The Ben Shapiro Show - Oh My, Omarosa | Ep. 599

00:00:00.000 Omarosa says she's got tapes, Jim Acosta makes a mockery of himself once more, and the Oscars decide to change things up.

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00:02:00.000 Chaos continues to reign inside the Trump administration, despite the fact that the situation in the United States is good.

00:02:07.000 The economy is very solid.

00:02:09.000 We're not enmeshed in any serious foreign crises.

00:02:11.000 The chaos that has been caused by the staffing of this administration just continues to resonate.

00:02:16.000 The latest story is that Omarosa Manigault, who never should have been anywhere near the Oval Office, has tapes inside the Oval Office.

00:02:23.000 Which, who would have suspected that from her crazy appearances on The Apprentice?

00:02:26.000 Who would have suspected?

00:02:28.000 That the woman who played a villain on The Apprentice would actually end up taping Donald Trump.

00:02:32.000 Donald Trump has suspected pretty much everyone of taping him, but it turns out that the two people who actually did tape him are his own lawyer and Omarosa Manigault.

00:02:39.000 According to the Daily Beast, Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's personal attorney and fixer, isn't the only one with secretly recorded audio of the president.

00:02:45.000 Multiple sources with direct knowledge of the situation tell the Daily Beast that Omarosa Manigault, the infamous former Apprentice star who followed Trump to the White House, secretly recorded conversations

00:02:54.000 With the president, conversations she has since leveraged while shopping her tell-all book, which is titled Unhinged, right?

00:03:00.000 She's going to make every buck that she can off of being associated with Trump.

00:03:04.000 She was a nobody when Trump found her.

00:03:05.000 She's gonna be a nobody again.

00:03:06.000 But not before she makes trouble for President Trump by suggesting she has tapes of all the worst things Trump has ever said.

00:03:12.000 I'm not sure, honestly, what you could catch him on tape doing.

00:03:14.000 That would be worse than what he has tweeted.

00:03:16.000 But I guess we're going to find out.

00:03:18.000 For months, it has been rumored that Manigault has clandestinely recorded on her smartphone tapes of unspecified private discussions she had in the West Wing.

00:03:25.000 Audio actually does exist and even stars Trump

00:03:28.000 One person confirmed to the Daily Beast they'd heard at least one of the recordings.

00:03:31.000 Multiple sources said that the recorded conversations are anodyne everyday chatter, but they did appear to feature Trump's voice, which grants her additional credibility in pumping her book.

00:03:39.000 The media, of course, will treat her with all sorts of respect.

00:03:43.000 There's this phenomenon in the media where if you rip on a Republican figure and you were once a friend with the Republican figure, then you get this sort of

00:03:51.000 Grand new respect, a strange new respect.

00:03:54.000 Suddenly you are taken very seriously.

00:03:56.000 If you used to work in the Trump administration and then you turn on Trump, you're Michael Cohen, then all of a sudden everybody's like, ooh, Michael Cohen, great truth teller.

00:04:03.000 Really good guy.

00:04:04.000 Omarosa, who everyone despises.

00:04:06.000 Suddenly Omarosa is a wonderful person again.

00:04:10.000 But it does demonstrate that when President Trump says that he staffs up with the best people, not so much.

00:04:14.000 Here's a flashback to President Trump tweeting just five years ago,

00:04:22.000 Unless she's recording you.

00:04:23.000 Like with her phone.

00:04:24.000 In her pocket.

00:04:25.000 So, none of that is particularly good.

00:04:27.000 Meanwhile, Rudy Giuliani is on the road trying to gin up support for the President in the Mueller investigation. 1.00

00:04:33.000 As I have suggested before, the idea of putting Donald Trump in a room with Robert Mueller is the height of stupidity. 0.99

00:04:38.000 There is no way in hell that the President of the United States should sit down with Robert Mueller. 0.99

00:04:42.000 He doesn't have a legal obligation to do so, according to Supreme Court rulings.

00:04:46.000 There's a Supreme Court ruling in U.S.

00:04:47.000 v. Nixon which suggests that the President of the United States can be subpoenaed for evidence.

00:04:52.000 If there's physical evidence, like the Watergate tapes, then he can be subpoenaed for that.

00:04:56.000 But it is absolutely unclear whether the President of the United States has to sit down with members of the Justice Department, which he runs, or the FBI, which he is the head of.

00:05:05.000 That is unclear at best.

00:05:07.000 Right now, Trump is negotiating with Mueller to sit down with him.

00:05:10.000 Apparently, Rudy says that if Trump sits down with Mueller—Rudy Giuliani, of course, being Trump's lawyer—Rudy says that if Trump sits down with Mueller, they shouldn't cover two topics, the firing of James Comey and the discussions about Michael Flynn with James Comey.

00:05:25.000 As you recall, Michael Flynn was the president's former national security advisor.

00:05:28.000 After he was fired, James Comey suggested that he might be prosecuted.

00:05:32.000 The president of the United States said to him that he would like it if Comey could find his way clear to letting Flynn off the hook because he's a good guy.

00:05:39.000 Nothing ever really came of that.

00:05:40.000 And then, of course, he fired James Comey.

00:05:42.000 The suggestion here is that Trump doesn't want to talk to Mueller about issues of obstruction of justice, because there are really three areas in which Trump bears possible legal liability.

00:05:52.000 Two of them, I think, are particularly weak.

00:05:54.000 The first one is that Trump theoretically could be caught up in a conspiracy charge.

00:05:59.000 A conspiracy charge involves you and I decide that we're going to rob a bank.

00:06:02.000 So we get together and we make a plan to rob a bank.

00:06:05.000 We have now committed conspiracy to rob the bank.

00:06:07.000 But there has to be an underlying crime.

00:06:08.000 There has to be something we were going to do that was criminal.

00:06:11.000 If you and I get together and we drop a conspiracy to go down to the grocery store and shop, that is not a crime because there is no underlying crime.

00:06:18.000 Well, the question is whether there is an underlying crime in which the president of the United States was involved.

00:06:22.000 The evidence there is not good.

00:06:24.000 Okay, so there's no evidence whatsoever that Trump either knew about any conspiracy between the Trump team and the Russian government, or even that a conspiracy between Team Trump and the Russian government was happening.

00:06:35.000 Insofar as a criminal conspiracy.

00:06:37.000 Because it's not clear that it's actually criminal for Team Trump to get, for example, oppo info on Hillary Clinton.

00:06:42.000 Now, does that mean it's good?

00:06:44.000 No.

00:06:44.000 That doesn't mean that it's good.

00:06:45.000 But it doesn't mean that it's illegal?

00:06:47.000 Not quite the same thing.

00:06:48.000 Legal charges are not the same thing as doing bad things, as a lot of people found out with regard to Hillary Clinton.

00:06:53.000 It turns out that destroying a server that you create may not actually be legally prosecuted, but it is still a bad thing to do, and you may lose an election because of it.

00:07:01.000 So, that's area number one, is the conspiracy area.

00:07:03.000 Area number two is the obstruction area, and here the idea would be that if the President of the United States tried to shut down the Mueller investigation, or tried to obstruct the Mueller investigation in any way, then perhaps he can bring a charge.

00:07:14.000 That's really weak, because Trump is the head of the executive branch.

00:07:17.000 If he fired Mueller tomorrow, that wouldn't actually be obstruction.

00:07:19.000 Obstruction would be if he tried to hide evidence, or if there was a pending judicial proceeding and he tried to bribe somebody, or if he went to Mueller and he ordered him to come up with a particular result on the investigation.

00:07:29.000 So, obstruction is weak sauce, unless Trump goes in front of Mueller and says, in front of Mueller,

00:07:35.000 That he intended to fire James Comey to stop the investigation.

00:07:38.000 If he says that, then you have a pretty cut-and-dry obstruction charge.

00:07:41.000 That would be a serious problem for President Trump, which is why Trump doesn't want to talk to Mueller about any of that.

00:07:46.000 And then finally, you have the biggest issue for Trump, which is why he shouldn't talk to Mueller at all, and that is lying to the FBI.

00:07:52.000 The president has an unfortunate habit of saying everything that comes into his head.

00:07:57.000 He has a severe case of dysentery of the mouth.

00:08:01.000 I mean, it's just diarrheic overflow of the mouth.

00:08:03.000 And when he is in front of a lawyer, that is a really bad problem.

00:08:06.000 As I said on Fox yesterday, on Kennedy's show, if you are a person who wants to be taken seriously, but not literally, don't go into law.

00:08:15.000 Law is all about taking people literally, not just seriously.

00:08:18.000 Trump says a lot of stuff where we all kind of go, yeah, that's just Trump being Trump.

00:08:21.000 Lawyers don't do that, particularly prosecutors. 0.99

00:08:23.000 So Trump would be foolish to sit down with Robert Mueller. 0.91

00:08:25.000 Well, Rudy Giuliani was on with Sean Hannity yesterday, and Hannity asked him, like, why are you even having these talks in the first place? 0.97

00:08:31.000 Why is this even happening?

00:08:32.000 Hannity said, I know some of it, which is not particularly surprising since he coordinates with the Trump administration a lot.

00:08:37.000 And Giuliani said,

00:08:52.000 Can it get any worse?

00:08:53.000 I mean, what do we need to know that this is a totally illegitimate investigation based on a report, a dossier that was paid for by Hillary Clinton and the Democrats?

00:09:00.000 So Sean asks the correct question, which is, OK, well, then why don't you just fire Mueller?

00:09:05.000 If this whole thing is illegitimate, why don't you fire him?

00:09:07.000 And why would you talk about sitting down with Team Mueller?

00:09:11.000 And Giuliani essentially said, well, we know there will be political blowback also.

00:09:16.000 If this thing is not over by September, it's going to be a problem.

00:09:19.000 I'm not sure that Team Trump has the greatest strategy here, but Giuliani can only do, as a lawyer, what his client wants him to do.

00:09:28.000 All of that said, these are criminal questions.

00:09:31.000 This is not the political question.

00:09:32.000 The political question is how much this affects the Republican Party going into the midterm elections in 2018.

00:09:37.000 A lot of Trump fans think all this stuff doesn't have any impact on congressional elections.

00:09:41.000 I'm very skeptical of that point of view.

00:09:43.000 There's a good piece by Sean Trend over at RealClearPolitics today talking about the actual statistical trends going into the 2018 elections.

00:09:52.000 He says the results

00:09:53.000 On Tuesday night, which we talked about here yesterday in Ohio's 12th congressional district and across the country, the results were fully consistent with a Democratic wave in the House washing up on our shores in November.

00:10:02.000 While there's still time between now and then, there's not a lot of time, and we're at the point where these elections start to be suggestive, if not fully predictive.

00:10:08.000 Start with Ohio.

00:10:10.000 This is a Republican district.

00:10:11.000 Overall, it leans Republican by 7 points.

00:10:13.000 There are around 60 GOP-held districts that are less Republican than this one.

00:10:17.000 A Democrat has won this area of the state just once since the Great Depression.

00:10:20.000 The last time this seat was open in 2000, the Republican won by 10 points.

00:10:24.000 And the district has been made substantially Republican since then.

00:10:26.000 In short, Democrats had no business being competitive here, even with a good candidate in O'Connor.

00:10:31.000 So what happened?

00:10:32.000 Two things.

00:10:32.000 First, turnout was down in the rural portions of the district compared to the urban areas.

00:10:36.000 That means that Trump voters didn't show up in Ohio.

00:10:39.000 Franklin County, which is Columbus, cast around 35% of the vote Tuesday as compared to 32% in 2016.

00:10:45.000 But that means greater energy on the Democratic side.

00:10:47.000 Second,

00:10:48.000 Democrat vote share was up in urban and suburban areas.

00:10:50.000 These are all the voters that President Trump has been alienating in suburban areas.

00:10:54.000 Franklin County was a different story.

00:10:56.000 This portion of the district contains a lot of the older suburbs of Columbus, places people moved to in the 70s and 80s.

00:11:01.000 Tiberi won 59% of the vote here.

00:11:04.000 Balderson won 35%.

00:11:04.000 Tiberi was the candidate, the Republican candidate, before Balderson.

00:11:08.000 So the suburbs

00:11:09.000 The Republicans are just falling off in a serious way.

00:11:13.000 Sean Trend, who's a very good elections analyst, he concludes,

00:11:33.000 So it could be bad stuff for Republicans come November, which is why they really need to focus in on the issues.

00:11:40.000 And it's not like they don't have something to work with.

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00:12:52.000 Okay, so...

00:12:54.000 How do these congressional elections actually work?

00:12:56.000 There's this misnomer that all politics is local.

00:12:59.000 And when it comes to congressional elections, it's all about the local election.

00:13:03.000 I have a question for you.

00:13:04.000 How many of you actually know who your congressperson is?

00:13:06.000 I would wager that most people who vote in elections probably don't even know who their congressperson is, or if they do know, they don't know much about them.

00:13:13.000 People use mental shortcuts to determine for whom they are going to vote.

00:13:17.000 They use the R or the D a lot more than they use the name of the candidate in their particular district, which is why it is very indicative

00:13:24.000 of whether a district will go in one direction or another, what the constituency of that district is.

00:13:28.000 So in our plus-10 district, it almost doesn't matter who the candidate is, the Republicans should win, unless what you are seeing is a wave against Republicans.

00:13:36.000 This means that all elections are national.

00:13:38.000 One of the great lies that we've been told about politics is that all politics is local because of the prevalence of media.

00:13:44.000 Because most people who are engaged in politics are reading newspapers or listening to shows like this one or watching Fox News or CNN.

00:13:50.000 All elections are basically nationalized at this point, which is why Republicans swept through in 2010 on a national platform, a national Tea Party platform.

00:14:00.000 And it's why right now Republicans who are running locally in the hopes that they can avoid the stigma of Trump

00:14:05.000 They have a problem.

00:14:06.000 It's why Trump is a problem for them.

00:14:07.000 Trump is a drag on a lot of these Republican congressional tickets.

00:14:10.000 He is not a boost to them because he is the national issue.

00:14:13.000 Now, the Republicans do have national issues they can campaign on.

00:14:16.000 It's the same national issue they campaigned on in the Georgia 6th District, and that is Nancy Pelosi should never be Speaker of the House. 1.00

00:14:22.000 Nancy Pelosi is a full-on wild left disaster. 1.00

00:14:26.000 The idea that she should be running policy from the House of Representatives is frightening and should be frightening to a lot of folks.

00:14:31.000 Why Republicans are not running nationally, the real answer is because they feel like if they run nationally, they're going to get hit with the Trump.

00:14:38.000 And President Trump is such a volatile quantity that if you cross President Trump, there's a good shot he'll go on Twitter and then he'll knock you off with your own base.

00:14:46.000 If the president really wants to maintain Congress, what would be helpful in the next 90 days is for the president not to be particularly loud, not to be particularly vocal, and for Republicans to campaign against Democrats.

00:14:56.000 I said yesterday, if you want to win elections, you have to make Democrats the issue.

00:14:59.000 If you want to lose elections, make Trump the issue.

00:15:02.000 Right now, President Trump is the issue, and it's a problem for Republicans.

00:15:05.000 When Democrats become the issue, when Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the headline of the day, that's really good for Republicans.

00:15:11.000 And you're actually seeing that in the polling right now.

00:15:14.000 The polling keeps opening and closing.

00:15:15.000 There's this gap that keeps opening and closing and opening and closing.

00:15:18.000 It's very reminiscent of 2016 when Hillary Clinton would open these big gaps against President Trump and then within days they would close up again because

00:15:27.000 The question was, who is the referendum on?

00:15:30.000 Was it on Trump?

00:15:30.000 It was on Trump.

00:15:31.000 Hillary got a lead. 0.93

00:15:32.000 If the referendum was a referendum on Hillary, the lead went away.

00:15:35.000 And that means the Republicans must turn every issue to Nancy Pelosi and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Tom Perez and Keith Ellison and the radicalism of the Democratic Party.

00:15:45.000 It's why I keep hammering this issue.

00:15:47.000 Now, speaking of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, you'll remember that yesterday on the show, I offered money out of my own pocket to sponsor a debate with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, or even a Sunday special with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

00:15:59.000 Shockingly, we have not actually heard back from the Ocasio-Cortez campaign.

00:16:04.000 I have my doubts that she is willing or interested in talking about these issues with anybody who can ask her a serious question. 0.54

00:16:10.000 I think the reason for that is probably because she says silly things on a routine basis. 0.97

00:16:16.000 I mean, the fact that she's propped up as one of the great minds of our time is astonishing to me. 0.99

00:16:21.000 The same left that said that Sarah Palin was a doofus and a dunce and mocked Sarah Palin inordinately. 0.98

00:16:26.000 I can see Russia from my house, a thing that Sarah Palin never said. 0.98

00:16:29.000 And that became the stigma of Sarah Palin. 1.00

00:16:31.000 Sarah Palin was an idiot. 1.00

00:16:32.000 Michelle Bachmann was an idiot. 1.00

00:16:33.000 We just kept hearing about every Republican woman. 1.00

00:16:35.000 Every Republican woman was an idiot. 1.00

00:16:37.000 These same people keep praising Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as some sort of world-beating genius when it comes to politics. 1.00

00:16:43.000 She did an interview with Chris Cuomo.

00:16:45.000 Chris Cuomo is not the world's toughest interview.

00:16:48.000 At least not with regard to Democrats.

00:16:50.000 And he stumps her, not because he is a stump of wood, but because she legitimately has no capacity to answer basic and simple questions.

00:16:58.000 So, for example, she was asked about how she's going to pay for all of her government programs, and she described how Medicare is going to save us all money.

00:17:06.000 This is an astonishing statement made by a human whose brain apparently is at least partly functional.

00:17:12.000 Here she is trying to explain why Medicare will save money.

00:17:14.000 See if you can spot the flaw in her logic.

00:17:17.000 People talk about the sticker shock of Medicare for all.

00:17:19.000 They do not talk about the sticker shock of the cost of our existing system.

00:17:23.000 We're paying for this system.

00:17:24.000 Americans have the sticker shock of healthcare as it is.

00:17:28.000 And what we're also not talking about is, why aren't we incorporating the cost of all the funeral expenses of those who die because they can't afford access to healthcare?

00:17:37.000 That is part of the cost of our system.

00:17:39.000 Why don't we talk about the cost of reduced productivity because of people who need to go on disability, because of people who are not able to participate in our economy, because they're having issues like diabetes or they don't have access to the healthcare that they need.

00:17:54.000 I think at the end of the day, we see that this is not a pipe dream.

00:17:57.000 Every other developed nation in the world does this.

00:18:00.000 Why can't America? 0.70

00:18:02.000 And that is the question that we need to ask.

00:18:04.000 Okay, that is a lie that every other developed nation in the world does this.

00:18:07.000 And to apply all of those rules to everything else is just, it's just not correct.

00:18:12.000 It's just not correct.

00:18:13.000 The Washington Post has given that claim before Three Pinocchios, by the way.

00:18:16.000 Like, that's just, it's just not true.

00:18:18.000 But my favorite part of that clip is where she explains, with a straight face, that one of the costs that we don't take into account when we look at our healthcare system is the cost of funerals.

00:18:29.000 I just want to note that even if you believe that Medicare lengthens life, which is a dubious proposition, there are studies that suggest it does not, even if you believe that it does, at the end of that life, everyone gets dead.

00:18:42.000 Right?

00:18:42.000 Death happens.

00:18:43.000 It's a thing.

00:18:44.000 And everyone will have it.

00:18:45.000 And then everyone will have a funeral.

00:18:47.000 So funeral costs don't disappear when Medicare is made universal.

00:18:52.000 That is a very weird claim.

00:18:54.000 That is a very weird claim indeed.

00:18:56.000 And then she claims that Medicare is going to prevent lost productivity and it's going to prevent people from dying of diabetes.

00:19:02.000 They won't have diabetes anymore.

00:19:03.000 I don't know what she thinks Medicare is, but it actually is not a unicorn that poops health.

00:19:08.000 I just don't I don't even know what she's talking about here.

00:19:10.000 But she again is the great brain. 0.87

00:19:12.000 Again, this this, you know, the claim that she makes here that all of these things save money.

00:19:19.000 It's just it's not correct.

00:19:21.000 The idea that we save two trillion dollars, a claim that Ocasio-Cortez makes here.

00:19:24.000 That earned a three Pinocchios rating from the Post.

00:19:26.000 That's the claim that I'm specifically talking about that Ocasio-Cortez makes here.

00:19:29.000 The best one, the best part of this interview, though, was when she was asked about the Democratic leadership.

00:19:34.000 Even Ocasio-Cortez can't defend the fact that Nancy Pelosi is the leader of the House Democrats.

00:19:38.000 She gives an answer here that is very much akin to the answer that Miss South Carolina once gave about maps in the Miss Universe contest, in the Miss USA contest, when she was asked about what kids need in schools.

00:19:50.000 And she said she thinks they need maps.

00:19:52.000 They know where the Iraqs are. 1.00

00:19:53.000 Um, that's, that's like the such as the Iraq's that that's what Alexander Ocasio-Cortez sounds like right here.

00:20:01.000 She is the leader of, of, no, no, she, I mean, um, um, speaker or rather leader Pelosi.

00:20:07.000 Hopefully, um, you know, we'll see.

00:20:09.000 She's a, she's the current leader of the party and I think that the party absolutely does have its leadership in the house.

00:20:15.000 We have our leadership in, in the Senate as well.

00:20:18.000 Oh, thank you for that clarification.

00:20:20.000 Brain of the Democratic Party?

00:20:22.000 How can Republicans not defeat this?

00:20:24.000 If you cannot defeat this, you don't deserve to be in office.

00:20:27.000 And I don't mean defeat her in a district that is very heavily Democrat.

00:20:30.000 I mean, if you can't use this to nationalize your message, I honestly don't know what you are doing, making a living from this particular area of human life.

00:20:37.000 This is... Come on!

00:20:38.000 Come on! 0.61

00:20:41.000 Medicare is getting- we're not taking into account funeral expenses?

00:20:44.000 What in the world?

00:20:45.000 What in the- I can't imagine why she won't come on the Sunday special.

00:20:48.000 I can't- I just- I can't imagine it.

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00:22:04.000 Okay, so...

00:22:05.000 Meanwhile, the other issue that Republicans should be campaigning on is obviously the self-involvement of the media.

00:22:11.000 Always a big winner for Republicans.

00:22:12.000 And the leader in this particular category is Jim Acosta.

00:22:16.000 That dude loves him.

00:22:18.000 Some Jim Acosta.

00:22:19.000 I mean, whoa!

00:22:20.000 Does Jim Acosta love Jim Acosta?

00:22:21.000 So last night, he was on Stephen Colbert's show.

00:22:23.000 Now, I would just like to make a note about people who don't believe in media bias.

00:22:27.000 Jim Acosta is on Stephen Colbert's show.

00:22:31.000 Pod Save America, which is a podcast that does similar or smaller numbers than this podcast, has its own outlet on HBO.

00:22:39.000 When do you think HBO is going to come a call in?

00:22:41.000 This is not a complaint.

00:22:42.000 We do fine here.

00:22:42.000 I mean, we don't need HBO's money, but...

00:22:45.000 If you don't think there's a media bias, the fact that Jim Acosta and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have been on Colbert and we have never received a single phone call from a late night show is sort of, and it's not just us.

00:22:55.000 I mean, you're never going to see any of the major hosts on the right ever invited on any of these late night shows because these late night hosts don't actually want to have to have an argument with these folks.

00:23:04.000 They just want to invite on fellow lefties that they can talk with and feel comfortable with. 0.82

00:23:08.000 Jim Acosta, who is definitely not, definitely not a self-aggrandizing jerk. 0.83

00:23:13.000 Jim Acosta is definitely not a self-infatuated person, right?

00:23:16.000 He's certainly not a guy who believes himself to be the great savior of the media.

00:23:21.000 He is certainly just fighting for you, the people.

00:23:23.000 He tweeted this out.

00:23:24.000 And then it's a picture of him looking in the mirror at himself.

00:23:34.000 Which, okay, first of all, he actually, there's somebody else taking this picture, right?

00:23:38.000 He has to have a guest, somebody else who's in the room with him, stage this photo so that he can look, like, it never occurs to him how self-aggrandizing and arrogant this looks.

00:23:48.000 That's what's amazing.

00:23:49.000 The truly incredible part of this particular photo is the fact that Jim Acosta is looking at Jim Acosta in the mirror, smiling smugly to himself, and he handed somebody his phone, presumably, to take that well-lit picture of him looking like a hero looking into the mirror.

00:24:03.000 I mean, the funny part of this is that Jim Acosta sees himself looking in the mirror, and he sees Superman, and the rest of us see that guy from The Hangover who's lost his front tooth looking in the mirror.

00:24:13.000 Right?

00:24:15.000 That's really what this is.

00:24:16.000 And the other part of this tweet that's just great is he says he's gonna bring some real news to Colbert Late Show.

00:24:21.000 Stephen Colbert is legitimately a satirist.

00:24:23.000 It's a late night show.

00:24:24.000 So he's gonna bring real news.

00:24:25.000 Real news is going on the Colbert Late Show.

00:24:27.000 So what exactly did Jim Acosta say on the show?

00:24:29.000 We've been looking everywhere for this video, but here's what he actually said.

00:24:32.000 He actually said this and thought it was an intelligent thing to say, which is an amazing thing.

00:24:36.000 He said, Okay, that's fair.

00:24:36.000 But then he says this,

00:24:57.000 That last sentence makes no sense at all.

00:24:59.000 And the fact that he had to think about that and write that up and memorize it beforehand, that doesn't make any sense.

00:25:05.000 If the media were actually part of the government, at least the argument makes sense.

00:25:09.000 Although that suggests that there are people in the government who can never be enemies of the people, which I think is blatantly untrue.

00:25:14.000 There are plenty of governments all over the world that are enemies of their own people.

00:25:17.000 But that last line, that a government that is of the people, by the people, and for the people, there's no such thing as an enemy of the people, you know who used to say that?

00:25:24.000 You know whose line that is?

00:25:25.000 By the people, for the people?

00:25:26.000 Of the people, that is a line from Abraham Lincoln who legitimately jailed journalists.

00:25:31.000 So there's that.

00:25:32.000 But also, again, the idea that the media and the government are one and the same is sort of the problem here.

00:25:38.000 Because the media and the government are one and the same until it comes time to critique a Republican.

00:25:41.000 Then all of a sudden, they are the watchdogs on the front lines of truth.

00:25:46.000 Jim Acosta, man.

00:25:47.000 The media just doing what they can to demonstrate that they are completely out of touch with the American people.

00:25:52.000 And speaking of out of touch with the American people, I'll talk briefly on Hollywood for just a second.

00:25:58.000 So, Hollywood made an announcement yesterday.

00:26:01.000 That they are changing the Oscars.

00:26:02.000 So what are they doing?

00:26:03.000 Well, they're going to focus on a three-hour broadcast, because right now it's approximately 37 hours, the Oscars.

00:26:08.000 I think the last time I actually watched a full Oscar telecast, it's got to have been at least 10 years since I watched a full Oscar telecast, because why in the world would you?

00:26:16.000 And one of the reasons nobody watches the Oscars anymore is because every film that is nominated is basically, which is the most social justice warrior film.

00:26:23.000 So last year was The Shape of Water, which was a social justice film about a woman having sex with a fish.

00:26:29.000 And her little gang of friends who are going to help fight the American government with the help of, I am not kidding you, this is the plot of The Shape of Water, a communist doctor, a gay man, and a black woman who is put upon by her husband. 0.65

00:26:43.000 And the woman who is the main character is a mute.

00:26:49.000 She's not deaf.

00:26:50.000 That is the actual plot of The Shape of Water.

00:26:53.000 It's a terrible, terrible film at one best picture.

00:26:55.000 It's splash if somehow that film had fallen on its head as a baby.

00:27:01.000 The Shape of Water is, and I don't say this with any animus toward the actors.

00:27:05.000 I mean, I think that Nick Sirisi, who's in the film, is a friend. 0.97

00:27:09.000 But the film is just absolute hogwashing garbage.

00:27:12.000 The only doubt was whether that was going to win or whether Call Me By Your Name 0.96

00:27:16.000 A movie about a 27-year-old dude seducing a 17-year-old kid, whether that was male kid, whether that was going to win Best Picture.

00:27:24.000 So every year it's social justice warrior films that nobody has actually seen.

00:27:28.000 And then they wonder why they're losing ratings.

00:27:29.000 So how do they decide to combat this?

00:27:30.000 Do they decide to combat this by actually nominating some films that people wanted to see?

00:27:34.000 You know, big blockbuster films that people actually like watching?

00:27:38.000 Like, for example, I believe The Dark Knight was nominated for Best Picture in 2008.

00:27:41.000 That's the last time a really popular film was nominated for Best Picture.

00:27:44.000 It was probably 10 years ago, like a real blockbuster film.

00:27:48.000 I'm old enough to remember when Lord of the Rings, all three films, were nominated for Best Picture.

00:27:52.000 Would those be nominated today?

00:27:53.000 I can't imagine they would be.

00:27:54.000 I can't imagine they would be.

00:27:56.000 The only filmmaker who is even somewhat commercial, whose films will be nominated anymore, is Christopher Nolan, and even he has not won a Best Director Oscar, which is just insane.

00:28:06.000 Instead, you'll get pictures like Moonlight winning.

00:28:09.000 Even La La Land, which is an artsy film that did well at the box office, even there, it lost to Moonlight a coming-of-age story about a gay black kid.

00:28:17.000 So, the Oscars have been kind of out of touch with what the American people are actually interested in paying money to see at the theaters for a long time.

00:28:22.000 So how are they fixing this?

00:28:24.000 Well, the way that they are fixing this is they are creating a new category designed around achievement in popular film, which automatically implies that there is also achievement in unpopular film, right?

00:28:34.000 Achievement in unpopular film, that's the stuff that Hollywood likes to make, and then achievement in popular film is the stuff where, basically, they're going to do the MTV Movie Awards.

00:28:41.000 Where it's like, oh, here's where we nominate Black Panther, and here's where we nominate Thor Ragnarok, and here's where we nominate the Avengers films.

00:28:47.000 We'll put all the superhero films in one category, and we'll pretend that they're not actually quality, and then we'll have all of our quality films that no one saw, but that we feel make us special at cocktail parties.

00:28:57.000 And this is because Hollywood is an insular little island all to itself, in the same way that the media have become this insular little island all the way for itself. 0.99

00:29:07.000 It's so stupid in every way. 1.00

00:29:08.000 It's basically an acknowledgement that the folks in Hollywood hate you. 1.00

00:29:11.000 That they are taking your money to make movies like Mission Impossible, and then they're taking some of that money and siphoning it off into the real projects they care about.

00:29:19.000 The story of the lesbian transgender little person who overcame all odds to become the head of a prostitution ring.

00:29:27.000 Right?

00:29:28.000 Legitimately, that's almost the plot of that film that Scarlett Johansson was supposed to star in, that no one would have seen, except that Scarlett Johansson was in it.

00:29:36.000 My favorite part of that story, by the way, is that the social justice warriors killed that film outright because they said Scarlett Johansson should not star in it, and now that film will never get made and never get distributed.

00:29:45.000 So, just spectacular. 1.00

00:29:46.000 It's so stupid. 1.00

00:29:48.000 In every way. 1.00

00:29:50.000 They're not going to focus on making stuff that people want to see.

00:29:52.000 They're going to continue to separate off the stuff they want to make from the stuff people want to see, and then patronize the audience by suggesting, here is the award for the rubes, and then here is the award for those of us who really, really matter.

00:30:04.000 Also, let's be real about this.

00:30:05.000 The real reason they're creating this new category is so Black Panther can win an Oscar.

00:30:08.000 Right?

00:30:08.000 That's really why they're creating this new category.

00:30:10.000 They didn't think of creating this new category three years ago, but they think Black Panther ought to win an Oscar.

00:30:15.000 And legitimately, I don't see why Black Panther shouldn't be nominated for an Oscar, like, in the regular category.

00:30:19.000 It's a good movie.

00:30:20.000 It's a fine movie.

00:30:21.000 I liked the movie.

00:30:22.000 I had some problems with it, but overall I thought it was one of the better Marvel flicks.

00:30:25.000 But...

00:30:26.000 Yeah, again, Hollywood is completely out of touch as well.

00:30:28.000 This out-of-touchness is something, this culture war is something where the Republicans really could do some serious damage if they chose to do so.

00:30:34.000 Speaking of the culture war, I'm going to play you this clip from Mila Kunis because it really does suggest how broadly the culture war has spread.

00:30:41.000 And it has some relevance to the conversations we are now having about race in the country, believe it or not.

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00:31:41.000 Okay, so speaking of Hollywood being out of touch, Mila Kunis, who is a very big star, although she's in a new movie with Kate McKinnon that's basically a spy thriller no one will see.

00:31:49.000 It's getting terrible reviews, but I'm sure that's just because of sexism.

00:31:53.000 It's not because it's a bad movie.

00:31:54.000 It's because of sexism, because it has two female leads. 1.00

00:31:57.000 I do love the idea that what women really want to watch at the movies is women. 1.00

00:32:02.000 I don't know where this idea came from in Hollywood, that all women want to do is watch Eat, Pray, Love, or that they want to watch an action movie with women. 0.98

00:32:09.000 I don't, maybe I'm just biased here.

00:32:12.000 I don't know a single woman, like not one, who is desperate to watch an action flick with a female lead.

00:32:19.000 I was under the impression that most women kind of like men.

00:32:22.000 I was under the impression that they would rather watch Tom Cruise run around than watch Mila Kunis run around.

00:32:26.000 Most men would rather watch Tom Cruise run around than watch Mila Kunis run around because Tom Cruise runs faster than Mila Kunis.

00:32:32.000 And there's this sort of Hollywood absurdity where you have these 90-pound women who are kicking 300-pound guys in the chest, and the guys are, like, flying through glass windows, when in reality, the 300-pound man would take the kick and then take the woman by the leg and chuck her, right?

00:32:44.000 I mean, Hollywood has these bizarre notions.

00:32:46.000 I will survey.

00:32:47.000 The only woman in the room, Senya, would you prefer to watch Mila Kunis in an action flick or Tom Cruise in an action flick? 1.00

00:32:54.000 Daniel Craig.

00:32:55.000 Okay, that's fair, right?

00:32:56.000 Okay, Tom Cruise is old, but Daniel Craig is not old.

00:32:58.000 By the way, I just saw the Mission Impossible flick.

00:33:01.000 Tom Cruise is 58 years old, man.

00:33:02.000 That dude is in crazy shape.

00:33:04.000 That is wild.

00:33:05.000 But...

00:33:07.000 Daniel Craig, fair enough.

00:33:08.000 When they talk about let's make Jane Bond as opposed to James Bond, yeah, try that. 0.99

00:33:11.000 You know how much money it will make at the box office?

00:33:13.000 Zero dollars.

00:33:14.000 They tried this with Atomic Blonde, in which they basically substituted Charlize Theron for a man in like every possible way, including the lesbian sex scenes, and the movie wildly underperformed because it turns out that when you watch a female character, you'd actually like her to have certain indicative female stereotypical attributes that

00:33:31.000 Okay, but all of that is beside the point.

00:33:32.000 Mila Kunis is in this new movie and she's being interviewed about why she is pro-choice.

00:33:36.000 And the answer to why she's pro-choice is because she legitimately has never met a pro-lifer.

00:33:57.000 Now, I don't know any Republican in America who's never met a pro-choicer.

00:34:00.000 I seriously don't.

00:34:01.000 And I talked to hundreds of thousands of Republicans, right?

00:34:04.000 I don't understand why it is that so many folks on the left have never met a pro-lifer, except that every view on the right must be castigated as horrible and evil.

00:34:12.000 Here's Mila Kunis talking on a podcast with Marc Maron about why it is that she is pro-choice.

00:34:18.000 I didn't even know there was one?

00:34:19.000 You legitimately didn't even know that there's a pro-life movement in the country?

00:34:21.000 Like you didn't know that there's a group of people who think that you shouldn't kill babies in the womb? 0.97

00:34:43.000 That sort of insular thinking is exactly the culture gap that is really ripping the country apart. 0.99

00:34:48.000 I think the culture gap that's tearing the country apart is not a racial culture gap.

00:34:52.000 I think the racial stuff is almost a weird overlay on top of cultural battles that are being fought.

00:34:59.000 And this is one of the things that the left doesn't understand.

00:35:01.000 They think that when President Trump is appealing to quote-unquote white culture, what he's really appealing to is a racial culture.

00:35:07.000 What he's really appealing to

00:35:09.000 is a group particularly of white people in the middle of the country who have a gap not with black people so much as with other white people on the coast.

00:35:18.000 There's this weird idea on the left that there's this thing called whiteness.

00:35:20.000 I was listening to a podcast with my friend Jane Koston over at Vox.com, and she was doing the podcast with Ezra Klein.

00:35:27.000 It's the Weeds podcast.

00:35:28.000 It's kind of interesting.

00:35:29.000 Basically, the three people who are on it are Ezra Klein, who is sometimes thoughtful on the left and sometimes just wrong and nearsighted, and Jane, who I think is thoughtful, and Dylan Matthews, who's basically the Leroy Jenkins of that show.

00:35:41.000 Like, he just kind of runs in randomly and shouts, Leroy Jenkins!

00:35:44.000 And nobody knows.

00:35:46.000 Why he's just spouting the typical lefty line. 0.91

00:35:48.000 In any case, they were talking about all of this talk lately about racism and whiteness and why it is that ripping on white people is different from ripping on black people.

00:35:57.000 And their suggestion was that you can't be racist really against white people. 0.88

00:36:00.000 You can only be racist against black people was sort of the implication. 0.96

00:36:03.000 Of course, you'd be a racist. 0.98

00:36:24.000 Ezra Klein is wrong.

00:36:25.000 The culture gap in the country is not between quote-unquote whiteness and quote-unquote blackness.

00:36:29.000 The culture gap is between secularist and religious.

00:36:33.000 It is between left and right.

00:36:35.000 It is between certain value systems.

00:36:36.000 It is not between people of different colors.

00:36:39.000 And in a second, I want to read you a little bit of this piece from my friend David French, which really hits this on the nose and really speaks to the gap that has emerged between the media and the rest of the country and Hollywood and the rest of the country.

00:36:49.000 OK, so we played that clip of Mila Kunis and Mila Kunis says she's never heard of anybody who's pro-life in the country.

00:36:55.000 Jim Acosta, who is completely out of touch with the middle of the country and every so often

00:37:00.000 The middle of the country sort of rears its ugly head and they go, ooh, let's send somebody out there.

00:37:04.000 As though they're Steve Irwin in the Outback.

00:37:06.000 Like, oh, look at these people. 0.73

00:37:08.000 These crazy people living in the middle of the country. 0.99

00:37:11.000 Wow. 0.96

00:37:12.000 I don't even know what accent that was, but it's sort of an Australian accent.

00:37:14.000 In any case, they treat people in the middle of the country, white people in the middle of the country, as foreigners.

00:37:20.000 They're going to go and they're going to examine their culture, mate.

00:37:23.000 They're going to see what the stingrays do out here.

00:37:27.000 Well,

00:37:28.000 That is really the attitude that divides the country.

00:37:31.000 So, here's what David French writes.

00:37:33.000 He says,

00:37:47.000 Manhattan, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Philadelphia, Center City.

00:37:52.000 I thought it was funny.

00:37:53.000 And that brings me to the subject I think has to be discussed right alongside race when discussing American life and American politics.

00:37:58.000 The Great White Culture War. 0.71

00:38:08.000 And basically what French argues is that when you have all these people like Milo Kunis who say, you know, I don't care about whiteness in the country.

00:38:14.000 Whiteness can decline at any rate I want it to decline at, and that's totally fine. 1.00

00:38:20.000 Which is a perspective with which, like, I don't care about race.

00:38:22.000 It doesn't make any difference to me.

00:38:23.000 I don't care what color people are. 0.97

00:38:24.000 I'm Jewish.

00:38:26.000 And even if I were white, I wouldn't care. 0.71

00:38:27.000 I mean, in certain cases, I'm perceived as white.

00:38:30.000 I don't care how many white people are in the country versus how many black people are in the country.

00:38:34.000 I care about the stuff inside their heads.

00:38:35.000 That's the stuff I actually care about.

00:38:38.000 But the point that French is making is when people on the left talk about whiteness, people like Mila Kunis, presumably, or people like Jim Acosta, or people on the left in these little bubbles, they're really not talking about whiteness.

00:38:48.000 They're talking about white people in the middle of the country they don't like, because Mila Kunis is not giving up her job anytime soon for a person of color, and neither is Jim Acosta.

00:38:56.000 They're talking about a certain white cultural elitism that pervades the coast and that they feel they are in agreement on as long as they pander to a bunch of people of color.

00:39:06.000 That's what they're really talking about.

00:39:08.000 So when they rip on whiteness, they're not ripping on the whiteness of Portland, Oregon.

00:39:11.000 What they're really ripping on is the whiteness of Tennessee. 0.75

00:39:13.000 What they're really ripping on is the whiteness of Texas, which, by the way, is going to be predominantly Hispanic in the very near future. 0.98

00:39:19.000 So this is really the culture war that is being fought right now.

00:39:23.000 And it's because people fail to take into account anything remotely resembling a multiple regression analysis that you end up with these simplistic takes on politics.

00:39:31.000 So a multiple regression analysis for people who didn't take stats courses in college, when you are determining how many factors lead to a particular outcome, you can basically create, you can do this with an Excel spreadsheet, basic statistical analysis, you can create formulas that try to correlate

00:39:48.000 A particular phenomenon with the factors leading to the phenomenon.

00:39:51.000 So, for example, you want to figure out which factors lead to being an NBA player.

00:39:55.000 And so you determine what percentage of black people are NBA players, what percentage of tall people are NBA players, what percentage of athletic people are NBA players.

00:40:03.000 How do each of these things factor into playing in the NBA?

00:40:06.000 And that multiple regression analysis will show you that blackness has very little to do with playing in the NBA, but being very tall does have something to do, and athleticism has something to do with playing in the NBA.

00:40:15.000 Well, you may look at the NBA and say, oh, blackness is an asset in the NBA.

00:40:18.000 That's not correct.

00:40:19.000 Height and athleticism are assets in the NBA.

00:40:21.000 How do you know?

00:40:21.000 Because you actually did a multiple regression analysis.

00:40:24.000 Well, if you're looking at the gaps in this country, people on the left see disparity.

00:40:28.000 And the first thing they do is they leap to race.

00:40:30.000 The reality is that we have to look at all of the cross-cutting other factors before we go to race, because race is a secondary characteristic.

00:40:40.000 It's just the color of your skin, really.

00:40:42.000 And the attempt by the left to blame everything on racism, to say that every inequality between groups is rooted in American bias and racism.

00:40:50.000 If you're going to go there, first, I would suggest that you rule out more obvious factors that could be contributing to those statistical disparities.

00:40:56.000 So, for example, there's this tweet that came out about the wealth gap.

00:40:59.000 It now has some tens of thousands of retweets.

00:41:01.000 And it says, white people get $50,000 checks from their elderly grandparents.

00:41:04.000 Black people are buying their elderly grandparents groceries. 0.97

00:41:07.000 This is the wealth gap. 1.00

00:41:08.000 The suggestion, of course, being that white America is racist and that's why black people are poor.

00:41:12.000 Now, is it true that historical racism has a lot to do with the continuation of a wealth gap, particularly in terms of home ownership and historic wealth? 0.91

00:41:20.000 Of course, that's true.

00:41:21.000 Of course, that's true.

00:41:22.000 But if you're looking at the rates of progress in America, that has very little to do with historical racism.

00:41:28.000 Rates of progress in America are much more tied to individual decision making.

00:41:31.000 And you can tell this with a multiple regression analysis.

00:41:33.000 It has much more to do with choosing to marry the woman who's going to bear your children. 0.50

00:41:37.000 It has much more to do with getting a job and finishing high school.

00:41:39.000 These are the things that make you wealthy in America.

00:41:41.000 The fact that the left has this flattering view of itself where it is on the side of everything that is good and true and not in favor of quote-unquote whiteness.

00:41:50.000 What they really mean is we're not in favor of the white people in the middle of the country. 0.78

00:41:52.000 Those are the bad guys.

00:41:53.000 We're the good white people and we can show you we're the good white people by criticizing other white people but not giving up anything that we actually hold dear in these little enclaves of wealth and power and privilege.

00:42:03.000 And that's the reason you have this culture gap in the country that is widening every single day.

00:42:07.000 It is widening all the time.

00:42:09.000 OK, so I want to talk about a couple of stories that the media have been ignoring, and then we'll get to a thing I like and a thing I hate.

00:42:17.000 First, there's this story that it's really amazing.

00:42:20.000 And the media are covering the story, but they're missing, I think, the punchline.

00:42:24.000 OK, so it turns out there's an Islamic man who was arrested last week at a New Mexico compound where 11 children were abused.

00:42:29.000 He was training the children to commit school shootings, according to newly released court documents.

00:42:33.000 Now, if you look at the headlines today, all of the headlines are, man was training children to commit school shootings.

00:42:39.000 There was a big factor that was missing from the headlines.

00:42:42.000 OK, so this is a case where the media's failure to do a multiple regression analysis is kind of obvious, right?

00:42:47.000 What they will say is, well, this just shows that the culture of gun ownership in the United States is leading to school shootings.

00:42:52.000 Well, maybe it has more to do with the ideology of the person who is training children to shoot up schools.

00:42:57.000 Maybe it has to do with the fact that the guy was a radical Islamist.

00:42:59.000 The court filings say, Siraj Ibn Wahhaj was conducting weapons training with assault rifles at the compound near the Colorado border where 11 hungry children were found in filthy conditions.

00:43:09.000 His father, by the way, is a guy named Siraj Wahhaj.

00:43:11.000 He was named by prosecutors as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

00:43:17.000 Ironically, that is also a person, I believe, who's been linked to Siraj Wahaj, if I'm not mistaken.

00:43:23.000 He was named by Linda Sarsour as one of her mentors, if I'm not mistaken.

00:43:30.000 So, Linda Sarsour, of course, is one of the leaders of the Women's March, and she is just a delight.

00:43:35.000 She praised Imam Siraj Wahaj just a few years ago.

00:43:38.000 So, she's a wonderful person.

00:43:39.000 Maybe it has more to do with ideology than gun ownership.

00:43:41.000 The media won't tell you that.

00:43:42.000 Instead, they will headline with the idea that it is the guns.

00:43:45.000 They will also not headline the fact that the Parkland Broward County school system knew full well that the shooter in Parkland had gone to them multiple times to ask him for help.

00:43:56.000 They turned him down, then he went and shot up a school.

00:43:58.000 Instead, we'll get a non-multiple regression analysis in which we do not learn the other factors leading to the school shooting in Parkland.

00:44:04.000 Instead, we learn that it was really about the guns.

00:44:07.000 Now, the truth is, according to the local 10 News in that area, throughout the more than 15 years this shooter spent in the Broward County school system, staff members reported violent outbursts and antisocial behavior.

00:44:18.000 Others noted periods where his behavior and academic performance markedly improved.

00:44:22.000 The document was originally redacted, but an electronic copy made public by the school district contained information underneath the blackout portions.

00:44:29.000 And what it found is that he actually kept going in there for help, and they kept sending him away until he shot up a school.

00:44:37.000 But that's not the story that the media will actually tell you today.

00:44:39.000 The story that the media will tell you is that it's all about the guns.

00:44:42.000 The media have an interest, people have an interest in simplifying complex questions down to their most obvious basics.

00:44:49.000 But you actually have to determine which factors, how many factors are important in determining cause and effect.

00:44:56.000 You can't just say there's a disparity or there's an event and it happened because of this thing.

00:45:00.000 You instead have to look at all of the factors that were involved in it and determine which factors were most likely to have contributed heavily to this possible outcome.

00:45:08.000 Okay, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.

00:45:12.000 So,

00:45:13.000 A thing I like today.

00:45:15.000 This is maybe my wife's favorite movie. 0.92

00:45:17.000 She loves this movie and the score to it is really great as well.

00:45:20.000 This of course is Pride and Prejudice with Keira Knightley.

00:45:24.000 Keira Knightley is

00:45:26.000 She's kind of an interesting actress. 1.00

00:45:31.000 I've never been a fan of hers, but then every time I see her actually perform, I think she's actually quite good in this.

00:45:35.000 In Pride and Prejudice, she is terrific.

00:45:37.000 And the movie is just beautifully produced, so you should go check it out.

00:45:40.000 It's a very romantic film.

00:45:42.000 If you're married, dudes, this is a film to show your wife. 0.59

00:45:44.000 Go check out Pride and Prejudice with Keira Knightley.

00:45:46.000 This one's about 15 years old, maybe?

00:45:48.000 Something like that.

00:45:49.000 Very good movie.

00:45:51.000 Is he amiable?

00:45:52.000 Is he handsome?

00:45:53.000 He's single!

00:45:54.000 Hebel is.

00:45:55.000 Oh my goodness!

00:45:58.000 Everybody behave naturally!

00:46:02.000 Mr. Collins, at your service.

00:46:04.000 In an era when marrying a rich man was the most a woman could hope for, Elizabeth Bennet was way ahead of her time.

00:46:12.000 I singled you out as the companion of my future life.

00:46:15.000 Sir, I cannot accept you.

00:46:18.000 Don't worry, Mr. Collins.

00:46:19.000 Tell her you insist upon the marrying.

00:46:21.000 Oh, please.

00:46:22.000 You will have this house.

00:46:23.000 I can't marry him.

00:46:24.000 And save your sisters from destitution.

00:46:26.000 She cannot make me.

00:46:28.000 Okay, so it's really great, it's really well done, and the score of it is terrific as well.

00:46:34.000 Go check it out.

00:46:35.000 Really, really a worthwhile watch.

00:46:37.000 Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate.

00:46:42.000 So over the past 48 hours, Israel has been hit with legitimately 150 rockets from the Gaza Strip.

00:46:48.000 Now, you will not see this in the media.

00:46:49.000 Speaking of stories you won't see covered in the media, you'll never see this in the media because when Jews are being shot at by Palestinians, it's not a story.

00:46:56.000 When Jews shoot back at Palestinians, it's a story. 0.90

00:46:59.000 So when Israel goes in with overwhelming military might and attempts to knock out Hamas bases, which invariably are located in civilian areas because Hamas knows that they will make a headline every time a civilian is killed, 0.75

00:47:10.000 That's the story that makes CNN.

00:47:11.000 I've said it before, CNN, a lot of the mainstream media, they are Hamas's propaganda outlets when it comes to this sort of stuff. 0.79

00:47:16.000 It's disgusting.

00:47:17.000 Here's an actual video of what it looks like when rockets are fired against Israel.

00:47:20.000 You're basically given 10 seconds to get to a bomb shelter.

00:47:23.000 There have been 14 people who have been injured.

00:47:25.000 These are rockets being fired into civilian areas.

00:47:27.000 There's not one country on planet Earth that would tolerate this except for Israel. 0.87

00:47:31.000 There's not one country on planet Earth that would be as humane as Israel has been in its response to all of this.

00:47:37.000 Can you imagine if Mexico started firing rockets into San Diego?

00:47:42.000 Like 150 rockets got fired by Mexico into San Diego.

00:47:44.000 You know how fast we would topple that government?

00:47:46.000 That would take us five minutes.

00:47:48.000 Legitimately five minutes.

00:47:49.000 The United States would go in and knock out the entire government and then replace it.

00:47:53.000 I mean, when Al Qaeda murdered 3,000 Americans, we knocked down two Islamic countries, two of them, okay, when they killed 3,000 citizens with some airplanes. 0.71

00:48:04.000 Israel took 150 rockets over the past 48 hours.

00:48:07.000 They did some very specific targeted pinprick bombing.

00:48:11.000 And you watch, that'll be the story, right?

00:48:12.000 The story will be the civilian that was killed because Hamas plants all of its headquarters underneath hospitals. 0.75

00:48:18.000 Here's what the video actually looks like when rockets are flying and you have five seconds to get your kids underground.

00:48:29.000 You can see the smoke rising from another rocket.

00:48:37.000 I mean, these things are landing in civilian areas, they're landing in streets.

00:48:44.000 The media's bias is never more apparent than when you see their coverage of this conflict.

00:48:50.000 It is just disgusting.

00:48:51.000 The media's lack of interest in radical Islamic fanatic murderous ideology is astonishing and demonstrative of this 0.95

00:49:03.000 Okay, well we will be back here tomorrow with all the latest.

00:49:05.000 I'm Ben Shapiro, this is the Ben Shapiro Show.

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