The Ben Shapiro Show - Never Met A Communist He Didn't Like | Ep. 960

00:00:00.000 Democrats try to cram in their last-minute attacks on Bernie.

00:00:03.000 The media finally deem it worthwhile to ask some basic questions of the presumptive Democratic nominee.

00:00:08.000 And coronavirus tanks the stock market.

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00:00:27.000 Okay, so tonight is the final real chance for the Democrats to stop Bernie Sanders.

00:00:32.000 What I mean by that is that Bernie Sanders is obviously on the upswing in every national poll he is now leading.

00:00:37.000 He is leading in virtually all of the state polls, with very few exceptions.

00:00:41.000 In South Carolina, he is trailing.

00:00:42.000 He is trailing Joe Biden by just a few points.

00:00:44.000 But Bernie Sanders has not been exposed to any real scrutiny, a point I've been making repeatedly for literally months on this show, maybe years on this show.

00:00:51.000 Bernie Sanders is a full-fledged communist.

00:00:54.000 Bernie Sanders has not yet met a socialist dictator he did not love or could not express love for.

00:00:59.000 Bernie Sanders has been a lifelong Marxist.

00:01:01.000 I mean, this is without a doubt.

00:01:03.000 Go back all the way to his earliest days in Vermont when he was living as a loser in basically a rundown apartment while his not-wife had his child and was on welfare and he was making videos about Eugene Debs.

00:01:15.000 I'm not kidding.

00:01:16.000 This was actually his youth.

00:01:17.000 Okay, when I say his youth, I mean all the way until he was 39.

00:01:19.000 Bernie Sanders was a communist who never held a real 9-to-5 job.

00:01:23.000 Okay, and then he was elected mayor of Burlington, Vermont by 10 votes.

00:01:26.000 And this starts his political career.

00:01:28.000 Bernie Sanders has been this guy the whole time.

00:01:30.000 And only now are the media seeing fit to say, hey, maybe we should ask some questions about this guy.

00:01:34.000 Like, why is he running for president?

00:01:37.000 And why are people taking him seriously?

00:01:39.000 Well, tonight, there is a big Democratic debate.

00:01:41.000 And expect for Michael Bloomberg, and presumably, if Joe Biden has any brains at all, Joe Biden, and if Elizabeth Warren has any brains at all, Elizabeth Warren, to attack Bernie.

00:01:50.000 Because here's the reality.

00:01:51.000 Bernie is not only the frontrunner, he is the prohibitive.

00:01:54.000 Frontrunner at this point.

00:01:55.000 Michael Bloomberg, for one, is planning a full-on onslaught on Bernie Sanders. 0.77

00:01:59.000 He's the only one who brought any game to Bernie Sanders the entire race in the last debate when he pointed out that Bernie, a lifelong communist who's been a loser, who's never earned a dollar other than writing a book in the last couple of years, and when he did earn a dollar it was off of taxpayer dollars, that that loser has a lake house.

00:02:14.000 So it's easy to be a socialist with a lake house.

00:02:17.000 He'd never been asked that question directly to his face.

00:02:19.000 Bernie Sanders.

00:02:20.000 Michael Bloomberg asked that.

00:02:21.000 Well, Michael Bloomberg is going to really ramp it up tonight, according to Politico.

00:02:24.000 Politico reports Mike Bloomberg and a handful of staffers spent Monday at the so-called happiest place on Earth, preparing for the bruising task ahead the next day.

00:02:31.000 Hunkered down at the Four Seasons Hotel in Florida's Disney World, the former New York mayor prepared for a mission to salvage his half-billion-dollar investment in the presidential race with a debate performance designed to quiet the critics and stall frontrunner Bernie Sanders' momentum.

00:02:44.000 After a disastrous first outing, his net favorable rating dropped 20 points in the aftermath, according to Morning Consult.

00:02:49.000 Bloomberg's debate goals in the Charleston, South Carolina debate are twofold.

00:02:52.000 One, persuade viewers that Sanders is too divisive to defeat President Trump in November.

00:02:56.000 And two, sidestep landmines surrounding complaints from women at his private media company and his race-based policing practices as mayor.

00:03:03.000 Dan Kananen is a top strategist overseeing Bloomberg's state operations.

00:03:06.000 He said in a conference, call the debate tomorrow night, and the campaign in general needs to be about one candidate, and that's Bernie Sanders.

00:03:11.000 We've been saying for some time that the nature of this contest means that someone with even a small plurality of delegates can come away with an outsized and disproportionate delegate lead.

00:03:20.000 And this, of course, is exactly correct.

00:03:22.000 They also point out, and this is also true, that Bloomberg was much better in the second half of the debate than he was in the first half.

00:03:26.000 That's sort of getting obscured because his first 45 minutes was so awful and so brutal.

00:03:30.000 But after that, he really started taking it to Sanders, and Sanders had no good answers.

00:03:35.000 A top aide says, we've trained our eyes on him, something the rest of the field has failed to do eight debates prior in a year into the campaign.

00:03:41.000 Bloomberg released an ad on on Monday, a digital ad slamming Sanders for his history on gun control and drawing a contrast to the ex-mayor's lengthy record of fighting the NRA.

00:03:52.000 Ironically, one of the reasons that Bernie Sanders originally was elected to Congress is because the NRA endorsed him over his opponent.

00:03:58.000 I mean, that's an actual true story.

00:04:01.000 The 90-second video and an accompanying tweet from Bloomberg state Sanders was elected to the House in 1990 with support from the NRA and highlighted his opposition to a background checks bill in the 1990s.

00:04:12.000 The other Democrats are apparently also considering the possibility that they may finally have to go after Bernie Sanders, which again, this feels a little bit too, little too late.

00:04:19.000 It feels a lot like in 2016 when the Republicans finally decided that Donald Trump was legitimate.

00:04:23.000 He was an actual nominee and they started training their fire and Marco Rubio started going out and making fun of Donald Trump and his genital size and all this sort of stuff.

00:04:30.000 And it was like, this is, this is too little too late.

00:04:32.000 It feels like that with the Democrats.

00:04:33.000 Maybe it's not too little too late, but.

00:04:35.000 If Bloomberg is going to air a campaign, meaning he's just going to saturate the airwaves with anti-Bernie ads, it could theoretically have a serious impact.

00:04:44.000 Apparently, they're going to unleash hundreds of millions of dollars in ads directed against Sanders.

00:04:48.000 The campaign, according to CNBC.com, plans a multi-pronged attack, including the publication of OPPO research on Sanders.

00:04:53.000 It will also push out digital attack ads focused on Sanders' record.

00:04:57.000 The attacks will also attempt to highlight negative aspects of his record on race relations, both as congressman and senator.

00:05:04.000 People within the Bloomberg campaign are also discussing whether to have surrogates and supporters write op-eds and show up on TV to speak out against Sanders.

00:05:11.000 Okay, well, I mean, again, this should have been the plan the whole time.

00:05:15.000 One of the things that the Bloomberg campaign is leaking out is internal polling that shows that Bernie would absolutely destroy the party down-ballot.

00:05:21.000 According to Politico, Chris Codeligo and Laura Baron Lopez reporting, Bernie Sanders' nomination could drag down vulnerable House Democrats trying to hold on to their competitive districts, according to a new poll conducted for Bloomberg's campaign.

00:05:33.000 The poll of voters in more than 40 battleground House districts currently held by Democrats, conducted by Global Strategy Group for the Bloomberg campaign, and obtained by Politico from two sources, Found that Sanders is less popular than Trump and loses significant support when hit for holding socialist positions.

00:05:46.000 Sanders is a self-described democratic socialist, of course.

00:05:49.000 The poll found Sanders essentially running even with Trump in a head-to-head matchup across the districts, trailing the incumbent by just one point.

00:05:55.000 But Trump opens up a six-point advantage after a list of negative messages about Sanders' ideology and alleged ineffectiveness in the Senate is presented to poll respondents.

00:06:04.000 Sanders' potential impact extends beyond the presidential race.

00:06:07.000 A plurality of voters, 39%, say they will be less likely to vote for a Democrat for Congress if Sanders is the Democratic nominee, which is double the 21% who say they would be more likely to vote for a Democrat for Congress.

00:06:17.000 34% say it would not impact their vote at all.

00:06:20.000 The poll found that 47% of voters in competitive Democratic-held districts felt the increased role of socialist ideas in the Democratic Party was a bad thing.

00:06:28.000 19% believed it was a good thing.

00:06:29.000 24% said it made no difference.

00:06:32.000 This is not a giant shock.

00:06:33.000 The fact is that socialism is bad branding.

00:06:36.000 Most Americans are still not into it.

00:06:38.000 Most Americans are still not into it, which may be one of the reasons why Joe Biden still holds a very, very narrow lead in the latest poll from South Carolina.

00:06:46.000 NBC News has put out that poll.

00:06:47.000 It shows Biden with the support of 27% of likely Democratic primary voters in South Carolina.

00:06:52.000 Bernie Sanders has 23%.

00:06:53.000 The poll's margin of error is plus or minus 6%.

00:06:56.000 So basically, they are running dead even. 0.93

00:06:58.000 So that means that Everybody has to train their fire on Sanders tonight or he's going to run away with this race because if he wins South Carolina, this sucker is over. 0.97

00:07:04.000 It is over.

00:07:06.000 So that is the big question for tonight.

00:07:08.000 Now, the biggest problem is that Bloomberg isn't even on the ballot in South Carolina, which means that really it's Joe Biden on the ballot versus Bernie Sanders.

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00:08:52.000 Okay, so Joe Biden is in fact going after Bernie.

00:08:55.000 The way he's going after Bernie is saying that Bernie was not sufficiently When we rallied together to defend our president and all the progress he made, they had his back.

00:09:02.000 He had his back.

00:09:03.000 And you had his back.

00:09:03.000 But back in Washington, there was one guy with another plan.

00:09:06.000 2012.

00:09:06.000 When we rallied together to defend our president and all the progress he made, they had his back.

00:09:13.000 He had his back and you had his back.

00:09:16.000 But back in Washington, there was one guy with another plan.

00:09:20.000 I think it would be a good idea if President Obama faced some primary opposition.

00:09:26.000 Bernie Sanders was seriously thinking about challenging our first African-American president in a primary.

00:09:32.000 This ad is pointed at black voters in South Carolina, And it's an effective ad for that. 1.00

00:09:36.000 I mean, Barack Obama is still incredibly popular with black voters across the country, with many voters across the country, and that is particularly true in South Carolina.

00:09:43.000 Meanwhile, the Biden team is also attacking Bernie for the fact that he is a communist.

00:09:47.000 So the Biden senior advisor, Alex Cristobal, slammed Sanders' comments on Fidel Castro.

00:09:53.000 Because remember, yesterday on 60 Minutes, he praised Fidel Castro.

00:09:57.000 He talked about Fidel Castro's literacy programs, which is pure insanity.

00:10:00.000 It's pure insanity.

00:10:01.000 I mean, the fact is that the Cuban literacy rate was 80% before Fidel Castro came in.

00:10:05.000 He promptly murdered tens of thousands of people and imprisoned tens of thousands more people.

00:10:09.000 And apparently this increased literacy rates in some way.

00:10:11.000 I mean, it's always amusing to watch.

00:10:12.000 Bernie Sanders has never had, we'll get to this in a little while, but Bernie Sanders has literally never had a serious bad word to say about any communist regime ever.

00:10:21.000 All he has had are warm words to say.

00:10:23.000 What he'll do is say, well, of course I oppose the repression, but, and then he'll list off a list of wonderful glories of the Soviet Union and Nicaragua and Venezuela and Cuba and every communist regime he can possibly think of.

00:10:35.000 It's truly incredible.

00:10:37.000 So Bernie Sanders, so Biden's campaign put out this statement, Make no mistake, Bernie Sanders' comments on Fidel Castro are part of a larger pattern throughout his life to embrace autocratic leaders and governments across the globe.

00:10:48.000 He seems to have found more inspiration in the Soviets, Sandinistas, Chavistas, and Castro than in America.

00:10:53.000 100% true!

00:10:56.000 His admiration for elements of Castro's dictatorship, or at least willingness to look past Cuba's human rights violations, is not just dangerous, it is deeply offensive to many people in Florida, New Jersey, and across the country that have fled political persecution and sought refuge in the United States.

00:11:08.000 Bernie's comments indicate that he either fails to understand the pain and suffering that Fidel Castro, Nicolas Maduro, and Daniel Ortega have caused to so many people, including Americans now living here, or worse, that his ideology blinds him to the realities of life in these countries.

00:11:21.000 We already have one president who praises dictators and their mob-like tendencies.

00:11:24.000 We don't need another one.

00:11:25.000 As president, Joe Biden will stand up on the global stage against tyrants and fight for freedom and democracy.

00:11:30.000 100% true.

00:11:31.000 Okay, everything that they are saying... This is what I said about the last Democratic debate.

00:11:34.000 What made it so delicious is that everything the Democrats were saying about each other was true.

00:11:38.000 Everything they said about themselves was a lie.

00:11:39.000 Everything they said about each other was true.

00:11:41.000 This is 100% true from the Biden campaign.

00:11:43.000 There is only one problem.

00:11:44.000 Joe Biden is not alive.

00:11:46.000 It's very difficult to win with an actual dead candidate.

00:11:49.000 Now, in a general campaign, it's not actually the worst strategy, as I kept pointing out.

00:11:53.000 I mean, the fact is that in a general election campaign, if you run a dead guy against Trump, not terrible.

00:11:58.000 I mean, right, you could do worse.

00:11:59.000 You could run a live guy against Trump.

00:12:00.000 That'd be a problem.

00:12:02.000 But in a primary campaign, you can't really get people excited by wheeling out a corpse on a dolly.

00:12:08.000 And that's basically what they've been doing.

00:12:09.000 I mean, Joe Biden doesn't even know where he is.

00:12:11.000 It's getting sad.

00:12:11.000 I mean, this was Joe Biden yesterday announcing that he was running for Senate.

00:12:15.000 He's running for president, guys.

00:12:16.000 He doesn't even know which office he is running for.

00:12:19.000 I have a simple proposition here.

00:12:21.000 I'm here to ask you for your help.

00:12:23.000 Where I come from, you don't get far unless you ask.

00:12:26.000 My name's Joe Biden.

00:12:28.000 I'm a Democratic candidate for the United States Senate.

00:12:31.000 Look me over.

00:12:31.000 If you like what you see, help out.

00:12:33.000 If not, vote for the other guy.

00:12:34.000 Give me a look, though, okay?

00:12:36.000 He's not even alive.

00:12:37.000 He's not even alive.

00:12:38.000 So that's the big problem.

00:12:40.000 Now, that doesn't mean that he's the only candidate on stage tonight who's going to be attacking Bernie.

00:12:44.000 That obviously is not true.

00:12:45.000 Pete Buttigieg has been trying desperately to wrest the mantle away from Joe Biden and suggest that he is the serious alternative.

00:12:52.000 So Buttigieg came out yesterday and said, we need a real Democrat.

00:12:54.000 We don't need a socialist like Bernie leading the party.

00:12:57.000 A revolution is not going to do it, and extreme proposals and policies are not going to do it.

00:13:03.000 We need a candidate that is unified, that is going to bring Americans, especially all Americans, not just in the Democratic Party, but all Americans together.

00:13:11.000 And frankly, we need a real Democrat to be the Democratic nominee.

00:13:16.000 And that's why I believe a Sanders candidacy won't work.

00:13:19.000 It's obvious that's not Buttigieg.

00:13:20.000 It's LaMell McMorris, who's a spokesperson for Buttigieg.

00:13:22.000 But the point holds true.

00:13:23.000 This is Buttigieg's problem.

00:13:25.000 This is Buttigieg's problem.

00:13:27.000 The problem, of course, is that Buttigieg is not exactly a non-radical himself, nor does he have any broad-based national appeal.

00:13:32.000 He has never really broken into high double digits in the national polling at all.

00:13:37.000 So the big wild card in the debate tonight is going to be Elizabeth Warren.

00:13:40.000 Warren wants to be Sanders' VP.

00:13:43.000 That's her backup plan, and it is very obvious that this is her backup plan.

00:13:45.000 Yesterday, she was specifically asked about Bernie Sanders, and she immediately redirected to Michael Bloomberg.

00:13:50.000 And when somebody said, well, wait, hold on, I asked you about Sanders, she started talking about Bloomberg again.

00:13:54.000 She said, I heard your question.

00:13:55.000 She started talking about Bloomberg.

00:13:56.000 So Warren, watch for Warren to go after Bloomberg and clear the decks for Bernie, because she's basically hedging her bets. 1.00

00:14:03.000 So Warren, who is an effective knife fighter, I mean, we saw that on the stage the other night, she is more likely to go after Biden and Bloomberg than she is to go after Bernie Sanders directly.

00:14:11.000 So that means that Bernie, in all likelihood, continues to have this clear glide path to the nomination.

00:14:18.000 This provides a series of problems for Democrats, like a series of problems.

00:14:22.000 So problem number one is that Bernie's great lie is that he's going to attract this wave of new voters.

00:14:27.000 So on an electoral level, I mean, Republicans should take some comfort in this.

00:14:31.000 Bernie keeps saying over and over and over that he's going to drive youth votes out to magnificent rates.

00:14:36.000 Megan McArdle, who's a columnist for The Washington Post.

00:14:38.000 We had her on the radio show yesterday.

00:14:40.000 She was talking about how she saw a lot of Hispanic voters out for Bernie.

00:14:43.000 She saw young voters out for Bernie.

00:14:44.000 But statistically speaking, Bernie has not actually driven voting rates up in places like Iowa, New Hampshire, or Nevada thus far.

00:14:51.000 The New York Times reporting Sydney Ember and Nate Cohen.

00:14:54.000 It is the most politically provocative part of Senator Bernie Sanders' campaign pitch, that his progressive movement will bring millions of non-voters into the November election, driving record turnout, especially among disaffected working class Americans and young people.

00:15:05.000 And yet, despite a virtual tie in Iowa, a narrow victory in New Hampshire, and a big triumph in Nevada, the first three nominating contests reveal a fundamental challenge for Sanders' political revolution.

00:15:14.000 He may be winning, but not because of his long-standing pledge to expand the Democratic base.

00:15:19.000 The results so far show that Mr. Sanders has prevailed by broadening his appeal among traditional Democratic voters, not by fundamentally transforming the electorate.

00:15:26.000 In other words, the same people are showing up to vote, more of them are just voting for Sanders.

00:15:30.000 And part of that is this bandwagoning effect that happens in the primaries.

00:15:33.000 Media attention builds on media attention.

00:15:35.000 And this is why, whenever you have a candidate who sets up a firewall, see Rudy Giuliani in 2008 in Florida, whenever you have a candidate who sets up a firewall, and that firewall is in state number four, it's too late by that point.

00:15:45.000 Because what you have is a wall, and then, on the other end, you have a snowball that starts off rolling down the mountain.

00:15:51.000 And as it starts rolling down the mountain, it starts accreting more and more snow.

00:15:54.000 It starts getting larger and larger.

00:15:56.000 That snowball is media attention.

00:15:57.000 So if you start off in Iowa, and it starts rolling down the hill, you're picking up media attention.

00:16:00.000 New Hampshire, more media attention.

00:16:02.000 Nevada, more media attention.

00:16:04.000 South Carolina, more media attention.

00:16:06.000 By the time you get to this wall right here, boom, it just runs right over the wall.

00:16:09.000 And this is what you have seen in these primaries.

00:16:12.000 So people who have ignored the early primaries have done so at their own peril.

00:16:15.000 I'm talking to you, Mike Bloomberg, and I'm talking to you, Joe Biden.

00:16:18.000 And so this is why Bernie has been able to roll over the other Democrats, not because Bernie is bringing in new audiences, but because the additional media attention makes Bernie seem inevitable, the inevitability conversation makes it so that people want to be on the side of a winner.

00:16:32.000 It's just a normal human tendency.

00:16:34.000 If you believe somebody is about to win, you're more likely to jump on their bandwagon.

00:16:38.000 So you've seen this in the Democratic polling.

00:16:39.000 In the Democratic polling, the perception that Bernie Sanders could win a general election has risen dramatically over the past month.

00:16:45.000 Over the past month.

00:16:46.000 A month ago, A bare majority of Democrats thought that Sanders was the strongest candidate to face up in a general election as he started winning primaries.

00:16:52.000 That's now jumping into the 70s.

00:16:54.000 And the reason for that is because people have this bizarre notion and really isn't, I don't think, a thought through process.

00:17:02.000 I don't think that it's really a considered opinion.

00:17:04.000 They just have this instinct that if somebody is able to win one race, they're able to win another race, even if the two skills are not transferable.

00:17:10.000 In Iowa, says Nate Cohen, turnout for the caucuses was lower than expected, up 3% compared with 2016.

00:17:15.000 The increase was concentrated in more well-educated areas, where Sanders struggled, according to a New York Times analysis.

00:17:20.000 So in other words, Sanders actually didn't do that great in Iowa.

00:17:23.000 There was no sign of a Sanders voter surge in New Hampshire either, nor on Saturday in Nevada, where the final results indicated the turnout would finish above 2016 but well short of 2008 levels, despite a decade of population growth and a new early voting option that attracted 75,000 voters.

00:17:36.000 The low numbers are all the more striking, says the New York Times, given the huge turnout in the 2018 midterm elections, which was the highest in a century.

00:17:43.000 There's also no evidence across the early states of much greater participation by young people, a typically low-turnout group that makes up a core part of Sanders' base and that he has long said he can motivate to get out to the polls.

00:17:53.000 And Sanders has struggled to overcome his long-standing weakness in affluent, well-educated suburbs where Democrats excelled in midterm elections and where many traditionally Republican voters are skeptical about Trump's performance, meaning they could be up for grabs in November.

00:18:06.000 So this means that because the field is fragmented, he could still pull off the nomination.

00:18:09.000 But everybody is just lying when they suggest that he's going to be bringing in swaths of new voters into the Democratic Party.

00:18:15.000 It's not a thing that he is actually doing.

00:18:17.000 So that's a serious problem for him. 1.00

00:18:18.000 Another serious problem for Bernie Sanders is his campaign is filled with jerks. 1.00

00:18:23.000 And this is something that his people On the Democratic side of the aisle, other candidates have been pointing out is that Bernie Sanders' campaign is filled with people who are just jackasses. 1.00

00:18:31.000 And this is 100% true. 0.99

00:18:33.000 The Bernie bros are in fact the nastiest people on the internet. 0.99

00:18:36.000 They're really, really awful. 1.00

00:18:37.000 They're awful to other Democrats.

00:18:39.000 And that sort of treatment is not going to play well in a general election.

00:18:42.000 It isn't.

00:18:43.000 Because the Democratic appeal typically is, we're nice.

00:18:46.000 That's always the Democratic appeal. 0.70

00:18:47.000 We're nicer than the Republicans. 0.88

00:18:48.000 The Republicans are mean. 1.00

00:18:50.000 They're nasty. 1.00

00:18:51.000 They're cruel. 0.94

00:18:51.000 Okay, well, Bernie bros are going out there and attacking people in the most vicious ways. 0.94

00:18:57.000 That really cuts against the Democratic branding effort.

00:19:00.000 One story that has come out in the last 24 hours by Scott Bixby over at the Daily Beast, uncovered a Bernie staffer who was mocking Elizabeth Warren's looks and Pete Buttigieg's sexuality on a private Twitter account.

00:19:13.000 According to the Daily Beast, during the most recent presidential primary debate in Vegas, Senator Sanders suggested that critiques of some of his most antagonistic online supporters are largely unfounded and unfair, and he proposed that some of the worst offenders might actually be Russian trolls on a mission to sow disunity in the field.

00:19:26.000 But the private Twitter account of a newly promoted campaign staffer indicates that despite his condemnation of online harassment, at least some of the Vermont senator's most toxic support is coming from inside the House.

00:19:37.000 Using the account Permaben, Ben Mora, a regional field director for the Sanders campaign based in Michigan, has attacked other Democrats in the field, as well as their family members, surrogates, journalists, and politically active celebrities in deeply personal terms, mocking their physical appearance, gender, sexuality, among other things.

00:19:54.000 He tweeted that Senator Amy Klobuchar looks like her name, quote, pained, chunky, and confused.

00:19:59.000 Former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, quote, is what happens when a therapist botches the conversion.

00:20:03.000 And his husband, Chasen, Mora predicts will, quote, be busted for running a meth racket in 10 years.

00:20:07.000 I mean, really nice people, really nice people in the Bernie campaign.

00:20:11.000 This doesn't mean everybody who's voting for Bernie is a nasty person.

00:20:14.000 It does mean that everybody who seems to be nasty in this race is a Bernie Sanders supporter.

00:20:18.000 So that's a real problem for Bernie Sanders as well.

00:20:22.000 The biggest problem for Bernie Sanders, of course, is Bernie Sanders.

00:20:25.000 That remains the biggest problem for Bernie Sanders, that Bernie does not have wide swaths of support.

00:20:29.000 People are whistling past the graveyard when they suggest he's going to bring in new audiences, because it turns out, you know what is not supremely popular?

00:20:35.000 Being an old bat bleep commie. 1.00

00:20:37.000 It turns out that that is really not super popular in the United States.

00:20:40.000 I mean, it is almost an incredible thing.

00:20:43.000 It's almost like a Philip Roth novel. 0.97

00:20:46.000 The fact that Bernie Sanders, a career loser, I mean, truly a career loser, has made it this far in American politics.

00:20:53.000 It is an object lesson to people everywhere that anyone can become president of the United States, truly anyone, including a man who did not lock down a job until he was 39 years old and was not supporting his own kid financially, even though he was a college graduate because he was too busy making single film reels about Eugene Debs, the socialist. 0.73

00:21:09.000 I mean, that was seriously Bernie Sanders's life.

00:21:12.000 His life is that he was running as a Liberty Union candidate in Vermont and losing every election in the 1970s.

00:21:19.000 And then he decided, you know what?

00:21:20.000 I guess I can't be that much of a commie.

00:21:21.000 Instead, I'm just going to run as an independent.

00:21:24.000 By the time he held down his first job, he was three years older than I am now.

00:21:27.000 He was three years older than I am now.

00:21:30.000 And people describe him back in those years.

00:21:31.000 They talk about the fact that he was living in this rundown apartment that was incredibly dirty.

00:21:35.000 The fact that they weren't sure if he was paying for his power.

00:21:38.000 All of this has been fairly well reported.

00:21:41.000 But it's not just that, listen, everybody experiences tough times in their life.

00:21:44.000 The point is that Bernie Sanders chose to do all of those things.

00:21:47.000 The man was a college graduate.

00:21:48.000 He obviously is not unintelligent. 0.82

00:21:50.000 He chose to live this loser lifestyle because he felt that it was in line with his socialist principles. 0.98

00:21:55.000 And then he immediately, upon gaining entrance to office, began hobnobbing with the world's worst human beings. 0.90

00:22:02.000 And he continues to do this because Bernie has never changed.

00:22:04.000 Here's the point.

00:22:05.000 Most people have a redemption story where where they started off when they were 15 is not where they end up when they are 77, 78 years old like Bernie.

00:22:11.000 Bernie's exactly the same human being he was at 39 and at 78.

00:22:15.000 And he brags about this.

00:22:16.000 So that means that all that stuff is fair game.

00:22:18.000 Because at no point did Bernie actually redeem himself. 0.96

00:22:20.000 He just happened to be a guy who found a government teat to suck off of for the last 60 years of his life.

00:22:25.000 And we're going to get more into Bernie Sanders and his warmth toward communism momentarily, because it really is an amazing thing.

00:22:31.000 I mean, it's in America, anything is possible.

00:22:34.000 We'll get to this in just one second.

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00:23:48.000 Okay, so last night, Bernie Sanders was on CNN, and he decided that it would be a wonderful idea to double down on his praise for Fidel Castro.

00:23:58.000 And the biggest problem for Bernie Sanders in this race is that Bernie Sanders is Bernie Sanders.

00:24:02.000 And the public has been hidden from the fact that Bernie Sanders is Bernie Sanders because the media refused to cover him for years.

00:24:08.000 And when I say they refused to cover him, I don't mean they didn't do reporting.

00:24:10.000 There was some good reporting on him in 2015, 2016.

00:24:13.000 But at no point was he ever asked a tough question about his overt, lifelong support of every communist regime he could possibly find.

00:24:20.000 And nothing has changed about Bernie.

00:24:21.000 Nothing.

00:24:22.000 Okay, Bernie is exactly the same.

00:24:24.000 He's like the high school principal in Back to the Future.

00:24:26.000 The dude never had hair.

00:24:27.000 He's exactly the same person.

00:24:29.000 Okay, so here's Bernie Sanders last night.

00:24:31.000 On 60 Minutes, he had said that, sure, sure, the customs, I don't like human rights violations, but they did raise the literacy rates.

00:24:38.000 Here's Bernie defending Cuba and then going on to defend China.

00:24:42.000 Truth is truth.

00:24:44.000 All right?

00:24:46.000 Now, if you want to disagree with me, if somebody wants to say That, and by the way, all of those congresspeople that you mentioned just so happen to be supporting other candidates.

00:24:56.000 Just accidentally, no doubt.

00:24:58.000 Coincidentally.

00:25:00.000 But you know, the truth is the truth.

00:25:02.000 And that's what happened in the first years of the Castro regime.

00:25:06.000 There he is defending the first years of the Castro regime.

00:25:08.000 You know some other truths that happened during the first years of the Castro regime?

00:25:10.000 The mass execution of dissidents, the imprisonment of dissidents.

00:25:14.000 Somewhere between 35,000 and 175,000 people were either killed or imprisoned by the Castro regime.

00:25:19.000 People floating off Cuba in cars to the coast of Florida.

00:25:25.000 That is the regime that Bernie Sanders is defending there.

00:25:26.000 And this is not a shock.

00:25:28.000 It really is not.

00:25:29.000 I mean, the fact is that this has been Bernie Sanders' lifelong principle.

00:25:33.000 Bernie Sanders' lifelong principle from the time that he was young to the time that he is old is that America is bad and that communist regimes are inherently good.

00:25:39.000 And that their repression is sort of a nasty side effect of the fact that they have to overcome a vicious capitalist system that they are overthrowing.

00:25:45.000 I mean, Bernie has overtly praised the communist revolution in Cuba.

00:25:48.000 He overtly praised it.

00:25:49.000 He said that back in his thirties, in the 1980s, when he was my age.

00:25:53.000 Again, I keep pointing this out because when we say in his youth, it makes it sound like when he was 17, when we all make mistakes.

00:25:59.000 No, no, no.

00:26:00.000 He was in his late thirties when he was talking about this stuff.

00:26:02.000 He said that he had great warmth toward the communist revolution in Cuba because it was obviously poor people rising up against rich people.

00:26:09.000 I mean, this is who Bernie Sanders has been his entire life.

00:26:12.000 Well, CNN is finally reporting on this.

00:26:13.000 So, John Avalon did a report yesterday about Bernie's history of praising dictators, and he basically only scratched the surface.

00:26:20.000 This is clip 11.

00:26:21.000 Add to this Sanders' now infamous honeymoon in Moscow near the end of the Cold War, his praise for the Soviet Union's public transportation and youth programs, while somehow never finding time to meet with Nobel Prize winning Russian dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who lived in Vermont at the time, It may speak to Sanders' general sympathies at the time.

00:26:37.000 Now, I'm not even getting into Sanders' 1970s advocacy for nationalizing most major industries, or his since-renounced call to abolish the CIA, or his assertion to a Vermont high school student in 1972 that some U.S.

00:26:48.000 action in Vietnam was, quote, almost as bad as what Hitler did.

00:26:51.000 I'm simply pointing out that Sanders' vision of democratic socialism has extended far beyond the Danish-style welfare state, as he likes to claim.

00:26:58.000 Now this, of course, is 100% true.

00:27:00.000 John Avalon may find himself in a Bernie Sanders re-education camp for having run that particular segment.

00:27:05.000 It's amusing to watch the media finally pick up on the fact that this is who Bernie Sanders is.

00:27:09.000 And this is who he is.

00:27:10.000 I mean, there's video of Bernie in the Soviet Union singing shirtless in 1988.

00:27:13.000 Okay, that is video that exists.

00:27:15.000 Him singing, this land is your land, this land is my land.

00:27:19.000 The old commie song.

00:27:21.000 In the Soviet Union.

00:27:23.000 On a trip.

00:27:24.000 For his honeymoon.

00:27:25.000 It was a business trip slash honeymoon with his wife Jane.

00:27:28.000 In 1988.

00:27:29.000 In the Soviet Union.

00:27:30.000 Right before the Soviet Union fell.

00:27:31.000 Here is Bernie.

00:27:36.000 You can't see this.

00:27:37.000 They're gonna swivel over.

00:27:39.000 There's the old man.

00:27:39.000 When people sit at the same table at the party.

00:27:43.000 That's shirtless Bernie.

00:27:45.000 I saw the peace that is bright.

00:27:50.000 I saw below me that comes this highway.

00:27:56.000 That's Bernie in Moscow.

00:28:00.000 Bernie in Moscow, 1988, in the middle of the Soviet Union.

00:28:03.000 Unless you believe that this was just Bernie doing, like, a goodwill trip.

00:28:06.000 Okay, let's go through some of the things that Bernie has said about communist dictatorships.

00:28:09.000 I mean, last night, by the way.

00:28:10.000 Again, he has never wavered on this sort of stuff.

00:28:13.000 Last night, Bernie said, quote, We're very opposed to the authoritarian nature of Cuba, but you know, it's unfair to simply say everything is bad.

00:28:20.000 When Fidel Castro came into office, you know what he did?

00:28:23.000 He had the massive literacy program.

00:28:25.000 It's not a bad thing, even though Fidel Castro did it.

00:28:28.000 Yeah, when Mussolini, quote unquote, came into office, the trains ran on time.

00:28:31.000 And when Hitler came into office, he built the autobahn. 0.95

00:28:33.000 Like, you know what's really not difficult?

00:28:35.000 Finding things that dictators have done.

00:28:38.000 That are not horrible.

00:28:40.000 Like Hitler had a dog, also.

00:28:41.000 But that really isn't the headline.

00:28:44.000 The headline of the Hitler regime was not, had a dog, built the autobahn. 0.84

00:28:48.000 And the headline of the Cuban regime is not raise literacy rates from 80% to 100%.

00:28:51.000 You know where we've actually been able to raise literacy rates really well without, you know, sliding into monstrous dictatorship?

00:28:57.000 Most of the West.

00:28:58.000 We've actually been able to do that fairly well, as it turns out.

00:29:01.000 It turns out these two things have nothing to do with each other. 0.89

00:29:03.000 So praising the Cubans for their literacy programs is really ridiculous. 0.99

00:29:07.000 But of course, Sanders hasn't merely praised Castro's literacy programs.

00:29:11.000 Back in the 1980s, Sanders explained that he was, quote, this is a direct quote, physically nauseated by John F. Kennedy's, quote, hatred for the Cuban revolution.

00:29:20.000 He said that when he was watching the Nixon-Kennedy debates, because he's old enough to have been 90 when those happened, Bernie Sanders said that he was physically nauseated by John F. Kennedy's opposition to the Cuban Revolution of 1959.

00:29:32.000 And then in 1989, Sanders visited Cuba, and he came back and he said, I did not see a hungry child.

00:29:38.000 I did not see any homeless people.

00:29:39.000 Yeah, no bleep he didn't see a hungry child or any homeless people, because you know what communist regimes do?

00:29:43.000 When you show up, they hide all of the hungry children and the homeless people.

00:29:48.000 That's what they do.

00:29:49.000 Also, everyone is poor and is driving a 1955 Chevy if they have a car at all, and it's 1989.

00:29:55.000 That's a country frozen in time.

00:29:57.000 I mean, I have friends who have been there.

00:29:58.000 It's a country that is frozen in time.

00:30:01.000 And also, I mean, again, this is why it's so dishonest for the media to suggest that Bernie Sanders is just expressing love for Castro's literacy programs.

00:30:09.000 He said in 1989, quote, the Cuban people had, quote, an almost religious affection for Fidel Castro, an almost religious affection for Fidel Castro.

00:30:18.000 You know why that might be?

00:30:20.000 It's because if you don't, you go to jail and you stay there forever and die there.

00:30:26.000 That tends to breed a sort of religious affection.

00:30:28.000 Bernie Sanders is exactly the sort of fellow who would look at North Korea and be like, look at all the people here.

00:30:32.000 They love Kim Jong-un.

00:30:34.000 They love him.

00:30:34.000 It's amazing.

00:30:35.000 Where are all the people who hate them?

00:30:36.000 I don't see them on the streets.

00:30:37.000 They seem fairly happy.

00:30:38.000 Right. 1.00

00:30:38.000 He shoots all of them. 1.00

00:30:39.000 Who don't? 1.00

00:30:40.000 Right.

00:30:41.000 But again, it's not just it is not just Cuba.

00:30:44.000 He has yet to find a communist regime that he does not support.

00:30:48.000 On a moral level.

00:30:49.000 As opposed to the United States, by the way.

00:30:51.000 Like, Bernie believes the United States is the root of all evil.

00:30:53.000 Last night, Bernie said, in some ways, we are not a great country.

00:30:56.000 He'll talk about how, in some ways, Cuba is a great country.

00:30:59.000 He'll talk about, in some ways, the Soviets are great.

00:31:02.000 In some ways, the United States is not great.

00:31:04.000 Bernie has, in the past, compared American soldiers' service in Vietnam to the Nazis.

00:31:09.000 I mean, this is who Bernie Sanders is.

00:31:11.000 He is Howard Zinn unvarnished.

00:31:14.000 Bernie Sanders is no Omchomsky.

00:31:16.000 And you guys are treating him like he's a mainstream Democratic candidate.

00:31:18.000 It's unreal that only now, a week away from Bernie wrapping up the nomination, is anybody picking up on this stuff.

00:31:23.000 Here's Bernie on 60 Minutes the other night talking about how America isn't a great country.

00:31:27.000 Is America great?

00:31:29.000 In many ways, we are.

00:31:30.000 In some ways, very significant ways, we're not.

00:31:33.000 We're not great when half of our people today are living paycheck to paycheck.

00:31:38.000 When 500,000 people tonight are going to be sleeping out on the streets.

00:31:43.000 So we're not great in any of that.

00:31:44.000 The only way we would be great is if we solved all those problems.

00:31:46.000 You know who doesn't have any homeless people?

00:31:48.000 Cuba!

00:31:49.000 I mean, notice the metric that he is using for greatness.

00:31:51.000 The metric he is using for greatness is quote-unquote economic equality.

00:31:56.000 He's not using as a metric for greatness, freedom.

00:31:58.000 He's not using as a metric for greatness, prosperity.

00:32:01.000 He's not using as a metric for greatness, the ability of the United States to free people around the world.

00:32:06.000 He's not using any of that as a metric for greatness.

00:32:08.000 What he uses as a metric for greatness is a communist Marxist metric of greatness, which is equality.

00:32:13.000 Are we great when half of our people are poor and half of our people are rich?

00:32:16.000 First of all, it doesn't even point out that the people who are poor in the United States by global standards are not poor.

00:32:20.000 But this is Bernie Sanders all over.

00:32:23.000 Back to his backing of communist regimes in just a moment because the list goes on and on and on and on.

00:32:29.000 The man is a Marxist.

00:32:31.000 He is a Leninist.

00:32:33.000 The fact that Bernie Sanders has been able to masquerade as like an FDR style Democrat when he is in fact a devotee of Leninism is insane.

00:32:41.000 And the fact that the media are only picking up on it now and the other candidates are picking up on it now is pretty amazing as well.

00:32:45.000 We're gonna get to more of this in just one second.

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00:33:43.000 Okay, so back to Bernie's lifelong support of communist regimes.

00:33:53.000 Again, there's not a single communist regime that Bernie has not supported at some level.

00:33:57.000 So Bernie said about China last night, he said, China is an authoritarian country.

00:34:01.000 But can anyone deny?

00:34:02.000 I mean, the facts are clear that they have taken more people out of extreme poverty than any country in history.

00:34:07.000 Now, first of all, I'm just a very basic root level.

00:34:12.000 The reason it's untrue is because that is like suggesting, it truly, let me explain why and then I will try to find an analogy for it.

00:34:19.000 China has brought people out of poverty by embracing free market principles that run directly counter to its communism.

00:34:24.000 So China embraced the idea of free markets, free trade, right?

00:34:27.000 Trade with other countries.

00:34:28.000 They embraced the idea of a profit margin.

00:34:30.000 They embraced the idea of a certain amount of private property ownership that would allow growth and innovation.

00:34:36.000 What they've been involved in is what you would really call corporatism as opposed to a communist nationalized ownership of all means of production.

00:34:44.000 This is something that China did during the 1990s when it was rising out of poverty.

00:34:48.000 That had nothing to do with Chinese communism.

00:34:50.000 So Bernie's suggesting that China has raised people out of poverty when it was really the United States and Europe and the free market system that raised people out of poverty?

00:34:57.000 It's sort of like when Bernie suggests that the United States is responsible for income inequality without recognizing we are responsible for prosperity.

00:35:08.000 What is responsible for the great healthcare system of the West is capitalism.

00:35:12.000 It is not, in fact, socialism.

00:35:13.000 It is the innovation.

00:35:14.000 It turns out that everybody had equal healthcare back in 1732 as well.

00:35:17.000 It's just really blue.

00:35:18.000 It was quite terrible because nobody had anything that was worthwhile scientifically.

00:35:23.000 This is one of the things that Bernie likes to neglect about the Danish medical system.

00:35:28.000 Everybody is relying on America to provide all the medical patents.

00:35:30.000 Over half of medical patents happen here in the United States, because we do have a free market system.

00:35:34.000 But this is how Bernie thinks.

00:35:35.000 So Bernie looks at China, and then he's like, what can I find that benefits in China?

00:35:38.000 After all, they're very equal.

00:35:40.000 They're a communist, and I like communism.

00:35:42.000 Then there's the communist Nicaraguan regime of Daniel Ortega, which murdered thousands of people.

00:35:47.000 Sanders celebrated the Sandinista revolution back in the 1980s.

00:35:49.000 He even attended a rally at which protesters chanted, Yankees will die.

00:35:53.000 Unclear whether he was aware of that at the time.

00:35:55.000 He visited Nicaragua while he was president, while he was mayor of Burlington.

00:36:00.000 And then he returned to tut-tut Ortega's human rights abuses.

00:36:03.000 He actually, when somebody wrote a letter to him saying, you know, you seem to be taking the Ortega abuses rather non-seriously, he responded by saying, well, you don't understand the complexities of the situation?

00:36:14.000 Here in the United States, Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas corpus.

00:36:17.000 Okay, comparing Daniel Ortega...

00:36:19.000 The communist oppressor to Abraham Lincoln, the great liberator. 0.96

00:36:23.000 It's pretty disgusting.

00:36:24.000 It's no wonder that this week, Daniel Ortega, when axed by the exorable Max Blumenthal, basically endorsed Bernie Sanders for president.

00:36:30.000 That's a thing that actually happened this week as well.

00:36:32.000 How about the Venezuelan regime?

00:36:34.000 Last year, Bernie Sanders refused to call socialist dictator Nicolas Maduro a dictator.

00:36:39.000 He was asked directly about it on CNN.

00:36:41.000 And he said that he sort of demurred.

00:36:44.000 And then when asked if Juan Guaido, who is the opposition leader, is the legitimate leader of Venezuela, he said no.

00:36:49.000 So Bernie has yet to to actually find a communist regime for which he does not have some warm for years, by the way.

00:36:56.000 The Sanders Senate website carried an editorial from a paper called the Valley News that favorably compared the regime of Hugo Chavez and poverty reduction with the poverty record of the United States.

00:37:05.000 And then, of course, there is Sanders' long record of propagandizing on behalf of the Soviet Union.

00:37:10.000 It's not just that Sanders visited the Soviet Union and went shirtless to sing This Land Is Your Land in Moscow in 1988.

00:37:15.000 He then returned and declared that Moscow had, quote, He then celebrated because, again, this is exactly what communists do. 0.56

00:37:24.000 What communists do is they say, well, sure, we may have killed all the kulaks, but at least you know that the literacy rates are high.

00:37:30.000 I mean, you can't deny that.

00:37:31.000 You can't deny the literacy is great.

00:37:33.000 You can't deny that the busing in Moscow is unbelievable.

00:37:36.000 Sure, over Lubyanka, they're still shooting people in the basement, but the busing is tremendous.

00:37:41.000 Have you seen the subways?

00:37:42.000 Unbelievable.

00:37:44.000 And so Bernie Sanders, I mean, this is such a telling quote.

00:37:48.000 He celebrated that the Soviets were quote, moving forward into some of the early visions of the revolution, what the revolution was about in 1917.

00:37:55.000 So Bernie Sanders is just a fan of the communist revolution of 1917.

00:37:59.000 I mean, he openly said it in 1989.

00:38:01.000 This is not somebody who's hiding the ball, right?

00:38:05.000 He said in 1989 that the Soviets were finally moving into the vision of 1917.

00:38:11.000 Which ended with 80 years, or 70 years, of tremendous evil.

00:38:15.000 The Russian Revolution was one of the great tragedies of human history.

00:38:19.000 But Bernie was a big backer.

00:38:21.000 He is not a Denmark-Norway-style Social Democrat.

00:38:24.000 That is not what he is.

00:38:25.000 And anybody who pretends he is, is lying to you.

00:38:28.000 And so it's kind of fun to watch as the media discover all of this.

00:38:30.000 It's kind of fun to watch all of this. 0.90

00:38:33.000 For example, Jake Tapper yesterday started reporting on the fact that Bernie Sanders, back in the 1970s, was writing weird, bizarre fiction pieces in which he talked about women wanting to be raped.

00:38:45.000 I'd like to see Elizabeth Warren bring this up to Sanders, right? 0.60

00:38:48.000 She has plenty of words for Michael Bloomberg about the stuff he has said to women, but Bernie Sanders writing about how women enjoy being raped and have fantasies about it back in the 1970s. 0.98

00:38:56.000 Seriously, this is something Bernie Sanders wrote, because the guy's a nut. 0.99

00:38:58.000 He's an actual nutcase. 1.00

00:39:00.000 Bernie Sanders is a loser kicked out of a commune when he was in his 30s, in Burlington, didn't hold a job, and wrote bad fiction about how women like to be raped. 1.00

00:39:10.000 And this guy is who the Democrats are picking. 1.00

00:39:11.000 Here's Jake Tapper discovering this.

00:39:14.000 There was this essay he wrote when he was 30 years old in 1971. 0.95

00:39:18.000 It's an old essay, but he writes, a man goes home and masturbates his typical fantasy, a woman on her knees, a woman tied up, a woman abused, a woman enjoys intercourse with her man as she fantasizes about being raped by three men simultaneously. 0.84

00:39:32.000 It goes on to talk about gender roles. 0.86

00:39:34.000 It is very strange and obviously there is a lot to object to in this.

00:39:40.000 Yeah.

00:39:41.000 Yeah.

00:39:42.000 So could someone ask him about that on stage?

00:39:44.000 Like, anybody?

00:39:46.000 Anybody?

00:39:46.000 That's been around.

00:39:47.000 I quoted this in 2016 when he was running, guys.

00:39:50.000 This is not new.

00:39:51.000 It's been around since the 1970s.

00:39:53.000 That weirdo is who you guys are going to nominate.

00:39:57.000 You are literally about to nominate the old commie who hangs out at the library and creepily stares at the computers because he doesn't have a job.

00:40:06.000 But he has a guitar and he loves This Land Is Your Land.

00:40:10.000 That's who you guys are about to nominate.

00:40:12.000 It's unbelievable.

00:40:13.000 And CNN finally noticed yesterday also.

00:40:15.000 It's amazing how CNN, which is a mainstream democratic outlet, how yesterday they suddenly realized, hey, wait a second, Bernie hangs out with a lot of anti-Semites.

00:40:22.000 Isn't that kind of weird?

00:40:23.000 Like Bernie keeps saying, he keeps hanging out with like Linda Sarsour and Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib.

00:40:27.000 Yes.

00:40:28.000 I'm surprised.

00:40:29.000 You noticed.

00:40:30.000 Congratulations.

00:40:31.000 Welcome to the party, pal.

00:40:32.000 Here's CNN recognizing that Bernie Sanders may be a little bit on the anti-Semitic side.

00:40:37.000 Like, it doesn't matter that the man was born Jewish.

00:40:39.000 Karl Marx was born Jewish, too.

00:40:40.000 Doesn't matter.

00:40:41.000 That doesn't matter.

00:40:42.000 Dude hangs out with anti-Semites non-stop and CNN finally is like, oh, what?

00:40:45.000 That's weird, isn't it?

00:40:47.000 Like, that's strange you're CNN catching on.

00:40:51.000 Sanders has faced criticism from supporters of Israel on both sides of the aisle for embracing campaign surrogates with more extreme anti-Israel views than the candidate they're backing.

00:41:01.000 Congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, the first Palestinian-American woman to serve in Congress, have both thrown their support behind Sanders.

00:41:08.000 Sanders has also faced backlash for surrogates such as Palestinian-American activists Linda Sarsour and Amer Zar, a Palestinian-American law professor and comedian.

00:41:18.000 Okay, yeah, and then they should actually quote those people, a majority of whom have talked about the destruction of the state of Israel openly.

00:41:24.000 So, fun to watch the media finally fact-checking Bernie in real time.

00:41:28.000 By the way, even Bernie's mainstream campaign, even his Medicare for All campaign, is built on lies.

00:41:32.000 So, yesterday, Pramila Jayapal, the congresswoman, She is a Bernie supporter.

00:41:37.000 I believe she's from Washington State.

00:41:39.000 And she was touting Bernie and she just starts telling lies about what Americans believe about their own medical care.

00:41:44.000 One of the things that's really funny about Medicare for All is if you poll Americans on Medicare for All, they don't know what it means.

00:41:49.000 They actually just think that they are giving more money to Medicaid or that they are giving more money to Medicare as like a public option for people who fall out of their insurance.

00:41:58.000 Most Americans don't understand that Bernie Sanders' plan literally ends the health insurance industry in the United States and you lose your health insurance plan.

00:42:04.000 Most Americans don't get that 160 million health plans go away.

00:42:09.000 But here is Pramila Jayapal trying to explain that Americans don't actually like their health insurance.

00:42:13.000 Which is weird, because by every poll, the vast majority of Americans with private health insurance are very fond of their health insurance, as it turns out.

00:42:19.000 What do you say to people who don't want to give up their private insurance plans?

00:42:23.000 Well, I would just say, first of all, that nobody likes their private insurance plan.

00:42:27.000 What they like is their doctor.

00:42:28.000 And if you look at all the polling, when people are asked if they want to give up their private insurance, the support goes down a little.

00:42:34.000 If you take the next question, which is, if you could keep your doctor, but you were going to have to give up your private insurance plan, the support goes up even higher, including among Independents and Republicans.

00:42:46.000 Okay, but what you're saying is insane, because if you take away their private insurance, they can't have the same doctor.

00:42:51.000 Not with the same reimbursement rights.

00:42:52.000 Not unless you're gonna cram something down or nationalize the industry itself.

00:42:55.000 I mean, of course this is all lies, but Bernie Sanders' entire campaign is built on the lie that all he wants is tweaks around the edges of the system, meanwhile spending his entire career complaining that the system itself has to be brought down from within.

00:43:07.000 So it's fun to watch people realize this one.

00:43:09.000 A little bit too late there.

00:43:09.000 It's a little bit too late.

00:43:11.000 Meanwhile, President Trump is facing the black swan threat of coronavirus.

00:43:15.000 So coronavirus tanked the stock market to the tune of about a thousand points yesterday.

00:43:19.000 The Dow Jones seems to have stabilized a little bit today, even though the bond yields continue to be incredibly low, which means the demand for bond is high.

00:43:26.000 It means that people are very wary of where the economy is going.

00:43:29.000 Right now.

00:43:30.000 President Trump's aides, according to Politico, faced an increasingly urgent threat Monday with potentially monumental implications, a global outbreak knocking down the U.S.

00:43:37.000 economy and walloping markets in an election year, all against accusations about whether the Trump administration had mismanaged and underfunded a critical response with American lives on the line.

00:43:45.000 There really aren't a lot of cases in the United States, so it's hard to see exactly how the United States has dramatically mismanaged this thing at this point.

00:43:52.000 Stephen Moore, an informal economic advisor to the Trump team, says, the view in the White House is that this is one of those classic black swan events.

00:43:58.000 All we can do is control the health issues in the United States.

00:44:01.000 The coronavirus has infected more than 78,000 people abroad, although only 53 people in the United States are confirmed to have contracted the virus.

00:44:09.000 It's almost entirely overseas.

00:44:11.000 It is largely in countries that do not have advanced medical systems.

00:44:14.000 So Iran is having serious problems with coronavirus right now.

00:44:17.000 Apparently the deputy health minister over there has coronavirus at this point.

00:44:20.000 And there's threat that is going to cross borders in the Middle East and start infecting a lot of people. 0.83

00:44:24.000 There's a lot of talk about China being adjacent to India, that there might be an outbreak in India, which would, of course, be a disaster because India is highly populous.

00:44:31.000 Of course, China is on the hot seat again as well.

00:44:34.000 They should be because they simply did not handle this in an appropriate way.

00:44:38.000 They banned information.

00:44:40.000 They were taking people who were talking about this thing and imprisoning them.

00:44:43.000 People were being disappeared.

00:44:47.000 All of this is scary.

00:44:49.000 I mean, coronavirus is scary.

00:44:50.000 What it's mostly scary to in terms of sort of global health, because we don't know the death rates yet, is really the economy because supply lines are being disrupted.

00:44:57.000 Tyler Cowen has a piece over at Business Insider today about the disruption of global supply lines.

00:45:02.000 One of the big problems is what happens if it shuts down?

00:45:05.000 Factories in China, right? 0.77

00:45:07.000 The economy is so intertwined at this point that if you shut down a factory in China, it has serious impacts on the American economy.

00:45:12.000 And that's what you are seeing.

00:45:13.000 You're seeing global supply lines being cut.

00:45:17.000 You're starting to see the economy feel the real effect of all of this.

00:45:21.000 Democrats, meanwhile, are trying to militarize this sort of thing.

00:45:23.000 They're trying to weaponize it, as they are fond of saying, and suggest that this is all Trump's fault in the United States.

00:45:28.000 Officials like Acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney and Domestic Policy Chief Joe Grogan have turned their fire on HHS Secretary Alex Azar, who's leading the coronavirus response, arguing that Azar has poorly coordinated strategy, failed to escalate the potential risks to Trump, And push for a multi-billion dollar emergency funding request they initially viewed as extreme.

00:45:44.000 The Trump administration announced a request for 2.5 billion in emergency coronavirus cash, which would also shift at least 535 million in previously uncommitted funds.

00:45:53.000 Funding the response had apparently been a major sticking point between the White House and Azar, who lobbied to request additional funds from Congress before he makes four separate hearings on the Hill this week.

00:46:02.000 The package is expected to face resistance from Democrats who have warned the Trump administration against shifting money away from existing commitments, which is a weird look.

00:46:10.000 I mean, it's weird for the Democrats to be obstructing funding for the coronavirus response.

00:46:14.000 At this point, the White House is saying that they are united on this thing.

00:46:19.000 But the biggest problem here is, of course, nobody knows anything about coronavirus.

00:46:23.000 That is the biggest problem here.

00:46:24.000 We don't have a vaccine.

00:46:26.000 We don't know the death rate.

00:46:27.000 We don't know the infection rate.

00:46:28.000 China has been hiding all this stuff.

00:46:30.000 It obviously moves fairly quickly.

00:46:32.000 I mean, obviously infects pretty easily.

00:46:34.000 That sort of uncertainty has significant ramifications for not only health, but for economics.

00:46:40.000 Certainty and predictability is the lifeblood of successful world economies.

00:46:44.000 When there's a lot of uncertainty, that leads to decoupling in global supply lines and global chains of supply.

00:46:50.000 It's gonna hurt China more than it hurts us, but that doesn't really matter for President Trump's purposes.

00:46:54.000 The bottom line is if the economy tanks, he's got a real problem on his hands for re-election in 2020.

00:46:58.000 Okay, time for a quick thing I like, and then we'll get to some things that I hate.

00:47:01.000 So things that I like, again, big Ray Bradbury fan, read another Ray Bradbury book over the weekend, worth reading, A Sound of Thunder.

00:47:07.000 It is sad to me that Short stories have fallen out of fashion.

00:47:10.000 This one is a little bit less creepy than the one that I recommended just a couple of weeks ago.

00:47:15.000 This one is more sci-fi stories, and Ray Bradbury's sci-fi is really terrific.

00:47:19.000 Really an underrated, still an underrated writer because everybody remembers Fahrenheit 451, but few people remember his short stories, many of which are pretty terrific.

00:47:28.000 Sound of Thunder, it was in this collection.

00:47:33.000 I believe A Sound of Thunder is the story that discusses the butterfly effect.

00:47:36.000 I mean, the basic premise is that somebody goes back in time, steps on a butterfly, and it has these dramatic ramifications across time, showing the ripples across time.

00:47:43.000 Bradbury is terrific.

00:47:45.000 The collection is really a lot of fun.

00:47:46.000 You can go check it out.

00:47:47.000 A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury.

00:47:49.000 Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate.

00:47:55.000 Okay, so thing number one that I really hate.

00:47:59.000 So Chris Matthews came out and apologized to Bernie Sanders yesterday. 0.98

00:48:01.000 We live in such a dumb society.

00:48:03.000 Did anyone truly think that Chris Matthews was being anti-Semitic when he talked about, historically speaking, in 1940 people didn't realize that the war had already been lost on the continent in 1940 before most people knew it? 0.97

00:48:03.000 I'm sorry. 0.97

00:48:15.000 Like, did anyone really think that Matthews was comparing Bernie to Nazis?

00:48:18.000 Did anyone really think?

00:48:19.000 Of course nobody thought that.

00:48:20.000 Everybody's just incredibly dishonest.

00:48:22.000 And one of the things that people like to do with anti-semitism is what I would call the flattening effect, which is every implication of anti-semitism is treated as exactly equal even when it's fairly obvious that there are tremendous gradations.

00:48:35.000 That Bernie Sanders saying that he will not attend AIPAC because AIPAC is racist is significantly worse for Jews and significantly more anti-semitic than Chris Matthews talking about how in 1940, a British general said that the continent had been overrun.

00:48:49.000 These are not comparable.

00:48:51.000 They're not comparable.

00:48:52.000 Nonetheless, Chris Matthews got on the air last night, come to the show, come on air, a little disappointed with himself, talking about how, Bernie, I'm just going to apologize to Bernie.

00:49:00.000 I need to do better.

00:49:01.000 Don't apologize to Bernie, dude. 0.93

00:49:03.000 I mean, seriously, it's just ridiculous.

00:49:05.000 I was wrong to refer to an event from the last days or actually the first days of World War II.

00:49:11.000 Senator Sanders, I'm sorry for comparing anything from that tragic era in which so many suffered, especially the Jewish people, to an electoral result in which you were the well-deserved winners.

00:49:22.000 This is going to be a hard-fought, heated campaign of ideas.

00:49:27.000 In the days and weeks and months ahead, I will strive to do a better job myself of elevating the political discussion. 0.90

00:49:33.000 Just ridiculous.

00:49:34.000 You remember how many members of the media have apologized for their Trump is a Nazi sort of commentary from 2016? 0.84

00:49:34.000 I'm sorry. 0.84

00:49:38.000 Any?

00:49:39.000 You were of any?

00:49:40.000 Who have done that sort of thing?

00:49:42.000 Of course not.

00:49:44.000 It just shows the double standard in the media when it comes to this sort of stuff.

00:49:46.000 Meanwhile, Jim Acosta being celebrated overseas.

00:49:48.000 So he was overseas with President Trump.

00:49:51.000 And President Trump was speaking in India, and for some reason he calls on Acosta.

00:49:54.000 And that's your first mistake, Mr. President.

00:49:56.000 Never call on Jim Acosta.

00:49:57.000 And ladies, find you somebody who loves you like Jim Acosta loves Jim Acosta.

00:50:00.000 I mean, that is a dude who loves him from Jim Acosta.

00:50:02.000 So Trump calls on Jim Acosta.

00:50:04.000 Acosta starts to yell at Trump.

00:50:07.000 Trump starts to yell at Acosta, and it goes predictably where you would think it would.

00:50:09.000 And then Jim Acosta tries to sell a few books.

00:50:11.000 I haven't been given help from any country.

00:50:15.000 And if you see what CNN, your wonderful network, said, I guess they apologized in a way for, didn't they apologize for the fact that they said certain things that weren't true?

00:50:28.000 Tell me, what was their apology yesterday?

00:50:30.000 What did they say?

00:50:31.000 Mr. President, I think our record on delivering the truth is a lot better than yours sometimes, if you don't mind me saying.

00:50:36.000 Let me tell you about your record.

00:50:38.000 Your record is so bad you ought to be ashamed of yourself.

00:50:40.000 Okay, and the media were celebrating this.

00:50:42.000 Jim Acosta standing up to the president.

00:50:44.000 We deliver truth a lot more often than you do, Mr. President.

00:50:47.000 He's a politician.

00:50:48.000 You're a media outlet.

00:50:50.000 The fact that you are, you know, talking back to the president.

00:50:53.000 I do love that the media, they love themselves so much and they don't understand why their legitimacy plummets every time they do this.

00:50:59.000 Instead of just sort of allowing Trump to do what he's going to do and then pointing out that Trump is wrong about something, that fighting with the president makes them look like they are participants in the drama rather than observers and coverers of the drama.

00:51:10.000 This is the great rap that I've had on CNN for years.

00:51:12.000 I mean, I said this to Don Lemon on CNN.

00:51:14.000 I said, like, if you want people to take you more seriously, you really do need to make it clear that you are standing for the American people and not just for the people at CNN.

00:51:22.000 It looks like, in these debates with Trump, that it's Trump versus the media.

00:51:25.000 And that's exactly the battle that Trump wants.

00:51:27.000 And it's the battle the media want to.

00:51:28.000 It's not the media standing there on behalf of the American people.

00:51:31.000 It's Jim Acosta standing there on behalf of Jim Acosta or Jim Acosta standing there on behalf of the CNN higher-ups and commenting on the action as a participant.

00:51:40.000 Well, that's not what the media was ever supposed to be.

00:51:41.000 I mean, if the idea is that you're an objective member of the media and objectivity is your business, then shouldn't you be objective rather than being there doing a presidential debate with President Trump?

00:51:52.000 It just makes you look bad.

00:51:53.000 Now, listen, I understand the tendency.

00:51:55.000 I do.

00:51:55.000 I get it.

00:51:56.000 But I just, I think that the sort of weird celebration of Jim Acosta for this sort of stuff It doesn't do anything useful for CNN.

00:52:05.000 It doesn't do anything useful for the political debate.

00:52:08.000 Okay, before I leave, I just have to mention one quick thing that I like.

00:52:12.000 I mentioned it on the radio show yesterday, but I would be amiss if my podcast audience were not informed of it.

00:52:17.000 Cenk Aiger apparently is very, very upset at his own staff for considering unionizing.

00:52:23.000 And that's pretty great because Cenk is a Bernie Sanders guy.

00:52:26.000 And Cenk is one of these people who believes that American industry has been under-unionized.

00:52:30.000 And so apparently there was a meeting on February 12th, because his staff was thinking of unionizing, at which Cenk went wild and started throwing papers on the ground.

00:52:37.000 Cenk, for people who don't know, The Young Turks is a wild left network over on YouTube.

00:52:41.000 And so Cenk said, if you unionize, you're going to hurt our profit margins, you're going to destroy the business.

00:52:45.000 And I have one response, which is let me just let me get it together in my head for a second.

00:52:50.000 And then.

00:52:51.000 Yes.

00:52:55.000 Yes.

00:53:00.000 Because the fact that Cenk is now realizing, hey, wait a second, unionization has cost for my business.

00:53:05.000 Wait a second.

00:53:06.000 My business could suffer if my employees treat me as an adversarial party, as opposed to the person signing their paychecks.

00:53:13.000 Wait, wait a second.

00:53:14.000 Wait, hold up.

00:53:15.000 Is my philosophy wrong?

00:53:16.000 No, my philosophy isn't wrong.

00:53:17.000 My philosophy is right.

00:53:18.000 It's just everybody's mean to me.

00:53:21.000 It is fun.

00:53:22.000 I root for reality.

00:53:23.000 And the fact that reality came along and clocked Cenk directly across the grill, in figurative terms, is fairly delicious.

00:53:30.000 So I am enjoying that.

00:53:32.000 And I'm not sure I'll ever stop enjoying that, actually.

00:53:35.000 It's pretty wonderful.

00:53:36.000 Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with two additional hours of content.

00:53:38.000 Plus, tonight is the last chance for the Democrats to stop Bernie Sanders.

00:53:42.000 We'll see if they level their fire at him.

00:53:43.000 We'll be back here tomorrow to recap all of it.

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00:54:16.000 Coronavirus is spreading and economies all over the world are grinding to a halt.

00:54:21.000 We will examine whether we're all going to die before we go broke.

00:54:24.000 Then, new polling shows a big boost to Bernie's chances of winning the Democratic nomination.

00:54:29.000 Freshman Representative Ilhan Omar admits she's un-American.

00:54:32.000 And Harvey Weinstein is headed for the clink.

The Ben Shapiro Show - February 25, 2020

Never Met A Communist He Didn't Like | Ep. 960

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