The Ben Shapiro Show - Ep. 73 - Why Americans Love Trump: Balls

00:00:00.000 Here we are, it is a Tuesday, and Donald Trump continues to dominate the headlines.

00:00:04.000 Plus, we have to get to me making fun of Mathis later.

00:00:08.000 It's been far too long since I've made fun of Mathis.

00:00:10.000 I'm Ben Shapiro, this is The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:00:20.000 Okay, so here we are, and I want to start today by talking a little bit about why people support Donald Trump.

00:00:26.000 And I know, I've been talking about Trump non-stop, but that's because Trump is dominating the headlines.

00:00:30.000 Tomorrow night, there's supposed to be a town hall event with Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz.

00:00:35.000 Originally, it was supposed to include Donald Trump.

00:00:37.000 Trump canceled, and instead he went across the way to MSNBC.

00:00:41.000 He's gonna be counter-programming with his own town hall with MSNBC, because this is what Trump does, and it's a smart media play.

00:00:47.000 This is what he's very good at.

00:00:49.000 The reason that people like Donald Trump, I think, can be summed up in basically one clip.

00:00:54.000 Well, two.

00:00:55.000 Really, it's two.

00:00:56.000 So, in Team America World Police, there's a moment in which the hero of the film, whose name is Gary Johnston, he attempts to infiltrate a terrorist group.

00:01:07.000 And he gives this long speech about how he was hurt by the Americans.

00:01:11.000 He's pretending to be a Muslim Arab terrorist at the time.

00:01:14.000 He says, I was hurt by the Americans. 0.96

00:01:17.000 And he says, quote, it was on that day that I put a jihad on them.

00:01:20.000 He does it in that kind of accent. 0.99

00:01:22.000 And if you don't believe it, you better kill me now, because I'll put a jihad on you too. 1.00

00:01:26.000 And the terrorist turns to him and says, I like you. 1.00

00:01:29.000 You have balls. 1.00

00:01:30.000 I like balls. 0.99

00:01:33.000 That clip, along with what I'm about to show you, sum up the Donald Trump phenomenon. 0.98

00:01:37.000 So, from the Goodfellas, if you recall, in the Goodfellas, Joe Pesci, who's one of the most frightening characters ever to play on screen, Joe Pesci, who actually is a guy who apparently is mobbed up, he plays a guy named Tommy.

00:01:49.000 And there's a very famous scene from Goodfellas.

00:01:51.000 If you've never seen the movie, it's a real guy movie.

00:01:53.000 It's not something that most women are into. 1.00

00:01:55.000 There's a select group of women who like this movie. 1.00

00:01:57.000 My wife, though, for example, would despise this movie. 1.00

00:01:59.000 But there's one moment that sort of sums up who this Tommy character is, this Joe Pesci character, and let's play it.

00:02:05.000 Here we go.

00:02:06.000 You're really funny.

00:02:07.000 What do you mean I'm funny?

00:02:11.000 It's funny, you know.

00:02:12.000 It's a good story.

00:02:13.000 It's funny.

00:02:14.000 You're a funny guy.

00:02:16.000 What do you mean?

00:02:16.000 You mean the way I talk?

00:02:18.000 What?

00:02:19.000 It's just, you know, you're just funny.

00:02:21.000 It's funny, you know, the way you tell the story and everything.

00:02:25.000 Funny how?

00:02:26.000 I mean, what's funny about it?

00:02:28.000 Tommy, no, you got it all wrong.

00:02:29.000 Oh, Anthony.

00:02:31.000 He's a big boy.

00:02:32.000 He knows what he said.

00:02:32.000 What'd you say?

00:02:33.000 You're right.

00:02:34.000 Funny how?

00:02:36.000 Just... What?

00:02:37.000 Just... You know, you're funny.

00:02:39.000 That's all.

00:02:40.000 You mean... Let me understand this, because I don't even know.

00:02:42.000 Maybe it's me. 0.85

00:02:42.000 I'm a little f***ed up, maybe. 0.85

00:02:44.000 But I'm funny how? 0.98

00:02:45.000 I mean, funny like I'm a clown?

00:02:46.000 I amuse you?

00:02:48.000 I make you laugh? 0.87

00:02:49.000 I'm here to f***ing amuse you? 0.65

00:02:50.000 What do you mean, funny? 0.96

00:02:51.000 Funny how?

00:02:52.000 How am I funny?

00:02:54.000 No, just... You know how you tell a story?

00:02:59.000 No, no, I don't know.

00:03:00.000 You said it.

00:03:01.000 How do I know?

00:03:01.000 You said I'm funny.

00:03:03.000 How the f**k am I funny? 0.98

00:03:04.000 What the f**k is so funny about me? 0.98

00:03:06.000 Tell me. 0.98

00:03:06.000 Tell me what's funny. 0.98

00:03:13.000 Get the f**k out of here, Tommy. 1.00

00:03:15.000 You mother f**ker! 1.00

00:03:16.000 I almost had him! 1.00

00:03:17.000 I almost had him! 1.00

00:03:18.000 You stuttering b**ch! 1.00

00:03:19.000 Frankie, was he shaking? 1.00

00:03:23.000 Okay, and that is the Donald Trump phenomenon.

00:03:25.000 So Donald Trump is that guy, right? 0.96

00:03:27.000 Donald Trump is the guy, he's the big swingin', you know, he's the guy who's busting everybody's balls, and that's a big thing in the Good Bellas, all these guys busting each other's balls, and the idea is that the bigger man is always intimidating everybody else. 0.95

00:03:40.000 That's Donald Trump in a nutshell. 0.94

00:03:42.000 And the reason people are resonating to this, the reason that Republicans are resonating to this,

00:03:47.000 Is because for eight years, and longer than that, Republicans have felt castrated.

00:03:52.000 Americans have felt castrated. 0.99

00:03:53.000 They've got President Obama telling them they're racist, sexist, bigot, homophobes. 0.99

00:03:57.000 If they could just drop the masculinity at the door, that would be great. 1.00

00:04:00.000 You got Hillary Clinton saying that Americans are secret rapists who are attempting to kill black people. 1.00

00:04:04.000 They really need a more feminine president. 1.00

00:04:07.000 You've got Bernie Sanders saying, we have to take that sort of explosive testosterone-y American-ness, you know, the kind that produces economic booms, and we have to curtail it.

00:04:15.000 We have to curb it.

00:04:16.000 Still, we can have more equality. 0.83

00:04:18.000 And so Americans respond with, well, we need somebody with balls, right? 0.95

00:04:22.000 We're not going to win anymore unless we have somebody with balls. 0.93

00:04:25.000 And that's what Trump is, right? 0.92

00:04:26.000 He represents a visceral response to all of that, as I wrote this morning at Daily Wire.

00:04:32.000 He plays like he's an extra from a gangster movie.

00:04:34.000 Like, Joe Pesci has the same accent that Donald Trump has.

00:04:37.000 Right, Donald Trump? 0.96

00:04:38.000 He makes these ridiculous over-the-top promises that he may never keep. 0.98

00:04:41.000 He makes ridiculous over-the-top threats that he probably will never fulfill. 0.99

00:04:44.000 His opponents are not opponents, they're enemies and they have to be destroyed.

00:04:48.000 Everything he does is big, everything that he does is bold, and there's a scene in which Joe Pesci, in this film, near the beginning, beats a guy to death for mocking him.

00:04:57.000 The guy tells Joe Pesci to go get his shine box, because he used to be a shoeshine boy, and Joe Pesci literally beats the man to death.

00:05:03.000 He calls him a mother-blanker, and then he beats him to death.

00:05:06.000 And that's sort of the Trump feel. 0.86

00:05:08.000 And then there are a lot of people who say, well, that's great, he'll do that for us, he'll do that for America, right? 0.98

00:05:11.000 If somebody insults us, we'll go after them, we'll beat their brains in. 0.88

00:05:15.000 That's why we need Donald Trump. 0.99

00:05:17.000 So he has balls, and apparently, just like in Team America, voters like balls. 0.90

00:05:21.000 There's only two problems with this, of course. 0.95

00:05:23.000 The first is that Tommy in The Goodfellas is the kind of guy where, about two-thirds of the way through the movie, for no reason at all, he just shoots a guy.

00:05:32.000 There's a guy who's hanging around, his name is Spider, and at one point, he tells Tommy to go F himself, and Tommy just shoots him.

00:05:39.000 Just kills him. 0.90

00:05:40.000 And that's Trump. 1.00

00:05:41.000 You never know who he's gonna kill. 0.99

00:05:42.000 He could be joking around with one guy one minute, and then you could kill him the next.

00:05:45.000 That's what makes that scene actually incredibly tense, is that you've seen him do these kinds of things.

00:05:50.000 So you don't know if he actually, he's so unstable, is he actually going to kill Ray Liotta sitting right there in the Goodfellas?

00:05:57.000 Second, gangster films, the reason we like gangster films is because they're all about consolidation and power.

00:06:02.000 They're all about, will the Corleone family be able to overcome all of the divides in their own family to beat back the various other families in New York?

00:06:12.000 Or will Tommy and

00:06:14.000 Robert De Niro and Ray Liao, will Joe Pesci and all those guys get together and take over the mafia, right?

00:06:19.000 It's all about consolidation and power.

00:06:22.000 American politics is about the opposite.

00:06:24.000 It's about diffusion of power.

00:06:25.000 We don't want one guy with too much power because that means he can interfere in our lives, right?

00:06:30.000 We learned this with President Obama and Bush and Clinton and everybody else.

00:06:34.000 We don't need more power in the hands of a single powerful individual.

00:06:38.000 This is the problem with Trump.

00:06:39.000 But

00:06:40.000 Again, the response to the pansy years of Obama and Hillary and the left and Hollywood, which tells us that all men are villains because men are testosterone filled and all women are heroes, but only if they ditch men and act like men. 0.53

00:06:53.000 Ronda Rousey is a hero, but the mom who stays home and takes care of her two kids is not.

00:06:57.000 This idea has created a backlash, and the backlash is, if we can't find anybody who's really masculine on the Republican side, we just go for the most masculine-looking guy there is, and that's Donald Trump.

00:07:07.000 So with that in mind, here's Donald Trump as Joe Pesci yesterday.

00:07:11.000 He did a press conference yesterday, and he's very, very upset with Ted Cruz, because Ted Cruz has been running all sorts of ads in South Carolina that point out that Trump is not really conservative, and he's been bashing Trump as not fully conservative.

00:07:24.000 And so Trump did a press conference yesterday in which he basically threatened the Republican Party.

00:07:29.000 He said, I'm going to run third party.

00:07:31.000 I'll sue Ted Cruz, right?

00:07:33.000 He's my enemy. 1.00

00:07:34.000 And I'm going to, if he, if he tries to bust my balls, I'll, I'll cave his skull in basically. 0.99

00:07:38.000 Here's, here's Donald Trump slash Joe Pesci yesterday. 0.98

00:07:41.000 But the only way you can fight it, and the only way I can fight it, is all the press here.

00:07:45.000 But most people can't fight it. 0.99

00:07:46.000 But he's a liar. 0.99

00:07:48.000 So he'll go up and he'll absolutely lie. 0.91

00:07:50.000 In fact, Henry, who is Lieutenant Governor, said, I can't believe the things he's saying, because he understands the views on everything, and he just comes out and boom, boom, boom.

00:07:59.000 Absolute lies.

00:08:01.000 Now, he'll apologize, but I don't want an apology after the election.

00:08:04.000 I want the apology before.

00:08:05.000 And if he doesn't, I'm going to bring a lawsuit because, in my opinion, based on what I've learned over the last two, three days from very top lawyers, he doesn't even have the right to serve as president or even run as president.

00:08:17.000 He was born in Canada.

00:08:18.000 So I will bring that lawsuit if he doesn't apologize.

00:08:21.000 And so all of Trump's supporters look at this and they say, look at the set on this guy, right?

00:08:25.000 If he doesn't get his way, he's going to sue.

00:08:27.000 He's going to force Ted Cruz to apologize.

00:08:29.000 He's going to force people to back down.

00:08:31.000 During that last debate when he was talking over people, that just shows what a set Trump has, right? 0.99

00:08:35.000 When he said that Ted Cruz was a blank and the blank was a word for female genitalia, 0.98

00:08:42.000 That just showed what a tough guy he was. 0.99

00:08:43.000 What a real tough guy he is.

00:08:44.000 Now, the only way to fight Trump is on his own terms.

00:08:47.000 Once you get into—and this is a common thing, by the way, in all cultures.

00:08:51.000 In all cultures, there are games where men fight each other.

00:08:54.000 When I was in high school, there'd be guys dissing each other.

00:08:56.000 There's a game apparently in the black community called The Dozens that's been kind of glorified in film, where people insult each other. 0.96

00:09:03.000 You've got breaking each other's balls in the mafia movies. 0.96

00:09:05.000 It's a very common masculine form of showmanship. 0.98

00:09:08.000 It's kind of, we're going to show how tough we are without actually having to kill each other.

00:09:12.000 Trump is playing this game with everybody, as a columnist for the New York Post says today, and nobody on the Republican side of the aisle knows how to play the game.

00:09:18.000 So you mentioned this yesterday, and when Trump did this at the debate, you had Ted Cruz saying, you know, adults don't, you know, adults don't interrupt each other, Donald.

00:09:27.000 And Donald, and Trump immediately responds, oh yeah, you're a real adult, Ted.

00:09:30.000 You're a real adult.

00:09:32.000 It's like teenage stuff.

00:09:34.000 And that's why I said yesterday what actually needed to happen is somebody needed to look right at Trump and they needed to say, you're a spoiled brat, you grew up rich, nobody's ever said boo to you, nobody's ever said no to you because you've been able to buy your friends, you have to hire people to come to your wedding, and you're the guy who's sitting up here telling us what a tough guy you are? 0.96

00:09:51.000 Sit down, shut up, you have nothing to say, the only reason you're here is because you're extraordinarily wealthy. 0.96

00:09:56.000 If you're a poor guy, no one would care what you have to say. 1.00

00:09:58.000 And the only reason you're rich is because your pops gave you $400 million.

00:10:02.000 If somebody actually said that to Trump, now we're engaged in the game, right?

00:10:05.000 This is the game.

00:10:06.000 And a bunch of Republicans would go, oh, that's a tough guy.

00:10:09.000 That looks like a tough guy now.

00:10:10.000 That guy has a pair on him.

00:10:13.000 So Trump is doing this routine yesterday.

00:10:15.000 And he doubled down on it. 0.99

00:10:16.000 He continued by saying that Ted Cruz is unstable and crazy. 0.99

00:10:21.000 We're good to go. 0.99

00:10:41.000 It's a total lie.

00:10:43.000 In fact, I had mentioned, as you probably saw, I mentioned a couple of names during the debate.

00:10:50.000 And they were very conservative people, highly thought of, and I got actually very good marks for it.

00:10:56.000 But I mentioned some names during the debate of very serious conservative people, judges, highly respected.

00:11:04.000 And, you know, I would think of those two, but I think of others.

00:11:07.000 And I will be appointing.

00:11:09.000 But, you know, what do you do when somebody says on television he's going to appoint liberal judges?

00:11:13.000 Now, if I'm watching that, I'm going to say, oh, Trump's going to appoint liberal judges?

00:11:16.000 I'm not going to vote for Trump.

00:11:18.000 We've got to be very smart.

00:11:19.000 We've got to be very careful.

00:11:20.000 You've got a very unstable guy in Cruz. 1.00

00:11:22.000 He's nuts. 1.00

00:11:23.000 He's nuts. 1.00

00:11:24.000 Cruz is nuts. 1.00

00:11:25.000 Okay. 0.99

00:11:26.000 What would have been funny there is if somebody had actually interjected, Donald, name those people again.

00:11:30.000 Those two judges, because clearly he doesn't know, right?

00:11:33.000 That's why he keeps saying there are these two people, and I mentioned them, and I don't remember their names right now, but I mentioned them.

00:11:38.000 The reason that Cruz says that Trump would appoint liberal judges is because the person who he had said before all of this he'd appoint was his sister, who's a federal appeals court judge, and who has said in the past that partial birth abortion is mandatory under the Constitution.

00:11:51.000 It's a right under the Constitution, partial birth abortion. 1.00

00:11:54.000 And Trump says he's unstable, he's nuts. 0.96

00:11:57.000 And it's, again, it's just Joe Pesci. 1.00

00:11:59.000 What, are you calling me a clown? 0.96

00:12:00.000 You saying I'm a clown? 0.87

00:12:01.000 Like I'm funny to you? 0.97

00:12:02.000 Like I'm a clown? 1.00

00:12:03.000 You're the clown! 1.00

00:12:04.000 Right? 1.00

00:12:04.000 I mean, it's all the same kind of thing. 1.00

00:12:07.000 And Trump gets away with it because he has this, the gall to say anything.

00:12:10.000 I mean, he will literally say anything.

00:12:12.000 So, in this same press conference,

00:12:14.000 He said, he did not say that Bush lied to get us into Iraq.

00:12:18.000 So you remember during the debate, he actually said this.

00:12:20.000 We'll show you the two clips back-to-back so you know what we're talking about.

00:12:23.000 Let's do the flashback first.

00:12:24.000 Here's what Donald Trump actually said about George W. Bush during the debate.

00:12:29.000 Here's Donald Trump, and I mean, his face was color-coordinated to the background apparently.

00:12:36.000 I want to tell you, they lied.

00:12:37.000 They said there were weapons of mass destruction, there were none, and they knew there were none.

00:12:42.000 There were no weapons of mass destruction.

00:12:45.000 Okay, so we can pause it there.

00:12:47.000 That's what Trump said during the debate.

00:12:49.000 Here's what Trump said yesterday about what he said two days ago.

00:12:52.000 I didn't see the debate live, and I read about it afterwards, and it said, Trump says Bush lied purposefully and got us into 9-11 based on a lie.

00:13:02.000 He lied.

00:13:03.000 And then I saw the debate, and I said, well, that wasn't what Donald Trump said.

00:13:07.000 I didn't say it.

00:13:07.000 Yeah, they write it the way they want.

00:13:08.000 But that was the way it was characterized.

00:13:11.000 No, look, we had, you know, the brother stands up, says, my brother kept us safe.

00:13:17.000 I say, well, what about the World Trade Center came down?

00:13:20.000 The worst attack in the history of the United States.

00:13:23.000 He said, oh, how dare you speak about my brother like that?

00:13:25.000 Well, I mean, I'm just giving the facts.

00:13:27.000 The World Trade Center, you understand, Mike, I mean, the World Trade Center came down during his reign.

00:13:32.000 And I said, what about that?

00:13:33.000 I mean, did it come down during his reign?

00:13:35.000 So, you know, you can't say your brother kept us safe because after the World Trade Center, I mean, the World Trade Center came down during his reign.

00:13:43.000 And frankly, there was a lot of information that the CIA and the NSA, you know, you had a lot of different agencies that were poorly coordinated.

00:13:50.000 Because they could have found out about this.

00:13:52.000 You know, there's a lot of theory that they did not get along, and they were not sharing information properly, and they could have maybe done something about it.

00:14:00.000 Who knows?

00:14:00.000 Who really knows?

00:14:01.000 But you can't say that the World Trade Center, you know, was not like an event.

00:14:06.000 I mean, he was president, the World Trade Center came down, and you have Jeb, who doesn't even like using his last name, you have Jeb, and for good reason, I understand that, but you have Jeb saying that his brother kept us safe.

00:14:19.000 Okay, so you've got Trump saying that.

00:14:21.000 Well, what Trump actually said there, I mean, you heard, first of all, Mike Gallagher does a terrible job there asking the question because nobody said that Trump said that Bush got us into 9-11, right?

00:14:30.000 What Trump said was 9-11 happened on Bush's watch and

00:14:34.000 You hear him double down on that, basically say that Bush should have known Bush should have done something about it.

00:14:38.000 By the way, his spokesperson came out yesterday and said that Jeb Bush should have done something about 9-11 because he was governor of Florida at the time when Zacharias Moussaoui, the 20th hijacker, was doing his flight training in Florida.

00:14:49.000 Because apparently he was doing that flight training in Jeb's basement or something.

00:14:52.000 But what's ridiculous about this, you hear Trump and he's just lying. 0.80

00:14:55.000 I mean, he's outright lying. 0.82

00:14:56.000 I didn't say that Bush lied to get us to invade Iraq.

00:14:59.000 Also, Bush lied to get us to invade Iraq.

00:15:01.000 He'll say anything.

00:15:02.000 He'll say anything.

00:15:04.000 I mean, it's just, it's total madness.

00:15:06.000 And it's okay, though, because he's just playing the dozens.

00:15:09.000 This is just, it's just a disc fight.

00:15:10.000 And because the right doesn't know how to play this game, because the right has no clue how to play this game, and they don't know what it signals, and again, it's universal to human cultures.

00:15:18.000 There are no human cultures in which men do... By the way, it's in animal culture, too. 0.98

00:15:22.000 You'll see, I just read this book, The Professor in the Cage.

00:15:24.000 I talked about it on the show.

00:15:26.000 In which they talk about how animals will present to each other, like they'll growl at each other, they'll do fangs and basically do what they call the monkey dance, where they just dance around each other and mock combat.

00:15:38.000 That's when you see deer and they go at each other and they fight each other.

00:15:40.000 You notice they never kill each other.

00:15:42.000 They just fight each other to establish dominance.

00:15:44.000 That's what Trump is doing rhetorically here, and the right doesn't know how to fight it.

00:15:47.000 So instead, they trot out George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.

00:15:50.000 So here's George W. Bush ripping Donald Trump at a rally yesterday.

00:15:53.000 George W., by the way, he's campaigning for Jeb exclamation point Bush.

00:15:57.000 And here he is.

00:15:58.000 He looks exactly like his dad, by the way.

00:15:59.000 He is aging exactly like H.W.

00:16:01.000 Here is George W. You have to man a humble, deep and genuine faith.

00:16:07.000 Faith that reveals itself through good works.

00:16:11.000 Not loud words.

00:16:13.000 I think you should look for someone whose humility helps him understand what he doesn't know and surrounds himself with people who do know what he doesn't know.

00:16:30.000 So he says that Trump just isn't humble at all, right?

00:16:33.000 It's a very civil way of saying it.

00:16:35.000 You have Dick Cheney doing the same thing here as Dick Cheney saying that Trump sounds like a liberal Democrat.

00:16:40.000 He sounds like a liberal Democrat to me, Brett.

00:16:43.000 He's wrong, and he's, I think, deliberately promoting those views in order to advance his political interest on the question of the WMD charge that the administration lied.

00:16:57.000 That was thoroughly investigated by the Rob Silberman Commission.

00:17:01.000 They found absolutely no evidence whatsoever to support that.

00:17:05.000 On the notion, for example, that the President failed to act before 9-11 to stop it, we had no actionable intelligence at that point.

00:17:13.000 It simply wasn't available.

00:17:15.000 There was nothing we could have done, and we didn't have intelligence at that point to suggest other than there's a general kind of a threat.

00:17:22.000 Now, again, nothing that he's saying is wrong, but Trump's response to all of this, all of this is,

00:17:52.000 One of the most disappointing things about this race is watching Rubio and Cruz, both of whom I like, go at each other while basically leaving Donald Trump alone.

00:18:00.000 Like, while Cruz is trying to defend against Trump, Rubio sees his opening and jumps on top of Cruz.

00:18:05.000 Rubio isn't attacking Trump now.

00:18:06.000 It's amazing.

00:18:07.000 All of the Rubio supporters who were fighting angry for months that Ted Cruz would not attack Trump, now they're just fine with Marco Rubio not attacking Trump so that he can attack Cruz.

00:18:16.000 It's amazing how politics 0.97

00:18:17.000 Makes hypocrites of us all. 0.97

00:18:18.000 But you've got everybody attacking each other, and Trump just standing there off to the side. 0.99

00:18:23.000 And now, the Rubio supporters are very upset, and they're saying that Cruz is corrupt.

00:18:28.000 Why?

00:18:28.000 Because there's this Cruz ad that apparently had to be removed by a television station about Rubio.

00:18:33.000 Here's what the ad looked like, and now Rubio is saying that Cruz is corrupt also.

00:18:37.000 The reason he's saying that is because Cruz's base of support

00:18:39.000 is among conservatives who want a consistent conservative and evangelicals who want somebody honest. 0.89

00:18:45.000 And so you have Rubio and Trump both slamming Cruz by saying that he's dishonest, that he's a liar.

00:18:49.000 So here is the ad that had to be pulled and we'll talk about what Rubio had to say about it.

00:18:54.000 Our porous borders and weak visa system allow dangerous people and enemies of America to easily enter the country. 0.96

00:19:00.000 And Marco Rubio worked to allow sanctuary cities that attract illegal immigrants who have already proven they don't respect our law. 0.76

00:19:07.000 Still forefinding a way for them to legally stay in the United States.

00:19:11.000 Yeah, look, I don't think you're going to round them into 4-12 million people.

00:19:14.000 Marco Rubio and Chuck Schumer's risky plan?

00:19:17.000 An America full of sanctuary cities.

00:19:20.000 Stanford Truth, Inc.

00:19:21.000 is responsible for the content of this advertising.

00:19:24.000 So the Rubio campaign got in touch with some television stations and got very, very upset about this and got a couple of television stations to pull it.

00:19:31.000 Rubio then went on the campaign trail and he said that Ted Cruz is lying about his immigration record.

00:19:36.000 So, let's take a minute and go through Rubio's position on immigration.

00:19:40.000 Or rather, his positions on immigration, all 1,167 of them.

00:19:44.000 Because Marco Rubio is all over the place on immigration.

00:19:47.000 The Gang of Eight bill did, in fact, give incentives to cities to be sanctuary cities.

00:19:52.000 That's in the Gang of Eight bill that Marco Rubio endorsed.

00:19:55.000 So back when he ran for Senate, Marco Rubio said, quote, I'm strongly against amnesty.

00:19:59.000 The most important thing we need to do is enforce our existing laws.

00:20:02.000 Then he got into the Senate and he pushed forward this Gang of Eight bill.

00:20:06.000 So the Gang of Eight bill would have allowed millions of illegal immigrants a pathway to citizenship. 0.61

00:20:11.000 It authorized spending with no guarantee of border security.

00:20:13.000 It allowed government services for people who are granted amnesty.

00:20:17.000 Eventually, Rubio dropped his support, and now he's lying and saying that the version of the bill he supported originally was never meant to pass.

00:20:24.000 The House was going to amend it.

00:20:25.000 Which, of course, he didn't say at the time.

00:20:27.000 So where does he stand now?

00:20:29.000 Basically on every side of the issue.

00:20:31.000 In April 2015, he said of Obama's executive amnesty, quote, He said to Univision, and Cruz quoted him on this in the debate, and this is when Rubio said, And then Cruz started jabbering in Spanish to him, and it's just, what a terrible debate.

00:20:55.000 He told Univision, quote, I wouldn't undo Obama's executive amnesty immediately.

00:20:59.000 The reason is that there are already people who have that permission, who are working, who are studying.

00:21:03.000 I don't think it would be fair to cancel it suddenly.

00:21:05.000 It will have to end.

00:21:06.000 God willing, it'll end because immigration reform is going to pass. 0.55

00:21:09.000 So the guy who said he was now against the Gang of Eight says that he's actually for the Gang of Eight.

00:21:13.000 He just wants it to happen later.

00:21:16.000 In November, he said that he wants illegal immigrants not to get citizenship, but they should be given a green card.

00:21:21.000 Which, of course, as anybody who knows anyone who's ever had a green card means, you can apply for citizenship.

00:21:25.000 That's what a green card allows you to do.

00:21:28.000 After a certain period of time, my wife became a citizen because she had a green card, and she used that green card to apply for citizenship.

00:21:34.000 So, it's a six-in-one, half-dozens.

00:21:36.000 But the rap is what matters here, and the rap is that Cruz is dishonest,

00:21:41.000 The rap is that Cruz is a bad guy, and Trump is leading the groundwork here.

00:21:45.000 He's laying the groundwork for every attack on every candidate.

00:21:47.000 It was Trump who laid the groundwork for the Marco Rubio is a wuss argument, and everybody else jumped in.

00:21:53.000 He laid the groundwork for the Ted Cruz's dishonest argument, and everybody else jumped in.

00:21:58.000 Because he's good at it.

00:21:59.000 This is the one thing he's good at. 0.99

00:22:00.000 And people resonate to the guy with the balls, which is just ridiculous. 1.00

00:22:05.000 And as I say in my column today, you know, all balls and no principle make Johnny a silly boar. 0.99

00:22:11.000 And that's basically what we've got here. 0.99

00:22:13.000 So, meanwhile on the other side of the aisle, the Clintons are going similarly crazy. 0.81

00:22:18.000 So Hillary Clinton yesterday, she's got to be the worst candidate. 1.00

00:22:22.000 I mean, she's a worse candidate than Donald Trump by far.

00:22:25.000 Donald Trump is actually good at some of this stuff. 0.96

00:22:26.000 Hillary is just awful at it. 1.00

00:22:28.000 Here is Hillary Clinton barking like a dog yesterday at her rally. 0.98

00:22:33.000 Seriously, here we go.

00:22:35.000 One of my favorite political ads of all time was a radio ad, rural Arkansas, where the announcer said, wouldn't it be great if somebody running for office said something

00:22:49.000 We could have an immediate reaction as to whether it was true or not.

00:22:53.000 Well, we've trained this dog.

00:22:56.000 And a dog, if it's not true, he's gonna bark.

00:22:59.000 And then the dog was barking on the radio.

00:23:02.000 And so, you know, people were, like, barking at each other for days after that.

00:23:07.000 I'm trying to figure out how we can do that with the Republicans.

00:23:09.000 You know?

00:23:11.000 We need to get that dog and follow him around, and every time they say these things, like, oh, you know, the Great Recession was caused by too much regulation.

00:23:20.000 Arf! 0.93

00:23:21.000 Arf! 0.93

00:23:21.000 You know? 0.93

00:23:23.000 I think we could cut right through a lot of their claims.

00:23:29.000 Okay, so there she is, Miss America, talking about how she wishes the campaign went.

00:23:36.000 She does a very credible imitation of a dog, actually.

00:23:38.000 I mean, that's probably her best quality on the campaign trail, is that she can bark like a dog. 1.00

00:23:43.000 And I could drop a really inappropriate joke here, but instead we'll just slide right over the hat.

00:23:50.000 And it's really tempting, but we're not going to do it.

00:23:52.000 Okay, so that's Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail yesterday, and she's a terrible candidate. 1.00

00:23:56.000 And so Bill Clinton has now been trotted out to try and help Hillary Clinton, his barking mad wife.

00:24:02.000 And here's Bill Clinton going after Bernie Sanders supporters. 0.98

00:24:04.000 He says that they are basically crazy. 1.00

00:24:06.000 They're totally nuts. 1.00

00:24:07.000 Here we go. 0.99

00:24:08.000 It's not altogether mysterious that there are a lot of people that say, well, the Republican Party rewarded the Tea Party.

00:24:21.000 Just tell people what they want to hear, move them to the right, and we'll be rewarded.

00:24:27.000 Except they didn't get anything done.

00:24:32.000 Then, that's going on now in our party.

00:24:35.000 If you don't deal with the fact that we are politically polarized, and we keep rewarding people who tell us things they know they can't do, because it pushes our hot buttons, we can't go forward together.

00:24:49.000 First of all, Bill knows something about hot buttons being pushed.

00:24:52.000 Second of all, it's clear that if you're actually watching the tape of this, Bill Clinton has no idea where he is.

00:24:57.000 I mean, he could be in his bathroom for all he knows right now. 0.96

00:25:00.000 He is totally out of it, and he is reviewing lesbian pornography in his mind as per his usual. 0.97

00:25:06.000 So he's out there insulting the Bernie Sanders supporters as too polarized, as too far left. 0.68

00:25:12.000 I mean, that means that he's already running a general election campaign, and so is Hillary Clinton, and so, by the way, is Donald Trump.

00:25:19.000 Trump and Bill and Hillary are all part of the same group.

00:25:22.000 They're all very much aligned.

00:25:24.000 And here's the proof.

00:25:25.000 Bill went on yesterday to talk about taking Donald Trump's money.

00:25:29.000 He said that Donald Trump donated money to the Clinton Foundation.

00:25:32.000 Here's Bill explaining.

00:25:35.000 She had come to Arkansas to be with me and organize the first legal aid clinic in the most conservative mountain county of the Ozark.

00:25:43.000 Thank you.

00:25:47.000 Wait, wait, wait, wait.

00:25:49.000 Wait, wait, wait, wait.

00:25:53.000 And by the way, wait, no, no, wait, wait, wait, wait.

00:25:58.000 I want you to hear this.

00:26:00.000 I want you to hear this.

00:26:01.000 And by the way, before he became a Republican, or when he was, I certainly did.

00:26:10.000 And I certainly did.

00:26:13.000 And I took his money from my foundation, where I used it, to better than he's using it now, I'll guarantee you.

00:26:22.000 Okay, so what's happening there, for those who can't see, is there's a guy who's standing there waving a Donald Trump sign.

00:26:33.000 Here's what I want to say to you about this.

00:26:35.000 Wait, wait, wait, wait.

00:26:37.000 I remember when he called me to say how terrible the Republicans had been to me and Hillary, and how unfair they were, and what a brilliant job Hillary did as a senator.

00:26:48.000 So — and by the way, a lot of Republicans thought that, which is why they spent the last three years trying to tear her down, because they know if you nominate her, they're going to have to eat the words that they said when they weren't running for office.

00:27:06.000 We can pause it there.

00:27:07.000 Every time Bill gets to an applause line, his mouth kind of opens randomly, and it looks like he's going to start drooling.

00:27:13.000 But in any case, you've got the guy there with the Trump sign, and he says at one point, you hear him shout to Clinton, you took Trump's money, right?

00:27:21.000 You took Trump's money.

00:27:22.000 And Clinton comes back with, yeah, I took his money.

00:27:24.000 I took his money and then I used it for better stuff than he's using it for right now.

00:27:29.000 When Trump is asked about giving money to Bill Clinton, what does he say?

00:27:32.000 I was in business!

00:27:33.000 I needed to get them to do things!

00:27:34.000 So number one, somebody or both of them are lying, right?

00:27:37.000 Because one is saying I gave him money to do things and I got those things, and the other is saying he gave me money and I used it for whatever I wanted to.

00:27:43.000 So somebody is lying.

00:27:45.000 But second of all, just notice the similarity in persona between the Clintons and Donald Trump.

00:27:51.000 So you've got Bill up there saying that Trump used to call us and tell us how horribly the Republicans were treating us.

00:27:57.000 That's why we like Donald.

00:27:58.000 Donald Trump about Vladimir Putin, right?

00:28:00.000 Vladimir Putin!

00:28:01.000 He calls me a genius!

00:28:02.000 I like Vladimir Putin!

00:28:03.000 It's all about the Clintons.

00:28:05.000 It's all about Trump.

00:28:06.000 And they don't care what kind of money they have to spread around or take. 0.99

00:28:08.000 They're deeply corrupt. 0.94

00:28:09.000 It's all about them. 1.00

00:28:10.000 It's all about them.

00:28:12.000 And this is the battle right now.

00:28:13.000 That it's all about a bunch of politicians for whom it is all about them.

00:28:17.000 The Clintons and Donald Trump.

00:28:19.000 And this is a very serious time.

00:28:21.000 It's a very serious time, and I don't want to start lecturing you about what a serious time it is, but we spent the entire broadcast yesterday talking about the impact of Justice Scalia's death, and the fact that we are one Supreme Court justice away from losing everything.

00:28:34.000 From the Constitution becoming a club that the left can use to push forward social policies, economic policies, gun policies of their choosing, to push those down the throats of the American people.

00:28:45.000 And Ted Cruz had this right.

00:28:47.000 Cruz slammed Donald Trump yesterday over his Supreme Court picks.

00:28:51.000 Here's what Ted Cruz had to say about this.

00:28:54.000 Actually, those polling numbers are predominantly taken before the debate.

00:28:57.000 What we are seeing happening is Donald's numbers are plummeting after the debate.

00:29:02.000 And I think it's a couple of things.

00:29:03.000 I think, number one, the time for the circus, I think, is over.

00:29:09.000 People realize, particularly with Justice Scalia's passing, that the stakes are serious, that we need

00:29:15.000 A serious nominee who will defend the Constitution.

00:29:18.000 And listen, Donald, I like Donald personally.

00:29:20.000 He's a very talented entertainer.

00:29:22.000 But he has been a liberal his entire life.

00:29:24.000 He has, for 60 years of his life, described himself as very, very pro-choice.

00:29:29.000 He has supported partial birth abortion.

00:29:31.000 Even on the stage, this weekend, he supported taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood.

00:29:36.000 He called me a liar when I said it.

00:29:38.000 He says his transformation came to Ronald Reagan.

00:29:44.000 But the difference is Ronald Reagan became a conservative.

00:29:47.000 Donald Trump has never become a conservative.

00:29:49.000 And you know why we know that Donald would appoint liberals to the U.S.

00:29:53.000 Supreme Court?

00:29:54.000 We know that because for four decades he has been giving money to liberals from Jimmy Carter.

00:29:59.000 He supported Jimmy Carter against Ronald Reagan.

00:30:01.000 He's given money multiple times to Hillary Clinton.

00:30:04.000 He's given money to Chuck Schumer.

00:30:05.000 He's given money to Harry Reid.

00:30:06.000 And he's also given money to Republicans, too.

00:30:08.000 He has given money to John Kerry.

00:30:10.000 He supported John Kerry against George W. Bush.

00:30:12.000 He supports Senator John McCain.

00:30:14.000 Right.

00:30:14.000 What he has said is, being a businessman in New York, he's had to give money to everybody.

00:30:19.000 Real quick.

00:30:19.000 Ten seconds.

00:30:21.000 But hold on.

00:30:21.000 Let me finish this point.

00:30:23.000 Anyone that writes checks to John Kerry and Chuck Schumer and Harry Reid does not care about putting conservative justices on the court, because those individuals fought tooth and nail to prevent conservative justices, and we are one justice away from losing the Second Amendment.

00:30:38.000 If you vote for Donald Trump, we will see the Second Amendment written out of the Constitution, because one liberal justice will do that.

00:30:50.000 It is amazing, by the way, how Fox News treats Cruz as adversarial there.

00:30:55.000 I mean, they're really treating him like, you know, but Trump says this and Trump says that and Trump says that he would never appoint a liberal justice.

00:31:02.000 Trump doesn't care.

00:31:03.000 Trump would appoint whoever makes him popular at the moment.

00:31:04.000 He'd appoint Oprah Winfrey to the Supreme Court.

00:31:07.000 He doesn't care at all.

00:31:09.000 And by the way, I don't actually buy Cruz's entire argument that Trump would certainly appoint somebody left on the court.

00:31:15.000 I don't think that's true.

00:31:16.000 I think that Trump might appoint somebody right.

00:31:18.000 He might appoint somebody left.

00:31:18.000 He might appoint a chicken.

00:31:19.000 I mean, I don't know what's going through Trump's head at any given time.

00:31:23.000 But here's the difference between Trump and Hillary. 0.82

00:31:25.000 I do know that while Hillary is self-interested, Hillary Clinton also is an ideologue.

00:31:30.000 So, for example, here yesterday is Hillary Clinton talking about the requirements for the next justice on the Supreme Court.

00:31:37.000 With Chris Matthews, I have to say... They don't even want to talk about filling the seat of Justice Scalia.

00:31:43.000 Well, Chris, I find that's the height of irony.

00:31:46.000 You know, Justice Scalia was known for his strict interpretation of the Constitution.

00:31:54.000 So I find it hard to understand the Republicans wanting to blatantly ignore the Constitution in replacing him.

00:32:02.000 Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution clearly says it's the President's job to nominate justices

00:32:09.000 To the Supreme Court with the advice and consent of the Senate.

00:32:12.000 The Constitution doesn't say wait a year and hope for a president of a different party.

00:32:17.000 And trying to flout the Constitution is a really funny way for the Republicans to be honoring Justice Scalia's memory and legacy.

00:32:27.000 And there are huge issues at stake.

00:32:29.000 You know, the Supreme Court's in the middle of considering the President's executive order to let Dreamers stay in the country. 1.00

00:32:35.000 That's essential to over a million young people.

00:32:38.000 Considering the very burdensome restrictions Texas placed on women's reproductive decisions, that could affect millions of women. 1.00

00:32:46.000 They're going to have a big, big impact deciding the fate of President Obama's plan to cut greenhouse gas pollution and address climate change.

00:32:54.000 So I think the Supreme Court deserves nine justices, and I think we should demand that the Senate do its duty and receive and act on whoever the president nominates.

00:33:06.000 Let me ask you about your position about appointing a Supreme Court justice should you be elected president.

00:33:11.000 Your rival Senator Sanders says he would put a litmus test.

00:33:14.000 They must be someone who wants to get rid of Citizens United.

00:33:18.000 Where are you on that?

00:33:21.000 Well, I would hope that anybody I appoint

00:33:24.000 ...understand the grave damage that Citizens United is doing to our democracy.

00:33:30.000 I think we need to appoint Supreme Court justices who are living in the, you know, the real give-and-take of the world... Okay, we can pause it there.

00:33:38.000 I mean, this is... So, in other words, she says that it's against Scalia's idea for the Senate to have advice and consent, but...

00:33:46.000 Hillary Clinton also says that we need people who don't abide by any element of Justice Scalia's philosophy.

00:33:51.000 That's what we really need on the Supreme Court.

00:33:52.000 She's an ideologue.

00:33:53.000 There's no question who she would appoint to the Supreme Court of the United States.

00:33:57.000 This is why it's a very serious time.

00:33:59.000 Okay, time for some things that I like and some things that I hate.

00:34:02.000 Okay, first, something that I like.

00:34:03.000 There's a new trailer for Daredevil.

00:34:05.000 If you saw Daredevil on Netflix,

00:34:07.000 It's good.

00:34:08.000 It could be... I thought season one was good.

00:34:10.000 I didn't think it was as great as other people did.

00:34:12.000 This is the trailer for season two of Daredevil.

00:34:16.000 And let me just say, I'm totally Team Punisher.

00:34:19.000 Okay, so the Punisher is a character in the Marvel Comics universe, and he actually is... He's like Batman who kills people, basically.

00:34:28.000 He's a vigilante, but he actually kills all of the mobsters. 0.97

00:34:31.000 He doesn't just... 0.97

00:34:32.000 One match.

00:35:17.000 I still feel guilty.

00:35:20.000 The count means your work is not yet finished.

00:35:29.000 Downtown office thinks we got a new player in Hell's Kitchen.

00:35:32.000 What do they want?

00:35:36.000 The DA's office says the shooter's independent.

00:35:39.000 He's tracking gangs to their home turf and taking them out with military precision.

00:35:44.000 Acknowledging hardware to take out half the city.

00:35:47.000 Hell's Kitchen is about to explode. 0.87

00:35:58.000 Bang.

00:36:03.000 Maybe we created him.

00:36:07.000 All of us.

00:36:08.000 There's no connection.

00:36:10.000 We never stopped to think that Daredevil's actions could open the door for men like this.

00:36:16.000 How much longer before innocent people start getting caught in this crossfire?

00:36:22.000 Blood is being shed.

00:36:23.000 And you've donated more than your fair share!

00:36:29.000 The city needs him. 1.00

00:36:33.000 I need to take care of the scum that killed my family. 1.00

00:36:37.000 People don't have to die. 1.00

00:36:38.000 You hit them and they get back up, I hit them and they stay down!

00:36:43.000 Why are you doing this? 0.87

00:36:44.000 Because I think you're a half-measure.

00:36:47.000 I think you're a man who can't finish the job. 1.00

00:36:50.000 I think that you're a coward. 0.99

00:36:51.000 You know you're one bad day away from being me. 0.98

00:37:02.000 Okay, so there it is, the trailer for Daredevil Season 2, which looks great, by the way.

00:37:07.000 Totally team Punisher.

00:37:08.000 Totally team Punisher.

00:37:10.000 He's right, Daredevil is a half-measure.

00:37:12.000 So is Batman.

00:37:14.000 When he hits people, they stay down.

00:37:16.000 This is the way that you take care of bad guys.

00:37:17.000 So, that's...

00:37:19.000 Thumbs up on the Punisher.

00:37:21.000 It's gonna be sad when he loses, but it's good that he's in it.

00:37:27.000 Also, on my reading list, I always give you the update on my reading list.

00:37:31.000 The book Nudge by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein is an important book because this is one of the founding documents of the Obama administration.

00:37:38.000 Whenever they talk inside the Obama administration about using the power of government to nudge people towards certain behavior,

00:37:44.000 This is what they're talking about, and so I like to read what the left has to say so that we can learn how to combat it and what's there that's of use.

00:37:50.000 So I will give you an update after I have read that book.

00:37:54.000 Okay, so now some things that I hate.

00:37:55.000 So first of all, I promised I would mock Mathis, and it's been months.

00:38:00.000 I mean, it's really been too long.

00:38:01.000 And I know Mathis has been waiting with bated breath for the other shoe to drop.

00:38:05.000 And now it's gonna drop, but this shoe isn't just gonna hit Mathis, it's also gonna hit Andrew Klavan.

00:38:09.000 So Klavan, the other day, I listen to Klavan's show every day, as you should, over at Daily Wire, and you should subscribe so you can see all of this and enjoy it.

00:38:19.000 Klavan does his Things That I Like, which was the genesis for Things That I Hate.

00:38:23.000 And Stuff I Like, Klavan said, and you recommended this, this was his last pre-Valentine's Day recommendation, was the movie Shakespeare in Love.

00:38:33.000 Yeah.

00:38:34.000 And he said that it was a great movie.

00:38:36.000 It's on his top 20 list.

00:38:37.000 He said it was nearly a perfect movie with a perfect script.

00:38:41.000 And so I did what I always do with Clavin.

00:38:43.000 I gave him a fair hearing.

00:38:44.000 I went out and I re-watched the movie over the weekend. 0.99

00:38:48.000 And as I suspected, it is complete garbage. 1.00

00:38:51.000 It is hogwash and it is garbage. 1.00

00:38:52.000 And then I come in here and Mathis says, no, I love Shakespeare in Love. 0.99

00:38:56.000 Of course you do, Mathis.

00:38:58.000 Of course you do.

00:38:59.000 That's all. 0.93

00:39:00.000 So, Shakespeare in Love, the reason that it's stupid is because the entire premise of Shakespeare in Love is that Shakespeare needed to get it on in order to write. 0.84

00:39:08.000 Okay? 0.86

00:39:08.000 That this was basically Shakespeare's drive. 0.86

00:39:09.000 That Shakespeare, if it hadn't been for him getting laid regularly, then Shakespeare would have just turned into a dried-up poet who wasn't able to utter a word.

00:39:17.000 He needed to experience love with the most vacuous person on earth, Gwyneth Paltrow, in order for him to be able to write great poetry and terrific plotlines.

00:39:24.000 And, by the way, he didn't even come up with his plotlines.

00:39:26.000 It was Christopher Marlowe who came up with his plotlines.

00:39:30.000 Never mind the fact that Christopher Marlowe is a raging anti-Semite, but that's aside from the point.

00:39:34.000 Also, they make it out that the historical incorrectness of it is one element, which is just, there's so much historically incorrect here that it's not even worth it to really go into it.

00:39:45.000 I mean, the idea that the Earl of Wessex is heading off to America to grow tobacco is like 50 years before anyone was growing tobacco in America.

00:39:53.000 The idea that Romeo and Juliet started off, Romeo and the Pirate's Daughter,

00:39:57.000 No, it's actually an ancient myth. 1.00

00:40:00.000 The whole thing is dumb. 0.89

00:40:01.000 But what's particularly insulting is the idea that great artists, people who work at their art, people who work at their craft, what really inspires them is getting laid regularly. 0.98

00:40:11.000 No, I'm sorry, it just doesn't hold.

00:40:14.000 I mean, imagine what Gregor Mendel, a priest, could have discovered.

00:40:17.000 I mean, he only discovered Mendelian genetics. 0.99

00:40:20.000 How much more could he have discovered if he was having sex regularly with prostitutes? 0.99

00:40:23.000 I mean, goodness gracious. 0.99

00:40:25.000 That's sort of the premise of Shakespeare in Love.

00:40:26.000 Matthews was arguing this with me yesterday, but he's not on the show, so I don't care.

00:40:30.000 He just sits back there, and he hits buttons, and, you know, alright, you don't have any- he can't argue, so there's nothing he can say.

00:40:36.000 He doesn't get paid to talk on the show I do.

00:40:37.000 So, in any case, he says that...

00:40:40.000 He says that that's unfair to the script, that it's really about how love, how love is what causes people to write well.

00:40:47.000 Except that at the very beginning of the movie, there's a scene where Shakespeare, played by the entirely effeminate Joseph Fiennes, does a routine where he's having sex with some random broad, and then he goes and writes a scene for Romeo and Juliet, and it's magnificent, and he's super excited about it. 0.99

00:41:03.000 What utter nonsense, what utter stupidity. 0.99

00:41:06.000 Shakespeare was a genius because Shakespeare was a genius. 1.00

00:41:08.000 He wrote beautifully about human emotion, not because he was in a lusty relationship with a woman dressed as a man dressed as a woman dressed as a man. 0.98

00:41:16.000 It's a dumb movie, and the fact that it beat L.A. 0.97

00:41:19.000 Confidential for Best Picture that year is just a travesty. 0.99

00:41:22.000 L.A.

00:41:22.000 Confidential is a truly terrific movie.

00:41:24.000 L.A.

00:41:24.000 Confidential, excellent movie.

00:41:26.000 Shakespeare in love.

00:41:27.000 Okay.

00:41:28.000 Other things that I hate.

00:41:30.000 Kanye West

00:41:32.000 Number one, over the weekend, Kanye West started tweeting that he's $53 million in debt, and then he begged Mark Zuckerberg over at Facebook to bail him out.

00:41:40.000 Why?

00:41:41.000 Because Kanye West is an insane person, and Kanye West said that he's the greatest artist in two generations, and thus, he should be bailed out. 0.84

00:41:48.000 He said all he wants to do is engage in his art, which he could do for free. 0.56

00:41:52.000 I mean, I'm not sure why we should rack up $53 million of debt.

00:41:55.000 That's not the part about Kanye West that I actually hate.

00:41:58.000 The part about Kanye West that I hate is that he has now decided

00:42:02.000 He has now decided that white people should not be able to review his albums.

00:42:09.000 He wrote this on Twitter, quote, to Pitchfork, which is a publication, to Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, New York Times, and any other white publication, please do not comment on black music anymore.

00:42:19.000 So, never mind the fact that 80 to 90% of the entire hip-hop audience is white.

00:42:25.000 Really, like it's all white suburban kids who listen to hip-hop.

00:42:27.000 It has been known since the 1990s.

00:42:29.000 Never mind the fact that all those people reviewing Kanye is what helps make Kanye famous. 1.00

00:42:34.000 Never mind the fact all those are super, super duper leftist publications that bend over backwards to praise Kanye's stupidity, his yeezes, idiocy. 1.00

00:42:41.000 West tweeted, quote, I love, love, love white people. 1.00

00:42:44.000 But you don't understand what it means to be the great grandson of ex-slaves and make it this far.

00:42:50.000 What?

00:42:52.000 What?

00:42:53.000 I love, love, love white people. 0.86

00:42:54.000 Okay, yes, that's really just, that's utterly inspiring.

00:42:59.000 Thank you for your love, love, love of white people, Kanye.

00:43:02.000 And he says, you don't understand what it means to be the great-grandson of ex-slaves.

00:43:06.000 The great-grandson?

00:43:07.000 My God, how far back are we gonna go here?

00:43:09.000 The great-grandson of ex-slaves?

00:43:10.000 First of all, I don't, like, that math I don't think matches up.

00:43:14.000 The great-grandson of ex-slaves.

00:43:16.000 How old is Kanye?

00:43:17.000 Do we have any idea?

00:43:18.000 How old is Kanye West?

00:43:18.000 Okay, I'm gonna check this now.

00:43:21.000 Kanye West,

00:43:22.000 He's 38 years old, so he's six years older than I am.

00:43:25.000 Okay, my great-grandparents got to the United States in 1907.

00:43:29.000 So, unless his great-grandmother was having kids at like age 65, I don't think the math totally matches up here, because the Civil War ended in 1865, so presumably if they were ex-slaves, she would have had been born in like 1855.

00:43:40.000 Okay, so that means that Kanye West was born in 1977.

00:43:45.000 Okay, a generation is approximately 30 years.

00:43:48.000 Okay, this would mean that everybody, that there were like three generations where everybody had kids at 40.

00:43:51.000 So, I'm not doubting that he is descended from slaves, that's probably true, but I don't think that he's the great-grandson.

00:43:56.000 He might be the great-great-grandson or the great-great-great-grandson of ex-slaves, just in terms of the timing.

00:44:02.000 But even so,

00:44:04.000 What?

00:44:05.000 Who cares?

00:44:06.000 Who cares?

00:44:07.000 As the great-grandson of... Right, you've really suffered if 150 years ago your great-great-grandparents were freed from slavery.

00:44:14.000 That's definitely been you suffering over it, Kanye.

00:44:16.000 I can see how much you suffer now. 0.77

00:44:18.000 With your giant $20 million house in the hills, white people should definitely not review your music. 0.72

00:44:22.000 Here's what I say. 0.99

00:44:23.000 White people shouldn't listen to your music. 1.00

00:44:25.000 And let's see how this goes for you. 0.97

00:44:27.000 You want white people reviewing your music? 0.99

00:44:28.000 White people shouldn't listen to it. 1.00

00:44:29.000 After all, isn't it cultural appropriation for them to listen to and enjoy your garbage? 1.00

00:44:34.000 Isn't that cultural appropriation? 1.00

00:44:36.000 For that matter, black people shouldn't review white people's stuff. 1.00

00:44:39.000 And whenever a white person says something, a black person apparently should shut up. 1.00

00:44:42.000 They don't understand the white experience. 1.00

00:44:44.000 I mean, if some racist says something anti-black, maybe black people should just shut up because they don't understand that racist background. 0.99

00:44:50.000 How do they know where that racist came from? 1.00

00:44:52.000 Do you see how stupid this idea is? 1.00

00:44:54.000 This idea that people of different races cannot comment on the activities of one another. 1.00

00:44:58.000 Talk about creating a racist America, a stupid racist America. 1.00

00:45:02.000 So, Kanye West, a horrible example of humanity, continuing to be a horrible example of humanity. 1.00

00:45:07.000 And by the way, producing garbage, this stuff is just not good. 0.99

00:45:10.000 I understand this is not my field of expertise. 0.95

00:45:13.000 To have a field of expertise in which Kanye West is a genius, you have to have an IQ under 110.

00:45:20.000 For sure.

00:45:20.000 Maybe under 100.

00:45:22.000 I'm sorry.

00:45:22.000 It's not intelligent music.

00:45:24.000 It's not music that stirs the soul. 1.00

00:45:26.000 It's a bunch of crap. 1.00

00:45:27.000 But apparently, only people who are experts in Kanye West garbage can comment. 1.00

00:45:34.000 And only if they're black. 1.00

00:45:35.000 Because then they truly understand what it's like to be the victimized great-grandson of people who were killed. 0.97

00:45:41.000 You know what I've never said in my entire life?

00:45:43.000 People shouldn't review my work or comment on my comments because my great-great-grandparents were busy getting killed in pogroms in Russia.

00:45:48.000 Like, this has never occurred to me.

00:45:50.000 Okay, I've never said people shouldn't judge me because much of my extended family was murdered in the Holocaust. 0.81

00:45:56.000 Because guess what?

00:45:56.000 It wasn't me murdered in the Holocaust, so I don't get to actually stand on that tragedy.

00:46:00.000 I don't get to stand on that monstrosity. 0.91

00:46:03.000 What silliness.

00:46:03.000 Okay, final thing that I dislike today.

00:46:07.000 The Grammys are just an utter crap show. 0.97

00:46:10.000 I mean, I never watched them. 0.99

00:46:12.000 Lindsay asked me if I watched them last night, and I looked at her and laughed because that's silly.

00:46:16.000 And apparently, Adele sang last night, and this does make me happy.

00:46:20.000 Apparently, Adele was terrible. 0.94

00:46:22.000 If you've watched the program at all, you know that I have a peculiar hatred for Adele. 0.93

00:46:26.000 I think Adele is awful.

00:46:28.000 I think that she is overrated. 0.97

00:46:29.000 I think that she shrieks like a... 1.00

00:46:32.000 She sounds like Hillary Clinton doing a dog imitation, except howling at the moon over prolonged piano chords. 0.95

00:46:37.000 I think Adele is awful.

00:46:38.000 So, Adele apparently did a performance last night.

00:46:41.000 I did watch part of it.

00:46:42.000 It was the pitchiest thing.

00:46:43.000 I mean, deeply pitchy and screamy and horrible.

00:46:47.000 And as somebody who grew up in a musical family, I mean, like, my sister had a full opera scholarship at USC, my dad is a professional pianist, I played violin near-professionally for many years, like, this is... I know the difference between somebody who has talent and somebody who is riding their 20 pounds of extra fat to prominence, and, uh, Adele is the latter.

00:47:07.000 And tomorrow we'll talk about 20 pounds of extra fat when we get to the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition.

00:47:12.000 Well, we'll save that for tomorrow because I know that we're running short on time, but the actual thing at the Grammys that I really dislike

00:47:18.000 As you know, who won the Spoken Word Award at the Grammys?

00:47:21.000 You know, who won the Spoken Word Award at the Grammys?

00:47:24.000 Jimmy Carter.

00:47:25.000 Jimmy Carter won the Spoken Word Award at the Grammys.

00:47:29.000 He won a gold for, this is his second Grammy.

00:47:32.000 It's his second Grammy.

00:47:33.000 He won a gold for his, at the event, for his memoirs, for his audio book, A Full Life, Reflections at 90, in the Best Spoken Word Album category.

00:47:43.000 He had also gotten a victory

00:47:45.000 When he won for Our Endangered Values, America's Moral Crisis, he was nominated in 1998, 1999, 2008, 2010, and 2015.

00:47:53.000 That great spoken word artist, Jimmy Carter.

00:47:59.000 You know, the guy who used to stand in the Oval Office with a sweater on and jabber about how you needed to keep your thermostat low because oil prices were too high.

00:48:06.000 That guy.

00:48:07.000 Barack Obama, by the way, also has won two Grammys.

00:48:10.000 He won for Dreams for My Father and also The Audacity of Hope.

00:48:14.000 Right?

00:48:14.000 And also, Bill Clinton won a spoken word Grammy for his autobiography, My Life.

00:48:18.000 Hillary won in 1997 for It Takes a Village.

00:48:21.000 Are you noticing a pattern here?

00:48:23.000 That perhaps it has nothing to do with your speaking talents.

00:48:26.000 After all, Hillary Clinton is the world's worst speaker. 1.00

00:48:29.000 But it's just, it's amazing.

00:48:30.000 By the way, Al Franken has won a spoken word Grammy.

00:48:34.000 Jesse Jackson won a spoken word Grammy.

00:48:36.000 Everett Dirksen won a spoken word Grammy.

00:48:40.000 So, if this doesn't tell you the Grammys are leftist, I don't know what exactly will.

00:48:46.000 So that's it.

00:48:47.000 We're done here.

00:48:48.000 I promised that we would be out by a certain point today.

00:48:50.000 And thus, we will leave you wanting more, as always.

00:48:54.000 And so we'll be back tomorrow.

00:48:55.000 We'll talk about the continuing agony of this presidential race.

00:49:00.000 We'll talk about whether Donald Trump has, in fact, imploded.

00:49:05.000 I mean, physically.

00:49:06.000 And we'll also talk about the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition, which features, apparently, a kind of fatty on the front cover.

00:49:14.000 We'll talk about that and whether it's important or whatever.

00:49:17.000 Who cares?

00:49:17.000 Let's get out of here.

00:49:18.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:49:18.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

The Ben Shapiro Show - February 16, 2016

Ep. 73 - Why Americans Love Trump: Balls

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