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00:02:24.000So, there's this very irritating line of thought that has now appeared from the left, and it is super duper irritating, and it is that if you condemn Antifa, and you also condemn neo-Nazis, you are therefore covering for neo-Nazis.
00:02:37.000This is stupid, and it's part of a broader effort by the left to paint everyone in the world who is on the right as a neo-Nazi or a Nazi sympathizer or a Confederate sympathizer.
00:03:07.000Instead, we're clubbing each other over the head.
00:03:09.000Apparently, all right-wingers are supposed to be neo-Nazis, and all left-wingers are Antifa, and nary the two shall meet.
00:03:14.000So today, I want to talk about who is who, because I think there's a lot of category error going on.
00:03:18.000I think that people are looking at the rally that happened in Boston, the Boston Free Speech Coalition rally, and the left is saying, that's a bunch of neo-Nazis.
00:03:25.000And then the right is looking at all the protesters, the 40,000 protesters who showed up, and they're saying, all of those people are Antifa.
00:03:40.000You can gauge the morality of what somebody believes, and you can gauge the morality of what they do.
00:03:45.000So one of the things that's been very irritating is when people like me say Antifa's an evil group because they violate the social contract by beating up people with whom they disagree, people say, oh, you're saying they're worse than the Nazis.
00:03:55.000No, I'm not saying they're worse than the Nazis in terms of their belief system.
00:03:59.000I'm saying if they initiate violence and the Nazis don't, then they are worse than the Nazis in terms of their particular behavior.
00:04:04.000Now, if the Nazis initiate violence, then we have moral equivalence in terms of their behavior, and the Nazis are worse on ideology.
00:04:10.000I'm trying to be very specific and particular here because I don't like broad labels.
00:04:14.000Now, I want to correct myself on that score because I've said before that the left has been very kind to Antifa.
00:04:22.000Many more mainstream leftists are kinder to Antifa than mainstream right-wingers are kind to the alt-right.
00:04:27.000The alt-right has been a movement that a lot of people on the right have kind of winked and nodded at, President Trump and Steve Bannon among them, but the idea that the entire right has been winking and nodding or openly celebrating, forget winking and nodding, openly celebrating the alt-right, that's not true.
00:04:41.000And the left, many mainstream leftists, have been openly celebrating Antifa.
00:04:44.000So I think a great case in point is what happened over the weekend in Boston.
00:05:12.000We reject racism, we reject white supremacy, we reject anti-semitism, we reject the KKK, we reject neo-Nazis, we reject domestic terrorism, and we reject hatred.
00:05:25.000And we will do every single thing in our power to keep hate out of our city.
00:05:30.000Okay, so it's fine for him to say that he wants to prevent that people who are hateful shouldn't be in the city.
00:06:11.000But I fear that the media and the left are going to do exactly that.
00:06:15.000I fear the media and the left are going to do exactly that, and they're going to use the Boston situation as sort of their prototype for this.
00:06:20.000So Boston Free Speech Coalition, they had originally invited a couple of guys who are what they call alt-right.
00:06:27.000We've had BassStickMan on the program before specifically to talk about Antifa violence in Sacramento and Berkeley, right?
00:06:33.000So these are guys who are friendly with the alt-right, but I don't think it's fair necessarily to call them devotees of the alt-right per se.
00:06:42.000These guys were both slated to speak at this particular rally, and they were both cancelled because the rally said, listen, we don't want to be associated with anybody who's even alt-right.
00:06:50.000We don't want people who are associated with that.
00:06:52.000So, we openly condemn white supremacism, neo-Nazism, and the alt-right.
00:06:55.000This is what the organizers of the event said.
00:06:57.000They said this clearly and openly in the days leading up to this event.
00:07:01.000They said, we don't want anything to do with those people.
00:07:03.000And in fact, here's a picture from the event.
00:07:05.000Okay, at the event, there was a guy who's a congressional candidate whose name is Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai, who's a congressional candidate in Boston.
00:07:31.000And then people are holding up signs that say, Black Lives Do Matter.
00:07:35.000Okay, does that sound like a white supremacist rally to you?
00:07:37.000They're holding up signs that say, black lives do matter at this supposed white supremacist rally.
00:07:42.000And then there's another kind of lefty thing, it says, no to GMOs, stop Monsanto.
00:07:45.000It's not a lefty thing to the Black Lives Matter, by the way.
00:07:47.000It's sort of a lefty thing to pander to the Black Lives Matter movement, but there's a person who's holding up a sign that's also sponsored by Shiva for Senate, and it says, clean food, clean air, clean government, no to GMOs, stop Monsanto.
00:08:00.000Okay, that's a real lefty cause, the anti-GMO cause.
00:08:03.000Does this sound like a white supremacist rally to you?
00:08:05.000So, on Twitter, I went out and I said, you know, what's the evidence that this was actually a white supremacist rally?
00:08:10.000Because it was sort of being pitched that way.
00:08:11.000Even Huffington Post said it's not a white supremacist rally.
00:08:15.000Even Huffington Post said the white supremacist didn't show up.
00:08:18.000But the, but was this a white supremacist?
00:08:20.000So the only evidence that anybody could see was there was one guy, literally one guy who showed up wearing a shirt with the so-called 14 words.
00:08:26.000The 14 words are the sentence that neo-Nazis say something about we have to protect white civilization for our progeny.
00:08:32.000That's a few more words than that because it's 14.
00:08:34.000But that's why there's this neo-Nazi symboling 1488.
00:08:37.000It's the 14-word slogan about protecting white civilization for our children.
00:09:01.000When you start conflating people who are normal conservatives, normal right-wing, normal Republicans, with the neo-Nazis, you're gonna get a backlash.
00:09:38.000That labeling led a nutcase named Floyd Lee Corkins to go over to the Family Research Council in 2012, and he tried to shoot people at that particular establishment.
00:09:47.000CNN ran a story all about how the SPLC's labels of hate groups meant that these were all hate groups that were in league with the worst in America.
00:09:56.000As City Journal writes today, Mark Pulliam writes, At one time they labeled Ben Carson an extremist because he was opposed to gay marriage.
00:10:14.000Yet CNN was pushing this out there as though in the aftermath of the neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, this was the real threat, was all of these groups were basically neo-Nazis.
00:10:22.000You wonder why the right reacts so negatively to the left's take on all of this?
00:10:27.000Maybe it's because the left, instead of unifying with the 95% of Americans I talked about at the beginning, instead of doing that, they're much more focused on trying to broaden out mainstream members of the left, more interested in broadening out their critique of neo-Nazis to fit the entire right-wing movement, to fit all conservatives.
00:10:42.000The Neo-Nazis aren't even conservative, okay?
00:10:45.000In the sense that they believe in bigger government, they believe in government intervention, they don't believe in the Constitution of the United States, they believe in government involvement in things like healthcare, and they're only right-wing compared to left-wingers.
00:10:56.000In sort of the European sense, in the same way that the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany was right-wing compared to the Communist Party in Nazi Germany, but had nothing to do with American conservatism.
00:11:05.000Nazism has nothing to do with American conservatism.
00:11:07.000The left is very much invested in trying to tie those two together.
00:11:13.000Well, number one, they think it gains them points politically.
00:11:16.000By calling everybody on the right a deplorable, they think that this is somehow going to win them elections.
00:11:20.000And then they do something else, and this is even worse.
00:11:23.000They start to make excuses and room for folks at Antifa.
00:11:27.000And if I have to gauge the threat to America between the neo-Nazi movement and Antifa,
00:11:33.000I would suggest right now that the threat from Antifa to the American social fabric is just as or more dangerous than the threat from the neo-Nazis.
00:11:43.000The neo-Nazi ideology is, of course, worse.
00:11:45.000But because the mainstream right is not embracing the neo-Nazis.
00:11:48.000Many members of the mainstream left are embracing Antifa, and Antifa is based on the proposition that rejects the basic Max Weber concept, which is that in a civilized society, the monopoly on use of force has to belong to the government.
00:12:03.000Civilization is based on the idea that we all got together and we banded together and we said to the government, you protect our rights, you have the gun.
00:12:09.000We're not going to shoot each other in the streets, you have the gun.
00:12:11.000We have police forces and we have army.
00:12:17.000We're going to go out in the streets and we're going to kill people and we're going to harm people and we're going to hurt people and burn things and loot property and all the rest of it.
00:12:24.000So I'm going to talk about what Antifa did at this Boston rally, which I think is a much bigger story than 10 people showing up for a free speech rally and being labeled white supremacists.
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00:14:08.000But when he says there is violence on both sides, that's definitely true.
00:14:11.000Now, we do have to look at the proportion.
00:14:13.000So, if you're looking at the proportion of violent people in Charlottesville on the Neo-Nazi side, versus you're looking at the proportion of violent people in Charlottesville on the Antifa side, I would say that as a percentage of the larger group, from what I can tell, and maybe I'm wrong about this, but from the information that I can see, it looks like a larger group of the Neo-Nazis, as a proportion, were ready to go than a proportion of the protesters.
00:14:33.000Antifa was there, but it's not a huge group.
00:14:35.000In Boston, I guess there were 33 arrests out of 40,000 people?
00:14:38.000That doesn't sound like many until you realize that when you go to a Dodger game, there are 40,000 people there, and there are zero arrests.
00:14:44.00033 arrests is actually a rather sizable contingent of people getting arrested.
00:14:47.000And even the Boston PD, it's amazing the duality that the Boston police will engage in.
00:14:55.000They'll say that everybody was peaceful, everybody was great, then they'll say this.
00:14:59.000There was a lot of talk in the week leading up about bottles being thrown with urine at our offices.
00:15:06.000And I wanted to make sure that they, you know, that you had to have a good arm to basically throw and get at them.
00:15:12.000So, you know, we basically wanted them separated.
00:15:16.000And I'm sorry to report we did have some bottles thrown at our offices that did have urine in it.
00:15:22.000A couple of our officers were hit with that.
00:15:24.000They were hit with a lot of stuff today, and I'm very proud of the job they did, and it goes to the professionalism of this department.
00:15:31.000Okay, so he says that it was basically a peaceful protest, and then he says people were flinging bottles of pee at the cops.
00:16:14.000Some pro-lifers were apparently attacked.
00:16:16.000There was a journalist who tweeted this out.
00:16:17.000And then, the Antifa went after the police officers.
00:16:20.000So here's some footage of the Antifa people going at the police officers.
00:16:33.000Okay, were these the quote-unquote white supremacists?
00:16:36.000No, this is not the white supremacists.
00:16:38.000This was a bunch of the Antifa people.
00:16:55.000And some of the other protesters, presumably.
00:16:56.000I don't know if they're all Antifa or which other groups they are with, but you can see that the violence at this particular event is not coming from the alt-right and the white supremacists, who apparently, again, were explicitly denounced by the organizers of the rally.
00:18:42.000Okay, why am I showing all this footage of violent and nasty, horrible Antifa people?
00:18:47.000The reason is because, unlike the right, which has universally condemned the neo-Nazis and the alt-right, and is trying to disassociate from these people,
00:18:55.000They're mainstream leftists who are embracing all of this stuff.
00:18:58.000And they're using this binary logic again.
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00:20:39.000This was the great fear of what President Trump did last week when he seemed to legitimize the alt-right.
00:20:44.000When he seemed to suggest there were good people in the crowd with the alt-right.
00:20:47.000When he seemed to make a moral equivalence between the protesters and some of the protesters who were protesting with the alt-right and the neo-nazis.
00:20:55.000People were afraid that this was going to be mainstreamed.
00:20:57.000And the universal condemnation was strong and lasting and loud.
00:21:02.000There are openly leftists who are saying today, and have been saying now for a week, that Antifa is not a problem.
00:21:08.000And remember, this is not just them embracing Antifa's viewpoint, this is them embracing Antifa's central contention, which is that violence in the streets is sometimes necessary.
00:21:16.000Here's that same Dartmouth professor we were talking about last week, who wrote an op-ed for the Washington Post, talking about how Antifa is necessary.
00:21:22.000He's Mark Bray, who's a lecturer at Dartmouth College.
00:21:25.000I think that a lot of people recognize that when pushed, self-defense is a legitimate response to white supremacy and neo-Nazi violence.
00:21:32.000And you know, we've tried ignoring neo-Nazis in the past.
00:21:36.000We've seen how that turned out in the 20s and 30s.
00:21:38.000And the lesson of history is you need to take it with the utmost seriousness before it's too late.
00:21:43.000We've seen the millions of deaths that have come from not taking it seriously enough.
00:22:03.000Pull the emergency brake and say, you can't make this normal.
00:22:07.000There's a big difference between confronting fascism and confronting other forms of violence.
00:22:13.000So we can see that during the 30s and 40s, there was no public opinion to be leveraged by nonviolent resistance.
00:22:19.000If you get fascists to be powerful enough in government, they're simply not going to listen to the kind of public opinion that nonviolence can generate.
00:22:26.000The idea that the white supremacists are powerful in government, so powerful that we have to go out in the streets with our guns,
00:22:31.000Listen, I've said for a long time that if government becomes tyrannical, then we ought to have guns in order to protect ourselves, but you're not talking about a government that's enforcing neo-Nazi views.
00:23:01.000Because they wouldn't want to offend Antifa.
00:23:03.000Representative Steve Cohen, who is a Democratic representative, I believe he is from, is he from Tennessee?
00:23:09.000Yeah, he's from Tennessee, and here he was defending Antifa.
00:23:13.000Well, it was equivocated because it tried to put the blame on both sides.
00:23:18.000Even if the Antifa was there and did things, they were there because of the Nazis and because of the Confederates.
00:23:26.000And when they went out and marched the night before with those tiki torches, it was a reminder of Kristallnacht in my mind, the 1938 German terrorism on Jewish people in Berlin.
00:23:38.000And it also looked like Klan rallies, where they used to have big bonfires and burn crosses.
00:23:44.000And so the whole idea of the fire, I mean, it was so well-staged to remind people of that, and yelling, the Jews will not take our place, blood and soil.
00:23:54.000These were just the most bone-chilling sounds and chants, and they were in lockstep.
00:24:01.000Okay, and that's true, but so what in terms of the violence?
00:24:35.000The reason it's dangerous stuff is because people who are... I've said before, I'm only going to attribute violence to rhetoric when the rhetoric explicitly calls for violence.
00:24:46.000What the left is doing now, people like Steve Cohen, what mainstream leftists are doing, many of them, is they are now explicitly poo-pooing violence.
00:24:53.000When you explicitly poo-poo violence, you are going to make it more common.
00:24:57.000And I want to read you a little bit about a guy named Everett Glenn Miller.
00:25:22.000Right before he went on the shooting spree killing two cops.
00:25:24.000He shared a picture of Martin Luther King jr That said for this from August 18th.
00:25:28.000It said when I said March I didn't mean forever mother effers shoot back I'll even wrote with the photo when them n-words wake up It's gonna be some hell to answer for you only can poke a tie-up dog for so long once that chain breaks It's over wake up America before it's too late and then another post said racist ass America America is evil and
00:25:48.000And then there were derogatory posts about Trump, posts about the Confederate monument issue, and Nazis in Charlottesville, Virginia.
00:25:53.000On August 15th, they shared a page, a video of the Charlottesville clashes and wrote,
00:26:03.000If you have a group of people, this is what Antifa does, who equate the police with the bad guys, who equate conservatives with the bad guys, and who openly say that violence is necessary in order to stop the bad guys, when you have mainstream people on the left, like Steve Cohen, when you have mainstream people on the left, like Michael Eric Dyson, when you have mainstream people on the left, like Mark Bray at the Washington Post, when you have those people making excuses for the violence, do you think the violence is going to become more common or less common?
00:26:29.000Do you think that it's going to get worse or better?
00:26:32.000Do you really have so little belief in the police that you don't think that the police can stop the Nazis?
00:27:03.000Instead, they're focusing on Confederate monuments.
00:27:09.000Instead, they're focusing on Confederate monuments, and those are the real threat to peace.
00:27:12.000No, there's a group in America right now that is openly calling for violence and property destruction, and it's being shied away from by members of the mainstream left.
00:27:30.000I'm afraid that I'm gonna go to Berkeley on September 14th, and Antifa's gonna show up, and they're gonna get violent, and the media, because they want their narrative, where violence against right-wingers is justified, that the media's gonna proclaim that it's my fault that Antifa showed up and got violent.
00:27:44.000I'm concerned somebody's gonna get killed.
00:27:46.000I'm concerned some of my security guards are gonna get hurt.
00:27:48.000And I'm concerned the media is going to blame my views for that, even though I've been anti-Antifa and anti-alt-right overtly so for a long time, which is why when I speak at Berkeley, the topic that I'm going to be speaking on is why all of the following groups are destroying America.
00:28:03.000Antifa, the alt-right, BLM, social justice warriors, radical feminists, I'm going to talk about all of these groups and why they're destroying America's social fabric.
00:28:13.000And we'll see if the media are honest enough to recognize that I'm condemning all the groups they say ought to be condemned, like the alt-right, and have been doing so for a year.
00:28:22.000Or whether they lie, and they say that just because I think the BLM is a bad group that espouses bad things, that I am therefore a rightful victim of Antifa.
00:28:30.000Because I think that will expose the media's agenda.
00:28:40.000They're going to target you as a Nazi?
00:28:41.000If they decide to target me as a Nazi, I think it'll say a whole hell of a lot, considering the fact that there's been no one who's been more anti-alt-right, more anti-white supremacist than I have been, certainly over the past year, by statistics.
00:28:55.000I fear that the left is going to lie about it nonetheless.
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00:31:09.000The polls show the vast majority of Americans want to keep the Confederate statues, or at the very least don't care very much.
00:31:15.000Okay, but they've decided to make this their key issue.
00:31:17.000And this demonstrates, I think, the disconnect between a lot of people who are living in Washington D.C., and New York, and L.A., and Chicago, and a lot of the people who are living in the rest of the country, who frankly don't care very much about these Confederate memorials, and don't think that they're the worst thing in the world, or the cause of a lot of violence.
00:31:33.000Yeah, you are seeing Democrats push this stuff very hard, the same way the Democrats pushed really hard on the Washington Redskins issue.
00:31:41.000They're doing the same thing with Confederate monuments.
00:31:43.000Now, I think there's a stronger case to rename, to get rid of Confederate monuments by far, than getting rid of the name of the Washington Redskins.
00:31:50.000But the left is treating this as though this is the real threat of violence.
00:31:52.000So Antifa isn't the real threat of violence.
00:31:54.000No, Confederate statues are the real threat of violence.
00:31:57.000Jay Johnson, who is the Secretary of Homeland Security under President Obama, here's what he had to say about removing these statues.
00:32:07.000What alarms so many of us from a security perspective is that so many of the statues, the Confederate monuments are now, modern day, becoming symbols and rallying points for white nationalism, for neo-Nazis, for the KKK.
00:32:58.000Why didn't he take down any of those monuments?
00:32:59.000And the answer is because it's the left seeking to lump in, members of the mainstream left, seeking to lump in support for confederate monuments with alt-rightism and white supremacy.
00:33:10.000Again, I think that there's a very strong case that some of these things should come down.
00:33:12.000I don't know why there's Jefferson Davis highways in Arizona.
00:33:16.000Actually, I do know a lot of these monuments were erected in the middle of the Civil Rights Movement as sort of a backlash against the Civil Rights Movement, which really is gross.
00:33:22.000I mean, if you erect a Confederate memorial in the middle of the Civil Rights Movement because you're attempting to say something about civil rights, then that's pretty disgusting.
00:33:30.000Some of these monuments went up in like 1960.
00:33:31.000Okay, so they're not a hundred years old.
00:33:34.000They're not part of the historic South or anything.
00:33:36.000They're going up in states like Arizona that wasn't even existent at the time of the Civil War.
00:33:42.000That said, this idea that these are flashpoints, that this is high priority for the United States, it's sort of like the argument after the evil Dylan Storm Roof shot up a black church that the key issue was whether people should fly a Confederate flag on their truck.
00:33:54.000And the answer was, this was not a major issue five minutes ago.
00:34:42.000But, to say that we're going to have now a referendum on Bernie Sanders' language because the nutcase went out and shot some people,
00:34:49.000If we are going to judge the veracity of an ideology or the morality of a rhetoric by the people who are outside the realm of the normal, then we're going to basically have to all shut up.
00:35:00.000Because there are a lot of crazy people out there who are set off by a lot of crazy things.
00:35:04.000And so this is my problem with having this conversation in a broader context by suggesting that Charlottesville is some sort of representation of the vast majority of people who want to stop the Confederate statues from going down.
00:35:15.000This is why Trump was smart to pivot to the Confederate statue issue because the vast majority of people who were protesting on that Friday night a couple of weeks ago in Charlottesville for the Robert E. Lee statue were neo-Nazis, Klansmen, alt-righters.
00:35:28.000The vast majority of people across the country who don't want Robert E. Lee statues to come down are none of those things.
00:35:34.000And there I think Trump is correct and is smart to pivot.
00:35:37.000And I think the left is idiotic to follow him in that pivot.
00:35:40.000They're not going to do themselves any political favors.
00:36:02.000If they ran Joe Biden, somebody who is relatively radical on politics but is perceived as moderate, he would womp President Trump.
00:36:09.000But instead, they're looking to the left wing of their party.
00:36:11.000They're looking to people who pander, and that's not going to do them any service.
00:36:15.000Okay, so in other news, Steve Bannon is out at the White House.
00:36:17.000This broke in the middle of the show on Friday, and I've had a chance to sort of collect my thoughts on what this means.
00:36:23.000I don't think it means a whole hell of a lot.
00:36:24.000I think that Bannon had already been marginalized at the White House.
00:36:27.000He had very little input at the White House already.
00:36:30.000Him going back to Breitbart doesn't make very much of a difference.
00:36:34.000Alex Marlow, who's the editor-in-chief over there, I gotta say, Alex is probably miserable this morning because Steve is not the easiest person to work with, but that said,
00:36:43.000Steve heading back to Breitbart isn't markedly going to change things other than it's sort of a green light to Breitbart to start attacking all the people who surround Trump.
00:37:00.000McMaster, which they've been doing with alacrity for some time now.
00:37:04.000It's just going to become louder and more strident.
00:37:20.000Well, I mean, nothing like fulfilling the Mooch's expectations of you there for going back and immediately running a headline about how wonderful you are.
00:37:27.000But what that means is that Bannon is going to sort of present himself as the voice of morality from the populist right.
00:37:48.000That's going to be a thorn for Trump a little bit.
00:37:52.000I think Bannon knows better than to alienate a lot of the Trump-centric voters.
00:37:55.000But if Trump ever becomes so vulnerable that Breitbart can make a difference, then you could see Bannon, in a revenge move, sort of moving to hurt him.
00:38:03.000Do I think it makes a huge difference inside the administration?
00:38:06.000No, it's just another indicator that this administration was never conservative, okay?
00:38:09.000For as much as I dislike Steve Bannon personally, Steve Bannon is right-wing on immigration, Steve Bannon is right-wing on Israel, Steve Bannon is right-wing on national security, so all of those things have sort of been moved off of the spectrum a little bit.
00:38:24.000Bannon was more isolationist than right-wing, I should say, on national security, but he was very much in favor of a military buildup.
00:38:30.000A lot of that has now been moved off to the side.
00:38:32.000Trump's administration, for all the people who thought he was going to be the great conservative halcyon, let me just point out the people now surrounding him are entirely Democrats or generals.
00:38:40.000There is not a single major registered Republican who surrounds the president of the United States in his inner circle.
00:38:54.000Steve Mnuchin was a registered Democrat.
00:38:56.000All of the people who surround him, all the people who are closest to him, are either generals or registered Democrats, okay?
00:39:02.000That is not gonna bode well for Trump.
00:39:04.000The only thing that might save the conservative agenda, truly, is that, number one, there's a Republican Congress, and number two, Democrats will not work with Trump.
00:39:13.000They hate Trump so much that they're willing to cut off their nose in spite of their face.
00:39:17.000The fact is that if Democrats were smart, what they would immediately do is begin going to President Trump and saying, let's get some of your legislation done.
00:39:25.000And they'd start pushing for single-payer health care and get Trump to sign it.
00:39:28.000They'd start pushing for infrastructure bills and they'd get Trump to sign it.
00:39:30.000They'd start pushing for tax hikes and get Trump to sign it.
00:39:33.000Okay, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.
00:39:55.000Growing up, we liked Jerry Lewis movies.
00:39:57.000We're not French, but we liked Jerry Lewis movies nonetheless.
00:40:00.000One of my favorite Jerry Lewis films is a very underrated film called Cinderfella.
00:40:06.000And it's a reverse of the Cinderella story, except he is Cinderella, right?
00:40:09.000He's a guy and he falls in love with a princess.
00:40:11.000And Jerry Lewis was a great physical comedian.
00:40:14.000This is one of the scenes from Cinderfella where he's sitting in the kitchen, his stepmother has made him basically the maid, and he's sitting in the kitchen after serving them dinner, listening to the radio.
00:40:25.000And this is sort of classic Jerry Lewis.
00:40:37.000One of the great things about this movie is the Count Basie music.
00:41:14.000It's very kid-friendly, this particular film, and there's a lot of good stuff.
00:41:18.000I was showing my daughter, who's three and a half, a clip from this movie.
00:41:21.000There's a scene where he does a dance with the princess, and Count Basie's band is there.
00:41:26.000This is part of his transformation, is that Count Basie's band shows up as part of his transformation into the prince.
00:41:32.000It's a little bit slow, but there are a couple of scenes in it that are really, really funny, so Cinderfella, highly recommend it.
00:41:54.000I don't know who you are, but that's a fantastic catch.
00:41:58.000So, anytime there's a good piece of baseball, I'll put it on the show.
00:42:01.000Okay, time for some things that I hate.
00:42:23.000So just to show you how evil a lot of the neo-nazis are, and the white supremacists are, and some of the alt-right members are, the Charlottesville rally organizer actually tweeted this out yesterday.
00:42:32.000This is Jason Kessler, the piece of garbage who was punched in the face at the rally.
00:42:36.000He said, Yeah, again, not a lot of very fine people doing this.
00:42:39.000Not a lot of very fine people involved with that particular rally.
00:42:52.000Horrifying, horrifying in every sense of the word.
00:43:15.000on ABC's This Week talking about President Trump's response to Charlottesville.
00:43:19.000The only groups he identified by name as the evil and causing what happened in Charlottesville were the Nazis, the KKK, and the white supremacists.
00:43:27.000That's what I thought was bold and true.
00:43:29.000Well, let me tell you what he said, though.