The Ben Shapiro Show - Hillary’s Big Blame Game | The Ben Shapiro Show Ep. 382

00:00:00.000 Hillary blames every single person in America except for you-know-who for her election loss. 1.00

00:00:05.000 Plus, we talk about President Trump and whether he's about to cut a deal with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer.

00:00:10.000 And I give you the full Berkeley update.

00:00:12.000 Plus, should ESPN fire Jemele Hill?

00:00:14.000 We'll talk about it.

00:00:14.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:00:15.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:00:23.000 So tomorrow, Hurricane Ben makes landfall in Berkeley.

00:00:26.000 This is apparently the headline that we're getting from the left-wing media.

00:00:30.000 And we will explain to you what exactly is gonna happen tomorrow at Berkeley and how you can get standby tickets.

00:00:35.000 They are sold out, but there is talk about a bunch of protesters having taken tickets and then walking out.

00:00:39.000 And so we have a standby line.

00:00:41.000 I'll explain to you how you can take advantage of that.

00:00:43.000 Plus I will give you the entire rundown on Hillary Clinton and why the Democrats are now saying that Trump may actually be, President Trump may actually be Teflon.

00:00:52.000 I'll explain why that might be true and why it might not be true.

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00:02:24.000 The big story of the day is, of course, Hillary Clinton continuing to make the rounds. 1.00

00:02:28.000 Before I get to that, I want to explain how you get tickets to the Berkeley speech.

00:02:32.000 So, it is sold out.

00:02:33.000 They sold out all of the tickets in 45 minutes.

00:02:36.000 They had actually closed the other 1,000 seats.

00:02:39.000 We would have sold that out too, probably, in the first 45 minutes as well.

00:02:42.000 Except that they closed the upper tier at this auditorium, Zellerbach Hall, at Berkeley.

00:02:46.000 They closed it.

00:02:47.000 Because they were afraid that Antifa members were going to infiltrate and actually rip, I guess, the chairs off the floor.

00:02:53.000 I think they're bolted down.

00:02:53.000 They're gonna rip the chairs off the floor and then start flinging them down onto the unsuspecting crowd members below, which is just insane.

00:03:00.000 The answer to that, by the way, is more security, not banning a thousand people from the hall.

00:03:04.000 That's absurd.

00:03:05.000 But in any case, Berkeley does seem to be doing what they should be doing for security.

00:03:09.000 Berkeley City Council today, or last night, passed a vote 6-3 that said that the Berkeley PDR allowed to use pepper spray on violent offenders.

00:03:18.000 How this is even a question is beyond me, but I guess I am the cause of that, so yay me.

00:03:23.000 It's about time they started using pepper spray on people who get violent.

00:03:25.000 They're rioters, they're not protesters once they start getting violent. 0.99

00:03:29.000 Apparently, there's been a 20-year ban in place on using pepper spray against violent protesters because Berkeley is one of the world's dumbest places. 0.86

00:03:35.000 So, if you want to get standby tickets, then you can go over to the Berkeley College, you can go over to the Berkeley campus tomorrow.

00:03:44.000 For those who reserved a ticket online, you have to pick up your tickets at a time prior to 6.30 p.m.

00:03:49.000 on Thursday, September 14th.

00:03:51.000 Any tickets that are unclaimed by 6.30 p.m.

00:03:53.000 will be forfeited by those who reserved them, and they're setting up a standby line right now.

00:03:58.000 There's a standby line forming at Memorial Stadium box office at the UC Berkeley campus beginning at 5 p.m.

00:04:03.000 Starting at 6.30 p.m., they'll start distributing unclaimed or forfeited tickets.

00:04:07.000 Right now, I think there are only about 15 tickets, actually.

00:04:10.000 If that changes, then be first in line to receive all of those, because I have a feeling there might be more than a few unclaimed tickets.

00:04:17.000 I think that there are going to be a lot of people on the left who reserve tickets just to make sure that there are seats that are empty.

00:04:22.000 So if you really want to get in, then go over to Memorial Stadium box office at the UC Berkeley campus beginning at 5 p.m.

00:04:29.000 tomorrow, and I will see you there, because it should be a lot of fun.

00:04:33.000 Widely anticipated, a lot of media coverage of this particular speech, and I'm very much looking forward to seeing all of you.

00:04:40.000 That is exciting stuff.

00:04:40.000 Okay, so Hillary Clinton is doing her own book junket.

00:04:45.000 She will not leave.

00:04:46.000 And this is the worst thing in the world for the Democrats because she was such a deeply unpopular candidate that she really lost the election more than Donald Trump won it.

00:04:54.000 And I say that

00:04:56.000 You know, knowing that Trump may have been the only Republican candidate who could beat her.

00:04:59.000 That's not a rip on Trump.

00:05:00.000 This is just to point out how unpopular Hillary Clinton was. 0.85

00:05:03.000 She won fewer votes, fewer votes, in Michigan than Donald, sorry, Donald Trump won fewer votes in Michigan and won the state than George W. Bush won in 2004 in Michigan and George W. Bush lost the state of Michigan.

00:05:16.000 That doesn't demonstrate a vast Trump movement.

00:05:18.000 It demonstrates everyone dislikes Hillary Clinton.

00:05:20.000 Same thing in Wisconsin.

00:05:21.000 Mitt Romney actually outperformed Donald Trump in Wisconsin in 2012.

00:05:25.000 Mitt Romney lost the state.

00:05:26.000 Trump won the state.

00:05:26.000 Why?

00:05:27.000 No one showed up to vote for this lady. 0.99

00:05:29.000 No one showed up to vote for her.

00:05:30.000 So, she now comes along and she is going to give her explanation for why she lost.

00:05:35.000 And naturally, the explanation for why she lost is because everyone is mean to her.

00:05:39.000 It's just the end of the world.

00:05:40.000 Everyone is cruel and mean and vicious. 1.00

00:05:42.000 Her book came out yesterday, and apparently it is a heaping pile of garbage. 0.99

00:05:46.000 There are amusing parts of it.

00:05:48.000 I will admit, I've read some of the sections of it.

00:05:50.000 I haven't had a chance to pick it up as of yet.

00:05:51.000 It's been a bit of a busy week.

00:05:53.000 And, uh, I mean, frankly, if I can somehow put it off to the point where it becomes irrelevant to the news, that'd be great, because I would not want to spend four hours reading her book.

00:06:00.000 But she is blaming everyone.

00:06:03.000 I think my favorite part of this book is there's a quote that came out from her book that is just astonishing where she just completely misses how it is that the Orwell novel 1984, what it was about.

00:06:15.000 So she actually writes this in her book.

00:06:20.000 This is what the Soviets did when they erased political dissidents from historical photos. 0.80

00:06:24.000 This is what happens in George Orwell's classic novel, 1984, when a torturer holds up four fingers and delivers electric shocks until his prisoner sees five fingers is order.

00:06:32.000 The goal is to make you question logic and reason and to sow mistrust.

00:06:36.000 For Trump, as with so much he does, it's about simple dominance.

00:06:40.000 So, she basically says the big problem with 1984 is that it's supposed to make you distrust, that Trump's shtick is to make you distrust the press and the authorities.

00:06:48.000 Just like in 1984.

00:06:50.000 Which is not what 1984 is about.

00:06:52.000 That's about why you should not trust the press and the authorities.

00:06:54.000 The entire book is about not trusting the press and the authorities.

00:06:57.000 But Hillary Clinton is nearly as bad at literary analysis, apparently, as she is at things like running for office. 1.00

00:07:05.000 Okay, so here is Hillary doing her shtick. 1.00

00:07:07.000 She first of all rips the press. 1.00

00:07:08.000 She starts off with, it's the press's fault.

00:07:11.000 It's all the press's fault.

00:07:12.000 They were just mean to me.

00:07:13.000 If they hadn't been so cruel, then I would have won this election.

00:07:18.000 But I don't think the press did their job in this election, with very few exceptions.

00:07:23.000 So the hard questions about what was real and what was realistic and what could happen with the right kind of election outcome were never really joined.

00:07:37.000 You know, I found it frustrating, obviously, because I think I could have defended and lifted up a lot of what I believed we could do.

00:07:46.000 But really, Ezra, when you get 32 minutes in a whole year to cover all policy, how does that work?

00:07:55.000 Okay, so it's all because she wanted to talk policy, but the media were just too mean. 0.94

00:07:59.000 Now, what's hysterical about this is that essentially what Hillary Clinton is doing is she's saying the entire 2016 election was, wait for it, fake news, right?

00:08:06.000 She's suggesting that the media didn't do their jobs.

00:08:08.000 The media were all part of this evil conspiracy to stop her.

00:08:12.000 Now, I remember when there was a guy named Donald Trump, and he said this all the time, and continues to say it all the time, and the media say, how dare Trump?

00:08:19.000 How dare he insult us this way?

00:08:21.000 But Hillary Clinton says the same thing, and they just sit there and take it.

00:08:24.000 Well, she's probably right.

00:08:25.000 You know, maybe we didn't do our jobs this time.

00:08:26.000 Maybe we should have been more sycophantic.

00:08:28.000 The big problem for Hillary Clinton and the Democrats is that the media were so sycophantic during the primaries, they refused to acknowledge what a bad candidate she was. 1.00

00:08:35.000 So by the time she was exposed to the light of day, she just withered in the light of day.

00:08:39.000 If the media had been honest about what a terrible candidate she was early on, the chances that she would have won the nomination would have been exceedingly low. 0.99

00:08:48.000 I mean, the media bias is always to the left.

00:08:50.000 The best example of this today, there's an amazing tweet from a guy named Chris Chilesa over at CNN.

00:08:55.000 Sometimes I think Chris Chilesa does some interesting stuff, but he tweeted something today that's just incredible.

00:09:00.000 Here's what he tweeted, quote, The Today Show did Ted Cruz porn video and Seattle mayor resignation in its first 10 minutes.

00:09:06.000 Banner day for politicians.

00:09:08.000 And why do I bring this up?

00:09:09.000 Because when he says The Today Show did the Ted Cruz porn video and Seattle mayor resignation,

00:09:14.000 You have to understand what those stories are to understand how biased the media is.

00:09:16.000 Hillary says the media are biased against her and Democrats.

00:09:19.000 Okay, that's insane. 0.97

00:09:21.000 The Ted Cruz porn video? 0.95

00:09:23.000 No, Ted Cruz was not in a porn video. 0.64

00:09:25.000 No, Ted Cruz was not caught watching a porn video.

00:09:27.000 One of his interns liked a porn video on his Twitter account that he doesn't even run.

00:09:32.000 Okay, that's the Ted Cruz porn video story that was worthy of Chris Chilles' tweet.

00:09:37.000 And what is this Seattle mayor resignation story? 0.99

00:09:39.000 That's Democrat Mayor Ed Murray of Seattle, who's a garbage mayor. 0.95

00:09:43.000 He had to resign because there was a fifth allegation of child molestation against him. 0.99

00:09:48.000 Child molestation, okay?

00:09:50.000 Allegedly molested five kids.

00:09:52.000 Okay, and here he is, Ed Murray, resigning, but how is that characterized by Chris Chillesa?

00:09:57.000 As Seattle mayor resignation.

00:09:59.000 Would you get from that that he was resigning because of alleged molestation?

00:10:03.000 Is that what you would get from that?

00:10:05.000 If you just read those two phrases, Ted Cruz porn video and Seattle mayor resignation, which one of those do you think would actually include a sex scandal?

00:10:11.000 If you just read those two phrases.

00:10:12.000 The Cruz one, right?

00:10:13.000 But the Cruz thing's a nothing.

00:10:15.000 The Seattle mayor just had to resign.

00:10:16.000 He was, by the way, an up-and-comer in Democratic circles.

00:10:18.000 There was talk about him running for governor of the state of Washington, Ed Murray.

00:10:22.000 He's, I think, the first openly gay mayor of Seattle.

00:10:26.000 His $15 minimum wage guy in Seattle.

00:10:28.000 Progressive hero.

00:10:30.000 Molested, allegedly.

00:10:31.000 Five children.

00:10:32.000 Five underage people.

00:10:33.000 And Chris Chilesa characterizes that as Seattle mayor resignation.

00:10:36.000 But no, we're supposed to believe that Hillary really, she was the one who was treated roughly by the media.

00:10:40.000 Not Republicans, not Trump.

00:10:41.000 It was really Hillary Clinton. 0.81

00:10:43.000 Then Hillary said, you know who else is to blame?

00:10:45.000 You know who else is to blame for all of this?

00:10:47.000 I'll tell you.

00:10:47.000 It was James Comey.

00:10:49.000 James Comey was so mean.

00:10:51.000 Here's Hillary Clinton explaining. 0.97

00:10:54.000 I believe, absent Comey,

00:10:58.000 I might have picked up one or two points among white women. 1.00

00:11:01.000 I'll give you the example I use in the book.

00:11:04.000 So before the Comey letter on October 28th, I was 26 points ahead in the Philadelphia suburbs.

00:11:10.000 That could have only happened if I had a big vote from women, Republican women, independent women. 1.00

00:11:17.000 A week later, 11 days later, I win the Philadelphia suburbs by 13 points.

00:11:22.000 I needed to win by 18 points to be able to counterbalance the rest of the state.

00:11:26.000 That wasn't just me, that's how Democrats win Pennsylvania in presidential campaigns.

00:11:31.000 It stopped my momentum and it hurt me, particularly among women. 1.00

00:11:36.000 And I have so much anecdotal evidence for this, and now researchers are starting to pull some of this together.

00:11:42.000 You know, all of a sudden the husband turns to the wife, I told you, she's going to be in jail.

00:11:46.000 You don't want to waste your vote.

00:11:47.000 You know, the boyfriend turns to the girlfriend and says, she's going to get locked up.

00:11:53.000 Don't you hear?

00:11:53.000 She's going to get locked up.

00:11:55.000 I mean, all of a sudden it becomes a very fraught kind of conflictual experience. 1.00

00:12:01.000 What I love here also is the statement from Hillary Clinton here that it's all the evil men who are telling their women, these stupid women, if only the stupid women wouldn't listen to their men, it's their men who are turning them and saying, she's going to be locked up. 1.00

00:12:11.000 And the women are going, 1.00

00:12:13.000 Oh, darling, okay, I guess I won't vote for her anymore.

00:12:15.000 Like, that's how Hillary Clinton actually pictures her own female voters. 1.00

00:12:18.000 I can't imagine why this lady lost. 0.89

00:12:21.000 I cannot imagine why this deeply unlikable human being lost.

00:12:24.000 Then she says it wasn't just Comey, it was also Russian meddling.

00:12:26.000 So first of all, just to point something out about the Comey thing, yes, James Comey botched this thing all the way through.

00:12:32.000 But, if you recall, the botchery started with him not indicting her in the first place.

00:12:36.000 Not recommending indictment in the first place.

00:12:38.000 By actively changing the standard of law back in July, instead of just handing over his recommendation to Loretta Lynch, he did the bidding of Barack Obama.

00:12:47.000 Right?

00:12:47.000 He basically was writing her exoneration statement before he even interviewed her.

00:12:50.000 You don't get to complain about James Comey when it's James Comey's fault that you were even running competitively up until the end of the election cycle.

00:12:59.000 It wasn't just Comey, though, and it wasn't just the press.

00:13:01.000 It was also the Russians, the Russkies, the evil Russkies. 0.99

00:13:05.000 You notice there's one person who's missing in all of these calculations.

00:13:08.000 Her name rhymes with Schmillery Blinton.

00:13:10.000 But here's Hillary Clinton explaining that it was the Russkies that they wanted to take her out. 1.00

00:13:19.000 The Russians through WikiLeaks were in weaponizing information against me and how they were getting really good political advice about placement, both geographic and platform from somebody. 0.53

00:13:32.000 And we'll leave it at that.

00:13:35.000 But we didn't really see that.

00:13:37.000 That was not clear to us at the time in the campaign.

00:13:41.000 And in retrospect, you know, we saw how if you analyze Google searches, they were

00:13:48.000 Spiking in places that had been sort of swing, had ended up voting for President Obama, but were, you know, subject to being persuaded by the other side.

00:13:58.000 WikiLeaks searches were off the charts.

00:14:01.000 People were trying to understand and they were trying to make sense of some of the stuff they were hearing on their Facebook, you know, feeds or a friend telling them.

00:14:08.000 I love the implication here, by the way.

00:14:09.000 That they were cleverly weaponizing WikiLeaks.

00:14:11.000 Okay, I was there.

00:14:12.000 What WikiLeaks did is they just released giant caches of documents.

00:14:16.000 The idea that they were strategically releasing portions of them in various outlets just is not true.

00:14:21.000 That's not how WikiLeaks worked.

00:14:23.000 They would dump a bunch of documents and then people like me and my staff would crowdsource them.

00:14:27.000 Okay, that was just stuff that happened during the election cycle, but it was also the Russians.

00:14:32.000 It wasn't the fault of the DNC for not actually protecting their servers.

00:14:35.000 It was the Russians. 0.92

00:14:35.000 It wasn't Hillary Clinton's fault in any way. 0.92

00:14:37.000 It was that Hillary Clinton was victimized by the Russians.

00:14:40.000 So now, here are the people she's blamed.

00:14:41.000 The press, James Comey, the Russians, and now we're about to find out that it was sexism and misogyny.

00:14:47.000 That's really what happened here, is people don't like women. 1.00

00:14:49.000 Right?

00:14:49.000 It's people don't like women.

00:14:51.000 It wasn't people don't like Hillary Clinton.

00:14:52.000 It's they don't like women in general. 1.00

00:14:54.000 Like white women, who by the way, went for Donald Trump by a pretty wide margin. 1.00

00:14:57.000 It's that white women hate women. 1.00

00:14:59.000 That's really the problem here. 0.98

00:15:01.000 I was really quite taken aback at the attitude and the behavior of my general election opponent, because he made no bones about it, literally.

00:15:15.000 He was so sexist, and not just about me, but about his Republican woman opponent, his women reporters on TV and elsewhere.

00:15:27.000 It was really a part of the atmosphere and I want not just women but men as well to know this is endemic.

00:15:35.000 Sexism and misogyny are still endemic.

00:15:38.000 We've made progress but we can't allow ourselves to go backward.

00:15:42.000 And as I point out in the book it never was just about me.

00:15:45.000 I happen to have the big bullseye on my head but it was about women and in the months since 1.00

00:15:52.000 We've seen reports out of Silicon Valley and other businesses as well as politics where distinguished women like Elizabeth Warren or Kamala Harris or Kirsten Gillibrand or, you know, others in the media are being treated to a level of overt sexism. 1.00

00:16:12.000 Okay, this is absurd.

00:16:13.000 This is absurd.

00:16:13.000 People don't like Hillary Clinton.

00:16:14.000 It's not that they don't like women. 1.00

00:16:16.000 That's ridiculous. 0.97

00:16:17.000 Okay, Kamala Harris is only being talked about for the presidency because she's a woman. 1.00

00:16:20.000 She's been in the Senate for five minutes and done nothing.

00:16:22.000 Elizabeth Warren being talked about for president is an absurdity.

00:16:25.000 I know Elizabeth Warren.

00:16:26.000 She's a professor at Harvard Law School and I was there.

00:16:28.000 Okay, the idea that Elizabeth Warren is being talked about as a presidential candidate is an absurdity.

00:16:32.000 Christian Gillibrand.

00:16:34.000 These are absurdities, but the idea that these are being treated—oh, it's that sexism was unlocked in the last election cycle.

00:16:40.000 No, what happened is that people got tired of people like Hillary Clinton labeling them sexist, and they didn't care what Trump had to say anymore. 0.98

00:16:46.000 That's what happened here.

00:16:47.000 People had a choice, right?

00:16:48.000 They could either take Trump with, yes, some of his sexism,

00:16:52.000 But at least he wasn't calling them sexists. 0.88

00:16:54.000 Or they could take Hillary Clinton, who was lecturing them every single day about how they hated women. 1.00

00:16:58.000 And that was an easy choice for most people. 0.98

00:17:00.000 But no, it's that Americans are sexist. 1.00

00:17:02.000 Americans are brutal and sexist. 1.00

00:17:03.000 That's the real issue here. 0.97

00:17:04.000 I don't remember Hillary Clinton speaking out the same way about any of the various...

00:17:08.000 Republican women over the course of her long, illustrious career.

00:17:13.000 I don't remember her speaking out the same way when she was targeting Juanita Broderick, when she was targeting Kathleen Willey, when she was targeting Monica Lewinsky. 0.59

00:17:20.000 I don't remember her speaking out the same way in favor of women, obviously.

00:17:22.000 So, I love this revisionist history that it's all about Americans decided they hated women. 0.69

00:17:27.000 Just like Ta-Nehisi Coates has said Americans decided they hated black people, Hillary says Americans decided that they hated women. 0.99

00:17:32.000 But it's not just that. 0.88

00:17:33.000 Hillary also blamed Bernie Sanders, and we'll get to that in just a second.

00:17:36.000 Again, everyone has to be blamed, and the reason this is important, folks, is because I don't think the Democratic Party has actually moved beyond this mentality.

00:17:43.000 I think they are stuck in a rut.

00:17:45.000 I think they are stuck in a place where they basically want a divorce from the American people over this election cycle.

00:17:51.000 I don't know.

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00:19:17.000 So Hillary also is very upset with Bernie Sanders. 0.85

00:19:20.000 So she said yesterday that she beat Bernie Sanders in a landslide.

00:19:25.000 During an interview with NPR she said she totally rejects that Bernie Sanders was the guy who was supposed to win the nomination.

00:19:30.000 She said, I find this criticism from Sanders supporters to be so off base.

00:19:33.000 He's not even a Democrat.

00:19:36.000 Right, so this is the big problem is that he's not even a Democrat.

00:19:38.000 She said, he and his followers attacks on me kept getting more and more personal, despite him asking me not to attack him personally.

00:19:44.000 And you know, I really regret that.

00:19:45.000 But now he's got a chance to prove he's something other than a spoiler.

00:19:48.000 And that is to help other Democrats.

00:19:49.000 I don't know if he will or not, but I'm hoping he will.

00:19:51.000 Right, so there she is attacking Bernie Sanders. 0.99

00:19:53.000 Everyone has to be attacked.

00:19:55.000 She attacks voters too.

00:19:57.000 Finally, she ends up attacking voters. 0.99

00:19:58.000 This, I think, is probably the best portion of her pathetic book. 0.99

00:20:03.000 It's pretty spectacular. 0.93

00:20:04.000 Here's what she has to say in her book.

00:20:05.000 She says, Since November, more than two dozen women of all ages, but mostly in their 20s, had approached me in restaurants, theaters, and stores to apologize for not voting or not doing more to help my campaign.

00:20:14.000 I responded with forced smiles and tight nods.

00:20:17.000 On one occasion, an older woman dragged her adult daughter by the arm to come talk to me and order her to apologize for not voting, which she did, head bowed in contrition.

00:20:24.000 I wanted to stare right in her eyes and say, you didn't vote?

00:20:27.000 How could you not vote?

00:20:28.000 You abdicated your responsibility as a citizen at the worst possible time and now you want me to make you feel better?

00:20:34.000 Of course I didn't say any of that.

00:20:35.000 These people were looking for absolution that I just couldn't give.

00:20:38.000 We all have to live with the consequences of our decisions.

00:20:42.000 Whoa! 0.71

00:20:44.000 Whoa, there's only one word for that.

00:20:46.000 Okay, and it's not, it's a five-letter word, and it's not something I wish to say.

00:20:49.000 I mean, that's really nasty stuff, right? 0.98

00:20:52.000 Somebody comes up to you and they say, I wish I had done more, and your first reaction is, you little pissant. 0.97

00:20:57.000 If you'd done more to serve me, me, the mistress of all evil, then I would be sitting in the White House right now. 0.98

00:21:03.000 It's your fault! 0.96

00:21:04.000 You! 0.99

00:21:04.000 You didn't work hard enough. 0.99

00:21:05.000 I worked plenty hard.

00:21:07.000 Sure, I took a nap every day.

00:21:08.000 Sure, I collapsed into a van.

00:21:09.000 Sure, I was terrible in debate. 0.98

00:21:11.000 Sure, I was mechanical and awful and nasty and called half of Americans deplorables, but it's you!

00:21:17.000 You didn't get out and vote. 0.83

00:21:18.000 You, and I'm not going to provide you absolution.

00:21:21.000 I am like the Pope, and I will never provide you absolution.

00:21:25.000 I will never provide you absolution!

00:21:28.000 It's no wonder.

00:21:29.000 And then Hillary finally finishes up by saying, listen, I'm not going anywhere.

00:21:33.000 You think I'm going to leave?

00:21:33.000 I'm not leaving.

00:21:35.000 And I am telling you, I'm not going.

00:21:39.000 She won't leave, right?

00:21:41.000 I mean, she has nothing better to do with her time.

00:21:42.000 What's she gonna do, wander around in the woods like Bigfoot? 0.99

00:21:45.000 So she's just gonna stick around, sinking her claws into whatever Democrat starts to move toward the top, pretending she's helping them, but actually hurting them. 1.00

00:21:52.000 Hillary is electoral poison. 1.00

00:21:54.000 Much worse than Barack Obama was, and Obama didn't help anyone get elected. 0.99

00:21:58.000 Hillary's even worse, because at least people liked Obama. 0.98

00:22:00.000 At least people thought Obama was cool. 0.96

00:22:02.000 People think Hillary Clinton is awful, and the more people see of her, the better. 1.00

00:22:06.000 So yay! 0.98

00:22:07.000 I totally am in favor of Hillary Clinton sticking around. 1.00

00:22:09.000 I think it's great.

00:22:10.000 Here she is explaining that she's not going anywhere.

00:22:12.000 She won't go.

00:22:15.000 She just won't.

00:22:15.000 Like Jennifer Holliday in Dreamgirls.

00:22:17.000 Here she is.

00:22:18.000 There are many people, including some Democrats, who would be happier if Hillary Clinton stayed in the woods, didn't write this book, didn't reopen the wounds of 2016.

00:22:28.000 Well, they're going to be disappointed because I think it's important for people with my experience and my insight into what went on in the campaign, but more generally about our country, to speak out.

00:22:43.000 Clinton says she is done running for office.

00:22:46.000 But she plans to keep speaking up.

00:22:50.000 Oh, please, please do.

00:22:51.000 Please do.

00:22:52.000 The thing is that Hillary Clinton, as just a human being, is an incredibly vindictive person. 1.00

00:22:56.000 And you can sense the vindictiveness of the Democrats in her.

00:23:00.000 She's a good avatar for their vindictiveness, that what they really are about is castigation of the other.

00:23:06.000 If they really wanted to win, they'd run somebody like Joe Biden, right?

00:23:09.000 I don't make a habit of giving advice to Democrats.

00:23:11.000 If you wanted to win, you'd run somebody who didn't spend their time ripping on Americans as a bunch of 0.98

00:23:16.000 No nothing, sexist bigot, racist homophobes who wouldn't get out and vote for you because I deserved it. 0.94

00:23:22.000 But unfortunately, that's not something that Democrats are doing. 0.97

00:23:25.000 I think Sarah Huckabee Sanders actually got this exactly right yesterday.

00:23:28.000 She said, it's kind of sad.

00:23:29.000 It's a little bit sad, right?

00:23:31.000 Here's Sarah Huckabee Sanders doing that. 1.00

00:23:33.000 I think it's pretty clear to all of America.

00:23:36.000 I think it's sad that after Hillary Clinton ran one of the most negative campaigns in history and lost, and the last chapter of her public life is going to be now defined by propping up book sales with false and reckless attacks.

00:23:50.000 And I think that that's a sad way for her to continue.

00:23:52.000 It is pretty sad.

00:23:54.000 And thank God for the sadness of the Democrats because otherwise they might actually be competent to this.

00:23:59.000 Now there's some conflicting information about what Democrats here are going to do.

00:24:02.000 So Politico has a big piece today.

00:24:05.000 I got him to Edward Isaac Dovere, reporting that Democrats are having trouble.

00:24:08.000 They think that Trump may in fact be Teflon.

00:24:11.000 That using Trump as sort of the rallying point for their crowd is not going to do it.

00:24:17.000 Here's what he has to say.

00:24:18.000 He says, data from a range of focus groups and internal polls in swing states paint a different picture for the Democratic Party heading into the 2018 midterms and 2020 presidential election.

00:24:26.000 It suggests Democrats are naive if they believe Trump's historically low approval numbers mean a landslide is coming.

00:24:32.000 So what's the big problem?

00:24:33.000 Well, there are a bunch.

00:24:35.000 First off, Bernie Sanders' economic program is not convincing to people.

00:24:38.000 So, today, it came out that a bunch of Democrats, I've written about this and talked about it yesterday, a bunch of Democrats, Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Gillibrand will soon jump on board, all of the front, Cory Booker, all of the front-running 2020 Democratic candidates are talking about embracing Bernie Sanders' Medicare for All plan. 0.99

00:24:53.000 This is really stupid strategy. 0.99

00:24:55.000 For a general election, it's really dumb. 1.00

00:24:57.000 People do not trust the idea of a government takeover of the healthcare system. 0.98

00:25:00.000 They didn't like Obamacare, and so the Democrats are actually doing something worse.

00:25:04.000 They're talking about a full government takeover of the government healthcare system, throwing lots of people off their insurance because you have to pay for this somehow, and you somehow have to force doctors to take Medicare insurance in the first place.

00:25:14.000 The only way to do that is by getting rid of the competitors in terms of reimbursement rates.

00:25:17.000 You're going to have to force people off their insurance.

00:25:19.000 That's what Medicare for All would probably mean.

00:25:22.000 But Democrats are pushing that, but they're also actively undercutting their own point.

00:25:27.000 When they did Obamacare, they said, listen, Obamacare is not going to be about single payer.

00:25:31.000 We're not moving towards single payer, guys.

00:25:32.000 I mean, that's, how dare you?

00:25:34.000 President Obama said this.

00:25:35.000 Well, this is, you know, first step toward making healthcare better, but we're not looking at single payer.

00:25:40.000 And now you've got every Democrat in the world saying single payer is on the table.

00:25:44.000 The American people don't want any of that.

00:25:46.000 Democrats in the base do.

00:25:48.000 Radical Democrats in the base want all that.

00:25:50.000 But nobody in middle America wants a nationalized healthcare system, but Democrats are moving to the left on these economic programs in order to get that base revved up for the full-on election cycle.

00:26:01.000 Big mistake.

00:26:02.000 I'll explain to you the other mistakes Democrats are making, why they're taking their lead from a combination of Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, which is a really terrible combination, in just a second.

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00:27:19.000 Okay, so...

00:27:21.000 As I say, the Democrats are now lashing out at the American public, and that's what we've seen for the last seven months.

00:27:27.000 The women's march is a lashing out at the American public. 1.00

00:27:30.000 The support for the Black Lives Matter movement, it's a lashing out at the American public. 1.00

00:27:34.000 We're seeing a consistent lashing out at the American public.

00:27:37.000 And it's really ugly, and that's what's driving people into Trump's camp.

00:27:40.000 So, what are their new strategies to fight Trump?

00:27:43.000 Well, they're trying to move way left on economics, like Bernie Sanders, but as political rights, many of the ideas party leaders have latched onto in an attempt to appeal to their lost voters.

00:27:52.000 Free college tuition, raising the minimum wage to 15 bucks, even Medicaid for all, test poorly among voters outside the base.

00:27:59.000 And the reason that they test poorly among voters outside the base, one reason is because this is all basic class warfare stuff.

00:28:05.000 The idea is there's someone screwing you and we're going to rectify that situation.

00:28:09.000 Well, vilification and nastiness is not going to help you. 0.57

00:28:11.000 It's funny, in 2016 there was this general idea that Trump was the nasty guy and Hillary was the candidate of uplift.

00:28:17.000 No, you basically had two nasty people going at one another and

00:28:21.000 And Hillary was actually more alienating to Americans than even Donald Trump was, which is an amazing statement. 0.76

00:28:27.000 Worse, for Democrats, Trump is actually being given credit for the continuing strong economy, according to Politico, and personal attacks on him have been so variegated, meaning that they've been so diffuse, that they dilute the message entirely.

00:28:40.000 Voters actually don't care that Trump fibs because they feel like Democrats think of them badly.

00:28:43.000 Like, who would you prefer to hang out with?

00:28:44.000 The guy who tells you fish stories but is nice to you? 0.99

00:28:47.000 Or the person who rails against you for being a racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe who needs his soul changed? 0.95

00:28:52.000 Obviously, there's a reason that Trump is more popular than some of the Democratic program. 0.97

00:28:57.000 And all of the attempts to paint Trump as a closeted white supremacist have failed too, because again, the Democrats are just so extreme.

00:29:04.000 I explained this to Don Lemon on CNN.

00:29:06.000 I'm amazed that Democrats haven't picked up on this. 0.99

00:29:08.000 After the Charlottesville incident, when Donald Trump, I thought, did a terrible job of handling it, instead of Democrats staying on that, Trump immediately swiveled to defending Confederate statues and Democrats, like the fools they are, decided to follow him there. 0.98

00:29:20.000 That's a losing issue for them. 0.98

00:29:22.000 And they're so radical that they're actually justifying a lot of what Trump had to say about the statues, right?

00:29:25.000 Trump said, once you get rid of the Confederate statues, the next move is to get rid of the Jefferson statues.

00:29:30.000 Today, report from Charlottesville.

00:29:32.000 Students at the University of Virginia have now draped in black tarp the Thomas Jefferson statue.

00:29:37.000 Thomas Jefferson founded the University of Virginia.

00:29:40.000 He founded it.

00:29:42.000 Okay, now they're draping his statue with a black tarp.

00:29:44.000 And you wonder why people are resonating to Trump?

00:29:47.000 Hey, Trump also has the advantage on immigration and trade in these focus groups as well.

00:29:51.000 The biggest problem for Democrats is not Trump, it's them. 0.99

00:29:54.000 They come off as people who look down their noses at everyday Americans, who see Trump voters as losers and as morons, who see people who didn't even vote for Hillary Clinton as to be alienated. 0.99

00:30:07.000 This is how they see Americans, and Americans pick up on this. 0.99

00:30:10.000 There's nothing that people pick up on more quickly than a sneer.

00:30:13.000 If you sneer at people, people pick up on it incredibly quickly.

00:30:16.000 And people didn't feel like Trump was sneering at them.

00:30:18.000 They may have felt like Trump was sneering at the media, because he was.

00:30:21.000 They may have felt like Trump was sneering at Democrats, because he was.

00:30:24.000 They may have felt like Trump was sneering at fellow Republicans, because he was, and fellow candidates.

00:30:28.000 But they didn't feel like he was sneering at them, and they got the feeling that Hillary Clinton was sneering at them, and Democrats are having a tough time getting out of that rut.

00:30:35.000 So their alternative was, okay, well, if we can't stop sneering at Americans, at least we'll castigate Trump as evil.

00:30:41.000 But Trump has actually undercut that a little bit because now he's working with Democrats.

00:30:44.000 How do you castigate Trump as Hitler when you're making a deal with him?

00:30:48.000 When you're going to the White House, there's a meeting today between Pelosi and Schumer and Trump.

00:30:51.000 Now, I'm not saying that's good politics for Trump.

00:30:53.000 I think that making deals with Pelosi and Schumer is what he was elected not to do.

00:30:58.000 But for Democrats, it's very difficult for them to make the simultaneous case that Trump has to be stopped because he's so evil, and then they go and work with President Trump.

00:31:06.000 So it may not be that Trump is Teflon so much as Trump is rubber and the Democrats are glue, and whatever they throw at him bounces off him and sticks back to them.

00:31:16.000 Now, here's the truth.

00:31:17.000 I want to mitigate this statement a little bit.

00:31:18.000 Do I think that the Republicans have the upper hand going into 2018? 0.98

00:31:21.000 I think you'd be foolish to think that.

00:31:23.000 I look at the data, and what I see is Democrats winning some victories and possibly taking the House. 0.70

00:31:28.000 Right now, the generic ballot has Democrats up anywhere from 6 to 8 points in the congressional race.

00:31:34.000 There was a lot of talk in 2005 about how George W. Bush was Teflon 2, and then in 2006, he got blown out, and in 2008, Barack Obama took office with a Democratic majority in the House and the Senate.

00:31:45.000 And nearly a supermajority in the Senate.

00:31:48.000 Okay, so it's a little bit early and it's worth noting that there are statistics that cut in favor of Democrats here.

00:31:54.000 So on the question of who fights for people like me, Trump and the Democrats were split at 50% each in February.

00:32:00.000 Democrats are now ahead by 17 points.

00:32:02.000 That's a big gap that they've opened up right there.

00:32:04.000 And we are seeing some Republicans retiring because they don't like working with Trump and because they're afraid they're going to be primaried.

00:32:09.000 And we are seeing special state elections in places like Oklahoma swing Democrat.

00:32:13.000 There's a plus 31 Democrat state seat

00:32:16.000 A Republican state seat in Oklahoma yesterday that swung for the Democrats.

00:32:19.000 That is not good news for Republicans.

00:32:22.000 All that said, though, the Democratic program right now is not geared toward success.

00:32:28.000 It's not geared toward success specifically because of the scorn.

00:32:31.000 If they don't get rid of the scorn that drips off of Hillary, they're going to have a problem. 1.00

00:32:35.000 They need a candidate with authenticity who actually does not sneer at the American people and feel like they are owed this position.

00:32:40.000 If they don't do that, then they're going to be in serious trouble.

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00:34:10.000 I've talked a lot about the Democratic failures, how they're going to try Bernie Sanders' economics, which is not popular and does not hold up with the American people, and how they've tried Barack Obama intersectionality, and how the scorn that Hillary Clinton holds for American voters is infused throughout the Democratic Party because they just can't believe that Americans would have elected Donald Trump.

00:34:28.000 But on the other side of the aisle, there's a lot of confusion with regard to President Trump.

00:34:31.000 What's he going to do now?

00:34:32.000 So there's a big meeting today between Trump and Pelosi and Schumer.

00:34:35.000 He had a meeting last night with a bunch of people, Republicans and Democrats, about his tax reform bill, and then he tweeted something out about tax reform, Go Congress Go.

00:34:42.000 Okay, if the extent of Trump negotiating on tax reform is going to be him tweeting Go Congress Go, it's going to be very difficult for anything to get done.

00:34:49.000 We already tried this exact plan with healthcare.

00:34:51.000 It did not work.

00:34:52.000 Trump's going to have to be more involved than that.

00:34:54.000 The problem is that Pelosi and Schumer offer him an easy way out.

00:34:57.000 Because they come to him and say, we'll pass stuff.

00:34:59.000 We'll put our name on it with you.

00:35:01.000 You'll get great plaudits in the New York Times.

00:35:02.000 It'll be awesome.

00:35:03.000 So we have to be very wary.

00:35:05.000 The White House yesterday came out and said Trump has always been in favor of amnesty.

00:35:08.000 Seriously.

00:35:09.000 The White House actually said that.

00:35:11.000 I was there.

00:35:12.000 This is not true.

00:35:14.000 I know that there's an attempt right now to try to prop up Trump on the immigration issues.

00:35:20.000 It's just not real.

00:35:20.000 So yesterday, Drudge Report put up a big headline about how Trump was finally going to start paving the way to building the law.

00:35:29.000 Eh, not really.

00:35:30.000 Okay, so here's what it said from KVOA.

00:35:32.000 The Department of Homeland Security has issued a waiver to waive certain laws, regulations, and other legal requirements to ensure the expeditious construction of barriers in the vicinity of the international border near Calexo, California.

00:35:42.000 The waiver was published in the Federal Register today.

00:35:46.000 So, is that really a waiver that we're going to get started building on the wall?

00:35:49.000 Well, not really.

00:35:50.000 Because from 2005 to 2008, the department actually used that waiver authority five times.

00:35:56.000 Okay, was a wall built?

00:35:57.000 No, a wall was not built.

00:35:58.000 That does not mean that we are going to be building new wall.

00:36:01.000 It means that they are replacing current wall.

00:36:03.000 They're replacing border fence that currently exists.

00:36:05.000 So no, that is not the building of the new wall.

00:36:07.000 Don't be fooled by the headlines.

00:36:09.000 There's also an attempt that's quite fascinating.

00:36:12.000 A lot of Republicans on various sides of the aisle have decided that it's imperative to flatter Trump into backing their positions.

00:36:18.000 So, the fascinating thing to watch right now is that Steve Bannon, who sees himself over at Breitbart as sort of the avatar of Trumpism, right?

00:36:26.000 The great philosopher king of Trumpism.

00:36:28.000 He's been pushing Trump on some things that I agree with, actually, and some things I don't agree with.

00:36:33.000 But the people who are not on Team Bannon, a lot of those people who want Trump to do different things, they're now using Bannon as a foil and they're picking on Bannon's criticism of Trump in order to drive a wedge.

00:36:45.000 In other words, I think a lot of people have now figured out Trump's gig, his whole shtick.

00:36:49.000 His whole shtick is, if you praise him, he likes you, and if you criticize him, he doesn't.

00:36:53.000 That's Trump's entire shtick.

00:36:53.000 So a lot of people are basically now picking up on this, and they're trying to find instances where their own political opponents have attacked Trump, and then they're trying to highlight to Trump those people are attacking him, so he'll move away from their policies.

00:37:04.000 Good example of this.

00:37:05.000 So, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who is obviously in the administration, a lot of people in the administration are not big Bannon fans, he was just ousted a couple of weeks ago.

00:37:13.000 Steve Bannon had said that Trump's biggest mistake was firing James Comey, the FBI director.

00:37:18.000 Sarah Huckabee Sanders is trying to drive a wedge between Bannon and Trump. 1.00

00:37:21.000 Here she is doing it.

00:37:23.000 I think that everybody knows exactly where the president stands on that issue.

00:37:27.000 The president is proud of the decision that he made.

00:37:30.000 The president was 100% right in firing James Comey.

00:37:34.000 He knew at the time that it could be bad for him politically, but he also knew and felt he had an obligation to do what was right and do what was right for the American people and certainly the men and women at the FBI.

00:37:46.000 I think there's no secret.

00:37:48.000 Comey, by his own self-admission, leaked privileged government information.

00:37:52.000 Weeks before President Trump fired him, Comey testified that an FBI agent engaged in the same practice, they'd face serious repercussions.

00:38:00.000 I think he set his own stage for himself on that front.

00:38:03.000 His actions were improper and likely could have been illegal.

00:38:06.000 Comey leaked memos to the New York Times, your own outlet.

00:38:09.000 He politicized an investigation by signaling he would exonerate Hillary Clinton before he ever interviewed her or other key witnesses.

00:38:16.000 So it's smart for Huckabee Sanders to do all this because she's defending Trump now from Bannon.

00:38:21.000 But here's the giveaway.

00:38:22.000 Here's what Mitch McConnell is doing today.

00:38:24.000 Here's the Senate Leadership Fund.

00:38:26.000 They're specifically going after Steve Bannon because Bannon is trying now to undermine a lot of Mitch McConnell's favorite candidates.

00:38:31.000 So here's what McConnell said.

00:38:32.000 Senate Leadership Fund President and CEO Stephen Law today released the following statement in response to Steve Bannon calling James Comey's firing the biggest mistake in modern political history.

00:38:40.000 Quote, Steve Bannon is dead wrong.

00:38:43.000 Every fact that has come out about James Comey's handling of the Clinton email investigation has affirmed the rightness of President Trump's decision.

00:38:49.000 Now, do you think that Mitch McConnell actually believes that, or do you think that Mitch McConnell is trying to play the president?

00:38:53.000 If Mitch McConnell is pretty clearly trying to play the president, you're going to get more of this.

00:38:57.000 The Democrats are trying to play Trump by praising him.

00:38:59.000 Mitch McConnell is trying to play Trump by attacking Bannon for attacking Trump.

00:39:04.000 Everyone knows the game now, and the game is personal, it is not political.

00:39:08.000 It'll be interesting to see how it plays out.

00:39:10.000 Okay, time for some things I like, and then some things that I hate, and then a quick Bible talk.

00:39:14.000 So, things that I like.

00:39:15.000 I'm doing children's movies this week because I just have to be in that mood, man.

00:39:19.000 I mean, like, going to Berkeley, it's gonna be fun and all, but it's also kind of stressful.

00:39:22.000 And so, watching children's movies with my kids, or my kid, because one of them is too young to watch movies, is really fun.

00:39:29.000 My daughter right now is obsessed with Bambi. 0.99

00:39:30.000 She loves Bambi. 0.70

00:39:31.000 This was the golden age of Walt Disney's films.

00:39:34.000 I believe this was the third Walt Disney film.

00:39:37.000 I think that it went Snow White, Pinocchio, Bambi in order.

00:39:40.000 But Bambi is a masterpiece.

00:39:42.000 I mean, it's just the artwork is a masterpiece.

00:39:45.000 Again, the attempt to promulgate traditional values in Bambi is very strong.

00:39:51.000 The idea of

00:39:52.000 The father deer and the mother deer and the baby deer, Bambi, growing up into the protector of the herd, right?

00:39:58.000 Males are there to protect is the very strong theme in Bambi. 0.98

00:40:01.000 Mothers are there to nurture. 1.00

00:40:02.000 Males are there to protect is a very, very strong theme in Bambi.

00:40:06.000 Here's a little bit of the previous.

00:40:07.000 Such a charming film.

00:40:21.000 Walt Disney, the world's greatest storyteller, brings the world's greatest love story to the screen.

00:40:27.000 Bambi, the story that proves that love can be loaded with laughs.

00:40:31.000 Well, what's the matter with them?

00:40:34.000 They're twitterpated.

00:40:36.000 Twitterpated?

00:40:37.000 Yes.

00:40:38.000 Nearly everybody gets twitterpated in the springtime.

00:40:42.000 It's not gonna happen to me.

00:40:44.000 Me neither.

00:40:45.000 It can happen to anybody.

00:40:48.000 For example,

00:40:50.000 You're walking along, minding your own business, when all of a sudden, you run smack into a pretty face.

00:41:00.000 You begin to get weak in the knees.

00:41:04.000 Your head's in a WHOA!

00:41:24.000 And the idea that, you know, it was the male job to protect a civilized society, I think is pretty clear, actually, in the film.

00:41:32.000 I don't think that it's particularly well hidden.

00:41:34.000 I'm wrong about this being the third film.

00:41:35.000 This is actually film number five, because it goes Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, Fantasia, which is also a masterpiece, Dumbo, which is a masterpiece, Bambi, which is a masterpiece.

00:41:44.000 I mean, those five films are all masterpieces.

00:41:47.000 They're all amazing films.

00:41:48.000 And then you get into sort of the second iteration of Disney in 1950.

00:41:53.000 That's when you get Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp, Sleeping Beauty.

00:41:58.000 All of these are good movies, but I don't think they're quite to the level of the originals.

00:42:01.000 And then you get the dark period for Disney.

00:42:02.000 That's when you get Robin Hood, The Sword in the Stone, The Aristocats.

00:42:05.000 The only great film from that particular period is The Adventures of Robin Hood, but you get The Rescuers, The Black

00:42:11.000 We're good to go!

00:42:41.000 It's well worth reading.

00:42:42.000 Yes, we have reached the apocalypse when the New York Times opinion page is defending my visit to Berkeley.

00:42:46.000 Basically saying that, you know, the left's attempt to lump everyone in as Nazis is utterly absurd.

00:42:51.000 Great column by Barry Weiss, and I thank her for writing it.

00:42:54.000 Okay, time for a couple of things that I hate. 0.97

00:43:00.000 So one of the things that has happened is that as our technology gets better, we get dumber.

00:43:05.000 We seem to have less purpose in the world.

00:43:07.000 I'm starting to write a book on this right now.

00:43:08.000 We seem to have less purpose.

00:43:10.000 We seem to have less meaning in our lives.

00:43:11.000 And so our technology continues to grow.

00:43:13.000 Our science continues to get better. 1.00

00:43:14.000 And then we use it for the stupidest available crap you could possibly imagine. 0.99

00:43:18.000 If you can imagine people saying, oh, we've developed technology that allows facial recognition. 1.00

00:43:21.000 We've developed technology that allows us to map your face.

00:43:25.000 What could you use that for?

00:43:27.000 You know, in a good way.

00:43:29.000 Well, maybe you could use it to help, for example, teach autistic kids how to recognize emotion, right?

00:43:33.000 That seems like a good use of it because a lot of autistic kids have difficulty recognizing emotions and faces.

00:43:38.000 How exactly are we going to use it, however? 0.93

00:43:40.000 The way we are going to use it is we are going to make ourselves into talking pieces of poop.

00:43:44.000 This was actually in the Apple iPhone X presentation yesterday in their big rollout.

00:43:55.000 Also enables new experiences.

00:43:59.000 Like bringing emojis to life by mapping more than 50 facial muscles in real time.

00:44:05.000 So you can be happy, or sad, or cross.

00:44:13.000 You can be any animated character you wish to be. 0.99

00:44:17.000 You can be a talking piece of poop. 0.98

00:44:20.000 Yeah, well welcome to the 21st century. 0.99

00:44:22.000 We may have given up on, you know, values and systems.

00:44:25.000 We may have given up on the idea of a god that cares about you in the universe, but on the 0.97

00:44:28.000 On the other hand, we can also make you, we can devolve you to the level of a talking piece of human feces.

00:44:34.000 We can make that happen for you, so that's very exciting stuff. 0.93

00:44:36.000 Okay, other things that I hate.

00:44:38.000 There's a lot of talk today about firing Jamil Hill.

00:44:40.000 She is a host on ESPN.

00:44:43.000 She does a truly awful show with Michael Smith called ST6.

00:44:46.000 I know because whenever I'm working out at the gym, this thing is on. 0.51

00:44:49.000 It's a really crappy show. 0.99

00:44:51.000 But, this is not my critique of the show, which is indeed garbage. 0.99

00:44:54.000 Jameel Hill came out and she tweeted this yesterday. 1.00

00:44:57.000 Donald Trump is a white supremacist who has largely surrounded himself with other white supremacists. 0.95

00:45:01.000 The height of white privilege is being able to ignore his white supremacy because it's of no threat to you. 0.99

00:45:05.000 Well, it's a threat to me. 1.00

00:45:06.000 Trump is the most ignorant, offensive president of my lifetime. 1.00

00:45:08.000 His rise is a direct result of white supremacy. 1.00

00:45:11.000 Period. 0.99

00:45:11.000 He is unqualified, unfit to be president. 0.99

00:45:13.000 He is not a leader. 0.99

00:45:14.000 And if he were not white, he never would have been elected. 0.91

00:45:17.000 Okay, and ESPN quickly responded with this statement. 0.87

00:45:20.000 They said, Okay, I hate everything about this.

00:45:28.000 First of all, Jameel Hill is wrong.

00:45:29.000 The idea that Trump is a white supremacist is not true.

00:45:33.000 Trump is not good on race issues, but the idea that he himself is a white supremacist rather than pandering to a group of white supremacists I think is false.

00:45:43.000 Maybe it's a distinction without much of a difference, but I think that it does matter.

00:45:46.000 If you're going to attribute motives to people, we should at least be specific about the motives we attribute.

00:45:51.000 This idea that Trump is the root of all racial evil in the United States is just a repeat of Ta-Nehisi Coates.

00:45:58.000 But she has every right to say it, obviously.

00:45:59.000 She can say whatever she wants.

00:46:00.000 Now, ESPN would be well within its rights to suspend or fire her.

00:46:03.000 They could say, listen, you just alienated half our audience.

00:46:05.000 You're here to talk about sports, not to talk about Donald Trump.

00:46:08.000 But instead, they issue this kind of milquetoast statement saying that her actions were inappropriate. 0.99

00:46:14.000 Well, I don't think they were actually inappropriate.

00:46:16.000 I mean, she gets paid to talk about all this stuff, including politics, on her show. 0.53

00:46:20.000 It seems kind of ridiculous to me that now ESPN is backing off of this.

00:46:23.000 Like, do they think we don't watch the network?

00:46:25.000 The big problem ESPN is having right now is that I just want to see the highlights of the Cleveland Indians winning their 20th game in a row.

00:46:31.000 Instead, I turn on the TV and I get Colin Kaepernick talk for 45 minutes.

00:46:35.000 I get how many gay college football players are there for 45 minutes.

00:46:39.000 I get what's the latest with Caitlyn Jenner for 45 minutes. 1.00

00:46:43.000 I can't get to the actual highlights because all you're doing is spending time talking about stupid political nonsense that I don't care about in any form. 0.97

00:46:50.000 And then ESPN is shocked when Jameel Hill feels the freedom to go out and do this. 0.55

00:46:54.000 Now, there's another story that came out yesterday that Linda Cohen, who's a longtime anchor, that she was reportedly suspended because she spoke out on politics at the network.

00:47:02.000 She said, I don't think these politics are great at the network.

00:47:04.000 And the president, John Skipper, told her not to come to work and to think about what she said.

00:47:08.000 So she was suspended for saying ESPN was talking too much politics.

00:47:11.000 Jameel Hill was not suspended for saying Trump was a racist.

00:47:15.000 Here's my feeling about this.

00:47:16.000 Jamil Hill shouldn't be fired.

00:47:17.000 She shouldn't be suspended.

00:47:18.000 Let the audience make their decision about Jamil Hill. 0.99

00:47:20.000 Linda Cohen certainly should not be fired or suspended for having the temerity to point out the stupidity of ESPN for going full-scale political. 1.00

00:47:28.000 It's one of my pet peeves. 0.99

00:47:29.000 I've been talking about it for years.

00:47:30.000 Turning ESPN into MSNBC with footballs is just absurd.

00:47:34.000 Okay, time for a quick Bible talk here.

00:47:36.000 So, as we do every week, we are going through portions from the prophets.

00:47:41.000 Because in the Jewish community, last year we went over the entire five books of Moses, piece by piece.

00:47:46.000 This year, we are going through the portions from the prophets that are associated with them.

00:47:50.000 This is from Isaiah chapter 61.

00:47:51.000 It says,

00:47:59.000 All the nations.

00:48:00.000 This is kind of an interesting verse.

00:48:02.000 The reason it's an interesting verse is because the idea is that all things are invested with potentiality.

00:48:07.000 I've been reading too much Edward Fieser.

00:48:08.000 That's that book that I recommended a couple of days ago.

00:48:11.000 And he talks about the Aristotelian notion that objects are...

00:48:16.000 imbued with potentialities.

00:48:18.000 That a pen is imbued with the potential to write.

00:48:21.000 That a cup is imbued with the potential to hold liquid or to be melted down.

00:48:25.000 We all have potentials, right?

00:48:26.000 We as human beings have potentials.

00:48:28.000 And the earth has the potential to give forth plants.

00:48:30.000 And a garden has the potential to give forth its seeds to grow.

00:48:36.000 And you have the potential to be a righteous person.

00:48:39.000 And God can help you reach that potential if you trust in Him.

00:48:43.000 But you have to understand that in the Aristotelian argument, that there is no unmoved, that there is an unmoved mover.

00:48:50.000 That when it comes to growth, that growth requires a mover.

00:48:54.000 You have free will imbued in you by God, and you can use that to change your life.

00:48:58.000 You can use that to make your life better.

00:49:00.000 You are, you have potential.

00:49:02.000 Just like the earth, just like the garden, you have potential.

00:49:05.000 Trust in God, which really means faith in your own free will to make decisions.

00:49:09.000 Doing that allows you to fulfill that potential.

00:49:11.000 If you sit back and you wait for things to happen for you, if you blame the garden for not growing the seeds, if you blame the earth for not giving forth the plants, if you blame God for your problems, you're not gonna get anywhere.

00:49:20.000 You have to understand that it is your job to reach your own potential, and that potential does exist within you, and once you start moving in that direction, I firmly believe that God lends a hand.

00:49:27.000 Okay, we will be back here tomorrow, and we will preview the speech at Berkeley, so tomorrow's gonna be a big day.

00:49:33.000 Hope you're here.

00:49:33.000 I'm Ben Shapiro, this is The Ben Shapiro Show.

The Ben Shapiro Show - September 13, 2017

Hillary’s Big Blame Game | The Ben Shapiro Show Ep. 382

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