The Ben Shapiro Show - Ep. 61 - Hillary and Bernie Are Legitimately Horrible Candidates

00:00:01.000 So, here we are.

00:00:02.000 It is a Tuesday.

00:00:03.000 Just two days until the next vaunted Republican debate, which I will have to cover because that's the sort of sacrifice I make for you.

00:00:10.000 But today, we'll talk about Planned Parenthood, we'll talk about the Democratic Town Hall, and we'll talk about a brand new movie that is now being bid on at Sundance.

00:00:18.000 We'll talk about what that means for America.

00:00:20.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:00:21.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:00:29.000 So, here in TD2 we are, and let's start with what happened at the Democratic Town Hall last night.

00:00:35.000 So, first of all, important to mention, quick note about the Democratic Town Hall.

00:00:39.000 The Town Hall was Democratic because of the moderators, not just because of the participants.

00:00:43.000 The moderator was Chris Cuomo.

00:00:45.000 Chris Cuomo is the brother of Andrew Cuomo, who is the governor of New York, and the son of Mario Cuomo, the former governor of New York.

00:00:51.000 Chris Cuomo is a full... 1.00

00:00:53.000 scale complete idiot. 1.00

00:00:54.000 I mean, he's a low IQ dude who's very much to the left. 1.00

00:00:58.000 He routinely tweets stupid things, and I have to bash him over the head about the stupid things that he tweets. 1.00

00:01:02.000 So he was moderating this obscenity. 1.00

00:01:05.000 And this is just how it works in the media, right?

00:01:07.000 You got George Stephanopoulos, who once had a basically like a love affair with Hillary Clinton, and he's now the head of ABC News.

00:01:13.000 The head of CBS News, a guy named David Rhodes.

00:01:15.000 David Rhodes is the brother to Ben Rhodes, who's the National Security Advisor to the President of the United States, President Obama.

00:01:21.000 And then, of course, you have on CNN, Chris Cuomo, who is the brother of the current Governor of New York.

00:01:26.000 So, the media and Washington, D.C.

00:01:28.000 The media and the Democratic Party, it's this incestuous duo, and it really is kind of gross.

00:01:32.000 So, what I want to talk about, as far as the Democrat debate last night, is what you keep hearing from the media is, if you just watch these Democrats,

00:01:41.000 This Bernie Sanders, this Hillary Clinton, if you just watch them closely, what you'll notice is that they're so upbeat.

00:01:48.000 They're upbeat.

00:01:48.000 You look at the Republicans and they're so downbeat.

00:01:50.000 They're always talking down the country.

00:01:52.000 They're always talking about how their enemies are bad.

00:01:54.000 They're always ripping on people on the other side.

00:01:57.000 They don't bring people together.

00:01:58.000 But Bernie Sanders and Hillary, they're running such optimistic, wonderful campaigns, positive campaigns.

00:02:04.000 And then you watch these town halls, and what you realize is that that is not true in the slightest.

00:02:10.000 What you realize is that when Democrats, when Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton in particular, have to talk about what is supposed to be appealing about them personally, there's nothing there.

00:02:20.000 It's only when they're attacking Republicans that they gain any sort of credence and credibility.

00:02:24.000 They have to be on the attack in order for them to be successful.

00:02:28.000 And the point here is that that is not that Republicans shouldn't be on the attack on the other side.

00:02:31.000 It's that Republicans need to understand this is how the game is played.

00:02:34.000 Politics is a game of opposition.

00:02:36.000 Democrats understand this.

00:02:37.000 Republicans don't.

00:02:38.000 Democrats also have the media on their side.

00:02:40.000 So when Democrats play the politics of opposition, the media pretend they're not doing it.

00:02:44.000 When Republicans play the politics of opposition, all they hear is how divisive they are.

00:02:50.000 We'll jump right in.

00:02:51.000 Hillary Clinton last night, I mean, you want to look at some unattractive candidates. 1.00

00:02:53.000 Here's Hillary Clinton last night being asked about having a private email server and hiding emails and deleting emails and using her private email server to funnel classified information. 0.95

00:03:04.000 Here is Hillary Clinton answering that question.

00:03:06.000 Well, I think that there, you know, look, I was delighted to get the the register's endorsement and it was a very generous one and yes, I think that's a fair criticism.

00:03:17.000 You know, I

00:03:20.000 I had no intention of doing anything other than having a convenient way of communicating, and it turned out not to be so convenient.

00:03:27.000 So, again, we've answered every question and we will continue to do so.

00:03:33.000 But, you know, maybe being faster, trying to scramble around to find out what all of this means, I probably should have done that quicker.

00:03:40.000 You're willing to say it was an error in judgment?

00:03:41.000 You should have apologized?

00:03:42.000 No, I'm not willing to say it was an error in judgment because nothing that I did was wrong.

00:03:47.000 It was not

00:03:48.000 It was not in any way prohibited, and so... Not apologizing sooner, I mean.

00:03:52.000 Well, apologizing sooner, as soon as you can.

00:03:54.000 But part of the problem, and I would just say this as, not an excuse, but just as an explanation, when you're facing something like that, you've got to get the facts, and it takes time to get the facts.

00:04:04.000 And so when I said, hey, take all my emails, make them public, that had never been done before, ever, by anybody.

00:04:12.000 And so we've been sorting our way through this because it is kind of a unique situation.

00:04:17.000 I'm happy people are looking at the email.

00:04:19.000 Some of them are, you know, frankly a little embarrassing.

00:04:25.000 You can find out that sometimes I'm not the best on technology and things like that, but look, I think it's great.

00:04:30.000 Let people sort them through, and as we have seen, there is a lot of, you know, a lot of interest, but it's something that took time to get done.

00:04:39.000 Okay, Hillary Clinton, her programming needs an upgrade, because this is not good answer, okay? 1.00

00:04:44.000 None of that was a good answer.

00:04:46.000 First of all, she starts off stuttering and stumbling for a solid about 20 seconds there, and then she goes into distraction mode.

00:04:51.000 And Hillary Clinton doing distraction mode, when you watch her body language, 1.00

00:04:55.000 Hillary Clinton's distraction mode is these very calculated and off-putting large hand motions. 1.00

00:05:00.000 She suddenly looks like Bernie Sanders.

00:05:02.000 All of a sudden she's talking about... And what I'm trying to tell you people is that it's really important that you look at all the facts.

00:05:09.000 All the facts!

00:05:10.000 And it's like, okay, you're gonna take off if you move your hands anymore.

00:05:13.000 You're generating enough airspeed.

00:05:14.000 But the point here is that she's got nothing.

00:05:18.000 And when she says that she wanted to... I mean, the substance of what she's saying is nonsensical.

00:05:21.000 She didn't want to release the emails.

00:05:23.000 That's why they were on a private server.

00:05:24.000 It's why she set up the private server in the first place.

00:05:26.000 She received classified information on that server.

00:05:29.000 When she revealed the emails to people, they had already been pre-screened by her own legal team after she deleted everything else.

00:05:35.000 The FBI had to basically

00:05:38.000 Drill down into her data drive in order to come up with the information in the first place.

00:05:42.000 So all of this is lies.

00:05:44.000 But this is to demonstrate that when Hillary Clinton is forced to answer about her own record and what she would do, it's real awkward for her.

00:05:50.000 And the awkwardness continued.

00:05:51.000 Remember, this whole thing is a setup.

00:05:54.000 Right?

00:05:54.000 Here's the fact.

00:05:54.000 This whole thing is basically a setup.

00:05:57.000 What I mean by that

00:05:59.000 Is that Hillary Clinton is that there's one point during this during this town hall at which a young person stood up and started to ask senators a question.

00:06:07.000 Senator Sanders and said, and it stopped himself.

00:06:10.000 So Hillary Clinton. 1.00

00:06:11.000 Oh, I see why they asked me to ask you this question.

00:06:14.000 Meaning he's a plant.

00:06:15.000 Right?

00:06:16.000 I mean, when somebody gets up in the middle of an unscripted town hall and says, oh yeah, this is why they asked me to ask you this question, uh, yeah, that's weird.

00:06:24.000 That's weird.

00:06:25.000 But in any case, but Hillary had no answers even to questions she should have known were coming.

00:06:28.000 So for example, here is a young Iowa voter

00:06:31.000 Talking to Hillary Clinton and saying, yeah, you know, everybody my age thinks that you're dishonest.

00:06:35.000 And Hillary has two distraction techniques. 1.00

00:06:37.000 One is the crazy hand motions, and the other is the insane, bat-blank, loony laugh that sounds like it's emanating from the maw of hell. 0.97

00:06:45.000 Here's Hillary Clinton. 1.00

00:06:47.000 It feels like there's a lot of young people like myself who are very passionate supporters of Bernie Sanders, and I just don't see the same enthusiasm from younger people for you.

00:06:58.000 In fact, I've heard from quite a few people my age that they think you're dishonest, but I'd like to hear from you on why you feel the enthusiasm isn't there.

00:07:09.000 Well, I think it really depends upon who you're seeing and talking to.

00:07:13.000 You know, today in Oskaloosa, I spent time with about ten high school students who are enthusiastically working for me.

00:07:22.000 I see young people across the state who are doing the same.

00:07:26.000 But I'm totally happy to see young people involved in any way.

00:07:32.000 That's what we want.

00:07:34.000 And we want to have a good,

00:07:38.000 Okay, let me pause it there.

00:07:39.000 Terrible answer.

00:07:40.000 And she's again doing the calculated hand motions because she's very uncomfortable.

00:07:43.000 So she's doing...

00:07:57.000 She's doing the hand motions, which is... I mean, she must be terrible at poker. 1.00

00:08:01.000 By the way, when this young guy asks her this question, Hillary looks like if she had the power of the Force Choke, she would be using it right then. 1.00

00:08:09.000 I mean, the evil basilisk-type glare that she is laying on this kid is pretty impressive. 0.99

00:08:15.000 And it's not just Hillary Clinton.

00:08:16.000 So Bernie Sanders is gaining a lot of enthusiasm on the other side of the aisle.

00:08:21.000 Sorry, let's play one more clip of Hillary Clinton. 1.00

00:08:22.000 This is not from the event last night, but Hillary Clinton was asked pretty recently about the fact that she's been giving $200,000 speeches for Goldman Sachs.

00:08:29.000 Now this is a problem for her because she's trying to campaign as a Wall Street outsider. 1.00

00:08:34.000 Now, if you're a Wall Street outsider, you don't get paid $200,000 in the Goldman Sachs arena.

00:08:41.000 You don't go to Wall Street and get paid $200,000 a pop.

00:08:44.000 And so Hillary Clinton was asked about this, not at this particular event.

00:08:47.000 She was asked about it by another reporter, and I believe it's Clip 13.

00:08:53.000 And here is Hillary Clinton answering the question in the most awkward possible way.

00:08:57.000 I'm so happy you're part of this.

00:08:59.000 I'm from a bridge of hope.

00:09:02.000 Hi, Secretary Clinton, will you release a transcript of your paid speeches to Goldman Sachs?

00:09:06.000 Uh, no?

00:09:07.000 There's a lot of controversy over their speeches.

00:09:12.000 Secretary, is that a no?

00:09:18.000 Secretary Clinton, will you release a transcript of your Goldman Sachs speeches?

00:09:24.000 Yes.

00:09:26.000 And no answer.

00:09:27.000 By the way, every time you see these sorts of videos, she can hear him.

00:09:31.000 I mean, she's one foot away.

00:09:32.000 Look how close that camera is.

00:09:34.000 And she's got the crazy eyes, and she's gonna pretend she's never seen this guy.

00:09:38.000 Of course she's not gonna answer those questions. 0.92

00:09:39.000 Hillary's got nothing. 0.99

00:09:40.000 So, does Bernie have something?

00:09:42.000 So Bernie, at one point last night, he was asked about his plans to raise taxes because it will cost $19 trillion, $19 trillion, the entire amount of the outstanding debt of the United States.

00:09:55.000 He would have to increase taxes in order to pay for all of his programs, and Bernie Sanders

00:10:00.000 gives just an awful answer.

00:10:03.000 Here's Bernie Sanders, who, I guess, he's upset because they didn't bring his Jell-O in time, and he's missed the early, the early bird special, and so he's, he just looks a little bit, a little bit grumpy.

00:10:14.000 But Bernie Sanders always looks kind of grumpy.

00:10:16.000 By the way, the new Ben & Jerry's, the new Ben & Jerry's ice cream, I think we mentioned yesterday, is called Bernie's Yearning.

00:10:21.000 That's the name of the new Ben & Jerry's ice cream, because they love Bernie Sanders, they're from Vermont.

00:10:26.000 And, which, by the way, super awkward name.

00:10:29.000 For an ice cream, Bernie's yearning.

00:10:30.000 Because then it's like, oh my god, yeah.

00:10:32.000 I gotta tell you, I had Bernie's yearning in my mouth and it was just terrible.

00:10:35.000 In any case, here's Bernie's yearning explaining his new tax plan.

00:10:39.000 But Chris, that is an unfair criticism for the following reason.

00:10:46.000 If you are paying now $10,000 a year to a private health insurance company, and I say to you hypothetically, you're gonna pay $5,000 more in taxes, or actually less than that,

00:10:59.000 But you're not going to pay any more private health insurance?

00:11:02.000 Are you going to be complaining about the fact that I've saved you $5,000 in your total bills?

00:11:09.000 So it's demagogic to say, oh, you're paying more in taxes.

00:11:12.000 Let's also talk about, we are going to eliminate private health insurance premiums and payments, not only for individuals, but for businesses as well.

00:11:24.000 We are the only country on earth that allows private insurance companies to rip us off.

00:11:30.000 We spend three times more than the British, 50% more than the French.

00:11:36.000 We can do better than we're doing right now.

00:11:41.000 But just to be clear, you are going to raise taxes to do this?

00:11:46.000 Yes, we will raise taxes.

00:11:49.000 Yes, we will.

00:11:50.000 But also let us be clear, Chris, because there's a little bit

00:11:55.000 of disingenuity out there.

00:11:56.000 What?

00:11:57.000 We may raise taxes, but we are also going to eliminate private health insurance premiums for individuals and for businesses.

00:12:07.000 Okay, so yes, we will raise taxes.

00:12:09.000 This sort of stirring rhetoric is what won Walter Mondale one state in 1984.

00:12:14.000 You remember all the way back to 1984, he did his convention speech in San Francisco, and he said, yeah, we have to be honest, we're going to raise taxes.

00:12:21.000 This is not a smart line.

00:12:22.000 Even Barack Obama lied in 2008 about raising taxes.

00:12:25.000 I'll never raise your taxes.

00:12:26.000 In 2012, he ran on, I haven't raised your taxes.

00:12:29.000 And then, of course, he raised our taxes.

00:12:31.000 Bernie Sanders is running on, yeah, I'm definitely going to raise your taxes.

00:12:34.000 He also has a magical plan where he can convert $5,000 of taxpayer money funneled through the government into giving you more for its worth than $10,000 you pay into private health insurance.

00:12:44.000 Which is insane.

00:12:45.000 Okay, first of all, if you have a private health insurance plan that you pay $10,000 for, that is a platinum plan.

00:12:51.000 I mean, that is a platinum plan.

00:12:52.000 I'm not paying $10,000, and I have a kid, right?

00:12:55.000 I have a wife and a kid, and they're both on my insurance plan.

00:12:57.000 I am not paying $10,000 for that plan.

00:12:59.000 When I was paying as an individual, I wasn't covered by my employer.

00:13:03.000 I still wasn't paying that much money.

00:13:04.000 $10,000 is a fortune.

00:13:05.000 The only reason people are paying that right now is because of Obamacare, which has driven up premiums to record rates.

00:13:12.000 Like,

00:13:12.000 I don't know what magical fantasy land Bernie Sanders lives in.

00:13:15.000 It must be a wonderful place where either I can give $10,000 to basically a company to help me pay for my doctors, or I can give $5,000 to Bernie Sanders and I get more from Bernie Sanders.

00:13:25.000 It's insanity, but this is not a good pitch, and Bernie Sanders is not a good candidate.

00:13:29.000 I mean, everybody is acting like he's captivating the hearts and minds of the American public.

00:13:34.000 Nobody's seen Bernie Sanders.

00:13:35.000 Nobody knows who Bernie Sanders is.

00:13:37.000 There are a few Democrats who know who Bernie Sanders is, but when you get a load of this old crazy guy shouting at the moon, it's not really that attractive.

00:13:45.000 I mean, can you imagine this guy as President of the United States?

00:13:48.000 The state of our union is $7 for a matinee performance of the latest showing of On Golden Pond.

00:13:57.000 I mean, I'm sorry, it's just, no.

00:13:58.000 So they've got nothing.

00:13:59.000 The point being, they've got nothing. 0.99

00:14:01.000 And even their ad campaigns are kind of pathetic. 0.97

00:14:03.000 Here's Bernie Sanders' latest ad that he's running. 0.98

00:14:05.000 And it's, it's just, it's such ridiculousness, but it's getting us all sorts of play.

00:14:12.000 But again, all of this just shows how weak the Democratic field is.

00:14:14.000 Here's Sanders.

00:14:30.000 Let us be lovers while I weave our fortunes together.

00:14:37.000 I've got some real estate here in my bag.

00:14:42.000 Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike, they've all come to look for a man.

00:14:56.000 All this is is just stock footage of all these people, almost, pretty much everybody's white, a bunch of white people who are Bernie Sanders supporters, and then Bernie being really old and walking into crowds and stuff, and to the strains of Simon and Garfunkel, which shows you, for people who say they're going to bring us to the future, they sure seem to focus a lot on the 1960s.

00:15:13.000 Okay, like, Simon and Garfunkel went out 20 years before I was born.

00:15:19.000 We used to, in my high school, we used to call them Shimon and Garfunkel because they're both Jewish.

00:15:22.000 But Simon and Garfunkel, not exactly fashionable among the younger set, but Bernie Sanders, that's his pitch.

00:15:28.000 This is all weak tea.

00:15:29.000 I'm sorry, this is weak stuff.

00:15:30.000 It's not exciting, it's not interesting, it's boring, and it's weak.

00:15:34.000 So, what are the Democrats left with?

00:15:36.000 Well, what the Democrats are left with is just what they say they're not about, which is ripping Republicans and dividing the country.

00:15:42.000 That's all they care about.

00:15:43.000 So, Hillary last night was asked, you know, in one of the first debates, in the first Democratic debate, you said that your real enemies were the Republicans.

00:15:51.000 Well, what do you have to say about that?

00:15:52.000 Here's Hillary Clinton answering. 0.99

00:15:55.000 I've got another question for you.

00:15:56.000 Brett Rosengren, he's from Logan, Iowa, he's going to school, works as a supervisor for a janitorial company, says he's undecided, has a question.

00:16:04.000 Great.

00:16:06.000 Secretary San, er, Clinton, sorry.

00:16:09.000 It's okay.

00:16:11.000 I can see why they gave you this question.

00:16:13.000 I just wanted to know which of our previous presidents has inspired you most and why.

00:16:20.000 Okay, first of all, that would be the clip where the kid's a plant, right?

00:16:24.000 He says, I can see why they gave you this question.

00:16:26.000 Who is they?

00:16:27.000 Who is they?

00:16:28.000 There's your evidence that this is all a plant.

00:16:30.000 But anyway, here's Hillary answering the question about the GOP's enemies.

00:16:35.000 You say you want to work with them, but you were quoted not too long ago when you were listing people that you saw as adversaries, NRA, health insurance companies, probably the Republicans.

00:16:45.000 Yes.

00:16:46.000 They did not like that when you said that, and it makes them feel that, well, Secretary Clinton doesn't like us, why would she work with us?

00:16:54.000 Well, Chris, it was kind of tongue-in-cheek, and I consider them worthy adversaries, because they are.

00:17:01.000 They have their set of objectives.

00:17:04.000 We have ours on the Democratic side.

00:17:06.000 But that's why I gave you a short overview.

00:17:09.000 I work with all of them.

00:17:10.000 You know, when I'm actually in office, they say really nice things about me.

00:17:15.000 We have a whole long list of the nice things they say.

00:17:18.000 What a good colleague I am.

00:17:20.000 How easy I am to work with.

00:17:21.000 How willing I am to try to find common ground.

00:17:24.000 And then when I run, oh my goodness, it's just unbelievable.

00:17:28.000 So I have no problems in saying, yeah, we have political differences.

00:17:33.000 I'm sorry, she's unwatchable.

00:17:35.000 I can't.

00:17:36.000 I can't.

00:17:36.000 OK, so she's unwatchable.

00:17:37.000 But the point is, she says, no, I would never.

00:17:40.000 It was all tongue in cheek.

00:17:41.000 I don't mean that they're my enemies or anything.

00:17:44.000 Okay, here's Hillary talking about Republicans when she's not trying to do her bipartisan routine. 1.00

00:17:49.000 So here's the actual Democratic campaign in a nutshell.

00:17:53.000 So this would be clip 14.

00:17:54.000 Hillary is asked by a Muslim woman who's in the audience about the deeply Islamophobic Republicans.

00:18:00.000 We have to protect ourselves in America in a unified way.

00:18:05.000 That means making sure our Muslim friends and neighbors are part of us.

00:18:11.000 They are with us.

00:18:14.000 They are on the front lines of defending themselves, their families, their children, and all the rest of us.

00:18:19.000 And the same is true with Muslims around the world.

00:18:22.000 We need a coalition that includes Muslim nations to defeat ISIS.

00:18:28.000 And it's pretty hard to figure out how you're going to make a coalition with the very nations you need if you spend your time insulting their religion.

00:18:35.000 So we need to stand up and point out how wrong this is.

00:18:41.000 Field goal!

00:18:42.000 Okay, so Hillary Clinton basically ripping on Donald Trump there, right? 1.00

00:18:45.000 So her entire campaign really is opposition. 0.95

00:18:48.000 So the point of this juxtaposition that I'm showing you is that when it comes to the Democrats, the only thing that they really have here, the only thing that they truly have, is ripping on Republicans.

00:18:57.000 Even Martin O'Malley, right?

00:18:58.000 Here's Martin O'Malley trying to out Hillary and out Sanders, Hillary and Sanders.

00:19:02.000 Martin O'Malley is asked a question and he immediately swivels it on Donald Trump and how evil the Republicans are.

00:19:09.000 So to those that are still, you know, undecided like me or maybe just less informed about politics, on top of what you've already talked about, what's the last thing that you would try to tell them to convince them that you are, in fact, the best candidate for the Democratic Party?

00:19:25.000 Thank you.

00:19:25.000 This is what I would say.

00:19:27.000 I would say that time and time again in the history of the state of Iowa, Iowa has found a way to sort through the noise and to sort through the national polls and to lift up a new leader for our country at times when that was critical and essential.

00:19:43.000 That's what you did eight years ago when you lifted up Barack Obama to lead our country forward.

00:19:49.000 And we need to build upon his good work by continuing to move forward.

00:19:54.000 And I am the only one of the three of us who has a track record, not of being a divider, but of bringing people together to get meaningful things done.

00:20:06.000 Raising the living wage, making college more affordable, creating jobs, healing wounds and divisions.

00:20:13.000 That's what our country needs right now.

00:20:17.000 We are a great people.

00:20:19.000 We are a generous and we are a compassionate people.

00:20:22.000 And we are far better than the sort of fascist rhetoric that you hear spewed out by Donald Trump.

00:20:28.000 The enduring symbol of our country is not the barbed wire fence.

00:20:33.000 It is the Statue of Liberty.

00:20:35.000 And we

00:20:37.000 He's a uniter, not a divider, remember.

00:20:39.000 Right, he's a uniter, not a divider. 0.97

00:20:41.000 Also, Donald Trump is a fascist who wants to replace the Statue of Liberty with barbed wire. 0.94

00:20:45.000 Yep, that's their campaign. 0.81

00:20:46.000 So, when you are asked next about why it is that Democrats are running such an upbeat campaign, you can rightly answer, they aren't.

00:20:53.000 Hillary Clinton at one point said about, I think it was Jeb Bush actually, said about Donald Trump, you can't insult your way to the presidency.

00:20:59.000 Why?

00:20:59.000 Why can't you?

00:21:00.000 Barack Obama did it twice.

00:21:02.000 I'm wondering exactly why Hillary and Sanders or any of these other folks can't do it.

00:21:05.000 Okay, swiveling to the right side of the aisle.

00:21:09.000 I want to talk for a second about the polls.

00:21:10.000 Latest poll out of Iowa has Ted Cruz up 7.

00:21:14.000 Again, I think that Cruz is going to win.

00:21:16.000 I think that if it's a close race, where Marco Rubio comes in matters.

00:21:20.000 If he comes in third, if he finishes stronger than expected, then Rubio will have a shot in New Hampshire.

00:21:26.000 In the polls in New Hampshire, John Kasich is running a strong second now.

00:21:28.000 He's up 17 to 20 percent.

00:21:31.000 That race is still wide open but what's really amazing about all of this is that Donald Trump is still winning a heavy segment of the conservative vote even though there are people like me saying Donald Trump is not a conservative and I think a lot of that is attitudinal.

00:21:45.000 I think a lot of that is Donald Trump

00:21:48.000 Seeming as though he's going to take the fight to the other side, but that's not what Donald Trump is actually going to do.

00:21:53.000 Donald Trump is not going to take the fight to the other side, which is why the establishment is more comfortable with Trump than they are with Ted Cruz, whose entire raison d'etre is to do this.

00:22:02.000 For example, clip 9, here's Donald Trump talking about George W. Bush and Barack Obama in foreign policy.

00:22:08.000 President George W. Bush, he was in office in 2007.

00:22:11.000 Absolutely.

00:22:12.000 I'm no fan.

00:22:13.000 I've never been a fan of Bush.

00:22:14.000 Who's more responsible for the weakening of America internationally?

00:22:18.000 Would it be President Bush or President Obama?

00:22:22.000 I think Bush did a bad job and I think Obama carried it out.

00:22:25.000 He continued to do a bad job.

00:22:28.000 Who do you blame more?

00:22:28.000 I would say that it's pretty equal.

00:22:31.000 I would say that Obama's been very, very weak.

00:22:33.000 It could have been stemmed at the beginning of his administration.

00:22:38.000 What he didn't do is he didn't stab Obama.

00:22:42.000 The devaluation of the Chinese currency has absolutely destroyed us.

00:22:46.000 It's killed us.

00:22:47.000 They have created one of the great thefts of all time.

00:22:50.000 They have stripped our country of jobs, of money.

00:22:54.000 Okay, we can pause it here.

00:22:55.000 So the relevant point of this particular clip is not Trump's economic 1.00

00:23:09.000 You know, idiocy. 1.00

00:23:10.000 I mean, he actually doesn't understand basic economics. 1.00

00:23:12.000 The fact is, the Chinese devaluation hurts the world economy only because it means that they have a fake stock market. 0.96

00:23:19.000 So if we invest in their stock market, it has problems for us.

00:23:21.000 But the fact is that China devaluing its own currency really doesn't hurt us economically in any real way.

00:23:27.000 It just creates fake growth.

00:23:29.000 In any case, the part here that's relevant is that Trump says that Bush and Obama are about equal in terms of hurting America's foreign policy.

00:23:36.000 How?

00:23:37.000 How?

00:23:38.000 I mean, that's such a lie.

00:23:39.000 It's not even true.

00:23:40.000 And then Trump carries that forward. 1.00

00:23:41.000 He's asked about Ted Cruz, and he says, well, the big problem for Ted is that Ted's a jerk. 0.99

00:23:44.000 You know, I'm gonna be nice to everybody. 1.00

00:23:46.000 Ted's gonna be a jerk. 1.00

00:23:46.000 This is clip 11. 1.00

00:23:48.000 Hey, I lived in New York City and Manhattan all my life, okay?

00:23:51.000 So, you know, my views are a little bit different than if I lived in Iowa.

00:23:54.000 They are different.

00:23:56.000 Like on abortion.

00:23:57.000 Would President Trump ban partial birth abortions?

00:24:01.000 Choice in every respect.

00:24:03.000 And what does Trump think about Iowa? 1.00

00:24:05.000 How stupid are the people of Iowa? 1.00

00:24:08.000 Donald Trump. 1.00

00:24:09.000 New York values, not ours.

00:24:12.000 Donald, what's your reaction to that ad?

00:24:14.000 Particularly the first part that you're a flip-flopper.

00:24:16.000 I'll give you an example.

00:24:17.000 First of all, I am pro-life, and everyone understands that.

00:24:19.000 I'm pro-life. 1.00

00:24:20.000 But going into a second thing about how stupid are the people of Iowa, I said, then I said, how stupid are the people of the United States? 1.00

00:24:27.000 And I was talking about because everybody in this country was believing, I'm not going to mention his name, but it was a certain candidate. 1.00

00:24:34.000 Ben Carson.

00:24:34.000 Doing too well.

00:24:35.000 It was Ben Carson's tales of hammers to his mother's head.

00:24:40.000 And then I said United States.

00:24:41.000 He didn't put United States.

00:24:43.000 Because Ted Cruz lies. 1.00

00:24:45.000 He's a liar. 1.00

00:24:46.000 And that's why nobody likes him. 1.00

00:24:47.000 That's why his Senate people won't endorse him.

00:24:50.000 That's why he stands on the middle of the Senate floor and can't make a deal with anybody. 1.00

00:24:53.000 He looks like a jerk. 1.00

00:24:55.000 He's standing all by himself. 1.00

00:24:56.000 And you know, there's something to say about having a little bit of ability to get other people to do things.

00:25:02.000 You can't be a lone wolf.

00:25:03.000 That's sort of what we have right now as a president.

00:25:07.000 We have a president that can't get anything done, so he just keeps signing executive orders all over the place.

00:25:12.000 Did you just make a parallel between Ted Cruz and President Obama?

00:25:15.000 Well, they're the same.

00:25:16.000 I think, actually, Ted is more strident than Obama, if you want to know the truth.

00:25:20.000 Nobody gets along with Ted.

00:25:22.000 At least some people like Obama.

00:25:23.000 Nobody likes Ted.

00:25:24.000 I don't find anybody that likes him.

00:25:26.000 You talk to senators.

00:25:27.000 I talk to senators that, frankly, want to come out and endorse me.

00:25:30.000 You know, it's amazing what's happened over the last

00:25:34.000 Okay, enough of Trump and his blather.

00:25:44.000 Here's the point.

00:25:45.000 Donald Trump is establishment because Donald Trump wants to get along with those people.

00:25:48.000 He wants to get along with the senators.

00:25:50.000 The fact that he's comparing Ted Cruz to Obama, first of all, if that were true,

00:25:54.000 God willing that were true, that he'd be the right-wing Obama.

00:25:57.000 Are you kidding?

00:25:58.000 I mean, the best thing that the Republican Party could ever have would be a right-wing Obama, considering the amount of damage that Obama has done because he's not willing to work with other people.

00:26:05.000 We don't need somebody who's going to go into the Senate and make deals with people.

00:26:08.000 We don't need a dealmaker.

00:26:10.000 We need somebody who's willing to say no and use the power of the presidency to say no.

00:26:13.000 But this is the point.

00:26:14.000 Donald Trump is continuing to campaign as both the anti-establishment candidate and the establishment candidate, which is really weird.

00:26:21.000 Okay, I want to turn from the presidential race for a minute to talk about what's happening with the Planned Parenthood case.

00:26:27.000 So apparently, over in, I think it's Harris County, Texas, there's now a grand jury that has indicted.

00:26:33.000 They were asked to take a look into the Planned Parenthood case.

00:26:36.000 For those who don't remember, there's a group called the Center for Medical Progress, and the Center for Medical Progress

00:26:41.000 Cut a bunch of undercover videos where they pretended to be a basically a broker for baby parts to sell to research facilities and they met with a bunch of Planned Parenthood executives and they got the Planned Parenthood executives on tape saying that they would sell the baby body parts for particular prices because they needed to buy Lamborghinis and such.

00:27:01.000 So, this went to a grand jury in Harris County.

00:27:03.000 They indicted no one from Planned Parenthood.

00:27:05.000 Instead, they decided to indict the two whistleblowers.

00:27:08.000 They decided to indict the two whistleblowers on two counts.

00:27:10.000 One is a count of using a fake ID.

00:27:12.000 So apparently they were using fake IDs with fake names, so they used fake California IDs with fake names.

00:27:17.000 And two was, they decided to indict the whistleblowers for attempting to buy baby body parts.

00:27:22.000 So, they set up a sting where they had no intention of buying baby body parts, but they wanted to prove that Planned Parenthood would sell baby body parts, and now they may go to jail.

00:27:32.000 And on the fake ID question, okay, I don't know a 16-year-old in the United States who's never used a fake ID at any point.

00:27:38.000 I may be the only one who never used a fake ID.

00:27:40.000 And there are illegal immigrants all over Texas and California using fake IDs. 0.70

00:27:44.000 None of them are going to jail.

00:27:45.000 Sandy Berger smuggled out national security documents in his pants and didn't end up going to jail.

00:27:50.000 Hillary Clinton put classified information on her personal server and is not going to jail.

00:27:55.000 So, these guys, it carries a 20 year sentence.

00:27:57.000 They could go to jail for 20 years for having used a fake ID in order to infiltrate an evil organization to demonstrate how evil they were for the public.

00:28:06.000 Which just goes to show you that the criminal justice system can indeed be flawed if you have a prosecutor who's out for political purposes.

00:28:13.000 And most of the time when it comes to criminal justice cases, there's not really a particular purpose attached, but when it comes to abortion, in some cases, there is.

00:28:20.000 Because this is what we call, pure and simple, a railroading.

00:28:24.000 Democrats, back in October, were asking Attorney General of California Kamala Harris to prosecute the whistleblowers on these same grounds, on the ID grounds.

00:28:32.000 So, you have two questions here.

00:28:34.000 One, was Planned Parenthood killing babies and selling their parts?

00:28:37.000 Two, were the people investigating Planned Parenthood using fake IDs?

00:28:41.000 And the grand jury decided the people selling the fake IDs were the real problem.

00:28:44.000 Which, even if you believe that they broke the law and the Planned Parenthood people didn't, that's more a question of what we should do to change the law than it is these people should go to jail.

00:28:55.000 So that's totally insane.

00:28:57.000 Okay, I want to do some things that I like and some things that I hate, because the truth is, it's kind of a slow news day, and everybody's sort of waiting for the Republican debate, which is supposed to happen.

00:29:07.000 Donald Trump making noises about skipping the Republican debate.

00:29:10.000 So, time for some things that I like and time for some things that I hate.

00:29:12.000 Okay.

00:29:14.000 Things that I like.

00:29:15.000 Somebody asked me what kind of music I like listening to.

00:29:17.000 I've said before, I'm a big classical music fan.

00:29:20.000 And so here is my, probably my favorite piece of violin music.

00:29:26.000 People constantly asking, not constantly, I get sporadic questions about what's my favorite violin music because I was a world-class violinist.

00:29:33.000 The Brahms Violin Sonatas are probably my favorite violin music.

00:29:37.000 It's obviously piano and violin, that's what a sonata is.

00:29:40.000 And it's spectacular music.

00:29:43.000 It's just glorious music.

00:29:46.000 At my circumcision ceremony when I was eight days old, my dad and one of his friends played the first Brahms Sonata.

00:29:51.000 At my wedding, we played the first Brahms Sonata.

00:29:52.000 And at my next kid's circumcision, we'll play the Brahms Sonata. 0.58

00:29:56.000 So it's sort of a Shapiro family tradition that we play the first movement of the Brahms Sonata in D major.

00:30:01.000 So it's a big fan of the Brahms Violin Sonatas.

00:30:03.000 You can find them on YouTube.

00:30:04.000 They're really amazing pieces.

00:30:06.000 Brahms is spectacular.

00:30:07.000 Okay.

00:30:08.000 Time for some things that I hate.

00:30:10.000 So let's start with what people on the left think is funny.

00:30:15.000 So.

00:30:16.000 Apparently, I've subscribed to the Lena Dunham newsletter.

00:30:20.000 It's called Lenny.

00:30:22.000 And it's awful. 1.00

00:30:23.000 I mean, it's truly an awful piece of garbage. 1.00

00:30:25.000 And it's all about abortion, it's all about leftism, and it's just ridiculous in every way it's possible for it to be ridiculous. 1.00

00:30:30.000 It's exactly what you would think an untalented hack, famous for getting naked and being overweight, would write. 0.98

00:30:36.000 And that's pretty much what it is.

00:30:38.000 So, in today's issue of Lenny,

00:30:41.000 There's a piece by Elizabeth Merriweather.

00:30:43.000 Elizabeth Merriweather, if you've never heard of Elizabeth Merriweather, there's no reason you should have, she is the creator and executive producer of New Girl on Fox, which is actually a quasi-funny show.

00:30:51.000 Like New Girl, at least at the beginning, I think it sort of died about halfway through the second season, but the first season of New Girl is actually a pretty funny show.

00:30:58.000 She's now written a piece that is her erotic fantasy about Ted Cruz.

00:31:04.000 Seriously, it's her erotic fantasy about Ted Cruz.

00:31:06.000 And she quotes Ted Cruz talking to... Oh, what's the name of that chick? 0.99

00:31:12.000 Ellen... The one from Inception.

00:31:15.000 The one who came out as a lesbian recently.

00:31:17.000 And she's in the movie... Ellen Page, thank you.

00:31:20.000 Yeah, Ellen Page. 0.99

00:31:20.000 So you remember Ellen Page confronted Ted Cruz and she asked him about same-sex marriage. 0.99

00:31:25.000 And Ted Cruz said, I don't see why you guys are so upset about how gays are being treated in this country when gays are treated pretty great in this country.

00:31:31.000 They're killing gays over in ISIS land and you don't care. 1.00

00:31:33.000 So, Elizabeth Meredith Weather quotes Ted Cruz, and then she says, 0.98

00:31:51.000 The same thing applies to women. 1.00

00:31:52.000 Are you being publicly executed?

00:31:53.000 No?

00:31:54.000 Then don't talk to me about insurance covering prenatal care.

00:31:57.000 And she writes a couple of paragraphs about how terrible Ted Cruz is. 0.99

00:32:00.000 And then she gets to her real point, which is, she has some bizarre sexual fetishes and fantasies. 0.99

00:32:05.000 So she writes,

00:32:06.000 I brought Ted Cruz up to my hotel room with the promise of showing him my lower back tattoo of the Second Amendment, where all the vowels were replaced with yin-yangs.

00:32:14.000 But I think we both knew what had to happen next. 0.99

00:32:16.000 And then there's this whole weird thing where he's crying and he won't have sex with her, so she takes him down to a secret basement where sex-obsessed liberals go to have sex with one another like beasts. 1.00

00:32:27.000 Quote, there was Matt Damon dipping his testicles, she doesn't use the word testicles, into Nancy Pelosi's hair like a bird of prey laying eggs in a nest of twigs. 1.00

00:32:35.000 This is what she's writing, okay? 0.99

00:32:36.000 And this is supposed to be, like, her attempt at humor, right?

00:32:38.000 This parody?

00:32:39.000 I don't know what she's parodying, exactly.

00:32:41.000 Elizabeth Warren scissored Debbie Wasserman Schultz like she was in preschool, and someone had just taught her how to make a snowflake. 1.00

00:32:47.000 Hillary was sitting on FDR's lap, dressed up as a sexy Depression-era nurse, purring into his ear. 0.59

00:32:52.000 I'm gonna make wages go up, FDR whispered back, his voice dripping with lust.

00:32:56.000 You're making me go up, girl. 0.99

00:32:58.000 So this is what leftists consider to be humorous.

00:33:01.000 And then, finally, they end up meeting Barack Obama, who, for some odd reason, apparently, is naked and beautiful and playing a tambourine.

00:33:14.000 So, this is how people in Hollywood think.

00:33:17.000 And this is what people in Hollywood think is funny.

00:33:20.000 And what I'm just confused about is, are we in third grade?

00:33:24.000 Did I miss the part where this is considered high-class, high-brow humor?

00:33:27.000 This, by the way, was one of Lena Dunham's friends from Girls, some chick named Jenna. 0.94

00:33:32.000 And she edits when Lena Dunham is busy abusing her younger sister, presumably. 1.00

00:33:37.000 And Jenna writes that this is the finest piece of parody fiction that she's ever read.

00:33:43.000 Which, I mean, honestly, the only shock there is that she can read.

00:33:46.000 But this is what leftists consider to be humor. 0.98

00:33:49.000 Humor is a bunch of people doing random sexual things to each other for no apparent reason, and Ted Cruz is a prude. 0.97

00:33:56.000 That's the humor. 0.98

00:33:57.000 By the way, leftists tend to think that people on the right are prudes.

00:34:01.000 Why do we have more children than you? 0.99

00:34:04.000 Why do we have more sex than you? 0.99

00:34:06.000 Why are our sex lives happier than yours? 0.97

00:34:08.000 All of you sexually free people on the left, why is this?

00:34:11.000 By every available poll.

00:34:12.000 I remember one time I had a very poor law firm interview record coming out of Harvard Law because I was conservative and my resume had the titles of my books on it.

00:34:20.000 I remember there was one interview that I did, I think I've said this before, with a guy from Gibson Dunn, which was supposedly a conservative firm.

00:34:26.000 This guy was not conservative.

00:34:28.000 And as I walked in, before I could even sit down, he said, It's always been my contention that conservatives and religious people in general have a Freudian fear of sex.

00:34:36.000 This is how he leads off a law firm interview. 1.00

00:34:38.000 At that point, I knew I wasn't getting the job, so I told him he was a stupid idiot. 1.00

00:34:41.000 Um, and I said that was the dumbest thing that I've ever heard. 1.00

00:34:43.000 But, people on the left have the- they do have a real obsession with sex. 0.99

00:34:47.000 Like, the accusation is that people on the right are obsessed with sex.

00:34:49.000 No, people on the right are obsessed with sexual morality. 0.86

00:34:52.000 People on the left are obsessed with sex.

00:34:54.000 My people on the right understand that sex is part of a healthy life, they understand that sex is part of a healthy marriage, they understand that sex has its place, and they are obsessed with the idea that if sex overruns those boundaries, it ends up infecting the society with real externalities like the rise in STDs and single motherhood.

00:35:10.000 People on the left are just obsessed with where people put their genitals. 0.82

00:35:13.000 People on the left just are deeply crazed with what is the next fad, right?

00:35:18.000 And they're always obsessed with pushing the boundaries.

00:35:19.000 All human beings like to push boundaries, but the left thinks that all boundaries have to be broken, which means they're constantly searching for the next taboo.

00:35:26.000 Which is why, eventually, the left is going to full-scale embrace pedophilia.

00:35:30.000 And all of the... you know, there's a movie out that's... a very good movie called Spotlight, that... I'll probably talk about Spotlight tomorrow, I think, because I'm in the middle of the film.

00:35:38.000 But the... but... you know, the left is very much against pedophilia, for now, right?

00:35:43.000 And you wonder how long it's going to last, because as they lower the age of consent, they're already saying at Salon.com, well, who are you to label people who have attraction to children?

00:35:51.000 Isn't that biological?

00:35:53.000 These are folks who are obsessed with sex. 0.85

00:35:55.000 And I'm sorry, but if your contention is you're not obsessed with sex, so you write a pornographic story about Ted Cruz, you're sort of proving Ted Cruz's point just... 0.91

00:36:03.000 A little bit. 0.91

00:36:04.000 Alright, so some other things that I hate.

00:36:07.000 Woody Allen and Miley Cyrus are now doing a series for Amazon.

00:36:11.000 Woody Allen, by most accounts, should probably be in prison for child molestation.

00:36:16.000 The evidence that he molested his stepdaughter are pretty significant.

00:36:21.000 And there's a reason that his son, well really it's not his son, it's actually Frank Sinatra's son,

00:36:26.000 Frank Sinatra's son Ronan Farrow was tweeting today that he can't believe Woody Allen is doing another series. 0.87

00:36:32.000 He says if you're a molester or a rapist, then you get away with it in Hollywood, which is basically true. 0.77

00:36:36.000 He's doing a series with Miley Cyrus, so all the perversions unite there. 0.89

00:36:40.000 And speaking of Hollywood, I want to talk briefly about there's a new movie that's supposed to be coming out, and it's making a big splash over at Sundance.

00:36:47.000 It's this new movie called Birth of a Nation, but it's not like 1919 Birth of a Nation. 0.98

00:36:52.000 It's not the Ku Klux Klan going after black rapists. 0.98

00:36:56.000 KKK propaganda, Birth of a Nation. 0.99

00:36:58.000 Instead, it's Nat Turner's rebellion, Birth of a Nation.

00:37:02.000 Now look, it's hard to say that Nat Turner was wrong or deeply evil for rebelling against slave owners, right?

00:37:09.000 Slaves rebelling against slave owners is basically as old as time itself.

00:37:13.000 Go back to Spartacus. 0.65

00:37:14.000 I mean, the idea that slaves have a right to fight their slave owners.

00:37:17.000 I think everyone believes that slaves have a moral right to fight their slave owners.

00:37:21.000 He had organized this slave rebellion. 0.84

00:37:23.000 This is all the way back in 1831.

00:37:26.000 And he started with a bunch of slaves, and then he eventually gathered 70 enslaved and free blacks, and he ended up killing a bunch of people. 0.76

00:37:33.000 And there's one significant problem with all of this, and this is the problem that I have here, by the way.

00:37:38.000 There are 55, or somewhere between 55 and 65 whites who were killed in the rebellion, and afterward, 200 black people were hanged or murdered, and there were a bunch of laws that were passed.

00:37:49.000 Apparently state legislatures passed all sorts of laws cracking down on slaves, preventing them from learning how to read, preventing them from learning how to write.

00:37:56.000 There had to be white people present at any sort of religious ceremonies in which slaves were involved.

00:38:00.000 And this is the problem.

00:38:02.000 So, Hollywood has now entered this phase where we can't talk about what actually ended slavery.

00:38:07.000 What actually ended slavery were a bunch of white people who decided that slavery was deeply evil and wrong.

00:38:13.000 That's actually what ended slavery. 0.98

00:38:14.000 I mean, let's be real about this.

00:38:16.000 It was hundreds of thousands of white people dying on the field of battle to free black people that ended slavery in the United States.

00:38:23.000 It was the British Navy that ended slavery around the world.

00:38:25.000 It was not a bunch of black folks who ended slavery, which is not to say that black folks shouldn't fight slavery. 0.52

00:38:30.000 They should.

00:38:31.000 The point I'm making is that because we refuse to acknowledge the real reason that slavery ended, because we refuse to acknowledge the brave white folks who worked with black folks on their behalf, because we do that, we exacerbate racial tensions now, today.

00:38:45.000 Because remember, this movie isn't coming out in 1831 or 1855.

00:38:48.000 It's not Harriet Beecher Stowe.

00:38:50.000 This is coming out in 2016.

00:38:52.000 So, the purpose of the film is obviously to suggest, and this is what you'll get, I promise you, in the press junket, Mathis apparently has been watching this closely, but at the press junket, I guarantee you, what you're gonna hear is that the world is still deeply racist, Western civilization is still deeply racist, and this movie shows how far we've come, but how far we still have to go, that black people are still fighting their white oppressors in Western civilization.

00:39:12.000 And so, the idea is the more militant you are toward white people, the more you get.

00:39:16.000 There's only one problem with this.

00:39:18.000 It's not historically true.

00:39:19.000 Nat Turner's rebellion probably led to the lengthening of slavery by at least 20 years in the United States.

00:39:25.000 Right?

00:39:25.000 It happened in 1831, and slavery wasn't formally ended in the United States until after 1865.

00:39:30.000 There's a massive backlash.

00:39:32.000 So this is sort of like when I discussed... The left has now decided that militants is the best possible strategy.

00:39:37.000 This is... You remember, a few months ago, I discussed this movie.

00:39:40.000 What was it called?

00:39:41.000 Suffragette. 0.99

00:39:42.000 I discussed the movie Suffragette here on the podcast, and I said that they made it seem like it was women who were fighting that ended the male patriarchy and allowed women to vote.

00:39:51.000 And it's not true.

00:39:51.000 It actually prevented men from voting to allow women to vote for approximately at least a decade.

00:39:58.000 So in other words, militants toward the dominant social structure that is already moving toward your side is not a particularly useful tactic, but the left has decided that militants is the best possible strategy, and it actually does have some cultural ramifications.

00:40:11.000 If the idea is that you have to rebel against white society, that's how you get what you need. 0.93

00:40:15.000 That's not how change actually comes about, not in the United States, and really not in the United States historically.

00:40:21.000 It just hasn't been true.

00:40:23.000 And so, again, that's not a rip on Nat Turner, really.

00:40:26.000 It's not a rip on John Brown even, although John Brown is more controversial.

00:40:30.000 It certainly is a rip on Hollywood, which seeks to glorify vigilantism when it's convenient, but forgets that vigilantism actually did not

00:40:37.000 Benefit or forward the interests of black people or women and it's not gonna forward the interests of people today I mean they make movies like Stonewall and and and movies like suffragette and movies like This movie about Nat Turner in the suggestion that if black people rise up and riot in Ferguson or Baltimore This is somehow forwarding the cause it isn't it's actually

00:40:54.000 Highly, highly counterproductive.

00:40:56.000 Okay, final thing that I dislike for the day.

00:40:58.000 Marco Rubio.

00:40:59.000 All of these candidates now have to do this sort of cultural reach out.

00:41:04.000 They do these dances, and they do these... You know, we've seen Hillary Clinton doing the whip and the nene, which is something that I think everyone could live without.

00:41:12.000 Marco Rubio has now done another video where he's playing football, and here it is.

00:41:17.000 Marco Rubio playing football.

00:41:21.000 Marco Rubio made a campaign stop in Des Moines, Iowa Tuesday.

00:41:24.000 A game of catch with Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio did not go so well.

00:41:28.000 Rubio hit him in the face and knocked him down.

00:41:30.000 I think the Jets are probably going to sign him next.

00:41:33.000 Come on Marco, you can do this.

00:41:44.000 La la la la la la la la la! 1.00

00:42:14.000 Listen to the noonday... Man, these dolphins suck. 0.99

00:42:19.000 A really good coalition of faith leaders in Iowa. 0.99

00:42:21.000 When it comes to New Hampshire... Dangers of flying footballs.

00:42:24.000 That investigation should be bipartisan.

00:42:26.000 It should be bicameral. 0.98

00:42:28.000 And it should be serious.

00:42:32.000 Man heels.

00:42:33.000 You're telling me those are presidential?

00:42:34.000 I'm feeling microaggressions from the... Long depreciations.

00:42:37.000 A decline by 80%.

00:42:44.000 Marco Rubio, throwing footballs like crazy.

00:42:47.000 I can't work like this.

00:42:54.000 Okay, so... I have to admit...

00:43:02.000 I have to admit, I sort of like this and I sort of hate it.

00:43:04.000 So, Independent Journal Review cut this video.

00:43:05.000 If you can't see it, it's kind of funny.

00:43:07.000 It's got Marco Rubio at the very beginning throwing a football.

00:43:09.000 There's a video of him from Iowa where he throws a football and it hits a kid in the head.

00:43:13.000 And it's pretty funny.

00:43:14.000 The kid wasn't hurt, obviously.

00:43:15.000 If the kid actually gets hurt, it's not funny.

00:43:17.000 It's one of those things where if I bump my head, my wife laughs until I have to go to the hospital. 1.00

00:43:22.000 And then it has Marco Rubio throwing footballs in various public figures ranging from Grover Norquist to my friend Larry O'Connor over in D.C.

00:43:29.000 to Tom Coburn.

00:43:31.000 Catching footballs or being hit by footballs, and it's pretty funny.

00:43:35.000 The reason that I dislike this is because basically, as I always say, our celebrity and political figures have now merged.

00:43:42.000 I can't imagine Abraham Lincoln doing a lot of this.

00:43:45.000 It's hard to imagine George Washington doing a lot of this.

00:43:48.000 So, okay, I guess it's sort of charming, but it's also kind of sad.

00:43:52.000 Final note, okay, so there's something that you should check out on Twitter if you haven't already.

00:43:57.000 It's something that I just had some fun with today.

00:44:00.000 I was thinking about it, and after watching that town hall between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, I actually, it occurred to me, because I'm a sick person, it occurred to me that I actually would watch a rom-com.

00:44:11.000 They're making a rom-com about, they're making a romance drama about Barack and Michelle, which is ugh.

00:44:17.000 But what I would actually watch is a rom-com

00:44:21.000 About Hillary and Bernie Sanders.

00:44:23.000 I would absolutely watch that rom-com.

00:44:24.000 And we would call it Burning for Love with an E. And I think it would be highly amusing.

00:44:30.000 I mean, you can see the plot playing out, right?

00:44:32.000 She was a robot until a crazy old man screaming at the moon opened her up to her emotional side.

00:44:37.000 And it would just be great.

00:44:38.000 Like, you'd have her having to decide whether to divorce Bill to be with Bernie. 0.88

00:44:43.000 And Bernie having to decide whether he wanted to eat that jello or not.

00:44:48.000 And both of them just staring longingly into each other's eyes.

00:44:51.000 And then Hillary having... You remember that Star Trek movie where Data's emotion chip fused with his robot side?

00:44:59.000 It would be like that with Hillary Clinton. 0.94

00:45:01.000 And then at the very end, I have two options for an ending, so I'll let you vote on it.

00:45:04.000 You can send me your comments.

00:45:06.000 I have two options for the ending of Burning for Love.

00:45:08.000 Option one is that it's sort of bittersweet, that it was...

00:45:13.000 It was just a moment in time and they sort of let it pass them by, Bernie and Hillary, and they go on running against each other and she goes back to Bill.

00:45:20.000 And then the second option is that she divorces Bill, marries Bernie, and then Bernie becomes president and she ends up as first lady again. 0.51

00:45:27.000 Which could be funny.

00:45:28.000 I'm just saying.

00:45:29.000 So those are the two options for the brand new movie, Burning for Love, starring Larry David as Bernie Sanders and Harvey Fierstein as Hillary Clinton.

00:45:38.000 And I don't see how this can miss.

00:45:42.000 I mean, honestly, if Woody Allen and Miley Cyrus can make an Amazon series, I don't see... Wouldn't you watch this?

00:45:46.000 Come on! 0.61

00:45:47.000 Come on! 0.61

00:45:48.000 This thing would make at least $3.

00:45:51.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:45:51.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

The Ben Shapiro Show - January 26, 2016

Ep. 61 - Hillary and Bernie Are Legitimately Horrible Candidates

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