The Ben Shapiro Show - Johnny Depp Defeats Amber Heard | Ep. 1507

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00:01:34.000 We begin today with a rather shocking event that took place last night.

00:01:37.000 So last night was the premiere of the much awaited documentary from Matt Walsh over at the Dailyware, What is a Woman?

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00:05:10.000 All right, the big news yesterday, aside from all of that, was the verdict coming down in the Johnny Depp Amber Heard trial.

00:05:17.000 I have talked about this.

00:05:19.000 Not on the podcast as much as on the radio show. 0.99

00:05:22.000 It was pretty obvious from Amber Heard's testimony that she's a sociopathic liar. 1.00

00:05:26.000 She was on the stand. 0.99

00:05:28.000 She's not a good actress. 1.00

00:05:29.000 Her bad acting was obvious to everyone. 1.00

00:05:32.000 Her story did not make any sort of internal sense.

00:05:34.000 She said stuff that was contradicted by forensic evidence.

00:05:37.000 Johnny Depp's testimony was Tended to be confirmed by the forensic evidence that was at his disposal.

00:05:43.000 Basically, they were accusing each other of abuse.

00:05:44.000 Johnny Depp's original accusation is that Amber Heard wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post in which she claimed to be a victim of domestic abuse.

00:05:51.000 Everybody knew that she was talking about Johnny Depp.

00:05:53.000 And he started to lose massive film roles, tens of millions of dollars in film roles lost.

00:05:58.000 So he sued Amber Heard.

00:05:59.000 She then cross-sued him, suggesting that he and his lawyers had lied about her And therefore, she needed to be awarded some sort of defamation damages.

00:06:08.000 Yesterday, the verdict came down.

00:06:10.000 According to the UK Daily Mail, Johnny Depp has now won his libel case against Amber Heard, saying he now has his life back after the jury ruled he was defamed and awarded him $15 million.

00:06:19.000 In a statement after the verdict, Depp said, Six years ago, my life, the life of my children, the lives of those closest to me, and also the lives of the people who for many, many years have supported and believed in me were forever changed.

00:06:28.000 Six years later, the jury gave me my life back.

00:06:30.000 I am truly humbled.

00:06:31.000 After less than three days of deliberation, the jury ruled in favor of all three of Depp's defamation claims against Hurd, finding that she had falsely accused him of domestic abuse.

00:06:39.000 He was awarded $15 million, $10 million in compensation, $5 million in punitive damages.

00:06:44.000 Hurd had three countersuit claims.

00:06:47.000 She only won one of them.

00:06:48.000 Those were related to statements made by Depp's lawyer suggesting that she and her friends had trashed their apartment before calling the police out.

00:06:54.000 She was awarded $2 million in compensatory damages out of the $100 million she was seeking and $0 in punitive damages.

00:07:01.000 None of those dollars are coming directly from Johnny Depp.

00:07:04.000 The judge later reduced Depp's $5 million punitive damages award to the Virginia maximum of $350,000.

00:07:08.000 of $350,000. So that means that he kind of nets $8.35 million.

00:07:14.000 So what does this say?

00:07:16.000 Well, Amber Heard suggested that this was a setback for all women, which is not true.

00:07:19.000 It's just a setback for women who are lying. 1.00

00:07:22.000 She put out a statement saying, No, that was not the problem.

00:07:32.000 That was not the problem, because the reality is that everybody in society immediately snapped to the Me Too, Believe All Women conclusion that Johnny Depp was a spousal abuser, and that is why he was denied parts for solidly six years here.

00:07:45.000 So the baseline notion that she is somehow the victim of a grander power structure is not true.

00:07:50.000 She's still an Aquaman, despite the fact that we have verified evidence that she was abusing Johnny Depp.

00:07:54.000 And that existed long before the trial.

00:07:56.000 And he didn't get work.

00:07:57.000 He was basically barred from Hollywood based on her empty accusations.

00:08:01.000 When I say empty accusations, I mean this is what a jury has now found.

00:08:05.000 So the idea that she's putting out there is that she is, poor little me, she's a victim.

00:08:08.000 Johnny Depp is more famous. 0.91

00:08:09.000 No, the problem is that Amber Heard looked like a crazy person during that trial.

00:08:12.000 If you watch any of the footage, and again, I'm not a close trial watcher, but producer Savvy definitely is.

00:08:17.000 She spends every waking moment, including in the middle of the night, she'll just wake up and she'll just watch the old footage of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard.

00:08:24.000 And she's shown me many of those clips.

00:08:26.000 We played many of the clips on the show. 1.00

00:08:27.000 Amber Heard appears to be a sociopathic liar. 1.00

00:08:30.000 That is what she looks like on the stand. 1.00

00:08:32.000 She's saying things that are not true.

00:08:33.000 She's weirdly Looking at the jury, well, she's not a believable or credible witness, in other words.

00:08:39.000 She says, I'm even more disappointed with what this verdict means for other women. 0.98

00:08:43.000 Oh, is that really what you're worried about?

00:08:44.000 What it means for other women? 0.99

00:08:45.000 That's what you are?

00:08:46.000 You're an advocate for other women? 0.56

00:08:47.000 Amazing how in our narcissistic, self-centered society, your story is everyone's story.

00:08:51.000 If you're having a bad moment, it's because all of society is guilty.

00:08:55.000 If you did something wrong and people found out you did something wrong, really you're not upset that you got caught.

00:08:59.000 You're upset on behalf of all of the other women.

00:09:02.000 You know what the problem is?

00:09:03.000 When you make false accusations in mainstream newspapers like the Washington Post, undermining the credibility of other women who actually have been spousally abused.

00:09:10.000 She says, I'm even more disappointed with what this verdict means for other women. 0.98

00:09:13.000 It is a setback.

00:09:14.000 It sets back the clock to a time when a woman who spoke up and spoke out could be publicly shamed and humiliated. 0.98

00:09:19.000 It sets back the idea that violence against women is to be taken seriously.

00:09:22.000 No, violence against women is to be taken seriously.

00:09:24.000 Slander is also to be taken seriously.

00:09:27.000 One of the things that was always absurd about the Believe All Women Me Too movement Is that women are humans.

00:09:33.000 Humans lie.

00:09:34.000 The notion that just because you happen to be a biological woman you therefore are more credible than you would be if you were a man is absurd at baseline.

00:09:42.000 It also is particularly absurd when the left can't even define, as we have discussed, what a woman is.

00:09:47.000 So somehow being a woman makes you more believable.

00:09:50.000 That also includes men who say they are women who are inherently not believable on this particular subject because they are not in fact women.

00:09:55.000 So it's all incoherent.

00:09:57.000 It's a logical mishmash.

00:09:59.000 Amber Heard says, I believe Johnny's attorney succeeded in getting the jury to overlook the key issue of freedom of speech and ignore evidence that was so conclusive that we won in the UK.

00:10:06.000 I'm sad I lost this case, but I'm sadder still that I seem to have lost a right I thought I had as an American to speak freely and openly.

00:10:12.000 Now, that was not really the question.

00:10:14.000 The question is whether what you said met the standard of malice, of actual malice when it comes to slander.

00:10:21.000 So the rule in the United States It's actually far more strict.

00:10:25.000 You have to prove far more in order to win a defamation case in the United States than you do in Great Britain.

00:10:30.000 You don't have to prove malice in Great Britain.

00:10:32.000 In the United States, you actually have to prove that the person knew what they were publishing at the time was false and did so anyway with malice.

00:10:40.000 It's not just that they made a mistake, it was with malice, with malicious intent.

00:10:43.000 And that was proved according to the jury.

00:10:47.000 Heard's spokesperson told the New York Times that she now plans to appeal the jury's verdict, though it is not clear on what grounds she's going to do so.

00:10:53.000 To be granted an appeal, Heard would likely need to demonstrate there were errors in the trial or in the presiding judge's reading of the law.

00:10:58.000 That's going to be extremely difficult.

00:11:01.000 Heard fans were despondent and accused the jury that delivered the verdict in favor of Depp of sexism.

00:11:07.000 Of course, because this is always the way that it works.

00:11:09.000 If you're a woman and you're a liar, then this means that if somebody notices, then this is sexism. 0.99

00:11:14.000 Because after all, everything is just structures of intersectional power. 0.92

00:11:19.000 Several prominent celebrities expressed their support for Depp and chastised Heard on social media, along with many other regular users, of course.

00:11:27.000 Now, one of the things that is so amazing about this story that really did not get enough coverage is the fact that Amber Heard's original op-ed in this story was written by the ACLU.

00:11:38.000 That's an amazing thing.

00:11:40.000 It really is.

00:11:41.000 The American Civil Liberties Union.

00:11:43.000 actually helped Amber Heard write an op-ed that was not true.

00:11:47.000 The Washington Post supposedly vetted this op-ed and then published this op-ed, and now a jury has found that the Washington Post actually created fake news and posted it online.

00:11:56.000 So I have a question for all of the news checkers over at Facebook.

00:12:00.000 You gonna ding the Washington Post now?

00:12:01.000 Or no?

00:12:03.000 According to The Atlantic, this is Lara Bazelon, professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law, writing a little bit earlier, This year, in mid-May, she wrote specifically about Amber Heard.

00:12:15.000 She said, By the way, the evidence of his allegations is far more substantial than the evidence of her allegations.

00:12:18.000 lawsuit against his ex-wife Amber Heard hasn't just tarnished his star and hers with allegations that he beat her and violated with her a bottle or that she severed part of his finger and emptied her bowels in the marital bed. By the way, the evidence of his allegations is far more substantial than the evidence of her allegations. Her allegations seem to be contradicted by physical evidence as well as any lack of credible witnesses. Amid this grotesquerie, says this professor, it might be possible to overlook the bizarre involvement of the ACLU, but the civil right organization's cringeworthy role deserves closer scrutiny

00:12:47.000 because of its centrality to the case and because it exemplifies the degree to which the ACLU has lost its way in recent years.

00:12:53.000 The heart of Depp's claim is that Hurd ruined his acting career when she published a 2018 op-ed in the Washington Post describing herself as, quote, a public figure representing domestic abuse, a thinly veiled reference to much-publicized accusations of assault she made against Depp in court filings toward the end of their short-lived marriage.

00:13:07.000 But Hurd hadn't pitched the idea to the Post.

00:13:08.000 The ACLU had.

00:13:10.000 You want the ACLU to back you in the claim that apparently is false?

00:13:13.000 That you were abusing and that you were abused by a spouse?

00:13:17.000 $3.5 million to the organization.

00:13:19.000 The ACLU named her an ambassador on women's rights, but they focus on gender-based violence, which is a really great way of trying to go after your ex-spouse. 0.84

00:13:28.000 And you want the ACLU to back you in the claim that apparently is false, that you were abused by a spouse.

00:13:34.000 Just give a bunch of money to the ACLU and they will then declare you an ambassador with a focus of gender-based violence.

00:13:41.000 The ACLU spearheaded an effort to place the op-ed and served as her, 's ghostwriter.

00:13:46.000 failed to pay up, it already said the ACLU collected $100,000 from Depp himself and another $500,000 from a fund connected to Elon Musk, whom H.E.R.D.

00:13:46.000 When H.E.R.D.

00:13:53.000 dated after the divorce.

00:13:54.000 The ACLU denies it would ever request or solicit donations in exchange for ambassadorships or op-eds.

00:13:58.000 Uh-huh.

00:13:59.000 The ACLU's bestowal of an ambassadorship inscribed for higher services upon a scandal-plagued actor willing to pay seven figures to transform herself into a victim's advocate and advance her acting career heard push for a publication date that coincided with the release of Aquaman.

00:14:12.000 As part of the group's continuing decline, once a bastion of free speech and high-minded ideals, the ACLU has become in many respects a caricature of its former self.

00:14:19.000 This, of course, is exactly right, but so has a large swath of the left.

00:14:23.000 The left used to say that free speech mattered and truth mattered, and now neither of those things are true.

00:14:27.000 Now you're just supposed to shut up and believe.

00:14:30.000 It's always to shut up and believe. 0.96

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00:15:49.000 Now, the members of the media were shocked and appalled by all of this.

00:15:52.000 A lot of hot takes happening from our nation's media experts.

00:15:56.000 CNN analyst Joey Jackson said he was shocked and surprised by the verdict.

00:16:00.000 Joey, your thoughts?

00:16:02.000 A major victory for Johnny Depp, to be clear.

00:16:06.000 Apparently, the jury really absorbed, digested those statements, and gave the indication that they rejected Amber Heard, I mean, completely, just about.

00:16:15.000 We'll get to her case momentarily.

00:16:17.000 But this is a major victory for him.

00:16:19.000 I can say that I am very shocked and surprised by the nature of this, by the fact that the jury concluded, after hearing this, that she would be liable.

00:16:28.000 Okay, so Amber Heard, for her part again, called it a setback.

00:16:31.000 MSNBC legal analyst Carolyn Pelosi said this will negatively impact the MeToo movement.

00:16:36.000 Now, again, it shouldn't because the MeToo movement made too much of a claim.

00:16:42.000 The MeToo movement claimed that basically everyone in the United States has been subjected to sexual harassment or assault.

00:16:47.000 That is the claim that the MeToo movement made, and they broadened the definition of sexual harassment and assault to include everything from, guy you think is ugly hits on you at a bar, to full-on rape.

00:16:56.000 And this was all included under the rubric of MeToo.

00:16:58.000 So you'd have women going on Facebook and talking about, tell your MeToo story, and their MeToo story is, ugly guy said that I looked good in that skirt. 0.72

00:17:05.000 And it's like, well that's, that's really not, I mean, I'm sorry, that is not on the same par as Harvey Weinstein raping people.

00:17:12.000 For example, but Me Too covered the entire rubric and that was then combined with Believe All Women.

00:17:16.000 So the idea was any account that you had, completely unverifiable, had to be believed because you were claiming to be a victim.

00:17:22.000 Well, those claims were always too broad.

00:17:24.000 They were always way too broad.

00:17:25.000 It's not that Amber Too blew up the Me Too Believe All Women movement. 0.95

00:17:28.000 It's that it was perfectly stupid to say that you had to believe all women regardless of the nature of the credibility of the actual of the actual testimony in the first place. 1.00

00:17:37.000 It was a dumb claim. 0.99

00:17:39.000 If Amber Heard somehow heard your case with regard to your sexual assault, then I don't know how. 0.99

00:17:46.000 Like, why?

00:17:47.000 Why is her dishonesty any indicator of your dishonesty?

00:17:50.000 Why would her honesty be any indicator of your honesty? 0.97

00:17:53.000 Here is MSNBC legal analyst Carolyn Pelosi saying that, as always, it's not just about Amber Heard being a crazy person, it's about you.

00:18:01.000 Will this set back the broader Me Too movement and women who do want to speak out against abuse?

00:18:07.000 Look, each trial is supposed to be sort of, you know, not knowing about the larger cultural context that it sits in.

00:18:16.000 But without a doubt, this will have a massive chilling effect on the Me Too movement, on women speaking out.

00:18:24.000 Okay, again, the cases that have already had an impact on the Me Too movement, again, because it made extraordinarily dumb claims like all women ought to be able to live, I mean, the UVA rape claims that Rolling Stone ran out there that turned out to be completely and utterly false, those, again, if you make a claim that is unsustainable and then the claim falls apart, And that holds true whether you are making a specific claim or whether you're making a general claim.

00:18:46.000 That shouldn't have any implication for other people who are saying true things.

00:18:50.000 And yet, of course, we have to go in search of new victims of American society because every individual event is symptomatic of broader American ills.

00:18:57.000 This is why this thing has become political.

00:18:59.000 talking point is because basically anyone who watched that trial came away with the impression that Amber Heard was lying. If you spent a lot of time watching the trial or even a passing moment watching the trial, it was pretty clear that Amber Heard is not a person who can be trusted on on anything that she was saying. She was saying things that were she is not remotely credible.

00:19:18.000 I keep saying it, watch the testimony yourself. In fact, here is a clip of Amber Heard testifying.

00:19:24.000 You tell me if you find this credible. I wish so much he had said he was joking Because it didn't hurt.

00:19:30.000 It didn't physically hurt me.

00:19:33.000 I was just sitting there on this carpet, looking at the dirty carpet, wondering how I wound up on this carpet and why I never noticed that the carpet was so filthy before.

00:19:45.000 And I just didn't know what else to do.

00:19:47.000 I didn't know what to say.

00:19:48.000 I didn't know how to react.

00:19:49.000 I just sat there thinking, how much time do I have to figure out what I need to do?

00:19:56.000 Because God, did He just hit me?

00:19:59.000 So the fact that that lady's not credible, I don't know why that should have any impact on whether you are credible or not.

00:20:05.000 But again, the entire media is now going to say that Amber Heard should have been rewarded, or at least Johnny Depp should have been denied on behalf of all women, which is the way that they view criminal justice and virtually every justice issue.

00:20:19.000 It doesn't matter if Kyle Rittenhouse is actually guilty.

00:20:21.000 In order to quote-unquote protect black people, we have to make sure that Kyle Rittenhouse goes to jail, even though Kyle Rittenhouse was acting in self-defense and shot white people.

00:20:28.000 Social justice demands that we deny individual justice, which is why you have Monica Hess writing in the Washington Post, quote, I worry about this trial.

00:20:36.000 After watching nearly every bit of it, I came away feeling deeply dirty for having watched nearly every bit of it.

00:20:40.000 Wondering where the line is between gawking and bearing witness.

00:20:43.000 I mean, let's just be honest about this.

00:20:44.000 The reason people were watching Johnny Depp and Amber Heard is because they were gawking.

00:20:46.000 I mean, it wasn't because they were bearing witness to anything.

00:20:48.000 You make excuses all you want.

00:20:49.000 It's gossip TV, obviously.

00:20:52.000 I worry that the awful spectacle of this trial might cause alleged abusers to sue their accusers in court, possibly forcing them to relive the alleged abuse.

00:20:59.000 Well, I mean, if you are hit with an accusation, you do have the right in this country to defend yourself against false accusations.

00:21:07.000 That is a basic human right.

00:21:09.000 If someone accuses you of something, you get to defend yourself and face your accuser.

00:21:13.000 I worry that watching this mess of judgment and humiliation will be seen by non-famous abuse victims as one more reason not to come forward when coming forward is already so hard to do.

00:21:20.000 Now, again, I don't see the lesson.

00:21:22.000 I mean, Amber Heard says that the reason Johnny Depp won this case is because Johnny Depp is super famous.

00:21:25.000 So unless you're a non-famous Abuser, a non-famous abuse victim in a relationship with a famous abuser.

00:21:33.000 I'm failing to.

00:21:34.000 And again, there are many, many cases of non-famous abuse victims who make those claims and the abuser goes to jail, right?

00:21:41.000 This is the case of Harvey Weinstein.

00:21:42.000 This is the case of Bill Cosby, for example.

00:21:46.000 And Monica Hess concludes.

00:21:48.000 Talking about how the relationship between Johnny Depp is about the nature of horrible, sad relationships.

00:21:54.000 On the stand, Amber Heard described not why their relationship fell apart, but rather why it didn't fall apart for so long.

00:21:58.000 Why, if it was so terrible, she didn't leave him.

00:22:00.000 She said each act of violence felt like a coin she was depositing into a piggy bank, an investment in their future relationship.

00:22:05.000 She said she believed if she deposited enough coins, Johnny would stop hitting her.

00:22:08.000 That it had to get better, because she didn't see how it could get worse.

00:22:11.000 She said eventually, there were so many coins in the piggy bank, it was too heavy to move, and she had to, except she didn't stay.

00:22:15.000 She left, and then she slandered him. 0.79

00:22:17.000 So, there is, there is that.

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00:22:25.000 Quote, Amber Heard verdict sends a message to black women everywhere. 0.94

00:22:31.000 This is like the New York Times headline, world to end tomorrow, women and minorities hit hardest.

00:22:36.000 Amber Heard is a white lady, a very rich white lady, sends a message to black victims everywhere. 1.00

00:22:42.000 The fuck? 1.00

00:22:44.000 But that is our society. 1.00

00:22:45.000 It's all about who is the next set of victims that we can focus in on.

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00:24:02.000 Hollywood is now, they've come up with a new way of defending against making crap content. 0.96

00:24:07.000 Their new way of defending against making crap content is to slander everybody who doesn't like Their content as racist. 0.97

00:24:14.000 So Star Wars has now preemptively done this. 0.94

00:24:16.000 So you remember they did this with The Last Jedi.

00:24:18.000 So there is a character in The Last Jedi called Rose.

00:24:21.000 Rose is a terrible character. 1.00

00:24:23.000 Like a really, really bad character that no one cared about and is boring and terrible.

00:24:27.000 And people noted this.

00:24:28.000 So immediately, you started to see think pieces about the toxic fandom of The Last Jedi.

00:24:32.000 The toxic fandom of Star Wars.

00:24:34.000 It wasn't that they had created a crappy character, a major media conglomerate using the most famous IP in history.

00:24:41.000 Had made a crappy character and inserted that crappy character into a crappy movie, The Last Jedi.

00:24:45.000 Now the problem was people didn't like that character and the reason they didn't like the character is because she was Asian, clearly. 1.00

00:24:49.000 Now what was weird is that nobody, except for apparently the Chinese audience, actually cared that Finn, who's a black character, was in The Force Awakens.

00:24:58.000 I mean, Finn was not hit by an overwhelming wave of American racism in The Force Awakens.

00:25:03.000 It was just Rose who was hit with supposedly an overwhelming wave of racism, mainly because Finn's character is not nearly as crappy as Rose's character in the sequel trilogy.

00:25:14.000 So, by the way, when I talk about Chinese racism, what I mean is that Disney, in making The Force Awakens, actually removed, they removed Finn from the Chinese posters because there's so much anti-black racism in China.

00:25:25.000 Okay, so, this is the new model, apparently, for Disney and the Star Wars universe, is to preemptively declare that if you are, that we know that we made a character who isn't really very likable, but if the character's a minority and you don't like the character, clearly this is because you're a racist.

00:25:41.000 Clearly.

00:25:42.000 Okay, so, Star Wars put out a preemptive tweet.

00:25:45.000 It was a preemptive tweet.

00:25:46.000 Like, I've yet to see... I'm seeing a lot of talk about the toxic fandom of Star Wars.

00:25:51.000 I haven't seen anybody beyond people with, like, two Twitter followers tweeting stuff about Moses Ingram.

00:25:58.000 But Star Wars tweeted out, like the people who run the Star Wars account, quote, We are proud to welcome Moses Ingram to the Star Wars family and excited for Riva's story to unfold.

00:26:05.000 If anyone intends to make her feel in any way unwelcome, we have only one thing to say.

00:26:09.000 We resist.

00:26:11.000 Okay, so that is preemptive, right?

00:26:14.000 If anyone intends to make her feel in any way unwelcome, we have only... We're not even saying you're being racist to her.

00:26:19.000 We're saying if you might think about being racist to her by not liking her character, we resist because you're bad.

00:26:25.000 You're really, really... Now, here's the thing.

00:26:28.000 Moses Ingram is actually a pretty good actress, and she played Lady Macduff in the Joel Cohen production of Macbeth, and she's very good in it.

00:26:36.000 She actually is really good.

00:26:37.000 I haven't seen her performance in obi-wan because i haven't watched a single minute of obi-wan because frankly i find the entire series kind of insulting i don't care what happened to obi-wan between episodes between episodes three and four i don't care at all like it doesn't matter to me that's not an important part of the story

00:26:56.000 It's just you trying to suck the life out of an old character who has actual name recognition and then drive value for Disney+, which then uses that money in order to indoctrinate kids in the not-so-secret gay agenda according to their own employees. 0.91

00:27:09.000 So I'm, like, not interested, right?

00:27:11.000 This is why Daily Wire is dumping $100 million into creating kids content.

00:27:15.000 With that said, That is a preemptive attack on the audience.

00:27:19.000 And then Star Wars said there are more than 20 million sentient species in the Star Wars galaxy.

00:27:23.000 Don't choose to be a racist.

00:27:25.000 Who are these people?

00:27:26.000 Who are they talking to?

00:27:27.000 Can they name some names?

00:27:29.000 Seriously, if there's actual racism out there against this person, and it's not just an egg Twitter profile pic.

00:27:38.000 With two followers.

00:27:39.000 Who are these massive racists who are saying that Moses Ingram can't be part of the Star Wars universe?

00:27:44.000 Who are these people?

00:27:45.000 But again, they have to preemptively do this because they've done a crappy job with so much of the Star Wars content that I guess this is the new way to avoid the consequences of making bad content and also to generate critical response.

00:27:59.000 And now the critics will fall into your corner even if what you're making is not particularly good.

00:28:03.000 As Jim Treacher wrote recently, and he's correct, they're using the Jedi mind trick to make you think there's some huge wave of racism against Star Wars.

00:28:12.000 Ewan McGregor then cut a video from his car, a personal message from Ewan McGregor.

00:28:17.000 Like, they went all out on this line.

00:28:19.000 And again, I'm not, like, where is the giant wave of racism against this person? 0.98

00:28:25.000 You would think that if you're going to generate this amount of blowback against the racist Star Wars base, you'd actually have to show evidence of the racist Star Wars base, en masse rejecting the character, not because she's a crap character, but because she's black.

00:28:38.000 I find that whole line of argument really hard to believe, considering that maybe the most popular character in the first trilogy, like the original trilogy, is Lando Calrissian, who's the coolest dude in the original trilogy. 0.54

00:28:49.000 Okay, Empire Strikes Back came out in 1980.

00:28:52.000 That is 42 years ago.

00:28:53.000 It was four years before I was born when Lando Calrissian came out as a character in the Star Wars universe.

00:28:59.000 So I'm just wondering, like, why are we now talking about racism in the Star- Like, Lando Calrissian was the cool- It makes no sense.

00:29:05.000 Anyway, here's Ewan McGregor doing this routine as well.

00:29:07.000 This weekend, Star Wars fans made Obi-Wan Kenobi the most watched Disney Plus original series premiere of all time.

00:29:17.000 And for that, I would say a big thank you.

00:29:20.000 And it just goes to show what this family can do when we all pull together.

00:29:26.000 However, it seems that some of the fanbase from this influential fanbase have decided to attack Moses Ingram online and send her the most horrendous, racist DMs.

00:29:38.000 And I heard some of them this morning and it just broke my heart.

00:29:42.000 Moses is a brilliant actor, she's a brilliant woman, and she's absolutely amazing in this series.

00:29:48.000 She brings so much to the series, she brings so much to the franchise, and it just sickened me to my stomach to hear that this had been happening.

00:29:56.000 I just want to say, as the leading actor in the series, as the executive producer in the series, That we stand with Moses.

00:30:05.000 We love Moses.

00:30:06.000 And if you're sending her bullying messages, you're no Star Wars fan in my mind.

00:30:11.000 There's no place for racism in this world.

00:30:14.000 Question, where is the massive wave of public racism against Moe Zinger? 0.98

00:30:17.000 You mean like some trolls were trolling people and being jackasses? 0.97

00:30:20.000 I can't believe it. 0.99

00:30:22.000 Shocking to me.

00:30:23.000 I myself have never received any anti-semitic messages.

00:30:26.000 Except for literally all of them in 2015-2016.

00:30:29.000 Like, all of them on the internet.

00:30:32.000 But this, again, is a preemptive strike on the Star Wars fanbase by suggesting that a substantial portion Shockingly, all the people who don't like this particular series or this particular character, all of them, must be racist.

00:30:42.000 Which of course is, you know, it is a ginned up controversy because no one is in favor, anyone of sentient mind, no one is in favor of Moses Ingram being hit with racist DMs.

00:30:53.000 I will also note here that this is the same Star Wars universe that summarily canned Gina Carano for the great sin of saying that people shouldn't be mean to each other. 0.99

00:31:01.000 And by the way, I will mention right here that when they canned Gina Carano and not a single member of Gina Carano's cast, ranging from Pedro Pascal, who had made overt Holocaust references on his own Twitter page.

00:31:12.000 And that was the ostensible reason why they fired Gina Carano is because she tweeted out a photo of people chasing Jews in the streets.

00:31:19.000 And she said, when people dehumanize each other, this is what happens.

00:31:23.000 And she was fired for that. 0.98

00:31:24.000 Pedro Pascal had openly suggested that American immigration policy was similar to Auschwitz.

00:31:30.000 And Pedro Pascal, when Gina Carano got fired, there wasn't a single member of the Star Wars universe who had the balls to come out and defend Gina Carano. 0.51

00:31:30.000 Nothing. 0.51

00:31:36.000 They all just went completely silent because they're cowards. 1.00

00:31:38.000 They're absolute cowards. 1.00

00:31:40.000 Right? 1.00

00:31:41.000 This is very safe territory.

00:31:42.000 Racism bad is very safe territory. 0.97

00:31:44.000 People I disagree with should be allowed to work on the show.

00:31:46.000 That is unsafe territory for these folks, which is why we're very proud to have immediately stepped in and begun working with Gina Carano on the fabulous new movie Terror on the Prairie that is going to be coming out.

00:31:55.000 In the next couple weeks, which is just another reason why you should subscribe over at dailywire.com.

00:31:59.000 But again, this is indicative of where we are in the entertainment universe.

00:32:03.000 The signaling, not to the audience, but against the audience, grows every single day.

00:32:08.000 Because remember, entertainers exist in real life.

00:32:10.000 They don't just exist to serve the audience.

00:32:12.000 They exist among their peer group.

00:32:14.000 They exist in their echo chamber.

00:32:16.000 And this is why, for example, in the most absurd tweet of the day, Linda Carter, who is the original Wonder Woman on TV, In the not very good 1970s show.

00:32:26.000 Representing a character who originated in the comics in 1941.

00:32:28.000 She tweeted, quote, because it's Pride Month.

00:32:33.000 And Pride Month means that every single celebrity in the world will now virtue signal about how much they love LGBTQIA plus minus divided by sign hashtag ampersand tilde.

00:32:45.000 I didn't write Wonder Woman, but if you want to argue that she is somehow NOT a queer or trans icon, you are not paying attention.

00:32:56.000 Every time someone comes up to me and says that Wonder Woman helped them while they were closeted, it reminds me how special the role is.

00:33:02.000 Okay, I'm just going to point out that in 1970, no one thought that Wonder Woman was a queer or trans icon.

00:33:08.000 It just didn't, that notion in 1970 did not exist.

00:33:11.000 In fact, Wonder Woman, Linda Carter, was on the bedroom walls of millions of teenage boys.

00:33:16.000 1941, here is a straight woman with extraordinary powers. 1.00

00:33:22.000 2022, this whole time she was a man.

00:33:25.000 Trans icon?

00:33:27.000 In what way, precisely?

00:33:29.000 If by trans icon she just means that the trans movement will find any popular figure and then appropriate it, Or that the LGBT movement generally will do this?

00:33:38.000 With everything up to and including Spongebob Squarepants and Teletubbies?

00:33:42.000 I mean, that has happened.

00:33:43.000 That is a true thing.

00:33:44.000 But that does not mean that the original character of Wonder Woman was written as a queer or trans icon.

00:33:51.000 Now again, if it had been written that way, that's fine.

00:33:52.000 But to try to retcon the idea that a 1941 character, like we're in the middle of World War II, and the authors of the DC Comics are like, what we need here is a trans icon.

00:34:03.000 And it's all about virtue signaling to a particular group of people who are in the critical base in the major cities, the people that Linda Carter hangs out with at parties.

00:34:11.000 And that's really all it's about.

00:34:12.000 And she can virtue signal as a leader in the movement simply by dint of having donned some very tight clothing in the 1970s and then acted out a character who is neither queer nor trans in the original series.

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00:39:20.000 Well, this cultural insanity has bled all the way up to the United States military.

00:39:29.000 So it's Pride Month, which means it's time for the United States military to get in on the act.

00:39:35.000 So every branch of the United States Armed Services tweeted out some message with regard to LGBTQ plus IA minus divided by sign pride.

00:39:45.000 This is weird because the entire premise of a military is that we shave your head, we turn you into a person who takes orders, your individuality is set aside virtually entirely, and it's not about personal self-fulfillment anymore.

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00:40:07.000 That is literally what militaries are all about.

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00:40:26.000 So that's why it's a little weird.

00:40:27.000 And the iconography here is so weird.

00:40:30.000 The U.S.

00:40:30.000 Marines put out a tweet.

00:40:31.000 Throughout June, the U.S.

00:40:32.000 Marine Corps takes pride in recognizing and honoring the contributions of our LGBTQ plus service members.

00:40:38.000 We remain committed to fostering an environment free from discrimination and defend the values of treating all equally with dignity and respect.

00:40:45.000 Hey, this is one of the least offensive ones. 0.97

00:40:47.000 It's not really the verbiage here that's particularly stupid. 0.98

00:40:49.000 It is the image. 1.00

00:40:50.000 The image here is really, really dumb. 0.69

00:40:51.000 And one of the reasons that the image is really dumb is because the image, for those who can't see it, is actually just a poster to Full Metal Jacket. 0.88

00:41:01.000 The poster of Full Metal Jacket, if you recall, the Stanley Kubrick film from 1987, is a helmet with a series of bullets in the band of the helmet. 0.66

00:41:13.000 This is the exact same image.

00:41:15.000 It is a marine helmet, same angle, same image, and there are six bullets that are on the side, six rounds that are on the side of the helmet in rainbow colors.

00:41:28.000 That is the weirdest iconography. 0.77

00:41:30.000 Because again, the same left that despises the military apparently now thinks the military is great so long as you gay it up.

00:41:37.000 This is the old meme that bomb dropping from American plane onto foreign territory, very bad.

00:41:43.000 Paint a rainbow flag on it, now very good. 0.99

00:41:46.000 Are the bullets gay? 0.98

00:41:47.000 Is the military better? 0.96

00:41:50.000 You have to show me why, operationally, the military is better. 0.98

00:41:56.000 Not because gay and lesbian people are in the military.

00:41:58.000 Anybody who volunteers for the military is doing something that I didn't do.

00:42:01.000 All credit to them.

00:42:02.000 But you have to explain to me why military readiness is dependent on the idea that sexual validation lies at the heart of what the military does.

00:42:11.000 The military is there to deny validation of you.

00:42:13.000 That is the entire point.

00:42:14.000 Again, that's the entire premise of every military in human history.

00:42:17.000 So it's very weird that this is what our United States military has decided to do.

00:42:21.000 That wasn't the weirdest one.

00:42:22.000 That was actually the mildest one.

00:42:23.000 You got this from the US Air Force.

00:42:25.000 It's a picture of, I assume, a female aviator.

00:42:30.000 And she, again, I'm assuming her gender because she looks like a woman, but theoretically she could be a dude or a cat. 1.00

00:42:37.000 I don't know, because it's Pride Month and I wouldn't want to assume anything about this person slash cat.

00:42:42.000 And she has her arm up in the salute and her arm is now emblazoned with the gay pride colors.

00:42:47.000 Quote, happy Pride Month.

00:42:49.000 We are the best United States Air Force by leveraging the diverse backgrounds and strengths of each member of our total force.

00:42:54.000 We are committed to making the Air Force a place where all can reach their full potential.

00:42:58.000 Hashtag pride.

00:42:59.000 Question.

00:43:01.000 Reaching your full potential?

00:43:01.000 Is this what the military is about?

00:43:03.000 I was unaware that the military was now Wesleyan University.

00:43:07.000 It's a strange take. 0.98

00:43:09.000 I thought the military is where we bomb the living crap out of people who are going to do us harm. 0.99

00:43:14.000 We break things and kill people with the U.S. 0.99

00:43:16.000 military.

00:43:17.000 And we keep the peace by the threat of doing just that in different places.

00:43:21.000 I was unaware that personal self-fulfillment was the message of the United States military.

00:43:26.000 It's a weird take.

00:43:27.000 It's a very, very weird take.

00:43:29.000 And then we have Liz Allen, who is the State Department Senior Official for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, serving under Secretary Blinken.

00:43:34.000 It says, we are celebrating Pride Month at the State Department.

00:43:36.000 Every day, we seek to advance human rights of LGBTQ plus I people globally.

00:43:41.000 And then it shows a bunch of different images of the Pride flag everywhere, which again, no flag should be flown at any American facility that is not the American flag.

00:43:51.000 Because guess what?

00:43:52.000 It turns out that a lot of the issues that you are standing for here are not widely accepted in the United States, including the idea that men can be women and women can be men.

00:44:04.000 Meanwhile, you had the NSA.

00:44:06.000 Now, nothing is creepier than the NSA doing virtue signaling.

00:44:08.000 So the NSA that is monitoring all of your internet traffic and keeping tabs on you says, happy pride month from the NSA. 0.51

00:44:13.000 So the right to privacy crew, which is what I thought the entire premise of the LGBTQ plus IA movement was.

00:44:21.000 Now you have the creepiest agency in American government tweeting about it.

00:44:23.000 Happy pride month from the NSA. 0.93

00:44:25.000 We are celebrating all the diverse voices that contribute to our mission because having pride in who you are and what you do is intelligent.

00:44:30.000 Is it though?

00:44:32.000 I love that we have no moral standards.

00:44:33.000 Having pride in who you are and what you do is intelligent. 0.99

00:44:37.000 What if you're a bad person and what you do is garbage? 0.99

00:44:39.000 What about that? 0.99

00:44:41.000 This does tie into the fact that the New York City subway system now has notices that say you shouldn't be ashamed of doing heroin.

00:44:47.000 You should be proud that you're doing it safely.

00:44:49.000 This ideology is really nefarious.

00:44:51.000 And here's Homeland Security!

00:44:53.000 And nothing better than massive, creepy, overfunded agencies of the United States government that are wildly incompetent tweeting about Boys becoming girls.

00:45:01.000 Today, we mark the beginning of Pride Month.

00:45:02.000 During Pride, we recognize and celebrate the members of the LGBTQ plus community.

00:45:07.000 We also mark the progress that has been made and the work that still needs to be done to ensure safety and equality for LGBTQ plus people.

00:45:14.000 And then you have the ever growing flag.

00:45:17.000 You have the normal gay pride flag, and then they've added the trans flag, and then they've added black, and they've added brown. 0.61

00:45:22.000 That, by the way, is not the ugliest agglomeration of symbols for LGBTQ+. 0.98

00:45:27.000 We'll get to that in a second.

00:45:28.000 The United States Space Force put out an image of an astronaut on the moon with a queer pride flag, which is just exciting because the American flag For the left, simple proposition. 0.81

00:45:46.000 The gay pride flag is significantly less controversial than the American flag.

00:45:49.000 The American flag stands for oppression and evil, which is why you kneel for it during the national anthem, and why it is a good thing to do so, and actually pro-America to do so. 0.95

00:45:56.000 The gay pride flag, if we don't post it at the Vatican, this means that you're a homophobe. 0.92

00:46:01.000 That is the central proposition here. 0.89

00:46:03.000 By the way, the single worst display of all this doesn't come from the United States military.

00:46:07.000 It's absurd with regard to military forces because, again, it runs directly counter to the mission of the United States military to suggest that your individual sense of sexual fulfillment lies at the heart of the strength of the military. 0.99

00:46:17.000 That's the stupidest proposition in human history. 0.99

00:46:19.000 It was true whether you're talking about straight or gay or anything in between. 1.00

00:46:21.000 It's ridiculous and dumb. 1.00

00:46:23.000 Okay, but put that aside. 0.99

00:46:25.000 If we're just going the aesthetically ugliest Pride display so far this month, and it's very early in the month, it comes courtesy of the Brooklyn Nets.

00:46:32.000 Okay, so I'm just gonna say, this is the ugliest thing I think has ever been designed.

00:46:39.000 I don't even know what this is. 0.95

00:46:40.000 It looks like an LGBTQ plus IA minus divided by sign unicorn, simultaneously vomited, and diarrhea-ed wokeness. 0.97

00:46:51.000 That's what it looks like.

00:46:52.000 I have no idea what this is supposed to be.

00:46:54.000 I mean, whoever did the graphic design on this thing should immediately be fired.

00:46:59.000 Unless that would violate their sense of self-fulfillment, in which case I will say that this is maybe the greatest piece of art that I have ever seen.

00:47:04.000 Well done, Brooklyn Nets.

00:47:05.000 Honestly, I think it's really indicative of who the Brooklyn Nets were this year.

00:47:09.000 Namely, a bunch of pieces that didn't really fit together, and they put them together on the court, and then pretended it was going to be a team, and then it got immediately defeated by the Boston Celtics.

00:47:15.000 So, really, well done there, Brooklyn Nets. 0.99

00:47:19.000 By the way, speaking of Pride Month here, one of the great polarities of Pride Month is watching corporate idiots try to pander to the gay community, but only in America. 0.99

00:47:30.000 One of my favorite things. 0.99

00:47:32.000 So, for example, British Petroleum.

00:47:34.000 So basically every major American corporation, in order to virtue signal in America and also to try and pry extra dollars out of gay Americans, they've decided to put out pride flag symbols in the United States. 0.57

00:47:45.000 These are transnational corporations.

00:47:46.000 The minute they step inside an Islamic country, it's gone. 1.00

00:47:49.000 So British Petroleum puts out this symbol.

00:47:51.000 You can see here's the American symbol, right, surrounded by the rainbow flag because it's Pride Month.

00:47:55.000 And then there is the Middle East branch.

00:47:57.000 Oh, what's missing?

00:47:58.000 Something is missing.

00:47:58.000 How about BMW?

00:47:59.000 Well, BMW has the pride flag behind it and its new logo for their American branch.

00:48:05.000 How about the Middle East branch?

00:48:06.000 Oh, look, what's missing?

00:48:08.000 Then there's Cisco.

00:48:08.000 Well, look at that, Cisco.

00:48:09.000 It's all pretty and rainbow-y.

00:48:11.000 And then there's Cisco in the Middle East branch.

00:48:13.000 Yeah, it's kind of gone.

00:48:14.000 Credit to Ian Hayworth on this.

00:48:16.000 Mercedes, they put a rainbow across their Mercedes symbol.

00:48:19.000 And then in like all the Islamic countries, gone. 1.00

00:48:21.000 Is that cultural tolerance or the simple fact that in the West, the LGBTQ plus I movement feels that it has achieved success and can cram down its values on literally everyone.

00:48:31.000 And that corporate America is going to pander to exactly that.

00:48:34.000 And that abroad, they don't have the courage of their own convictions at all.

00:48:39.000 HP is doing the same thing.

00:48:40.000 Same thing with Pfizer.

00:48:42.000 Same thing with Coca-Cola.

00:48:44.000 Yeah, well, just a monster of, once again, of the fact that when it comes to these corporations, LGBTQI plus people should not find allies in these corporations because these are people who are basically just cowards and they're willing to do whatever they think is going to get them ahead on a given day. 1.00

00:48:59.000 So if you guys are counting on their loyalty for your particular set of principles, Good luck with that.

00:49:05.000 We'll see how that works out for you.

00:49:06.000 All right, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content.

00:49:08.000 In the meantime, go check out the Michael Knowles show that's available right now.

00:49:11.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

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00:49:20.000 for watching.

00:49:42.000 military celebrate Pride Month, and neither of them were the Navy, interestingly enough.

00:49:47.000 Johnny Depp wins his defamation suit against Amber Heard, and more corporations try to make us eat bugs.

The Ben Shapiro Show - June 02, 2022

Johnny Depp Defeats Amber Heard | Ep. 1507

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