The Ben Shapiro Show - Fox News Just BETRAYED Every Conservative

00:00:00.000 Well, since I was a very young person, like an actual child, Fox News has been the place for conservatives to get their news from television, right?

00:00:06.000 It was news with a conservative slant.

00:00:08.000 It was the only place, had a monopoly on cable when it came to conservatism being represented because obviously MSNBC was to the far left, CNN was a left-wing organization as well.

00:00:18.000 And so conservatives have relied and trusted Fox News for literally decades.

00:00:22.000 Well now, I gotta say, when it comes to issues of pride, Fox News has been in a problematic state for a very long time, and it has all burst out into the foreground now thanks to Matt Walsh, our friend here at Daily Wire.

00:00:36.000 He has now obtained internal documents from Fox News employees who leaked those documents to us because they were so upset at what Fox Corporate is doing.

00:00:43.000 So Fox News is owned by Fox Corporation.

00:00:45.000 Fox Corporation is, of course, a publicly traded company.

00:00:48.000 And they've ingested all of the ESG DEI nonsense.

00:00:51.000 All the rest of the publicly traded corporations apparently have ingested and they've crammed it down on their own employees.

00:00:57.000 Now, people in the know have known this for a very long time.

00:01:00.000 This is actually not something new at Fox.

00:01:02.000 If you go all the way back You'll recall that at the same exact time that many members of the Fox staff were out there complaining about Joe Biden's vax mandates and COVID mandates and mask mandates, Fox corporate was actually cramming that stuff down on their own employees, while we here at DailyWare were not only refusing

00:01:19.000 To enforce any sort of voluntary mandate on our own employees.

00:01:22.000 We're actually suing the federal government to stop the federal government from implementing that on any employees.

00:01:27.000 I mean, we literally spent millions of dollars to do that.

00:01:29.000 Fox News is just going right along with the program.

00:01:31.000 I mean, this is from the Associated Press back in 2021 pointing out.

00:01:35.000 that Kevin Lord, Executive Vice President of Human Resources at Fox parent company,

00:01:39.000 Fox Corporation, said in a memo the company would require all unvaccinated employees to

00:01:43.000 be tested every day, not just once a week, in order to work in company facilities.

00:01:47.000 That policy was first reported by CNN. Fox last month required its own employees to report

00:01:53.000 evidence of their own status and 90% of full-time employees had been fully vaccinated over at Fox.

00:01:58.000 We here at Daily Wire?

00:02:00.000 We never.

00:02:01.000 We never mandated.

00:02:02.000 Not only did we not mandate masks or vaccinations for our own employees, we actively sued the federal government to stop all of that.

00:02:09.000 Well, Fox didn't.

00:02:09.000 Fox went along with the program inside its own building while preaching the opposite on the air.

00:02:14.000 And of course, if you go back to June of 2022, we covered this last year during the last Pride Month celebration.

00:02:20.000 During the Holy Month of Pride, Fox News crammed down on its own broadcasters' mandate to cover things like trans kids.

00:02:27.000 They ran a full-scale segment promoting the transing of the children.

00:02:31.000 You'll remember this.

00:02:32.000 It was a big controversy back in June of 2022.

00:02:33.000 Here's what it sounded like.

00:02:36.000 14-year-old Ryland Whittington is a typical Southern California teenager.

00:02:42.000 And the Whittingtons, along with mom Hillary, dad Jeff, and sister Brinley, are a typical family.

00:02:48.000 The only difference, though, in Ryland's eyes, is what this family can mean to the tens of thousands of kids under 18 who identify as transgender.

00:02:58.000 We put our story out there so people could see that there's another family out there that is going

00:03:06.000 through what we're going through or there's another family who's proud of who they are.

00:03:09.000 Before Ryland could even speak, he managed to tell his parents the key.

00:03:11.000 This is not on MSNBC. This is not on CNN. This is on Fox News. It's all on Fox News in June of 2022.

00:03:18.000 So all the indicators were there. Well, it turns out that behind the scenes, Fox News has been

00:03:22.000 promoting to its own employees this stuff because Fox Corporation has been mandating this stuff to

00:03:26.000 all of its employees.

00:03:27.000 So Matt tweeted last night, we've obtained internal documents from Fox News employees.

00:03:31.000 Fox Corporation is celebrating pride by encouraging employees to read about glory holes, supporting a group that gives sterilizing hormones to homeless youth, and deployed woke AI to monitor everyone.

00:03:41.000 They produced a bunch of documents.

00:03:43.000 Those documents were then put on the employee portal for Fox News employees.

00:03:46.000 So, for example, under the heading Support One Another, Fox encouraged employees to donate to the Trevor Project, the Ali Forney Center, and the LA LGBT Center.

00:03:55.000 Fox says it was devoted to helping LGBTQ young people, but it hosts a sexually explicit chat room that connects children as young as 13 years old with LGBT adults.

00:04:03.000 The Ali Forney Center, which again Fox praises for rescuing homeless LGBT youth, appears to admit, as Matt says on Twitter and its website, that it injects these homeless young people with cross-sex hormones, which are known to cause sterilization.

00:04:14.000 And the LA LGBT Center, which Fox calls unstoppable, posted a video of a mother surprising her quote-unquote trans daughter with the child's first dose of hormones.

00:04:23.000 YouTube ended up removing the footage for terms of service violation.

00:04:25.000 The screenshot is still on Twitter.

00:04:28.000 That's only the beginning of the kind of material that Fox News employees are expected to be subjugated to by the Fox Corporation upper-level staff.

00:04:35.000 And so the question is, why do the Fox News brass allow this?

00:04:38.000 Why are they going along with this?

00:04:40.000 Why is this part and parcel of what Fox News employees are now being told to do and trained in?

00:04:45.000 Unacceptable from a conservative company because you're talking about employee policy that now affects everyone.

00:04:51.000 We saw how it reached the air last year during Pride Month.

00:04:55.000 I expect that sort of stuff to break into the open pretty regularly over at Fox, apparently, because Fox Corporate now runs the building.

00:05:01.000 We'll get to that momentarily first.

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00:06:11.000 When you take a look at the rest of the materials that Fox is presenting to its own employees, pretty egregious.

00:06:17.000 Matt says employees are also encouraged to expand their perspective by reading books by trans activists, including a memoir titled, Fairest, about a precocious boy who would grow up to be a woman.

00:06:26.000 The book contains information that's obviously important for Fox employees.

00:06:29.000 For example, an early scene explains what a glory hole is.

00:06:33.000 A glory hole for those who are not in the know on Urban Dictionary is a hole that is cut into bathroom stalls so people can have anonymous sex through the hole with one another. 0.98

00:06:41.000 That Fox endorsed book also details the author's graphic description of oral sex. 0.98

00:06:46.000 Another book that Fox leadership encourages its employees read called Red, White, and Royal Blue is about a fictional gay relationship between the Prince of Wales and the President's son, including dialogue calling America a genocidal empire. 0.95

00:06:57.000 And of course includes a bit of gay erotica. 0.51

00:07:01.000 This is what Fox corporate is recommending to its own employees.

00:07:05.000 Fox leadership doesn't just pick out books for its adult employees.

00:07:07.000 They also suggested a pride rainbow filled kids book with a character who comes out as a unicorn, presumably symbolizing coming out of the closet as LGBTQIA plus minus divided by sign.

00:07:16.000 And Fox recommends that people listen to podcasts like Query and watch various TED talks about LGBT life.

00:07:22.000 Here's an excerpt from one of the TED talks recommended by Fox corporate to Fox News employees.

00:07:28.000 But it's this type of structuring that has to be reframed in order to let love in.

00:07:33.000 My body never betrayed me, and my body was never wrong.

00:07:37.000 It's this restrictive binary thinking on gender that said that I didn't exist.

00:07:42.000 But when we met, she loved me for exactly how I showed up.

00:07:46.000 She would trace her fingers along the numb, keloid scars left by my top surgery.

00:07:50.000 Scars that run from the middle of my chest all the way out to my outer torso.

00:07:55.000 She said that these were reminders of my strength and everything that I went through and nothing for me to be ashamed of, so sprinting towards her hand in marriage was the queerest thing that I could do.

00:08:08.000 Well, what magic Fox News employees are forced to be exposed to.

00:08:13.000 Elsewhere on the Fox employee portal, workers are encouraged to attend a Ben & Jerry's-powered Pride event at the New York headquarters of Fox News.

00:08:19.000 Now, it turns out that a lot of people at Fox News are not really happy with this, as you would imagine.

00:08:23.000 A lot of employees over at Fox News are not particular fans of this radical gender ideology, which presumably is why Fox experimented with a solution to monitor employee commitment to DEI. 0.80

00:08:32.000 It's an AI platform called Escalera, which tracks employees' commitment to the cult of DEI.

00:08:38.000 Fox leadership told employees to sign up for Escalera so the AI could help them engage in activities deepening their understanding of identity and exploring more nuanced D&I topics.

00:08:48.000 Escalera says that it pulls in data from various sources, including the email and payroll systems.

00:08:52.000 It generates a peer comfort index and a diversity index based in part on how employees practice micro-affirmations.

00:08:58.000 Wow, so they're monitoring how often you micro-affirm your compatriots.

00:09:02.000 One of the key functions of this AI is to influence decisions involving personnel.

00:09:06.000 AI can even calculate nutrition costs that different divisions suffer if they fail to promote DEI.

00:09:13.000 There's many Fox News employees who obviously despise the audience, as Matt points out.

00:09:18.000 The Instagram page of one employee with pronouns in bio, who's influential over Fox News' actual content, frequently posts about his work at Fox News and lashes out at the Fox News audience by calling them hicks, for example.

00:09:32.000 That Fox News employee also came out in support of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.

00:09:36.000 So, what exactly is happening over at the Fox News leadership?

00:09:39.000 Why is all of that happening?

00:09:39.000 Well, you have to imagine that some of this has to do with the fact that some of the big shareholders in Fox are, of course, wait for it, BlackRock Vanguard.

00:09:46.000 BlackRock and Vanguard are these massive, massive funds that cram down DEI and ESG on all of the companies with which they engage.

00:09:55.000 And so you want the money, you're going to get the DEI, and it's going to go down to Fox News as well.

00:10:00.000 It turns out the top institutional holders in Fox Corporation are Vanguard, which is 7% owner of Fox, and BlackRock, which is a 4.6% owner in Fox.

00:10:11.000 So those are big numbers right there.

00:10:14.000 And obviously, this is going to have some impact on what exactly hits the air, as we mentioned during Pride Month last year.

00:10:21.000 It's going to have some impact on the kinds of policies that are enacted with regard to COVID, for example.

00:10:27.000 And it's gonna have some impact on who gets hired and who gets fired over at Fox News.

00:10:30.000 Big scandal broke out yesterday when the Fox News producer behind a controversial chyron calling President Joe Biden a wannabe dictator was fired.

00:10:38.000 So you'll recall that just a couple of nights ago, there was a big controversy because there was a chyron that went up in the middle of, I believe it was Sean Hannity's show, calling Joe Biden a wannabe dictator who tried to have his political rival arrested.

00:10:54.000 And this created all sorts of heartburn over at Fox.

00:10:58.000 How could this be?

00:10:59.000 It was up for less than 30 seconds and then it was removed.

00:11:02.000 How could you say that Joe Biden is a wannabe dictator?

00:11:03.000 Well, first of all, it was on an opinion show.

00:11:05.000 Second of all, the idea that Joe Biden is a wannabe dictator, I mean, he did use executive orders to illegally relieve student loan debt.

00:11:12.000 He has attempted to use, he has suggested he has the power to basically raise the debt ceiling unilaterally.

00:11:18.000 He pulled out of Afghanistan without any real congressional approval or oversight.

00:11:24.000 He has engaged in a wide variety of unconstitutional seizures of power, up to and including using OSHA itself in order to cram down a VAX mandate on private industries across the country.

00:11:34.000 So is that an arguable opinion that he's a wannabe dictator?

00:11:38.000 I think that's an arguable opinion at the very least but Fox fired the producer who put that up as revealed by Tucker Carlson last night.

00:11:44.000 He claimed in his latest Tucker on Twitter video that the women who run the network panicked and then scolded the producer who put the banner on screen and then he resigned.

00:11:53.000 Apparently this producer had been at Fox for more than a decade.

00:11:55.000 That's according to Carlson.

00:11:58.000 So Is Fox a network that can be trusted?

00:12:01.000 Listen, they're still the most conservative network on cable news by a long shot.

00:12:05.000 But do you have to worry that there is some level of corporate control that is being exercised over the people at Fox News?

00:12:10.000 There are a lot of great people at Fox News.

00:12:11.000 I have a lot of friends in the building.

00:12:13.000 But is there corporate control being exercised over the employees at Fox News?

00:12:16.000 Hell yes, there's corporate control being exercised over the employees at Fox News.

00:12:20.000 And hell yes, that has an impact on what makes it on the air, obviously.

00:12:23.000 And by the way, what this does is it creates openings for people on the left.

00:12:27.000 Meanwhile, over in Los Angeles, the LA Dodgers are moving forward with their cultural perversion.

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00:13:42.000 Again, so much of the LGBTQ pride movement is rooted in the idea that traditional Judeo-Christian values are evil and must be overturned. 0.56

00:13:49.000 And Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence are, again, just a sort of symptom of that.

00:13:53.000 They're just an imagistic Crystallization of all of that.

00:13:57.000 Well now, Archbishop Jose Gomez of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles is fighting back.

00:14:02.000 He is inviting all area Catholics to a mass, kicking off a day of prayer on the solemnity of the most sacred heart of Jesus planned for Friday.

00:14:09.000 They're doing this in light of the decision by the Dodgers to honor a group that mocks Catholic religious sisters and stages lewd and profane performances aimed at ridiculing Jesus and the Catholic mass, among other provocations.

00:14:19.000 Here's the LA Archbishop torching the Dodgers.

00:14:22.000 Los Angeles Archbishop Jose Gomez expressing disappointment, dismay, and pain as the Dodgers prepare to honor the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence during the team's LGBTQ plus Pride Night celebration this Friday.

00:14:34.000 In a statement, the Archbishop called on all Catholics to stand together in prayer and said the church will dedicate a mass that day following the Dodgers' decision to honor a group that he says, quote, intentionally denigrates and profanes the Christian faith.

00:14:48.000 Friday is also the day the church celebrates the Feast of Jesus' Sacred Heart.

00:14:52.000 The Dodgers said they have no comment on the Archdiocese's statement.

00:14:56.000 Of course, the Dodgers don't have a comment on it, but you know what?

00:14:58.000 The American people are going to have a comment on a lot of this stuff.

00:15:01.000 It turns out that the American people are not hot on this sort of stuff.

00:15:04.000 In fact, there is a new report out from Axios showing that the cost to pry backlash, the American people not enjoying this sort of stuff and deciding not to shop at places that have decided to propagate this nonsense, is about $28 billion in the stock market.

00:15:20.000 $28 billion.

00:15:20.000 Those are not small numbers.

00:15:22.000 Okay, meanwhile, Joe Biden is facing an actually fairly serious challenge by the polling data from RFK Jr.

00:15:28.000 Now, RFK Jr., as I have said before, is a wild dude.

00:15:31.000 RFK Jr.

00:15:32.000 is a person who has said that not only did the CIA probably kill JFK, but probably they also killed his father, which is not true.

00:15:39.000 Sirhan Sirhan, who's a Palestinian terrorist, shot his father to death.

00:15:43.000 But, RFK Jr.

00:15:44.000 has also been barred by the mainstream media and the legacy media from virtually any appearances, largely because he says things that the left doesn't like.

00:15:53.000 It's not because of the conspiracism.

00:15:54.000 It's because of everything else that they are barring him from all of their shows.

00:15:59.000 And so, that means that he has been relegated to going on places like Joe Rogan.

00:16:02.000 Now, the problem for the legacy media is that more people listen to Joe Rogan than listen to any of their shows.

00:16:07.000 The problem is that when RFK Jr.

00:16:08.000 goes on shows like Rogan, or goes on shows like Tucker's, presumably, at some point, or goes on with Elon Musk on Twitter spaces, that those numbers actually dwarf what he would normally get by going on MSNBC or CNN.

00:16:23.000 Robert F. Kennedy is currently topping both Joe Biden and Donald Trump in a new favorability poll.

00:16:28.000 In fact, he's viewed favorably by 49% of respondents and unfavorably by just 30%, leaving him with a net rating of 19 points higher than any of the other candidates in the poll.

00:16:37.000 Joe Biden, meanwhile, has a negative 9% favorability rating.

00:16:41.000 52% don't like him.

00:16:42.000 45% have very or somewhat favorable impressions.

00:16:45.000 Trump has a negative 10 point rating.

00:16:47.000 53% unfavorable, 43% favorable.

00:16:51.000 There are about 21% of respondents who didn't offer an opinion on Kennedy because a lot of people don't know anything about him.

00:16:56.000 A lot of people just identify him by his last name.

00:16:59.000 But again, the reality is that RFK Jr.

00:17:02.000 is gaining popularity because he is saying that the COVID regime was dictatorial, which it was.

00:17:07.000 Now, the problem is that also comes in a package with RFK Jr.

00:17:10.000 saying kind of crazy conspiratorial things on a lot of other subjects.

00:17:13.000 So, for example, here's RFK Jr.

00:17:15.000 with Joe Rogan claiming that the CIA might assassinate him if he talks about what happened with JFK.

00:17:21.000 It turns out that people like that a lot more.

00:17:23.000 And, you know, we should be projecting economic power around the globe and not military power.

00:17:29.000 It will make us much stronger.

00:17:31.000 But what do you think happens when you get into office?

00:17:35.000 Like, if you're talking about your uncle who was assassinated and you believe the intelligence agencies were part of that, what happens to you?

00:17:45.000 Well, I've got to be careful.

00:17:49.000 I'm aware of that, and I'm aware of that danger, and I don't live in fear of it at all.

00:18:00.000 But I'm not stupid about it, and I take precautions.

00:18:04.000 Okay, so again, Robert F. Kennedy has been a very long time, you know, kind of weird guy, for sure.

00:18:11.000 But, RFK Jr.

00:18:12.000 has also, as I say, suggested that he's not going to seize everybody's guns.

00:18:16.000 He has suggested that the government's treatment of its citizens during COVID was, in fact, dictatorial.

00:18:20.000 And that, of course, is true.

00:18:22.000 You know, it's sort of fascinating to see how much success he's gotten.

00:18:27.000 And the success is largely not because of him.

00:18:29.000 It's because everyone in the Democratic Party is uneasy about Joe Biden.

00:18:33.000 Which means that were there a more serious progressive challenger to Joe Biden, a Bernie Sanders type, that person would probably draw 30% from Biden.

00:18:40.000 That is a serious challenge.

00:18:41.000 Biden could easily lose like Iowa and New Hampshire, which is presumably why the DNC rejiggered all of the numbers.

00:18:48.000 The DNC actually leads now with South Carolina to prevent exactly from happening in 2020.

00:18:55.000 They don't want that to happen again in 2024.

00:18:56.000 They don't want somebody like Bernie Sanders coming in and winning a couple primaries and humiliating the sitting president of the United States.

00:19:02.000 Sitting presidents of the United States don't typically lose primaries.

00:19:04.000 Joe Biden could easily lose a primary in Iowa or New Hampshire, which is kind of an amazing statement.

00:19:11.000 But again, that's because Joe Biden is falling apart.

00:19:14.000 It's not that RFK Jr.

00:19:15.000 is so incredible, as I say, it's that Joe Biden is so bad.

00:19:18.000 I mean, Joe Biden is clearly falling apart.

00:19:20.000 And the media are obviously covering it up.

00:19:22.000 I mean, they're just, they have no interest in the fact that Joe Biden is essentially a rusting ship that is barely in dry dock.

00:19:31.000 Here was Joe Biden yesterday claiming he's going to build a railroad across the ocean.

00:19:36.000 Like, what the, really?

00:19:39.000 We're going to win and we're going to help.

00:19:41.000 We have plans to build a railroad from the Pacific all the way across the Indian Ocean.

00:19:45.000 We have plans to build in Angola, one of the largest solar plants in the world.

00:19:51.000 I can go on, but I'm not.

00:19:52.000 I'm going off script.

00:19:53.000 I'm going to get in trouble.

00:19:55.000 What?

00:19:56.000 You're going to build a railroad to the Indian Ocean?

00:19:59.000 How?

00:20:00.000 I mean, I do understand that Joe Biden is old enough to remember Pangaea.

00:20:05.000 We've mobilized the world's leading emitters to help poor countries deal with the impacts of climate change.

00:20:11.000 What? He's going to build a railroad across the ocean.

00:20:13.000 Also, apparently, remember Bill Backbetter?

00:20:16.000 He said it a thousand times.

00:20:18.000 Well, he can no longer say it because he can't speak words out of his face hole anymore.

00:20:21.000 We've mobilized the world's leading emitters to help poor countries deal with the impacts

00:20:27.000 of climate change.

00:20:28.000 They called it the G7, the Bill Back Biden.

00:20:32.000 and build back better. And we realized that got confusing.

00:20:35.000 So now we don't call it that.

00:20:37.000 What we call it is here's the bottom line. Look, we're the ones that caused the problem.

00:20:42.000 He just does a little set in the United States. Here's the bottom line. We cleared all our land.

00:20:46.000 We did all the things that to make our make things more easy for us to make money.

00:20:51.000 I said to go through. But seriously, folks, what I'm trying to say is,

00:20:58.000 we'll start well, and then. Yeah.

00:21:05.000 That's kinda the campaign.

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00:22:17.000 Yesterday, Joe Biden was asked by a reporter about his affiliation with Ukrainian oligarchs and the fact that there are emails that exist in which he is referred to apparently as the big guy.

00:22:27.000 These would be emails detailing money changing hands.

00:22:30.000 This would be with regard to China.

00:22:32.000 That's the allegation of Tony Bobulinski, a former Hunter Biden associate.

00:22:35.000 And Joe Biden got mad about it.

00:22:37.000 Big mad.

00:22:39.000 Why did the Ukrainian FBI informant file a referral to you today? 1.00

00:22:42.000 Why do you ask such a dumb question?

00:22:51.000 A smart question would be, who did it on Matlock? 0.99

00:22:54.000 That's a smart question.

00:22:55.000 That's a good question.

00:22:56.000 A good question would be like, how many cans of Ensure do I need to take so I don't kill over?

00:23:00.000 Or, did Secret Service bring my extra set of Depends?

00:23:03.000 Those would be good questions.

00:23:07.000 Well, again, it turns out that Joe Biden, not a popular guy.

00:23:10.000 You want to know why RFK Jr.

00:23:11.000 is getting numbers?

00:23:12.000 That would be the reason why RFK Jr., crazy and all, is getting the numbers.

00:23:16.000 That would be the reason.

00:23:18.000 And meanwhile, the media, again, they're in defense mode for Biden.

00:23:22.000 And this means that you are not allowed to criticize him, even on his insane weirdnesses.

00:23:26.000 So Joe Biden is very handsy with people.

00:23:28.000 Just as a general rule, he's very handsy with people.

00:23:30.000 So for example, yesterday he got very handsy with Eva Longoria.

00:23:33.000 Eva Longoria was visiting the White House and he made a weird statement about how he's known her for a long time, since she was 17 and he was 40.

00:23:39.000 And then he got a little awkward around the boob area.

00:23:43.000 So he put his hands on her, Uh, in a, in a strange way, and, um, she literally has to take his hands and remove them from her body.

00:23:53.000 Which is always a great look.

00:23:55.000 Uh, when I say I, I, this has never happened to me ever, I mean it has never happened to me ever, not once, because I don't touch women in weird ways.

00:24:04.000 That's, that's a, that's a strange thing to do.

00:24:07.000 Like, this woman is not his wife.

00:24:09.000 Here, look, Again, if this had been Donald Trump, there'd be headlines up the wazoo.

00:24:14.000 It's Joe Biden, so apparently it's no biggie.

00:24:15.000 Here's what it looked like.

00:24:17.000 Oh no.

00:24:23.000 She literally has to take his hands off of her. 0.96

00:24:25.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:24:27.000 Good stuff right there.

00:24:28.000 He got really mad yesterday.

00:24:30.000 The entire Biden campaign and media got very, very angry because the White House had put out a video suggesting that your kids are his kids.

00:24:37.000 They put an LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign pride video in which they suggested that they're all of our kids, by which they mean your kids belong to them now. 0.63

00:24:46.000 And the DeSantis campaign then put out an ad saying, no, they are not your kids.

00:24:51.000 Including a bunch of pictures of Joe Biden sniffing the hair of small children. 0.86

00:24:56.000 And again, Joe Biden is a weirdo, okay? 0.94

00:24:58.000 He's weird. 0.98

00:24:59.000 Can we just say it?

00:25:00.000 He's a weird dude.

00:25:01.000 It's weird to sniff the hair of random kids.

00:25:04.000 It's weird that he gets handsy with random children.

00:25:07.000 It's a strange thing to do.

00:25:09.000 I have four children.

00:25:11.000 Three of them are old enough to have friends.

00:25:14.000 You don't randomly sniff the hair of children I'm in touch with many more children than Joe Biden.

00:25:21.000 Joe Biden isn't even in touch with one of his grandkids.

00:25:23.000 One of his grandkids is no longer part of the Biden family.

00:25:26.000 Because Hunter Biden shtooped a lady and then had a baby, and that's embarrassing to Joe.

00:25:30.000 So Joe never includes that baby in his calculations of the grandkids.

00:25:33.000 But Joe Biden is a weird guy.

00:25:36.000 So the DeSantis campaign noticed, and they're like, our kids do not belong to you, nor should you smell them.

00:25:42.000 And here's what it looked like.

00:25:47.000 These are our kids.

00:25:48.000 These are our neighbors.

00:25:50.000 What is he doing?

00:25:50.000 Look at that kid, cringing.

00:25:52.000 These are all our kids.

00:25:53.000 Over and over!

00:25:54.000 And the famous one?

00:25:56.000 Him grabbing this girl's, like, arm?

00:25:58.000 And she's like, I don't want to be near you, old man. 1.00

00:26:00.000 I don't know why you're whispering to me, old man.

00:26:02.000 Look at her, she's like, uh-huh.

00:26:05.000 She's trying to get away from him.

00:26:06.000 She's trying to kiss her. 0.82

00:26:07.000 LGBTQ Americans, especially children.

00:26:09.000 So weird.

00:26:11.000 You're loved.

00:26:12.000 You're heard.

00:26:15.000 Stop grabbing the children. 0.65

00:26:17.000 Stop it.

00:26:17.000 It's weird.

00:26:19.000 You're a weird old man. 0.98

00:26:23.000 Stop it. 0.98

00:26:25.000 Stop touching people in weird ways.

00:26:27.000 So, mediaite immediately ran a headline suggesting that the DeSantis campaign was accusing Biden of grooming.

00:26:35.000 No, they're accusing him of being a weird old person who keeps grabbing other people's kids and they're not your kids.

00:26:40.000 That's true.

00:26:41.000 He's a weird old guy who does all that stuff.

00:26:43.000 And you know who's noticed?

00:26:43.000 Everyone!

00:26:44.000 All the people have noticed.

00:26:45.000 What's amazing about this, and I kind of love it, is the fact that RFK Jr.

00:26:49.000 has already declared his candidacy.

00:26:50.000 Gavin Newsom is running a campaign hoping that Joe Biden dies.

00:26:53.000 That is clearly what is happening.

00:26:54.000 The governor of California keeps running against DeSantis, and a little bit against Trump, hoping that Joe Biden just slumps over in his chair one day.

00:27:02.000 Like, he's running ads in Florida, and you're like, what are you doing, dude?

00:27:06.000 You're the governor of California.

00:27:07.000 Your state is a disaster zone.

00:27:08.000 I know.

00:27:09.000 I used to live there.

00:27:09.000 I moved there.

00:27:10.000 I took my employees with me.

00:27:11.000 Like, what are you talking about?

00:27:13.000 So, DeSantis finally came out at Newsome, and he's like, dude, if you want to run, just run. 1.00

00:27:17.000 You're a coward. 0.99

00:27:18.000 Like, if you won't take on the old man, then what's your problem? 1.00

00:27:22.000 I mean, you see it in San Francisco, you see it in LA, you see it in the people fleeing.

00:27:28.000 California, from its inception, gained population every single year until he became governor.

00:27:35.000 But if you're leaving, like, Southern California to move to, like, Jacksonville, which is a great place, You're not doing it because of the weather, because they probably have the best weather in the country.

00:27:45.000 You're doing it because the place is so mismanaged and ill-governed that you just can't take it anymore.

00:27:52.000 And yet, with all those problems, he has a real serious fixation on the state of Florida.

00:27:58.000 I mean, I think it's just bizarre that he does that.

00:28:01.000 But what I would tell him is, you know what?

00:28:04.000 Stop pussyfooting around. 0.94

00:28:06.000 Are you gonna...

00:28:08.000 Are you gonna throw your hat in the ring and challenge Joe?

00:28:15.000 Are you going to get in and do it?

00:28:16.000 Or are you just going to sit on the sidelines and chirp?

00:28:21.000 And the answer is he's going to sit on the sidelines and chirp because Democrats are stuck with this guy.

00:28:25.000 We'll get to more on this in just one moment.

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00:29:33.000 Meanwhile, speaking of the failures of the Biden administration, they're about to surrender to Iran again.

00:29:37.000 Again.

00:29:37.000 So you remember when the Obama administration signed an Iran nuclear deal that basically achieved nothing but gave them pallets of cash?

00:29:42.000 Well, now Joe Biden is trying to do the exact same thing.

00:29:45.000 The motivation here is unclear.

00:29:47.000 Biden basically just wants to get out of the Middle East entirely, which sounds great until you realize that the moment that that happens, the chances of war in the Middle East go up dramatically and places like Saudi Arabia go nuclear.

00:29:57.000 And war breaks out and then the United States is sucked back in.

00:30:00.000 Isolationism always sounds amazing until precisely the moment at which isolation results in catastrophic war, which is usually what ends up happening.

00:30:06.000 In any case, the mullahs want their money and Joe Biden wants to give them money.

00:30:11.000 And so the Biden administration has been negotiating with Iran to limit Tehran's nuclear program and free imprisoned Americans, according to officials from three countries.

00:30:18.000 So what exactly would the United States get out of this?

00:30:20.000 Well, you'll recall that The mullahs have been claiming they don't want to build a nuclear weapon, but they've been enriching nuclear material from like 20% to 60% since 2015.

00:30:29.000 Now they are claiming they're going to stop.

00:30:31.000 Sure.

00:30:32.000 There are virtually no verification protocols here.

00:30:34.000 Also, Iran says, we'll stop trying to kill your soldiers in Iraq and Syria.

00:30:38.000 Which, um, I don't believe you.

00:30:40.000 They also say they're not going to ship armaments to the Russians to use in Ukraine, which, again, why would they not?

00:30:46.000 And Joe Biden's like, well, I can pretend it's a win, so probably I'm just going to ship them pallets of cash.

00:30:51.000 Why not?

00:30:52.000 Why not?

00:30:52.000 It worked for Barack Obama.

00:30:53.000 The media, of course, are over the moon about all of this.

00:30:55.000 The reality is this radically increases the chances of war in the Middle East, because if the United States takes the clamps off money flowing to Iran, Saudi Arabia is going to have to arm up.

00:31:04.000 Saudi Arabia is going to make common cause with China.

00:31:08.000 Israel is going to look at striking Iran's nuclear facilities.

00:31:11.000 That's just how this is going to go.

00:31:12.000 And everybody knows this is how it's going to go.

00:31:15.000 But the Biden administration doesn't care because, again, this is the worst foreign policy administration since at least the last democratic foreign policy administration.

00:31:21.000 Meanwhile, speaking of bad Democrats, Bill de Blasio apparently owes the city of New York $475,000.

00:31:25.000 It's kind of incredible.

00:31:28.000 De Blasio, the former communist mayor of New York City, Now has to reimburse the city nearly 320 grand and pay a $155,000 fine because he brought his security detail on trips during his failed presidential campaign.

00:31:40.000 Remember he ran for president?

00:31:41.000 You remember that?

00:31:42.000 I don't either.

00:31:42.000 It was like five minutes long and no one cared because he's a weirdo six foot nine Frankenstein looking dude who almost killed a groundhog.

00:31:47.000 Actually he did kill the groundhog as it turns out. 0.63

00:31:49.000 The hefty fine and repayment.

00:31:52.000 Both the highest penalty and largest amount the board said it has ever issued may be the most lasting impact to date of de Blasio's doomed run for the presidency.

00:31:59.000 Apparently, the city spent $320,000 in travel-related costs for members of de Blasio's security detail to accompany either him or his wife, Charlene McRae, on 31 out-of-state trips related to the campaign.

00:32:09.000 The expenses included airfare, car rentals, overnight lodging, meals, and other incidentals.

00:32:14.000 Shortly before de Blasio launched his campaign, the board told de Blasio the city could pay for salary and overtime for his security detail, but it advised him that paying for officers' travel costs would be a misuse of city resources.

00:32:23.000 De Blasio went ahead and did it anyway.

00:32:26.000 So he will pay a fine.

00:32:28.000 He will do no jail time, I would imagine, despite the apparent fraudulent charges to the city of New York.

00:32:33.000 Because that's the way it works if you're a Democrat.

00:32:34.000 You get to pay the fine.

00:32:35.000 If you're a Republican, then Alvin Bragg will drag you up in court for originally paying Stormy Daniels money to be quiet about the fact that you shtooped her at a club one time.

00:32:44.000 That's the way it works in the city of New York.

00:32:46.000 Law and order over in the city of New York.

00:32:49.000 Well, over in New York City, they've now made it criminal to defend yourself.

00:32:52.000 So it's not just the case of Jordan Neely, where apparently if a person threatens a bunch of people, including women and children, on a subway, and then someone stops him, and then he ends up dying in that procedure, then the person who stopped you has to be dragged up on charges.

00:33:04.000 That, of course, we talked about yesterday with regard to Daniel Penny.

00:33:08.000 Al Sharpton, who is one of the great race baiters and grifters of our time. 1.00

00:33:12.000 He was over on MSNBC.

00:33:13.000 It is a source of never-ending shock to me that Al Sharpton, a person who is involved in not one but two race riots in the city of New York, who has repeatedly uttered antisemitic nonsense, who is one of the most egregiously terrible people in American public life, who literally slandered a D.A.

00:33:32.000 and claimed that he had committed a false rape.

00:33:34.000 This guy has a show on MSNBC, but here he is pretending that he is a legitimate news source while claiming Jordan Neely was not threatening anyone, which is a weird thing for him to say, considering that everybody recognized that he was threatening people.

00:33:45.000 By the family's own admission, he nearly had mental health issues that we need to deal with people in the streets that cause nearly was having a meltdown on the train.

00:33:56.000 He was not threatening anyone.

00:33:57.000 He was ready to die. 0.62

00:33:59.000 He was ready to go to jail. 0.54

00:34:01.000 So we've got to deal with the mental health issue.

00:34:05.000 Oh, so he was dealing with a mental health issue.

00:34:08.000 Okay, so that means you have to prosecute the person who stopped him on the train.

00:34:10.000 But that's not the only story like this.

00:34:12.000 According to the New York Post, the man accused of fatally stabbing an ex-con who punched his girlfriend on a J train this week was released without bail Thursday after his arraignment in Brooklyn Criminal Court.

00:34:21.000 Assistant District Attorney David Engel had asked the judge to impose a $100,000 cash bail on Jordan Williams.

00:34:26.000 He's a 20-year-old from Hollis, Queens, who allegedly knifed DeVictor O'Drago on Tuesday during a subway struggle.

00:34:33.000 Mimes refused, instead electing to cut Williams loose.

00:34:36.000 He said, I don't think you're a flight risk.

00:34:39.000 Jason Goldman, Williams' attorney, said in court, the client works at FedEx to help pay the family bills.

00:34:43.000 He's never been in legal trouble.

00:34:44.000 Apparently, his client was put in the precarious position where you either sit there and get assaulted, and let all the people get assaulted, or you eventually stand up for yourself and you get arrested.

00:34:53.000 Because basically what happened is allegedly that the person who was stabbed was harassing commuters aboard the train as it approached Marcy Avenue in Williamsburg on Tuesday evening.

00:35:04.000 And then he apparently punched this guy's girlfriend in the face.

00:35:08.000 He approached Williams' girlfriend and asked, want to F?

00:35:11.000 Williams told the man to get away from them, but O'Drago kept harassing his girlfriend, so Williams pushed him away and told him not to come closer.

00:35:17.000 During the clash, O'Drago also punched Williams' girlfriend in the face, according to Goldman and police sources.

00:35:22.000 The deceased took one step to the defendant and punched the defendant one or two times.

00:35:25.000 He removed a folding knife and then stabbed the deceased in the chest.

00:35:27.000 The deceased got off the train at Marcy Avenue and then collapsed on the platform.

00:35:32.000 A cop responding to 911 call found him about 8 p.m.

00:35:34.000 and rushed him to the hospital where he died.

00:35:36.000 So apparently self-defense is now illegal in the city of New York.

00:35:40.000 And this is all because the city of New York has decided that basically they're going to make policing illegal, which is something that the Biden administration certainly would like to do all over the country.

00:35:50.000 The Biden administration has been cramming down consent decrees on every single police department it can find, claiming systemic discrimination, and all of the rest.

00:35:59.000 Today, they are scheduled to share results of a police department probe in Minneapolis, which presumably will end with some sort of consent decree making it impossible to police in Minneapolis as well.

00:36:07.000 Meanwhile, in San Francisco, all of this is going amazing.

00:36:10.000 Westfield is actually surrendering its mall in San Francisco.

00:36:13.000 Quote, Nordstrom, Old Navy, Anthropologie, H&M, Crate & Barrel.

00:36:17.000 San Francisco's downturn, according to the New York Times, has seen a mass exodus of retailers in recent months.

00:36:21.000 This week, a mall owner decided to walk away from a prominent property.

00:36:24.000 Perhaps more troubling, market analysts say the city still has a ways to go before the hemorrhaging stops.

00:36:28.000 The city now has the highest office vacancy rate of any large American city.

00:36:32.000 Asking rents for retail spaces have dropped 21% since before the pandemic.

00:36:36.000 Even as tourists are visiting San Francisco again, the amount of money they spent on the city is 23% less than it was in 2019.

00:36:43.000 The mall owner Westfield said it was handing Westfield's San Francisco Center back to its lender, who will decide who will operate the property going forward.

00:36:49.000 So they're literally just walking away from their mall location and giving it back to the lender.

00:36:52.000 Like, we can't run a mall here.

00:36:53.000 You've decided to make this a criminal center.

00:36:56.000 Meanwhile, San Francisco's death spiral is continuing, according to Breitbart, with Cinemark closing its downtown movie theater.

00:37:04.000 This week, Shopping Center Westfield announced they would close.

00:37:06.000 Cinemark made its own announcement and told customers it will be shuttering its theater in the mall, with its last showings happening on Thursday, according to the San Francisco Standard.

00:37:14.000 Again, more than 20 major retail chains have closed their doors since 2020 in this area, thanks to the pathetic take on crime by the Democratic Party.

00:37:22.000 Meanwhile, you continue to get all sorts of excuses for the crime. 0.97

00:37:26.000 Fascinating and idiotic op-ed over in the Los Angeles Times on this topic is by a person named Sikifu Hutchinson 0.98

00:37:34.000 called Violence Against Black Women and Girls is Underreported, here's how we can address it. 0.99

00:37:37.000 And the whole thing is about how violence against black girls and women

00:37:41.000 is a longstanding national epidemic that has been overlooked.

00:37:44.000 They make up less than 5% of LA's population, but black women are far more likely to experience 0.90

00:37:48.000 multiple forms of violence and trauma than other groups.

00:37:50.000 Apparently, black women from 2011 to 2022 made up one third of female homicides, 1.00

00:37:56.000 nearly one third of all missing women.

00:37:58.000 There were nearly one-quarter of all female rape victims. 1.00

00:38:01.000 In comparison to non-black women, black women are three times more likely to be killed by an intimate partner. 0.97

00:38:07.000 The report was commissioned by the LA City Council as part of a January 2022 motion.

00:38:11.000 So the question becomes, well, why is there not more focus on this?

00:38:14.000 And the answer is, there is not more focus on this, not because the media are racist in the way that the left would like to believe the media are racist, as in they don't care so much about black people.

00:38:23.000 It's because they are afraid that if they actually report that black women are being victimized, generally by black men, then this might lead to more black men being jailed.

00:38:31.000 It might lead to more policing. 0.92

00:38:33.000 The diktat from the left-wing media is you do not cover the race of a perpetrator if the perpetrator is a black person.

00:38:38.000 And the reason you don't do this is it might create stereotypical presumptions about black people in general.

00:38:42.000 We can't trust our audience with basic information.

00:38:45.000 And we want to lie and we want to suggest that black men are generally in prison because they didn't commit crimes but because the American system is racist. 0.97

00:38:53.000 So this foolish column suggests that the real issue here is generalized American racism. 0.98

00:39:01.000 Murders of black trans women aren't adequately captured in L.A. 0.96

00:39:03.000 City data because law enforcement and reporting agencies haven't been trained to capture multiple protected class identities.

00:39:08.000 That's a reporting problem.

00:39:09.000 That's the problem.

00:39:10.000 It's not a problem of actual crime, it's a problem of reporting.

00:39:13.000 Or alternatively, it's a problem of actual crime and it requires actual police officers to stop all of this.

00:39:18.000 All right, time for a thing I like and then some things that I hate.

00:39:21.000 So, thing I like today, Starbucks is now admitting that they are under serious scrutiny over their removal of Pride decorations.

00:39:27.000 They've been caught in the middle, as well they should be.

00:39:29.000 Starbucks has been a woke company for a very long time. 0.96

00:39:31.000 A union, according to the New York Times, representing hundreds of Starbucks stores, said this week, workers in 21 states were told by their managers not to decorate for Pride Month, the annual LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign holy month, a claim the company said represented outlier decisions by local leaders that did not reflect corporate policies.

00:39:46.000 But even in New York City, Neighborhoods that are almost synonymous with Pride.

00:39:49.000 The traditional rainbow displays were more muted, if visible at all, than in years past.

00:39:53.000 In Manhattan, no Pride decorations could be seen at several Starbucks stores in Chelsea and Greenwich Village, including the one just a block from the Stonewall Inn.

00:40:00.000 Starbucks workers in Wisconsin, Ohio, and Virginia said in interviews arranged through their union that store and district managers have been asked to take down existing decorations like flags or streamers and told they would not be allowed to decorate stores for Pride Month unlike in previous years.

00:40:12.000 Well, good.

00:40:13.000 The American people are saying, we are not interested in being propagandized to about your alternative set of sexual values while we get our coffee.

00:40:19.000 Good for Americans.

00:40:21.000 And I imagine that at a certain point, the population of India might object to this.

00:40:25.000 Starbucks put out a bizarre commercial that we've talked about in India about a trans woman, meaning an Indian man, introducing himself to his parents as a woman at Starbucks.

00:40:36.000 At a certain point, it turns out people don't like this stuff very much and the blowback has now arrived.

00:40:40.000 Okay, time for some things that I hate.

00:40:45.000 Well, generalized American ignorance when it comes to matters of biblical and Judeo-Christian is now extraordinary.

00:40:51.000 There is a bizarre situation over on Jeopardy where a question was issued that even I, a Jew, knew the answer to.

00:41:00.000 Okay, so the Jeopardy contestants were asked to fill in this blank.

00:41:03.000 Quote, There were three contestants, not even one guest.

00:41:10.000 Not even one guest.

00:41:11.000 Now, I'm a Jew, okay?

00:41:11.000 We don't do the Lord's Prayer.

00:41:12.000 That's not a thing for us.

00:41:14.000 Okay, but I also have watched movies and TV shows and I live in America, so I know that the answer is hallowed.

00:41:21.000 Right, but nobody on Jeopardy knew this.

00:41:23.000 Here's what it looked like.

00:41:25.000 Adjectives 200.

00:41:27.000 Matthew 6 9 says, our father which art in heaven, this be thy name.

00:41:36.000 Hallowed be thy name.

00:41:40.000 But you know what this says?

00:41:41.000 It really says that the level of biblical Judeo-Christian knowledge in this country has absolutely plummeted through the floor.

00:41:46.000 And you want to know why America is collapsing socially?

00:41:48.000 That would be the reason.

00:41:50.000 The reason is there used to be just a natural backdrop in the United States of particularly Christian values that everybody sort of understood.

00:41:56.000 In fact, there's an old story about a couple of rabbis, very prominent rabbis in the Jewish community, and they ended up in the back of a taxi together.

00:42:04.000 And they were in the back of the taxi, And they're talking about their educational background.

00:42:08.000 One says, you know, I went to public school.

00:42:09.000 And the other one goes, whoa, really?

00:42:10.000 I went to public school too.

00:42:12.000 And the first one says, well, prove it.

00:42:15.000 Show me you went to public school.

00:42:17.000 Sing me Silent Night.

00:42:18.000 And so there they are in the back of the taxi, these two rabbis singing Silent Night to each other because they went to public school. 0.77

00:42:24.000 Now, the part of that story that used to be funny was rabbis singing Silent Night. 0.99

00:42:28.000 Now the part of that story that's funny is the idea that you would learn Silent Night in a public school.

00:42:32.000 The part that's weird is the idea that, like, when I was going to public school, when I was a young child, I remember I was in the Christmas play.

00:42:39.000 So was my sister.

00:42:40.000 My sister was in the Christmas play, and she played a Christmas elf.

00:42:44.000 My sister is a Revitan, meaning she's married to a rabbi.

00:42:46.000 She's very orthodox.

00:42:47.000 I'm orthodox.

00:42:48.000 My sister is even a little more orthodox than I am.

00:42:51.000 Okay, so, like, was that harmful?

00:42:53.000 Was that terrible?

00:42:53.000 But the fact, it was good.

00:42:54.000 The reason it was good is because the inculcation of Christian values in the body politic generally does not mean that Jews have to be Christian or anything like that.

00:43:02.000 Obviously, I'd have a stake in that particular battle.

00:43:04.000 What it does mean is that there is a common set of values shared by Jews and Christians and Muslims, actually.

00:43:09.000 And that set of values Actually, it makes a difference in American public life.

00:43:14.000 It's why the notion that we should be posting Pride progress flags in classrooms but not the Ten Commandments is so absurd on its face.

00:43:20.000 We have supplanted one religion for another religion, and the new religion is bad. 1.00

00:43:23.000 It is a bad religion. 1.00

00:43:24.000 It is a cultish religion that requires not just acceptance and tolerance, but destruction of the traditional forms of morality that used to undergird all of Western civilization. 0.62

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The Ben Shapiro Show - June 16, 2023

Fox News Just BETRAYED Every Conservative

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