The Ben Shapiro Show - Joe Biden Speaks With The Dead | Ep. 1583

00:00:00.000 As Hurricane Ian pummels Florida, members of the media rush to blame climate change, Joe Biden thinks a dead person is alive, and his press secretary gives the world's worst defense, and Lizzo plays James Madison's 200-year-old flute.

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00:02:48.000 Well, Hurricane Ian continues to pummel Florida.

00:02:50.000 It's been downgraded.

00:02:52.000 to a category two or a category one as it moves further inland over the coast of Florida.

00:02:57.000 It has absolutely crushed places like Naples, like Sanibel Island, and basically any place that was directly on that Gulf Coast of Florida in sort of the central region or southern region of Florida is getting absolutely crushed.

00:03:09.000 We're talking about storm surges of up to 18 feet along the ground level.

00:03:13.000 So lots of video has now been coming out of places that are completely flooded.

00:03:17.000 At least a million people are without power, maybe two million people without power.

00:03:21.000 As this hurricane continues inland.

00:03:23.000 Basically, it's not about the wind damage, it's about the storm surge.

00:03:26.000 Because when hurricanes move toward a coast, what they do is they suck all the water in with them and then they promptly deposit all that water back on shore as they move inland.

00:03:34.000 And that's precisely what has happened.

00:03:35.000 So there's some wild video of, for example, sharks swimming around areas like Fort Myers Beach, like in the middle of the street.

00:03:42.000 You've got sharks that are just swimming around in Tampa.

00:03:46.000 Apparently, there was video in the subways of sharks swimming around on the subways because just enormous amounts of water have now been deposited.

00:03:54.000 Inland houses have been completely wrecked.

00:03:57.000 It is a major natural disaster, no question about it.

00:04:00.000 Meanwhile, Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, he says this is one of the five worst hurricanes in Florida history.

00:04:05.000 Here's the governor.

00:04:07.000 As much as we're focused on Southwest Florida, it's very important, obviously, when you have a storm of this nature.

00:04:12.000 I think at landfall, it's going to be behind only the Labor Day hurricane, Hurricane Andrew and Hurricane Michael, in terms of intensity.

00:04:21.000 I think we're going to end up seeing that.

00:04:23.000 It may end up being a Category 5, but at a minimum, it's going to be a very strong Category 4 that's going to rank as one of the top 5 hurricanes to ever hit the Florida Peninsula.

00:04:34.000 Now, Florida has deployed an enormous number of resources to help deal with this.

00:04:39.000 Obviously, we've seen enormous amounts of damage from this hurricane.

00:04:42.000 One of the sheriffs in Florida is now suggesting the death toll could be in the hundreds.

00:04:47.000 He said this on Good Morning America.

00:04:48.000 His name is Carmine Marceno.

00:04:50.000 And he said there are hundreds in Lee County, that is where Fort Myers is located.

00:04:54.000 Presumably that number is going to rise as time goes on.

00:04:57.000 Enormous amounts of property damage, as well as houses floating away, literally floating away in Fort Myers.

00:05:02.000 A very, very damaging storm.

00:05:03.000 It's going to take a while for these areas to recover because this is essentially a 100-year storm.

00:05:07.000 Tampa hasn't been hit by anything remotely like this in about 100 years.

00:05:11.000 According to the Washington Post, 2.5 million Floridians were put under evacuation orders or warnings earlier this week.

00:05:16.000 But some people decided to stay.

00:05:19.000 Obviously, the people who decided to stay have been kind of rushing to high ground.

00:05:22.000 They've been attempting to get up to higher levels of the buildings where they are.

00:05:26.000 So, for example, you saw the mayor of Naples, who was actually giving a press conference from the second floor of the Naples City Hall.

00:05:34.000 This sort of stuff, unfortunately, it's really horrifying and these places are going to need an awful lot of help.

00:05:40.000 For his part, the president of the United States, Joe Biden, he said he spoke with Ron DeSantis and they stand ready to help.

00:05:46.000 I made it clear to the governor and the mayors that the federal government is ready to help in every single way possible.

00:05:52.000 When the storm passes, the federal government is going to be there to help you recover.

00:05:57.000 We'll be there to help you clean up and rebuild to help Florida get moving again. 0.70

00:06:02.000 And we'll be there at every step of the way.

00:06:04.000 That's my absolute commitment to the people of the state of Florida.

00:06:07.000 Okay, well, that would be the absolute commitment of any president.

00:06:11.000 Obviously, after George W. Bush's shellacked for his supposedly lax handling of Hurricane Katrina, even though that was really a state and local failure, no president of the United States is going to not deploy the resources of the federal government in the middle of a hurricane.

00:06:23.000 That's been a pretty non-controversial American federal policy going all the way back about A hundred years.

00:06:28.000 I mean, the last time a president of the United States basically said, local disaster, you handle it, was Grover Cleveland, all the way back in about 1896.

00:06:35.000 So, it's been quite a while since the federal government has been getting itself involved in these sorts of issues.

00:06:40.000 Corinne Jean-Pierre, the White House past secretary, she said, they have the manpower and woman power on the ground, which is just, it's, I'm sorry, it's a, what about the they power?

00:06:48.000 What about those who are neither men nor women who are providing help?

00:06:51.000 What about the trans non-binary little people who are providing help on the, like, I do love that the, Silliness of the equity language has now pervaded everything up to and including who is going to be rescuing pets from rooves in Florida. 0.96

00:07:04.000 Well done here, Cory Jean-Pierre.

00:07:06.000 We have put the full force of the federal government when it comes to making sure the people of Florida have the resources they need.

00:07:13.000 I just listed out at the top of the briefing on all of the kind of resources, manpower, women power that's on the ground, water, food, and we will continue to move in that direction, making sure that the folks of Florida get what they need.

00:07:29.000 You do need the manpower and the woman power. 1.00

00:07:31.000 And the they power.

00:07:32.000 All very, very important stuff.

00:07:34.000 I will say here that there are a couple of aspects of the federal response already that are highly politicized.

00:07:40.000 So Joe Biden took the opportunity of this particularly bad storm to warn against gas gouging.

00:07:45.000 So this is a routine that Joe Biden has been doing for quite a while here is that when the prices go up, he blames the gas companies, despite the fact that it is not your local Shell retailer that is jacking up the prices of gas.

00:07:55.000 It's the underlying forces in the oil and gas market, namely lack of production, shutdowns of pipelines.

00:08:02.000 high taxation, right? The profit margin for your local gas station is really, really low. But when the inflate, when you inflate the economy and when there is a shortage of supply, you get higher prices. Joe Biden, however, will yell at the local gas station. He'll just like ride his bicycle over there, fall over and then get out and start yelling at the gas station. Well, now he's doing that in Florida.

00:08:22.000 He's suggesting that what's happening when the prices go up in the middle of a hurricane is that there is gas gouging going on, that it's the profit-driven evil companies that are making those prices go up.

00:08:31.000 No, that's not how any of this works.

00:08:32.000 What is happening is that it is very, very difficult to resupply gas stations in the middle of a giant hurricane.

00:08:38.000 And so that means there are gas shortages.

00:08:40.000 And the only way to actually lower the demand with regard to gas is to increase the price.

00:08:46.000 That is why the prices go up during a natural disaster.

00:08:48.000 In the same way that if there was a giant blight on agriculture, the price of wheat would go up.

00:08:52.000 That wouldn't be the farmers gouging you.

00:08:54.000 So here is Joe Biden saying economically nonsensical things because this is what he does for a living.

00:09:00.000 My experts inform me the production of only about 190,000 barrels a day has been impacted by the storm thus far.

00:09:08.000 That's less than 2% of the United States daily production.

00:09:11.000 impact it for a very short period of time.

00:09:14.000 This small, temporary storm impact on oil production provides no excuse for price increases at the pump.

00:09:23.000 None.

00:09:24.000 If gas companies try to use this storm to raise prices at the pump, I will ask officials to look into whether price gouging is going on.

00:09:33.000 America's watching.

00:09:34.000 The industry should do the right thing.

00:09:36.000 As a matter of fact, they should move more quickly now to bring down the price of the pump because gasoline is down.

00:09:42.000 The price of gasoline is down a great deal.

00:09:44.000 Okay, I'm sorry.

00:09:45.000 That's just insipid economics.

00:09:46.000 By the way, speaking of what is going on with gas prices, gas prices actually have jumped a little bit.

00:09:51.000 Over the course of the last couple of weeks, thanks specifically to the Russia-Ukraine war and the blowing up of Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 and all the rest.

00:09:59.000 So when Joe Biden says that it's the gas company's fault if those prices are going up, understand that as the head of American energy policy, which is what the President of the United States effectively is, when it comes to large-scale trends in price, that is much more due to Joe Biden than it is due to your local retailer who, by the way, your gas station doesn't make money on the gas.

00:10:15.000 Your gas station makes money at the A&P.

00:10:17.000 They make money when you buy a Slurpee at the machine.

00:10:20.000 That's where they actually make their real money.

00:10:21.000 The amount of money that they're making off the gas is very, very minimal. 1.00

00:10:24.000 So again, that's one aspect of the economic politics of this that's incredibly stupid. 0.97

00:10:27.000 Meanwhile, I will say it is fairly amazing what Democrats can get away with when it comes to going to fundraisers in the middle of disasters. 0.96

00:10:33.000 You remember that Barack Obama famously Jetted off to Las Vegas in the middle of the Benghazi disaster, right?

00:10:39.000 As Americans were being murdered in Benghazi, Libya.

00:10:41.000 You remember that he went over to Las Vegas and he had a big party with like Jay-Z and Beyonce and all the rest of it and everybody in the media was like, well, you know, that's what he does.

00:10:48.000 I mean, he is the president.

00:10:49.000 Why wouldn't he be in Las Vegas hanging out with Beyonce and Jay-Z?

00:10:53.000 But, I promise you that if this had been a Republican president, and if Donald Trump were president right now, and there were a disaster in Florida, and Trump were going to some sort of fundraiser, all you would hear wall-to-wall is how the president isn't in the hurricane senator monitoring.

00:11:04.000 Now listen, I'm not under the grave misimpression that the president of the United States actually needs to be over at the At the hurricane center with FEMA monitoring this stuff.

00:11:13.000 I don't think the president has control over the hurricanes. 0.97

00:11:15.000 I think it's really stupid when politicians jet set into disaster ridden areas and they survey the wreckage. 1.00

00:11:20.000 I thought this whether it was Trump, whether it was Obama, like there are certain things that we demand of our politicians that are just incredibly dumb. 1.00

00:11:26.000 It's like we're going to put. 0.99

00:11:28.000 Joe Biden, who again, can barely move.

00:11:30.000 We're going to get him on a rowboat and we're going to row him through Fort Myers or something and he's going to look out over the waters and all the waters are going to recede.

00:11:37.000 None of that is real, but let's just say that there ought to be one media standard.

00:11:41.000 If the media standard is that the president needs to be absolutely present, he needs to be there, he needs to be ready, On the mark, ready to deploy.

00:11:48.000 And going to fundraisers is kind of a bad thing in the middle of a giant cat 4 hurricane hitting one of the largest states in the United States.

00:11:54.000 Here was Corine Jean-Pierre yesterday acknowledging that Joe Biden was still going to a fundraiser last night.

00:11:58.000 The president's schedule tonight has him attending a political fundraiser while the storm is hitting the state of Florida.

00:12:06.000 Is it still his intent?

00:12:08.000 So, we don't have any changes in his schedule.

00:12:16.000 He has been really steadfast and very clear and has spoken multiple times on what is happening in Florida and what we are seeing with Hurricane Ian.

00:12:29.000 Oh, so it's the steadfastness with which he speaks that now matters.

00:12:32.000 When George W. Bush, however, flies a plane over the wreckage of Hurricane Katrina, then that means that he's out of touch and quite terrible.

00:12:38.000 So, do love the double standard.

00:12:40.000 Meanwhile, the media doing their best to basically try to blame this thing on climate change and global warming.

00:12:45.000 Now, again, as I said yesterday, one of the big talking points for global warming advocates has been that you cannot label any specific weather event in outcome of climate change.

00:12:55.000 And you can't do that because again, they're data points.

00:12:58.000 Climate change is a trend.

00:12:59.000 You cannot use a data point in substitution of a trend.

00:13:02.000 Otherwise you end up with people on the right going out in the middle of a snowstorm and being like, hey, where's the global warming guys?

00:13:08.000 Got a snowball right here.

00:13:09.000 This is something that people who, the quote unquote climate deniers, they do this and then people on the left are like, well, you can't say that that blizzard right there is the result of global warming.

00:13:17.000 All we are saying is that over time, the trend of the climate has changed.

00:13:21.000 Okay, well, if you're gonna do that, then it works for both sides.

00:13:23.000 And every climate scientist will tell you this.

00:13:25.000 Hey, I speak regularly.

00:13:27.000 For a climate denier, it's pretty incredible with the number of climate scientists I speak to.

00:13:30.000 I speak regularly with people ranging from like MIT to Caltech about things related to climate change.

00:13:35.000 And every single one, right to left to center, like everyone will tell you that you cannot label any single weather event the outcome of climate change.

00:13:42.000 That's particularly true when you're using bad data.

00:13:44.000 But CNN, MSNBC, The View, they don't care about whether they're using bad data.

00:13:48.000 They have a political point of view to promulgate, and that point of view is We, it's almost a paganistic worldview.

00:13:53.000 It's like, if we propitiate the gods by getting rid of these gas-powered vehicles, then there will just be no more hurricanes.

00:14:00.000 Which is weird, because there are hurricanes on, you know, like Jupiter, and there are no gas-powered vehicles on Jupiter.

00:14:05.000 It turns out that one of the natural features of weather, in every weather system that we know of, is hurricanes.

00:14:11.000 So, there's that.

00:14:12.000 Also, one of the simple facts that we also happen to know is that hurricanes have not, in fact, become more frequent over time, and that the amount of damage that is being done by hurricanes is due to what we talked about yesterday, the target effect.

00:14:25.000 Meaning, if you shoot an arrow at a tree, and there's no target on the tree, and then you paint a target around the arrow, then magically, you're amazing at archery.

00:14:33.000 Well, that's basically what's happened with these hurricanes.

00:14:35.000 These hurricanes have been hitting these areas for a very long time, but people are just building more in these areas.

00:14:39.000 So when a large scale hurricane hits Fort Myers and it wipes out half the island, is that because the hurricane is more severe or is it because people built on Fort Myers?

00:14:48.000 And a long time ago, people didn't build on Fort Myers out of fear of hurricanes.

00:14:51.000 So now that you have more people living in these areas, you have increased the size of the target around the arrow, which means that the hurricanes are now very, very good at archery to mix our metaphors.

00:15:01.000 This is something Bjorn Lomborg has written about significantly.

00:15:03.000 He says, the frequency category three and above hurricanes making landfall since 1900 is also trending slightly down over the course of time.

00:15:10.000 He says, airplanes and satellites have dramatically increased the number of storms scientists can spot at sea today, making the frequency of landfall hurricanes, which were reliably documented even in 1900, a better statistic than the total number of Atlantic hurricanes.

00:15:21.000 And those are basically stagnant.

00:15:23.000 The frequency of hurricanes making landfall has declined slightly since 1900.

00:15:26.000 A July Nature paper?

00:15:28.000 Found that the increases in strong hurricanes you've heard so much about are not part of a century-scale increase, but a recovery from a deep minimum in the 1960s through 1980s.

00:15:34.000 In other words, if you're seeing more severe hurricanes now, that is because from the 60s to the 80s, we had a period of artificially low hurricanes.

00:15:42.000 So, as Lomberg says, better infrastructure fed by improved technology and wealth does more to protect lives and property than cutting carbon emissions.

00:15:48.000 And this is really the underlying point here, is that what you see from the left is this idea that if we pour trillions of dollars into green energy, we'll stop the hurricanes.

00:15:55.000 That's silly.

00:15:56.000 Hurricanes were happening long before people were using gas-powered vehicles.

00:15:58.000 They'll be happening long after people are using gas-powered vehicles, before human beings were walking on planet Earth, before the species Homo sapiens existed.

00:16:06.000 There were hurricanes that were striking a lot of these areas, and that will continue for the rest of time.

00:16:11.000 The real question is, how do human beings adapt to all of that?

00:16:15.000 But none of this actually matters to the so-called climate lovers, the science lovers, the people who love to-science, not actual science, they love to-science, which is politically driven science in search of some sort of political outcome.

00:16:28.000 So Bill Weir, who does this routine all the time on CNN, he went out there and tried to blame climate change for the hurricane, of course.

00:16:35.000 Again and again, I've been trying to mention that this is the result of a warmer planet.

00:16:41.000 Scientists have warned us for a long time that storms won't get necessarily more hurricanes out of climate change, but the ones we do get will be bigger and faster and wetter.

00:16:52.000 And here is your exhibit A, Hurricane Ian.

00:16:56.000 Okay, but your exhibit A, if I just give you an exhibit, I can do that with like literally anything.

00:17:01.000 I can take a single data, this is bad data science.

00:17:03.000 You can pick a single data point and pretend that it's part of a trend without any sort of evidence.

00:17:09.000 Like what you're gonna need is a bunch of data points demonstrating this.

00:17:11.000 And let's be real about this.

00:17:13.000 The state of Florida last year basically did not get hit in any significant way.

00:17:17.000 The state of Florida the year before did not get hit in any really significant way.

00:17:20.000 This year we had an unusually quiet hurricane season up until we had this giant hurricane.

00:17:25.000 This is one of the big problems with data trends and the way that the media analyze them in the United States.

00:17:29.000 They take outlying events, meaning events that are statistically fairly rare, and then they use these to try to promote the idea that there is a giant global trend happening.

00:17:38.000 Again, when it comes to hurricanes, the connection between climate change and hurricanes is actually one of the least clear connections.

00:17:43.000 If you're going to do the climate change, which in climate is damaging everything, climate's a real problem, what you'd want to look at is long-term trends on like ice sheets.

00:17:51.000 You're going to want to look at the water levels around the world.

00:17:53.000 You're going to want to look at the global temperature as we measure it.

00:17:57.000 You're not going to want to look at events that are statistically rare.

00:17:59.000 It's almost the same way that the left likes to analyze school shootings as though it's the only indicator of gun violence in the United States, and therefore must ban all long guns, ignoring the fact that the vast majority of killings with guns in the United States are not done with long guns.

00:18:11.000 In other words, when you pick statistical outliers, like hurricanes, and you use them as evidence, you are doing a bad job with the data.

00:18:16.000 But that's exactly what our media wish to do, because this is how the media cover events.

00:18:20.000 The media don't cover trends.

00:18:21.000 The media cover specific events, and then they try to connect that to a trend.

00:18:24.000 So here is MSNBC's Joy Reid and Ali Velshi, both amazing climate scientists, claiming that climate change is to blame for all of this.

00:18:32.000 There is a lot that has changed about the earth that has made these things worse, right?

00:18:37.000 I mean, these things are thriving because the water is getting warmer.

00:18:41.000 And I think when people, we stopped calling it global warming for political reasons, but that's what it is, right?

00:18:47.000 Our earth is getting warmer and there is just no doubt, I think, left that it is feeding these beasts.

00:18:53.000 Well, and where it comes out is in the intensity.

00:18:56.000 The people say, well, they've been hurricanes for millennia.

00:18:58.000 Well, that's true.

00:18:59.000 But we sometimes get these ones that are so much more damaging and so much more intense.

00:19:04.000 And it's good that we talk about these things in the moment, because lots of times over the years when I brought it up, people said, oh, now's not the time to talk about it.

00:19:11.000 That's right.

00:19:12.000 Now's the time to talk about it, because the only time people are paying attention to how damaging these things are.

00:19:16.000 Okay, well, again, he gives away the game right there.

00:19:18.000 We're going to talk about this as though it is evidence of a trend, despite the fact that we don't present no data on this, because now is the time when we can get people's attention, and then we can be really alarmist about the idea that these hurricanes are going to become more frequent and more deadly.

00:19:31.000 By the way, if we're going to talk about the most damaging hurricanes in American history, the Hill did a rundown of the most damaging hurricanes in American history.

00:19:37.000 Okay, how about the Chenier-Kamenada hurricane of 1893?

00:19:42.000 It was before gas-powered emissions were really the big problem on planet Earth.

00:19:46.000 A powerful Category 4 hurricane made landfall on a small island in Louisiana with wind speeds of more than 130 miles an hour.

00:19:53.000 Apparently, the storm surge basically took out all but one house and killed 778 of the town's 1,471 residents.

00:20:00.000 2,000 more people were killed as the hurricane moved over Mississippi.

00:20:02.000 How about the Galveston Hurricane of 1900?

00:20:04.000 High tides resulted in 8,000 deaths.

00:20:07.000 That was in 1900 when a Category 4 hurricane hit Galveston, Texas with storm tides up to 15 feet.

00:20:12.000 How about the San Felipe Okeechobee hurricane of 1928?

00:20:16.000 That was a Florida hurricane.

00:20:17.000 More than 2,000 people died.

00:20:18.000 Now, what you'll notice is that the number of people who have died due to hurricanes in the United States, except for Hurricane Katrina, which was a huge failure of the levees, has been significantly lower than these numbers that I am citing earlier on because people have become better at adapting.

00:20:31.000 You'll also notice that these hurricanes that I'm talking about are like 100, 120 years ago.

00:20:35.000 So again, the attempt to paint all of this as, it's the climate change denier's fault.

00:20:40.000 If you refuse to acknowledge the great God of climate change, then you will have caused the hurricane.

00:20:44.000 Again, the data do not back this. 0.98

00:20:46.000 The view, of course, the repository of nearly all stupidity in the entire universe, perhaps in the entirety of the Milky Way. 0.99

00:20:54.000 The view slammed Ron DeSantis. 0.99

00:20:56.000 Who's so far doing a very good job handling the hurricane, as governors are supposed to do.

00:21:02.000 Claiming that he's a climate denier, so basically he deserves it.

00:21:06.000 Can I just make this one point?

00:21:07.000 Because according to NPR, Florida's climate challenges are among the biggest in the country.

00:21:14.000 Hurricanes intensified by climate change, rising sea levels, extreme heat and drought, and health threats from mosquito-borne diseases.

00:21:25.000 This is the quote from Governor DeSantis about climate change.

00:21:29.000 Quote, I am not in the pews of the church of the global warming leftists.

00:21:36.000 This is what he thinks about climate change and now his state is getting hit with one of the worst hurricanes that they have ever seen.

00:21:42.000 Perhaps he is smart enough to recognize that this is not normal.

00:21:47.000 The phrase not normal covers an absolute multitude of sins.

00:21:50.000 It's sort of like the phrase problematic, the word problematic.

00:21:53.000 If somebody says something is problematic, it apparently alleviates any duty they have to explain why something is bad.

00:21:57.000 They just go, um, that's very problematic.

00:21:59.000 You're like, why?

00:22:00.000 Like, well, because it is problematic.

00:22:01.000 Same thing with not normal.

00:22:02.000 You know, what's happening right now is not normal.

00:22:04.000 Okay, well, explain.

00:22:05.000 What's the not normal part about it?

00:22:07.000 Meaning, yeah, hurricanes, generally speaking, are statistically abnormal.

00:22:10.000 Like, 364 out of the days of the year, there was not a hurricane in Florida.

00:22:14.000 So statistically, it's an abnormality.

00:22:16.000 But are you saying that hurricanes generally are abnormal?

00:22:18.000 Are you saying that we've never had a hurricane like this, which is not true?

00:22:20.000 Like, what exactly?

00:22:21.000 It doesn't matter.

00:22:22.000 All you have to say is not normal, and everybody just nods along.

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00:24:37.000 Well, meanwhile, Joe Biden claims that he has a handle on all of this, and FEMA does because the president doesn't really do anything when it comes to hurricanes.

00:24:45.000 Again, the dirty little secret when it comes to the handling of natural disasters is we have an entire agency that is dedicated to doing precisely this.

00:24:51.000 And pictures of Joe Biden or Barack Obama or Donald Trump standing in the hurricane center wearing a coat, they didn't change anything.

00:24:57.000 They just stood there and they posed for the picture, which is a good thing.

00:24:59.000 I mean, it's a good thing that large swaths of the federal government actually run without the president having to be there because the president is not there.

00:25:06.000 I don't mean he's not physically there.

00:25:07.000 His body may be there, but his mind is elsewhere.

00:25:10.000 The President of the United States, it is an unfortunate fact, and I know the media are trying to obscure this.

00:25:14.000 By the way, this is going to change if the Democrats lose the midterms.

00:25:17.000 If the Democrats lose the House and lose the Senate, the calls for Joe Biden to go are going to grow increasingly loud.

00:25:23.000 The media right now are attempting to basically swivel Joe Biden's presidency.

00:25:27.000 He's doing an amazing job, guys.

00:25:28.000 It's so good.

00:25:29.000 Biden is just winning again.

00:25:30.000 So much winning.

00:25:31.000 Aviator glasses.

00:25:32.000 That will last until precisely the moment his party gets booted from office in November.

00:25:36.000 If that goes real bad, by December, there are going to be calls for Joe Biden to announce that he is not, in fact, running in 2024 because he's a drag on the party.

00:25:43.000 Because let's be real about this.

00:25:45.000 Everyone who watches Joe Biden speak for more than 32 seconds recognizes that this man is not capable.

00:25:52.000 He just is not.

00:25:53.000 And when it comes to the hurricanes, for example, Joe Biden, right before the hurricane actually made landfall, he suggested that one of the most important things you can do if you're sheltering from the hurricane is you need to get vaccinated.

00:26:04.000 What in the, what?

00:26:06.000 Say, hmm?

00:26:07.000 I'm gonna say that's one of the least important things you could do.

00:26:11.000 Like you have 24 hours to get ready for the hurricane.

00:26:13.000 What are you gonna do?

00:26:14.000 What are you, are you gonna get vaccinated?

00:26:15.000 Are you gonna try and leave the state?

00:26:17.000 Are you gonna grab all your valuables?

00:26:18.000 Like what?

00:26:20.000 Here's the president of the United States explaining that you need to vaccinate for a disease that pretty much everybody in the United States got already and has been vaccinated seven times for it.

00:26:28.000 And we are now on booster number 83.

00:26:29.000 Here is the President.

00:26:32.000 Let me be clear.

00:26:33.000 If you're in a state where hurricanes often strike, like Florida or the Gulf Coast or into Texas, A vital part of preparing for hurricane season is to get vaccinated now.

00:26:47.000 Everything is more complicated if you're not vaccinated in a hurricane or natural disaster hits.

00:26:53.000 Okay, so make sure that you're vaccinated because we wouldn't want, while you're drowning, we have to make sure that you don't infect anybody with COVID, which, unless you are elderly and have diabetes, is not going to kill you, statistically speaking.

00:27:05.000 That was not actually Joe Biden's weirdest moment over the course of the last 72 hours.

00:27:09.000 We've already seen video of Joe Biden shaking hands with ghosts.

00:27:12.000 We've seen him at his speeches wander off from the podium and he starts like putting his hand out and he's kind of shaking hands.

00:27:18.000 We saw just last week a video of him at some sort of event where he wanders away from the podium, has no idea where to go, starts kind of looking around bizarrely, like John Travolta in Pulp Fiction, and then has to be guided by his people off the stage.

00:27:32.000 Well, yesterday, Joe Biden did a rally in Indiana And he gave a shout out to Jackie Wolorski.

00:27:40.000 Jackie Wolorski is a representative who recently died in a car accident.

00:27:44.000 Again, not the first time Joe Biden has done this.

00:27:46.000 He once said about a wheelchair-bound person, why don't you stand up and take a bow?

00:27:50.000 So Joe Biden has never been all there, but now he's really, really not there.

00:27:53.000 So here is Joe Biden, who apparently does not know that Jackie Wolorski is dead.

00:27:57.000 Either that, or we've got this all wrong, and he's basically, we're all dead, and Bruce Willis is basically, we all see ghosts.

00:28:03.000 Apparently, maybe that's, the real solution here is we don't understand that Joe Biden actually has the ability to convene with the dead without a Ouija board.

00:28:10.000 So maybe we're actually underestimating his abilities here.

00:28:13.000 We think he's all senile, but he's not, in fact, senile.

00:28:16.000 Maybe he actually can convene with the dead, which would be an amazing quality in a president of the United States.

00:28:21.000 Frankly, this gives me optimism for the future of the country.

00:28:23.000 Here's Joe Biden.

00:28:25.000 I want to thank all of you here, including bipartisan elected officials like Representative Governor, Senator Braun, Senator Booker, Representative... Jackie, are you here?

00:28:35.000 Where's Jackie?

00:28:36.000 I didn't think she was going to be here.

00:28:38.000 I think she's not... I don't know why she's not here.

00:28:41.000 Because she's dead.

00:28:43.000 But he, um, the White House put a statement out when she died, tragically, in that car accident, noting her death.

00:28:51.000 So there is Joe Biden just forgetting that people are dead.

00:28:54.000 And, um, that was actually not the worst part, okay?

00:28:56.000 Because Joe Biden makes these gaffes fairly frequently.

00:28:58.000 He talks to trees.

00:28:59.000 Sometimes he, sometimes he talks to the sidewalk.

00:29:02.000 Occasionally he, he makes personal acquaintance with the sidewalk after falling off a stationary bicycle.

00:29:06.000 I mean, none of this is particularly shocking coming from our, um, Our president of the United States who is mentally losing his faculties.

00:29:12.000 The worst part is what happened with Karine Jean-Pierre afterwards.

00:29:15.000 So, if you are the White House press secretary and you're faced with this, you should just be like, yeah, Joe Biden made a mistake.

00:29:20.000 He forgot about that tragedy and he apologizes for that.

00:29:23.000 And then we all move on, right?

00:29:24.000 And it's on a news cycle.

00:29:25.000 Because like, okay, we all know the truth, which is that he forgot.

00:29:28.000 He didn't remember.

00:29:29.000 For some reason, it slipped his mind that she had been killed in a car accident.

00:29:33.000 That would be understandable.

00:29:35.000 It'd be weird, but it'd be understandable.

00:29:37.000 Instead, Corine Jean-Pierre tries to explain that he knew full well she was dead, but he called her out for no reason.

00:29:45.000 Corine Jean-Pierre is so bad at this.

00:29:47.000 Legitimately, she is the Bob Uecker.

00:29:51.000 Bob Uecker had a career batting average under 200.

00:29:53.000 That is Corine Jean-Pierre.

00:29:56.000 She is the worst press secretary I have ever seen. 1.00

00:29:59.000 I've seen a bunch of them at this point. 0.99

00:30:01.000 She is by far the worst. 0.88

00:30:03.000 Here we go. 0.92

00:30:05.000 Does the president think that she's living and in the room?

00:30:08.000 I don't find that confusing.

00:30:09.000 I mean, I think many people can speak to sometimes when you have someone top of mind, they're a top of mind, exactly that.

00:30:17.000 And it is also, if you put it into the context, it's not like it happened without outside of context, right?

00:30:23.000 He said, Jackie, are you here?

00:30:25.000 Where's Jackie?

00:30:25.000 She must not be here.

00:30:27.000 No, I totally understand.

00:30:28.000 I just explained, she was on top of mind.

00:30:34.000 What we were able to witness today and what the President was able to lift up at this conference, at this event, was how her focus on wanting to deal with, combat food insecurity in America.

00:30:52.000 And this is something that he was lifting up and honoring.

00:30:56.000 Um, and then the reporter's like, well, um, I have John Lennon top of mind nearly every day cause I like the Beatles, but I don't think he's alive.

00:31:04.000 Here we go.

00:31:04.000 I have John Lennon top of mind just about every day, but I'm not looking around for him.

00:31:10.000 When you sign a bill for John Lennon, Lennon has president, then we can have this conversation.

00:31:14.000 Okay, go ahead.

00:31:17.000 But what?

00:31:21.000 So, So, to have a comment about this, apparently you have to be the President of the United States signing a bill in honor of a human, and then you can think they're alive?

00:31:30.000 Is that the logic here?

00:31:32.000 Again, the reporter's point goes, I read over the weekend a biography of Napoleon by Andrew Roberts.

00:31:38.000 I'm not under the impression that Napoleon is still in the room somewhere.

00:31:43.000 The part of this that really is astonishing, it says something deeper about our politics, is you can't just say in our politics, oops.

00:31:49.000 Can you say oops?

00:31:50.000 Every president has to be treated as though the president is completely infallible.

00:31:53.000 The president is not a king.

00:31:54.000 Again, this is a bipartisan phenomenon.

00:31:56.000 Trump would say stuff and people on the right would be like, that is a 4D chess move, my friend.

00:32:00.000 He knows exactly what he is saying and it is a genius move.

00:32:02.000 And it's like, well...

00:32:03.000 Probably it wasn't.

00:32:04.000 Probably he was just eating from the toilet and we can just move on with our life.

00:32:07.000 And with Joe Biden, it's particularly telling because Joe Biden, like everybody knew what Trump was, right?

00:32:12.000 Everybody could see that Trump was just kind of saying the stuff that he wanted to say.

00:32:15.000 With Joe Biden, they keep trying to burnish him.

00:32:17.000 They keep trying to make him something he is not.

00:32:19.000 He is a doddering elderly gentleman Who has no clue what is going on around him except at times when he is completely withdrawing from Afghanistan and leaving 38 million people to the hands of the Taliban.

00:32:27.000 The President of the United States is not a leader.

00:32:29.000 He is not with us.

00:32:30.000 He is gone.

00:32:31.000 Okay, the attic?

00:32:32.000 The light is on, but there ain't nobody home.

00:32:34.000 There are marbles that are missing from that jar.

00:32:38.000 Joe Biden is, as I have said, at the point in his life where he could not pour urine out of a boot if the instructions were written on the heel.

00:32:44.000 He is just not there.

00:32:46.000 Okay?

00:32:46.000 He's gone.

00:32:47.000 There are no bats in the belfry.

00:32:48.000 It is empty.

00:32:49.000 And yet, you have to have his entire team come out and explain that actually this is an act of massive genius.

00:32:54.000 He just had her top of mind.

00:32:56.000 This would be much better.

00:32:58.000 If the White House just said, guys, you made a mistake.

00:33:01.000 You forgot that this tragedy occurred and then we can all move on.

00:33:04.000 But the necessity in today's politics to try and treat our presidents as though they are blessed with some sort of prophetic infallibility is just, it's insane.

00:33:16.000 And again, it's perfectly obvious to everybody.

00:33:18.000 I mean, Joe Biden literally yesterday had to direct Joe Biden away from a podium, which I guess is better than when the Easter Bunny did it.

00:33:23.000 You remember that?

00:33:23.000 A few months back, Joe Biden was at an Easter Egg Roll and the media came in there asking him questions.

00:33:29.000 And the Easter Bunny, who I assume was Jen Psaki, came over and like grabbed him by the shoulders and started redirecting him away. 1.00

00:33:34.000 It was like a scene from Harvey with Jimmy Stewart.

00:33:36.000 Well, yesterday it was Jill Biden, aka Edith Wilson, who was guiding our senile president away from the microphones.

00:33:45.000 Okay, I don't know if you're watching Game of Thrones House of Dragons, but this is basically like Alicent trying to guide Viserys around at this point.

00:33:59.000 Like, Jill is... Joe, if you could just follow me, we're gonna go down this way, like, this is a step, and we're in a garden, and this garden is at the White House, and the White House is in the United States, and the United States is a country on planet Earth.

00:34:12.000 And she's gonna take him, she's gonna put him in a chair, she's gonna put a blanket over his lap, and then she's gonna put a pillow behind his back, and then she's gonna give him some chamomile tea, and they're gonna watch Matlock together.

00:34:21.000 Again, just acknowledge the reality of what is, and life will be so much better for everyone because we will all be able to speak to the same reality.

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00:35:21.000 Now, speaking of failures to speak to the same reality, there was a controversy that broke out yesterday over Lizzo.

00:35:28.000 So we're not talking about the usual controversy over whether fat is beautiful and fat positivity and whether being 100 pounds overweight is actually a wonderful, wonderful thing that is healthful and all this.

00:35:38.000 We're talking about a controversy that broke out because Lizzo was given access to James Madison's crystal flute from 1813.

00:35:46.000 According to the New York Times, Lizzo looked uncharacteristically nervous as she crossed the stage in a glittering mesh leotard with tights and sequined combat boots. 0.99

00:35:53.000 A classically trained flautist who began playing when she was in fifth grade and considered studying at the Paris Conservatory, she has woven flute into many of her songs, has played virtually with the New York Philharmonic, and her flute, named Sasha Flute, even has its own Instagram page.

00:36:05.000 But waiting for her on Tuesday night was an exquisite and highly breakable musical instrument that had arrived at her concert in Washington under heavy security, a crystal flute that a French craftsman and clockmaker had made for President James Madison in 1813.

00:36:17.000 And so there are actually two clips of Lizzo that are going around.

00:36:21.000 And I'm going to play both because I think it's important that we understand the context here.

00:36:25.000 So, originally, she was asked by Carla D. Hayden, the first African-American and first woman to lead the Library of Congress, to play the flute.

00:36:35.000 Because she'd asked Lizzo on Friday to visit the Library's flute collection, about 1,700 of those instruments, over at the Library of Congress.

00:36:44.000 She tweeted, Lizzo, we would love for you to come see it and even play a couple when you're in DC next week.

00:36:48.000 They are good as hell.

00:36:48.000 Like your song.

00:36:50.000 And she said, I'm coming, Carla, and I'm playing that crystal flute.

00:36:53.000 So Lizzo arrived on Monday with her mother and members of her band, and Dr. Hayden and the staff members ushered her into the flute vault.

00:36:59.000 And they gave her a tour of the collection, which includes fifes, piccolos, and a flute shaped like a walking stick, which Lizzo said she might want as a Christmas present.

00:37:05.000 And she spent more than three hours at the library trying out several of the instruments.

00:37:08.000 So she played a piccolo from John Philip Sousa's band that was used to play the solo at the premiere of Stars and Stripes Forever.

00:37:13.000 She played a Plexiglas flute made in 1937.

00:37:15.000 And she also apparently played this flute as well.

00:37:20.000 So there is some video that came out from the Library of Congress of her playing the flute.

00:37:24.000 She was trained at University of Houston to play the flute.

00:37:27.000 So she knows how to play the flute. 0.85

00:37:28.000 Doesn't mean she's like one of the world's great flutists in the same way that I'm not one of the world's great violinists, right?

00:37:32.000 Being trained from a young age to play, you can be pretty good and that doesn't make you one of the world's, but she's a celebrity.

00:37:37.000 Understood.

00:37:37.000 Okay, so here's the video that is uncontroversial of her playing at the Library of Congress.

00:37:42.000 This is better than what she usually does by like a long stretch. 0.96

00:38:02.000 It's very nice!

00:38:03.000 See, this is very nice!

00:38:16.000 She's a pretty good flutist!

00:38:16.000 I'm enjoying this!

00:38:20.000 Like, great!

00:38:21.000 Okay, so that's non-controversial.

00:38:23.000 Okay, then there's the clip that everyone's making a big deal out of, as the New York Times suggests, right?

00:38:27.000 The big thing that happened with Lizzo is that she brought this flute to a concert, James Madison's flute, to a concert, and she proceeded to twerk with it.

00:38:36.000 So this is the thing that the entire world saw, was Lizzo wearing essentially a skimpy outfit, twerking with James Madison's flute.

00:38:46.000 Not the first one, which is a very respectful treatment of a historic instrument, but instead Lizzo bringing forth a historic instrument to twerk with it, which of course is the point.

00:38:58.000 Here is the clip of Lizzo.

00:39:01.000 I love you.

00:39:03.000 You can do it!

00:39:07.000 We love you!

00:39:28.000 Thank you.

00:39:33.000 Okay, and then she said something about how she twerked and played James Madison's crystal flute from the 1800s.

00:39:38.000 We just made history tonight.

00:39:40.000 So the history wasn't made when she actually went to the Library of Congress and played very nicely.

00:39:43.000 It was when she played one note and twerked with James Madison's flute.

00:39:47.000 Okay, so this is what I'm going to call the face tattoo syndrome.

00:39:51.000 Okay, because what has happened in the media is the face tattoo syndrome or the face tattoo phenomenon.

00:39:55.000 Here's how it works. 1.00

00:39:56.000 Somebody does something incredibly controversial and stupid. 1.00

00:39:59.000 If you notice it, you're bad. 1.00

00:40:02.000 You walk into the Starbucks and there's a guy behind the counter and that guy has the Mike Tyson face tattoo that just covers half his face.

00:40:08.000 And you're staring at it because how can you not stare at a person with a giant face tattoo?

00:40:11.000 And he's like, what are you looking at, bub?

00:40:14.000 Are you offended by my face tattoo?

00:40:16.000 You're like, well, I mean, you did get a face tattoo to draw attention to yourself.

00:40:19.000 So I, if you're asking my opinion of the face tattoo, I think it was a bad idea and it looks terrible.

00:40:23.000 How dare you notice?

00:40:24.000 You cannot notice.

00:40:25.000 If you notice, it's bad.

00:40:26.000 The face tattoo phenomenon.

00:40:27.000 That's what's happening here with Lizzo.

00:40:29.000 The first clip, totally uncontroversial.

00:40:30.000 The one that actually made the rounds, however, was her twerking. 0.98

00:40:33.000 Because it is the contrast.

00:40:34.000 That's the whole point that they are making.

00:40:36.000 And commentators were saying this.

00:40:37.000 It is the contrast between Lizzo, a significantly overweight African-American musician, right?

00:40:43.000 Because the idea is that it's groundbreaking for an African-American musician to play James Madison, one of the founders of the Constitution, to play his flute.

00:40:51.000 That's the groundbreaking aspect.

00:40:52.000 But really, it isn't even her race, right?

00:40:54.000 They tried to make it about her race. 0.74

00:40:55.000 It isn't really her race because I'm sure that if they had wanted to find a better flautist who is black than Lizzo, I'm sure that there are many black flautists who are significantly better than Lizzo, right?

00:41:04.000 They play in orchestras around the world.

00:41:05.000 I'm sure they are wonderful.

00:41:07.000 So if the idea was just going to be, we are going to take a historic instrument that belonged to a white Southerner who was in charge of founding the Constitution, and we are going to have a very talented African-American black person play that, That would have been really uncontroversial.

00:41:22.000 Like seriously, it'd be the equivalent of if, if let's say that George Washington had had a harpsichord and we had had Connalisa Rice go and play the harpsichord.

00:41:30.000 Like everyone would have been like, okay, all right, fine.

00:41:32.000 Okay, but it is the twerking that does it.

00:41:35.000 Understand it's the twerking.

00:41:36.000 It is about the twerking.

00:41:37.000 The story is solely and completely about the twerking, which is why you didn't see the first video.

00:41:41.000 The first video has a few views.

00:41:42.000 The one of her playing very nicely in the Library of Congress while dressed somewhat decently.

00:41:46.000 It is the second video where she is twerking and wearing skimpy outfits with the flute that is- because the idea is to degrade the culture. 1.00

00:41:53.000 That is what people- that is why the clip is viral.

00:41:55.000 The reason the clip is viral is the contrast between a person twerking and the idea of a- of a- an extraordinarily classy instrument.

00:42:05.000 A historic instrument that speaks to sort of the gentility of America's founders being brought into a context that is vulgar.

00:42:14.000 It's the vulgarization of American history.

00:42:17.000 Again, Lizzo did both, and only one of those clips went viral.

00:42:21.000 And so, if you notice that, then you're very, very bad. 0.72

00:42:23.000 If you notice that, then this means that you're some sort of racist, or it means that you don't want black people playing the flute or something. 0.85

00:42:28.000 No, I just don't want people twerking with historic instruments. 0.72

00:42:30.000 By the way, I'd be similarly offended, as a violinist, if there was a Stradivarius, somebody had a Strad, and that Strad was lent out to a musician, who then proceeded to twerk on the Strad.

00:42:41.000 I would also be insulted, because it turns out that great art should not be degraded.

00:42:45.000 Great art, American history, they should not be degraded by juxtaposition with vulgarity.

00:42:49.000 That should not be a controversial position, but we've now reached the point in American life where nearly everything is a controversial position.

00:42:54.000 Literally everything.

00:42:56.000 Every day on this show, there's some clip that is taken that is utterly uncontroversial and then made into a thing on Twitter.

00:43:03.000 Because we now live in a world where we do not have a shared reality.

00:43:06.000 This was a point that was made by an account on Twitter called Wokeldistance, and he was saying that we don't have a shared reality because half the people saw this clip and they were offended by it, and half the people were like, woohoo, it's amazing!

00:43:16.000 That shared reality has gone away on literally everything and you have to understand that without that shared reality we can't have political conversations, we can't have shared values.

00:43:22.000 It's very difficult to see how you have a future as a country if you don't have some sort of shared value.

00:43:27.000 The part that's kind of astonishing to me on a personal level is I don't understand why Lizzo would do that.

00:43:33.000 Lizzo is enough of a musician to understand the nature of historic Musical pieces of art.

00:43:38.000 And so, the degradation of that, like, why doesn't she, personally, have the respect for the instrument and respect for the history enough not to twerk with it?

00:43:48.000 And by the way, the left would have the same exact reaction if somebody took the Mona Lisa off the wall at the Louvre and then went and twerked with it at some sort of rock event.

00:43:57.000 They'd have exactly the same reaction because degradation of the past, degradation of great art, is part and parcel of something that the deconstructionist left loves.

00:44:04.000 They love the idea that great art doesn't exist, that all art is equivalent.

00:44:08.000 That Robert Mapplethorpe's Piss Christ is actually a form of art.

00:44:12.000 Everything is art in the eye of the beholder.

00:44:14.000 And that's what's really going on here.

00:44:15.000 And if you notice it, then they're like, ah, how dare you notice this?

00:44:17.000 Well, if you hadn't made a big deal out of it, I wouldn't have noticed it.

00:44:20.000 If you didn't think it was historic, if you didn't think it was important, you wouldn't have done it.

00:44:23.000 It also demonstrates, by the way, just how much the sort of institutions of American government have been taken over by members of the woke left.

00:44:32.000 When you have members of the Library of Congress who are reaching out to Lizzo to have her twerk with a flute, That says something. 0.99

00:44:38.000 The Library of Congress is supposed to be a place where you preserve historic instruments and respect them, not a place where you give it to people who are then going to twerk with those instruments on stage to the cheers of a gaggle of morons. 0.96

00:44:52.000 Alrighty guys, the rest of my show is continuing now. 0.96

00:44:53.000 You're not going to want to miss it.

00:44:54.000 We will be getting into the latest on the economy.

00:44:56.000 Plus, a clip from Vice on the rehabilitation of sex offenders that goes wildly wrong.

The Ben Shapiro Show - September 29, 2022

Joe Biden Speaks With The Dead | Ep. 1583

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