ESPN cancels a college football game because one of the announcers has the same name as Robert E. Lee. President Trump goes to Phoenix and things get wild. ESPN decides that it has to shuttle away some Asian-American dude named Robert Lee because they don t want to offend people over the Confederacy. And the media does something so stupid that it may get Trump re-elected. Plus, we'll go through in detail President Trump's barn burner of a speech in Phoenix, Arizona last night, which was chock full of insanity and fun and joy and weirdness. It was all the things that make those who love Trump love Trump and all those who hate Trump hate Trump and the media falls right into his trap every single time. We'll talk about all of those things, plus my favorite video ever of a protest at any rally, and we'll play that. We'll also talk about why no one should be watching MSNBC with football ever again, and why they deserve to go. And we'll also discuss why you should never watch MSNBC with anything other than news and sports again, ever again. Also, a new Helix Sleep mattress that's going to make your life easier and more comfortable! Thanks to HelixSleep for sponsoring The Ben Shapiro Show! -Ben Shapiro Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts! Subscribe on iTunes Learn more about your ad choices. Rate, review, and subscribe to our podcast on iTunes. Thanks for listening to the Ben Shapiro Podcast! If you like the show, please consider rating and review our podcast and reviewing it on your favorite streaming platform! We post a review and review it on iTunes and review us on your thoughts and opinions on what you think of Ben Shapiro's podcast on all of the great things Ben Shapiro is listening to us on the podcast, too! Thank you for listening and sharing it on social media and reviewing Ben Shapiro on his podcast on your podcast! and we're listening to Ben Shapiro s podcast on Instapaper and other podcasting on Insta- if you leave us a review on Instagaming? and also we'll be listening to him on your comments and reviewing his podcast recommendations on the next episode of his podcast next week on the Podchaser Podcasts and review him on Instaphones on Instafone and other places on Podchore and other things like that! Thanks again, Ben Shapiro, too much love you're awesome!
00:00:00.000President Trump goes to Phoenix and things get wild.
00:00:03.000ESPN decides that it has to shuttle away some Asian-American dude named Robert Lee because they don't want to offend people over the Confederacy.
00:00:11.000And the media does something so stupid that it may get Trump reelected.
00:00:23.000Okay so I can't wait to discuss this ESPN story because it just demonstrates why no one is watching MSNBC with footballs ever again, why they are dying, why they deserve to go.
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00:02:31.000There's so many great stories today to get to.
00:02:33.000I think I'm going to have to start with this story from ESPN because it's so insane.
00:02:36.000So ESPN yesterday announced that they're broadcasting some college football game from the University of Virginia.
00:02:42.000Now as you recall, the situation in Charlottesville happened at the University of Virginia campus in Charlottesville.
00:02:48.000And so they were going to broadcast this game, this football game, University of Virginia, and one of the announcer's names is an Asian guy named Robert Lee.
00:02:56.000That's the name of one of the announcers.
00:02:58.000ESPN announced that they would not allow Robert Lee to announce the game because his name is like Robert E. Lee, and they were afraid people might be offended by his name.
00:03:27.000They do not look the same in any way, because, um, yeah.
00:03:33.000Yeah, if you get these two mixed up, it's because you're stupid.
00:03:35.000First of all, I think the great mistake here by ESPN is assuming the college students know who Robert E. Lee is.
00:03:39.000They have no clue who Robert E. Lee is.
00:03:41.000But in any case, the idea that we can't have a guy named Robert Lee, an Asian guy, announce a football game because he has the same name as Robert E. Lee is totally insane.
00:03:56.000ESPN has a lot of challenges from online, from the fact that you can see clips of your favorite games without having to watch through an hour of SportsCenter like you did when I was a kid.
00:04:04.000But, one of the reasons that ESPN is losing viewers is because they are so damn politically correct.
00:04:08.000And this is just another piece of that puzzle.
00:04:11.000ESPN released a statement from Appomattox Courthouse, apparently.
00:05:45.000I love that the left has been saying, President Trump is totally crazy when he says that we would want to remove things like George Washington statues or Thomas Jefferson statues.
00:05:54.000How dare Donald Trump suggest that we would go overboard with this stuff?
00:05:58.000You just banned an Asian guy named Robert Lee from announcing a game in Charlottesville because he has the same name as Robert E. Lee.
00:06:09.000The Oregon School Board wants to remove the name Lynch from various buildings because they're named after people whose last name is Lynch, not after lynching, but they think it might be offensive.
00:06:19.000You know who else would be offended by this?
00:06:20.000Maybe Loretta Lynch, the black former Attorney General under Barack Obama, or Marshawn Lynch, the black running back for the Seattle Seahawks.
00:06:28.000But apparently we're now so stupid that we can't tell the difference between this dude and this dude.
00:06:33.000We can't tell the difference between Robert Lee and Robert E. Lee even though they live two centuries apart and look nothing like one another and do not share an ethnicity or apparently a middle initial.
00:06:46.000The same network that tells you that Caitlyn Jenner is the apotheosis of heroism, Caitlyn Jenner who has not been athletically relevant since before I was born and gushed over Colin Kaepernick and spent time saying how Colin Kaepernick must, must, must be put on the playing field and they had several announcers this week suggest the national anthem just shouldn't be played at games so that black people in the NFL wouldn't have the burden of trying to kneel during the anthem.
00:07:08.000You wonder why people are tuning out your network?
00:08:45.000And now he's gonna drag him up off the street.
00:08:50.000Okay, I have an army full of loyal listeners who like making videos like this.
00:08:55.000Okay, I need someone to- I need someone to cut a video of this with the music, with the- with the- I can't remember the- the name of the song is I Will Always Love You.
00:09:03.000I need- I need dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun and then right as it hits me in the crotch, I need and I-
00:09:34.000General John Kelly was the guy who's Trump's new chief of staff and he's got to be like Tom in from Game of Thrones at this point, just like walking over to that window and taking a header because my goodness, my goodness.
00:09:45.000He was supposed to have Trump under control.
00:09:47.000Trump gives what I thought was quite a good speech on Afghanistan.
00:09:49.000I critiqued it yesterday on the program.
00:09:51.000I talked at length about why I thought that Trump was doing a lot of the right things in Afghanistan.
00:09:56.000And then Trump was like, you know what?
00:09:57.000I can't look like I know what I'm doing.
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00:12:13.000Trump starts off and he's on teleprompter.
00:12:16.000And the amusing thing about President Trump is you can certainly tell when he's off teleprompter because the difference between Trump on teleprompter and Trump off teleprompter is stark and amazing.
00:12:25.000So here's Trump on teleprompter talking about the LRV, right?
00:12:28.000He's doing the routine that all these presidents do.
00:13:58.000Just like they don't want to report that I spoke out forcefully against hatred, bigotry, and violence, and strongly condemned the neo-Nazis, the white supremacists, and the KKK.
00:14:13.000Okay, so Trump now feels the need to re-litigate his entire Charlottesville response, which, again, is really stupid politics.
00:14:23.000This is the second time he has now swiveled back on the Charlottesville response.
00:14:26.000So he gave the proper Charlottesville response a week ago yesterday, right?
00:14:32.000He gave it on the Monday before last Monday.
00:14:34.000He gave the proper Charlottesville response, which was the statement about white supremacists and the KKK and neo-Nazis, and the next day he did his crazy press conference where he talked about what is the alt-right.
00:16:18.000Legitimately, the entire controversy were the words that he just failed to read from the piece of paper.
00:16:22.000Okay, so he's re-litigating this, and the purpose of him re-litigating this is because not a lot really unifies the Republican Party at this point.
00:16:28.000There are disagreements over foreign policy on Afghanistan.
00:16:31.000There are disagreements on immigration.
00:16:33.000There are disagreements on infrastructure.
00:16:35.000There are disagreements on reconciliation versus attempting to ram through bills without reconciliation.
00:16:41.000There are disagreements on virtually every issue under the sun, but there is not a lot of disagreement on the right side of the aisle that the media suck.
00:16:46.000And the reason that people think the media suck is because they respond emotionally to everything.
00:16:51.000So this is where Trump is really going.
00:16:54.000He decided to make the focus of this speech attacks on the media and attacks on Antifa, two things that the Republicans and conservatives rightly dislike.
00:19:24.000And then he's saying they won't show the crowds.
00:19:26.000Every feed is showing the crowd, every single one.
00:19:29.000But people on my side, people on the right, we don't care about that because we think the media are dishonest.
00:19:34.000And as I will say, the Shapiro rule will begin to apply in just a moment because I'll show you how the media blew this wide open in ridiculous fashion.
00:19:41.000But here is Trump saying the media are unpatriotic.
00:19:44.000These are really, really dishonest people.
00:21:20.000And Hannity, how good is Hannity, he said.
00:21:25.000The rumor, by the way, is that Trump speaks with Hannity almost every evening.
00:21:29.000That is an ongoing rumor in sort of media circles.
00:21:32.000Okay, so all of this is to say that Trump is now trying to throw a punch at the media because, number one, he feels that the media is unfair to him, but number two, because he understands that what unifies the Republican Party right now is not policy, it's not him, it's not the Congress.
00:21:45.000What unifies him is this oppositional feel toward the media.
00:21:49.000Now, the thing is that Trump actually did make some news in this speech.
00:21:52.000It wasn't just him railing against the media in typical Trumpian fashion for half an hour.
00:21:57.000In the middle of the speech, for example, he dumped the news that he was basically going to pardon Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who should be pardoned.
00:22:02.000Sheriff Joe is the sheriff down in Maricopa County, very colorful guy.
00:22:06.000He was famous for dressing all of the inmates in pink.
00:22:09.000There was a restraining order that was put out against him suggesting he was engaging in racial profiling.
00:22:13.000He did not believe he was engaging in racial profiling, so he kept doing what he was doing, so they jailed him for violation of a court order, and Trump is saying that he's going to pardon him, but he had said beforehand, before the speech, that he wasn't going to pardon him in front of the crowd, but then he basically said that he was going to pardon him in front of the crowd.
00:22:30.000Do the people in this room like Sheriff Joe?
00:22:37.000Was Sheriff Joe convicted for doing his job?
00:22:49.000He should have had a jury, but you know what?
00:23:18.000Now, the obstructionist Democrats would like us not to do it, but believe me, if we have to close down our government, we're building that wall.
00:23:27.000He talked about getting rid of the filibuster rule.
00:23:29.000He talked about how he was ripping on Jeff Flake and John McCain.
00:23:33.000Not by name, not by name, but he was ripping on all of these people.
00:23:36.000And then he talked about how he was going to terminate NAFTA.
00:23:37.000So there was some actual news here, but it was the media's response that was really astonishing.
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00:24:58.000Just to finish up with President Trump's speech in Phoenix before we get to the insane media response, President Trump also talked about Jeff Flake, he talked about John McCain, so here he is talking, not the filibuster rule one, we'll do the next one, he talked about how he didn't want to mention any names, but clearly he means John McCain here as far as Obamacare being maintained.
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00:27:44.000Okay, so the media could cover Trump's rally in a variety of ways.
00:27:47.000They could report the news from it, the stuff about NAFTA, the stuff about the government shutdown.
00:27:51.000They could report all of the things that he said that are material.
00:27:54.000Instead, the media fall right into Trump's trap, because Trump's entire trap is this.
00:27:59.000He tells Americans, hey guys, the media, they're very mean to me, they're very unfair, they lie all the time, they have a hatred, they hate you, they hate me, they hate America, they hate.
00:28:09.000So what he's really saying is, the media are an emotional machine dedicated to my destruction.
00:28:15.000What would the media need to do to counter that?
00:28:17.000Well, they would need to act in dispassionate fashion.
00:28:19.000They would need to go on TV and say, you know, President Trump gave a speech tonight, very well received by his crowd.
00:28:24.000Here are the things he said that are factually untrue.
00:28:35.000Okay, clean coal is about finding new methods of mining that are cleaner for the environment.
00:28:41.000But the media, instead of critiquing the factual points in Trump's speech, or saying, you know, President Trump is attacking the media because he's attempting to distract, but here is what the real agenda was in this particular speech.
00:28:53.000Instead of doing that, the media just decide to go absolutely nuts.
00:28:55.000So Don Lemon on CNN, he had a segment last night with Ana Navarro,
00:29:00.000In which they basically sat around talking about how Trump was crazy, how Trump was a nut.
00:29:05.000And Don Lemon did a monologue last night immediately following the speech in which he ripped President Trump up and down, talked about how President Trump was obviously unqualified, how he was trying to start a civil war.
00:29:16.000This, of course, plays right into Trump's hands, because his entire base believes that the media are out to get Trump.
00:29:21.000And so the more you act like this, the more you tell his base that they're right.
00:29:24.000And how about the people who are in the middle?
00:29:26.000The people who are in the middle just see a slap fight.
00:29:28.000They don't necessarily side with Don Lemon over Trump, and they don't necessarily side with Trump over Don Lemon, but they look at this and they go, Trump slapping the media, the media look like they're slapping him back, it looks like a clown fight.
00:29:38.000It looks like an old boxing match between a couple of 300 pound ladies.
00:29:55.000It's embarrassing, and I don't mean for us, the media, because he went after us, but for the country.
00:30:00.000This is who we elected President of the United States, a man who is so petty that he has to go after people who he deems to be his enemy, like an imaginary friend of a six-year-old.
00:30:27.000He certainly opened up the race wound from Charlottesville.
00:30:31.000A man clearly wounded by the rational people who are abandoning him in droves, meaning those business people and the people in Washington now who are questioning his fitness for office.
00:30:51.000That Trump's entire narrative is that the media are out to get him.
00:30:53.000And when Don Lemon says all this stuff, and I'm sure Don Lemon feels all this stuff, when he says all this stuff, all it does is it grants credence to Trump's argument that this is an emotional response.
00:31:02.000Because again, dispassionate analysis would be one thing, but that's not what you got from the media last night.
00:31:06.000Lawrence O'Donnell on MSNBC actually cut into the speech in order to say that Trump is lying about the media.
00:31:12.000If they're doing a story about me, I know if it's honest or false.
00:31:30.000On that Saturday, we condemn in the strongest, most possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry, and violence on many sides.
00:31:43.000He did not include that just now in his quoting of himself to this audience.
00:31:49.000He is lying to this audience about what he said, and he is lying to this audience about what the media said about what he said.
00:31:57.000Okay, the nature of media, the nature of TV, is that your emotions come across even more than your words.
00:32:02.000And it's obvious that Lawrence O'Donnell is very pissed, but is he pissed because Trump is lying, or is he pissed because Trump is lying about the media?
00:32:07.000Okay, because the lie that he just said that Trump told was not a lie necessarily about the media, it was about what Trump himself said.
00:32:14.000What it feels like, and this is when the media go wrong, the media's entire, their entire reason for being is to defend the interests of the American people.
00:32:22.000It's to defend the transparency of an administration.
00:32:39.000What would happen if you insulted the pastor in your church?
00:32:41.000Well, it would be one thing if you insulted the pastor, and he said, listen, an insult on me is an attack on this particular institution, and, you know, if you're attacking me personally, I can take it, but obviously I feel like I need to speak the truth anyway.
00:32:53.000But if the pastor gets angry because you're attacking him personally, you might think that he's an egotist.
00:32:58.000Well, when you look at the media, it seems as though they are full of people who are just focused on Trump's dislike for them personally.
00:33:15.000Like, Trump's base is bigger than Lawrence O'Donnell's or Don Lemon's.
00:33:18.000The idea that them going out there and ripping Trump up and down on character grounds for attacking the media, it's just bad strategy.
00:33:24.000Put aside the truth or untruth, it's just bad strategy by the media, and they are falling right into Trump's trap.
00:33:30.000They're not the only ones, by the way.
00:33:31.000Former Obama officials, James Clapper, a guy who lied in front of Congress about the nature of the government's surveillance efforts, he goes on CNN and he says that Trump is a national security threat.
00:33:51.000Again, having some understanding of the levers that a president can exercise, I worry about, frankly, you know, the access to nuclear codes.
00:34:09.000He decides to do something about Kim Jong-un.
00:34:14.000There's actually very little to stop him.
00:34:18.000There's no evidence that Trump has done anything like this on policy.
00:34:20.000There's the sense that he says crazy things all the time, which is true.
00:34:24.000But again, bringing on James Clapper, an Obama official, to call Trump unhinged is not smart politics.
00:34:29.000It's also unfair, and it's sort of derogatory toward people who have actual mental illness, like this idea that Trump is a deeply mentally ill human being who can't be trusted with the nuclear codes.
00:34:39.000Listen, I didn't vote for Trump, but this is over-the-top.
00:34:42.000It is over-the-top stuff, and it's not helpful to anyone.
00:34:45.000Cecilia Vega, who's a journalist, was on Good Morning America, and she said this was incitement, pure and simple.
00:34:57.000I didn't think it was incitement when Bernie Sanders suggested that Medicare was going to, that Trump's cuts to Medicaid were going to kill people.
00:35:11.000The media and the Democrats' attempts to club Trump to death over these sorts of comments and to suggest that he is unfit for office based on comments like this,
00:35:22.000All you're really doing is you're reinforcing his base of support who feel like he's under attack anyway.
00:35:26.000And then, how much attention do the media actually pay to the riots that were happening outside?
00:35:31.000So right after this rally happens, Trump mentions Antifa!
00:35:35.000And then, there are actual riots outside from Antifa.
00:35:58.000They're screaming at the Trump supporters in the truck.
00:36:08.000Okay, so they're just delightful, folks.
00:36:10.000The police were firing gas canisters at Antifa last night.
00:36:34.000This is Antifa that's provoking violence outside.
00:36:45.000This again lends credence to what I've been saying, what Trump has been saying.
00:36:49.000This is the one thing I think Trump got right over the past week, is labeling Antifa a group that is ensconced and enmeshed in violence.
00:36:55.000We're concerned that Antifa is going to show up at the speech that I'm going to give at Berkeley on September 14th.
00:37:00.000I'm encouraging all the people who are saying they're going to show up in self-defense to Antifa, please do not show up ready to do battle with Antifa.
00:37:08.000It is the police's job to take care of this.
00:37:59.000That is promoting violence across the country.
00:38:00.000I have a piece in National Review today talking specifically about the left's embrace of mainstream violence and why that's the danger to the country, not some schmuck piece of garbage white supremacists who march with torches.
00:38:15.000If they act violent, they're part of the problem, too.
00:38:17.000But America can survive horrible views.
00:38:19.000America can't survive violence in the streets.
00:38:21.000Okay, so time for some things I like and then some things I hate and a quick Bible talk.
00:39:59.000What a relief to know that you're no better than I am.
00:40:06.000It was nominated for Best Picture and she won Best Actress as well in this.
00:40:25.000Okay, time for some things that I hate.
00:40:33.000So Trevor Noah, who, as I say, is in a running freeway street battle for least funny comedian in America with Amy Schumer.
00:40:41.000And the third person always tends to vary.
00:40:43.000Sometimes I've said that it is John Oliver, although I think John Oliver is better than that.
00:40:48.000Sometimes I've said W. Camus Bell, who truly is an awful comedian.
00:40:51.000But Trevor Noah, he did a segment on his show last night about how he was back in South Africa, which is the country from which he hails, and he came back, and it turns out that America is the third Reich.
00:41:03.000So now I was like, okay, this is not a vacation.
00:41:31.000This is not the Third Reich, my friend.
00:41:33.000This nonsense where you compare America to the Third Reich because President Trump says stupid crap all the time, that is just, it's insane, and again,
00:41:41.000You talk about the media driving people into the arms of Trump.
00:41:43.000When you label everyone a Nazi, it turns out people get mad.
00:42:35.000There are unifying symbols in America that still mean something, and I think it's ridiculous that you are kneeling during the National Anthem instead of trying to perfect the Union, you are seeking to tear it down.
00:42:44.000People like Frederick Douglass would have agreed with me, but this is really foolishness.
00:42:48.000Here's some of the Cleveland Browns doing this routine.
00:42:51.000We wanted to draw attention to the fact that there's things in this country that still need to change and I myself will be raising children that don't look like me.
00:43:04.000I want to do my part as well to do everything I can to
00:43:11.000Okay, do you think that it really does the union a favor?
00:43:26.000That it really doesn't exacerbate tensions when you kneel during the National Anthem?
00:43:30.000If you want to pray, why don't you wait until after the National Anthem and then do a team prayer and then get out to the media that what you're praying for is a better future for the country?
00:43:37.000Why do you have to use the National Anthem as the wedge?
00:43:51.000So, every week we go through a little portion of the Bible.
00:43:54.000The Jews go through a different portion of the Bible each week, but we went through the entire Bible last year, so this year we are going through the sections of the prophets and the writings that correspond to the portion of the Bible that we read every week.
00:44:08.000Now, we have just entered the month of Elul.
00:44:09.000The month of Elul is considered, we're getting close to the Days of Awe, the lead-up to Rosh Hashanah, the beginning of the Jewish New Year, and Yom Kippur, which is the holiest day on the Jewish calendar.
00:44:18.000This is the period of time where Jews do their repentance for all of the things that they've sinned for over the last year, and so we read a lot of literature that's sort of about us returning to God.
00:44:26.000This is from Isaiah 52, verses 8 through 10.
00:44:29.000The voice of your watchmen, they raised a voice, together they shall sing, for eye to eye they shall see when the Lord returns to Zion.
00:44:35.000Burst out in song, sing together, O ruins of Jerusalem,
00:44:37.000So I want to focus in on that second verse for a second, the part where it says, There's a very famous story in the Talmud that, it's famous for Jews anyway, in the Talmud,
00:44:56.000Rabbi Akiva is a very famous rabbi in Jewish history.
00:45:01.000Part of the Bar Kokhba revolt against Roman rule was killed for his participation in that revolt.
00:45:07.000But Rabbi Akiva and a bunch of rabbis were supposedly walking through the ruins of the Second Temple after the destruction of the Second Temple, and they were seeing animals run through the ruins of Jerusalem, the ruins of the Temple.
00:45:19.000And all the other rabbis were crying, and Rabbi Akiva starts laughing.
00:45:22.000And so all of his friends turn to him and they say,
00:45:27.000And he says, I'm laughing because the same prophecy that says that the temple will be destroyed also says that the temple will be rebuilt, and I have faith that it will be rebuilt.
00:45:34.000The same is true for the United States and Western civilization.
00:45:37.000I don't think that what we're watching right now, the decay of Western civilization, the decay of America, is permanent.
00:45:46.000We can have faith in the Restoration if we take a hand in it.
00:45:49.000We cannot have faith in the Restoration if we fail to take a hand and if we sit around doing nothing and simply lamenting our fate.
00:45:54.000It's important that we all take a hand in educating our children to believe in a better America, that we stand up and tell the truth when we see something wrong happening, that we stand together in the face of stupidity and in the face of political polarization for political purposes.