The Ben Shapiro Show - March 10, 2016


Ep. 87 - Why Trump Can Beat Hillary


Episode Stats

Length

54 minutes

Words per Minute

188.45775

Word Count

10,183

Sentence Count

770

Misogynist Sentences

43

Hate Speech Sentences

14


Summary

Ben Shapiro reacts to Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders' disastrous debate performance. Plus, a friend of mine gets knocked down by Donald Trump's campaign manager, and we have a mailbag. Plus, lots and lots of stuff to talk about! Ben Shapiro is the host of the conservative podcast "The Weekly Standard" and host of "The Ben Shapiro Show" on Fox News Channel. He is a regular contributor to the New York Times, CNN, CBS, CNN and other major news outlets. He is also a frequent contributor to The Weekly Standard and has been featured in The Daily Beast, The Daily Caller, and The Huffington Post, and is one of the most well-known journalists in the country. His new book, is out now, and it's available for pre-order on Amazon Prime and Vimeo worldwide. If you haven't already checked it out, you can do so here: bit.ly/TheBenShapiroShow and use the coupon "MAILbagel" at checkout to get 20% off your first month with discount code "VOTE2020" when you sign up for a FREE White House Mailbag! Also, check out our new sponsor, Reagan Privacy, Ronald Reagan Privacy! at ReaganReagan.co/ReaganReaganPrivacy. We couldn't be more excited to be working with ReaganReaction. It's a new sponsor and we're looking forward to hearing from you, the Reagan Privacy team. . Thank you, ReaganReynolds and ReaganReid to join us on Reagan Privacy and all the awesome things going on in the future of privacy and privacy! and privacy and safety! Thanks Reagan's Privacy and safety, privacy, security, safety, and personal data protection, and privacy, and much more! - Ronald Reagan's Day to day life! -- The Reagan Privacy Team Ronald Reagan, Jr. & the Reagan Reactions -- . . . -- Ronald Reagan Jr., Jr., Sr. & Sr. Regan Regan, Sr. Reagan, Sr., Jr. -- Sr. and Sr. John Ransomes, Jr., John R. & John Rynolds, Jr.. & the rest of the crew at Reagan Privacy & Safety, Inc. & much, etc., etc. ...and much, much, more! -- Thank you for listening to this episode of The Ben Shapiro's Show!


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00:00:00.000 Here we are.
00:00:00.000 We finally made it to a Thursday.
00:00:02.000 Tonight, a big debate.
00:00:03.000 We will preview that for you.
00:00:04.000 Plus, Hillary and Bernie Sanders go at it.
00:00:07.000 And we're going to talk about what makes Hillary such a weak candidate.
00:00:10.000 Really, actually quite susceptible to Donald Trump.
00:00:13.000 Plus, a friend of mine gets knocked around by a campaign manager for Donald Trump.
00:00:19.000 We'll talk about that too.
00:00:20.000 Plus, the mailbag.
00:00:21.000 So, lots and lots of stuff to talk about.
00:00:22.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.
00:00:23.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:00:32.000 Okay, so, here we are, and before we begin, we have to say thank you to our new sponsors over at Reagan.com.
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00:01:33.000 Okay, so, we will get to all things Trump in a little while, but, you know, I do think that it's important once in a while not to talk about Donald Trump, because Donald Trump has dominated the podcast, he's dominated the news for so long, that it's easy to get sucked up into the maw of the all-Trump-all-the-time stuff.
00:01:49.000 Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders had another one of their idiotic debates last night.
00:01:54.000 And it is an idiotic debate because they don't really disagree on anything, they just sort of pretend they disagree on lots of stuff.
00:02:00.000 So, Hillary Clinton had a lot of really bad moments.
00:02:04.000 Let's start off with the guy who's opposing her and why he's so popular.
00:02:07.000 Bernie Sanders.
00:02:08.000 So, Bernie Sanders last night, this is a debate on Univision.
00:02:12.000 Univision?
00:02:13.000 Univision?
00:02:15.000 Bernie says that he's so tough, he's so rough, he's going to go to war with Goldman Sachs.
00:02:22.000 You have 30 seconds, Senator.
00:02:23.000 There is nobody in the United States Congress who has taken on the Koch brothers who want to destroy Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and virtually every federal program passed since the 1930s more than Bernie Sanders.
00:02:46.000 And I am proud that the gentleman who is head of Goldman Sachs, now he didn't give me $225,000 for speaking fees.
00:02:57.000 He said I was dangerous and he is right.
00:03:00.000 I am dangerous for Washington.
00:03:04.000 Okay, so, here's what he has to say, right?
00:03:06.000 We're gonna go after Goldman Sachs, we're gonna fight them, and he screams like a crazy old man, because that's what Bernie Sanders does.
00:03:11.000 And the young people love it!
00:03:12.000 He's dominating among young people.
00:03:14.000 In Michigan, he won 81%.
00:03:18.000 81%.
00:03:18.000 81% of the young people, which is an amazing number, right?
00:03:23.000 That's a huge number for sure.
00:03:25.000 So, Bernie Sanders obviously capturing the hearts and minds of all of the little brains, and that's great.
00:03:31.000 The reason he's doing that is because he is the most extreme candidate on the left, he's the most ideologically consistent, and he's not a liar.
00:03:38.000 For all the things you can say about Bernie Sanders, he's not a liar.
00:03:41.000 And he said that last night, he said to Hillary Clinton, listen, I will match my record to yours any day of the week, any day.
00:03:47.000 No, I do not support vigilantes, and that is a horrific statement, an unfair statement to make.
00:03:53.000 I will stand... ...for my career, political career, fighting for workers, fighting for the poorest people in this country.
00:04:04.000 Madam Secretary, I will match my record against yours any day of the week.
00:04:16.000 And she's so angry all the time.
00:04:18.000 She starts getting really, really ticked.
00:04:20.000 And again, there's no real disagreement between the two of them.
00:04:22.000 It's just that Hillary is old enough, she remembers it's smart to lie.
00:04:25.000 And Bernie Sanders is even older, so he doesn't remember that.
00:04:28.000 I mean, that's basically the contrast between the two of them.
00:04:32.000 So, Hillary and Bernie Sanders had this conversation about illegal immigration.
00:04:36.000 It shows you how wildly left the Democratic Party has moved.
00:04:40.000 This is not the party of JFK.
00:04:41.000 This isn't even the party of Bill Clinton.
00:04:43.000 Hillary, Bill Clinton couldn't win the nomination in today's Democratic Party.
00:04:46.000 No way in hell.
00:04:48.000 1992, Bill Clinton?
00:04:49.000 Small government Bill Clinton?
00:04:50.000 Yeah, not a shot.
00:04:52.000 In hell.
00:04:53.000 Here's Hillary and Bernie Sanders both pledging that they will violate the law to help illegal immigrants.
00:04:58.000 I'm old enough to remember, like, a few months ago when Hillary said she wanted a wall between the United States and Mexico.
00:05:03.000 But to answer your question, the essence of what we are trying to do is to unite families, not to divide families.
00:05:13.000 The idea that a mother is living here and her children are on the other side of the border is wrong and immoral.
00:05:23.000 A number of months ago, I talked to a young man who was serving in the United States military.
00:05:30.000 And while he was serving in the military, his wife was deported.
00:05:37.000 That is beyond comprehension and policies that should not be allowed to exist.
00:05:43.000 So ma'am, I will do everything that I can to unite your family.
00:05:50.000 Your children deserve to be with their mother.
00:05:56.000 First of all, please know how brave I think you are coming here with your children to tell your story.
00:06:07.000 This is an incredible act of courage that I'm not sure many people really understand.
00:06:17.000 Okay, we can put it there.
00:06:18.000 There's nothing that says courage quite like standing up in front of a hall filled with people who are thrilled with you all the time and having the two leading Democrats in America praise you as the bravest woman on the face of the earth.
00:06:29.000 I mean, nothing says courage truly like that.
00:06:31.000 But this is how extreme the Democrats have become, right?
00:06:34.000 And all of these little narratives are designed to make Republicans look bad, of course.
00:06:38.000 Oh, it's so terrible, a family that wasn't reunited.
00:06:40.000 Because somebody got deported.
00:06:42.000 It's their choice to stay here.
00:06:43.000 If they want to be reunited, they can go with the guy who got deported.
00:06:46.000 I mean, they can do that.
00:06:47.000 Or the guy could apply legally and get in that way.
00:06:50.000 But, you know, again, the point here is that the Democrats have moved very far to the left.
00:06:54.000 But I really want to get to a second point here, and that is Hillary Clinton is so weak.
00:06:58.000 Bernie Sanders is better at this than she is, which is an amazing thing to say, since Bernie Sanders is a crazy old loon bag who screams at the moon.
00:07:06.000 And he's better at this than she is.
00:07:08.000 Legitimately better at this than she is.
00:07:09.000 So, for example,
00:07:11.000 Hillary Clinton was asked about her emails by Jorge Ramos, why she had all of her emails stored on a private server so that she could hide them from people, and here was her answer.
00:07:20.000 So it seems that you issued one set of rules for yourself and a different set of rules for the rest of the State Department.
00:07:27.000 Who specifically gave you permission to operate your email system as you did?
00:07:32.000 Was it President Barack Obama?
00:07:34.000 And would you drop out of the race if you get indicted?
00:07:38.000 Well, Jorge, there's a lot of questions in there, and I'm going to give the same answer I've been giving for many months.
00:07:45.000 It wasn't the best choice.
00:07:46.000 I made a mistake.
00:07:47.000 It was not prohibitive.
00:07:48.000 It was not in any way disallowed.
00:07:52.000 And as I've said, and as now has come out, my predecessors did the same thing, and many other people in the government.
00:08:00.000 But here's the cut-to-the-chase facts.
00:08:02.000 I did not send or receive any emails marked classified at the time.
00:08:07.000 What you're talking about is retroactive classification.
00:08:12.000 And the reason that happens is when somebody asks or when you are asked to make information public, I asked all my emails to be made public.
00:08:21.000 Then all the rest of the government gets to weigh in.
00:08:24.000 And some other parts of the government, we're not exactly sure who, has concluded that some of the emails should be now retroactively classified.
00:08:33.000 They've just said the same thing to former Secretary Colin Powell.
00:08:37.000 They have said, we're going to retroactively classify emails you sent personally.
00:08:43.000 Now I think
00:08:44.000 He was right when he said this is an absurdity.
00:08:47.000 And I think that what we've got here is a case of over-classification.
00:08:53.000 I am not concerned about it.
00:08:55.000 I am not worried about it.
00:08:56.000 And no Democrat or American should be either.
00:09:07.000 There was no permission to be asked.
00:09:09.000 It had been done by my predecessors.
00:09:11.000 It was permitted.
00:09:12.000 I didn't have to ask anyone.
00:09:13.000 If you get indicted, will you drop out?
00:09:15.000 Oh, for goodness.
00:09:16.000 That is not going to happen.
00:09:17.000 I'm not even answering that question.
00:09:19.000 Wild cheers for the dishonest lady who's lying to you to your face.
00:09:22.000 Yeah!
00:09:22.000 She's lying!
00:09:23.000 Woo!
00:09:24.000 This is the beautiful thing about Democrats.
00:09:25.000 This is what separates us from them, Republicans from Democrats, or used to before the advent of Donald Trump, is when people gave us BS nonsense like this, we used to stand up and say, no, this is BS nonsense.
00:09:36.000 We'll get to Trump in a minute.
00:09:37.000 But here's Hillary Clinton, and this is a lie, okay?
00:09:39.000 When she says, I never sent anything that was classified at the time.
00:09:43.000 Right, because that's not how classification works.
00:09:46.000 Classification only works retroactively.
00:09:48.000 When she wrote something from her head, of course it wasn't marked classified, because that's not how things work.
00:09:54.000 She wrote an email.
00:09:55.000 Then later it's classified when they decide whether or not it ought to be released to the public.
00:09:59.000 Until such time, it's supposed to be kept on public...
00:10:04.000 Government-owned servers so that it can't be hacked.
00:10:06.000 That's the purpose of classification.
00:10:07.000 The entire purpose of classification is to prevent the public from seeing things.
00:10:11.000 That is the point.
00:10:12.000 The reason you use a government email address is that the public doesn't see things.
00:10:16.000 Hillary put all of her stuff on a private email address, on a private email server, and then she got hacked.
00:10:23.000 Maybe.
00:10:24.000 And so everybody ended up seeing it anyway.
00:10:26.000 But she's bad at this.
00:10:26.000 I mean, I don't know who watches this and says, yeah, I trust that lady.
00:10:29.000 She seems really with it.
00:10:31.000 And if that weren't enough, last night Hillary was asked about a Benghazi victim's mother, who said that Hillary Clinton told her after the Benghazi victims were shipped back in their caskets.
00:10:41.000 However, some of the families claim that you lied to them.
00:10:44.000 Here's Pat Smith, the Mother Information Officer.
00:10:46.000 Shan Smith, let's listen.
00:11:14.000 Hillary and Obama and Panetta and Biden and all of Susan Rice all told me it was a video when they knew, they knew it was not the video.
00:11:24.000 And they said that they would call me and let me know what the outcome was.
00:11:29.000 Secretary Clinton, did you lie to them?
00:11:31.000 You know, look, I feel a great deal of sympathy for the families of the four brave Americans that we lost at Benghazi.
00:11:41.000 And I certainly can't even imagine the grief that she has for losing her son.
00:11:47.000 But she's wrong.
00:11:48.000 She's absolutely wrong.
00:11:52.000 I and everybody in the administration, all the people she named, the President, the Vice President, Susan Rice, we were scrambling to get information that was changing literally by the hour.
00:12:05.000 And when we had information, we made it public, but then sometimes we had to go back and say we have new information that contradicts it.
00:12:14.000 So, I testified for 11 hours.
00:12:18.000 Anybody who watched that and listened to it,
00:12:23.000 Okay, this is so sickening, and people cheering for her.
00:12:26.000 I testified for 11 hours.
00:12:27.000 You lied to the lady, okay?
00:12:29.000 We know from your testimony and from the emails that you knew it was not about a YouTube video.
00:12:33.000 You lied to the lady anyway, and then you lied about lying to her, and you made her look like a kook on national television by doing this.
00:12:40.000 Hillary is not good at this, folks.
00:12:41.000 She's not good at this.
00:12:42.000 She's just terrible.
00:12:44.000 Okay, and that's not the extent of it.
00:12:45.000 Finally, here's Hillary's final appeal.
00:12:48.000 Her final appeal is that Trump is trafficking in paranoia and prejudice, and it's just all terrible.
00:12:53.000 And this is her final appeal against Donald Trump.
00:12:55.000 And then I'm going to explain why.
00:12:56.000 You know, I'm a never-Trumper, right?
00:12:58.000 I'm somebody who's never going to vote for Donald Trump.
00:13:00.000 I think Trump can beat her, and I'll explain why after this.
00:13:04.000 Secretary Clinton, is Donald Trump a racist?
00:13:10.000 You know, Karen, I'm going to follow my friend Senator Sanders' model here.
00:13:15.000 If I'm so fortunate enough to be the Democratic nominee, there will be a lot of time to talk about him.
00:13:22.000 I was the first one to call him out.
00:13:24.000 I called him out when he was calling Mexicans rapists, when he was engaging in rhetoric that I found deeply offensive.
00:13:32.000 I said, basta, and I am pleased that
00:13:41.000 Others are also joining in making clear that his
00:13:46.000 Rhetoric, his demagoguery, his trafficking in prejudice and paranoia has no place in our political system, especially from somebody running for president who couldn't decide whether or not to disavow the Ku Klux Klan and David Duke.
00:14:03.000 So people can draw their own conclusions.
00:14:06.000 So first of all, I love that she says one word in Spanish and she gets big cheers from this crowd.
00:14:10.000 But you know, when Hillary Clinton says that he's a racist, he's going to come after you,
00:14:15.000 He makes you feel uncomfortable.
00:14:17.000 Hillary is very vulnerable with minorities.
00:14:19.000 She actually is.
00:14:20.000 A lot more vulnerable than Barack Obama ever was with minorities.
00:14:24.000 So, for example, let's take a look at Michigan, where she just lost.
00:14:27.000 Hillary's been cleaning up with minority voters all over the country.
00:14:29.000 In Michigan, Sanders, who is literally the whitest person in America who's not an albino.
00:14:34.000 Bernie Sanders won over 30% of the minority vote in Michigan.
00:14:38.000 Bernie Sanders, okay?
00:14:39.000 Donald Trump?
00:14:41.000 Alienates minorities, but he doesn't have to do that well with minorities.
00:14:44.000 Mitt Romney only won 28% of Hispanics and won less than, what was it, 3% of black folks in the United States?
00:14:51.000 Trump could do better than that.
00:14:52.000 Hillary's a criminal.
00:14:53.000 Hillary's, her defense of her email stuff there, it looks bad.
00:14:57.000 And if Trump looks her direct in the eye and says, you compromise national security, you're a criminal.
00:15:01.000 Nothing that she says back to him is going to be as hard hitting as that.
00:15:05.000 She's really vulnerable with blue collar white voters, which that's Trump's entire base.
00:15:09.000 The reason that Trump is doing well right now is because he's getting all these 5 million dispossessed white voters out to the polls and he's saying to them, I'm your guy, right?
00:15:17.000 I'm going to defend you against
00:15:19.000 The changes in demographics, I'm gonna change, I'm gonna defend you against immigration and free trade.
00:15:24.000 I'm your man.
00:15:25.000 Bernie Sanders beat her in Michigan because he did the same thing.
00:15:28.000 The New York Times reported Mrs. Clinton lost badly in Michigan among independents, showed continued weakness with working class white Democrats.
00:15:35.000 Okay, that's Trump's crowd.
00:15:37.000 Hillary, by the way, is also weak outside the South.
00:15:39.000 If you look at the electoral map, Sanders is winning big time outside of the South.
00:15:43.000 She's winning all the states South of the Mason-Dixon line, which are minority heavy, but all of those states are red states.
00:15:49.000 So if Trump does what Romney did, and he carries those states, he has a better shot to beat her up north than he would to beat maybe any other Democratic candidate.
00:15:56.000 And finally, the more you see of Hillary, the less you like her.
00:15:59.000 I mean, it's really hard to watch her.
00:16:01.000 She's calculated, and she's conniving, and she comes off as highly political.
00:16:06.000 Trump is conniving too, but he's actually bad at it.
00:16:09.000 And it actually serves his interest that he's bad at it.
00:16:12.000 Because he's really bad at... Trump is not good at politics.
00:16:15.000 Everybody's acting like he's a genius at politics.
00:16:16.000 He's not.
00:16:17.000 Trump is just getting away with it because he's so awkward.
00:16:20.000 He's Chance the Gardener.
00:16:21.000 People are mistaking awkwardness and silly for genius.
00:16:24.000 What Trump does is he'll switch his positions in the middle of a sentence and people go, wow, look at him triangulate.
00:16:30.000 I'm not even sure Donald Trump knows what a triangle is.
00:16:33.000 Forget about triangulation.
00:16:34.000 I'm not sure he knows it has three sides.
00:16:36.000 But because he's awkward at it, we think he's honest.
00:16:39.000 It's easier to find Forrest Gump to be honest than it is to think that he's really outsmarting you.
00:16:44.000 So people tend to give Trump the benefit of the honesty doubt, whereas Hillary is widely seen to be super, super corrupt.
00:16:51.000 So that debate last night showed once again, Hillary is really weak.
00:16:54.000 She's losing the hearts and minds, she really is, to, again, a man
00:17:01.000 Who was last mentioned, I believe, in Chapter 3 of Genesis.
00:17:04.000 And she's losing to him specifically because she's a bad candidate, not because he's any great shakes.
00:17:10.000 Okay, meanwhile, on the other side of the Almajor controversy today, because Michelle Fields, who's a friend of mine and a reporter for Breitbart News, about a night and a half ago, this was the night that Trump won his big victories in Michigan and Mississippi,
00:17:24.000 She went to report on the rally for Breitbart News, and according to her account, Trump was going through the crowd and he was talking to members of the press, and she says,
00:17:41.000 Someone had grabbed me tightly by the arm and yanked me down.
00:17:44.000 I almost fell to the ground, but was able to maintain my balance.
00:17:47.000 Nonetheless, I was shaken.
00:17:49.000 The Washington Post's Ben Terris immediately remarked that it was Trump's campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, who aggressively tried to pull me to the ground.
00:17:56.000 I quickly turned around and saw Lewandowski and Trump exiting the building together.
00:18:00.000 No apology, no explanation for why he did this.
00:18:04.000 And I talked to Michelle at length last night.
00:18:05.000 She reiterated this account to me.
00:18:07.000 And she released today a picture of the bruises on her arm.
00:18:11.000 So she was clearly grabbed.
00:18:12.000 You can see the finger imprints on her arm.
00:18:14.000 Michelle is not a big gal.
00:18:16.000 Michelle is a very slight person.
00:18:18.000 And Corey Lewandowski, who's Trump's campaign manager, grabbed her and tried to fling her, basically, according to the Washington Post.
00:18:24.000 It's not just one account.
00:18:25.000 It's now two major media accounts.
00:18:28.000 And Lewandowski has a history of this sort of thing.
00:18:30.000 After the first Fox News debate, for example, when Megyn Kelly grilled Trump, you remember this, this is when Trump said she was bleeding out of her wherever, Lewandowski wrote a note to Fox News saying that Megyn Kelly had, quote, a rough couple of days after that last debate.
00:18:43.000 I would hate to have her go through that again.
00:18:45.000 Fox News then released a statement explaining, Lewandowski was warned not to level any more threats, but he continued to do so.
00:18:52.000 We can't give in to terrorizations toward any of our employees.
00:18:56.000 Right?
00:18:56.000 So this is nothing shocking.
00:18:58.000 This is nothing new.
00:18:59.000 So how did the Trump campaign respond to this?
00:19:02.000 How did the Trump campaign respond to all of this?
00:19:05.000 The Trump campaign responded to all of this by simply denying that it ever happened.
00:19:09.000 So it doesn't matter that she testified to it, basically.
00:19:12.000 It doesn't matter.
00:19:12.000 I talked to her last night.
00:19:13.000 I told her she should go file a police report, which she should.
00:19:16.000 I told her that she ought to lawyer up, which she should.
00:19:19.000 Here is what the Trump campaign says through their new spokesperson, Hope Hicks, quote,
00:19:24.000 And the accusation, which has only been made in the media and never addressed directly with the campaign, is entirely false.
00:19:30.000 First of all, I should mention, there's a Daily Beast report, and the Daily Beast report said, openly, that what happened is that a Trump person went to Matt Boyle, who's another reporter at Breitbart, and said, we're sorry that happened, sort of.
00:19:44.000 It's awkward that that happened.
00:19:46.000 We didn't know she worked for Breitbart.
00:19:48.000 In other words, if she was a reporter for any other outlet, we're allowed to physically manhandle her.
00:19:53.000 Which is disgusting and horrifying, okay?
00:19:54.000 This is America.
00:19:55.000 You don't get to physically manhandle people because you disagree with them.
00:19:58.000 This is one of my big bugaboos, folks.
00:20:00.000 I didn't like it at Cal State LA, I didn't like it when Zoe Turd did it, and I don't like it when Donald Trump does it.
00:20:05.000 Or his campaign managers.
00:20:06.000 And by the way, Donald Trump is the guy who was making fun of Ted Cruz when Ted Cruz fired his communications director because his communications director retweeted a false video about Marco Rubio.
00:20:16.000 He said that showed that Ted Cruz was corrupt.
00:20:18.000 Donald Trump not only is not firing Lewandowski, Corey Lewandowski, who performed battery on a reporter and was witnessed doing this.
00:20:27.000 They now released this statement.
00:20:29.000 Here it is.
00:20:34.000 is entirely false.
00:20:35.000 As one of dozens of individuals present as Mr. Trump exited the press conference, I did not witness any encounter.
00:20:41.000 In addition to our staff, which had no knowledge of said situation, not a single camera or reporter of more than 100 in attendance captured the alleged incident.
00:20:49.000 This individual has never met Corey,
00:20:51.000 Nor had the only reporter that supposedly identified him.
00:20:54.000 This is apparently not true.
00:20:55.000 Apparently Lewandowski was known to this Washington Post reporter.
00:21:09.000 This person claims she does not want to be part of the news and only report it.
00:21:12.000 However, if that was the case, any concerns, however unfounded they may be, should have been voiced directly first and not via Twitter, especially since no other outlet or reporter witnessed or questioned anything that transpired that evening.
00:21:24.000 We leave to others whether this is part of a larger pattern of exaggerating incidents, but on multiple occasions, she has become part of the news story as opposed to reporting it.
00:21:32.000 Recall she also claimed to have been beaten by a New York City police officer with a baton, and that's referring to a 2011 story.
00:21:38.000 There is a picture, in fact, of her being pushed over by New York City police officers.
00:21:43.000 Also, false.
00:21:44.000 Other major media reported it.
00:21:45.000 The Washington Post, as stated, backed up her story and, in fact, were the original sources of the fact that it was Corey Lewandowski who pulled Michelle Fields to the ground.
00:21:54.000 So this is the Trump campaign, and this is, you know, one of the disquieting things about the Trump campaign.
00:21:59.000 I wanna show you a tweet that I received about this, about all of this, the Trump worship tweet, after I tweeted about this.
00:22:08.000 It says, don't you forget it.
00:22:10.000 Attacking real Donald Trump ruined all these men, and it's Ted Cruz, me, and Glenn Beck.
00:22:15.000 And then it's a picture of Trump superimposed over a massive crowd, and it's a meme, and it says, when somebody attacks Trump, they are attacking we the people.
00:22:23.000 This is scary stuff.
00:22:25.000 I've spoken on this program, I talked about the movie Spotlight, and I've spoken on this program at length about the fact that when you have allegiance to an individual or to an institution, and that overcomes your allegiance to rights and decency, you end up in the camp of evil.
00:22:41.000 Okay, when somebody attacks Trump, that doesn't mean they're attacking the people.
00:22:44.000 That means they're attacking Trump.
00:22:45.000 And when you attack Corey Lewandowski, that doesn't mean you're attacking the people.
00:22:49.000 This is a dictatorial mindset.
00:22:50.000 Attacking the Fuhrer is not attacking the people.
00:22:54.000 Attacking Mussolini was not attacking the Italian people.
00:22:56.000 It's something dictators like to say.
00:22:58.000 Hugo Chavez liked to say it.
00:22:59.000 He liked to say, I am the people.
00:23:01.000 Donald Trump is not the people, and neither is any other individual.
00:23:04.000 That's nonsense, and it's scary.
00:23:06.000 And it ends up justifying violence against folks.
00:23:10.000 I do want to take a break here.
00:23:10.000 Speaking of allegiance to individuals that are scary, there's so many people who have allegiance to President Obama and his massive centralized government.
00:23:19.000 And that government does want your emails, it does want your data, and they do want to make sure they're keeping tabs on you.
00:23:23.000 That's why you should go to reaganprivacy.com and get yourself an email address, yournameatreagan.com.
00:23:30.000 This will take care of your privacy, they shield all your emails, they make sure that
00:23:33.000 That it's never distributed for corporations who want to do marketing.
00:23:37.000 It's never distributed to the government.
00:23:39.000 And if you go to reaganprivacy.com, you get two free months right now.
00:23:43.000 It's reaganprivacy.com.
00:23:44.000 Again, it's kind of cool because your email address ends with reagan.com, which is kind of awesome because obviously you get to show all of your lefty friends who you really believe in.
00:23:53.000 You believe in the philosophy, not the man, you believe in the philosophy of Ronald Reagan.
00:23:58.000 So go to reaganprivacy.com and let them know that we sent you.
00:24:01.000 Okay, so, back to this Trump guy attacking a reporter.
00:24:06.000 So, this sort of mass movement that's built up around Trump is something that I find very disquieting.
00:24:11.000 I've been very clear about how disquieting I find all of this.
00:24:14.000 And I do, I find it really troubling.
00:24:17.000 Beyond the fact that I find it troubling, there's a pattern inside the Trump campaign of basically being okay with this sort of violence.
00:24:26.000 This is something that Andrew Klavan has talked about at length on his show.
00:24:32.000 By the way, and I do want to mention by way of just passing here, Breitbart News, which is Michelle Field's employer, called on Trump
00:24:38.000 To apologize, on his campaign manager to apologize.
00:24:41.000 This is utterly insufficient.
00:24:42.000 They should be calling on Donald Trump to fire his campaign manager.
00:24:45.000 Anything less is absurd.
00:24:46.000 And if she was assaulted, she should be filing a lawsuit against Corey Lewandowski, and if appropriate, against the Trump campaign.
00:24:52.000 This is ridiculous.
00:24:54.000 Any media outlet worth its salt would be calling for a firing right now.
00:24:57.000 Okay?
00:24:58.000 The only reason not to is because you have another agenda.
00:25:02.000 This is inappropriate.
00:25:04.000 All right, so Trump is okay with violence.
00:25:07.000 This is why I'm connecting this incident to Trump.
00:25:08.000 Trump, now he's calling her a liar outright.
00:25:11.000 He's saying she lied, even though she tweeted a picture of her bruises.
00:25:14.000 So I guess she gave them to herself is the idea here.
00:25:17.000 So Trump, as we've said routinely, he's okay with violence at his protests.
00:25:20.000 He said, of one rally protester, he said, maybe he should have been roughed up.
00:25:23.000 He said that a couple months ago.
00:25:25.000 He said of another one, I love the old days.
00:25:27.000 You know what they used to do to guys like that when they were in a place like this?
00:25:29.000 They'd be carried out on a stretcher, folks.
00:25:32.000 That's the kind of language that Donald Trump uses.
00:25:34.000 And so, should it be a big surprise when people get roughed up at Donald Trump protests?
00:25:38.000 Should it be?
00:25:39.000 Like, for example, here's a piece of video.
00:25:42.000 Here's a protester getting sucker-punched at a Trump rally.
00:25:55.000 Hey, is this good stuff?
00:25:56.000 I'll assume the people are cheering some line that Trump is saying.
00:26:11.000 Obviously, you know, knocking out protesters as they walk out is disgusting, okay?
00:26:16.000 The knockout game is disgusting, and this is disgusting.
00:26:19.000 This is disgusting.
00:26:20.000 And when it's become a stump part of Trump's speech, that protesters should be roughed up, there's become a big cheer line for him.
00:26:26.000 Listen, there's no one who's harder on the left than I am.
00:26:28.000 It's amazing.
00:26:29.000 You go anti-Trump and suddenly you're a lefty, you're a lefty cuckservative is what they call you.
00:26:34.000 And let me explain something to you folks.
00:26:36.000 Trump is not a right-winger.
00:26:37.000 He's not conservative.
00:26:37.000 And there's nothing conservative about roughing up the other side.
00:26:40.000 There's nothing conservative about that.
00:26:42.000 Civilization was designed to prevent people from committing acts of violence on each other for disagreements.
00:26:47.000 That's what civilization is.
00:26:48.000 This is uncivilized.
00:26:50.000 It's anti-civilization.
00:26:52.000 Okay.
00:26:53.000 Now, the media continue to sort of defend Trump.
00:26:56.000 This should be leading the news everywhere.
00:26:58.000 It hasn't been.
00:26:59.000 Apparently Michelle is supposed to go on ABC tonight.
00:27:01.000 Hopefully that happens.
00:27:02.000 I'll be on Megyn Kelly's program tonight talking about this.
00:27:07.000 I would like to see a real media groundswell here saying that this is inappropriate and that Trump ought to fire his guy.
00:27:13.000 There's really no excuse not to.
00:27:15.000 Now, I understand.
00:27:16.000 We're only a few days away from Tuesday, and right now all the Trump backers are just saying, let's get through till Tuesday, let's get through till Tuesday.
00:27:23.000 Let me say this.
00:27:24.000 One of the things that troubles me so much about this whole situation is I think Trump is going to be the nominee.
00:27:28.000 I think Trump is going to win.
00:27:30.000 I think Trump is going to win because I think that Marco Rubio doesn't have the
00:27:33.000 We're good to go.
00:27:45.000 Because of Missouri, where he has 10-15%, because of North Carolina, where he has 10-15%.
00:27:49.000 If Florida were happening before all of these other states, I would say, okay, Marco, stay in, take your shot.
00:27:55.000 It's not.
00:27:55.000 It's happening the same day.
00:27:56.000 The problem is, any vote to Rubio is being sucked away from Ted Cruz.
00:28:01.000 There are no Rubio voters who are also Donald Trump voters.
00:28:03.000 Zero.
00:28:03.000 So they're all going, they're being sucked away from Ted Cruz.
00:28:07.000 That is the margin of error in these states.
00:28:08.000 That is the margin of victory for Trump in these states.
00:28:11.000 If Trump wins Florida, but he loses Missouri and Ohio and North Carolina, if he loses Illinois as well, then Trump, there's no way he's gonna win the nomination if that's the case.
00:28:20.000 But Rubio's preventing that.
00:28:21.000 So here is Marco Rubio.
00:28:24.000 Rubio, yesterday he said, no, I'm not dropping out.
00:28:26.000 Not only that, whoever wins Florida is gonna be the nominee's clip 13, I believe.
00:28:32.000 But I need your help.
00:28:35.000 I believe with all my heart that the winner of the Florida primary next Tuesday will be the nominee of the Republican Party.
00:28:43.000 And so you are given an incredible task.
00:28:47.000 You are given an incredible task a week from now.
00:28:50.000 And I need your help.
00:28:51.000 I need your vote.
00:28:52.000 And I want you to know, as difficult as things may seem, I want you to know what history is going to say about us if we do what needs to be done.
00:29:02.000 Okay, so he says that the person who wins Florida is going to win, and he says it's going to be him.
00:29:05.000 It's not going to be him.
00:29:06.000 There's not a poll that shows him, really, even in spitting distance of Trump.
00:29:10.000 And I'll tell you why it's not going to be him.
00:29:11.000 I'll tell you why this all floundered.
00:29:12.000 So a lot of people, a lot of people, who have been saying,
00:29:18.000 That this is just absurd.
00:29:20.000 A lot of people have been saying that the reason that Rubio floundered here is because he attacked Trump.
00:29:25.000 OK, that's ignoring the fact that Rubio had already finished fifth in New Hampshire at the time when he started going on the offensive against Donald Trump.
00:29:32.000 And he'd already finished not well in South Carolina.
00:29:35.000 He finished like a second, but he was basically tied with with.
00:29:38.000 We're good to go.
00:30:01.000 But that said, that's not the campaign I want to run.
00:30:04.000 It took a toll on you.
00:30:06.000 Well, I don't know about political toll.
00:30:07.000 No, but I'm saying, you didn't look comfortable doing it.
00:30:09.000 Well, look, you need to be stood up.
00:30:10.000 This is a guy that's basically offended everyone for a year.
00:30:13.000 I mean, literally has mocked a disabled journalist, a female journalist, every minority group imaginable.
00:30:19.000 On a daily basis, I mean, you run, it becomes, you use profanity from the stage.
00:30:23.000 That said, yeah, I don't want to be that.
00:30:25.000 If that's what it takes to become President of the United States, then I don't want to be President.
00:30:29.000 I don't think that's what it takes to be President.
00:30:30.000 In fact, I know it's not what it takes.
00:30:32.000 It's not what we want from our next President.
00:30:34.000 And if I had to do it again, I would have done that part differently.
00:30:37.000 But not the stuff about his record on business.
00:30:38.000 I think that is legitimate, and the people need to know that what they are electing is not who he says he is.
00:30:44.000 Okay, so he says that he wishes he hadn't used that sort of language.
00:30:46.000 Yeah, you think Trump has ever apologized for anything?
00:30:49.000 You want to know the real reason why Trump isn't apologizing to Michelle Fields and firing his guy?
00:30:52.000 Because Trump has one rule.
00:30:54.000 I never apologize even when my guy is physically abusing a female reporter.
00:30:58.000 That's his one rule.
00:31:00.000 And Rubio, meanwhile, never stops apologizing.
00:31:03.000 And this leads to an obvious question.
00:31:04.000 Chuck Todd says to Rubio, okay, well if you think Trump's so bad, why do you say you'll vote for him in general?
00:31:10.000 How can you support a con artist?
00:31:14.000 Any regret on the idea that you will support Donald Trump as nominee.
00:31:17.000 You're calling him a con artist, a scam artist.
00:31:19.000 And I think it's indicative of how bad I think Hillary Clinton would be, or Bernie Sanders, to even contemplate that.
00:31:24.000 But let me say, because I can't vote for them.
00:31:25.000 You think they're a con artist, though?
00:31:26.000 I mean, that's the thing.
00:31:27.000 No, I think Bernie Sanders is a socialist, which he admits.
00:31:30.000 And I think Hillary Clinton is unqualified to be President of the United States because of the way she handled her email server and because of the way she treated the families of the victims of Benghazi.
00:31:38.000 Well, I don't believe.
00:31:39.000 Look, the bottom line is I don't want him to be our nominee.
00:31:41.000 The fact that you're even asking me the question tells you why this is a problem.
00:31:45.000 If anyone else, if John Kasich was where Donald Trump is now, if Jeb Bush is where Donald Trump is now, nobody would be asking that question.
00:31:52.000 The race would be over.
00:31:53.000 By the way, I was just going to say, would you be out of the race if this were John Kasich and not... And that's the point.
00:31:57.000 The point is that no matter what I say today about supporting or not supporting the nominee, there's a significant percentage of Republicans that are not going to vote for Donald Trump.
00:32:05.000 And that is why he will get destroyed in the general election.
00:32:07.000 That's what will happen.
00:32:13.000 Well, at least he won't be as bad as Hillary Clinton.
00:32:15.000 That's pretty weak tea after you've said all the things that you've said about him.
00:32:19.000 Okay, so can there be a unification behind Cruz?
00:32:21.000 Nate Silver over at FiveThirtyEight
00:32:24.000 The pollster, Nate Silver, he came out and he said, if this had been a one-on-one Cruz vs. Trump matchup from the beginning, Cruz would have been walking away with the delegates already.
00:32:32.000 So, Rubio staying in has prevented that consolidation.
00:32:35.000 Cruz is begging people, please unite behind me.
00:32:38.000 Please, let's do this thing.
00:32:40.000 If you don't believe Donald Trump is the best nominee for Republicans, if you recognize, as 65 to 75 to 70% of Republicans do, that Donald loses to Hillary in the general,
00:32:51.000 Then I would encourage Republicans, even if you were supporting another candidate, to come, join Carly, join the millions of conservatives who are coming together unifying behind our campaign.
00:33:02.000 And is that going to happen?
00:33:03.000 Is there going to be this great unification?
00:33:05.000 Carly Fiorina endorsed Ted Cruz.
00:33:07.000 Apparently Jeb Bush is considering endorsing Ted Cruz.
00:33:10.000 Don't take it, Ted.
00:33:11.000 Don't do it.
00:33:12.000 Okay?
00:33:12.000 If Jeb Bush had any self-awareness, he would endorse Donald Trump.
00:33:15.000 If he really wants to stop Trump, he has to endorse Donald Trump.
00:33:18.000 Jeb Bush is the touch of the leper.
00:33:20.000 Okay, Jeb Bush should be attempting to bear hug Donald Trump at this point.
00:33:25.000 Here's the problem with Cruz.
00:33:27.000 Cruz, for all of the talk, and I've talked about this, about how he looks dishonest, it's just an unfortunate part of his face, how he does his hair, just, he looks dishonest.
00:33:35.000 He's too honest.
00:33:35.000 So here's what Ted Cruz said about Donald Trump voters, what he thinks about Donald Trump voters the other night.
00:33:40.000 Donald does well with voters who have relatively low information, who are not that engaged, and who are angry, and they see him as an angry voice.
00:33:50.000 Where we're beating him is when voters get more engaged and they get more informed.
00:33:54.000 When they inform themselves, they realize his record.
00:33:58.000 He's what they're angry at.
00:34:00.000 He is the corruption.
00:34:01.000 And if you want someone to stand up to Washington,
00:34:05.000 The only one who has been doing so in this race is me.
00:34:08.000 So nothing he's saying here is wrong.
00:34:09.000 The problem is when you say all Trump's voters are low-information voters, that's going to be used against you by Trump, obviously.
00:34:16.000 All the people who back me, he insults you, he says you're terrible, and thus, you should back me.
00:34:20.000 Okay, so it looks pretty ugly for Tuesday.
00:34:23.000 We'll have to see how tonight's debate goes.
00:34:25.000 People are saying they should be kinder and gentler.
00:34:26.000 I think precisely the opposite.
00:34:29.000 Ted Cruz should lead off this debate by calling on Donald Trump to fire Corey Lewandowski.
00:34:34.000 He should say that Donald Trump is a sexist for doubting what this woman says that has been backed up by verified testimony, essentially, from another reporter.
00:34:43.000 This is not just a he-said-she-said.
00:34:44.000 This is a he-said-she-said-he-said, because there's another guy who verified this.
00:34:48.000 There are bruises to prove it.
00:34:50.000 He should say, listen, I fired my own communications director.
00:34:52.000 I fired my own communications director for tweeting out a false video about Marco Rubio.
00:34:57.000 You're defending your campaign manager for physically assaulting a reporter?
00:35:01.000 What kind of disgusting human being are you?
00:35:04.000 What kind of thug are you?
00:35:05.000 You go to your rallies and you tell people to rough up protesters.
00:35:07.000 This isn't America.
00:35:08.000 What the hell's wrong with you?
00:35:09.000 And he should use those exact words.
00:35:12.000 He should be just that dismissive of Donald Trump because that's who Trump is.
00:35:15.000 Trump acts like a thug when he's protected by
00:35:18.000 Vast piles of cash and security at all times, but he's happy to threaten other people.
00:35:25.000 It's really quite distasteful.
00:35:27.000 Okay, some things I like, some things I hate, and then a little bit of mailbag.
00:35:30.000 So, a couple of things that I like.
00:35:32.000 I believe that I've mentioned this movie before.
00:35:33.000 Have I ever talked about The Lives of Others?
00:35:35.000 So I'm not sure I've ever talked about The Lives of Others.
00:35:37.000 Okay, Lives of Others is my favorite movie.
00:35:39.000 This is a great movie.
00:35:40.000 This is a I think one best foreign film in 2005, and this film is about the East German Stasi and the main character is an East German Stasi guy who's tasked to listen in on this dissident artist who may or may not.
00:35:55.000 Be smuggling information to the West about how terrible the Communist regime is.
00:35:59.000 And over the course of time, as he spies on this guy, he becomes convinced that the guy is actually right, and he ends up protecting the guy.
00:36:06.000 It's a beautiful film.
00:36:07.000 It's just a great film.
00:36:08.000 Do we have a little bit of the trailer?
00:36:10.000 I know it's in a foreign language, but I'll explain what's going on, folks.
00:36:18.000 Before the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany's secret police monitored the country's population.
00:36:25.000 And it shows the secret police monitoring this playwright.
00:36:37.000 It's a terrific film and it's all about how the government exploits their power to destroy people.
00:36:44.000 It's a fantastic film.
00:36:46.000 Maybe the most conservative film ever made.
00:36:47.000 It's really an amazing, amazing film.
00:36:49.000 You know, just watch it.
00:36:50.000 Go out and rent it.
00:36:51.000 You'll thank me later.
00:36:52.000 It's a great, great movie.
00:36:54.000 The Lives of Others.
00:36:55.000 It is R-rated.
00:36:56.000 Not for kids.
00:36:57.000 But a terrific, terrific film.
00:36:58.000 Okay, I will save the other thing I like for next week.
00:37:01.000 We'll do that one on Monday.
00:37:02.000 Things I Hate.
00:37:03.000 Okay, Things I Hate.
00:37:04.000 They're doing this... Well, actually, let's do one more thing I like.
00:37:07.000 This is a surprising thing.
00:37:09.000 The only time I can ever remember agreeing with Barack Obama.
00:37:11.000 So, Barack Obama...
00:37:14.000 Like, people who are accusing me of being a lefty are going to be justified on this one because Barack Obama actually says something right here.
00:37:19.000 This is a shocking development.
00:37:21.000 It's been nearly eight years since I've said those words.
00:37:24.000 No, it's actually been forever since I've said those words, but eight years since he's been elected.
00:37:28.000 Here's Barack Obama talking about college campuses that have no tolerance for opposing points of view.
00:37:34.000 Now, one thing I do want to point out is it's not just sometimes
00:37:42.000 Folks who are mad that colleges are too liberal that have a problem.
00:37:48.000 Sometimes there are folks on college campuses who are liberal and maybe even agree with me on a bunch of issues who sometimes aren't listening to the other side.
00:38:00.000 And that's a problem, too.
00:38:02.000 I was just talking to a friend of mine about this.
00:38:06.000 I've heard some college campuses where they don't want to have a guest speaker
00:38:12.000 We're good to go.
00:38:38.000 You, when you become students at colleges, have to be coddled and protected from different points of view.
00:38:45.000 What?
00:38:46.000 Whoa.
00:38:47.000 Whoa!
00:38:48.000 I think that you should be able to... Look at all these uncomfortable college students.
00:38:53.000 Wait, he's saying something I don't like.
00:38:58.000 Anybody who comes to speak to you and you disagree with, you should have an argument with them.
00:39:05.000 But you shouldn't silence them
00:39:08.000 Okay, we can stop it there.
00:39:14.000 I appreciate the personal shout-out from President Obama, and thanks for your support at Cal State Los Angeles.
00:39:18.000 So, I appreciate it, Mr. President.
00:39:21.000 Okay, thing I hate, and then we'll get to the mailbag.
00:39:23.000 So, Ghostbusters, they've come out with this reboot.
00:39:26.000 I know that Drew's talked about this on his podcast, too.
00:39:29.000 This is legitimately one of the worst
00:39:32.000 It looks like one of the worst trailers ever, okay?
00:39:35.000 I'm not a big- I have to admit, I'm not a Ghostbusters fan.
00:39:38.000 I watched the original with my wife maybe six months ago, because we'd heard how great it was.
00:39:42.000 I watched it, and I kept waiting for it to get great.
00:39:44.000 And then two hours later it ended, and I said, wait, wasn't it supposed to be great?
00:39:48.000 I didn't like it at all.
00:39:50.000 It did nothing for me, so now they're rebooting it.
00:39:52.000 But they've decided in typical lefty fashion that they have to jam the message in your face, so they're rebooting it with women.
00:39:58.000 I mean, it's women doing Ghostbusters.
00:40:00.000 Oh, happy day.
00:40:01.000 And this is not even me ripping on the director, Paul Feig.
00:40:04.000 I recommended one of his films, I think, a couple of weeks ago, Spy.
00:40:07.000 But he is doing this film, and this looks just god-awful.
00:40:12.000 It looks like steaming pile of crap time.
00:40:13.000 Here we go.
00:40:14.000 We have dedicated our whole lives to studying the paranormal.
00:40:18.000 Now there's sightings all over the city.
00:40:21.000 There are people out there that need our help.
00:40:25.000 Paltzman, you're a brilliant engineer.
00:40:29.000 Aaron, no one's better at quantum physics than you.
00:40:32.000 We can provide a real service.
00:40:37.000 I'm joining the club.
00:40:38.000 You guys are really smart about this science stuff, but I know New York.
00:40:42.000 And I can borrow a car from my uncle.
00:40:44.000 You didn't disclose that the vehicle was gonna be a hearse.
00:40:49.000 It's a Cadillac!
00:40:50.000 Okay, this movie looks like a dog turd piled on top of a horse turd piled on top of an elephant turd and wrapped in Donald Trump's hair.
00:41:00.000 That's what this movie looks like.
00:41:04.000 It's just the worst thing that ever was.
00:41:06.000 And of course, this is what happens when you put your message above your film.
00:41:09.000 You want to see what it looks like when the film is the message.
00:41:11.000 Look at the lives of others.
00:41:12.000 If you want to look at something that happens when you decide political correctness has to trump comedy,
00:41:17.000 And look at this, and they couldn't even do it right here.
00:41:18.000 They're all pissed off because the black lady in this thing is the ignorant one, right?
00:41:23.000 If they'd really been politically correct, then she would have been the smartest one, right?
00:41:25.000 She would have been the genius scientist, and it would have been like Kristen Wiig, who is actually the idiot who works for the New York subway station.
00:41:32.000 So this is the whole thing just looks like.
00:41:34.000 It looks awful, awful, awful, awful in every way it's possible for it to be awful.
00:41:39.000 Something that looks even more awful is this trailer for a new movie called Confirmation.
00:41:43.000 Kerry Washington, who just only does lefty ridiculous projects now, they've decided to make a biopic about Anita Hill.
00:41:50.000 For people who don't remember, Anita Hill was the lady who said that Clarence Thomas once said to her when she was working with him, she didn't complain about it at the time or file a complaint or anything, she said that he had made a joke about a pubic hair on a Coke can.
00:42:04.000 Her grand victimization is a guy made a joke about a pubic hair on her Coke can.
00:42:10.000 Okay, as someone who works in an office with women, there are lots of jokes that get made all the time.
00:42:15.000 All the time.
00:42:16.000 Lindsay can confirm.
00:42:16.000 There are lots of jokes, most of them made by Lindsay, that are completely inappropriate at all times.
00:42:22.000 You know what?
00:42:23.000 Get over it.
00:42:24.000 But this was happening at the exact same time it was coming out that Bill Clinton had allegedly raped people and sexually assaulted people.
00:42:30.000 We still don't have a movie of the Juanita Broderick story.
00:42:32.000 We still don't have a movie of the Paula Jones story.
00:42:35.000 We still don't have a movie of the Kathleen Willey story, but we do have a movie
00:42:38.000 about how Clarence Thomas was evil, evil, evil, evil, because he once made a joke about a Coke can, a full two-hour epic with Kerry Washington.
00:42:45.000 Take a look.
00:42:49.000 She's such a hero.
00:42:54.000 Is it true?
00:42:55.000 Is the story true?
00:42:56.000 During the fall of 1982, Judge Thomas began to use work situations to discuss sex.
00:43:03.000 I could not keep silent.
00:43:06.000 I deny every allegation against me today.
00:43:09.000 This is political theater, and Thomas just performed.
00:43:12.000 He is not the victim.
00:43:14.000 No, you're the victim.
00:43:15.000 The things they'll be reporting will be shocking.
00:43:19.000 I was not dishonest.
00:43:21.000 Somebody who goes after a woman like this with no holds barred?
00:43:24.000 This is a street fight, Joe.
00:43:26.000 This is a circus, a high-tech lynching.
00:43:31.000 We have half a nation to convince.
00:43:32.000 You're not gonna believe this.
00:43:33.000 There's another woman.
00:43:34.000 You got me bringing up a bunch of bogus dirt.
00:43:36.000 Stop it!
00:43:37.000 I've heard enough of these lies.
00:43:38.000 They don't care.
00:43:39.000 They only want to win.
00:43:41.000 They only want to win.
00:43:42.000 Okay, so the left, right?
00:43:44.000 The left, which again, there's little to no evidence that any of this ever happened.
00:43:47.000 But Anita Hill is considered a grand hero because she talked about Clarence Thomas making inappropriate jokes at work.
00:43:54.000 He clearly, clearly was hitting on her.
00:43:56.000 Oh, how terrible.
00:43:57.000 By the way, the president who was running at that time was raping people.
00:44:01.000 Like, raping them.
00:44:02.000 And his wife now is running for president.
00:44:04.000 So this is coming out while his wife, who covered up for his rapes, is running for president.
00:44:08.000 And there's no movie about that, but there's a movie about Clarence Thomas.
00:44:12.000 Got it.
00:44:13.000 Typical Hollywood.
00:44:14.000 Okay.
00:44:14.000 Time for a little bit of mailbag.
00:44:15.000 So, again, folks, as always, I apologize if you're not in the mailbag this week.
00:44:20.000 Hundreds and hundreds.
00:44:21.000 Lindsey can attest.
00:44:21.000 She goes through them, and I'm sure you've received... I hope that you're going to receive responses from her when she finds the time.
00:44:28.000 It's stacking up.
00:44:29.000 It's like 1,200 emails at this point.
00:44:30.000 We get literally 100 emails a day about the podcast, and probably more.
00:44:35.000 Lindsay says more.
00:44:36.000 She's signaling to me that she does enormous amounts of work.
00:44:38.000 I believe her, I think.
00:44:40.000 But the mailbag is chock full, so if we don't have a chance to get to you, I'm sorry about that.
00:44:45.000 We definitely do our best.
00:44:46.000 Okay.
00:44:47.000 Ezra writes, Hey Ben, love the show.
00:44:49.000 I was debating a liberal friend of mine and he said some of the poorest states in the country are red states like Mississippi and Kansas.
00:44:55.000 I didn't have a good answer.
00:44:56.000 So why aren't those states prospering when being run by conservatives?
00:45:00.000 The answer is because a lot of red states are states that are agricultural in nature.
00:45:04.000 Agricultural states are less wealthy than states that have big cities where information technology rules, where there's a lot of corporate investment.
00:45:11.000 A lot of those areas have been historically impoverished.
00:45:14.000 Because industry was not located in the South until really after World War II.
00:45:19.000 That's when all the industries started to move down South.
00:45:22.000 And they were governed by Democrats until the last five minutes.
00:45:25.000 So if you look at the number of Republican governors in most of these states and Republican senators, the vast majority of Southern states only started electing Republican governors in the last 20 to 25 years.
00:45:34.000 So you have to give Republicans a little bit of a chance to fix all the damage wrought by Democrats over the previous 130 years.
00:45:45.000 When only 60% of the votes are accounted for.
00:45:47.000 Why does this happen?
00:45:49.000 And the answer is because people project, usually when they call it they have to be pretty certain, they project based on the counties that have come in.
00:45:56.000 So they look at the historic voting numbers and if the 60% of counties that came in are all big cities, for example, and the person who's right-wing won the big cities, they'll probably call it because the rural areas tend to be more right-wing than the cities.
00:46:07.000 So that's how they calculate those sorts of things.
00:46:10.000 Yes, I like Settlers of Catan.
00:46:11.000 I also like chess.
00:46:12.000 I'm not very good at it.
00:46:13.000 I'm working on it, but my father-in-law likes to play and really enjoys beating me.
00:46:27.000 Um, and so, there's that, so I have to get better at it so that he won't.
00:46:30.000 Um, and, uh, and I also enjoy, uh, I used to play bridge with my dad.
00:46:33.000 My dad and I used to be bridge partners, and we used to play bridge like little old ladies.
00:46:36.000 My dad's actually really, really good at it.
00:46:38.000 Uh, I never got to the point where I was great at it.
00:46:41.000 Okay, Kenan writes, what is fascism?
00:46:43.000 Could you clear up on your radio show exactly what fascism is?
00:46:46.000 Europeans and Jews understand what it is better than anyone.
00:46:49.000 I don't think mainstream America today has really pinpointed exactly what fascism means.
00:46:53.000 Okay, so there are a bunch of different types of fascism, but fascism essentially means that there is a group of people embodied by a great leader, the great leader gives orders, and then the government crams down on everybody else what this great leader wants.
00:47:08.000 It's not democracy because the great leader is the one who's in charge, and attacks on him are considered attacks on the people.
00:47:14.000 You may have seen this from earlier in the podcast.
00:47:16.000 Fascism, the actual word fascism, comes from an Italian word called fascisti.
00:47:21.000 Fascisti means a bundle of sticks.
00:47:23.000 The implication was a bundle of sticks is stronger than any single stick.
00:47:26.000 Tie this all up together.
00:47:27.000 It's coined by Mussolini.
00:47:28.000 Mussolini was the original fascist.
00:47:30.000 People like to make fun of him as sort of the clown fascist.
00:47:33.000 But Mussolini was actually a much more important historical figure than he's given credit for.
00:47:38.000 And he was the guy who kind of led to the rise of fascism all across the world.
00:47:42.000 The idea was government was ineffective, you need an effective leader to come in and get the trains to run on time.
00:47:47.000 And this was always the line about fascism.
00:47:50.000 So, when someone says to you, we need a great leader to overrule the legislature, overrule the will of the people, and just get things done.
00:47:56.000 That is the essence of fascism, is that he takes the government gun and he points it at all the people with whom he disagrees, because we have to get things done.
00:48:04.000 Okay, Tony writes with a conspiracy theory.
00:48:07.000 He says, with you being directly involved with political giants and the biggest news outlets, do you have any conspiracy theories that you believe in?
00:48:15.000 No, I don't believe in any of the major conspiracy theories.
00:48:17.000 I think that there are times when people coordinate, for sure.
00:48:20.000 But typically, in order for conspiracy theories to work, you have to assume everybody is smart, and most people are not.
00:48:26.000 You have to assume that everybody is capable, most people are not.
00:48:29.000 You know, like the JFK conspiracy theories assume some sort of genius conspiracy to plant it all on Lee Harvey Oswald, and the 9-11 conspiracy theories assume that tons of people throughout the government knew this was going to happen and then let it happen, or that they planted bombs themselves and nobody noticed.
00:48:45.000 This is all...
00:48:47.000 Ridiculous and far-fetched.
00:48:48.000 Occam's razor suggests that the the simplest suggestion is without further evidence, but in the absence of further evidence, the simplest suggestion is probably the most correct.
00:48:58.000 I don't believe conspiracy theories because they're rarely simple.
00:49:00.000 They're almost always not simple.
00:49:02.000 But the reason people like conspiracy theories is that it gives people a feeling of order in a disordered universe because it's uncomfortable to come to terms with the fact that life is chaotic and lots of stuff happens.
00:49:13.000 So instead, you just say, well, it's a conspiracy.
00:49:15.000 It was all meant to happen, right?
00:49:17.000 When you don't believe in God, it becomes easy to believe in conspiracy theories.
00:49:20.000 If you believe in God, you believe that this is all kind of God's conspiracy theory, right?
00:49:23.000 Like God is in control of everything.
00:49:25.000 If you don't believe in God, then it must be the Jews or it's the...
00:49:30.000 The answer is a lot when you subsidize loans and you give them to the give those loans to people for very cheap.
00:49:45.000 People are going to raise prices.
00:49:46.000 If there's lots of demand, the supply is limited, the prices go up.
00:49:50.000 Basic supply and demand.
00:49:51.000 Lots of demand by students, lots of money flying around, people are going to raise their prices.
00:49:55.000 Because you still have to make sure that you can pay people enough to teach all of these classes.
00:49:59.000 Prices go up.
00:50:00.000 The ability to charge these prices goes up.
00:50:02.000 Well, Free College is obviously crazy, writes Will.
00:50:05.000 Do you think some form of government interference as far as price capping could be beneficial to the average American?
00:50:10.000 No, I think it's a major mistake.
00:50:11.000 I think that once you price cap all of these things, how are you going to draw the best professors exactly?
00:50:16.000 Any attempt at pricing and wage controls by the government is doomed to failure because eventually you end up screwing one subset of the population that you actually need in order for the market to go forward.
00:50:28.000 By the way, if you want to major in an engineering major in college and you get in, you're not going to have trouble finding a private loan.
00:50:34.000 Hell, I'll give you a private loan.
00:50:35.000 You want to major in engineering at UCLA and then go and work at an engineering firm?
00:50:39.000 I'll give you a loan myself if you pledge to give me a certain percentage interest that's high enough that I'm willing to deprive myself of the money.
00:50:45.000 Okay, Evan writes,
00:50:48.000 What is your position on capital punishment?
00:50:50.000 I am pro-capital punishment in theory.
00:50:53.000 The way that it's applied in the United States is ridiculous.
00:50:55.000 It's uneven, not in terms of race, but just in terms of people waiting for 10 years in line, and it takes forever, and you're keeping them alive anyway.
00:51:04.000 But capital punishment I'm very much in favor of.
00:51:06.000 In the wake of the despicable terrorist attacks in Haifa and Tel Aviv, do you think a solution will ever arise in the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians?
00:51:12.000 No, there will never be a solution.
00:51:14.000 There will only be security.
00:51:15.000 And this is what Israel has begun to realize.
00:51:17.000 There won't be a solution, there will just be security, and Israel will have to repeatedly go in and clean out terrorists until the end of time.
00:51:23.000 There's no such thing as utopia, because people who are dedicated to your demise are dedicated to killing you.
00:51:27.000 And finally from Evan, have you and your wife decided on a name yet for your future son?
00:51:32.000 Yep, but you don't know it.
00:51:33.000 A liberal is somebody who actually believes in liberty, right?
00:51:36.000 A classical liberal in Europe was actually a conservative.
00:51:49.000 A leftist is somebody who believes that fairness is the only value.
00:51:52.000 It's the only thing that matters.
00:51:53.000 Fairness of outcome is the only thing on the planet that matters.
00:51:57.000 They're willing to subsume and destroy individual rights in order to achieve that equality of outcome.
00:52:03.000 That's what leftism is all about.
00:52:05.000 Liberalism is about the idea that you have individual rights.
00:52:08.000 The left in the United States used to try and bridge that gap.
00:52:12.000 Very difficult gap to bridge.
00:52:14.000 Now they don't even pretend.
00:52:15.000 That's why you get Bernie Sanders.
00:52:17.000 Okay, Dan writes, I wanted to ask you if you can recommend a good book or website to learn more about the Israel and Palestine situation.
00:52:23.000 There's a really good book, an easy one called Myths and Facts about Israel by a guy named Mitchell Bard.
00:52:28.000 You can get it on Amazon for like seven bucks.
00:52:29.000 It's good.
00:52:31.000 Nolan writes, I wanted to ask about your opinion on social justice and social justice warriors.
00:52:37.000 Social justice, as I've said many times, you can check my speeches, I've said this routinely.
00:52:40.000 Social justice is in direct opposition to individual justice.
00:52:44.000 There is no such thing as social justice.
00:52:46.000 Social justice suggests that OJ Simpson should have been let off because he was black.
00:52:51.000 As you can see, this is the opposite of individual justice because he should have gone to get the lethal injection.
00:52:57.000 He should have gotten death penalty.
00:52:59.000 Whenever you say that something that is individually just is not just because it's not just for the society, what you're really saying is individual justice doesn't matter.
00:53:07.000 Group justice is in direct opposition to individual justice.
00:53:12.000 There are certain things that don't need a modifier.
00:53:13.000 Justice does not need a modifier.
00:53:16.000 Justice does not need you to add social in front of it, because once you do that, you've already confined justice to something that it's not.
00:53:23.000 Justice for groups is not justice for individuals.
00:53:25.000 Justice for individuals may not be justice for groups, but the bottom line is individual justice is the only thing we can control, and we should all be held responsible for our own actions, not for the actions of broad groups that include us.
00:53:38.000 Okay, so tonight's the big debate.
00:53:40.000 When we come back on Monday, it will be one day before the apocalypse.
00:53:44.000 As Andrew Klavan is fond of saying, make sure that you don't destroy the country while we're gone.
00:53:48.000 We will be back on Monday.
00:53:49.000 I don't trust you.
00:53:50.000 So if we come back on Monday and the world is destroyed, I promise, we will still be here talking about it.
00:53:57.000 That's why my set looks like a fallout shelter.
00:54:00.000 That's what we do.
00:54:01.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.
00:54:01.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.