of the House.

00:30:41.000 I got along with everybody, and that was my obligation.

00:30:44.000 I got along with Democrats and Liberals and Republicans and Conservatives.

00:30:48.000 And they called me, and they loved me, and if they wanted to have dinner, they'd call me.

00:30:53.000 And whatever I wanted, I got.

00:30:54.000 I mean, that's part of being a successful businessman.

00:30:56.000 You bribed them.

00:30:57.000 That's the system.

00:30:58.000 As a businessman, you bribed them.

00:30:59.000 No, it's not a bribe.

00:30:59.000 It's just the fact that I get... You bribed them.

00:31:01.000 Well, in some cases, some people do that.

00:31:03.000 Bill, in some cases, people actually do bribe.

00:31:06.000 We're good to go.

00:31:23.000 I thought that money was being put to very good use.

00:31:25.000 I assumed it was being put to, whether it's Haiti or all of the different things that I heard about.

00:31:30.000 I didn't know about the private airplane rides all over the place, and if you look at the kind of expenses that they charge and the way they lived, I had no idea that.

00:31:37.000 But I will say that as far as a foundation's concerned, I assumed it was being put to good use, and so did everybody else that gave, and there were a lot of people that gave.

00:31:45.000 They never really did anything for me, but I will say this.

00:31:49.000 I think they probably would have liked me.

00:31:52.000 And, you know, whether you give here or give there, I got along with everybody, Bill.

00:31:56.000 I got along with everybody.

00:31:57.000 All right.

00:31:58.000 Do you want your money back from the Clinton men?

00:31:59.000 By the way, let me just tell you something.

00:32:01.000 If they want to send it back, I'll take it gladly.

00:32:03.000 I would love to have it back.

00:32:04.000 By the way, I wish it was put to good use.

00:32:06.000 You want to know whether it's through that foundation or any of that?

00:32:09.000 Sure.

00:32:09.000 I wish it were put to good use.

00:32:10.000 Good lord.

00:32:12.000 Good lord.

00:32:13.000 I mean, seriously, this guy is going to be the anti-establishment.

00:32:15.000 I work with everybody.

00:32:16.000 I know everybody.

00:32:17.000 They all like me.

00:32:17.000 I can make deals with anybody.

00:32:19.000 He's going to be the guy who stands on conservative principle.

00:32:21.000 Again, folks, you want to vote for Donald Trump?

00:32:22.000 Go ahead and vote for Donald Trump.

00:32:24.000 But do not fool yourself that you're voting for a conservative.

00:32:27.000 Don't lie to yourself.

00:32:28.000 Don't lie to other people that Donald Trump is a conservative.

00:32:30.000 He is not a conservative.

00:32:33.000 Okay, but not by any definition is he a conservative.

00:32:35.000 You wanna say immigration's your number one issue?

00:32:37.000 You think he'll do the job on that?

00:32:38.000 Fine.

00:32:39.000 Don't say he's an across-the-board conservative.

00:32:41.000 Don't say he's gonna rejigger how government is done.

00:32:43.000 Don't say he's gonna throw the establishment out with the wash. 0.98

00:32:46.000 He's not going to do any of those things.

00:32:50.000 Donald Trump is a man of convenience.

00:32:52.000 He will say anything, and he will do anything.

00:32:54.000 And there are people I know who say this is a pro for him.

00:32:56.000 There are people who say, okay, well this is how he's gonna win elections.

00:32:59.000 Okay, let's say he wins.

00:33:01.000 Then what?

00:33:02.000 So what's he gonna do then?

00:33:04.000 Donald Trump will literally say anything.

00:33:05.000 He was asked yesterday about black Oscar nominations. 1.00

00:33:09.000 And there's this new idiotic campaign by some black folks in Hollywood. 1.00

00:33:13.000 Hashtag OscarsSoWhite. 1.00

00:33:15.000 To which I respond, Hashtag NBASoBlack. 0.92

00:33:18.000 Like, there are not enough Jews in the NBA, so hashtag NBASoBlack.

00:33:21.000 It's discrimination, clearly.

00:33:23.000 By the way, worth noting, if you take the Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress categories, and you look at who's actually won over the past 20 years, approximately 10% of all of the winners have been black.

00:33:35.000 Approximately 10% of the population of the United States is black.

00:33:38.000 But Trump was asked about this, and speaking of he'll say anything, just so long as people like him, here is Donald Trump saying what he thinks about the Oscars not being black enough.

00:33:48.000 I think it's really sad, and you know, Al is just a guy who wants to get publicity for himself, and I understand him very well.

00:33:56.000 Al would actually probably say that he was a friend of Donald Trump, okay?

00:34:00.000 Maybe not on television, but outside of television.

00:34:03.000 I think it's a tough situation.

00:34:05.000 I saw somebody on your show today saying, well, what do we do with BET, Black Entertainment, right?

00:34:10.000 So, you know, because over there, the whites don't get any nominations. 0.60

00:34:18.000 And I think that was God cutting off Donald Trump.

00:34:20.000 But Donald Trump, he'll say pretty much anything that he feels like saying.

00:34:25.000 You know, the idea that he... I'm friends with Al Sharpton.

00:34:28.000 I'm friends with Al Sharpton.

00:34:29.000 Can you imagine if Ted Cruz said, I'm friends with Al Sharpton?

00:34:32.000 Can you imagine that? 1.00

00:34:33.000 Al Sharpton is a race-baiting piece of human excrement. 1.00

00:34:36.000 I mean, Al Sharpton is one of the worst people walking in America. 1.00

00:34:40.000 Al Sharpton is a guy who maligned an innocent DA over a false rape charge and has been responsible for the involvement in riots of literally hundreds of black folks. 0.92

00:34:55.000 But he's friends with Al Sharpton, but I guess he's anti-establishment, so there's that.

00:34:58.000 I guess we can all be satisfied that he's anti-establishment.

00:35:00.000 It's just... It's just beyond ridiculous. 0.98

00:35:03.000 Okay!

00:35:03.000 So, time for some things that I like, and time for some things that I hate.

00:35:07.000 Okay, in terms of things that I like, very often I am asked, what are my favorite movies?

00:35:13.000 And I've mentioned Amadeus before, I think I've mentioned A Man for All Seasons before, I believe I hit all the King's Men.

00:35:18.000 But there's one movie that I'm trying to remember the name of, actually, right now, and so I'm gonna look it up.

00:35:25.000 And nobody's ever heard of this movie, including me, because I can't remember what the movie is actually called.

00:35:30.000 If I had internet access, that would absolutely help.

00:35:32.000 It's a movie with Bo Bridges, if that helps you at all.

00:35:35.000 And it's this movie about... They're on a subway... Oh God, this is so embarrassing that I can't remember the name of the movie that I'm about to... It's called The Incident.

00:35:44.000 That's the name of it.

00:35:44.000 It's a movie called The Incident.

00:35:46.000 It's from 1967, and it's got a bunch of very young stars who end up going on to actually have pretty big careers, and Martin Sheen is in it as a very young kind of deadbeat punk.

00:35:59.000 It's got a big cast, actually.

00:36:00.000 Bo Bridges is in it, Ruby Dee was in it, and basically the plot is that there are a couple of thugs on a subway, and it's all taking place inside this one subway car, the Incident.

00:36:09.000 And it's a couple of thugs on a subway who decide that they are going to basically harass and abuse every single person on the subway car.

00:36:18.000 And so the question is, who's going to stand up to these people?

00:36:21.000 And it's a really kind of interesting, and the ending is very telling.

00:36:24.000 I think it's a good movie, it's worth seeing.

00:36:26.000 Again, it is called The Incident, as I just looked up.

00:36:29.000 Alright, so a couple of things that I hate.

00:36:33.000 Okay, let's start with this video that BuzzFeed has cut. 0.99

00:36:35.000 BuzzFeed has become the repository for all stupid video in the universe. 1.00

00:36:39.000 And their latest stupid video... We did one of their videos, I think, yesterday, right? 1.00

00:36:42.000 Or the day before? 1.00

00:36:43.000 We did their video about the difficulties mixed-race people have in America.

00:36:47.000 Difficulties like not being identified as half Danish and half Indian.

00:36:51.000 But now they've cut another video, and this is a video called a priest, an imam, a rabbi and an imam walk into a bar.

00:36:58.000 And...

00:36:59.000 We'll play it and we'll just let it speak for itself.

00:37:03.000 Actually, we can pause it right there.

00:37:09.000 That lady in the middle ain't a rabbi. 1.00

00:37:11.000 I know way more about Judaism than that lady in the middle. 1.00

00:37:15.000 The way that I can tell is because Orthodox Jews?

00:37:17.000 We're not big into the female rabbis. 0.59

00:37:19.000 There are no female rabbis in Orthodox Judaism.

00:37:21.000 And women wearing yarmulkes? 0.94

00:37:23.000 No.

00:37:25.000 And women, you know, in short skirts wearing yarmulkes definitely know.

00:37:30.000 And so she is not a rabbi, okay?

00:37:32.000 She's not a rabbi by any stretch of the orthodox imagination.

00:37:34.000 She can call herself that.

00:37:36.000 This actually happened.

00:37:37.000 Her name is Sarah Ferguson, and she happens to be a wild leftist. 0.94

00:37:41.000 Who doesn't believe anything in the Bible.

00:37:44.000 The guy who is the Catholic priest actually is a wild leftist priest, and the guy who is the imam is a- is- they found some wild leftist imam, and so the basic premise of this video is gonna be how we all worship the same God, yadda yadda yadda yadda, and you'll see.

00:38:04.000 I can say that I'm pro-life in the sense that I affirm every living human on this earth and that I'm prayerfully pro-choice.

00:38:12.000 We respect the reproductive rights of women.

00:38:15.000 In the Islamic tradition, there are times in which abortion is permissible.

00:38:18.000 But generally, we try and affirm life.

00:38:20.000 But there's a separate issue, which is, if you disagree from whatever our religious tradition is, how do you go about expressing that disagreement?

00:38:27.000 When you talk to anybody who has difference, whether it's around abortion, having guns, getting rid of guns, all of these issues, what we lack is an ability to listen to each other.

00:38:37.000 And I think we would all agree that committing an act of violence is a transgression not just of the law, but of our religious values.

00:38:44.000 When you look at that text of Genesis, you see the part where it says they were created in God's image, men and women together.

00:38:53.000 Men and women have been created in equal footing.

00:38:56.000 The Islamic tradition in many ways is a feminist tradition.

00:39:00.000 Oh, he's not joking.

00:39:00.000 So how do we get the rest of Muslims to understand that?

00:39:19.000 Okay, let's pause it right there. 1.00

00:39:23.000 Okay, listening to these three morons babble at one another. 1.00

00:39:27.000 Okay, so first of all, I'm pro-life, but I'm prayerfully pro-choice. 1.00

00:39:32.000 What does that mean? 1.00

00:39:33.000 Okay, that's the stupidest garbage I ever heard in my life. 1.00

00:39:35.000 And then I think my favorite thing thus far in the video is, number one, the imam explaining that Islam is a pro-female equality religion. 1.00

00:39:45.000 To which I say, then why do you dress your ladies like they are lampshades? 1.00

00:39:49.000 Like, seriously, like, if you go over to Afghanistan, there's no difference between, like, I could walk up to one of the umbrellas over a coffee bean when it's sunny out and they've closed it, and that looks as much like a woman as some of the women in Afghanistan, because of radical Islam. 0.96

00:40:05.000 So don't tell me that you respect your women, okay? 1.00

00:40:07.000 Forced clitorectomy is a pretty good indication you're not big on women's rights. 1.00

00:40:10.000 Okay, let's put that out, and then I, but what I love, forget those people.

00:40:13.000 I love the Rebbeson.

00:40:15.000 I love the female rabbi here. 0.86

00:40:18.000 Rabbitin' actually means the wife of a rabbi, but I love the female rabbi, the rabba, here, and the rabba, when she says, so how can you explain to your fellow Muslims that this is the case? 0.81

00:40:28.000 Or to Jews, or to Christians, like she can't even bring herself to say, but you have a real female problem inside Islam, right? 1.00

00:40:34.000 She has to actually, but what do we do about the Buddhists? 0.99

00:40:38.000 What do we do about the Buddhists? 1.00

00:40:40.000 Okay, this is what leftists think religion is.

00:40:42.000 Leftists think religion is a bunch of happy talk where God has no impact on the world and they are God.

00:40:47.000 These three people think that they are closer to what God is than what God of the Bible is. 0.97

00:40:52.000 God of the Bible is just a patriarchal jackass and they are people who are bringing equality and freedom to the world. 0.95

00:40:58.000 You wonder why all of these people are going to be presiding over empty pulpits? 0.98

00:41:02.000 This is why they are going to be presiding over empty pulpits.

00:41:06.000 It's just the perversion of religion by BuzzFeed.

00:41:09.000 BuzzFeed is so leftist they couldn't even go get a real rabbi.

00:41:11.000 They couldn't even get somebody with any sort of authority.

00:41:14.000 And nobody, no Jew, who keeps Sabbath even one day a week, okay? 1.00

00:41:19.000 No Jew who even prays one time a year, let alone three times a day, has any respect for what this lady is saying. 0.72

00:41:28.000 But no, we're gonna pretend that she's a rabbi and she represents Judaism. 0.99

00:41:31.000 Just ridiculous. 0.96

00:41:32.000 It turns out, 0.99

00:41:33.000 That the only religion BuzzFeed likes is the one that's not religion.

00:41:36.000 At all.

00:41:37.000 Okay, couple of other quick things that I hate. 0.99

00:41:40.000 Stephen Colbert does a miserable show that has miserable ratings because he's a miserable little man. 0.77

00:41:46.000 And Stephen Colbert, he can't play the Colbert character that made him famous. 0.85

00:41:50.000 He can't play fake Bill O'Reilly anymore, so he has to pretend to be not Bill O'Reilly.

00:41:54.000 He has to pretend to be himself.

00:41:56.000 And it turns out that he, as a human being, is rather off-putting. 0.99

00:41:59.000 And so nobody wants to watch his crappy show. 0.99

00:42:01.000 And so he's getting clocked. 0.99

00:42:02.000 I mean, he's on CBS and he's just getting 1.00

00:42:05.000 He's getting his ass kicked, and he shouldn't be getting his ass kicked. 1.00

00:42:07.000 He's terrible. 1.00

00:42:07.000 So he had on Zarae McKesson, who is a race baiter extraordinaire, made his bones in the Ferguson riots, and he had on Zarae McKesson, and then proceeded to talk about his white privilege. 1.00

00:42:18.000 And there is nothing more stomach-churning than watching a rich white guy get on his knees to a race baiter to talk about how he... Please forgive me my white privilege.

00:42:27.000 Okay, Stephen Colbert, take it away.

00:42:29.000 If I have white privilege, I want to be able to identify it.

00:42:31.000 Give me some hints as to my white privilege.

00:42:33.000 I mean, you have a lot of privilege.

00:42:34.000 You have a show.

00:42:35.000 You have a lot of money.

00:42:36.000 That's true.

00:42:36.000 Yeah, that's true.

00:42:36.000 A lot of access.

00:42:37.000 Yeah, that's true.

00:42:39.000 That is?

00:42:39.000 No, it's true.

00:42:40.000 It is true.

00:42:40.000 I have a show.

00:42:40.000 I have a lot of money.

00:42:41.000 You do.

00:42:42.000 Yeah, so the fact that I'm sitting here and you're sitting there is part of that white privilege.

00:42:46.000 You know, it's about role, and it's about access.

00:42:48.000 And what you can do is extend that privilege so that you can dismantle it, right?

00:42:51.000 So you can create opportunity for people.

00:42:53.000 You can amplify issues in ways that other people can't.

00:42:56.000 And you can use your resources to create space for people.

00:42:59.000 Let's switch seats.

00:43:00.000 Come on, let's switch seats.

00:43:10.000 So, DeRay.

00:43:10.000 DeRay, is there anything you'd like to ask me about being white?

00:43:14.000 Yeah, you know, I'd love to know what you plan to do now that you understand your whiteness a little better to dismantle it. 1.00

00:43:21.000 What am I going to do to dismantle white privilege?

00:43:24.000 Now that you understand it, what are you going to do with your privilege?

00:43:26.000 I don't know if I do understand it.

00:43:27.000 I can acknowledge it, but I'm not sure if I understand what I can do to dismantle white privilege.

00:43:33.000 Let's practice.

00:43:33.000 Let's dialogue?

00:43:34.000 Yeah, what can you... Let's think about it.

00:43:35.000 Okay.

00:43:35.000 You have a lot of money.

00:43:36.000 You have a show.

00:43:38.000 You can't have my money.

00:43:42.000 And you can't have my show.

00:43:44.000 Why do you think white people are uncomfortable talking about race?

00:43:47.000 I can't speak for other white people. 0.85

00:43:54.000 I feel guilty for anyone who does not have the things I have.

00:43:58.000 And that includes, you know, black people or anyone.

00:44:01.000 Let's pause it right there.

00:44:02.000 Liberalism in a nutshell.

00:44:03.000 I feel guilty for people who don't have what I have.

00:44:06.000 Why?

00:44:06.000 Did you not work to get there?

00:44:07.000 Stephen Colbert doesn't have white privilege, he has leftist privilege.

00:44:10.000 If Stephen Colbert were a right winger in Hollywood, he'd be on the street right now.

00:44:14.000 Because he's untalented. 0.68

00:44:15.000 He's a hack.

00:44:16.000 But there he is sitting there talking about how he feels guilty.

00:44:18.000 But so guilty he won't give up his money.

00:44:20.000 Won't give up his show.

00:44:22.000 Liberalism in a nutshell.

00:44:23.000 Right here on national television.

00:44:24.000 Leftism in a nutshell. 0.99

00:44:25.000 I feel guilty about all the things I've done to you, DeRay McKesson, by having you, an unqualified ass, on my show. 0.97

00:44:32.000 I feel bad about that. 0.98

00:44:33.000 I feel bad for you.

00:44:34.000 But also I won't give you anything.

00:44:36.000 But what we could do is we could use the government to tax things and give them to you.

00:44:40.000 We could do that.

00:44:41.000 Leftism, in a nutshell, the self-righteous, the unearned moral superiority, because you finish the segment, you say, oh, Stephen Colbert really gets it.

00:44:48.000 Right?

00:44:48.000 That's the idea.

00:44:49.000 You're supposed to finish the segment and go, aha, he really understands the plight of the black folk.

00:44:54.000 Stephen Colbert really gets it now.

00:44:55.000 That's a good guy right there.

00:44:57.000 Did he give up anything to make this happen?

00:44:59.000 No. 0.97

00:44:59.000 All he did was he had on DeRay McKesson, again, an unqualified ass, on his show to talk about how DeRay McKesson is having a rough life. 0.97

00:45:06.000 DeRay McKesson is not having a rough life, gang. 0.95

00:45:09.000 Dorae McKesson has contributed this many things, zero, to world culture, to world literature, to world understanding.

00:45:16.000 Dorae McKesson is a net negative in terms of what he has contributed to the American discourse.

00:45:22.000 Here he is on national TV, and we're supposed to feel good because he has patted Stephen Colbert.

00:45:26.000 on his shiny leftist hair, and he has told him to be on his way, because now he's a good little leftist.

00:45:32.000 A final thing that I hate, I promise, because I know we have to go, a final thing, we had to go 10 minutes ago, final thing that I hate, according to CBS Local in Minnesota, quote, a growing number of people in the Twin Cities are finding great comfort in cuddle parties.

00:45:47.000 It's a monthly meetup to better explore communication and boundaries, and yes, to touch.

00:45:53.000 So I'm gonna go with lots of pervs go to the cuddle parties.

00:45:55.000 On a bitterly cold Minneapolis night, bedding sprawled across the floor warms the living room.

00:46:00.000 People sometimes say, why would I want to go and cuddle with a bunch of people I don't even know, Candessa Hadsell said.

00:46:05.000 All the people who ask that are women. 0.98

00:46:07.000 Hadsell is the facilitator for the Minneapolis cuddle party chapter.

00:46:11.000 I'm going with like, this is like Ashley Madison.

00:46:14.000 99% of the people who register for this are men.

00:46:16.000 And then they kind of lie in their own separate corners until the ladies arrive and they're like, oh, cuddle party time!

00:46:22.000 She says, this is not a dating service.

00:46:24.000 It's not a place people come to meet your life partner.

00:46:26.000 There are rules for how you are to behave in a cuddle party.

00:46:29.000 Asking permission to touch is the most important of all.

00:46:32.000 I'd like you to know, for tonight, no is a complete sentence, Hadsel said.

00:46:36.000 She's a registered nurse.

00:46:38.000 She spent her career counseling sexual assault victims and chemical dependency patients, serving as a cuddle party facilitator is an actual thing. 1.00

00:46:45.000 Cuddle party facilitator.

00:46:47.000 We used to call those pimps.

00:46:49.000 Cuddle party facilitator.

00:46:50.000 So when I found out it was really a workshop, people came and learned something, I thought, wow, that's something I want to do.

00:46:57.000 So people are cuddling with strangers, and people are saying that the oxytocin release makes them feel just wonderful.

00:47:05.000 Okay, all you creepers out there, note to you, if you want a date, please don't get together, it's unsanitary, it's unhygienic, don't get together with strangers and cuddle them. 0.97

00:47:17.000 Strangers are gross. 0.98

00:47:19.000 Hey, there's a reason that you're not having sex with them, or you shouldn't be. 1.00

00:47:22.000 I know if you're a liberal you probably are, but if you- but don't have sex with strangers, and don't cuddle with strangers, don't touch strangers! 0.96

00:47:27.000 Don't- you wouldn't let- let's put it this way, if you wouldn't let this person touch a child, then that person shouldn't touch you either.

00:47:33.000 That's just the general good rule of thumb.

00:47:36.000 All these adults acting like children.

00:47:37.000 Like, you could see Cuddle Party when you're like 5.

00:47:40.000 Maybe.

00:47:41.000 Although now it's probably illegal to have kids hug when they're 5 years old.

00:47:44.000 You might be able to see, like, my 2-year-old daughter.

00:47:47.000 You know, she'll hug her cousin. 0.92

00:47:49.000 But, like, by the time you're 35...

00:47:52.000 You really shouldn't be hugging strange people, people who are strange to you.

00:47:56.000 And if the way that you get meaning in your life is by hugging strangers, then I have no words for you except that I'm sure that you're a Bernie Sanders supporter, and I feel very, very sorry for you and whomever your life partner is.

00:48:10.000 And please, please, chlamydia checks are pretty much free at your local clinic.

00:48:15.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:48:15.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

The Ben Shapiro Show - January 20, 2016

Ep. 58 - Sarah Palin's Ridiculous Trump Endorsement Betrays Conservatism

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