Ben Shapiro talks about the Covington, TN incident, and the latest update from the high school about bomb threats and threats made against them. Plus, the Democratic response to the viral video of a Native American man being berated by a group of white high school students, and whether or not the incident was racist. Ben Shapiro also talks about how a white kid in a MAGA hat is a racist, and why we have gone too far in this country in terms of demonizing people of color and how we should have gone back to the old days of race and classism, not the new days of white supremacy and white nationalism, and how our journalistic firefighters get down to the crucial business of investigating high school children, and Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez says the world will end in 12 years, and Democrats play the 20-20 game. Today's After Show Was Hosted By: Ben Shapiro Subscribe to The Ben Shapiro Show on Apple Podcasts Subscribe on iTunes Learn more about your ad choices. Use the promo code: PODCAST to receive 20% off your first month with discount code POWER10 at checkout. Subscribe and receive 10% off of your first purchase when you become a patron of the show! Use discount codes POWER10 when you shop at ZapsRecruiter, DailyWire, D-I-WELCOME and get 20% OFF when you sign up for the 5-piece Spring Cleaning Kit and receive $5 or more when you enter the offer a FREE shipping offer when you get a product review starts in the offer starts! Learn more on 5-AVOcursors get 10% OFFERS ARE INCLUSIVE when they receive the offer of $99 or more than $50 or $99,000, and get an ad discount when they review the offer is in the deal starts, and they also get 5-day VIPREPROMO? FREE PROMO CODE: VIPREVIEW AND FREE PRICING starts starts on the show gets 24-GBROBINDS AND VIPREZZER gets $25,000 and they get $5,000 OFF THE FIBROSTROS VIPREMSGURDS ARE PROMORCHORDS AND PATREON BOWLSYNN BOWLEROSTRO IS A VOTES ARE IN THE CHECKBOOK AND VIP REVIEW AND VIP SUPPORTING THE SHOW IS A SUBSCRIBE?
00:00:18.000Oh, man, there is so much in the news happening.
00:00:21.000I have so many things to say about those things, just like every day.
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00:01:34.000All right, so, the latest update from Covington High School.
00:01:37.000Now, yesterday, on our radio show, we talked to several of the Covington High School students, and I've been speaking to them ever since, and they've been giving me updates.
00:01:44.000The latest update is that they had to cancel classes over at Covington High School because of death threats.
00:01:52.000They've now had to cancel school today, and they had to cancel their basketball game, which was scheduled for the next couple days, because of all the violent threats that are being made over a completely falsified video that the media pushed forward.
00:02:03.000So the media over the weekend pushed forward this video, as you'll recall from yesterday's show.
00:02:08.000They pushed forward a video suggesting that Covington High School students surrounded an elderly Native American Vietnam veteran and then began berating him, yelling at him, obstructing him, and all the rest.
00:02:19.000The further video shows that what happened is that there were a bunch of black Hebrew Israelites, cult members, who were yelling racial, Sexual orientation slurs at the students.
00:02:27.000The students did not respond except by chanting their school chants, at which point Nathan Phillips, this elderly Native American gentleman, he decided to saunter into the middle of the high school students with some of his buddies, pounding a drum and getting in the faces of some of the students.
00:02:48.000I mean, I've spoken to a bunch of the students at this point.
00:02:52.000These are, from my impression, good, solid kids.
00:02:55.000I see no evidence that they are racist.
00:02:56.000I see no evidence that they did anything egregious or wrong.
00:02:59.000And you're seeing commentary from folks on the left, suggesting that one kid in particular, Nick Sandman, who's the one who you see in the video standing face to face with a Native American guy, that he was doing something wrong by smiling.
00:03:15.000So on Martin Luther King Day yesterday, people were talking about how a white kid smiling was racist because he happened to be wearing a MAGA hat.
00:03:23.000You think maybe we have gone too far in this country in terms of polarizing people by way of race?
00:04:00.000Remember Barack Obama did that with Clock Boy?
00:04:02.000Remember there was that Muslim kid in Texas who, in my opinion, falsely claims that he had been expelled for building a clock when, in fact, he brought in a device that looked very much like a bomb.
00:04:13.000And he was briefly investigated and suspended briefly.
00:04:17.000And then Barack Obama suggested it was racism and Islamophobia and then invited him to the White House.
00:04:22.000It seems to me that if somebody's been maligned here, it's Nick Sandman, who's been deeply maligned by all of this.
00:05:02.000And that's where my opinion landed on Saturday night, Sunday morning, Monday.
00:05:06.000The media continued to press forward the case that these kids are racist.
00:05:10.000So how are they going to press forward the case that these kids are racist?
00:05:12.000Well, they're going to bring on people who weren't even at the event to talk about how these kids were racist.
00:05:17.000They brought on a tribal rights attorney.
00:05:20.000MSNBC brought in a tribal rights attorney who admits in the interview she was not present when any of this happened, but she saw something racist that happened.
00:05:28.000Why is her opinion any better than yours?
00:06:31.000The media continued to push this forward until it became un-pushable anymore, at which point some in the media swiveled and decided to clock other members of Covington High School for more non-racist stuff.
00:06:41.000So the worst egregious offenders today are the folks over at the New York Daily News.
00:06:46.000The folks over at the New York Daily News.
00:06:47.000So, over at the New York Daily News, this was the headline yesterday, and still today they've not taken this down.
00:06:58.000Covington Catholic High students in blackface at past basketball game.
00:07:03.000And they show a picture of these kids who are yelling at an opposing player who's a black kid.
00:07:09.000And a couple of the kids are completely covered in black body paint.
00:07:12.000And here is what the New York Daily News reports.
00:07:15.000This won't help Kentucky student Nick Sandman's case.
00:07:18.000A photo said to be featuring Covington Catholic High School students clad in blackface during a 2015 basketball game made the rounds on Twitter Monday morning amid last week's Indigenous Peoples March controversy.
00:07:29.000Okay, the photo depicts several white students, some in blackface, shouting at an opposing black player.
00:07:33.000While the photo's origins couldn't be verified, the official Covington Catholic High School YouTube account published a video last January, boasting its basketball school spirit.
00:07:40.000And several clips, including one from 2012, showcase attendees chanting in blackface, a mockery of the opposing players.
00:07:46.000The school took down the video later on Monday.
00:07:52.000Okay, so first of all, number one, they are now citing incidents that are not this incident about kids who are not this kid from a time that is not this time.
00:07:59.000Number two, were these kids even in blackface mocking the black player?
00:08:06.000For people who don't know anything about high school sports, very often, in high school sports, they will have games that are whiteout games, or blackout games, or blueout games, where both teams wear a color of the uniform, right?
00:08:18.000One will wear white, one will wear black, and then they'll reverse, or they'll both wear blue, but it'll be white on blue versus blue on white, and then the students will dress up in the color for that game.
00:08:26.000So in a blueout game, then everybody will wear blue, right?
00:08:29.000And people will paint themselves blue.
00:08:36.000No, of course they weren't mocking black people.
00:08:38.000There's no evidence that they were mocking black people.
00:08:40.000The New York Daily News ran with it anyway, because now they have to demonstrate that they may have been wrong about this case, but they weren't wrong in general.
00:08:48.000They are applying the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez view of politics.
00:08:51.000It's not important to be factually correct.
00:08:53.000It's just important to be morally correct.
00:08:56.000The New York Daily News, which is just a piece of garbage newspaper.
00:08:59.000They report Sandman, the Covington Junior donning a MAGA cap, tried to dispel reports that he was mocking Nathan Phillips and other Native Americans at the end of the Indigenous Peoples March as they performed the American Indian Movement song at the Lincoln Memorial.
00:09:10.000Sandman said in a statement, I never interacted with this protester.
00:09:30.000Now, what's amazing is that people are still taking this guy at his word.
00:09:34.000As I said yesterday, we have this presumption when it comes to people on the left lying about things that happen, that they're not actually lying, that we have to take their statements with the greatest benefit of the doubt possible.
00:09:44.000It's the same reaction that led people to believe, as President Obama did, about Ferguson, Missouri.
00:09:49.000People don't just make this sort of stuff up.
00:09:56.000In this particular case, Nathan Phillips made stuff up about high school students, the media swallowed it, hook, line, and sinker, and ran with it, and continues some of them to run with it.
00:10:06.000Now, Town Hall is reporting, Covington Catholic Principal Bob Rowe has closed school on Tuesday in the wake of the weekend's controversy.
00:10:12.000The media tore into student Nick Sandman after a video suggested he had harassed a Native American veteran.
00:10:17.000When more footage came out, it turned out Sandman had done nothing wrong.
00:10:21.000Covington had originally condemned the actions of its students because everybody reacts too quickly to everything, right?
00:10:25.000I think that there's a basic rule in politics that we all need to apply now.
00:10:29.000It's what my mom calls the count to ten rule.
00:10:32.000Before you react, before you tweet anything, before you jump on a bandwagon, count to 10.
00:10:37.000Really, just take a breath and think about maybe whether you ought to jump on that bandwagon.
00:10:41.000Now, I'm not going to say that I have that I've never violated that rule.
00:10:46.000But I think if we all abide by the count to 10 rule, a lot of pain and friction in our culture Would quickly be avoided.
00:10:53.000Phillips has now rejected Sandman's statement, demanding he write a new one and suggesting that he and his peers be considered for expulsion.
00:10:59.000He didn't accept any responsibility, Phillips said.
00:11:01.000That lack of responsibility, I don't accept it.
00:11:04.000And then Phillips turned down an opportunity to sit down and meet with a group of Covington students.
00:11:08.000First of all, I don't think the students should sit down with this guy.
00:11:27.000The answer is, of course, there is no point It's absurd.
00:11:30.000So, these kids have nothing to apologize for from where I sit.
00:11:33.000I'm not seeing any evidence they have anything to apologize for.
00:11:36.000In a second, I'm going to explain how this story went viral in the first place because it's pretty, it's pretty amazing.
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00:13:01.000The entire left, which has been consumed with the idea that Russian bots twisted the 2016 election, fell for a bunch of fake accounts on Twitter promoting this stuff.
00:13:10.000So according to CNN.com, Twitter suspended an account on Monday afternoon that helped spread a controversial encounter between a Native American elder and a group of high school students wearing Make America Great Again hats.
00:13:20.000The account claimed to belong to a California schoolteacher.
00:13:23.000Its profile photo was not of a schoolteacher, but of a blogger based in Brazil.
00:13:27.000Twitter suspended the account after CNN Business asked about it.
00:13:29.000The account, with the username 2020fight, was set up in December 2016 and appeared to be the tweet of a woman named Talia living in California, teacher and advocate, fighting for 2020.
00:13:39.000Since the beginning of the year, the account had tweeted on average 130 times a day and had more than 40,000 followers.
00:13:45.000Late on Friday, the account posted the minute-long video, and that video was viewed 2.5 million times.
00:13:51.000And then it turns out that there are a bunch of viral accounts that started promoting all of this stuff.
00:13:57.000In one indicator of the 2020 video's virality, multiple newsrooms, including some national American outlets, reached out to the user asking them directly about the video.
00:14:07.000Molly McHugh is an information warfare researcher who saw the tweet and shared it herself on Saturday.
00:14:11.000She later realized a network of anonymous accounts were working to amplify the video.
00:14:15.000So in other words, for all the talk about how everybody ought to beware of bots and confirmation bias, everybody is subject to it.
00:14:22.000And it was obvious in this particular case.
00:14:26.000Now, in a second, I'm going to explain to you a little bit more about the Native American elder at the center of this controversy, because it turns out this is not his first time pulling this sort of stunt.
00:14:35.000So, Ryan Saavedra reports over at my site, Daily Wire, quote, The Native American man at the center of the controversy involving a group of Trump supporting high school boys from Covington Catholic High School in Kentucky has a history of claiming disrespect and racism by students.
00:14:49.000Nathan Phillips claimed in April 2015 that a group at Eastern Michigan University were racist toward him after he approached them while they were participating in an American Indian-themed party.
00:14:58.000They had little feathers on, I was just gonna walk by, Phillips claimed.
00:15:00.000A group of them said, come on over here, come here.
00:15:02.000Then they started whooping and hollering.
00:15:04.000I said, that wasn't honoring, that was racist.
00:15:05.000Then at that time, it got really ugly.
00:15:07.000He claimed the students yelled racial slurs at him and threw a beer can at him.
00:15:10.000They said, go back to the reservation, you blank Indian, he said.
00:15:17.000Fox 2 Detroit asked Phillips why he decided to approach the students, why he didn't just walk away.
00:15:21.000Phillips said, for me to just walk by and have a blind eye to it, something just didn't allow me to do it.
00:15:26.000Well, the alleged incident from 2015 mirrors a lot of exactly what he was claiming here.
00:15:32.000In a now-deleted article from ABC 7 Detroit, the Eastern Michigan University said they were investigating the alleged incident, but residents at the address where the alleged incident happened told 7 Action News none of them were at Saturday's party and declined to comment.
00:15:45.000So, again, maybe his original allegations in 2015 were true, maybe they weren't.
00:15:51.000But his allegations now certainly are not true.
00:15:53.000And they were pushed by the media anyway, and you can tell, at this point, it's pretty obvious.
00:15:57.000Again, let's give people the benefit of the doubt to the extent of saying maybe some people honestly got this wrong Friday and Saturday.
00:16:02.000If you are still pushing the debunked story today, Then there's no way to give you the benefit of the doubt.
00:16:18.000The entire reason the media covered this is because they hate the March for Life, they hate people wearing MAGA hats, and they decided that people wearing MAGA hats at the March for Life, that was a twofer.
00:16:26.000And if you were white, it was a threefer.
00:16:28.000That means that they had to be crazy and racist and they had to be kooks.
00:16:32.000Alyssa Milano made this absolutely clear, right?
00:16:35.000Famed great thinker who shows up at Supreme Court confirmation hearings wearing like handmaid's tail outfits, Alyssa Milano.
00:16:42.000You know, most famous for being in Charmed and then nothing else for the last 20 years.
00:16:46.000So she tweeted out, she tweeted out yesterday, with regard to these Covington High School kids, something incredible.
00:16:53.000So what she tweeted out, let me find the exact tweet because it really is pretty astonishing.
00:16:58.000She said that, sorry, scrolling through her tweets here.
00:17:02.000She said, here, quote, Let's not forget, this entire event happened because a group of boys went on a school-sanctioned trip to protest against a woman's right to her own body and reproductive health care.
00:17:12.000It is not debatable that bigotry was at play from the start.
00:17:16.000In other words, everyone at the March for Life, all 500,000 people, 600,000 people, All of those people were bigots.
00:17:37.000All the blowback that everyone at the March for Life is getting is about one thing and one thing only, their presence at the March for Life.
00:17:44.000If this had just been a random political event, if this had just been nothing to do with Trump, nothing to do with the March for Life, if this had just been Comic-Con, none of this would have been an issue.
00:17:52.000This is all about trying to destroy anyone who's remotely associated with the March for Life and the media bandwagon jumping on anyone who was there in order to derive these nutso narratives that they're attempting to push.
00:18:05.000We are now living in an age of anti-religious bigotry.
00:18:45.000And as I say, it is part of a broader anti-religious agenda that extends back into last week, as we saw, and even before that.
00:18:51.000And let's face it, the mainstream left in this country has moved in an anti-religious direction.
00:18:55.000It used to be that religious warfare in the country was basically internecine.
00:19:00.000You know, Tom Lehrer, who's a famous comedic songwriter back in the 60s, he had a funny song called International Brotherhood Week, or National Brotherhood Week.
00:19:09.000And in the middle of the song, he starts talking about religious hatred.
00:19:11.000He says, and the Protestants hate the Catholics, and the Catholics hate the Protestants, and the Hindus hate the Muslims, and everybody hates the Jews, right?
00:19:18.000That's sort of usually how religious warfare works.
00:19:21.000But we're now living in a time Where the secular left has decided to take on everyone of traditional Judeo-Christian values, whether it is Karen Pence teaching at a religious school, whether it is the Knights of Columbus, or whether it is these kids who are acting out their Catholic faith by going to the March for Life rally.
00:19:36.000This is about a deep-seated conflict between folks who cannot stand the presence of religion in everyday life and people who are religious.
00:19:54.000He has a piece today at the Washington Post in which he suggests that Karen Pence, for example, who is teaching at a Christian school that requires kids to abide by traditional Christian values, that they can't rely on Christianity.
00:20:05.000This is just pure bigotry masquerading as Christianity.
00:20:08.000This is the way so many on the left view actual traditional Christianity.
00:20:12.000It's a basket of bigotries masquerading as religion.
00:20:15.000And so if we could just strip away the religious veneer, the bigotry would remain and we would see all these people for the bad people they are.
00:20:23.000According to Adam Latz, you know, we can't take that at face value when Karen Pence says she's religious or when these Covington High School kids say they are religious.
00:20:31.000Because the truth is, religion has been open to interpretation for a very long time.
00:20:35.000Anybody who makes the claim that certain basic creedal truths of doctrine are open to interpretation that have not changed for 2,000 years.
00:20:44.000And I'm not talking about metaphorical interpretation of the six days of creation and the Sabbath.
00:20:51.000And I'm not talking about the interpretation of slavery, which is not mandated by the Bible.
00:20:55.000I'm talking about things like, do not do X. If it says in the Bible, do not do X, you know what the Bible generally means by that?
00:21:01.000Do not do X, which means it is a religious truth.
00:21:05.000But folks on the left don't want to acknowledge that.
00:21:07.000They would prefer to castigate anyone who disagrees with them as an inherent sinner.
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00:22:57.000Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said something that was neither morally true nor factually true, but demonstrates the catastrophic thinking that has taken over the Democratic Party.
00:23:05.000She was speaking yesterday, and she says that millennials believe that the world will end in 12 years.
00:23:39.000You know, like, there was 2012, and it came out a few years ago, like, in 2012, about the end of the world and Mayan prophecies or something.
00:23:45.000Can she, like, I think that when she does that, when she, like, the world's gonna end in, like, 12 years.
00:23:49.000I know, first of all, I know someone who's speaking science when they add the word, like, before their estimate of a disaster.
00:23:54.000When they say things akin to, when they say something like, hey, the world is going to end in, like, 52 years.
00:24:02.000I know to take it super seriously because of the like that precedes the 12 years.
00:24:05.000That's that's really where I know it's going.
00:24:07.000Also, I find it hilarious that Alexander Ocasio-Cortez is making the claim that the world is going to end in 12 years.
00:24:13.000So we like have to do everything we can.
00:24:15.000It's just like World War Two, like, whoa, whoa.
00:24:32.000Let's assume the world is ending in 12 years.
00:24:35.000First of all, nothing you do now is going to stop what's going to happen in 12 years.
00:24:39.000If the climate science really suggested that in 12 years we're all going to be dead, that there's going to be a giant fireball from the sky that fries the earth, ain't nothing you can do about it.
00:24:46.000And you paying higher taxes ain't going to solve the problem either.
00:24:49.000Number two, if it's preventable, if Alexander Ocasio-Cortez believes that global warming is going to kill us all in 12 years, and what it really requires is us to get together a crew comprised of Ben Affleck and Bruce Willis to go on a space mission, To the sun, to stop the sun from killing us all in 12 years.
00:25:08.000Maybe she should trade some of her legislative priorities for all the money necessary to make this happen.
00:25:12.000So, proposal to congressional Democrats.
00:25:14.000If you believe that the crisis of humankind is dependent on your tax rates, why don't you just say, how about this?
00:26:16.000I mean, there's no more other people either, but there's that.
00:26:18.000Also, I'm just wondering, if she thinks it's immoral that billionaires exist, how does she think that half the globe was raised out of dire, extreme poverty in the last 30 years?
00:26:28.000I saw CNN tweeting this nonsense out yesterday, too.
00:26:43.000I don't think that necessarily means that all billionaires are immoral.
00:26:49.000But I do think a system that allows billionaires to exist when there are parts of Alabama where people are still getting ringworm because they don't have access to public health is wrong.
00:27:04.000Okay, so I love that the system that exists is just unfair.
00:27:08.000You know, I'm not saying billionaires are bad people.
00:27:10.000Okay, so these two things cannot coincide, right?
00:27:12.000If you say that billionaires are not bad people who are not exploiting people, then how do you rip the system that creates billionaires?
00:27:18.000Really, if you have a free classroom, and the classroom is a free place of intellectual inquiry, and some students do better than other students, And you say, you know what?
00:27:26.000I'm not ripping on the students who do better, because that would not be right.
00:27:36.000Either the billionaires are exploiters, which is why we should dock them their money, or they haven't done anything wrong, in which case you are just a jealous creep who wants to steal their money and give it to somebody else because you think that you are fairer than a system of free enterprise.
00:27:49.000I love the idea that you can sort of destroy the foundational notions of free enterprise by saying that you shouldn't be able to make a certain amount of money.
00:27:57.000And then you can assume that all of the gains of free enterprise will remain.
00:28:01.000That it doesn't kill the entrepreneurial spirit, that it doesn't destroy the ability to create and design new products.
00:28:07.000America's economy is dynamic specifically because we have lots of billionaires.
00:29:21.000Two, even though the world is ending in 12 years, what we really have to worry about is the rich people who have ensured that poor people can get out of poverty.
00:29:28.000I'll give you the third radical silly thing that she said in just a second.
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00:31:15.000Economically speaking, when we talk about the issue of, say, reparations, people think about reparations as reparations for slavery.
00:31:26.000But really, economically speaking, reparations are for the damage done by the New Deal and redlining.
00:31:32.000Because that is where we saw a compounding of the existing inequity from the legacy of slavery, where we drew red lines around black communities.
00:32:17.000Now, the good news for Republicans is that the Democratic base, at least members of the primary base, seem to be eating all of this up.
00:32:23.000What that means is that they are very interested in pushing forward the race issue particularly.
00:32:29.000That means that in 2020, the person who has the upper hand is Kamala Harris, the senator from California.
00:32:35.000After all, she has no record in the Senate except for ripping on Catholics and lying about Brett Kavanaugh, and she happens to be with black and a woman.
00:32:40.000So those are the things that matter in the Democratic primary.
00:32:47.000And she also is both black and a woman, which is super duper important because things.
00:32:54.000Very important that she is that she is a racial minority and that she is a woman, because after all, stuff.
00:33:00.000So Kamala Harris announced that she was going to be running for president, and everybody in the media was very excited, and no one outside the media was very excited.
00:33:08.000Here is Kamala Harris, whose chief qualification for being president of the United States is that she was a terrible attorney general in my home state of California.
00:33:26.000And that is certainly what I intend to do as a candidate for the President of the United States.
00:33:31.000It is my full intention to travel this country and to sit in living rooms and to listen to families and let them express their concerns and their needs and understand that when we take on these positions it is about representing all of the people of the country.
00:33:47.000Wow, riveting stuff from Kamala Harris.
00:33:49.000Her program is she's going to sit there and listen to you.
00:33:52.000So if you need a traveling psychiatrist who can't prescribe drugs and also is not qualified, Kamala Harris is your lady.
00:33:58.000She's going to come to your house, knock on your door, and listen to all your problems, and then leave and tell you she solved all your problems because America is a terrible place.
00:34:05.000What's amazing is because everybody sort of knows that Kamala Harris has A particular advantage when it comes to the primaries, namely the same advantage that Barack Obama had over Hillary Clinton in 2008, which is that 30% of the primary voting base of the Democratic Party is black.
00:34:25.000That means that the number one thing that all of the Democratic candidates now have to do is racially pander.
00:34:31.000This is legitimately like first on the priority list.
00:34:33.000So Joe Biden, who wants to run for president for the 19th time, and happens to be old and white, he is going to now pander as much as he possibly can to racial minorities suggesting that Donald Trump is a racist.
00:34:47.000So the way that you are going to be able to overcome the fact that he's an old white man is by pointing to the other old white man in the White House and saying, that guy's a racist.
00:34:53.000And I'm standing for you because he's a racist.
00:34:56.000So here is Joe Biden doing that routine yesterday.
00:34:57.000We've learned in the last two years, it doesn't take much to awaken hate, to bring those folks out from under the rocks that part of American society has always been there, will always be there, but has been legitimized.
00:35:38.000And it's the truth is that if you look at the actual polling data, what you will see is that racism not only did not start with Trump, the rise of racial polarization, Did not start with President Trump.
00:35:47.000It actually started and began to widen under Barack Obama.
00:35:49.000I'm looking at the polling data right this minute.
00:36:08.000So in the course of eight years under Barack Obama, the number of Americans who were worried about race relations, either a great deal or a fair amount, had risen 17 points.
00:36:18.000Hey, but right now it's at 64%, so it's only risen a couple of percent since Trump was elected.
00:36:23.000But it had risen 17 points between when Obama was elected and when Obama was leaving office.
00:36:28.000Does that suggest that racism in America is due to Trump?
00:36:30.000Or is it possible that the left's constant focus on racial polarization for political gain actually had a cost?
00:36:45.000Bernie Sanders ran as a kind of post-racial socialist in 2016.
00:36:51.000In his campaign, he was asked about racial issues and it caused some real tension with folks like Ta-Nehisi Coates who said, well, Bernie Sanders just doesn't understand racism because Bernie Sanders keeps saying that socialism is a cure for racism.
00:37:02.000Bernie Sanders' take is basically that under socialism, everybody is viewed equally, and so if we redistribute the wealth, then racism will automatically go away.
00:37:09.000And folks like Ta-Nehisi Coates were saying, well, that's pretty short-sighted.
00:37:12.000Well, now Bernie Sanders, because he wants to run again, feels the need to reach out and win more minority votes if he wants to head off people like Kamala Harris.
00:37:20.000So now he's going to go full bore on the Trump is a racist train, even though over the last couple of years he's been Kinda dicey about just calling Trump a racist.
00:37:27.000Now this is going to be the coin of the realm.
00:37:29.000The entry cost for becoming a Democratic presidential candidate is going to be calling President Trump a racist.
00:37:34.000Today we talk about justice and today we talk about racism.
00:37:39.000And I must tell you, it gives me no pleasure to tell you that we now have a President of the United States who is a racist.
00:37:51.000OK, so this is what we are going to hear from now until election time from every Democrat is how racist President Trump is.
00:37:57.000Now, as I've said before, I'm not going to defend every statement that President Trump has made, particularly not about Charlottesville.
00:38:03.000But if you want to call President Trump a racist, you're going to need to do a little bit better.
00:38:06.000Then I changed my mind in the last five minutes when I was running for president.
00:38:14.000Remember how there was this government shutdown and like a bunch of people aren't getting paid?
00:38:17.000It turns out all you have to do is misdirect to a bunch of high school students and then no one cares about the government shutdown anymore.
00:38:29.000There's a poll about Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, whose myriad stupidities we just pointed out.
00:38:35.000A new poll shows that 74% of Democrats would consider voting for Ocasio-Cortez if she were old enough to run for president, including 17% who would definitely vote for her.
00:38:44.000She tops Senator Chuck Schumer in favorability among Democrats and overall nearly rivals Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
00:38:52.000That's how radical the Democrats have moved.
00:38:53.000Anyway, back to the government shutdown.
00:38:55.000So the government shutdown continues apace.
00:38:56.000Democrats have completely ignored, they've completely ignored President Trump's offer And they're doing so out of pure political expediency.
00:39:06.000A Democratic representative sort of acknowledged that yesterday.
00:40:06.000Now, how is this all going to play out?
00:40:07.000Well, yesterday, aviation unions were coming out and explaining that if this shutdown continues very much longer, you're going to see massive numbers of flights canceled because there are just too many people who are dependent on federal government largesse and the TSA for their flights.
00:40:22.000Here is one of the heads of one of the aviation unions, Sarah Nelson, International President of the Association of Flight Attendants, saying federal workers being shut down, not getting paid, it's going to lead to a massive private strike that is going to shut down the airline industry.
00:41:10.000The airline industry never should have been federalized.
00:41:12.000The airline industry never should have been federalized.
00:41:14.000It all should have been done privately.
00:41:16.000There's no reason the taxpayers should be footing the bill for the airline industry.
00:41:19.000It would not have been that difficult for air traffic controllers to be privately hired by a consortium of flight companies, have each company do its own security.
00:41:28.000It would actually be a selling point whose security was best.
00:41:31.000But because we federalize everything, it's now become a federal issue.
00:41:34.000With that said, if flights start getting shut down, there's going to be additional pressure to stop the government shutdown.
00:41:39.000And that's why Republicans, President Trump, they need to be laying the groundwork right this very minute for saying the Democrats are being completely unreasonable.
00:41:45.000Every tweet Trump sends should be on how unreasonable Democrats are being.
00:41:49.000He should be at the border right now, pointing to open spaces in the border where people are walking across and saying, all they have to do is fund this, this five feet right here, and we can end this government shutdown.
00:41:59.000But they hate me so much, they won't do it.
00:42:01.000This is time for a full court press by Republicans, because Democrats simply don't care.
00:42:05.000They think they can wait around and let the media do their bidding for them.
00:42:46.000They all need to be out there explaining why this is a problem and why all they would have to do is get five cents a nickel out of the cushions in order to pay for this thing.
00:42:54.000Because when the bleep really hits the fan here, when the flights start getting canceled, the American people are going to turn on somebody.
00:43:00.000Republicans should ensure that it is not them.
00:44:19.000Okay, so let's talk about what was nominated for Best Picture this year.
00:44:21.000So the Oscar nominations are finally out.
00:44:23.000One of the things I love about the fact that the Oscar nominations have been brought in to eight or ten films now, in Best Picture category, is it was supposed to include films people had seen.
00:44:32.000Out of the films that people, out of all, let's see, how many films were nominated?
00:45:06.000It was, you know, a Marvel movie with a bad ending, but, and it really had one compelling character in Killmonger, but it's nominated for Best Picture.
00:45:15.000First comic book movie to be nominated for Best Picture since, I believe, The Dark Knight, which shows you a decline in quality, because The Dark Knight is an all-time great flick.
00:45:21.000Black Panther will be forgotten seven minutes after this Best Picture Oscars.
00:45:26.000But the other ones that have been nominated that made some money, Bohemian Rhapsody made some money by a bunch of boomers and Gen Xers who still remember We Are The Champions.
00:45:35.000And then A Star Is Born made some money because it had Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga.
00:45:39.000None of those three are going to win Best Picture.
00:45:41.000The ones that are really up for Best Picture are Black Klansman, which is Spike Lee's film, which I've watched and it's mediocre.
00:46:00.000And then there's Green Book, which is everybody's sort of favorite, which means it won't win, right?
00:46:05.000It's now in the front-runner position, which means there will be a backlash before the Oscars, and then it won't win.
00:46:09.000Green Book is about an Italian mobster who is a low-level, mob-level enforcer, who's driving a black gay guy through the South in the 1960s.
00:46:18.000So it's about how America is intolerant, but tolerant.
00:46:20.000We love each other, but we're intolerant.
00:46:51.000OK, so A Quiet Place is a good picture this year.
00:46:53.000And then there was a great picture this year, The Death of Stalin, which received zero nominations and is by far the best picture of the year.
00:47:50.000Okay, final thing that I hate for today.
00:47:52.000So, I do have to discuss a comment by Lady Gaga.
00:47:55.000So, Lady Gaga, we talked about this on yesterday's radio show, which is why you should subscribe, but Lady Gaga...
00:48:02.000Made a comment at one of her concerts about how Mike Pence is a terrible representative of Christianity.
00:48:08.000Which makes sense, because when I think of people who are great representatives of Christianity, I usually think about the lady who warbled the song Telephone.
00:49:12.000And when he talked to people, when he did the whole, you know, people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones and the splinter in your eye and the log in your eye, that whole thing, that was followed by go and sin no more, right?
00:49:23.000So the idea was, you're not supposed to sin.
00:49:27.000But apparently the new message of Christianity is the message of Lady Gaga, which is do whatever you want, and it's my job to massage your shoulders.
00:49:33.000That is not what Christianity is about.
00:49:35.000It's not what Judeo-Christian religion is about.
00:49:38.000Boiling down Christianity to a pagan acceptance of bad behavior?
00:49:43.000is pretty much the religion we deserve, given today's day and age.
00:49:48.000As I've said before, I really believe, I mean, in my new book I talk about this, I actually believe that Lady Gaga's Born This Way is the single best expression of the modern mentality when it comes to morality that has been written, and I think it is deeply immoral and pagan.
00:50:00.000The idea that you have a natural drive to do something, therefore God made you this way, therefore you should probably go and do it.
00:50:06.000That is precisely the opposite of traditional religion, which suggests that a drive to do something does not justify you actually doing that thing.
00:50:13.000There's a line in the movie The African Queen, which is a great movie from the 1950s, in which Catherine Hepburn, who is a religious woman, says to another character, nature, Mr. Allnut, is something we are put on earth to overcome.
00:50:24.000And there's something about that in religion.
00:50:27.000Lady Gaga, nature is something to surrender to, and if you don't surrender to it, then you are not being Christian.
00:50:32.000When you go back and you look at the story of Adam and Eve, one of the questions that is asked is, why is it that what the snake says is so seductive to Eve?
00:51:24.000And that's when God says, no, when I tell you not to do something, I tell you not to do it because it turns out that self-control is one half of becoming a better person.
00:51:33.000The other half is directing your self-control at the proper object.
00:51:37.000But according to our modern society, if you have a desire for something, that is in and of itself a justification of action along the lines of that desire.
00:51:45.000That is a deeply anti-Christian message, so I'm not gonna take tips on Christianity from Lady Gaga.
00:51:50.000Just not gonna do it because it's absurd.
00:51:51.000Alrighty, we'll be back here later with a lot more.
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