The Ben Shapiro Show - In-Jussie-Tice | Ep. 746

00:00:00.000 Jussie Smollett gets off the hook for an awful race hoax. 0.99

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00:01:43.000 So.

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00:02:13.000 Jussie Smollett.

00:02:14.000 You remember Jussie Smollett.

00:02:15.000 The guy from Empire.

00:02:16.000 Now, I know.

00:02:17.000 Maybe you've never seen Empire.

00:02:18.000 Maybe this wasn't one of your shows.

00:02:19.000 But Jussie Smollett is apparently an actor.

00:02:22.000 And he's apparently a star of Empire.

00:02:23.000 A guy who thinks he's very important.

00:02:25.000 So important and so upset about Trump's murka that he allegedly sends himself in the mail a piece of hate mail.

00:02:33.000 A piece of hate mail that contained white powder and a scrawled crayon drawing that threatened him with death.

00:02:40.000 Allegedly, it was a letter from him to him.

00:02:43.000 So there was that.

00:02:44.000 Then he decided, you know what?

00:02:45.000 I didn't get enough attention for the fake hate crime that I tried to perpetrate via the federal mails.

00:02:50.000 So I'm going to do this thing in real life.

00:02:51.000 You know, take it from script to screen.

00:02:54.000 Now take it from page to reality.

00:02:56.000 And so he found the two best white actors he knew, Nigerian-born brothers, who were his personal trainers.

00:03:03.000 And then he paid them with a personal check to fake a hate crime in Chicago.

00:03:08.000 I'm saying this, I'm gonna say allegedly, just for purposes of legal protection, but it's not some allegedly, guys.

00:03:14.000 I mean, like, the CPD had all the evidence that this happened, including the signed check.

00:03:18.000 So, here's his story.

00:03:19.000 His story was, as you'll recall, that it was two o'clock in the morning, in the middle of a polar vortex in Chicago, and he went to a Subway shop to get a Subway sandwich at two in the morning.

00:03:31.000 In a polar vortex.

00:03:33.000 And there, on the streets of Chicago, which voted 86% for Hillary Clinton, he was confronted by two red-hatted MAGA fans who spotted him and knew him from the show Empire.

00:03:44.000 Because if there is one show that is deeply popular among Trump fans, it is the show Empire.

00:03:48.000 I mean, everywhere I go, I talk with Trump fans.

00:03:50.000 First thing they ask is, did you see last night's episode of Empire?

00:03:54.000 It's like the number one thing they talk about.

00:03:55.000 I don't know, it's kind of crazy.

00:03:56.000 That's just been my experience.

00:03:58.000 In any case, This guy walking down the street and two MAGA-hatted guys apparently spot him out of the corner of their white eyes.

00:04:05.000 And they look at him and they say, Aha!

00:04:07.000 Jussie Smollett.

00:04:08.000 That guy doesn't like Trump.

00:04:09.000 And this right here is MAGA country in the middle of Chicago at 2 a.m.

00:04:15.000 in a polar vortex.

00:04:17.000 And so they happen to have, good news for them, they happen to also have some clothesline and bleach on them.

00:04:22.000 They proceeded to wrap the clothesline around his neck in a noose, and then they proceeded to pour bleach on him, and then they proceeded to kick him in the ribs and all of this.

00:04:31.000 Now, the best news for Jussie Smollett, like, that was bad, right?

00:04:33.000 But the best news for Jussie Smollett, he never lost his grip on that Subway sandwich.

00:04:36.000 Some of us have priorities.

00:04:38.000 Some of our priorities include making sure that our children are fed, making sure that we have a home, making sure that we get paid for a job well done. 0.99

00:04:46.000 Others of us have real priorities, like you hold on to that damn Subway sandwich when two guys are beating the crap out of you while committing a fake hate crime. 0.97

00:04:52.000 I mean, that Subway sandwich, it's a long day's work. 0.99

00:04:56.000 You need a snack after you have two guys beat you up for the press.

00:05:00.000 So then Jussie Smollett goes back to his apartment, walks right past the security guard outside, Heads on up to his room.

00:05:09.000 Security guard's gotta be like, um, Jussie, you're covered in bleach and you have a noose around your neck.

00:05:13.000 What happened?

00:05:14.000 Apparently not.

00:05:15.000 Apparently Jussie just strolls right up back to his apartment.

00:05:17.000 He then spends 40 minutes eating that Subway sandwich.

00:05:20.000 I mean, chow down, buddy.

00:05:21.000 And then he calls the cops.

00:05:23.000 They show up.

00:05:24.000 And he's still got the noose around his neck, because that's what I would do.

00:05:26.000 I mean, I don't know about you, but for me, if somebody tried to hang me, what I would do is just leave that noose around my neck as long as I could.

00:05:31.000 Because that's just, I don't know, kind of comfortable.

00:05:34.000 It's got a look to it, you know?

00:05:36.000 So the police show up and they say, Jussie, will you hand over your phone?

00:05:39.000 Because you said that you were on the phone with your manager.

00:05:41.000 So we can confirm that that's true by location.

00:05:44.000 We can look at your phone log.

00:05:46.000 And Jussie Smollett's like, no, I'm not going to do that.

00:05:49.000 You know why?

00:05:49.000 Invasion of privacy, guys, invasion of privacy.

00:05:52.000 And then he turns over a redacted call log.

00:05:54.000 Well, the police.

00:05:55.000 are able to use his cell phone number to track down all of the calls he made that night and all of the numbers that he redacted.

00:06:01.000 And apparently the numbers he redacted included the numbers of the Nigerian-born brothers who, it turns out, were not white, MAGA-hatted Donald Trump fans.

00:06:09.000 They were Nigerian-born personal trainers who were friends with Jussie Smollett and who Jussie Smollett then proceeded to throw under the bus.

00:06:17.000 His new claim, Jussie Smollett's new claim, is that these two guys committed a hate crime.

00:06:21.000 His friends committed a hate crime against him.

00:06:24.000 For no reason.

00:06:26.000 Just for the hell of it.

00:06:27.000 And so all of this came out. 1.00

00:06:29.000 It was obviously stupid. 1.00

00:06:30.000 It was obviously terrible. 1.00

00:06:31.000 The media had jumped on it.

00:06:32.000 Kamala Harris called it a modern-day lynching.

00:06:34.000 Cory Spartacus McBooker said the same thing.

00:06:38.000 Joe Biden.

00:06:39.000 Pretty much every Democrat came out of the woodwork like, this is America.

00:06:42.000 This right here.

00:06:43.000 This is what America looks like. 0.85

00:06:44.000 It looks like a black man walking in Chicago in the middle of a polar vortex, holding on to a Subway sandwich for dear life and being accosted by Mike Pence and Jared Kushner on the streets of Chicago.

00:06:55.000 That's America.

00:06:56.000 Trump's America. 1.00

00:06:57.000 Turns out all of it was crap. 1.00

00:06:59.000 The Chicago PD tracked all of it down. 0.99

00:07:01.000 They looked at legitimately thousands of hours of footage.

00:07:04.000 They spent hundreds of thousands of dollars, hundreds of man hours.

00:07:08.000 They had a bunch of police on this thing.

00:07:10.000 And finally, they said, you know what?

00:07:12.000 We should probably indict Jussie Smollett for faking a hate crime and making a false police report.

00:07:16.000 So 16 felony counts seems about right to us of lying to police.

00:07:21.000 And then it got to the Cook County State's Attorney's Office.

00:07:24.000 Now, in charge of the state's county's public attorney's office, the state's attorney's office, is a woman named Kim Fox. 0.97

00:07:31.000 Kim Fox happens to be very, very close with the Obamas.

00:07:35.000 Very close with the Obamas.

00:07:37.000 And you know who else was very close with the Obamas?

00:07:39.000 Was Jussie Smollett.

00:07:41.000 So, one of Michelle Obama's aides, Tina Tchen, who was friends with the Smollett family, texted Kim Foxx and said, you know, Kim, is there a way you could, you know, see your way clear to kind of letting this thing go?

00:07:53.000 Could you kind of see your way clear to letting this thing go?

00:07:55.000 Because, you know, Jussie's a nice guy and his family knows Michelle O's family and everybody sort of knows each other.

00:08:02.000 I mean, there are pictures of Jussie Smollett with Barack and Michelle Obama.

00:08:05.000 So Gina Chen called up Kim Foxx and there are pictures of Kim Foxx with Kamala Harris.

00:08:09.000 I mean, she's a Democratic politician. 1.00

00:08:11.000 She tweeted out, not all that long ago, I mean, just back in January, quote, I am so excited that Kamala Harris has decided to run for president.

00:08:19.000 I would not be where I am today without her guidance during my first run for political office.

00:08:23.000 And she has continued to mentor me as I work to reform the criminal justice system in Cook County.

00:08:27.000 Well, she definitely has a way of reforming the criminal justice system in Cook County. 1.00

00:08:31.000 And that is to let Jussie Smollett off the hook because the report today is that Kim Fox and her state's attorney's office, as of yesterday, dropped all charges against Jussie Smollett.

00:08:40.000 They did not require him to apologize.

00:08:41.000 They did not require him to do any jail time.

00:08:43.000 They did not require him to do any further community service.

00:08:46.000 They simply seized his $10,000 bond, which is a weird thing to do if he was completely innocent, right?

00:08:50.000 He says he's innocent still.

00:08:52.000 Well, no, if you're innocent, then you want your money back.

00:08:54.000 But they dropped all of the charges.

00:08:57.000 And this was obviously, I mean, there's no way this was not done as a corrupt political favor to the Obama crew.

00:09:03.000 That's all this was.

00:09:05.000 This is all this was.

00:09:06.000 Now, Kim Foxx, as I say, She's got an interesting history.

00:09:10.000 She won office in 2016.

00:09:11.000 She unseated the former Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez. 1.00

00:09:15.000 She lost popularity, Alvarez did, over her handling of the now infamous Laquan McDonald murder.

00:09:19.000 You'll remember Laquan McDonald was a black man shot 16 times by a Chicago police officer named Jason Van Dyke and the entire video was kept under wraps for like a year after the shooting and then finally it came out and then the officer was prosecuted.

00:09:33.000 She's really entrenched in Chicago's political machine. 1.00

00:09:35.000 There's a very good article about all of this by Emily Zanotti over at Daily Wire today.

00:09:40.000 She is very entrenched in Chicago's political machine. 1.00

00:09:43.000 She grew up in the city.

00:09:44.000 She went to law school at Southern Illinois University, and then she served as an assistant state's attorney for more than a decade before she entered politics.

00:09:51.000 In the early 2010s, she served as the chief of staff for Cook County Board President and current mayoral candidate Tony Preckwinkle, herself heavily entrenched in Chicago politics.

00:10:00.000 She's taken a lot of money from progressive organizations, including $300,000 in donations from George Soros.

00:10:07.000 Her office had recent issues with handling violent offenders.

00:10:10.000 She is notorious for lax prosecution. 0.95

00:10:12.000 It has really ticked off the police who feel like she's undercut them repeatedly.

00:10:15.000 There's a pending complaint against her from the Chicago PD for trying to interfere into their investigation. 0.99

00:10:21.000 Last week, Chicago's primary police union, the Fraternal Order of Police, delivered a letter to the U.S.

00:10:26.000 The U.S.

00:10:27.000 Attorney's Office in Chicago, that's the Feds, alleging that Fox had tried to compromise their investigation of Jussie Smollett at the behest of a Smollett relative and a woman by the name of Tina Chen, who we've mentioned.

00:10:37.000 In a series of text messages and emails, Chen contacted Fox on behalf of Smollett's family.

00:10:42.000 And then all of this came out thanks to a FOIA request.

00:10:44.000 And here is what it said.

00:10:45.000 Here's the letter originally from Tina Tchen to Kim Fox.

00:10:48.000 Hi, Kim.

00:10:48.000 I wanted to give you a call on behalf of Jussie Smollett and family who I know.

00:10:51.000 convince him to turn over investigation of the alleged hate crime to the FBI.

00:10:56.000 And then all of this came out thanks to a FOIA request.

00:10:59.000 And here is what it said.

00:11:00.000 Here's the letter originally from Tina Chendikin Fox.

00:11:03.000 Hi, Kim.

00:11:04.000 I sent an email to your work address, I think, as well.

00:11:06.000 I wanted to give you a call on behalf of Jussie Smollett and family, who I know.

00:11:09.000 They have concerns about the investigation.

00:11:11.000 I am on an 8 a.m.

00:11:13.000 flight to New York City, but please call me before then.

00:11:15.000 I land about 1015 Chicago time.

00:11:17.000 My cell number is bleep.

00:11:19.000 Many thanks.

00:11:20.000 And then they started texting each other.

00:11:21.000 Hello, Kim.

00:11:22.000 Are you available to chat?

00:11:23.000 Tina Chen gave me your number.

00:11:25.000 Hi, are you available in five minutes?

00:11:26.000 I'm at a conference in D.C.

00:11:27.000 and will step out.

00:11:28.000 Yes, I am.

00:11:29.000 Spoke to the superintendent earlier.

00:11:30.000 He made the ask, trying to figure out logistics.

00:11:32.000 I'll keep you posted.

00:11:34.000 So the Chicago PD are rightly livid about this whole thing.

00:11:38.000 In a second, we'll show you Jussie Smollett continuing to lie, and then we'll show you Rahm Emanuel erupting, erupting on the state attorney's office.

00:11:45.000 Kim Foxx.

00:11:46.000 There will be an investigation into Kim Foxx, and well, there should be.

00:11:48.000 This is insane.

00:11:50.000 Insane.

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00:13:01.000 Okay, so Jussie Smollett continues to lie. 0.70

00:13:03.000 The state's attorney's office didn't even leverage an apology out of Jussie Smollett over all of this.

00:13:08.000 Here is Jussie Smollett continuing to lie and invoking his dear mother.

00:13:12.000 I've been truthful and consistent on every single level since day one.

00:13:16.000 I would not be my mother's son if I was capable of one drop of what I have been accused of.

00:13:21.000 This has been an incredibly difficult time.

00:13:24.000 Honestly, one of the worst of my entire life.

00:13:27.000 But I'm a man of faith, and I'm a man that has knowledge of my history, and I would not bring my family, our lives, or the movement through a fire like this.

00:13:35.000 I just wouldn't.

00:13:36.000 Now, I'd like nothing more than to just get back to work and move on with my life.

00:13:42.000 But make no mistakes, I will always continue to fight for the justice, equality, and betterment of marginalized people everywhere.

00:13:47.000 Well, fortunately, Hollywood is a very forgiving place, so you can lie and completely fake a hate crime, and your brothers in Hollywood will simply welcome you back.

00:13:54.000 Your brothers and sisters in Hollywood.

00:13:56.000 Hollywood is a wonderful place.

00:13:57.000 The Empire Writers Room sent out a tweet with a winky face.

00:14:00.000 See y'all Wednesday.

00:14:01.000 Hashtag Empires.

00:14:02.000 Hashtag Empire Fox.

00:14:04.000 Because nothing says that you respect your viewers quite like backing an obvious race hoaxer.

00:14:09.000 Well, Rahm Emanuel went on the warpath over this.

00:14:12.000 So Rahm Emanuel, you know that something deeply corrupt happened when Rahm Emanuel and I are on the same side.

00:14:17.000 This has never happened before in presumably all of human history.

00:14:20.000 I'm on the same side as Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod and Eddie Johnson, the CPD superintendent.

00:14:26.000 Everybody is looking at this and going, what in the living hell just happened here?

00:14:29.000 Here is Rahm Emanuel blasting the living daylights out of the state attorney, Kim Foxx.

00:14:35.000 From top to bottom, this is not on the level.

00:14:38.000 In the end of the day, it's Mr. Smollett that committed this false claim upon two individuals, and who also testified, but also on the city.

00:14:48.000 One action, he asked me looking at the state's attorney.

00:14:51.000 It is not on the level from beginning to end, and there needs to be a level of accountability throughout the system, and this sends an unambiguous message that there is no accountability, and that is wrong.

00:15:03.000 Okay, so Rahm Emanuel fighting Matt and of course attacking Justice Smollett, too, saying, you know, how dare he do this?

00:15:08.000 Which, of course, is exactly right.

00:15:10.000 Here is the mayor of Chicago saying this is just absurd.

00:15:14.000 Mr. Smollett is still saying that he is innocent, still running down the Chicago Police Department.

00:15:20.000 How dare him?

00:15:22.000 How dare him?

00:15:24.000 After everybody saw, and I want to remind you, this is not the superintendent's word against his.

00:15:31.000 The grand jury, a sliver of the evidence, and they came to a conclusion, as did the state's attorney's office.

00:15:38.000 And even after this whitewash, there's still no sense of ownership of what he's done.

00:15:45.000 He says that, in fact, he is the wrong in this case.

00:15:49.000 Okay, so Rahm Emanuel fighting Matt over this.

00:15:51.000 He's not the only one fighting Matt over this.

00:15:53.000 We'll see in a second that there are other high-ranking officials who are very upset over this.

00:15:57.000 The media, however, were really sanguine about the whole thing.

00:16:00.000 Pretty amazing.

00:16:01.000 So here is Chicago PD Superintendent Eddie Johnson.

00:16:04.000 He's watched his department get dragged through the mud by Jussie Smollett.

00:16:07.000 Jussie Smollett suggesting that the lack of charges brought against these phantom white men who attacked him, that that was the fault of the racist CPD.

00:16:17.000 Here's the Chicago PD superintendent saying, listen, this is a hoax.

00:16:20.000 It's obvious it was a hoax.

00:16:21.000 The guy's guilty.

00:16:22.000 At the end of the day, it's Mr. Smollett who committed this hoax.

00:16:30.000 Period.

00:16:30.000 If he wanted to clear his name, the way to do that was in a court of law so that everyone could see the evidence.

00:16:38.000 Okay, well, you know, that last point is not a great one because obviously you're going to take whatever deal is put in front of you.

00:16:42.000 With that said, Eddie Johnson has every right to be livid about all of this.

00:16:47.000 Now, what's hilarious is to watch as Democrats and the media pretend that they don't know what happened here.

00:16:52.000 Democrats and the media, but I repeat myself, continue to pretend that this is all just a giant mystery, guys.

00:16:58.000 It's just like O.J.

00:16:59.000 You know, like, who was the real killer anyway?

00:17:01.000 And I'm really looking forward to the buddy cop comedy where Jussie and O.J.

00:17:06.000 go looking for the real killer and the real hate crime perpetrators across America.

00:17:11.000 And it turns out it was in the mirror the whole time.

00:17:14.000 The adventure was really the journey.

00:17:16.000 At the end of that adventure?

00:17:18.000 The real truth is at least they made friends.

00:17:20.000 That'll be the end of that buddy cop comedy.

00:17:22.000 In any case, here's Brian Stelter doing yeoman's work as the ombudsman of legal and journalistic ethics over at CNN.

00:17:29.000 Brian Stelter saying, you know, we may never know what happened.

00:17:32.000 It's a mystery.

00:17:33.000 A mystery wrapped!

00:17:34.000 In an enigma.

00:17:36.000 We may never know, you know, despite the fact that we have like a signed check, and we have tape of these guys buying all the goods, and we have the cell phone records, and we have all sorts of evidence, and we have their testimony.

00:17:45.000 No, Brian Stelter says, we just don't know.

00:17:48.000 Guys, we have to withhold judgment.

00:17:52.000 So far, no comment from the network, but I do think we will see Smollett get back to work, because the narrative has once again changed from victim, you know, to villain, back to victim.

00:18:03.000 It's been very confusing, as Ryan was saying.

00:18:06.000 People don't know what to believe, and we may never really know what happened on the street that night in Chicago, but for his fans, for his friends, this is a triumphant moment that he can now get back to what he wants to do, which is work.

00:18:18.000 Oh, that's exactly what he wants to do.

00:18:19.000 I mean, aside from faking racial hoaxes for publicity, that's really what he wants to do is work.

00:18:24.000 After all, I mean, he wants to get back to making $100,000 per episode.

00:18:27.000 The reports were, according to Eddie Johnson, you'll recall, that Jussie Smollett did all of this to increase his pay rate, because it wasn't enough to make millions of dollars in a supporting part on a network TV show.

00:18:38.000 No, he needed to increase his pay.

00:18:39.000 But Brian Stelter, showing the curiosity of a feeble-minded chameleon there, And just, wow, I mean, I guess that's all we will know.

00:18:49.000 We'll never know what happened on that street, guys.

00:18:50.000 I mean, it's just mysteries, mysteries.

00:18:53.000 What do we do about this?

00:18:54.000 Kamala Harris did the same thing. 0.98

00:18:55.000 The senator from California who declared this a modern day lynching the same day it happened.

00:18:58.000 Now she's just confused, which is weird.

00:19:00.000 I was told that she was once a prosecutor and that she had a legal mind and that she can spot crime a mile away with her eagle eye.

00:19:08.000 But now Jussie Smollett comes along and it's like, well, I don't know.

00:19:11.000 It's it's also puzzling and I just can't I can't suss this one out.

00:19:16.000 What do you think about what happened to Jesse Smollett in Chicago today?

00:19:20.000 To be perfectly honest with you, Wolf, I'm completely confused.

00:19:23.000 I don't understand.

00:19:24.000 I don't know.

00:19:25.000 I don't know the underlying evidence.

00:19:28.000 There's a sealed document, obviously.

00:19:30.000 I don't know.

00:19:31.000 I'm at a loss.

00:19:32.000 I think we're going to have to leave it up to the judgment of the prosecutor.

00:19:36.000 I think we should leave it up to the judgment of the police chief and the mayor, of course, to give us some better sense of what's going on.

00:19:43.000 I don't know.

00:19:44.000 I mean, I just don't know.

00:19:45.000 It's such a mystery.

00:19:46.000 Like, the day that it happened, and he reported this, he called it a modern-day lynching, linking it to, you know, racial lynchings of the past.

00:19:53.000 But now, we know exactly what happened, and it's... I'm confused, guys.

00:19:57.000 I mean, I don't know.

00:19:58.000 It's just... How am I supposed to come to a conclusion when I have every single bit of evidence?

00:20:02.000 Now, what was hilarious is Wolf Blitzer on CNN tried this with Rahm Emanuel, and Rahm Emanuel essentially curb-stomped him.

00:20:07.000 I mean, it's really funny.

00:20:10.000 Was the full picture painted by the evidence perhaps not as compelling as what was presented to the grand jury?

00:20:18.000 It was compelling enough, wait a second, the evidence presented to the grand jury is what brought the charges.

00:20:22.000 The police did a good job and the evidence holds up and he actually did commit the hoax.

00:20:27.000 They're saying $10,000 and two days of community service is good enough.

00:20:32.000 And I don't believe, not only is it not good enough, especially when he's walking around Thinking that he is actually innocent, not guilty, and B, he's innocent not only legally and a criminal justice sense, he is also guilty, in my view, of a moral crime, which is to use the hate crimes to advance his own career for selfish reasons.

00:20:56.000 Rahm Emanuel, the voice of reason.

00:20:58.000 What in the world is going on, guys?

00:21:00.000 I don't even know.

00:21:02.000 Donald Trump's fever dream, in which we are all just living, continues.

00:21:05.000 The Cook County attorney came out and said, yeah, we know Jesse's guilty.

00:21:08.000 Like, we're not pretending that he's innocent here.

00:21:10.000 This was Maggots, the second, literally named Maggots, the second in command over at the state's attorney's office.

00:21:19.000 He was asked about this.

00:21:20.000 He's like, it was, you know, it wasn't really like we let him off the hook.

00:21:22.000 It's an alternative disposition, guys.

00:21:24.000 It's an alternative disposition.

00:21:26.000 This was not an exoneration.

00:21:29.000 To say that he was exonerated by us or anyone else is not true.

00:21:33.000 I called an alternative disposition in that, uh, he agreed to do community service.

00:21:39.000 He agreed to forfeit his bail to the remainder of his bond to the city of Chicago.

00:21:44.000 And in return for him doing those things, we agreed to dismiss the indictment.

00:21:49.000 Okay.

00:21:50.000 So yeah.

00:21:50.000 And then he says, so he was asked, so is he innocent?

00:21:53.000 Right.

00:21:53.000 And he's like, no, not, not, not really actually.

00:21:56.000 Does dropping the charges vindicate him?

00:21:59.000 No.

00:21:59.000 Does it exonerate him?

00:22:00.000 No.

00:22:01.000 Do you believe that he is innocent?

00:22:04.000 I do not believe he's innocent.

00:22:05.000 So you believe he's guilty?

00:22:06.000 Yes.

00:22:07.000 So why drop the charges?

00:22:09.000 Based on all the facts and circumstances, based on his lack of criminal background.

00:22:12.000 I mean, we defer or do alternative prosecutions.

00:22:16.000 In the last two years, we've done it on 5,700 other felony cases.

00:22:20.000 You mean Chicago is super corrupt?

00:22:22.000 No.

00:22:22.000 No!

00:22:23.000 My favorite part of this is Smollett's attorney, who is gamely trying to play this thing out.

00:22:27.000 Smollett's attorney goes on with Don Lemon, who said that he wanted Jussie Smollett's story to be true, who said that he was texting with Jussie Smollett when all of this was happening, and Smollett's attorney is now relegated to having to explain why two Nigerian-born brothers who were friends with Jussie Smollett committed a hate crime.

00:22:41.000 I am not kidding you.

00:22:42.000 This is the new story.

00:22:43.000 Here's Smollett's attorney doing this routine.

00:22:46.000 I'm not the prosecutor in the case.

00:22:47.000 I have no idea what they're doing.

00:22:50.000 As in any criminal matter, people operate behind the scenes.

00:22:53.000 That's how it should be.

00:22:55.000 All I do know is that Jesse was attacked that night, that it was someone else who called the police, and that things went downhill from there.

00:23:05.000 I have no idea why or what the motive would be behind a situation like this.

00:23:10.000 We don't know.

00:23:13.000 There's just no, it doesn't make sense that Jussie has to be the one to come up with an answer to why someone attacked him.

00:23:22.000 Yeah, it does, since he is the one who made the whole thing up.

00:23:25.000 So there is that.

00:23:26.000 OK, meanwhile, in other in other hilarious news, I mean, this news cycle is just bizarro world and and hilarious in many ways.

00:23:33.000 So the Democrats have been claiming for a long time People are dying.

00:23:37.000 We need the Green New Deal.

00:23:39.000 It's been featured on the cover of Time Magazine.

00:23:41.000 It's been featured by the Washington Post.

00:23:43.000 We've heard the intelligentsia sound off on AOC.

00:23:46.000 So fresh.

00:23:47.000 So face.

00:23:48.000 So much incredible freshness as well as faceness.

00:23:50.000 And her Green New Deal, which is the most important piece of legislation since World War II.

00:23:55.000 We are in a battle with the sun and we are going to win it.

00:23:58.000 And if it costs us $93 trillion over the next 10 years, i.e.

00:24:02.000 $65,000 per American family every year from now until doom, well then we're gonna do it.

00:24:06.000 Because otherwise, in 12 years, guys, we're dead.

00:24:08.000 In a dozen years, that's right.

00:24:09.000 You're plotting.

00:24:10.000 Your kids are plotting.

00:24:11.000 Your grandparents are plotting. 0.87

00:24:13.000 We're gonna dig them up.

00:24:13.000 They're gonna plot again.

00:24:14.000 That's how all this is gonna work.

00:24:16.000 AOC yesterday was like, you know what, guys?

00:24:18.000 Like, well, like, people, well, um, they're dying.

00:24:20.000 Like, well!

00:24:22.000 This is not an elitist issue.

00:24:25.000 This is a quality of life issue.

00:24:27.000 You want to tell people that their concern and their desire for clean air and clean water is elitist?

00:24:34.000 People are dying.

00:24:36.000 They are dying.

00:24:37.000 And the response across the other side of the aisle is to introduce an amendment five minutes before a hearing in a markup?

00:24:44.000 This is serious.

00:24:46.000 This should not be a partisan issue.

00:24:48.000 This is serious.

00:24:49.000 People are dying, guys.

00:24:50.000 We need a vote on the... Wait, no, no, no.

00:24:52.000 No, no, no.

00:24:53.000 Sorry, sorry.

00:24:54.000 Let me rephrase.

00:24:55.000 We need a debate about it!

00:24:58.000 I'm going to introduce this bill.

00:24:59.000 It is so important. 0.99

00:25:00.000 We're going to kill the farting cows. 1.00

00:25:01.000 We're going to get rid of airplanes. 0.99

00:25:02.000 We're going to wreck every building, a retrofit every building in the United States.

00:25:06.000 We're going to get rid of cars.

00:25:07.000 I mean, guys, it's going to be the best.

00:25:09.000 We're going to invent unicorns that float on their own flatulence, but their flatulence has no carbon emissions.

00:25:16.000 None.

00:25:17.000 No methane.

00:25:18.000 Methane-free flatulence from unicorns?

00:25:20.000 That's how all this is going to work?

00:25:22.000 The Democrats propose all this, right?

00:25:23.000 Ed Markey does it.

00:25:24.000 And we are told by Cory Booker, very seriously, this is the most important moment of our lives.

00:25:30.000 We are told by Kamala Harris that this is so important.

00:25:32.000 And we're told by Elizabeth Warren, this is so important.

00:25:34.000 Elizabeth Warren says that this Green New Deal is like the moon landing, which she should know since she recently was on the moon. 0.97

00:25:41.000 It's where she gets most of her ideas.

00:25:43.000 There was Elizabeth Warren yesterday saying that the Green New Deal is so important, it's just like when we landed on the moon, except for not at all like that.

00:25:52.000 President Kennedy challenged our nation to lead the space race, and less than seven years later, Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon.

00:26:01.000 The impossible had become a reality, and America had led the way.

00:26:07.000 It's time not only to challenge our country to tackle climate change head on, but also to lead the world in doing so.

00:26:16.000 If we do not lead, then others will.

00:26:19.000 If we don't lead, others will.

00:26:20.000 And if others do, we're all going to die.

00:26:22.000 Everybody's going to die. 0.58

00:26:23.000 Death all around.

00:26:24.000 So Mitch McConnell looks at the Green New Deal and he's like, you know what?

00:26:28.000 You're right.

00:26:29.000 It's super important.

00:26:30.000 I see now how important it is because you guys keep jabbering about it incessantly.

00:26:33.000 So you know what we should do?

00:26:33.000 We should probably vote on it.

00:26:35.000 Let's have a vote.

00:26:36.000 Let's see if we can finally move forward on the most pressing issue of our age.

00:26:40.000 It is deeply important.

00:26:41.000 We must move forward on this.

00:26:43.000 Cocaine Mitch bringing it to the floor for a vote.

00:26:45.000 And then Senator Mike Lee.

00:26:47.000 Who is low-key extremely funny.

00:26:49.000 So Senator Mike Lee of Utah, friend to the program, and personal friend of mine, he's really, really... One of the things about Mike Lee is the dude, he's like Bob Newhart.

00:26:59.000 He's really funny, but it's all with a straight face.

00:27:02.000 So Mike Lee did a speech on the floor of the United States Senate, mocking the living daylights out of the Green New Deal.

00:27:09.000 After reading the Green New Deal, I'm mostly afraid of not being able to get through this speech with a straight face.

00:27:14.000 Ronald Reagan riding a velociraptor while firing a machine gun.

00:27:18.000 And he explained what this had to do with the Green New Deal.

00:27:21.000 After reading the Green New Deal, I'm mostly afraid of not being able to get through this speech with a straight face.

00:27:31.000 For Mr. President, I rise today to consider the Green New Deal with the seriousness it deserves. 0.99

00:27:39.000 This is, of course, a picture of former President Ronald Reagan naturally firing a machine gun while riding on the back of a dinosaur.

00:27:47.000 You'll notice a couple of important features here.

00:27:50.000 First of all, the rocket launcher strapped to President Reagan's back.

00:27:55.000 And then the stirring, unmistakable patriotism of the velociraptor holding up a tattered American flag, a symbol of all it means to be an American flag.

00:28:07.000 This image has as much to do with overcoming communism in the 20th century as the Green New Deal has to do with overcoming climate change in the 21st.

00:28:23.000 And that was not the only one.

00:28:24.000 Then he did this whole thing about how the only way under the Green New Deal to get from Hawaii to the mainland was to swim like Aquaman.

00:28:31.000 They put up like a picture of Aquaman riding a dolphin.

00:28:35.000 It was great.

00:28:36.000 So the media did what the media do.

00:28:37.000 The media pretended that they don't understand what a joke is.

00:28:40.000 When somebody on the right does something funny, the media's first response is, what is joke?

00:28:45.000 How funny?

00:28:46.000 What do funny mean?

00:28:48.000 And then they run headlines like, Mike Lee makes bizarre criticism of Green New Deal showing Reagan on Velociraptor. 1.00

00:28:55.000 It's like, no, it's a joke, you idiots. 1.00

00:28:57.000 And we all know you're lying. 1.00

00:28:58.000 We all know you get the joke.

00:28:59.000 But you're going to pretend to play it straight because it's, he's so weird, man.

00:29:03.000 I mean, he used a meme.

00:29:04.000 But AOC, she's super cool when she uses memes and says like a lot and also has an instant pot. 1.00

00:29:09.000 I know.

00:29:10.000 God, it's amazing.

00:29:11.000 So here's the best part of this.

00:29:12.000 So it comes up for the vote. 1.00

00:29:14.000 All 53 Republicans vote no on this stupid Green New Deal. 0.98

00:29:18.000 And four Democrats, meaning three Democrats and independent Angus King of Maine, they also vote no. 0.99

00:29:23.000 That would be Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona voting no, and Doug Jones of Alabama voting no, and Joe Manchin of West Virginia voting no, all because they are in purple states or red states, and they are afraid of losing their seats if they vote for this dumbass plan.

00:29:34.000 Okay, then we get to the actual Democrats, including no less than six different Democratic senators voting on this thing.

00:29:41.000 So how did they vote?

00:29:42.000 Did any of them vote in favor of bringing the most important piece of legislation of our time to the floor?

00:29:47.000 Did any of them vote in favor of this world-changing, world-beating proposal?

00:29:51.000 Did any— Every.

00:29:53.000 Single.

00:29:54.000 Democrat.

00:29:54.000 Voted present.

00:29:56.000 Everyone.

00:29:56.000 They didn't want to be on record behind this thing.

00:29:58.000 So they voted present, which means basically no, right?

00:30:03.000 They voted present.

00:30:05.000 And then they proclaimed that the real bad actor here, obviously, I mean, come on, the real bad actor clearly is Mitch McConnell. 0.98

00:30:13.000 So it's not us for proposing this dumb, stupid deal that nobody wants and looks terrible and is pointless and doesn't achieve what it seeks to achieve and pledges to destroy the American economy and wreck the future of the United States. 0.96

00:30:24.000 That's not on us. 0.99

00:30:26.000 It's on Mitch McConnell for bringing it up to a vote.

00:30:28.000 So Democrats bring this thing up and then they're like, this is the most important thing we've ever done.

00:30:31.000 And McConnell's like, good, let's vote on it.

00:30:33.000 Like, no, no, you tricky.

00:30:35.000 Tricky McConnell.

00:30:37.000 You're not going to catch us in the voting on it.

00:30:39.000 And then they just run away.

00:30:41.000 Like King Arthur and Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

00:30:43.000 Just run away, guys.

00:30:44.000 Run away.

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00:32:36.000 So the Democrats are fighting, fighting mad at Mitch McConnell and Mike Lee for mocking their beautiful, wonderful program.

00:32:48.000 Basically, the Democrats brought home a stripper to mom and mom was like, yeah, this is a bad idea. 1.00

00:32:54.000 Like, I love her, though.

00:32:56.000 She's the best.

00:32:57.000 And mom's like, so fine.

00:32:58.000 Why don't you marry her and then have a joint bank account? 1.00

00:33:00.000 And they're like, no, no, we're not going to do that. 1.00

00:33:03.000 We're not stupid enough for that. 0.98

00:33:05.000 So it was really funny to watch the Democrats yesterday trying to back out of this thing as slowly as humanly possible. 1.00

00:33:11.000 So Richard Blumenthal, the foolish senator from Connecticut, he says, no, you know what? 0.97

00:33:17.000 You know what? 0.99

00:33:17.000 We'll vote present. 0.99

00:33:18.000 I mean, we're not going to vote yes on it because that would be real dumb. 0.72

00:33:21.000 We're going to vote present.

00:33:22.000 You have signed on to Senator Markey's Green New Deal.

00:33:25.000 How will you be voting today?

00:33:28.000 I support the Green New Deal.

00:33:30.000 We may be voting present simply as a kind of protest against the McConnell stunt here.

00:33:38.000 It really is, in a way, a real disservice to the legislative process to put on the floor a proposal that he knows the president won't sign, that is done just to drive a wedge between different parts of our Democratic colleagues.

00:33:58.000 I was informed this was the most popular necessary plan in the history of the Republic.

00:34:01.000 That's what I was told.

00:34:02.000 I was told AOC was uniquely singular figure in Democratic Party politics.

00:34:07.000 This thing was so amazing.

00:34:09.000 It was amazeballs.

00:34:10.000 It was flaming amazeballs.

00:34:11.000 It was just incredible in every possible way.

00:34:15.000 And now the Democrats are like, I can't.

00:34:17.000 He'd want us to vote on it? 1.00

00:34:18.000 I mean, what a jerk. 1.00

00:34:20.000 Want us to vote on our own proposal? 1.00

00:34:22.000 We got to have hearings.

00:34:23.000 So here's what McConnell should do next.

00:34:24.000 He should be like, you know what?

00:34:25.000 You're right.

00:34:25.000 Let's have some hearings.

00:34:27.000 Let's do this thing.

00:34:28.000 I'm scheduling a bunch of hearings for the financial impact of the Green New Deal.

00:34:31.000 And I want to hear from you people about why you think it's necessary to destroy every standing building in the United States or retrofit it.

00:34:37.000 I'd like to hear about the slaughter, the mass slaughter of dying cows.

00:34:41.000 It's the silence of the cows out there.

00:34:43.000 So let's hear about it.

00:34:44.000 Kirsten Gillibrand, who is legitimately the worst.

00:34:48.000 She's really funny in the sense that she's so obvious about everything that she does.

00:34:54.000 As I've said before, she's an age-reversed Hillary Clinton. 0.99

00:34:57.000 She has all of the charisma of a speed bump. 1.00

00:35:00.000 She has all of the mental agility of Gumby. 0.93

00:35:05.000 It's pretty astonishing.

00:35:06.000 So Kirsten Gillibrand, she tweeted out, you know what guys?

00:35:09.000 We gotta stop playing games.

00:35:10.000 Stop playing games.

00:35:11.000 That's my job to play games.

00:35:13.000 She tweeted out, here's a radical idea.

00:35:14.000 Instead of a game of political piñata with our planet's future, let's have a real debate about the Great New Deal.

00:35:20.000 And I have an even better idea.

00:35:21.000 Instead of having a real debate, let's just vote on it.

00:35:23.000 She says, we're talking about infrastructure, job creation, and clean air and water.

00:35:26.000 And if Republicans don't support that, they should explain why.

00:35:29.000 If you don't support it, you should explain why, Kirsten Gillibrand.

00:35:31.000 You voted present.

00:35:33.000 I was informed that we will all die in the next dozen years if Democrats didn't vote for this thing.

00:35:38.000 And you didn't vote for it.

00:35:39.000 The children are asking you, Madam Senator, why you wouldn't protect their future.

00:35:46.000 The children.

00:35:46.000 So AOC was quite humiliated by all of this.

00:35:50.000 She was very sad about all of this.

00:35:51.000 She says, Republicans just want to play games like, um, yeah, it's terrible.

00:35:55.000 We have thousands of people whose lives are at risk.

00:35:59.000 There are towns in Iowa that went completely underwater and they want to play games with it.

00:36:08.000 Oh, they just want to play games with that.

00:36:10.000 I mean, just, oh man.

00:36:12.000 And then my favorite is that she tweeted this out.

00:36:14.000 She tweeted out, after everybody voted president and not a single senator voted for her crappy plan, including Ed Markey, who sponsored her crappy plan, she tweeted out, So first of all, they should.

00:36:23.000 And I hope that Mitch McConnell takes her up on that.

00:36:25.000 the Green New Deal straight to the floor without a hearing.

00:36:27.000 The real question we should be asking, why does the Senate GOP refuse to hold any major hearings on climate change?

00:36:33.000 So first of all, they should.

00:36:34.000 And I hope that Mitch McConnell takes her up on that.

00:36:36.000 Second of all, this is basically her saying, I'm not owned, I'm not owned, as she slowly shrinks and transforms into a corn cob. 0.58

00:36:44.000 I mean, that is...

00:36:46.000 And Mitch McConnell's office tweeted that out.

00:36:50.000 They tweeted out a picture of AOC, her face slowly transforming into a corncob, and above it, the caption, I'm not owned, I'm not owned.

00:37:00.000 Glorious, glorious day.

00:37:02.000 Really, really funny stuff.

00:37:04.000 Again, guys, you don't like your own idea?

00:37:06.000 Don't put it forward.

00:37:07.000 If it wasn't ready for primetime, maybe you shouldn't have elevated it.

00:37:11.000 And yet you decided that AOC was going to be the spokesperson for your dumb ideas, and she goes forth, and then you just saw off that branch right behind her, and there she is standing in midair saying, I told all the senators to vote present, guys.

00:37:22.000 That was my idea. 0.92

00:37:24.000 So, question.

00:37:25.000 Chuck Schumer, question.

00:37:27.000 Kirsten Gillibrand, question.

00:37:28.000 Elizabeth Warren, question. 0.57

00:37:29.000 Cory Booker, question.

00:37:30.000 Amy Klobuchar, question.

00:37:32.000 Kamala Harris, question.

00:37:33.000 To every Senate Democrat who's running for president, plus the Senate Minority Leader.

00:37:38.000 Is it true that AOC, a first-term congresswoman with the IQ of a kumquat, is now giving you orders as to how you should vote on bills? 0.97

00:37:48.000 Is that true?

00:37:50.000 And if so, why should you be President of the United States or Senate Minority Leader?

00:37:54.000 If this person, who can mix a perfect Tom Collins but not write a bill, if this person is considered the intellectual heavyweight in your party, why should we give you any credence at all?

00:38:07.000 Like, I really want to know, and if there were a journalist in Washington, D.C.

00:38:10.000 alive today, I know apparently the failure of the passage of the Green New Deal has killed all the journalists because none of them will ask any of the Democratic senators whether AOC told them to vote President.

00:38:19.000 She says they did.

00:38:20.000 So I want to know, are the Democratic senators taking their orders from this numbskull?

00:38:25.000 Are they taking their orders from this person?

00:38:28.000 I'm sorry. 1.00

00:38:28.000 She's ignorant, okay? 1.00

00:38:30.000 It is not my fault she's ignorant. 1.00

00:38:31.000 It is your fault that she's ignorant. 1.00

00:38:32.000 You elected her and then you made her into a star. 1.00

00:38:35.000 And now you're taking orders from her. 0.97

00:38:37.000 It is she who single-handedly sunk the entire Green New Deal rollout with her dumb, frequently asked questions that we read word for word on air when it came out. 1.00

00:38:45.000 It was so stupid. 1.00

00:38:46.000 So this one's on you. 1.00

00:38:48.000 It ain't on me.

00:38:49.000 OK, meanwhile, speaking of the fresh faces of the Democratic Congress, so incredibly fresh as well as incredibly face, I mean, just freshness and faceless beyond imagination.

00:39:00.000 I will point out that Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar continue to be rabid anti-Semites, so that's exciting. 0.99

00:39:06.000 Ilhan Omar's chief of staff, or her communications director, tweeted something out today.

00:39:12.000 What did she tweet out?

00:39:13.000 She tweeted, he tweeted out, rather.

00:39:15.000 He tweeted out, and I'm reading this directly, that his name is Jeremy Slevin.

00:39:20.000 He has a past working for, I kid you not, Keith Ellison, who is not a friend to the Jews, as well as Louis Farrakhan, really not a friend to the Jews, He tweeted out Jeremy Slevin, quote, Anti-Semitism is a right-wing force.

00:39:34.000 Anti-Semitism is a right-wing force.

00:39:44.000 He just tweeted that out like 20 times because nothing is quite as convincing as when a person just repeats a sentence over and over to me.

00:39:51.000 I know it works with my kids.

00:39:52.000 When my son just stands there and shouts at me that he wants a cookie, I am so much more likely to give him a cookie. 0.88

00:39:57.000 Or alternatively, I never give him a cookie when he does that because he's just proving himself to be a small, crazy person. 0.76

00:40:02.000 He's two.

00:40:03.000 Jeremy Slevin is presumably not two.

00:40:06.000 And yet he keeps repeating that anti-Semitism is a right-wing force.

00:40:09.000 He works for Ilhan Omar, who is an open anti-Semite.

00:40:13.000 Ilhan Omar has not hidden the ball here.

00:40:15.000 And speaking of anti-Semites in Congress, Rashida Tlaib.

00:40:18.000 Who has used the dual loyalty smear herself on every Israel supporter and Jews particularly. 0.95

00:40:25.000 She has a person who she specifically invited to her inauguration and that person was protesting AIPAC and stood outside of AIPAC and shouted that the Jews are the real Nazis.

00:40:38.000 That guy was invited to Rashida Tlaib's inauguration, to her swearing in. 0.97

00:40:43.000 Here he was outside the rally shouting that the Jews were actually just Nazis.

00:40:49.000 You're not here to be lovey-dovey with the progressive Zionists. 0.93

00:40:53.000 Never! 0.97

00:40:54.000 Because a progressive Zionist is like a progressive Nazi. 0.96

00:40:57.000 There is no difference between a progressive Zionist and a progressive Nazi member. 0.82

00:41:04.000 OK, it really is astonishing to pretend that a strong strain of anti-Semitism does not run inside the Muslim community is to pretend away the truth.

00:41:15.000 OK, the fact is there is a strong strain of anti-Semitism that runs in the Muslim community.

00:41:19.000 That does not mean that everyone who is Muslim is an anti-Semite, of course. 0.53

00:41:22.000 It does not mean that every Muslim hates Jews.

00:41:25.000 It does mean that there is a strong strain of anti-Semitism that is present in a lot of Muslim communities around the world, and that it is mainstream in a lot of circles, which is why Rashida Tlaib can host an anti-Semite like this guy at her inauguration. 0.95

00:41:39.000 She's an anti-Semite. 1.00

00:41:40.000 Ilhan Omar is an anti-Semite.

00:41:41.000 You want to know how strong this strain is?

00:41:43.000 I mean, it's strong enough that at an actual At an actual memorial honoring the slain in Christchurch, the leader of a mosque got up, I mean this is a major mosque in New Zealand, and blamed Mossad and the Jews for the shooting in Christchurch.

00:41:59.000 I stand here and I say I have a very very strong suspicion that there is some group behind him and I am not afraid to say I feel Mossad is behind this.

00:42:15.000 And then there's a guy shouting, it's the truth, Israel's behind this. 0.61

00:42:18.000 He says this at a rally of hundreds and hundreds of people.

00:42:21.000 Mossad, of course, is the foreign intelligence agency of Israel.

00:42:24.000 It's essentially the CIA of Israel.

00:42:26.000 That was Ahmed Bamji, the chairman of the Mount Roskill Masjid-e-Umar.

00:42:32.000 So good times over there.

00:42:34.000 That's just wonderful.

00:42:35.000 And covering for all of this antisemitism is, of course, the Huffington Post, which has as its lead today, dual loyalty is a slur that targets Muslims.

00:42:43.000 So, lest you be thinking that Ilhan Omar accusing Jews of dual loyalty and Israel supporters of dual loyalty is anti-Semitic, the real dual loyalty slur is targeted at Ilhan Omar.

00:42:56.000 Actually, actually, the real dual loyalty slur is targeted at Rashida Tlaib.

00:43:02.000 Now, I've never suggested that Rashida Tlaib has dual loyalty.

00:43:05.000 I've never suggested that Ilhan Omar has dual loyalty.

00:43:07.000 I've suggested that they're anti-Semites.

00:43:09.000 And that's because they are.

00:43:10.000 And the progressive wing of the Democratic Party that continues to lend credence to these people is disgracing itself in incredibly epic ways.

00:43:19.000 The fact the Democratic Party continues to promote these quote-unquote fresh faces is absolutely stunning and telling.

00:43:26.000 And it turns out that anti-semitism is not a right-wing phenomenon.

00:43:29.000 Anti-semitism exists in virtually every political movement, and where it is most virulent, the political movement is most dangerous.

00:43:36.000 Where it is most virulent in today's world is not inside the conservative party in the United States.

00:43:40.000 It's not inside the Republican Party.

00:43:42.000 This is perfectly obvious from every poll done.

00:43:44.000 It is perfectly obvious from the behavior of Republican congresspeople.

00:43:47.000 It is perfectly obvious from the behavior of President Trump, who, by the way, is extraordinarily philo-semitic and happens to be the best friend of Israel who has ever sat in the White House.

00:43:55.000 That was not close.

00:43:57.000 The repository of anti-Semitism in the modern world, in politics, is largely on the political left.

00:44:03.000 Those are the people who are covering for Muslim anti-Semitism in the Middle East.

00:44:06.000 Those are the people who are making excuses for Hamas today, as Hamas continues to fire rockets into southern Israel at civilian areas.

00:44:12.000 These are the people who continue to claim that Israel is the bad actor in a conflict in which Israel simply argues for its own right to exist.

00:44:21.000 These are the same people who are claiming that attacks on synagogues are really just anti-Zionism, not anti-Semitism.

00:44:27.000 It is the political left that has made room for anti-Semitism in its mainstream.

00:44:32.000 It's why Jeremy Corbyn is the head of the Labour Party in Britain, and it's why AOC and Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib are considered the leading lights of the Democratic Party.

00:44:40.000 And it's the old-fashioned Democrats who still suggest that Israel is important.

00:44:43.000 It's Nancy Pelosi and Steini Hoare, you know, people over the age of 65.

00:44:46.000 It's those old-fashioned Democrats who still look at Israel and see a democratic, free country.

00:44:51.000 Who still look at Jews and say, yeah, those are fellow Americans. 0.77

00:44:54.000 Those people are the old guard in the Democratic Party, which is the reason why so many of the Democratic presidential candidates decided to skip AIPAC this year.

00:45:01.000 Kamala Harris, with all the intestinal fortitude of an empty vessel, met secretly, met quietly with people from AIPAC, but she wouldn't go to AIPAC because she was afraid of ticking off her progressive base.

00:45:14.000 Ilhan Omar's comms person tweeting out anti-Semitism is a right-wing phenomenon. 0.96

00:45:18.000 Your boss is an anti-Semitism, is an anti-Semite, dude.

00:45:21.000 And from all indicators at your past employment, you seem pretty comfortable with all of that. 0.87

00:45:26.000 Okay, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.

00:45:30.000 So, things that I like today.

00:45:32.000 There is a good movie from Steve McQueen, not the guy from Bullet, the director of 12 Years a Slave.

00:45:37.000 The movie is called Widows.

00:45:39.000 Now, the movie's kind of weird because it's actually, like, three movies in one, and it doesn't hold together completely, but it's got some really interesting things about it.

00:45:48.000 So, the most interesting thing about this movie is the way that it portrays Chicago.

00:45:52.000 It's basically just the center of American corruption, which, of course, as we've seen today, it absolutely is.

00:45:58.000 Colin Farrell is running for city alderman.

00:46:00.000 He's running against a black guy who happens to be a former gangster and still is into You know, basically all sorts of organized crime.

00:46:09.000 And that is one story, and that intersects with a heist part of the film, which is really about the widows of these guys deciding to hold a robbery.

00:46:18.000 And then there is an interpersonal drama between Liam Neeson, who is white, and Violet Davis?

00:46:25.000 Is that the name of the actress?

00:46:26.000 I can't remember the name of the actress.

00:46:28.000 You have no idea, do you?

00:46:28.000 Really good.

00:46:29.000 Viola Davis.

00:46:29.000 Thank you.

00:46:30.000 And she is and she is his wife and they have a kid and the kid is shot during a traffic stop by the police.

00:46:35.000 So there's a little bit of interpersonal drama there.

00:46:37.000 It's really three movies in one, which means that it's too packed.

00:46:40.000 It's too much.

00:46:40.000 It's too many storylines.

00:46:42.000 It could have been more straightforward.

00:46:43.000 It could have lost half an hour.

00:46:45.000 But all the political commentary about the city of Chicago is pretty spot on.

00:46:49.000 Here's a little bit of the preview.

00:46:50.000 You have no idea, do you?

00:46:52.000 What did you choose not to know?

00:46:57.000 Your husband stole two million dollars from me.

00:46:59.000 *music* This is about my life!

00:47:07.000 This is about my life!

00:47:10.000 And because it's about my life, it never comes about yours.

00:47:16.000 The movie's really well shot, and it's good.

00:47:19.000 It's a pretty interesting movie.

00:47:20.000 It has a stupid twist about 35 minutes from the end, but if you can get past that, the movie is at least very interesting. 0.93

00:47:26.000 Elizabeth DeBecky is a revelation. 0.98

00:47:28.000 She is a terrific actress.

00:47:29.000 She's also 8 feet tall, and it really makes her stand out in this film.

00:47:33.000 She just towers over everybody. 1.00

00:47:34.000 You'll also remember her from Guardians of the Galaxy 2, I believe, where she plays one of the aliens, and she's Terrific.

00:47:43.000 She should really connect.

00:47:43.000 She's in the new Chris Nolan movie.

00:47:45.000 That's all I care about, by the way.

00:47:46.000 I was asked on the conversation what movies I was looking forward to, and the answer is anything Chris Nolan makes ever.

00:47:52.000 So I don't even know what his movie is in 2020.

00:47:54.000 It's supposed to be an action flick, and the cast is supposed to be just stellar.

00:47:58.000 It's like a top-line cast.

00:47:59.000 It's Robert Pattinson, and I'm trying to remember who else, and the guy from Black Klansman.

00:48:04.000 There are a bunch of really good actors in it, so looking forward to that.

00:48:06.000 Okay, time for some things that I hate.

00:48:12.000 Alright, so let's begin with Cardi B. So, Cardi B is a rapper, she is a rap star, and every so often she issues a little rant about how she doesn't want the government taking her money, and that's amusing.

00:48:24.000 But she is not exactly a model citizen, nor has she ever proclaimed to be one.

00:48:27.000 Well now, there's a piece of tape that came out from about three years ago, in which she discusses the fact that she used to seduce men back to her apartment, or their apartment, and then she would drug them and rob them. 1.00

00:48:38.000 Motherfuckers must have forgot, motherfuckers, the shit that I did to motherfucking survive. 1.00

00:48:42.000 I had to go straight. 1.00

00:48:42.000 I had to go, oh yeah, you want to fuck me? 1.00

00:48:49.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 1.00

00:48:58.000 Difficult to hear exactly what she's saying then because it's a lot of cursing and a lot of yelling. 0.99

00:49:02.000 But she says that when she was a stripper, she would drug and rob men. 1.00

00:49:05.000 She would bring them back to her apartment.

00:49:07.000 And then she issued a statement saying this.

00:49:11.000 So I'm seeing on social media that a live I did three years ago has popped back up.

00:49:14.000 A live where I talked about things I had to do in my past, right or wrong, that I felt I needed to do to make a living.

00:49:19.000 That is not a good excuse.

00:49:20.000 Drugging and robbing people?

00:49:21.000 That is a crime, gang.

00:49:23.000 And in America, you do not actually need to drug and rob people in order to make a living.

00:49:27.000 And if you feel that you needed to do that to make a living, that is still called a crime.

00:49:30.000 She says, I never claim to be perfect or come from a perfect world with a perfect past.

00:49:34.000 I always speak my truth.

00:49:35.000 I always own my bleep.

00:49:37.000 I'm a part of a hip hop culture where you can talk about where you come from, about the wrong things you had to do to get where you are.

00:49:42.000 There are rappers that glorify murder, violence, drugs, and robbing, crimes they feel they had to do to survive.

00:49:46.000 She is right about this. 0.98

00:49:47.000 It is one of my main critiques of rap culture, which is that you glorify all this crap, and that's bad. 0.97

00:49:52.000 She says, crimes they feel they had to do to survive. 0.78

00:49:54.000 I never glorified the things I brought up in that live.

00:49:56.000 I never even put those things in my music because I'm not proud of it and I feel a responsibility not to glorify it.

00:50:01.000 I made the choices that I did at the time because I had very limited options.

00:50:04.000 Again, drugging and robbing men?

00:50:06.000 Not an option.

00:50:08.000 Says, I was blessed to have been able to rise from that, but so many women have not.

00:50:12.000 So does she know of any of the other women who are drugging and robbing men? 1.00

00:50:14.000 Because that seems kind of bad.

00:50:16.000 She says, whether or not they were poor choices at the time, I did what I had to do to survive.

00:50:19.000 She keeps saying that.

00:50:20.000 As though we don't have welfare programs in the United States, or charitable programs in the United States, or as though she wasn't working a job as a stripper at the time, or as though she couldn't get a job as a waitress or anything. 0.97

00:50:30.000 I guess the job, so it was a choice between starvation and drugging and robbing men?

00:50:34.000 That was the choice?

00:50:35.000 Pretty sure that's not true.

00:50:36.000 She says, the men I spoke about in my life were men that I dated, that I was involved with.

00:50:40.000 Men that were conscious, willing, and aware.

00:50:43.000 You're gonna have to explain to me how you drug and robbed somebody, and they were conscious, willing, and aware.

00:50:49.000 That's pretty weird.

00:50:51.000 I mean, like, it seems to me that if you drug somebody, they are, by necessity, not conscious, willing, and aware.

00:50:58.000 Just, just me, and biological reality, and facts, over here.

00:51:03.000 But, you know, she was there.

00:51:04.000 Says, I have a past that I can't change, we all do.

00:51:06.000 Okay, so that's what she has to say about this.

00:51:08.000 She will be exonerated of all this, we will pretend that it's not a big deal, that she just admitted to openly committing a series of crimes.

00:51:15.000 Now, is there evidence of this?

00:51:16.000 Should she... I mean, again, there's no victim that has come forward.

00:51:19.000 She should not be prosecuted for crimes that cannot be proved.

00:51:22.000 But the willingness of people to overlook stuff like this because she happens to be... Imagine if it had been a man.

00:51:27.000 If it were R. Kelly.

00:51:28.000 He said, you know what?

00:51:29.000 Back in my past, you know what I used to do? 0.95

00:51:31.000 I used to go out to the street, and then I would convince women to come back to my apartment, then I would drug, and I would rape them, and then I would take their money. 0.99

00:51:37.000 It's what I had to do to survive, man. 0.97

00:51:39.000 What I had to do to survive.

00:51:40.000 You would all be like, uh, what now?

00:51:43.000 You should go to jail.

00:51:45.000 But she says this.

00:51:46.000 Feminism would suggest that if men and women are truly equal, we should be pretty appalled by all of this. 0.99

00:51:50.000 Now, there is something that we are appalled by today.

00:51:53.000 Something deep and important that we are all appalled by today.

00:51:55.000 This comes courtesy of the San Francisco Chronicle.

00:51:58.000 Here is the name and the Washington Post.

00:52:00.000 Here's the name of the article.

00:52:01.000 Teen boys raided their female classmates based on looks.

00:52:04.000 The girls fought back. 1.00

00:52:06.000 Boom! 0.99

00:52:07.000 Whammo!

00:52:09.000 This is from Bethesda, Maryland.

00:52:10.000 Yasmine Bebahani had just walked into her third period health class when her friend asked if she had seen the list.

00:52:15.000 There's a list of the girls' names, her friend Nikki Schmidt, a fellow senior at Bethesda Chevy Chase High School in Maryland, said, and were ranked.

00:52:22.000 Bebahani didn't want to see the list or know whether she was on it.

00:52:24.000 She'd spent the past four years recovering from an eating disorder, working hard to avoid comparing herself with others, she said.

00:52:29.000 But by her sixth period class on that Monday earlier this month, a text message appeared on her phone with a screenshot of the list typed out on the iPhone's Notes app.

00:52:36.000 It included the names of 18 girls at this high school, ranked and rated on the basis of their looks, from 5.5 to 9.4, with decimal points to the 100th place.

00:52:45.000 There with the number beside it was Bebehiney's name.

00:52:47.000 A group of male students in their program created the list more than a year ago, but it resurfaced earlier this month through text messages and whispers during class.

00:52:54.000 One male classmate, seeing the name of his good friend Nikki Schmidt on the list, told her about it, and within 24 hours, dozens of girls had heard about the list as well.

00:53:02.000 Lists like this one had silently circulated among teen boys for generations, and it has happened in more recent years at Bethesda Chevy Chase High School, too, the student said.

00:53:09.000 But it was happening now, in the era of the Me Too movement.

00:53:13.000 Women had been standing up to harassment in workplaces and on college campuses, and the high school girls who had been witnessing this empowerment decided they weren't going to let the issue slide. 0.79

00:53:20.000 So a couple of quick notes here.

00:53:23.000 Men rate women based on looks. 0.74

00:53:25.000 Sorry to break it to ladies, this is called evolutionary biology. 1.00

00:53:27.000 Men have always, males of species, rate females of species based on sexual attractiveness.

00:53:34.000 Now, that does not mean that they should treat women based on that level of sexual attractiveness.

00:53:37.000 It doesn't mean that they should even mate with women and marry women based solely on the sexual attractiveness scale.

00:53:43.000 In fact, as I've argued 1,000 times on the show, people should date and marry on the basis of values, not sexual attraction alone, although sexual attraction is a component of a healthy marriage.

00:53:52.000 But, are we gonna pretend that men don't actually see women sexually? 0.87

00:53:57.000 Are we gonna pretend that teenage boys don't look at teenage girls and then rate their looks? 1.00

00:54:02.000 Because that's stupid. 1.00

00:54:03.000 Now, is it also stupid to compile mass lists like this? 1.00

00:54:05.000 Yes, it's immature and it's dumb. 1.00

00:54:07.000 It's also something that teenage boys do. 0.99

00:54:09.000 And treating it like this is the height of crime worthy of a piece in the Washington Post is pretty astonishing.

00:54:15.000 It really is.

00:54:16.000 Because is there any evidence that the boys were actually harassing the girls?

00:54:18.000 If so, that is an independent activity that should be looked into and the school should do something about it.

00:54:23.000 But if a bunch of guys get together and then create a secret list amongst themselves where they rate the girls, is that wonderful?

00:54:30.000 No.

00:54:30.000 Is that worthy of a piece in the Washington Post, for God's sake?

00:54:34.000 No, it is not.

00:54:35.000 So you're gonna ruin these boys' lives.

00:54:37.000 You know, we're gonna now have the media try and track down these boys, presumably.

00:54:41.000 Because they had the temerity to basically create an internal Tinder app.

00:54:48.000 A group Tinder app.

00:54:49.000 So this is a high priority.

00:54:51.000 Now, again, I think the girls have every right to be upset about being treated like pieces of meat. 1.00

00:54:57.000 But it's the overblown media coverage of this that is truly astonishing.

00:55:00.000 And now we're all supposed to pretend that teenage boys don't rate teenage girls on the basis of looks.

00:55:06.000 By the way, teenage girls rate teenage boys on the basis of looks as well, I should note.

00:55:10.000 But they say they felt violated, objectified by classmates they considered friends.

00:55:14.000 Note to teenage girls, teenage boys look at you as potential sex objects.

00:55:18.000 I will warn my daughter of this.

00:55:20.000 I will warn every young woman of this. 0.98

00:55:23.000 Men, it turns out, like to look at women and then potentially have sex with them with consent. 0.99

00:55:29.000 This is something that men like to do. 0.99

00:55:31.000 I hate to break it to folks.

00:55:32.000 I mean, it's uncomfortable, these truths.

00:55:34.000 Apparently, They said that they felt that there was power in numbers.

00:55:40.000 It says, Dozens of senior girls decided to speak to the school administration and to their male classmates, demanding not only disciplinary action in response to the list.

00:55:47.000 Disciplinary action in response to the list?

00:55:49.000 I'll tell you a solution to this that no one's going to like.

00:55:51.000 You should have separate boys and girls schools.

00:55:52.000 When I was in high school, we had a separate boys school and a separate girls school.

00:55:55.000 This is actually better for girls. 1.00

00:55:56.000 Forget about the boys.

00:55:57.000 It was much better for girls because studies tend to show that girls deliberately underperform in classrooms in order to attract boys.

00:56:04.000 Really, this is what the social science tends to suggest.

00:56:06.000 Girls and boys are better off separate in high school.

00:56:09.000 But we can't do that.

00:56:09.000 That would be terrible.

00:56:11.000 And repressive, apparently.

00:56:13.000 It was the last straw for us girls of this boys will be boys culture, said Bebahani.

00:56:16.000 We're the generation that is going to make a change.

00:56:18.000 So, a group of girls reported the list to an administrator, who encouraged the girls not to talk about it around school.

00:56:24.000 The next day, the girls learned that after an investigation, school officials decided to discipline one male student within school detention for a day.

00:56:32.000 And then they had a struggle session.

00:56:34.000 Because they were unsatisfied with the disciplinary action.

00:56:36.000 So they texted 15 girls and told them to tell all of their friends to show up at the school's main office the next day during lunch, to tell them we feel unsafe in this environment and we are tired of this toxicity.

00:56:46.000 I reiterate, this list was secret.

00:56:48.000 It's not like they took the list, printed it out, and stuck it on the wall.

00:56:51.000 That would be a form of harassment. 0.99

00:56:53.000 But if I text one of my friends when I'm in high school, and I'm like, you know who's hot?

00:56:57.000 That girl. 0.91

00:56:57.000 And then she gets ahold of that, you know what? 0.91

00:56:59.000 That is not.

00:56:59.000 That is not harassment.

00:57:01.000 That is not harassment, and that is not toxicity.

00:57:03.000 That is called normal human behavior. 0.97

00:57:05.000 If you get together and you make a game out of it, it makes you kind of a jerk, but it doesn't mean that you should be disciplined by the school or called out in the pages of the Washington Post. 0.98

00:57:14.000 My goodness. 0.98

00:57:15.000 That Friday on International Women's Day, almost all the students in the Ivy program, about 80 students, met in a large conference room for what was supposed to be a 45-minute meeting.

00:57:24.000 Instead, the meeting lasted two and a half hours.

00:57:27.000 Several girls delivered personal, impassioned speeches describing not only their presence on the list, but also their previous experiences with sexual abuse, harassment, and objectification.

00:57:35.000 Again, if they were sexually abused or harassed, that is a different story.

00:57:38.000 That is behavior that deserves punishment.

00:57:41.000 But teenage boys texting each other about who is hot in the class... I legitimately can't get myself upset enough that I think that these boys should be targeted by the Washington Post over this.

00:57:53.000 Is it good behavior?

00:57:54.000 Again, for the 1,000th time in the segment, you should train your boys not to act like this with regard to girls.

00:58:00.000 Is this worthy of Me Too coverage?

00:58:03.000 Does this elevate to the level that boys are supposed to be punished in school for looking at a girl and then rating her looks?

00:58:12.000 By the way, you think boys are going to stop doing this because you had a struggle session?

00:58:16.000 You think boys are going to stop doing this?

00:58:18.000 You know what a normal boy would do?

00:58:19.000 He would say, yeah, it was kind of a jerky thing to do to be part of that list.

00:58:22.000 I felt kind of uncomfortable and objectifying.

00:58:24.000 It was kind of gross. 0.85

00:58:25.000 But why are you lumping me in with the guy who sexually abused you?

00:58:28.000 Because I didn't do that.

00:58:29.000 All I did was say who I thought was hot or not.

00:58:32.000 Hot or not has been a thing in high school since the dawn of high school.

00:58:37.000 Hot or not has been a thing since forever.

00:58:41.000 Again, not a wonderful part of human nature, but it is a part of human nature.

00:58:44.000 The same people who suggest that you can't teach... It's amazing.

00:58:48.000 The same people who suggest that you can't teach abstinence only before marriage will suggest now that we can somehow beat it out of boys to rate teenage girls based on looks when they're in high school.

00:58:56.000 Good luck with that.

00:58:57.000 Good luck with that.

00:58:57.000 Obviously, this should be top priority for the Washington Post.

00:59:03.000 This is, it's just, it's over the top, and it's off-putting, and it's not productive in the end.

00:59:07.000 It doesn't make relations between boys and girls better.

00:59:10.000 All it really does is make boys more secretive about their behavior, and again, leads the media to believe that they're doing something righteous when in fact they are targeting kids who are legitimately just being kids.

00:59:21.000 If girls had a similar list about boys, by the way, you know what the reaction would be? 0.61

00:59:24.000 Nada.

00:59:25.000 There'd be no reaction whatsoever.

00:59:27.000 Nor should there be.

00:59:28.000 Nor really should there be.

00:59:29.000 This is a question for the parents.

00:59:32.000 It's really not a question for the school unless it was publicly posted in the school.

00:59:35.000 Then it becomes a question of harassment.

00:59:37.000 All righty.

00:59:37.000 Well, we will be back here for two more hours later today.

00:59:40.000 And I look forward to seeing you then.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - March 27, 2019

In-Jussie-Tice | Ep. 746

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