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Ep. 95 - Obama Tangoes While The West Burns


Summary

In honor of President Obama, we will be tangoing our way through politics, just as he tangoes his way through life. President Obama is constantly dancing the tango with the world s worst dictators, like Iran, Russia, China, and the Palestinians. He has a connection to them. The connection is pure magic. And it s just too bad that Obama s connection is with them with a flick of their wrists. Ah, the dance of love. The tango of love between a president and a woman he is in love with, while the rest of the world burns in the streets of Brussels, Belgium, is a perfect example of why Obama is a narcissist. He doesn t care about what he looks like when he does things. All he cares about is how he looks when he's doing things, and what he does it in public. He understands the power of optics. He understands what it means to go to baseball with dictators, and he understands the threat of radical Islam. But he seems to be perturbed when people try to deal with radical Islam when he s asked a question about it yesterday, when people ask him about his priorities. You want to know where he's getting it wrong? Then you need to take the Constitution 101 course at Hillsdale College, which is a great, great college with free, no age restrictions course called Constitution 101, which you can download for free on the internet, and learn how to defend the Constitution. Go to Hillsdale.edu/constitution and learn more about the Constitution and the Constitution, and why you should be holding your politicians accountable. If you want to hold them accountable, then you should take Constitution 101. Ben Shapiro's Constitution 101! the course is a must-listen to understand where they got it wrong, and where they are getting things wrong. Ben Shapiro is a disgrace, not just wrong, but where they're getting it right, and how they should be held accountable, not only in this episode of The Ben Shapiro Show. In honor of our president, here's a clip from a tango that will make you feel better about where he is getting it all right, not wrong, right, but in real life, and not just in the news and in real time. . Ben's tango: What are your priorities? The President of the United States of the USA? - Ben Shapiro, The Dance of Love?


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Well, we have reached a Thursday, and we welcome you to a very sensual, beautiful, elegant, complex episode of The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:00:06.000 Today, in honor of our president, we will be tangoing our way through politics, just as he tangoes his way through life.
00:00:13.000 Yeah, seriously, he tangoes his way through life.
00:00:17.000 Like, look at this.
00:00:28.000 This is real.
00:00:31.000 That's the President of the United States.
00:00:35.000 Doing stuff like that.
00:00:48.000 He almost tosses around a rump there.
00:00:50.000 Okay, so.
00:00:51.000 Some people could believe.
00:00:53.000 You could watch this and you might believe that President Obama isn't taking the problem of terrorism particularly seriously given that he's dancing the dance of love with a random lady in Argentina while Brussels burns.
00:01:04.000 But here's the thing.
00:01:05.000 You're not seeing the deeper picture.
00:01:06.000 You're not.
00:01:07.000 Alejandro Guy is a tango teacher.
00:01:09.000 He wrote his psychology grad thesis on the intricacy of the tango, and here's what he said.
00:01:13.000 He said,
00:01:28.000 Usually 10 minutes into the class.
00:01:29.000 You can tell more about a person's character or the relationship within a couple than you could after talking.
00:01:34.000 So, what does President Obama's tango tell us?
00:01:38.000 Well, it tells us that he leads from behind.
00:01:39.000 I mean, clearly, she's not waiting for him to lead that dance.
00:01:43.000 It tells us that he is wildly confused and heads in many different directions all at once before he's directed in vaguely a direction by a professional.
00:01:51.000 It shows he's a passionate virile man.
00:01:54.000 No, it actually doesn't really show that part.
00:01:56.000 But it shows that he's connected to people, and that's the essence of the tango.
00:02:00.000 Tango artist Sasha Kagan says, quote, And it's just too bad that Obama's constantly dancing the tango with the world's worst dictators, like with Iran and Russia and China and the Palestinians.
00:02:16.000 He has a connection to them.
00:02:17.000 The connection is pure magic.
00:02:19.000 Just stick a rose in his mouth and let the dictators summon him with a flick of their wrists.
00:02:25.000 Ah, the dance of love.
00:02:28.000 I'm Ben Shapiro, this is The Ben Shapiro Show.
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00:03:19.000 Okay, so President Obama was in Argentina yesterday dancing the dance of love.
00:03:24.000 And between dancing the dance of love and dancing the other dance of love with Raul Castro, presumably, he did a press conference.
00:03:32.000 And at this press conference, I made a mistake yesterday and today on yesterday's show, I want to correct, I said that there's a socialist regime in Argentina.
00:03:38.000 That's not true.
00:03:39.000 The socialist regime in Argentina was ousted.
00:03:41.000 That was Kirchner.
00:03:41.000 She was ousted last year.
00:03:43.000 The new guys actually sent her right.
00:03:44.000 In any case, President Obama was there and he was speaking about the terror attacks in Brussels.
00:03:51.000 He is such a disgrace.
00:03:52.000 And it's not just a disgrace because optics matter.
00:03:54.000 And let's face facts here.
00:03:56.000 President Obama, better than any president in the history of the country, understands optics.
00:04:01.000 It's all he cares about.
00:04:02.000 All he cares about is how he looks.
00:04:04.000 All he cares about is what
00:04:06.000 He looks like when he's doing things and how the events that he's participating in look to the rest of the world.
00:04:11.000 He's an egotist, he's a narcissist, but he's somebody who understands the power of imagery.
00:04:15.000 So he totally understands what it means to go to baseball games with dictators while the world burns, or to dance with Argentinian women while the rest of the world tries to deal with the threat of radical Islam.
00:04:27.000 He understands all of that.
00:04:29.000 But he seems kind of perturbed when people question him about it.
00:04:33.000 So he's asked about this yesterday.
00:04:34.000 He was asked, you know, what are your priorities?
00:04:36.000 And he said, it's important to recognize this is my number one priority.
00:04:39.000 Russell's is.
00:04:40.000 He said, I've got a lot of things on my plate, including that lady, presumably.
00:04:43.000 But here's he continued along those lines.
00:04:45.000 Here's what he had to say.
00:04:48.000 My charge to my team is to find every strategy possible to successfully
00:04:56.000 Reduce the risk of such terrorist attacks, even as we go after their beating heart in places like Iraq and Syria.
00:05:06.000 And as our strategy evolves, and we see additional opportunities, we will go after it.
00:05:15.000 But what we don't do, and what we should not do, is take approaches that are going to be counterproductive.
00:05:24.000 So when I hear somebody saying we should carpet bomb Iraq or Syria, not only is that inhumane, not only is that contrary to our values, but that would likely be an extraordinary mechanism for ISIL to recruit more people willing to die and explode bombs
00:05:47.000 In an airport.
00:05:48.000 Or in a metro station.
00:05:50.000 That's not a smart strategy.
00:06:17.000 And his withdrawal from Iraq created the power of ISIS turned ISIS from the JV squad as he likes to call them several years back into a world-threatening power in terms of terrorism.
00:06:30.000 But we shouldn't really be surprised by this.
00:06:31.000 This is who Obama always was.
00:06:32.000 This is what drives me nuts about the people who take politicians at their word.
00:06:36.000 Obama pretends to be strong, but here's what he wrote in dreams for my father, which is a book that came out in the 90s.
00:06:41.000 I wrote this in his new introduction written when I was in law school.
00:06:44.000 So it's been back in like 2001 to that.
00:06:46.000 Well, let's say it came out and this came out in like 2000.
00:06:51.000 And then I read it, I remember, in about 2006.
00:06:58.000 He writes, quote, In other words, if you're mean to the bad guys, you create more bad guys.
00:07:08.000 Right?
00:07:08.000 We just have to be nice to them.
00:07:09.000 We have to be nicer to them.
00:07:10.000 And then he continues along these lines, that we just have to be nicer to them.
00:07:14.000 He says, you know, the reason we haven't had terrorist attacks in the United States
00:07:18.000 Other than San Bernardino and Boston and Chattanooga, Tennessee and Fort Hood.
00:07:22.000 Other than New York City.
00:07:24.000 Other than Washington, D.C.
00:07:26.000 You know, aside from all those ones.
00:07:27.000 Aside from all those terrorists.
00:07:29.000 The reason we haven't had more terrorist attacks in the United States is that we're nice to our Muslims.
00:07:33.000 Here's President Obama on that.
00:07:36.000 One of the great strengths of the United States and part of the reason why we have not seen more attacks in the United States is we have a
00:07:46.000 Extraordinarily successful, patriotic, integrated Muslim-American community.
00:07:55.000 They do not feel ghettoized.
00:07:57.000 They do not feel isolated.
00:07:59.000 Okay, so, in other words, it's Brussels' fault that Brussels was attacked.
00:08:03.000 Because if they had made their Muslims feel better, if they'd just been nicer to them and patted them on the head every so often, then everything would have been okay.
00:08:09.000 We talked about this a little bit yesterday.
00:08:10.000 The President of the United States seems to be under the misimpression
00:08:13.000 That opening your borders, giving people welfare, and allowing them not to integrate into your society or assimilate, that's not good enough.
00:08:20.000 You have to do something more.
00:08:21.000 He never explains what that something more is, by the way.
00:08:23.000 What exactly is Brussels supposed to do, aside from turning one quarter of their capital over to Muslims?
00:08:29.000 Okay, 26% of the Brussels population is Muslim.
00:08:33.000 And this is true for major capitals around Europe.
00:08:35.000 Increasingly, increasingly Muslim.
00:08:36.000 Paris is 10-15% Muslim at this point.
00:08:39.000 It's increasing dramatically in Berlin.
00:08:42.000 There are certain cities in France where it's even higher than that.
00:08:45.000 Rotterdam is significantly Muslim.
00:08:47.000 If you look at the major cities in Europe, and I'm actually looking it up right now, if you take a look at what it looks like, it's pretty astonishing.
00:08:59.000 So I'm looking right now at a list of cities in the European Union by Muslim population.
00:09:03.000 Amsterdam is 24% Muslim.
00:09:05.000 Antwerp in Belgium is 17% Muslim.
00:09:08.000 Barcelona in Spain is approximately 18% Muslim.
00:09:11.000 It's from Wikipedia, so take it with a mild grain of salt, but it's probably right.
00:09:14.000 Blackburn in the UK is 29% Muslim.
00:09:16.000 Cologne in Germany is 12% Muslim.
00:09:17.000 Brussels is 26% Muslim.
00:09:22.000 London is anywhere up to 13% Muslim.
00:09:25.000 Malmo in Sweden is 20% Muslim.
00:09:28.000 Marseille in France is 25% Muslim.
00:09:30.000 Milan in Italy is nearly 10% Muslim.
00:09:33.000 Paris is 10 to 15% Muslim, as I mentioned.
00:09:35.000 Rotterdam is 25%.
00:09:36.000 So all of the major cities of Europe now have a very significant population of Muslims.
00:09:42.000 If those percentages don't mean anything to you, think about the fact that about 10% of the American population is black.
00:09:48.000 Okay, so imagine, and this is not to compare blacks to Muslims in terms of the terrorist threat, obviously.
00:09:54.000 I'm just taking, for example, if you're wondering how visible Muslims are in some of these cities, think about black folks in your city, and that's probably how visible Muslims are.
00:10:03.000 And it's not a problem of visibility, it's a problem of, and it's not even a problem of how many Muslims there are, except that
00:10:09.000 You have to assume a statistical parity.
00:10:11.000 So, assume, for example, that there's a steady percentage of any population of Muslims who are going to be terrorists associated with terrorists, or at least kind of terrorists.
00:10:20.000 And it's higher than any other religion.
00:10:22.000 By far.
00:10:22.000 Not close.
00:10:23.000 Let's assume
00:10:24.000 That on the low end, and I really think this is low end, let's assume it's 20%.
00:10:28.000 20%.
00:10:29.000 And it varies by country and it varies by where the Muslims are coming from.
00:10:33.000 Let's just assume for purposes of clarity, 20%.
00:10:36.000 So, that means that if you let in 20,000 Muslims, then approximately 4,000 Muslims are going to be worth surveilling.
00:10:45.000 It means that if you let in 200,000 Muslims, then you're talking about 40,000 Muslims who are worth surveilling.
00:10:50.000 The percentage does not change, really.
00:10:53.000 It's just that, if anything, it may grow larger as the Muslim population grows because the more radicalized Muslims have a broader ground from which to recruit.
00:11:01.000 So the idea that being nice is what's going to solve this problem is simply not true.
00:11:05.000 What's going to solve this problem is precisely what the left does not want to do.
00:11:09.000 But President Obama continues along these lines, blaming the West for all the problems.
00:11:13.000 That's what he does.
00:11:14.000 He then goes after Senator Cruz.
00:11:16.000 Senator Cruz said over the last few days, he said that we need to have better policing in Muslim areas.
00:11:23.000 What he meant by that is, if that's where the terrorism is, that's where he put the resources.
00:11:27.000 Duh.
00:11:28.000 I mean, this is not hard.
00:11:30.000 France does this.
00:11:32.000 New York was doing this for a long time.
00:11:33.000 Israel has done this forever.
00:11:35.000 You actually have to expend your resources.
00:11:37.000 Law enforcement is a scarce resource.
00:11:39.000 You can't check everybody equally, nor should you.
00:11:42.000 It's silly.
00:11:43.000 I love that the left wants us to frontally lobotomize ourselves and participate in this process where we just reject the risk assessment that we know we engage in every single day for virtually everything.
00:11:55.000 We're constantly assessing risk.
00:11:56.000 That's what it means to be a human being.
00:11:58.000 You're assessing risk and making decisions based on that assessment.
00:12:01.000 The left wants us to carve that part out of our brain and pretend that it doesn't exist.
00:12:05.000 So President Obama is your lobotomist.
00:12:07.000 He is your presidential lobotomist.
00:12:09.000 And here he is saying exactly that.
00:12:11.000 We have to frontally lobotomize ourselves to the risk of increased Muslim population, including radical Muslims.
00:12:20.000 As far as the notion of having surveillance of neighborhoods where Muslims are present, I just left a country that
00:12:30.000 We're good to go.
00:12:51.000 It's contrary to who we are.
00:12:53.000 First of all, when he was in Cuba, he had nothing to say about any of that, right?
00:12:56.000 He was in Cuba, talking to the Castros, nothing to say.
00:12:59.000 As we mentioned yesterday, when he posed in front of that statue of Che Guevara, that mural of Che Guevara, behind that statue you could see the Cuban Ministry of the Interior, where they dragged the dissidents to torture them and imprison them.
00:13:10.000 He had nothing to say about any of that while he was in Cuba.
00:13:12.000 Now he's outside Cuba, so he can say that Senator Cruz is basically a Cuban communist.
00:13:17.000 You know, like the one he was embracing just a few minutes ago.
00:13:20.000 All of this is asinine, okay?
00:13:22.000 The reality is that racial profiling, religious profiling, profiling is, all that means is that you are taking into account additional factors when you look at risk.
00:13:31.000 So, there's a different, racial profiling basically is just description of the suspect extended across a class.
00:13:38.000 That's all that's happening, right?
00:13:39.000 So, if somebody calls the cops and they say, a black guy just robbed my liquor store, the cops are not gonna go out and round up every white person.
00:13:45.000 It's a waste of time.
00:13:46.000 And if the cops, it's in a poor neighborhood, they're gonna canvas specifically in that neighborhood for the black guys of a particular age who match that description.
00:13:54.000 Okay, terrorism only comes from heavily Muslim communities.
00:13:58.000 That's the only place where you're getting Islamic terror.
00:14:00.000 It's the only place, right?
00:14:01.000 It's not coming from nowhere.
00:14:03.000 It's coming from specifically heavily Islamic communities, very often from mosque-goers.
00:14:08.000 That doesn't mean at all that every Muslim is a terrorist or a potential terrorist.
00:14:13.000 It doesn't mean that at all.
00:14:14.000 But it means that you're going to look... Not every rectangle is a square, but every square is a rectangle.
00:14:19.000 So if you're gonna look for squares, you're gonna have to start by looking at all the various rectangles until you find the squares.
00:14:25.000 Right?
00:14:25.000 That's all that's happening here.
00:14:26.000 Israel has been doing this for years.
00:14:28.000 The fact that the left refuses to acknowledge this, this is why they're going to get people killed.
00:14:33.000 Seriously, people will die because of this politically correct nonsense.
00:14:37.000 You have Hillary Clinton saying the same thing.
00:14:39.000 She was ripping into Cruz.
00:14:43.000 We'll finish with Obama and then we'll get back into this in one second.
00:14:46.000 But President Obama, just to finish off his stupidity here.
00:14:49.000 President Obama, that wasn't even the worst of what he had to say.
00:14:52.000 President Obama went ahead and said that the way to fight ISIS was to just tell them things.
00:14:57.000 Here we go.
00:15:00.000 We defeat them in part by saying,
00:15:05.000 You are not strong.
00:15:06.000 You are weak.
00:15:09.000 We send a message to those who might be inspired by them to say you are not going to change our values of liberty and openness and the respect of all people.
00:15:24.000 We defeat them by saying, you are not strong, you are weak.
00:15:26.000 What, like on a postcard?
00:15:27.000 I'm gonna stick that on a Hallmark card and just send it to them?
00:15:29.000 Is it gonna be one of those magic cards where you open it up and it's a recording, Obama's pre-recorded, so he sends a letter to ISIS, he airmails it, and then they open up the card and it goes, you are not strong, you are weak.
00:15:40.000 That's a great way to fight ISIS.
00:15:42.000 I'm sure that now that they've heard you say that, they will stop fighting.
00:15:44.000 This is the idiocy that leads people to chalk messages on the streets in Brussels and sing Imagine, and then imagine that they're really standing up to the terrorists in a major way.
00:15:52.000 That's not even the most ridiculous thing Obama said.
00:15:53.000 We'll get to that in just a second.
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00:17:06.000 Okay, so the stupidest thing President Obama said yesterday wasn't even when he said, we're going to defeat ISIS, by saying, you're not strong, you're weak, haha, take that!
00:17:15.000 No, the worst thing that he said was this, okay?
00:17:17.000 He said he was trying to excuse why he went to a baseball game instead of worrying about terrorism in Brussels, and here's what he had to say.
00:17:24.000 I mentioned the baseball game yesterday.
00:17:29.000 One of my proudest moments as president was watching Boston respond after the Boston Marathon attack.
00:17:36.000 Because they taught America a lesson.
00:17:40.000 They grieved.
00:17:41.000 I was there for the memorial.
00:17:44.000 We apprehended those who would carry this out.
00:17:49.000 But a few days later, folks were out shopping.
00:17:53.000 A few days later, people were in that baseball stadium and singing the national anthem.
00:18:04.000 And Big Papi was saying what he felt about Boston.
00:18:12.000 Boston Strong and how a terrorist attack was not going to change the basic spirit of that city.
00:18:22.000 Well, at that moment he spoke about what America is.
00:18:28.000 What America is is apparently going to baseball games.
00:18:32.000 And that is how we are going to defeat these terrorist groups.
00:18:37.000 In part because we're going after them and
00:18:42.000 Taking strikes against them and arresting them and getting intelligence on them and cooperating with other countries.
00:18:49.000 But a lot of it is also going to be to say, you do not have power over us.
00:18:54.000 Okay, we can shut him up now.
00:18:55.000 We're all done with him.
00:18:56.000 So he says this silliness about the Boston Red Sox.
00:19:00.000 There's a difference between the president of the United States, it turns out, and the Boston Red Sox.
00:19:03.000 Namely, they play baseball professionally.
00:19:05.000 You're the president of the United States.
00:19:08.000 Them going about their daily business is playing baseball.
00:19:10.000 You going about your daily business is fighting ISIS.
00:19:13.000 Not playing baseball.
00:19:14.000 Not hanging out with Raul Castro at a baseball game.
00:19:17.000 By the way, worth noting, we didn't defeat the Nazis by continuing to play baseball.
00:19:21.000 Okay, the reason, if you've ever seen a league of their own, the reason there was women's baseball is because the MLB almost shut down, basically, for four years, because every member of the MLB who was any good ended up fighting in World War II.
00:19:32.000 Right?
00:19:32.000 DiMaggio was drafted, so was Ted Williams, right?
00:19:35.000 Ted Williams flew missions.
00:19:36.000 And this nonsense... I mean, there were major league baseball players who were killed in World War II.
00:19:41.000 The idea that you win by just showing them that... And Bush did the same routine, and it's so stupid.
00:19:46.000 You don't beat the terrorists by going to the mall.
00:19:49.000 Okay, you beat the terrorists by having leadership willing to bomb the living crap out of them until they are dead.
00:19:53.000 That's the way that you defeat terrorists.
00:19:55.000 And then they give up when there are enough of them that are dead that they realize that it's a waste of time.
00:19:59.000 But, what's amazing is that because they believe, they actually believe this nonsense, because they believe that you can defeat terror by sending cards that say, you're not strong, you're weak!
00:20:09.000 Ha ha!
00:20:10.000 Because they believe that,
00:20:12.000 They throw out all the actual real solutions.
00:20:15.000 So, for example, Ted Cruz was asked about his supposed Islamophobia.
00:20:19.000 He was asked about, you know, you said that you want a profile.
00:20:22.000 Why aren't you an Islamophobe?
00:20:24.000 Here's what Ted Cruz had to say about that.
00:20:26.000 It was a clip of 10, yeah.
00:20:27.000 President Obama goes on TV.
00:20:29.000 He will not say radical Islamic terrorism.
00:20:31.000 Instead, he lectures Americans.
00:20:34.000 Enough is enough.
00:20:36.000 Islamism is a political and theocratic philosophy that commands its adherents to wage violent jihad to murder infidels, which they define as everybody else.
00:20:46.000 But you're painting one community with one brush.
00:20:49.000 That's the problem.
00:20:49.000 No I'm not.
00:20:50.000 There's a difference.
00:20:51.000 Okay.
00:21:09.000 And Hillary Clinton both still support bringing tens of thousands of Syrian Muslim refugees to America.
00:21:16.000 That is despite the fact that ISIS has said they intend to infiltrate those refugees with jihadists that are here to murder us.
00:21:23.000 And despite the fact that the head of the FBI, James Comey, who was appointed by Barack Obama, said they cannot vet those refugees to make sure they're not ISIS terrorists.
00:21:33.000 The first obligation of the President as Commander-in-Chief
00:21:36.000 Should be to keep America safe.
00:21:38.000 And I'll tell you this, I will apologize to nobody for how vigorous I will be as president.
00:21:43.000 Fighting radical Islamic terrorism, defeating ISIS, and keeping America safe.
00:21:47.000 Okay, so as I mentioned, all of these members of the media go nuts over this.
00:21:50.000 Cruz is saying we should expend more law enforcement resources to go after the terrorists and Muslim communities.
00:21:57.000 That's crazy!
00:21:57.000 That's shameful!
00:21:59.000 How dare anybody say this?
00:22:00.000 NBC's Chris Jansing.
00:22:02.000 Says, you know, we first have to understand that these jihadists, you know, these people blowing themselves up, it has nothing to do with religion.
00:22:08.000 This is an actual reporter.
00:22:09.000 Here we go.
00:22:10.000 The people who are involved in these attacks now, it's not a religious calling for them.
00:22:15.000 They essentially are gang members.
00:22:18.000 Bokrawi, for example, Ibrahim, who was the older brother, he once took a Kalashnikov rifle and shot at police during the course of a robbery and was sentenced
00:22:27.000 Six years ago to nine years in prison.
00:22:29.000 It's not exactly clear how he got out.
00:22:32.000 All of this tied together by Salah Abdeslam.
00:22:34.000 He, of course, was the guy who was on the run for four months after what happened in Paris, was arrested on Friday.
00:22:42.000 It's funny how it's not, if that's true, why aren't these terrorist attacks being carried out by mythical television multi-religious gangs?
00:22:51.000 Every time you see a gang on TV it's always a black guy and seven white guys and a Hispanic guy and like a lesbian chick.
00:22:57.000 It's always like the most diverse gang you've ever seen.
00:23:00.000 Why is it that in real life terrorist attacks aren't carried out by Sabda Abdul Rahim and John Billy Bob Joe from the South who goes to church six times a week?
00:23:11.000 Why is it that it's always just the guy who goes to mosque a lot?
00:23:14.000 I'm not saying that the terrorists aren't criminals.
00:23:16.000 They are criminals, but they are also Islamic criminals.
00:23:18.000 It has something to do with that.
00:23:19.000 But again, the myth is more important than protecting the safety of people.
00:23:23.000 It's true for Obama.
00:23:24.000 It's true for the media.
00:23:25.000 Mika Brzezinski says the same thing.
00:23:27.000 Over on MSNBC, she's embarrassed for the country.
00:23:29.000 And she's talking, of course, to Keith Ellison, the Muslim congressperson from Minnesota.
00:23:34.000 I've been at a loss this morning.
00:23:37.000 Really, you have.
00:23:38.000 At a loss.
00:23:39.000 And embarrassed, really.
00:23:43.000 For how we must seem.
00:23:46.000 We, meaning everyone else.
00:23:48.000 And then Muslim Americans, who should be one of us.
00:23:51.000 In light of what Ted Cruz had to say.
00:23:55.000 Boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop
00:24:21.000 From countries where terrorists come?
00:24:23.000 I'm just, I couldn't be more ashamed.
00:24:25.000 And the reason she's ashamed is because she's talking to Keith Ellison.
00:24:28.000 Keith Ellison, by the way, who has ties to some rather radical groups up in Minnesota.
00:24:31.000 Here's the Muslim congressman from Minnesota himself saying, if we bar Muslims or take any measures against Muslims whatsoever, radical Muslims or Muslims, then we're just like ISIS.
00:24:41.000 Well, you know, what Ted Cruz and Donald Trump and Mark Rubio and all of them have done at one point or another is do the opposite thing that Europeans are trying to figure out how they can do, which is to make sure that everybody can be part of this American fabric.
00:24:56.000 I think what we really need to do is just really understand that we're very fortunate here in the United States to have a First Amendment which says that there's no government, religion, and everybody is free to practice as they wish.
00:25:09.000 This is the opposite of what ISIS says.
00:25:12.000 ISIS is persecuting Christians and Yazidis and people like that.
00:25:16.000 We cannot be like ISIS and then be better than ISIS.
00:25:20.000 We have got to make a very clear distinction as to who we are.
00:25:24.000 Okay, so you understand?
00:25:25.000 You're just like ISIS if you use basic risk assessment.
00:25:29.000 If you use basic risk assessment, you're just like ISIS.
00:25:31.000 You know, who takes innocent people out, chops off their head for no reason.
00:25:34.000 By the way, no one's talking about expelling American Muslim citizens who haven't done anything wrong.
00:25:38.000 Nobody's talking about persecuting or throwing in prison innocents who have done nothing wrong.
00:25:43.000 We're talking about taking perfectly legal activity and using it in order to make sure that we have the information that we need in order to stop terrorist attacks.
00:25:52.000 We do this all the time.
00:25:52.000 I'm sorry, this is such nonsense.
00:25:54.000 We do it all the time.
00:25:55.000 They used stop-and-frisk for 40 years in the city of New York, and they used it to great success.
00:26:00.000 It's what drove down the crime rate in New York.
00:26:02.000 The people who were most benefited by that were the people who were living in minority communities, which were chiefly the victims of the issue.
00:26:10.000 By the way, Keith Ellison is a guy who took money from the Muslim American Society, which is a Muslim brotherhood offshoot, essentially, to go to his hajj to Mecca.
00:26:19.000 So he has some rather notorious ties of his own.
00:26:22.000 But Hillary Clinton does the same thing.
00:26:24.000 She's pushing this narrative too.
00:26:26.000 Hillary Clinton, she says, you know, when Trump or Cruz, they talk about Islamic terror, they're just misfiring.
00:26:32.000 They're just loudmouths.
00:26:34.000 It would also be a serious mistake to begin carpet bombing populated areas into oblivion.
00:26:41.000 Proposing that doesn't make you sound tough.
00:26:44.000 It makes you sound like you're in over your head.
00:26:49.000 Slogans aren't a strategy.
00:26:51.000 Loose cannons tend to misfire.
00:26:54.000 Okay, first of all, I just want to point out, slogans aren't a strategy.
00:26:58.000 Slogan, loose cannons tend to misfire.
00:27:01.000 So, slogans are not a strategy.
00:27:03.000 Here's a slogan.
00:27:04.000 Actually, here's two in a row.
00:27:04.000 Slogans are not a strategy and also loose cannons tend to misfire.
00:27:07.000 Okay, speaking of misfiring on terrorism, we went through Hillary Clinton's record yesterday.
00:27:11.000 Let's talk about what countries actually do to shut down terrorism for a second.
00:27:15.000 Let's get out of this pie-in-the-sky world that Democrats have created, that lefties have created, where everyone is surveilled with the same amount of intensity, where we screen everybody with an unlimited amount of resources, where we have just any amount, an unlimited, in-depth amount of resources.
00:27:32.000 There's no scarcity of law enforcement resources.
00:27:34.000 Let's get out of this magical world she's talking about, where everyone is equally likely to commit an act of terror, which is certainly not true.
00:27:40.000 It is certainly not true.
00:27:42.000 Let's talk instead about the fact that Brussels' security was crap.
00:27:44.000 And the reason Brussels' security was crap is because they didn't do all the things that Ted Cruz and Donald Trump have been suggesting that they do.
00:27:51.000 So the Daily Beast reported this comment two days ago, before Cruz or Trump really said anything.
00:27:56.000 They reported this comment from a frustrated U.S.
00:27:58.000 intelligence official.
00:28:00.000 Even with the EU in general, there's an infiltration of jihadists that's been happening for two decades.
00:28:06.000 And now they're just starting to work on this.
00:28:07.000 When we have to contact these people, or send our guys over to talk to them, we're essentially talking with people who are, I'm just going to put it bluntly, children.
00:28:15.000 They're not proactive.
00:28:16.000 They don't know what's going on.
00:28:17.000 They're in such denial.
00:28:18.000 And it's such a frightening thing to admit their country is being taken over.
00:28:22.000 In other words, they know that there's a problem.
00:28:24.000 We know there's a problem.
00:28:25.000 Everybody knows there's a problem.
00:28:26.000 But political correctness dictates that we pretend there's no problem.
00:28:30.000 Israel doesn't have these issues because Israel doesn't have the luxury of these issues.
00:28:34.000 Israel is the number one terror target on the planet.
00:28:37.000 And so in Israel, they don't care.
00:28:38.000 They just go ahead and they use racial and religious and behavioral profiling.
00:28:42.000 They look at risk profiles.
00:28:43.000 They'll drag you out of an airport line.
00:28:45.000 They'll put you behind glass for three hours to question you.
00:28:48.000 They'll take your phone away from you and they'll look through all of your pictures to see if there's anything that could possibly be construed as terrorist.
00:28:53.000 They'll look at your Facebook page.
00:28:54.000 They do all of the sort of checks that we should be doing.
00:28:57.000 And they do it in targeted fashion because they know that, for example, I am not going to be bombing anything in Israel.
00:29:02.000 As an Orthodox Jew from America, I'm not gonna be bombing anything in Israel.
00:29:06.000 The same is not true for a guy who's trying to get into Israel from, for example, Brussels.
00:29:12.000 And he's originally from Syria, and he's a Muslim.
00:29:14.000 That guy's gonna get additional scrutiny, and they make no apologies.
00:29:17.000 By the way, Israel also has an anti-terror offense.
00:29:20.000 Their fence is 96 miles long.
00:29:21.000 It's growing.
00:29:22.000 By the time it's done, it'll probably be about 300 miles long.
00:29:25.000 And it has dramatically reduced the amount of suicide bombing.
00:29:28.000 This is why the terrorists in Israel have been relegated to random stabbing attacks.
00:29:33.000 Right?
00:29:33.000 It used to be they would get on a bus and blow it up.
00:29:35.000 They can't do that anymore.
00:29:36.000 So now they take a knife and smuggle it in and try and stab random Jews.
00:29:39.000 That's bad enough.
00:29:41.000 But they've only been relegated to that because Israel uses all of the things
00:29:44.000 This is not difficult in any way, shape, or form.
00:29:46.000 France is doing it now.
00:30:02.000 France's National Guard has been deployed to protect sensitive religious sites and other soft targets.
00:30:07.000 The country of Voltaire, Diderot, and Camus is, in 2016, the police state that critics warn Cruz or Trump would bring about if given the chance.
00:30:16.000 So France is doing it, too.
00:30:18.000 And they have to do it.
00:30:19.000 They don't have a choice.
00:30:20.000 They have no choice but to do it.
00:30:21.000 You know why?
00:30:22.000 Yesterday was the beginning of the Purim celebrations.
00:30:26.000 In Brussels.
00:30:27.000 So Purim is sort of the Jewish Halloween in the sense that we wear costumes and have festivals and all this.
00:30:33.000 And it's a celebration.
00:30:34.000 It's the commemoration of the Book of Esther.
00:30:37.000 And for those who don't remember the Book of Esther, the only relevant part to this particular story is that there was an edict that went out that all the citizens could kill Jews on a particular date through a series of machinations.
00:30:47.000 Queen Esther got the king to rescind the edict.
00:30:49.000 And issue another edict saying Jews could defend themselves at which point Jews slaughtered all the people who are trying to slaughter them.
00:30:55.000 That's the Book of Esther.
00:30:56.000 Well in celebration of that, Brussels shut down basically all the synagogues yesterday, fearful that Muslims would attack those synagogues.
00:31:03.000 Okay, so the West has now become King Ahasuerus.
00:31:08.000 They're telling the Jews, you gotta sit tight, and people are gonna come after you, you can't defend yourselves.
00:31:13.000 And they're saying that not just to the Jews, but to the West itself.
00:31:15.000 That's what the left says.
00:31:17.000 For the purposes of political correctness, we're going to allow you to die.
00:31:20.000 We're going to allow you to die.
00:31:22.000 And we won't, and anybody who stands up against that we'll call a racist and we'll call them a xenophobe and an Islamophobe.
00:31:29.000 This is how people get killed.
00:31:31.000 This is how people get killed.
00:31:33.000 Meanwhile, President Obama, he continues his jocular tour of the world in which he apologizes for everything American.
00:31:41.000 And he said a couple of things yesterday that are really kind of incredible.
00:31:46.000 He said, number one, that separation of powers is difficult for the President.
00:31:49.000 So when you combine political correctness with the tyrannical thought of the President of the United States, here's what you end up with.
00:31:57.000 One of the great advantages of the United States system, even though it's very frustrating sometimes for the President,
00:32:06.000 is that power is distributed across a lot of different institutions.
00:32:12.000 It's what we call separation of powers and decentralization.
00:32:16.000 This makes it hard sometimes for America to change as rapidly as we need to to respond to changed circumstances or problems.
00:32:26.000 So he's saying there that he wishes he had more power.
00:32:29.000 It would make things easier.
00:32:30.000 And then he turns around and he rips the Republicans saying, you know, and these crazy Republicans who think that I'm a tyrant, what's wrong with these people?
00:32:37.000 Even if we end up with somebody who I might not consider a great president, there's a limit to some of the damage that they can do.
00:32:47.000 Because, and I'm sure Republicans feel that about me.
00:32:50.000 They're glad that there's distribution of power.
00:32:52.000 You know, because they imagine that I would have turned the United States into
00:32:57.000 Cuba, I suppose.
00:33:00.000 They tend to exaggerate a little bit how I see the world.
00:33:06.000 A little bit.
00:33:08.000 Okay, so that's the President of the United States.
00:33:12.000 The reason I bring this up is because the President of the United States is what happens when you combine a tyrannical mindset with political correctness.
00:33:20.000 You end up with this
00:33:22.000 The response to President Obama and all of his weakness and all of his pusillanimity and all of his nastiness, the response to that is Trumpism.
00:33:40.000 The response is, OK, well, you know, he's a dictator who's weak.
00:33:44.000 We need a dictator who's strong.
00:33:46.000 We need a guy who's going to come in and he's going to centralize all power in himself.
00:33:49.000 And then he is going to be politically incorrect, say the things that need to be said.
00:33:52.000 He says the right kind of things about Muslims.
00:33:54.000 He says the right kind of things about the border.
00:33:56.000 He says the right kind of things about surveillance.
00:33:58.000 He says all the right kinds of things.
00:34:00.000 There's only one problem with this philosophy of Donald Trump.
00:34:04.000 Some of what Donald Trump says is politically incorrect.
00:34:06.000 A lot of what he says is just garbage.
00:34:09.000 A lot of what he says is just garbage.
00:34:10.000 And I don't believe that he... First of all, I don't believe that it's principled, his opposition to radical Islam, other than kind of spur-of-the-moment thinking.
00:34:18.000 I mean, this is the same guy we mentioned yesterday who ripped into Pamela Geller after Pamela Geller was targeted for death for drawing Muhammad.
00:34:25.000 But Donald Trump, one of the dangers I see with Donald Trump is yesterday on Twitter I said that Donald Trump is basically the Hannibal Lecter of conservatism.
00:34:33.000 He cannibalizes it and then he wears its face around.
00:34:36.000 And that's the problem that I have with Donald Trump.
00:34:40.000 And what he's doing is he's taking the politically incorrect movement.
00:34:43.000 My response to Obama also is political incorrectness, political correctness is BS, right?
00:34:46.000 I've been saying that this entire episode and my entire career.
00:34:49.000 Political correctness gets people killed.
00:34:51.000 It gets people killed.
00:34:52.000 People die because of political correctness.
00:34:54.000 Trump has merged political incorrectness, which is a valuable and decent and good movement, with simple vulgarity and stupidity.
00:35:02.000 So, yesterday we talked about the fact that Trump was threatening Heidi Cruz, Ted Cruz's wife, because an unaffiliated super PAC, Liz Maher's super PAC, ran an ad of Melania Trump, all naked-like.
00:35:13.000 And today, here's what Donald Trump tweeted in response.
00:35:18.000 And it really is kind of incredible.
00:35:20.000 For people who can't see, it's a picture of Donald Trump's wife next to a picture, looking good, looking like a model, next to a picture of Heidi Cruz that is a very bad picture of Heidi Cruz.
00:35:30.000 And it's some meme that somebody made.
00:35:31.000 It says, no need to spill the beans.
00:35:33.000 The images are worth a thousand words.
00:35:36.000 And Trump tweeted, a picture is worth a thousand words.
00:35:38.000 Hashtag lying Ted.
00:35:40.000 Hashtag never Cruz.
00:35:41.000 At Melania Trump.
00:35:43.000 And so you put up this picture of Melania next to Heidi Cruz.
00:35:47.000 Because he's a vulgarian.
00:35:48.000 Because he's a sad little man.
00:35:50.000 Because the fact is that it is amazing.
00:35:52.000 Donald Trump complaining, how dare you show my wife naked?
00:35:55.000 That impugns my honor.
00:35:57.000 And his response to that, his response to that is, well my wife's super hot.
00:36:02.000 She's way hotter than your wife.
00:36:04.000 Really?
00:36:04.000 That's your response, Donald Trump?
00:36:06.000 This is the problem with giving power to anybody, even to respond to the evils and narcissism of President Obama.
00:36:14.000 You see, granted to another bad guy narcissist in Donald Trump, who may do some of the right things, but also does a lot of the wrong things.
00:36:21.000 And I think that it's worthwhile to point out, and it's also interesting, just for your own knowledge, where Donald Trump comes from.
00:36:27.000 There's an article in Slate.com by Franklin Ford today,
00:36:30.000 And normally I don't read slate, but the information here is good.
00:36:33.000 So, according to Franklin IV, quote, his father, himself a successful real estate developer, endlessly expressed a belief in his son's greatness.
00:36:40.000 Quote, you are a king, his father would tell Donald, according to his biographer Michael D'Antonio.
00:36:45.000 By the way, you want to develop a...
00:36:48.000 Crap of a child?
00:36:49.000 Keep telling your kid that he's a king as he grows up.
00:36:52.000 That's just, that's a way to develop a garbage child.
00:37:05.000 Not even Trump's father's wealth, nor his father's faith in his son's destiny could save Trump from incessant discipline.
00:37:10.000 At the age of 13, he was shipped off to New York Military Academy, which employed brutal tactics for the remaking of delinquent character, even resorting to violence to assert control over the boys.
00:37:20.000 Trump actually enjoyed participating in this.
00:37:23.000 Apparently, he would tear off the sheets of boys.
00:37:25.000 Who didn't make their beds properly, but according to Franklin 4, Trump's primary method for asserting dominance was sex.
00:37:32.000 The school's yearbook anointed him the official ladies man of the class.
00:37:36.000 He began his lifelong practice of advertising his bedroom exploits as a means of demonstrating his authority over the rest of the locker room.
00:37:43.000 Decades later, he's still trumpeting his sexual exploits.
00:37:46.000 When Tucker Carlson once mocked him on air, Trump called him and left a voicemail, quote, it's true you have better hair than I do, but I get more beep than you do.
00:37:56.000 And that's who Donald Trump is.
00:37:58.000 And he phoned into the Howard Stern Show to talk about cuckolding other men and you talk about
00:38:09.000 He's pretty gross.
00:38:13.000 He's pretty misogynistic.
00:38:14.000 And again, the problem with Trump is not that he doesn't say some of the right things.
00:38:18.000 He does.
00:38:18.000 The problem is that he says so many of the wrong things and then lumps it in with the right things.
00:38:21.000 So the overall image you get from conservatism, if Trump is the mainstream conservative now, which he isn't,
00:38:27.000 If you allow him to smear conservatism across his face, then what you end up with is a perverse form of conservatism most people are going to discount.
00:38:35.000 So, people are going to die because Hillary Clinton and Obama don't care if they die, and people will die because people will look at Donald Trump and what he says about radical Islam, and they will discount it because of all the other stupid and terrible things that he says about other people.
00:38:49.000 And he does say stupid and terrible things about other people.
00:38:52.000 Okay, time for some stuff I like, and then
00:38:56.000 One thing I hate, and then a little bit of mailbag.
00:38:58.000 And I know everybody's groaning in the production team, but tough.
00:39:00.000 Okay, so, the thing I like.
00:39:02.000 So, everybody at this point has seen Casablanca.
00:39:04.000 If you haven't seen Casablanca, then you absolutely should.
00:39:07.000 But today, this week has sort of been a week of talking about how you stand up to tyranny.
00:39:11.000 So here is the best scene from Casablanca.
00:39:14.000 And it is the scene in Rick's Cafe where the Nazis are sitting there and they start singing Deutschland über alles and the French hero of the film stands up and he's an expatriate, he's been released from a concentration, he's escaped from a concentration camp, he's trying to get outside of Casablanca to the west, and here he is in his response to the Germans.
00:39:38.000 We're good to go.
00:39:41.000 I think?
00:39:42.000 I think?
00:39:43.000 I think?
00:39:44.000 I think?
00:39:46.000 I think?
00:39:47.000 I think?
00:40:05.000 Wait, I must say is.
00:40:07.000 Wait.
00:40:28.000 We're good to go.
00:40:59.000 So one of the cool things about this scene
00:41:23.000 Is that there are a bunch of cool things about this scene.
00:41:24.000 First of all, the one thing in this movie in Casablanca I never understood is why Ingrid Bergman is even mildly interested in Humphrey Bogart when Paul Henry, who plays Victor Laszlo, is such a cooler character.
00:41:34.000 I mean, Paul Henry, first of all, I'm not a lady, but I think Paul Henry's a better looking dude.
00:41:39.000 I feel like Humphrey Bogart's a little over the hill by this point.
00:41:41.000 Originally, Ronald Reagan was supposed to actually play the Humphrey Bogart part.
00:41:46.000 Which would've been interesting, because at that point, Ronald Reagan was a big star.
00:41:49.000 But, in any case, one of the things that's really interesting about this scene is that all of the people in this scene, the woman they show crying, and the bartender, a lot of the people who played in this movie, who played the Frenchmen and then the exiles, were actual exiles from Germany.
00:42:01.000 There were people who'd fled Germany, and so they knew what this movie was talking about.
00:42:05.000 This is how you stand up to tyranny.
00:42:07.000 And it's not just the singing, obviously.
00:42:08.000 It's not singing Imagine.
00:42:09.000 But it's the idea that you have to absolutely stamp out
00:42:14.000 No, we're going to drown you out, right?
00:42:19.000 Your voice is not only unimportant, it's evil.
00:42:22.000 Radical Islam is evil.
00:42:23.000 And we are going to do whatever we can to stamp out Radical Islam.
00:42:26.000 As a philosophy, it will be stamped out.
00:42:28.000 It must be stamped out.
00:42:30.000 And if we have to kill bad guys to do it, we'll kill bad guys to do it.
00:42:32.000 But there's none of this, we're all gonna sit around in the bar together, you sing our song, we'll sing your song, we'll all sing, there's no way that works.
00:42:38.000 It doesn't work.
00:42:39.000 Because the response to an attempt to put a boot on your face cannot be, okay, here's the other cheek.
00:42:45.000 I'm sorry, it doesn't work that way in foreign policy, and it doesn't work that way in life.
00:42:49.000 Because that's the thing that I like for this week, we'll finish with Casablanca.
00:42:51.000 So, okay, now, some stuff that I hate.
00:42:54.000 So, a couple of things.
00:42:57.000 First, and I told you so,
00:42:58.000 So for a long time ago, I was on CNN talking about Michael Sam and the drafting of Michael Sam.
00:43:05.000 He's a gay football player out of University of Missouri.
00:43:08.000 He was drafted by the St.
00:43:08.000 Louis Rams.
00:43:09.000 And I said, the only reason I thought he was drafted is because he was gay.
00:43:13.000 The NFL wanted him to be drafted.
00:43:14.000 He didn't have the skill set.
00:43:16.000 He was drafted almost last in the draft.
00:43:18.000 He lasted about five seconds in the NFL, and then he didn't even last in the CFL, the Canadian Football League.
00:43:23.000 Today, it turns out, according to NFL reporter Howard Balzer, the St.
00:43:27.000 Louis Rams
00:43:29.000 Cut a deal with the league to draft Sam late in the seventh round to avoid an appearance on HBO's Hard Knock series.
00:43:36.000 St.
00:43:36.000 Louis was viewed as the ideal landing spot for him because he just finished at University of Missouri.
00:43:41.000 So the Rams cut a deal with the NFL.
00:43:43.000 The NFL basically crammed down on the Rams.
00:43:45.000 They threatened them.
00:43:46.000 We're going to put cameras in your locker room unless you draft this guy.
00:43:49.000 So just showing you how political correctness impacts everything you watch, including the NFL.
00:43:55.000 And another thing that I hate, as anti-Trump as anybody in America, this is the only story I've ever read that actually makes me want to vote for Donald Trump.
00:44:03.000 Okay, here's the story.
00:44:04.000 The story is that at Emory University, somebody at Emory University went around and chalked the name of Trump around the campus.
00:44:10.000 They just chalked Trump 2016 on the sidewalks.
00:44:14.000 That happens all the time.
00:44:15.000 If you've ever been to campus, people do that.
00:44:17.000 The students organized and had a meeting with the president of the university to demand action.
00:44:22.000 They said, why did swastikas on the Jewish fraternity house receive a quick response while these chalkings did not?
00:44:29.000 They said, what do we have to do for you to listen to us?
00:44:32.000 One student demanded Emory sent out a university-wide email to decry support for this fascist, racist candidate.
00:44:38.000 And then they said that their feelings were too hurt.
00:44:41.000 They said that people of color are struggling academically because they have to focus on having a safe community and they felt unsafe because someone was going to vote for Donald Trump.
00:44:50.000 These little pansies, they really, really need to grow a spine.
00:44:56.000 And we need to grow a spine to stand up to them, because it's just absurd.
00:44:59.000 It's people like this that make people go, oh screw you, I'll vote for Trump.
00:45:02.000 Just to screw with your brain, I'll vote for Donald Trump.
00:45:04.000 Okay, time for a couple of entries from the mailbag.
00:45:06.000 So as we say here on the Ben Shapiro Show, if you want to email us and you're a subscriber, then I'm going to flash a number up on the screen right now, and you are going to
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00:45:46.000 So, as always, we apologize to folks whose emails we couldn't respond to.
00:45:49.000 We get literally a thousand of them a week now.
00:45:52.000 It's insane.
00:45:53.000 I mean, it's over the top.
00:45:54.000 And Lindsey replies to as many of them as she can.
00:45:57.000 And let's face it, you'd rather receive a reply from Lindsey than from me anyway.
00:45:59.000 She's better looking.
00:46:00.000 So, here is the mailbag.
00:46:02.000 Okay.
00:46:02.000 Dane asks, I have a two-part question.
00:46:05.000 First, do you ever think that FBI Director James Comey is going to recommend that Hillary be indicted?
00:46:10.000 Second, which one of Andrew Klavan's books would you recommend?
00:46:14.000 Okay, the Comey question is, he might recommend she'll be indicted, but he'll resign because they're not going to indict her.
00:46:21.000 And people are saying, oh well, if he resigns, that's still a big story.
00:46:25.000 Then they'll just claim that he's a Republican plant and the only reason he resigned is because he wanted to get Hillary and the great and good Obama administration stopped him from acting out his vendetta.
00:46:35.000 As far as Clavin's books, there's... Which book did I read of Clavin's that I really liked?
00:46:39.000 I do like... Werewolf Cop is a good book.
00:46:42.000 So I'll spill the beans about Drew's books.
00:46:45.000 I think Drew is a terrific writer.
00:46:46.000 I think he's a terrific writer.
00:46:48.000 If you like pulpy plot, and you like good writing, then Drew's your guy.
00:46:51.000 But his best thing, the thing he's best at, is he really, really penetrates into characters' minds in a unique way that's really great.
00:46:59.000 There's always one section of his book, and I say, I wish that this were the entire book, because it's so good.
00:47:03.000 There's always one section of Clavin's books that are just so good.
00:47:08.000 But they're all a lot of fun.
00:47:09.000 So Werewolf Cop, which was one of his latest ones, was good.
00:47:13.000 I'm trying to remember what... There's another one that I read recently that I really liked.
00:47:18.000 Which one was it?
00:47:19.000 He... It was... Let's see.
00:47:21.000 Now I'm looking up all of Drew's titles.
00:47:24.000 I've heard Empire of Lies, by the way, is very good.
00:47:25.000 True Crime is a very good novel.
00:47:27.000 True Crime is one of his earlier novels.
00:47:29.000 It's the one that was made into a movie with Clint Eastwood, and it's a very good book.
00:47:33.000 Again, there's one particular section of the book that's just phenomenal.
00:47:37.000 It's when there's a father writing a letter to his kid, and it's just great.
00:47:40.000 It's terrific.
00:47:42.000 Drew's a very, very good writer.
00:47:43.000 Okay, Alex writes, as a young conservative living in Cleveland, how should I prepare myself for the crap storm that will be the Republican convention?
00:47:51.000 Well, I mean, first of all, you live in Cleveland.
00:47:53.000 So, I mean, we'll start with that.
00:47:56.000 I'm sorry about that.
00:47:57.000 I've heard there are nice parts of Cleveland.
00:47:58.000 I don't mean to rip all of Cleveland, just most of Cleveland.
00:48:02.000 But in any case, how will you prepare yourself for the crap storm?
00:48:06.000 The way to prepare yourself for the crap storm is to know that there probably will be one and just stay indoors.
00:48:12.000 Tim writes, my question is, do you think there's any viability in Ted Cruz running as a third party or independent candidate if he doesn't get the Republican nomination?
00:48:20.000 Is there any way we can talk to both Cruz and Bernie to jump in as independent candidates?
00:48:23.000 Sanders won't do it.
00:48:24.000 Cruz isn't going to do it either.
00:48:26.000 Cruz thinks that if he doesn't win the nomination this time, then he'll get a revenge nomination in four years, so he's not running as a third-party candidate.
00:48:37.000 Yeah, why the hell not?
00:48:38.000 I mean, if Ben Carson can do it, sure, anybody can.
00:48:41.000 Between Donald Trump and Ben Carson, our standards have dropped dramatically.
00:48:44.000 So, I wouldn't be nearly as bad as Trump will be, or any of the Democrats.
00:48:49.000 Yes, Daily Wire.
00:48:53.000 And finally, Ben writes, in the past you've demonstrated how well versed you are in classical music.
00:48:58.000 I'm curious to know what your three favorite symphonies are.
00:49:01.000 Mine are Sibelius No.
00:49:02.000 2, Mahler No.
00:49:03.000 3, Tchaikovsky No.
00:49:04.000 6.
00:49:04.000 So you have a flair for the theatrical, okay.
00:49:06.000 I know it's not exactly a political question, but you've mentioned in the past that at times you enjoy diversions from politics.
00:49:11.000 Thanks for your time.
00:49:12.000 Okay, so three favorite symphonies off the top of my head.
00:49:14.000 I love Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony.
00:49:16.000 Which is just wonderful and joyous and lovely.
00:49:20.000 It's cliche to say Beethoven's Ninth, but Beethoven's Ninth is a masterpiece.
00:49:23.000 Particularly, by the way, particularly...
00:49:26.000 The first movement is obviously brilliant, but the opening of the first movement is fantastic, particularly if you're a string player, because it's so brilliant.
00:49:36.000 He opens with the violin's tuning.
00:49:38.000 I mean, they're actually tuning.
00:49:39.000 The way you tune a violin, you play the string and you try to match it to true A. So what he does is he opens with the entire orchestra tuning.
00:49:47.000 And then it comes together and boom, it's the symphony.
00:49:48.000 It's really, really cool.
00:49:50.000 So Beethoven's Ninth is an obvious pick.
00:49:53.000 And then there are really so many.
00:49:55.000 I mean, Brahms's Fourth is phenomenal.
00:50:00.000 I'm not a fan of some of the later symphonies, some of the kind of later period symphonies.
00:50:04.000 Mozart's Jupiter Symphony is tremendous.
00:50:06.000 Um, there's so many, but I'll have to put together a complete list.
00:50:09.000 Off the top of my head, those are your easy picks.
00:50:11.000 Those also happen to be picks that are very user-friendly.
00:50:14.000 So if you're just beginning in classical music, this is a very good way to get into classical music, would be with Beethoven's 9th, and with Brahms's 4th, and with the Italian symphony is the most
00:50:24.000 Have a wonderful weekend.
00:50:25.000 Try to stay out of trouble.
00:50:26.000 President Obama will try to destroy the country.
00:50:28.000 Don't let him do it!
00:50:44.000 If you have to throw yourself at him just to get him to tango to avoid destroying the country, do it.
00:50:49.000 Because I promise you, at whatever tango he nances with you, at least he's not tangoing with some horrible dictator who's gonna kill people.
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