The Ben Shapiro Show - February 04, 2016


Ep. 67 - Hillary Clinton Is A Flaming Garbage Heap


Episode Stats

Length

1 hour

Words per Minute

190.88031

Word Count

11,456

Sentence Count

877

Misogynist Sentences

22

Hate Speech Sentences

48


Summary

Barack Obama went to a mosque yesterday, and he loves, loves, LOVED Islam. We ll talk about that. Plus, Hillary Clinton does a town hall event at which she lets the mask slip and it s clearly Satan underneath. And we will also get to perhaps the most awkward 45 seconds of television in a long time with Rick Santorum. Before we get to that, President Obama goes to the Islamic Society of Baltimore to give a speech. And President Obama has basically at this point become a troll from Salon. He's just a commenter at Salon. All he does with his pathetic, perverse, failing presidency is tick off right-wingers, conservatives, and people with brain cells left after his explosive and terrible regime. This is a new one, and it has no place in our country, and when he says that, you know, there s a problem of Islamic terror, you don t all know Muslims in the country. Here is our nasty, brutish, and rather annoying President of the United States in Baltimore, speaking about Islam. And as a result, many Americans don t necessarily know that they know a Muslim personally. But there is another reason that people tend to have bad ideas about global Islam and Muslims. And it s because 99.9% of all suicide bombings last year were carried out by Muslims, and Muslims in this country are by percentage 5,000% more likely than your average American to carry out some sort of terror attack. But it's all just a misconception, according to President Obama, and that's because it's pushed by TV and the left-wing media. You're more likely to find that terrorist is an upper-class guy who listens to classical music, then you're not a bad guy who says it's not a good guy. You're not just bad guys, right? It doesn't happen on TV, is that right? You re not just the same guy? You're a terrorist, right-class man who says that? You don't have a terrorist? You actually listens to Classical Music? Then you re not a bad guy, right, right guy? - Ben Shapiro on The Blacklist? (The Blacklist, The Cuckooed by The Cuckservant? ) Ben Shapiro: This is an episode in which we're now almost done with season 2, yet yet yet another example of a radical Muslim who was the bad guy? It doesn t happen, yet does not happen yet?


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Barack Obama went to a mosque yesterday, and he loves, loves, loves Islam.
00:00:04.000 We'll talk about that.
00:00:05.000 Plus, Hillary Clinton does a town hall event at which she lets the mask slip, and it's clearly Satan underneath.
00:00:13.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.
00:00:14.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:00:22.000 Well, there's so much going on in the news.
00:00:24.000 There was a big town hall last night with Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, an old man shrieking at the moon, and an old woman desperately trying to cling with those arthritis-ridden fingers to that last gasp of fame and fortune.
00:00:38.000 And so we'll talk about that in a minute.
00:00:40.000 And we will also get to perhaps the most awkward
00:00:43.000 45 seconds of television in a long time with Rick Santorum.
00:00:47.000 But before we get to that, President Obama, he went to the Islamic Society of Baltimore to give a speech.
00:00:52.000 And President Obama has basically at this point just become a troll from Salon.com.
00:00:57.000 He's just a commenter at Salon.com.
00:00:59.000 All he does with his pathetic, perverse, failing presidency
00:01:02.000 As he goes around and he does stuff to tick off right-wingers, conservatives, and people with brain cells left after his explosive and terrible regime.
00:01:11.000 So, President Obama heads to the Islamic Society of Baltimore.
00:01:14.000 The former imam there, the guy who was the imam just before this one, he was there for 18 years,
00:01:18.000 He told the Washington Post that Palestinian suicide bombing was just fine and dandy, and he has terrorist connections, all the rest of it.
00:01:26.000 Well, President Obama went there, but he didn't talk about terrorism and its connection to Islam.
00:01:31.000 Instead, he lectured Americans about how we were mean, and terrible, and awful.
00:01:36.000 It's really our fault that there's a problem of Islamic terror, or that we even perceive a problem of Islamic terror.
00:01:42.000 Here is our nasty, brutish, and rather annoying President of the United States in Baltimore speaking about Islam.
00:01:49.000 The Muslim American community remains relatively small, several million people in this country.
00:01:54.000 And as a result, most Americans don't necessarily know, or at least don't know that they know, a Muslim personally.
00:02:04.000 And as a result, many only hear about Muslims and Islam from the news after an act of terrorism.
00:02:14.000 Or in distorted media portrayals in TV or film, all of which gives this hugely distorted impression.
00:02:29.000 And since 9-11, but more recently since the attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, you've seen, too often, people conflating the horrific acts of terrorism with the beliefs of an entire faith.
00:02:45.000 And of course, recently we've heard inexcusable political rhetoric against Muslim Americans that has no place in our country.
00:02:54.000 Okay, you can pause it there.
00:02:55.000 No place in our country.
00:02:57.000 No place in our country.
00:02:58.000 Okay, I was under the impression that pretty much all speech has a place in our country, that we get to say what we want.
00:03:03.000 That doesn't mean everybody has to agree or has to like you because of it, but rhetoric has no place in our country.
00:03:08.000 This is a new one.
00:03:09.000 This is a new one.
00:03:11.000 And President Obama, and when he says that, you know, there's a tiny number of Muslims in the country, you don't all know Muslims, and so people tend to have bad ideas about Muslims, well,
00:03:19.000 There's another reason that people tend to have bad ideas about global Islam and Muslims, and it's because 99.9% of all suicide bombings last year were carried out by Muslims, and Muslims in the United States are by percentage 5,000% more likely than your average American to carry out some sort of terror attack.
00:03:36.000 So there's that.
00:03:38.000 The fact is that Muslims comprise approximately 1% of the population, and they're responsible for approximately 50% of all of the terrorist attacks, depending on how you define it, over the last 15 years, and they're responsible for probably 95% of all terror deaths in the United States.
00:03:53.000 If you include September 11th, so there's that.
00:03:56.000 But it's all just a misconception, according to President Obama, and it's pushed by TV.
00:04:01.000 Okay, I don't know what TV he's watched recently, but, you know, for example, I watch the show The Blacklist.
00:04:06.000 My wife and I watch the show The Blacklist.
00:04:08.000 There has never one time, we're now almost done with season two, there has yet to be an episode in which a radical Muslim was the bad guy.
00:04:15.000 It doesn't happen.
00:04:16.000 But there is a Muslim who works inside the unit that's tasked with targeting bad guys, and this is pretty common on TV.
00:04:22.000 You're more likely to find that a terrorist, a really bad guy, is an upper-class white man who listens to classical music,
00:04:29.000 Then you are to find that it's somebody who goes to mosque regularly on television.
00:04:32.000 President Obama says it's all just cultural.
00:04:35.000 You're being indoctrinated by the media.
00:04:36.000 It's amazing how the same president who says that Hollywood is not left, and the media is not left, and that they don't indoctrinate you in leftism, says that that media indoctrinates you in negative feelings about Islam and radical Islam.
00:04:49.000 Again, when he says inexcusable political rhetoric, I assume that he's talking about Donald Trump, who says that he wants to ban Muslim immigrants to the country for the moment until we can figure out what's going on.
00:04:59.000 I'm just wondering why it is that President Obama is so sanguine and he's so fine with saying that Christians are bitter clingers who cling to God and guns.
00:05:08.000 Why President Obama is so fine with forcing nuns to provide contraceptive care.
00:05:12.000 Why the President of the United States is happy to use the government to crack down on Christians who won't provide their services to same-sex weddings.
00:05:19.000 So, apparently only certain religions are to be protected from this sort of inflammatory political rhetoric.
00:05:25.000 You know, like shining gay flags on the White House.
00:05:29.000 Only certain religions are to be protected from that sort of thing, and that doesn't include Christianity.
00:05:33.000 Or Judaism, by the way.
00:05:34.000 When Jews get killed in Paris, then that's just a random attack, but Muslims are under attack.
00:05:39.000 I think, first of all, this whole premise is really insulting.
00:05:42.000 That Muslims are under attack in the United States.
00:05:44.000 60% of all anti-religious attacks in the United States happen to my folks, the Jews.
00:05:49.000 13% happen to Muslims.
00:05:51.000 They're approximately the same number of Muslims and Jews in the United States according to the latest census figures.
00:05:57.000 But this whole thing is designed so that President Obama can paint himself as the great wise master of all tolerance and all of his enemies as intolerant, nasty folks.
00:06:07.000 President Obama continues along these lines thanking Muslim Americans.
00:06:10.000 Here we go.
00:06:12.000 So the first thing I want to say is two words that Muslim Americans don't hear often enough, and that is, thank you.
00:06:19.000 Thank you for serving your community.
00:06:21.000 Thank you for lifting up the lives of your neighbors, and for helping keep us strong and united as one American family.
00:06:30.000 We are grateful for that.
00:06:33.000 Okay, so thank you for doing normal things that people do.
00:06:37.000 I wasn't aware that you get a thank you for not being a terrorist.
00:06:40.000 This is a dramatic reshifting of standards.
00:06:43.000 Thank you for participating in normal activities that virtually all Americans participate in.
00:06:50.000 By the way, in less numbers than most Americans participate in them.
00:06:53.000 So when President Obama says, Muslim Americans, thank you for serving in the military.
00:06:57.000 Yes, seriously, thank you to the Muslim Americans who serve in the military.
00:07:00.000 Also, there are more Muslim people in Britain who joined ISIS than joined the British military.
00:07:05.000 So if we're talking about the global threat of Islam, one seems more troublesome than the other.
00:07:09.000 Just pointing that out.
00:07:11.000 President Obama continues along these lines, and it turns out that not only is Trayvon Martin President Obama's fictional child, not only would he not want his fictional child playing football, but he has a fictional child who's Muslim as well, which is really interesting.
00:07:23.000 Here we go, President Obama on his fictional family, which grows with each speech.
00:07:29.000 But you also could not help but be heartbroken to hear
00:07:33.000 Their worries and their anxieties.
00:07:37.000 Some of them are parents, and they talked about how their children were asking, are we going to be forced out of the country?
00:07:50.000 Are we going to be rounded up?
00:07:54.000 Why do people treat us like that?
00:07:57.000 Conversations that you shouldn't have to have with children.
00:08:00.000 Not in this country.
00:08:02.000 Not at this moment.
00:08:07.000 And that's an anxiety echoed in letters I get from Muslim Americans around the country.
00:08:13.000 I've had people write to me and say, I feel like I'm a second-class citizen.
00:08:21.000 I've had mothers write and say, my heart cries every night thinking about how her daughter might be treated at school.
00:08:33.000 A girl from Ohio, 13 years old, told me, I'm scared.
00:08:38.000 Okay.
00:08:50.000 So, Mr. President, you seem to have very little care about the Jewish kids who are killed all over the place in Europe or in Israel, and you care very little about the anti-Semitic attacks in the United States.
00:09:01.000 In fact, as I mentioned, those are wildly disproportionate, but when Obama mentioned anti-Semitism the other day, he promptly followed that up with the statement that Jews have to be careful not to victimize Muslims, that the Muslims are the new Jews, essentially.
00:09:14.000 This is the case the President of the United States makes.
00:09:16.000 Who's talking about shipping Muslims out of the country?
00:09:18.000 Did I miss it?
00:09:19.000 Is there any person who's not a white supremacist who's talking about this?
00:09:23.000 Is there any major personage who's talking about shipping Muslims out of the country?
00:09:27.000 Or interning Muslims?
00:09:28.000 Is there anybody who's doing this?
00:09:29.000 Is there anybody who has said that targeting Muslim children is okay?
00:09:34.000 All this fantastical nonsense that he's pushing out there to push forward the notion of Muslim victimhood
00:09:40.000 Let me tell you something.
00:09:41.000 None of this is going to actually protect Americans or Muslim Americans.
00:09:45.000 Because all it does is it really ticks people off.
00:09:48.000 All it does is it makes people feel like the president is out of touch with their actual needs, and that he's out of touch with the actual threat to Americans.
00:09:54.000 The actual threat to Americans is not a bunch of roving white people with pitchforks and torches who are looking to burn down mosques.
00:10:01.000 That's not the real threat to Americans, including Muslim Americans.
00:10:04.000 I mean, it's the President of the United States who's constantly saying the real threat to Muslims all over the world is other Muslims.
00:10:09.000 That's why he says Islam has nothing to do with Muslim violence.
00:10:12.000 Suddenly you come to the United States and it's the white Christians who are the real problem.
00:10:16.000 I don't want to hear any more of his anecdotal evidence about he gets letters from people.
00:10:19.000 I get letters from people, too.
00:10:20.000 Anybody in a position of public prominence gets letters from people.
00:10:23.000 That doesn't mean that anecdotal evidence is a substitute for statistical evidence.
00:10:28.000 You feeling put upon doesn't mean, number one, that you're actually put upon, or number two, that your experience is representative.
00:10:34.000 When I was in middle school, I went to Walter Reed Middle School, and I used to wear my yarmulke to middle school.
00:10:38.000 And I used to get made fun of for wearing my yarmulke to middle school.
00:10:41.000 Was it the end of the world?
00:10:42.000 Did I feel the need to write George W. Bush?
00:10:45.000 Or Bill Clinton at the time?
00:10:46.000 And tell him, oh, I'm so victimized at my public school?
00:10:50.000 No.
00:10:50.000 And guess what?
00:10:50.000 Generations of Americans didn't feel the need to do that either.
00:10:53.000 But we've now created this virtue-signaling presidency, where President Obama ain't gonna do anything about any of this.
00:11:00.000 He's just gonna say stuff.
00:11:01.000 And by saying the stuff, what he's really saying is, I'm a wonderful person, and everybody who could possibly think that I'm wrong on the nature of Islam and radical Islam is a crazy, terrible Islamophobe.
00:11:12.000 It's really gross.
00:11:13.000 It really is gross.
00:11:14.000 And President Obama continues the myth-making here.
00:11:17.000 He then says that Islam is a part of American history.
00:11:20.000 Here we go.
00:11:21.000 President Obama continuing.
00:11:24.000 And like so many faiths, Islam is rooted in a commitment to compassion, and mercy, and justice, and charity.
00:11:34.000 Whoever wants to enter paradise, the Prophet Muhammad taught, let him treat people the way he would love to be treated.
00:11:52.000 For Christians like myself, I'm assuming that sounds familiar.
00:11:59.000 The world's 1.6 billion Muslims are as diverse as humanity itself.
00:12:04.000 They are Arabs and Africans.
00:12:06.000 They're from Latin America to Southeast Asia, Brazilians, Nigerians, Bangladeshis, Indonesians.
00:12:11.000 They are white and brown and black.
00:12:15.000 There's a large African American Muslim community.
00:12:18.000 That diversity is represented here today.
00:12:23.000 A 14-year-old boy in Texas who's Muslim spoke for many when he wrote to me and said, we just want to live in peace.
00:12:32.000 Here's another fact.
00:12:34.000 Islam has always been part of America.
00:12:37.000 Starting in colonial times, many of the slaves brought here from Africa were Muslim.
00:12:44.000 And even in their bondage, some kept their faith alive.
00:12:48.000 A few even won their freedom and became known to many Americans.
00:12:52.000 And when enshrining the freedom of religion in our Constitution and our Bill of Rights, our Founders meant what they said when they said it applied to all religions.
00:13:03.000 Back then, Muslims were often called Mohammedans.
00:13:09.000 And Thomas Jefferson explained that the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom he wrote was designed to protect all faiths.
00:13:18.000 And I'm quoting Thomas Jefferson now, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and the Mohammedan.
00:13:31.000 Let me pause it there.
00:13:32.000 He goes on to say that Jefferson and John Adams had their own copies of the Quran.
00:13:35.000 He didn't quote what they said about the Quran, by the way.
00:13:37.000 What Jefferson and John Adams had to say about the Quran, Jefferson and Adams had to deal with the Barbary Pirates, a group of African Muslims who were targeting American shipping.
00:13:47.000 Here's what Jefferson and Adams once said about their dealings with Muslim pirates, quote, The ambassador answered us that the right to take American ships was founded on the laws of the prophet, that it was written in the Quran that all nations who should not have answered their authority were sinners,
00:14:00.000 And so, there you have it.
00:14:01.000 The same people that Obama is citing as these great
00:14:17.000 Upholders and glorifiers of Islam understood that Islam was actually a religion of conquest.
00:14:24.000 And when Obama does this whole routine that they're black and white Muslims, yeah, so what?
00:14:29.000 What difference does that make?
00:14:29.000 They're black and white members of ISIS, too.
00:14:31.000 In fact, if you remember, back a few weeks, we played an ISIS video, and this is one of ISIS's talking points, is that we're diverse.
00:14:37.000 They're using all leftist talking points.
00:14:39.000 We're diverse.
00:14:40.000 President Obama never at any point got into the nature of Islam, whether there is a connection between Islam and violence.
00:14:46.000 Nowhere in the speech did he do any of this.
00:14:48.000 Instead, he attempted to sever all ties between Islam and violence and pretend that Islam is a wonderful, peaceful, happy religion.
00:14:55.000 It's just Buddhism with Muhammad.
00:14:58.000 And that's not true.
00:15:00.000 It's not true.
00:15:01.000 If it were true, then you would have just as much violence inside the Buddhist community, or inside the Jewish community, or inside the Christian community.
00:15:07.000 And you don't.
00:15:08.000 And he just kept going along these lines.
00:15:10.000 President Obama said that TV and film are means of Muslim Americans.
00:15:14.000 I thought that the best, honestly, I thought the best line from Obama was, let's see, I think it's 2E here, about the Charleston shooting.
00:15:21.000 There's President Obama talking about the Charleston shooting and just the lack of awareness, the unbelievable, shocking lack of connection to reality from President Obama here.
00:15:30.000 It is astonishing.
00:15:31.000 Here we go.
00:15:34.000 And, you know, it was interesting in the discussion I had before I came out, some people said, why is there always a burden on us, you know, when a young man in Charleston shoots African Americans in a church?
00:15:51.000 There's not an expectation that every white person in America suddenly is explaining that they're not racist.
00:15:58.000 Everybody is assumed to be horrified by that act.
00:16:02.000 And I recognize that sometimes that doesn't feel fair.
00:16:07.000 Okay, really?
00:16:08.000 All the white people were assumed to be horrified by Charleston?
00:16:11.000 Did he miss the part where we had a two-month conversation with him going to Charleston and calling for the ripping down of the Confederate flag because any white person in the South had to be deemed to be racist unless they wanted to get rid of the Confederate flag?
00:16:24.000 Did we miss all of that?
00:16:26.000 Did we miss the part where the entire media declared that this was an emblem of American racism, deep-seated, deep-rooted American racism?
00:16:33.000 The President of the United States, in the wake of Charleston, said that racism was coded into the American DNA.
00:16:39.000 He said that!
00:16:40.000 And here he is saying that, you know, there's a double standard with regard to Muslims, that they're expected to condemn violence in their own community?
00:16:46.000 Okay, at least, honest to God, there's at least a logic to saying that members of a particular philosophy or religion should have to condemn their co-religionists for exploiting the religion for evil purposes.
00:16:56.000 There's not even a logic to saying that white people should have to speak up against other white people on the basis of racist killings.
00:17:02.000 Okay, white is not a philosophy.
00:17:04.000 White is an ethnicity.
00:17:06.000 I don't think all black people have to stand up and say when a black person kills somebody that, well, I guess, you know, blackness doesn't represent this.
00:17:13.000 Of course blackness doesn't represent this.
00:17:15.000 Culture has something to do with it.
00:17:17.000 Islam is a culture.
00:17:19.000 Whiteness is not a culture.
00:17:20.000 It's an ethnicity.
00:17:21.000 President Obama, just the lack of connection to reality is truly incredible.
00:17:25.000 All of this is trollery, by the way.
00:17:27.000 All of this is silliness, except for the fact that it does make a difference in the world.
00:17:31.000 The reason this is important, the reason that we spend time on this, is because Obama at one point decided that he was going to rip into all of the right-wingers who suggested that he should link Islam with violence, who said that he should call it radical Islamic terror.
00:17:43.000 He said, no, I won't call it radical Islamic terror.
00:17:45.000 It has nothing to do with Islam in the first place.
00:17:48.000 This is the dominant view on the left?
00:17:50.000 It's the view of some people on the right.
00:17:53.000 Hugh Hewitt, who I usually respect, he's a colleague over at Salem Radio, he said that he thought this was a great speech by President Obama.
00:18:00.000 What was so great about this speech?
00:18:02.000 What here made Americans safer?
00:18:04.000 What here made American Muslims safer?
00:18:06.000 All this was was President Obama virtue signaling to the diversity first chorus on the left, which suggests that ideology and action have nothing to do with the result of your life.
00:18:18.000 And that's stupid.
00:18:20.000 It's truly stupid and it's damaging.
00:18:22.000 And yes, we should be looking at people's philosophy and ideology when we determine whether or not we think it makes them more or less dangerous.
00:18:28.000 There's not a person in America who would think that a neo-Nazi is less dangerous than a nun.
00:18:34.000 There's not a person in the United States.
00:18:35.000 All other things, that's the only information you have.
00:18:38.000 You know one's a neo-Nazi and one's a nun.
00:18:40.000 You would assume the neo-Nazi is more dangerous than the nun.
00:18:43.000 In the United States, if all you know about two people is that one is Muslim and one is Jewish,
00:18:48.000 By percentage, more Muslims than Jews are going to commit crimes of terror.
00:18:54.000 End of story.
00:18:56.000 Does that mean that every Muslim is a terrorist?
00:18:58.000 No.
00:18:58.000 It's amazing that we have to keep going over this point.
00:19:01.000 Because people are ignorant of how basic statistics work.
00:19:05.000 Not every Muslim is a terrorist, but if the vast majority of terrorists are Muslims, there might be something wrong with the philosophy.
00:19:11.000 There might be a hole in the philosophy that needs to be filled by Muslims.
00:19:14.000 And when Obama goes to mosques like this and makes excuses for Islam, what he's really doing is relieving the burden.
00:19:21.000 From moderate Muslims, or would-be moderate Muslims, to say anything.
00:19:24.000 And he's not even going to moderate Muslim areas.
00:19:26.000 He's not even going to a moderate Muslim mosque.
00:19:28.000 Take a poll inside that mosque.
00:19:29.000 Ask how many of those Muslims believe the state of Israel should have a right to exist.
00:19:33.000 I guarantee you, it's minute.
00:19:35.000 And there are Muslims, by the way, who believe that Israel has a right to exist.
00:19:38.000 But those people are sitting in jail over in Indonesia and Malaysia, and Obama doesn't have a damn thing to say about it.
00:19:43.000 The real moderate Muslims are under a lot of pressure out there in the world, and Obama doesn't care about them.
00:19:48.000 He only cares about suggesting that all American Muslims are perfectly safe and decent.
00:19:54.000 Most of them are.
00:19:54.000 The vast majority are.
00:19:57.000 That doesn't mean that we shouldn't understand how risk calculation works.
00:20:02.000 The insurance company, when it gives you insurance, it understands that there are more dangerous drivers and less dangerous drivers.
00:20:08.000 It's why they give different insurance rates.
00:20:10.000 Doesn't mean they're racist, doesn't mean they're sexist or homophobic.
00:20:12.000 It's called a statistic, gang.
00:20:15.000 Okay, on to the presidential race.
00:20:17.000 Donald Trump, he got bashed around for saying this, but this is the only true thing I think Donald Trump has said in the last month.
00:20:23.000 Donald Trump was asked about President Obama speaking at mosque, and here's what Trump had to say.
00:20:28.000 Your thoughts on President Obama went to a mosque today in Baltimore to talk about religious tolerance and to talk about the contributions Muslims have made in the United States.
00:20:38.000 Your thoughts about that?
00:20:41.000 I don't have much thought.
00:20:43.000 I think that we can go to lots of places.
00:20:45.000 Right now, I don't know, maybe he feels comfortable there.
00:20:48.000 We have a lot of problems in this country, Greta.
00:20:51.000 There are a lot of places he can go and he chose a mosque.
00:20:55.000 I saw that just a little while ago, and so that's his decision.
00:20:58.000 That's fine.
00:21:00.000 And people are getting all over him.
00:21:01.000 Maybe he feels comfortable in a mosque.
00:21:03.000 Obama says he feels comfortable in mosques.
00:21:05.000 Obama has said that he thinks the prettiest sound in the world is the sound of the muezzin call, which is the call to prayer, which by no objective standard is a pretty sound.
00:21:14.000 Okay, I can say this as somebody who doesn't actually enjoy Jewish prayer either.
00:21:18.000 Most prayer is not beautiful.
00:21:19.000 Christian prayer, actually, like when you sing your songs and do your happy dances, that's all good stuff.
00:21:24.000 I'm into it.
00:21:25.000 But Jewish prayer, most of it is incredibly boring and mumbly.
00:21:28.000 And the muezzin call is not objectively pretty.
00:21:32.000 But yes, Obama feels comfortable in mosque.
00:21:35.000 Yes, he does.
00:21:36.000 And he felt comfortable in Jeremiah Wright's church, which no one cares about.
00:21:39.000 He feels comfortable in all sorts of places, President Obama does.
00:21:42.000 The only place he doesn't really feel comfortable is with
00:21:45.000 You know, normal Americans in the middle of Tennessee who go to church and own guns and care about having their family left alone by the federal government.
00:21:52.000 Those people, he's not comfortable around.
00:21:54.000 But lots of diverse crowds, he's very comfortable around.
00:21:57.000 Okay.
00:21:58.000 Now, to the rest of the presidential news.
00:22:00.000 So, Bernie Sanders... So, first of all, Donald Trump has gotten a couple of big endorsements.
00:22:05.000 Number one, he got a big endorsement from Jimmy Carter, who came out and said that he liked Trump better than he liked Cruz because Trump is malleable and Cruz is not.
00:22:13.000 This is true.
00:22:14.000 So Palpatine has now endorsed Boba Fett.
00:22:17.000 And I guess that Trump should be excited.
00:22:19.000 I know that Ted Cruz is actually cutting an ad based on Jimmy Carter's endorsement of Trump.
00:22:23.000 Bernie Sanders says he wants Trump also.
00:22:26.000 So Bernie Sanders, he was at the debate last night.
00:22:29.000 It was a town hall event, rather.
00:22:31.000 And here's what Bernie Sanders, Larry David, old man screaming at the moon, had to say about Donald Trump.
00:22:37.000 So I think, and I would love the opportunity, frankly, I'm prejudiced, I want Trump to win the Republican nomination.
00:22:45.000 And I would love the opportunity to run against him.
00:22:48.000 I think we would win by a lot.
00:22:51.000 So, big endorsements from Bernie Sanders and Jimmy Carter for Donald Trump.
00:22:56.000 And by the way, the entire media is getting behind Donald Trump.
00:23:00.000 Trevor Noah, the least funny man in America.
00:23:02.000 He has a show on Comedy Central.
00:23:04.000 By the way, you're the first person, I think, we together right now are the first people other than Mathis who cut this clip to actually see tape of Trevor Noah doing things.
00:23:13.000 No one watches this show.
00:23:14.000 Here's Trevor Noah ripping into Ted Cruz saying that Ted Cruz stole Iowa.
00:23:19.000 This is Trump's case also.
00:23:20.000 Trump is still claiming that Iowa was stolen.
00:23:22.000 We'll get into that in a minute.
00:23:23.000 Here is Trevor Noah being dramatically unfunny as is his want.
00:23:27.000 Here we go.
00:23:28.000 So Ben Carson said he was cheated, and Trump says it's all about him.
00:23:32.000 And once again, everybody hates Cruz.
00:23:35.000 Last night, when CNN posted a news report that Ben was not continuing on to New Hampshire, our political team forwarded it to the members of our team.
00:23:47.000 But unfortunately, they did not then forward the subsequent story that was Ben's campaign clarifying that he was continuing the campaign and was not canceling the campaign.
00:23:58.000 And so I apologize to Ben for that.
00:23:59.000 My respect and admiration for Ben could not be higher.
00:24:03.000 Wow.
00:24:04.000 If this is what Ted Cruz does to his friends, it's no wonder Ted Cruz has no friends.
00:24:09.000 He's the slimiest person in the world.
00:24:12.000 I didn't want to say I didn't want... You know what I did when I was slimed.
00:24:17.000 I mean, at the end of the day, I guess the truth is there are some things about the campaign that you can predict.
00:24:24.000 Because now we know how the candidates will behave in the rest of the campaign.
00:24:28.000 Trump will try to make it about himself.
00:24:33.000 Oh.
00:24:33.000 Oh, nice.
00:24:34.000 Okay, okay.
00:24:35.000 Uh, Carson will just disappear.
00:24:40.000 And Cruz will sell his mother if it thinks it'll get him another five points.
00:24:46.000 Yes!
00:24:46.000 I'm the greatest!
00:24:48.000 Yeah!
00:24:48.000 Oh.
00:24:50.000 Well, that last part's accurate.
00:24:52.000 He is not, in fact, the greatest.
00:24:53.000 He is perhaps the worst comedian I have ever seen in my entire life.
00:24:56.000 He's awful at his job.
00:24:58.000 But this is the case the media want to lay out.
00:25:00.000 It's that Cruz is the bad guy in all of this.
00:25:01.000 Okay, to rehash yesterday, CNN reported that Ben Carson was canceling his scheduled stops in places like New Hampshire and South Carolina to travel down to Florida.
00:25:11.000 The Cruz campaign picked up on this, and they subsequently reported to everybody that he was taking a break from campaigning, tell everybody in Iowa that Ben Carson is probably getting ready to drop out, why don't they vote for Cruz?
00:25:23.000 And Carson yesterday held the most bizarre press conference.
00:25:25.000 I remember him holding a press conference when Donald Trump called him a literal pedophile.
00:25:29.000 He actually did that, if you remember back a few months.
00:25:32.000 But he held a press conference and he claimed that Cruz was being a bad Christian and all of this.
00:25:38.000 Ben Carson announced he was cutting 50 campaign staff.
00:25:42.000 40% of his campaign staff.
00:25:43.000 So yeah, he's quitting.
00:25:46.000 Yes, it's over.
00:25:48.000 And by the way, Ben Carson was the person who gave CNN the information in the first place, as CNN now admits, it says that he was taking a break from campaigning, which was true.
00:25:56.000 I mean, yesterday, just for Ben Carson's own clarification, he said that he was going back to Florida because he had to pick up some laundry.
00:26:02.000 Just for his own clarification, I sent him the addresses of all of the Macy's in the Manchester, New Hampshire area, as well as all of the dry cleaners in the Manchester, New Hampshire area.
00:26:11.000 It turns out there are dry cleaners and Macy's all over the United States, places you can buy clothes everywhere.
00:26:16.000 The one who's actually lying here, and it kind of pains me to say this because I think that Carson is generally an honest guy, is Ben Carson.
00:26:22.000 Because Ben Carson knew he was canceling his campaign, basically, and he didn't tell people before Iowa.
00:26:28.000 You're telling me that three days ago, five days ago, he didn't know he was going to cut 50% of his staff?
00:26:33.000 Of course he knew that.
00:26:34.000 And he held off until after Iowa, specifically because he wanted to push his campaign a little bit further down the road, raise a little bit more money, but he has no intention of winning New Hampshire.
00:26:43.000 He has no intention of winning South Carolina.
00:26:45.000 His campaign is over.
00:26:47.000 But it doesn't matter.
00:26:47.000 The people who are out to get Cruz are out to get Cruz.
00:26:50.000 And listen, there are plenty of reasons to feel that Ted Cruz is manipulative and terrible and all the rest of this stuff.
00:26:55.000 You want to feel that way?
00:26:56.000 That's your prerogative.
00:26:57.000 But this happens to be a particularly BS attack.
00:26:59.000 This happens to be a particularly BS attack.
00:27:02.000 Trump is still pushing it, by the way.
00:27:03.000 Here's Donald Trump saying that he won, but voter fraud took it away from him.
00:27:06.000 He was cheated!
00:27:07.000 Cheated, he tells you!
00:27:09.000 The polls had me down as winning a little bit.
00:27:13.000 And then when I came in second, it was sort of amazing.
00:27:16.000 Because the person who came in third, they're saying, oh, what a great result.
00:27:21.000 It was unbelievable.
00:27:23.000 I thought he won.
00:27:24.000 In fact, I saw something.
00:27:26.000 I actually thought that was Marco Rubio.
00:27:28.000 I thought he won.
00:27:29.000 I said, man, they're talking like unbelievably.
00:27:32.000 He came in third, more than 2,000 votes behind me.
00:27:35.000 That's a lot of votes.
00:27:37.000 That's a lot of votes.
00:27:38.000 And they said, he was right next to number two, right?
00:27:42.000 He wasn't.
00:27:43.000 So listen to this.
00:27:45.000 So they said, it was unbelievable.
00:27:48.000 It was unbelievable.
00:27:49.000 Came in third.
00:27:51.000 Now the guy that came in second, but actually I think I came in first, because if you take a look, okay?
00:27:59.000 You know.
00:28:02.000 Oh, that voter fraud.
00:28:03.000 You know, these politicians are brutal.
00:28:06.000 They're brutal.
00:28:08.000 They are brutal.
00:28:09.000 They are a bunch of dishonest cookies, I want to tell you.
00:28:12.000 That's one of the reasons I'm doing this.
00:28:14.000 It's one of the reasons.
00:28:23.000 But beyond that, you have Donald Trump saying there that it's voter fraud, as we explained yesterday.
00:28:28.000 In order for Ted Cruz to have defrauded, they can't find one voter, forget 6,000 voters, can't find one voter in Iowa who said he didn't vote for Carson and voted for Cruz because of what happened with this email thing about Carson quitting.
00:28:41.000 And as far as the voter mailer that everybody's making a big deal about, as I pointed out yesterday,
00:28:46.000 No one in America actually thinks if you didn't vote for Ted Cruz, you were going to jail or you were going to get fined.
00:28:51.000 No one thinks that.
00:28:53.000 But this is the narrative that they're pushing out there now.
00:28:55.000 And the media are full bore going after Cruz now.
00:28:58.000 The media would rather have Marco Rubio or Trump.
00:29:01.000 I mean, they would certainly prefer Trump.
00:29:02.000 They'd love Trump.
00:29:03.000 Trump raises the ratings.
00:29:04.000 If Trump is the nominee, they've got ratings from here to November easily.
00:29:08.000 If Rubio is the nominee, then they feel at least a little comforted because Rubio isn't as hard right and ideologue as Cruz is.
00:29:14.000 I think that he's conservative.
00:29:15.000 I don't think he's as conservative as Cruz, obviously based on his immigration record, among other things.
00:29:21.000 So the media are now going full bore after Cruz.
00:29:23.000 Stephen Colbert said something last night that is so unbelievably racist about Ted Cruz that if a Republican had said this sort of thing, this person would be off TV.
00:29:31.000 Here is Stephen Colbert last night.
00:29:34.000 But now, Donald Trump has moved on to accusing a white person of not being from America.
00:29:40.000 Isn't that progress?
00:29:41.000 Now that he's accusing Cruz, isn't that racial progress?
00:29:44.000 In some way, you've got to give me that.
00:29:46.000 Well, there would be racial progress, but real racial progress would be if a black man could say, if I stood in the middle of the street and shot somebody, I would still get votes.
00:29:58.000 That would be racial progress.
00:30:00.000 Okay, so he's talking to Michael Eric Dyson, who is legitimately a very stupid human being.
00:30:04.000 He's also a professor at Georgetown.
00:30:05.000 By the way, there is a black man in America who could, I've said this before, he could strangle someone on national TV and get votes.
00:30:10.000 His name is Barack Obama.
00:30:11.000 Okay, Obama did this in 2012.
00:30:14.000 Not the actual strangling, but he'd run everything else into the ground and he still won the election.
00:30:18.000 In any case, Colbert just drops that like it's no big deal, that Cruz is a white man from Cuba.
00:30:25.000 Okay, imagine if he said that about Julian Castro.
00:30:28.000 Imagine if he said that Barack Obama was actually a white guy from Hawaii.
00:30:31.000 Because the truth is, Barack Obama grew up a white guy in Hawaii.
00:30:34.000 Okay, Barack Obama is a half-black guy.
00:30:37.000 He grew up with his white grandparents in the least ethnically black state, one of the least ethnically black states in America, in Hawaii.
00:30:45.000 His black father was nowhere to be found.
00:30:48.000 He talks about this in dreams for my father.
00:30:49.000 His conflict between worlds.
00:30:51.000 But imagine somebody actually said that about Obama.
00:30:54.000 End of the world.
00:30:55.000 Say it about Cruz, no problem.
00:30:56.000 Important to note, 60%, 6-0% of all the votes in Iowa went to non-white candidates on the Republican side.
00:31:04.000 Right?
00:31:05.000 Ben Carson got 10, Cruz got 27, and Rubio got 23.
00:31:08.000 That's two Hispanics and a black guy winning 60% of a nearly all-white crowd of Iowa Republicans.
00:31:14.000 Have you seen that reported anywhere in the mainstream media?
00:31:17.000 Anywhere?
00:31:18.000 You got the first Hispanic to ever win a primary.
00:31:21.000 Has that been reported anywhere?
00:31:23.000 No, of course not, because Cruz isn't legitimately Hispanic.
00:31:26.000 The New York Times ran a piece today saying Cruz was not legitimately Hispanic, and neither was Rubio.
00:31:31.000 But the hatred for Cruz continues on pace.
00:31:34.000 Chris Matthews.
00:31:35.000 No Ben Shapiro show episode is full without a Chris Matthews quote.
00:31:39.000 Here's Chris Matthews on MSNBC bashing Ted Cruz because he couldn't have written this stuff himself, Ted Cruz.
00:31:45.000 Somebody had to write it for him.
00:31:46.000 He's a stupid white guy who's kind of Hispanic, but not really.
00:31:49.000 Oh my God, is there a black person?
00:31:50.000 I love black people.
00:31:51.000 Go.
00:31:52.000 Anyway, Trump tweeted today, quote, Ted Cruz didn't win Iowa.
00:31:56.000 He stole it.
00:31:57.000 And he also tweeted, the state of Iowa should disqualify Ted Cruz from the most recent election on the basis that he cheated.
00:32:04.000 A total fraud.
00:32:05.000 That's Trump.
00:32:06.000 Anyway, Ted Cruz hit back again today.
00:32:09.000 Here he is.
00:32:13.000 It is no surprise that Donald is throwing yet another temper tantrum, or if you like, yet another trumper tantrum.
00:32:20.000 It seems his reaction to everything is to throw a fit.
00:32:23.000 Donald's insults get more and more hysterical the more and more upset he gets.
00:32:28.000 And that's fine.
00:32:29.000 He can do that.
00:32:29.000 I'm not going to respond in kind.
00:32:32.000 Do you think they're funny?
00:32:33.000 I think they're very funny.
00:32:36.000 I wake up every day and laugh at the latest thing Donald has tweeted.
00:32:41.000 Because he's losing it.
00:32:43.000 Look, we need a commander-in-chief, not a twitterer-in-chief.
00:32:47.000 I don't know anyone who would be comfortable with someone who behaves this way having his finger on the button.
00:32:53.000 I mean, we're liable to wake up one morning and Donald, if he were president, would have nuked Denmark.
00:33:01.000 You know, let me just offer a little commentary here.
00:33:04.000 Yes, Trump's a little out of hand today because he's angry about losing, but every time I watch Cruz, I get the feeling somebody wrote this crap for him.
00:33:11.000 It can't possibly be coming out of a brain.
00:33:13.000 It can't be coming out of a brain.
00:33:14.000 Somebody wrote this crap for him.
00:33:16.000 I don't know what he's talking about.
00:33:17.000 I mean, I say crap all the time.
00:33:18.000 It comes out of my brain, but some people write stuff for me.
00:33:20.000 I mean, it's not a teleprompter.
00:33:22.000 If you think that there's no teleprompter in front of me when I'm talking, just look.
00:33:24.000 When I talk slowly, there's a teleprompter.
00:33:26.000 When I talk quickly and I slur my consonants together, you have no idea what I'm saying, but it's coming from my brain, my crazy head, the one that got up off this pillow two seconds ago without doing my hair, and I rolled in here, and I sat down in my rumpled suit.
00:33:38.000 Come on!
00:33:39.000 Chris Matthews.
00:33:41.000 Actually, that's not the best piece of TV today.
00:33:45.000 The best piece of TV today was this thing from Morning Joe, and this I actually want to spend a moment on, as though I don't spend enough moments on this particular program.
00:33:52.000 Here is Rick Santorum.
00:33:54.000 Rick Santorum, he dropped out of the race and he endorsed Marco Rubio yesterday.
00:33:57.000 This morning he was on, with Morning Joe, the worst television show on morning television.
00:34:03.000 It's Mika Brzezinski, who is just...
00:34:05.000 She seems like a nasty piece of goods, and Joe Scarborough, who's an equally nasty piece of goods, and they sit next to each other, and you can tell they despise one another.
00:34:13.000 I mean, they cannot stand one another.
00:34:15.000 But then they turn their ire to Republicans, and Joe Scarborough pretends to be Republican sometimes.
00:34:19.000 In any case, they sit there and they question Rick Santorum, and it gets real awkward.
00:34:23.000 They're asking about his endorsement of Marco Rubio.
00:34:25.000 Here we go.
00:34:27.000 What do you list as Marco Rubio's top accomplishment that made you decide to endorse him?
00:34:34.000 Well, I mean, I would just say that there's a guy who's been able to, number one, win a tough election in Florida and pull people together from a variety of different spots.
00:34:46.000 This is a guy that I think can work together with people.
00:34:51.000 That's the thing that I like about him the most, that he's someone who brings people together and at a time with
00:34:57.000 There's such divisiveness in Washington.
00:34:59.000 I was looking for someone that can win this election, and it wasn't a divider.
00:35:04.000 And I think that's the problem I have with everybody else in the field.
00:35:07.000 So he can win, but he's been in the Senate for four years.
00:35:10.000 Can you name his top accomplishment in the Senate, actually working in the Senate doing something that tilted your decision to Marco Rubio?
00:35:22.000 You know, here's what I would say about that.
00:35:25.000 My feeling on Marco is, someone who has tremendous potential, tremendous gifts, if you look at being a minority in the United States Senate in a year where nothing got done, I guess it's hard to say they're accomplishments.
00:35:38.000 Tell me, what happened during that four years that was an accomplishment for anybody?
00:35:42.000 It was a complete gridlock.
00:35:45.000 The Republicans have actually been in the majority for the past two years.
00:35:51.000 Can you name one thing that he's passed in the last two years?
00:35:56.000 Joe, look, the Republicans have been a majority for one year and one month, of which, as you know, he was running for president primarily.
00:36:03.000 The first four years, he was in the minority, and nothing got done.
00:36:06.000 And by the way, what happened this year under the Republicans that he got done?
00:36:10.000 Well, I mean, I could list some things that happened, but I'm not defending the Congress.
00:36:15.000 I mean, it might be difficult here.
00:36:16.000 I'm just asking you to name one accomplishment that Marco Rubio... No, I'm just saying the problem is... List one accomplishment.
00:36:22.000 Just one.
00:36:22.000 Just one that Marco achieved.
00:36:24.000 Maybe a bill that he wrote.
00:36:26.000 Maybe a moment in a committee.
00:36:29.000 Like, Jeb Bush ran Florida.
00:36:31.000 Donald Trump built a company.
00:36:32.000 Marco Rubio finished the sentence.
00:36:36.000 Marco Rubio was number one, the speaker of the Florida House.
00:36:40.000 Something that's a minor, minor deal.
00:36:42.000 I mean, he was elected by his colleagues.
00:37:10.000 Okay, that's not an accomplishment, but she says Jeb Bush was governor of Florida, and then she says that Donald Trump built a business.
00:37:15.000 Okay, first of all, if you're an executive in a state, it's easier to say you accomplished something because you're the executive of the state.
00:37:21.000 If you built a company, you can say you built a company because you built the company.
00:37:25.000 If you're a senator, very few senators can say they have accomplished something, and usually when they have, it's something unbelievably crappy.
00:37:31.000 Like John McCain, his signal accomplishment in the Senate was campaign finance reform.
00:37:36.000 A terrible accomplishment.
00:37:37.000 Right?
00:37:38.000 Mitt Romney, his big accomplishment as governor of Massachusetts was Romneycare.
00:37:42.000 A garbage accomplishment.
00:37:43.000 So I'm gonna make the case right now that I don't want politicians who have accomplishments.
00:37:47.000 I want politicians who generally have no accomplishments.
00:37:50.000 Because I don't care about accomplishments.
00:37:52.000 If you have them, great.
00:37:53.000 If you don't, I don't care.
00:37:54.000 Here's the fact.
00:37:55.000 Donald Trump built a business.
00:37:56.000 Does this qualify him to be president?
00:37:58.000 Absolutely not.
00:37:59.000 Bill Gates built a business that is 10 times, 100 times bigger than Donald Trump's business.
00:38:04.000 And I don't want him to be president because he's wrong on crap.
00:38:06.000 Just because you know how to build a business doesn't mean that you believe the right things for running the country.
00:38:11.000 And it turns out, the founders didn't want our politicians accomplishing things.
00:38:15.000 This was not their goal.
00:38:17.000 The Constitution is specifically designed to stop people from accomplishing things.
00:38:21.000 The more politicians accomplish, the more they invade your freedom.
00:38:24.000 The only way a politician can accomplish something is by taking something away from you.
00:38:28.000 They have nothing they can do on their own.
00:38:31.000 The only thing politicians do is legislate things about your life.
00:38:34.000 That's all they do.
00:38:36.000 So the best politicians to me are the presidents who didn't do anything, right?
00:38:40.000 Calvin Coolidge, not famous for his accomplishments.
00:38:43.000 Awesome president because he didn't do anything.
00:38:45.000 The only time that you actually need a president to do something is when he is rolling back all of the other stupid crap that the accomplishing presidents did in the first place.
00:38:54.000 And people say, how about Obama?
00:38:55.000 Isn't he a good example of somebody who didn't accomplish somebody and then he went in and he was terrible?
00:38:59.000 Yes, but he was terrible because he was an ideologue.
00:39:01.000 Not because he hadn't accomplished anything.
00:39:03.000 I liked him way better when he hadn't accomplished anything.
00:39:05.000 Now he's accomplished scrap.
00:39:06.000 I hate him way more.
00:39:07.000 His accomplishments are terrible, right?
00:39:09.000 I would prefer that he had not accomplished anything.
00:39:12.000 I prefer he'd gone through his entire administration and never accomplished anything.
00:39:15.000 So this whole question is dumb in the first place.
00:39:18.000 What have you accomplished as a politician?
00:39:20.000 What have you accomplished?
00:39:21.000 If I'm interviewing someone for CEO, I want to know what he's accomplished.
00:39:25.000 But being President of the United States is about having the right principles and staying out of our lives.
00:39:31.000 What I'd like to know, honestly, look, it's amazing to me.
00:39:33.000 Everybody was all over Romney in 2012.
00:39:35.000 Oh, he fired people.
00:39:36.000 He laid people off at Bain Capital.
00:39:38.000 That's a great accomplishment for being President.
00:39:41.000 I would like to see the President lay off three-quarters of the executive staff.
00:39:45.000 That would be a great accomplishment.
00:39:46.000 Not to build it up again.
00:39:47.000 I don't want it built up.
00:39:48.000 I want all those people fired.
00:39:49.000 I want them out.
00:39:50.000 I don't want to spend money on them.
00:39:51.000 They're a waste of time and space and money.
00:39:54.000 But there's this idea, and it really is nasty and counterproductive, that politicians are there to do stuff.
00:40:02.000 Politicians are not there to do stuff.
00:40:03.000 Politicians are there to protect my rights and leave me alone and stop other politicians from doing stuff.
00:40:09.000 This is why we have checks and balances.
00:40:11.000 If politicians were there to accomplish something, you could just have a bureaucracy that decides everything.
00:40:16.000 This has been the problem with the country for the last hundred years or so.
00:40:19.000 It was better when there were checks and balances, so that we didn't get anything done.
00:40:23.000 Getting nothing done was awesome.
00:40:25.000 People left us alone for the most part.
00:40:27.000 You can basically name on one hand in the United States the number of really vital, necessary pieces of legislation that were passed.
00:40:34.000 And they were usually passed as constitutional amendments.
00:40:37.000 And there was no dissent anyway, because it was passed by two-thirds of the Senate and three-fifths of the state.
00:40:42.000 So the whole thing is ridiculous.
00:40:44.000 So that sort of question is stupid.
00:40:46.000 By the way, you never hear anybody on the left ask, what is Hillary Clinton's big accomplishment?
00:40:51.000 Because her big accomplishments are all garbage.
00:40:54.000 She left Libya a smoking garbage heap.
00:40:56.000 She left Syria a trash fire.
00:40:59.000 Hillary Clinton is a disaster.
00:41:01.000 All of her accomplishments are counter-accomplishments.
00:41:04.000 In fact, even her own people will say this.
00:41:05.000 They'll say, oh, what's her biggest accomplishment?
00:41:07.000 She racked up more miles on her plane than any Secretary of State ever.
00:41:10.000 Right, great, so does luggage.
00:41:12.000 Doesn't mean anything.
00:41:14.000 So I actually get frustrated at this.
00:41:17.000 I don't know what Ted Cruz has accomplished.
00:41:18.000 Good, I don't need him to accomplish something.
00:41:20.000 The question is, will he stop people from doing things that ruin my life?
00:41:23.000 Right, that is the idea for me.
00:41:26.000 Donald Trump, I don't care whether he built a hotel in New York.
00:41:28.000 Why does that, what do I care?
00:41:30.000 Good for him.
00:41:31.000 Whatever.
00:41:32.000 I'm not interested in that.
00:41:34.000 I would vote for a consistent, conservative, homeless man who has never accomplished anything in his life but has never taken a dime from the federal government over Donald Trump.
00:41:45.000 I would.
00:41:45.000 Because Donald Trump is not a consistent conservative and he's taken money from the state government through eminent domain.
00:41:52.000 So I'm not gonna... This whole thing, he accomplished stuff, it's dumb.
00:41:56.000 It's dumb.
00:41:56.000 That's not the goal of the president.
00:41:57.000 It's not... Once the president went from basically a bureaucrat who would leave you alone to a popular celebrity rock star who was supposed to fix your life, that's when the country really went in the crapper.
00:42:08.000 Okay.
00:42:09.000 So.
00:42:10.000 A couple of more points, because after all...
00:42:13.000 Come on.
00:42:14.000 We're a little over time, but not even close, gang.
00:42:16.000 All right, so Hillary Clinton had her town hall last night, and the good news is that no matter how dysfunctional things become on the right side of the aisle, there's always Hillary there to bail people out.
00:42:26.000 Hillary Clinton was asked during this town hall whether she still believes in the vast right-wing conspiracy.
00:42:31.000 Here's Hillary Clinton on this.
00:42:33.000 You mentioned attacks on the early 90s.
00:42:35.000 Do you still believe there's a vast right-wing conspiracy?
00:42:38.000 Don't you?
00:42:40.000 Yeah, it's gotten even better funded.
00:42:44.000 You know, they brought in some new multi-billionaires to pump them.
00:42:49.000 And look, these guys play for keeps.
00:42:53.000 They want to control our country.
00:42:55.000 Senator Sanders and I agree on that completely.
00:42:58.000 They want to rig the economy so they continue to get richer and richer.
00:43:02.000 They could care less about income inequality.
00:43:05.000 They solve their consciences by giving big money to philanthropy and, you know, getting great pictures of them standing in front of whatever charity they donated to.
00:43:15.000 Okay, pause it right there for a second.
00:43:17.000 Hillary Clinton runs a charity that gets money from rich people.
00:43:22.000 And lots of rich people.
00:43:23.000 And lots of foreign nations, it turns out.
00:43:25.000 So she's the one providing them cover, and she says, oh, these multi-billionaires who control the economy.
00:43:31.000 One of the things
00:43:57.000 One of the things that Senator Sanders points to, and a lot of your critics point to, is you made three speeches for Goldman Sachs.
00:44:02.000 You were paid $675,000 for three speeches.
00:44:06.000 Was that a mistake?
00:44:07.000 Was that a bad error in judgment?
00:44:09.000 Look, I made speeches to lots of groups.
00:44:11.000 I told them what I thought.
00:44:12.000 I answered questions.
00:44:14.000 But did you have to be paid $675,000?
00:44:15.000 Well, I don't know.
00:44:18.000 That's what they offered.
00:44:22.000 You know, every Secretary of State that I know has done that.
00:44:26.000 To be honest, I wasn't committed to running.
00:44:28.000 I didn't know whether I would or not.
00:44:32.000 You didn't think you were going to run for president again?
00:44:36.000 I didn't.
00:44:37.000 You know, when I was Secretary of State several times.
00:44:39.000 Okay, we can pause it there.
00:44:40.000 She blew herself up right there, right?
00:44:42.000 Well, it's what they offered.
00:44:43.000 So she spends her... I can't be bought by the big business people, those big business people who are out to get me because they want to rig the economy.
00:44:48.000 I can't be bought!
00:44:50.000 So you took like $700,000 from those people.
00:44:52.000 Well, it's what they offered.
00:44:56.000 Okay, it's like an actual honest-to-God whore standing there saying, I can't be bought.
00:45:00.000 And they say, well, but you had a $1,000 night with that rich businessman from New York the other night.
00:45:06.000 I mean, it's what he offered.
00:45:07.000 I mean, I sort of had to take it, right?
00:45:08.000 He offered it.
00:45:09.000 I took it.
00:45:10.000 Come on, what am I going to do, turn the money down?
00:45:12.000 I can't be bought, though.
00:45:13.000 I can't be bought.
00:45:14.000 I mean, except for that.
00:45:14.000 Except for the whole being a whore thing.
00:45:16.000 Okay, it's just, it's unbelievable.
00:45:19.000 And she gets away with it.
00:45:20.000 She says, well, that's what they offered.
00:45:22.000 And everybody in the crowd laughs, all these Democrats, because they're all hypocrites.
00:45:26.000 They're all hypocrites.
00:45:27.000 And I think I've told this story before, but it's probably about three years ago now.
00:45:33.000 My wife and I were walking around in our neighborhood.
00:45:37.000 And we saw somebody who lived at the condo complex that we used to live in.
00:45:41.000 And we said, hello.
00:45:42.000 He's a liberal, obviously.
00:45:44.000 And so we started talking about, where do you, how's it working out with your nanny?
00:45:48.000 He said, how's your nanny working out?
00:45:49.000 We said, you know, it's good.
00:45:50.000 It's good.
00:45:50.000 It's a little expensive, but it's good.
00:45:52.000 In order to pay your nanny kind of going rate in the state of California and pay for all the taxes you're supposed to pay and to hire somebody who's legal, which is a major issue in California, you're paying somewhere between $40,000 and $50,000 a year for a nanny.
00:46:04.000 I mean, it's an actual expensive job.
00:46:07.000 And this guy says, well, you know, I just pay my help under the table.
00:46:13.000 I just pay my help cash, illegal immigrants, under the table.
00:46:16.000 And I thought to myself, you douchebag.
00:46:19.000 Like, you're the guy who votes for minimum wage has to apply to nannies.
00:46:23.000 You're the guy who says I have to pay higher taxes.
00:46:25.000 You're the guy who votes for all this stuff.
00:46:27.000 And then what do you do?
00:46:28.000 You're a hypocrite.
00:46:28.000 Because the rules don't apply to you.
00:46:30.000 You're allowed to pay cash under the table.
00:46:32.000 Listen, I'd be happy to pay anybody who's willing to do the job.
00:46:35.000 And this has always been my rule.
00:46:36.000 If you're willing to do the job and you're not taking money from the government, I am happy to pay you to do the job.
00:46:41.000 I don't care.
00:46:42.000 It's not my job to screen you.
00:46:43.000 It is my job to get the best possible help for my kid at the best available price.
00:46:48.000 People on the left say they don't believe this, but then they turn around and they hire people under the table while they're forcing people who actually abide by the law to pay more money.
00:46:55.000 This is Hillary Clinton.
00:46:57.000 And all the Democrats who are cheering for her.
00:46:59.000 Oh, Goldman Sachs is terrible.
00:47:00.000 Oh, Wall Street's awful.
00:47:01.000 Oh, Wall Street's in the thrall of Washington and Washington's being bought by Wall Street.
00:47:06.000 They gave you 600 debt?
00:47:06.000 Well, that's what they were offering.
00:47:10.000 Just douchebags.
00:47:11.000 It is amazing.
00:47:12.000 And this is why I think Sanders is climbing in the polls, as he should be.
00:47:16.000 Last night on Twitter, by the way, I did offer $1,000 to the Sanders campaign if Bernie Sanders will endorse slavery reparations.
00:47:23.000 I will give... I, honest to God, will sign a $1,000 check to the Sanders campaign if he endorses slavery reparations just because I want to see Hillary collapse into a pile of ash.
00:47:34.000 Because that's what actually would happen.
00:47:35.000 She's outlived her time in terms of, she's like a fairy tale character.
00:47:40.000 You know, it's one of those things, like at the end of Tangled, we have the person who's been kept on unnatural life support for prolonged periods of time, and then they sort of disintegrate as they fall out the tower toward the ground.
00:47:51.000 That's Hillary in politics.
00:47:53.000 Obviously she should live, she should be well, she should have a nice long life being a horrible person.
00:47:57.000 But beyond that,
00:47:58.000 You know, I just want to see her go down in flames politically because it is highly amusing to me.
00:48:02.000 By the way, Hillary Clinton, the lady who's ripping on Goldman Sachs there.
00:48:06.000 Oh, I didn't know what I was doing.
00:48:06.000 You know, I just take a little money from Goldman Sachs.
00:48:09.000 Same lady who says she's not in bed with Wall Street.
00:48:12.000 Here is a, um...
00:48:14.000 A picture of Hillary Clinton.
00:48:16.000 You can see she's there with her good friend Chuck Schumer, and she's there with Michael Bloomberg, and she's holding a shovel.
00:48:21.000 No, not to bury the bodies of the women her husband has raped.
00:48:25.000 No, this is a different shovel.
00:48:26.000 She's there holding a shovel because this is the groundbreaking for the Goldman Sachs building.
00:48:32.000 She was in the Senate at the time in 2005.
00:48:34.000 But no, she can't be bought.
00:48:39.000 Alright.
00:48:40.000 A couple of things that I like.
00:48:41.000 Well, a thing that I like, and then a couple of things that I hate.
00:48:44.000 Okay, so, a thing that I like.
00:48:45.000 I'm a big fan of science fiction.
00:48:47.000 There are very few really good science fiction books.
00:48:49.000 Most science fiction books are really quite terrible.
00:48:52.000 There are some fantasy books that are really good.
00:48:54.000 The best fantasy book of all time is actually not Lord of the Rings, which is overwritten.
00:48:59.000 The best fantasy book of all time is The Once and Future King by T.H.
00:49:01.000 White.
00:49:02.000 The second half of The Once and Future King by T.H.
00:49:04.000 White is absolutely magnificent, so you should take a look at that.
00:49:08.000 In terms of science fiction, the best science fiction book probably ever is one they just made into a series on sci-fi, which is Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke.
00:49:17.000 Really, really great book.
00:49:18.000 A very thought-provoking book.
00:49:20.000 And, you know, Clavin, I heard him talk about sci-fi the other day, and he was saying that he doesn't like sci-fi so much because it's not as much about character and it's more about ideas.
00:49:28.000 That's why I like sci-fi.
00:49:29.000 I like ideas and character.
00:49:31.000 It depends on the character, but...
00:49:33.000 Most people are not that interesting.
00:49:35.000 Ideas are more interesting, so... That's why I like nonfiction, philosophy, and sci-fi.
00:49:39.000 Okay.
00:49:40.000 A couple of things that... Well, one thing I hate.
00:49:42.000 We'll do one thing I hate.
00:49:44.000 Michael Eric Dyson, you saw, was on with Stephen Colbert.
00:49:46.000 And Michael Eric Dyson is a fast-talking dude.
00:49:50.000 I mean, this guy, he can fit more... He talks more quickly than I do, which is saying a lot.
00:49:55.000 And he says way less than I do, which isn't saying a lot, because come on.
00:49:58.000 You don't get better content anywhere on the internet than right here.
00:50:01.000 Here's Michael Eric Dyson last night on Colbert saying that what Republicans really want to do is go back in time like Marty McFly and kill Obama's parents.
00:50:09.000 Monkey, simian, witch, doctor.
00:50:12.000 Look at the racial overlay.
00:50:13.000 He's from Kenya.
00:50:14.000 Can we trust you?
00:50:15.000 There's all kinds of racial signification.
00:50:17.000 Oh, yeah.
00:50:17.000 43% of Republicans believe he's a Muslim, 15% of Democrats, and, like, 23% of independents.
00:50:22.000 Right.
00:50:23.000 As Jerry Seinfeld says, not that there's any problem with that, but the reality is, the guy's a Christian, he's been in the church for 20-some years, and he's been dismissed.
00:50:31.000 You know, the Republicans don't believe in abortion, but they want to retroactively remove him from birth.
00:50:36.000 They want to distance him from his own body.
00:50:38.000 And I think, look,
00:50:39.000 When you think about the fact... What does that even mean?
00:50:44.000 The idiot crowd cheers.
00:50:45.000 They want to retroactively remove him from... What does that even mean?
00:50:49.000 What are you talking about?
00:50:51.000 Do they want to go back and separate his parents and he disappears while he's playing Johnny B. Goode or something?
00:50:55.000 What are you talking about?
00:50:56.000 This doesn't even make sense, what he's saying.
00:50:58.000 By the way, you want to know why most... Why not most?
00:51:01.000 Why many Americans think Obama's a Muslim.
00:51:03.000 He's not, by the way.
00:51:04.000 He's an atheist.
00:51:05.000 The reason that they think that President Obama is a Muslim is because President Obama, the only time he speaks with reverence about religion is when he is speaking about Islam.
00:51:13.000 Every time he talks about Christianity, it is only to rip on Christianity in the past so that he can excuse the activities of Islam.
00:51:20.000 President Obama grew up in a Muslim country in Indonesia.
00:51:23.000 President Obama is clearly very warm toward Islam as a philosophy.
00:51:27.000 He's not a Muslim, by the way.
00:51:28.000 He's not.
00:51:29.000 But that's why people think he is, wrongly.
00:51:31.000 And what I find really amusing here is you got Michael Eric Dyson saying, No, he's been a Christian.
00:51:35.000 He's a Christian for decades.
00:51:37.000 But we can't talk about his church.
00:51:39.000 Right?
00:51:39.000 He's a Christian, but the minute you mention Jeremiah Wright, you're a racist.
00:51:42.000 I mean, by the way, who's been calling Obama a simian or a monkey?
00:51:46.000 Has anybody been doing that?
00:51:48.000 I missed it.
00:51:48.000 If you are, you're racist.
00:51:49.000 Don't do it.
00:51:51.000 I missed the vast swaths of people who have been doing this.
00:51:55.000 Michael Eric Dyson, he's like a spoken word artist when he does the whole, he's from Kenya, can we trust him?
00:52:02.000 Very clever.
00:52:02.000 Okay, Eggie Eggs.
00:52:04.000 Okay, finally.
00:52:07.000 Let's do a couple of letters from the mailbag.
00:52:09.000 What the F?
00:52:10.000 I mean, we're so far beyond time now.
00:52:11.000 Alright, so here we go.
00:52:15.000 Here is a letter from a guy named Jared.
00:52:18.000 He says, Dear Ben, could you use your advice right now?
00:52:20.000 I'm in a feud with one of my university professors dealing with Ta-Nehisi Coates reparations and institutional racism.
00:52:26.000 Yes, I know.
00:52:26.000 I'm stupid and went against one of your rules for debating leftists.
00:52:29.000 Correct.
00:52:30.000 Don't do it.
00:52:31.000 But he continues, and he talks about, he says, what should I do?
00:52:36.000 He says, I've used facts about black imprisonment rates and everything like that.
00:52:40.000 She's quoting Ta-Nehisi Coates to justify her stance that racism continues to this date and all that nonsense.
00:52:44.000 Do I slap on a Bernie Sanders button, act like a good little socialist, and preach white privilege?
00:52:49.000 Monday, she'll probably try to put me in a Gatya moment to prove her point.
00:52:52.000 Any tips?
00:52:53.000 Okay.
00:52:54.000 So, Jared, number one,
00:52:58.000 Think about your grade.
00:52:58.000 That's the only thing that matters here.
00:53:01.000 When you engage in a conversation, you first have to assess whether the conversation is worth it.
00:53:05.000 And look, we're talking creatures.
00:53:06.000 We're people who love community.
00:53:08.000 We like to talk with one another.
00:53:09.000 But if you're smart, what you ought to do is before every conversation, except the ones with your spouse, which half of those will be useless, but in the end, you know, it'll be fun.
00:53:19.000 Aside from family and spouse,
00:53:21.000 You should assess whether a conversation is worth it as a general matter before you engage in the conversation.
00:53:27.000 If this conversation is going to end with you getting a bad grade, slap on the Bernie Sanders button, act like a good little socialist, get the A, then make a lot of money, become a trustee of the university, and get this broad fired.
00:53:36.000 Do that.
00:53:37.000 That's a better plan.
00:53:38.000 If your goal is to humiliate her in front of a lot of people, then you should probably ask her why it is.
00:53:44.000 Does she think that white privilege has become more of an issue or less of an issue over the last 50 years?
00:53:48.000 And if it's become less of an issue, then why is it that black single motherhood rates are up, poverty rates are up, lack of education is up, and crime is up?
00:53:56.000 These would all be good questions.
00:53:57.000 So you can start with those.
00:53:59.000 Okay.
00:54:00.000 This one from Roy in Colorado.
00:54:02.000 How bad does debt really concern him?
00:54:19.000 Well, okay, the fact is that, Roy, I appreciate the note, he doesn't care about debt that goes to the country because he thinks that he's just gonna murder the rich people and use their entrails to pay the debt.
00:54:29.000 That's basically Bernie Sanders' plan.
00:54:30.000 As we mentioned yesterday, he is going to take their heads, and he's going to put them on pikes, and he's going to rob their anuses for all their money, and then he's going to wobble them around like in Tropic Thunder, and then we will sing Reading Rainbow as we march in a circle.
00:54:46.000 That is the plan for relieving the national debt.
00:54:49.000 So he doesn't care.
00:54:50.000 National debt all goes to the rich people, as opposed to those poor, starving, artiste students.
00:54:55.000 Mm-hmm.
00:54:57.000 Okay, question from George.
00:55:03.000 Fair.
00:55:03.000 He usually has a conservative on his panel in some attempt to provoke discussion and to appear fair.
00:55:08.000 I've often wondered why you are not on that panel.
00:55:10.000 Are you not asked or do you refuse?
00:55:12.000 I'm not asked.
00:55:13.000 That's the answer.
00:55:14.000 I would go on Bill Maher's show, but leftists don't like having me on their shows, particularly if those shows are live, because it ends poorly for leftists.
00:55:21.000 I have a long history of this.
00:55:22.000 I'll go to YouTube, find any show I have ever appeared on with a leftist live.
00:55:26.000 It does not end well for the leftist, and so usually what ends up happening is
00:55:30.000 One of two things.
00:55:31.000 They don't know who I am, they invite me on and it goes poorly, or they realize who I am and they don't invite me at all.
00:55:35.000 Those are the two options that are usually out there.
00:55:40.000 There's a reason I haven't been invited back on Dr. Drew.
00:55:42.000 Right?
00:55:42.000 Even though, by the way, Dr. Drew's people apparently are telling some of my friends who appear on Dr. Drew that the most attention the Dr. Drew show on HLN ever got was the time that I appeared on that show.
00:55:52.000 But that's okay.
00:55:53.000 Dr. Drew's a smoking garbage heap of a host.
00:55:55.000 He's just a garbage host on a garbage network with a garbage show.
00:55:58.000 So, I don't really care.
00:55:59.000 I have more people who watch this show than actually watch Dr. Drew's show.
00:56:03.000 Dr. Drew is... What a terrible host.
00:56:06.000 You know?
00:56:07.000 Just point of fact.
00:56:08.000 I just have to note this.
00:56:10.000 One time he, I know he's friendly with Adam Carolla, they do a show together, but Dr. Drew, Adam had me call into his show one time, Dr. Drew was on it, you can look this up on the internet, and Dr. Drew actually said to me that the incident that I had on Dr. Drew's show, he said, nobody even would have noticed it if you hadn't covered it over at Breitbart.
00:56:27.000 And I said to him, if your case is that you run an incredibly crappy show that no one watches, I agree.
00:56:34.000 I mean, it's just, it is amazing.
00:56:37.000 Okay, one last letter here.
00:56:55.000 Is this calculation accurate or a misrepresentation?
00:56:58.000 Can you comment on the ethics of that stat, assuming that it is accurate?
00:57:01.000 These stats are always conveyed as negative and are the types of examples which seem to be a big part of Bernie Sanders' message.
00:57:06.000 For what it's worth, I'm British.
00:57:08.000 I live in the U.S.
00:57:09.000 Watching you trounce Piers Morgan is still one of my favorite TV moments.
00:57:13.000 Okay, so, is that statistic accurate?
00:57:15.000 To the best of my knowledge, that is an accurate statistic.
00:57:17.000 That the average CEO makes 272 times as much as the average worker, but that it's not the average CEO.
00:57:25.000 It's the average CEO.
00:57:26.000 The average of all CEO incomes is probably 272 times that of the average worker, meaning that if the CEO of one company makes $400,000 a year and you have one CEO who's making
00:57:37.000 20 million dollars a year, then they average those two, and the average CEO salary is now whatever halfway between those two points is.
00:57:45.000 The average CEO salary is now 10 million dollars.
00:57:47.000 That doesn't mean the average, there's a difference between median and average, in other words.
00:57:50.000 And so that statistic is a little bit skewed, because the truth is most CEOs are CEOs of small businesses, and they aren't making that much money.
00:57:57.000 But beyond that, it's always funny, you never hear people on the left say, the average NBA player makes 400 times what the average employee of the same basketball team makes.
00:58:06.000 You never hear that, because everybody understands what generates the value is the basketball player.
00:58:11.000 Everybody understands that what generates the value, theoretically, is the CEO.
00:58:15.000 Now there's a good case to be made that the CEO
00:58:19.000 ...is not the one generating all the value, that CEOs are overrated in terms of their importance, that's a case that you can make to various boards, and the boards will either take it seriously or not, and then they can maybe hire somebody for cheaper.
00:58:31.000 That's fine.
00:58:31.000 That's their call.
00:58:32.000 But it's a voluntary transaction.
00:58:34.000 And by the way, if you fire the CEO of McDonald's, who makes, I think, $10 million a year, and redistribute his income, everybody who works for McDonald's will make, like, three bucks more a year.
00:58:42.000 So, it won't help anything.
00:58:44.000 You can't just redistribute income from one to the other.
00:58:47.000 It is amazing how they use income inequality as their measure.
00:58:51.000 You hear Hillary say, income inequality is the worst thing ever.
00:58:54.000 Okay Hillary, give up all your money now.
00:58:57.000 I agree, it's terrible.
00:58:58.000 Give up all your money.
00:58:59.000 You're worth a hundred million dollars, you and your husband.
00:59:01.000 You're gonna sit there lecturing the rest of us about income inequality?
00:59:04.000 Or maybe you took the money from Goldman Sachs because when someone offers you money in a voluntary transaction, you're allowed to take it.
00:59:11.000 One is true or the other is true.
00:59:13.000 You don't get to lecture us all about income inequality and then take as much money as you want as soon as it's offered.
00:59:19.000 If the transaction is voluntary and it's a good transaction, you have nothing to whine about.
00:59:22.000 If not...
00:59:24.000 Then you better give up all your wealth because you are cheating everyone else according to your own lights and your own standards.
00:59:29.000 Okay, we have indeed, this is officially the longest episode of The Ben Shapiro Show ever.
00:59:35.000 Get a few sad sighs there and one half-hearted yay.
00:59:38.000 And we've reached the end of the week.
00:59:41.000 Next week, there will be much more to talk about.
00:59:43.000 We'll have a day before the New Hampshire primaries.
00:59:47.000 Those happen on Monday, but we'll have a Republican debate to rehash.
00:59:50.000 We'll have a Democratic debate to rehash.
00:59:52.000 And presumably Donald Trump will have actually spontaneously combusted at that point, and we'll have to talk about what's left of his singed mane.
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