The Ben Shapiro Show - February 16, 2016


Ep. 74 - Barack Obama Is A Hypocritical Jackass Reality TV Star Wannabe

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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.

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00:00:00.000 Here we are.
00:00:00.000 It is a Wednesday and all shreds of sanity have been lost here on the set.
00:00:05.000 But we'll talk about why that is, maybe.
00:00:07.000 But mostly we'll talk about the presidential race.
00:00:10.000 We'll talk about Donald Trump and Ted Cruz still getting into fights with each other.
00:00:13.000 And who is the biggest liar in this race?
00:00:15.000 Is it Trump? 0.98
00:00:16.000 Is it Cruz?
00:00:17.000 Or is it Marco Rubio? 0.98
00:00:18.000 Who is the biggest liar?
00:00:19.000 We'll talk about all of those things.
00:00:20.000 I am Ben Shapiro.
00:00:21.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:00:30.000 So we'll start with the news.
00:00:31.000 The news is that Nikki Haley, the governor of South Carolina, is about to endorse Marco Rubio, the senator from Florida, in the presidential race.
00:00:38.000 And that's fine.
00:00:38.000 That's fine.
00:00:39.000 I mean, I've stated clearly here on the podcast that my first choice for the nomination is Cruz.
00:00:43.000 My second choice for the nomination is Rubio.
00:00:46.000 It doesn't make a huge difference to me personally if Nikki Haley endorses Rubio.
00:00:49.000 I've had
00:00:50.000 Things that I like about Nikki Haley, things I didn't like about Nikki Haley.
00:00:53.000 I thought her response to the State of the Union was terrible.
00:00:56.000 I thought that she handled the Confederate flag issue in South Carolina badly.
00:00:59.000 But, you know, that's just me.
00:01:01.000 I don't care.
00:01:01.000 It's fine.
00:01:02.000 There'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. 0.99
00:01:15.000 And Donald Trump is, in fact, a terrible, terrible, terrible liar. 0.99
00:01:19.000 He lies on a consistent basis. 0.99
00:01:22.000 Today, he actually sent a cease and desist letter to Ted Cruz based on an ad that Ted Cruz put out with his historic views
00:01:30.000 On abortion.
00:01:31.000 Had tape of Trump from 2000 talking about how he was in favor of partial birth abortion.
00:01:35.000 And how Trump was not significantly pro-life.
00:01:38.000 And so what does Trump do? 0.99
00:01:39.000 Because Trump is a spoiled, rich brat. 0.96
00:01:42.000 He sends a cease and desist letter to Ted Cruz. 0.98
00:01:44.000 Like, I'm gonna sue you if you don't take down this ad.
00:01:46.000 To which Cruz said, fine.
00:01:47.000 Do it.
00:01:48.000 You wanna sue me?
00:01:49.000 Let's do this thing. 0.54
00:01:49.000 I'll depose you myself. 0.54
00:01:50.000 It'll be really fun.
00:01:51.000 I'm looking forward to it.
00:01:53.000 And 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.
00:02:00.000 And now I finally understand why his campaign logo looks the way it does.
00:02:05.000 It's a flame.
00:02:05.000 It's because his campaign is going up in flames.
00:02:08.000 So it's Trump still playing kind of teenage bully provocateur and Cruz responding by saying, you know, you want a shot at the chin?
00:02:15.000 Go for it.
00:02:16.000 I think that Cruz has to go stronger in that direction, not weaker, actually. 0.99
00:02:19.000 I 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. 0.96
00:02:38.000 And 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. 0.98
00:02:48.000 Rubio 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.
00:02:59.000 And 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 0.82
00:03:08.000 is responsible for the prevarication in this campaign.
00:03:11.000 But 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.
00:03:24.000 When Cruz hits Rubio over his immigration record, that's fair game.
00:03:28.000 Some of the stuff Rubio's hitting Cruz about is really dicey.
00:03:31.000 Really dicey.
00:03:32.000 So, let's go through it a little bit, and then we'll get to President Obama being his
00:03:36.000 Jackass self and all the rest of it.
00:03:38.000 Okay, so let's start with the accusations that are currently flying around. 0.99
00:03:41.000 So you've got Ted Cruz standing over here hitting Donald Trump saying Trump is a liar about his conservatism.
00:03:47.000 True. 1.00
00:03:48.000 You'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. 1.00
00:03:56.000 Sad. 1.00
00:03:57.000 Sad.
00:03:58.000 That we'll get to in a second.
00:04:00.000 And then you have Marco Rubio
00:04:02.000 Who'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.
00:04:10.000 So let's talk about the lies of each.
00:04:11.000 So, Donald Trump lies.
00:04:13.000 Like, he lies a lot.
00:04:14.000 On Saturday night, for example, we talked about this yesterday.
00:04:17.000 He explicitly said that George W. Bush lied us into the war in Iraq two days later.
00:04:21.000 We played this yesterday.
00:04:22.000 Two days later, he told Mike Gallagher he never even said that.
00:04:25.000 So, he lied twice.
00:04:26.000 First, Bush didn't lie us into Iraq, and second, he did say that.
00:04:30.000 He called Ted Cruz a liar in debate after Cruz said that Trump supported funding Planned Parenthood.
00:04:34.000 But 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.
00:04:42.000 If 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.
00:04:47.000 They'll then take the money they were going to spend for birth control and shift it over to abortion. 1.00
00:04:51.000 During that same debate, Trump claimed that Cruz operatives were calling people to tell them he was dropping out of the race.
00:04:56.000 There's no evidence that this is the case.
00:04:58.000 Everybody sort of just forgot that Trump said this, but Trump actually said this in the debate.
00:05:03.000 During the debate, Trump said that he had specifically warned over and over that we shouldn't go into a rock bowl.
00:05:08.000 It's not true.
00:05:09.000 There's no evidence of that.
00:05:10.000 No one can find a single statement that that's the case.
00:05:12.000 And then his latest was yesterday.
00:05:14.000 Yesterday, 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.
00:05:28.000 Only one problem with this.
00:05:29.000 Coburn never said this.
00:05:30.000 He immediately responded.
00:05:31.000 He said, Trump eventually deleted the tweet.
00:05:33.000 No media follow-up.
00:05:44.000 No media follow-up.
00:05:44.000 So that's Donald Trump.
00:05:45.000 You know, he lies on a routine basis, and there's never any media follow-up.
00:05:49.000 Like, wouldn't you expect somebody at that debate?
00:05:51.000 I mean, Trump has said before that he warned about the Iraq War.
00:05:54.000 Wouldn't you expect somebody to say, okay, when, Donald?
00:05:55.000 Name it.
00:05:56.000 You know, before 2004, you were never on record anywhere saying this.
00:06:00.000 But, 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.
00:06:08.000 He 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.
00:06:20.000 There's a sort of confidence and arrogance to Trump that means that he can shift positions on a dime.
00:06:24.000 Okay, now let's go to Cruz.
00:06:26.000 The biggest disadvantage that Ted Cruz has in this race is that he's Ted Cruz.
00:06:31.000 What I mean by that is just he was born with that mug.
00:06:34.000 There's no other way to put it.
00:06:35.000 People tend to judge each other based in a split second on how they look.
00:06:38.000 It's just a sad reality of human life.
00:06:41.000 We 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.
00:06:49.000 We still make snap decisions about people.
00:06:51.000 So, if you see somebody, you either like their look, or you don't like their look.
00:06:55.000 And the truth is you rarely change your opinions about this.
00:06:57.000 In 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.
00:07:07.000 So 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.
00:07:13.000 It was basically people who looked kind of like them.
00:07:15.000 And then they said, okay,
00:07:17.000 Vote for these two people.
00:07:18.000 You don't know anything about them.
00:07:19.000 Vote for them.
00:07:20.000 And 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.
00:07:26.000 So people tend to base their voting patterns on how people look.
00:07:30.000 Ted Cruz has an unfortunate face.
00:07:31.000 There's just no two ways about it.
00:07:33.000 He looks like, as Drew has said on his show, he looks like a used car salesman.
00:07:38.000 He looks like an Elmer Gantry type.
00:07:39.000 It almost wouldn't matter how honest Ted Cruz was,
00:07:42.000 That was going to adhere to him.
00:07:44.000 It was going to glom onto him.
00:07:46.000 And Trump has an uncanny knack for channeling this particular instinct.
00:07:51.000 That part of his reptilian brain works extraordinarily well.
00:07:54.000 He can look at people and immediately tell what's the vulnerability that people are going to hone in on.
00:08:00.000 So for Cruz, it's going to be honesty because he looks slick like a used car salesman.
00:08:03.000 For Rubio, it's going to be that he's a beta, that he's weak.
00:08:06.000 So he calls him weak.
00:08:06.000 For Jeb, it looks like he's weak.
00:08:08.000 Every time Trump does this, it's always a character attack. 1.00
00:08:12.000 You're weak, you're corrupt, you're sleazy. 0.98
00:08:14.000 It'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. 0.99
00:08:26.000 That's just, there's no two ways about it.
00:08:28.000 And part of it is the eyes that curve down, and part of it is the mouth that curves down.
00:08:31.000 I 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
00:08:41.000 At the end of the 19th century, physiognomy really went out of style.
00:08:45.000 But nonetheless, people still kind of have these informal ties and cues in their minds.
00:08:50.000 So let's go through what Cruz has actually been accused of lying about.
00:08:54.000 Because I think it's important.
00:08:55.000 I think people need to know where he's fibbed and where he hasn't.
00:08:57.000 And he's not totally clean, because politicians are never totally clean.
00:09:00.000 So let's go through this.
00:09:01.000 So, you got Trump and Rubio both saying Cruz is dishonest.
00:09:04.000 Yep. 0.88
00:09:05.000 Trump saying that Cruz is the most dishonest person he's ever met in his life. 0.99
00:09:08.000 More dishonest than him. 0.99
00:09:09.000 I mean, he's the most dishonest person he's ever met. 0.85
00:09:12.000 So, what has Cruz lied about?
00:09:14.000 Well, Trump says that Cruz lied about Ben Carson dropping out of the race in Iowa.
00:09:18.000 We've dealt with this on the show repeatedly before.
00:09:20.000 You can go back and listen to those podcasts.
00:09:38.000 Dana Bash on the channel said, if you want to win the presidency, you don't go back down to Florida. 0.75
00:09:43.000 It looked to every observer as though this was a suspension of a campaign.
00:09:47.000 The Cruz campaign let all of its precinct captains know, tell people that Carson is probably going to drop out.
00:09:52.000 So if you're thinking about Cruz as your second choice, shift your vote over to Cruz.
00:09:56.000 There's nothing terrible about that.
00:09:57.000 There's nothing horrible about that.
00:09:59.000 Cruz later apologized.
00:10:00.000 The reason he apologized is a political reason.
00:10:03.000 He shouldn't have apologized.
00:10:04.000 He didn't do anything wrong.
00:10:05.000 The 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.
00:10:15.000 And 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.
00:10:25.000 Instead, Carson saw an opportunity to expand his campaign into future states, and so he started bashing Cruz about the ears over it.
00:10:33.000 And 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.
00:10:40.000 When 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.
00:10:48.000 So, Trump says that Cruz lied about Carson dropping out of the race.
00:10:51.000 This is nonsense.
00:10:55.000 Other accusations. 0.89
00:10:56.000 Trump said that Cruz is a liar for saying that Trump would appoint leftist judges.
00:11:01.000 Okay, maybe he would, maybe he wouldn't.
00:11:02.000 We really don't know, because his only record of talking about judges has happened in the last week.
00:11:06.000 Before 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.
00:11:15.000 Okay, so based on that, you might say, yeah, there's at least a decent shot that Trump would appoint somebody who's not conservative.
00:11:21.000 But in the last debate, Trump mentioned a couple of people who'd been supplied to him by some of the folks in his campaign.
00:11:27.000 And he mentioned a couple conservatives.
00:11:28.000 So, you know, let's say a 50-50 shot on that one.
00:11:32.000 So Trump also says that Cruz lied when he said that Trump backs Obamacare.
00:11:36.000 Trump says he opposes Obamacare, that he would defund Obamacare, get rid of Obamacare.
00:11:40.000 But he also supports a government-run universal healthcare system, so same difference.
00:11:43.000 So that's not really a lie by Ted Cruz.
00:11:45.000 The truth is that what Trump supports could be worse than Obamacare.
00:11:48.000 We really don't know because he hasn't gotten detailed.
00:11:51.000 Trump says that Cruz is lying when Cruz says that Trump wants to fund Planned Parenthood.
00:11:55.000 No, that's true.
00:11:56.000 Trump has said in the past he wants to fund Planned Parenthood.
00:11:58.000 Now he says he doesn't want to fund Planned Parenthood so long as they provide abortion services.
00:12:04.000 What does that mean?
00:12:05.000 That's their number one service.
00:12:08.000 So Trump says that Cruz lies when Cruz says that Trump is pro-choice.
00:12:11.000 Trump is kinda sorta kinda pro-choice.
00:12:13.000 He says that he believes in the caveats with regard to the pro-life position and that abortion isn't murder.
00:12:18.000 And until five minutes ago, he was in favor of partial birth abortion.
00:12:21.000 And 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.
00:12:30.000 And Trump says, well, no, no, no.
00:12:31.000 I'm a big fan of the NRA.
00:12:32.000 I'm a member of the NRA.
00:12:34.000 I'm for gun rights.
00:12:35.000 He is for gun rights, or at least he has been for the past couple of years.
00:12:38.000 Again, that's no guarantee that the judge that he would appoint is somebody who would uphold gun rights.
00:12:42.000 That's a whole different question.
00:12:44.000 So, suffice it to say that Cruz's record on Trump is a little bit choppy, but it's not overtly false.
00:12:50.000 There's nothing that Cruz is saying about Trump that really is super over the line, any worse than any other political campaign.
00:12:56.000 Rubio is also now calling Cruz a liar.
00:12:58.000 He's calling Cruz a liar for targeting his immigration record.
00:13:01.000 Rubio is wrong.
00:13:03.000 Cruz is not lying.
00:13:04.000 Rubio's immigration record is all over the place.
00:13:06.000 We went through it yesterday.
00:13:08.000 All 1,167 positions of Marco Rubio yesterday.
00:13:11.000 Cruz is not lying about his immigration position.
00:13:14.000 Rubio says Cruz is a liar because Rubio didn't want to use Congress's constitutional authority to defund Planned Parenthood.
00:13:21.000 This is what Cruz said.
00:13:22.000 He says that Rubio isn't pro-life enough because he didn't want to use Congress's constitutional authority to defund Planned Parenthood.
00:13:30.000 What 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.
00:13:37.000 If 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.
00:13:43.000 And then they refused to attach a defunding portion of Planned Parenthood to any budget or appropriations bill.
00:13:50.000 So they passed a separate bill saying we want to defund Planned Parenthood.
00:13:53.000 Obama vetoed it.
00:13:54.000 That was that.
00:13:55.000 Cruz wanted them to propose appropriations and force Obama to veto it on the basis of funding Planned Parenthood.
00:14:01.000 Rubio didn't go along with that.
00:14:02.000 So that's not really an overt lie by Cruz.
00:14:04.000 That really is, again, more of a glass-half-empty, glass-half-full kind of thing.
00:14:09.000 So apparently Cruz has also accused Rubio of being insufficiently anti-same-sex marriage.
00:14:13.000 He said that Rubio believes same-sex marriage is, quote, the settled law of the land and we must surrender and move on.
00:14:18.000 This is what Cruz said about Rubio.
00:14:20.000 Rubio says this is a lie.
00:14:22.000 Eh.
00:14:23.000 Back 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.
00:14:33.000 Sounds like settled law to me.
00:14:34.000 The only difference is that Rubio said we need to appoint judges who would apply the Constitution properly.
00:14:39.000 So maybe he means that there will be a future court that overrules it.
00:14:42.000 But again, this is more of a glass half-empty, glass half-full kind of thing.
00:14:45.000 It certainly isn't a massive lie.
00:14:47.000 And 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.
00:14:57.000 That's false, according to the National Organization for Marriage.
00:15:00.000 They say that they would back Rubio over Hillary Clinton.
00:15:03.000 But, 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.
00:15:13.000 If he can't even get behind a constitutional amendment that allows the people to decide the issue.
00:15:18.000 So again, glass half-empty, glass half-full.
00:15:21.000 He's not coming from nowhere.
00:15:23.000 So, verdict on Ted Cruz.
00:15:25.000 Verdict on Ted Cruz is that Cruz is a hard...
00:15:28.000 Hard-edged campaigner, that he says things that, if anything, are exaggerations of positions for purposes of political campaigning.
00:15:37.000 But there are no overt lies here.
00:15:38.000 There's nothing that's an overt lie happening right here.
00:15:41.000 Everything that he says is kind of borderline, but it's not over into the black and white area of just wrong.
00:15:48.000 Now let's talk about Marco Rubio.
00:15:49.000 And very few people talk about Marco Rubio's honesty.
00:15:51.000 He's sort of perceived by conservatives to be pure as the driven snow.
00:15:56.000 Marco Rubio is just the
00:15:58.000 The absolute epitome of honesty and decency on the campaign trail.
00:16:02.000 This is not true.
00:16:04.000 Okay, Rubio and Cruz are basically in the same boat.
00:16:05.000 They attack each other on the fringes, they're kind of about as edgy as it gets without moving into overtly nasty and horrible territory.
00:16:13.000 So let's talk about some of the things Rubio has said.
00:16:16.000 So Rubio has now unleashed ads claiming that Cruz wanted quote, mass legalization of illegal immigrants.
00:16:22.000 That's not true.
00:16:24.000 That's not true.
00:16:24.000 So Cruz voted against the Gang of Eight bill that would do exactly that, co-sponsored by Rubio.
00:16:29.000 What 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.
00:16:38.000 That amendment, Cruz says, was designed to basically be a poison pill to sink the bill.
00:16:42.000 Rubio says, no, you really wanted the bill to pass.
00:16:45.000 In any case, all that really matters is the vote.
00:16:47.000 So no, Cruz never backed mass legalization of illegal immigrants.
00:16:51.000 If he had, he would have voted for the Gang of Eight.
00:16:54.000 Then, 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.
00:17:06.000 There'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.
00:17:15.000 Cruz said, we didn't put up that Facebook page.
00:17:17.000 It has nothing to do with us.
00:17:18.000 You have no evidence it has anything to do with us, and it doesn't have anything to do with us.
00:17:22.000 It would be terrible if we did this.
00:17:24.000 Suffice it to say, it was about as bald-faced a denial as you can make.
00:17:28.000 That 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.
00:17:36.000 We 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.
00:17:46.000 Okay, again, Trey Gowdy's a prosecutor.
00:17:49.000 If 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.
00:17:56.000 The only evidence we have so far is Cruz saying he didn't do it.
00:17:59.000 So that's pretty dicey stuff.
00:18:01.000 It's kind of gross.
00:18:02.000 The Rubio campaign then sent out a list of supposed Cruz lies.
00:18:05.000 They said that there's the Facebook post.
00:18:07.000 That's false.
00:18:08.000 That's not a Cruz lie.
00:18:09.000 It's actually a Rubio lie.
00:18:11.000 The anti-Rubio immigration ads.
00:18:13.000 Again, the ads are basically accurate.
00:18:16.000 The Cruz Planned Parenthood accusations, which we discussed before.
00:18:19.000 The NOM controversy, the National Organization for Marriage controversy, which we discussed before.
00:18:23.000 They accused Cruz of using these terrible South Carolina pushpolls.
00:18:27.000 Who cares if you use pushpolls?
00:18:28.000 Pushpolls are a very often used political tool.
00:18:30.000 It depends on what the pushpolls are actually asking.
00:18:34.000 And then there's the Carson accusations.
00:18:35.000 They said that Cruz is corrupt because of the Carson thing in Iowa.
00:18:38.000 Again, that's BS. 0.84
00:18:39.000 And finally, the Rubio campaign attacked the Cruz campaign for what they called a softcore porn ad. 0.73
00:18:49.000 There was no softcore porn ad.
00:18:51.000 That's just an outright lie.
00:18:52.000 There was no softcore porn ad.
00:18:53.000 There was an ad that had a lady in it who had nothing to do with porn in the ad, but had previously starred in some softcore porn. 1.00
00:19:01.000 Clavin talked about it on his show.
00:19:03.000 I didn't care.
00:19:03.000 I talked about it on this show.
00:19:04.000 I didn't care about it. 0.65
00:19:05.000 I thought it was silly.
00:19:05.000 I thought they should have kept the ad up.
00:19:06.000 Who cares that she was in softcore porn? 1.00
00:19:09.000 Like, 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.
00:19:20.000 That seems bizarre to me.
00:19:21.000 So, bottom line here is that Cruz and Rubio are campaigning right on the edge of decency, and Trump is way beyond it.
00:19:28.000 So now you've heard all of the lies, right?
00:19:29.000 You've heard all of the myriad lies that have been put out there.
00:19:32.000 Did you hear anything there that was truly egregious?
00:19:34.000 From either Cruz or Rubio?
00:19:35.000 Anything that was truly egregious?
00:19:37.000 The 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.
00:19:45.000 That seems like the closest thing to an outright lie to me.
00:19:48.000 Everything else, kind of normal campaigning.
00:19:51.000 Except for everything Trump does.
00:19:52.000 Trump lies about his own positions, he lies about the positions of others, he makes false character accusations.
00:19:57.000 So that's where we are in this race.
00:19:58.000 Does any of this make any difference?
00:20:00.000 Not sure that it does.
00:20:01.000 If Cruz and Rubio continue to tear each other down, the only thing that really matters is that Trump is going to continue to soar.
00:20:08.000 Because if this field does not winnow and winnow quickly, we're going to get down to the SEC states.
00:20:12.000 If Trump starts winning there, it's too late for anybody to do anything.
00:20:15.000 Okay, so yesterday, while all of this was going on, President Obama was doing what he does best.
00:20:21.000 President Obama has now taken off the mask and underneath, he's one of those sad, 0.98
00:20:27.000 Transgender trolls over at Salon.com. 0.99
00:20:31.000 That's what President Obama has now become. 0.98
00:20:33.000 He's one of these people who talks about cisgender and white privilege and he's just gone full troll. 0.70
00:20:38.000 So President Obama knows how much he angers people when he just outright lies about things.
00:20:43.000 But he did it anyway yesterday, and that's why he does it.
00:20:45.000 He does it specifically because it angers the right, and he likes poking them. 0.91
00:20:49.000 He and Trump actually have similarly authoritarian personalities.
00:20:52.000 There's something where they really enjoy kind of poking the beast.
00:20:55.000 So here's President Obama yesterday going after Donald Trump.
00:20:58.000 And believe me, I don't want Trump for president, but what you're about to hear Obama say is absolutely maddening.
00:21:03.000 Here we go.
00:21:06.000 I'll leave it to you to speculate on how this whole race is going to go. 0.87
00:21:11.000 I continue to believe Mr. Trump will not be President.
00:21:15.000 And the reason is because I have a lot of faith in the American people.
00:21:20.000 And I think they recognize that being President is a serious job.
00:21:27.000 It's not hosting a talk show or a reality show.
00:21:33.000 It's not promotion.
00:21:36.000 It's not marketing.
00:21:39.000 It's hard.
00:21:41.000 And a lot of people count on us getting it right.
00:21:45.000 And it's not a matter of pandering and doing whatever will get you in the news on a given day.
00:21:51.000 And sometimes it requires you making hard decisions even when people don't like it.
00:21:55.000 Okay, we can cut it off there. 0.99
00:21:56.000 So 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. 1.00
00:22:07.000 All you people, you're terrible. 1.00
00:22:08.000 But the American people, President Obama truly trusts.
00:22:11.000 Trusts you so much that he wants you to give him complete power so that he can tell you what to do with your lives.
00:22:15.000 That's how much he trusts you.
00:22:17.000 By the way,
00:22:18.000 I don't trust the American people when it comes to elections.
00:22:20.000 He elected this doof twice. 0.98
00:22:22.000 So, no, I don't.
00:22:23.000 But then, the part of that that's so shocking is he says, you know, it's a serious job.
00:22:27.000 It's a serious job.
00:22:28.000 For serious people.
00:22:29.000 You know, it's a very serious job.
00:22:31.000 For serious people.
00:22:32.000 You know, like, not for people just on television.
00:22:35.000 Got reality TV shows.
00:22:37.000 That's not something that's important.
00:22:39.000 You know, it's not for pandering.
00:22:40.000 Certainly not for pandering. 0.90
00:22:42.000 By the way, black people are the best. 1.00
00:22:44.000 White cops are shooting them. 1.00
00:22:46.000 Not for pandering. 1.00
00:22:47.000 Let me tell you.
00:22:48.000 So, President Obama, who says all of this, two days ago, dos, days ago, he showed up in my city, Los Angeles, and he did this.
00:23:01.000 Does this sound like a TV show or maybe like some pandering, maybe?
00:23:04.000 Like, he's the President of the United States and Ellen DeGeneres, who has significantly more testosterone than Obama.
00:23:10.000 Here we go.
00:23:11.000 I cannot tell you or thank you enough for what you have done for the gay community.
00:23:16.000 So, thank you.
00:23:23.000 It'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.
00:23:35.000 How do we bring more and more people into opportunity and success?
00:23:40.000 Okay, cut him off, because I can't listen to this.
00:23:43.000 He's an inclusive president.
00:23:44.000 He's just super inclusive, except for all you Christians. 1.00
00:23:47.000 I don't know.
00:24:03.000 We'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.
00:24:13.000 I mean, it's just, it is incredible.
00:24:15.000 So, 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.
00:24:23.000 So, 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.
00:24:38.000 GloZell is a YouTube star who's most famous for bathing in Froot Loops.
00:24:42.000 Seriously.
00:24:43.000 And there's the president of the United States doing the hard work of being president, making those decisions, you know?
00:24:47.000 Decisions like, do I put my hand on the hand of the woman with the green lipstick? 0.98
00:24:52.000 Is that, like, those really hard decisions.
00:24:55.000 Or, for example, you know, like when he made the hard decision to appear with Zach Galifianakis on Between Two Ferns.
00:25:01.000 Now this is a serious job.
00:25:03.000 It's a very serious job with serious people making serious decisions.
00:25:06.000 And we can't have a reality star like Donald Trump. 0.99
00:25:09.000 We can't have, you know, somebody who goes on stupid shows with Hollywood stars to push Obamacare. 1.00
00:25:14.000 We can't do that. 0.99
00:25:16.000 Let's be real.
00:25:16.000 Let's be serious about this for a second.
00:25:19.000 And we need serious people.
00:25:20.000 Serious people who will handle our national security threats.
00:25:22.000 Like, 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. 0.89
00:25:27.000 In fact, we'll make sure that Iran is less of a national security threat. 0.85
00:25:32.000 Like 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.
00:25:40.000 Remember 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.
00:25:49.000 Obama made the hard call and it's had great impact.
00:25:51.000 Here's Ash Carter, the Secretary of Defense.
00:25:54.000 Everybody in that region who's looking around and wondering when it's all over,
00:26:00.000 And they're all asking themselves this question, Charlie.
00:26:06.000 What's the chessboard going to look like when the ISIL peace is gone? 0.95
00:26:12.000 And they all need to understand that we'll remember then, because we're going to be on the winning side.
00:26:19.000 We'll remember who contributed and who didn't.
00:26:23.000 And we aren't out to do people favors here.
00:26:26.000 And we're not asking for anybody to do us favors either.
00:26:30.000 But people need to act in their own long-term interest.
00:26:32.000 So you are saying to whom what?
00:26:36.000 Anybody who's on the sidelines, who needs to get in the game, you need to get in the game.
00:26:41.000 That's what I was doing in Brussels and overwhelmingly.
00:26:44.000 Okay, the Iranians are causing more problems in the region. 1.00
00:26:53.000 Amazing.
00:26:57.000 But don't worry, Obama makes all the right calls.
00:27:00.000 The smart calls.
00:27:01.000 He's not a reality TV star with GloZell and Ellen and Zach Galifianakis.
00:27:05.000 He's not somebody who does interviews before the Super Bowl where he talks about what kind of dip he likes with his chips.
00:27:11.000 He's not that kind of guy.
00:27:13.000 And this is what makes people vote for Trump, seriously.
00:27:15.000 What makes people vote for Trump is the reaction to this, because you're not human. 1.00
00:27:19.000 If 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. 0.99
00:27:29.000 I mean, seriously, just go perform anatomically impossible acts behind yourself, because it's just, it's gross. 0.99
00:27:36.000 And so we say, fine, you don't want us to nominate Trump? 0.99
00:27:38.000 Screw you, we'll nominate Trump! 1.00
00:27:40.000 Just to say, f*** you, we'll do it. 1.00
00:27:42.000 Just to tell you to go screw yourself will do it. 1.00
00:27:44.000 And Trump basically, this is what Trump grasps. 0.68
00:27:46.000 So Trump basically said this.
00:27:48.000 Here's Donald Trump talking about Obama's comment.
00:27:51.000 President Obama at the Asian Leaders Summit in California at a press conference.
00:27:55.000 He had something to say about you.
00:27:56.000 I want to read.
00:27:58.000 And I don't think you're going to be on his Christmas card list this year.
00:28:01.000 I don't mind.
00:28:02.000 I've already read it.
00:28:03.000 Let me read you what President Obama said.
00:28:04.000 That's actually a great compliment.
00:28:07.000 Let me read you what President Obama said and get your response.
00:28:10.000 I'm quoting President Obama.
00:28:11.000 I 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.
00:28:21.000 It's not hosting a talk show or a reality show.
00:28:24.000 It's not promotion.
00:28:25.000 It's not marketing.
00:28:26.000 It's hard.
00:28:26.000 That's from President Obama.
00:28:36.000 He has done such a lousy job as president.
00:28:45.000 You look at our budgets.
00:28:47.000 You look at our spending.
00:28:48.000 We can't beat ISIS.
00:28:50.000 Obamacare is terrible.
00:28:51.000 We're going to terminate it.
00:28:53.000 We're going to absolutely terminate and replace it.
00:28:57.000 I mean, you look at everything.
00:28:58.000 Our borders are like Swiss cheese.
00:29:02.000 This man has done such a bad job.
00:29:04.000 He has set us back so far.
00:29:05.000 And for him to say that actually is a great compliment, if you want to know the truth.
00:29:10.000 That's a great compliment.
00:29:11.000 Trump knows what he's doing.
00:29:12.000 On 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.
00:29:18.000 And 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.
00:29:27.000 And that's what people think Trump is.
00:29:30.000 Now, what's really tragic about—and Trump is good at this.
00:29:33.000 I mean, like, here's Trump on Hillary, for example.
00:29:35.000 He went after Hillary Clinton in the same way.
00:29:37.000 Here's that. 0.96
00:29:39.000 Hillary Clinton is a joke. 1.00
00:29:40.000 If she gets in, she's like a joke. 1.00
00:29:42.000 You know, I turned on last night.
00:29:49.000 I'm sure you saw it.
00:29:50.000 I'm watching television, and I see her barking like a dog.
00:29:53.000 Right?
00:29:53.000 You know, she's barking like a dog.
00:29:56.000 And everyone says, oh, wasn't that wonderful?
00:29:58.000 Wasn't that wonderful?
00:29:59.000 Isn't that cute?
00:29:59.000 Isn't that great?
00:30:00.000 If I ever did that, I would be ridiculed all over the place.
00:30:04.000 I won't do it.
00:30:05.000 I'm not going to imitate her.
00:30:07.000 But she's barking like a dog in this thing. 1.00
00:30:09.000 Wonderful.
00:30:09.000 Trump does it.
00:30:10.000 Believe me, you'd read about it.
00:30:11.000 What's wrong with Trump?
00:30:13.000 So there'll be no barking.
00:30:17.000 Now, meanwhile, you know, the rest of the Republican field is beating each other up.
00:30:20.000 As I mentioned, you got Rubio and Cruz going after each other.
00:30:23.000 And Jeb is just sitting in the corner going, what has happened to my life?
00:30:27.000 I mean, Jeb is basically just sitting around thinking to himself,
00:30:30.000 How could this be?
00:30:31.000 How could all of this be going down in real life?
00:30:34.000 To me, Jeb McBush, how could this possibly happen?
00:30:38.000 And 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. 0.82
00:30:47.000 Here we go. 0.95
00:30:49.000 It feels like you've gotten your sea legs.
00:30:51.000 You're not afraid to punch back now and call out Donald Trump for the way you see it.
00:30:57.000 What's changed in terms of the way you're acting and behaving in the face of all of this?
00:31:05.000 Well, it's hard to deal with a guy who talks over you, who shushes you, who shouts profanity in debates.
00:31:13.000 It's not the normal candidacy.
00:31:16.000 I'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.
00:31:25.000 So this is a phenomena that I've had to adjust to, to be honest with you.
00:31:30.000 But the reality is he's a bully.
00:31:32.000 And if you don't confront a bully, you get the same result, where he just pushes people around.
00:31:36.000 And I find it amazing that most candidates keep quiet.
00:31:40.000 Marco Rubio keeps totally quiet on this.
00:31:43.000 And Cruz, until he got attacked directly, did the same.
00:31:47.000 It's important for us to nominate a conservative in the conservative party, or we will just get wiped out in November.
00:31:54.000 The saddest thing in the world, the saddest thing in the world, is that no one on that Republican stage is capable of taking down Trump.
00:31:59.000 I'm really capable of doing it.
00:32:01.000 They don't have the masculinity to actually do it. 0.98
00:32:04.000 Because this is now a masculinity fight.
00:32:05.000 It's an aggression fight.
00:32:07.000 Jeb 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%.
00:32:19.000 I mean, wonderful goal, but what does that even mean?
00:32:23.000 Does anybody even know what that means?
00:32:25.000 And then he says things like, nobody else is attacking Trump, and even the way he complains about Trump is amazing.
00:32:30.000 And 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.
00:32:38.000 Weak.
00:32:38.000 Weak team.
00:32:39.000 All right.
00:32:39.000 Let's move on from the depressing Republican race to the even more depressing Supreme Court nomination.
00:32:45.000 So 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.
00:32:53.000 He can.
00:32:53.000 As I said yesterday, I think Republicans should hold up not just anyone Obama nominates, but anybody Hillary nominates, anybody Sanders nominates.
00:33:00.000 Every Democrat nominee who doesn't believe what Scalia believed or Justice Thomas believed should not be confirmed.
00:33:06.000 End of story.
00:33:07.000 Republican or Democrat, who nominates them.
00:33:09.000 But 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.
00:33:18.000 Seriously.
00:33:21.000 The Constitution is pretty clear about what is supposed to happen now.
00:33:27.000 When there is a vacancy on the Supreme Court.
00:33:31.000 The President of the United States is to nominate someone.
00:33:36.000 The Senate is to consider that nomination.
00:33:41.000 And either they disapprove of that nominee or that nominee is elevated to the Supreme Court.
00:33:51.000 Historically, this has not been viewed as a question.
00:33:59.000 There's no unwritten law that says that it can only be done on off years.
00:34:06.000 That's not in the constitutional text.
00:34:08.000 I'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.
00:34:21.000 There is more than enough time for the Senate to consider
00:34:26.000 In a thoughtful way, the record of a nominee that I present, and to make a decision. 0.69
00:34:34.000 Okay, so if you truly care about the Constitution, you'll let him run roughshod over it, burn it, and stuff it down a toilet.
00:34:39.000 That's what he's saying.
00:34:40.000 If the Constitution says, you must let me have my way, you must listen to me.
00:34:44.000 No, no, no, no, no.
00:34:46.000 I mean, there have been multiple times in American history in which presidents had their nominees rejected or not even heard.
00:34:53.000 John Tyler, for example, he had a justice die on him in December of 1843.
00:34:59.000 The replacement for that justice wasn't approved until February of 1845, so well over a year.
00:35:04.000 And this is not unusual.
00:35:05.000 This is not unusual.
00:35:07.000 And there's another nominee under Tyler, where Tyler, the guy died on him in 1844, wasn't replaced until 1846.
00:35:14.000 The Senate rejected nine Supreme Court nominations from Tyler.
00:35:17.000 Right, but don't worry, don't worry.
00:35:18.000 President Obama, he's really unified the nation in such a way, I mean, he really has unified the nation in a magnificent way.
00:35:25.000 First of all, I just want to point out, President Obama, whenever he talks about the Constitution,
00:35:30.000 This is the equivalent of Bernie Madoff talking about financial accuracy.
00:35:35.000 President Obama hates the Constitution, despises it.
00:35:38.000 It's an obstacle to his goals.
00:35:40.000 This is a man who has destroyed the Constitution.
00:35:42.000 He's crapped all over it.
00:35:44.000 For example, just take one example among literally dozens of examples.
00:35:49.000 The President of the United States has said that his executive amnesty, he didn't have the power to do it.
00:35:53.000 He 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.
00:36:01.000 In fact, he said 22 times that it was unconstitutional for him to do that.
00:36:05.000 Here is President Obama saying that.
00:36:06.000 We want you all 22, but here we go.
00:36:07.000 What we're dealing with is a president who has ignored the people, has ignored the Constitution, and even his own past statements.
00:36:17.000 In fact, on at least 22 occasions, he said he did not have the authority to do what he has done.
00:36:26.000 And 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.
00:36:33.000 But Obama did say some 22 times that he didn't have the authority for executive amnesty, then he went ahead and did it anyway.
00:36:40.000 But don't worry, you have to listen to his interpretation of the Constitution.
00:36:45.000 Now, the way that Obama has divided the country is truly egregious.
00:36:48.000 You know, he's on Ellen saying that he's a uniter.
00:36:50.000 He's saying that the presidency's a hard job.
00:36:53.000 It's not just about reality TV theatrics.
00:36:56.000 He said that he wants more racial unity in the country.
00:36:59.000 He wants a more unified country.
00:37:00.000 And then he sounds out a surrogate. 0.97
00:37:03.000 To 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.
00:37:08.000 So here's Juan Williams, Fox News, saying something absolutely excorable about this.
00:37:13.000 It is an outrage, and it's not just limited to the judiciary.
00:37:17.000 It 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.
00:37:32.000 And I think, you know, it raises questions.
00:37:33.000 Why do they treat this president so badly?
00:37:36.000 I mean, it's just outrageous.
00:37:37.000 Clearly, it's a race question. 0.57
00:37:38.000 I fear that race has something to do with it. 1.00
00:37:45.000 You're right.
00:37:45.000 You're right, Juan.
00:37:46.000 It's because he's black. 1.00
00:37:47.000 That's why John Tyler was so black that they held up his judicial nominees. 0.99
00:37:51.000 I mean, what a black dude that was. 0.98
00:37:52.000 John Quincy Adams.
00:37:53.000 When I think of black dudes, John Quincy Adams comes to mind. 0.97
00:37:56.000 With his crazy old hair, like John Quincy Adams. 0.94
00:37:59.000 But he's not the only one saying this.
00:38:00.000 You got Joy Reid over at MSNBC doing the same routine. 0.98
00:38:04.000 Because 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.
00:38:19.000 That there are norms that never applied before to previous presidents.
00:38:23.000 Suddenly this president shouldn't be doing executive orders.
00:38:25.000 That's tyranny.
00:38:26.000 This president shouldn't be getting to nominate to the judiciary.
00:38:29.000 Not just at the Supreme Court, but even at lower levels of the judiciary.
00:38:32.000 He shouldn't be allowed to do that.
00:38:33.000 This president has not been allowed to essentially be president in the full sense because Republicans believe he shouldn't be.
00:38:40.000 He doesn't have some, he especially doesn't have a right to be.
00:38:43.000 And so I think applying those norms to the Supreme Court and saying we're going to invent a new normal.
00:38:48.000 Which 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.
00:38:58.000 Well, you know what Ronald Reagan did?
00:38:59.000 You know what Lyndon Johnson did?
00:39:01.000 And he had already announced he wasn't going to run for re-election and he nominated Abe Fortas.
00:39:06.000 Well, quickly, is it because he is unprecedented?
00:39:09.000 I think so.
00:39:10.000 I think that you've seen a unique opposition to this president.
00:39:12.000 He's been called a liar from the floor of the Senate.
00:39:14.000 That still sticks in the craw of a lot of African-Americans and liberal voters.
00:39:17.000 They've seen him treated in a way that is different than every previous president, and you really got to wonder why. 0.92
00:39:23.000 It's probably because he's black, right? 1.00
00:39:24.000 That's what you're saying? 0.99
00:39:25.000 Because he's black. 0.98
00:39:26.000 He's a black guy. 0.96
00:39:27.000 I mean, I've seen him. 0.97
00:39:28.000 He's black. 0.82
00:39:28.000 He seems pretty black to me. 0.82
00:39:30.000 Real black people don't get to nominate justice. 1.00
00:39:32.000 That's what this is all about. 1.00
00:39:33.000 It's all because he's black. 1.00
00:39:34.000 If 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. 0.97
00:39:44.000 So, Joanne Reid, Juan Williams, no, it's not because Obama's black.
00:39:50.000 Again, this has happened over and over and over in American history.
00:39:53.000 Was Ronald Reagan so black, and that's why they rejected Robert Bork and Doug Ginsburg? 0.99
00:39:58.000 What absolute, absolute silly towns. 0.99
00:40:00.000 So, we'll leave it at that. 0.98
00:40:02.000 Okay, very, very quickly because we have had artificial time constraints placed upon us.
00:40:07.000 We'll now do a quick round of things that I like and things that I hate.
00:40:11.000 Very quick.
00:40:12.000 Okay.
00:40:12.000 Things that I like.
00:40:13.000 I just started watching Jessica Jones.
00:40:15.000 So far, so good.
00:40:16.000 It does perpetuate the myth of the hot lesbian, but aside from that, it is a well-made show. 0.50
00:40:26.000 Okay. 0.82
00:40:26.000 A quick thing that I hate. 0.82
00:40:28.000 So apparently feminists are very, very ticked off at Adele. 1.00
00:40:31.000 And as you know, I don't like Adele.
00:40:32.000 I think that Adele is wildly overrated.
00:40:34.000 I mocked her just yesterday on this very program. 0.81
00:40:37.000 The New York Times has now pushed out a tweet about Adele describing her as a 27-year-old mother.
00:40:42.000 And there's a picture of her from Vogue, and it says, Adele stuns for Vogue and admits having her son gave her purpose.
00:40:49.000 Slate tweeted, uh-oh, Adele tells Vogue motherhood gave her purpose. 0.98
00:40:54.000 Yes, uh-oh.
00:40:55.000 Uh-oh.
00:40:56.000 And Slate's Alyssa Strauss, she said, you know, this is terrible.
00:41:00.000 This is a bold, potentially controversial statement for a celebrity mom.
00:41:04.000 Okay, my wife is a doctor. 1.00
00:41:05.000 She's doing something significantly more useful than any of these idiots. 1.00
00:41:08.000 She's an actual doctor, like caring for people. 1.00
00:41:10.000 I can tell you, if you asked her, what gives meaning to your life?
00:41:14.000 The first thing she would say is our baby. 0.88
00:41:16.000 Absolute first thing.
00:41:17.000 And by the way, I don't know a mom alive who wouldn't say that. 0.99
00:41:19.000 Unless they're a really crappy mom. 1.00
00:41:21.000 And I think this is also true for fathers. 0.70
00:41:22.000 I think it's more true for mothers than for fathers. 0.53
00:41:24.000 But I think most fathers feel that what gives them life meaning is their children.
00:41:28.000 I 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. 0.74
00:41:35.000 It's all about me.
00:41:36.000 It's what can I do today?
00:41:37.000 What am I gonna party with tonight?
00:41:38.000 What am I doing?
00:41:39.000 What can government do for me?
00:41:40.000 It's never about what do I do for this child?
00:41:42.000 What do I do for the next generation?
00:41:45.000 The 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?
00:41:52.000 Especially for women, it's rare that women are going to find more meaning in their career than they find in having a child. 0.99
00:42:00.000 Rhonda 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.
00:42:07.000 And 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. 1.00
00:42:15.000 Actually, you know what?
00:42:16.000 Let's do that.
00:42:16.000 We'll do that real fast.
00:42:17.000 Um, quick thought on Ronda Rousey to finish that. 0.99
00:42:19.000 Ronda 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.
00:42:27.000 She thought about killing herself.
00:42:28.000 Okay, the reason that she felt that is because
00:42:31.000 She doesn't have anything else going on in her life.
00:42:33.000 Do you think if she had a child at home that she would actually be thinking that way?
00:42:36.000 The answer is no, because children give your life meaning.
00:42:38.000 They give your life an additional sense of meaning.
00:42:40.000 The fact that the left wants to rip that away from women is actually despicable to women. 1.00
00:42:44.000 It'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. 0.99
00:42:50.000 That's what they are designed to do.
00:42:51.000 And 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, 0.55
00:42:59.000 You'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.
00:43:08.000 Okay, final note.
00:43:11.000 The Sports Illustrated Plus Size Model.
00:43:13.000 Let's put this up.
00:43:14.000 Okay, so here is the rookie bombshell, Ashley Graham.
00:43:18.000 Let's see what they're showing.
00:43:19.000 And she's a plus-size model, so this is a big, big deal. 0.99
00:43:22.000 Like, literally a big deal.
00:43:23.000 And she is, yeah, this is supposed to be just amazing, and it's amazing.
00:43:29.000 They have three covers.
00:43:30.000 One is of Ronda Rousey, who no one particularly wanted to see naked.
00:43:33.000 One is of an actual swimsuit model who's not plus-sized, which is the one that all the 17-year-old boys will be buying.
00:43:39.000 And then there's this one, right?
00:43:40.000 Okay, a couple of things about this.
00:43:42.000 One, I don't know when women say that this is a breakthrough for women. 1.00
00:43:46.000 Men, if this is a breakthrough for women, men everywhere are looking for such breakthroughs from women.
00:43:50.000 If this is a breakthrough for women.
00:43:51.000 Because let me tell you something, they say she's a plus-sized model and it's a breakthrough for bigger-bodied women. 1.00
00:43:57.000 Okay, this is not a breakthrough for 200 pound women. 1.00
00:43:59.000 This is still a woman who has a curvy figure. 1.00
00:44:01.000 I mean, she's still attractive. 0.77
00:44:02.000 She's not like, she's not Janet Reno.
00:44:05.000 I mean, if they really wanted to have a breakthrough for women, get Janet Reno up there. 1.00
00:44:08.000 Get Janet Napolitano up there in a bathing suit. 1.00
00:44:10.000 They say, ah, this is a breakthrough for women. 0.98
00:44:12.000 They can be as ugly as they want to be and men will still be attracted to them. 1.00
00:44:15.000 That's number one.
00:44:16.000 Second of all, who do they think they're changing?
00:44:17.000 Do they think that men are now more likely to be attracted to this because they see it?
00:44:22.000 Do they think that they're changing men's biology?
00:44:23.000 All of a sudden a bunch of men are like, oh boy, hadn't thought about women that way.
00:44:28.000 Turns out men think about women all that way pretty much at least 173% of the time, men think about women that way.
00:44:34.000 So 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. 0.64
00:44:44.000 Somehow they're teaching men a lesson by putting a half-naked babe with big boobs on the cover of a magazine. 1.00
00:44:48.000 Men everywhere, thank you. 0.99
00:44:49.000 I mean, really, this is so silly.
00:44:52.000 Also, I don't know what the message is. 0.62
00:44:53.000 Is the message also that obesity is supposed to be, like being overweight is supposed to be a positive good?
00:44:58.000 Like, again, if this is her natural figure, fine.
00:45:01.000 If this is her natural healthy weight, okay.
00:45:03.000 But are we supposed to now pretend that being healthy has nothing to do with weight?
00:45:06.000 That 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.
00:45:17.000 You can't have it both ways.
00:45:18.000 Obesity epidemic means, by nature, fat shaming.
00:45:22.000 If you care about the obesity epidemic, then you care about fat shaming, right?
00:45:26.000 I mean, because that's just the way that you are participating in fat shaming, in fact, if you care about people's weight.
00:45:31.000 So, it's all nonsensical, but it's supposed to give women some vague feeling of empowerment. 0.97
00:45:35.000 Lindsay, do you feel much more empowered today, having seen this cover?
00:45:38.000 No, she doesn't feel that much more empowered today.
00:45:40.000 So I guess that we'll have to come back next year with an even fatter model.
00:45:43.000 And then the fatter the model, the more empowered the women feel. 1.00
00:45:48.000 Again, ladies, honestly, men are pretty much... Men are attracted to women, period.
00:45:54.000 Like, end of story.
00:45:55.000 And 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. 0.65
00:46:03.000 And we don't ask all that much.
00:46:05.000 Men are very simple creatures.
00:46:08.000 The idea that men are complex or that you can convince men that beauty is a total social construct.
00:46:13.000 No, 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. 0.89
00:46:22.000 Utter, utter silliness.
00:46:23.000 Okay, well tomorrow we're gonna come back and we're going to do a chock-full mailbag.
00:46:27.000 I'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.
00:46:33.000 Plus, who knows?
00:46:34.000 Donald Trump and Ted Cruz may get into an actual honest-to-God fistfight, which I would watch, wouldn't you?
00:46:40.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.
00:46:41.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.