The Ben Shapiro Show - Ep. 6 - McCarthy Out, Republicans Ready to Surrender?

Amber Rose held a slut walk in Los Angeles to promote female promiscuity, and it turned out, it was all about rape culture, and women who are promiscuous are the ones who deserve to be raped because they should be allowed to have sex. This is why people like me would like to see rape culture chemically castrated. But social justice warriors of the "pro-choice" movement don't have it. They don't want women to have freedom. They want them to be put in risky situations, and if they're raped, it's not a woman's fault. Which makes no sense. No one thinks that women who dress a certain way are somehow inviting someone to take advantage of their body. Nobody thinks that no one is invited to rape a woman, no one. And that's why people who don't like rape tend to be the ones most against it, because they don't fight against rape culture the way so-called "prostitutes" fight against it. And it turns out, by the way, it is dangerous to act dangerously to show freedom because it is more dangerous to show it than it is to be a woman who has sex with dudes. And therefore a woman should do dangerous things, because it's more dangerous than a man who doesn't have sex at all. And that makes sense, because a woman can have sex with a guy who does dangerous things. And no one should be raped if she doesn't want to have it, right? unless she's a woman to do risky things, which means she should do unsafe sex, which is dangerous and she should . in other words, she's not raped. . . . And therefore, she should be a slut right if she wants to do unsafe things because she's raped by a guy she doesn t want to do safe sex, right ? or she s not raped by a man is a woman so she should have sex not but she s a woman shouldn t be raped, is she s a woman who wants to have a baby that s not a to do , right or when she s having sex? and so on should she be ? And so on and so she can be a slut? is she more dangerous than a woman is ?

00:00:00.000 Folks, shame is dead.

00:00:02.000 And young women, of course, are the collateral damage. 1.00

00:00:04.000 On Sunday, there's this lady named Amber Rose. 0.99

00:00:06.000 Amber Rose, you probably don't know her, but she's famous because she's a former stripper and she schtooked both Wiz Khalifa and Kanye West, two people who you probably shouldn't know but do because that's what we do in our culture. 1.00

00:00:17.000 Well, Amber Rose held what she called a slut walk. 1.00

00:00:20.000 In Los Angeles to promote, presumably, being a slut. 1.00

00:00:23.000 I mean, that's what a slut walk would do. 1.00

00:00:25.000 She wanted to end the stigma associated with female promiscuity. 0.99

00:00:29.000 She's been fighting this stigma for a while.

00:00:30.000 Here is video of her doing just that for Funny or Die. 0.56

00:00:34.000 Good morning!

00:00:35.000 Good morning! 0.99

00:00:36.000 Say, it looks to me like you had sex last night. 0.98

00:00:39.000 I sure did. 0.76

00:00:40.000 Sounds like you're living your best life.

00:00:42.000 Alright.

00:00:47.000 Heavens!

00:00:49.000 It seems as though that woman hasn't been home since last night.

00:00:53.000 I sure haven't.

00:00:54.000 Congratulations.

00:00:56.000 Thank you.

00:00:57.000 Nothing I haven't done before.

00:00:59.000 In my day, I was no stranger to the walk of shame.

00:01:02.000 No shame here.

00:01:03.000 Hey! 0.99

00:01:04.000 You're an inspiration to my daughter.

00:01:08.000 I respect that you enjoyed yourself last night.

00:01:11.000 Well, the stigma against female promiscuity exists because female promiscuity is bad. 1.00

00:01:17.000 Like, objectively bad.

00:01:18.000 It's highly associated with depression, it's highly associated with loneliness, it's highly associated with STDs.

00:01:24.000 By the way, a lot of this also applies to male promiscuity.

00:01:27.000 Female promiscuity also carries with it an extra risk that males don't have, namely the risk of pregnancy.

00:01:32.000 And that risk, of course, means that people have more abortions, it means single motherhood, 0.88

00:01:37.000 Because it turns out that women who participate in promiscuous activity and then are impregnated by these fathers, they typically don't end up married to the dad.

00:01:45.000 Dad takes off. 0.95

00:01:46.000 But promoting this lie that promiscuity and non-promiscuity are all wonderful and healthy for young women, Amber Rose, who's a delightful specimen of humanity, decided that a slut walk had to be held. 1.00

00:01:59.000 So Rose held the Slut Walk in L.A., and it was supposed to draw 1,000 people. 0.99

00:02:03.000 Instead, it drew about 250, and it used Pershing Park to create what they called a completely inclusive space.

00:02:10.000 Super inclusive.

00:02:11.000 According to Rose's Slut Walk website, quote, this event will have a zero-tolerance policy on all hateful language, racism, sexism, ableism, fat shaming, transphobia, or any other kind of bigotry or made-up word that we can think of to fit into the sentence.

00:02:27.000 So apparently, inclusivity only includes people who agree with Amber Rose, which doesn't seem super inclusive, actually.

00:02:34.000 In fact, the event was so non-inclusive that Breitbart News, they have a commentator named Milo Yiannopoulos, he's a merrily gay guy, he's super gay and super proud of it, and he found himself ejected by police because he started asking the attendees really controversial questions like, do you actually think a rape culture exists?

00:02:51.000 At which point, these inclusive folks called the cops and ejected the openly gay guy. 0.90

00:02:56.000 Now, the slut walk didn't openly make the case for promiscuity, because that would be totally idiotic, because to make the case for promiscuity over chastity or monogamy is nonsensical, but it set up a straw man, and this is a straw man that has become really predominant on the left. 0.98

00:03:11.000 These slut walk advocates say they were fighting against a culture that says that women who are promiscuous are responsible for others raping them, right? 0.98

00:03:18.000 It's victim shaming. 0.99

00:03:19.000 If you say the promiscuity is bad, 0.99

00:03:21.000 What you're really saying is it's okay if men rape promiscuous women. 0.99

00:03:25.000 According to BuzzFeed, that halcyon of morality and wonder, the slut walk fought the notion that quote, women who dress a certain way are somehow inviting someone to take advantage of their body. 0.99

00:03:36.000 No one thinks this. 0.91

00:03:37.000 No one is invited to rape a woman. 0.55

00:03:39.000 Nobody. 1.00

00:03:40.000 The fact that we have to say this just demonstrates how stupid the argument is in the first place. 1.00

00:03:45.000 In fact, the people who are most against rape tend to be the same conservatives who don't like promiscuity. 1.00

00:03:49.000 This is why people like me would like to see rapists chemically castrated.

00:03:54.000 But to fight against so-called rape culture, the social justice warriors of SlutWalk, they say that women should actively put themselves in risky situations. 1.00

00:04:01.000 So in other words, it's not a woman's fault if she's raped, therefore a woman should do unbelievably stupid things. 1.00

00:04:06.000 Which makes no sense. 1.00

00:04:08.000 Slut Walk promotes the idea that a young woman should act dangerously to show freedom. 0.99

00:04:13.000 Because it turns out, by the way, that it is more dangerous to have sex with dudes you don't know well. 0.97

00:04:17.000 Which typically underlies promiscuity. 0.76

00:04:19.000 So feminists actually want it both ways here. 1.00

00:04:21.000 They want to argue on the one hand that all men, all of them, are primitive pigs. 1.00

00:04:25.000 They're disgusting, they're primitive, they're awful. 1.00

00:04:27.000 They also want to argue that gender is a social construct, which makes no sense if all men are primitive pigs and all women aren't. 1.00

00:04:33.000 And they also want to assume a reality in which no men are primitive pigs. 0.99

00:04:37.000 In other words, if women do risky things with men, then all men will be gentlemen about it, which of course is stupid, because they're living in a world 0.98

00:04:44.000 Where normative and descriptive are the same thing. 0.99

00:04:47.000 They're trying to say that men should not rape women, therefore men don't rape women.

00:04:51.000 That's, again, nonsensical.

00:04:52.000 Slut Walk suggests that society faces a choice. 0.97

00:04:55.000 Either we say that all activity is equally safe or we're victim-blaming. 0.99

00:04:58.000 So if a woman walks down the street in her bra and panties in an unsafe neighborhood at night, and then she gets raped, then we can't say she acted stupidly. 0.98

00:05:06.000 That would be victim-blaming. 1.00

00:05:07.000 Which is ridiculous nonsense.

00:05:08.000 If I walk through a high crime area at night and I'm waving my wallet in the air, the criminal who punches me and grabs the wallet, he's 100% responsible for his crime, just like the rapist would be 100% responsible for the rape. 0.94

00:05:19.000 Not 99%, 100%. 0.99

00:05:21.000 But that doesn't mean I'm not a moron. 0.96

00:05:23.000 If I walk around a bad area with my wallet out waving it all about, presumably, my risk goes up. 0.96

00:05:29.000 There are certain behavior that is just riskier.

00:05:31.000 The criminal is 100% guilty still and will go to jail for being 100% guilty. 1.00

00:05:35.000 But I am also 100% stupid. 0.99

00:05:37.000 These two truths can exist simultaneously. 1.00

00:05:40.000 SlutWalk promotes women walking into dark alleys with strange men. 0.95

00:05:43.000 This is what they do. 1.00

00:05:45.000 There's one sign at the rally that said, my pussy, my choice. 1.00

00:05:48.000 Which is certainly true. 1.00

00:05:49.000 So is my wallet, my choice.

00:05:51.000 But your risk of being harmed, it does change a little bit based on where you choose to display either one of these things.

00:05:57.000 Promiscuity?

00:05:59.000 Obviously an exercise in freedom.

00:06:00.000 Nobody's arguing promiscuity should be illegal.

00:06:03.000 It isn't freedom-wisely exercised, however.

00:06:05.000 Social stigmas against promiscuity?

00:06:07.000 They have a well-founded purpose.

00:06:08.000 They protect women.

00:06:09.000 I don't want my daughter to be promiscuous because I want her to be safe.

00:06:13.000 But Slut Walk isn't about protecting women. 1.00

00:06:15.000 It's about making promiscuous women feel better about themselves, people like Amber Rose, by lying to other young women about the risks and the damage that promiscuity carries. 0.83

00:06:24.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:06:24.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:06:35.000 So today the big surprise in politics is that Kevin McCarthy, the Republican House Majority Leader from California, he dropped out of the race for Speaker of the House.

00:06:44.000 And this isn't really that big a surprise.

00:06:46.000 Everybody was acting super surprised about it because in politics it's rare that somebody reads the writing on the wall.

00:06:51.000 McCarthy did.

00:06:52.000 He wasn't going to be Speaker.

00:06:53.000 And so McCarthy decided that he was going to drop out instead, which leaves a couple of other candidates.

00:06:57.000 Daniel Webster from Florida.

00:06:59.000 It leaves Jason Chaffetz from Utah.

00:07:01.000 There are probably some other folks who are out there.

00:07:02.000 We'll get to that in just a second.

00:07:04.000 McCarthy dropped out because he had made this comment about Benghazi in part, and it had undercut whatever base he had.

00:07:10.000 It made him look incompetent. 1.00

00:07:11.000 It made him look foolish. 0.99

00:07:13.000 He also dropped out 0.98

00:07:14.000 Because it turns out that being Speaker of the House, it ain't a real glamorous job.

00:07:18.000 When you're trying to hold everything together, folks, it gets kind of rough.

00:07:20.000 Here's the statement that Kevin McCarthy released on his decision not to run for Speaker of the House.

00:07:26.000 He said,

00:07:36.000 Over the last week, it has become clear to me that our conference is deeply divided and needs to unite behind one leader.

00:07:41.000 I've always put this conference ahead of myself.

00:07:43.000 Therefore, I'm withdrawing my candidacy for Speaker of the House.

00:07:47.000 Well, it's obvious that the conference is deeply divided.

00:07:49.000 The problem is there's no consensus candidate.

00:07:52.000 And in the absence of a consensus candidate,

00:07:54.000 Speaker John Boehner canceled the vote, which means he gets to be Speaker for a little bit longer.

00:07:58.000 Here's his announcement today.

00:07:59.000 He said, After Leader McCarthy's announcement, members of the House Republican Conference will not vote today for a new Speaker.

00:08:06.000 As I have said previously, I will serve as Speaker until the House votes to elect a new Speaker, which at this point could be years.

00:08:12.000 I mean, I really am thinking, D's nuts for Speaker of the House.

00:08:16.000 I mean, he's already polling 15% in some of the national polls for President.

00:08:20.000 D's nuts for Speaker of the House.

00:08:22.000 Some people have suggested

00:08:23.000 Newt Gingrich for Speaker of the House.

00:08:26.000 There's kind of all these out-of-the-box suggestions going on for Speaker of the House.

00:08:29.000 As everyone by now knows, you don't actually have to be a member of the House in order to be Speaker of the House.

00:08:35.000 Speaker Boehner says we will announce the date for this election at a later date.

00:08:39.000 And I'm confident we will elect a new speaker in the coming weeks.

00:08:43.000 Our conference will work together to ensure we have the strongest team possible as we continue to focus on the American people's priorities.

00:08:49.000 Well, the last thing you want Boehner's focus on is the American people's priorities.

00:08:54.000 I'd rather have him continue to focus on his

00:08:57.000 Drinking problem than focus on the American people's priorities.

00:09:00.000 Every time he focuses on the American people's priorities, they always end up oddly sharing a commonality with President Obama's priorities.

00:09:07.000 But here is the real problem.

00:09:08.000 So today, today there are rumors going around that Republicans were going to work with Democrats to elect the next House Speaker.

00:09:14.000 Charlie Dent, who's a representative from Florida, he actually came out and he told the press he thinks that they might have to get a bunch of Democrats to vote for the Republican House Speaker.

00:09:23.000 Which, of course, is exactly what John Boehner has done with these continuing resolutions.

00:09:27.000 It's what he did with sequestration.

00:09:28.000 It's what he did with funding Obamacare and funding executive amnesty and Planned Parenthood.

00:09:33.000 Speaker Boehner does this routine where, when he can't get enough Republicans on his side, what he then does is he goes and he gets Democrats to vote with him.

00:09:41.000 And so now, they want to do the same thing with regard to the Speaker of the House himself or herself.

00:09:47.000 Well, this demonstrates in pretty cold, clear light that when it comes to the GOP establishment, they are significantly more interested in maintaining power for themselves than they are in allowing the conservative base to take hold.

00:10:00.000 And more importantly, they hate the conservative base more than they hate Democrats.

00:10:03.000 They would rather have 150 Democrat votes for a House Republican than they would have 218 Republican votes for a Republican to lead the House.

00:10:12.000 And this, of course, has been Ted Cruz's whole argument in the presidential race.

00:10:15.000 It's the reason why people are resonating to Donald Trump and Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina.

00:10:19.000 There's a feeling that the establishment Republican Party just does not like the conservative base, that there's an inherent unease and distrust of the conservative base.

00:10:28.000 And this goes all the way back to 2008, with John McCain, who had nothing but scorn for the conservative base, or 2012, when Mitt Romney describes himself as a severe conservative.

00:10:38.000 You know, conservatives look at comments like that and they say, this guy isn't a conservative at all.

00:10:42.000 I mean, seriously, if you're a conservative, you have never in your life described conservatism as severe.

00:10:47.000 It's just nothing that you've ever said.

00:10:49.000 But there are all these kind of non-gut Republicans who consider themselves mildly conservative, and then they have to stretch in order to appeal to conservatives.

00:10:57.000 The establishment uses the same strategy with regard to the presidential races they use with regard to Speaker.

00:11:02.000 They would rather keep power with the establishment, even if it means you're alienating the conservative base.

00:11:07.000 Because they believe, wrongly, that the conservatives will eventually say, OK, we'll go along with you because what other choice do we have?

00:11:14.000 We're going to vote for Nancy Pelosi for Speaker of the House?

00:11:17.000 We'll have to vote with you because we have no other alternatives.

00:11:21.000 The problem is, sooner or later, there will be another alternative.

00:11:25.000 Sooner or later, there will be a third party if this sort of thing keeps up.

00:11:28.000 Because you can't expect people to sit down and swallow the purpose of their convictions simply because you want to maintain political power.

00:11:37.000 So it'll be interesting to see whose name pops up here.

00:11:40.000 Paul Ryan was suggested by Kevin McCarthy.

00:11:42.000 Paul Ryan's another establishment guy who voted for TARP.

00:11:45.000 He's already said he's not going to run.

00:11:48.000 There's been a little bit of talk about Daryl Issa, who would probably be more acceptable to some members of the base.

00:11:53.000 But here's the thing.

00:11:53.000 If it takes Democratic votes to elect a Republican speaker, you can kiss the future of the Republican Party goodbye.

00:12:00.000 Because the split is just too big.

00:12:02.000 There's no way to rectify that split.

00:12:04.000 So obviously, we'll keep an eye on that.

00:12:06.000 Now, meanwhile,

00:12:07.000 There's a pretty big controversy that's broken out over Rupert Murdoch, because Rupert Murdoch has been for a very long time a fan of Dr. Ben Carson.

00:12:15.000 We spoke about Ben Carson and his rising candidacy yesterday.

00:12:19.000 Well, Ben Carson has been making more comments on various topics, which we'll get to in just a minute, but Rupert Murdoch tweeted something out that

00:12:27.000 With that phrase, real black president, that ticked people off, people on the left suggested that this was terrible, that this was racist, to suggest that Barack Obama, by implication, is not a real black president.

00:12:48.000 Van Jones was on CNN with Don Lemon and the rest of the crew on that.

00:12:53.000 Van, what's your take on this?

00:12:55.000 Is he saying President Barack Obama is not a real black president?

00:13:07.000 Well, first of all, it's just completely outrageous and disgusting that somebody who's in charge of Fox News, which has done more to undermine President Obama than any news outlet in human history against any president, would break breath to open his mouth to say anything about what this president has done or not done for anybody. 0.97

00:13:28.000 It's just completely disgusting.

00:13:30.000 And then also, to present the challenges of the blackness of the president, that is something we are now seeing the Donald Trump effect affect the entire media landscape. 0.99

00:13:40.000 This is the kind of juvenile crap that if somebody said about a kid in junior high school, you'd say it's not appropriate. 0.96

00:13:47.000 How can you have someone like Rupert Murdoch, with all of his wealth and power, stoop so low to challenge someone's ethnicity? 1.00

00:13:54.000 It's ridiculous.

00:13:57.000 Okay, Van Jones can say all he wants about this sort of thing, but okay, let's start with his first point, the idea that Fox News has undermined Obama more than any network has ever undermined a president. 0.67

00:14:07.000 I seem to remember—I'm old enough to remember when Obama was not the president.

00:14:10.000 I know it feels like forever since the dictator assumed his status and since we started carving statues out of the stone for him, but the fact is that I remember when George W. Bush was president, and I seem to remember a network like that one

00:14:23.000 Right there.

00:14:24.000 They used to undermine President Bush on a pretty regular basis.

00:14:27.000 And as far as this nonsense where he says that it's tremendous racism, it's the Donald Trump effect, it's just awful, whenever you hear these statements from people like Van Jones, whenever you have Rupert Murdoch saying that Barack Obama is not a real black person, what does the left have to say about Clarence Thomas?

00:14:43.000 What does the left have to say about Clarence Thomas?

00:14:45.000 The left has been saying that Clarence Thomas isn't a real black person for virtually as long as I've been alive.

00:14:51.000 And Van Jones has done things like this, by the way.

00:14:54.000 Major journalists in 2007—major journalists in 2007—repeatedly asked Barack Obama if he was a real black person.

00:15:02.000 This idea that Rupert Murdoch said something so wildly out of bounds.

00:15:06.000 The fact is that if that's out of bounds,

00:15:09.000 Then, so are comments by Steve Kroft in 2007.

00:15:12.000 He asked Obama why he even considered himself black, considering he grew up in a white home.

00:15:17.000 The LA Times infamously wrote a piece back in 2007 in which they asked if Obama was really black.

00:15:22.000 Stanley Crouch of the New York Daily News wrote this back in 2007.

00:15:25.000 He said, Other than color, Obama did not and does not share a heritage with the majority of black Americans who are descendants of plantation slaves.

00:15:33.000 So when black Americans refer to Obama as one of us, I do not know what they are talking about. 0.99

00:15:37.000 Columbia Journalism Review in 2007 wrote, And it's amazing.

00:15:46.000 Half the people who are criticizing Murdoch about this tweet have done exactly the same thing.

00:15:50.000 Joan Walsh, who's a professional useless person over at Salon.com. 1.00

00:15:54.000 Like, that's what she gets paid to do, is to be useless. 1.00

00:15:57.000 Joan Walsh recently labeled a guy named Andrew Duncombe, who's a black activist who 0.99

00:16:02.000 We're good to go.

00:16:21.000 Just because race is... The left will consider everything a social construct.

00:16:25.000 Gender is a social construct.

00:16:27.000 Sex is a social construct.

00:16:28.000 It doesn't matter that you have this part and she has this part.

00:16:31.000 That's a social construct.

00:16:32.000 But race is completely, completely a non-social construct.

00:16:36.000 Only one problem.

00:16:36.000 Race actually is a social construct in the sense that there is no one gene that determines what race you are.

00:16:42.000 And the level of melanin in your skin obviously doesn't even determine what race you are because there are people who are black in that they have black people in their bloodline, in their heritage, who appear to be more white than half the white people that I know.

00:16:56.000 I mean, Beyonce in certain lights looks more white than half of my white friends. 0.77

00:17:00.000 That doesn't make her not black.

00:17:02.000 But it is sort of an arbitrary and shifting boundary, which is why whenever people say, is this person black enough? 1.00

00:17:07.000 It's such a stupid question. 0.99

00:17:08.000 And it really is just a proxy for, and the left uses it as a proxy for, is this person leftist enough? 1.00

00:17:14.000 That's really what they mean by all of this.

00:17:15.000 And for the record...

00:17:17.000 If we're going to use the left's standard of what a true black person is, you know, inner-city experience, grew up in a single-parent family, Ben Carson is more black than Obama, right?

00:17:26.000 Ben Carson had two black parents, not one.

00:17:28.000 Ben Carson grew up in inner-city Detroit.

00:17:30.000 Ben Carson's ancestors actually were slaves, unlike Obama's, who, at least on his mother's side, his ancestors actually held slaves.

00:17:37.000 So, I mean, if we're going to get into this competition and use the left's language, then Rupert Murdoch is actually kind of right.

00:17:43.000 It's a silly tweet by Rupert Murdoch, but the fact that everybody goes nuts over Rupert Murdoch saying the same thing the left was saying about Barack Obama just a few years ago—and by the way, they've said it now, too.

00:17:52.000 After Obama started getting super-duper aggressive in his latest iteration, after his re-election, after he did that, there were people who were saying, well, now Obama's really acting like the black president we thought he was going to be. 0.88

00:18:05.000 You don't get to do that and then rip on Rupert Murdoch.

00:18:07.000 Now, speaking of Ben Carson, who is being defended by Rupert Murdoch here, Ben Carson continues to confound a lot of people because he's not going down in the polls, even though he isn't always the best spokesperson for particular causes, but it does demonstrate that you don't have to be great at campaigning.

00:18:26.000 You don't even have to be a great rhetorician in order to fight back against the media.

00:18:31.000 That is utterly incompetent.

00:18:32.000 So Ben Carson appeared on The View the other day.

00:18:35.000 And if you want to see a collection of the lowest IQ people on the planet, all you have to do is watch The View.

00:18:42.000 And if you watch The View, the brainpower in that room could maybe toast a piece of bread lightly.

00:18:48.000 Maybe.

00:18:49.000 And we're talking about the combined IQ of a kumquat. 1.00

00:18:53.000 And I only use a kumquat rather than a rock because they have functioning bodily functions.

00:18:57.000 Here is Ben Carson on The View talking about abortion and it goes poorly for the gals of The View.

00:19:05.000 I spent my entire career trying to preserve life and give people quality of life.

00:19:09.000 Even operating on babies in the womb.

00:19:12.000 Operating all night long sometimes on premature babies.

00:19:15.000 And I get to meet those people, you know, when they're adults.

00:19:19.000 And productive adults.

00:19:21.000 There is no way you can convince me that they're not important.

00:19:25.000 That they're just a mass of cells so that you can do anything to them?

00:19:27.000 Dr. Mann, I just, I want to say, I want to ask you this.

00:19:30.000 Have you met with the women who have to make these horrendous decisions when they have to make them of whether or not they can bring a child into the world? 0.89

00:19:38.000 Okay, can we pause it there for one second? 1.00

00:19:40.000 This is the stupidest question, okay? 0.99

00:19:42.000 Whoopi Goldberg has been on this show since before Adam was in the garden. 1.00

00:19:46.000 She is asking here about women making horrendous decisions. 0.83

00:19:51.000 Okay, the question itself

00:19:53.000 Acknowledges that this is a human life.

00:19:55.000 Otherwise, not a horrendous decision.

00:19:57.000 Last time I had a polyp removed, it was not a horrendous decision.

00:19:59.000 It was actually kind of easy.

00:20:00.000 I didn't want the polyp, I had it removed.

00:20:02.000 Last time I had a skin tag removed at the dermatologist.

00:20:05.000 I really didn't have to think about it too much.

00:20:06.000 I didn't sit around in the middle of the night and think about, oh my god, the skin tag.

00:20:11.000 There's so many moral implications to the skin tag. 0.53

00:20:14.000 Nobody has ever thought this.

00:20:16.000 But here she is—oh, it's a horrendous decision. 0.60

00:20:18.000 Okay, so you're acknowledging that it's a human being, and so the horrendous decision is to kill it, which means it's not a decision at all. 0.60

00:20:24.000 It means that it's murder. 1.00

00:20:25.000 But Whoopi Goldberg is too stupid to realize even the implications of her question. 1.00

00:20:29.000 This is sort of the problem for the left on abortion. 1.00

00:20:31.000 They want to take the moral question seriously without acknowledging that a moral question even exists.

00:20:35.000 You can't pretend

00:20:36.000 That it should be safe, legal, and rare.

00:20:38.000 If you're saying it should be safe and legal, then why should it be rare?

00:20:41.000 I mean, what's the point of that?

00:20:42.000 Is there some great societal harm that we've yet to face in killing off polyps?

00:20:47.000 I haven't seen it.

00:20:48.000 But Whoopi Goldberg continues, and each second, I know folks that this is actually me performing torture on you, but each second that you watch Whoopi Goldberg, your IQ drops by 0.3%.

00:20:59.000 ...bringing children into the world all the time.

00:21:01.000 But periodically, some women feel, I just can't.

00:21:06.000 And are you empathetic to them?

00:21:08.000 Because we just had a... I'm very empathetic.

00:21:10.000 Oh, good.

00:21:10.000 Go ahead, sorry.

00:21:11.000 I'm very empathetic.

00:21:12.000 And what I have said is that this is a job for us in the private sector.

00:21:17.000 What we need to do is make sure that we provide adequate daycare centers for these mothers so that they can get their GED, their associate's degree, their bachelor's degree, their master's degree. 0.83

00:21:28.000 But wait, wait, you're assuming that these are mothers who aren't educated. 1.00

00:21:31.000 I mean, I'm talking about women who make that... I'm talking about most of them. 1.00

00:21:35.000 I don't know that you can... Let me tell you a fact.

00:21:38.000 Stop it there.

00:21:39.000 Let me tell you a fact.

00:21:39.000 Tell Jerry Springer and you got Whoopi Goldberg over here.

00:21:42.000 No, shut it down! 1.00

00:21:43.000 Okay, Whoopi, calm down.

00:21:45.000 Okay, the idea that most women who have abortions... Look at Raven-Symoné there. 0.99

00:21:49.000 I mean, the eyes, she's bugging out of the head. 1.00

00:21:51.000 And what a gourd that is.

00:21:52.000 Here is Ben Carson, you know, talking to... It's just...

00:21:58.000 Talk about a difference in intellectual level here.

00:22:02.000 The idea that most women who have abortions are not impoverished.

00:22:07.000 Okay, is nonsense.

00:22:08.000 Most women who have abortions are impoverished, statistically speaking.

00:22:12.000 Most women who have abortions are people who do not have adequate resources. 0.99

00:22:16.000 And if it's not the case, if that's not the case, then it completely undermined Whoopi Goldberg's argument, because what's the counter-argument now?

00:22:21.000 That any time you feel like having an abortion, you can just have an abortion for any reason?

00:22:25.000 Then it's not a horrific decision, is it?

00:22:27.000 It's just, it's so insulting, it's so insulting.

00:22:29.000 But Ben Carson, I mean, he has... I have, when I'm in places with members of the left media,

00:22:36.000 I have tremendous patience with them.

00:22:38.000 Ben Carson has even more patience than I would have at this point, because for him to sit through this, and this face, and this lady, and Joy Behar, who is actually in the dictionary under obnoxious.

00:22:50.000 There's a picture of Joy Behar.

00:22:51.000 For him to sit through this is kind of incredible.

00:22:54.000 We'll finish the clip just because I can't resist torturing you folks.

00:22:57.000 I'm sorry.

00:22:57.000 You're here.

00:22:58.000 Deal with it.

00:22:59.000 The fact is, a lot of those young girls who are having babies out of wedlock, when they have that first baby, they stop their education.

00:23:08.000 And that child is four times as likely to grow up in poverty.

00:23:11.000 We as a society have an obligation to do what's necessary to stop that cycle from occurring.

00:23:17.000 So how important is birth control then to the Republican Party?

00:23:20.000 How important is birth control then to the Republican Party?

00:23:23.000 How important is not killing babies to the Republican Party?

00:23:26.000 I love it that for all of these women on The View, the only main public policy issues here are we have to give you free condoms, or we have to give you free daycare. 1.00

00:23:35.000 But at no point in here are you capable of making a decision.

00:23:38.000 So you're fully capable of making a decision to kill a human being, but you're not capable of making a decision not to put that there.

00:23:44.000 And you're also not fully capable of making a decision to actually make sure that you have enough people in your life to help take care of a baby. 0.79

00:23:50.000 But you're capable of killing people, so that's good to know, according to the left.

00:23:54.000 But this, of course, is why Ben Carson is gaining in popularity.

00:23:57.000 Ben Carson has also gotten himself in hot water lately because of what he had to say about shooters at Umpqua Community College.

00:24:05.000 Here's what Ben Carson had to say when he was asked about the shooting at Umpqua Community College, that mass shooting, last week.

00:24:14.000 What did you mean when you said, I would not just stand there?

00:24:18.000 I want to plant in people's minds what to do in a situation like this because unfortunately this is probably not going to be the last time this happens.

00:24:27.000 Do you believe the victims in Oregon just stood there?

00:24:32.000 Uh, from the indications that I got, they did not rush the shooter.

00:24:37.000 The shooter can only shoot one person at a time.

00:24:40.000 He cannot shoot a whole group of people.

00:24:43.000 And, uh, so the ideal is overwhelm him so that not everybody gets killed.

00:24:49.000 Do you know who Chris Mintz is?

00:24:50.000 No.

00:24:51.000 So Chris Mintz is an army veteran and he was shot seven times.

00:24:55.000 He did actually rush the shooter and he's being hailed as a hero.

00:24:58.000 He actually blocked the door.

00:24:59.000 He saved people's lives.

00:25:00.000 So someone in the instance did actually act heroically.

00:25:04.000 That verifies what I'm saying.

00:25:05.000 That's exactly what should be done.

00:25:07.000 And if everybody does that, the likelihood of him being able to kill as many people diminishes quite significantly.

00:25:14.000 Okay, what exactly that Ben Carson is saying there is wrong?

00:25:17.000 The answer is not much, but the fact is Ben Carson must be taken out of the race, and he must be taken out of the race at the first available opportunity.

00:25:24.000 And he has to be taken out because he's a threat.

00:25:26.000 He's a threat not only to a lot of establishment Republicans, he's a threat to the media narrative, which is that Republicans are racist and terrible, and every moment that Ben Carson continues to gain in the polls, Republicans get to

00:25:37.000 Trot him out there and say, OK, you know, if we're so racist, then why is it that we like this guy so much?

00:25:42.000 It is also, I think, important to point out that for all the people who say the Republicans are just interested in the bluster and the bravado and all of this, it's hard to find a more soft-spoken man than Dr. Carson.

00:25:52.000 I mean, really.

00:25:53.000 Like, as in, I can't even hear him half the time.

00:25:55.000 It's very difficult to find someone who's more soft-spoken than Dr. Carson.

00:25:59.000 And then on the other side, you have Donald Trump, who's the loudest possible human being.

00:26:03.000 I mean, it almost makes you bipolar, but the Republican Party is just looking for not politically correct and speaking the truth.

00:26:09.000 And that's why I hope, I hope, I don't think it'll happen, but I hope that the Republican Party in the House selects somebody as Speaker who's willing to speak the truth.

00:26:18.000 Because the truth is that people in the House tend to think of the Speaker as someone who is procedurally smart, who knows all the maneuvers and gambits.

00:26:25.000 They can push forward a political agenda.

00:26:27.000 What the Republican Party really needs at this point is articulate spokespeople, people who are willing to stand up and fight.

00:26:33.000 That was Boehner's big problem.

00:26:34.000 Boehner knew all the procedures, and Boehner ain't Phi Beta Kappa.

00:26:37.000 It doesn't take somebody who's a genius to know all the procedures.

00:26:39.000 It does take somebody who's able to draw a moral contrast, and Carson is able to do that, and that's what's so frustrating.

00:26:45.000 It's why they have to keep—in both those clips, by the way, you see

00:26:48.000 There's an active attempt by members of the media to paint Ben Carson as non-empathetic.

00:26:54.000 And they have to do that, because it's the only argument they have.

00:26:56.000 The problem they have with Carson, of course, is that Carson, of all the candidates, Carson comes off as the most empathetic.

00:27:02.000 So if you can come across as empathetic and then also be politically incorrect, that's a killer combination.

00:27:07.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:27:08.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

The Ben Shapiro Show - October 08, 2015

Ep. 6 - McCarthy Out, Republicans Ready to Surrender?

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