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00:00:12.000Okay, so this is the show that we do after the Oscars where everybody on the left gets super annoyed after all the virtue signaling and all the politics of last night and all the politics that Hollywood routinely shoves in the faces of Americans.
00:00:23.000If you respond to that, it's considered bad taste.
00:00:26.000Never mind that it was pretty stacked politically from the left.
00:00:28.000Never mind that it was openly acknowledged by the people on the stage.
00:00:31.000If you respond to that, then you see you're being triggered.
00:00:34.000If you respond to that, if you point out that it's political, if you point out that Hollywood is pushing a particular political agenda, this makes you the bad guy.
00:00:41.000We'll talk about all of that in just a second.
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00:01:57.000As I say, one of my great irritations in life is this game that is played by folks in Hollywood and the entertainment community, where they make a bunch of content, and they do it with politics explicitly in mind, and then if you respond to that, then it's you who are being oversensitive.
00:02:10.000So, if you say that The Shape of Water, aka Grinding Nemo, a movie in which a woman has sex with a fish, but only after she is helped by a communist, a gay guy, and a black woman, and she herself is mute, she helps a fish escape to her bathtub where she has sex with it,
00:02:26.000If you say this may have some left leanings, if you say this may have some political messages, then you are saying, how dare you mention that shit?
00:02:55.000They call me by your name, which won Best Original Screenplay or Best Adapted Screenplay last night.
00:03:00.000If you mention that that's a story about a 24-year-old dude seducing a 17-year-old dude, which means that the dude who he's seducing is underage, and that if you made that movie about a man and a woman, this would now be part of the Me Too movement.
00:03:09.000Or if you mention that if that guy who's 24 was named Kevin Spacey, he'd be banned from Hollywood for doing that in real life.
00:03:22.000If you mention that there were a slate of movies last night that were mediocre at best, but were praised to the skies because of the intersectionality of the people who made them.
00:03:34.000As Sonny Bunch puts it correctly, it is a longish episode of Roseanne.
00:03:38.000If you say that, if you point out that Greta Gerwig's movie is like, eh, it's not the worst movie ever, but it's not the best movie ever, that's because you must hate women.
00:03:48.000If you think that Black Panther was like a good action movie, like a nice good action flick, but it wasn't the most important movie of all time, you are politicizing it.
00:03:54.000Not the New York Times, which ran a thousand pieces, a thousand thing pieces, about how it was the most important movie ever.
00:04:33.000And Jimmy Kimmel, who somehow has elevated himself from staring at boobs on The Man Show and asking women to find out what's in his crotch with their faces, legitimately, right?
00:04:43.000He's moved on from that to being the Me Too, anti-gun,
00:04:48.000Pro-Obamacare spokesperson for the left.
00:04:51.000So he was asked last night to do his routine, and his routine was predictably not funny in the slightest.
00:04:55.000So, here's my honest take on the Oscars.
00:04:59.000I did not watch one minute of this live, and I was much happier for it.
00:05:53.000You think the author of Call Me By Your Name was really thinking of Mike Pence?
00:05:56.000No, I don't think he was thinking of Mike Pence specifically, but I'm sure that the author of Call Me By Your Name was thinking, I'm making a very significant film because it's important that Americans see that homosexual love stories are just as real and intense as heterosexual love stories.
00:06:08.000I promise you that that was going through his head.
00:06:11.000Because of course it was going through his head.
00:06:12.000You wouldn't expect anything else to go through the guy's head.
00:06:14.000Doesn't mean there's anything wrong with him.
00:06:15.000Doesn't mean there's anything wrong with his motive.
00:06:17.000But to suggest there's no political motive at all is silly.
00:06:19.000Now, when I did my book, Primetime Propaganda, in 2011, I went and I spoke to dozens, a hundred, people who are like the top creators in Hollywood.
00:06:26.000The people who created Friends, the people who created Soap, the people who created Golden Girls, the people who created America's Funniest Home Videos.
00:06:32.000Legitimately, every show that was a top show from the 1950s all the way forward to the 2000s, I interviewed somebody from that show.
00:06:39.000And the message that I got from virtually everyone is, of course we put our politics in our films.
00:06:43.000Of course we put our politics in our TV shows.
00:06:46.000Would you expect us to do any differently?
00:06:47.000And the answer was, no, I don't expect you to do anything differently.
00:06:50.000But the great lie that they hid behind was, well, we put our politics in there not because we are propagandists.
00:06:58.000We put our politics in there because it's what the audience demands.
00:07:01.000When we make a show like Friends, and we have a lesbian wedding first season.
00:07:05.000Or when, in later seasons, Ross and Rachel have a baby out of wedlock and they're in love with each other but we don't let them get married because that would be too conventional.
00:07:12.000When we do all of that, that's just because the audience wants to hear that perspective.
00:07:17.000It's something the audience wants to hear.
00:08:07.000They go around talking about how their film really made a difference in lives.
00:08:11.000This is how they think, because if they really thought that they were around to just make movies of people clubbing each other with sticks, and that we all laugh and enjoy them because, hey, we all like movies, they wouldn't feel very fulfilled.
00:08:21.000There's a movie called Sullivan's Travels from the 1940s, a great movie.
00:08:25.000And the whole movie is about this guy who wants to make comedies.
00:08:28.000He's a comic writer and he makes comedies, these very famous comedies.
00:08:32.000And then he decides he wants to make his deep film because he feels unfulfilled.
00:08:35.000He feels like he hasn't made his contribution to the art.
00:08:37.000And so he goes out on the road as a homeless guy.
00:08:40.000And he experiences all sorts of craziness and suffering.
00:08:42.000All this terrible stuff happens to him.
00:08:43.000And he comes back and he realizes he ends up in a chain gang.
00:08:46.000And they showed these guys comedies at night, some of his comedies.
00:08:49.000And he realizes that's me doing something for the world.
00:08:52.000That's something Hollywood folks do not understand.
00:08:55.000They don't want to make their comedies.
00:08:56.000They don't want to just do what it is that we enjoy them doing.
00:08:58.000They don't want to make Thor Ragnarok.
00:08:59.000They want to make Call Me By Your Name.
00:09:01.000They may make Thor Ragnarok so that they can pay the bills, but what they actually want to make is Call Me By Your Name.
00:09:06.000And so when Jimmy Kimmel says, when he reveals there, that what they're actually doing is making films specifically designed so that they can feel good about themselves, that it makes them feel good to slap Mike Pence, it makes them feel good to slap people in the middle of the country, that is true.
00:09:19.000Now, when Jimmy Kimmel says it, we can all take it seriously.
00:09:21.000But if I say it, then it's because I'm politicizing the issue.
00:09:24.000I remember we did the exact same thing with regard to, for example, Joe Biden.
00:09:27.000So, back in the early 1990s, there was a show called Murphy Brown.
00:09:30.000Murphy Brown had Cameron, uh, what was the name of the woman, Candace Bergen, playing the lead.
00:09:35.000Candace Bergen had a baby out of wedlock.
00:10:27.000Me acknowledging that they're political is no different than them acknowledging that they are political and that profits, while important to make sure that they boost their industry, their business is no different from my business.
00:10:36.000The difference is I'm honest about it.
00:10:38.000I am here to push a certain political point of view, to push principles that I think are important.
00:10:42.000I'm not doing it just to respond to the market.
00:10:44.000In fact, I take pride in the fact that we at The Daily Wire don't just respond to the market.
00:10:48.000It's why we make certain editorial decisions.
00:10:50.000It's why we don't show the names and faces of mass shooters.
00:10:52.000I'm sure that hurts us in the click count, but that is something we are willing to do.
00:10:56.000And I'm honest about the hits that we are willing to take for a particular political view.
00:11:00.000It's why I never fell onto the Trump train to the extent that I was talking about everything being mega, mega, mega genius, and I'm sure I would have made more money if I had done that.
00:11:08.000Because there are certain principles I think are important.
00:11:10.000The difference is Hollywood has principles it thinks are important, but they lie about it.
00:11:41.000It is about making people in the middle of the country feel morally less.
00:11:44.000It is about the suggestion that Hollywood is showing the best of itself.
00:11:48.000It's Hollywood's book report at the end of the year, where they demonstrate why they should be there.
00:11:52.000And according to Hollywood, the reason they should be there is not because they entertain us, not because they make movies we want to watch,
00:13:27.000One of the reasons that you can see that Hollywood has shifted its view of itself is the change in the demographic of the people who actually watch Oscar films.
00:13:36.000So it used to be that Oscar films between 1983 and 2000, 2003 really, virtually every Oscar film was a major winner in terms of the box office.
00:13:48.000You did really well at the box office, at least the films that won Best Picture.
00:13:53.000So I'm going to look up the list right now.
00:13:55.000And I will tell you, there has not been an actual good movie that has won Best Picture at the Oscars, like a great movie that's won Best Picture at the Oscars, in my opinion, since 2010.
00:14:03.000And there hasn't been a box office winner at the Oscars for nearly 15 years.
00:15:56.000Again, okay, but sorry, movies about euthanasia don't exactly blow it up at the box office.
00:16:01.000And then, by 2003, I think it was really in the Bush era that this happened.
00:16:07.0002003, by the middle of the Bush era, you can see the shift for Hollywood.
00:16:09.000The shift goes from, we are here to make movies that entertain you, to we are here to make movies that are specifically designed to say something.
00:16:31.000As we are here in order to, in order not to make big movies that make lots of money and earn us all enormous paychecks, that's something nice that we do.
00:16:39.000But what we're really here to do is push the message.
00:16:40.000And you can see that from the Oscar winners.
00:16:42.000Because before that, it was Lord of the Rings, Return of the King.
00:17:48.000And the way that we know that white men are terrible is because Hollywood, on the one hand, was pushing diversity last night, meaning diversity of skin, not viewpoint, diversity of skin color, diversity of gender.
00:17:58.000But when it came to men, you know, men, bad men, those people, they're just bad.
00:18:42.000What we need more is not virtuous men, not men who stand up for women, not men who use their aggression in positive ways, not men who get married and have kids, not men who use their penis properly.
00:18:56.000Lewis once wrote an entire essay called Men Without Chests, and his entire essay is about when you have a civilization of men who have been scooped, their value has been scooped out, when they've been given nothing to live for, they become a problem.
00:19:10.000Men Without Chests is one of the great essays in all of Western literature.
00:19:13.000And the entire premise is, when you remove masculinity from men, you are doing them damage, and you are turning them into hulks of themselves, into husks of themselves.
00:19:20.000And here you have a guy on stage at one of the most watched events of the year, talking about how it would be great if men had no penises.
00:19:29.000We're supposed to—oh, it's just comedy.
00:19:31.000But then, the whole point of comedy is that there's an element of truth to it, is there not?
00:19:35.000This is what we've been told for years.
00:19:37.000If Hollywood says that men—at the very end of the show, by the way, Jimmy Kimmel reiterated this.
00:19:41.000Like, at the very end of the show, Kimmel actually suggested that he wishes that he were a woman, which I don't know what the limitation on him is.
00:19:49.000I mean, one thing that we have learned is that if you wish to be a woman, don't let anyone stand in the way of your dreams, man.
00:20:18.000And so how did Hollywood take this on?
00:20:20.000Because the truth is that the big problem in Hollywood, of course, has been aggressive men who have not had any moral limitations put on them, who scorn the fundamental institutions of Western civilization, like marriage and chivalry.
00:20:45.000Three accusers of Harvey Weinstein got up, and they were pushing the Time's Up movement.
00:20:49.000So this is Selma Hayek, Annabella Sciarro, and Ashley Judd.
00:20:53.000All three of them had accusations to make about Harvey Weinstein.
00:20:57.000Annabella Sciarro was apparently blacklisted by Weinstein, Ashley Judd says that Weinstein abused her, and Selma Hayek called Weinstein a monster in the New York Times.
00:21:05.000Now, I know all of that because I actually researched this stuff.
00:21:09.000If you watched the show last night, you wouldn't know any of that.
00:21:11.000You would just see three beautiful women on stage making extraordinarily vague references about something bad that happened in Hollywood.
00:21:26.000Like, if you were just a bit alien and you came and you watched the Oscars last night, what you would assume is that Hollywood was rewarding itself for how it treats women, not castigating itself for how it treats women.
00:21:49.000And then they followed up this clip with a montage talking about how wonderful Hollywood is to women and black people and Indian Americans and the vast panorama of colors the cinemascope
00:23:32.000This year, many spoke their truth, and the journey ahead is long, but slowly a new path has emerged.
00:23:42.000The changes we are witnessing are being driven by the powerful sound of new voices, of different voices, of our voices, joining together in a mighty chorus that is finally saying, time's up.
00:23:58.000Okay, do you have any idea what they're talking about?
00:24:00.000Like really, I mean, if you just came in from the street, and you had no idea what was going on in Hollywood, you hadn't read any of the headlines, you hadn't done any of the research, would you recognize any of these three women, except you might say, okay, there's the lady from Double Jeopardy, and there's the lady from that movie about Frida Kahlo?
00:24:13.000Legitimately, that's all you would see is just these people making really vague references to the diversity of voices, and then they follow up this diversity of voice stuff with a montage.
00:24:22.000And is the montage about women who have been abused in Hollywood?
00:24:25.000Is the montage about taking responsibility for that abuse?
00:24:28.000See, here's the thing that Hollywood did last night.
00:24:30.000They had Jimmy Kimmel get on stage and talk about how all men all over the world are responsible for evil against women, so it's everyone else's fault.
00:24:37.000Maybe that includes Hollywood, but it really is everyone's fault, because it's penises that are to blame, of course.
00:24:43.000Except, in fact, if there's a movie that wins Best Picture or Best Adapted Screenplay about a 24-year-old man having sex with a 17-year-old man.
00:25:37.000Within two years, men will be back to abusing women exactly the way they did before in Hollywood, because Hollywood has no moral standards.
00:25:55.000You haven't sexually harassed or abused anyone.
00:25:57.000You haven't made movies about people you've sexually harassed or abused.
00:26:00.000But it's really Hollywood that has to tell you a thing or two.
00:26:03.000So here's Hollywood explaining its mission in life.
00:26:06.000This entire fall, the Me Too, the Time's Up movements, everyone is getting a voice to express something that has been happening forever, not only in Hollywood, but in every walk of life.
00:26:53.000There's the cheer for the guy from The Big Sick and from Silicon Valley, directed by the way, created by Mike Judge, who was a straight white man.
00:28:03.000Zero things have to do with Me Too or Time's Up.
00:28:05.000That this is the way that Hollywood elides its own moral culpability in one of the great scandals of late 20th and early 21st centuries, and then suggests that they're actually winning because Kumail Manjani used to have to watch movies by white guys and identify with the characters.
00:28:31.000And do I think that, like, it's deeply important that now people identify with an Indian guy, or a Pakistani guy, because I think that Nanjani is Pakistani?
00:28:38.000No, I don't think that that matters a lot either.
00:28:41.000I mean, if the movie's good, the movie's good.
00:29:36.000I saw a study in the New York Times today, it was really funny, saying how many of the Best Picture winners, percentage of lines read by men versus percentage of lines read by women.
00:29:44.000They neglect to mention the fact that the one that won last night was about a woman who is mute.
00:29:50.000Okay, it's sort of hard to make that calculation when the woman in the movie is mute.
00:29:55.000That's a much better gauge of whether it's a male-centric movie or a female-centric movie than number of lines spoken by women.
00:30:03.000There are a lot of great performances by women in which the acting is not in the lines.
00:30:09.000Okay, we're going to get to Hollywood being better than you in just a second and their continued push for the notion that while they are, in fact, some of the least morally
00:30:19.000By the way, you want to know why Trump won?
00:30:25.000When you have a bunch of people from Hollywood lecturing you about how they are the great moral leaders, while making some of the least morally responsible films of all time, and being very irresponsible in their own personal lives, then yeah, that's...
00:30:37.000No one's going to listen to you when you say that Lena Dunham should be our shining star of morality.
00:30:40.000Okay, we're going to get to more of this in just a second, but for that you're going to have to go over to dailywire.com.
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00:31:26.000Alrighty, so, let's talk a little bit more about the virtue signaling over the Oscars and how ridiculous it was.
00:31:32.000So, my favorite point to this was, this is a thing they're doing now, where Hollywood stars meet the commoners.
00:31:38.000They did this last year, where they brought a bunch of people into the Kodak Theater in the middle of the Oscars, and they did it again this year with a bunch of people who are starring in these movies that none of these people have ever seen, right?
00:31:47.000They're all there to see A Wrinkle in Time, which is a kid's movie, which actually might make some money at the box office, but all these Oscar nominees, who no one's heard of,
00:31:53.000Walk into the theater and start interacting with the audience.
00:32:03.000Okay, as someone who took, I think in the last week and a half, I probably took 2,500 pictures of people, people who are fans of the show and enjoy, there's nothing special about celebrities.
00:32:13.000In fact, celebrities are some of the most empty people that you will ever meet, depending on what it is that they do for a living.
00:32:19.000We're here to hobnob with the common folks, with the hoi polloi, before we go back to our shining beautiful palatial estates on the hill and never see any of you again.
00:32:30.000So here they are walking into the midst of the commoners and demonstrating to the commoners that they, too, are regular people before they go off with their million-dollar salaries and their special sports cars with their beautiful lovers.
00:32:56.000These are our betters, firing literally food into the crowd.
00:32:59.000I mean, if there was ever a more symbolic Marie Antoinette let them eat cake moment than this, firing hot dogs into a crowd of commoners, ha ha!
00:33:07.000We shall feed the commoners with these hot dogs from our giant hot dog gun!
00:33:16.000My favorite thing last night about the lecture was this.
00:33:19.000So Kobe Bryant, who settled out of court on a sexual assault case, right?
00:33:23.000He won an Oscar last night because there was a short film that was made out of his retirement letter about dreams of basketball or whatnot.
00:33:31.000He won an Oscar last night, which means that Kobe Bryant has now won as many Oscars as Gary Oldman, which is really ridiculous.
00:33:37.000So Kobe Bryant gets up there, wins an Oscar on Me Too Night after settling out of court many years back with a woman who accused her of raping her in a room in Colorado.
00:33:49.000Here is Kobe Bryant dunking on Laura Ingraham in the crowd cheering.
00:33:52.000Whatever form your dream may take, it's through passion and perseverance that the impossible is possible.
00:34:04.000I mean, as basketball players, we're really supposed to shut up and dribble, but I'm glad we can do a little bit more than that.
00:34:10.000Okay, there he is ripping Laura Ingram because we're supposed to shut up and dribble.
00:34:14.000But it's so funny, the entire crowd is totally fine with Kobe Bryant, a guy who settled out of court on sexual assault charges, you know, doing this routine.
00:34:33.000So there is a song that was performed last night from the movie Marshall called Stand Up for Something, and I guess it was Common and Andra Day who are performing this song.
00:34:44.000And I guess it's mostly like sort of a beat poetry about politics.
00:34:49.000These days we dance between love and hate.
00:34:51.000Don't know the date, so we stay awake.
00:35:32.000But I'm pointing out that the culture gap in this country, the cultural betterers, they wonder in Hollywood why we don't take them seriously on politics.
00:35:40.000They wonder in Hollywood why there are so many people in the middle of the country who find Hollywood distasteful.
00:35:44.000They wonder in Hollywood why it is that people in the middle of the country are only going to see their big-budget pictures and not any of their artsy films.
00:35:53.000Maybe it's because you're constantly lecturing everybody in the middle of the country about how you're better than they are.
00:35:56.000And then the minute that you say, listen, we don't like being lectured, they go, hey, we're just artists, man.
00:36:02.000You don't get to be propagandists, and admit that you're propagandists, and openly propagandize, and then pretend that you're just there for the art of it.
00:36:11.000You can use messaging in your art, but that is messaging in your art, and you don't get to have it both ways.
00:36:17.000This clown nose on, clown nose off routine is really irritating.
00:36:20.000I think the greatest contrast here, by the way, is Common and Andra Day do this thing about, we're gonna kneel for the anthem.
00:36:25.000Gary Oldman wins an Oscar, he thanks America, and listen to how the crowd responds.
00:36:29.000I owe this and so much more to so many
00:36:32.000I have lived in America for the longest time and I am deeply grateful to her for the loves and the friendships I have made and the many wonderful gifts it has given me.
00:36:48.000My home, my livelihood, my family, and now Oscar.
00:37:15.000I thought the best thing in it was Woody Harrelson.
00:37:17.000He's the only one who didn't win an Oscar.
00:37:19.000Sam Rockwell, the guy who you'll remember from Iron Man 2, won an Oscar, and so did Frances McDormand, the woman you'll remember from Fargo.
00:37:26.000She got up at the end and she did a whole women's
00:37:28.000Women in movies routine, because, you know, if there's somebody who's really been victimized in the movie industry, it's Frances McDormand, who's now winning her second Oscar and has been working continuously for legitimately 25 years.
00:38:20.000But Hollywood ain't going to operate on inclusion riders because the reality is that Hollywood still needs to make a profit.
00:38:25.000The sad truth of Hollywood is that none of the movies that won last night make Hollywood work.
00:38:29.000Nobody watched the Oscars last night because of three billboards.
00:38:32.000People watch the Oscars because of Thor Ragnarok.
00:38:34.000Because that's how people engage with Hollywood.
00:38:35.000People engage with Hollywood because of Black Panther and Thor Ragnarok and Wonder Woman.
00:38:39.000And the reason they're not engaging with more serious content is because nobody in Hollywood will make more serious content that is not replete with nasty messages about traditional values or Hollywood's superiority to the rest of mankind.
00:38:51.000The minute you make a serious Hollywood film that doesn't involve those things, that thing will do blockbuster at the box office.
00:40:33.000Nobody should have been shocked about this.
00:40:34.000The only thing is that we were told that we shouldn't have to really pay attention to stuff that Trump was saying.
00:40:39.000We should just pay attention to what he was doing.
00:40:41.000If what he said during the campaign is what he does now, I'm going to be much less happy with his governance than I have been for the last several months.
00:40:47.000Speaking of which, the media are making a big deal out of President Trump
00:40:51.000Over the weekend, he did an event and he praised China's president for life.
00:40:54.000The president basically of China, the dictator of China, because voting ain't a thing over there, is now the president for life.
00:41:00.000He's basically appointed himself to an endless term.
00:41:03.000And CNN got hold of audio of Trump talking about this.
00:41:06.000There's one thing Trump says that's disturbing and one thing the media is blowing wildly out of proportion.
00:41:34.000What they should have latched onto is the president talking about how wonderful a human being and how great Xi Jinping is, the president of China.
00:41:42.000He is a communist dictator who represses his own people and leaves millions of people in suffering.
00:42:54.000I guess they formally label millennials people born between 81 and 96.
00:42:59.000What have we actually done for the world, like the millennials?
00:43:01.000The answer is, not a whole hell of a lot.
00:43:03.000I mean, I think the baby boomers were pretty disastrous, but at least they gave us the civil rights movement and the women's rights movement.
00:43:09.000What exactly have millennials done for the world?
00:43:25.000You live in the freest, most prosperous country in the history of the world, and previous generations have to apologize to you?
00:43:31.000If you were born 500 years ago, you'd have been born into abject poverty by any global modern standard.
00:43:36.000But we're supposed to pretend that these kids have been done some sort of essential wrong, not just by an evil shooter, which of course they were, but by an entire society of people who have done wrong to them.
00:43:46.000All previous generations have not lived up to them.
00:44:21.000If you haven't seen this show, it's very clever.
00:44:23.000The entire premise of it is basically a woman dies and she goes to what is supposed to be heaven, but it turns out that on earth she was actually kind of a bad person.
00:45:36.000What's funny about the show, actually, is it starts off as this very secular left version of what heaven is, right?
00:45:41.000Everybody goes to heaven regardless of what they sort of did on earth, as long as they didn't take their shoes and their socks off on an airline flight, then they go to heaven.
00:45:49.000And then it moves into some more interesting and convoluted moral questions.
00:45:54.000It will actually drop references to Plato and Kant in the middle of the show, which is really fun, so check that out.
00:45:58.000Okay, that's a thing that Hollywood is producing that I like.
00:46:00.000Hollywood produces a lot of stuff that I like.
00:46:02.000It's what makes me so upset when they pretend that they are not propagandists for particular viewpoints, particularly in their showcase, the Oscars.
00:46:09.000Okay, time for another thing that I like.
00:46:12.000So, Bill Maher did something great last night, or on Friday night rather.
00:46:15.000He was talking about the fake news drama, and he says that everybody is focusing on fake news because there is a lot of fake news out there, namely this perpetual outrage machine that seems to be dominating.
00:46:26.000No wonder fake news resonates so much with Trump fans, because so much of it is fake.
00:46:33.000Just nonsense made to keep you perpetually offended with an endless stream of controversies that aren't controversial, and outrages that aren't outrageous.
00:46:43.000Because places like the Huffington Post and BuzzFeed and Salon, they make their money by how many clicks they get.
00:46:49.000Yes, the people who see themselves as morally superior are actually ignoring their sacred job of informing citizens of what's important, and instead sowing division for their own selfish ends.
00:47:23.000I could have devoted the entire show to things I hate, actually, if I had so chosen.
00:47:26.000I could have just called it Oscars I Hate.
00:47:27.000But instead, I will reserve one clip for Jordan Klepper over on Comedy Central.
00:47:32.000So, speaking of Hollywood bias, there's not one right-wing or even remotely right-wing comedian on Comedy Central.
00:47:37.000Like, there's no one of even mildly to the right tendencies.
00:47:40.000If you are slightly to the right of Karl Marx, you do not belong on Comedy Central.
00:47:43.000So Jordan Klepper has a new show on Comedy Central, which of course means he should be on CNN speaking about politics, because being a comedian means you should talk about politics, unless you're a comedian on the right, of course.
00:47:51.000So here is Jordan Klepper on CNN talking about how it is time for America to get serious about guns.
00:47:59.000I went through the process of what it would take for a good guy with a gun to stop a bad guy with a gun.
00:48:03.000I talked to people on both sides of the Dickey Amendment and the argument with funding the CDC and quickly realized that in America there is so much more common ground.
00:48:11.000I think it was really frustrating because that wasn't the narrative that was getting out into the public.
00:48:15.000I did a special that was focusing on that.
00:48:34.000And so, for me, I felt like I was so frustrated because I got to talk to people who had guns and people who didn't have guns and saw that there was a different narrative here that wasn't being covered.
00:48:44.000Okay, so there's Jordan Klepper from Comedy Central talking about how no one takes the gun debate very seriously because the small minority has a loud voice, etc., etc., etc.
00:48:52.000Again, Comedy Central, not exactly an unbalanced, an unbiased source.
00:48:57.000Okay, quick description of Federalist 18.
00:48:59.000Thankfully, it's a federalist paper that is replete with historical retelling, so there's not a lot to say about it.
00:49:09.000It's a continuation of why the Articles of Confederation are a failure.
00:49:12.000In it, Hamilton and Madison give the example of the failure of the Grecian republics to avoid war with one another.
00:49:18.000They talk about how the Grecian republics were basically constantly at war with one another because the confederate system under which they lived did not have a strong enough central government.
00:49:27.000And they write, And so the suggestion is a stronger centralized government will prevent the states from
00:49:44.000We'll be back here tomorrow with much more.