The Ben Shapiro Show - Omar Oh My! | Ep. 717

00:00:00.000 Former FBI Director Andrew McCabe comes out and says that the 25th Amendment was considered against President Trump, the media struggled to exonerate Ilhan Omar of anti-Semitism, and we talk about the one-year anniversary of Parkland.

00:00:11.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:00:12.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:00:13.000 All righty, so we're going to get to all the news, and it is a big news day today.

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00:01:52.000 And in this interview, in this interview, he tells Scott Pelley that he and a bunch of other people at the FBI and inside the DOJ considered recruiting cabinet members to invoke the 25th Amendment.

00:02:05.000 Here is Scott Pelley reporting that from CBS this morning.

00:02:08.000 The most illuminating and surprising thing in the interview to me were these eight days in May when all of these things were happening behind the scenes that the American people really didn't know about.

00:02:19.000 There were meetings at the Justice Department in which it was discussed whether the Vice President and a majority of the Cabinet could be brought together to remove the President of the United States under the 25th Amendment.

00:02:34.000 These were the eight days from Comey's firing to the point that Robert Mueller was appointed special counsel.

00:02:41.000 And the highest levels of American law enforcement were trying to figure out what to do with the president.

00:02:47.000 Okay, and this is fully insane, right?

00:02:50.000 If you recall, this was first reported by the New York Times.

00:02:52.000 They reported that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who's always been seen by President Trump as sort of anti-Trump, as the guy who was allowing Robert Mueller to run wild in the Mueller investigation.

00:03:02.000 The New York Times reported last year that Rod Rosenstein had basically convened meetings about whether the 25th Amendment could be used to declare President Trump mentally unfit.

00:03:10.000 That's not his job.

00:03:12.000 That was not his job.

00:03:12.000 That was the Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.

00:03:15.000 Not his job.

00:03:16.000 The decision as to whether the 25th Amendment could be invoked or should be invoked would have to be initiated by at least a sitting cabinet member, you would imagine.

00:03:24.000 It can't just be some low-level staffer over at the Attorney General's office who decides, you know what, let's have some internal discussions about removing the President of the United States, specifically in the aftermath of the President firing the FBI Director.

00:03:36.000 Which, by the way, he has every right to do.

00:03:39.000 Trump has responded in a pair of tweets on Thursday morning after Rosenstein said that McCabe's account of the discussion was inaccurate and factually incorrect.

00:03:46.000 Trump responded in Twitter form.

00:03:48.000 He said, disgraced FBI acting director Andrew McCabe pretends to be a poor little angel when in fact he was a big part of the crooked Hillary scandal and the Russia hoax, a puppet for Lincoln James Comey.

00:03:57.000 IG report on McCabe was devastating.

00:03:59.000 Part of insurance policy in case I won.

00:04:02.000 Many of the FBI top brass were fired, forced to leave or left.

00:04:04.000 McCabe's wife received big dollars from Clinton people for her campaign.

00:04:08.000 He gave Hillary a pass. 0.99

00:04:09.000 McCabe is a disgrace to the FBI and a disgrace to our country.

00:04:12.000 All capitals make America great again.

00:04:15.000 Now, Trump is not wrong to rip into Andrew McCabe.

00:04:18.000 You'll recall that Andrew McCabe was originally fired for lack of candor.

00:04:23.000 He was fired last year.

00:04:25.000 He had denied any wrongdoing and he claimed after he was fired that he was innocent and he justified his leak by claiming that James Comey knew about it.

00:04:32.000 He had leaked to the media that there were developments in the Hillary Clinton case.

00:04:36.000 He had leaked that to the Wall Street Journal and then he had lied about it internally.

00:04:39.000 Katie Pavlich has a piece over at The Hill about this a few months back.

00:04:43.000 She says that McCabe hired a K Street lobbying firm to set up a legal fund where he raised $500,000 from sympathetic leftists who viewed his firing as unjust, even cruel, since it happened just two days before his retirement.

00:04:53.000 You remember, he was stripped of his retirement because of the firing.

00:04:56.000 The truth is McCabe's line was worse than previously imagined and cited for his firing.

00:05:00.000 Speculation about his lack of candor was overwhelmingly confirmed by a long-awaited Office of the Inspector General report late last week Which showed that McCabe's behavior was not only dishonest, but that he lied multiple times under oath to OIG investigators and FBI agents.

00:05:13.000 OIG investigators concluded his repeated lying was calculated and beneficial to him, not the Bureau or the agents who work inside of it.

00:05:21.000 According to the report, as detailed in this report, the OIG found that then-Deputy Director Andrew McCabe lacked candor, including under oath, on multiple occasions in connection with describing his role, in connection with a disclosure to the Wall Street Journal, and that conduct violated FBI code.

00:05:34.000 The OIG also concluded that McCabe's disclosure of the existence of an ongoing investigation in the manner described in this report violated the FBI's and Department's media policy and constituted misconduct.

00:05:44.000 Now, does that mean that McCabe was part of the quote-unquote Russia hoax?

00:05:47.000 Does that mean that McCabe was actively undermining the president in 2016?

00:05:51.000 It doesn't mean that because If you recall, the reason that he was fired was because he leaked information about Hillary Clinton to the Wall Street Journal.

00:05:58.000 Nonetheless, McCabe has some honesty problems, obviously, and him suggesting that inside the DOJ there were actual meetings about getting rid of President Trump is pretty insane stuff.

00:06:09.000 According to the New York Times, they reported last year that Rod Rosenstein, who is currently the Acting Attorney General, had suggested, or he's the Deputy Attorney General, he suggested that he secretly record President Trump in the White House.

00:06:22.000 Which is pretty insane.

00:06:24.000 Rosenstein disputed the account.

00:06:25.000 A Justice Department official said he made the remarks sarcastically.

00:06:28.000 The accounts tended to back up Rosenstein's account, but McCabe told Pelley that Rosenstein's offer to wear a wire was made more than once, and that he ultimately took it to the lawyers at the FBI to discuss.

00:06:38.000 McCabe, who was named acting director of the bureau after Comey's firing, launched obstruction of justice and counterintelligence investigations into whether Trump obstructed justice by firing Comey.

00:06:47.000 Now that's the part where McCabe becomes part of the quote-unquote deep state.

00:06:50.000 Launching investigations that are entirely baseless or based on speculation just because you don't like that your boss got fired?

00:06:56.000 That is not justifiable.

00:06:58.000 There was no evidence at the time that obstruction of justice was what had caused President Trump to fire, to fire James Comey.

00:07:06.000 President Trump said pretty openly the reason that he fired James Comey is because Comey wouldn't just say that he wasn't under investigation at the time.

00:07:13.000 And yet McCabe launched these obstruction of justice and counterintelligence investigations into Trump.

00:07:18.000 That looks pretty damning.

00:07:20.000 It looks pretty damning.

00:07:21.000 McCabe says, I was very concerned that I was able to put the Russia case on absolutely solid grounds in indelible fashion that where I removed quickly or reassigned or fired that the case could not be closed or vanish in the night without a trace.

00:07:34.000 Now, again, that is not his job.

00:07:36.000 The FBI is still a part of the executive branch.

00:07:39.000 The president of the United States still has unitary power over that executive branch.

00:07:44.000 If the president were to step in and actively stop an investigation, then presumably that would be obstruction of justice.

00:07:49.000 You'd have whistleblowers and the president would be in danger of impeachment.

00:07:52.000 But that is not what happened here.

00:07:54.000 And McCabe saying that he was setting in process a bunch of investigations specifically with an eye toward the possibility that Trump was some sort of foreign agent is pretty crazy stuff.

00:08:04.000 In an excerpt of the book published Thursday in the Atlantic, because he has a new book coming out, which is why he's doing all of this, McCabe describes a phone call he received from Trump on his first full day on the job as acting director of the FBI.

00:08:14.000 According to McCabe, Trump told him he had hundreds of messages from FBI people saying how happy they are that I fired Comey.

00:08:20.000 You know, boy, it's incredible.

00:08:21.000 It's such a great thing.

00:08:22.000 People are really happy about the fact the director's gone.

00:08:24.000 It's just remarkable what people are saying, Trump said, according to McCabe.

00:08:27.000 Have you seen that?

00:08:27.000 Are you seeing that too?

00:08:29.000 McCabe was eventually fired in March 2018.

00:08:33.000 So McCabe coming forward with this bombshell once again is going to raise the specter that President Trump is not in the wrong when he says that there are motivated people inside the DOJ and the FBI who are attempting to oust him from office without proper evidence.

00:08:48.000 If that is true, if inside the DOJ there were actual meetings about invoking the 25th Amendment without a single member of Trump's cabinet asking for it or asking for that investigation, that's pretty insane stuff.

00:08:59.000 Again, that is not their job.

00:09:01.000 That is not their job.

00:09:01.000 And Trump has every right to be extraordinarily upset about all of that.

00:09:06.000 Meanwhile, President Trump is deciding whether or not to sign this border wall deal.

00:09:12.000 It appears pretty obvious that today President Trump is going to sign the border wall deal.

00:09:17.000 It doesn't actually provide tons of money for the border wall.

00:09:19.000 It provides about 1.375 billion dollars for additional border fencing.

00:09:23.000 According to the New York Times, Congress will move quickly on Thursday to pass a border security deal that deprives President Trump of what might be his last chance to build his wall.

00:09:31.000 It doesn't really deprive him of the chance.

00:09:33.000 I mean, President Trump Maybe reelected?

00:09:36.000 Maybe he uses his executive powers in order to build more fencing along the drug corridors?

00:09:41.000 The New York Times, though, is hopeful that Trump signs this into law.

00:09:44.000 The Senate will vote first on the legislation, which includes the seven remaining bills to keep the final quarter of the government open through the end of September.

00:09:50.000 House and Senate negotiators unveiled the 1,159-page bill just before midnight on Thursday, leaving little time for lawmakers to actually digest its contents.

00:09:58.000 First of all, this kind of stuff has to stop.

00:10:00.000 This, this is just not the way government was ever supposed to work.

00:10:03.000 That negotiators were supposed to dump 1,200 page bills in front of the people voting on it the night before.

00:10:09.000 Number one, no bill should be this long.

00:10:11.000 Every bill should be about three pages long in English that people can understand with a legislative synopsis and should be posted 24 hours, at least before voting.

00:10:18.000 And we should have a chance and an opportunity to peruse the actual bill.

00:10:21.000 Dropping 1,200 page omnibus packages is just a way for legislators to escape responsibility for their culpability in writing garbage bills that are just crap sandwiches.

00:10:31.000 Passage is expected tonight when the House takes it up.

00:10:34.000 Senator Charles Grassley, a Republican of Iowa and the President pro tem of the Senate, began Thursday's session by praying that President Trump will sign the bill.

00:10:42.000 Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, said the agreement is something both sides should view as an important step.

00:10:47.000 Passing the bill, McConnell said in remarks on the Senate floor, will provide the certainty of a fully functioning federal government.

00:10:52.000 Bottom line is that nobody has the taste for another government shutdown at this point, which is why President Trump is likely to sign this into law.

00:10:58.000 The final result?

00:10:59.000 Not a lot of wall gets built.

00:11:00.000 Ann Coulter hardest hit.

00:11:02.000 And President Trump, I guess, gets the political victory of being able to point to the Democrats and say, these folks don't care about border security going into 2020.

00:11:10.000 The border security compromise, which is tucked into the $49 billion portion of the bill that funds the Department of Homeland Security, represents the most stinging legislative defeat of Mr. Trump's presidency, according to The New York Times.

00:11:21.000 It provides $1.375 billion for 55 miles of steel post fencing.

00:11:27.000 A pale comparison to the $5.7 billion request for more than 200 miles of steel or concrete wall the president wanted is actually less in mileage and money than what was included in the deal the president rejected in December.

00:11:39.000 But the money allocated for fencing and immigration detention was more than what the left flank of the Democratic Party had wanted because they wanted to actually abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

00:11:48.000 So is it a good deal?

00:11:49.000 No, it's a garbage deal.

00:11:50.000 Is Trump going to sign it?

00:11:52.000 Probably.

00:11:52.000 Will he try to find another way to build some of this border fencing?

00:11:55.000 I'm sure that he will.

00:11:57.000 It is a sign of bad negotiation by the president.

00:11:59.000 At the very least, it's a sign of bad negotiation.

00:12:01.000 So there are two takeaways.

00:12:02.000 The president is not the great negotiator he claims to be when it comes to negotiating with Democrats.

00:12:06.000 This is the second time he has caved to Democrats.

00:12:08.000 You'll recall a couple of years ago, he went around Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell and just signed a deal straight with the Democrats, giving them everything they wanted on the budget.

00:12:16.000 He's not a great negotiator.

00:12:17.000 Okay, just end of story.

00:12:18.000 The president is not.

00:12:20.000 Number two, it demonstrates once again, Democrats do not care very much about border security, and they are willing to allow the border to remain a thoroughfare for drugs and gangs and illegal immigration, if it means dealing President Trump a political blow.

00:12:33.000 Okay, in just a second, I want to get to the anti-Semitism controversy that continues on the Democratic side of the aisle.

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00:13:57.000 All right, so the president, if he signs this, will be dealing a blow to his own border agenda.

00:14:02.000 There's just no way around that.

00:14:04.000 However, going into 2020, does that have any actual impact?

00:14:07.000 The answer is actually no.

00:14:09.000 Over the last month, the president has gained substantially in his average approval ratings.

00:14:13.000 In the Gallup tracking poll, the president is up something like 7% over the last month and a half, despite the government shutdown, despite all of this.

00:14:20.000 Why?

00:14:21.000 Because the more that the president can show the Democrats in the proper light, the more he can show how radical they are, the better it will be for him.

00:14:27.000 We live in a binary system.

00:14:29.000 President Trump's approval ratings are not completely dependent on President Trump.

00:14:33.000 Much of his approval rating is dependent on how terrible the Democrats are.

00:14:36.000 And fortunately for President Trump, the Democrats are pretty damn terrible.

00:14:41.000 Speaking of which, in just a second, I want to get to the latest in the Ilhan Omar controversy.

00:14:45.000 So...

00:14:46.000 Ilhan Omar continues to be a horrible congressperson.

00:14:49.000 Just an awful, awful congressperson.

00:14:52.000 Yesterday she made a fool of herself when she was interviewing Elliott Abrams.

00:14:56.000 Elliott Abrams is the special envoy to Venezuela.

00:14:59.000 Elliott Abrams has been a lifelong envoy to South America during the 1980s.

00:15:05.000 He worked with a bunch of governments in South America.

00:15:08.000 Now, you'll have to recall that in the 1980s, there were serious conflicts in South America in which the Soviet Union was specifically attempting to overthrow certain governments in South America and Latin and Central America, attempting to overthrow those governments and put in place communist dictatorships.

00:15:22.000 And the United States was deeply involved in funding a lot of regimes that were bad.

00:15:26.000 But the question is, were those regimes actually worse than communist dictatorships?

00:15:30.000 The answer was no.

00:15:31.000 Nonetheless, is it true that the United States has unclean hands in South America?

00:15:36.000 Of course, that's true.

00:15:37.000 Elliott Abrams was working for the Reagan administration.

00:15:40.000 He was not in favor of human rights violations.

00:15:42.000 He was in the middle of a Cold War and he was attempting to make changes in South America and work with governments making changes in South America that would eventually lead to democracy.

00:15:50.000 So, he worked, for example, in El Salvador.

00:15:52.000 In El Salvador, there was a civil war between a communist uprising, a communist front group that was run basically by the Soviet Union and funded by the Soviet Union.

00:16:02.000 The United States backed the El Salvadorian government, which was a dictatorship.

00:16:07.000 In 1984, there was an election in El Salvador, and that began the process of transition away from military dictatorship and toward a A democracy that did not violate human rights in the same way during the same period the United States took in hundreds of thousands of Salvadorian refugees.

00:16:22.000 So it is simply not true that the Reagan administration, the Clinton administration, they turned a blind eye to all of the human rights violations in El Salvador.

00:16:30.000 Omar was, Ilhan Omar, was asking Elliott Abrams questions and you have to understand, The reason that she was going hard after Elliott Abrams was not really because of things she suspected that he did back in the 1980s.

00:16:43.000 That is not the real reason she's going hard after him. 0.96

00:16:46.000 The real reason Ilhan Omar is going hard after him is because she is a defender of the Maduro regime.

00:16:50.000 So for a lady who is complaining about human rights violations in the 1980s, she's sure doing an amazing job of defending one of the worst human rights violators on planet Earth, Nicolas Maduro and the socialist evil regime that exists in Venezuela.

00:17:03.000 So Ilhan Omar, The U.S.

00:17:06.000 policy in El Salvador was a fabulous achievement.

00:17:16.000 Yes or no, do you still think so?

00:17:21.000 From the day that President Duarte was elected in a free election to this day, El Salvador has been a democracy.

00:17:30.000 That's a fabulous achievement.

00:17:31.000 Yes or no, do you think that massacre was a fabulous achievement that happened under our watch?

00:17:41.000 That is a ridiculous question.

00:17:43.000 Yes or no?

00:17:44.000 No!

00:17:46.000 I will take that as a yes.

00:17:47.000 I am not going to respond to that kind of personal attack, which is not a question.

00:17:52.000 Okay, and of course, he is exactly right.

00:17:54.000 Also, Democrats should know by now, no means no.

00:17:58.000 No does not mean yes.

00:18:00.000 The idea that she can say, do you believe in human rights violations?

00:18:04.000 And he says, no.

00:18:04.000 And she says, well, I'll take that as a yes.

00:18:06.000 Well then, take a hike.

00:18:08.000 Take a hike, lady. 0.99

00:18:09.000 I mean, what vile nastiness. 1.00

00:18:11.000 By the way, she doesn't even know what she's talking about.

00:18:13.000 I mean, she was questioning him about Iran-Contra, and she was mispronouncing half of her words.

00:18:17.000 She legitimately doesn't know anything about the topic she's questioning about.

00:18:20.000 Her staff preps her, and then she goes out and asks questions by mispronouncing the actual words that she's supposed to be saying.

00:18:26.000 Mr. Adams, in 1991, you pleaded guilty to two counts of withholding information from Congress regarding your involvement in the Iran-Qortra affair, for which you were later bartered by President George H.W.

00:18:44.000 Bush.

00:18:45.000 On February 8th, 1982, you testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about U.S.

00:18:52.000 policy in El Salvador.

00:18:55.000 In that hearing, you dismissed, as Communist Propaganda Report, about the massacre of El Mesote.

00:19:05.000 Okay, so look, she doesn't know what she's talking about, and she's a nasty human being, to not even allow Abrams to answer the questions. 0.99

00:19:12.000 I don't know what the purpose of these hearings is other than to provide these sort of moments for the fresh faces of the Democratic Party, so fresh, so face, to demonstrate how they can destroy Republicans, and then we just clip out the part where he answers, and then we pretend that she did an amazing job of tearing him down.

00:19:27.000 But that is not the extent of the defense of Ilhan Omar.

00:19:30.000 So Ilhan Omar did that yesterday.

00:19:32.000 If a Republican congressperson did that to any Democratic nominee, everybody would be up in arms in the media.

00:19:37.000 Instead, she was cheered as a real truth-teller by members of the media.

00:19:40.000 But it's not just that.

00:19:42.000 Ilhan Omar is a lifelong anti-Semite, or at least a career-long anti-Semite.

00:19:46.000 Her record of anti-Semitism is clear and convincing. 1.00

00:19:49.000 It was not just that she tweeted something out that was anti-Semitic last weekend.

00:19:53.000 Hey, as I said, with regard to Ralph Northam, you have to judge people by their body of work.

00:19:58.000 When that photo came out of Ralph Northam from 1985, I asked the question, do you actually think that Ralph Northam is a racist?

00:20:03.000 That was a racist thing to do. 0.90

00:20:05.000 Do you think that Ralph Northam is actually a racist based on his 59 years on this planet?

00:20:09.000 Do you think that overall he is a human being today is a racist?

00:20:13.000 And the answer, by way of his record, is probably no.

00:20:16.000 It's probably no.

00:20:16.000 And the same thing is true of Attorney General Mark Herring, in the same state, who dressed up as a rapper in 1980.

00:20:21.000 The point that I'm making is that people say dumb, ignorant stuff sometimes.

00:20:25.000 They do dumb, ignorant stuff sometimes.

00:20:26.000 And when people do dumb and ignorant stuff, and we can adjudge that it has been dumb and ignorant, then forgiveness is in the cards.

00:20:32.000 Forgiveness is not in the cards when you have a long record of doing bad stuff and then you say a thing.

00:20:38.000 When you have a long record of saying things and then you say another thing.

00:20:41.000 At that point, forgiveness is not in the cards, nor should we adjudicate your statement in the same way we would as if it was the first time that somebody else had said it.

00:20:50.000 Ilhan Omar has a long record of this sort of garbage.

00:20:54.000 We'll go through that record briefly.

00:20:56.000 Ilhan Omar She tweeted out, let's start with her Israel has hypnotized the world tweet. 0.99

00:21:02.000 She started out in 2012 and she tweeted, quote, Israel has hypnotized the world.

00:21:07.000 May Allah awaken the people and help them to see the evil doings of Israel. 1.00

00:21:11.000 Hashtag Gaza.

00:21:12.000 Hashtag Palestine.

00:21:13.000 Hashtag Israel.

00:21:15.000 And then, she still says, like today, that Israel does not have a right to exist.

00:21:21.000 Right?

00:21:21.000 That's a thing that she still says, like today.

00:21:23.000 Okay, so that was 2012.

00:21:24.000 Nothing has changed.

00:21:25.000 Nothing has changed.

00:21:26.000 In the last month, she said Israel has no right to exist as a Jewish state.

00:21:31.000 I'll show you that clip in just a second.

00:21:32.000 So nothing has changed.

00:21:33.000 There's a long record here.

00:21:34.000 And I'll explain why this matters in just a second.

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00:22:43.000 Okay, before I get to the rest of Ilhan Omar and her long record of antisemitism, I've been getting emails from people asking me to define antisemitism.

00:22:50.000 Because people are doing this routine on the left where they say, being anti-Israel doesn't mean that you're anti-Semitic.

00:22:55.000 Opposing certain actions that Israel takes does not mean that you're anti-Semitic, obviously.

00:22:59.000 Opposing actions taken by the Israeli government or perspectives of the Israeli government on particular issues does not mean that you are anti-Semitic.

00:23:07.000 I'm not anti-American, and I oppose some of the policies of every administration.

00:23:11.000 I'm not anti-Israel, obviously, and I oppose many policies of the Israeli government.

00:23:15.000 Most obviously, the 2005 pullout from the Gaza Strip that turned over the entire place to the terrorist group Hamas. 0.76

00:23:22.000 That's not anti-Semitic.

00:23:23.000 What is anti-Semitic is believing, one, that Israel does not have a right to exist, two, treating Israel in a way that you would never treat any other state.

00:23:31.000 So holding them to a standard you would hold no other state And three, suggesting that Jews everywhere are responsible for the specific actions of Israel and punishing Jews as a collective for the actions of the Israeli government.

00:23:44.000 So you see this in Europe a lot.

00:23:45.000 Every time Israel's in a war, people try to burn down synagogues.

00:23:48.000 That's obviously anti-Semitism.

00:23:51.000 It is also anti-Semitic to buy into giant anti-Jewish conspiracy theories.

00:23:55.000 The idea that the Jews are manipulating world events as a collective.

00:23:57.000 We get together at our synagogues and we control the weather and the financial system and the media.

00:24:01.000 That's anti-Semitic conspiracy theory nonsense.

00:24:04.000 The problem for Ilhan Omar is that she believes a lot of these things.

00:24:07.000 And it is obvious from her statements and her activities that she does believe a lot of these things.

00:24:11.000 By the way, my suggestion that this is what anti-Semitism is, is not unique to me.

00:24:15.000 It is the State Department definition of anti-Semitism.

00:24:18.000 Here are some of the examples of anti-Semitism that the plenary in Bucharest decided to declare in the Stockholm Declaration are anti-Semitic.

00:24:27.000 Calling for, aiding, or justifying the killing or harming of Jews in the name of a radical ideology or an extremist view of religion.

00:24:33.000 Making mendacious, dehumanizing, demonizing, or stereotypical allegations about Jews as such or the power of Jews as collective.

00:24:39.000 Such as, especially but not exclusively, the myth about a world Jewish conspiracy or of Jews controlling the media, economy, government, or other societal institutions.

00:24:48.000 Accusing Jews as a people of being responsible for real or imagined wrongdoing committed by a single Jewish person or group, or even for acts committed by non-Jews.

00:24:56.000 Accusing the Jews as a people or Israel as a state of inventing or exaggerating the Holocaust.

00:25:01.000 Accusing Jewish citizens of being more loyal to Israel, the dual loyalty canard that is engaged in openly by Rashida Tlaib.

00:25:08.000 Hey, that is definitional anti-Semitism according to the State Department.

00:25:10.000 of their own nations, denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, for example, by claiming that the existence of the state of Israel is a racist endeavor.

00:25:17.000 That is definitional anti-Semitism according to the State Department.

00:25:21.000 Here's Ilhan Omar doing exactly that in the last month.

00:25:24.000 When I see Israel Institute law that recognizes it as a Jewish state and does not recognize the other religions that are living in it, and we still uphold it as a democracy in the Middle and we still uphold it as a democracy in the Middle East, I almost chuckle because I know that You know, we see that in any other society.

00:25:52.000 We would criticize it.

00:25:53.000 We would call it out.

00:25:54.000 We do that to Iran. 1.00

00:25:55.000 We do that to any other place that sort of upholds its religion.

00:26:00.000 Okay, she's just lying now.

00:26:01.000 She's lying openly.

00:26:02.000 Muslims have more rights in Israel than they do in any Muslim state anywhere in the Middle East. 1.00

00:26:06.000 Islam is a religion that is protected by Israeli law.

00:26:10.000 Mosques are protected by Israeli law.

00:26:12.000 The Islamic Waqf controls the holiest site in Judaism, the Temple Mount itself.

00:26:16.000 She's just full of it, right?

00:26:18.000 And her suggestion that Israel cannot exist as a Jewish state is an anti-Semitic canard and fully in keeping with everything that she has said in the past. 0.91

00:26:26.000 Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis, another State Department-recognized version of anti-Semitism.

00:26:33.000 Using symbols and images associated with classical anti-semitism, claims of Jews killing Jesus, or the blood libel, to characterize Israel or Israelis.

00:26:41.000 Bottom line is this, if we're going to analyze anti-semitism, and I've done this before on the program, it seems to me that in the modern world there are three types of anti-semitism.

00:26:48.000 One is old school religious antisemitism, the belief that Judaism is a gutter religion in the view of Louis Farrakhan.

00:26:55.000 That is sort of classical antisemitism, that Judaism is inherently evil and terrible and wrong and therefore it must be wiped out, right? 0.98

00:27:02.000 That is classical antisemitism. 0.77

00:27:03.000 You can say religious antisemitism.

00:27:05.000 Then there is racial antisemitism, the idea that the Jews as a race are nefarious, evil, Attempting to undermine society, right?

00:27:14.000 That is the second type of antisemitism.

00:27:16.000 You see that mostly associated with sort of alt-right, Nazi-esque groups.

00:27:20.000 The idea that the Jews are a separate group of people genetically, and therefore, they have an agenda all their own. 0.95

00:27:25.000 And then, there's the left-wing version of antisemitism, and that is that the world is made up of people who are more privileged and less privileged.

00:27:34.000 Jews are more privileged, therefore, the Jews are engaging in activity to keep their privilege to themselves. 0.98

00:27:41.000 And that crosses over a lot with intersectional theory.

00:27:43.000 So people wonder how it is that the far left, which doesn't share a lot of priorities with radical Islam, seems to share priorities when it comes to Israel and antisemitism.

00:27:50.000 And the answer is, because there's a lot of crossover.

00:27:53.000 Radical Islam says religiously Jews are evil and also they cross over into Nazi territory with the Jews are the sons of pigs and monkeys.

00:28:00.000 Israel is a gutter state. 0.95

00:28:02.000 Israel shouldn't exist. 1.00

00:28:03.000 And then you have the far left, which says that Israel obviously is a victimizing, exploiting state and uses its world power in order to hypnotize the world. 0.85

00:28:13.000 There's a lot of crossover between these two things.

00:28:15.000 So, is Ilhan Omar anti-Semitic?

00:28:17.000 Yes, she's anti-Semitic. 1.00

00:28:18.000 She's been anti-Semitic for years.

00:28:19.000 There is nothing new here.

00:28:20.000 There were those of us who were calling it out for legitimately months before she was elected, as soon as she started making the national stage.

00:28:27.000 I mean, this is a woman who appeared on a show with a guy who suggested that Israel was the Jewish ISIS.

00:28:33.000 And she joked on that show about people in the United States taking too seriously and being too afraid of Al-Qaeda and Hezbollah.

00:28:41.000 This is back from 2013.

00:28:43.000 I remember when I was in college, I took a terrorism class.

00:28:48.000 Is there a such thing?

00:28:49.000 Yeah, there was.

00:28:49.000 So you go, there is a lab for that?

00:28:52.000 There was a class.

00:28:52.000 Do you go to the lab?

00:28:54.000 No, we learned the ideology.

00:28:58.000 I'm glad you do that.

00:29:00.000 And so the thing that was interesting in the class was every time the professor said Al-Qaeda, his shoulders went up.

00:29:10.000 He's in command here.

00:29:11.000 He's an expert.

00:29:16.000 Okay, so yeah, we can laugh about al-Qaeda, we can laugh about Hezbollah. 0.99

00:29:20.000 She suggested at the time, by the way, that it's American action in the Middle East that causes terrorism in the Middle East, which is, of course, a trope that is used by radical Islamists all over the world.

00:29:28.000 So, there's nothing new under the sun.

00:29:30.000 There's a reason Ilhan Omar celebrated with Linda Sarsour During the Women's March, there's a reason that she interviewed with that same guy, that same anti-Semite that she was talking to right there.

00:29:38.000 She interviewed with that guy again in January 2017.

00:29:40.000 There's a reason that in less than two weeks, she's supposed to speak at an event next to an open anti-Semitic pro-terror leader.

00:29:47.000 But we're supposed to pretend that she's not an anti-Semite. 0.67

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00:32:32.000 So the reason to lay out Ilhan Omar's entire record here is to suggest that when she makes an anti-Semitic comment in 2019 that is consistent with anti-Semitic commentary she has been issuing for legitimately 10 years, for every moment she has been in the public eye, that this is not in fact a break from her perspective.

00:32:52.000 It is an integral part to her perspective.

00:32:55.000 And we should be treating her the same way publicly that the Republicans treated Steve King.

00:33:00.000 The reason that Steve King went under the bus is because Steve King for years had been saying stuff that was really, really on the line.

00:33:06.000 And there was a way to interpret some of those things as not nefarious.

00:33:11.000 And then all of that exploded when he made these comments about white nationalism and why should we treat white nationalism as a term of no value.

00:33:18.000 Once he did that, I was like, okay, well now we have to go back and look at his whole record in that light.

00:33:22.000 With Ilhan Omar, you didn't even need this comment to do it.

00:33:24.000 She's apologized for anti-Semitism two times in the last month.

00:33:28.000 That's who Ilhan Omar is.

00:33:31.000 Now the reason I also bring this up is because the media have attempted to suggest that President Trump and Ilhan Omar are somehow alike when it comes to the issue of anti-semitism.

00:33:39.000 This is plainly absurd.

00:33:40.000 It is plainly absurd and frankly it's insulting.

00:33:43.000 So it's insulting to the intelligence.

00:33:45.000 And now listen, President Trump has said stuff that can be perceived as anti-semitic.

00:33:50.000 He has done stuff that can be perceived as engaging in anti-semitic tropes.

00:33:54.000 The reason this came up is because yesterday, we'll start at the beginning, President Trump suggested Ilhan Omar should resign.

00:34:00.000 So here was President Trump yesterday saying that Ilhan Omar should resign.

00:34:02.000 Now she should resign, but she shouldn't resign because she tweeted out an anti-Semitic thing over the weekend.

00:34:06.000 She should resign because she's an anti-Semite. 1.00

00:34:09.000 She should be kicked off her committees, certainly not be on the House Foreign Affairs Committee for God's sake, because she is an anti-Semite for as long as she has been in public life, and she has never once wavered from that sentiment, ever.

00:34:21.000 She may have been cudgeled into saying that she made a mild boo-boo. 0.99

00:34:26.000 But she's as anti-Semitic as she ever was.

00:34:28.000 We laid out her record.

00:34:30.000 Here is President Trump, though, focusing in.

00:34:31.000 There's a mistake.

00:34:32.000 He focuses in on the anti-Semitic trope that she used over the weekend as though that's the real problem, not the long record of anti-Semitism that preceded it and engaged with this particular comment.

00:34:41.000 Anti-Semitism has no place in the United States Congress.

00:34:47.000 And Congressman Omar is Terrible what she said, and I think she should either resign from Congress or she should certainly resign from the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

00:35:03.000 What she said is so deep-seated in her heart that her lame apology, and that's what it was.

00:35:12.000 It was lame, and she didn't mean a word of it.

00:35:16.000 Was just not appropriate.

00:35:17.000 I think she should resign from Congress.

00:35:19.000 Okay, Trump is exactly right when he says this is deep-seated in her heart.

00:35:23.000 That is obvious from every action.

00:35:25.000 All of them are consistent.

00:35:26.000 There has never been a point, a point where you can say that this is a philo-semitic person or even a neutral-semitic person.

00:35:32.000 Like, there's no way to do that.

00:35:34.000 None.

00:35:35.000 So Ilhan Omar naturally went back at Trump by suggesting that he's a racist and a bigot and all this stuff.

00:35:39.000 She says, Okay, that is a lie.

00:35:40.000 She has not learned from people impacted by her words.

00:35:41.000 It's a bunch of nonsense.

00:35:42.000 Muslims, indigenous immigrants, black people, and more.

00:35:44.000 I learned from people impacted by my words.

00:35:47.000 When will you?

00:35:47.000 Okay, that is a lie.

00:35:49.000 She has not learned from people impacted by her words.

00:35:51.000 It's a bunch of nonsense.

00:35:52.000 Yesterday on the program, I read you a piece from the Twin Cities Tribune, from Minneapolis Star Tribune, in which Jewish leaders went to Ilhan Omar years ago and tried to have a sit down with her in anti-Semitic intervention and came away completely disturbed by everything So she's just lying about that.

00:36:08.000 The misdirection by the media from Omar to Trump is a very convenient ploy, but it is not realistic for a few reasons.

00:36:15.000 Number one, Ilhan Omar's apology was complete bunk.

00:36:17.000 The reason it was bunk is because she went right back to engaging in the same stereotypical tropes that she used a minute before. 1.00

00:36:23.000 She just got rid of a little bit of the conspiracy theory. 0.96

00:36:25.000 So what she did is she says, Jewish money is responsible for American-Israel support.

00:36:29.000 AIPAC!

00:36:30.000 And then she apologized.

00:36:31.000 She said, oh, I guess that was offensive.

00:36:33.000 But it's AIPAC money that's responsible for Jewish-American support.

00:36:37.000 I mean, for America's support of Israel.

00:36:39.000 That is carving it back just enough so we can pretend it's not anti-semitic.

00:36:43.000 But, again, every comment that she's made for 10 years has been basically anti-semitic when it comes to Israel and Jews, so I'm not sure what we're supposed to take away from that.

00:36:51.000 Also, does this seem like a person who is deeply, deeply regretful of her activity?

00:36:57.000 Yesterday, she sent out an email that was raising money off the entire issue.

00:37:02.000 Adam Rubenstein tweeted this out.

00:37:04.000 If you go to ilhanomar.com, she actually is raising money off of this, saying, we will not be silenced.

00:37:12.000 Stand with Ilhan.

00:37:13.000 We will not be silenced.

00:37:16.000 We will not be silenced?

00:37:18.000 No one's trying to silence you.

00:37:18.000 We're trying to say that you say terrible, terrible things, and that you've taken terrible positions and associated with terrible people, all of which is true.

00:37:25.000 Does this seem like the activity of a person who is deeply regretful of her actions?

00:37:29.000 Here was Ilhan Omar being asked about this by a CNN reporter.

00:37:32.000 Did she stop and say, listen, I am, I've already said I'm deeply sorry about this.

00:37:37.000 It was a mistake.

00:37:37.000 It came out of ignorance and I've learned from it.

00:37:39.000 No, here's how she acts when asked about it.

00:37:41.000 What's wrong with you?

00:37:42.000 I'm asking you a question about your tweet.

00:37:46.000 You had a tweet saying the President tried to talk to me.

00:37:49.000 Yes, I tweeted.

00:37:50.000 There's a response.

00:37:51.000 You can run that.

00:37:52.000 Have a nice day.

00:37:53.000 What a nasty human being.

00:37:54.000 She turns to Manu Raju, who is a reporter for CNN, by the way.

00:37:58.000 And she says, what's wrong with you?

00:37:59.000 What's wrong for even asking the question?

00:38:00.000 Yes, obviously, this is a person who is completely, completely apology ridden.

00:38:07.000 I mean, this is a person who feels complete penance in her heart, clearly.

00:38:11.000 Now, the media rushed to her defense, naturally.

00:38:13.000 The media rushed to her defense.

00:38:15.000 They suggest that the reason that she's being attacked is not because she has a long history of anti-Semitism.

00:38:19.000 The reason that she is the reason she is attacked is because she is a Muslim. 1.00

00:38:23.000 So here's Chris Cuomo doing that idiotic routine, this moronic block of wood on CNN, suggesting that the reason people are angry at Ilhan Omar is not because she has a long record of anti-Semitism, but because she's a Muslim woman and we just can't stand a Muslim woman in Congress.

00:38:36.000 Right.

00:38:37.000 Sure.

00:38:38.000 I mean, by the way, worth noting, I've stated on the show, I've stated on the show that I was happy that Congress changed its rules so that Muslim women could wear hijab on the floor.

00:38:47.000 I think it's a good thing.

00:38:48.000 I was against Trump's Muslim ban when he first proposed it back in 2015.

00:38:52.000 But apparently the reason that I'm anti-Ilhan Omar has nothing to do with a radical antisemitism.

00:38:57.000 It's just that she is a Somali woman who happens to be Muslim.

00:39:00.000 Now to the president.

00:39:02.000 He's calling for Omar to get out.

00:39:04.000 And that is interesting.

00:39:05.000 Because he seemed to say something very similar to what Omar said when addressing the Republican-Jewish coalition in 2015.

00:39:14.000 You're not going to support me because I don't want your money.

00:39:17.000 You want to control your own politician? 0.97

00:39:18.000 That's fine.

00:39:19.000 Now, why is it different?

00:39:20.000 Is it because Omar's Muslim? 0.54

00:39:22.000 And wears a hijab? 0.87

00:39:23.000 I hear a lot of that.

00:39:25.000 And it's not right.

00:39:26.000 Especially when you remember that this president has been down the road of intolerance more than most.

00:39:31.000 Okay, so there's Chris Cuomo doing that routine.

00:39:33.000 Jake Tapper did this routine as well.

00:39:35.000 He turned it into kind of a shtick on his show, which, you know, I like Jake as a reporter, but I thought that this was really ham-fisted and not fair.

00:39:44.000 I'll explain in just a second.

00:39:45.000 So, Jake Tapper on CNN yesterday turned the Ilhan Omar scandal against President Trump by playing old clips of President Trump engaging in anti-Semitic tropes.

00:39:54.000 Here was Tapper doing this with the help of his producers.

00:39:56.000 There is nothing that this White House finds more offensive than a politician feeding into stereotypes about Jews and Jewish money and controlling politicians, which is what Congresswoman Omar is accused of having done. 0.70

00:40:09.000 You know, you're not going to support me because I don't want your money.

00:40:12.000 You don't want to give me money, okay?

00:40:13.000 But that's okay.

00:40:14.000 You want to control your own politician.

00:40:15.000 That's fine.

00:40:16.000 I'm sorry, that was the wrong clip.

00:40:18.000 Control Room, I want the Omar clip. 1.00

00:40:21.000 Give us the Omar clip. 0.76

00:40:24.000 Wait, no, that's not it either.

00:40:25.000 That's a deleted Donald Trump retweet from 2016.

00:40:29.000 Please, the Omar tweet. 0.97

00:40:30.000 Can you show it, please?

00:40:32.000 This isn't it either.

00:40:33.000 This is unbelievable.

00:40:34.000 Okay, so a couple of things that are worth noting about the various clips that Jake Tapper shows right there.

00:40:39.000 First of all, the clip of Trump speaking is at the Republican-Jewish coalition.

00:40:43.000 So he's speaking at the Republican-Jewish coalition, and he followed that statement up by saying, I too have engaged in trying to buy politicians.

00:40:50.000 Okay, so a little context there is necessary.

00:40:53.000 It doesn't mean that he wasn't engaging in an awkward and ignorant anti-semitic trope.

00:40:56.000 He was.

00:40:57.000 And it doesn't mean that when he retweeted something from alt-right accounts, which he was doing consistently in 2016, that that was not forwarding the aspirations of the alt-right.

00:41:04.000 I was the number one recipient of anti-semitism online in 2016 from the alt-right, so I know this better than anyone.

00:41:11.000 However, if you are going to suggest that the real pro- This is why the media have been trying to boil down Ilhan Omar's sin, to this particular statement.

00:41:19.000 They don't want to talk about her entire record, because if they talk about her entire record, then the question becomes, why was she elected as an open anti-Semite in the first place?

00:41:26.000 Why are Democrats tolerating her continued open anti-Semitism?

00:41:29.000 If they can boil it down to, oh, she said a bad thing, well, Trump has said bad things in the past too, then it makes it easy to ignore the fact that Trump is also the most pro-Israel president in American history, that he has Jewish grandchildren, that his daughter is a convert to Judaism, his son-in-law, who is probably his top staffer, is also a Jew.

00:41:46.000 It makes it very easy to ignore all of those things when you focus in on the individual statements.

00:41:50.000 Now, as I said, as I said, you have to analyze people.

00:41:53.000 I said this at the very outside of this monologue.

00:41:54.000 You have to analyze people by the bulk of their work.

00:41:57.000 So, if Trump says an ignorant stereotype about Jews in front of the RJC, while simultaneously being incredibly pro-Jew across his business life, across his administration, in his family life, then you say, okay, probably this comes from ignorance.

00:42:10.000 If, however, an open anti-Semite for years says the same thing, then maybe we shouldn't take it exactly the same way.

00:42:20.000 If Ralph Northam, dressed in blackface in 1985, then spent the next 30 years caring for poor black children in the inner city in his doctor's office, I think maybe we should take that as a notion of ignorance, as opposed to an actual KKK member who spent 30 years terrorizing black people and burning crosses on their lawn, dressing up in blackface.

00:42:38.000 In other words, the activity itself can be bad in both contexts, but how we adjudicate the person based on the activity changes based on the lifetime of experience.

00:42:47.000 So by just saying the real problem is Ilhan Omar's comment, not Ilhan Omar's viewpoint, What the left is doing is escaping culpability for their own complicity in antisemitism.

00:42:57.000 That's what's happening here.

00:42:58.000 They're pushing against Trump in order to avoid the fact that the left has become very, very comfortable with antisemitism in their own ranks.

00:43:05.000 And look at the media trying to defend Ilhan Omar.

00:43:07.000 Here's Brooke Baldwin on CNN saying, well, you know what?

00:43:10.000 You know, Ilhan Omar apologized, so we should let it go at this point.

00:43:12.000 She's apologized twice in the last month.

00:43:15.000 Okay, and she has a long history of anti-Semitic viewpoints. 0.99

00:43:19.000 And yet, CNN is there.

00:43:20.000 Oh, she apologized.

00:43:21.000 We're done here.

00:43:22.000 Really?

00:43:22.000 So if Steve King had apologized, would you think CNN would have said, you know what, we're done here?

00:43:25.000 Nothing more to see?

00:43:26.000 Of course not.

00:43:27.000 Of course not.

00:43:28.000 But here was Brooke Baldwin doing that routine yesterday. 1.00

00:43:31.000 Everyone is offended by something today.

00:43:32.000 Okay, don't.

00:43:33.000 No, no, no, no.

00:43:33.000 No, no, no.

00:43:34.000 And if that's the standard... Don't, don't, don't blanket statement.

00:43:36.000 Seriously, if that's the standard... This is anti-Semitism.

00:43:38.000 Okay.

00:43:38.000 This is anti-Semitism.

00:43:40.000 Okay, but if we are going to... She, she, hang on, Rob.

00:43:42.000 Hang on, hang on, hang on.

00:43:43.000 If we're going to have everyone resign... Hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on.

00:43:46.000 For stupid sayings... Sir.

00:43:48.000 Nobody left.

00:43:49.000 She apologized.

00:43:51.000 It took her a little while and people could say, eh, maybe that's an apology or not.

00:43:55.000 Slow your roll.

00:43:56.000 She apologized.

00:43:57.000 We just played three clips from the candidate and then the man, the president himself.

00:44:02.000 Correct.

00:44:02.000 Tell me how many times he's apologized for those comments.

00:44:04.000 Oh, well, slow your roll.

00:44:05.000 She apologized.

00:44:06.000 Her apology meant nothing when her entire viewpoint is laced with anti-Semitism.

00:44:11.000 I say that we should accept apologies when the apologies are credible.

00:44:14.000 And when it looks like somebody made a mistake.

00:44:16.000 Not when they said something completely in keeping with her view.

00:44:18.000 This wasn't a gaffe by Ilhan Omar.

00:44:20.000 This was in keeping with her viewpoint.

00:44:22.000 And that's what CNN wishes you to ignore.

00:44:24.000 And Nancy Pelosi, I thought, had the most telling take on all of this.

00:44:27.000 So Nancy Pelosi was asked about whether Ilhan Omar would lose her committee assignments the same way Steve King did.

00:44:33.000 And she said, she said no.

00:44:35.000 She said a newcomer member of Congress has apologized for her remarks.

00:44:38.000 It took them, what, 13 years to notice Steve King?

00:44:40.000 Okay, so first of all, she's already comparing Ilhan Omar to Steve King.

00:44:45.000 So she knows exactly what Ilhan Omar is, because Nancy Pelosi believes that Steve King is a deep-seated racist.

00:44:50.000 So she knows what... So what's the lesson here?

00:44:52.000 You get 12 years of free antisemitism before anybody gets to do anything?

00:44:56.000 That because the right was too slow to awaken to Steve King, that therefore Ilhan Omar, who is perfectly obvious, significantly more obvious in her anti-Semitism than Steve King was in his racism until the last few months, that now she's got, I guess, a dozen year reign of anti-Semitism before her, before Nancy Pelosi decides to pay attention to it?

00:45:15.000 The reality is Democrats know exactly what Ilhan Omar is, and they are keeping her on these committees because she is a fresh face.

00:45:21.000 That's all they care about.

00:45:22.000 All they care about is pretending that they are part of this intersectional pyramid that trumps all else.

00:45:27.000 It's really disgusting.

00:45:29.000 And Nancy Pelosi admits as much.

00:45:32.000 That's an awful justification, right?

00:45:34.000 Imagine a justification where somebody does something wrong, and you say, well, you've done something wrong for 12 years, and then you finally acknowledge it, so I guess I get to do something wrong for 12 years.

00:45:44.000 That is not a justification.

00:45:45.000 That is Nancy Pelosi admitting that in her view, Ilhan Omar is Steve King, but she's not going to do anything about it because Republicans were too slow on Steve King.

00:45:51.000 Way to take the moral high ground there, Nancy.

00:45:54.000 The reality is that Ilhan Omar will remain so long as she wishes to remain because the Democrats are fine, fine with anti-Semitism in their ranks.

00:46:01.000 They have been for years.

00:46:03.000 They've been hosting dozens of Congress people who routinely meet with Louis Farrakhan in their caucus for years.

00:46:10.000 And we're all supposed to overlook that, because President Trump said some stuff that engaged in anti-Semitic tropes that was bad stuff, but that did not mesh with his career record.

00:46:20.000 Again, a difference between that and statements that completely mesh with your career record, which is the state of the case for Rashida Tlaib, it's the state of the case for Maxine Waters, it's the state of the case for Ilhan Omar.

00:46:32.000 Alrighty, let's get to, let's get some things I like and then some things that I hate.

00:46:36.000 So, things that I like today.

00:46:37.000 So, yesterday, since I played the Soviet National Anthem in honor of Bernie Sanders and AOC, that got me thinking about great National Anthems.

00:46:43.000 And of course, perhaps the greatest National Anthem is the French National Anthem, the Le Marseillaise.

00:46:48.000 And the best use of Le Marseillaise comes In the greatest movie of all time, Casablanca.

00:46:53.000 This is the best scene from the best movie of all time in Casablanca.

00:46:56.000 A bunch of Germans are standing around in a Moroccan... It's French Morocco.

00:47:00.000 Occupied French Morocco.

00:47:01.000 A bunch of Germans are standing around in a bar owned by Rick Blaine, who is played by Humphrey Bogart.

00:47:08.000 And Victor Laszlo, who's a resistance leader, is there as well.

00:47:11.000 And the Germans start singing the Watch on the Rhine, which is a famous Nazi drinking song. 0.77

00:47:15.000 And Victor Laszlo, the heroic resistance leader, goes to the band and says, it's time to play La Marseillaise.

00:47:24.000 Play La Marseillaise.

00:47:25.000 Wait.

00:47:56.000 The flagpole!

00:48:24.000 Okay, so this is from 1942.

00:48:25.000 One of the things that makes that scene so effective, by the way, is that a lot of the actors in that scene were actual expatriates from Europe who'd been expelled by the Nazis, or had to flee the Nazis.

00:48:34.000 And this was made in 1942 in the middle of the war, so the idea that La Marseillaise was eventually going to triumph over The Watch on the Rhine was still very much in doubt at the time.

00:48:42.000 What a phenomenal movie.

00:48:43.000 It's such a great movie.

00:48:44.000 The one quibble I have with Casablanca is that Paul Henr— Like, when I watch the movie, I don't understand why Ingrid Bergman would be into Humphrey Bogart over Paul Henry.

00:48:51.000 Paul Henry's character is just a much better character.

00:48:54.000 Part of it is that Humphrey Bogart's a little too old for the part, but obviously a fantastic movie and a great national anthem.

00:48:59.000 Okay, time for a bunch of things that I hate.

00:49:05.000 Okay, so we begin with things I hate today with Jussie Smollett.

00:49:08.000 So you'll recall that Jussie Smollett claimed that at 2 a.m.

00:49:10.000 on a Chicago street, he was accosted by two MAGA fans who started shouting at him the F-word and the N-word, and then suggested that he had invaded MAGA country on the streets of Chicago, roped a noose around his neck, and hit him with bleach.

00:49:25.000 Now, there's no camera evidence that any of this happened.

00:49:27.000 He's walking home.

00:49:29.000 The camera stops for about... There are a bunch of cameras in Chicago.

00:49:33.000 He's missing on camera for about 60 seconds.

00:49:35.000 During that 60 second break, suddenly a rope appears around his neck or a clothesline.

00:49:40.000 He walks, wearing that, straight through his lobby, at home, straight through his lobby, still carrying his Subway sandwich, by the way, straight through the lobby, up to his room, waits 40 minutes to call the police, and then, when the police come, and they say, okay, well, can we see your phone?

00:49:52.000 Because you said you were on the phone at the time.

00:49:53.000 He says, no, you can't see my phone.

00:49:55.000 Then finally, when he turned over his phone records, he turned them over, and they were so redacted that they no longer, that they no longer were of any use to the police, which is what the police said.

00:50:02.000 Well, now, Jussie Smollett, who, again, this story was never particularly credible, now he goes on Good Morning America, and he says, how dare anyone Distrust my story, and he cries about it.

00:50:12.000 I'm pissed off.

00:50:13.000 What is it that has you so angry?

00:50:17.000 Is it the attackers?

00:50:19.000 It's the attackers, but it's also the attacks.

00:50:23.000 It's like, you know, at first it was a thing of like, listen, if I tell the truth, then that's it, because it's the truth.

00:50:34.000 Then it became a thing of like, oh, How can you doubt that?

00:50:38.000 Like, how do you not believe that?

00:50:40.000 It's the truth.

00:50:41.000 And then it became a thing of like, oh, it's not necessarily that you don't believe that this is the truth.

00:50:48.000 You don't even want to see the truth.

00:50:52.000 Oh, so it's that we all don't want to see the truth, which is that you were walking down a street in Chicago at 2 a.m.

00:50:58.000 when two MAGA fans who watch Empire recognized you and shouted about MAGA country and beat you up and kicked you in the ribs and roped a noose around your neck and poured bleach on you and then you waited 40 minutes to call the police, didn't turn over your phone, changed your story multiple times.

00:51:17.000 Why wouldn't anyone?

00:51:18.000 It must be natural American racism.

00:51:20.000 It can't be skepticism of stories that seem like they don't hold.

00:51:23.000 It's got to be natural American racism.

00:51:25.000 That's what's going on here.

00:51:27.000 This implication is really obviously stupid, but I guess that GMA will run with it.

00:51:33.000 ABC News will simply run with it without asking the serious questions about whether the story is even true or not.

00:51:38.000 You need some evidence.

00:51:39.000 You would assume there'd be some evidence that this thing happened in the first place.

00:51:42.000 Other things that I hate today.

00:51:44.000 So Trevor Noah, deeply unfunny human on Comedy Central, He was talking about Howard Schultz.

00:51:49.000 Howard Schultz, of course, the former Starbucks CEO, who said on TV something unsayable.

00:51:53.000 He said, I don't see color.

00:51:55.000 By which he meant, I judge people as individuals.

00:51:57.000 Not that he's colorblind or that he has no capacity to see the difference between a black person and a white person in terms of his visual fields, but that when he looks at people, he doesn't see them as members of a race first, which is what we should all aspire to, I thought.

00:52:09.000 I thought that was the idea.

00:52:10.000 But according to Trevor Noah, that's very bad.

00:52:12.000 White people aren't allowed to say this.

00:52:14.000 I didn't see color as a young boy, and I honestly don't see color now.

00:52:19.000 Oh! 0.60

00:52:20.000 This works out great, because I don't hear bullsh**.

00:52:23.000 Uh, yeah.

00:52:25.000 I'm sorry, but you have to see color.

00:52:28.000 There's nothing wrong with seeing color.

00:52:30.000 You just shouldn't treat people differently because of their color.

00:52:33.000 But you have to see it, especially if you want to be president.

00:52:37.000 You know what's interesting?

00:52:38.000 You know what's interesting to me is that it's always white people who say they don't see color.

00:52:42.000 I've never heard a black person like, hey yo, did y'all know Ed Sheeran is white?

00:52:46.000 Okay, well, that's not what he meant, obviously.

00:52:50.000 Howard Schultz, again, did not mean he doesn't see that somebody is black.

00:52:52.000 He meant I don't treat people differently based on their race.

00:52:55.000 And everyone should aspire to that, including Trevor Noah.

00:52:58.000 In fact, Trevor Noah basically says that.

00:53:00.000 He says that we should see color in the sense that we know people are of different races, and then we should treat them exactly the same.

00:53:05.000 The attempt to paint all white people as racist for saying that they are not racist is really amazing. 1.00

00:53:11.000 So, Howard Schultz says I'm not a racist, and then Trevor knows, why are white people always saying they're not racist?

00:53:16.000 Probably because they're racist. 0.96

00:53:18.000 They go, oh my god, what exactly is the guy supposed to say?

00:53:21.000 So if he says that I do see color, but I get over that, and I treat people as individuals in spite of that, then it's, oh, you see color.

00:53:28.000 That means that you are probably a racist.

00:53:30.000 And then you say, well, you know, I don't see color in the sense that people are black, people are white, don't really care.

00:53:34.000 Well, that means that you're a racist because you don't see color, but we know you see color, so you're hiding your racism.

00:53:40.000 I mean, this is, if she's a witch, throw her in the water. 1.00

00:53:43.000 And if she drowns, that means she's innocent.

00:53:45.000 And if she floats, that means she's guilty.

00:53:46.000 That's what we're doing on Race Now.

00:53:48.000 It's really pathetic.

00:53:50.000 Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with two more hours of live programming.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - February 14, 2019

Omar Oh My! | Ep. 717

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