Dr. Ben Carson said that Jews should have had guns during the Holocaust, but the media and the left don t like the idea of self-defense in the face of genocide, and they want to take that right away. Ben Shapiro explains why it s a good thing that Jews actually did have guns during World War II, and why they should have kept them. Plus, a look at why the U.N. doesn t have a position on the matter, and what it should do about it. Plus, why we should celebrate Columbus Day instead of St. Patrick s Day, and how we should all be thankful that he was born in the 19th century, because he was a bad guy, and therefore we should be grateful that he did evil things to the world, and we should get rid of him to honor him as a hero. Ben Shapiro: Is this insane, or is it insane, beyond political discussion? Guests: Dr. Carson, Nick Bauman, Dr. David Frum, and Rabbi Shimon Peiner. Thanks to our sponsor, Caff for sponsoring the show! Thanks also to our patron, Rachel Maddow, for her support of the show, and for being a good friend of The Ben Shapiro Show! and for making us laugh at Ben Shapiro. . Thank you, Ben Shapiro, for your support, Rachel, for helping us make sense of it all. Thanks, Rachel and Rachel, and thank you Rachel for being brave enough to share it with the world. and Rachel for making it so we can all laugh at it all, and not just a little bit more than just a bit more of what we can get a chance to laugh about it, and enjoy it. Thank you Rachel, thank you, Rachel and hope you enjoy it, Rachel is a good listen. - Thank you so much Rachel, Rachel! - thank you for being kind enough to be kind, Rachel's words of support us, and Rachel is good enough to listen, and share it, Thank you for letting us all be kinder than we can be more than enough, and you can laugh at this, and let us know that it's a good one, and more of it's good enough, enough of it helps us know it's better than that, Rachel says so much of it, anyway, and so much more, Rachel thinks so much, and it's worth it, too, Rachel gets it?
00:00:00.000Folks, the West is in some serious trouble.
00:00:02.000Self-defense, as we all know, is the most fundamental aspect of individualism.
00:00:06.000It means you get to defend yourself, your family, your own life, even if it doesn't benefit the collective, because you matter more than the collective.
00:00:16.000Well now, the left wants to take that away, and they want to take it away specifically with regard to Jews.
00:00:21.000Last week, Dr. Ben Carson said that Jews could have used guns during the Holocaust, which seems pretty self-evident given that 6 million of them were murdered.
00:00:29.000In his book, A Perfect Union, Carson wrote, quote,
00:00:42.000The propaganda meant that Jews didn't believe the Nazis were coming for them, and the lack of guns meant that even if they knew the Nazis were coming for them, they couldn't do much about it.
00:00:49.000Well, Carson was asked about the comments on CNN.
00:01:38.000The Huffington Post's Nick Bauman, he posted pictures of armed Jews who'd been murdered in the Holocaust and he wrote, quote,
00:01:51.000Well, the same was true of the Jews who didn't have guns, actually.
00:01:54.000And it was also true for the 7 million armed Soviet soldiers and hundreds of thousands of Americans who were killed in World War II who had guns.
00:02:01.000But presumably, Bauman would never suggest that American soldiers or Soviet soldiers didn't need their guns.
00:02:13.000Armed resistance did work for Jews during the Holocaust.
00:02:17.000The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising delayed German deportations to the gas chambers by a full month.
00:02:22.000They inflicted over a thousand casualties on the Nazis.
00:02:25.000Revolts in death camps actually did redirect resources away from the Nazi regime, and even led to the Nazis raising a death camp in Sobibor.
00:02:32.000But, most important, Jews should have had guns.
00:02:35.000Because resisting tyranny and evil, trying to save your own life, this is morally good.
00:02:41.000Warsaw ghetto victim, Emanuel Ringelblum, he wrote, That's morally good.
00:02:45.000Defending your own life is a basic human right and a basic moral good, even if you die in the attempt.
00:03:10.000Jews are human beings, even if the media would hope to treat them as less than that.
00:03:13.000But we shouldn't really be super surprised that the media and the left don't like Ben Carson's comments.
00:03:17.000After all, the same people who don't like Jewish self-defense in the face of genocide don't like Jewish self-defense in the face of genocide today, when we're talking about Jew-murdering Iranians and Palestinians.
00:03:28.000And they don't like to say that Jews didn't need guns to fight the Nazis for the same reasons.
00:03:31.000Jews never need guns, it turns out, according to the left.
00:04:23.000I know that we're all supposed to just pretend that Christopher Columbus was like a 1960s American-born guy and we hold him to the same moral standards that we hold everybody today.
00:04:32.000And we say he did really evil things and therefore we should get rid of the holiday.
00:04:35.000Seattle today is celebrating Indigenous Peoples Day, which sort of begs the question as to what indigenous peoples did except get killed by Columbus that merited a day.
00:04:42.000But this is, you know, the entire idea here is that rich Western people who have lived off the legacy of Columbus and lived off the legacy of capitalism and Western civilization,
00:04:52.000They get to dump on capitalism and Western civilization, and this makes them feel better about themselves as they sip their Starbucks latte that is unavailable in parts of the world where they've never had Western civilization.
00:05:02.000So thanks, Columbus, for bringing Western civilization to the Western Hemisphere.
00:05:06.000And yeah, bad stuff happened, but overall—and terrible stuff happened, obviously—but overall,
00:05:12.000It is a good thing that Christopher Columbus decided to come to the Western Hemisphere.
00:05:17.000All right, so let's move on to today's news outside of leftists attempting to destroy all the national holidays.
00:05:23.000So, today, there's another stabbing over in Israel.
00:05:26.000There's a stabbing of a 13-year-old kid riding his bicycle by a Palestinian.
00:05:31.000This followed hard on a couple of more stabbings that happened this morning.
00:05:34.000There's been a big wave of stabbings by Palestinians against Jews in Israel, particularly in Jerusalem.
00:05:40.000And I can't imagine where they're getting the idea that they should go around stabbing Jews.
00:05:44.000I mean, as we all know, Islam, religion of peace, Palestinians, wonderful peace-loving folks who just want their own state, that's all they want.
00:05:54.000I just can't imagine where they would get these ideas about stabbing random innocent Jews.
00:06:00.000I mean, like, if there were a video of, like, an imam, you know, telling people to stab Jews while holding a knife, that would be one thing, but, well, actually, there is.
00:06:10.000Here is Jerusalem, and what do you know what Jerusalem is?
00:06:13.000Here are the soldiers of Muhammad and the soldiers.
00:07:41.000The last election they held was, I think, 2004?
00:07:43.000So he's now in the, I think, 10th, 12th year of a four-year term.
00:07:49.000And Mahmoud Abbas went in front of the United Nations, and he explained that the Palestinians were no longer bound by the Oslo Accords.
00:07:55.000Within a day, there were stabbings breaking out in Jerusalem.
00:07:58.000The mayor of Jerusalem has done the responsible thing, which is he told all of his citizens to start carrying guns.
00:08:02.000He said, if you've got a gun, start carrying it.
00:08:04.000And if someone tries to stab you, shoot them.
00:08:06.000And this is precisely what's been happening over in Jerusalem.
00:08:09.000Palestinians come to a gunfight with a knife, and they get shot, presumably after trying to stab children.
00:08:15.000So they've been aiming at the kids, because the kids don't have the guns.
00:08:17.000They've been going after 13-year-olds, 14-year-olds.
00:08:19.000And President Obama, of course, has nothing to say.
00:08:21.000This guy, who you see here stabbing the air and shouting like a maniac in his charming fashion, this beautiful emissary of the religion of peace, his name is Sheikh Mohammed Saleh Abu Rashab.
00:08:33.000He gave that sermon last Friday and this was given in the Gaza Strip, the wonderful victimized Gaza Strip that we're all supposed to worry so deeply about and we're supposed to chide the Israelis for being so mean as to target Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
00:08:47.000Well, as you can see from this particular video, it doesn't always take a gun to come after innocent people.
00:08:53.000That's enough, and Israel is learning that over the last couple of weeks, and they're going to have to engage in a pretty severe round of anti-terrorism.
00:09:00.000They're going to have to go back in the West Bank, reoccupy the Gaza Strip, as they have to do routinely these days, whenever the Palestinians decide that they no longer want to abide by the rules they were not abiding by in the first place.
00:09:12.000Here in the United States, however, the left still doesn't understand why people want guns.
00:09:17.000It doesn't make any sense to them why people would want guns in the first place.
00:09:21.000So, Saturday Night Live, which has become just an absolute propaganda outlet for the Obama administration.
00:09:27.000Two weeks ago, they had a 90-minute infomercial for Hillary Clinton.
00:09:31.000This week, they decided to have an infomercial for gun control.
00:09:34.000President Obama was out in Hollywood this weekend, and President Obama actually said that it is easier to buy a gun than it is to buy a book.
00:09:41.000Which suggests he has neither bought a gun nor a book, because that's an amazing statement.
00:09:46.000I mean, seriously, the idea that you can't—I've bought books.
00:10:04.000And then, of course, SNL had the talented but wildly left Amy Schumer on, and she cut what really is a fake public service announcement about gun control.
00:10:16.000And it's quite unfunny, but we'll play it anyway because, again, you're here and there's nothing you can do about it.
00:10:22.000So here's Amy Schumer on SNL mocking America's gun obsession.
00:12:05.000And when my wife was pregnant and she was going into labor, I don't remember bringing the Mossberg to the hospital and aiming it at the people who are about to help her give birth, but maybe that's just me.
00:12:16.000Guns are inherently evil and they make you totally crazy.
00:12:18.000You're like a normal person, and then you just run around shooting guns at things.
00:12:21.000This is what Amy Schumer thinks of guns.
00:12:23.000So, why can't we just take guns away from people?
00:12:26.000I mean, aside from the fact that there are a bunch of crazy people out there who will stab you, why shouldn't we take guns away from people?
00:12:33.000President Obama said over the weekend that Republicans were off the deep end, that they'd gone totally crazy, they were totally wild.
00:12:41.000And this has become a meme among folks on the left, is that Republicans are nuts.
00:12:45.000President Obama speaking in Hollywood actually trotted out his old Bitter Clingers stuff.
00:12:49.000President Obama actually talked specifically, he said that Republicans and that conservatives, he said people who are down on their luck economically, they were xenophobic.
00:12:56.000He did exactly what he did, you remember, back in 2008 when he said that poor people
00:13:01.000They cling to guns, and they cling to God, and they cling to xenophobia.
00:13:04.000He said the exact same thing in Hollywood.
00:13:05.000This is how they feel about Republicans.
00:13:07.000Republicans are all those people that they're making fun of in those videos.
00:13:11.000You know, people who are having, you know, fake Jason Sudeikis, the guy who looks like Jason Sudeikis but is not, who is with Amy Schumer there.
00:13:18.000This is how they think fake Jason Sudeikis would propose to his girlfriend, is with a gun.
00:13:22.000This is what they think of people who are in the red states.
00:13:24.000You wonder why there's no commonality in our
00:14:17.000He said that Donald Trump is winning because he's appealing to all the worst parts of America.
00:14:22.000Here is Bernie Sanders, the senator from Vermont, who is about 1,700 years old.
00:14:28.000You know, Trump is appealing to a certain type of nativism, a certain type of anger, appealing to the baser instincts among people who think that if you were born in Mexico, you are a rapist or a criminal.
00:15:44.000So here, of course, is Saturday Night Live's latest unknown cast member that no one cares about, Michael Che, talking about Dr. Ben Carson.
00:15:53.000I never thought I'd say this out loud or on TV, but please, America, pick anybody but the black guy.
00:16:02.000No one knows who that guy is or cares what he has to say.
00:16:05.000And what's actually amazing about that particular statement is that if you read the converse of what he's saying, why would he never say that?
00:16:19.000Given a given situation, if Hillary Clinton were the only candidate in the race against Ben Carson, I'd say pick anybody but the white chick.
00:16:24.000I mean, what does race have to do with it?
00:16:26.000But again, it's the Republicans who are completely nuts.
00:16:28.000And this is all the way up to the top levels of the Democratic Party.
00:16:31.000Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, or Chairperson, we wouldn't want to offend her, I don't know what gender she identifies as today.
00:16:38.000She says that GOP candidates are circus performers.
00:16:41.000She of the crazy clown hair, she looks like Bozo the Clown here, but here she is describing GOP candidates as circus performers.
00:17:04.000And of course, you can see why she would call people circus performers, given her long and deep experience riding the rails as a traveling hobo with the Barnum & Bailey Circus.
00:17:13.000She also said that Republicans actually want to kick women out of the country.
00:17:16.000So, Republicans are the circus performers, but the head of the DNC says that Republicans want to kick women out of the country.
00:17:22.000Here is another clip of the most beautiful woman in politics, Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
00:17:26.000All of whom are trying to out-Trump Donald Trump by saying, yeah, let's kick immigrants out of this country.
00:17:34.000Let's take away healthcare from women.
00:17:36.000Let's increase taxes on the middle class to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy.
00:17:42.000Yes, I think any of the candidates on our side of the aisle who are talking about job creation, making sure we can expand access to healthcare,
00:17:49.000Build the cornerstones of a middle-class life by helping people get a good education and having a secure retirement.
00:17:54.000Any one of our candidates will be chosen and eventually elected as the 45th president of the United States of America because of that contract.
00:18:01.000By the way, Debbie Wasserman Schultz refused to explain why exactly the leading candidate in Iowa, New Hampshire, says he's not a capitalist.
00:18:09.000Okay, so let's take this at face value.
00:18:11.000Democrats are the reasonable ones and Republicans are the nutjobs.
00:18:14.000Democrats are the ones who are super reasonable, they're super wonderful, they're the ones who understand how the world works.
00:18:20.000The Republicans are a bunch of circus performers, and they're clowns, and they're racists, and they're xenophobes.
00:18:25.000So let's look, for example, at some of the top Democrats and what do they have to say for themselves when, in a crowd of their own friends, their own supporters, what do they have to say?
00:18:34.000Well, over the weekend, there was the Million Man March.
00:18:36.000And the Million Man March, which had only one one-thousandth of the million people, about a thousand people at the Million Man March, so the Thousand Man March, or the slightly less than a thousand person march, that took place in Washington, D.C.
00:18:48.000And one of the keynote speakers was a fellow you may remember by the name of Jeremiah Wright.
00:18:52.000Jeremiah Wright, of course, was the pastor that President Obama came to Christianity via.
00:18:57.000So everybody tries to downplay Jeremiah Wright.
00:19:00.000President Obama learned his theology from this man.
00:19:02.000President Obama says this, in both The Audacity of Hope and Dreams for My Father, he learned his theology, his philosophy of religion, from Jeremiah Wright.
00:19:10.000Jeremiah Wright spoke in front of the Million Man March, and Jeremiah Wright, who's a, I think, solid representative of the theology of the Democratic Party, here's Jeremiah Wright talking about politics and religion.
00:19:23.000And remember, these are the reasonable people.
00:19:25.000This is the guy President Obama sat in his church for 20 years and learned religion from him.
00:19:30.000Obama's the reasonable one, though, and so is Jeremiah Wright.
00:19:35.000We're the original people, the Palestinians.
00:19:38.000And please remember, Jesus was a Palestinian.
00:19:42.000The Palestinian people have had the Europeans come and take their country, ignoring United Nations resolutions, after resolution, after resolution, over 40 resolutions, in illegally occupied territories, as they take
00:19:59.000The people whose countries it is and make it theirs because their God told them that they could have somebody else's country.
00:20:08.000Okay, this is about as bad an anti-Semitic slur as you could dump on anyone.
00:20:11.000First of all, the idea that Jesus was a Palestinian is such unbelievably ahistoric nonsense.
00:22:41.000As you all know, Democrats are about as extreme as they ever have been.
00:22:45.000A socialist, an open socialist, is now the leading frontrunner against Hillary Clinton.
00:22:49.000Hillary Clinton is a closeted socialist, and Joe Biden is a unionist socialist, and all three of them are now competing for the presidency of the United States.
00:22:56.000Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a woman who has suggested now that Republicans want to throw every woman out of the country.
00:23:01.000I know I don't want to throw every woman out of the country.
00:23:03.000That would mean my wife and my daughter.
00:23:16.000And I think most of the Republican Party likes women.
00:23:19.000I think the only people who hate women, in fact, are the people in the Democrat Party who want to see women continue to abort the next generation of women through sex-selective abortions and continue to watch as women victimize themselves and are victimized by bad behavior and, in some cases, put themselves in risky situations.
00:23:35.000But nonetheless, this is the Democratic Party, the wildly moderate Democratic Party.
00:24:13.000At the very foundations of what makes Western civilization worthwhile.
00:24:18.000They're blasting away at the historical figures, not just bringing realism, blasting away at them, pretending that they don't matter or that they were counterproductive or problematic.
00:24:26.000They're going after all of the fundamental principles of Western civilization, family,
00:24:30.000Decency, self-defense, all of these have to be put in the background on behalf of the collective.
00:24:35.000And then they call anybody who wants to defend these principles a reactionary.
00:24:43.000The fact is, the people who are extreme are the people who want to tear down the forces that have wrought the greatest benefit for humankind in the history of the world.
00:24:50.000Those people, I think, it can fairly be assumed, are the extremists.