The Ben Shapiro Show - Is Everybody Conservative Racist? | Ep. 696

00:00:00.000 Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi tells President Trump not to give the State of the Union address.

00:00:04.000 On the heels of the Steve King debacle, Democrats try to claim that all Republicans are racist and another razor company goes after men.

00:00:11.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:00:11.000 This is the Ben Shapiro Show.

00:00:17.000 Well, we have a lot coming up here today on The Ben Shapiro Show.

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00:00:38.000 Really appreciate that.

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00:02:23.000 Alrighty, so we begin today.

00:02:25.000 with Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, who has now decided that the President should not give the State of the Union Address from Congress.

00:02:32.000 Now, let me just say this.

00:02:34.000 If President Trump is responsible for the death of the State of the Union Address, it will be the greatest achievement in the last 100 years of the presidency.

00:02:42.000 I cannot express how much I despise the State of the Union Address.

00:02:45.000 In fact, about five years ago, when my daughter was born, she was born the day of the State of the Union Address.

00:02:50.000 I was grateful for two things that day.

00:02:52.000 One, that my daughter was born.

00:02:54.000 Two, that her birth had obviated the need for me to cover the State of the Union address.

00:02:57.000 In fact, I tweeted that out on the day of her birth.

00:03:00.000 I tweeted out, thank you to my daughter for being born on the day of the State of the Union address so I don't have to cover this bleep show.

00:03:06.000 I hate the State of the Union address.

00:03:07.000 It is an anti-Republican, anti-Democratic, monarchical spectacle of nonsense where the president shows up and all the legislators cheer and they clap and they pretend that they like the president and then everybody smiles as though the president is the king and he's arrived for a royal visit.

00:03:21.000 I hate the State of the Union no matter who the president is.

00:03:23.000 So, if Donald Trump just issues a long letter the way that George Washington did for his original State of the Union address, Well, Nancy Pelosi wants the president not to show up in Congress.

00:03:33.000 He does an Oval Office address, summing up the main points in like seven minutes.

00:03:36.000 That would be great.

00:03:38.000 I would be so happy with the president, I cannot even tell you.

00:03:41.000 Well, Nancy Pelosi wants the president not to show up in Congress. 0.99

00:03:44.000 Now, the real reason Nancy Pelosi doesn't want the president to show up is because he will then have a captive audience for legitimately 100 million people. 1.00

00:03:52.000 And he will tell them that the reason the government shutdown is still on is because the Democrats refuse to reopen the government.

00:03:58.000 That's really what they are upset about.

00:03:59.000 Nancy Pelosi wrote a letter to Trump today, and here is what the letter said.

00:04:03.000 She said, On January 3rd, it was my privilege as Speaker to invite you to deliver the State of the Union address on January 29th.

00:04:11.000 The Constitution calls for the President to, from time to time, give to Congress information of the State of the Union.

00:04:16.000 Notice, by the way, that the Constitutional language never, never suggested that the President has to show up in Congress and then jabber at us for an hour, which is what the State of the Union is.

00:04:25.000 During the 19th century, and up until the presidency of Woodrow Wilson, these annual State of the Union messages were delivered to Congress in writing.

00:04:31.000 And since the start of the modern budgeting in fiscal year 1977, a State of the Union address has never been delivered during a government shutdown.

00:04:38.000 In September 2018, Secretary Nielsen designated the State of the Union addresses as national special security events, recognizing the need for the full resources of the federal government to be brought to bear to ensure the security of these events.

00:04:50.000 The extraordinary demands presented by NSSEs require weeks of detailed planning with dozens of agencies working together to prepare for the safety of all participants.

00:04:59.000 The U.S.

00:04:59.000 Secret Service was designated as the lead federal agency responsible for coordinating, planning, exercising, and implementing security for national special security events by Public Law 106-544, December 19, 2000.

00:05:11.000 However, both the U.S.

00:05:12.000 Secret Service and the Department of Homeland Security have not been funded for 26 days now, with critical departments hamstrung by furloughs.

00:05:19.000 Sadly, given the security concerns and unless government reopens this week, I suggest that we work together to determine another suitable date after government has reopened for this address or for you to consider delivering your State of the Union address in writing to Congress on January 29th.

00:05:31.000 Thank you for your attention to this matter.

00:05:32.000 So that's not actually Pelosi asking Trump not to do the State of the Union.

00:05:36.000 That's her saying we're not doing the State of the Union.

00:05:38.000 That is her basically saying straight out, I am uninviting you, you are not welcome to show up in Congress.

00:05:43.000 Now, Trump has a couple of options.

00:05:45.000 One, Trump could go to Senate Majority Leader McConnell and say, listen, we're just going to do the State of the Union from the Senate floor, right?

00:05:51.000 We'll just go over to the Senate.

00:05:52.000 It'll be smaller.

00:05:53.000 Most of the Democrats aren't going to show up anyway.

00:05:55.000 And then I'll give the State of the Union address from there.

00:05:57.000 Or alternatively, Trump could say, look, another stupid pompous spectacle that I've ended.

00:06:02.000 So great.

00:06:03.000 I'm all for this.

00:06:04.000 This is fantastic.

00:06:06.000 And I'll give a little speech.

00:06:07.000 That'll take 10 minutes and not waste everybody's time.

00:06:09.000 And it'll be complete with visuals and spectacle.

00:06:13.000 That's what he should do.

00:06:14.000 What the president should do is he should just give another Oval Office address.

00:06:17.000 Except this time, I've never understood why presidents don't do this legitimately.

00:06:21.000 Like, we have this tool.

00:06:22.000 It's this thing.

00:06:22.000 It's called television.

00:06:24.000 And on television, you can show images.

00:06:26.000 And when you show images on television, they have more emotional impact than just a face talking at you.

00:06:32.000 Which is why, if you listen to this show, you should buy a subscription so you can actually see when we show the clips and watch as I make faces at those clips.

00:06:39.000 And when we actually show information, it is more telling than when we do not.

00:06:42.000 The president has so many opportunities to do something unique with the State of the Union, specifically because Nancy Pelosi is doing this, and save us so much time and effort in the process, and get rid of the monarchic spectacle.

00:06:53.000 So again, if President Trump Decides not to give the State of the Union.

00:06:57.000 I will be so happy with him.

00:06:58.000 I cannot even say.

00:06:59.000 It'll just be another benefit of the government shutdown.

00:07:01.000 Everybody's very concerned about all the costs of the government shutdown.

00:07:04.000 And yes, the government shutdown has costs, but this would be a real benefit.

00:07:08.000 Us not having to sit there for two hours and do the runway show.

00:07:12.000 for the for the president of the United States and members of Congress and pretend that we all like them and and then we have the president who just shouts out to people up in the balcony and here's Bob and Bob had a hard life story and everybody cheers for Bob and then we all sit down and we stand up and sit down again.

00:07:26.000 If we could do not that this year, oh man, that'd be great.

00:07:30.000 Maybe the president should just, instead of the State of the Union address, he should sit in the Oval Office, and he should just rebroadcast like a football game.

00:07:37.000 And the ratings would be amazing, and people would love it.

00:07:40.000 Maybe he should actually, like, broadcast a WrestleMania spectacle.

00:07:43.000 Where he has somebody dress up with the head of CNN.

00:07:46.000 It would be like so many different options available.

00:07:49.000 And I'm very excited about all of them.

00:07:51.000 In the end, Trump will give a State of the Union address.

00:07:53.000 He'll probably do it from Congress.

00:07:55.000 And I'll be very irritated.

00:07:56.000 But for the moment, I choose to remain optimistic about all of this.

00:08:00.000 Well, that was actually the second most interesting story of the day.

00:08:04.000 The most interesting story of the day was Alexander Ocasio-Cortez.

00:08:07.000 Again, The reason I talk about her is because she is now an important person as deemed by the media and also because she says such dumb things on a regular basis. 0.99

00:08:15.000 So this is fantastic.

00:08:19.000 So she did an interview with the Washington Post and she was asked about conservative media setting her up as another bogeyman on the left.

00:08:27.000 And here's what she said.

00:08:29.000 She said this interview was given about a week and a half ago.

00:08:31.000 She said, I also think it's encouraging because this is my sixth day in Congress and they're out of all their artillery.

00:08:38.000 The nude, because there's a fake nude that was put up of her, and the Daily Caller covered it. 1.00

00:08:43.000 So the nude is supposed to be like the bazooka.

00:08:45.000 You know, like, we're gonna take her down. 0.78

00:08:47.000 Dude, you're all out of bullets.

00:08:48.000 You're all out of bombs.

00:08:49.000 You're all out of all of this stuff.

00:08:50.000 What have you got left?

00:08:51.000 I'm six days into the term, and you already used all your ammo.

00:08:55.000 So enjoy being exhausted for the next two years while we run train on the progressive agenda.

00:09:01.000 Now, That's not a great phrase, run train, on the progressive agenda.

00:09:07.000 For those of you who are innocents in the world, for those of you who are not familiar with urban dictionary, for those of you who may be Tony or upper class and you have no idea what the phrase run train means, it means a bunch of men Having gang sex with a woman.

00:09:22.000 That's what running train means.

00:09:23.000 Okay, running train, it is a term of awful import.

00:09:28.000 It is just, it's a terrible term.

00:09:30.000 And usually it's used in a derogatory fashion, like if you wanted to mean somebody.

00:09:34.000 And what's amazing about this is she's Alex from the Bronx, right?

00:09:36.000 She ain't upper class. 0.99

00:09:38.000 She's down home, you know, with the people, with the townsfolk, as she said in a recent tweet, with the townspeople in the Bronx.

00:09:45.000 She said she's gonna run train on the progressive agenda.

00:09:47.000 Would the headlines have ever stopped if Sarah Palin had said that in 2009?

00:09:49.000 It'd have been, wow, look how dumb Sarah Palin is. 1.00

00:09:52.000 Look how stupid she is for saying that.

00:09:55.000 Very weird that Alexander Ocasio-Cortez wants to Gang rape, the progressive agenda.

00:10:01.000 That seems like a weird thing to do.

00:10:02.000 She's a progressive.

00:10:03.000 Maybe that should be President Trump's 2020 slogan.

00:10:06.000 Running train on the progressive agenda.

00:10:09.000 Don't worry, she is the best and the brightest among us.

00:10:14.000 She's not dumb in any way.

00:10:16.000 She's real smart.

00:10:17.000 I know because I've been told so by so many members of the media.

00:10:21.000 OK, the big story of the day overall is not any of that.

00:10:27.000 It is actually that there was a major terrorist attack in Syria on a much more serious topic, obviously.

00:10:31.000 The Washington Post reports the Islamic State asserted responsibility Wednesday for a suicide blast in the U.S. patrolled city of Manbij in Syria.

00:10:39.000 The first such attack since President Trump said American forces would withdraw from the country because the militant group has been largely defeated.

00:10:45.000 A spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition battling ISIS said that U.S.

00:10:48.000 service members were killed while conducting a routine patrol in the city, but did not say how many died or provide further details.

00:10:55.000 Some reports were suggesting, by the way, that these U.S.

00:10:57.000 soldiers were killed at a restaurant in a suicide bombing.

00:10:59.000 So the height of cowardice by members of ISIS, something we've come to expect.

00:11:03.000 In Washington, U.S.

00:11:05.000 officials said initial reports suggested that four Americans may have died.

00:11:08.000 Earlier, Reuters news agency quoted an unidentified U.S.

00:11:11.000 official as saying four soldiers were killed and three wounded in the blast.

00:11:14.000 There was no immediate confirmation of those figures from Operation Inherent Resolve, which is the U.S.-led coalition against ISIS.

00:11:20.000 Statements published by ISIS's official news agency, Amak, said that the attacker used an explosive-laden vest to target coalition forces.

00:11:28.000 The Amok statement claimed nine American troops were killed or injured in the attack, but didn't present evidence for the claim.

00:11:33.000 The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 19 people were wounded or killed.

00:11:38.000 The Kurdish news agency said at least 10 people were injured in the attack, which it said occurred outside a popular restaurant.

00:11:44.000 And what this has to do with President Trump withdrawing from Syria?

00:11:47.000 Open question.

00:11:49.000 Open question.

00:11:49.000 Because ISIS obviously would be pursuing violence in any case.

00:11:53.000 But it is not uncommon for terrorist groups to ramp up violence right in the immediate in the immediate forerunning to a troop withdrawal, specifically so that they can then claim to their supporters that they drove the United States out of Syria, that ISIS drove the United States out of the area.

00:12:07.000 So they unleash a wave of bombings right as the United States is about to pull out.

00:12:11.000 Anyway, I want to get into a little bit more of that.

00:12:13.000 And then I want to talk to you about Chris Christie, who has a new book coming out.

00:12:17.000 And I also want to talk to you about Steve King, because there's a lot more of the left focusing on Steve King.

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00:13:19.000 And you can try ZipRecruiter for free Meanwhile, Chris Christie has a new book coming out and the media are all agog at it because this is how it works.

00:13:33.000 Anybody who was once close with Trump becomes an interesting person to the media as soon as they turn on Trump.

00:13:39.000 Now, the last thing I want to hear is Chris Christie whining about why Trump was mean to him.

00:13:45.000 Chris Christie is probably responsible for Trump being president in some ways.

00:13:49.000 Chris Christie committed the first political murder-suicide on national television in the New Hampshire primary debates when he murdered Marco Rubio and then turned the gun on himself, politically speaking, leaving the pathway open to President Trump.

00:14:00.000 You remember Marco Rubio was gaining a lot of momentum after Iowa and then Chris Christie took out Rubio and then proceeded to hand over New Hampshire to Trump.

00:14:08.000 Well, Christie is very angry now.

00:14:10.000 He's very angry with the Trump administration because he never got a job in the Trump administration.

00:14:14.000 Not even getting those burgers for the Clemson Tigers the other day.

00:14:17.000 During the campaign, Chris Christie was the designated fast food run guy.

00:14:21.000 But Chris Christie couldn't even get that job apparently.

00:14:24.000 He was briefly considered for chief of staff a few weeks ago, and then he was blocked in that effort by other folks in Trump's immediate orbit, and you can tell who is trying to block him from who Chris Christie is angry at.

00:14:35.000 So according to Axios, former New Jersey governor Chris Christie settles scores in Let Me Finish, a memoir out January 29th from Hachette, writing that President Trump trusts people he shouldn't, including some of the people who are closest to him.

00:14:47.000 First of all, that's a terrible name for a memoir.

00:14:50.000 Let Me Finish.

00:14:51.000 I mean, honest to goodness, that's an awful name for a memoir.

00:14:55.000 It sounds like a sports memoir, actually.

00:14:58.000 It sounds like a guy on sports talk radio.

00:14:59.000 It's like Stephen A. Smith's Let Me Finish, but instead it's Chris Christie in Let Me Finish.

00:15:05.000 And second, I'm going to explain what exactly is in this book that's got the media so aghast.

00:15:09.000 So Christy asserts that Trump has, quote, a revolving door of deeply flawed individuals, amateurs, grifters, weaklings, convicted and unconvicted felons, who are hustled into jobs they were never suited for, sometimes seemingly without so much as a background check via Google or Wikipedia.

00:15:23.000 Now, I think there's some truth to this in the early stages of the Trump White House.

00:15:27.000 There were a lot of grifters in the Trump White House very early on because Trump had surrounded himself with a lot of people who would work with him.

00:15:34.000 A lot of the more mainstream kind of Republicans would not work with him during the campaign or early on in his administration.

00:15:39.000 And as his administration has progressed, the administration has actually gotten better, not worse.

00:15:44.000 So Rex Tillerson has been replaced with Mike Pompeo.

00:15:46.000 Good move.

00:15:47.000 You've seen that Steve Bannon was tossed out Good move.

00:15:52.000 And the president's made a lot of good personnel moves while he's been there.

00:15:56.000 And he's upgraded in a bunch of different ways.

00:15:58.000 That's really good.

00:15:59.000 Chris Christie, though, is mad that he wasn't included in Trump White House 1.0 or Trump White House 2.0.

00:16:05.000 Instead, he just thinks that he should have been appointed VP, right?

00:16:08.000 Remember, he was considered for... You have to feel a little bad for Chris Christie, right?

00:16:11.000 He was considered for VP and then rejected.

00:16:14.000 Then he was considered for Attorney General.

00:16:16.000 And rejected.

00:16:16.000 Then he was considered for Chief of Staff.

00:16:18.000 And rejected.

00:16:20.000 So, he couldn't even make Waterboy at this White House.

00:16:22.000 Here's what Christie writes.

00:16:23.000 He says, I did everything I could to make sure my friend Donald reached the White House fully prepared to serve.

00:16:27.000 But a handful of selfish individuals sidetracked our very best efforts.

00:16:31.000 This is the point at which a mirror slowly raises in front of Chris Christie to awaken him to the fact that he may have been one of the selfish individuals in Trump's orbit.

00:16:40.000 So they set loose toxic forces that have made Trump's presidency far less effective than it would otherwise have been.

00:16:45.000 If this tragedy is ever going to be reversed, it is vital that everyone know exactly how it occurred.

00:16:50.000 Once Steve Bannon started unburdening himself in his Trump Tower office, he couldn't seem to stop.

00:16:55.000 The kid's been taking an axe to your head with the boss ever since I got here, he blurted out.

00:16:58.000 It's been constant.

00:16:59.000 He never stops.

00:17:00.000 Ancient bitterness, I guess.

00:17:01.000 This is Christy whining about Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law, who's been very effective and also very loud in terms of policy inside the White House.

00:17:11.000 In Bannon's speak, the kid is only one person.

00:17:13.000 Not Donald Jr., not younger son Eric, not Ivanka or Tiffany.

00:17:16.000 The kid is Jared Kushner, the husband of Ivanka Trump and the son of the real estate developer Charles Kushner, a man I once sent to prison.

00:17:25.000 Christy then says he doesn't understand Trump's endgame, and he goes after Trump personally.

00:17:30.000 I do love that all these people who really, really wish that they were involved with the Trump administration write these books about how terrible everyone in the Trump administration is, and what they say is, he's just surrounded by bad people.

00:17:41.000 Trump himself has never made a bad decision.

00:17:43.000 It's just that he's surrounded by bad people.

00:17:46.000 Now, listen.

00:17:47.000 President Trump is his own man.

00:17:49.000 I think it is fair to say that.

00:17:50.000 Anybody who knows President Trump, anybody who knows the people who talk to President Trump, this guy has a mind of his own.

00:17:56.000 If you could control President Trump, do you think his advisors would be letting him tweet asinine things every five seconds?

00:18:02.000 Do you truly think that his advisors would be in favor of him going on Twitter and then just unleashing a Syrian withdrawal?

00:18:08.000 Do you think that his advisors would be super happy with him going on Twitter and then ripping into Elizabeth Warren by mentioning wounded knee?

00:18:17.000 Probably not.

00:18:18.000 Trump does what he wants to do.

00:18:19.000 And yet there is this mythos that's been built up around Trump by people who want to kiss his butt that says every mistake that you've made, it's because of bad advice.

00:18:26.000 It's because the people around you have badly advised you.

00:18:29.000 Well, you know who one of those people was during the campaign?

00:18:31.000 Chris Christie, who was there virtually the whole time.

00:18:35.000 We all remember the videos of Chris Christie looking like a wounded dog as President Trump spoke.

00:18:39.000 And Christie's off on the side, looking like deep down inside his soul, he wants to crawl into a hole, cover himself up and die.

00:18:46.000 So Christie going after other members of the Trump administration now that he's no longer there, and now that he's not been involved, is pretty scurrilous.

00:18:54.000 But I would expect nothing less from Chris Christie, who is one of the most egregiously egotistical politicians in the history of Republican politics.

00:19:03.000 So the media, of course, are very excited over all of this, and they hope that this will be the kill shot.

00:19:07.000 They're constantly hoping that something will be the kill shot with regard to the Trump presidency.

00:19:11.000 The truth is, the only thing that's going to end the Trump presidency, if anything does, is going to be him being defeated in 2020.

00:19:18.000 And we'll talk about the 2020 candidates in just a minute.

00:19:21.000 First, I want to talk a little bit About an ad that was put out by Harry's Razor.

00:19:27.000 So we talked about Gillette a couple of days ago.

00:19:31.000 Gillette put out an ad about masculinity, about how masculinity was really bad, right?

00:19:36.000 Toxic masculinity.

00:19:37.000 And the ad featured a bunch of guys grilling while they watched two kids beat the snot out of each other and did nothing.

00:19:43.000 And then the Gillette ad said, well, this is what men have been doing, basically, since time immemorial.

00:19:48.000 It's time for men to change. 0.98

00:19:50.000 It's time for men to change. 0.98

00:19:52.000 Well, now in their race to the bottom, in their race to the woke bottom, now we've got Harry's razor that has jumped into the fray.

00:19:59.000 Yesterday, they tweeted, because it was International Men's Day, and here's what they tweeted.

00:20:02.000 Today is International Men's Day.

00:20:04.000 Believe it or not, that's a thing.

00:20:06.000 Now more than ever, being a man demands introspection, humility, and optimism.

00:20:12.000 To get to a better tomorrow, we need to take a look at today, and at the misguided stereotypes that got us here in the first place.

00:20:18.000 And then, they put up a bunch of phrases and crossed them out, because these phrases are apparently very bad.

00:20:23.000 What are these phrases?

00:20:25.000 These are phrases like, boys will be boys, because we can't say that.

00:20:27.000 Or man up.

00:20:28.000 If you say man up, that's bad, because if you say man up, you're implying that somebody should be a man, and you know, make sacrifices, take responsibility, stop whining, in the words of Arnold Schwarzenegger.

00:20:38.000 They say it's time for a new definition of masculinity.

00:20:43.000 Again, they say that if you say grow a pair to somebody, that this is really bad.

00:20:46.000 If you say that being a man has anything to do with, you know, not being a wimp and not being a loser and taking responsibility for your own life, that's really bad.

00:20:54.000 So they say it's time for a new definition of masculinity.

00:20:56.000 Now, I don't know why all these razor companies have suddenly decided to cut themselves off at the knees with their entire base, right, which are men, as it turns out.

00:21:05.000 But it has something to do with the draw of social media to folks on the left.

00:21:10.000 One of the most amusing things about folks on the online left is that the same folks who despise capitalism, think capitalism is terrible, hate major corporations, they will happily retweet Harry's Razor and Gillette and Nike.

00:21:22.000 Look, they're so woke now.

00:21:24.000 Meanwhile, all those companies are making bank off the leftists who are suddenly pro these corporations.

00:21:29.000 So the corporations have a monetary interest in doing all of this.

00:21:31.000 I saw a statistic this morning that Gillette was mentioned on Twitter 1.5 million times this week.

00:21:36.000 The previous week, 10,000 times.

00:21:38.000 So this campaign is working for them.

00:21:39.000 Same thing with Harry's razor.

00:21:41.000 But it does speak to what the left actually thinks of masculinity, which is that masculinity is really, really, really bad.

00:21:48.000 And the left's hatred for masculinity crosses all boundaries.

00:21:51.000 In a second, I want to get to CNN attacking President Trump for making a gender joke.

00:21:56.000 It's really, oh my god, how could he?

00:21:58.000 How could he?

00:21:59.000 We'll talk about that in just one second.

00:22:00.000 First, I have a question for you.

00:22:02.000 Are you more Native American than Elizabeth Warren?

00:22:04.000 So we know a few things about Elizabeth Warren.

00:22:06.000 She likes to drink beer. 0.77

00:22:08.000 She's glad her husband is at home when she's making an ad for the presidency, and she's won 1,024th Maybe Native American.

00:22:16.000 You might be more Native American than Elizabeth Warren.

00:22:18.000 How would you define that out?

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00:22:21.000 23andMe allows you to go beyond ancestry and access more personalized insights based on your DNA.

00:22:26.000 So I've taken the 23andMe test.

00:22:27.000 What it found is that, true to form, I'm 100% Ashkenazi Jewish.

00:22:33.000 People get on my case when I say that I'm 100% Ashkenazi Jewish.

00:22:35.000 That's not a point of superiority.

00:22:37.000 It doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things, but it's kind of fun to know that my ancestry is really, really, really Jewish.

00:22:43.000 What's your ancestry like?

00:22:45.000 I also found out traits like apparently I have the body mass of a muscle, like a bodybuilder.

00:22:50.000 I mean, I knew that, too, because underneath this coat lies the body of a Greek god.

00:22:55.000 No one knows that except my wife, but let me tell you, it's stunning.

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00:23:28.000 It's a lot of fun.

00:23:29.000 You're going to want to do it.

00:23:29.000 Okay, so.

00:23:31.000 Meanwhile, the attack on masculinity continues to pace attack on masculinity and humor.

00:23:35.000 Apparently, if you believe that there are men and there are women and these are two different things, then this is very, very bad.

00:23:40.000 And if you make a joke about women in any way, and this is particularly terrible.

00:23:45.000 So here's Aaron Burnett.

00:23:46.000 Aaron Burnett, yesterday on CNN.

00:23:47.000 The CNN panel was very upset with President Trump.

00:23:49.000 Why?

00:23:49.000 Because President Trump hosted the Clemson football team and he joked that Melania could make some salads, maybe.

00:23:55.000 Oh no!

00:23:56.000 We must never suggest that Melania make salads!

00:24:00.000 No!

00:24:01.000 We can't do that to the same media who hate Melania Trump so much that they've never put her on the cover of a single fashion magazine I can think of, while they're falling over themselves to put Michelle Obama on fashion magazines.

00:24:13.000 And just on an objective level, like Melania Trump was a model, she was like an actual model, and they won't put her on fashion magazines.

00:24:18.000 Now they're saying it is beneath Melania Trump to make a salad. 0.79

00:24:21.000 Beneath her.

00:24:23.000 Here's Aaron Burnett being very, very deeply offended at Trump joking that his wife might make a salad.

00:24:28.000 By the way, you know what my wife does when people come over? 1.00

00:24:31.000 She makes salads for people.

00:24:32.000 Like, really.

00:24:33.000 It's a thing that she does.

00:24:34.000 And she's a doctor.

00:24:35.000 So that's not me ripping on the ability of women to operate in the workplace. 1.00

00:24:38.000 Here's Aaron Burnett being a dummy.

00:24:41.000 Sex is one of those things where sometimes what people say when they're being funny exposes exactly who they are and what they think.

00:24:47.000 Not that there was any question, but this is pretty clear.

00:24:50.000 How in the world do you not perceive that as sexist?

00:24:52.000 To make the assumption that his wife's gonna go make salads for the bunch of football players?

00:24:56.000 What is she, like the cook? 1.00

00:24:57.000 I'm not overreading it.

00:24:58.000 He made a joke that was sexist about women.

00:25:00.000 I guess maybe what we're disagreeing with is whether it's funny.

00:25:03.000 And whether humor is something that's serious.

00:25:05.000 Whether humor is something that's serious.

00:25:08.000 No!

00:25:09.000 As it turns out, the definition of humor is that it's not serious, because it's funny.

00:25:16.000 I like how we're now rewriting all this.

00:25:17.000 So basically, according to the left, humor, comedy...

00:25:21.000 It's supposed to be serious.

00:25:22.000 This is, again, why Hannah Gadsby is renowned on the left for being a deeply unfunny human being. 1.00

00:25:27.000 Because she is woke.

00:25:29.000 Being woke is the new funny.

00:25:31.000 So she's really funny.

00:25:31.000 Samantha Bee, for some odd reason, is the new funny.

00:25:34.000 She never has to make you laugh.

00:25:35.000 She has to make you think.

00:25:36.000 Making you think is the new funny.

00:25:38.000 And also, if you say something that is a joke, then we are going to take it similarly seriously, because it reveals your inherent biases.

00:25:46.000 So if President Trump makes a joke about Melania Trump making a salad, well, obviously he hates women. 1.00

00:25:51.000 Clearly, clearly.

00:25:52.000 First of all, if you want evidence that President Trump ain't great with the ladies, I got a whole long list for you. 0.84

00:25:57.000 I got like a big, long list of comments that President Trump has made about women in the past that are really quite terrible.

00:26:04.000 If the one you pick on is that he made a joke about his own wife making salads, You may have Trump derangement syndrome.

00:26:10.000 Pretty amazing stuff.

00:26:10.000 Speaking of a derangement syndrome.

00:26:13.000 So the left has decided now that Steve King is the most important person in America.

00:26:18.000 That's because Steve King last week said something racist.

00:26:20.000 He just did a New York Times interview.

00:26:22.000 And in the Times interview, he suggested that the phrases white nationalism and white supremacy were unobjectionable or should be unobjectionable.

00:26:29.000 Now, King's defense to this is he says that the New York Times took him out of context.

00:26:33.000 And what he actually was talking about is that the left conflates and uses all of these phrases routinely to slander kind of normal ideas like Western civilization.

00:26:41.000 Whatever it is, Steve King has walked that line many, many times.

00:26:45.000 And I have given him the benefit of the doubt in cases past.

00:26:48.000 And I think now, in retrospect, unjustifiably so.

00:26:52.000 At a certain point, you can't give somebody the benefit of the doubt anymore.

00:26:55.000 So here's what happened.

00:26:57.000 Steve King says something that is overtly bad.

00:26:58.000 Now, he said something overtly bad was caught on tape by the Weekly Standard last year, and many people on the right, including me, condemned him for that at the time.

00:27:05.000 So when that happened, then there wasn't that much press about it.

00:27:09.000 There wasn't a huge amount of press about it.

00:27:11.000 The right has decided to disown Steve King because he said something so egregious that there's just no way to walk back from it.

00:27:17.000 And it's too, it's, it's, it's incredibly obvious.

00:27:19.000 It's too obvious for him to wiggle out of as he may have in the past.

00:27:23.000 So what does the left do?

00:27:24.000 The right condemns Steve King and excises him, right?

00:27:26.000 They remove all of his committee assignments.

00:27:27.000 He's being primaried.

00:27:28.000 The NRCC declared months ago they wouldn't support him in his, in his general election effort even.

00:27:33.000 He almost lost to a Democrat in a heavy red district in Iowa.

00:27:37.000 So the Republicans have been working to get rid of Steve King for a while here.

00:27:42.000 Just like they got rid of Roy Moore.

00:27:44.000 Just like they worked to get rid of a bunch of Republicans in the past in the John Birch Society in times past.

00:27:53.000 Just like they worked to kind of fringe out Pat Buchanan and his ilk.

00:27:57.000 The Republican Party has tried to do this before.

00:27:59.000 But every time the Republican Party tries to do the right thing with somebody like Steve King, they immediately get whomped on the head by the left.

00:28:06.000 They say, well, why didn't you do this before?

00:28:08.000 What took you so long?

00:28:09.000 You know, the fact that you even want to get rid of Steve King is demonstrative of the fact that you are a racist.

00:28:13.000 So the way this works is if you don't get rid of Steve King, you're a racist.

00:28:16.000 If you do get rid of Steve King, you are also a racist because you didn't get rid of Steve King before.

00:28:20.000 Instead of, well, I'm glad that you finally came around on Steve King, It's, well, I'm glad you finally came around on Steve King, but not really.

00:28:27.000 I'm not really that glad you came around on Steve King.

00:28:29.000 In fact, you're an idiot for having apologized or for having come around on Steve King in the first place.

00:28:34.000 You wonder why so many Republicans, so many people on the right, are willing to double down in defense of people who should not be defended?

00:28:39.000 It's because if you actually come out and condemn bad behavior on your own side, you don't get credit for it from the left.

00:28:45.000 Instead, the left suggests that you are part of a broader racist movement.

00:28:50.000 And it's that that has allowed people on the right, and given impetus to people on the right, to give benefit of the doubt in cases where maybe they shouldn't have given benefit of the doubt.

00:28:58.000 If you call everything racist, people on the right are immediately going to say, well, you called Mitt Romney a racist, so why would I take you seriously when you call this other person a racist?

00:29:08.000 Maybe you're just deliberately misinterpreting them too.

00:29:10.000 You're acting in bad faith.

00:29:11.000 The left refuses to acknowledge that it has ever mislabeled anyone racist.

00:29:16.000 Folks on the left believe that every time they label something racist, it is racist.

00:29:20.000 And there is no problem of over-broadly applying the label racist because everything is racist in their view.

00:29:26.000 Now, if everything is racist, then that's going to lead to a reactionary response that goes overboard in which people assume that nothing is racist, which of course is also not true.

00:29:35.000 But watch the reaction of folks on the left to the right condemning Steve King.

00:29:38.000 Like, literally every major Republican I've spoken to or who has commented publicly has condemned Steve King His base of support has been completely undercut.

00:29:47.000 And yet Bill Maher, Bill Maher, who's used the n-word on his own show, I should mention.

00:29:53.000 Bill Maher goes on MSNBC, talking to Chris Matthews, and he suggests that Republicans are so racist that we're supposed to cheer them for denouncing white supremacy?

00:30:04.000 No.

00:30:05.000 You're supposed to actually treat it honestly when people do the right thing.

00:30:08.000 But we can't do that.

00:30:09.000 We have to rip people when they do the right thing.

00:30:12.000 The bar is, Chris, that we're cheering the Republicans because they say we don't believe in white supremacy.

00:30:19.000 This is how far down we've gone.

00:30:22.000 This is where they draw the line.

00:30:23.000 I'm glad they drew the line somewhere because I'm beginning to wonder if they would ever draw a line.

00:30:29.000 But again, the question we always have to ask is what will the Republicans put up with?

00:30:35.000 That's what it comes down to.

00:30:37.000 Okay, why do we always ask that question after the right doesn't put up with something?

00:30:42.000 Again, the right sacrificed a Senate seat in Alabama to not put up with Roy Moore.

00:30:46.000 The right has sacrificed... I mean, the right basically sacrificed a Senate seat in Virginia because Corey Stewart was vaguely on that racist fringe, right?

00:30:55.000 He had neoconfederates in his campaign and such.

00:30:57.000 So the right has sacrificed two Senate seats, basically, to the proposition that there are certain people who should not be part of the Republican caucus.

00:31:03.000 But for the left, that means that the right is racist and bad.

00:31:07.000 Because again, the left conflates everything that is conservatism with racism.

00:31:10.000 So what they do is they say, well, obviously you guys are motivated by racism.

00:31:13.000 Your desire for the wall is coming from the same place as Steve King's desire for a wall, even if you don't like Steve King, even if you think that his comments are ridiculous.

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00:34:09.000 All righty, so Jane Koston, who I've talked up her work before, she has a piece over at Vox.com that's pretty interesting called Why Republicans Took So Long to Call Out Steve King's Racism And her basic thesis is that Republicans ignored it because they don't take racism all that seriously.

00:34:28.000 I mean, that really is her essential thesis.

00:34:30.000 She says that the right has defined racism down to If you say something clearly white supremacist, then we excise you.

00:34:36.000 Anything else, we won't.

00:34:38.000 But that obviously is untrue because there are a bunch of people on the right who have been excised for saying things that are borderline before.

00:34:44.000 Folks like me were very critical of President Trump in the aftermath of Charlottesville, for example.

00:34:48.000 Right?

00:34:49.000 Trump got reamed by a lot of folks on the right for his comments in the aftermath of Charlottesville.

00:34:53.000 But that's not good enough.

00:34:54.000 According to the left, the right just doesn't get racism because racism is far broader than just people being white supremacists.

00:35:01.000 Jane, Jane basically, she quotes Peter Beinart, who is an awful, awful columnist, who wrote in 2017, conservatives feel their cultural vulnerability acutely.

00:35:10.000 In 2011, researchers at Tufts University observed that conservatives consume more outrage-based political radio and television than liberals do.

00:35:17.000 One reason they suggested in a follow-up paper is that conservatives are more fearful than liberals of discussing politics with people with whom they disagree because they dread being called a bigot.

00:35:25.000 Liberals express no comparable fear, at least in the As a result, they felt less need to take refuge in the safe political environments provided by outrage-based programming.

00:35:34.000 Well, the reason that the right fears being called a bigot is because the left will call you a bigot for legitimately anything.

00:35:38.000 Mitt Romney was called a bigot.

00:35:39.000 John McCain was called a bigot.

00:35:40.000 Rick Perry was called a bigot.

00:35:41.000 George W. Bush was called a bigot.

00:35:42.000 Name a Republican who has not been called a bigot.

00:35:45.000 One, can you name a Republican who has not been called a racist or a bigot?

00:35:48.000 Now, folks on the left answer by saying that's because all Republicans are racists and bigots.

00:35:52.000 And that's what drives the right to not take seriously certain allegations from the left of bigotry.

00:35:59.000 And that's why, and I've said this before, that's what's led me in the past to grant the benefit of the doubt to people like Steve King.

00:36:07.000 I said, I went back and I updated an article that I wrote in 2017 in which he said something that could be interpreted one of two ways.

00:36:12.000 I talked about this on the show last week.

00:36:14.000 He said something about we can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies.

00:36:18.000 And I said that this could be interpreted a couple of different ways.

00:36:21.000 One is the racist way that black and brown babies can't become members of Western civilization.

00:36:26.000 And the other way is suggesting that people who are raised in a different culture are going to have a bad impact on our civilization if that culture runs counter to the culture of our civilization.

00:36:37.000 And King went on TV, and he sort of clarified it in the second way, and I said, well, you need to grant him the benefit of the doubt.

00:36:42.000 Well, maybe I shouldn't have granted him the benefit of the doubt, but the idea is that everything King has been saying for 15 years is inherently racist, and what the left does, and this is how they get themselves in trouble, is what drives a reactionary response from the right, is they take a bunch of comments that King said that are borderline and dicey and bad, and then they lump them together with a bunch of normal conservative commentary and say, well, obviously all of these comments are racist.

00:37:04.000 So, for example, when he ripped into multiculturalism a while back, this was considered racist by the New York Times.

00:37:10.000 It was not racist.

00:37:11.000 That statement was not racist.

00:37:13.000 But when he said stuff about how there were a bunch of people who were crossing the border with calves like cantaloupes, that was a lot closer to racism and maybe outright racist.

00:37:22.000 According to the left, if you make any such distinction, then you are not taking racism seriously enough.

00:37:28.000 And this, of course, is just a lie.

00:37:29.000 I think there can be honest disagreement about whether a comment is racist or not.

00:37:33.000 And maybe it's easy to err on the side of giving the benefit of the doubt to people you don't give the benefit of the doubt, or you shouldn't.

00:37:40.000 But on the left, they give no benefit of the doubt to anyone on the right, but complete benefit of the doubt to everyone on the left.

00:37:47.000 And so, for example, you got Chuck Todd, right?

00:37:49.000 So Chuck Todd of NBC, he says, you know, Republicans are happy to condemn Steve King's racism, but they won't condemn President Trump's racism.

00:37:56.000 I'm wondering what world he's living in, honestly.

00:38:01.000 Could it be that Republicans feel that they can be tougher on racism on Steve King after the midterm wiped out in the suburbs?

00:38:09.000 Could it be that they feel that they can't criticize a president who's very popular among their own primary voters?

00:38:15.000 Could it be they fear President Trump would punish them by supporting a primary challenger?

00:38:19.000 Well, you know the answers to all of those questions.

00:38:21.000 Yes, yes, and yes.

00:38:22.000 Okay, or maybe it is that a lot of Republicans did criticize Trump in the aftermath of Charlottesville.

00:38:28.000 Maybe it is that a lot of Republicans were very critical of Trump during the 2016 race.

00:38:31.000 Maybe it is that you can't get rid of Trump the same way that you can get rid of Steve King, right, by primarying him in a congressional race.

00:38:38.000 And maybe it is that Trump didn't actually come out and just say white nationalism and white supremacy, okay, right?

00:38:42.000 I mean, come on.

00:38:44.000 But according to Chuck Todd, it always comes down to the same thing.

00:38:47.000 So Meghan McCain, I think rightly went after folks on The View, because folks on The View began conflating support for a border wall with Steve King-like racism. 0.90

00:38:55.000 And here was Meghan McCain aptly taking down this argument. 1.00

00:38:59.000 42% of this country that support the wall, are they all racist?

00:39:04.000 That's a good question.

00:39:05.000 There are a lot of people that support that wall, and I think when you blanket, I think this is the problem with identity politics in the country, which is something we sort of touched on yesterday, is when you broad stroke everyone, all black people think one thing, all Hispanic people think one thing, all Republicans think one thing, that's how we got ourselves into this mess. 0.61

00:39:19.000 Do you think 42% of Americans are racist?

00:39:21.000 I just said I don't know.

00:39:22.000 Well you did just call 42% of the country, there was an implication that they could be racist.

00:39:26.000 Okay, and the folks on the left, this is a very convenient argument for them, is that if you support a particular policy, this means that you are inherently racist.

00:39:33.000 And people on the left say, where's the evidence that you're not racist?

00:39:36.000 You know, there's an interesting question of burden of proof here.

00:39:40.000 And burden of proof in the law is the question of whether you're accused of a crime.

00:39:44.000 Is the burden of proof on the police to prove that you committed the crime, or is the burden on you to prove that you are innocent?

00:39:48.000 According to the left, we can automatically assume you are guilty of the crime of racism based on your political positions, and then it is up to you to prove that you are not in fact a racist.

00:39:57.000 And every attempt to prove you're not a racist proves more that you're a racist because you didn't do something else the left wanted you to do.

00:40:03.000 Hey, so if you are for a wall, we can assume you're a racist.

00:40:05.000 And then if you say, well, I'm not a racist, they say, prove it.

00:40:07.000 And you say, well, you know, like Steve King said this thing the other day, and I condemn that.

00:40:10.000 So why don't you condemn every other comment that Steve King ever made?

00:40:13.000 Hmm?

00:40:14.000 Hmm?

00:40:15.000 Well, maybe you're being intellectually dishonest and what you actually want to do is just apply the racist label as broadly as possible because it is politically beneficial and allows you to pat yourself on the back.

00:40:24.000 Meanwhile, being fine with racism in your own ranks.

00:40:28.000 The Democratic Party, obviously okay with anti-Semitism in their own ranks.

00:40:31.000 The DNC covered its butt yesterday.

00:40:33.000 By disassociating from the Women's March after it became completely obvious from Tamika Mallory and others they would not disassociate from Louis Farrakhan, never mind the fact that 21 different members of the Democratic caucus have taken pictures and hung out with Louis Farrakhan, none of whom have ever condemned Louis Farrakhan in any way.

00:40:50.000 And you have folks in the Democratic caucus like Rashida Tlaib, who is a fresh face because she's a Muslim congressperson. 0.99

00:40:57.000 Now, you can be a Muslim congressperson and not be an anti-Semite, obviously.

00:41:00.000 Rashida Tlaib, however, is an anti-Semite.

00:41:03.000 We're a religion to the side.

00:41:05.000 She suggests that we're anti her because she's Muslim, not because she's an anti-Semite.

00:41:08.000 So she tweeted out today, right wing media targeting me again rather than focusing on the president's reckless government shutdown.

00:41:14.000 Yes, I am a Muslim and I'm Palestinian.

00:41:16.000 Get over it.

00:41:17.000 Focus on the human impact of this disaster.

00:41:19.000 Hashtag and the shutdown.

00:41:19.000 Turns out I can focus on both the shutdown and the fact that you are a radical anti-Semite.

00:41:24.000 The entire Democratic caucus is cheering on.

00:41:27.000 I can do both those things.

00:41:28.000 Now, I can ask the same questions about Democratic willingness to accept anti-Semitism that the left asks about right-wing willingness to accept racism.

00:41:38.000 The difference is that nobody in the Democratic Party has condemned Rashida Tlaib once.

00:41:42.000 A time.

00:41:43.000 A time.

00:41:44.000 The Democratic Party gets mild credit for having withdrawn from the Women's March, but they don't get full credit simply because they still have members in their caucus who are saying things like Rashida Tlaib, and they don't care.

00:41:57.000 They don't care.

00:41:58.000 So what am I supposed to take away from that?

00:42:00.000 It's not like this is a big secret.

00:42:02.000 So let's be real about this.

00:42:05.000 People do what's politically convenient.

00:42:07.000 There is some of this on both sides.

00:42:08.000 People are willing to overlook bad stuff on their own side.

00:42:10.000 They would not be willing to overlook on somebody else's side.

00:42:13.000 And we all have to fight that instinct.

00:42:15.000 But to pretend that that instinct is inevitably tied to some deep-rooted discriminatory belief system, Is ridiculous.

00:42:23.000 Again, I think that you can make a better case that the Democratic Party has embraced anti-Semitism considering that they booed Jerusalem in the DNC in 2012, considering the fact that they en masse voted against a proposition Okay.

00:42:36.000 Meanwhile, in other news, Kirsten Gillibrand of New York has announced she is running for president because we need 1,000 candidates who are all the same.

00:42:42.000 for years then you can make the case that the entire republican party is racist because they just got rid of steve king i think that's a that's a bigger it's a much bigger stretch okay meanwhile in other news kirsten jillibrand of new york has announced she is running for president because we need 1 000 candidates who are all the same so kirsten jillibrand is going to run for president on the exact same platform as beto o'rourke or kamala harris or any other of the the democratic candidates But she's running for president on a really unique platform.

00:43:09.000 She's a woman. 0.82

00:43:12.000 Unlike 50% of the population, she in fact is a woman.

00:43:15.000 She announced that she was running for president and was given time to do so by Stephen Colbert, who has become basically just a bullhorn for Democratic presidential politics.

00:43:23.000 Here is the uncharming, utterly malleable Kirsten Gillibrand.

00:43:26.000 You remember when she first ran for Congress?

00:43:29.000 She ran as a quasi-pro-life, pro-gun Democrat.

00:43:32.000 Now she's a radical-left Democrat.

00:43:33.000 She's basically... You know how they do this routine with Jeff Bridges in all of his movies now, where they kind of age-reverse him?

00:43:39.000 Like they did in Tron, where they sort of age-reverse these actors.

00:43:42.000 They did it with Nicole Kidman in Aquaman, where they make them look younger.

00:43:45.000 So basically, Kirsten Gillibrand is just Hillary Clinton age-reversed. 0.97

00:43:47.000 So here's Kirsten Gillibrand on Stephen Colbert announcing she's running for president.

00:43:52.000 I'm just curious, do you have anything you would like to announce?

00:43:56.000 Yes.

00:43:58.000 And what would that be, madam?

00:44:04.000 I'm filing an exploratory committee for President of the United States tonight!

00:44:08.000 Tonight!

00:44:13.000 I like the half-hearted cheers from the people in the studio.

00:44:15.000 They're like, yeah!

00:44:18.000 All right.

00:44:19.000 Colbert can't even get his audience up for it.

00:44:21.000 Colbert is desperately trying to get his audience excited about Kirsten Gillibrand.

00:44:24.000 And Kirsten Gillibrand's family is out in the audience going, eh, well.

00:44:28.000 Okay.

00:44:28.000 I guess.

00:44:29.000 So, flashback to, like, a minute ago when Kirsten Gillibrand said that she would serve her full term in the Senate without running for president.

00:44:36.000 Yeah, she was lying, just like she has about every other policy position she's ever taken.

00:44:39.000 I just want to make this clear.

00:44:40.000 You're saying you will not get out of the race, that you will not run for president, you will serve your six years.

00:44:45.000 I will serve my six-year term.

00:44:46.000 Okay.

00:44:47.000 Well, she's right.

00:44:48.000 She will serve her six-year term because she's not getting nominated.

00:44:50.000 So she will actually serve her six-year term.

00:44:52.000 But she was lying then because this is what politicians do on a regular basis, and it's really stupid and irritating.

00:44:58.000 What is her platform going to be?

00:44:59.000 Her platform is going to be, I'm a woman.

00:45:03.000 Boo! 0.83

00:45:05.000 Congratulations, lady.

00:45:06.000 Here she is.

00:45:08.000 of the beginning of the revival of the women's movement.

00:45:12.000 This is the moment you will remember when women stood strong and stood firm and said never again!

00:45:20.000 Okay, by the way, that is Kirsten Gillibrand speaking at the Women's March last year.

00:45:23.000 The DNC has now disassociated from the Women's March over their association with anti-Semitism.

00:45:28.000 So things are going great for Kirsten Gillibrand right out of the gate.

00:45:30.000 It is amazing that in the Democratic Party, the only thing in the end that really matters, well, there are two factors that really matter.

00:45:36.000 One is media coverage, and the other is how many intersectional checkboxes you get.

00:45:40.000 That really is it.

00:45:41.000 So Kamala Harris, We'll do much better than Kirsten Gillibrand because she's not just a woman. 0.97

00:45:46.000 She's a black woman, which means even more victimized in American society, even though, by the way, the evidence does not show that. 0.93

00:45:52.000 The evidence doesn't show that black women, based on when you remove all other factors, are deeply victimized by American society.

00:45:58.000 In fact, black women growing up in high income households tend to out earn white women, according to a recent study from Stanford University. 0.98

00:46:06.000 In any case, Kamala Harris has been given the patina of intersectional advantage by the left. 1.00

00:46:12.000 So she has an advantage over Kirsten Gillibrand.

00:46:14.000 Also, it means that she gets better media coverage.

00:46:16.000 The media coverage battle also concerns people like Beto O'Rourke or Bob O'Rourke and Bobo.

00:46:23.000 Apparently is going to get really great media coverage as well.

00:46:27.000 Bernie Sanders is pretty much done.

00:46:28.000 Elizabeth Warren doesn't have the same pizzazz as Kamala Harris. 1.00

00:46:32.000 She's trying to go for that Bernie Sanders crowd. 1.00

00:46:34.000 She might get some of them, but she'll split that vote. 1.00

00:46:37.000 Right now, if you had to handicap the Democratic race, I would say that the chances of a Kamala Harris beta O'Rourke ticket are really good.

00:46:43.000 I'd say that's probably the most likely ticket at this point.

00:46:47.000 Not sure whether it's O'Rourke or whether it's Harris on the top of that ticket, but Harris obviously going to be given a big boost by the folks on the left, who are super not racist, but also will tell you that Kamala Harris is qualified for president specifically because of her race. 0.82

00:47:00.000 But they're super not, they don't think in terms of race.

00:47:02.000 Only you think in terms of race, because you think it's bad when someone uses the term white supremacist or white nationalist without condemning it.

00:47:08.000 Okay, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.

00:47:11.000 So, things I like today.

00:47:13.000 So after we saw Into the Spider-Verse, my wife and I rented Spider-Man Homecoming.

00:47:18.000 And it's perfectly serviceable.

00:47:20.000 It's a charming movie.

00:47:21.000 You know, it's not any great shakes, but I will say that the new, the guy who plays Spider-Man now is much better than Tobey Maguire.

00:47:29.000 Now, so if I, I mean, let's be real about this.

00:47:31.000 It's hard to be worse than Tobey Maguire was in the old Spider-Man series.

00:47:35.000 And we relaunch Spider-Man, you know, every couple of years here at this point, but the movie is fun.

00:47:41.000 It really portrays Peter Parker the way that he is in the comics as like an actual teenager, as opposed to Tobey Maguire, who was 50 when he was playing Spider-Man.

00:47:48.000 So, the movie is worth the watch.

00:47:50.000 It's pretty fun.

00:47:52.000 Go check it out.

00:47:53.000 Here's a little bit of the preview of Spider-Man Homecoming.

00:47:54.000 I also play it because there's also a new trailer for the next Spider-Man movie.

00:47:58.000 I'll discuss that in just one second.

00:48:00.000 Finally, here we go.

00:48:02.000 Good evening, Peter.

00:48:04.000 You have 576 possible web shooter combinations.

00:48:07.000 That is awesome!

00:48:11.000 I can keep that suit?

00:48:12.000 Yeah.

00:48:13.000 Doesn't fit me.

00:48:14.000 When's our next retreat?

00:48:15.000 What, next mission?

00:48:16.000 We'll call you.

00:48:17.000 Alright?

00:48:21.000 The movie is very okay.

00:48:23.000 It's mostly okay because Robert Downey Jr.

00:48:25.000 is in it, and it's kind of a, you know, it's a typical Marvel movie in the sense that it's enjoyable cotton candy.

00:48:31.000 Now there's a new preview out for the new Spider-Man movie, which just shows you that you are all suckers.

00:48:38.000 Okay, you remember I got very angry at Avengers Infinity War.

00:48:41.000 If you go back on the program, View the old episodes, what you'll see is that people were very mad at me because I was mad at Avengers Infinity War.

00:48:48.000 Why?

00:48:48.000 Because people were, like, crying at the end of Avengers Infinity War.

00:48:51.000 I was like, what are you, dumb?

00:48:53.000 What are you, idiots?

00:48:54.000 Of course, at the end of Avengers Infinity War, when Thanos snaps his fingers and half the population disappears, and Robert Downey Jr., Iron Man watches as Spider-Man disappears.

00:49:03.000 I was like, yeah.

00:49:04.000 Yeah, sure.

00:49:05.000 You're right.

00:49:05.000 They're going to kill off these billion-dollar characters just to finish the Infinity War movie.

00:49:10.000 So I'm not going to... Here's the deal.

00:49:12.000 I'm not going to cry over Spider-Man being killed at the end of Avengers Infinity War or Black Panther, which literally made a billion dollars at the box office.

00:49:19.000 I don't think they actually killed Black Panther.

00:49:21.000 In fact, I remember watching the ending sequence in Avengers Infinity War and they killed off some of the fringe characters.

00:49:25.000 I'm like, wow, that's kind of, that's kind of interesting.

00:49:27.000 And then they killed off Black Panther.

00:49:28.000 I was like, nope.

00:49:30.000 Nope.

00:49:31.000 You guys just spent a bunch of money on that movie.

00:49:32.000 It just made a boatload of money.

00:49:34.000 It's gonna win awards for intersectional reasons.

00:49:37.000 And you're gonna kill off that character?

00:49:38.000 Uh-huh.

00:49:39.000 Uh-huh.

00:49:39.000 And then they killed off Spider-Man.

00:49:40.000 I was like, nope.

00:49:41.000 So now the new Spider-Man movie is coming out, and Spider-Man is shockingly alive in that movie.

00:49:47.000 And people are like, oh, so you mean that he doesn't die in Avengers Infinity War.

00:49:51.000 Right, you dolts! 1.00

00:49:53.000 So if you cried when it was obvious that these characters were not dying, I would say that your suspension of disbelief has gone too far.

00:49:58.000 Now I know, I'm gonna get a bunch of flack for saying this because, hey, it's a fictional movie and you've made fun of fictional movies before.

00:50:04.000 Right, but you have to have enough respect for the audience that there has to be at least some logical consistency within the universe that you've created.

00:50:11.000 If every fictional movie ended with a giant Godzilla foot stomping all the characters out of existence, I think it would be fair to criticize the movie for failing to move within the universe it had created.

00:50:21.000 So, you can't expect me to be emotional within the Avengers universe when you're killing off characters who I know are not dead in the slightest.

00:50:27.000 Now it would be fair to cry at the next Avengers movie when they kill off In my prediction, Captain America, Iron Man, and Thor.

00:50:33.000 All three of whom will be taken out because they're too expensive for Marvel.

00:50:36.000 Which is the real reason they'll be taken out.

00:50:38.000 And, you know, then I guess it's okay to get emotional.

00:50:41.000 But if you got emotional over Spider-Man disappearing, then you're just stupid.

00:50:44.000 Sorry, sorry to break it to you.

00:50:45.000 Okay, time for a thing that I hate.

00:50:50.000 So a couple of things that I hate today.

00:50:51.000 People are very angry at Karen Pence.

00:50:53.000 So Karen Pence is the wife of the Vice President, and she has taken a job, according to Mediaite, with a private school that discriminates against gay people and members of the LGBT community at large.

00:51:02.000 What exactly is this terrible, horrible school?

00:51:04.000 She's taken a gig as an art teacher for Emanuel Christian School in Northern Virginia.

00:51:08.000 The school's application form requires teachers and staff to uphold traditional Christian norms and values, including against a pledge against sexual immorality, which includes homosexual conduct. 0.54

00:51:17.000 This means she's very, very bad.

00:51:19.000 She's teaching at a Christian school that upholds, you know, like, Christian principles.

00:51:23.000 Terrible, terrible woman. 1.00

00:51:24.000 How dare she teach at a religious school? 1.00

00:51:29.000 If you are one of these intolerant jackasses who thinks that it's very bad for a Christian to teach at a Christian school because the Christian school upholds Christian principles, get out more.

00:51:40.000 Deal with some people who don't necessarily agree with your secular humanist worldview.

00:51:45.000 Deal with some folks who may, in fact, be religious and who treat you well in normal life and believe that certain things are sins that you don't believe are sins.

00:51:52.000 Just get over it.

00:51:54.000 You want to live in a diverse society, you might have to start by recognizing that our diverse society has people of religious belief inside of it.

00:52:01.000 The Washington Post is very angry at this, however.

00:52:03.000 They say that the form includes a section that says moral misconduct, which violates the bona fide occupational qualifications for employees includes, but is not limited to such behaviors as the following heterosexual activity outside of marriage.

00:52:15.000 Now, I noticed that the media story is not very upset about this one.

00:52:19.000 That the school condemns heterosexual activity outside of marriage.

00:52:21.000 They're not upset about that one because they think that it's not necessarily that immoral to tell straight people not to have sex outside of marriage. 0.59

00:52:29.000 They think it's super duper terrible to say that if you engage in homosexual activity then that is a sin in the Christian view.

00:52:38.000 Although all of these are sins in the Christian view.

00:52:39.000 Okay.

00:52:40.000 Premarital sex, cohabitation, extramarital sex, homosexual or lesbian sexual activity, polygamy, transgender identity, any other violation of the unique rules of male and female sexual harassment, use or viewing of pornographic materials or website.

00:52:51.000 So basically, schools can have social standards so long as those social standards are approved by the left.

00:52:56.000 And if those social standards are not approved by the left, you cannot associate with that school or with that synagogue or with that church.

00:53:04.000 You know my response to this?

00:53:05.000 If you're gonna try and tell me where I can send my kids to school because you think you know better for my kids than I do, or because you think that your secular worldview is somehow morally better innately than my religious worldview, you can go to hell.

00:53:16.000 I'm really not interested in your opinion on this.

00:53:17.000 And I don't think Karen Pence is either.

00:53:18.000 And I think she has every right to tell these people to take a long walk off a short pier.

00:53:23.000 Other things that I hate today.

00:53:24.000 So Beto O'Rourke is another one of these 2020 hotshot front runners.

00:53:28.000 He has an interview that demonstrates that the dude is just an empty vessel.

00:53:31.000 I mean, he's just an empty vessel.

00:53:32.000 Did an interview with the Washington Post.

00:53:34.000 And somebody suggested to me yesterday, and I tweeted it out, that Beto O'Rourke is basically Pucci from The Simpsons.

00:53:41.000 He just goes around on his skateboard, and he's like, hey guys, awesome.

00:53:46.000 And then everybody's, and he's like, yeah!

00:53:49.000 Woo! 0.99

00:53:50.000 That's Beto O'Rourke, and you can tell from this interview in the Washington Post, it's pretty amazing.

00:53:54.000 The interview is basically Beto O'Rourke just not answering questions.

00:53:58.000 So, for example, they ask him, what should be done to address visa overstays?

00:54:01.000 And he says, I don't know.

00:54:03.000 Pausing in a lengthy interview.

00:54:04.000 And then they ask him about the visa systems and harmonizing them with Mexico.

00:54:09.000 He says, that's an answer, but that's something that we should be debating.

00:54:13.000 And then they ask him.

00:54:15.000 About the wall.

00:54:17.000 And he says, he says, The genius is we can non-violently resolve our differences.

00:54:22.000 Though I won't get to my version of perfect, or I, working with you, will get to something better than what we have today.

00:54:27.000 It's rare someone's ever been able to impose their will unilaterally in this country.

00:54:31.000 We don't want that.

00:54:32.000 So, we're like, we just asked about like whether you like a wall or not.

00:54:36.000 We didn't ask about non-violence.

00:54:37.000 And it's like to every question, to every question he just answers, I trust the wisdom of the people.

00:54:43.000 The people will do the right thing.

00:54:46.000 I just asked you if you want to order a burger.

00:54:48.000 Like, I'm not asking you for, like, your general thoughts on the wisdom of the people.

00:54:53.000 Which, by the way, you know what I'd love to hear one day from a politician?

00:54:56.000 Is a politician say, you know what, sometimes people are just dumb.

00:54:59.000 Right?

00:54:59.000 Sometimes the people make dumb decisions.

00:55:00.000 Sometimes this kind of worship for popular sovereignty is really ridiculous.

00:55:05.000 Now, I'm a fan of popular sovereignty because, as Winston Churchill put it, it's the best system, it's the worst system aside from all the others.

00:55:11.000 We don't have a better system.

00:55:13.000 But this kind of, I trust the people, routine that you get from both right and left, the American people always know best.

00:55:18.000 Really?

00:55:18.000 Did the American people always know best?

00:55:19.000 I don't think so.

00:55:20.000 I think there are many cases in which the American people do not know best.

00:55:23.000 Which is why leadership is important.

00:55:25.000 Which is why sometimes you have to propose unpopular ideas and then try to teach people about those ideas until they become popular.

00:55:34.000 The essence of being a good leader or a good politician is not necessarily bowing to the whims of public pressure.

00:55:39.000 But O'Rourke is one slim reed.

00:55:41.000 I mean, that dude bows before every political wind available.

00:55:45.000 When asked about Syria, he says he'd like to see a debate, a discussion, a national conversation.

00:55:50.000 When asked about a Green New Deal, he says, I'm glad the work has been done to articulate the goal.

00:55:55.000 That's a perfect point from which to start a conversation.

00:55:59.000 How about, like, a position?

00:56:00.000 How about, like, a thing you think?

00:56:02.000 How about that?

00:56:02.000 That would be good.

00:56:03.000 Then we can know whether you're proposing something good or not.

00:56:06.000 But this is one of the frontrunners for the Democratic Party.

00:56:08.000 So you've got Kamala Harris, who's a down-the-line progressive who did a terrible job as Attorney General in California. 1.00

00:56:13.000 She's a frontrunner. 0.97

00:56:13.000 You've got Beto O'Rourke, who doesn't hold a position, but rides a skateboard, guys, and has long bangs that he can flick back romantically in the sunlight way. 0.97

00:56:23.000 And you've got Kirsten Gillibrand, who's a shapeshifter, who will take any position that is necessary for her to take, so long as it also allows her to say that she's doing it as a woman. 0.85

00:56:34.000 Great, great gang you brought here, guys.

00:56:36.000 Now, if any of these people win in 2020, we got a problem.

00:56:38.000 We got a problem.

00:56:39.000 Now, that's not to suggest that President Trump is perfect in any way, but it does show the threat of the left, because my goodness gracious, that's some bad stuff.

00:56:46.000 By the way, Beto O'Rourke finished his interview by saying, That we may not be able to govern under the Constitution.

00:56:52.000 He says maybe we can't be managed by the same principles that were set down 230 plus years ago.

00:56:58.000 That should be frightening to anyone, but I guess that we don't get frightened by people saying they want to overthrow the Constitution unless those people are of the Trumpian persuasion.

00:57:06.000 OK, well, we will be back here tomorrow with much, much more.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - January 16, 2019

Is Everybody Conservative Racist? | Ep. 696

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