The Ben Shapiro Show - Ep. 92 - Hillary Is Anti-Israel, Obama Is Pro-Cuba, Is Anybody Pro-America?

00:00:01.000 So Hillary Clinton, our good friend, spoke at the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee today.

00:00:06.000 That's AIPAC.

00:00:07.000 She said all the usual nice things about Israel.

00:00:09.000 They're our ally, and we stand with them, and we'll stand with them against anti-Semitism.

00:00:13.000 She says this stuff all the time.

00:00:14.000 And there were a lot of pro-Israel people tweeting up a storm, really a storm, about her wondrous words.

00:00:20.000 These are the same people, likely, who tweeted up a storm about President Obama's wondrous words at AIPAC in 2008.

00:00:25.000 That was shortly before he launched the most anti-Israel administration in the history of the United States.

00:00:32.000 So, here's just a little reminder to pro-Israel people just what Hillary Clinton stands for. 0.65

00:00:37.000 Hillary Clinton is the woman who corresponded regularly, while Secretary of State, with the vicious anti-Israel viper, Sidney Blumenthal.

00:00:44.000 That's a guy who lectured her consistently on the dangers of the, quote, Israeli leadership and the U.S.

00:00:49.000 Jewish community, and sent her the work of his son, outright anti-Semitic terror lackey, Max Blumenthal, who actually went and protested at AIPAC while Hillary was speaking.

00:00:59.000 Hillary is the woman who helped initiate the Iran deal, which is the worst international agreement in the history of the Middle East, if not the United States. 0.71

00:01:06.000 She's the woman whose State Department condemned Israel for defending itself during the Gaza War and labeled Jerusalem not a part of Israel.

00:01:13.000 Seriously, if you're born in Jerusalem, it now says on your passport, it doesn't say Israel,

00:01:17.000 It just says Jerusalem.

00:01:19.000 She's the anti-Israel extremist who personally called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in March 2010 to yell at him about Jews building bathrooms in Jerusalem, who slammed Israel in December 2011 as moving in the quote opposite direction of democracy and categorized voluntary

00:01:35.000 Same sex segregated buses as quote more suited to Iran than to Israel and said in December 2012 that Israelis had a quote lack of empathy for Palestinians and needed to quote demonstrate that they do understand the pain of an oppressed people in their mind.

00:01:50.000 That's Hillary Clinton, the people there. 0.97

00:01:52.000 She's they're calling her pro-Israel now.

00:01:55.000 And she's a disaster for Israel. 0.98

00:01:56.000 Now, there's talk about Jews walking out of Donald Trump's speech at AIPAC tonight.

00:02:00.000 Trump has said some pretty bad things about the Israelis and the Palestinians.

00:02:03.000 He said that he wants to remain neutral.

00:02:04.000 But Hillary's record, not her words, her record is anti-Israel. 0.98

00:02:08.000 Anybody who walks out on Trump but cheered Hillary isn't just a hypocrite. 1.00

00:02:11.000 You're an idiot. 1.00

00:02:13.000 I'm Ben Shapiro and this is The Ben Shapiro Show. 1.00

00:02:23.000 Okay, so we're back.

00:02:24.000 It is indeed a Monday, and the world survived, albeit barely.

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00:02:31.000 So you've been watching as President Obama tries to ram through his new Supreme Court nominee, a guy named Merrick Garland, which sounds like it's a dude who's opening for the Blues Brothers in a chicken wire bar somewhere.

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00:04:06.000 Okay, so as I say, it was a busy weekend and it's a busy beginning of the week already.

00:04:11.000 Let's start with Hillary Clinton at AIPAC. 1.00

00:04:14.000 So,

00:04:15.000 As I mentioned, Hillary Clinton speaks at AIPAC and she's getting all sorts of plaudits.

00:04:19.000 People are super duper happy with Hillary Clinton.

00:04:21.000 And I want to talk about AIPAC in a moment.

00:04:24.000 What exactly AIPAC is.

00:04:25.000 Because it's usually derided as the Jewish lobby, the Israel lobby in the United States.

00:04:30.000 Let's start with Hillary though. 1.00

00:04:31.000 So let's flash back to 2005.

00:04:34.000 Here's Hillary speaking at AIPAC.

00:04:35.000 I believe this was for the first time speaking at AIPAC in 2005.

00:04:38.000 And here's what she had to say.

00:04:40.000 And a strong, lasting relationship between the United States and Israel is essential to our efforts to build that world of peace and security.

00:05:00.000 As all of us know, our future here in this country is intertwined

00:05:08.000 Okay, so we can stop it there.

00:05:12.000 Hillary Clinton then proceeded to join the Obama administration where she participated in the creation of the Iran deal, which is the worst deal in the history of the Middle East, as I mentioned. 0.95

00:05:21.000 It's a deal that basically gives the Iranians a nuclear weapon within 10 years without any ramifications. 0.82

00:05:28.000 Excuse me, whatsoever.

00:05:30.000 And it's giving them $100 billion a year in economic growth.

00:05:33.000 Hillary Clinton participated in that.

00:05:35.000 She consistently and repeatedly took an anti-Israel position.

00:05:38.000 Her chief advisor, Sidney Blumenthal, he was wildly anti-Israel.

00:05:42.000 She was wildly anti-Israel.

00:05:44.000 Well, now she comes back to AIPAC.

00:05:46.000 And she's speaking in 2016, now running for president again.

00:05:51.000 And she says this about Israel.

00:05:53.000 Here's what she had to say.

00:05:55.000 At our best, both Israel and America are seen as a light unto the nations because of those values.

00:06:05.000 This is the real foundation of our alliance, and I think it's why so many Americans feel such a deep emotional connection with Israel.

00:06:16.000 I know that I do.

00:06:18.000 And it's why we cannot be neutral about Israel and Israel's future.

00:06:21.000 Because in Israel's story, we see our own. 0.77

00:06:27.000 And the story of all people who struggle for freedom and self-determination.

00:06:33.000 Okay, so she's in all this romantic language about Israel, how much she feels in common with Israel.

00:06:38.000 She's been saying the same stuff for 10 years, and then she's been doing all the same stuff for the last 10 years, too.

00:06:42.000 Anti-Israel stuff.

00:06:43.000 So she went there, she ripped Donald Trump, she said that Trump's language with regard to Israel is really bad.

00:06:48.000 I agree.

00:06:49.000 Trump's language with regard to Israel.

00:06:51.000 Now people are saying, well, he never said he's anti-Israel, he said he's neutral.

00:06:54.000 If I were to tell you that someone said during World War II that they were neutral between the British and the Nazis, you might be right to suggest that they were anti-British. 0.98

00:07:03.000 You're anti-Israel if you suggest that there's a neutrality between a moral democratic state like Israel and a fascistic terrorist state like the Palestinian Authority.

00:07:11.000 But for all these people who are going to walk out on Trump tonight, and supposedly there are a lot, Hillary Clinton's actual record is anti-Israel.

00:07:18.000 Her actual record.

00:07:19.000 And AIPAC is a real disappointment to me.

00:07:21.000 I have a lot of friends and

00:07:23.000 And people I know who are going to AIPAC.

00:07:26.000 This has become a big thing all across the United States.

00:07:28.000 Literally tens of thousands of people go to AIPAC every year for their big convention.

00:07:33.000 There are big communities, entire communities of people who go this year, big supporters of AIPAC.

00:07:38.000 That's fine, as long as you know why you're supporting AIPAC.

00:07:41.000 This is for all my pro-Israel friends, fellow Jews who are pro-Israel, Christians who are pro-Israel.

00:07:46.000 You have to know what AIPAC is and what it isn't.

00:07:48.000 So AIPAC says that their job is to essentially teach people in Congress about Israel.

00:07:53.000 That's fine.

00:07:53.000 They do a good job of that.

00:07:54.000 They send them good information.

00:07:56.000 They take them on trips to Israel.

00:07:57.000 They give them the tour.

00:07:59.000 All that's fine.

00:08:00.000 They also say that they're supposed to be the lead advocate for the pro-Israel sentiment in the United States.

00:08:05.000 And this they do not do.

00:08:06.000 This they do not do.

00:08:08.000 Now, they're talking about organizing resistance against Trump.

00:08:11.000 In 2012, they refused to invite Ron Paul because Ron Paul is anti-Zionist and anti-Israel.

00:08:16.000 That's fine.

00:08:17.000 That's fine.

00:08:17.000 But be consistent about it.

00:08:19.000 AIPAC isn't.

00:08:20.000 AIPAC in 2014 had the opportunity to push Democratic legislators into voting against President Obama's Iran deal.

00:08:27.000 They had the ability to push the Senate into at least having a vote over whether the deal was a treaty, which would have required a two-thirds approval in the Senate.

00:08:36.000 And AIPAC didn't do it.

00:08:37.000 And the reason AIPAC didn't do it is because they don't stand up for Israel so much as they stand up for Democrats.

00:08:41.000 The head of the organization is a guy named Bob Cohen, major Democratic fundraiser, has given tons of money to the Democrats.

00:08:47.000 See, I'm honest about this.

00:08:48.000 Ron Paul's a Republican.

00:08:50.000 He's also anti-Israel.

00:08:51.000 Donald Trump is a Republican, sort of.

00:08:53.000 Donald Trump is somebody who is not pro-Israel enough for me.

00:08:56.000 I'm very ideologically consistent on this.

00:08:58.000 I don't care which party you belong to, I care what you think.

00:09:02.000 But unfortunately, the people at AIPAC, in an attempt to be bipartisan, they've lent credence to people like Hillary Clinton, who is, in fact, wildly anti-Israel.

00:09:11.000 The same thing is true of Joe Biden, who's wildly anti-Israel.

00:09:14.000 And unfortunately, it's true for a lot of Democrats, and they keep covering for these people because AIPAC is not pro-Israel, so much as it is pro-Democrat.

00:09:22.000 When the two aren't in conflict, they're fine.

00:09:24.000 But if they are in conflict, they will side with the Democrats over Israel, and that truly is awful.

00:09:28.000 Okay, so that's one thing that's happening today on the foreign policy front.

00:09:32.000 On the other foreign policy fronts, the President Obama has now traveled to Cuba.

00:09:36.000 He's headed over to Cuba, and he landed, touched down there this morning.

00:09:41.000 He was not met by Raoul Castro on the tarmac.

00:09:44.000 He was met by the foreign minister, I guess.

00:09:46.000 Raoul Castro reserves his meetings on the tarmac for people like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the former leader, president of Iran.

00:09:53.000 He met him on the tarmac, but not President Obama.

00:09:55.000 The whole thing is just a humiliation tour for the United States.

00:09:58.000 So, for example,

00:09:59.000 Here is President Obama's, clip 23, here's President Obama, and you can see him standing alongside the Cuban dignitaries.

00:10:06.000 If you can't see this, folks, there's a picture that's going around and is ticking off a lot of people, as well it should.

00:10:12.000 And the picture is President Obama standing there with all the dignitaries, and behind him is a building, and on that building is a giant mural of Che Guevara. 0.79

00:10:21.000 Che Guevara for all the people who don't know who he is, including you moron Bernie Sanders college student supporters who wear Che Guevara t-shirts. 0.97

00:10:28.000 Che Guevara was a mass murderer. 1.00

00:10:29.000 Che Guevara was a racist. 0.99

00:10:31.000 Che Guevara wanted to actually commit essentially a nuclear attack. 0.91

00:10:36.000 In the United States during the Cuban Missile Crisis, he wanted a terrorist attack on Thanksgiving in the United States. 1.00

00:10:41.000 Che Guevara was a hardcore evil communist terrorist piece of garbage. 0.99

00:10:45.000 And there's the President of the United States posing lovingly in front of a building with Che Guevara's image on it. 0.99

00:10:51.000 And it tells you everything you need to know, by the way, that building, about Cuba.

00:10:54.000 Right? 0.99

00:10:55.000 The building's just an absolute crap hole. 0.99

00:10:56.000 I mean, the building looks like garbage, and there on the side of it is Che Guevara. 0.99

00:11:00.000 There are five reasons why this trip to Cuba is such a bad idea and is such a problem. 0.51

00:11:05.000 And it really is.

00:11:06.000 It exposes the left for what it is.

00:11:08.000 You know, there's a lot of problems with Donald Trump.

00:11:10.000 There really are.

00:11:11.000 I mean, I've been talking about them for literally weeks, and we'll get back to them probably a little bit later on the program.

00:11:16.000 But the left is so horrible in every aspect.

00:11:21.000 Now Trump's a nationalist populist.

00:11:22.000 That's dangerous stuff and something I won't endorse.

00:11:24.000 The left deep down is communist and they're fine with the invasion and destruction of human freedom so long as it pushes their particular view of the universe.

00:11:32.000 So here are five reasons why this is such a disaster for the United States this trip.

00:11:37.000 So the first thing is, before Obama gets there, there's a massive crackdown on dissidents.

00:11:42.000 The regime takes everybody who could possibly disagree with the regime, and they throw them in prison.

00:11:48.000 This is according to the New York Times, which of course loves President Obama and loves Cuba.

00:11:53.000 Here's the report today.

00:11:54.000 President Obama touched down in Cuba on Sunday, pledging to interact directly with the Cuban people and accelerate engagement between the U.S.

00:12:01.000 and Cuba after more than a half century of hostility.

00:12:04.000 But hours before Air Force One landed at Jose Marti International Airport,

00:12:09.000 I love how the New York Times phrases that, by the way.

00:12:11.000 It's just a challenge inherent in normalizing relations.

00:12:12.000 It's not that they're an evil communist regime.

00:12:26.000 It's just that these are challenges.

00:12:27.000 We'll get through them.

00:12:28.000 New York Times says the protest, which takes place most Sundays outside a suburban church here, was widely seen as a test of Cuba's tolerance for dissent during the presidential trip, and the arrest confirmed Cuba was maintaining its long history of repressive tactics, if not intensifying their reach.

00:12:44.000 So, I love that they have to buy it back a little bit.

00:12:47.000 They may not be intensifying the reach, but you know, this is what they've been doing forever.

00:12:51.000 So nothing is changing here.

00:12:52.000 They're still cracking down on dissidents.

00:12:53.000 The only difference is now President Obama is posing there as cover for them.

00:12:57.000 For Mr. Obama, who is scheduled to meet with dissidents, the detentions threw a spotlight on the core challenge of the visit, how to work with the Castro government while expressing concern for its handling of human rights and free expression.

00:13:09.000 And then the New York Times coverage is amazing here.

00:13:11.000 Security and control are mainstays of any country preparing to host the president.

00:13:16.000 See, all countries do this.

00:13:17.000 We all crack down on dissidents.

00:13:19.000 We all throw them in jail.

00:13:21.000 They say, but Cuba, a nation still working out just how much to open up to the world and to its own people after decades of isolation, has gone above and beyond to prevent embarrassing surprises.

00:13:29.000 I mean, the New York Times could be written by the Cuban regime with this kind of press.

00:13:34.000 They're just trying to work out how much to open up, you know, to their own citizens, you know, the people who live there.

00:13:38.000 They're trying to figure out how much to not arrest them for disagreeing with them.

00:13:42.000 They're just trying to figure it out, you know, after decades of isolation, which is really, you know, the United States' fault, their isolation.

00:13:48.000 The baseball game Obama is supposed to watch with the Tampa Bay Rays on Tuesday.

00:13:53.000 It's an invitation-only event with most seats going to government loyalists.

00:13:56.000 Old Havana shops have been closed.

00:13:58.000 The police have been sweeping up prostitutes from nightclubs and beggars from the streets.

00:14:03.000 And all of the dissidents are being held for hours before they are released.

00:14:07.000 So it's just a delight.

00:14:08.000 So reason number one, this is a terrible idea.

00:14:11.000 The Cuban government has given an excuse to go out and arrest all of the dissidents and throw them behind bars.

00:14:16.000 Okay, reason number two.

00:14:18.000 Re-enshrinement of the Castros. 0.98

00:14:20.000 Raúl Castro is an evil guy. 0.99

00:14:22.000 His brother Fidel was even more evil, but they're both equally evil. 0.99

00:14:25.000 They agree with the same philosophy. 0.91

00:14:28.000 They're both in favor of repressing and destroying human freedom.

00:14:31.000 Raúl Castro could not be any happier about all of this because President Obama is going there and shaking hands.

00:14:37.000 He even did his little bow, which has become habitual for Obama now.

00:14:40.000 Anytime he meets a foreign leader, he bows his head a little bit.

00:14:43.000 That's Obama's routine.

00:14:44.000 He's been doing it now for almost eight years, so no shock there.

00:14:47.000 But look how the media in defense of Obama, the media in defense of Obama, are willing to legitimate the worst people on earth.

00:14:54.000 They already did it with Iran. 0.95

00:14:55.000 Now they're doing it with Cuba. 0.79

00:14:56.000 So, for example, here's a tweet from ESPN.

00:14:59.000 So I'm a big watcher of ESPN because when I'm working out, I don't wanna watch politics.

00:15:04.000 I wanna watch something distracting like sports.

00:15:06.000 Unfortunately, they've decided to completely overrun their sports with politics.

00:15:12.000 As I say, ESPN has basically become MSNBC with bouncing balls.

00:15:16.000 So here is what SportsCenter tweeted.

00:15:20.000 Savior and scourge, Fidel Castro was many things, many things to many people, right?

00:15:26.000 One thing we can all agree on, he loved his sports.

00:15:29.000 Right, there's ESPN writing that.

00:15:32.000 I mean, if there's that one thing we can agree on, he loves his sports.

00:15:35.000 Come on, guys.

00:15:36.000 I mean, let's be real.

00:15:38.000 Savior and Scourge?

00:15:39.000 Savior to whom, exactly?

00:15:41.000 Who is saved by Fidel Castro?

00:15:43.000 Anybody?

00:15:44.000 I mean, people are literally trying to take their 1950s-era cars, inflate the tires enough so that the car actually floats, and then float their way from Cuba to Florida.

00:15:53.000 You got people who are engineers, people who are professors, trying to float to Florida in order to take jobs as dishwashers in Miami.

00:16:01.000 Right, that's how bad things are in Cuba.

00:16:02.000 But here's SportsCenter, which is a sycophantic organization for Obama. 1.00

00:16:06.000 ESPN is just, I mean, they just kiss Obama's ass nonstop. 1.00

00:16:10.000 And here they are, writing, Savior and Scourge. 0.99

00:16:12.000 Fidel Castro, he loved his sports.

00:16:14.000 He just changed the words, right?

00:16:15.000 Savior and Scourge.

00:16:16.000 Hitler was many things to many people.

00:16:18.000 One thing we can all agree on, he loved his dog.

00:16:20.000 I mean, like, what in the world does that, is that supposed to, he loved his sports?

00:16:24.000 What is that supposed to, how is that a good thing?

00:16:27.000 Senator Ted Cruz, who of course is of Cuban extraction, he says on Sunday, President Barack Obama, a retinue of celebrities in tow, is expected to arrive in the Cuban capital to hang out with Raul Castro and his henchmen, all of which will be breathlessly documented by the media mavens along for the ride.

00:16:42.000 Meanwhile, political prisoners languishing in dungeons across the island will hear this message.

00:16:46.000 Nobody has your back.

00:16:47.000 You're alone with your tormentors.

00:16:49.000 The world has forgotten about you.

00:16:52.000 And that's exactly right.

00:16:53.000 That's exactly right.

00:16:54.000 So, imprisonment of dissidents, re-enshrinement of the Castro's. 0.85

00:16:57.000 Of course, humiliation of America would be the third one.

00:16:59.000 President Obama standing in front of that Che Guevara sign is unbelievable.

00:17:03.000 It's unbelievable.

00:17:05.000 And we should be used to it by now.

00:17:06.000 I mean, he's constantly being used as a propaganda tool by various evil regimes.

00:17:11.000 Fourth is pretend changes.

00:17:13.000 So Obama doesn't just legitimate the Castro's.

00:17:15.000 He doesn't just legitimize the Castros.

00:17:17.000 President Obama also pledges change that's never going to happen.

00:17:20.000 So just before arriving in Cuba, President Obama tweeted, Okay, there's only one problem.

00:17:32.000 No one in Cuba has Twitter.

00:17:33.000 No one in Cuba has the internet.

00:17:35.000 How censored are things in Cuba?

00:17:36.000 They're so censored.

00:17:38.000 They broadcast sometimes mainstream American baseball games.

00:17:41.000 When there are Cuban expatriates who are playing in the United States, they black out their bats. 1.00

00:17:46.000 They black them out.

00:17:47.000 They just disappear from the broadcast.

00:17:49.000 Because they don't want people to know that people can escape and live decent, fun, well-rounded, rich lives in the United States.

00:17:56.000 So Obama pledged change.

00:17:57.000 He says that Google is gonna cut a deal with Cuba.

00:18:00.000 It'll probably look very much like the deal that China has with Google, which is, if you do what we say, then we let you stay here.

00:18:05.000 If not, we kick you out.

00:18:06.000 Finally, maybe the thing that I hate the most,

00:18:09.000 All of this results in a romanticization of poverty because socialism and communism inherently end with poverty.

00:18:14.000 When you take people who achieve and force them not to achieve, or you take away the fruits of their labors and hand them over to people as a reward for non-labor, what you end up with is a poorer population.

00:18:25.000 But the left instead decides to romanticize poverty.

00:18:29.000 And they kick it into high gear with Obama in Cuba.

00:18:31.000 So for example, here's the New York Times today.

00:18:51.000 The people are more alive because they're poor, you see.

00:18:53.000 They're more in touch with who they really are.

00:18:56.000 This is something that a bunch of college students have this idea. 1.00

00:18:59.000 Idiot college students who love Bernie Sanders. 0.99

00:19:01.000 They go abroad to foreign countries where people die at age 35 and they think, oh, these people, they're really in touch with the land. 1.00

00:19:07.000 They're really in touch with nature.

00:19:08.000 They're in touch with themselves.

00:19:10.000 They haven't been perverted by this cult of capitalism.

00:19:13.000 I guarantee you any of those people would sell their soul to come to the West and be involved in capitalism.

00:19:19.000 Here's Time Magazine yesterday.

00:19:21.000 Joachim Eskildsen has always felt a strong connection to Cuba.

00:19:24.000 Over the last few years, the Danish photographer has produced a body of work that attempts to show the life and energy that defines the Caribbean island nation.

00:19:32.000 Quote, Cuba desperately needs a change to its system so it will work better for its people.

00:19:37.000 But this does not mean they should embrace an American vision.

00:19:39.000 I hope Cuba can stand against this.

00:19:41.000 But it is difficult, as the U.S.

00:19:42.000 has a lot of money and possibilities, and Cuba has none.

00:19:46.000 So it's good for them to be poor.

00:19:47.000 It's good for them to live lives of misery.

00:19:49.000 Those cars over there, these supposed wonders of the past, there's a reason we don't drive them anymore. 1.00

00:19:54.000 They're crap. 1.00

00:19:55.000 The reason no one drives a Ford Etzel anymore is because it's garbage. 1.00

00:19:58.000 People have fun restoring these things. 0.77

00:20:00.000 They're not restored in Cuba.

00:20:00.000 It's all they have.

00:20:02.000 It's all they have because they've cut themselves off for two generations now, and now they're gonna enter three and four generations because of what President Obama just did.

00:20:09.000 So it's a disaster all the way around, and I'll tell you why President Obama did it in just a minute.

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00:21:14.000 Okay, so the question, back to President Obama in Cuba, is why he does this.

00:21:21.000 Why does he do this?

00:21:22.000 Why is he constantly surrendering to America's enemies?

00:21:24.000 And the answer, unfortunately, is pretty simple.

00:21:27.000 President Obama sides with America's enemies because President Obama believes that the United States is a pretty rotten place.

00:21:33.000 He believes that we're a country that has a history of racism, sexism, bigotry, homophobia, and imperialism.

00:21:39.000 And it's that last one that counts.

00:21:41.000 President Obama believes all the evils of the world are explained by the evils of the United States.

00:21:46.000 If it weren't for the evil capitalism of the United States, there wouldn't have been a Cuban uprising or a communist revolution.

00:21:52.000 And there's a certain romance that attaches to anyone who resists the capitalists.

00:21:58.000 The Bicycle Thief has become a very popular film among people of a younger age in the United States.

00:22:04.000 It's a movie about Che Guevara.

00:22:05.000 And you see all these kids wearing the Che Guevara t-shirts, as I mentioned earlier.

00:22:08.000 Why is that?

00:22:09.000 You're living in the United States, which is a living repudiation of everything Che Guevara stood for.

00:22:14.000 Why are you doing it?

00:22:14.000 Because it makes you feel a sense of moral superiority, unearned moral superiority.

00:22:19.000 By standing against the finest system in the history of the world,

00:22:22.000 You're showing that you don't stand with the power brokers.

00:22:25.000 You don't stand with the bad guys.

00:22:27.000 You don't stand with the people who force their way down everybody's throat.

00:22:30.000 Never mind that Cuba actually forces their way down the throats of their own citizens. 0.99

00:22:34.000 Never mind the fact that it's illegal to get information from the outside in Cuba.

00:22:39.000 Never mind all of that.

00:22:40.000 Obama, by going and continuing his now eight-year-long apology tour, he's surrendered America's moral credibility at the foot of some of the worst people on planet Earth, and he's happy about it, and the left is cheering him.

00:22:52.000 And the polls show that most Americans are fine with this.

00:22:54.000 And the polls just demonstrate, as I said last week and got a lot of flack for it, that the people can be wrong.

00:23:01.000 Polls show that the people very often in the United States are wrong.

00:23:04.000 This is just another example of that.

00:23:05.000 If you're a Cuban expatriate looking at this today, you have to be sick to your stomach.

00:23:10.000 And certainly if you're living in Cuba, you ought to be even more sick to your stomach. 1.00

00:23:12.000 This is the equivalent of President Obama going and hanging out with the folks in Iran while the protesters in Iran got rounded up and shot or thrown in jail.

00:23:20.000 It's really, it's really devastating.

00:23:22.000 And again, culmination of President Obama's foreign policy.

00:23:25.000 By the way, I'm not sure that Donald Trump would do anything particularly differently here.

00:23:29.000 I'm not sure that he would do anything differently.

00:23:31.000 Not because he likes free trade, he doesn't.

00:23:33.000 But because Donald Trump doesn't see things in terms of the moral.

00:23:37.000 He doesn't see- I mean, he said this with regard to Israel and the Palestinians.

00:23:41.000 I'm not sure what he would do.

00:23:42.000 Like, he says that he doesn't like what Obama's doing with Cuba.

00:23:44.000 I'm not sure were he in the same position that he would do anything wildly different.

00:23:48.000 He sees himself as a dealmaker, and any deal that he can cut is a good deal.

00:23:52.000 But this one's on President Obama, and yes, it's on his former Secretary of State and the rest of his administration.

00:23:57.000 So it really is...

00:23:59.000 It makes you sick to your stomach when you look at the president.

00:24:01.000 This is our president doing this and it does make it it makes you a little bit nauseous when the president of the United States is standing up there.

00:24:09.000 In front of a mural of Che Guevara to do propaganda for the hardcore communist left.

00:24:16.000 Okay, so, meanwhile, Donald Trump continues to rise to the nomination.

00:24:20.000 Big meeting in Washington, D.C.

00:24:21.000 today.

00:24:22.000 And at that meeting in Washington, D.C., a bunch of people show up, including Jim DeMint at the Heritage Foundation, several senators, a bunch of Congress people.

00:24:29.000 They all show up, some to kowtow, some to hear what Trump has to say.

00:24:33.000 Trump is still embroiled in this controversy over his protesters who continue to get into altercations with people.

00:24:41.000 His campaign manager got in another altercation with somebody.

00:24:45.000 So let's start with the fact that Donald Trump is not losing popularity because of this.

00:24:50.000 So Donald Trump had this to say.

00:24:51.000 He was asked over the weekend by George Stephanopoulos about his protesters getting violent with people and here's what Donald Trump had to say.

00:24:58.000 You appear to be much more upset by the protesters than by the violent response to those protesters.

00:25:04.000 I am very, uh, I wouldn't use the word upset.

00:25:08.000 I think it's very unfair that these really, in many cases, professional, in many cases, sick protesters can put cars on a road, blocking thousands of great Americans from coming to a speech, and nobody says anything about that.

00:25:25.000 But they'll say something about whatever.

00:25:27.000 I will tell you, George, it's very unfair.

00:25:30.000 Let me just tell you, it's very unfair.

00:25:33.000 Why don't you mention the fact that people were delayed for an hour to get into an arena

00:25:38.000 In the only road going there, that they were delayed for an hour because people were blocking the road.

00:25:44.000 And why don't you say in Tucson, where the people were blocking the main entrance into the arena?

00:25:50.000 We showed that blockade right at the top of the broadcast.

00:25:53.000 Okay, he says we showed it right at the top of the broadcast.

00:25:55.000 Right.

00:25:55.000 But then you downplay it and you ask Trump about it.

00:25:57.000 You've never asked Hillary or Bernie Sanders about their protesters blocking people off or getting violent in Chicago or any of the rest of it.

00:26:04.000 Trump is actually right here.

00:26:05.000 Here's the problem, right?

00:26:06.000 So Trump is correct. 0.80

00:26:08.000 And we'll explain why this is a problem in a second.

00:26:10.000 So one of the reasons Trump is popular is because all the people who could be calling him out and the people like me on the right who think that the left is awful.

00:26:16.000 So when we call him out, I think that has more credibility.

00:26:19.000 But George Stephanopoulos calling out Donald Trump

00:26:22.000 Excuse me, for violence at protests is insane.

00:26:24.000 That's totally nuts.

00:26:26.000 George Stephanopoulos has backed Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, both of whom have incentivized their own supporters to get violent across the country, whether it's Occupy Wall Street or Black Lives Matter.

00:26:36.000 And nothing has happened.

00:26:39.000 George Stephanopoulos has said nothing.

00:26:41.000 Ruth Marcus of the Washington Post, she made this point too.

00:26:43.000 She says, yeah, look, Democrats, if people have been blocking events, they would have been ticked.

00:26:47.000 If people blocked the road to an Obama event in 2008, what would the Democratic reaction have been to that?

00:26:53.000 The way they blocked the road to the Trump event.

00:26:55.000 I think you know the answer to your question, and I'm not, and I'd like to say that... Which is what?

00:27:00.000 Sorry, in case people at home don't.

00:27:04.000 People would, Democrats would have been outraged at the notion of people blocking access to Obama events.

00:27:11.000 And I think that actually there is a role for protest, but there also needs to be space, and we've talked about it before with respect to the Black Lives Matter movement and stopping Sanders from

00:27:22.000 There has to be space for Trump to relay his message as odious as it is, and there is appropriate space and time for protesters to disagree with that message without squelching it entirely.

00:27:35.000 Okay, so what she's saying there is exactly right, and Trump is exactly right, which is the media focus so much on what's going on at the Trump rallies and the Trump protests that they forget that the left has been doing this for literally decades.

00:27:46.000 I mean, I was reading back about the 1960s over the weekend.

00:27:50.000 Great book by Roger Kimball.

00:27:52.000 It's called The Long March that I'm in the middle of.

00:27:54.000 Really terrific book from about 10 years ago.

00:27:56.000 It's very, very good.

00:27:57.000 And he talks specifically about the fact that the free speech movement on campus was an attempt to shut down speech.

00:28:01.000 They were hijacking campus buildings.

00:28:03.000 They were trying to shut down trials of convicted criminals.

00:28:06.000 They were threatening violence against people.

00:28:07.000 They were committing violence against people.

00:28:09.000 And the left was fine with that.

00:28:10.000 The left has been fine with this forever.

00:28:12.000 I mean, there were campus issues in the 1930s in favor of the communist left.

00:28:16.000 So the left has always been fine with this.

00:28:19.000 And the fact the left is fine with it means that it's very disingenuous when they turn around and they say, oh, Trump, you know, you're the one who's violent.

00:28:25.000 So when George Stephanopoulos asks Donald Trump about discouraging supporters from rioting at the convention, he doesn't have any credibility to ask this question.

00:28:32.000 Here's that.

00:28:34.000 So, I say this, if you're going to disenfranchise all of those people, some of whom have never voted before and they're 50 years old and older, but if you're going to disenfranchise all of those people, independents, democrats, you know we have a lot of democrats coming over, we have a lot of independents coming over.

00:28:50.000 It's okay for them to riot?

00:28:52.000 We do have some people that have never voted before.

00:28:55.000 I don't know what, I didn't say, all I can say is this, I don't know what's going to happen, but I will say this,

00:29:01.000 You're going to have a lot of very unhappy people.

00:29:03.000 And I think, frankly, for the Republicans to disenfranchise all those people, because if that happens, they're not voting and the Republicans lose.

00:29:12.000 If the Republicans embrace these great people that are showing up,

00:29:17.000 The Republicans are going to have a massive victory.

00:29:19.000 It's not going to be a Mitt Romney slaughter because he was such a bad candidate.

00:29:24.000 The Republicans are going to have a massive victory in November.

00:29:28.000 Will you tell your supporters not to riot if you lose the convention fair and square?

00:29:34.000 Well, I would certainly tell them that.

00:29:35.000 But, you know, look, these people are fervent.

00:29:39.000 They want to see positive things happen for our country.

00:29:43.000 And I would certainly say that.

00:29:44.000 I don't want to see riots.

00:29:45.000 I don't want to see problems.

00:29:47.000 But, you know, you have millions of people we're talking about, George.

00:29:51.000 Okay, we can stop it there.

00:29:53.000 As we've said, every time somebody uses a sentence and then in the middle of the sentence they say but, what happens after the but is the part of the sentence that matters.

00:30:01.000 But again, Stephanopoulos has no credibility to call him out on this.

00:30:05.000 And you can tell this from the video of the actual protest.

00:30:07.000 So, for example, here's a video of a protester being punched and kicked by a Donald Trump supporter.

00:30:12.000 This is clip 13.

00:30:12.000 This is what it looked like at a Donald Trump rally recently.

00:30:29.000 Okay. 0.88

00:30:31.000 So right there, what we have is the protester, the supporter of Trump there, is actually a black guy.

00:30:36.000 He's an Air Force veteran. 0.96

00:30:37.000 And he goes after a protester, and clocks him in the face, and then kicks him.

00:30:42.000 And then he's arrested.

00:30:44.000 So, there are people on the right, including the Trump campaign, who are saying that this was, and this is where the double standard sets in.

00:30:51.000 Donald Trump is the result of the double standard.

00:30:53.000 That's what Donald Trump is.

00:30:54.000 Donald Trump is a bunch of people across the country basically saying, you've had it this way for a long time, and you've told us we can't do it this way, well we're gonna do it, we're gonna be everything that you say we are, because you are all of those things.

00:31:06.000 That's essentially the argument that they're making.

00:31:08.000 So in that video, what you don't see, what prefaces this, is that the protester was wearing a KKK outfit and doing a Heil Hitler salute.

00:31:15.000 Now, I still think you don't get to clock people for that.

00:31:18.000 I think that if the guy's disrupting the protest, you call security and you have the person removed.

00:31:22.000 I'm not in favor of shutting down protesters by punching them in the face, but there were people who were on the right who were saying, well, you have to see what came before that.

00:31:29.000 And if you're on the left,

00:31:31.000 If you're on the left, I don't know how you can deny that.

00:31:33.000 Let's say, for example, that this were a Democrat rally.

00:31:35.000 Let's say this were a Democrat rally.

00:31:37.000 And let's say, for example, that the guy who came in in the KKK outfit actually was a member of the KKK.

00:31:42.000 Let's say that he was an actual member of the KKK and he walked in in a KKK outfit to a Democratic rally.

00:31:48.000 Or to a Republican rally.

00:31:49.000 Right?

00:31:50.000 And he was an actual member.

00:31:50.000 He wasn't just doing it facetiously or as a joke.

00:31:52.000 He was an actual KKK member. 0.98

00:31:54.000 There are a lot of people in the United States who would say, that guy deserves to be punched in the face for wearing a KKK outfit, right?

00:32:00.000 Well, once you say that someone can be punched in the face for speech, it doesn't matter what the speech is, someone can get punched in the face for speech.

00:32:07.000 Because there's always somebody offended enough by speech to punch somebody else in the face.

00:32:11.000 So the left can't say certain people deserve to be punched in the face for their speech and certain people don't.

00:32:16.000 The same left complaining about Donald Trump and saying he's violent, they're the same people who took a poll over the weekend finding that more Americans than not would actually like to punch Donald Trump.

00:32:25.000 They're the ones asking that poll question.

00:32:27.000 You don't get to have it both ways.

00:32:29.000 The problem, of course, is that I thought that we, here on the right, were supposed to be advocates for civilization, right?

00:32:36.000 We were supposed to be advocates against the idea that you get punched based on speech, that if somebody's wearing a costume you don't like next to you, you don't have the right to punch them in the face, that this is a basic American principle.

00:32:47.000 So long as they're not violating the law, you don't have the ability to take the law into your own hands, no matter how offended you are.

00:32:53.000 I always thought that this was the basic notion.

00:32:55.000 And the problem is it's extended all the way up the Trump campaign.

00:32:58.000 So he's taking all of the space that's been created by the left.

00:33:01.000 That space to riot, it wasn't just created by the mayor of Baltimore for the Black Lives Matter movement, it was created for everyone.

00:33:08.000 Because when you say people can riot or they can engage in acts of violence based on whether they have the right political viewpoint, there are people eventually who are gonna say, well, we think we have the right political viewpoint, right?

00:33:17.000 We disagree with you, but you said violence is okay.

00:33:20.000 We have a political viewpoint.

00:33:21.000 Why can't we do violence?

00:33:22.000 So for example,

00:33:23.000 Corey Lewandowski, who is Trump's campaign manager.

00:33:26.000 We talked about this last week a lot.

00:33:28.000 Corey Lewandowski grabbed Michelle Fields by the arm hard enough to leave a bruise, right?

00:33:32.000 And a lot of people on the Trump train, they say, well, he didn't grab her that hard.

00:33:35.000 She's making a big deal out of this.

00:33:37.000 Here's the bottom line, folks.

00:33:38.000 If somebody did it to your wife, you'd be pissed, wouldn't you?

00:33:41.000 Yes, you would. 0.99

00:33:41.000 And if you're saying no, then you're a liar or you're a bad husband, right? 0.99

00:33:44.000 That's how that works.

00:33:46.000 Corey Lewandowski, at first the Trump campaign said he didn't do it.

00:33:49.000 Well, their credibility is basically shot here.

00:33:51.000 Here is Corey Lewandowski grabbing a protester.

00:33:54.000 You're gonna see Corey Lewandowski in this video.

00:33:56.000 Grab a protester by the back of the shirt and pull him, and you're simultaneously going to hear Donald Trump say that Corey Lewandowski did not actually touch the protester.

00:34:05.000 So first, here's the video of Corey Lewandowski, his campaign manager.

00:34:08.000 I don't know what he's doing in the crowd in the first place.

00:34:10.000 You know, when we went to Cal State LA, we went with a bunch of staff people.

00:34:15.000 None of them wandered into the crowd to assault the protesters.

00:34:18.000 Here's Corey Lewandowski in the crowd, and you're gonna hear Trump talk about it as the video plays, and you're gonna hear him deny what you're watching, like, directly in front of you.

00:34:26.000 We also have seen that video there of your campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, who does appear in that video to grab the collar of the protester, also your private security.

00:34:35.000 Why is your campaign manager out in the crowd engaging protesters?

00:34:38.000 This is the second incident in about a month.

00:34:39.000 Well, you know what, because the security at the arena, the police were a little bit lax.

00:34:44.000 And he had signs, they had signs up in that area that were horrendous, that I cannot say what they said on the sign, but the ultimate word, and it was all over the camera, and frankly, the television cameras can't take it, and they can't do anything about it, and I will give him credit, spirit.

00:35:01.000 Now, he didn't touch, he wasn't... Well, the video does show that he touched him.

00:35:05.000 Your private security pulled him, but it does show he grabbed the top.

00:35:09.000 I give him credit for having spirit.

00:35:10.000 He wanted them to take down those horrible, profanity-laced signs.

00:35:15.000 I give him credit for having spirit.

00:35:16.000 No, he didn't touch him.

00:35:17.000 Yes, he did.

00:35:18.000 So this is the second person Corey Lewandowski has grabbed inappropriately and Donald Trump has denied and then gotten away with.

00:35:24.000 And the reason he gets away with it is because the person asking him the questions.

00:35:27.000 Is George Stephanopoulos, right?

00:35:29.000 Who's gone along with leftist violence for literally decades.

00:35:33.000 Okay, so that's one reason why Trump has been creative and has space.

00:35:35.000 Another reason why Trump has been creative and created and has space is because of people like David Brooks.

00:35:41.000 So we've talked about David Brooks a lot on the program before.

00:35:43.000 He's the fake conservative columnist for the New York Times.

00:35:46.000 Here is David Brooks.

00:35:47.000 He's on ABC News.

00:35:48.000 I think he's on their panel, their roundtable.

00:35:50.000 And he was asked about Merrick Garland, who's the new Obama nominee, I guess on PBS.

00:35:56.000 He's the new Obama nominee.

00:35:58.000 Here is David Brooks, the conservative, the supposed conservative on this panel, saying what Republicans should do with Merrick Garland.

00:36:04.000 Frankly, I think it's an excellent choice.

00:36:05.000 I mean, he's a guy with apparently an amazing temperament.

00:36:09.000 He is the model of judicial restraint.

00:36:11.000 He seems to be a man of both amazing integrity and capacity to be emotionally moved.

00:36:16.000 And so everything I hear about him is superlative.

00:36:19.000 And if I'm a Republican, frankly, running the Senate, I'm thinking this is the best I'm going to get.

00:36:23.000 And if Donald Trump is down 15 points in the summer or fall, I'd confirm this guy.

00:36:28.000 Because Hillary Clinton, if she gets elected, who knows what the Senate will look like. 1.00

00:36:31.000 It'll be, from a Republican point of view, a lot worse.

00:36:34.000 So I think Republicans should say, okay, we'll take this guy.

00:36:38.000 Okay, so go along, get along.

00:36:39.000 He's from their point of view, he's a model of restraint.

00:36:41.000 He's a model of restraint.

00:36:41.000 He doesn't just say that they should go along because it's the best they're going to do.

00:36:44.000 He says he's a model of restraint.

00:36:45.000 He's a model.

00:36:46.000 He's a great jurist.

00:36:47.000 He's going to be awesome.

00:36:49.000 Okay, Merrick Garland is not gonna be awesome.

00:36:50.000 Merrick Garland is a far-left jurist, just like all the other people Obama has nominated.

00:36:55.000 Nothing has changed here.

00:36:56.000 But David Brooks is the conservative, right?

00:36:58.000 And so if you're watching this as a conservative, your immediate response is just a giant middle finger.

00:37:03.000 And then this guy turns around and here's what he has to say about Donald Trump, right?

00:37:06.000 Same broadcast.

00:37:08.000 Here we go.

00:37:08.000 Republicans, including myself, who find him morally repulsive.

00:37:12.000 And he's just not... There are some things more important than winning an election.

00:37:15.000 And supporting a guy who tears at the social fabric, who insults the office of the president by being completely unprepared for it, who plays on bigotry and fear, who is the sort of demagogue our founders feared would upset the American experiment in self-government, well, that kind of guy you just can't support even if it means a defeat.

00:37:32.000 And I think a lot of Republicans feel that way, which is why you get those 40% numbers of defectors.

00:37:36.000 Okay, so what he's saying here is actually right.

00:37:38.000 I also find Trump morally reprehensible.

00:37:41.000 I think that he is everything that is wrong with reactionary politics.

00:37:45.000 But, because David Brooks is the guy who goes along to get along, because David Brooks is the guy who thinks the left is okay,

00:37:51.000 People respond with, I'm going to disregard your entire opinion.

00:37:54.000 So the problem is David Brooks and the media created Donald Trump because Donald Trump is just a backlash.

00:37:59.000 He's just a giant backlash.

00:38:00.000 That's all he is.

00:38:02.000 People look at Brooks and they say, we want someone tough who's going to stand up.

00:38:05.000 Even if he's lying to us, he says he's going to stand up.

00:38:08.000 And so he'll stand up.

00:38:09.000 People look at the media, the same media that defended leftist violence for literally decades, and they say, you're going to tell us that we can't do this now?

00:38:16.000 We're excited.

00:38:17.000 You always said that you were passionate.

00:38:18.000 Well, we're passionate and excited too.

00:38:21.000 And if you will, if you try and chide us, we'll stick it.

00:38:23.000 We'll stick it.

00:38:24.000 Because, hey, you know, we have to, a phrase I like to use, punch back twice as hard.

00:38:29.000 The problem is that the way that they're punching back is by nominating a guy who is not conservative, who's not going to defend the principles.

00:38:36.000 All he is is a reaction.

00:38:38.000 And the reason he feels like a reaction is because of how he talks, because he doesn't talk like a politician, because he talks at third grade level, because he has the worst grammar of any political candidate.

00:38:47.000 He speaks like a guy at the bar.

00:38:49.000 And so you think he's a guy at the bar.

00:38:50.000 He's not a guy at the bar.

00:38:52.000 He's just a guy who's on the left, and who's never spent any time in a bar, by the way.

00:38:56.000 He doesn't drink.

00:38:57.000 Which...

00:38:58.000 is amazing, considering his behavior.

00:39:00.000 But Donald Trump, because of all the people who rip him, that is what has created Trump.

00:39:05.000 That's what has created him. 1.00

00:39:06.000 And it's really pathetic. 0.99

00:39:08.000 Now, a note to the Trump supporters. 0.97

00:39:09.000 You know, that's me sort of in defense of you, saying, you know, I understand why Trump has come up here.

00:39:14.000 I understand what you're doing.

00:39:15.000 I feel the same feelings that you do.

00:39:17.000 I just think Trump is a terrible vehicle for it.

00:39:19.000 If you want to react, react in strategic fashion with somebody who actually believes the thing you believe, not just somebody who yells a lot.

00:39:28.000 But, you know, there are people out there who say, well, Trump is the most likely to win.

00:39:32.000 I've made this case myself on the program.

00:39:34.000 I've said that Trump, for months I've said, Trump may be the most selectable Republican in the field because he is drawing in these kind of white, these blue collar white voters in the Rust Belt.

00:39:44.000 Well, I'm starting to fade on that one, too.

00:39:47.000 Here is Donald Trump over the weekend on Mitt Romney, for example, right?

00:39:51.000 He's campaigning in Utah.

00:39:52.000 Here's what he had to say.

00:39:54.000 Everybody's so amazing.

00:39:55.000 And do I love the Mormons, okay? 0.94

00:39:58.000 Do I love the Mormons? 0.97

00:40:07.000 I have many friends that live in Salt Lake.

00:40:09.000 I have a lot of friends.

00:40:11.000 No, I have a lot of friends.

00:40:13.000 By the way, Mitt Romney is not one of them.

00:40:15.000 Did he choke?

00:40:17.000 Did this guy choke?

00:40:20.000 He's a choke artist.

00:40:21.000 I can't believe.

00:40:22.000 Are you sure he's a Mormon?

00:40:24.000 Are we sure?

00:40:25.000 He choked!

00:40:26.000 He choked!

00:40:28.000 Okay, so he- He should have beaten Obama!

00:40:30.000 Okay, we can stop.

00:40:32.000 This, this is how, because he's a big middle finger, he's just a big human middle finger, but when he says things like, Mitt Romney's not even a Mormon, there's a poll out over the weekend, it shows that Donald Trump might lose to Hillary Clinton in Utah.

00:40:45.000 In Utah.

00:40:46.000 Utah's the most Republican state in America.

00:40:48.000 He could lose Utah to Hillary Clinton. 0.92

00:40:51.000 So all the talk about Trump is gonna win, he's gonna, he's the only one who could win, he's winning, winning.

00:40:55.000 Not quite so fast.

00:40:56.000 Not so fast.

00:40:57.000 And what's sad is that the Republican Party is going along with the ride.

00:41:00.000 Reince Priebus, the RNC chair, he said this over the weekend.

00:41:03.000 He said it's too late to stop the Trump movement.

00:41:05.000 The Stop Trump movement is over.

00:41:06.000 We can't stop him anymore, basically.

00:41:08.000 What do you say to that Stop Trump movement talked about in the New York Times this morning?

00:41:12.000 The possibility of recruiting a third-party candidate like Senator Tom Coburn or maybe even Governor Rick Perry of Texas.

00:41:18.000 Will that doom your chances, as Mr. Trump says?

00:41:22.000 Well, sure it would.

00:41:24.000 Of course it would.

00:41:26.000 But I also think it's far too late.

00:41:29.000 I think this is a... Some folks find it to be interesting and that's great, but it isn't likely and it's probably too late.

00:41:40.000 And there is no definitive answer right now as to who the nominee is going to be of our show.

00:41:47.000 I think all of it's far too early, George.

00:41:49.000 And Sean Spicer, who's the spokesman for the RNC, says if Trump is the nominee, we'll get behind him 100%.

00:41:55.000 Apparently throwing themselves headlong into a battle that will end not only in loss, but in the discarding of conservatism in favor of this sort of reactionary anger.

00:42:05.000 Honestly, I'm so much in favor of the anger itself, but it has to be channeled.

00:42:09.000 It's just a waste of time unless it's channeled.

00:42:11.000 It's just my two-year-old yelling unless it's channeled, and so far it has not been channeled.

00:42:16.000 And so what you get is the equivalent of a two-year-old yelling on the national stage just because

00:42:22.000 Because they don't get a cookie.

00:42:23.000 And I understand.

00:42:25.000 Everyone should get a cookie here. 0.84

00:42:26.000 I get it.

00:42:27.000 But you're not going to get the cookie, by the way.

00:42:29.000 Yelling is not going to make the cookie happen.

00:42:31.000 It's just yelling.

00:42:32.000 Okay, time for a thing I like and then something that I hate.

00:42:35.000 Okay, so here's a thing I like.

00:42:37.000 One of my favorite movies.

00:42:38.000 I haven't rewatched it recently, so I was watching clips of it, and it is a truly terrific movie.

00:42:42.000 The movie's a man for all seasons.

00:42:44.000 It did win Best Picture when it was up for it in the 70s, I believe.

00:42:48.000 It's based on a play by Robert Bolt.

00:42:50.000 The cast is Paul Schofield, who won Best Actor, and Robert Shaw, who wasn't nominated but should have been for Best Supporting Actor, as Henry VIII.

00:42:57.000 And it's about Sir Thomas More, and it's about Sir Thomas More standing up against King Henry VIII and saying that he would not go along, he's his Chancellor, and he said, I won't go along with the idea that you are the head of the Church of England, the Pope is still the head of the Church, and you don't get to just make up your own rules because you want a divorce really, really badly.

00:43:14.000 From Catherine of Aragon.

00:43:15.000 So here is, this is a key scene, and it's a scene that should, I think, resonate with conservatives today.

00:43:21.000 It's a very important scene.

00:43:23.000 One of my favorite speeches in all of film.

00:43:26.000 Here's Paul Schofield in A Man for All Seasons.

00:43:30.000 Arrest him!

00:43:31.000 For what?

00:43:32.000 He's dangerous!

00:43:33.000 A libel!

00:43:33.000 He's a spy!

00:43:34.000 Father, that man's bad!

00:43:35.000 There's no law against that!

00:43:36.000 There is God's law!

00:43:37.000 Then God can arrest him!

00:43:38.000 While you talk, he's gone!

00:43:39.000 And go he should, if he were the devil himself, until he broke the law!

00:43:43.000 So, now you'd give the devil benefit of law?

00:43:45.000 Yes, what would you do?

00:43:47.000 Cut a great road through the law to get after the devil?

00:43:49.000 Yes!

00:43:50.000 I'd cut down every law in England to do that!

00:43:52.000 Oh?

00:43:53.000 And when the last law was down and the devil turned round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat?

00:43:59.000 This country is planted thick with laws from coast to coast.

00:44:02.000 Man's laws, not God's. 0.97

00:44:03.000 And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then?

00:44:12.000 Yes.

00:44:13.000 I give the devil benefit of law for my own safety's sake.

00:44:17.000 Okay, so what he's arguing against is ultimate power.

00:44:20.000 What he's arguing there is complex language, but he's arguing against his ultimate power.

00:44:23.000 So what happened there is a guy comes in who's an emissary from Henry VIII, who's an enemy of Sir Thomas More, and he's gonna go back to Henry VIII and report that Sir Thomas More is siding against him in this battle over the church.

00:44:35.000 And they say to him, you need to arrest that guy.

00:44:37.000 You don't grab that guy before he goes and reports on you.

00:44:40.000 And Sir Thomas More says, but I can't do that because he hasn't broken any law.

00:44:44.000 And they're saying to him, it doesn't matter if he's broken any law.

00:44:46.000 He's violating God's law.

00:44:48.000 He's violating religious law.

00:44:50.000 And you should go grab him right now.

00:44:51.000 And you should do something to make him stop.

00:44:53.000 And Sir Thomas More says, in Paul Schofield here, he says, here's the deal.

00:44:59.000 Law is more important than your opinion of law.

00:45:03.000 Meaning that if the law does not protect people, simply because whenever something bad happens, we get to break the law and just violate it in favor of justice, what you end up with is arbitrary tyranny.

00:45:14.000 What you end up with is the devil completely in charge.

00:45:16.000 Because what the law is designed to do is protect us from arbitrary rule.

00:45:20.000 That's what the law is designed to do.

00:45:21.000 John Adams said that we need a government of laws, not of men.

00:45:25.000 What he meant by that is that the law itself is supposed to protect against bad men.

00:45:29.000 That's what it's designed to do.

00:45:30.000 The Constitution was meant to protect us against tyrants like President Obama and aspiring tyrants like Donald Trump.

00:45:36.000 That's what the Constitution was meant to do.

00:45:38.000 And when you say we're gonna put all the rules aside, the rules of civilization and the rules of nonviolence and the rules of

00:45:46.000 Decency and the rules of the Constitution, we're gonna put it all aside because we have to pursue, we have to pursue what's right, we have to go after what's right, we have to fight the devil, so we're gonna knock down all the laws.

00:45:56.000 When you do that, the law is worth nothing.

00:45:59.000 And once that happens, it's just a question of who wields the sword.

00:46:02.000 Once we've gotten rid of the book, and all that's left, once the law book is burned, and all that's left is the sword, the only question is, who holds the sword?

00:46:10.000 Today it could be you, but tomorrow it's gonna be somebody else.

00:46:14.000 The Democrats have created this situation, but Republicans ought not participate in it.

00:46:17.000 Conservatives ought not participate in it.

00:46:20.000 That's the case that he's essentially making there.

00:46:21.000 He's saying, if we have to sacrifice our own interests because the rule of law must be preserved, then we have to sacrifice our own interests because rule of law must be preserved.

00:46:31.000 I feel this way about conservatism.

00:46:33.000 If the philosophy of conservatism can only be, quote-unquote, upheld by destroying the philosophy of conservatism, it's not worth the paper it's written on.

00:46:40.000 It's not worth anything.

00:46:42.000 Conservatism must stand after this election.

00:46:44.000 And that means you cannot discard the principles of conservatism in pursuit of it.

00:46:49.000 And I don't just mean politicking.

00:46:50.000 I mean electing a man who is not conservative in any way to be the emissary of conservatism, perverting it beyond all recognition, and driving a conservative base of support into the hands of a national populist, a nationalist populist.

00:47:02.000 Okay, so that's the thing.

00:47:03.000 I like A Man for All Seasons.

00:47:04.000 Really terrific movie.

00:47:06.000 If you have patience for kind of...

00:47:08.000 British drama, it's great.

00:47:10.000 It really is a very good movie.

00:47:12.000 Okay, things that I hate.

00:47:13.000 So, Mark Hamill's been sounding off again.

00:47:16.000 Mark Hamill is, of course, Luke Skywalker.

00:47:18.000 And he tweeted this today.

00:47:21.000 Every town is an anti-gun group.

00:47:23.000 And they wrote, thanks, Hamill himself, for speaking out.

00:47:25.000 That's his handle on Twitter, at Hamill himself.

00:47:28.000 And Mark Hamill writes, don't get me wrong.

00:47:30.000 As a strong supporter of the Second Amendment, he spells it with two M's, I believe in every American's right to own a musket.

00:47:37.000 Believes in every American's right to own a musket, right?

00:47:41.000 First of all, I can't spell.

00:47:41.000 But second of all, this is something the left constantly says about the Second Amendment.

00:47:47.000 When it was written, it only meant to apply to muskets.

00:47:50.000 It didn't mean to apply to the kinds of weapons that we have today.

00:47:54.000 Sheer nonsense, not true in any way.

00:47:56.000 The best reply I saw was from, I think it was David Ferdowso over at The Federalist, who replied, or Washington Examiner, who wrote back something like,

00:48:12.000 Right?

00:48:12.000 Because that's what they used for when it said freedom of the press.

00:48:14.000 That's what they meant.

00:48:15.000 It was an actual printing press.

00:48:16.000 Didn't mean a printer.

00:48:17.000 Didn't mean a computer.

00:48:18.000 They didn't have those then, presumably. 1.00

00:48:20.000 And this is the stupidity of the left's argument. 0.98

00:48:22.000 Besides which, Luke Skywalker, if anybody else, should know that a man who has been disarmed has also been dishanded. 0.99

00:48:29.000 So, you know, no blaster control if you're Luke Skywalker.

00:48:33.000 But this is celebrities mouthing off about things they don't know anything about.

00:48:36.000 Speaking of celebrities mouthing off, by the way, there was a big event today with Chelsea Clinton and Lena Dunham, who is famous mostly for getting nude and being ugly.

00:48:44.000 If she were nude and pretty, then nobody would know her name, because that's everybody in Hollywood. 1.00

00:48:48.000 But she's nude and ugly, so everybody knows her name. 1.00

00:48:50.000 She was campaigning alongside Chelsea Clinton, who's known for having a famous last name, as well as America Ferreira, who's in Ugly Betty, and I guess she's in other things now, but nobody knows why or what.

00:49:02.000 But they all campaigned today.

00:49:03.000 The celebrities of the left, it's funny, the celebrities of the right get laughed at, but the celebrities of the left are far more laughable than the celebrities of the right.

00:49:10.000 Mark Hamill just being the latest example.

00:49:13.000 Okay, folks, so we will be back tomorrow.

00:49:15.000 We'll see how much further President Obama can plunge the nation into doom and disaster as he goes on his world apology tour.

00:49:22.000 And as always, if you have mail for us, we will go through it on the mailbag.

00:49:25.000 It's bshapiro at dailywire.com if you want to join the mailbag.

00:49:29.000 There's plenty more coming this week.

00:49:31.000 It's gonna be a very busy week and we look forward to spending it with you.

00:49:33.000 You have a good night.

00:49:34.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:49:35.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

The Ben Shapiro Show - March 21, 2016

Ep. 92 - Hillary Is Anti-Israel, Obama Is Pro-Cuba, Is Anybody Pro-America?

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