The Ben Shapiro Show - Ep. 68 - #BeyonceHalfTimeSoBlack

00:00:00.000 And here we are.

00:00:01.000 It's a Monday.

00:00:01.000 So much to talk about from the Republican debate.

00:00:03.000 New Hampshire is tomorrow. 1.00

00:00:04.000 Plus, Beyonce shakes her ass in racist fashion. 1.00

00:00:08.000 Seriously! 1.00

00:00:09.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:00:10.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:00:11.000 Well, this is going to be a slam-packed, jam-packed show.

00:00:22.000 Yeah, Mathis over here who had to spend the last nine hours cutting audio just so that we could do this show.

00:00:26.000 I know that he's going to be eager for us to get to each and every clip that he cut to justify the amount of sweat equity that he put into this particular episode.

00:00:34.000 And so we will jump right in.

00:00:35.000 We'll start with the Republican debate that happened last Saturday night.

00:00:39.000 First of all, please, all of you people, stop holding debates on Saturday night.

00:00:44.000 You're ruining my weekend.

00:00:45.000 I'm one of the people who has to watch this stuff.

00:00:47.000 I figured it started like 530 or five o'clock Pacific time.

00:00:52.000 I thought it started at 6 Pacific Time, so Sabbath didn't end until about 6.15, so I couldn't watch TV until then.

00:00:58.000 I flip on the TV, I figure, okay, I've got two hours in front of me.

00:01:00.000 Then, the pleasant shock that I'd already missed the first hour, and then it still went on for two hours.

00:01:06.000 So there was just no escape.

00:01:08.000 Well, the debate had some real ramifications, but first we'll start off with... I've said that this entire Republican race is becoming a circus.

00:01:17.000 It's a complete crap show. 1.00

00:01:18.000 It's turned into a bunch of monkeys hitting each other with sticks. 1.00

00:01:22.000 And ABC News got into the routine at the very beginning.

00:01:28.000 Here is what the beginning of this debate looked like, and it's actually kind of funny.

00:01:33.000 So let's welcome the candidates for the Republican nomination for president.

00:01:37.000 New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.

00:01:42.000 Dr. Ben Carson.

00:01:45.000 And with Ben Carson looking confused, why aren't you going out on stage, doctor?

00:01:50.000 Well, zoom in, zoom out.

00:01:53.000 And he's still not going anywhere.

00:01:55.000 Everybody's confused.

00:01:57.000 What are you doing?

00:01:59.000 Oh, no, no, no.

00:01:59.000 He's going to stop, wasn't he?

00:02:00.000 You'd think he's going, but no, he stopped.

00:02:02.000 Here comes Ted Cruz.

00:02:03.000 Ted's confused.

00:02:03.000 Ted just walked right by him.

00:02:06.000 Ben Carson accuses him of cheating by walking out on stage first.

00:02:11.000 And they're telling him to go, and Ben Carson's just standing there doing nothing.

00:02:14.000 He's like, well, you know, I like it back over here.

00:02:16.000 Trump comes over.

00:02:17.000 Trump's confused now.

00:02:19.000 What's going on?

00:02:20.000 And there goes Rubio just boom right over the fast lane.

00:02:23.000 Jeb's in the background being, but Jeb always looks confused.

00:02:26.000 Jeb is just sitting back there looking confused and now you got three of them sitting backstage.

00:02:34.000 Here comes Jeb, he walks right past him.

00:02:35.000 I don't know what you guys are doing, you're just sitting back, you're doing nothing.

00:02:39.000 And there are Trump and Carson, just hanging out.

00:02:46.000 Well, well, four of the seven is Republican.

00:02:51.000 And they'll introduce them again.

00:02:54.000 And there's Trump, and he's just waiting.

00:02:59.000 And lastly, we welcome back to the debate stage, Donald Trump.

00:03:04.000 For the third time, here comes Trump.

00:03:06.000 Okay.

00:03:07.000 And finally, John Kasich air chopping his way out.

00:03:10.000 Nobody knows why this is happening this way.

00:03:13.000 Can I introduce Kasich?

00:03:15.000 Yes, yes, we're going to introduce Ohio Governor John Kasich.

00:03:20.000 And here comes John Kasich.

00:03:22.000 Descending on a rope from the ceiling, Fruit Ninja style.

00:03:27.000 So finally they all make it out. 0.98

00:03:28.000 And this was only the beginning of the crap show, folks. 0.99

00:03:30.000 This is where the crap show started. 0.99

00:03:32.000 This is not where it ended. 0.98

00:03:34.000 So, disaster area just to get it started.

00:03:37.000 And yeah, this is just highly competent stuff.

00:03:41.000 Alright, so the person who was apparently hurt most by the debate, according to most of the media commentators, was Marco Rubio.

00:03:47.000 That's because Marco Rubio has two things going for him.

00:03:50.000 He's very smooth, he's great at rhetoric, and he's supposed to be good on defense.

00:03:55.000 He's supposed to be sort of like Floyd Mayweather boxing.

00:03:57.000 Not a fantastic offensive game, but can slip punches really well.

00:04:02.000 Well, he screwed both of those up when Chris Christie body-slammed him. 0.98

00:04:07.000 And you don't want to be pile-driven by Chris Christie.

00:04:09.000 Of all the people on stage, that's the last person you want jumping from that third rope down on top of you.

00:04:14.000 And Chris Christie, basically, he attacks Rubio.

00:04:17.000 He says, you're never in the Senate.

00:04:18.000 I don't even know, you know, what have you done?

00:04:20.000 What do you do for a living, basically?

00:04:23.000 And Marco Rubio ends up repeating the same line three times in the space of 45 seconds as Chris Christie is calling him out for being too robotic.

00:04:31.000 Here is what that looked like.

00:04:33.000 You heard Senator Rubio make the case that he does have the experience.

00:04:36.000 Your response?

00:04:37.000 Sure.

00:04:38.000 First, let's remember something.

00:04:40.000 Every morning when a United States Senator wakes up, they think about what kind of speech can I give or what kind of bill can I drop.

00:04:46.000 Every morning when I wake up, I think about what kind of problem do I need to solve for the people who actually elected me.

00:04:52.000 It's a different experience.

00:04:53.000 It's a much different experience.

00:04:55.000 And the fact is, Marco, you shouldn't compare yourself to Joe Biden.

00:04:59.000 And you shouldn't say that that's what we're doing.

00:05:00.000 Here's exactly what we're doing.

00:05:02.000 You have not been involved in a consequential decision where you had to be held accountable.

00:05:06.000 You just simply haven't.

00:05:08.000 And the fact is... The fact is, when you talk about the Hezbollah Sanctions Act that you list as one of your accomplishments and just did, you weren't even there to vote for it.

00:05:20.000 That's not leadership, that's truancy.

00:05:22.000 The fact is that what we need to have in this country is not to make the same mistake we made eight years ago.

00:05:28.000 The fact is it does matter when you have to make decisions to be held accountable for them.

00:05:31.000 It does matter when the challenges don't come on a list of a piece of paper of what to vote yes or no every day, but when the problems come in from the people that you serve.

00:05:39.000 I like Marco Rubio.

00:05:41.000 And he's a smart person and a good guy.

00:05:43.000 But he simply does not have the experience to be President of the United States and make these decisions.

00:05:47.000 We've watched it happen, everybody.

00:05:49.000 For the last seven years, the people of New Hampshire are smart.

00:05:52.000 Do not make the same mistake again.

00:06:01.000 I think the experience is not just what you did, but how it worked out.

00:06:05.000 Under Chris Christie's governorship of New Jersey, they've been downgraded nine times in their credit rating.

00:06:10.000 This country already has a debt problem.

00:06:12.000 We don't need to add to it by electing someone who has experience at running up and destroying the credit rating of his state.

00:06:18.000 But I would add this.

00:06:18.000 Let's dispel with this fiction that Barack Obama doesn't know what he's doing.

00:06:23.000 Exactly what he's doing.

00:06:25.000 He is trying to change this country.

00:06:27.000 He wants America to become more like the rest of the world.

00:06:29.000 We don't want to be like the rest of the world.

00:06:31.000 We want to be the United States of America.

00:06:33.000 And when I'm elected president, this will become, once again, the single greatest nation in the history of the world.

00:06:38.000 Not the disaster Barack Obama... Okay, so, number one.

00:06:41.000 He starts off, and he actually clocks Christie pretty well with that...

00:06:45.000 Talk about how Christie has spiraled the debt.

00:06:48.000 It's important to mention, Rubio's already said this line once, right?

00:06:51.000 So the line that he's saying right here, he's already said this about 15 minutes earlier.

00:06:55.000 The thing about Obama knows what he's doing.

00:06:57.000 And it's true Obama knows what he's doing, but it feels scripted, right?

00:06:59.000 So here's where Christie comes back at him and Rubio just collapses into a sobbing mess.

00:07:03.000 Here we go.

00:07:04.000 Barack Obama has imposed upon us.

00:07:06.000 Senator Rubio, thank you.

00:07:07.000 I do want to bring in Governor Bush on this because you've made this... Hold on one second.

00:07:09.000 Excuse me.

00:07:09.000 If you'd like to respond to the economic... I didn't get a chance to respond.

00:07:12.000 You see, everybody, I want the people at home to think about this.

00:07:15.000 That's what Washington, D.C.

00:07:16.000 does.

00:07:17.000 The drive-by shot at the beginning with incorrect and incomplete information and then the memorized 25-second speech that is exactly what his advisors gave him.

00:07:31.000 See, Marco, the thing is this.

00:07:34.000 When you're president of the United States, when you're governor of a state, the memorized 30-second speech where you talk about how great America is at the end of it doesn't solve one problem for one person.

00:07:43.000 They expect you to plow the snow.

00:07:45.000 They expect you to get the schools open.

00:07:47.000 And when the worst natural disaster in your state hits, they expect you to rebuild their state, which is what I've done.

00:07:52.000 None of that stuff happens on the floor of the United States Senate.

00:07:54.000 It's a fine job.

00:07:55.000 I'm glad you ran for it.

00:07:57.000 But it does not prepare you for president of the United States.

00:08:04.000 Chris.

00:08:06.000 Chris, your state got hit by a massive snowstorm two weeks ago.

00:08:09.000 You didn't even want to go back.

00:08:10.000 They had to shame you into going back.

00:08:12.000 And then you stayed there for 36 hours, and then he left and came back to campaign.

00:08:17.000 Those are the facts.

00:08:18.000 Here's the bottom line.

00:08:19.000 This notion that Barack Obama doesn't know what he's doing is just not true.

00:08:21.000 There it is.

00:08:22.000 He knows exactly what he's doing.

00:08:23.000 There it is.

00:08:24.000 The memorized 25-second speech.

00:08:25.000 Oh, that's the reason why this campaign is so important.

00:08:28.000 Because I think this notion, I think this is an important point.

00:08:30.000 Okay, so you can stop it there.

00:08:31.000 And that's when, you know, Christie has him on the ropes.

00:08:35.000 And the problem is that Christie's using a tactic on him that I've used in debate too, which is he's calling out Rubio's tactic before Rubio actually uses it, so it looks like he's been programmed.

00:08:45.000 And it's true, this has always been the rap on Rubio, is that Rubio is shallow, Rubio doesn't have a lot to say, Rubio doesn't have a real fundamental philosophy, and so he goes to his talking points a lot.

00:08:56.000 There's also something deeper here, which is if you're a conservative, and you're thinking, there's somebody I don't want pushed around, meaning not just pushed around like somebody's gonna make fun of you,

00:09:04.000 But somebody who is not going to feel weak when he's hit.

00:09:10.000 This isn't that.

00:09:11.000 Right?

00:09:12.000 The rap on Rubio has always been that in 2012 he went the wrong way on the Gang of Eight amnesty bill.

00:09:17.000 He's elected in 2010, in 2012 he goes the wrong way on the Gang of Eight because he's pressured.

00:09:22.000 And then there's pressure from the other side and he reverses himself and gets off the Gang of Eight immigration bill.

00:09:27.000 And so the idea has always been with Rubio that if you pressure him too hard one way, that he'll tend to collapse.

00:09:32.000 And Christy sort of proved it there.

00:09:34.000 Now if I push him too hard here, he just goes back to his talking points.

00:09:37.000 He's got nothing.

00:09:38.000 He's got nothing.

00:09:39.000 So I think there's a gaffe that's actually going to hurt Rubio because it goes to his central flaw, which is that he's too rehearsed.

00:09:45.000 And I actually agree that he's too rehearsed.

00:09:48.000 Does that mean that he's the worst candidate in the field?

00:09:50.000 No.

00:09:50.000 Does it mean that he's an irreparably damaged candidate?

00:09:53.000 No.

00:09:53.000 But it does go to the fact that Rubio, and I've always felt this about Senator Rubio, he is a beta.

00:09:59.000 He's not an alpha male.

00:10:01.000 Christy's an alpha male, for all the flaws of Christy, which we'll get into in a second.

00:10:04.000 Christy's an alpha male.

00:10:05.000 Rubio's a beta.

00:10:06.000 And going up against Hillary Clinton, I'm not sure that a beta does well.

00:10:10.000 I know people keep saying that Rubio's the most electable.

00:10:12.000 I'm not sure I see it.

00:10:14.000 I'm not sure I see it.

00:10:14.000 He seems like a less edgy version of Mitt Romney to me when I watch him in debate.

00:10:19.000 A smoother, kinder, less edgy version of Mitt Romney?

00:10:22.000 I'm not sure that's gonna cut it against the most vicious politician of my lifetime other than Barack Obama.

00:10:27.000 Okay, so here's the other problem that I have with these debate formats.

00:10:30.000 They tend to feature moments like the one you just saw, Christie vs. Rubio, over the content.

00:10:34.000 So there's one point at which Chris Christie, who is widely considered to have done very well in the debate because he face-planted Rubio, he said something that is so egregiously wrong and nasty.

00:10:44.000 And it makes your head kind of swim.

00:10:45.000 So, he goes after Rubio on abortion.

00:10:47.000 He says Rubio is too pro-life.

00:10:49.000 Rubio is not in favor of abortion exceptions for rape and incest.

00:10:54.000 Which is a perfectly legitimate position.

00:10:56.000 It's a position that makes logical sense, because you can think that rapists ought to be castrated or killed, but that babies are babies, and they ought not be killed, no matter what the circumstance.

00:11:05.000 That's my opinion on this.

00:11:07.000 And Rubio basically says that, and Christie comes back at him, and what Christie says about abortion is so

00:11:13.000 He's been claiming he's pro-life.

00:11:15.000 This is the least pro-life statement you will ever hear from a Republican.

00:11:18.000 Chris Christie.

00:11:19.000 I've been pretty helpful to the pro-life cause in one of the most pro-choice states in the union.

00:11:23.000 I stood up for the first time, and now for the last six years we've defunded Planned Parenthood.

00:11:27.000 Not talked about it like they do in Washington, D.C., but for six years as governor, Planned Parenthood does not receive that funding from the state budget anymore.

00:11:35.000 Over $50 million worth of money that's been saved now that is not going to do exactly what Hillary Clinton wants to have done, has advocated for. 1.00

00:11:43.000 She believes that that organization, which engages in the systematic murder of children in the womb,

00:11:48.000 In order to maximize the value of their body parts for sale on the open market is an acceptable position.

00:11:53.000 Let me tell you something.

00:11:53.000 I don't care whether you're a millennial or whether you're in your 90s.

00:11:56.000 No one, no one is for that type of activity unless you are the most radical type of extremist on this issue like Senator Clinton and her party is on this issue.

00:12:06.000 I'll say one other thing. 0.74

00:12:07.000 The fact is that I believe that if a woman has been raped,

00:12:12.000 That is a birth and a pregnancy that she should be able to terminate. 1.00

00:12:17.000 If she is a victim of incest, this is not a woman's choice. 0.84

00:12:22.000 This is a woman being violated. 1.00

00:12:23.000 And the fact is that we have always believed, as has Ronald Reagan, that we have self-defense for women who have been raped and impregnated because of it, or the subject of incest and been impregnated for it.

00:12:34.000 That woman should not have to deliver that child if they believe that violation is now an act of self-defense by terminating that pregnancy. 1.00

00:12:41.000 I mean, that's an amazing statement.

00:12:43.000 Active self-defense against whom?

00:12:45.000 Not self-defense against the rapist.

00:12:47.000 Right? 0.94

00:12:47.000 Killing the baby doesn't do anything to the rapist. 0.94

00:12:50.000 I believe in the right to self-defense against the rapist. 1.00

00:12:51.000 I think the woman should shoot him. 1.00

00:12:53.000 But as far as the baby, the idea that it's self-defense against the baby is truly an astonishing statement from a Republican. 0.98

00:13:00.000 He skated on this.

00:13:01.000 Nobody notices this.

00:13:02.000 Because when it comes to content at these debates, they matter way less than the optics of the debates.

00:13:06.000 And this is the problem that I have.

00:13:08.000 It's a problem I have with politics.

00:13:09.000 It's not just the debates.

00:13:10.000 It's true for all of politics.

00:13:11.000 President Obama, during the Super Bowl, he did an interview before the Super Bowl and after the Super Bowl.

00:13:15.000 He's a celebrity president.

00:13:16.000 This is the culture we've created.

00:13:18.000 But that's a terrible answer and actually a really immoral answer by Governor Christie right there.

00:13:23.000 The idea that you have self-defense rights against a fetus.

00:13:27.000 No, that only applies if the fetus is killing you.

00:13:29.000 That's why I'm for exceptions in case the life of the mother is endangered.

00:13:32.000 Legitimately endangered.

00:13:33.000 Not a health problem, a life problem. 0.95

00:13:36.000 But to say that you have self-defense rights against a baby is beyond ridiculous.

00:13:40.000 Okay, so, one of the things that's happened, you may have noticed, is that as these debates go forward, I become more and more disgusted with everyone.

00:13:46.000 Like, all of the people.

00:13:47.000 I'm not sure who I'm most disgusted with.

00:13:49.000 So, you got Rubio, who gaffes. 0.94

00:13:51.000 You got Christie, who is just a scuzzbucket.

00:13:53.000 I mean, Chris Christie on Sunday, there's now a picture of him hugging Hillary Clinton.

00:13:57.000 They were both on ABC, and I guess they saw each other in the green room, and they were hugging it out.

00:14:00.000 He's a hugger.

00:14:01.000 And then you got Donald Trump, and Trump is gonna win New Hampshire tomorrow.

00:14:04.000 He's up by 20 points in the polls, dominating everybody.

00:14:07.000 Here is Donald Trump at the debate.

00:14:08.000 So here's the good of Donald Trump, and then we'll get to the bad of Donald Trump.

00:14:11.000 So the good of Donald Trump, here's Donald Trump on waterboarding.

00:14:15.000 Senator Cruz, thank you.

00:14:16.000 Mr. Trump, you said not only does it work, but that you'd bring it back.

00:14:19.000 Well, I'll tell you what. 0.97

00:14:20.000 In the Middle East, we have people chopping the heads off Christians. 0.99

00:14:26.000 We have people chopping the heads off many other people. 0.84

00:14:30.000 We have things that we have never seen before.

00:14:33.000 As a group, we have never seen before what's happening right now.

00:14:38.000 The medieval times.

00:14:39.000 I mean, we studied medieval times.

00:14:41.000 Not since medieval times have people seen what's going on.

00:14:44.000 I would bring back waterboarding, and I'd bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding.

00:14:50.000 Okay, so this is what people like about Trump.

00:14:53.000 I do have to say, when he says we learned from medieval times, I have a feeling that Donald Trump actually went to the restaurant Medieval Times and watched the jousting, and that's how he learned about medieval history.

00:15:03.000 But, what he says there is basically right.

00:15:05.000 No one in America cares whether we waterboard terrorists.

00:15:07.000 You gotta be kidding me.

00:15:08.000 This is a left talking point that no one cares about.

00:15:11.000 Do whatever you have to do to get the information.

00:15:13.000 And then, Trump slams the audience at one point during the debate, and this is also vintage Trump, it's why people like Trump.

00:15:19.000 So here's Trump going after the audience when they boo him.

00:15:21.000 A lot of times, you'll have, you'll have, and it doesn't work very well with me.

00:15:26.000 How tough is it to take away a property from an elderly woman? 0.98

00:15:28.000 Let me talk.

00:15:29.000 Quiet.

00:15:30.000 How tough is it?

00:15:31.000 Every debate, man.

00:15:34.000 Every single debate.

00:15:37.000 That's all of his donors and special interests out there.

00:15:41.000 So, that's what it is.

00:15:44.000 And by the way, let me just tell you, we needed tickets.

00:15:46.000 You can't get them.

00:15:47.000 You know who has the tickets?

00:15:48.000 I'm talking about to the television audience.

00:15:51.000 Donors, special interests, the people that are putting up the money.

00:15:58.000 The RNC told us we have all donors in the audience and the reason they're not loving me

00:16:04.000 The reason they're not, excuse me, the reason they're not loving me is I don't want their money.

00:16:08.000 I'm gonna do the right thing for the American public.

00:16:11.000 I don't want their money, I don't need their money, and I'm the only one up here that can say that.

00:16:16.000 Okay, that's actually Donald Trump's best line of the debate, and it's very effective because he is very wealthy.

00:16:20.000 Now, Donald Trump also has spent the weekend saying he agrees with Bernie Sanders on trade, that he doesn't want to increase the defense budget, that he wants to move left on a variety of issues.

00:16:32.000 He's moving pretty significantly to the left now, and there's a good shot that if he wins New Hampshire, the establishment moves behind him just because they have no other options.

00:16:40.000 So, what you just saw is the good side of Trump.

00:16:42.000 Here is the bad side of Trump.

00:16:43.000 Here is Donald Trump on making deals.

00:16:45.000 Why we're supposed to trust him that he can make good deals.

00:16:48.000 What would you say to those conservatives who are concerned that a dealmaker will just perpetuate the same deals in Washington

00:16:55.000 Oh.

00:16:55.000 Oh, okay.

00:17:13.000 You have to be able to get a consensus.

00:17:16.000 Now, the real person, like it was mentioned about the deal with Iran, how bad a deal is that?

00:17:23.000 It doesn't get any more amateurish than that.

00:17:26.000 A good dealmaker would never make a deal like that.

00:17:28.000 With Congress, you have to get everybody in a room, and you have to get them to agree.

00:17:33.000 But you have to get them to agree what you want, and that's part of being...

00:17:37.000 You can't leave the White House, go to Hawaii and play golf for three weeks, and be a real deal maker.

00:17:42.000 It doesn't work that way.

00:17:44.000 You have to get people in, grab them, hug them, kiss them, and get the deal done.

00:17:49.000 But it's gotta be the deal that you want.

00:17:52.000 That's also Bill Clinton's strategy for dating. 1.00

00:17:53.000 I mean, that's amazing stuff.

00:17:56.000 So Donald Trump, again, highly specific in his prescriptions as to how he's going to do good deals.

00:18:01.000 Hugging, kissing, touching of appropriate or inappropriate nature, all included in that.

00:18:07.000 Folks, Donald Trump is—but here's the thing. 0.98

00:18:10.000 Donald Trump is a loudmouth. 1.00

00:18:11.000 He's a bloviating blowhard. 0.99

00:18:13.000 All these things, right? 0.96

00:18:14.000 He's not even a conservative.

00:18:15.000 But Donald Trump is who Donald Trump is.

00:18:18.000 And what's happening over the course of these debates is that Trump is actually getting stronger because Trump is who Trump is.

00:18:23.000 Rubio is being unmasked as a guy who's on the talking points all the time.

00:18:27.000 Jeb was unmasked very early as a weakling. 0.72

00:18:29.000 Chris Christie's being unmasked as a liar on his own policies.

00:18:33.000 And then the thing that I think has been most damaging is the guy who I like the best in this race, Ted Cruz.

00:18:38.000 Ben Carson

00:18:39.000 has done something to Ted Cruz that is really quite disreputable.

00:18:43.000 So, we talked about it last week, okay?

00:18:46.000 Ben Carson told CNN he was going on break, that he was going to go back to Florida to pick up shirts or something, and he was not going to go to South Carolina or New Hampshire before South Carolina and New Hampshire, he was just going to go back to Washington, D.C.

00:18:58.000 CNN played the tape and they said that, on the tape of CNN, they talk about this is very important, it obviously signifies that something big is happening,

00:19:06.000 You know, if you want to win, you don't do this.

00:19:07.000 In other words, the campaign is basically over.

00:19:09.000 The Cruz campaign let all of their precinct captains know that Carson was taking a break from campaigning and to let people know that Carson was basically out.

00:19:16.000 Shift your votes to Cruz.

00:19:18.000 Carson then came back and he said, no, no, no, I'm not out.

00:19:20.000 I'm not out.

00:19:21.000 And CNN tweeted that, but they didn't say it on the air until past nine o'clock Eastern time.

00:19:26.000 In any case, Carson effectively is out of the race and he has been out of the race for since before Iowa.

00:19:31.000 He fired half his staff the week after Iowa.

00:19:34.000 But Carson won't let this go.

00:19:35.000 And this is the part that I don't like.

00:19:37.000 So Ben Carson, I think, has gone this far in the Republican race because people believe that he's a good man, an honest man.

00:19:44.000 They believe he's a religious, honest, good man.

00:19:46.000 And so, when he uses the power of his character and he puts it up against somebody else's character,

00:19:51.000 People tend to believe Ben Carson, even though I think that what Carson's doing here is actually pretty cynical.

00:19:56.000 And this is just because I'm a political insider in the sense that I know what people in politics do.

00:20:00.000 I know how campaigns work.

00:20:02.000 Ben Carson has raised more money than virtually every other candidate on the grassroots level.

00:20:06.000 He's raised a lot of money from the grassroots.

00:20:08.000 He has a massive, incredibly large email list.

00:20:11.000 He's cutting down his staff.

00:20:13.000 We're good to go.

00:20:32.000 And so he's staying in the race beyond when his campaign is viable.

00:20:35.000 His campaign is no longer viable.

00:20:37.000 But he's using this Cruz controversy in order to propel himself forward in the campaign, even though he has no shot at victory.

00:20:44.000 But he can do Cruz heavy damage, because the rip on Cruz has always been that Cruz is manipulative, he'll do anything to get ahead.

00:20:50.000 And Carson basically face-planted him on this.

00:20:52.000 On Saturday night made Cruz look very bad, even though Cruz actually says only things that are true here.

00:20:57.000 CNN protested, but Cruz is saying only things that are true.

00:20:59.000 Here's Cruz versus Carson.

00:21:01.000 Well, you know, when I wasn't introduced number two, as was the plan, I thought maybe he thought I already had dropped out.

00:21:11.000 But, you know, today is the 105th anniversary or

00:21:17.000 I will say that I was very disappointed that members of his team thought so little of me.

00:21:44.000 That they thought that after having hundreds if not thousands of volunteers and college students who sacrificed their time and were dedicated to the cause, one even died.

00:21:59.000 To think that I would just walk away ten minutes before the caucus and say, forget about you guys.

00:22:06.000 I mean, who would do something like that?

00:22:08.000 No, I don't think anyone on this stage would do something like that.

00:22:11.000 And to assume that someone would, what does that tell you?

00:22:17.000 Unfortunately, it did happen.

00:22:19.000 It gives us a very good example of certain types of Washington ethics.

00:22:27.000 Washington ethics basically says, if it's legal, you do what you need to do in order to win.

00:22:34.000 That's not my ethics.

00:22:36.000 My ethics is you do what's right.

00:22:38.000 Okay, so he cites Ronald Reagan's 11th commandment.

00:22:43.000 He says he cites Ronald Reagan's 11th commandment.

00:22:45.000 Don't attack other Republicans.

00:22:46.000 And I won't savage the character of the man standing next to me. 1.00

00:22:49.000 But what a douchebag! 0.99

00:22:51.000 I mean, look at this guy! 1.00

00:22:52.000 Liar, cheater, what a terrible guy! 0.99

00:22:55.000 This actually damages Cruz because the widespread perception of Cruz is that Cruz is willing to say anything to get ahead. 1.00

00:23:01.000 So if you look at this stage, I mean, we've got the photo here, right, of the still.

00:23:05.000 So you've got Chris Christie, right? 0.98

00:23:06.000 Chris Christie's a liar. 0.97

00:23:07.000 You got Ben Carson. 0.99

00:23:07.000 Carson's done, but his campaign is the walking dead. 0.99

00:23:10.000 It's just the dead man walking.

00:23:11.000 You got Ted Cruz, who just got savaged by Carson.

00:23:14.000 You got Donald Trump in the middle there, looking tall and big. 0.98

00:23:17.000 You got Marco Rubio, who just got his butt handed to him by Chris Christie. 0.80

00:23:20.000 You got Jeb, who's been toast for a long time. 0.78

00:23:22.000 And you got John Kasich, who's standing off to the side fruit chopping things.

00:23:25.000 So, the only person on the stage who didn't get attacked, really, there are only two people on the stage who really escaped attack on Saturday night.

00:23:32.000 John Kasich, who will probably finish second in New Hampshire, and Donald Trump.

00:23:37.000 And Donald Trump, right?

00:23:38.000 So Donald Trump continues to slide, just sliding along the surface of life, skimming along the surface of life.

00:23:44.000 So here's what's going to happen tomorrow.

00:23:45.000 In all likelihood, Trump wins big.

00:23:47.000 After Trump, it's anybody's ballgame.

00:23:49.000 They're basically a bunch of polls that show a bunch of people all together, everybody on the on the left-hand side of the stage.

00:23:57.000 So Cruz, Rubio, Bush, and Kasich are all bunched together at 10 to 12 percent.

00:24:02.000 So it could be any of those people coming in second or third.

00:24:04.000 If Rubio really gets clocked and finishes fourth, he's got a real problem on his hands.

00:24:07.000 He may be done.

00:24:08.000 If Jeb finishes third, Jeb could be back in it because the establishment is looking for a guy.

00:24:12.000 So tomorrow means an awful lot in terms of where we end up in this race.

00:24:18.000 All of that said, all of this is really disappointing because how much time actually got spent talking about important policies?

00:24:23.000 How much time actually got spent talking about Hillary Clinton and what Democrats are doing?

00:24:27.000 Very little.

00:24:28.000 Very little.

00:24:29.000 Most of it was spent savaging each other and savaging each other in the least productive ways possible. 0.95

00:24:35.000 After the debate, by the way, the ridiculousness continued. 0.88

00:24:39.000 Marco Rubio tried to explain away.

00:24:41.000 This is the other problem Rubio has.

00:24:42.000 Every time he tries to explain something away, it gets worse.

00:24:45.000 He's sort of like the kid who stole the cookie from the cookie jar.

00:24:47.000 And you say, well, what did you do?

00:24:48.000 Instead of just saying, well, I stole the cookie.

00:24:50.000 Well, you know, the dog ate it.

00:24:51.000 He said, we don't have a dog.

00:24:52.000 Well, the dog next door.

00:24:53.000 Well, that dog died.

00:24:55.000 He just digs himself deeper and deeper.

00:24:57.000 So, George Stephanopoulos, who, by the way, why does any Republican do an interview with George Stephanopoulos?

00:25:03.000 George Stephanopoulos literally said, I love you, Hillary Clinton.

00:25:07.000 He literally said those words, making him the only human being in existence ever to have said that.

00:25:12.000 Okay?

00:25:13.000 And he is sitting across from Marco Rubio, interviewing him like he's an objective journalist, looking like the overgrown Keebler elf here.

00:25:19.000 And Rubio, you're gonna hear, he doubles down on the why I repeated myself routine.

00:25:23.000 Here we go.

00:25:24.000 Senator Marco Rubio joins us live right now.

00:25:27.000 What went wrong?

00:25:28.000 Well, actually, I would pay them to keep running that clip because that's what I believe passionately.

00:25:33.000 It's one of the reasons why I'm not running for re-election to the Senate and I'm running for president.

00:25:37.000 This notion and this idea that somehow all this is an accident.

00:25:41.000 Obamacare was not an accident.

00:25:43.000 Dodd-Frank was not an accident.

00:25:44.000 The deal with Iran was not an accident. 0.56

00:25:45.000 But you're getting pounded for repeating that speech.

00:25:47.000 Well, look, we raised more money last night in the first hour of that debate than any other debate.

00:25:52.000 As far as that message, I hope they keep running it.

00:25:54.000 And I'm going to keep saying it because it's true.

00:25:56.000 Barack Obama, yes, has he hired incompetent people to implement laws and run agencies?

00:26:01.000 Absolutely.

00:26:02.000 But when it comes to what he's trying to do to America,

00:26:05.000 It's part of a plan.

00:26:06.000 He has said he wanted to change the country, he's doing it in a way that is robbing us of everything that makes us special.

00:26:11.000 I'm gonna keep saying that because that not only is it the truth, it is at the core of our campaign.

00:26:14.000 But even after Chris Christie called you out for what he called canned speeches, 25 second canned speeches, you repeated again, he says, there you go.

00:26:21.000 Again, that was not a good moment for you, was it?

00:26:22.000 It's what I believe.

00:26:23.000 And it's what I'm going to continue to say because it happens to be one of the main reasons why I am running.

00:26:28.000 This is a great history of mankind.

00:26:30.000 Okay, so he keeps saying this and then he's going to go back into it again.

00:26:33.000 Okay, so it's just none of this is really good for Marco Rubio.

00:26:37.000 There's not really a good answer is the truth.

00:26:39.000 Once you've been called out like that, you may as well just say, I flubbed it.

00:26:42.000 You know, it's over.

00:26:43.000 I shouldn't have.

00:26:44.000 But I guess the rule is you never apologize and you never compromise.

00:26:49.000 Again, all of this just makes Republicans look bad.

00:26:51.000 What's amazing about this is on the other side of the aisle is the weakest Democratic candidate that maybe I have ever seen.

00:26:58.000 Hillary Clinton, if you remember back to last Thursday night, last Thursday night there was a debate between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.

00:27:03.000 We didn't really get a chance to comment on it because we don't do the podcast on Fridays.

00:27:07.000 Don't worry, I get a lot of questions about this.

00:27:08.000 We will be doing a podcast on Fridays very soon.

00:27:11.000 It'll be a crossover podcast, so it'll be me and Clavin and we'll chat about things.

00:27:15.000 He'll be an optimist, I'll be a pessimist.

00:27:17.000 He'll be wrong and I'll be right, because pessimism is always right.

00:27:20.000 And anyway, on Thursday night, this is what Hillary Clinton, she was asked about her Goldman Sachs speeches.

00:27:26.000 She gave speeches worth $675,000 to Goldman Sachs, and she has transcripts of those speeches.

00:27:32.000 It turns out she, in her contract, requires there be a transcriptionist, a stenographer there, to actually write down everything that she says.

00:27:39.000 And she has all the rights to those transcripts.

00:27:41.000 And she was asked about this during the debate, and here's what she said.

00:27:45.000 Are you willing to release the transcripts of all your paid speeches?

00:27:48.000 We do know, through reporting, that there were transcription services for all of those paid speeches.

00:27:53.000 In full disclosure, would you release all of them?

00:27:56.000 I will look into it.

00:27:57.000 I don't know the status, but I will certainly look into it.

00:28:00.000 But I can only repeat what is the fact, that I spoke to a lot of different groups with a lot of different constituents, a lot of different kinds of members, about issues that had to do with world affairs.

00:28:12.000 I probably described more times than I can remember.

00:28:16.000 How stressful it was advising the president about going after Bin Laden.

00:28:20.000 Oh my god.

00:28:21.000 So my view on this is, look at my record.

00:28:25.000 Okay, you can pause it there.

00:28:28.000 So Hillary says, I'll look into it, and then she cites Bin Laden.

00:28:31.000 It's amazing what Democrats can get away with, right?

00:28:33.000 Giuliani got run off the rails in 2008 because people said he kept citing 9-11.

00:28:37.000 Because he was the mayor on 9-11.

00:28:40.000 Hillary Clinton had nothing to do, nothing to do with any of this stuff. 1.00

00:28:43.000 9-11, Bin Laden, she cites it all the time.

00:28:47.000 All the time.

00:28:48.000 For no reason.

00:28:48.000 But she says, yeah, I'll look into releasing those transcripts.

00:28:51.000 Well, yesterday, she was asked about releasing the transcripts.

00:28:54.000 Again, this is clip 13.

00:28:56.000 And what she said about releasing the transcripts was this, to her good, again, George Stephanopoulos is interviewing her.

00:29:02.000 How is this legal, for God's sake?

00:29:04.000 I mean, I understand it's legal, we have a First Amendment.

00:29:06.000 How does anyone, it's amazing to me, he can interview her.

00:29:09.000 They were basically making love on the backstage in 1992 after her husband was elected president.

00:29:16.000 And now he's interviewing her like he's an objective journalist, one-on-one.

00:29:20.000 It's unbelievable.

00:29:21.000 Anyway, here's Hillary Clinton. 1.00

00:29:22.000 She says, remember she said, I'll look into it?

00:29:25.000 Here's what looking into it constituted for Hillary Clinton. 0.96

00:29:27.000 Here we go.

00:29:27.000 In the debate the other night, you said you'd look into whether or not to release the transcripts of your speeches to financial groups.

00:29:33.000 Have you made up your mind?

00:29:35.000 Yeah, you know, here's another thing I want to say.

00:29:37.000 Let everybody who's ever given a speech to any private group, under any circumstances, release them all, release them at the same time.

00:29:44.000 You know,

00:29:45.000 I don't mind being the subject in the Republican debates, the subject in the Democratic primary.

00:29:52.000 That kind of goes with the territory.

00:29:54.000 I've been around long enough.

00:29:55.000 But at some point, these rules need to apply to everybody.

00:30:00.000 And there are a bunch of folks, including my opponent, who's given speeches to groups.

00:30:05.000 Okay, we can pause it there.

00:30:06.000 So Jeb's given speeches.

00:30:07.000 Everybody has to be held accountable to the same rules.

00:30:09.000 First of all,

00:30:10.000 Hillary always has her own set of rules. 1.00

00:30:12.000 She had her own private server. 1.00

00:30:13.000 She's a criminal. 1.00

00:30:14.000 She's a felon. 1.00

00:30:15.000 Okay? 0.96

00:30:16.000 And she's gonna get away with it because she's Hillary Clinton. 1.00

00:30:18.000 The fact is, no one's asked for Jeb's speeches because no one cares what Jeb said at any point in his life.

00:30:24.000 No one cares.

00:30:25.000 Hillary's gonna be the nominee, and Hillary was speaking to Wall Street, and she's the one who mandated there be transcripts. 0.75

00:30:31.000 She's a terrible candidate. 1.00

00:30:32.000 She's a terrible candidate. 1.00

00:30:34.000 Because a good candidate would say, sure, I'll just release him.

00:30:36.000 Right?

00:30:36.000 Why not?

00:30:37.000 What are you going to find in there that I have?

00:30:38.000 If she has nothing to hide, then she has nothing to hide.

00:30:41.000 By the way, why can't they, they can probably just go ask the people at Goldman Sachs what exactly Hillary Clinton said to them.

00:30:46.000 This will come out sooner or later.

00:30:48.000 She's trying to hide it because this is her nature.

00:30:50.000 She is Nixonian.

00:30:51.000 She has to hide everything.

00:30:52.000 And when she is targeted,

00:30:54.000 In 1960, Richard Nixon said, you know, they're not going to have Richard Nixon to kick around anymore.

00:31:00.000 And in 1958, he gave the Checkers speech where he basically said, yeah, everybody's coming after me and my little dog Checkers over here.

00:31:05.000 She is Richard Nixon. 0.93

00:31:07.000 And so she says, not only do the rules not apply to her, that she's special.

00:31:10.000 The only reason people are mean to her is because she's a woman. 1.00

00:31:14.000 So back at the, in the debate on Thursday night, she was asked about whether she was a member of the democratic establishment.

00:31:19.000 There is no person on earth

00:31:22.000 But that said, do you think that the coverage of you is sexist?

00:31:23.000 Do you think that when male pundits say things like that, they have a different standard for you?

00:31:26.000 I don't want to single anybody out, Jake.

00:31:51.000 We are still living with a double standard. 0.53

00:31:55.000 And I know it.

00:31:56.000 Every woman I know knows it, whether you're in the media as a woman or you're in the professions or business or politics.

00:32:06.000 And I don't know anything other to do than just keep forging through it and just taking the slings and arrows that come with being a woman.

00:32:14.000 What a tough life she leads. 1.00

00:32:15.000 You know, sometimes I talk soft, sometimes I get passionate, and I get a little bit excited.

00:32:20.000 I don't know any man who doesn't do the same thing.

00:32:23.000 And I find it sort of interesting that all of a sudden this is a big discussion about me once again.

00:32:29.000 I'm so used to this.

00:32:30.000 I'm going to keep making my case.

00:32:32.000 I'm going to keep talking about what I will do as president.

00:32:34.000 Okay, lady, quiet it down. 1.00

00:32:36.000 So everybody's a sexist who says that she should 1.00

00:32:40.000 Stop screaming during her speeches because it's shrill and annoying, which it is, and everybody's only attacking her because she's a woman. 1.00

00:32:49.000 So what does she do to push this meme forward? 0.65

00:32:51.000 You remember back in 2008, she did the same thing.

00:32:54.000 In New Hampshire, she cried.

00:32:56.000 She brought up the tears in 2008 so that she could stay competitive because it looked like Obama might beat her in New Hampshire.

00:33:01.000 So Hillary Clinton now, she's saying that the only reason people are targeting her is not because she's deeply corrupt, not because she's secretive, not because she's shrill, not because she's grating, not because she's annoying, but because she's just the same as everybody else, but she's a woman. 1.00

00:33:16.000 It's funny, you know, when we say shrill, there's certain female candidates we've never called shrill. 0.98

00:33:20.000 Dianne Feinstein, for example, is not shrill.

00:33:22.000 Dianne Feinstein's terrible. 0.65

00:33:23.000 She's a senator from California. 0.93

00:33:24.000 She's my senator. 0.54

00:33:25.000 Dianne Feinstein's awful. 0.99

00:33:26.000 She's not shrill. 0.94

00:33:28.000 Hillary Clinton is shrill. 0.99

00:33:29.000 Shrill has a meaning.

00:33:30.000 And in the dictionary, under that word, is a picture of Hillary Clinton.

00:33:34.000 And we're supposed to pretend that it's all because she's a woman.

00:33:36.000 It's getting so bad.

00:33:37.000 How bad is her campaign?

00:33:38.000 Her campaign is so bad that she's now trotting out 97-year-old Bill Clinton. 0.99

00:33:43.000 Who looks more and more like Hugh Hefner every day. 0.99

00:33:46.000 Just in terms of like, doddering around in her bathrobe, mumbling to himself and grabbing his genitals. 0.99

00:33:51.000 Bill, she's trotting him out on the campaign trail to call Bernie Sanders a sexist. 1.00

00:33:56.000 So here's Bill Clinton saying that Bernie Sanders is a sexist.

00:34:00.000 And I mean, Bill looks two steps away from death. 0.97

00:34:02.000 I mean, he really looks terrible.

00:34:04.000 Really awful.

00:34:05.000 For people who can't see this, he looks like Bill Murray when Bill Murray makes himself up like a zombie in Zombieland.

00:34:12.000 Here's Bill Clinton.

00:34:14.000 Former President Bill Clinton unleashing a blistering, no-holds-barred attack on his wife's rival, Bernie Sanders, going after Sanders' health care plan.

00:34:23.000 Is it good for America?

00:34:24.000 I don't think so.

00:34:24.000 Is it good for New Hampshire?

00:34:25.000 I don't think so. 0.78

00:34:26.000 Labeling Sanders as dishonest and hypocritical in his criticism of the financial sector he so often rails against. 0.73

00:34:33.000 Anybody who takes money from Goldman Sachs couldn't possibly be president.

00:34:37.000 He may have to tweak that answer a little bit.

00:34:39.000 Either that or we're going to have to get us a write-in candidate. 0.59

00:34:42.000 The former president's words were stinging, blasting the Vermont senator and his supporters for what he called inaccurate and sexist attacks, including Bernie Bros, the mobs of Sanders supporters who use crude language to attack Hillary Clinton backers online.

00:34:58.000 People who have gone online to defend Hillary and explain, just explain why they supported her, have been subject to attacks that are literally too profane often

00:35:09.000 Not to mention sexist.

00:35:11.000 To repeat.

00:35:12.000 Sanders disavowing such tactics.

00:35:15.000 Anybody who is supporting me is doing sexist things is... We don't want them.

00:35:21.000 I don't want them.

00:35:22.000 Okay, stop it right there. 1.00

00:35:23.000 Somebody should ask Bill Clinton if those tactics include holding a woman down on a bed and raping her. 1.00

00:35:28.000 Okay, or if those tactics include sequestering a woman off the side of the Oval Office and sexually abusing her, as he did to Kathleen Willey. 0.99

00:35:36.000 Or whether those tactics include having your wife intimidate your rape victims, like Juanita Broderick. 1.00

00:35:43.000 My goodness, what a terrible candidate Hillary is, and anybody with a- I mean, if Bernie Sanders had a set on him, he would actually say this. 0.99

00:35:49.000 Bernie Sanders is trying to run the all-positive campaign, but it would behoove him at some point to mention the fact that Bill Clinton is not exactly a warrior for women.

00:35:59.000 He's a warrior against women. 1.00

00:36:00.000 So this is what's frustrating to me about the whole Republican primary process.

00:36:04.000 With every debate, all of the Republicans tear away at each other like vultures, tearing away flesh.

00:36:09.000 And the Democrats keep building each other up, even though they're all incredibly weak.

00:36:12.000 Okay.

00:36:14.000 Time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.

00:36:16.000 The things I hate will be the Super Bowl edition things I hate, with all that that implies.

00:36:21.000 Things I like, I'm in the middle of a movie called Black Mass with Johnny Depp, haven't seen the rest of it yet, about halfway through, so far so good.

00:36:27.000 Alright, things I hate.

00:36:29.000 Alright, so, I watched the Super Bowl yesterday.

00:36:31.000 My dad and I usually get together every year and watch the Super Bowl.

00:36:36.000 And so, all I want when I watch the Super Bowl is to watch the football.

00:36:42.000 I watch the commercials because this has become sort of a cultural totem, it's become a cultural hallmark, everybody wants to watch the commercials, and that's fine, that's great, except I have to say the commercials have been steadily, in my lifetime, getting worse and worse.

00:36:53.000 I mean, the commercials are basically all just sex jokes, and monkeys, and pets, like, ooh, people like monkeys, let's put that in a commercial!

00:37:00.000 Well, what about, what about babies?

00:37:01.000 People like babies too, let's put that in- how about we'll have a monkey baby dog? 0.90

00:37:05.000 Which they actually did, in a commercial yesterday.

00:37:08.000 The commercials were really quite terrible, but what I really, really hate, what I really hate is that the left has decided that every cultural event has to now be dominated by leftism.

00:37:19.000 All of them.

00:37:19.000 They have to be dominated by leftism.

00:37:21.000 So imagine, for example, that you had a Super Bowl, and it took place in Texas, and there was a country singer, and the country singer surrounded himself, during the Super Bowl halftime show, with a bunch of kids who were holding Bibles, and a bunch of women who were holding crosses.

00:37:34.000 Imagine if we did that.

00:37:35.000 And let's say that, you know, for example, there's a bunch of white people, and they're also twirling rifles. 0.77

00:37:41.000 Right?

00:37:41.000 Like, we do sometimes at parades.

00:37:44.000 Wouldn't—do you think that the media would have a field day with that?

00:37:46.000 Oh, you bet the media would have a field day. 0.86

00:37:48.000 It's so alienating, so terrible, so non-inclusive.

00:37:51.000 Beyonce, who is now married to Jay-Z and can do no wrong, she farts social justice rainbows, but Beyonce is considered this wildly talented, massive talent, just a joy to behold, a real addition to God's Earth.

00:38:05.000 Okay, Beyonce actually has a really good voice, or used to. 0.61

00:38:08.000 I don't know if it's good anymore because she hasn't sung in five years. 0.99

00:38:11.000 So, Beyonce now has been relegated to shaking her boobs, shaking her ass, and racial commentary. 1.00

00:38:18.000 That's basically what her stunt is now. 1.00

00:38:21.000 Ever since she married Jay-Z, who by the way is a jerk also. 0.99

00:38:24.000 Jay-Z wears a medallion for what is called the 5% Nation. 1.00

00:38:28.000 The 5% Nation believes that black people are superior to white people. 0.98

00:38:32.000 That's their actual, literal belief.

00:38:34.000 Um, and so, Beyonce does her halftime show. 1.00

00:38:36.000 Now, I'm gonna watch a little bit of the Beyonce halftime show. 0.99

00:38:38.000 First of all, I wanna point out, everybody who says Beyonce's a magnificent dancer, no, she just looks like her ass is having a seizure. 0.85

00:38:45.000 But, she says that, yeah, everybody who acts like, this is not a stare, okay? 0.98

00:38:50.000 It is not Gene Kelly.

00:38:52.000 Let's stop, she's not... 1.00

00:38:55.000 She's not, you know, a Russian ballet dancer.

00:38:58.000 She's a lady who's twerking. 1.00

00:39:00.000 She's like one step above Miley Cyrus. 0.98

00:39:02.000 But, putting aside the artistic commentary here, because her music, like, lately her music is garbage also.

00:39:07.000 So her dancing is basically just, how much can she jiggle? 0.84

00:39:10.000 And her music is, how much can she get away with?

00:39:13.000 Here was what happened at the Beyonce halftime show.

00:39:15.000 Let's play it.

00:39:16.000 First of all, I don't know why Joe Pesci was there.

00:39:28.000 What great dancing.

00:39:48.000 We're good.

00:40:03.000 Okay, so we don't have to watch the rest of this.

00:40:04.000 You get the idea.

00:40:06.000 The women who are dancing behind her, you can freeze-frame it, they're all wearing Black Panther's outfits. 1.00

00:40:11.000 They're wearing the Black Panther's berets.

00:40:12.000 They all have their hair frowned out.

00:40:13.000 There are no white women in this entourage. 1.00

00:40:16.000 They're all black, right? 0.99

00:40:17.000 There are zero white- Remember Oscar is so black? 1.00

00:40:20.000 Beyoncé halftime- or Oscar is so white? 0.95

00:40:22.000 Beyoncé halftime show is so black. 0.88

00:40:24.000 Right, there are no white people in this.

00:40:26.000 And at a certain point here, they actually form an X on the field, like Malcolm X, right, is the idea here.

00:40:32.000 And later, all the women took a picture, somewhere in here, they all go like this, they give the Black Power salute. 0.91

00:40:40.000 And later on, they give a Black Power salute again, and her mom shows up to give the Black Power salute. 0.96

00:40:44.000 The lyrics that she's saying, in case you can't understand what she's saying, because why would you?

00:40:48.000 The lyrics to her song go like this.

00:40:50.000 My daddy Alabama, mama Louisiana.

00:40:52.000 You mix that Negro with that Crail, make a Texas Bama. 1.00

00:40:57.000 I like my baby hair with baby hair and afros. 0.96

00:40:59.000 I like my Negro nose with Jackson 5 nostrils. 0.99

00:41:03.000 Okay, so you've got a bunch of racial stereotypes.

00:41:05.000 I didn't realize that Negro was back in style, but I guess that you can get away with that if you're Beyonce. 1.00

00:41:10.000 And then, the rest of the song goes like this.

00:41:13.000 I did not come to play with you hoes, haha. 1.00

00:41:15.000 I came to slay, bitch. 1.00

00:41:16.000 I like cornbreads and collard greens, bitch. 1.00

00:41:19.000 El Camino with the seat low. 1.00

00:41:20.000 Sippin' Cuervo with no chaser.

00:41:22.000 Sometimes I go off, I go off, I go hard, I go hard. 1.00

00:41:25.000 When he F me good, I take his ass to Red Lobster, cuz I slay. 0.99

00:41:30.000 If he hit it right, I might take him on a flight on my chopper, cuz I slay. 0.99

00:41:34.000 You might just be a bill- a black Bill Gates in the making, cuz I slay. 1.00

00:41:38.000 Okay, so if there is a smart black kid who goes to school, is highly educated, and creates a massive company, it's because of Beyonce.

00:41:44.000 Mm-hmm.

00:41:45.000 Yeah, right. 0.98

00:41:46.000 Also, there's nothing I like better than a bunch of anti-black stereotypes being put out there by black people.

00:41:51.000 That's always great. 1.00

00:41:53.000 I'm sorry, but if a white person said about a bunch of black people that what makes you black is that when you get screwed good, you take your ass to Red Lobster, everybody would realize just how racist and terrible that is. 0.99

00:42:03.000 But Beyonce gets to say it because the rules don't apply. 0.99

00:42:06.000 And again,

00:42:07.000 The Black Panthers were a terrorist group, okay? 0.99

00:42:09.000 If you had a white terrorist group that were being honored, a bunch of people in white sheets out there in the middle of the Super Bowl, everybody would realize how disgusting this is. 0.99

00:42:16.000 By the way, Cosmopolitan calls this garbage piece of non-music the most perfect song since the Paleozoic era. 0.91

00:42:23.000 Somebody should note to them the Paleozoic era was not really remnant.

00:42:27.000 It's not respected for its tunefulness, the Paleozoic era.

00:42:30.000 But the music video for this is even worse.

00:42:32.000 I mean, if you actually look at the music video that this is based on, in the music video, there's a line of white cops standing by as a black teenager walks up to them, then there's a wall with graffiti that says, stop shooting us.

00:42:43.000 Let me ask you, if she really thinks that this is gonna make any black kid in America better off,

00:42:48.000 What black kid in America is better off because of this?

00:42:51.000 What black kid isn't going to get shot in the inner city because of this? 1.00

00:42:53.000 What black kid is going to get an education because of this? 0.99

00:42:55.000 She's just making millions off of a stereotypical depiction of a really negative and nasty culture. 1.00

00:43:02.000 Malcolm X was a pig, okay? 0.99

00:43:03.000 Malcolm X, until he had his Islamic 1.00

00:43:05.000 His Islamic revelation at the end of his life and realized basically everything he'd been saying was wrong? 0.99

00:43:10.000 Malcolm X was a garbage heap of humanity. 0.98

00:43:12.000 He was a bad guy, Malcolm X. Martin Luther King at least promoted good things. 0.99

00:43:16.000 He had his own personal foibles, but he promoted good things. 0.98

00:43:19.000 Malcolm X is the guy who used to call white people white devils. 0.75

00:43:22.000 And so, paying homage to him during the Super Bowl? 0.94

00:43:25.000 Right, this is the most watched event in America every year.

00:43:29.000 This is where we have come racially.

00:43:30.000 The post-racial era isn't the post-racial era, it's the post-decency era, and Beyoncé leads the way.

00:43:36.000 But it wasn't just that, it wasn't just that.

00:43:38.000 There were some Super Bowl commercials.

00:43:40.000 This took place in San Francisco, so Coldplay showed up, for no reason, no one likes Coldplay, but Coldplay showed up and sang about same-sex marriage, and then they handed people rainbow placards to hold up in the stands, and then it said, Believe in love.

00:43:53.000 Believe in love.

00:43:55.000 Like that means anything. 0.95

00:43:57.000 They don't believe in love for the Christian people who don't feel like participating in their gay weddings.

00:44:02.000 They don't feel like love for all of the children who will grow up without a mother or without a father.

00:44:07.000 They don't believe in that.

00:44:09.000 All of this is just the cultural rot that has set upon us.

00:44:12.000 The Super Bowl commercials were another reflection of that.

00:44:14.000 So let's take a look at the Axe commercial.

00:44:16.000 And edgy is what makes people remember you apparently in the advertising business.

00:44:20.000 Here's the Axe commercial that ran. 0.96

00:44:22.000 And you will see how ridiculous this is. 0.93

00:44:24.000 Here we go. 0.99

00:44:28.000 Who needs a six-pack when you got the nose?

00:44:32.000 Or a nose when you got the suit?

00:44:35.000 Now you don't need a suit when you got the fire.

00:44:38.000 Or fire when you rock those heels. 1.00

00:44:40.000 Or when you got the brains.

00:44:42.000 The HAW.

00:44:43.000 Who needs some other thing when you got your thing?

00:44:47.000 Now work on it.

00:44:55.000 Okay, and they cut out one frame for the Super Bowl that was online where there's a woman leaning back in bed because she's having sex.

00:45:04.000 Presumably at the hands of one of these guys.

00:45:06.000 Not the guy wearing the high heels, I would assume.

00:45:08.000 So the idea here is that individuality trumps all.

00:45:11.000 Individuality trumps all.

00:45:12.000 Find your magic.

00:45:15.000 Well, I mean, there are standards of behavior, also, and I'm not sure why it's appropriate on national television to show someone grooming their genitals, which I assume is when they say, find your thing, and then they have a shot of a sink low down at, like, waist level.

00:45:26.000 Kinda weird.

00:45:27.000 Kinda gross. 0.99

00:45:28.000 But this is how we dumb down the culture and this is how we mainstream the ridiculous. 0.99

00:45:32.000 Okay? 0.94

00:45:33.000 The idea that... How many millions... There are probably 250 million people who watch this thing.

00:45:37.000 How many millions of those people are men who prance around wearing high heels? 0.85

00:45:42.000 How many?

00:45:42.000 But all this is so Axe can pat itself on the back.

00:45:46.000 This is a chick car. 0.99

00:45:46.000 This is a gay car. 0.99

00:46:09.000 This is a short man's car. 0.92

00:46:12.000 This is a cute car.

00:46:14.000 Slow car.

00:46:15.000 This is a single young professional's car.

00:46:18.000 This car has no street cred.

00:46:20.000 This car ain't hip-hop!

00:46:21.000 Kidless.

00:46:22.000 Cute.

00:46:23.000 Small.

00:46:24.000 This car doesn't care what you call it.

00:46:29.000 Defy labels.

00:46:30.000 This is what America has become.

00:46:32.000 Find your magic.

00:46:33.000 Defy labels.

00:46:35.000 Is there any commercial anywhere in here that says, like, be a responsible human?

00:46:40.000 Find your magic.

00:46:41.000 What if my magic is something terrible?

00:46:43.000 What if I'm defying labels and those labels actually exist for a reason?

00:46:47.000 First of all, also a point, you know, you get a Harvey Keitel at the end.

00:46:51.000 Oh, this car doesn't care what you think.

00:46:53.000 Right, it's an inanimate object.

00:46:55.000 Mm-hmm.

00:46:55.000 It's true.

00:46:56.000 Also, the people at Mini Cooper don't care.

00:46:58.000 They're just trying to sell you a car.

00:47:00.000 But the idea is that we're supposed to feel good about them because of the social justice signaling.

00:47:04.000 And this is what the advertising business does. 0.93

00:47:06.000 They push this idea that if you look at that, and you have a negative feeling about that commercial, if you feel like, this is ridiculous, I just want to buy a car, show me what the car does, that must be because you're a bad person.

00:47:16.000 You're not tolerant of everybody.

00:47:18.000 The idea is to morally shame you into liking this car.

00:47:21.000 Right, that car, that told me nothing about the car. 0.99

00:47:23.000 I may still think that that car is a ridiculous feminine little junk car, right? 1.00

00:47:30.000 I mean, I can still think all those things, but now if I think that, I'm a sexist. 0.99

00:47:33.000 Aha! 0.94

00:47:34.000 It means that I'm anti-gay if I don't like the Mini Cooper. 0.75

00:47:37.000 And if I don't use the ax, it means that I'm transphobic.

00:47:40.000 That's the idea behind these commercials.

00:47:42.000 All this is subtle, emotional button-pushing that the left does in order to push a particular agenda.

00:47:47.000 They're trying to morally shame you.

00:47:49.000 They think America has reached the point where if you don't really like watching guys prancing around in heels and their underwear on national television, they think America has reached the point where they can be shamed about that.

00:47:58.000 I don't think that's the case.

00:48:00.000 The other commercial that got a lot of attention was Amy Schumer and Seth Rogen were in a commercial together.

00:48:07.000 Two unfunny, supposed funny people of the left doing a commercial that is unfunny.

00:48:13.000 Here we go.

00:48:17.000 My fellow Americans.

00:48:18.000 Hey guys, can you be quiet?

00:48:19.000 Seth and Amy are talking about our country.

00:48:21.000 They say we're a nation divided.

00:48:23.000 They say we disagree on everything.

00:48:25.000 That's not true.

00:48:26.000 We agree on a lot.

00:48:28.000 Like Paul Rudd.

00:48:29.000 Everybody loves Paul Rudd.

00:48:30.000 I didn't know this was gonna happen.

00:48:32.000 You know what else everyone loves?

00:48:34.000 Emojis.

00:48:36.000 Raccoons.

00:48:37.000 No.

00:48:37.000 Deer.

00:48:38.000 Bear.

00:48:38.000 Nothing brings America together like Bud Light!

00:48:41.000 That's why we're forming the Bud Light Party.

00:48:43.000 Just wait till you see our caucus.

00:48:45.000 We got the biggest caucus in the country.

00:48:49.000 It's not, like, too big.

00:48:50.000 Like, you can handle it.

00:48:52.000 We will not go quietly into the night.

00:48:54.000 We will not vanish without a fight.

00:48:56.000 We're going to live on.

00:48:57.000 We're going to survive.

00:48:59.000 Today we celebrate our Independence Day!

00:49:02.000 Are you just quoting Independence Day?

00:49:05.000 I'm really inspired right now.

00:49:06.000 America has seen the light! 0.84

00:49:08.000 And there's a butt in front of it! 1.00

00:49:16.000 Wow, Amy Schumer got her real opportunity to make a dick joke. 1.00

00:49:20.000 Just good for her. 1.00

00:49:22.000 That's, I think, the real shortcoming in her career is not enough penis jokes. 1.00

00:49:25.000 That's really where it was. 0.99

00:49:28.000 There it is! 0.99

00:49:28.000 She got her opportunity on national TV to make a penis joke. 0.99

00:49:30.000 If it hadn't been for that, she never would have gotten to make a penis joke. 1.00

00:49:33.000 It's just, again, the dumbing down. 0.99

00:49:36.000 It's not just the dumbing down, it's the vulgarization.

00:49:39.000 Like, my two-year-old's watching this. 0.99

00:49:41.000 And they're making cock... ...kiss jokes. 1.00

00:49:44.000 Right? 1.00

00:49:45.000 They're making penis jokes on national TV. 1.00

00:49:48.000 It's just... 1.00

00:49:50.000 It really, it's sad.

00:49:51.000 This is something that should unify us, shouldn't we at least?

00:49:53.000 Like, and they put the Blue Angels flyover in the middle of all of this.

00:49:56.000 It's just, I'm sorry, American culture is not a bunch of jokes and the Blue Angels.

00:50:01.000 Okay, turns out there's more to America than this. 1.00

00:50:04.000 There's more to America than Beyonce prancing around in her underwear with a bunch of Malcolm X dressed idiots. 1.00

00:50:10.000 There's more to American culture than a bunch of people holding up rainbow placards to imitate President Obama's White House. 0.99

00:50:16.000 Turns out America's actually based on a philosophy.

00:50:18.000 But you won't see any of that.

00:50:19.000 So that's fine.

00:50:19.000 If you don't want to do philosophy at the Super Bowl, I'm cool with that.

00:50:22.000 But then don't do a philosophy. 0.99

00:50:23.000 Don't give me a philosophy of leptism when I'm just trying to watch a damn ballgame. 0.99

00:50:27.000 I don't need it. 0.99

00:50:28.000 I don't need it.

00:50:30.000 Perhaps the most amazing thing of all, though.

00:50:32.000 And there's your beautiful baby.

00:50:34.000 Any day now.

00:51:00.000 Really?

00:51:00.000 You're eating Doritos?

00:51:03.000 He's eating Doritos.

00:51:04.000 On my ultrasound.

00:51:06.000 Do you see what I have to do?

00:51:07.000 I know.

00:51:17.000 Give me that! 0.99

00:51:25.000 Okay, so, the commercial for people who can't see it is there's a baby inside an ultrasound.

00:51:30.000 It's a mom and a dad, and they're showing an ultrasound of the baby.

00:51:35.000 And every time the dad bites on a Dorito, or moves the Dorito, the baby attempts to grab the Dorito, basically, from inside the womb.

00:51:41.000 And then at the very end, the mom throws the Dorito down by her feet, and the baby attempts to get out using the only possible escape route.

00:51:47.000 Okay, so that's the commercial.

00:51:49.000 The left went bananas over this commercial.

00:51:51.000 Why, you ask?

00:51:52.000 Would the left go crazy over this commercial?

00:51:54.000 Well, why don't we let Nerol, Pro-Choice America, explain.

00:51:57.000 Here's the tweet from Nerol, Pro-Choice America, if we have that.

00:52:01.000 Hashtag, not buying it.

00:52:03.000 That Doritos ad using anti-choice tactic of humanizing fetuses.

00:52:09.000 Humanizing fetuses.

00:52:11.000 Right?

00:52:11.000 Because they're chickens, actually.

00:52:13.000 And that, by the way, that's like a nine-month fetus, right?

00:52:15.000 They're showing there?

00:52:16.000 That's a nine-month baby.

00:52:18.000 How dare that Doritos ad show what an ultrasound actually looks like?

00:52:22.000 And by the way, that's what a late-term ultrasound actually looks like.

00:52:25.000 In fact, that's what a mid-term ultrasound looks like.

00:52:27.000 My wife had an ultrasound the other day. 0.99

00:52:29.000 That's what the baby looks like.

00:52:30.000 You can see the baby in there.

00:52:32.000 I saw the baby's spine.

00:52:33.000 I saw the baby's face.

00:52:34.000 I saw all of the baby's gears.

00:52:36.000 You know, like, everything you can see.

00:52:38.000 But don't humanize.

00:52:39.000 Whatever you do, don't humanize that fetus.

00:52:41.000 So, people on the right say, look, I just want to watch a ballgame without being hit over the head with some guy wearing high heels. 0.99

00:52:47.000 Or I just want to watch the ballgame without being hit with, if you don't buy this car, you must hate gay people. 0.99

00:52:52.000 That's all I want. 1.00

00:52:54.000 I don't need to watch the halftime show and be smacked with

00:52:58.000 A bunch of people who killed cops back in the 70s in homage to those people?

00:53:01.000 The left says, I don't want to be watching a ballgame and see, like, an ultrasound that shows, like, what an ultrasound actually looks like.

00:53:08.000 I don't want to see that.

00:53:08.000 That's crazy!

00:53:09.000 Okay, every one of these commercials, by the way, like all the Super Bowl commercials, had humanizing of animals.

00:53:16.000 Like, every one of them had some sort of talking dog or chipmunk or penguin or something.

00:53:21.000 Naral doesn't care about that, obviously.

00:53:22.000 They only care about when you humanize something that's actually human.

00:53:25.000 Which shows you how evil and despicable they are.

00:53:27.000 So, that's the interesting left and right.

00:53:30.000 The left is all mad today about what an ultrasound actually looks like, and the right is upset today because the biggest game in America, the most watched TV event...

00:53:38.000 In the United States, maybe in history, is replete with leftist imagery.

00:53:43.000 And just to top it off, President Obama and wife did their Super Bowl interview.

00:53:47.000 They do it every year.

00:53:48.000 This year it was Gayle King, who's only famous for being Oprah's significant other.

00:53:53.000 And here's the Obama's being interviewed by Gayle King on ABC beforehand.

00:53:56.000 I hate this so much I can't even tell you.

00:53:59.000 So when you're at a Super Bowl party at the Obama House, do you watch the commercials?

00:54:04.000 Do you care about the commercials?

00:54:13.000 But we have, but basically we have sort of three ways that we do the Super Bowl.

00:54:18.000 We have the serious watchers, and that's the treaty room where you gotta be, if you're in that room, you're watching the game.

00:54:23.000 Watch the game.

00:54:24.000 Then there's the outside room where the kids are, where they're kind of fooling around, they're by the food, and then there's... We keep them away.

00:54:30.000 Then there's what I call the champagne room.

00:54:33.000 That's where my mother sits, where you really don't know what's going on, but you're close to the champagne.

00:54:38.000 That's where grandma is. 0.99

00:54:40.000 It's like, oh, it's like, what happened?

00:54:42.000 People come out of the champagne room.

00:54:44.000 I was wondering, when do we start breaking out the six pack or mixing the martinis?

00:54:48.000 I was wondering at which point does that happen?

00:54:49.000 That's starting now.

00:54:50.000 That's starting now.

00:54:51.000 Actually, once we get done with this.

00:54:53.000 Okay, we can stop it.

00:54:54.000 Okay, okay.

00:54:54.000 So, American royalty.

00:54:56.000 I mean, this is, you know,

00:54:58.000 This is Kate and William, right?

00:54:59.000 I mean, this is the American royalty.

00:55:01.000 You got the media interviewing American royalty.

00:55:03.000 I've said this a thousand times.

00:55:04.000 I hate it so much.

00:55:05.000 They are not royalty.

00:55:06.000 This is a bureaucrat.

00:55:07.000 This is a bureaucrat that we pay so that he does a job.

00:55:11.000 And he and his wife are treated like royalty.

00:55:12.000 Well, we got the champagne room.

00:55:13.000 We got the one for the kids.

00:55:15.000 And then we got the treaty room where we all sit around watching football on the taxpayer dime.

00:55:18.000 And then I do an interview with you right here in the Oval Office.

00:55:21.000 And it's just really nice, you know?

00:55:22.000 That's what we like to do.

00:55:24.000 The combination of celebrity with, honest to God, Jay-Z and Beyonce could be president and first lady within 15 years.

00:55:31.000 And Obama and Michelle could be performing at the Super Bowl.

00:55:34.000 Like, we could have that reversal.

00:55:35.000 That's how far we've gone in terms of celebrity politicians and politician celebrities, and it's gross all the way around.

00:55:41.000 And that's why we're never gonna, we may never have a substantive president of the United States again.

00:55:44.000 We may have hit that point, right?

00:55:46.000 The Super Bowl says a lot about our politics, because this is how people actually engage with politics.

00:55:52.000 It's in this sort of fashion with their emotions being manipulated by the media, by advertisers, by the TV they watch, by halftime shows.

00:55:59.000 All of this has an impact on us.

00:56:01.000 And then when it comes time to vote, how many people are actually worried about Common Core when it comes time to vote?

00:56:06.000 How many people are actually concerned about Barack Obama's policy on ISIS versus how many people say, well, look at them.

00:56:11.000 They're such a charming couple.

00:56:12.000 They seem like such a nice people.

00:56:14.000 I mean look, they're sitting there talking about what normal people they are.

00:56:18.000 It's just like when you go to Us Weekly and you see Us Weekly on the stands at the supermarket and it says celebrities.

00:56:23.000 They're just like us.

00:56:25.000 So who's just like us?

00:56:26.000 Let's get those people. 1.00

00:56:28.000 It's not good for America.

00:56:29.000 It's not good for the country.

00:56:30.000 We should have our entertainment, for sure.

00:56:32.000 I love watching the Super Bowl.

00:56:33.000 It's fun.

00:56:33.000 I enjoy watching it with my pop.

00:56:35.000 But the idea that you're going to take that and combine it with politics, and then take politics and combine it with celebrity, this is how you end up with a horribly run country where everybody just abdicates duty to the powerful celebrity in charge.

00:56:50.000 And tomorrow we'll find out which powerful celebrity takes New Hampshire, because one of them will. 0.99

00:56:54.000 And we will be there with you for that.

00:56:56.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:56:56.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

The Ben Shapiro Show - February 08, 2016

Ep. 68 - #BeyonceHalfTimeSoBlack

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