The Ben Shapiro Show - May 14, 2018


If I Forget You, O Jerusalem | Ep. 538

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00:00:00.000 On Israel's 70th anniversary, President Trump moves the U.S.
00:00:03.000 embassy to Jerusalem.
00:00:04.000 We talk about the left's view of Mother's Day.
00:00:06.000 And America's comedians begin to wake up.
00:00:07.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.
00:00:08.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:00:14.000 So it's a magnificent day over in Israel where President Trump was not present, but Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump, a bunch of senators, a huge contingent from the United States is over in Jerusalem celebrating the movement of the U.S.
00:00:26.000 Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
00:00:28.000 That was something that was supposed to happen circa 1995, but various presidents have put it off.
00:00:33.000 Trump finally does not.
00:00:34.000 We'll talk about all of that, the implications, the riots that are happening on the border of Israel.
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00:01:48.000 OK, so the big story of the day, obviously, is that President Trump, the Trump administration, they have now moved the U.S.
00:01:54.000 embassy to Jerusalem.
00:01:55.000 They they unveiled.
00:01:57.000 Today we officially open the United States Embassy in Jerusalem.
00:02:00.000 Congratulations.
00:02:01.000 It's been a long time coming.
00:02:21.000 Israel is a sovereign nation with the right, like every other sovereign nation, to determine its own capital.
00:02:29.000 Yet, for many years, we failed to acknowledge the obvious, the plain reality that Israel's capital is Jerusalem.
00:02:38.000 And we extend a hand in friendship to Israel, the Palestinians, and to all of their neighbors.
00:02:45.000 May there be peace.
00:02:47.000 May God bless this embassy.
00:02:49.000 May God bless all who serve there.
00:02:53.000 And may God bless the United States of America.
00:02:57.000 OK, Benjamin Netanyahu is the Prime Minister of Israel.
00:02:59.000 He also spoke and was very grateful, obviously, to President Trump for making this move again.
00:03:03.000 This had been approved by Congress as early as 1995.
00:03:07.000 So for 23 years, it has been the law of the land in the United States that the embassy was supposed to move to Jerusalem.
00:03:14.000 Clinton chickened out.
00:03:15.000 George W. Bush chickened out.
00:03:16.000 Barack Obama chickened out.
00:03:17.000 Donald Trump did not.
00:03:19.000 And finally, the embassy was in fact moved to Jerusalem, which is just a recognition of simple facts.
00:03:23.000 The only reason anyone cares about Jerusalem or has ever cared about Jerusalem is because the Jews cared about Jerusalem first. 1.00
00:03:28.000 Here's Benjamin Netanyahu, prime minister of Israel, talking about it.
00:03:31.000 We have no better friends in the world.
00:03:34.000 You stand for Israel and you stand for Jerusalem. 0.95
00:03:38.000 Thank you.
00:03:38.000 What a glorious day.
00:03:40.000 Remember this moment.
00:03:45.000 This is history.
00:03:48.000 President Trump, by recognizing history, you have made history!
00:03:56.000 And that obviously is true.
00:03:57.000 Look, it's an emotional moment for anyone who is Jewish, honestly, like anyone who cares about Judaism, anyone who's Christian and cares about the New Testament, anybody who cares about the history of Jerusalem.
00:04:05.000 This should be an emotional, historic moment, because the reality is that the fulfillment of Jewish control over Jerusalem was achieved in 1967. 0.92
00:04:13.000 The fulfillment of the creation or recreation of a Jewish state in Israel was fulfilled in 1948. 0.86
00:04:17.000 But the recognition by the United States that this is the reality puts to bed this idiotic myth that somehow Jerusalem was not Jewish.
00:04:25.000 OK, there's an old Talmudic story about a bunch of rabbis in the aftermath of the destruction of the second temple. 0.89
00:04:31.000 There are two temples in the history of Judaism.
00:04:34.000 The first temple was destroyed in 587 BCE, and then it was rebuilt just a few decades later.
00:04:39.000 And then the second temple was destroyed in 70 and has never been rebuilt.
00:04:43.000 That was destroyed in 70 CE, 70 AD.
00:04:46.000 There's a story from the Talmud about these rabbis who visited the site of the destruction of the Temple.
00:04:51.000 All these are very, very famous rabbis in Jewish law.
00:04:53.000 Rabban Gamliel, Rabbi Elazar Ben Azariah, Rabbi Joshua and Rabbi Akiva.
00:04:57.000 And there's a story about them going up to Jerusalem right after the destruction of the Second Temple.
00:05:01.000 And they reached Mount Scopus and they tore their garments.
00:05:04.000 When they reached the Temple Mount, they saw a fox emerging from the place of the Holy of Holies, the Kodesh Kedoshim,
00:05:10.000 Now, what is the connection between Uriah and Zechariah?
00:05:37.000 Uriah was at the time of the first temple, Zechariah was at the time of the second temple, but the Torah makes Zechariah's prophecy dependent on Uriah's prophecy.
00:05:43.000 With Uriah it's written,
00:05:55.000 But now that Uriah's prophecy has been fulfilled, it is certain that Zechariah's prophecy will be fulfilled.
00:05:59.000 In other words, there is a prophecy the temple would be destroyed.
00:06:01.000 You can't have the prophecy of the temple being rebuilt until the temple has been destroyed.
00:06:05.000 With these words, they replied to him, Akiva, you have consoled us.
00:06:07.000 Akiva, you have consoled us.
00:06:08.000 One of the most famous stories in all of Talmudic lore.
00:06:11.000 Because the center of Judaism has always been Jerusalem. 0.93
00:06:14.000 The center of Judeo-Christian tradition, from where it sprang, has always been Jerusalem.
00:06:18.000 According to the Bible, the first mention of Jerusalem actually comes in Genesis 14, 18, when Abraham meets the king of Shalem.
00:06:25.000 And then in Genesis 22, 14, Abraham names the site of his near sacrifice of Isaac, Yareh, and that those are the same place.
00:06:31.000 You put those together, Yareh and Shalem is Yerushalayim, which means Jerusalem.
00:06:36.000 This is the site of David's tower.
00:06:37.000 It's the site of Solomon's temple.
00:06:39.000 It's the city of Hezekiah's water tunnels.
00:06:41.000 If you've never been to Israel, if you've never been to Jerusalem, it's just an amazing experience.
00:06:44.000 You are walking the streets that existed for a thousand years before Jesus was walking the earth.
00:06:48.000 I mean, it's amazing.
00:06:49.000 These are the streets that Jesus walked, if you're a Christian.
00:06:51.000 And for a Jew, these are the streets that were walked by, that were trod by Solomon.
00:06:56.000 It's an unbelievable experience.
00:06:57.000 Think of the oldest thing that you know of in the United States.
00:06:59.000 The oldest thing that you know of in the United States is probably from about 1620.
00:07:02.000 Okay, now go back 2,600 years.
00:07:06.000 Okay, and you are talking about the stuff that you're finding in Israel.
00:07:09.000 Jerusalem was the eternal Jewish dream. 0.99
00:07:11.000 It is the eternal Jewish dream. 0.98
00:07:13.000 The dream of a free nation living in a land promised by God.
00:07:15.000 The same dream as we have in the United States is the dream of Israel. 0.85
00:07:18.000 It was the dream of Bar Kokhba, who revolted against the Romans in 132 CE, 60 years after the destruction of the Second Temple, and actually used Roman coinage to mint his own. 0.95
00:07:26.000 He took Roman coins.
00:07:27.000 You can buy these online.
00:07:28.000 It's really cool.
00:07:29.000 He actually took Roman coins and he beat the Roman coins to get rid of the logo on the Roman coins.
00:07:34.000 And then over it, he put the logo of the Jewish temple with the words for the freedom of Jerusalem.
00:07:38.000 This is the dream of millions of Jews over thousands of years.
00:07:41.000 Jews pray thrice daily, three times a day, we pray for the restoration of Jerusalem.
00:07:46.000 It was the dream of Mordechai Anielewicz, who's the leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, who wrote at the end of his life, right before his murder by the Nazis, I helped write the autobiography, the memoirs of a Holocaust survivor,
00:08:07.000 This Holocaust survivor went through Auschwitz.
00:08:08.000 He's actually Elie Wiesel's cousin.
00:08:10.000 He went through Auschwitz and he went through Theresienstadt.
00:08:12.000 And after the war, he went to Israel.
00:08:15.000 He actually had a visa to the United States.
00:08:16.000 He turned down the visa to the United States to go to Israel.
00:08:19.000 He walked off the boat.
00:08:19.000 They handed him a gun.
00:08:20.000 They sent him to the front lines of Latrun, which is one of the bloodiest battles in Israeli history.
00:08:25.000 And he helped establish the state of Israel doing behind the lines work.
00:08:29.000 The fact that Israel even exists is a miracle. 1.00
00:08:31.000 The fact that Jerusalem is in Israeli hands is a miracle. 1.00
00:08:33.000 The fact that
00:08:34.000 Jerusalem's an open city where you can worship as you choose is a miracle.
00:08:38.000 Okay, that's only because the Jews are in charge of Jerusalem. 0.99
00:08:41.000 President Trump's decision is not just a spiritually resonant one, it's a wise one politically.
00:08:46.000 Because there is never going to be a deal between Israel and its enemies until we recognize some basic facts on the ground.
00:08:52.000 Israel is not leaving Jerusalem.
00:08:53.000 The Jews are not leaving Jerusalem.
00:08:55.000 They never have.
00:08:56.000 They never will.
00:08:56.000 There's been continuous Jewish presence in Jerusalem literally since the inception of Jerusalem as a Jewish city in the book of Joshua.
00:09:03.000 The notion that there was ever a time when Jews did not live in Jerusalem or when it was important for reasons that were non-Jewish to begin is idiotic. 0.98
00:09:10.000 Islam only built the Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount specifically for the same reason that they build mosques on top of other holy sites. 0.99
00:09:17.000 They knew it was a Jewish holy site, they built a dome on top of it. 0.98
00:09:19.000 Doesn't mean the dome should be destroyed, obviously, but it does mean that to pretend that Islam somehow predated Judaism in this area is historically ignorant and ridiculous. 0.98
00:09:27.000 Judaism, obviously, is the foundation stone for Christianity as well. 0.93
00:09:31.000 Anyone who loves history, anyone who loves the Judeo-Christian heritage of the West, has to understand the importance of recognizing that heritage, and that begins with the word on the stones of Jerusalem.
00:09:41.000 History exists, and truth exists.
00:09:44.000 When Jews sat and mourned, and they said, if I forget Jerusalem, may I forget my right hand?
00:09:48.000 May my right hand forget its cunning?
00:09:51.000 They meant it.
00:09:51.000 They meant it.
00:09:52.000 If you've never been to Jerusalem, honestly, everybody should take a trip to Jerusalem.
00:09:55.000 It's an amazing thing.
00:09:57.000 Jerusalem has not been forgotten, and it will not be forgotten.
00:09:59.000 The Jews that were nearly wiped off the planet are now in control of the holiest site in Judaism. 0.99
00:10:03.000 The tears have indeed turned to laughter.
00:10:05.000 In the Talmud, it says eternity refers to Jerusalem.
00:10:08.000 Jerusalem is eternal.
00:10:10.000 The God who made it is eternal as well.
00:10:12.000 And good for President Trump for recognizing a basic human truth.
00:10:16.000 Good for President Trump for recognizing the fact that the Jews belong in Jerusalem and Jerusalem belongs to the Jews. 0.97
00:10:21.000 To pretend anything else is historically ignorant. 1.00
00:10:24.000 The press are historically ignorant. 1.00
00:10:25.000 Not only are they historically ignorant, it's hard not to call the press anti-semitic in the way that they cover these these stories. 0.98
00:10:31.000 So at the same time, they're initiating the movement of the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. 0.94
00:10:37.000 Hamas has initiated all of these riots, all this violence on the border of Gaza.
00:10:40.000 Now, Gaza is in complete control of Hamas.
00:10:43.000 Gaza is run by Palestinians.
00:10:44.000 It is not run by the Israelis.
00:10:45.000 Israel has nothing to say except for border control about what happens in the Gaza Strip.
00:10:50.000 It is a hellhole. 0.98
00:10:51.000 It is a hellhole because Hamas is a terrorist group that cares a lot more about murdering Jews than it does about making the lives of its own citizens better. 0.99
00:10:58.000 If anyone wanted peace in the Palestinian Authority or Hamas, it would happen immediately. 0.99
00:11:03.000 If they just said, listen, we are now done with all the violence.
00:11:06.000 We're finished.
00:11:07.000 Now we want to build up our society.
00:11:08.000 Let's open it up.
00:11:09.000 Everything would be open tomorrow.
00:11:10.000 That's not what's happening.
00:11:11.000 If you've seen the headlines today, a lot of the headlines from the press are all about, you know, 41 Palestinians killed in clashes with Israel.
00:11:18.000 Israel is not clashing with the Palestinians.
00:11:20.000 What is happening is that Hamas is delegating.
00:11:23.000 They are sending a bunch of terrorists to the border in an attempt to breach the border.
00:11:27.000 It's pretty amazing.
00:11:28.000 I'll show the proof of it to you in just one second.
00:11:30.000 And I'll talk about some of the media coverage, which is just egregious of this of the embassy move.
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00:12:52.000 Okay, so now, on to the media coverage about the situation in Jerusalem.
00:12:56.000 So, quickly, before I talk about the media coverage in Jerusalem,
00:12:59.000 There's a headline from the New York Times.
00:13:01.000 The New York Times is egregiously anti-Israel.
00:13:03.000 They've been egregiously anti-Israel as long as I have been alive and probably longer.
00:13:06.000 And there's an amazing headline.
00:13:08.000 It says from David Helm Helmfinger.
00:13:12.000 And he writes,
00:13:15.000 And they're talking about how it's really dangerous time for Israel and people are really nervous about Israel.
00:13:22.000 OK, here's what it actually looks like in Israel.
00:13:24.000 OK, I need to show you this tape of what it looks like in Israel right now on Machane Yehuda.
00:13:29.000 This is clip nine.
00:13:30.000 Yeah, clearly people there are very torn about the situation in Israel on the 70th anniversary of its independence.
00:13:38.000 Okay, literally thousands of people cheering in the streets of Machane Yehuda.
00:13:42.000 Machane Yehuda is the biggest marketplace in Jerusalem.
00:13:45.000 It's the street that is completely filled.
00:13:47.000 And look, that is so typical of Israel, right? 0.98
00:13:49.000 You see Orthodox Jews, and then if you see in the background there, you see an Israeli flag mixed with a gay flag. 0.97
00:13:54.000 OK, Israel is a pretty diverse place, pretty amazing diverse place.
00:13:58.000 If you haven't visited, you really should.
00:13:59.000 I keep saying that, but it really is true. 0.97
00:14:01.000 I was married there.
00:14:02.000 My wife is Israeli.
00:14:03.000 Her family is Israeli.
00:14:04.000 Last time we were there, actually, is about 10 years ago.
00:14:06.000 We're going to have to do a trip, I think.
00:14:07.000 I think we're going to have to take a trip to Israel and bring some of my listeners along, because I think that would be just a blast.
00:14:11.000 But the coverage of the situation in the Gaza Strip is totally incredible and totally biased against Israel.
00:14:16.000 So here is the headline from The Washington Post.
00:14:19.000 Headline from The Washington Post.
00:14:21.000 Israelis killed dozens of Palestinians in Gaza protesting U.S.
00:14:24.000 Embassy move to Jerusalem.
00:14:25.000 Well, if you just read that headline, you might assume that Israelis are killing protesters about the U.S.
00:14:30.000 Embassy, that people are just protesting in the streets, they're a little upset, and Israel's going out there and slaughtering them out on us.
00:14:35.000 That is
00:14:36.000 That is not what is happening.
00:14:37.000 What is happening is Hamas has sent 40,000 people to the border with Israel.
00:14:41.000 They're attempting to walk across the border.
00:14:42.000 They're sending kites that are on fire across the border and attempt to start brush fires in Israel.
00:14:47.000 They're throwing Molotov cocktails at soldiers.
00:14:49.000 They're throwing rocks at soldiers.
00:14:50.000 They're hiding behind women and children to do so, because this is what Hamas does, because they are a terrorist group. 0.56
00:14:55.000 So that Washington Post story is headlined, Israelis kill dozens of Palestinians in Gaza, protesting U.S.
00:15:00.000 embassy move to Jerusalem.
00:15:02.000 This is in the article itself.
00:15:04.000 While some said they would abide by official calls to keep the demonstrations peaceful, others talked about their enthusiasm to break into Israel and wreak havoc.
00:15:10.000 Does that sound a lot like a bunch of peaceful protesters at the border?
00:15:12.000 No, it doesn't.
00:15:13.000 Because they aren't a bunch of peaceful protesters at the border.
00:15:14.000 It's a bunch of people trying to invade Israel, and Israel is repelling that.
00:15:30.000 And by the way, I have the evidence that Israel isn't wholesale slaughtering people.
00:15:33.000 The evidence is that Israel has complete ground and air superiority. 0.69
00:15:36.000 If they wanted to wholesale slaughter 40,000 people, they would.
00:15:39.000 They've killed like 40 people who are attacking the border.
00:15:42.000 I have more headlines from the Gaza Strip in just one second.
00:15:45.000 So here they are.
00:15:46.000 OK, so this is from the Jerusalem Post.
00:16:03.000 By the way, the burning of the tires is creating enormous environmental havoc in the Gaza Strip itself.
00:16:08.000 A bunch of Palestinians are sick because of all of this. 1.00
00:16:10.000 The Jerusalem Post witnessed at least six incendiary kites with two setting fires to fields near Kibbutz Nahal Oz.
00:16:17.000 So, you know, really using the power of inventiveness are the Palestinians under the control of Hamas sending 1.00
00:16:25.000 The IDF thwarted an attempted terror attack on Monday when three armed Palestinians laid an explosive device near Rafah on the Gaza-Israel border.
00:16:37.000 IDF spokesman Brigadier General Ronan Manalis said in an interview to Army Radio,
00:16:42.000 Kamas is paying family to go to the fence protest with Iranian money.
00:16:45.000 We have intelligence that Kamas operatives plan to use the protest to harm and even abduct soldiers. 0.98
00:16:49.000 They're trying to kidnap Israeli soldiers.
00:16:51.000 The whole point of this, obviously, is to draw attention away from the situation with the embassy and to provide exactly the sort of media coverage you saw all day today with the split screens of Israelis celebrating and Palestinians suffering.
00:17:03.000 Oh, it's so rough for the Palestinians.
00:17:05.000 It is rough for the Palestinians because they keep electing terrorist groups.
00:17:07.000 When you keep electing the Palestinian Authority and Islamic Jihad and Hamas to positions of power, it turns out you're going to live in a hellhole.
00:17:15.000 When you keep allowing your government to delegate terrorists to the border, it turns out that the people on the other side of that border may not be too happy with you.
00:17:24.000 But again, the way the media cover this as though it is it is totally Israel's fault.
00:17:28.000 Another element of this.
00:17:29.000 OK, so there was a lot of talk yesterday about clashes on the Temple Mount on Jerusalem Day.
00:17:35.000 So Jerusalem Day is the day when Israel liberated Jerusalem from the rule of the Jordanians.
00:17:39.000 It was in fact a liberation.
00:17:40.000 It was a liberation because suddenly all of these sites were open to Jews and Christians and Muslims alike.
00:17:45.000 The Temple Mount, however, it was handed over to the control of the Islamic Waqf. 0.67
00:17:48.000 So that evil, horrible Israeli government, you know, the Islamophobic Israeli government, handed over control of the holiest site in the history of Judaism to the Muslims. 0.89
00:17:57.000 It is not Jews who are in control of the day-to-day on top of the Temple Mount. 0.97
00:18:01.000 Instead, they handed it over to the control of the Islamic Waqf, which prevents Jews like me from going up on the Temple Mount and praying.
00:18:07.000 I'm literally barred.
00:18:08.000 If I were to go to Israel tomorrow, and if I were to walk up on the Temple Mount, I am barred from praying.
00:18:12.000 If I took out a siddur, 1.00
00:18:14.000 I can do it anywhere else in the world, literally anywhere else on the planet, except for Islamic countries, which would punish me for being Jewish. 1.00
00:18:19.000 Anywhere in America, I could pull out a psalm book, okay, that's what a tehillim book is, and I would just pull it out and start praying.
00:18:25.000 If I did that on the Temple Mount, I will be arrested, and that's exactly what happened yesterday.
00:18:28.000 Okay, according to eyewitnesses, this is Ynet, Jews entered the holy site and they were singing.
00:18:33.000 The Arabs were calling out Allahu Akbar.
00:18:35.000 Police forces that arrived at the scene had to separate the warring sides and remove the Jews from the Temple Mount.
00:18:39.000 I'm sorry, it's not a warring side for Jews to go up in the holiest site in Judaism and say thank you to God.
00:18:44.000 But this is illegal in Israel.
00:18:46.000 The Jerusalem police said several Jewish visitors broke the rules of conduct and created provocation.
00:18:52.000 This is how sensitive Israel is to the concerns of the Islamic population living in Israel.
00:18:56.000 They're so sensitive to those concerns that Jews are not allowed to pray on the Temple Mount for fear of provoking Muslims.
00:19:04.000 Okay, this is actual anti... Like, honestly, if this were done in Saudi Arabia, you'd call it anti-Semitic policy.
00:19:09.000 The idea that Jews are not allowed to pray on a historically Jewish surface because it might tick off Muslims.
00:19:14.000 But this has been the record of Muslims in the region, radical Muslims in the region, for quite a long time. 0.98
00:19:21.000 This is why when everyone tries to draw moral equivalence between what Israel is doing in Jerusalem and what Israel is doing in Israel, and what Hamas is doing in the Gaza Strip, or what the Palestinian Authority are doing, or what even the Islamic Waqf is doing, it's just insane. 0.98
00:19:34.000 It's just insane and ridiculous. 0.96
00:19:35.000 But again, 0.94
00:19:36.000 None of this is designed to be objective media coverage.
00:19:40.000 All of it is designed to pretend that Israel is the aggressor in a conflict in which Israel is clearly not the aggressor.
00:19:45.000 Israel is clearly, clearly not the aggressor in this conflict.
00:19:49.000 It never was the aggressor.
00:19:50.000 Israel accepted the deal in 1947 from the UN.
00:19:52.000 It was attacked by Arab states.
00:19:53.000 Israel in 1956 was blockaded from the Suez Canal, and they won that war too.
00:19:58.000 In 1967, there was a preemptive attack that was launched by Israel as all of its borders were about to be attacked by Islamic countries. 0.61
00:20:05.000 In 1973, there was an attack on Yom Kippur, the most holy day in Judaism, and it came very near to wiping out the state of Israel.
00:20:13.000 In 1982, Lebanon was using Hezbollah in order to strike at Israel.
00:20:19.000 Israel has constantly been in defensive war since its inception, and the media keep covering it as though Israel is the aggressor, in the same way they cover America as though America is the aggressor, which shows that the leftism of the American media and the international media expands to its hatred for the state of Israel.
00:20:32.000 They hate the state of Israel because Israel is an outpost of the West.
00:20:35.000 They don't hate the West because the West backs Israel.
00:20:37.000 Okay.
00:20:38.000 Meanwhile, yesterday was Mother's Day, to switch topics, and I couldn't help myself.
00:20:44.000 One of the things that I find absolutely just appalling and astonishing on a regular basis is the amazing, amazing silliness of the left when it comes to sacred times in our national calendar.
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00:23:29.000 So, meanwhile, yesterday was Mother's Day.
00:23:32.000 And Mother's Day is always a weird time if you're on the left.
00:23:34.000 I have to imagine it's kind of a weird time if you're on the left.
00:23:35.000 Because the left likes to proclaim that they love Mother's Day.
00:23:38.000 Oh, I'm gonna go out for mimosas with mom for brunch for Mother's Day.
00:23:41.000 Here's one of the things that's weird about leftist patterns of thought.
00:23:44.000 So a lot of folks on the left, they like to proclaim that certain things in America are sacrosanct.
00:23:50.000 Parenthood.
00:23:51.000 Children.
00:23:52.000 Apple pie.
00:23:53.000 Mothers.
00:23:54.000 But then when it comes to their actual ideology, they're kind of anti a lot of those things.
00:23:58.000 So when it comes to mothers, for example,
00:24:00.000 Mothers are seen as stooges of the patriarchy by a lot of radical feminists. 1.00
00:24:04.000 If you are a woman and you choose to stay home and mother your children, this makes you a bad person. 0.98
00:24:09.000 You are a lesser person.
00:24:10.000 You've been sucked into the maw of the patriarchy that has chewed you up and spit you out and suggested that you must indeed be a woman barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen rather than running companies, rather than having a job. 0.99
00:24:22.000 If you're a stay-at-home mom, you're a bad person, according to a lot of folks on the left.
00:24:26.000 But then when it comes Mother's Day, like, oh, Mother's Day.
00:24:28.000 I love Mother's Day.
00:24:30.000 Can't have it both ways.
00:24:31.000 If you think mothers are rubes, then you can't celebrate Mother's Day.
00:24:34.000 Plus!
00:24:35.000 We got a bunch of folks on the left, I would say the majority of the left now, that suggests that a child doesn't need a mother. 0.55
00:24:40.000 Now, I believe a child does need a mother. 0.99
00:24:42.000 A child needs a mother and a father. 0.86
00:24:43.000 And this is why I always tweet out on Mother's Day, happy parent, happy legal guardian of unspecified gender day.
00:24:50.000 Because if you are on the left, this is what you believe.
00:24:52.000 You believe that you can have a legal guardian of any gender whatsoever.
00:24:55.000 You can have a mother who's a father, a father who's a mother, a mother who used to be a father, a father who used to be a mother who used to be a chicken. 0.92
00:25:00.000 Any of these things are possible.
00:25:01.000 So, why not just call it legal guardian of unspecified gender day?
00:25:05.000 But no, then the left gets mad when you say this because it shows that they're really not super pro-mom as a general rule. 0.88
00:25:11.000 You know, the whole, we're in favor of abortion, and we think that women are stupid if they stay home with their kids, and also a child doesn't need a mother, a child brought up by wolves or any other family arrangement is totally fine, Mowgli had it best. 0.98
00:25:23.000 You know, all of this, and then they say we love Mother's Day. 0.97
00:25:26.000 You can't, again, you can't have it both ways.
00:25:28.000 You can't say that you hold certain things sacrosanct when you clearly do not hold them sacrosanct.
00:25:32.000 The same thing is true of the innocence of children.
00:25:33.000 The same people who will say, you have to protect innocent children from video games.
00:25:38.000 You have to protect innocent children from the predations of their church-going parents.
00:25:42.000 These are the same people who say that a four-year-old should be seeing a psychiatrist to get hormone treatment to prevent puberty.
00:25:48.000 And these are the same folks.
00:25:50.000 So anyway,
00:25:51.000 I tweeted some of this stuff out yesterday, and a lot of people on the left got very, very mad.
00:25:55.000 A lot of people said, how could I just ruin Mother's Day by pointing out that a lot of folks on the left don't really have a reason to celebrate Mother's Day?
00:26:03.000 And then I did something even worse yesterday.
00:26:04.000 I did something even worse on Mother's Day.
00:26:06.000 So I asked my—this is actually a funny story.
00:26:08.000 So yesterday morning, I woke up, and my daughter woke me up.
00:26:12.000 I went in there to her room, gave her a big hug.
00:26:14.000 And she said, what day is it today?
00:26:16.000 I said, well, it's Sunday, and it's Mother's Day.
00:26:17.000 We're going to do some special stuff for Mommy. 0.51
00:26:19.000 Isn't that fun?
00:26:20.000 And she said, yeah.
00:26:21.000 And then I said, sweetheart, when you grow up, you're going to have a job, and you're also going to be a mommy.
00:26:25.000 Which one of those things do you think is probably going to be more fun?
00:26:28.000 And she said, being a mommy, so I can cuddle my babies, which is really cute.
00:26:33.000 Right?
00:26:33.000 Clearly, she's a victim of the patriarchy, because if she knew best, she would know that working a long 2,200 billable hours a year job as an associate of law firm is significantly more fun than cuddling babies.
00:26:44.000 Clearly, she would know this.
00:26:45.000 By the way, I would assume that if I ask my son this when he's old enough not to be pooping in his diapers, if I ask him this, I assume he'll give me the same answer, because being a dad is super fun.
00:26:52.000 We need more parents, male and female.
00:26:55.000 That would be great.
00:26:59.000 My career is very, very important to me.
00:27:01.000 I think that every day I get up and I'm eager to go to work, but I'm even more eager to spend time with my kids.
00:27:06.000 I probably spend more time with my kids at this point than my wife does because she's in medical residency. 0.97
00:27:10.000 As I may have mentioned once or twice, she's a doctor.
00:27:13.000 So anyway.
00:27:14.000 I tweeted this out.
00:27:15.000 I tweeted out, I asked my four-year-old this morning whether she thought it'd be more fun to have a job or be a mommy.
00:27:19.000 She said, to be a mommy so I can cuddle my babies. 1.00
00:27:21.000 Clearly she has already been victimized by the patriarchy. 1.00
00:27:23.000 And I said I would begin teaching her in order to countermand the demands of the patriarchy, I'd begin teaching her that babies are made out of thorns and hatred, and that she can work as an executive at Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory, and that will somehow make it all better.
00:27:35.000 A bunch of people on the left got really mad.
00:27:37.000 Number one, they misinterpreted the tweet to assume that what I was saying is that she could either have a job or be a mommy.
00:27:42.000 Which, yes, that's me all over.
00:27:44.000 Right.
00:27:44.000 I'm the guy who says women can't have jobs.
00:27:46.000 Except for how my mom worked and my dad stayed at home, and my wife works and I stay at home.
00:27:50.000 Except for all of that, you got me spot on.
00:27:52.000 Spot on.
00:27:53.000 I'm the guy who forces my wife to be a doctor.
00:27:56.000 Yes.
00:27:56.000 Clearly, you've pegged me correctly, leftists.
00:28:00.000 And people on the left got very angry, though, because if you point out a very simple truth, hey, that little girls want to be mommies,
00:28:06.000 They get so mad.
00:28:07.000 They get so angry.
00:28:08.000 If you say little girls naturally want to be mommies and have babies of their own, no! 0.99
00:28:12.000 No!
00:28:13.000 That is a gender construct. 1.00
00:28:15.000 That is something that you had to teach them.
00:28:17.000 Never mind hundreds of thousands of years of human biology.
00:28:20.000 Never mind all of animal kingdom biology.
00:28:22.000 Never mind any of that stuff.
00:28:24.000 It was clearly that five guys got in a room several thousand years ago and they said, we have to convince women it's good to have babies.
00:28:30.000 We have to convince them of this.
00:28:32.000 Now, we should also never mind all the fact that all these feminist women hit the age of 40 and they start freezing their eggs because they're afraid they're not going to be able to have kids. 1.00
00:28:39.000 We should ignore the fact that a lot of women turn around at age 35 after having been told that they could have everything, the career and the children, and think, man, I wish that I had spent a little more time at home. 0.97
00:28:52.000 We should ignore all of those things.
00:28:53.000 Instead, we should pretend that all of this is a construct that is unnatural for women to want babies. 1.00
00:28:59.000 Girls want babies. 1.00
00:29:01.000 Little girls want to have babies. 1.00
00:29:04.000 My daughter plays games. 1.00
00:29:05.000 My daughter is games. 0.98
00:29:06.000 She was doing it last night.
00:29:07.000 There's a giant Barney that we have at our house.
00:29:09.000 A giant Barney doll that we have at our house.
00:29:11.000 My daughter made a bed for her giant Barney. 0.92
00:29:13.000 And then she said, my giant Barney is sick and I want to take care of my giant Barney because he is my baby.
00:29:20.000 My son takes a bat and hits the giant Barney.
00:29:23.000 OK, there are different children because boys are not the same as girls. 1.00
00:29:28.000 This is so stupid. 0.99
00:29:29.000 But if you acknowledge this, then it's somehow bad. 1.00
00:29:32.000 But here's the problem.
00:29:32.000 If you don't acknowledge this, why are you celebrating Mother's Day?
00:29:35.000 If you're not pretending that it's innate to women to want to be mothers, if you're not suggesting that women have something special to offer in the realm of parenthood, then why are we celebrating Mother's Day in the first place? 0.68
00:29:45.000 I love it. 0.99
00:29:45.000 So Elizabeth Spires, who's a feminist idiot, she tweeted out, 0.99
00:29:51.000 And I tweeted back, well, I didn't frame it as an either or. 1.00
00:29:55.000 I said, which one is more fun?
00:29:57.000 If I said, when you grow up, which do you think will be more fun?
00:30:01.000 Going to a baseball game or going to work?
00:30:03.000 I'm not suggesting that you can only go to baseball games and never go to work.
00:30:06.000 I'm suggesting that there is a hierarchy of fun.
00:30:08.000 And it actually is an important question.
00:30:10.000 So here's the punchline.
00:30:11.000 So it's really funny.
00:30:12.000 I told my wife about this.
00:30:14.000 Yesterday, we're in the car, and we're driving to Disneyland with the kids, and I turn to my wife, and I told her this story, and she says, oh, that's really funny, because you know what, I asked my daughter, I asked our daughter the same question last night.
00:30:25.000 I asked her, aren't you, did you know, this is my wife, again, the doctor, who turned to my daughter last night, and she said, okay, this is a close paraphrase, and she said, you know, mommy loves being a doctor, but mommy loves being your mommy even more than that, a lot more than that.
00:30:40.000 If mommy wants to spend more time with you, 0.69
00:30:43.000 Okay, is she part of the patriarchy now? 0.96
00:30:45.000 My wife? 1.00
00:30:46.000 This is so stupid! 1.00
00:30:48.000 Okay, all of this is so dumb. 1.00
00:30:50.000 But the same left that wants to obliterate gender differences and then celebrate gender differences, you can't do both. 0.99
00:30:54.000 Obliterate them or celebrate them.
00:30:55.000 You can't obliterate them and then celebrate them.
00:30:57.000 You can't pretend men and women are exactly the same, with exactly the same aspirations, hopes, and dreams, and then say that women are unique creatures who deserve special days like Mother's Day.
00:31:06.000 All of this is just...
00:31:09.000 And I love this.
00:31:10.000 So, Dictionary.com actually tweeted out at me, Fallacy.
00:31:14.000 Any of the various types of erroneous reasoning that render arguments logically unsound.
00:31:18.000 Thank you, Dictionary.com.
00:31:19.000 I'm so glad that you defined fallacy for me. 0.97
00:31:22.000 Intern at Dictionary.com whose life's work is to tweet out definitions written by others hundreds of years ago, you dolt. 0.96
00:31:29.000 I did not say that my daughter should not get a job. 0.96
00:31:32.000 I've told her, by the way, that she could be president of the United States.
00:31:35.000 And you know what she responded?
00:31:37.000 She said, that sounds really boring.
00:31:39.000 Can't argue.
00:31:39.000 Can't argue with that.
00:31:41.000 Okay.
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00:33:43.000 Okay, so, meanwhile, there's a big hubbub that has risen over John McCain.
00:33:48.000 So John McCain is unfortunately extremely sick, and he is likely to pass away sometime in the next few months.
00:33:54.000 He has brain cancer, and it's really sad.
00:33:58.000 Whatever you think of John McCain, John McCain is...
00:34:01.000 I think.
00:34:02.000 I mean, there's no question he's an American patriot.
00:34:03.000 I mean, the man suffered horrific torture and then served for decades in the Senate trying to do what he thought was was right.
00:34:09.000 I disagree with him on a lot of politics, everything from campaign finance reform, Medicaid, Part D. I agree.
00:34:14.000 I disagree with him on many, many policies.
00:34:17.000 I thought that his 2008 run for the presidency was lackluster.
00:34:20.000 None of that has to do with who he is as a patriot and his contributions to the country.
00:34:25.000 So there is a big story that broke late last week.
00:34:28.000 Bad for the Trump administration.
00:34:29.000 There's a woman named Sadler who apparently in some meeting, her name is Kelly Sadler, and she apparently in a meeting at the White House was asked about the fact that McCain was going to vote against Gina Haspel.
00:34:41.000 Gina Haspel is of course Donald Trump's nominee for CIA, to head the CIA.
00:34:46.000 And apparently during the meeting she joked that somebody was gonna, that who cares, he's gonna die anyway.
00:34:52.000 Right, and then this leaked.
00:34:53.000 So there are two issues here, okay?
00:34:54.000 Issue number one is what she said, and issue number two is the leak.
00:34:58.000 So what she said is obviously horrible, right?
00:34:59.000 It's a horrible joke.
00:35:01.000 Clearly.
00:35:02.000 And that raises some questions about the people in the room, because we've all been in meetings where somebody is making horrible jokes, but we all know where the lines are, right? 0.93
00:35:09.000 So we have meetings here at this office where people are making dumb, horrible jokes, but there's certain jokes that you won't make even among your friends because they're just too egregious and just too yucky.
00:35:17.000 This is a joke that you wouldn't make among your friends. 0.99
00:35:19.000 Okay, well, you know, John McCain is gonna die soon. 0.95
00:35:21.000 It's just, yuck.
00:35:23.000 You don't make a joke about a dying man, particularly not a patriot.
00:35:26.000 And so obviously that's pretty terrible.
00:35:28.000 And it says something about the people in the room that this sort of went unnoticed or unremarked upon, and apparently no one chided her, or that she felt comfortable enough to say it in the first place, suggests that maybe people at the White House say some stuff that they shouldn't be saying on a pretty regular basis, but that's not a shock.
00:35:42.000 I mean, Donald Trump said in the middle of the campaign that John McCain was not a war hero because he'd been captured.
00:35:47.000 So it says something about the moral fish rotting from the head when it comes to saying bad stuff about others.
00:35:52.000 Then there's the question of the leak.
00:35:54.000 So people on the right who have been pointing out that it is not good that the administration leaks this much, they've been shellacked over the weekend.
00:36:00.000 Why are you so worried about who leaks the Sadler conversation?
00:36:03.000 Why aren't you more worried about what she said?
00:36:05.000 Well, I can be worried about both.
00:36:07.000 I can talk about the moral lack in saying that John McCain's gonna die soon, but I can also worry about the fact that this is a White House so leaky that the way that you take down your political opponents, who supposedly are working for the same goals that you are, is to leak the nasty stuff that they said in a conversation.
00:36:21.000 There's a certain level of trust that has to exist in any office environment.
00:36:24.000 You know this.
00:36:24.000 You work in an office.
00:36:25.000 I work in an office.
00:36:26.000 There's a certain level of trust.
00:36:28.000 And the truth is that people make what would widely be construed as inappropriate jokes all the time.
00:36:33.000 Now, this may be beyond the pale inappropriate, but how many inappropriate jokes do we make a day here at the Daily Office?
00:36:39.000 A thousand?
00:36:40.000 I mean, a lot of inappropriate jokes.
00:36:42.000 I'm not talking racist jokes or anything, but I'm talking about jokes that if you printed them in the pages of the New York Times, people go, ooh, that's weird.
00:36:49.000 Why would they make that joke?
00:36:50.000 OK, that sort of stuff happens all the time at offices all around the country.
00:36:53.000 And it would be kind of bad for your business if it turned out that every time somebody made a joke that would read a lot worse than it would speak, then that would sort of make the front pages of The New York Times bad for your business.
00:37:05.000 John Mulaney has a comedy special where he talks specifically about this, where apparently one of his friends
00:37:11.000 One of his friends was in trouble with the law because somebody was testifying against them in a civil case. 0.96
00:37:18.000 And John Mulaney wrote a funny email back that said something like, want me to kill them for you. 0.96
00:37:24.000 It's a joke. 0.62
00:37:25.000 And then he jokes about the fact that if that had been read in court, that would be a real problem for him, right?
00:37:30.000 Because suddenly it would be read in court that John Mulaney wanted to kill somebody.
00:37:33.000 That sort of stuff happens at your business every day.
00:37:35.000 I think this falls under that category, meaning it's something bad that was said, but now it's being turned into a national issue.
00:37:41.000 Now, obviously, the proper solution to this is for Kelly Sadler to come out and say, I shouldn't have said it.
00:37:45.000 Obviously, it was a poor joke.
00:37:47.000 I never should have said anything like this.
00:37:49.000 Instead, it's instead because the White House has a habit of never backing down, never apologizing.
00:37:55.000 She continues not to apologize publicly for this, even though she called up Meghan McCain and apologized privately.
00:38:00.000 Bernie Sanders was asking why the White House won't apologize to McCain.
00:38:03.000 I do have a theory.
00:38:04.000 And Jake, it is beyond my comprehension. 1.00
00:38:08.000 It is one thing in the White House for somebody to say something crude and stupid and disrespectful of an American hero. 0.99
00:38:15.000 It is another thing for them not to apologize. 0.99
00:38:18.000 So it is beyond my comprehension.
00:38:20.000 I just don't know what goes on in that White House mentality for there not being an apology for that terrible remark.
00:38:27.000 Okay, so Bernie Sanders, he says that people in the White House should obviously apologize.
00:38:32.000 The reason that people in the White House aren't apologizing is because they have a basic rule.
00:38:36.000 Never compromise, never apologize.
00:38:37.000 Never apologize because they're just going to bang you over the head about it.
00:38:40.000 Now, I don't think that rule is actually true.
00:38:42.000 I don't think it's true that if you just came forward and you said, yep, never should have said it, you'd take a flack for about a day and then it would be done.
00:38:49.000 But I understand the tendency on the part of some people in the White House, that tendency to say, listen, I'm not going to bend over backwards.
00:38:57.000 In order to apologize to people who are just going to shellack me for it anyway, who are just going to crush me for it anyway.
00:39:02.000 I know that's Donald Trump's tendency, and he's been very successful with it.
00:39:05.000 In this particular case, it seems to me that Sadler should just come forward and apologize.
00:39:08.000 That said, I think anybody who is found to have leaked this stuff to the press should be fired.
00:39:12.000 If I were head of the Trump administration, I'd be firing nearly everybody in that room.
00:39:15.000 Because you can't have a working business environment in which people are leaking like this.
00:39:18.000 OK, meanwhile, there's something weird that's beginning to happen in comedy land.
00:39:22.000 So a lot of the comedians are beginning to realize that maybe the making fun of Trump thing is actually kind of counterproductive, which it is.
00:39:29.000 It's so funny.
00:39:30.000 The left's dominance of the cultural heights, their dominance in the world of comedy, their dominance in the world of entertainment media, it's made them think they're a lot more powerful than they actually are.
00:39:38.000 It's why at the DNC you saw people like Lena Dunham up there on stage as though Lena Dunham was going to swing votes of anybody who wasn't already living in big cities and watching girls. 0.99
00:39:47.000 They really think that their dominance of the cultural heights means dominance of the political heights.
00:39:50.000 But what you've actually seen is that Republicans in many ways are dominant to an extraordinary degree in politics, and Democrats are extraordinarily dominant at the degree of culture.
00:40:00.000 And this is not a coincidence.
00:40:01.000 I think the dominance of Democrats in culture is driving the Republican dominance in politics.
00:40:06.000 The fact that so many people around the country feel constantly derided and insulted by the media, it makes them feel like, fine, I'll just vote Republican.
00:40:13.000 Fine. 0.99
00:40:13.000 You're going to label me a jerk? 0.99
00:40:14.000 I'm just going to go vote how you don't want me to vote anyway because I don't like you either. 0.99
00:40:18.000 There's a lot of that going around.
00:40:19.000 And it seems like a lot of the comedians are starting to figure this out.
00:40:22.000 So Jimmy Kimmel, Pope Jimmy, he has decided that America might be tired, in fact, of the bashing of Donald Trump.
00:40:30.000 That maybe this has been a maybe this has been a mistake.
00:40:33.000 So he did an interview.
00:40:35.000 He did an interview.
00:40:37.000 We're good to go.
00:40:55.000 He says, he says, I hadn't really thought about it that way, but I guess you're right.
00:40:58.000 Hopefully it'll be the last upfront of the Trump era, too.
00:41:00.000 So I don't know.
00:41:00.000 I don't know how much focus will be on there.
00:41:02.000 I think people have had an ass full of Donald Trump. 0.98
00:41:04.000 And I feel like the upfront is a time to look within and make fun of ourselves. 0.98
00:41:08.000 He says that he can't imagine the upfronts are going to be completely Trump free, but he's planning on not making it his focus.
00:41:14.000 He's saying that he might actually be moving beyond a lot of the Trump stuff because people are just tired of the Donald Trump stuff.
00:41:22.000 Well, the reason people are tired of the Trump stuff is because you weren't even handed about it during the Obama era.
00:41:26.000 It is amazing that so many of these comedians seem to ignore the fact that Obama was an inherently funny human being as well because he was so pretentious.
00:41:32.000 Donald Trump is an inherently funny being because Donald Trump is Donald Trump.
00:41:35.000 But a lot of people are beginning to recognize this is a mistake.
00:41:39.000 Saturday Night Live, they're recognizing now that political stuff is beginning to get a little bit old.
00:41:43.000 You like the show, right, Mom?
00:41:45.000 I do, except for all the political stuff.
00:41:48.000 We get it.
00:41:49.000 All right, thank you very much.
00:41:50.000 I remember I was in that production of The Crucible in high school.
00:41:53.000 All right, yeah.
00:41:54.000 You know, The Crucible's a lot like The Witch Hunt against President Trump.
00:41:58.000 Okay, don't look at that.
00:41:59.000 Let's go.
00:42:00.000 Enough with the Trump jokes.
00:42:02.000 Mom, I don't write those.
00:42:04.000 And why doesn't SNL ever talk about Crooked Hillary? 1.00
00:42:07.000 Mom, I'm so new here, please do not do this to me.
00:42:11.000 Okay, and this is exactly right.
00:42:13.000 Okay, SNL may be getting, maybe the comedians are beginning to get it, which would actually be bad news for Republicans.
00:42:18.000 As a Republican, yes, it's irritating to watch Michelle What's-Her-Face go off at the White House Correspondent Center on Sarah Huckabee Sanders. 0.98
00:42:25.000 Yes, watching her make abortion jokes is galling, but as a conservative, you actually need more of this. 1.00
00:42:30.000 What you need is more of these comedians being idiots. 1.00
00:42:32.000 What you need is more of the comedians who are wildly biased to the left, because it's driving people into the Republican camp. 1.00
00:42:38.000 Well, good news, there's still Trevor Noah. 0.63
00:42:39.000 So Trevor Noah over at Comedy Central, he says that President Trump is like an African dictator. 0.89
00:42:44.000 He is just like an African dictator. 0.99
00:42:45.000 He's just like Mugabe.
00:42:47.000 Right? 0.90
00:42:47.000 Because he's seizing a lot of people's money, and because he's redistributing land, and probably because he's killing all of his enemies. 0.90
00:42:53.000 Wait, how's he like an African dictator again? 0.90
00:42:55.000 Trevor Noah, explain.
00:43:11.000 And I would have been disappointed had we not found out or had Michael Cohen not done this.
00:43:16.000 I'm like, yeah, this is following the script.
00:43:18.000 This is what you were meant to be doing as the person who rolls with Donald Trump.
00:43:23.000 You were always going to be finding a way to swindle cash.
00:43:26.000 One of the things that's extraordinarily galling about this, of course, is that this is Trevor Noah on CNN with Brian Stelter.
00:43:31.000 One of the things a lot of these comic figures like to do is play the clown nose on, clown nose off routine.
00:43:35.000 So the minute they say something controversial, they go, hey, I'm just a comedian.
00:43:39.000 I can say whatever I want.
00:43:40.000 Why are you taking me seriously?
00:43:41.000 Hey, I'm a comic.
00:43:42.000 And then Jimmy Kimmel will go out there with his sick child and talk about his sick child and use his sick child as an excuse for revamping health care.
00:43:49.000 Or Trevor Noah will go on CNN and give his political take.
00:43:52.000 Listen,
00:43:52.000 You want to be both?
00:43:53.000 That's fine.
00:43:54.000 But you're going to get treated like a pundit.
00:43:55.000 And that means that we're going to critique you like a pundit. 1.00
00:43:57.000 This is idiotic. 1.00
00:43:58.000 Every politician in American history of any prominence, or most of them, I would say, have had family connections with serious corruption involved. 1.00
00:44:05.000 Just ask Bill's siblings.
00:44:07.000 Just ask Hillary Clinton. 1.00
00:44:09.000 Ask Hugh Rodham, ask the Kennedys. 1.00
00:44:13.000 The idea that Donald Trump is like an African dictator is such a wild exaggeration, wild stupidity. 1.00
00:44:17.000 No wonder people are not taking some folks on the left seriously when they look at folks like Trevor Noah or Jimmy Kimmel as political lights to follow. 0.99
00:44:24.000 Okay, time for some things I like, things I hate, and then we'll do a Federalist paper real fast.
00:44:28.000 So, things I like, since it is, in fact, a celebratory day for Jerusalem, I'm gonna play you the most beautiful song ever written about Jerusalem.
00:44:35.000 This is a song called Yerushalayim Shel Zahav, so it's in Hebrew.
00:44:39.000 It's called Jerusalem.
00:44:41.000 Jerusalem is made of gold.
00:44:42.000 Jerusalem of gold is the literal translation.
00:44:45.000 And the singer on this, I'm trying to remember her name, it's Ofra Hazal?
00:44:50.000 Chazan? 0.95
00:44:51.000 Yeah, Ofer Chazan. 0.99
00:44:53.000 You hear her voice in Prince of Egypt.
00:44:54.000 She sings one of the parts in Prince of Egypt.
00:44:56.000 This is an old tape.
00:44:57.000 It's a really tragic story.
00:44:58.000 I think she died of hepatitis when she was 42 through a blood transfusion.
00:45:02.000 It's really terrible.
00:45:03.000 But this rendition of Yerushalayim Shel Zahav is quite beautiful.
00:45:06.000 I use it very often when I'm Chazan at my shul.
00:45:09.000 So at my synagogue, I sometimes pray for the congregation.
00:45:12.000 When I do that, there's a song that I like to use the tune of for the various prayers.
00:45:16.000 So here's the song.
00:45:17.000 Just a beautiful song.
00:45:19.000 In the city of mountains, there's a river flowing And behind me, I can smell the scent of a four-leaf clover With every step I take
00:45:46.000 It's forbidden to look at the stone.
00:45:53.000 It's broken in a dream.
00:46:00.000 The city that sits alone carries a wall in its heart.
00:46:14.000 Yerushalayim shel za'ar, v'shel nechoshet v'shel ol,
00:46:38.000 We're good to go.
00:46:54.000 So it's a beautiful song.
00:46:56.000 The lyrics mean, It's a beautiful, beautiful song.
00:46:58.000 And she's actually a terrific singer, Ofra Haza, so you should check out her work online as well.
00:47:00.000 Okay, time for some quick things that I hate.
00:47:23.000 So Hillary Clinton is mad at everybody again. 1.00
00:47:26.000 She's just going to go around the rest of her life being angry, which I think might not actually be that much of a change for her.
00:47:31.000 It seems like she spent most of her life being angry at something or other.
00:47:34.000 Now she's still angry at the American public and saying that they are sexist. 0.97
00:47:36.000 She says, And so the easiest way to kind of avoid having to look at someone on her merits is to dismiss her on her looks.
00:47:47.000 Yes, I'm sure that's why you lost.
00:47:48.000 It's not because you're deeply off-putting on every conceivable level.
00:47:51.000 It's because people don't like the way that you look.
00:47:53.000 If you're a beautiful woman, I'm sure you would have won Hillary Clinton. 0.98
00:47:56.000 Except for the fact that, no.
00:47:57.000 There's this amazing study, it was really funny, where they took the debate, the first debate, between Trump and Hillary Clinton.
00:48:05.000 And they reversed the sexes. 0.84
00:48:06.000 They had a guy read all of Hillary Clinton's lines, and a woman read all of Donald Trump's lines, and then they had people evaluate the debate.
00:48:12.000 They had people who were there sitting there with the dials, trying to determine who won.
00:48:16.000 And it turns out that Trump, as a woman, won by more of a margin than Trump as a man.
00:48:21.000 Because Hillary's personality is so off-putting that it doesn't matter whether she's a man or a woman, she's just that amount of off-putting, which is pretty amazing. 0.99
00:48:29.000 Other things that I hate. 0.72
00:48:30.000 So, Benedict Cumberbatch has now said that he's going to turn down a role unless his co-star is paid the same amount of money that he is.
00:48:38.000 That's because internet feminists were very angry that Bryce Dallas Howard was paid $2 million less than Chris Pratt was for the new Jurassic Park movie. 1.00
00:48:46.000 Of course she was paid less, because no one cares if Bryce Dallas Howard is in those movies.
00:48:49.000 If she were to disappear tomorrow and suddenly be replaced by Jessica Chastain, just another redhead, then no one would care. 0.81
00:48:57.000 If that happened, would people even notice, really?
00:48:59.000 Not that Bryce Dallas Howard isn't a good actress, but she doesn't do anything in those movies. 1.00
00:49:02.000 She's not the star of the films.
00:49:03.000 Chris Pratt is the star of the films.
00:49:05.000 I'm happy to pay Bryce Dallas Howard to do a great acting job, but...
00:49:09.000 She is not the draw of those movies.
00:49:11.000 Hey, Benedict Cumberbatch, however, he's now trying to say that equal pay and a place at the table are the central tenets of feminism. 1.00
00:49:16.000 Look at your quotas, ask what women are being paid and say, if she's not paid the same as men, I'm not doing it. 0.77
00:49:21.000 And he says that he has a new production company that is female focused.
00:49:24.000 Now, I don't hate this because he is because he's doing this.
00:49:27.000 Good for him.
00:49:27.000 That's fine.
00:49:28.000 You know, but what I do hate is the implication that any man who's not doing this is somehow shortchanging women. 0.98
00:49:33.000 That's ridiculous.
00:49:34.000 Okay, Benedict Cumberbatch is going to have to take less pay to do this. 0.80
00:49:36.000 End of story.
00:49:37.000 Because no one is going to pay.
00:49:39.000 He's the star of Doctor Strange.
00:49:41.000 No one is going to pay whatever random female co-star of the next Doctor Strange movie is the same amount they're going to pay Benedict Cumberbatch.
00:49:48.000 Not unless Benedict Cumberbatch takes less pay.
00:49:50.000 Because the reality is that if he asks for $5 million, they're not going to pay some female 0.64
00:49:56.000 I do love the people at the upper end of the income bracket complaining about income inequality.
00:50:01.000 It's pretty amazing.
00:50:09.000 So if he wants to take a pay cut, good for him.
00:50:12.000 That's well within his rights.
00:50:13.000 They did that on Friends, by the way, that all the people who are the stars of Friends, they wanted to pay some more and others less.
00:50:18.000 And they got together, and I believe they pooled their income and said, OK, we're all going to be paid the same amount of money.
00:50:23.000 That's cool.
00:50:23.000 Good for Benedict Cumberbatch on that level.
00:50:25.000 But again, if the implication is that Chris Pratt is doing something deeply, horribly wrong by taking more money than Bryce Dallas Howard, maybe show how to get a better agent or maybe show how to pick better script.
00:50:34.000 OK, time for a Federalist paper real fast.
00:50:37.000 Federalist number 28.
00:50:38.000 Every week we go through a Federalist paper.
00:50:40.000 We're all the way up to Federalist number 28.
00:50:42.000 Alexander Hamilton writes this one.
00:50:43.000 He wrote the vast majority of them.
00:50:45.000 He continues with his arguments about the strength of the national government with an army under the control of the legislature.
00:50:51.000 So there's a lot of debate over who should actually control
00:50:55.000 The national army.
00:50:56.000 Should there be a standing army?
00:50:57.000 A lot of people very afraid of this because they thought that it would suck power away from the state.
00:51:00.000 And he makes one very interesting argument.
00:51:02.000 He says, if the representatives of the people betray their constituents, the argument here is that we can't have the legislature control the national standing army because if we do, then this will allow the legislature to run roughshod over the state.
00:51:14.000 So, Alexander Hamilton writes, He's talking about the right to resist.
00:51:33.000 Okay, so for all the people out there on the left who say that there was no inherent right to resist, there's no right to bear arms, keep and bear arms for use against the government, Alexander Hamilton is explicitly talking about that.
00:51:42.000 He's talking about if the legislature were to usurp the powers of the people, the people would stand up, and the reason you want a national standing army as opposed to state standing armies is because it is actually harder to fight against a state standing army than it is to have the state to act as the go-between for a battle against the national government.
00:51:58.000 In reality, that's exactly what happened during the Civil War.
00:52:00.000 It was a lot bloodier because it was national government
00:52:02.000 versus the state.
00:52:04.000 But the argument here is even deeper than that.
00:52:07.000 And that is that you do have a natural right to resist a government that usurps your fundamental rights.
00:52:12.000 And if the government does usurp your fundamental rights, that's the reason that you need to keep and bear arms as a root cause.
00:52:18.000 OK, so we'll be back here tomorrow with all of the latest.
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