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00:03:25.000And when Kanye wears around the MAGA hat and he says that this basically is me just saying to the world, I can think for myself, that's a message that I like and appreciate and think is actually deeply important.
00:03:36.000Because even if it's coming from a guy who I don't think is world's most knowledgeable about politics, that's not a message that requires you to be all that knowledgeable about politics.
00:03:44.000Saying, I like to get more information, I like to think for myself, and I'm not going to be the person you think I ought to be simply based on the color of my skin.
00:03:51.000Deeply, deeply important message from Kanye West.
00:03:53.000So, Kanye has been... What's funny is all the people on the left were very upset at Kanye.
00:05:16.000When it was Obama, I used to mock the crap out of him for this sort of stuff.
00:05:19.000I hated it when it was Hillary Clinton.
00:05:20.000Used to mock her incessantly for this sort of stuff.
00:05:23.000I don't like it from Republicans either.
00:05:25.000And so when I say I don't like celebrities in the Oval Office, and I don't like the meeting with the President, and I don't like all of the pomp and circumstance and show and all that, believe me, I don't.
00:05:34.000But since this is the world we have chosen, and the world we have chosen to live in, it is hypocritical for folks on the left to suggest, great when Obama does it, terrible when Trump does it.
00:05:42.000Anyway, Kanye shows up at the White House.
00:06:52.000Not to put too fine a point on it, but Bill Clinton got blowjobs in the Oval Office.
00:06:56.000So I'm really not gonna go... If we're gonna talk about things that disgraced the Oval Office... Cigars have had human bodily fluids on them that didn't come from the oral cavity in the Oval Office.
00:07:11.000They had to steam clean all the carpets after Bill Clinton left.
00:07:15.000And there's a book fully describing Rahm Emanuel dropping the MF bomb repeatedly in the Oval Office.
00:07:47.000Just the juxtaposition of Kanye, who is, I have been told, by the Utes, one of the cooler people in America, wearing a MAGA hat.
00:07:54.000And let's be straight about MAGA hats, just as a general rule, just aesthetically.
00:07:58.000There's something that my family wore at like the Shapiro family picnics in 1996.
00:08:04.000That you got from, like, the mass production store that had, like, you remember, it had, like, the little woven band that goes just above the brim of the cap?
00:08:10.000So, Kanye wearing that as sort of an ironic feel is just spectacular.
00:08:16.000So here's Kanye talking about why MAGA hats are awesome, and you gotta appreciate it, man.
00:08:20.000You just, you can do one of two things.
00:08:22.000You can either cry at the tragedy that this is what our national politics has become, or you can laugh at the fact that Donald Trump is now swiveling every pop culture meme the left ever created back on them and slapping them in the face with it, which is just hilarious.
00:08:35.000It was something about when I put this hat on, it made me feel like Superman.
00:08:39.000You made a Superman, that's my favorite superhero.
00:10:25.000And this is coming from a guy who, as I understand it, grew up with a single mom in an impoverished area, and then made himself a billionaire.
00:10:32.000So, even though I don't like rap, and I'm not a fan of Kanye's music, his story is a pretty American story.
00:10:41.000A lot of times, it's just the overall lack of reparations that we, at any given point, we say, oh, this is racist, this is racist, this is racist, this is racist.
00:10:50.000The liberal would try to control a black person through the concept of racism because they know that we are very proud, emotional people.
00:10:57.000So when I said I like Trump to like someone that's liberal, they'll say, oh, but he's racist.
00:11:12.000The point that he's actually making here does not require you to be all that learned in politics.
00:11:16.000When he says that racism is very often used by political actors in order to achieve a particular result, in order to manipulate people, that is certainly true.
00:12:00.000Something could happen with Kanye as a personality that could be damaging to all of the points that he's making here.
00:12:05.000But take it at face value for what it is today.
00:12:08.000He is saying some things that need to be said.
00:12:10.000And when you hear an argument, you really, instead of first considering the source, you may first want to consider the validity of the argument.
00:12:16.000The argument that Kanye is making there is exactly right.
00:12:18.000Now, as I say, live by the Kanye, die by the Kanye.
00:12:20.000And I will explain in a second how the die by the Kanye half of this works.
00:12:23.000And then we'll get to the media coverage, which is the real story.
00:12:26.000The media coverage of this meeting is a much bigger story than Kanye actually visiting the White House.
00:12:31.000He's been to the White House before, I believe.
00:12:33.000I mean, he went there when Obama was president, actually.
00:12:35.000So it's not a giant shock, but we'll talk in a second about the media coverage.
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00:15:28.000I will say, just as an observer, it was really funny to watch President Trump during this meeting, because President Trump is rarely blown out of a room by somebody else's sort of wackiness and charisma.
00:15:39.000Usually it's Trump blowing somebody else out of the room with that sort of stuff.
00:15:42.000Him sitting across from Kanye and looking at the look on President Trump's face, it's kind of like the look that Jeb Bush has on his face when he's in a room with President Trump.
00:15:50.000It's like Trump suddenly realized what it was like to be Jeb Bush and watch this guy, who's a much bigger celebrity, just jabbering at him and not knowing quite what to do.
00:17:55.000Kanye West's mere presence at the White House defiled it.
00:17:58.000But Snoop Dogg went there when Obama was president and smoked pot at the White House.
00:18:02.000And everyone in the media thought this was hilarious.
00:18:06.000And did you, and when you got high, before the White House, did you also then smoke it up a little bit in the bathroom when you were there?
00:18:12.000That's what I was trying to get to, you know what I'm saying?
00:18:48.000I keep coming back to that because, again, if you're talking about defiling the Oval Office, there's a level beyond having Kanye West there.
00:18:54.000So the media, again, ignoring the fact that Barack Obama was ever president.
00:19:46.000Well, there he was in the White House.
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00:20:58.000Okay, so, in just one second, we're gonna get to the media reaction to all of this, which does show you how racist and terrible the media are.
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00:22:21.000OK, so the media's response to Kanye, as I mentioned before, first of all, there was their shock and horror that Kanye would even be in the way.
00:22:43.000Now, I've said in the past that when there are people who say, I am Jewish and I believe in abortion, for example, I've said that's not a Jewish principle.
00:22:56.000It's like saying that if you're pro-abortion and you say that you're Christian, that's really difficult to say because Christian is a set of principles.
00:23:10.000Okay, none of those should dictate anything having to do with what goes on inside your head, obviously, because if we thought that it did, that would be textbook racism.
00:23:19.000But the left likes to engage in textbook racism.
00:23:23.000Donna Brazile, you'll recall, was briefly the head of the DNC before it was learned that she had been allegedly leaking questions in the debates to Hillary Clinton to help her defeat Bernie Sanders when she was working over at CNN.
00:24:02.000An uber wealthy black guy, like a billionaire black guy, goes to the White House to meet with the president, hugs the president, and gets the president to embrace criminal justice reform that he is pushing specifically because he thinks too many black men are in prison.
00:24:17.000And that's the same as slavery, according to Donna Brazile.
00:24:21.000That's the same as slavery, according to Donna Brazile.
00:24:49.000Kanye West is what happens when Negroes don't read.
00:24:52.000And we have this now, and now Donald Trump is going to use it and pervert it, and he's going to have somebody who can stand with him and take pictures.
00:25:49.000But Bakari sellers can get away with it because he's a black man, so it's okay.
00:25:52.000Because Bakari is black and Kanye is black, he can call Kanye West a token negro who is essentially illiterate and doesn't read books, as opposed to actually engaging with his argument.
00:26:05.000So April Ryan is supposedly a reporter, she's actually mostly an activist.
00:26:08.000And she was on CNN, and she brought up a guy named Ray J. Now, for those of you who are not culturally fluent, Ray J is most famous for having done a sex tape with Kim Kardashian, who is currently Kanye West's wife.
00:26:21.000So, Kanye West is married to Kim Kardashian.
00:26:23.000Kim Kardashian rose to prominence off the, on the back, no pun intended, of the Ray J sex tape.
00:26:29.000April Ryan went for comment on the Kanye visit to the White House to the guy who stooped Kanye's wife on tape before she knew Kanye.
00:26:38.000All class, these members of the media.
00:28:29.000Is that something that we're doing now?
00:28:30.000We're allowed to attack people's dead relatives?
00:28:31.000Use their dead relatives to attack them?
00:28:33.000Not their dead relatives in the sense that their dead relatives did something wrong, but in the sense that a dead relative who you didn't know and know nothing about and had a relationship with this man, that she would be ashamed of him?
00:28:47.000That she would be ashamed of Kanye West?
00:28:52.000And the media's overwrought reaction to the fact that Kanye West shows up in the White House is indicative of a couple of different things.
00:28:58.000One, it is indicative of the fact that when a black person says they like President Trump, the media hates no one like a black person who says they like President Trump.
00:29:54.000For people to understand how much Trump is hated in Hollywood, you have to understand that in Hollywood, if you even express a remotely right-wing opinion, you will never work again.
00:30:16.000People have come into this office who are quite famous.
00:30:18.000And I always tell them, do not mention that you have been here if you wish to work in this town.
00:30:24.000Because the bias in Hollywood is so extreme that it doesn't matter your size of celebrity.
00:30:28.000If you say that you've been associated with me, and I didn't vote for Trump in 2016, if you say that you associated with me, just a mainstream conservative who's pretty reasonable, then that is enough to lose you jobs.
00:30:40.000Right, that actually happened out here with Mark Duplass, who just got destroyed, right?
00:30:43.000Mark Duplass, the guy who directed Wild Wild Country on Netflix, and he's done a bunch of other, he's on The Mindy Project, he's done a bunch of other stuff.
00:30:50.000He came in here because he wanted to get a pro-gun opinion from somebody for his new movie.
00:30:55.000And so he came in, and I gave him like an hour and a half, and I said to him, don't tell anyone you've been here, because if you do, it will blow back on you.
00:31:01.000And then, he foolishly went on Twitter and said I was a nice guy.
00:31:07.000He was attacked so harshly on Twitter, he deleted the tweet and then put up a tweet apologizing for ever having tweeted that I was a nice guy.
00:31:18.000He's a black man and he's extraordinarily famous.
00:31:20.000And if you are a black, extraordinarily famous person, you are not allowed to be pro-Trump and you are not allowed to be conservative in any way.
00:31:29.000And you wonder why, to Senya's great shock and dismay, Taylor Swift came out and embraced the Democratic Party?
00:31:35.000Because if you do not embrace the Democratic Party and you are a celebrity, they will tear you down.
00:31:40.000You know, we on the right joked for a long time about the fact that Taylor Swift did not say anything politically because the left kept calling on her to say something politically.
00:31:48.000Well, eventually she did because she finally was pressured into it.
00:31:50.000Well, we'll talk a little bit more about this.
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00:34:31.000Black man, celebrity, can't support President Trump if you are either of these.
00:34:35.000The polls are showing that President Trump actually has a shot at breaking out of the 5-10% box Republicans have been in in the black community for a long time.
00:34:43.000And that's because, as it turns out, as I talked about yesterday, minorities are not wedded to the woke social justice warrior version of politics that the Democratic Party wants to embrace.
00:34:52.000Kanye is showing that right now, and that is good, because there is an important signaling element to the belief that it's okay to break out of the box.
00:35:00.000That when you expand the Overton window, which is what Kanye is doing right now, then people have the ability to think more freely, more publicly.
00:35:07.000That's quite a good thing, and I think we should be grateful to Kanye for that, even if we don't like the celebrity politics in which we are engaged, and even if we think that all of this is quite stupid.
00:35:16.000You know, so we'll talk about that probably a little bit more next week, and we'll talk about it on our Fox News election special that is coming up, our final episode on Sunday at 8.
00:35:31.000When you take your weekly and holiday Sabbaths and have to unplug, I'm wondering whether you have a hard time letting go of the news.
00:35:36.000Are you able to forget about it and just focus on your family and activities, or are you distracted and chomping at the bit to find out what's going on outside?
00:35:42.000I don't have Sabbath, but during the Kavanaugh debacle, I had a hard time even shutting down to go to sleep, have a meal, or take a drive.
00:35:49.000Well, after years of doing it, you sort of get used to the fact that you're not going to get the news, and so you stop sort of chomping at the bit.
00:35:57.000There's a radical shift in sort of the pace of life on Sabbath and on Yom Tov, the holidays.
00:36:03.000Even when the newspaper comes, as somebody who's ensconced in internet news, which is instantaneous, print news is always 24 hours behind, basically.
00:36:11.000So I usually know everything that was in the newspaper on Saturday already by Friday afternoon.
00:36:20.000The worst thing is coming off of Sabbath, right?
00:36:21.000When you come off of Sabbath and you just get hit with the tsunami of news, that is kind of difficult.
00:36:25.000But I've gotten over, I think, the desire to—it's actually a relief.
00:36:29.000I actually get to do what I call my serious reading, my non-news-based reading, you know, philosophy or deep history, where I get sort of my background knowledge from.
00:36:37.000Vince says, Ben, what do you think is the best major city in America to live if weather is a factor?
00:37:52.000If all I can see is a sliver of sky between tall buildings.
00:37:54.000And I know New Yorkers have inordinate pride in their city, and they should.
00:37:58.000It's one of the great cities of the world.
00:38:00.000It's just not a place that I think I would love to live.
00:38:03.000I am biased toward my hometown of Los Angeles, although it's gotten increasingly shabby because of Eric Garcetti and the Democrats out here.
00:38:08.000I mean, it's really become a shabby town.
00:38:10.000They've done a horrible job of upkeep.
00:38:12.000And that's been happening in leftist cities all around the United States.
00:38:15.000Seattle used to be a beautiful city, and then the mayoralty over there has just ruined the city of Seattle.
00:38:21.000The same thing is happening in San Francisco, which is a beautiful city.
00:38:23.000But if you're just talking weather, you're just talking whether San Diego is the place to be.
00:38:27.000In fact, there's a study that suggests suicide rates are higher in San Diego than other places in the United States, specifically because the weather is good.
00:38:33.000Because people in other places in the country, when they're having a bad day, they're like, yeah, I know I'm depressed, it's because the weather sucks.
00:38:39.000In San Diego, they look outside and they're like, well,
00:38:41.000I guess I'm depressed because my life is terrible.
00:39:49.000When people quote Genesis 9.3, which is the part where it says that anything on the earth you can basically eat when God says that to Noah, which is actually in this week's Bible portion in the Jewish community, it's important to recognize that this was after the expulsion from Eden.
00:40:00.000In Eden, the typical Jewish philosophy is that you couldn't eat animals, that everybody was sort of a vegetarian in Eden, which doesn't sound that great, honestly.
00:40:19.000That said, we'd have to come up with some pretty good substitutes for animal protein, better than the ones that we have now, for widespread vegetarianism or veganism to take place for human rights, or rather for animal rights reasons.
00:40:30.000Lee says, Dear Mr. Shapiro, Recently I've gotten into discussions about the rich paying their fair share of taxes.
00:40:34.000Some of my family, who are Democrats, are pretty wealthy, and they feel they're not taxed enough compared to everyone else.
00:41:26.000I believe everybody should pay a flat tax rate or we should have a national sales tax.
00:41:32.000There's no such thing as a quote-unquote loophole that only applies to rich people.
00:41:35.000It's just there are different types of income, like capital gains versus traditional income.
00:41:39.000And we can discuss whether those are good policy or bad policy, but the language of loopholes is inaccurate.
00:41:43.000How about the trickle-down effect doesn't work?
00:41:45.000Well, the trickle-down effect is a term that is coined by leftist economists.
00:41:49.000No one on the right has ever suggested that there's something called trickle-down, where you give money to rich people and rich people suddenly make everybody else wealthy.
00:41:56.000The idea is supply-side economics, meaning that people who develop new and better products drive the economy.
00:42:01.000That the economy is not driven by just handing out money to people who buy things.
00:42:05.000The economy is driven by entrepreneurs who create new and better products and that creates its own demand.
00:42:10.000So nobody knew there was a demand for cars until cars were mass produced and suddenly everyone knew there was a demand for cars.
00:42:16.000Nobody knew, like in 1950, there was no demand for iPhones.
00:42:19.000Now there's a high demand for iPhones because entrepreneurs created new and better products and that made your life better.
00:42:25.000I talked about this a little bit earlier this week, the lie that wage stagnation since 1979 means that the quality of living since 1979 is stagnant is just idiotic and ignorant.
00:42:35.000We live far better than we did in 1979 without any doubt whatsoever, and that's because supply-side economics works.
00:42:41.000Ronald Reagan's supply-side economic theory led to the greatest peacetime growth in the history of the nation, economically speaking.
00:42:56.000Yeah, I mean, I think that you should join the party with which you agree.
00:43:03.000You shouldn't join a party simply out of opposition for another party.
00:43:06.000So, if I'm an Independent and I don't like the Republicans, because I think whatever, and I don't like the Democrats because they're crazy, that doesn't necessarily mean that you should love the Republicans.
00:43:14.000You can vote based on which one you think is the lesser of two evils.
00:43:18.000It's not an argument I love, but it's an argument you can make.
00:43:20.000But I don't think that you should simply embrace a position because it's the opposite of another position that you don't like.
00:43:25.000I think reactionary politics is bad on all sides, and that's true right and left.
00:43:29.000Yeah, I mean, there are a bunch of them.
00:44:41.000Courtney says, Dear Supreme Overlord Shapiro, I was just recently hired for my first career job as a seventh grade world history teacher.
00:44:47.000My question is, do you think that educators in the classroom should be politically neutral, acting more like a moderator in discussions about political views?
00:44:53.000Or is it OK for an educator to state their point of view on controversial topics?
00:45:01.000I think that if the educator can do their best to present both sides of a topic, that's great.
00:45:06.000If the educator can't do that, then saying, look, here's my opinion, so take it with a grain of salt, and then here's a bunch of literature that counters my opinion and you make up your own mind, that's probably the most honest way to do it.
00:45:15.000Because everybody has their biases, and stating your biases up front, I think, is probably a wise idea if the school allows you to do so.
00:45:23.000It was a 5'6 Christian Southern conservative educated white male who apparently oozes with privilege.
00:45:28.000I appreciate everything you and the good folks associated with your company do.
00:45:31.000This said, do you ever see the mentally ill genie of the Atlantis left going back into the bottle, or do you see things getting worse with no end in sight?
00:45:38.000Also, what do you think is damaged more beyond repair, the social landscape of our country, or the damage the new Star Wars movies did to the Star Wars universe?
00:45:47.000Well, the social landscape of our country, I think, is more damaged than Star Wars, because I think that people have a unique capacity to buy into reboots.
00:45:54.000So, if they decided in five years to reboot the entire Star Wars universe, we would all pretend as we should, like The Force Awakens and Last Jedi never happened.
00:46:50.000I also am, I have to say, I'm a fan of Frank Miller's Batman.
00:46:54.000So Frank Miller did a comic that nobody appreciates except me called Batman and Robin All-Stars, in which Batman is basically a sadist who enjoys his job.
00:47:02.000And I have to say that I enjoy that version of Batman because the version of Batman where he's always conflicted and sad about what he's doing,
00:47:08.000Maybe he just kind of likes going after bad guys.
00:47:11.000That's what I liked about Batman v Superman, is that Batman in that film was great.
00:47:14.000Superman was a problem because he wasn't charming.
00:47:16.000But Batman in that film, forget about Ben Affleck, the character was drawn like Frank Miller would, meaning that it was hardcore, I enjoy branding criminals and hurting them, and I don't mind killing people.
00:48:02.000If it were Osama Bin Laden and you were putting him in Gitmo and then every five minutes he was escaping and committing a terror attack, at a certain point, you put two in his face.
00:48:17.000Well, I mean, as they currently stand, sure.
00:48:20.000I would prefer a Democratic Party that was not insane, pressing actual solutions that maybe I disagree with so we can have an honest debate about the issues.
00:48:28.000I think that a two-party healthy system is worthwhile, and I think that right now we have a sick party in the Republican Party and a dying party in the Democratic Party, at least in terms of ideology.
00:48:39.000And the problem is that there are a lot of people who believe in that ideology.
00:48:51.000I believe that Type B discrimination should be allowed in the private market as competition naturally disinclines business practicing unethical discrimination.
00:48:58.000Type B discrimination, I've talked about on the show.
00:49:00.000Type A discrimination is, you're black, I won't hire you.
00:49:02.000Type B discrimination is, I don't have any information about you and I'm banned by the federal government from having any information about your criminal history.
00:49:09.000And a person from a group that has more criminal background, just statistically, comes into my office, how do I assess that?
00:49:16.000So he calls that Type B discrimination because it really isn't, you're black, I won't hire you.
00:49:20.000It's, I have to use the statistics available to me and the statistics happen to cut against your group.
00:49:26.000So that's what he's talking about when he says Type B discrimination, just to define it.
00:49:28.000Because my question is, where should the line be drawn or should a line be drawn by the judicial system in cases of fraud, embezzlement, theft or larceny?
00:49:36.000Is it morally consistent to oppose anti-discrimination laws, but not the specific cases of malpractice listed above?
00:49:43.000Well, I think that it depends on the crimes.
00:49:47.000So, I guess the question is, if you're talking about like insider trading, I'm not a fan of insider trading laws.
00:49:52.000I think insider trading laws are actually of no benefit to the public of the United States.
00:49:58.000In fact, if you want to make sure that there is more transparency, then you should get rid of insider trading laws, because you should just assume that if you work for a company, you're going to have knowledge, that you're going to trade on that knowledge, and then the market is more responsive, because we just watch what the executives of the company do with their stock.
00:50:11.000I actually have professionals who watch what those executives do with their stock, and if they're short-selling their own stock, you know the company's going to tank.
00:50:17.000It creates faster-moving velocity in the economy, as opposed to shielding the public from the information, and then there's sort of three steps removed from the actual information.
00:50:26.000Do you think unconscious bias is true?
00:50:35.000I think unconscious bias is indeed a load of crap.
00:50:37.000There's very little evidence to suggest that the unconscious bias against particular groups manifests in behavior.
00:50:44.000In fact, the creators of the implicit assessment test actually say this.
00:50:48.000I said this at USC and there was a guy who got up and he was asking questions about it and he pointed to a study from 2007 suggesting that doctors who showed unconscious bias in studies were less likely to prescribe certain drugs to black people.
00:51:00.000And I actually looked up the study because I want to know the evidence.
00:51:03.000What the study actually found is that that was true, but the people who were prescribing the drugs less often to black people were prescribing at parity levels with white people.
00:51:11.000Meaning that if you were not unconsciously biased, you were over-prescribing drugs to black people.
00:51:16.000That's what that study actually found.
00:51:17.000So, it didn't actually show bias in action.
00:51:20.000So, unconscious bias is one of the least... It's one of the least supported scientific theories out there.
00:53:41.000Like if a man, like John Kerry, were to marry up for money, like John Kerry, and then use that money to get elected to the Senate, like John Kerry, and then get married to a richer woman, like John Kerry, and then run for the presidency, like John Kerry, then I might say that he rode a woman's coattails to high office.
00:53:58.000But again, the attacks on Melania are just silly and inappropriate and stupid.