Nikki Haley is about to endorse Marco Rubio in the presidential race, Donald Trump sends a cease and desist letter to Ted Cruz over an anti-Trump ad, and Marco Rubio accuses Ted Cruz of being a "liar" and a "manipulator." Ben Shapiro breaks it all down and explains who's the biggest liar in the race, and who is the biggest manipulator. He also explains why Marco Rubio is a better choice than Ted Cruz for the nomination than Donald Trump and why he should win the nomination. Ben Shapiro is a conservative commentator and host of the conservative podcast "The Ben Shapiro Show" and is a regular contributor to the conservative website The Weekly Standard. He is also the author of the book "American Idiot" and hosts the radio show "The Weekly Standard Radio Show" on SiriusXM's Power of Five" and the host of "The View From The Mount Rushmore of Conservativeism" on Fox News Channel's The View From Above. He is a frequent contributor to conservative media outlets and blogs at The Daily Caller and has a regular column at The Hill, where he writes about politics and culture in general, and he's also a frequent guest on conservative radio host and radio host on conservative talk show host "The Situation Room" where he hosts a weekly show on his own radio show on Radio Row. and radio show, "The FiveThirtyEight." and hosts a podcast on his website, The SixThirtyEight. . He's on the Tonight Show with Alex Castellanos and hosts his own podcast, The FiveThirtyFiveThirtyEight, which is his own show on the FiveThirtysomething radio show and is also on the Four Corners radio station, which he's a regular on the airwaves, and his own website, which you can be found on social media account, and you can get a free copy of his new book, Too Stupid to Fail, too! on the internet. If you like what you hear, subscribe to Ben Shapiro's newest book, "Ben Shapiro's New York Times bestselling book, is a must-listening guide to all things Ben Shapiro does, and much more! Ben's new book is out on The Ben Shapiro Podcast is out now! and you should listen to it on The Six Figures Podcast on his new podcast, "It's a Wednesday Morning Roast of the Ben Shapiro show on , The Six-and-a-half, The Six and a whole lot more.
00:00:31.000The news is that Nikki Haley, the governor of South Carolina, is about to endorse Marco Rubio, the senator from Florida, in the presidential race.
00:01:02.000There's only one problem I have with the Nikki Haley endorsement, and that is, the more complicated this Republican race becomes, the more complicated it becomes, the better the shot that Donald Trump ends up as the nominee.
00:01:15.000And Donald Trump is, in fact, a terrible, terrible, terrible liar.
00:01:53.000And Trump then said, well, you know, the only reason that Cruz is doing all of this is he's flailing about because he's whining and because he's weak and his campaign's falling apart.
00:02:00.000And now I finally understand why his campaign logo looks the way it does.
00:02:16.000I think that Cruz has to go stronger in that direction, not weaker, actually.
00:02:19.000I think Cruz needs to say to him, and he sort of did today, he said that, you know, you've spent your entire adult life suing people, but he actually needs to call him a spoiled brat, used to getting his way, who's never had anybody say no to him, and this time, somebody's gonna say no to him, because somebody needs to stand up to the bloviating, idiotic bully that is Donald Trump.
00:02:38.000And I think that at this point Cruz really doesn't have a lot to lose on this score considering that both Trump and Rubio have been going very hard at Ted Cruz.
00:02:48.000Rubio particularly disgusts me a little bit in this because he's saying things that he knows are not true about Cruz because he's trying to reinforce the stigma, the stereotype, the idea about Cruz that Cruz is a liar and a manipulator.
00:02:59.000And in a second I'm going to go through all the supposed lies and manipulation of all of the candidates and we'll actually discuss who's the liar, who's the manipulator, who actually
00:03:08.000is responsible for the prevarication in this campaign.
00:03:11.000But Rubio's been saying things about Cruz that simply are not true at this point, and that's sad, because I always thought that Rubio was the very least a good guy, an honorable guy, and this is making me a little bit sick to my stomach.
00:03:24.000When Cruz hits Rubio over his immigration record, that's fair game.
00:03:28.000Some of the stuff Rubio's hitting Cruz about is really dicey.
00:03:48.000You've got Donald Trump saying that Ted Cruz is a liar, manipulator, a sleazy campaigner, the biggest liar, the biggest liar I've ever seen in my life.
00:04:02.000Who's trying to avoid the flailing fists of fury of Donald Trump, meanwhile hitting Ted Cruz trying to drag him down so that he can finish second in South Carolina.
00:04:26.000First, Bush didn't lie us into Iraq, and second, he did say that.
00:04:30.000He called Ted Cruz a liar in debate after Cruz said that Trump supported funding Planned Parenthood.
00:04:34.000But Trump does support funding Planned Parenthood's non-abortion services, which is a nonsensical position since all money, as we've said before, is fungible.
00:04:42.000If you sign a dollar to Planned Parenthood and say, I want you to use this for birth control but not abortion, Planned Parenthood will do that.
00:04:47.000They'll then take the money they were going to spend for birth control and shift it over to abortion.
00:04:51.000During that same debate, Trump claimed that Cruz operatives were calling people to tell them he was dropping out of the race.
00:04:56.000There's no evidence that this is the case.
00:04:58.000Everybody sort of just forgot that Trump said this, but Trump actually said this in the debate.
00:05:03.000During the debate, Trump said that he had specifically warned over and over that we shouldn't go into a rock bowl.
00:05:14.000Yesterday, he tweeted out a fake quote from former Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, a very conservative guy, in which Coburn supposedly ripped Cruz as, quote, without a doubt, one of the most dishonest people in D.C.
00:05:56.000You know, before 2004, you were never on record anywhere saying this.
00:06:00.000But, you know, that's the way that Trump is, and he gets away with it because you don't get the sense that he's lying because Trump is so variable day-to-day.
00:06:08.000He was honest when he said that he thought Bush was a liar, and he was honest two days later when he said that he doesn't recall Bush a liar because when he said the second thing, he didn't remember saying the first thing because he doesn't pay attention to the things he says.
00:06:20.000There's a sort of confidence and arrogance to Trump that means that he can shift positions on a dime.
00:06:35.000People tend to judge each other based in a split second on how they look.
00:06:38.000It's just a sad reality of human life.
00:06:41.000We have all of these kind of reptilian brains, and those reptilian brains were designed to help us survive in the wild, and that meant you made snap decisions about your surroundings.
00:06:49.000We still make snap decisions about people.
00:06:51.000So, if you see somebody, you either like their look, or you don't like their look.
00:06:55.000And the truth is you rarely change your opinions about this.
00:06:57.000In fact, they did a scientific study at one point where they took all of the presidential candidates for the last six, seven elections, and they removed their kind of distinguishing facial features.
00:07:07.000So like George Bush and John Kerry, but they'd removed some of the features that made them look like George W. Bush and John Kerry.
00:07:13.000It was basically people who looked kind of like them.
00:07:20.000And it turns out that more often than not, significantly more often than not, it's actually statistically significant, people vote for the guy who actually won.
00:07:26.000So people tend to base their voting patterns on how people look.
00:08:14.000It's never a policy attack, but the attack on Cruz that he's dishonest, it was bound to have more play than it would with, for example, Marco Rubio, because Cruz, unfortunately, he has a face that looks dishonest.
00:08:26.000That's just, there's no two ways about it.
00:08:28.000And part of it is the eyes that curve down, and part of it is the mouth that curves down.
00:08:31.000I mean, there's just, he has, physiognomy kind of went out, the judgment of head shapes, this went out at the end of the last century, the end of the
00:08:41.000At the end of the 19th century, physiognomy really went out of style.
00:08:45.000But nonetheless, people still kind of have these informal ties and cues in their minds.
00:08:50.000So let's go through what Cruz has actually been accused of lying about.
00:10:05.000The reason that Cruz apologized to Ben Carson is because, one, he figured that Carson was an honorable guy, which is now in question, given that Carson is running a vanity campaign to expand his email list.
00:10:15.000And two, he assumed that the only way to continue garnering support from Carson supporters was to apologize to Carson, let Carson accept the apology, and then we all move on with our lives.
00:10:25.000Instead, Carson saw an opportunity to expand his campaign into future states, and so he started bashing Cruz about the ears over it.
00:10:33.000And to show the cynicism of that, when Donald Trump literally called Ben Carson a pedophile, Ben Carson blamed the media and refused to blame Trump.
00:10:40.000When it comes to Ted Cruz reporting what is true, which is that Carson is running a zombie campaign, then all of a sudden, Carson is up in arms about it.
00:10:48.000So, Trump says that Cruz lied about Carson dropping out of the race.
00:10:56.000Trump said that Cruz is a liar for saying that Trump would appoint leftist judges.
00:11:01.000Okay, maybe he would, maybe he wouldn't.
00:11:02.000We really don't know, because his only record of talking about judges has happened in the last week.
00:11:06.000Before that, the only person that Trump had ever suggested he would appoint to the court was his sister, who voted in favor of partial birth abortion as a constitutional right.
00:11:15.000Okay, so based on that, you might say, yeah, there's at least a decent shot that Trump would appoint somebody who's not conservative.
00:11:21.000But in the last debate, Trump mentioned a couple of people who'd been supplied to him by some of the folks in his campaign.
00:11:27.000And he mentioned a couple conservatives.
00:11:28.000So, you know, let's say a 50-50 shot on that one.
00:11:32.000So Trump also says that Cruz lied when he said that Trump backs Obamacare.
00:11:36.000Trump says he opposes Obamacare, that he would defund Obamacare, get rid of Obamacare.
00:11:40.000But he also supports a government-run universal healthcare system, so same difference.
00:11:43.000So that's not really a lie by Ted Cruz.
00:11:45.000The truth is that what Trump supports could be worse than Obamacare.
00:11:48.000We really don't know because he hasn't gotten detailed.
00:11:51.000Trump says that Cruz is lying when Cruz says that Trump wants to fund Planned Parenthood.
00:12:08.000So Trump says that Cruz lies when Cruz says that Trump is pro-choice.
00:12:11.000Trump is kinda sorta kinda pro-choice.
00:12:13.000He says that he believes in the caveats with regard to the pro-life position and that abortion isn't murder.
00:12:18.000And until five minutes ago, he was in favor of partial birth abortion.
00:12:21.000And finally, Trump says that Cruz is a liar because Cruz says that his, that Trump's appointee to the Supreme Court would get rid of gun rights.
00:13:22.000He says that Rubio isn't pro-life enough because he didn't want to use Congress's constitutional authority to defund Planned Parenthood.
00:13:30.000What he means by that is not that Rubio doesn't want to defund Planned Parenthood, but that he's not willing to shut down the government in order to do so.
00:13:37.000If you remember back to the Planned Parenthood debacle a couple of months back, what happened is that the Republicans said, yeah, we're going to defund Planned Parenthood.
00:13:43.000And then they refused to attach a defunding portion of Planned Parenthood to any budget or appropriations bill.
00:13:50.000So they passed a separate bill saying we want to defund Planned Parenthood.
00:14:23.000Back when the same-sex marriage decision came down from the Supreme Court, here's a direct quote from Marco Rubio, quote, We live in a republic and must abide by the law.
00:14:47.000And then, Rubio says Cruz was lying about him because Cruz said that Rubio wasn't sufficiently anti-same-sex marriage to earn an endorsement from the National Organization for Marriage.
00:14:57.000That's false, according to the National Organization for Marriage.
00:15:00.000They say that they would back Rubio over Hillary Clinton.
00:15:03.000But, but, back when that same-sex marriage decision came down, the National Organization for Marriage said that Rubio's opposition to same-sex marriage was, quote, lip service.
00:15:13.000If he can't even get behind a constitutional amendment that allows the people to decide the issue.
00:16:24.000So Cruz voted against the Gang of Eight bill that would do exactly that, co-sponsored by Rubio.
00:16:29.000What Rubio is resting on is he's resting on an amendment that Cruz brought that said that he would provide legalization for illegal immigrants, but never citizenship.
00:16:38.000That amendment, Cruz says, was designed to basically be a poison pill to sink the bill.
00:16:42.000Rubio says, no, you really wanted the bill to pass.
00:16:45.000In any case, all that really matters is the vote.
00:16:47.000So no, Cruz never backed mass legalization of illegal immigrants.
00:16:51.000If he had, he would have voted for the Gang of Eight.
00:16:54.000Then, yesterday, Trey Gowdy, who is a Republican from South Carolina, he's on the Benghazi committee, very well-liked in conservative circles, he suggested that the Cruz campaign was responsible for a Facebook page that went up yesterday.
00:17:06.000There's this Facebook page that went up yesterday claiming that Trey Gowdy, who long ago endorsed Marco Rubio, had withdrawn his support for Rubio and given it to Cruz.
00:17:15.000Cruz said, we didn't put up that Facebook page.
00:17:24.000Suffice it to say, it was about as bald-faced a denial as you can make.
00:17:28.000That didn't stop Gowdy from releasing a statement saying the Cruz campaign, quote, may not place the same value on waging a contest based on truth and facts.
00:17:36.000We have seen a systematic effort by Senator Cruz and his allies to spread false information and outright lies in the hopes of winning votes by appealing to our lowest common denominator.
00:17:46.000Okay, again, Trey Gowdy's a prosecutor.
00:17:49.000If you're going to accuse somebody of putting up a Facebook page with an outright lie on it, you might actually want to provide evidence that the person put up the Facebook page.
00:17:56.000The only evidence we have so far is Cruz saying he didn't do it.
00:19:05.000I thought they should have kept the ad up.
00:19:06.000Who cares that she was in softcore porn?
00:19:09.000Like, not my cup of tea, not something I think is great for society, but I think you should hire people based on merit, and I didn't know that it's our job now to police all of the actors in various videos or movies.
00:19:37.000The closest it comes to egregious, to me, is Trey Gowdy suggesting that Cruz is putting out a false Facebook page without any evidence of that being true.
00:19:45.000That seems like the closest thing to an outright lie to me.
00:19:48.000Everything else, kind of normal campaigning.
00:21:56.000So you hear President Obama says he has confidence in the American people, except for all you bitter clinger, racist, sexist, homophobes who are out there and randomly attacking blacks and gays and transgenders and such.
00:23:23.000It's one of the things I'm proudest of, because my whole political career has been based on the idea that we constantly want to include people and not exclude them.
00:23:35.000How do we bring more and more people into opportunity and success?
00:23:40.000Okay, cut him off, because I can't listen to this.
00:24:03.000We're totally willing to give Obama the benefit of the doubt on the fact that when he ran in 2008 he was anti same-sex marriage and then he just flipped just in time for the 2012 election in order to win the vote.
00:24:15.000So, okay, so when he's not doing that as President of the United States, he's doing interviews like, for example, this one with Glozell.
00:24:23.000So, you know, this is not a president of the United States who panders, or who's a reality TV star, or who appears all the time in commercials, or who mucks up everything at the Super Bowl, or the Grammys, or the Emmys, or the Oscars, or any other show that has more than three viewers.
00:24:38.000GloZell is a YouTube star who's most famous for bathing in Froot Loops.
00:25:20.000Serious people who will handle our national security threats.
00:25:22.000Like, for example, you know, the kind of people who will know how to handle Iran and won't let Iran become a national security threat.
00:25:27.000In fact, we'll make sure that Iran is less of a national security threat.
00:25:32.000Like what Ash Carter said, the Secretary of Defense, President Obama's Secretary of Defense, who had this to say about what's going on in Iran right now.
00:25:40.000Remember Iran, this nation that President Obama just signed a nuclear deal with, basically gave them nuclear weapons in 10 years and opened their economy now.
00:25:49.000Obama made the hard call and it's had great impact.
00:25:51.000Here's Ash Carter, the Secretary of Defense.
00:25:54.000Everybody in that region who's looking around and wondering when it's all over,
00:26:00.000And they're all asking themselves this question, Charlie.
00:26:06.000What's the chessboard going to look like when the ISIL peace is gone?
00:26:12.000And they all need to understand that we'll remember then, because we're going to be on the winning side.
00:26:19.000We'll remember who contributed and who didn't.
00:26:23.000And we aren't out to do people favors here.
00:26:26.000And we're not asking for anybody to do us favors either.
00:26:30.000But people need to act in their own long-term interest.
00:27:13.000And this is what makes people vote for Trump, seriously.
00:27:15.000What makes people vote for Trump is the reaction to this, because you're not human.
00:27:19.000If you haven't lived through eight years of Obama, and you look at this pandering reality TV star wannabe, and say to yourself, go f*** yourself.
00:27:29.000I mean, seriously, just go perform anatomically impossible acts behind yourself, because it's just, it's gross.
00:27:36.000And so we say, fine, you don't want us to nominate Trump?
00:28:11.000I continue to believe Mr. Trump will not be president, and the reason is because I have a lot of faith in the American people, and I think they recognize that being president is a serious job.
00:28:21.000It's not hosting a talk show or a reality show.
00:29:12.000On this kind of stuff, you get into the dozens, you get into the fight with Trump, and this is what Trump is really good at.
00:29:18.000And again, as I said yesterday, all that's happening here is that everyone feels emasculated by Obama, and so they want the guy who's got the biggest swinging pair to walk into the room.
00:29:27.000And that's what people think Trump is.
00:29:30.000Now, what's really tragic about—and Trump is good at this.
00:29:33.000I mean, like, here's Trump on Hillary, for example.
00:29:35.000He went after Hillary Clinton in the same way.
00:30:31.000How could all of this be going down in real life?
00:30:34.000To me, Jeb McBush, how could this possibly happen?
00:30:38.000And here's Jeb saying, Trump's a bully, and he's, by the way, everything he's about to say, this is the first time I've said this about Jeb, everything that Jeb Bush is about to say is true.
00:31:16.000I'm running because I believe that we can grow the economy at 4% rather than 2% to lift people's incomes and to keep us safe and secure in terms of foreign policy.
00:31:25.000So this is a phenomena that I've had to adjust to, to be honest with you.
00:32:07.000Jeb Bush is so... When Trump says that he's weak, it's not that he's weak on policy, it's that this is a man whose entire reason for running for president is to raise the national growth rate from 2% to 4%.
00:32:19.000I mean, wonderful goal, but what does that even mean?
00:32:23.000Does anybody even know what that means?
00:32:25.000And then he says things like, nobody else is attacking Trump, and even the way he complains about Trump is amazing.
00:32:30.000And you're dealing with a man who curses on stage, and who's mean to people, and throws insults, and I just wasn't ready for that.
00:32:39.000Let's move on from the depressing Republican race to the even more depressing Supreme Court nomination.
00:32:45.000So President Obama, yesterday he did this press conference and he said, yeah, no, I'm definitely going to nominate somebody, which of course is his prerogative.
00:32:53.000As I said yesterday, I think Republicans should hold up not just anyone Obama nominates, but anybody Hillary nominates, anybody Sanders nominates.
00:33:00.000Every Democrat nominee who doesn't believe what Scalia believed or Justice Thomas believed should not be confirmed.
00:33:07.000Republican or Democrat, who nominates them.
00:33:09.000But here's President Obama telling us that he is just, he's appalled that the Republicans are not following the Constitution of the United States.
00:33:21.000The Constitution is pretty clear about what is supposed to happen now.
00:33:27.000When there is a vacancy on the Supreme Court.
00:33:31.000The President of the United States is to nominate someone.
00:33:36.000The Senate is to consider that nomination.
00:33:41.000And either they disapprove of that nominee or that nominee is elevated to the Supreme Court.
00:33:51.000Historically, this has not been viewed as a question.
00:33:59.000There's no unwritten law that says that it can only be done on off years.
00:34:06.000That's not in the constitutional text.
00:34:08.000I'm amused when I hear people who claim to be strict interpreters of the Constitution suddenly reading into it a whole series of provisions that are not there.
00:34:21.000There is more than enough time for the Senate to consider
00:34:26.000In a thoughtful way, the record of a nominee that I present, and to make a decision.
00:34:34.000Okay, so if you truly care about the Constitution, you'll let him run roughshod over it, burn it, and stuff it down a toilet.
00:35:44.000For example, just take one example among literally dozens of examples.
00:35:49.000The President of the United States has said that his executive amnesty, he didn't have the power to do it.
00:35:53.000He didn't have the power to use the power of the presidency to push forward the legalization of 11 million, or 5 million, or 3 million illegal immigrants.
00:36:01.000In fact, he said 22 times that it was unconstitutional for him to do that.
00:36:07.000What we're dealing with is a president who has ignored the people, has ignored the Constitution, and even his own past statements.
00:36:17.000In fact, on at least 22 occasions, he said he did not have the authority to do what he has done.
00:36:26.000And we could pull the tape of all the 22 times he let go, but it's... Because we don't want to hear more from John Boehner before people drive off the road and burst into flame.
00:36:33.000But Obama did say some 22 times that he didn't have the authority for executive amnesty, then he went ahead and did it anyway.
00:36:40.000But don't worry, you have to listen to his interpretation of the Constitution.
00:36:45.000Now, the way that Obama has divided the country is truly egregious.
00:36:48.000You know, he's on Ellen saying that he's a uniter.
00:36:50.000He's saying that the presidency's a hard job.
00:36:53.000It's not just about reality TV theatrics.
00:36:56.000He said that he wants more racial unity in the country.
00:37:03.000To say over and over, the only reason you would oppose him is not because he's a radical ideologue, but only because he's black.
00:37:08.000So here's Juan Williams, Fox News, saying something absolutely excorable about this.
00:37:13.000It is an outrage, and it's not just limited to the judiciary.
00:37:17.000It extends into the ambassadorships, which is something that's been a concern to me, that we have so many countries in crisis in terms of the relationships, in terms of what's going on with ISIS, no attention coming from the Republicans because they have such scorn for this president.
00:37:32.000And I think, you know, it raises questions.
00:37:33.000Why do they treat this president so badly?
00:37:53.000When I think of black dudes, John Quincy Adams comes to mind.
00:37:56.000With his crazy old hair, like John Quincy Adams.
00:37:59.000But he's not the only one saying this.
00:38:00.000You got Joy Reid over at MSNBC doing the same routine.
00:38:04.000Because it's of a piece with what you've seen over the course of the last eight years, which is the invention of new norms and pretend precedents not grounded in our history, not grounded in the Constitution, but that only apply uniquely to this president.
00:38:19.000That there are norms that never applied before to previous presidents.
00:38:23.000Suddenly this president shouldn't be doing executive orders.
00:38:33.000This president has not been allowed to essentially be president in the full sense because Republicans believe he shouldn't be.
00:38:40.000He doesn't have some, he especially doesn't have a right to be.
00:38:43.000And so I think applying those norms to the Supreme Court and saying we're going to invent a new normal.
00:38:48.000Which is that only Barack Obama, unique of all the presidents, is not allowed because we've invented this supposed precedent that in the eighth year they don't get to nominate.
00:38:58.000Well, you know what Ronald Reagan did?
00:39:34.000If they just saw him as half-white instead of black, half-black, you know, if it was glass half-empty instead of glass half-full, then it would be totally different, says the man who combs his hair with a shoe every morning.
00:39:44.000So, Joanne Reid, Juan Williams, no, it's not because Obama's black.
00:39:50.000Again, this has happened over and over and over in American history.
00:39:53.000Was Ronald Reagan so black, and that's why they rejected Robert Bork and Doug Ginsburg?
00:41:21.000And I think this is also true for fathers.
00:41:22.000I think it's more true for mothers than for fathers.
00:41:24.000But I think most fathers feel that what gives them life meaning is their children.
00:41:28.000I think one of the great disasters of our age is the fact that less people have kids, and so they never feel a responsibility to the next generation.
00:41:45.000The fact that feminists are angry at Adele for saying that her kid gives her meaning is absolutely absurd, because here's the truth of it, okay?
00:41:52.000Especially for women, it's rare that women are going to find more meaning in their career than they find in having a child.
00:42:00.000Rhonda Rousey, who's this fighter, and she's become very famous, and now she posed nude in Sports Illustrated with the body paint and all this stuff.
00:42:07.000And I guess we'll have to push that one off again tomorrow, because they had an overweight lady as the cover model on Sports Illustrated.
00:42:17.000Um, quick thought on Ronda Rousey to finish that.
00:42:19.000Ronda Rousey, she, uh, what Ronda Rousey said is that she, after she lost to Holly Holm in the last fight, she thought about committing suicide.
00:42:28.000Okay, the reason that she felt that is because
00:42:31.000She doesn't have anything else going on in her life.
00:42:33.000Do you think if she had a child at home that she would actually be thinking that way?
00:42:36.000The answer is no, because children give your life meaning.
00:42:38.000They give your life an additional sense of meaning.
00:42:40.000The fact that the left wants to rip that away from women is actually despicable to women.
00:42:44.000It's what women are put on earth to do, and men are put on earth to sire children as well, and they're both put on earth to marry each other and bring up kids.
00:42:51.000And when you rip that away from men, when you rip away from men defending their wives and their children, and you rip away from women childbearing and childrearing altogether,
00:42:59.000You're destroying purpose of life, and this is why you're seeing suicide rates rise in the West among some of the richest, most privileged people on the face of the planet.
00:44:16.000Second of all, who do they think they're changing?
00:44:17.000Do they think that men are now more likely to be attracted to this because they see it?
00:44:22.000Do they think that they're changing men's biology?
00:44:23.000All of a sudden a bunch of men are like, oh boy, hadn't thought about women that way.
00:44:28.000Turns out men think about women all that way pretty much at least 173% of the time, men think about women that way.
00:44:34.000So the idea that this is making any sort of massive change for women, I love how things that would have been considered degrading to women 50 years ago are now considered empowering to women.
00:44:44.000Somehow they're teaching men a lesson by putting a half-naked babe with big boobs on the cover of a magazine.
00:44:52.000Also, I don't know what the message is.
00:44:53.000Is the message also that obesity is supposed to be, like being overweight is supposed to be a positive good?
00:44:58.000Like, again, if this is her natural figure, fine.
00:45:01.000If this is her natural healthy weight, okay.
00:45:03.000But are we supposed to now pretend that being healthy has nothing to do with weight?
00:45:06.000That obesity- We're in the middle of an obesity epidemic, and at the same time the left is pushing the obesity epidemic meme, they're saying on the other side that there's no obesity epidemic meme, that it's really just about fat shaming.
00:45:55.000And so long as you, like, actually do your hair in the morning, and don't gain 300 pounds after getting married, men are gonna basically be happy with you.
00:46:08.000The idea that men are complex or that you can convince men that beauty is a total social construct.
00:46:13.000No, it's a partial social construct, but there's never been any culture in history where, again, Janet Napolitano or Janet Reno are considered the standard of female beauty.
00:46:23.000Okay, well tomorrow we're gonna come back and we're going to do a chock-full mailbag.
00:46:27.000I've got tons of mail this week, so maybe we'll do most of the show as the mailbag, because I want to get to as many of your questions as possible.