The Ben Shapiro Show - Jeremy Corbyn's Democratic Party | Ep. 732

00:00:00.000 Democrats greenlight anti-Semitism in the most disgusting possible way.

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00:00:15.000 Well, get ready for an hour of rage because I am livid this morning, livid.

00:00:20.000 I spent two years fighting anti-Semitism from the right.

00:00:24.000 I spent legitimately two years taking on the alt-right every single day, being threatened with death a lot of times.

00:00:30.000 I was the number one recipient of alt-right hate for two years in the United States. 0.88

00:00:34.000 And now the same left that said that they were on my side when it came to fighting anti-Semitism, it turns out they were completely full of bull.

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00:02:10.000 Okay, the fact is...

00:02:11.000 The Democratic Party has decided to wholesale embrace antisemitism.

00:02:15.000 Not a little bit.

00:02:16.000 Not some.

00:02:17.000 Wholesale.

00:02:18.000 Wholesale embrace antisemitism. 0.96

00:02:19.000 So as you know, Ilhan Omar is a vicious antisemite.

00:02:22.000 There's been a lot of talk in the last day or so about how Ilhan Omar wasn't actually saying anything antisemitic. 0.60

00:02:29.000 She was just saying stuff that was anti-Israel.

00:02:32.000 Oh, now this is a convenient excuse very often for people who are antisemitic.

00:02:35.000 Not all anti-Israel commentary is antisemitic.

00:02:39.000 You can criticize the Israeli government.

00:02:41.000 I do it regularly.

00:02:42.000 I've done it twice in the last three months, I believe.

00:02:44.000 So this sort of thing is perfectly normal.

00:02:46.000 You can criticize any government.

00:02:48.000 You can criticize them for any reason.

00:02:50.000 What you cannot do is criticize Jews as a stand-in for Israel.

00:02:54.000 Ilhan Omar is not being criticized today because she was critical of Israel.

00:02:57.000 Virtually every member of the Democratic caucus has been because the Democratic Party has moved in a dramatically anti-Israel fashion for a very long time.

00:03:05.000 That does not necessarily mean anti-Semitic.

00:03:08.000 But, the same people who proclaim that anti-Israel and anti-Semitic are not the same thing, will then say that open anti-Semitism is not anti-Semitism, it's just anti-Israel.

00:03:17.000 And that's what is happening right now.

00:03:19.000 They say, on the left, don't conflate anti-Israel with anti-Semitic.

00:03:23.000 And we say, OK, seems fair.

00:03:27.000 I think that there's not a great excuse for why you would oppose the only democracy in the region and side with, you know, an actual terrorist government in the Gaza Strip and an actual terrorist government in Judea and Samaria.

00:03:38.000 I'm not sure what would motivate that.

00:03:39.000 But if you want to criticize particular actions of the Israeli government, Have at it, just like we have at it here in the United States when we criticize the actions of the American government.

00:03:47.000 That's politics.

00:03:48.000 But the same people who say, listen, my criticism of Israel isn't anti-Semitic.

00:03:52.000 It's just criticism of Israel.

00:03:54.000 Then when somebody says stuff that is openly anti-Semitic, then they say, hey, no, no, that's not Jew hatred.

00:04:01.000 That's just us being anti-Israel. 0.92

00:04:03.000 You don't get to have it both ways.

00:04:04.000 Either anti-Israel and anti-Semitic are not the same thing, or anti-Semitism and anti-Israel activity are the same thing. 0.96

00:04:12.000 What you don't get to do is separate the two, and then when someone says Jew-hating garbage, like Ilhan Omar does consistently, you hide that under the rubric of, oh, she's just being anti-Israel. 0.95

00:04:22.000 Here is the thing. 0.97

00:04:23.000 She has not said anything about Israel.

00:04:26.000 Every comment about which she has been criticized has nothing to do with Israel and everything to do with the Jews, writ large.

00:04:33.000 She's been criticized for three specific statements.

00:04:35.000 Lest we forget, the media is lying about all this today.

00:04:37.000 I'm not going to let them lie about this.

00:04:39.000 She has said three specific things for which she has been criticized.

00:04:42.000 And maybe four if you include her wish to side with the BDS movement.

00:04:46.000 The BDS movement doesn't just suggest that Israel is wrong in the Palestinian conflict.

00:04:50.000 The leaders of the BDS movement have openly stated they want the destruction of the state of Israel.

00:04:54.000 There is no way to talk about the destruction of the state of Israel without talking about the death or expulsion of millions of Jews.

00:05:01.000 That's where Israel policy shades over into anti-Semitism.

00:05:05.000 If you stand for the destruction of the state of Israel, that is anti-Semitic.

00:05:09.000 Anti-Zionism at this point is anti-Semitic, but that is not the same thing as criticizing specific actions of the Israeli government or suggesting a two-state solution.

00:05:18.000 None of that is anti-Semitic.

00:05:19.000 OK, but she didn't even... We're not even talking about that.

00:05:21.000 That's not the stuff she did.

00:05:22.000 She was not even talking about Israel at all.

00:05:25.000 Here are the three comments for which she has been criticized.

00:05:28.000 She's not been criticized for the BDS stuff, really.

00:05:30.000 She should be, but she has not been.

00:05:32.000 But here are the three comments for which Ilhan Omar, the representative from Minnesota, was criticized.

00:05:36.000 She was criticized, one, for stating that Israel hypnotizes the world.

00:05:41.000 That is not a criticism of the Israeli government.

00:05:44.000 That is a suggestion that the nefarious Jews in the Jewish state are using their magical Jew powers to ensure that Israel has support across the world. 0.98

00:05:53.000 That independent people across the world are not supporting Israel because Israel has certain principles, because it's a liberal democracy, because it's a homeland for a historically persecuted people who have been slaughtered en masse for something like 3,000 years. 0.79

00:06:05.000 No, it's that Israel and the nefarious Jews hypnotized the world. 1.00

00:06:08.000 That is blatant anti-Semitism. 0.83

00:06:10.000 That's statement number one.

00:06:12.000 She quasi-apologized for it.

00:06:13.000 She said she didn't really understand originally how that could be offensive to Jews.

00:06:17.000 I mean, she was just talking about Israel, but she wasn't talking about Israeli policy.

00:06:20.000 She was talking about the Jewish state hypnotizing the world. 1.00

00:06:24.000 Second, she said that American support for Israel was quote-unquote all about the Benjamins, and then she cited to AIPAC.

00:06:30.000 What she meant by that, obviously, is that Jewish American money was behind American support for Israel.

00:06:36.000 This is another anti-Semitic comment.

00:06:39.000 It has nothing to do with Israel policy.

00:06:41.000 Israel does not put money into AIPAC.

00:06:44.000 AIPAC is an American lobbying organization funded by Israel supporters, many of whom are Jewish.

00:06:49.000 When she says the reason that Americans support Israel is specifically because the Jews are paying them off to do so, it is all about the Benjamins. 0.58

00:06:59.000 She is suggesting that the Jews are in nefarious fashion paying off various politicians and corruptly causing them to be pro-Israel.

00:07:07.000 That's the thing here. 0.94

00:07:08.000 It's these nefarious Jews and their pro-Israel ways. 1.00

00:07:11.000 That is an anti-Semitic comment. 0.79

00:07:13.000 It's not anti-Israel, because again, it's not a critique of anything the Israeli government is doing.

00:07:18.000 It is not a critique of the state of Israel.

00:07:21.000 It is a critique of Jews in America who are spreading their nefarious Jew money around and causing America to support Israel. 0.98

00:07:27.000 That was her second statement, for which she quasi-apologized, although she didn't really apologize for that.

00:07:31.000 Then she made a third statement.

00:07:32.000 Her third statement was that supporters of Israel, Jewish, non-Jewish, supporters of Israel have dual loyalty to Israel.

00:07:40.000 Now, if she's talking about Jews in that group, that is an anti-Semitic statement.

00:07:44.000 The suggestion that the reason that American Jews support Israel is because they are secret nefarious agents of the Jewish state is a canard that has been used against Jews for legitimately thousands of years, going back to a time when there was no Israel.

00:07:57.000 Remember, Israel was only established in 1948.

00:07:58.000 Anti-Semitism Did not begin with the establishment of the Jewish state.

00:08:03.000 I know that those on the left like to conflate anti-Semitism and anti-Israeli activity.

00:08:08.000 They like to say that every act of anti-Semitism is really rooted in Israeli policy.

00:08:12.000 It turns out anti-Semitism has quite a history before that.

00:08:16.000 The Holocaust took place before the state of Israel existed.

00:08:18.000 The pogroms in 1929 in Hebron, in Hebron, in Israel, by Arabs against Jews.

00:08:24.000 Those took place before there was a state of Israel.

00:08:26.000 Pogroms in Eastern Europe were taking place regularly.

00:08:29.000 The ghettoization of Jews in Europe, that was taking place regularly.

00:08:32.000 The treatment of Jews as second-class citizens in the Muslim world, that was taking place long before there was an Israel.

00:08:38.000 And one of the canards that was used was that the Jews were a group of people who were internally loyal but externally disloyal, that they were a cancer in the body politic, that they had dual loyalty, that they weren't truly loyal to the country in which they lived or the principles of the country in which they lived.

00:08:54.000 Truly, they were loyal only to each other, this tribal clannish group. 1.00

00:08:58.000 That was the canard that has been used against Jews really since time immemorial.

00:09:02.000 I mean, going all the way back to Pharaoh in Egypt, suggesting that the Jews keep to themselves. 0.79

00:09:07.000 So these are all anti-Semitic Trumps.

00:09:08.000 Again, not one of these comments has anything to do with Israel.

00:09:11.000 So what do the Democrats do?

00:09:13.000 The Democrats say, well, no, I guess it has to do with Israel.

00:09:16.000 Her comments really have to do with Israel.

00:09:17.000 And you're trying to shut down debate about Israel when you say that she's being anti-Semitic.

00:09:22.000 Again, not any of her comments have to do with Israel.

00:09:26.000 You know that Democrats are lying, and they are covering up that lie by proclaiming that they are just trying to open the debate about Israel itself.

00:09:34.000 But again, she didn't say anything about Israel.

00:09:37.000 And it is amazing to watch as the Democrats are incapable, completely incapable, of stopping the anti-Semitism rising from within their ranks.

00:09:44.000 Because for the Democrats, not all hate is equal.

00:09:47.000 There's a great irony to this.

00:09:48.000 You'll recall that over the last 48 hours, there was talk about a resolution condemning anti-Semitism.

00:09:53.000 Then, the Democrats decided to water it down by adding Islamophobia.

00:09:57.000 Then, they suggested that they were going to advance a symbolic resolution condemning all hate entirely.

00:10:04.000 But the real rationale for doing this is to write out anti-Semitism as hate, because they couldn't even pass that.

00:10:09.000 They then delayed that resolution.

00:10:11.000 They couldn't even condemn all hate.

00:10:13.000 Because here's the truth.

00:10:14.000 The Democrats don't give any dams about all hate.

00:10:17.000 They don't.

00:10:17.000 They care about the hatred that unifies their base.

00:10:19.000 That's it.

00:10:20.000 They cared about anti-Semitism so long as they could attribute it to the alt-right and attribute it to President Trump.

00:10:25.000 The minute that it turns out that a huge percentage of their base is fine with anti-Semitism, then anti-Semitism takes a backseat.

00:10:32.000 This is nothing new.

00:10:33.000 The New York Times reported this back in October.

00:10:35.000 The New York Times spent years ignoring the uptick in anti-Semitic hate crimes in New York City, and they admitted, full scale, in the New York Times, the reason we didn't cover this is because it wasn't white supremacists.

00:10:46.000 That is the logic of the left.

00:10:47.000 Not that all anti-Semitism is bad. 0.99

00:10:49.000 Not that anti-Semitism is worth condemnation.

00:10:52.000 No, the idea is that anti-Semitism is only bad if we can attribute it to our political opponents.

00:10:56.000 If we're doing it, then it's not really anti-Semitism.

00:10:59.000 Then it's just us being anti-Israel. 0.66

00:11:02.000 Then it's just, you know, look, is anti-Semitism really such a problem in the United States?

00:11:06.000 Like, should we really worry about Ilhan Omar being anti-Semitic?

00:11:08.000 Isn't she more of a victim than the Jews who she is accusing of nefarious protocols of the elders of Zion-style conspiracies behind closed doors?

00:11:18.000 Isn't she the real victim here?

00:11:20.000 This is how Democrats have reacted to all of this.

00:11:24.000 Speaker Nancy Pelosi said, we'll see what the committee comes up with.

00:11:27.000 I'm a big believer in the committee system.

00:11:29.000 This is their jurisdiction.

00:11:30.000 They have an array of concerns, priorities they are addressing.

00:11:32.000 By the way, there's been no push by the Democrats to oust Ilhan Omar from the Foreign Affairs Committee.

00:11:37.000 Right, so it's amazing.

00:11:39.000 They'll suggest that anti-Semitism has nothing to do with anti-Israel activity.

00:11:42.000 Then they cover for anti-Semitism by attributing it to anti-Israel activity.

00:11:46.000 Then the anti-Semite they're covering for gets to sit on a committee that oversees Israel-American relations.

00:11:53.000 Perfect how that works out.

00:11:55.000 In a second, I'm going to talk about what the Democrats are supposedly doing here, what the Democrats are supposedly doing, and then we'll get to their actual responses.

00:12:02.000 Their actual responses are mind-blowing and revelatory and remind you that the Democratic Party does not and has not taken anti-Semitism in its own ranks seriously by any measure whatsoever.

00:12:13.000 Any measure.

00:12:14.000 There are those of us who took it seriously from the right and take it seriously from the left. 0.98

00:12:18.000 I'm still looking for the people on the left willing to take anti-Semitism in their own ranks seriously enough to call this garbage out for what it is.

00:12:25.000 But before we get to that, first, we need to calm down. 0.86

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00:13:46.000 So here is what the Democratic Party is doing about anti-Semitism.

00:13:49.000 The answer is nothing.

00:13:51.000 Nothing.

00:13:53.000 Members involved, as according to the Daily Beast, members involved in crafting the resolution have already been hit with requests from the offices of Democratic lawmakers for specific groups to be included in the resolution.

00:14:02.000 So now they're just going to broaden out what was a single issue resolution to include hatred against people of all faiths and all kinds.

00:14:11.000 Now, I'm old enough to remember when the Black Lives Matter movement said, Black Lives Matter.

00:14:15.000 And people said, all lives matter.

00:14:17.000 It's not just black lives.

00:14:18.000 Now, the left immediately interpreted that to mean That if you said all lives matter, you were seeking to obscure the fact that black lives matter.

00:14:26.000 Those exact same people are saying today that if you broaden out an anti-Semitism resolution specifically based on a specific circumstance to include all hatred, that's not watering anything down.

00:14:37.000 It's amazing how that works.

00:14:38.000 By the way, I will mention that when it comes to the Black Lives Matter, All Lives Matter distinction, the reason people said All Lives Matter is because they rejected the fundamental premise that black people were being unfairly targeted by the police across the country.

00:14:49.000 That's what the actual argument was about.

00:14:50.000 There is no argument that anti-Semitism exists, and there is no rational argument that Ilhan Omar is a purveyor of anti-Semitism.

00:14:58.000 So this isn't even like the Black Lives Matter, All Lives Matter debate, because there is no good faith reason to broaden this thing out, except to obscure Ilhan Omar's participation in antisemitism.

00:15:09.000 But that's what the Democrats are seeking to do.

00:15:11.000 In a second, I'm going to explain more of what they are doing.

00:15:14.000 Representative Tulsi Gabbard, who is Hindu, reached out to top Democrats to ask that Hindus be specifically mentioned in the resolution.

00:15:20.000 Other members have suggested Catholics, Muslims, and all forms of racism should be added too.

00:15:25.000 Pelosi then replied, what's too broad about fighting hatred wherever it exists?

00:15:30.000 Well, first of all, you're not fighting hatred where it exists.

00:15:33.000 Your representative sits on the Foreign Affairs Committee.

00:15:35.000 You have said that she is not anti-Semitic and that you did not participate in anti-Semitism, Representative Pelosi.

00:15:41.000 Pelosi was specifically asked about this.

00:15:43.000 She said she didn't think that Ilhan Omar's comments were intentionally anti-Semitic.

00:15:47.000 What in the hell does that even mean?

00:15:50.000 Intentionally anti-Semitic. 0.98

00:15:51.000 What, she was walking along the street, she slipped in a puddle, and boom, she started spouting anti-Jew hatred?

00:15:55.000 I know it happens to me all the time, just walking down the street, Anvil falls on my head, and suddenly I'm shouting about the KKK being great. 0.76

00:16:03.000 Ilhan Omar does this stuff every two weeks.

00:16:07.000 She can't help herself.

00:16:09.000 Intentionally anti-Semitic.

00:16:11.000 By Wednesday afternoon, several of the Democrats had taken to blaming the media for covering Omar's remarks, claiming that racist and anti-Semitic actions and language from Republicans were being ignored.

00:16:22.000 We have to do better across the board, said Representative Max Rose.

00:16:25.000 Now this is peak whataboutism.

00:16:26.000 Peak whataboutism.

00:16:27.000 We can't condemn Ilhan Omar.

00:16:29.000 We won't condemn Ilhan Omar.

00:16:30.000 Because over there, there's a person.

00:16:32.000 Go get him! 0.99

00:16:33.000 All right, now, let's be straight about this.

00:16:36.000 The attempt to equate Ilhan Omar's comments with, for example, Representative Jim Jordan tweeting out Tom Steyer with a dollar sign in Tom Steyer's name is absurd.

00:16:46.000 Tom Steyer isn't Jewish.

00:16:47.000 He's Episcopalian. 0.73

00:16:48.000 Also, to say that a particular person gives a lot of money to politics, say George Soros, is not anti-Semitic.

00:16:54.000 To say that the Jews writ large are controlling American politics on behalf of Israel, that's anti-Semitic.

00:17:00.000 George Soros does give a lot of money to politics.

00:17:03.000 It's not anti-semitic to point that out any more than it would be anti-semitic for someone to point out that I speak on politics every day, because I do.

00:17:11.000 That's a reality.

00:17:13.000 That is not the same thing as saying Ben Shapiro and all the Jews are paying people off with their Jew money to support Israel. 0.54

00:17:20.000 That's anti-semitic.

00:17:22.000 But look, the Democrats are not.

00:17:24.000 The intellectual dishonesty, the willingness to overlook all of this, to pander to their intersectional new faces.

00:17:30.000 It's astonishing.

00:17:31.000 It's astonishing.

00:17:32.000 Let's be real.

00:17:33.000 The real reason The New York Times didn't cover the hate crime uptick in New York City is because the purveyors were largely from minority groups, statistically speaking.

00:17:39.000 They weren't going to cover that.

00:17:40.000 They weren't going to cover that because for the Democrats, not all hatred is to be condemned.

00:17:44.000 Only hatred that affects the intersectional coalition.

00:17:48.000 Only hatred that helps them coalesce their various bands of supposedly dispossessed victim groups.

00:17:55.000 And Jews aren't to be included in that even though they are the smallest of these victim groups and the most likely to be targeted by hate crimes.

00:18:00.000 Because that might divide the democratic base. 0.85

00:18:02.000 Intersectionality is a dangerous drug.

00:18:04.000 Democrats have been taking it and now they've OD'd.

00:18:08.000 Representative John Yarmuth said, we've already voted on it.

00:18:10.000 He said, whatever we do, it's going to look like we're responding specifically to her and to AIPAC.

00:18:14.000 Well, it should look like you're responding specifically to Ilhan Omar.

00:18:17.000 She's the one who started this.

00:18:20.000 Majority Whip James Clyburn conceded some members felt Omar had been singled out for her comments.

00:18:25.000 He said of all the hate, of all hate, all hate, all hate, all hate, anti-semitism, Islamophobia, racism, all that stuff.

00:18:31.000 And then James Clyburn let the cat out of the bag.

00:18:34.000 Then James Clyburn really let the cat out of the bag. 0.99

00:18:37.000 You ready for the ugliest garbage you've ever heard from a majority whip? 0.99

00:18:42.000 James Clyburn of South Carolina. 1.00

00:18:43.000 You ready for this?

00:18:44.000 This is from The Hill.

00:18:46.000 Clyburn came to Omar's defense on Wednesday, lamenting that many of the media reports surrounding the recent controversy have omitted mentioning that Omar, who was born in Somalia, had to flee the country to escape violence and spent four years in a Kenyan refugee camp before coming to the United States.

00:19:00.000 Her experience, Clyburn argued, is much more empirical and powerful than that of people who are generations removed from the Holocaust, Japanese internment camps during World War II, and the other violence episodes that have marked history.

00:19:12.000 I'm serious about that.

00:19:14.000 There are people who tell me, well, my parents are Holocaust survivors.

00:19:16.000 My parents did this.

00:19:17.000 It's more personal with her, Clyburn said.

00:19:19.000 I've talked to her, and I can tell you, she is living through a lot of pain.

00:19:25.000 This is vile.

00:19:28.000 Vile.

00:19:28.000 So, anti-Semitism no longer matters because you see, Ohan Omar suffered.

00:19:32.000 You know who else suffered?

00:19:33.000 Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

00:19:33.000 You know what the left has done with Ayaan Hirsi Ali?

00:19:35.000 They've othered her.

00:19:37.000 They've decided that she cannot be heard.

00:19:39.000 They've tried to ban her from campuses because she is anti-radical Islam.

00:19:43.000 They've done that.

00:19:44.000 She had the same, worse experiences than Ilhan Omar.

00:19:47.000 I'm not aware that Ilhan Omar was a victim of female genital mutilation as Ayaan Hirsi Ali was.

00:19:51.000 It doesn't matter.

00:19:52.000 Ayaan Hirsi Ali has been ousted by the Democrats and othered by the Democrats.

00:19:57.000 But don't worry, Ilhan Omar can be as anti-Semitic as she wants to because who cares about the Holocaust?

00:20:01.000 It happened so long ago.

00:20:02.000 Now imagine for a second, a Republican saying about the history of slavery.

00:20:07.000 You know what?

00:20:07.000 People should stop complaining that America enslaved people.

00:20:10.000 They really should stop complaining about it altogether.

00:20:12.000 Like, we shouldn't even mention it.

00:20:14.000 And if somebody says something racist today, that is linked to the legacy of slavery.

00:20:18.000 If somebody says something about enslaving black people today, that is linked to the legacy of slavery.

00:20:24.000 That was 150 years ago.

00:20:25.000 Were you enslaved?

00:20:26.000 Happened a long time ago.

00:20:28.000 People on the left would be angry.

00:20:30.000 To suggest that because you had people who died in the Holocaust, well, you haven't suffered as much. 0.72

00:20:34.000 What is this, competitive suffering?

00:20:36.000 This isn't about who has suffered more. 1.00

00:20:39.000 This is about a person expressing open Jew hatred and James Clyburn making excuses for it because he wants to kiss Ilhan Omar's ass. 1.00

00:20:46.000 And the asses of all of her friends, AOC, Rashida Tlaib, Ro Kahana, This is James Clyburn kowtowing. 1.00

00:20:56.000 And it's also about an unfortunate fact. 0.99

00:20:58.000 The Congressional Black Caucus has tolerated anti-Semitism for years.

00:21:02.000 They've been close with Louis Farrakhan.

00:21:03.000 They've been close with a bunch of figure Linda Sarsour. 1.00

00:21:06.000 They've gone out of their way to cultivate relationships with people who have been ousted from the Overton window of American politics for decades now. 0.97

00:21:16.000 The CBC coming out in defense of Ilhan Omar is just the latest iteration of this garbage. 0.96

00:21:21.000 James Clyburn? 0.99

00:21:22.000 Really?

00:21:26.000 Listen, if the Holocaust had never taken place, you know what would still be wrong? 0.93

00:21:29.000 Jew hatred. 0.75

00:21:31.000 That would still be wrong.

00:21:33.000 But for the Democrats, there is this intersectional pyramid.

00:21:36.000 Ilhan Omar is higher on the intersectional pyramid.

00:21:37.000 She's from Somalia, she's Muslim, she's a woman. 0.99

00:21:40.000 That means she can be as anti-Semitic and disgusting as she wants to be. 1.00

00:21:43.000 So that is the hottest take of the day, but it's not the only take of the day.

00:21:47.000 We'll get to the other Democratic takes on all of this in a second, and then I will show you how this has played out in Europe.

00:21:53.000 Because we know where this is going, folks.

00:21:54.000 We know where this is going.

00:21:56.000 It is not a secret.

00:21:57.000 The Democratic Party is becoming the Jeremy Corbyn Labour Party of the UK, which means that America is likely to go the direction of Europe when it comes to anti-Semitism more generally, if this continues.

00:22:07.000 I'll explain in just a second.

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00:23:41.000 Okay, so it's not just James Clyburn.

00:23:43.000 Who is presenting pretty much openly anti-Semitic arguments at this point.

00:23:47.000 I mean, Clyburn's argument is an openly anti-Semitic one.

00:23:49.000 Anti-Semitism is fine. 1.00

00:23:51.000 Jew hatred is fine. 1.00

00:23:52.000 So long as you can say you're a member of a more victimized group or you have had more victimized experiences.

00:23:57.000 But that's not the only terrible argument coming from the Democrats today.

00:24:01.000 Every major Democratic presidential candidate who has commented on this has come out now in defense of Ilhan Omar in the most dishonest possible way.

00:24:09.000 So Bernie Sanders, Now, people will say that Bernie Sanders, because he's a Jew, that he has more legitimacy on this. 0.95

00:24:16.000 Bullcrap. 0.91

00:24:16.000 Bernie Sanders has no more legitimacy on this than anyone else. 0.91

00:24:19.000 He is not a practicing Jew.

00:24:20.000 He has not been for a long time.

00:24:21.000 He is an atheist.

00:24:22.000 He has self-stated he's an atheist.

00:24:24.000 He has no real identification with a shul, with the Jewish community, with Jewish principles, or any of that stuff.

00:24:30.000 So spare me the, he can't be saying things in defense of anti-Semitism.

00:24:34.000 He's a Jew. 1.00

00:24:34.000 Of course he can. 1.00

00:24:35.000 So here is him defending anti-Semitism from Ilhan Omar, quote, Anti-Semitism is a hateful and dangerous ideology, which must be vigorously opposed in the United States and around the world.

00:24:45.000 We must not, however, equate anti-Semitism with legitimate criticism of the right-wing Netanyahu government in Israel.

00:24:52.000 No one has done that.

00:24:54.000 No one.

00:24:55.000 Again, not a comment Ilhan Omar is being criticized for has anything to do with Benjamin Netanyahu.

00:25:01.000 Not one word that she has said has anything to do with Israeli policy.

00:25:05.000 It all has to do with the powers of the nefarious Jews and their dual loyalty. 1.00

00:25:09.000 That is what she is being ripped for.

00:25:11.000 If it were just about opposing Israel, then don't you think that every Democrat would be hit with this kind of stuff?

00:25:17.000 Legitimately, like all of them?

00:25:18.000 Because how many Democrats stood up against Barack Obama's insane Iran deal that put the existence of the Jewish state at risk?

00:25:25.000 Virtually none.

00:25:27.000 Was Chuck Schumer called an anti-Semite for that?

00:25:29.000 No, he was not.

00:25:31.000 So there was something different that happened here, obviously.

00:25:34.000 But Bernie Sanders is playing this game. 0.94

00:25:36.000 They're playing this sick, disgusting game where they say, anti-Israel is not the same as anti-Semitism. 0.51

00:25:43.000 Here is a person saying a very anti-Semitic thing, and we will pretend it is an anti-Israel thing. 0.96

00:25:47.000 You ever wonder why so many Jews seem to get very touchy when people start talking about how much they hate Israel and how much they think that Israel is the evildoer in the Middle East?

00:25:56.000 And you say, why are they so touchy?

00:25:57.000 I'm not touchy when they criticize my American party.

00:26:00.000 The answer is because a lot of Jews look at your commentary on Israel, in which you incessantly criticize Israel, and they say, you might be an anti-Semite.

00:26:08.000 And you say, well, I'm not.

00:26:09.000 OK, well, maybe you're not.

00:26:10.000 But it's weird because all of the anti-Semites, all of them are anti-Israel.

00:26:14.000 How odd.

00:26:15.000 How odd.

00:26:16.000 And not only that, all of the anti-Semites will guise their anti-Semitism under the, oh, I'm just anti-Israel canard.

00:26:23.000 And Bernie Sanders is doing that today.

00:26:26.000 He says, rather, we must develop an even-handed Middle East policy Which brings Israelis and Palestinians together for a lasting peace.

00:26:33.000 What I fear is going on in the House now is an effort to target Congresswoman Omar as a way of stifling that debate.

00:26:40.000 F you. 0.93

00:26:41.000 F you, Bernie Sanders. 0.98

00:26:43.000 Honest to God.

00:26:45.000 What I fear is an effort to target Omar to stifle the debate?

00:26:49.000 What debate?

00:26:50.000 There's no debate.

00:26:51.000 She didn't mean to start a debate about the power of AIPAC.

00:26:56.000 About whether AIPAC's lobbying power is outsized, which, for the record, it is not.

00:27:01.000 AIPAC spends less money on elections than virtually every other group that is connected with the promotion of connections with a foreign country.

00:27:11.000 There is a Cuba.

00:27:12.000 There is a Cuban lobby.

00:27:13.000 There is a Mexican lobby.

00:27:15.000 There is, in fact, an Irish lobby.

00:27:17.000 All these lobbies exist.

00:27:19.000 But for the record, that's not what she's talking about.

00:27:22.000 There is no debate here.

00:27:24.000 She wasn't trying to start a debate.

00:27:25.000 She was saying Jew-hating things, and Bernie Sanders is trying to subsume that under the rubric, oh, she's just anti-Israel, that's all.

00:27:30.000 And this has become the talking point for the Democrats.

00:27:33.000 So what they want to say is anti-Israel doesn't mean anti-Semitic.

00:27:37.000 But if you say something anti-Semitic, we'll let it go because it's probably just anti-Israel.

00:27:41.000 Senator Elizabeth Warren does the same thing.

00:27:43.000 She says, we have a moral duty to combat hateful ideologies in our own country and around the world.

00:27:47.000 And that includes both anti-Semitism and Islamophobia.

00:27:50.000 Again, the fact that they feel the need to link the two, as though the real story here is people being mean to Ilhan Omar, the real story is a West Virginia GOP poster condemned by pretty much everyone, that that is somehow equivalent to a sitting member of Congress consistently, not once, three times in six weeks, saying openly anti-Semitic stuff and not being condemned by her own party, equating the two.

00:28:16.000 OK, but that's not that's not all.

00:28:17.000 In a democracy, we can and should have an open, respectful debate about the Middle East that focuses on policy.

00:28:22.000 Branding criticism of Israel as automatically anti-Semitic has a chilling effect on our public discourse.

00:28:27.000 Threats of violence like those made against Representative Omar are never acceptable.

00:28:31.000 Who's making threats of violence against Ilhan Omar?

00:28:34.000 And if they are, shouldn't they be arrested?

00:28:35.000 That's a violation of the law.

00:28:37.000 But notice how she conflates that again.

00:28:40.000 Again, for the one millionth time this show, I'm not saying, and no one has said, that all criticism of Israel is anti-Semitic. 0.69

00:28:47.000 I am saying that if you use anti-Semitism and then cover for it by saying, no, I'm just being anti-Israel, then you are an anti-Semite and an anti-Semite enabler. 0.70

00:28:56.000 Kamala Harris does the same thing. 0.99

00:28:58.000 She's even worse, Kamala Harris. 1.00

00:29:00.000 Garbage senator from California. 1.00

00:29:01.000 She says, We all have a responsibility to speak out against anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, homophobia, transphobia, racism, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. 0.99

00:29:09.000 But like some of my colleagues in the Congressional Black Caucus, I am concerned that the spotlight being put on Congresswoman Omar may put her at risk.

00:29:20.000 What?

00:29:20.000 So she says something wildly anti-semitic, not once, three times.

00:29:24.000 If we pay attention to this, we are the bad people because we are putting her at risk.

00:29:28.000 I don't remember her same concern for Steve King's safety.

00:29:30.000 Do you?

00:29:31.000 Representative King, who defended quasi-white nationalism.

00:29:35.000 You remember this?

00:29:36.000 He did this in the New York Times.

00:29:38.000 Some of us called on people to support a primary effort from Senator Randy Feenstra in Iowa.

00:29:43.000 We should go support today.

00:29:45.000 Some of us called on the House to censure Steve King and remove him from committee assignments.

00:29:49.000 I'm old enough to remember that because I'm more than two months old.

00:29:53.000 But apparently Democrats are not old enough to remember that.

00:29:55.000 They are very concerned about Congresswoman Omar's safety because people might say things that remind people of what she said.

00:30:03.000 Unbelievable.

00:30:04.000 And then there's Congressperson Emanuel Cleaver.

00:30:06.000 He says, I think there ought to be a resolution that ought to be condemning all the isms. 1.00

00:30:10.000 If we're going to start condemning, let's condemn sexism, homophobia, Islamophobia, everything.

00:30:15.000 Oh, All Lives Matter.

00:30:16.000 That's horrible.

00:30:17.000 All Lives Matter.

00:30:19.000 By the way, the CBC was so defensive of Ilhan Omar that when she tried to escape questions yesterday, they literally formed an offensive line and pushed away journalists.

00:30:26.000 Were the journalists angry?

00:30:28.000 No, of course not.

00:30:30.000 Were they upset?

00:30:30.000 No, of course not.

00:30:31.000 Today, all of the major newspapers in the United States are filled with editorials supporting Ilhan Omar and suggesting that the blowback on her is really about conservatives pouncing.

00:30:41.000 It's really about the pouncing of the conservatives.

00:30:43.000 Now, listen, we know where all of this is going.

00:30:46.000 Hey, this is not a shock.

00:30:47.000 We know where all of this is going in Europe.

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00:31:57.000 Now we know where all of this is going and it is fascinating to watch as all of it has morphed.

00:32:07.000 It's really incredible to watch as the excuses have morphed.

00:32:10.000 So it started with Ilhan Omar didn't know what she was saying. 1.00

00:32:12.000 Yeah, it's anti-Semitic, but she's ignorant. 1.00

00:32:14.000 She's an ignorant woman. 1.00

00:32:16.000 Legitimately, this was the case that was made by heads of the Democratic Party. 1.00

00:32:19.000 She didn't know what she was saying.

00:32:20.000 She needs education, guys.

00:32:21.000 It's really just about edumacation.

00:32:23.000 If we just told her that she was saying mean things, she would stop saying mean things. 0.74

00:32:27.000 Now, never mind that there was an article in the Minneapolis Star Tribune years ago talking about how the Jewish community had met with Ilhan Omar and left, feeling she was anti-Semitic, basically.

00:32:36.000 And that people have been trying to quote-unquote educate Ilhan Omar about this stuff for years to no avail, which suggests perhaps she knows precisely what she is doing. 0.98

00:32:45.000 It started with, oh, you know, it's just ignorant. 1.00

00:32:47.000 It's just ignorant. 0.99

00:32:48.000 So then it turned into, well, you know, it's bad, right? 0.98

00:32:52.000 The antisemitism is bad.

00:32:53.000 Sure.

00:32:54.000 But what's really bad is that Donald Trump is president.

00:32:57.000 That's really bad.

00:32:59.000 Like, let's pay attention to Trump, because, you know, two years ago, Trump was winking and nodding at the alt-right, and that means we shouldn't cover Omar.

00:33:04.000 I mean, that would be—it wouldn't be even handed of us to ignore President Trump at this time.

00:33:08.000 Number one, no one ignored Trump at the time.

00:33:10.000 I was there.

00:33:10.000 I was one of the people yelling at him.

00:33:13.000 But Democrats moved to the whataboutism.

00:33:16.000 Okay, we're not going to pay attention to Omar.

00:33:17.000 Trump is still out there, and he's the real threat.

00:33:20.000 And then it turned into, you know what?

00:33:22.000 It's not anti-Semitism at all.

00:33:24.000 Poof.

00:33:24.000 It's just anti-Israel sentiment.

00:33:26.000 It's just her being anti- and we can't shut down the debate.

00:33:28.000 We wouldn't want to shut down the debate.

00:33:30.000 And then it turned into, you know what?

00:33:32.000 Even if it's anti-Semitic, that's okay because, I mean, after all, she's from Somalia.

00:33:37.000 After all, she's more victimized than you and that's okay.

00:33:40.000 That's okay that she says anti-Semitic things because she's a victim, you see. 0.91

00:33:44.000 So it is morphed.

00:33:44.000 It is morphed all the way.

00:33:45.000 Now, where is this going?

00:33:46.000 What is the logical endpoint to all of this?

00:33:48.000 Here is the logical endpoint.

00:33:49.000 This is an image.

00:33:50.000 This is an image that was posted by labor leadership.

00:33:54.000 Okay, this is an ally of Jeremy Corbyn who directed that a labor member posted an anti-Semitic image from a far-right website.

00:34:02.000 Okay, so there was a labor member who posted this image.

00:34:05.000 If you can't see the image, because you're not subscribing, the image is a picture of the alien from the movie Aliens over the face of the Statue of Liberty.

00:34:13.000 With a Jewish star on the back of it. 0.91

00:34:17.000 With a Jewish star on the back of it. 0.91

00:34:18.000 So, the Jewish lobster-like evil alien over the face of the Statue of Liberty with the Jewish star on the back of it. 1.00

00:34:26.000 Blatant anti-Semitic imagery direct from the pages of Der Sturmer. 0.94

00:34:29.000 I mean, this is Nazi-type imagery.

00:34:31.000 And it was posted by a person named Kayla Bibby.

00:34:33.000 Kayla Bibby posted an anti-Semitic image with the Star of David on the Statue of Liberty.

00:34:39.000 And then she added, the most accurate photo I've seen all year.

00:34:44.000 She attended Labor's conference in September as a delegate from the Liverpool, Riverside constituency and was let off with a warning.

00:34:50.000 But now, an ally of Jeremy Corbyn directed that a Labor member should not face immediate suspension because this was just anti-Israel, not anti-Jewish.

00:35:01.000 You see, open antisemitism is really just anti-Israel stuff.

00:35:05.000 That's all.

00:35:05.000 It's just about Israel.

00:35:08.000 Now, what exactly did that picture have to do with Israel?

00:35:10.000 Nothing.

00:35:11.000 It was the Jews control America. 1.00

00:35:12.000 They're an alien life form on the face of the United States. 0.99

00:35:15.000 Don't worry, it's just anti-Israel.

00:35:18.000 And the logical extension goes even further than that.

00:35:20.000 In 2014, there was a bomb attack, an arson attack on a synagogue in Brussels.

00:35:27.000 It was a synagogue in, actually it was in Dusseldorf, sorry.

00:35:31.000 And in Germany.

00:35:34.000 And the Dusseldorf High Court found no procedural errors in the trials of three men of Palestinian descent for felony arson against a Wuppertal synagogue.

00:35:44.000 So they tried to burn down a synagogue in 2014.

00:35:48.000 And the High Court, the High Court said them burning down a synagogue, not in Israel, in Germany.

00:35:55.000 Them trying to burn down a synagogue in Germany was an expression not of anti-Jew hatred.

00:36:00.000 It was an expression of anti-Israel sentiment.

00:36:04.000 is an expression of anti-Israel sentiment.

00:36:06.000 That's all that it was.

00:36:09.000 Katharina von Schnurbein, the EU's coordinator on anti-Semitism, she spoke on a panel exploring the new anti-Semitism.

00:36:16.000 She said, in my opinion, throwing Molotov cocktails into a synagogue is always anti-Semitism.

00:36:20.000 But really, is it?

00:36:21.000 Really, is it?

00:36:22.000 Is it really anti-Semitism when you use a bunch of Jew-hating language, but you're also anti-Israel?

00:36:27.000 Isn't that really just you hating on Israel when you suggest that the nefarious Jews are behind American politics and their nefarious Jew money is behind American politics? 0.80

00:36:36.000 That's just you being anti-Israel, right? 0.95

00:36:39.000 And burning down synagogues?

00:36:40.000 I mean, if you're doing that because you don't like Israel, I mean, we all get it, don't we?

00:36:44.000 The arson attack on the Burgish synagogue in Wuppertal took place in the early morning hours of July 29th, 2014, following an end to Ramadan celebration and during the height of anti-Israel protests in Germany and elsewhere over the Gaza war.

00:36:57.000 The men were found guilty of arson and given suspended sentences in 2015, with a threat of jail if they got into trouble again.

00:37:03.000 The High Court last month rejected the defendant's appeal on procedural grounds.

00:37:08.000 In a statement last week, Moshe Kantor, who's the president of the European Jewish Congress, said it was unbelievable that attempts to burn a synagogue have been equated with displeasure with Israeli government policies.

00:37:17.000 But again, this is nothing new.

00:37:19.000 We have seen in France groups of men, largely of Middle Eastern Muslim descent, descending on shuls, on synagogues, and attacking those synagogues whenever there's an Israeli policy they don't like.

00:37:31.000 Because Jews everywhere are obviously merely foreign agents of the Israeli government. 0.92

00:37:38.000 That's where the Democratic Party is going.

00:37:40.000 That any form of anti-Semitism is apparently going to be justified with, well, you know, they were just... Ilhan Omar was just pissed off at Israel, that's all.

00:37:48.000 So doesn't that make this okay?

00:37:50.000 We know where this is going, guys.

00:37:52.000 OK, this is not a shock.

00:37:53.000 It's already happening in Europe.

00:37:54.000 I thought that the Jeremy Corbyn-ization of the Democratic Party was going to take longer.

00:37:58.000 It took about five minutes.

00:38:00.000 Five minutes.

00:38:00.000 The new wave of Democrats are Jeremy Corbyn.

00:38:03.000 AOC is a fan of Jeremy Corbyn.

00:38:05.000 She touted that she had a call with the guy.

00:38:07.000 Jeremy Corbyn has spoken out in favor of Hamas, in favor of Hezbollah.

00:38:10.000 He has tolerated the growth of open anti-Semitism in his own party.

00:38:13.000 He's just said, oh, well, it's just anti-Israel activity.

00:38:15.000 That's all.

00:38:17.000 So here's a question for American Jews today.

00:38:19.000 I want you to vote overwhelmingly for the Democrats.

00:38:22.000 Look at the Democratic Party and ask yourself, is this a party that you can justify voting for?

00:38:28.000 I'm not even asking you to vote Republican.

00:38:31.000 You vote however you want.

00:38:32.000 But can you bring yourself to vote in favor of a party that is willing to let off anti-Semitism this way, in favor of the quote-unquote intersectional ideal?

00:38:42.000 I mean, when you've lost Batya Unger-Sargon, I don't know what to tell you.

00:38:46.000 Batya Unger-Sargon is the editor of the Jewish Forward, and she is bent over backwards.

00:38:51.000 I mean, legitimately bent over backwards to try and make excuses for anti-Semites inside the Democrat ranks, because she's tried to give them the benefit of the doubt. 1.00

00:39:00.000 But even now, but now even she is saying, you know, there's no way to justify this.

00:39:06.000 There's no way to justify this.

00:39:07.000 I'll explain in just a second.

00:39:09.000 So Baya Anger Sargon, I know her.

00:39:10.000 She's a nice lady. 1.00

00:39:11.000 We disagree about politics, but she has really bent over backwards to try and make excuses for Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib. 0.96

00:39:18.000 Even she is saying, I can't handle this anymore.

00:39:21.000 She wrote a column in The Forward, which is a far left, far left Jewish magazine.

00:39:24.000 You know, the kind of Jewish magazine that suggests that I am a far right extremist. 0.54

00:39:30.000 She says, the left is making Jews choose.

00:39:32.000 Are progressive values or ourselves?

00:39:35.000 She says, almost as upsetting as having a member of Congress repeatedly saying things that evoke the most horrific episodes in Jewish history was the response to Omar's words on the progressive left.

00:39:44.000 Instead of expressing support for American Jews horrified that a sitting Congresswoman, a person with access to state power, who has a vote on whether the most powerful military in the world goes to war, they started a hashtag on Twitter, I stand with Ilhan. 0.50

00:39:59.000 She says that every human being should oppose anti-Muslim attacks on her, which of course is true, but her supporters went further.

00:40:04.000 They based their defenses around a bizarre self-contradictory combination of denying that her words evoked anti-Semitic stereotypes, while implicitly admitting that her words did invoke those stereotypes, with elaborate deflections and what-about-isms.

00:40:17.000 And then she quotes Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez.

00:40:22.000 And, of course, Batya Ungar-Sargon is correct, but she is as progressive as you get on the left, and even she is saying the Democratic Party has botched this.

00:40:28.000 Now, here's the thing.

00:40:30.000 I was very worried in 2015-2016 about the mainstreaming of the alt-right.

00:40:34.000 The alt-right has not been mainstreamed.

00:40:37.000 They've been forcibly ousted from the Republican Party.

00:40:39.000 They are not tolerated.

00:40:42.000 I was really worried about it in 2016, and I was right to be really worried about it in 2016, and I was the number one target of alt-right hate in 2016.

00:40:49.000 In America.

00:40:50.000 So I know of what I speak.

00:40:52.000 And I spoke out.

00:40:53.000 And the left said, yeah, we have to speak out against this stuff.

00:40:56.000 Now the mainstream left is saying, stop speaking out about this stuff, because it might hurt Ilhan Omar, or it might hurt the Democratic Party, or it might hurt the anti-Israel cause.

00:41:05.000 So I ask you again, American Jews, I'm not even asking you on the basis of shared ethnicity, because I don't care about shared ethnicity. 0.60

00:41:13.000 If you care about your cultural Jewishness, if you care about Jews being targeted simply for being Jews, if you care about slurs against Jews becoming widespread and that conflated with anti-Israel sentiment, how can you vote in favor of this party or support this party?

00:41:28.000 How?

00:41:29.000 You're gonna need to explain it to me.

00:41:32.000 Again, I'm not even saying go vote for Donald Trump.

00:41:35.000 I understand your problems.

00:41:37.000 I'm not going to say you have to vote for Republicans.

00:41:39.000 I am going to say that if you continue to vote for this party, I don't know what is going through your head.

00:41:43.000 Or, at the very least, I have to question whether you have very much cultural, even cultural connection, with Judaism or with being a Jew.

00:41:54.000 Because, let's face it, Jews are now under attack by the mainstream of the Democratic Party who are willfully ignoring anti-Semitism in order to prop up their intersectional coalition.

00:42:03.000 This is not a matter of principle for Democrats.

00:42:05.000 This is political convenience.

00:42:07.000 Well, political convenience allows some bad actors through the door, and Democrats have been championing them.

00:42:11.000 Ilhan Omar is on the cover of Rolling Stone this week with the head of the House of Representatives.

00:42:18.000 Unbelievable.

00:42:19.000 Okay, speaking of disgusting left behavior, There was an amazing thing that happened yesterday. 0.93

00:42:26.000 Martha McSally, who's the senator from Arizona, and a former Air Force pilot, she was in a hearing about sexual assault in the military, and she let slip that while she was in the military, she was sexually assaulted by a superior.

00:42:38.000 My drive to fight against sexual assault in the ranks is not from the outside looking in.

00:42:43.000 And it is deeply personal.

00:42:45.000 Like you, I am also a military sexual assault survivor.

00:42:49.000 But unlike so many brave survivors, I didn't report being sexually assaulted.

00:42:55.000 Like so many women and men, I didn't trust the system at the time.

00:42:59.000 The perpetrators abused their position of power in profound ways.

00:43:05.000 And in one case, I was preyed upon and then raped by a superior officer.

00:43:10.000 I was horrified at how my attempt to share generally my experiences were handled. 0.62

00:43:16.000 Like many victims, I felt the system was raping me all over again.

00:43:21.000 Okay, so that is, you know, a brave thing to come out with.

00:43:24.000 It is because obviously she's speaking out against a system in which she participated. 0.51

00:43:29.000 I mean, she wasn't not participating in the rape, but she's speaking out against the military in which she was a member.

00:43:34.000 And for her trouble, she was ripped by Jill Filipovich. 0.99

00:43:38.000 She's a feminist, a supposed feminist, because real feminism is attacking women who are victims of rape, apparently. 1.00

00:43:43.000 Joe Filippovich tweeted, But feminists do want all women to benefit from our gains. 1.00

00:43:47.000 In other words, Martha McSally?

00:43:48.000 The fact that she came out and explained that she was raped?

00:43:50.000 You know, that's complicated because she's right-wing. 1.00

00:43:52.000 and that folds misogyny into much of its politics.

00:43:54.000 But feminists do want all women to benefit from our gains. 1.00

00:43:56.000 In other words, Martha McSally, the fact that she came out and explained that she was raped, you know, that's complicated because she's right wing. 1.00

00:44:03.000 Because she's conservative, that really complicates things.

00:44:07.000 Again, if you are militarizing rape in order to attack conservatives, if you are ignoring anti-Semitism in order to shore up your base, let me suggest that your party has a serious moral problem.

00:44:18.000 I don't want to hear anymore about how the left is great at policing itself. 0.98

00:44:22.000 The left is garbage at policing itself. 1.00

00:44:24.000 Garbage. 1.00

00:44:25.000 I've said for a long time, at least when the right sees people as a general matter, we try to police ourselves, right? 0.99

00:44:31.000 Roy Moore is not sitting in the Senate because the right at least tries to police itself.

00:44:35.000 Steve King isn't sitting on committees because the right tries to police itself.

00:44:38.000 Name the last Democrat who was so extreme that they were actually ousted by their own party.

00:44:42.000 Name them.

00:44:44.000 Okay, the last time I remember is when Cynthia McKinney was basically exercised by her own party. 1.00

00:44:49.000 Or excised by her own party.

00:44:51.000 And that was back in like 2003. 0.98

00:44:53.000 It's been nearly 20 years since the Democrats policed a damn thing. 0.97

00:44:57.000 It's absolutely unbelievable. 0.97

00:44:59.000 But I guess it's not that unbelievable when political convenience overtakes principle, which it clearly has for the Democratic Party.

00:45:04.000 Joe Lieberman, he came out and said, former Democratic vice presidential candidate, he said that Democrats will be held accountable if they don't act on Representative Omar's comments.

00:45:16.000 I think this is far too hopeful.

00:45:18.000 Congresswoman Omar's statements clearly do not represent the thinking of most anybody else in office in the Democratic Party.

00:45:29.000 But if they start to mumble in response to her specific and clear anti-Semitic statement, then the party itself is going to be held more broadly accountable for having similar feelings, which I know they don't.

00:45:45.000 So again, I say this is a moment of testing, moral testing.

00:45:52.000 Well, they tested and they came up short.

00:45:54.000 End of story.

00:45:55.000 The Democrats were tested.

00:45:56.000 They came up short.

00:45:57.000 But really, should we be surprised? 0.99

00:45:59.000 They've been tolerating this sort of garbage in their ranks for years. 0.99

00:46:03.000 For a very, very long time. 1.00

00:46:04.000 For a very long time.

00:46:06.000 And that's not any shock.

00:46:08.000 Now, all that's happened here is just clarification.

00:46:10.000 All that's happened is that the veil is now off.

00:46:12.000 That's all that's happened.

00:46:13.000 It's not that Jeremy Corbynization of the party took place over the last 24 hours.

00:46:17.000 It's that this party was moving toward Jeremy Corbyn for years on end, and finally the last vestige of pretend opposition to antisemitism is stripped away so long as ignoring antisemitism is politically convenient for the Democratic Party.

00:46:30.000 How horrifying.

00:46:30.000 And how sad for the country, really.

00:46:32.000 You should have two parties that oppose anti-Semitism, and now the Democratic Party is openly embracing it. 0.96

00:46:37.000 Openly embracing it and pretending it doesn't exist.

00:46:39.000 Amazing.

00:46:40.000 Alrighty.

00:46:40.000 Well, time for some things that I like, and then some things that I hate.

00:46:44.000 So, things that I like today.

00:46:45.000 Shout out to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who had the best line of the day yesterday.

00:46:49.000 He was asked specifically why he is bringing up for a vote the Green New Deal, but not House Resolution 1, which is the Democratic plan to basically remake voting across the country and would make voter fraud significantly more easy.

00:47:01.000 McConnell was asked, why are you bringing up one bill but not the other?

00:47:04.000 You're opposed to H.R.

00:47:05.000 1.

00:47:05.000 You're also opposed to the Green New Deal.

00:47:07.000 Why is the Green New Deal getting a vote in the Senate when H.R.

00:47:09.000 1 is not?

00:47:11.000 Because I get to decide what we vote on.

00:47:15.000 A cocaine Mitch dropping the hammer right there and breaking a smile as he does it.

00:47:19.000 A rare smile from cocaine Mitch.

00:47:21.000 That, of course, is exactly true. 0.60

00:47:22.000 The media wished that they got to dictate what cocaine Mitch votes on, but that is not a thing that is happening.

00:47:27.000 Okay, other things that I like.

00:47:28.000 This is a thing I like and hate.

00:47:30.000 I will say the documentary on HBO, Leaving Neverland, about Michael Jackson.

00:47:33.000 We talked about Michael Jackson at length yesterday.

00:47:36.000 It's it's difficult.

00:47:38.000 It's certainly difficult to watch.

00:47:39.000 It's pretty stomach churning.

00:47:40.000 It is well made and it is worth it is worth the viewing because again, we can all learn moral lessons from looking evil in the face.

00:47:48.000 Yes, I'm talking to you, Democrats.

00:47:50.000 So here is a little bit of the preview for Leaving Neverland.

00:47:53.000 Everybody wanted to meet Michael or be with Michael.

00:47:55.000 And then he likes you.

00:48:02.000 I was seven years old.

00:48:03.000 Michael asked, do you and the family want to come to Neverland?

00:48:08.000 We drive in and forget about all your problems.

00:48:11.000 You were in Neverland.

00:48:13.000 It was a fantasy.

00:48:16.000 The days were filled with magical childhood adventure experiences.

00:48:23.000 Playing tag, watching movies, eating junk food.

00:48:28.000 Anything you could ever want as a child.

00:48:30.000 It's like hanging out with a friend.

00:48:32.000 That's more your age.

00:48:35.000 Just kid things.

00:48:36.000 They were just doing kid things.

00:48:39.000 He just came across as a loving, caring, kind soul.

00:48:43.000 Super disturbing stuff, super disturbing stuff, but it is worth the watch.

00:48:46.000 OK, time for some things that I hate.

00:48:48.000 So Tom Perez, the head of the DNC, he has now put out a statement saying that he will not allow a Fox News primary debate.

00:48:58.000 He says, I believe that a key pathway to victory is to continue to expand our electorate and reach all voters.

00:49:03.000 That is why I have made a priority to talk to a broad array of potential media partners, including Fox News.

00:49:08.000 Recent reporting in The New Yorker on the inappropriate relationship between President Trump, his administration, and Fox News has led me to conclude that the network is not in a position to host a fair and neutral debate for our candidates.

00:49:19.000 Now, listen, if he wants to say Fox News leans right, editorially, that of course is true.

00:49:23.000 But if you're saying that Chris Wallace and Bret Baier can't conduct, and Martha McCallum can't conduct, A normal debate?

00:49:29.000 That, of course, is absurd on its face.

00:49:32.000 It is also rather absurd for Tom Perez to say he wants an objective basis for debate.

00:49:36.000 That's not true. 0.99

00:49:37.000 He wants a network that is going to kiss his candidate's rear end. 0.97

00:49:41.000 And where better to find that in places like CNN?

00:49:45.000 As you'll recall, Donna Brazile, who ended up becoming the head of the DNC near the tail end of 2016, she admitted that she used her former position as a CNN commentator to relay questions ahead of debates to Hillary Clinton during the Democratic primary.

00:49:58.000 She said in October a subsequent release of emails revealed that among the many things I did in my role as a Democratic operative and DNC vice chair prior to assuming the DNC chair position was to share potential town hall topics with the Clinton campaign.

00:50:13.000 She said my job was to make our candidates look good and I worked closely with both campaigns to make that happen.

00:50:18.000 Uh-huh.

00:50:19.000 But don't worry, CNN will get a debate.

00:50:22.000 Also, I'm sure that ABC News will get a debate.

00:50:24.000 You recall that back in 2012, George Stephanopoulos, an actual former staffer for Bill and Hillary Clinton, in 2012, you'll remember, that he randomly, in the middle of a primary debate, asked Mitt Romney about birth control.

00:50:39.000 Why?

00:50:39.000 Because it then set up the entire line of attack on Romney that there was a war on women.

00:50:43.000 It had nothing to do with anything.

00:50:44.000 No one was talking about birth control.

00:50:46.000 Didn't stop George Stephanopoulos from going there.

00:50:48.000 Governor Romney, do you believe that states have the right to ban contraception, or is that trumped by a constitutional right to privacy?

00:50:57.000 George, this is an unusual topic that you're raising.

00:51:00.000 States have a right to ban contraception.

00:51:01.000 I can't imagine a state banning contraception.

00:51:04.000 I can't imagine the circumstances where a state would want to do so, and if I were a governor of a state or a legislator of a state, I would totally and completely oppose any effort to ban contraception.

00:51:16.000 We should allow the people to express their own views through amendment and added to the Constitution.

00:51:20.000 But this idea that justices... Should that be done in this case?

00:51:23.000 Pardon?

00:51:24.000 This was George Stephanopoulos, objective news anchor.

00:51:27.000 I'm sure George Stephanopoulos will get to moderate a debate this year.

00:51:29.000 George Stephanopoulos was an actual Clinton staffer who wrote in his memoirs, legitimately about Hillary Clinton, that upon her husband's victory, they looked at each other with tears in their eyes, and she said, I love you, George, and he said, I love you too, Hillary.

00:51:42.000 That guy can moderate a debate, but not Bret Baier or Chris Wallace.

00:51:46.000 Good for President Trump.

00:51:47.000 President Trump then blasted the DNC, said, fine, you don't want to do this?

00:51:51.000 I won't let any of the fake news networks do a debate with me.

00:51:53.000 He says, I think I'll do the same thing with the fake news networks and the radical left Democrats in the general election debates.

00:51:58.000 This seems to me an appropriate response, frankly.

00:52:01.000 Okay, other things that I hate.

00:52:03.000 So, just terrible news.

00:52:05.000 Alex Trebek revealed yesterday that he has stage 4 pancreatic cancer, which is pretty terrible, obviously.

00:52:10.000 Bad diagnosis.

00:52:11.000 Here's what he had to say about it.

00:52:13.000 This week I was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer.

00:52:18.000 Now normally the prognosis for this is not very encouraging, but I'm going to fight this, and I'm going to keep working, and with the love and support of my family and friends, and with the help of your prayers also, I plan to beat the low survival rate statistics for this disease.

00:52:38.000 Truth told, I have to.

00:52:40.000 Because under the terms of my contract, I have to host Jeopardy!

00:52:44.000 for three more years.

00:52:46.000 So help me, keep the faith, and we'll win.

00:52:50.000 We'll get it done.

00:52:52.000 Obviously, we're all praying for Alex Trebek.

00:52:54.000 He is great at his job.

00:52:55.000 You'll recall that just last year, just a great clip of Alex Trebek.

00:53:00.000 Football 400.

00:53:01.000 I can tell you guys are big football fans.

00:53:04.000 Tom Landry perfected the shotgun formation with this team.

00:53:08.000 Dallas Cowboys.

00:53:14.000 Do you think we should go to commercial?

00:53:17.000 These penalties are simultaneous violations by the offense and defense that cancel each other out.

00:53:25.000 And they are called offsetting penalties.

00:53:28.000 Let's look at the $1,000 clue just for the fun of it.

00:53:32.000 If you guys ring in and get this one.

00:53:37.000 I will die.

00:53:40.000 Alex, Rebecca, great at his job.

00:53:42.000 Obviously, we're all praying for him.

00:53:43.000 Well, we'll see you here a little bit later this afternoon.

00:53:45.000 I'm sure I will have a lot more to say.

00:53:47.000 At that point, Nancy Pelosi, in the last few minutes, has come out and said, Ilhan Omar just doesn't know what she's saying.

00:53:51.000 That's all.

00:53:52.000 Just doesn't know what she's saying.

00:53:53.000 I'm not kidding you.

00:53:54.000 Like, literally, in the last five minutes, Nancy Pelosi came out and suggested that she is not anti-Semitic.

00:54:00.000 She just doesn't understand the full weight of her words.

00:54:02.000 So that's what we're going to go with here.

00:54:03.000 All right.

00:54:04.000 Sure.

00:54:04.000 We'll be back later.

00:54:05.000 This is why you should subscribe so you can get two more hours of The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:54:08.000 Or, alternatively, we will be back here tomorrow and we'll recap it all for you then.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - March 07, 2019

Jeremy Corbyn's Democratic Party | Ep. 732

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