The Ben Shapiro Show - Joe Biden Wants To Heal Your Soul | Ep. 1497

00:00:00.000 Joe Biden travels to Buffalo, New York to declaim on the soul of America.

00:00:04.000 And we review last night's fascinating primary results.

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00:01:31.000 Well, last night, there were some big primaries across the country with some really interesting results.

00:01:36.000 The most obviously interesting result is that Representative Madison Cawthorn has now been defeated in his primary by State Senator Chuck Edwards.

00:01:43.000 Cawthorn, of course, had been a highly controversial figure, hobnobbing with Some of the least savory members of the Republican coalition accusing people of engaging in bizarre cocaine-fueled orgies in Washington, D.C.

00:01:56.000 Cawthorn had been then caught on tape doing all manner of bizarre things ranging from nakedly thrusting himself onto his cousin in some sort of bizarre video to making weird overtures to another dude to wearing ladies lingerie at a party.

00:02:18.000 He was cruising for a bruising in a primary, is all I'm saying to you here.

00:02:20.000 And regardless of what you think of Cawthorn himself, he was a bad candidate.

00:02:24.000 And because he was a bad candidate, he lost in a hotly contested primary.

00:02:28.000 So Representative Madison Cawthorn will no longer be a headache for the GOP.

00:02:33.000 On the same side of the aisle, in the Pennsylvania Senate primary, in this fascinating race between Mehmet Oz and David McCormick, as well as Kathy Barnett.

00:02:42.000 So Kathy Barnett was a sort of late breaking candidate who thought a lot of people thought might actually take the race because she had accelerated so fast from zero to 100. 0.97

00:02:54.000 She ends up losing that primary, but the contested primary between McCormick and Oz is still very much contested.

00:03:00.000 There is still no clear winner at this point.

00:03:02.000 It will probably go to a recount because they're separated by just a couple of thousand votes right now.

00:03:06.000 Oz is up by just a couple of thousand votes, but that is not enough to actually declare a winner in that particular race.

00:03:14.000 The fact that Trump endorsed Oz as opposed to McCormick definitely meant that Oz was going to get a boost.

00:03:22.000 And he did get a boost because of that.

00:03:23.000 Because otherwise, Oz did not have the support of most of the Republican Party at this point.

00:03:27.000 He was widely considered by sort of grassroots Republicans as not sufficiently conservative in his outlook.

00:03:33.000 There are lots of old clips on his show of him talking about everything from gun control to transgenderism.

00:03:37.000 He suggested, of course, that he's had sort of a political transformation a la Donald Trump, that he's become more conservative over time, that all of those clips are old clips that don't really reflect his positions as of today.

00:03:48.000 But a lot of primary voters were very unhappy with that, and so they'd seem to swarm to McCormick.

00:03:52.000 Oz's hit on McCormick is that McCormick was a Wall Street guy.

00:03:55.000 McCormick's hit on Oz is that Oz was a TV guy.

00:03:58.000 Neither one of them was considered as being sort of a hometown Pennsylvania boy because McCormick has been in New York for a long time.

00:04:04.000 Mehmet Oz has been in major metropolitan areas outside Pennsylvania for a very long time.

00:04:07.000 McCormick did spend most of his youth in Pennsylvania, by contrast, with Oz. 0.62

00:04:13.000 Right now, again, the results are separated by less than 2,000 votes.

00:04:16.000 This is going to go to a recount at this point, pretty obviously.

00:04:21.000 Whichever one emerges is going to probably be the senator from Pennsylvania, given the way that this That this 2022 off your election is shaping up.

00:04:31.000 It seems as though the race for that Senate seat is the Republicans to lose.

00:04:37.000 Now, McCormick is an easier pick in terms of the winner because he is again more of a Glenn Young can type.

00:04:43.000 He's an establishment Republican who has a bit of a Trumpy appeal in the sense that he's willing to fight culture wars.

00:04:49.000 But McCormick is very pro-free trade.

00:04:51.000 McCormick is very pro-free markets.

00:04:53.000 He seems to be much more like a sort of moderated version of the Trump wing of the Republican Party.

00:04:59.000 Oz is more of a celebrity politician.

00:05:01.000 It's unclear where he stands on a lot of these issues.

00:05:04.000 And so him running in a general election, while his name ID is going to be very, very high, he's also going to have a lot of high negatives because his name ID is very high, whereas McCormick is more of a stealth candidate in terms of being able to run statewide in that Senate race.

00:05:17.000 So those primary results are really interesting.

00:05:20.000 There's another result that is coming out from Georgia, and it really isn't a primary result because the primary hasn't been held yet, but the early voting in Georgia ends Friday.

00:05:28.000 And this just gives the lie to the Democratic narrative that has been Well, that's weird, because according to Blaine Alexander, who's a reporter for NBC News, Georgia has seen record-breaking turnout for early voting.

00:05:38.000 They've all been claiming that Georgia's voting laws are somehow prohibitive of black people voting.

00:05:45.000 Somehow, they're an attempt to keep Democrats from voting.

00:05:47.000 Well, that's weird because according to Blaine Alexander, who's a reporter for NBC News, Georgia has seen record-breaking turnout for early voting.

00:05:53.000 The latest numbers per the Georgia Secretary of State's office, almost 423,000 in-person That is 200% higher than at this point in 2018.

00:06:03.000 It is 150% higher than this point in 2020, which is nuts, considering this is an off-year election.

00:06:09.000 The GOP has cast something like 263,000 ballots at this point early.

00:06:12.000 Democratic ballots, about 195,000, which is a big number for the Democrats, considering that Stacey Abrams is running uncontested in that Democratic primary for governor.

00:06:23.000 So those are huge numbers.

00:06:25.000 So when is the MLB going to move its all-star game back to Georgia?

00:06:30.000 I mean, that lie that somehow Georgia was attempting to stifle the vote was used by Democrats for years to claim that Stacey Abrams was the actual governor of Georgia.

00:06:38.000 Then it was used by Donald Trump to claim that he was the actual president based on him being jobbed out of Georgia.

00:06:44.000 And now it turns out that none of that was true.

00:06:46.000 That it's really, really easy to vote in Georgia and that there really isn't voter suppression in Georgia in any way, shape or form.

00:06:53.000 Alrighty, coming up, there's one more result from Pennsylvania that's kind of interesting.

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00:08:08.000 Meanwhile, one more result from Pennsylvania.

00:08:10.000 So there's a candidate in Pennsylvania for governor.

00:08:12.000 His name is Doug Mastriano.

00:08:14.000 Mastriano is a person who believes that Donald Trump won the election outright.

00:08:19.000 He marched on January 6th.

00:08:20.000 He was found on Capitol grounds during January 6th, not inside the building, but like on the Capitol grounds, apparently.

00:08:26.000 And Mastriano kind of walked away.

00:08:27.000 He's a state senator from Pennsylvania.

00:08:28.000 He walked away with the gubernatorial nomination.

00:08:30.000 A lot of folks in the GOP were upset about this.

00:08:32.000 They believe that he has no chance to win.

00:08:34.000 Democrats are now admitting that they helped to engineer Mastriano's win according to Politico.

00:08:39.000 Quote, one of the most fascinating things we read last night was our colleagues back and forth on the Politico live blog about how Mastriano's rise can be partly attributed to Democrats.

00:08:46.000 Viewing him as the easiest Republican to defeat in the general, Josh Shapiro, who is no relation and is the Attorney General of Pennsylvania and the Democratic gubernatorial nominee in Pennsylvania, and the state Democratic Party sends out mailers boosting him.

00:08:58.000 According to Holly Otterbein of Politico, helping him rise above other GOP candidates, including former Representative Lou Barletta of Pennsylvania.

00:09:05.000 While Mastroianno spent less than $370,000 on TV ads, the Josh Shapiro campaign pumped more than $840,000 to air a spot attacking Mastroianno as too conservative for voters, which was an obvious attempt to boost him on the right.

00:09:19.000 The ad called him one of Donald Trump's strongest supporters, which of course was an attempt to get Trump supporters to turn out for Mastriano.

00:09:25.000 Now, the Democrats are playing a dangerous game here because you'll recall that in the past they've attempted to pick Republican candidates to run against.

00:09:31.000 It has not always ended well.

00:09:33.000 Sometimes it ends well for them.

00:09:34.000 Sometimes it ends with Donald Trump sitting in the White House.

00:09:36.000 So we'll see how that plays out for the Democrats in Pennsylvania in what is a very bad year for Democrats.

00:09:42.000 Well, speaking of this being a very bad year for Democrats, The Democrats continue their attempt to swivel away from their incipient 2022 devastating loss, which is going to happen.

00:09:52.000 They keep attempting to swivel.

00:09:53.000 First, it was the abortion issue and talk about abortion, abortion.

00:09:56.000 And then it turns out that didn't move the polls.

00:09:57.000 And now they're doubling down on what they always double down on. 0.98

00:10:00.000 Everybody we don't like is a vicious racist. 0.96

00:10:02.000 And the narrative after this Buffalo, New York shooting is that America is a horribly racist place. 0.94

00:10:07.000 Now, there is something worth noting here just at the outset.

00:10:10.000 Democrats, as I've said over and over, they're conflating the Great Replacement Theory, which is a very specific theory suggesting that there are Jewish elites who are attempting to ship in people of brown color in order to mix the racial stock of the United States and therefore undermine the white supremacy of the United States and other European countries.

00:10:30.000 That's the Great Replacement Theory. 0.69

00:10:31.000 It is a racial theory.

00:10:32.000 It is not predominantly a political theory.

00:10:34.000 What I mean by that is that the argument that bringing immigrants from different countries has an effect on the voting base That is a normal political argument that has been happening for literally centuries about how it impacts a country's culture when a lot of immigrants come in from different places.

00:10:48.000 Or how it impacts the voting patterns in a particular country when you change the demographics of the country.

00:10:53.000 That sort of stuff is normal immigration talk.

00:10:55.000 The left, because they understand that's normal immigration talk, in which conservatives engage and so do liberals, they're now attempting to link that with the Great Replacement Theory promoted by the Buffalo New York mass shooter. 1.00

00:11:07.000 And it's ugly and it's stupid. 0.92

00:11:08.000 Now, if the argument is, from the left, that that sort of talk amounts to Great Replacement Theory, that the moment you start talking about changing demographics, changing the politics of the country, if that's the argument that the left is making, that counts as Great Replacement Theory, then the chief advocates for the Great Replacement Theory, by this definition, were members of the left for about 25 years here. 0.99

00:11:26.000 Because they were actively arguing on behalf of the Coalition of the Ascendant, according to Ronald Brownstein.

00:11:31.000 Left-wing columnists.

00:11:32.000 They're actively arguing in favor of the quote-unquote Browning of America in order to change the demographic voting patterns in the United States. 0.50

00:11:39.000 So you can't have it both ways.

00:11:40.000 You can't say that the left gets to say that this is a good thing, and then if somebody says, wait, if it changes the politics in a way I don't like, maybe we should restrict immigration and it's a bad thing.

00:11:48.000 It's not great when we do it, bad when the other guys do it.

00:11:51.000 That's not how this works.

00:11:52.000 And again, it's not being pulled out of thin air.

00:11:55.000 The response by conservatives to crack down on immigration because Democrats have been claiming that through immigration, they will in fact change how people vote in the United States.

00:12:06.000 That is well within political boundaries.

00:12:08.000 If it's within political boundaries for the left, it is within political boundaries for the right, and you don't get to conflate either of those with Great Replacement Theory.

00:12:14.000 Or alternatively, if it's all Great Replacement Theory, then Democrats have been engaging in it for years.

00:12:19.000 Put together this compendium of Democrats talking about the so-called Great Replacement Theory, if this is how you define it.

00:12:25.000 It seems harder and harder to ignore that the echoes of replacement theory and other racially motivated views are increasingly coming out into the open.

00:12:35.000 In a few years, we're going to be a majority brown country. 1.00

00:12:38.000 White people will not be the majority in the country anymore.

00:12:40.000 This will be the first generation ever in American history in which whites will be a minority of the generation at some point.

00:12:48.000 As of 2007, Every year, babies being born in this country, whites now are the minority.

00:12:54.000 In 2044, everyone is going to be a minority.

00:12:56.000 As the demographics change, as white people become the minority in the country, which is coming. 1.00

00:13:01.000 Demographics is destiny.

00:13:03.000 Demographics is destiny.

00:13:04.000 Demographics is destiny, right?

00:13:06.000 The country is changing.

00:13:07.000 I've been saying it here, other people have been saying it here for years now, even before Donald Trump.

00:13:13.000 The demographics is destiny. 1.00

00:13:15.000 The white population is declining for the first time in history in America, while the number of multiracial Americans have more than doubled.

00:13:23.000 So we live in a country where the demographics are changing, it's becoming less white.

00:13:27.000 Correct.

00:13:27.000 You'll be announcing that we're calling the 38 electoral votes of Texas for the Democratic nominee for president.

00:13:33.000 It's changing.

00:13:34.000 It's going to become a purple state and then a blue state because of the demographics, because of the population growth.

00:13:40.000 The growth in Texas has been almost entirely driven by non-white population growth, mostly by Hispanic and Latino population growth.

00:13:47.000 The idea that, you know, whites will not be the majority I mean, that's, it's an exciting transformation of the country.

00:13:56.000 It's an exciting evolution and, you know, progress of our country in many different ways.

00:14:01.000 The white population is declining.

00:14:05.000 It was always on the upswing.

00:14:07.000 So that speaks to the beautiful diversity of America.

00:14:11.000 It speaks to how that population will, the demographics, We'll weigh in politically.

00:14:18.000 I believe anybody who echoes the replacement is to blame.

00:14:22.000 Not for this particular crime, but it's for no purpose.

00:14:26.000 No purpose.

00:14:27.000 Except profit and or political benefit.

00:14:31.000 And it's wrong.

00:14:32.000 Okay, so you got the bookends there of Chuck Schumer talking about the Great Replacement Theory, and Joe Biden saying that if you talk about this stuff, then you're really, really bad, and then you have sandwiched in there Zerlina Maxwell, Joe Scarborough, Ali Velshi of MSNBC, Don Lemon, Stephen Colbert, Jorge Ramos, Julian Castro, who ran for president, Margaret Tallent of CNN, Anderson Cooper of CNN, Nancy Pelosi.

00:14:49.000 That is a list of all the people who you just heard discussing.

00:14:53.000 The notion that demographics are destiny.

00:14:55.000 That was Scarborough saying over and over.

00:14:56.000 Demographics are destiny.

00:14:57.000 OK, again, you can't have it both ways.

00:14:59.000 If that argument amounts to great replacement theory, then you guys have been making it for literally decades and advocating it for decades.

00:15:05.000 And so if people on the other side go, wait, it sounds very much like you would like to change the demographics of the country thus to achieve your political ends.

00:15:12.000 That's not great replacement theory.

00:15:13.000 If you do a thing and you say it out loud and then other people notice that you're doing it.

00:15:17.000 That's not them conspiracizing.

00:15:18.000 That is them noticing that you are doing a thing.

00:15:21.000 And that, again, all of this is very different from the Great Replacement Theory, which is about the destruction of the racial stock of a country on purely racial terms.

00:15:30.000 And if you read the Buffalo Shooter's quasi-manifesto, if you read that thing, It's 180 pages about how the IQ of the country is going to go down, about how when you bring in people from different cultures, they race mix, and this is bad because the kids are somehow worse, genetically speaking. 0.95

00:15:45.000 Nobody's talking about that here.

00:15:46.000 People are talking about arguments with regard to... Again.

00:15:50.000 What's good for the goose is good for the gander.

00:15:51.000 Now, here's the thing. 1.00

00:15:52.000 I think all of this is pretty stupid. 0.99

00:15:54.000 As I've said before, I don't think that demographics is destiny. 1.00

00:15:57.000 And I think Hispanic voting patterns right now are demonstrating full-scale to Democrats that demographics are not destiny.

00:16:02.000 I believe that people are individuals, and black people can vote Republican, and white people can vote Democrat, and Hispanics can vote Democrat or Republican, and everybody can vote how they want to vote.

00:16:11.000 The real question when it comes to immigration is cultural assimilation, skill set, education level, are you going to get on welfare?

00:16:17.000 These are the big questions.

00:16:19.000 But it has nothing to do with race.

00:16:20.000 I don't actually believe the demographics are destiny in the way that Joe Scarborough says or in the way that Pat Buchanan says on the other side.

00:16:28.000 I just don't think that that's the case. 0.99

00:16:30.000 However, to pretend that that argument is the same as the argument that's being made by the Great Replacement Theory white supremacist is really, really stupid and really, really dishonest. 0.97

00:16:38.000 And it's particularly dishonest because, of course, the entire argument of the left here is that this shooter, who overtly in his manifesto rips on Fox News, Rips on me personally, by the way, twice. 0.99

00:16:49.000 At one point calls me a rat.

00:16:51.000 That somehow that this person is drawing inspiration from mainstream conservatism in some way when he actively dissociates from mainstream conservatism.

00:17:00.000 It's political and media malpractice.

00:17:02.000 It is bad coverage.

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00:18:04.000 The only reason to read manifestos like this is because the left lies about what is in them.

00:18:08.000 But this is directly from the manifesto.

00:18:10.000 Okay, quote.

00:18:11.000 We are experiencing an invasion on a level never seen before in history.

00:18:14.000 This is ethnic replacement. 0.67

00:18:15.000 This is cultural replacement. 0.65

00:18:16.000 This is racial replacement. 0.91

00:18:18.000 This is white genocide.

00:18:20.000 He quotes the so-called 14 words, or paraphrases them, he gets them wrong.

00:18:23.000 This is the neo-Nazi-Hitlerian statement, quote.

00:18:26.000 We must ensure the existence of our people and a future for white children. 1.00

00:18:29.000 He calls himself a white supremacist, a neo-Nazi, and an anti-Semite.

00:18:34.000 He says in the document, quote, conservatism is corporatism in disguise. 0.88

00:18:37.000 I want no part of it.

00:18:38.000 None of that matters to the media.

00:18:40.000 To the media, it's all about Tucker Carlson or to everybody who's on the right.

00:18:43.000 Now, it's worth noting that there have been mass shooters in the past who have cited as inspirations people on MSNBC.

00:18:51.000 There's a mass shooter, I don't mention the names of mass shooters on this program, there's a mass shooter in Los Angeles who shot a bunch of cops and he ended up dying after setting a cabin on fire.

00:18:59.000 This particular mass shooter, he cited to Rachel Maddow.

00:19:03.000 The congressional softball shooter cited to a variety of left-wing sources, including Bernie Sanders.

00:19:10.000 Those people are not to blame.

00:19:13.000 But again, this isn't about holding people accountable for the left.

00:19:15.000 This is about connecting horrible things to the right in an attempt to prevent people from voting from the right.

00:19:19.000 That's what this is about.

00:19:20.000 And this is why Joe Biden traveled to Buffalo, New York. 0.98

00:19:23.000 Again, as I've said before, I think it is idiocy that presidents feel the necessity to travel to places of tragedy. 0.96

00:19:28.000 I just don't think that that is the job of the president. 0.97

00:19:30.000 I don't think the president is the comforter-in-chief.

00:19:32.000 I think the president is a plumber, and he has very specific jobs to do. 0.89

00:19:35.000 And the belief system that he is supposed to just descend to every place there is a politically Advantageous tragedy is ridiculous.

00:19:43.000 Again, Joe Biden went to Buffalo because there is some sort of political angle for him.

00:19:47.000 He didn't go to Waukesha because there was no political angle for him.

00:19:50.000 So he goes to Buffalo and there he proceeds to speak about the soul of the nation.

00:19:53.000 Now, the great lie that Joe Biden told during the 2020 election is that the reason he decided to run for president was because of Charlottesville, because he had to restore the soul of the nation after Charlottesville. 0.99

00:20:02.000 That is just crap. 0.97

00:20:03.000 Joe Biden has run for president 29 times before. 0.99

00:20:05.000 Charlottesville had never happened during any of those times.

00:20:07.000 Joe Biden has always been a politician ambitious to sit in the White House, even if sitting in the White House now means lying down on a daybed in the White House at 4 p.m., eating oatmeal and watching Matlock before falling asleep with a chocolate Ovaltine.

00:20:19.000 Even if that's what it means, he's been desperate to do that for literally his entire career.

00:20:22.000 So one of the lies of the campaign was, him, I'm here to restore the soul of Manga Shabba Dabba.

00:20:27.000 He wasn't there to do any of that stuff, but he's going to try to revive that lie because whatever it was, it worked for him in 2020 running against Donald Trump.

00:20:35.000 And so now he's going to ramp up the idea that there is a deep abiding white supremacist threat to the American way of life.

00:20:43.000 In the same way that the left suggested that there was a deep abiding threat to democracy as a whole because of January 6th.

00:20:48.000 Even though that was a couple of hundred rioters who went into the Capitol building, some who just wandered in, and then they were cleared out in pretty short order by the Capitol police.

00:20:56.000 And then voting went on as normal and democracy was really never in serious systemic danger.

00:21:00.000 Doesn't mean they didn't provide a danger to cops, didn't mean that what they were doing was safe.

00:21:03.000 But the idea is maximize that idea because then Joe Biden is here to save her shampoo, your soul, a Moleo, but it was. So here's Joe Biden talking about how American democracy is in the greatest danger of his lifetime, which is weird since he lived through actual honest to God segregation and hung out with segregationist senators. 0.96

00:21:19.000 Look, the American experiment in democracy is in a danger like it hasn't been in my lifetime.

00:21:30.000 It's in danger this hour.

00:21:33.000 Hate and fear are being given too much oxygen by those who pretend to love America, but who don't understand America.

00:21:42.000 American democracy is in the greatest danger of his lifetime.

00:21:44.000 He just won an election.

00:21:46.000 And Democrats run the Senate and the House.

00:21:49.000 But apparently the democracy is in serious danger.

00:21:52.000 Then Biden goes after Great Replacement Theorist again. 0.99

00:21:55.000 Fair game, and Great Replacement Theory is garbage. 0.99

00:21:57.000 That's fine.

00:21:59.000 But the reason that he's doing this is not because they're a huge swath of Americans who believe in quote-unquote Great Replacement Theory.

00:22:04.000 It's because he's attempting to conflate kind of mainstream political debates about immigration, even arguments that I don't agree with.

00:22:11.000 He's trying to conflate that with Great Replacement Theory.

00:22:13.000 And again, this is the pattern in the media.

00:22:15.000 Philip Bump of the Washington Post said last week, nearly half of Republicans believed in the Great Replacement Theory.

00:22:19.000 He said it to a Pew poll that found that about half of Republicans and about 20-some percent of Democrats believe, quote, there is a group of people in this country who are trying to replace native-born Americans with immigrants who agree with their political views.

00:22:30.000 Well, as we just played in a compendium, there are Democrats who are openly saying that sort of thing.

00:22:34.000 You know, that is not great.

00:22:36.000 Great Replacement Theory is about the racial replacement. 0.57

00:22:38.000 It is not about the political changes in the country that are due to demographic change.

00:22:42.000 Here's Joe Biden going after Great Replacement Theory.

00:22:46.000 Through the media and politics, the Internet has radicalized, angry, alienated, lost and isolated individuals in the falsely believing that they will be replaced.

00:22:59.000 That's the word replaced by the other.

00:23:04.000 By people who don't look like them. 0.99

00:23:06.000 And who are, therefore, in a perverse ideology that they possess and being fed lesser beans.

00:23:15.000 I and all of you reject the lie.

00:23:18.000 I call on all Americans to reject the lie.

00:23:21.000 And I condemn those who spread the lie for power, political gain, and for profit.

00:23:30.000 Okay, so what he means by this end is Republicans and Tucker Carlson.

00:23:34.000 So more of Joe Biden saving the soul of the nation by blaming people for white supremacist terror attacks who aren't to blame for white supremacist terror attacks.

00:23:40.000 We'll get to that in just a moment.

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00:24:42.000 He's saying this is a mainstream thing.

00:24:44.000 That people believe the racial stock of the United States is being degraded by Jewish Kabbalah elites.

00:24:48.000 That this is somehow a mainstream thing.

00:24:50.000 And all of his political opponents are in league with those people.

00:24:52.000 And he makes this a little bit clearer later in the day.

00:24:53.000 He's out on the tarmac.

00:24:55.000 And he's being asked about Tucker Carlson specifically.

00:24:57.000 And he kind of quasi knocks him.

00:24:59.000 I believe anybody who echoes the replacement is to blame, not for this particular crime, but it's for no purpose, no purpose except profit and or political benefit.

00:25:21.000 Oh Oh, for profit and political benefit, they've been doing this.

00:25:27.000 Which is strange, because Tucker Carlson has been a pretty successful commentator on Fox News for several years at this point.

00:25:36.000 And if we're talking about racially polarizing people for political gain, there is a party that's been doing that for as long as I've been alive, by calling everyone they don't like a racist, and then cobbling together the Coalition of the Ascended.

00:25:46.000 In the words of Ron Brownstein, in the words of Greg Sargent of the Washington Post-Circuit 2012, If we're going to talk about politically polarizing parties along the basis of race, it would be the intersectional coalition that declared America systemically racist in 2020 and declared police systemically racist in 2020 in order to win an election.

00:26:02.000 That would be the party that is much more focused on politically polarizing around the issue of race.

00:26:07.000 And Joe Biden continued along these lines, of course.

00:26:08.000 He says, we have to talk about who's responsible for generating hate.

00:26:12.000 Well, I mean, we do, but you don't want to have that conversation because it's pretty obvious who's generating most of the racial hate in the country right now.

00:26:18.000 I probably shouldn't be saying this now, but I'm going to say it anyway.

00:26:22.000 We have to not only talk about how we're going to end the hate, but who's responsible for generating it.

00:26:27.000 You have folks on television stations talking about the replacement theory.

00:26:33.000 Scaring the living hell out of people who don't have a whole lot of emotional stability.

00:26:39.000 Taking advantage of, on the internet and other means, by talking about how we're going to be overtaken.

00:26:47.000 Okay, I just have a question.

00:26:48.000 This shooter specifically cites to the Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi website.

00:26:52.000 He cites to 4chan and Gab.

00:26:55.000 He cites to a bunch of sources, none of which include all the people that Joe Biden wants to blame.

00:26:58.000 None of that is important to this.

00:27:00.000 For the left, none of it.

00:27:01.000 It's not important who this guy is.

00:27:03.000 In fact, it is important that we ignore who the shooter's actual sources were, because we have a broader point to make, which is that the right is really, really bad.

00:27:10.000 You have Corrine Jean-Pierre, who is the incompetent new White House press secretary, and she is asked specifically, okay, if you're just going to spit it out, spit it out.

00:27:17.000 If you're just going to blame Fox News and Tucker, just do it.

00:27:19.000 She's like, no, people know who they are.

00:27:22.000 The people who spread this filth know who they are, and they should be ashamed of themselves.

00:27:30.000 But I'm not going to give them or their noxious ideas they're pushing the attention that they desperately want. 0.91

00:27:39.000 So the president has already called out this poisonous, false, hateful ideology, including on Saturday and Sunday, saying any act of domestic terrorism, including an act perpetrated in the name of a A repugnant white nationalist ideology is antithetical to everything we stand for in America. 0.96

00:27:59.000 This sort of language, by the way, has never been applied to the black Hebrew Israelites who have now performed a series of terrorist attacks across the country, nor has it been linked with black supremacists who mow down people in Waukesha. 0.79

00:28:10.000 You think one of the reasons maybe there's political polarization around the issue of race is because only one type of racism is tied into mainstream politics by a media that is desperate to do so for political purposes.

00:28:20.000 Maybe that's the reason.

00:28:21.000 There's an entire other side of It shouldn't be a partisan issue.

00:28:24.000 and actual violence on the basis of race and you just ignore it? You pretend that it doesn't exist because it doesn't tie into deeper narratives about what America supposedly is. Now you have Hakeem Jeffries, who's the heir apparent to Nancy Pelosi over in the Democratic Party, and he says that the GOP is essentially responsible for violence. The GOP has to change course or they're responsible for bloodshed. It shouldn't be a partisan issue. It's not a Democratic issue or Republican issue dealing with the crisis of violent white supremacy.

00:28:52.000 It is an American issue.

00:28:55.000 And I'm hopeful that Elise Stefanik and my colleagues on the other side of the aisle will see the error of their ways to date and change course immediately.

00:29:07.000 Because if they don't, blood will continue to be shed.

00:29:11.000 Blaming Elise Stefanik for this is just a joke.

00:29:13.000 It's just a joke.

00:29:14.000 But it's a politically motivated joke.

00:29:16.000 Meanwhile, Chuck Schumer doing the same routine.

00:29:18.000 So the least competent Senate Majority Leader of my lifetime by far.

00:29:21.000 Chuck Schumer, he says he's going to work in the Senate to oppose white supremacy and presumably anti-Semitism.

00:29:27.000 The Democratic Party will not work to oppose anti-Semitism, as we'll discuss in one moment.

00:29:32.000 Here is Chuck Schumer.

00:29:34.000 Buffalo is the city of good neighbors, and nowhere is this more true than on the East Side.

00:29:40.000 And to the city of good neighbors, I pledge to stand with you through this awful, awful tragedy.

00:29:48.000 To work in the Senate to oppose the poison of white supremacy that inspired this attack.

00:29:57.000 So Schumer directly attacked Tucker Carlson by name.

00:29:59.000 Tucker then invited Schumer to go on his program, and Schumer immediately declined.

00:30:02.000 Schumer's like, no, you can't make me do it.

00:30:05.000 He tweeted, Tucker Carlson invited me on his show tonight to debate the letter I sent to Fox News.

00:30:10.000 I'm declining.

00:30:11.000 Tucker Carlson needs to stop promoting the racist, dangerous, replacement theory.

00:30:15.000 Or, theoretically, when you accuse somebody of being a white supremacist, you should probably go on their program and say to their face that they are a white supremacist so they can, you know, defend themselves.

00:30:23.000 Meanwhile, the Democratic Party, which is apparently very much against anti-Semitism, they have an entire caucus that is now calling Israel's establishment a disaster, which is the anti-Semitic name used for the establishment of the state of Israel by radical Islamists.

00:30:38.000 They call it Nakba Day.

00:30:40.000 Nakba means catastrophe in Arabic, or disaster in Arabic.

00:30:44.000 So you now have a resolution proposed by Representative Rashida Tlaib, who's an open anti-Semite from Michigan. 0.70

00:30:51.000 Her co-sponsors include the execrable Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, of course, naturally, Cori Bush, who's awful, Jamal Bowman, who's terrible, Betty McCollum, and Mary Newman.

00:31:02.000 Along with Tlaib, the first four co-sponsors are members of the squad, Ayanna Pressley at least had the brains not to co-sign this thing. 0.81

00:31:10.000 The so-called Nakba resolution is designed to condemn the catastrophe of Israel's establishment.

00:31:17.000 The bill calls to establish an official means for the United States to recognize and remember the Nakba, the establishment of the state of Israel.

00:31:24.000 Tlaib says the Nakba is well documented and continues to play out today.

00:31:27.000 We must acknowledge that the humanity of Palestinians is being denied when folks refuse to acknowledge the war crimes and human rights violations in apartheid Israel.

00:31:35.000 So the Democratic Party openly has a wing that condemns the establishment of the State of Israel, which is the height of anti-Semitism.

00:31:41.000 Because once Israel is established, you don't have an argument about whether Israel should be established, should not be established.

00:31:45.000 There were arguments in Zionist and anti-Zionist circles for decades about this.

00:31:49.000 Once Israel established as the homeland of Jews, and once it is the chief population center of Jews, the disestablishment of the State of Israel would involve the destruction of that state and the murder of millions of Jews, which is apparently what Rashida Tlaib is totally fine with. 0.52

00:32:04.000 Now the reality, historically speaking, according to the document, they say that 750,000 Palestinian refugees were created by the 1948 war.

00:32:13.000 And that Israel had conquered an additional 23% of Palestine beyond areas allocated to the Jewish state under the partition plan.

00:32:19.000 The reality is that if you look at Jewish history or Palestinian history or any of it, what you realize is that the Jews continued over and over and over to accept every partition plan presented to them.

00:32:28.000 The Arabs rejected every single partition plan presented to them.

00:32:32.000 In 1947, they began to launch Fedayeen attacks against Jewish kibbutzim, Jewish centers in British Mandate Palestine.

00:32:42.000 By 1948, when Israel declared its independence, Israel openly begged Arabs to stay.

00:32:46.000 It's in the Israeli Declaration of Independence.

00:32:49.000 The Arabs came in, they told everybody to get out of the way. 1.00

00:32:51.000 They refused to accept the establishment of the State of Israel at all, or any UN-approved partition plan.

00:32:56.000 They then attacked en masse in Israel.

00:32:58.000 Israel fought them back.

00:33:00.000 That is the origin of the Palestinian refugee problem today. 0.99

00:33:03.000 The fact that they're Palestinian quote-unquote refugees, and we are now close to 80 years out from the establishment of the state of Israel, is a demonstration that the Arab world decided to use these refugees as pawns. 0.96

00:33:14.000 Israel took in 850,000.

00:33:15.000 At the same time, the 750,000 Palestinians left British Mandate Palestine.

00:33:20.000 At the same time that happened, some 850,000 Jews were expelled from Arab countries.

00:33:25.000 All were taken in by Israel. 0.96

00:33:26.000 All of them.

00:33:28.000 The reason that the Palestinian refugee issue exists today is because the Arab states have always refused to accept any partition plan and kept all of these people and their descendants, their grandchildren, now great-grandchildren, as essentially political pawns in refugee camps for generations to use as a political tool against the Jews.

00:33:45.000 And this is what Rashida Tlaib and the squad want to call the Nakba. 0.83

00:33:49.000 The real disaster is the establishment of the State of Israel. 0.74

00:33:51.000 Yeah, I trust the Democratic Party when it comes to fighting anti-Semitism. 0.67

00:33:55.000 When it comes to fighting white supremacy, I really, I trust these people so, so much.

00:33:59.000 I also trust the media in fighting this sort of stuff.

00:34:02.000 I trust them because they obviously are so well calibrated, not unhinged in any way.

00:34:09.000 So, for example, Stephen Colbert doing an amazing job out there.

00:34:12.000 He says, half of Republicans agree.

00:34:14.000 Half of Republicans agree with the shooter, which is an amazing statement from, you know, a mainstream late night comic.

00:34:22.000 Who, by the way, is being outdrawn by Greg Gutfeld.

00:34:24.000 When you inherit a legacy show, like a 50-year legacy show, and you get outdrawn by Greg Gutfeld on a cable channel, it demonstrates just how bad you are at your job.

00:34:30.000 Here's Stephen Colbert.

00:34:32.000 Replacement theory is a central theme on Tucker's show.

00:34:36.000 Their investigation found that his producer sometimes scoured his show's raw material from the same dark corners of the internet that the Buffalo suspect did. 0.97

00:34:44.000 Now, although it sounds crazy, and I can't believe I'm saying this, recent polls show that 50% of Republicans agree with this garbage. 0.95

00:34:55.000 Okay, that is not true. 0.89

00:34:56.000 As we've discussed, that Philip Bump poll conflates basic concerns about immigration and political change with Great Replacement Theory, which, of course, is the thing that the Democrats keep pushing over and over.

00:35:06.000 You have MSNBC's Katie Tour, a reporter, doing the same thing, suggesting that, yeah, well, you know, what the Republicans are saying isn't quite white supremacy, but it's just a tamer version, and they kind of like it.

00:35:15.000 And then on the issue of extremism and white nationalism, which is not only on the rise in the far dark corners on the internet, but the rhetoric in a tamer version, an attenuated version I say, is now pretty mainstream in the Republican Party.

00:35:34.000 MSNBC's Chuck Todd, singing from the same hymnal, he says that, you know, Republicans are quote-unquote appeasing white supremacy.

00:35:41.000 What would you call it when Democrats openly appease anti-Semitism and appear on the covers of magazines with Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar?

00:35:46.000 What exactly would you call that?

00:35:48.000 Who are the anti-Semites who are being appeased inside the Republican caucus?

00:35:52.000 Is Paul Gosar in good order with fellow Republicans right now?

00:35:56.000 Didn't Steve King lose his job based on comments that he made about white supremacy and race and the use of language?

00:36:04.000 What exactly are you talking about here?

00:36:06.000 Here is MSNBC's Chuck Todd doing the work of the Democratic Party.

00:36:10.000 Let's talk about one of the elephants in the room, and that is the appeasement of this white supremacy stuff.

00:36:15.000 And this, look, it does appear there are a lot of Republicans who don't want to denounce it because they're afraid of turning off the base.

00:36:26.000 This is a huge virus in the GOP.

00:36:30.000 It's a huge virus in the GOP that they're appeasing shooters like this guy?

00:36:35.000 Really, is that a huge virus in the GOP?

00:36:37.000 You know, the natural outgrowth of all of this is going to be the left calling for full-scale censorship or jailing of people that they don't like.

00:36:43.000 Because after all, if you can conflate everybody with shooters and shooters are dangerous to other people, then everybody is dangerous to other people.

00:36:48.000 Which is precisely what one MSNBC guest literally said on air yesterday, is that we should fine people who disagree with us and we should put them in jail.

00:36:58.000 We gotta watch out because the Republicans have become the purveyors of misinformation.

00:37:04.000 And when our two-party system is broken like that, democracy is seriously in trouble.

00:37:09.000 The president acknowledged that.

00:37:12.000 It's time to actually start doing things and maybe taking some names and putting people in jail.

00:37:18.000 That is Carl Cameron, formerly of Fox News, appearing now on MSNBC.

00:37:23.000 Meanwhile, you have to love The Democratic Party talking about racial polarization and trotting out Al Sharpton, who was involved in not one but two riots, two race riots in New York City, and is the great race baiter of the last 60 years in the United States.

00:37:37.000 On MSNBC, talking about how we need a nationalized strategy to fight racial polarization.

00:37:42.000 Uh-huh.

00:37:43.000 Thanks, Reverend Al.

00:37:45.000 I think we need a White House summit.

00:37:48.000 We need to set a national strategy on how we deal with hate and how we hold those accountable that in any way advances toward what led to this, what happened in Buffalo.

00:38:00.000 This young man was radicalized by organized efforts that used communications.

00:38:07.000 It didn't just drop out the sky.

00:38:11.000 Man, trying to get Al Sharpton to talk about racial polarization is sure a move.

00:38:15.000 It sure is.

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00:41:39.000 So the entire media now pushing the idea that all of America is responsible for an act of tremendous racial evil.

00:41:52.000 Entire piece, reported piece, from the Washington Post titled, That's not the devil, that's America.

00:41:57.000 Black residents of Buffalo's Eastside see mass shootings as an exclamation point on racism they face every day.

00:42:02.000 Every day.

00:42:04.000 This is not journalism.

00:42:06.000 It's just left-wing activism.

00:42:08.000 The reporter on this is someone named Sylvia Foster-Frau.

00:42:11.000 Quote, less than 24 hours after a gunman stormed the grocery store where Tony Marshall worked for years killing 10, Marshall was back at the tops.

00:42:18.000 He flipped hot dogs on a grill positioned just outside the caution tape perimeter, handing them out to mourners and passersby.

00:42:24.000 As he worked, he wore a red shirt with a Topps-friendly Markets logo.

00:42:27.000 It's a community store, said Marshall.

00:42:29.000 It's meant everything to us.

00:42:31.000 That was a sentiment shared by many in this mostly black section of the city.

00:42:34.000 For residents, the Topps was more than just a source of food and medicine.

00:42:37.000 In a neighborhood with few stores or public spaces, the grocery store was a site for community events and giveaways, a hangout spot, a meeting place.

00:42:43.000 It was more than a store.

00:42:44.000 It was a place where you could meet up with a friend, a relative, a girlfriend, said Jerome Bridges and other Topps employees who survived the attack by barricading himself and several others in the conference room.

00:42:53.000 A place to hang out and shop and have a good conversation while you're doing it.

00:42:56.000 Many Eastside residents said they would sometimes spend their leisure hours in the Tops parking lot, having long conversations with folks who seemed like complete strangers.

00:43:03.000 Strangers, that is, until they found out they live a block apart from each other.

00:43:06.000 That sense of community was necessary, Marshall said, as a form of protection in a city where many black people have faced a lifetime of discrimination and abuse.

00:43:13.000 And then we get into talk about how there's a lot of black poverty in the city of Buffalo.

00:43:18.000 And how people who are white and people who are black tend to live in different neighborhoods in the city of Buffalo.

00:43:23.000 In the first few days after the shooting, many residents here saw the horrific act of racial violence as one of many injustices threaded through their lives and sometimes across generations.

00:43:32.000 Okay, so as a member of a religious community that is the most targeted by hate crimes in the United States on a per capita basis, the Jewish community, let me just say, America is not even remotely an anti-Semitic country.

00:43:41.000 America is the most philo-Semitic country in the history of the world.

00:43:44.000 And the fact that there are crazy people who commit anti-Semitic acts, and I've been the target of some of them, that those people exist is not indicative of the idea that all of America is anti-Semitic or that America's superstructure is anti-Semitic.

00:43:56.000 So the attempt to, again, conflate, it's all about conflation, the attempt to conflate Bad personal experiences with racists, with a person who shoots people and murders them is not quite the same thing.

00:44:06.000 Or the fact that there is outsized poverty in particular communities with, oh, a guy went into a supermarket and shot a bunch of innocent people.

00:44:13.000 Not the same thing.

00:44:14.000 But this is the stuff the media is pushing.

00:44:16.000 And they're also pushing the idea that any policy I disagree with is an outgrowth of white supremacy.

00:44:20.000 So, in what is the most delusional column of the day, there's a piece by Brian Broome in the Washington Post called, Black People Want the Hate to Stop, but it is only getting worse.

00:44:29.000 And here's what he says, I keep telling my black friends, it's just going to get worse, which seems like a great message there, Brian. 1.00

00:44:34.000 I keep telling them some white men had a steady diet of nonsense and statistics about the state of whiteness in the United States will only grow more convinced that people of color are the enemy, which means the sort of violence we saw over the weekend at a supermarket in Buffalo will get worse. 0.96

00:44:47.000 The alleged shooter is a man who is reported to have been concerned about immigration and decreasing white birth rates. 0.93

00:44:51.000 It's the same concern Tucker Carlson shares with his Fox News audience almost every night.

00:44:55.000 This person isn't mentally ill.

00:44:56.000 He isn't troubled, nor is he a misguided teen.

00:44:58.000 These are terms you will hear when he is discussed.

00:45:00.000 The truth is he's simply hateful in the same way right-wing politics have instructed him to be.

00:45:04.000 Oh, really?

00:45:05.000 Is that why he had the cops called on him for suicidal ideation like last year? 0.99

00:45:10.000 When we say he's mentally ill, we say that because he's mentally ill. 0.64

00:45:14.000 And his actual mental health history demonstrates that this is a person who suffered from some form of mental illness.

00:45:20.000 That is not because we're using mental illness as a slur here.

00:45:23.000 That's because that is the actual description of the suspect in this particular case.

00:45:27.000 Also, the baseline notion that he's simply hateful in the way that right-wing politics... Okay, there are some 74, 75 million people who voted for Donald Trump in this last election.

00:45:38.000 The idea from the left is that all of those people agree with the shooter.

00:45:40.000 Question, why isn't there a massive race war in the country right now? 0.95

00:45:43.000 Really, why?

00:45:43.000 Why is this an isolated event, statistically speaking?

00:45:47.000 Why aren't we seeing tons of these events?

00:45:50.000 It's a statistically isolated event when you see anti-Semites shoot up synagogues, right?

00:45:55.000 These are rare events statistically speaking.

00:45:59.000 So, why are we pretending that isolated incidents like this one, and they are isolated statistically speaking, doesn't mean they're not evil, they are evil, doesn't mean there aren't more of them than there should be, there should be zero.

00:46:09.000 But statistically, these are extraordinarily rare events in a country of 335 million people.

00:46:15.000 And yet we are now being told that the entire right-wing reflects this point of view, which does sort of beg the question as to why there hasn't been a full-blown race war, if that's the case.

00:46:23.000 But, says this columnist, it's easy to draw a straight line between the hateful actions of white supremacists and popular right-wing conservatives.

00:46:29.000 It seems that neither group can imagine a world where all people are equal.

00:46:32.000 Well, actually, I can imagine a world where all people are treated as individuals.

00:46:35.000 It's the left that treats people as members of racial groups predominantly.

00:46:39.000 In their minds, one group must be on top.

00:46:40.000 Man, it's all projection.

00:46:41.000 It really is.

00:46:42.000 And the fear of losing the top spot has mutated into an ideology known as the Great Replacement Theory.

00:46:46.000 Again, it's so funny.

00:46:48.000 Intersectionality, which is the theory that basically all politics is power, that all systems of law are guises for pure power, and that therefore the way to cure that is to reverse the systems of power by putting intersectional groups that have historically been discriminated against on top of the power hierarchy.

00:47:03.000 It turns out that is just the flip side of a lot of the stuff that white supremacists say.

00:47:08.000 The wokes and the white supremacists both believe in racial essentialism, both believe that power undergirds systems of politics. 0.86

00:47:13.000 They just have different views, flip side views, of who should be in control of all of that.

00:47:18.000 But according to this columnist, it's mainstream conservatism.

00:47:21.000 And here's where it gets particularly crazy.

00:47:23.000 you quote, the same sort of thinking about race and birth rates now dominates the conservative Supreme Court. The leaked draft opinion isn't about protecting babies. It's about protecting whiteness, specifically white babies. Whenever we talk about white, as I always say, the H comes before the W, specifically white babies. Many others have pointed out that if Republicans really cared about babies and children, it helped provide help for poor infants, child care, health care, better funding for schools and the like. But their concern is not about babies and and children in general, only certain babies.

00:47:52.000 The Supreme Court draft decision is about protecting what conservatives believe is a diminishing demographic and their most valuable resource, white people.

00:48:00.000 Okay, so this is just overtly false. 0.85

00:48:03.000 The disproportionate number of babies who are killed in abortion every year are black and brown. 0.83

00:48:07.000 So this is just statistically wrong. 0.78

00:48:10.000 But it doesn't matter that it's wrong.

00:48:11.000 It doesn't matter that it's a crazy racist conspiracy theory that Justice Alito is writing to overrule Roe v. Wade to preserve white birth rates, which Roe v. Wade's overruling would not do.

00:48:22.000 It would actually increase the number of black babies born predominantly in major cities like New York, where more black babies are aborted every year than are born every year in the city of New York.

00:48:31.000 But according to this columnist, quote, some will accuse me here of indulging in conspiracy theories or believing the worst in people.

00:48:36.000 But as a black American living in a racist society, I don't find it difficult to believe in the worst in people.

00:48:41.000 One tries not to, but we see evidence of it every day in our lived experience.

00:48:45.000 Ah, there's the phrase, lived experience.

00:48:46.000 We don't need statistical evidence.

00:48:47.000 We are just going to suggest that our lived experience means that we can label all of the people who oppose us racist and all the policies we don't like, outgrowths of white supremacy. 0.96

00:48:56.000 A slow clap for the left-wing media and the Democrats polarizing the country and making it a worse place by labeling half the country in league with white supremacists who shoot black people at supermarkets. 0.79

00:49:06.000 Really, really solid stuff there. 0.95

00:49:08.000 Solid stuff.

00:49:09.000 We'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content.

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00:49:53.000 On today's episode, Democrats push controversial new domestic terrorism laws following the Buffalo mass shooting, the House Intelligence Committee holds a public hearing on UFOs, and a key trial stemming from the Durham investigation begins.

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