The Ben Shapiro Show - Hillary’s Email Revenge | The Ben Shapiro Show Ep. 664

00:00:00.000 Ivanka Trump comes under fire for use of a private email address.

00:00:03.000 Hollywood reminds you they are here to hate conservatives.

00:00:06.000 And the New York Times tries to prep you for Thanksgiving dinner with your uncle.

00:00:10.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:00:10.000 This is the Ben Shapiro Show.

00:00:11.000 Oh, man, lots of news breaking today.

00:00:18.000 I mean, just because it's Thanksgiving week doesn't mean the news stops.

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00:01:30.000 OK, so we begin today.

00:01:32.000 With Nate Silver saying that the Daily Wire should basically be shut off Facebook.

00:01:36.000 You know, there's a big story today that's really kind of fascinating.

00:01:40.000 This story is that all of the tech stocks have been dying.

00:01:43.000 So according to the Wall Street Journal this morning, stocks have dropped dramatically as tech shares have extended their declines.

00:01:53.000 All of the gains of the last year have basically gone out the window.

00:01:56.000 U.S.

00:01:56.000 stocks tumbled Tuesday, putting major U.S.

00:01:58.000 index indices At risk of closing below their October lows, according to the Wall Street Journal, and wiping out yearly gains.

00:02:04.000 What started as a technology company sell-off bled into other corners of the market as investors dumped shares of everything from retailers to oil and gas companies in favor of relatively safe assets like bonds and reliable dividend payers like utility companies.

00:02:17.000 The result?

00:02:18.000 Some traders who stepped into scoop-up shares in late October hoping for a quick rebound are now in danger of losing those potential profits and more.

00:02:24.000 This puts the stock market in a tenuous position, several of those people say.

00:02:28.000 Justin Wiggs, who's Managing Director in Equity Trading at Stifle Nicholas, says the buy-the-dippers are getting concerned, meaning that When the stock market goes down, you tend to buy more.

00:02:36.000 That's what I do.

00:02:37.000 According to his calculations, as of this morning, about 16% of S&P 500 companies are now below their October lows.

00:02:43.000 Those companies range from tech giants to health care companies to energy firms.

00:02:46.000 Now it's just let's sell everything.

00:02:48.000 Well, there are a couple of reasons that this is happening.

00:02:51.000 One is that the Chinese tariffs are beginning to hit U.S.

00:02:53.000 industry.

00:02:54.000 America's soybean exports, which largely went to China, have now dropped by nearly 100% thanks to the tariff battle that President Trump is having with the Chinese.

00:03:02.000 Whether you think that's well-founded or not, it's not particularly great for the United States economy.

00:03:06.000 It's also happening because Democrats just took over Congress.

00:03:09.000 And a lot of businesses see regulations on the way, or at least regulatory fights.

00:03:12.000 The friendly business climate that has been created by the Trump administration and a Republican Congress could be stymied by a bunch of Democrats who actually want to investigate and regulate businesses up the wazoo.

00:03:23.000 Tech stocks, by the way, have dropped.

00:03:25.000 One of the reasons tech stocks have dropped, and nobody really wants to talk about this in the left-wing media, Is because a lot of the left-wing media is focused like laser beams on shutting down tech companies for not doing enough to let Hillary Clinton win the election.

00:03:38.000 I really mean this.

00:03:39.000 There's a tweet that went out.

00:03:40.000 Here's an example.

00:03:40.000 There's a tweet that went out today from Kevin Roos.

00:03:43.000 Kevin Roos is the New York Times tech writer.

00:03:46.000 And here's what he tweeted.

00:03:47.000 He tweeted, Today's top stories on Facebook are from 1.

00:03:50.000 Ben Shapiro, 2.

00:03:52.000 Ben Shapiro, 3.

00:03:53.000 Daily Caller, 4.

00:03:54.000 9GAG, 5.

00:03:55.000 TMZ, 7.

00:03:56.000 Franklin Graham, 8.

00:03:57.000 Fox News, 10.

00:03:59.000 Fox News.

00:03:59.000 So the idea here is too many conservative sites are getting too much traffic.

00:04:03.000 It is bad that my Facebook page is driving enormous traffic.

00:04:06.000 It is just terrible that top stories in terms of traffic from Facebook are coming from me.

00:04:11.000 This prompted Nate Silver, who is the And the question is, stop trying to what?

00:04:15.000 Shut down and censor conservative pages?

00:04:17.000 has even stopped trying.

00:04:19.000 That is what Nate Silver tweeted out.

00:04:20.000 It's like Facebook has stopped trying because the top two traffic stories came courtesy of my Facebook page.

00:04:26.000 And the question is, stop trying to what?

00:04:29.000 Shut down and censor conservative pages?

00:04:31.000 Prevent conservative dissemination of information?

00:04:34.000 Ever since Hillary Clinton lost, the left has been in an uproar about how to shut down Facebook, about how to make it a wholly owned and used subsidiary controlled by the faculties of the Democratic Party and the mainstream media.

00:04:46.000 This has been their chief focus.

00:04:48.000 And this has been true since Dianne Feinstein was calling top members of social media companies before her and saying, if you don't get control of your companies, we're going to regulate you.

00:04:57.000 You think maybe this might scare investors in tech companies?

00:05:01.000 You might see that there have been a bunch of issues hitting tech companies.

00:05:03.000 One of them is the privacy issue.

00:05:05.000 Obviously, people believe that their private information is being disseminated by these tech companies or grabbed and used by these tech companies.

00:05:11.000 But that was always true.

00:05:12.000 The real change is that since election 2016, a lot of members of the left wing have suggested that companies like Facebook should be controlled by people who are more into shutting down the conservative distribution platforms for information.

00:05:26.000 In other words, they will only leave Facebook unregulated if Facebook pledges to do their bidding.

00:05:32.000 Dianne Feinstein will only leave Facebook alone if Facebook pledges to shut down conservative websites if they pledge to destroy conservative traffic base.

00:05:40.000 Now, the reality is that Facebook does not discriminate in favor of conservatives, of course, and there are those of us on the right who have said that Facebook should not be regulated even when they were destroying conservative traffic in early 2017 with an algorithm shift, as we talked about at the time.

00:05:54.000 But the left cannot stand that Hillary Clinton lost, and so now they're going to try to control every business that allows them to control the means of information consumption.

00:06:04.000 This is their new priority.

00:06:06.000 That may be having an effect on the stock market.

00:06:08.000 People fear Democrats in control of the levers of government when it comes to the economy, because they know that Democrats in control of the levers of the economy are going to try to control business from the top down, whether you're talking pharmaceutical companies, whether you're talking drug companies, whether you're talking The banking industry, whether you are talking about tech companies, all of these companies are deeply fearful of democratic governance.

00:06:29.000 You know the reason that the economy started to recover under Barack Obama?

00:06:32.000 It started to recover under Barack Obama because all these companies knew that there was a Republican Congress in charge.

00:06:38.000 It means something when Democrats grab control of the levers of power.

00:06:45.000 And the fact that they are overtly, people like Nate Silver are overtly calling basically for censorship of conservative outlets on Facebook is just more evidence that the media are fully invested in the idea that they have to twist the media of social media.

00:07:00.000 They have to twist those distribution systems in order so that they can control those from above.

00:07:06.000 It's really quite incredible.

00:07:08.000 Now, one of the reasons they want to control those methods of distribution from above is that they can control the politics of the country, obviously.

00:07:15.000 And that means that they can push information that is not supremely important.

00:07:20.000 So, speaking of information that is not supremely, supremely important today, and then we'll contrast this with a piece of very important information today.

00:07:27.000 The Huffington Post is very upset because Ivanka Trump used a personal account to send hundreds of emails last year related to government business, according to sources who spoke with the Washington Post.

00:07:38.000 Well, that's not good.

00:07:40.000 You shouldn't be using your personal email for government business.

00:07:43.000 But this, of course, led people like Nate Silver, who wants Facebook to shut down distribution systems for conservatives.

00:07:48.000 Nate Silver tweeted this out about Ivanka Trump.

00:07:50.000 He says, If you're one of those news organizations that treated Clinton's private emails like they were a national emergency, the solution isn't to treat Ivanka's private emails like they're also a national emergency.

00:07:59.000 Rather, it's to acknowledge that you kind of screwed up on Clinton.

00:08:03.000 Well, no.

00:08:04.000 It's to recognize that there is a slight difference between Clinton's private emails, from what we know, and Ivanka's private emails.

00:08:09.000 Now, is it good that anybody in government is using a private email address to do business?

00:08:13.000 No.

00:08:13.000 But it is also true that Colin Powell did this.

00:08:16.000 It is true that John Kerry did this.

00:08:17.000 It is true that Virtually every public official that I know of uses a private email address to do business from time to time.

00:08:23.000 The question is whether they are deliberately hiding that from government discovery and whether they set up a private server, which is what Hillary Clinton did.

00:08:30.000 She didn't set up an email address at Gmail, which would have made her email subject to discovery.

00:08:34.000 She set up a private server in her house to allow all information to pass directly to her, and then it could be contained in that private server, which she could then bleach, and then drill, and then hammer. 0.97

00:08:46.000 Not quite the same thing.

00:08:47.000 Also, we don't know if Ivanka Trump was actually looking at classified information in these emails, or whether it was unclassified government business.

00:08:55.000 Hillary Clinton, we know for a fact, was passing classified information via a private email on a private server that was open to hack by foreign governments.

00:09:03.000 This is not the same kind of story at all.

00:09:05.000 And yet the media are treating it as though this is just the hypocrisy of the Republicans.

00:09:08.000 It's just the hypocrisy of the Republ- Again, should Ivanka Trump be using a private email address for her business?

00:09:13.000 No, of course she shouldn't.

00:09:14.000 But until we know what those emails were and whether they were classified, until we have any evidence that she set up a private server and then poured bleach all over it, she's bleach bit, And then drilled it? 0.97

00:09:25.000 And then hammered it?

00:09:26.000 Unless we know that, this is not the same thing in any way.

00:09:30.000 Nonetheless, people on the left are going crazy over this. 0.93

00:09:33.000 It just shows that Ivanka is super duper duper corrupt. 1.00

00:09:36.000 And this is what they want you to be paying attention to.

00:09:38.000 They want you to be paying attention to Ivanka Trump's emails that are not in any way, so far as we know, like Hillary Clinton's emails.

00:09:47.000 This is what they want you to pay attention to.

00:09:48.000 What they don't want you to pay attention to is a judicial ruling that violates virtually every basic precept of government in the Constitution.

00:09:57.000 So here is the latest federal judicial ruling.

00:10:00.000 The New York Times reports, Miriam Jordan reporting, First of all, I do love that now the media are finally acknowledging there's a huge wave of Central Americans crossing the border.

00:10:10.000 Five minutes ago, they were suggesting that it wasn't a threat at all.

00:10:12.000 a temporary setback to the president's attempt to clamp down on a huge wave of Central Americans crossing the border.

00:10:17.000 First of all, I do love that now the media are finally acknowledging there's a huge wave of Central Americans crossing the border.

00:10:23.000 Five minutes ago, they were suggesting that it wasn't a threat at all.

00:10:25.000 There is nobody crossing the border illegally.

00:10:27.000 Judge John Tiger of the United States District Court in San Francisco issued a temporary restraining order that blocks the government from carrying out a new rule that denies protections to people who enter the country illegally.

00:10:39.000 The order, which suspends the rule until the case is decided by the court, applies nationally.

00:10:43.000 First of all, it should not be the case that a district court anywhere in the country can shut down the federal government full-scale across the country.

00:10:51.000 That's absurd.

00:10:52.000 There are hundreds of U.S.

00:10:53.000 District Court judges across the United States.

00:10:55.000 The idea that any one of them can issue a temporary restraining order against the federal government, applied nationally, is just insane.

00:11:03.000 The judge wrote, whatever the scope of the president's authority, he may not rewrite the immigration laws to impose a condition that Congress has expressly forbidden.

00:11:10.000 There's only one problem here.

00:11:12.000 Where did Congress expressly forbid him from saying that if you enter the country illegally, we are not going to process your asylum claims the same way that we would process your asylum claims if you enter the country legally?

00:11:23.000 I'm not aware of the law that says that.

00:11:25.000 I'll talk about this more in just one second.

00:11:27.000 This is a big story because, again, this is the court stepping into areas where they have no business.

00:11:32.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

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00:13:05.000 Okay, so this judge says that the administration is unable, under the law, to prevent illegal immigrants, people who are jumping the border, from applying for asylum.

00:13:16.000 So, this of course undercuts the entire legal regime in the United States.

00:13:20.000 And the entire idea here is to direct people toward legal means of applying for asylum.

00:13:24.000 And one legal mean for applying for asylum is to walk up to the border to a border patrol station and simply ask for asylum.

00:13:30.000 It is not legal, however, to jump the fence and then claim asylum.

00:13:33.000 That is not legal in the United States.

00:13:35.000 The judge's ruling went according to what the ACLU wanted.

00:13:38.000 Advocacy groups, including the Southern Poverty Law Center, a far left advocacy group in the American Civil Liberties Union, swiftly sued the administration for effectively introducing what they deemed an asylum ban.

00:13:48.000 But that is not, in fact, an asylum ban.

00:13:52.000 The Trump administration signaled they would continue to defend the policy as it moved through the courts.

00:13:56.000 Katie Waldman is the spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security.

00:13:59.000 She said, And they point out the president has brought authority to stop the entrance of migrants into the country, which is true if you look at the actual black letter law. 1.00

00:14:11.000 They say it is absurd that a set of advocacy groups can be found to have standing to sue to stop the entire federal government from acting so that illegal aliens can receive a government benefit to which they are not entitled.

00:14:21.000 We look forward to continuing to defend the executive branch's legitimate and well-reasoned exercise of its authority to address the crisis at our southern border.

00:14:30.000 Stephen Yale Lauer is an immigration scholar at Cornell.

00:14:33.000 He says presidents indeed have broad discretion on immigration matters, but the bottom line is that the courts have now introduced conditions that don't actually exist in the law.

00:14:43.000 The government's lawyers say the president has sought to halt a dangerous and illegal practice and regain control of the borders because Trump administration officials defended the regulatory change.

00:14:51.000 They argued the president was responding to a surge ...in migrants seeking asylum based on frivolous claims, which ultimately led their cases to be denied by an immigration judge.

00:14:59.000 The migrants then ignore orders to leave and remain unlawfully in the country. 1.00

00:15:03.000 If Trump can't actually just ignore this court ruling and enforce the law, then he is not doing his job as president.

00:15:08.000 The courts obviously are wildly overreaching their discretion under the law.

00:15:13.000 It's fully crazy.

00:15:15.000 So how much of the media are going to cover this judge's ruling today in any way that reflects the state of the law?

00:15:20.000 The answer is not much.

00:15:21.000 How much will they cover Ivanka's emails, which are not nearly the issue that they are making it out to be?

00:15:26.000 I promise you that the coverage will be blanket.

00:15:29.000 The coverage will be enormous.

00:15:31.000 Okay, in just one second, I want to get to proof that the that the media are as biased as you think they are.

00:15:38.000 It's pretty astonishing.

00:15:40.000 And this is with regard to Thanksgiving dinner.

00:15:42.000 So Thanksgiving is coming up.

00:15:44.000 You're going to have some relative you disagree with.

00:15:46.000 And that relative undoubtedly will bring up politics.

00:15:48.000 Whenever we have Thanksgiving at my house, a lot of my relatives happen to be on the left.

00:15:53.000 I rarely bring up politics at the table.

00:15:55.000 I don't really enjoy arguing with my relatives because they're my relatives.

00:15:59.000 What's the point of it?

00:16:00.000 But invariably, somebody brings up politics and then we have a discussion that usually ends with us saying, let's stop it and go watch football.

00:16:08.000 Because that's pretty much the only way that you can end awkward discussions.

00:16:11.000 Well now, the New York Times has put out a piece called, How to Have a Conversation with Your Angry Uncle Over Thanksgiving.

00:16:18.000 This piece is astonishing.

00:16:19.000 Why is it astonishing?

00:16:20.000 It's astonishing for what it shows about the bias of the New York Times.

00:16:25.000 So they basically put together a couple of model conversations in this piece at the New York Times.

00:16:30.000 Model conversation number one is you arguing with your conservative uncle.

00:16:35.000 Model conversation number two is you arguing with your leftist uncle.

00:16:39.000 Okay, so what's amazing is the approach that the New York Times gives to the leftist uncle versus the approach that it gives to the conservative uncle. 1.00

00:16:46.000 So the conservative uncle is a full-on moron. 0.97

00:16:49.000 The leftist uncle is, in fact, a well-stated, well-reasoned, blue-state liberal. 1.00

00:16:54.000 And so I'll give you an example.

00:16:56.000 So I went through this last night because I was curious to see what the New York Times recommended in terms of how you should argue with your uncle at Thanksgiving.

00:17:02.000 And it just shows you where the New York Times stands on this sort of stuff.

00:17:05.000 This piece is written by Karen Tamirius, who's a former psychiatrist and the founder of Smart Politics.

00:17:11.000 So they have a couple of bots.

00:17:12.000 You can either argue with your angry uncle bot who is conservative, or you can argue with your liberal angry uncle bot.

00:17:20.000 So here is what the conservative uncle bot says.

00:17:24.000 The conservative uncle, according to the New York Times, says Trump has been great for America.

00:17:28.000 Just look at the economy.

00:17:29.000 It's booming.

00:17:30.000 And then it gives you a series of answers that you can possibly give, including Trump's been good for the rich, or because you're on the left, right?

00:17:38.000 This is you being on the left, saying Trump's been good for the rich, but not for everybody else.

00:17:42.000 Or you saying, you know, how has the economy been for you?

00:17:45.000 Now, here's the part where it gets really funny.

00:17:47.000 If you say, so it recommends, the recommendation, if you are a liberal arguing with your conservative uncle who says Trump's been good for the economy, is that you're supposed to say, so how are you doing financially?

00:17:57.000 Now listen to how the New York Times rigs this conversation.

00:18:00.000 Your conservative uncle is supposed to answer, how am I doing?

00:18:04.000 Not that great actually, but things would have been worse under Hillary. 1.00

00:18:09.000 Okay, first of all, the Trump economy has been very good across the board.

00:18:13.000 We've seen average wage gains for the first time in years under President Trump. 0.97

00:18:17.000 So the New York Times is rigging the conversation, so your conservative uncle is a moron who has been doing poorly under the Trump economy, but is going to argue that Hillary would have been worse. 0.97

00:18:28.000 It's really amazing. 0.86

00:18:29.000 And then you're supposed to say, what are your biggest economic hurdles right now?

00:18:33.000 And then your uncle is supposed to say, my biggest hurdle is, well, no matter how hard I work, I can't get ahead.

00:18:37.000 I'm living paycheck to paycheck.

00:18:39.000 Look how the New York Times is rigging your conservative uncle, right?

00:18:42.000 Your conservative uncle loves Trump, but is struggling to get ahead, is living paycheck to paycheck, and is struggling in the best economy in modern history.

00:18:51.000 That's how they're rigging the conversation.

00:18:52.000 So of course, if you're a liberal, you're going to win that conversation.

00:18:55.000 Of course!

00:18:58.000 It's amazing, right?

00:18:59.000 This is their model conversation.

00:19:00.000 And then you're supposed to say, so you feel pretty insecure money-wise, despite how hard you're working.

00:19:04.000 And then your conservative uncle is supposed to say, yeah, I do feel insecure money-wise, and I don't know how long I can keep up. 0.95

00:19:10.000 So the New York Times has rigged it so that if you're a liberal discussing with your conservative uncle, then it's very easy because your conservative uncle's a moron who has never made a dollar in his life and is suffering under the Trump economy, despite the fact that the economy is booming. 0.83

00:19:22.000 Now, flip the script, and this is how the New York Times recommends that you argue with your conservative uncle. 0.95

00:19:27.000 Or how you argue with your liberal uncle.

00:19:30.000 Here's how the New York Times recommends you argue with your liberal uncle.

00:19:33.000 So your liberal uncle says, we need Medicare for all.

00:19:35.000 Healthcare is a human right.

00:19:38.000 And you are now supposed to say, OK, can you tell me more about that?

00:19:41.000 And then your uncle say, your uncle is supposed to say, this is your liberal uncle, say more about it.

00:19:45.000 Sure.

00:19:46.000 No human being should go without health care just because they can't afford it.

00:19:50.000 And then you're supposed to say, well, how do you think we should fix this issue?

00:19:52.000 And your liberal uncle, being a brilliant, a brilliant, well-reasoned professor, is supposed to say, how to fix it?

00:19:59.000 Many people can't even afford medications or primary care.

00:20:02.000 If we expand Medicare to include everyone, those people can get the help that they need.

00:20:06.000 And then you're supposed to say, so you think the government has a responsibility to make sure every person has basic healthcare, is that right?

00:20:11.000 And then your uncle says, a right to basic healthcare?

00:20:14.000 Yes, it's a right.

00:20:15.000 Everyday people die needlessly in this country because they can't pay for medical treatment.

00:20:18.000 And then you're supposed to say, I agree that no one should have to go without medical care because they can't afford it.

00:20:23.000 So in other words, if you're a conservative, arguing with your liberal uncle on Thanksgiving, you're supposed to agree with him. 1.00

00:20:29.000 Okay, if you are a liberal arguing with your conservative uncle, you're supposed to point out to him that he's a poor moron. 0.99

00:20:34.000 This is how the New York Times says that you should argue with your uncle on Thanksgiving. 0.99

00:20:39.000 No, no, there's no media bias at all.

00:20:41.000 None.

00:20:42.000 No media bias.

00:20:43.000 It's just astonishing.

00:20:44.000 I love it so much.

00:20:46.000 Ah, the New York Times. 0.99

00:20:47.000 Doing yeoman's work to prove just how ridiculous they are every single day. 1.00

00:20:50.000 Okay. 0.85

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00:22:01.000 Instead, go to PolicyGenius.com First of all, when I say Oscar bait, you should immediately run for the nearest doors, because it means that it's going to suck.

00:22:09.000 Meanwhile, Hollywood is getting ready to launch a brand new film.

00:22:12.000 It was on the cover of The Hollywood Reporter.

00:22:13.000 It's an Oscar bait film.

00:22:15.000 Ooh, who's excited? 0.99

00:22:16.000 First of all, when I say Oscar bait, you should immediately run for the nearest doors because it means that it's going to suck.

00:22:22.000 Whenever Hollywood makes a movie that is so-called Oscar bait, It is basically just going to be a left-wing, claptrap version of a mediocre story, like The Shape of Water, which was just awful.

00:22:35.000 But there's a new movie that is coming out, according to The Hollywood Reporter, and this new movie is called Vice.

00:22:43.000 Ooh, what's it about?

00:22:44.000 Well, what it is about, glad you asked, what it is about is Vice President Dick Cheney Did we need another movie about Dick Cheney?

00:22:53.000 Did we need a movie about Vice President Cheney?

00:22:55.000 Of course not.

00:22:56.000 This, in fact, is just the latest attempt to go after the Bush administration.

00:22:59.000 But there's something telling about this.

00:23:02.000 So, again, this is not the first attempt to get the Bush administration.

00:23:06.000 There was a movie called W with Josh Brolin, which failed dramatically at the box office, had like a $24 million budget without publicity and advertising, without P&A.

00:23:15.000 It lost money at the box office.

00:23:16.000 There's another box office bomb called Truth with Robert Redford about Dan Rather's attempt to take down George W. Bush with a fake letter about military service.

00:23:23.000 That was a bomb. 0.99

00:23:24.000 There was a movie called You're Welcome America, which is a Broadway play starring Will Ferrell, where Will Ferrell basically played George W. Bush as stupid Jeb Bush. 0.98

00:23:33.000 None of these films actually did any business.

00:23:35.000 But that is not stopping Adam McKay, who's the creator of HBO's Succession, and he also did the big short, from taking on W and Vice President Cheney.

00:23:44.000 So what exactly is driving this?

00:23:46.000 Bush left office 10 years ago, last I checked my calendar.

00:23:49.000 Why are we still doing movies about George W. Bush when the only movies anyone has ever made about Barack Obama are about how he kissed his then-girlfriend Michelle Obama and it tasted like chocolate?

00:23:58.000 Which was an actual An actual movie on Netflix?

00:24:01.000 Why are we still doing Bush?

00:24:03.000 Well, because Adam McKay hates Bush.

00:24:06.000 He says that he went to a victory party for John Kerry in 2004, and everyone you could imagine was there.

00:24:11.000 Tom Hanks, Nicole Kidman, Will Ferrell.

00:24:14.000 Once again, we're like, oh, they're going to lose.

00:24:15.000 There's no way you'd re-elect these guys after the disaster we just had.

00:24:19.000 I remember Frank Rich was on the phone, and he's like, it's over.

00:24:21.000 And within two minutes, the entire party had cleared out.

00:24:24.000 This movie is going to cost $60 million.

00:24:28.000 It's a $60 million budget for a movie about Vice President Cheney, in which Christian Bale puts on 45 pounds and plays Cheney as a Machiavellian devil who wants to send American troops into harm's way to maybe enrich Halliburton or something.

00:24:41.000 The cast is huge.

00:24:42.000 It includes Sam Rockwell as W, and Steve Carell as Donald Rumsfeld, and Tyler Perry as Colin Powell. 1.00

00:24:48.000 According to McKay, Cheney was far more powerful than W because W was stupid. 0.99

00:24:52.000 But here's the punchline. 1.00

00:24:53.000 Here's what McKay says.

00:24:55.000 He says, I would choose Donald Trump over Bush and Cheney.

00:24:58.000 Donald Trump has no belief system.

00:24:59.000 So I would take the hyenas, the random wild animals running through the White House over Cheney any day of the week.

00:25:06.000 Now, the reason that I point all of this out is because it just demonstrates that all of the lies that the left tells about why they don't like President Trump, they are just that.

00:25:14.000 They are lies.

00:25:16.000 The left doesn't like President Trump because President Trump is not a leftist.

00:25:18.000 It is that simple.

00:25:19.000 They hated George W. Bush.

00:25:20.000 They hate Donald Trump.

00:25:22.000 In fact, as McKay says, he hates George W. Bush more than he hates Trump.

00:25:26.000 Not because George W. Bush was less classy than Trump or something, but because George W. Bush was more ideologically conservative than Trump.

00:25:35.000 The left hates conservatives.

00:25:37.000 The Hollywood left despises conservatives.

00:25:39.000 Not because they are classless, and not because they say things on Twitter that offend, and not because they say weird things in public at press conferences.

00:25:49.000 No, the left hates Donald Trump for the same reason that they hate George W. Bush.

00:25:52.000 He is not a left-winger.

00:25:54.000 And, in fact, many of them hate George W. Bush more than they hated Trump because they think that Bush was more right-wing, which, by the way, in terms of governance, is not even true.

00:26:01.000 Trump has governed significantly more conservative than President Bush ever did.

00:26:05.000 But this demonstrates that so much of leftist thought is based on just scorn, smearing, scathing scorn against people who are conservative in policy.

00:26:14.000 It has nothing to do with the personality of the Commander-in-Chief.

00:26:17.000 So when you hear people on the left say, you know, Donald Trump has really robbed the Oval Office, really robbed the Oval Office of its dignity, Understand, this is not why they dislike President Trump.

00:26:25.000 They dislike President Trump because President Trump does not agree with them on politics.

00:26:29.000 It's the same reason that they hate President Bush.

00:26:31.000 They hated President Bush because Bush did not agree with them on politics.

00:26:35.000 Now, what this has led the right to do is nominate and elevate somebody like President Trump.

00:26:39.000 Why?

00:26:40.000 Because President Trump is fighting a cultural battle with these people.

00:26:44.000 Hollywood has been sneering at us for decades. 0.96

00:26:46.000 And President Trump is willing to get down in the mud with these folks and say that and say, you guys are gross. 0.95

00:26:51.000 Nobody cares what you have to say. 1.00

00:26:52.000 You're idiots and call them names. 1.00

00:26:54.000 And that's very appealing to a lot of folks on the right, because if you treat us with with scorn, Then we've been waiting for somebody to punch you guys back. 1.00

00:27:03.000 And that's what President Trump is.

00:27:04.000 So in other words, it is the leftist hatred for President Bush and for Mitt Romney and for John McCain that led to President Trump.

00:27:11.000 Because you guys scorned all of the conservatives who you derided as corrupt and evil, Then we said, OK, you know what?

00:27:18.000 Obviously, being classy and nice doesn't matter to you people.

00:27:22.000 And in fact, we need somebody here who's not going to be classy and nice because you don't deserve classy and nice. 1.00

00:27:26.000 You're jerks. 1.00

00:27:27.000 You deserve to be smacked in the head as hard as humanly possible. 1.00

00:27:29.000 And you know who can do it? 1.00

00:27:30.000 This guy over here.

00:27:32.000 This guy with the hair.

00:27:33.000 That guy can do it.

00:27:35.000 It is because of people like Adam McKay that Donald Trump is president right now.

00:27:38.000 Now, we can't take this too far on the right.

00:27:41.000 The problem for conservatives is that Adam McKay and his colleagues are not the target audience.

00:27:45.000 It's entertaining for us that Adam McKay and Hollywood get slapped.

00:27:49.000 That's great.

00:27:50.000 I enjoy it too.

00:27:51.000 But there's a bunch of people in the middle of the country who don't really like Adam McKay's take on conservatives and they don't like the slap back from the right.

00:27:58.000 And what they actually are looking for is somebody who can punch back from time to time when appropriate.

00:28:04.000 But somebody who does bring class to the Oval Office.

00:28:07.000 If President Trump can find that, if he can find that happy censor, then he will win re-election.

00:28:11.000 If he cannot, then there's a good shot that he won't.

00:28:13.000 But it is important to remember what exactly drove the movement behind President Trump.

00:28:18.000 What drove the movement behind President Trump was two things.

00:28:21.000 The intersectional ideal pushed by the left that said that there's a new coalition of the dispossessed that was growing demographically and was going to put its boot on the throat of conservatives in the middle of the country.

00:28:30.000 And then conservatives in the middle of the country said, you know what?

00:28:32.000 No, we're not doing this. 1.00

00:28:33.000 And then it was cultural Hollywood that said, you guys are all rubes, you guys are all morons, or you guys are all corrupt and evil. 1.00

00:28:39.000 And we said, you know what? 1.00

00:28:40.000 You're going to do that to us?

00:28:41.000 You're going to call us bitter clingers who cling to God and guns and xenophobia?

00:28:45.000 We're going to nominate this guy over here who smacks you guys as hard as possible in the face, who grabs you like a member of the Three Stooges by the nose and then pokes you in the eyes with his index and middle fingers.

00:28:55.000 That's the guy who we're going to pick.

00:28:57.000 And guess what?

00:28:58.000 In cultural terms, it's actually working.

00:29:01.000 The White House Correspondents' Dinner actually had to revise its entire way of doing business.

00:29:05.000 Okay, the White House Correspondents' Dinner, which is supposed to be nerd prom, this is where all the journalists get together with the Hollywood folks, and they go and laugh at Republicans in the name of journalism.

00:29:14.000 Well now, they have decided they're not going to host a comedian anymore who just goes there and rips into President Trump and Republicans.

00:29:19.000 Instead, they're going to bring in Ron Chernow, who's a biographer of various presidents, and instead of being nerd prom with comedians and Comedy Central figures, it's going to be an actual historical lecture by Ron Chernow, and it'll be about journalism.

00:29:34.000 So President Trump somehow fixed the White House Correspondents Association dinner.

00:29:37.000 Why?

00:29:37.000 Because he said he wasn't going to go.

00:29:39.000 He said he wasn't gonna go, and so he ended up fixing the dinner.

00:29:42.000 This, of course, made Hollywood crazy. 0.94

00:29:44.000 Michelle Wolf, who made a name for herself last year at the White House Correspondents Association dinner, earned herself a Netflix series that was cancelled in about 35 seconds because she's garbage at her job. 1.00

00:29:53.000 She actually tweeted out, the White House Correspondents Association are cowards. 0.97

00:29:57.000 The media is complicit, and I couldn't be prouder.

00:30:00.000 Well, prouder of what?

00:30:03.000 Of basically finishing the dinner?

00:30:05.000 Of destroying the dinner?

00:30:06.000 The media destroyed themselves, and President Trump allowed them to do it.

00:30:09.000 These cultural battles are one of the reasons the right loves President Trump.

00:30:13.000 There's great benefit to that, there really is.

00:30:15.000 There's also a certain amount of risk to it that we on the right would do well to acknowledge, because again, I don't think that it's a case of we have to pick one or the other.

00:30:23.000 We can fight the culture war, At the same time that we act classy.

00:30:26.000 If we can do that, we'll win.

00:30:28.000 If we don't, then we will lose.

00:30:29.000 Now, I do want to, in just one second...

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00:30:35.000 Plus, we'll talk about the Democrats, who are a little more cohesive than you might think.

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00:33:15.000 So before we get to the craziest story of the day, we're talking here about the fact that Republicans can be sucked in, I think, by Hollywood's hatred for Republicans into fighting this culture war.

00:33:32.000 And the culture war is really important. 0.66

00:33:34.000 I wrote an entire book Co-prime time propaganda about how folks on the left use the cultural means of distribution in order to try and harm conservatives.

00:33:43.000 How they see conservatives as lesser human beings.

00:33:45.000 And this latest example of this movie that they are spending 60 million dollars on just to make fun of Dick Cheney.

00:33:51.000 Like, this is a perfect example of that. 0.97

00:33:53.000 And this is why people on the right really love President Trump, because he doesn't take crap from people. 0.80

00:33:57.000 Because when people malign him, when people malign conservatives, he is willing to stand up and say no. 0.90

00:34:03.000 And that's great.

00:34:05.000 It really is good.

00:34:06.000 But it is also important to recognize that you have to appeal to the middle of the country and you can't just rely on Democrats making mistakes.

00:34:13.000 Right now, there's a narrative that's going around on the right that the Democrats are sort of falling apart.

00:34:17.000 And this is being pushed by some folks on the left who want to see an internecine warfare among Democrats.

00:34:24.000 So, for example, they're pushing this idea that 16 Democrats have released a letter pledging not to support House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to be Speaker of the House.

00:34:32.000 The letter indicates Pelosi has a bit of a math problem, but she's going to be able to overcome the opposition.

00:34:36.000 For signature, for starters, there were supposed to be 17 signatures.

00:34:40.000 Representative Marsha Fudge of Ohio, who's deeply radical, was toying with the speaker on herself, but she was removed from the letter.

00:34:46.000 And this is the important point, is that folks on the right are waiting for a Bernie Sanders versus Hillary Clinton brawl, free-for-all in the Congress.

00:34:54.000 They are thinking that Democrats are going to schism the way that they did in 2016.

00:34:58.000 I have my doubts that that's actually going to happen.

00:35:01.000 I think that that's that's probably an over read of the situation.

00:35:03.000 I think that the Democratic Party and Pelosi particularly are clever enough that they can act as though there is a schism without there actually being a schism.

00:35:11.000 The best evidence that this is the actual case is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

00:35:16.000 So a lot of folks on the left have been suggesting that people on the right are paying outsized attention to Ocasio-Cortez.

00:35:22.000 It's a point of great irritation to me.

00:35:24.000 If you elevate somebody to a leading position in your party, and then we point out that this person doesn't know things about politics, that is not our fault.

00:35:32.000 That's your fault for elevating that person to a lead position.

00:35:34.000 I don't remember the left taking the same position about, for example, Sarah Palin, when they mocked the living daylights out of Sarah Palin for stuff she didn't even say.

00:35:42.000 I don't remember them saying, well, you know, kind of mean of us to mock this Sarah.

00:35:45.000 They said, you picked her for VP. 1.00

00:35:46.000 We got to mock her.

00:35:47.000 OK, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, you elevated her. 0.91

00:35:49.000 We got to mock her.

00:35:50.000 That said, Ocasio-Cortez is proving that the left wing of the Democratic Party is willing to work with the mainstream wing of the Democratic Party.

00:35:59.000 They're willing to move the party overall to the left, and they're willing to pledge fealty to the current leadership in order to do this.

00:36:04.000 Ocasio-Cortez, for example, has now backed Nancy Pelosi.

00:36:08.000 I do think that we got sent to Congress on a mandate to change how government works, to change what government even looks like.

00:36:20.000 But if we are not on the same page about changing the systems and the values and how we're going to adapt as a party for the future, then what is the point of just changing our party leadership just for the sake of it?

00:36:34.000 Okay, and this is smart politicking by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

00:36:38.000 So before the right thinks that the left is going to fragment, I don't think the left is going to fragment in 2020 the same way that they did in 2016.

00:36:45.000 If Bernie Sanders runs, he's not going to be running hard against the establishment candidate.

00:36:49.000 There is no establishment-appointed candidate.

00:36:51.000 They got rid of the superdelegates.

00:36:53.000 That means there will be a hard-fought primary campaign.

00:36:55.000 But in the end, the Democrats are going to unify around someone in a way they did not unify around Hillary Clinton.

00:36:59.000 Hillary Clinton circa 2016.

00:37:02.000 So we shouldn't be particularly sanguine about exactly about the Democrats caving in.

00:37:09.000 And again, the Democrats instead are just moving to co-opt their own base.

00:37:12.000 The mainstream Democratic Party has embraced talk of voter suppression and voter fraud.

00:37:17.000 Their mainstream characters are saying the same thing as members of their base.

00:37:21.000 It's dangerous stuff, but it is an indicator that the Democratic Party is in fact unified.

00:37:25.000 So opposition creates unity.

00:37:28.000 It does.

00:37:28.000 The Republicans were more unified in opposition to Barack Obama than they are when it comes to governance.

00:37:34.000 The Democrats are exactly the same way.

00:37:35.000 They're more fragmented when they are in power.

00:37:37.000 They are less fragmented when they are in the opposition.

00:37:39.000 Right now, the Democrats are in the opposition.

00:37:41.000 This gives them the power of unification.

00:37:43.000 And if Republicans don't recognize that, then they are making a crucial political error.

00:37:49.000 Now, with all of that said, The Democrats, as I say, are moving radically to the left.

00:37:55.000 I have a couple of stories to prove that, which I'll get to in just one second.

00:37:58.000 So, story number one, proving that the Democrats are moving radically to the left.

00:38:02.000 It's quite fascinating.

00:38:03.000 Right now, there is a battle inside the far-left, hardcore base of the Democratic Party as to whether anti-Semitism is okay.

00:38:10.000 Yeah, this is broken out into the open with regard to the Women's March.

00:38:14.000 So, according to James Barrett over at Daily Wire, the leadership of the Women's March has come under fire from some of the group's once most vocal supporters, including the woman who founded the group and actresses Alyssa Milano and Debra Messing.

00:38:25.000 The embattled leaders have since responded to criticism with an intersectionally loaded statement blasting its critics.

00:38:30.000 Earlier this year, feminist Tali Goldsheft launched a Change.org petition calling on the leadership of the Women's March, Bob Bland, Tamika Mallory, Linda Sarsour, and Carmen Perez to resign, citing their affiliation with and refusal to condemn notorious racist bigot and anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan.

00:38:44.000 The petition reads, many feminists refused to join the Women's March because they did not feel comfortable with the current leadership. 1.00

00:38:50.000 Now, Women's March participants also no longer feel represented by this organization due to the behavior of its current leadership.

00:38:57.000 And so they say they refuse to march behind those particular leaders.

00:39:01.000 Both Milano and Messing disavowed the Women's March due to its current leadership. 0.95

00:39:07.000 On Monday, the Women's March founder, a woman named Teresa Shook, added her voice to the growing chorus of feminists calling on all of these leaders to step down for allowing bigotry, racism, anti-LGBT sentiment, and anti-Semitism to become Now, why do I think that the Women's March will survive all of this?

00:39:20.000 co-chair to step down and let others lead who can restore faith in the movement and its original intent.

00:39:25.000 The leaders instead fired back and they said that they will not step down.

00:39:30.000 They said that we don't know everything.

00:39:31.000 We have caused harm.

00:39:32.000 At times we have responded with hurt, but we are committed to learning and we are building an intersectional movement our daughters and our daughters' daughters can be proud of.

00:39:38.000 Now, why do I think that the Women's March will survive all of this? 1.00

00:39:41.000 Because I think instead what you're going to see is the mainstreaming of anti-Semitism.

00:39:44.000 I think what you're going to see is the left growing more radical in every conceivable way, including the mainstreaming of antisemitism, The latest indicator of that mainstreaming is not just their embrace of two congresswomen who have overtly called for a boycott against the state of Israel, but the mainstreaming of that sentiment among corporate entities that reside on the political left.

00:40:04.000 Airbnb, the home rental company that is often used by tourists to rent apartments in locations around the globe, for example, announced yesterday that it would not allow Jewish settlements to be listed in Judea and Samaria.

00:40:15.000 In other words, they say that if you are a Jew, and you live in Efrat, in Israel, They will not allow you to rent out your apartment on Airbnb.

00:40:25.000 This is a sheer form of corporate anti-Semitism.

00:40:28.000 But it's okay with the left, because anti-Semitism is okay with the left, so long as the anti-Semitism is coming from people who are more dispossessed than the Jews. 0.88

00:40:35.000 This is how it works in intersectional world.

00:40:38.000 Not only did Airbnb specifically target Israeli settlements, they only targeted Jews.

00:40:43.000 Okay, so they weren't saying that they won't rent an apartment in a frat.

00:40:45.000 They said they won't rent any Jewish-owned apartment in a frat.

00:40:47.000 So if you're an Arab, or if you're a Christian, and you're a Muslim, Then they will allow you, as long as you're not a Jew, they will rent your apartment in Afrat, but if you're a Jew, then they will not allow you to rent out your apartment in Afrat on Airbnb. 0.76

00:41:00.000 Airbnb lists apartments in Turkish-occupied Cyprus, Moroccan-occupied Sahara, Chinese-occupied Tibet, Russian-occupied Crimea.

00:41:07.000 They rent apartments in some of the most dictatorial places all around the world, but they will not allow a Jew to rent out his apartment in East Jerusalem where he is living legally.

00:41:16.000 This is corporate antisemitism, and it's totally okay with the far left, because again, the far left is unifying the Democratic Party.

00:41:23.000 What we are seeing is a radicalization of the Democratic Party, because it is easier to move with the radicals than to cast out the radicals.

00:41:30.000 The Democratic Party is becoming more and more dangerous because they are indeed a cohesive force.

00:41:34.000 These battles do not carry any real weight between people who are against anti-Semitism and for anti-Semitism in the Democratic Party.

00:41:41.000 The radicals are going to win out and they're going to shift the mainstream over to them.

00:41:44.000 Whenever you hear folks on the left talk about how the right is radical, recognize that the right in this country has not shifted its political position since 2010.

00:41:51.000 All movement on the political spectrum All, every bit of it has come from the American left, which is moving further and further to the left and is cohesive in that move specifically now because they exist in opposition to President Trump.

00:42:05.000 Now sometimes this radicalization has some pretty funny side effects.

00:42:09.000 This is a pretty great story. 0.89

00:42:11.000 The Women's Resource Center at Eastern Michigan has put the kibosh on its production of the vagina monologues. 0.53

00:42:16.000 Why?

00:42:17.000 Because it was supposed to cater to women? 1.00

00:42:20.000 And not all women have vaginas. 1.00

00:42:22.000 This is a real story. 0.99

00:42:23.000 Eastern Michigan is now not allowing the vagina monologues because it's about women, and there are some transgender men who are women. 0.96

00:42:30.000 Pretty spectacular stuff. 0.79

00:42:32.000 It's funny, but it's more sad than funny because unfortunately this is the direction in which the left has chosen to move.

00:42:37.000 A sane left would be better for the country than an insane left, but I don't think that that is in the offing anytime soon.

00:42:43.000 Okay, time for a couple of things that I like and then some things that I hate.

00:42:46.000 So, things that I like.

00:42:47.000 We've been doing some William Goldman stuff this week because he passed away last week.

00:42:51.000 He wrote probably the best memoir on Hollywood ever written, called Adventures in the Screen Trade, a personal view of Hollywood and screenwriting.

00:42:59.000 And the book is just fantastic.

00:43:00.000 It talks about all of his sort of stories from Hollywood, how he got in the business, his dealings with various studio entities.

00:43:08.000 And studio heads and actors and writers.

00:43:11.000 It's really fantastic.

00:43:12.000 It's a great quick read.

00:43:13.000 This is one of his two great books about Hollywood.

00:43:15.000 I'll probably recommend the other one tomorrow.

00:43:17.000 It's really worthwhile.

00:43:18.000 So if you're if you're looking for a fun read during the Thanksgiving weekend, go check out Adventures in the Screen Trade by William Goldman.

00:43:24.000 OK, other things that I like.

00:43:26.000 So Dan Crenshaw is a congressperson from Texas and Dan Crenshaw is just spectacular.

00:43:33.000 He was on one of the Sunday shows and it was on Face the Nation on CBS.

00:43:38.000 And one of the Democrats suggested that President Trump was undermining all of the key American institutions.

00:43:43.000 And Dan Crenshaw, who is a Navy SEAL who lost his eye fighting in Afghanistan, Dan Crenshaw has some of the best response I've ever seen on national television.

00:43:52.000 It's just spectacular.

00:43:53.000 How is that an attack on the press, though?

00:43:56.000 Because it's literally an attack.

00:43:57.000 Oh, I've literally been attacked.

00:43:59.000 Let's choose our words carefully.

00:44:01.000 His language is an attack. 1.00

00:44:03.000 Okay, so why can't he speak, why is he not allowed to use his own language and freedom of speech?

00:44:09.000 Because, and you talked about this actually, it's important that we lead from example, that we lead from the top.

00:44:15.000 And the way that our president is currently being... I agree with you there.

00:44:17.000 I agree with you there.

00:44:18.000 Style is one thing.

00:44:19.000 If you want to criticize style, I'm with you.

00:44:22.000 Right?

00:44:22.000 But to say it's an attack on the freedom of the press, that is a very bold statement.

00:44:26.000 By calling the press the enemy of the people?

00:44:28.000 Yeah, I don't like that language.

00:44:29.000 That is literally... Okay, so the style.

00:44:31.000 I agree.

00:44:31.000 I don't like that language.

00:44:32.000 Okay, and he is exactly right, but I love that she says it's literally an attack on the press.

00:44:36.000 It's like, um, no.

00:44:38.000 No.

00:44:39.000 Like, see this right here?

00:44:40.000 This eyepatch?

00:44:41.000 That was literally an attack.

00:44:43.000 It is amazing how people have radically changed the nature of the language in order to fit their attacks on President Trump.

00:44:49.000 Okay, one more thing that I like.

00:44:51.000 So, Kate Fagan is leaving ESPN.

00:44:53.000 You may have seen her on First Take and Around the Horn.

00:44:56.000 She served as a fill-in host on Outside the Lines.

00:44:58.000 Why is she leaving?

00:44:59.000 She's leaving because she says, to continue at ESPN, I would have to be immersed in the day-to-day in sports.

00:45:04.000 And I found myself more and more interested in other aspects of sports, like how it connects to our culture.

00:45:08.000 That was not going to be the big business of ESPN.

00:45:10.000 I desperately hope so.

00:45:12.000 I desperately hope that ESPN returns to covering sports.

00:45:14.000 Last night's Monday Night Football game, by the way, between the Rams and the Chiefs, was utterly unbelievable.

00:45:19.000 How about covering sports?

00:45:20.000 Because that's what people like watching.

00:45:21.000 They don't want to see Kate Fagan comment about LGBT bicycle races. 1.00

00:45:25.000 No one cares about that crap. 0.99

00:45:27.000 That's not why I turn on ESPN. 0.99

00:45:29.000 But ESPN has lost ratings for one reason, because you cannot turn on ESPN without getting social justice warrior discussions about just how heroic Caitlyn Jenner is, or how heroic Fallon Fox is, a man fighting women in UFC.

00:45:43.000 If ESPN is ousting all the political actors on ESPN, good.

00:45:49.000 That would be great.

00:45:50.000 Because they obviously won't have anyone who's remotely right-wing on the network.

00:45:52.000 They've fired everybody else.

00:45:56.000 This woman, Kate Fagan, she says, I think I thought at one point that I wanted to do a show that made women's sports really cool.

00:46:03.000 I thought there could be a show on some of the tangential topics, LGBT issues and mental health.

00:46:07.000 Five years ago, I thought I could host a show that introduces new female characters to women's sports world. 0.96

00:46:11.000 This isn't DSPN's fault, but I'm not that naive now.

00:46:14.000 You know why that show wouldn't fly?

00:46:16.000 Because no one cares about women's soccer outside of the Women's World Cup every four years when we all pretend to care about women's soccer.

00:46:24.000 We care about women's tennis because women's tennis is really good. 0.99

00:46:26.000 No one cares about women's basketball. 1.00

00:46:28.000 And no one cares about LGBT issues in the locker room in female lacrosse. 1.00

00:46:33.000 It turns out what we actually want is to watch games where people hit each other and hold balls and then throw them to each other.

00:46:39.000 Like, that's what we want.

00:46:41.000 That's all we've been asking for.

00:46:43.000 I used to get up at six in the morning so I could watch the highlights on SportsCenter.

00:46:46.000 I have not watched SportsCenter for seven years because of their political bent.

00:46:50.000 I am not the only one who feels this way.

00:46:53.000 So if ESPN decides to move back towards sports, that would definitely be an upgrade over the garbage that they've been programming for the last several years.

00:46:59.000 Okay, time for a couple of things that I hate.

00:47:05.000 So here in California, obviously we've been having some massive, horrendous wildfires, probably hundreds dead in the Northern California wildfires.

00:47:12.000 Shelby Grad is the assistant managing editor of the LA Times.

00:47:15.000 And Shelby Grad tweeted out that Jerry Brown, the governor here, who is one million years old, and actually remembers the Pleistocene era, he actually, Shelby tweets out, Jerry Brown told the truth about California fires that no one wants to hear.

00:47:27.000 What is that truth?

00:47:29.000 That truth is there are too many people. 0.71

00:47:31.000 I love that for the left, when you suck at being a governor, you just get to claim there are too many people.

00:47:36.000 It's amazing.

00:47:37.000 So, if you're on the right, and people on the left say, income inequality, you say, right, income inequality has existed in every society at every time.

00:47:43.000 The only thing we should be worried about is whether the impoverished in the United States are able to grow economically.

00:47:48.000 Then they say, ah, you're ignoring, you're ignoring hope.

00:47:51.000 You're ignoring change.

00:47:53.000 You're like, well, no, inequality has existed for all of time.

00:47:56.000 That's a reality.

00:47:57.000 But if you're on the left, And you say, yeah, a bunch of people are going to die in wildfires because there are too many humans?

00:48:02.000 And they're like, good answer, good answer.

00:48:05.000 Here's what Jerry Brown says.

00:48:07.000 He says, you know, we've had fires for long before the Europeans showed up here and our indigenous people had a different way of living with nature.

00:48:13.000 For 10,000 years, there were never more than 300,000 people living in California.

00:48:17.000 Now we have 40 million and we have a totally different situation.

00:48:19.000 He remembers, because 10,000 years ago, Jerry Brown was there.

00:48:22.000 He actually observed how many people were there.

00:48:23.000 He says, so it's not one thing.

00:48:25.000 It's people.

00:48:26.000 It's how people live.

00:48:27.000 It's where they live.

00:48:27.000 It's the changing climate.

00:48:29.000 And the truth is, we're going to have more difficulties.

00:48:31.000 Except, as it turns out, Jerry Brown fully understands why the wildfires have gotten so bad in the state of California.

00:48:38.000 You know why the wildfires have gotten so bad in the state of California?

00:48:41.000 Because of state policy.

00:48:42.000 That stinks.

00:48:44.000 Back in August, he basically acknowledged as much.

00:48:47.000 The Santa Cruz Sentinel reported back in August before the wildfires that Brown was proposing one of the most significant changes to the state's logging rules in nearly half a century, according to Emily Zanotti over at Daily Wire.

00:48:57.000 Governor Jerry Brown is proposing broad new changes to California's logging rules that would allow landowners to cut larger trees and build temporary roads without obtaining a permit as a way to thin more forests across the state.

00:49:08.000 Under Brown's proposal, private landowners would be able to cut trees up to 36 inches in diameter, so long as their purpose was to thin forest or reduce fire risk.

00:49:17.000 So he understood, like a couple of months ago, that one of the reasons these big fires were happening is because of crappy fire policy.

00:49:24.000 It's not just people on the right saying this, by the way.

00:49:25.000 You know, Trump tweeted out this.

00:49:28.000 And people were like, oh, how could he?

00:49:29.000 How could he tweet this out?

00:49:30.000 Now, he shouldn't have tweeted that he was going to withdraw fire aid. 0.97

00:49:32.000 That was ridiculous.

00:49:33.000 But he wasn't wrong that it is fire management policies in the state of California that have exacerbated the risk of bad fires.

00:49:39.000 How do I know this?

00:49:40.000 Because Mother Jones, the communist magazine, they wrote a piece back in December called A Century of Fire Suppression is Why California is in Flames.

00:49:49.000 This piece points out that because they have not actually participated in fire suppression, meaning like controlled fires, controlled burns, that get rid of a lot of the undergrowth, when fires do happen, there are basically giant conflagrations.

00:50:03.000 According to experts like Sasha Berleman, who's a fire ecologist, the biggest problem here is 100 years of fire suppression that has led to a huge accumulation of fuel loads, just dead and downed debris from trees and plant materials in our forests and our woodlands.

00:50:19.000 As a result of that, our forests and woodlands are not healthy, and we're getting more catastrophic fire behavior than we would otherwise.

00:50:25.000 So even Jerry Brown recognizes this, but I love that the media are basically covering for him and saying, you know what?

00:50:30.000 It's not that Jerry Brown is bad at his job.

00:50:32.000 It's that there are too many people living in California.

00:50:33.000 He said the same thing about the... I love this.

00:50:35.000 He did say the same thing with regard to the drought in the state of California.

00:50:39.000 So it turns out we've had several tens of millions of people in California for as long as I have been alive.

00:50:45.000 I've also had drought problems in California for as long as I've been alive.

00:50:49.000 We could have built all new infrastructure.

00:50:50.000 We could have worked on desalination plants.

00:50:52.000 We could have worked on ensuring that we weren't pumping millions of gallons of fresh water out into the San Francisco Bay in order to protect the Delta smelt.

00:51:00.000 There's lots of stuff we could have done.

00:51:02.000 Instead, Jerry Brown just said there are too many people living in the state of California.

00:51:05.000 I love that that's a good excuse.

00:51:06.000 There are too many people.

00:51:07.000 You notice how the left always comes down to that?

00:51:09.000 Abortion makes the economy better because there are too many people. 0.99

00:51:12.000 You know, global warming is bad because there are too many people. 0.99

00:51:16.000 Okay, so which million people would you kill?

00:51:18.000 Who do you want to off here? 1.00

00:51:21.000 I promise you, Jerry Brown is not interested in killing off members of his own California constituency, I would imagine.

00:51:29.000 It's incredible what you can get away with if you happen to be on the political left.

00:51:31.000 Okay, well we will be back here tomorrow with all of the latest as we approach Thanksgiving.

00:51:35.000 I know, I'm in a good mood.

00:51:36.000 Shouldn't you be in a good mood too?

00:51:37.000 Come on, there's a lot to be thankful for.

00:51:38.000 We'll be back here tomorrow to discuss all of it.

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