The Ben Shapiro Show - Political Lives Matter | Ep. 1049

00:00:00.000 All the masks are coming off in the mainstream media.

00:00:03.000 Bill de Blasio continues to posture as his citizens die.

00:00:05.000 And the Supreme Court rules against President Trump on his tax returns.

00:00:08.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

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00:00:25.000 Alrighty, so let's begin today with a simple fact.

00:00:28.000 The masks are off in the media.

00:00:29.000 There are no more masks.

00:00:30.000 All the masks are gone.

00:00:32.000 Because President Trump has basically unmasked the media.

00:00:34.000 Now, everybody on the right has been complaining for literally decades that the media are biased.

00:00:38.000 Because the media are biased.

00:00:39.000 And their bias has been obvious and clear.

00:00:41.000 And this does go back All the way to Walter Cronkite declaring that the Tet Offensive was a massive loss for the United States, despite the fact that the United States actually crippled the North Vietnamese militarily during the Tet Offensive.

00:00:52.000 The media have long had a liberal bias, but now the masks are completely off, and members of the media are making it absolutely clear that the masks are completely off.

00:01:02.000 And this holds in virtually every area of American life.

00:01:04.000 It's truly incredible.

00:01:05.000 I've never seen media coverage this bad.

00:01:07.000 And it was really bad during 2016.

00:01:08.000 And it was really bad in 2017 when all we got wall to wall for two years was Russian collusion scandal stuff, right?

00:01:15.000 Now it's as though the media have just decided, you know what?

00:01:18.000 We hate Trump so much.

00:01:19.000 We hate people on the conservative side so much. 0.55

00:01:21.000 We are just going to manipulate data and lie with the data and just lie with abandon.

00:01:25.000 It's really, truly incredible.

00:01:27.000 And this holds on every topic.

00:01:28.000 It holds from race relations in the United States to the economy.

00:01:32.000 It holds from COVID-19.

00:01:34.000 To everything that is constitution and history related.

00:01:37.000 Like the media will just lie to you.

00:01:39.000 And then they'll proclaim it journalism, right?

00:01:41.000 The 1619 Project.

00:01:42.000 We put out there as journalism when it is nothing but propaganda.

00:01:46.000 And narratives will be promulgated about how America is a deeply systemically evil, terrible, racist place.

00:01:53.000 Even when the evidence for that is incredibly scanty.

00:01:55.000 The media have an agenda and they're making that agenda clear every single day.

00:01:59.000 It's incredible.

00:01:59.000 It's on every topic.

00:02:01.000 Let me take a topic that really should not be political, for example.

00:02:04.000 Let me take the topic of what's going on with COVID-19.

00:02:06.000 So right now, there's a big spike in the number of cases that we have seen in places like Texas, Arizona, California, right?

00:02:12.000 We've seen these big spikes really across the Southwest and then in Florida as well.

00:02:17.000 We've seen some spikes in Georgia too.

00:02:19.000 It's an increase in caseload.

00:02:21.000 Now, normally when you are examining what exactly is the factor leading to the spike in caseload, what you might want to do is actually correlate the data.

00:02:29.000 So for example, if you are seeing a big spike in caseload and it is coming eight to 10 weeks after the reopening, maybe just maybe it's not the reopening that is causing this.

00:02:38.000 Maybe, just maybe, the most significant factor, you might posit, might be something like, are people spending lots of time indoors with their conditioning?

00:02:45.000 Did it get so hot down south that everybody went in their houses, or went out to public places, went to restaurants, and instead of eating outdoors, they ate indoors?

00:02:53.000 Instead of hanging out with their friends on the beach, it was too hot, they went inside and they hung out at a bar, right?

00:02:57.000 Wouldn't that be a factor that you would spend more time on?

00:03:00.000 And in fact, the data tends to support this suggestion because if you actually look at many of the states that reopened at the same time, for example, Colorado and Georgia, they've had wildly variant caseloads.

00:03:11.000 So Colorado reopened literally the same day, I believe, the same week for sure, as Georgia.

00:03:16.000 And got no attention for it because, of course, the governor of Colorado is a Democrat and the governor of Georgia is a Republican.

00:03:21.000 And so Georgia was going to be the place where everyone dies, right?

00:03:24.000 Everyone's going to die in Georgia.

00:03:25.000 And Colorado doesn't exist.

00:03:27.000 It stopped existing the minute that they did the same thing as Georgia.

00:03:30.000 Well, Georgia, since the since the reopening, it has now been nearly three months since the reopening in Georgia, according to The New York Times.

00:03:37.000 They have started to experience an uptick in cases, right?

00:03:40.000 They're about 245% in cases, which is a significant uptick in the number of cases.

00:03:44.000 And they're starting to see more people hospitalized and more people who are going to ICUs.

00:03:48.000 Now, is it an incredibly massive number of people who are doing this?

00:03:51.000 It's not thousands of people.

00:03:53.000 It's not several hundred people who are dying in ICUs in Georgia right now.

00:03:57.000 The day-on-day death toll in Georgia is still below 100 last time I checked.

00:04:02.000 Okay, but with all of that said, they are seeing a spike.

00:04:05.000 But you know who's not seeing a spike and opened at the exact same time is Colorado.

00:04:10.000 Colorado is not seeing a spike.

00:04:11.000 Colorado is down 41% according to the New York Times in average daily cases.

00:04:17.000 So what the hell is going on?

00:04:18.000 We don't know what the hell is going on.

00:04:20.000 The answer is probably that Colorado in the summertime is quite nice and Georgia in the summertime is sweltering.

00:04:25.000 And so people in Georgia are going indoors and they are hanging out in crowded places indoors with lots of air conditioning.

00:04:32.000 That is the most likely scenario here.

00:04:34.000 That is the probable rationale for why we are seeing all of this happening.

00:04:40.000 Or at least it's a much better rationale than the reopening, because the reopening really does not in any way reflect The sort of delayed statistics that we are currently seeing.

00:04:50.000 By the way, the actual statistic on daily new deaths in Georgia, not only well below 100, well, well below 100, like below 30 daily deaths in Georgia, all of last week.

00:04:59.000 I think yesterday it was eight.

00:05:01.000 The day before that it was 23, according to Worldometers.

00:05:04.000 Okay, so this mass spike that you are seeing in cases is not correlated with mass deaths in Georgia.

00:05:08.000 You're seeing increased deaths more so, not in Georgia, more so in Florida, more so in Texas, more so in California, where you're seeing over 100 daily deaths in places like that.

00:05:19.000 So is it the reopening?

00:05:20.000 According to the media, it is the reopening.

00:05:22.000 And this is where you see the mask absolutely coming off.

00:05:24.000 So the New York Times round piece called, the U.S.

00:05:26.000 surge is being driven largely by states that move to reopen early.

00:05:30.000 And then they have a chart, and it shows places like Florida, Arizona, South Carolina, Texas, Georgia, highlighted on this chart, right?

00:05:38.000 Because those are all the places that reopened early.

00:05:40.000 A few places that are not highlighted on the chart are places like California that has also seen a spike.

00:05:45.000 In fact, a spike that is similarly sized to Georgia's, but they're not highlighted.

00:05:49.000 Why aren't they highlighted?

00:05:50.000 The reason they're not highlighted, because L.A.

00:05:52.000 didn't really reopen.

00:05:53.000 L.A.

00:05:53.000 never reopened, right?

00:05:54.000 California has not been reopened very long at all, and they are seeing a spike As big as Georgia's after a shorter period of time.

00:06:01.000 So it doesn't help the narrative the media are trying to push that it's the evil Republican states that are causing all of this.

00:06:06.000 And the way that you know how corrupt the media are on all of this is that the same chart from the New York Times highlights New York.

00:06:12.000 So it shows Florida plus 1,393% in daily cases.

00:06:18.000 What did they do right?

00:06:19.000 cases.

00:06:20.000 Arizona, up 858% in daily identified cases.

00:06:23.000 By the way, largely in border areas.

00:06:25.000 There is a serious issue with people who are coming across the border specifically to go to American hospitals because the infection rate in Mexico right now is extraordinarily high.

00:06:33.000 And then it shows New York.

00:06:34.000 New York down 52%.

00:06:36.000 Well, what did they do right?

00:06:37.000 What could New York have possibly done right?

00:06:40.000 Okay, the actual answer, what did New York do right?

00:06:42.000 Everyone died.

00:06:43.000 That's the actual answer.

00:06:44.000 Okay, the reason, it's incredible to watch the media retcon this whole thing in real time.

00:06:50.000 It's unbelievable, actually.

00:06:51.000 I mean, like, there was a tweet that was put out, Scott Gottlieb, who's been a guest on my Sunday special, he suggested, the U.S.

00:06:57.000 approach on COVID is a tale of two cities.

00:06:59.000 Some states, like Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts, sought to crush the virus.

00:07:02.000 Some, like Florida, Texas, and Arizona, sought the Swedish model and tried to manage spreads of the less vulnerable.

00:07:07.000 Without a more uniform U.S.

00:07:08.000 approach, it'll be hard for either strategy to work.

00:07:09.000 Okay, from just that tweet, you would think that there were some states that attempted to crush the virus, and there were some states that sought to manage the spread, and then they've ended up kind of roughly equivalent or something like that, right?

00:07:20.000 Or even that the ones that are crushing the virus, now they're crushing the virus, man.

00:07:23.000 They've made it.

00:07:24.000 They've crushed the virus.

00:07:25.000 Okay, what actually happened?

00:07:27.000 The Northeastern states, like New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, the ones that went into full lockdown mode, Everyone died.

00:07:35.000 Okay, not because of the lockdowns, but because it was there early.

00:07:39.000 They didn't know what to do with it.

00:07:40.000 They were sending COVID patients back into nursing homes.

00:07:43.000 Like, half the patients who died in these cases were nursing home patients, basically.

00:07:47.000 People who were in elderly or assisted living facilities.

00:07:50.000 Hey, let me give you the actual stats on the quote-unquote crush-the-curve people versus the maintain-the-spread people.

00:07:56.000 Because right now, remember, all focus in the United States is on Texas, Florida, Arizona, right?

00:08:00.000 That's where all the focus is right now.

00:08:02.000 All of it, okay?

00:08:03.000 It is not like there is some focus on New Jersey or New York, where by the way, cases continue to crop up in New York.

00:08:09.000 There's still 500 to 1,000 daily cases in New York that are happening every single day.

00:08:14.000 And if you look at these states where there's still mass levels of death, just gonna note, New York still ranks like number six on this chart.

00:08:23.000 New Jersey had over 100 deaths yesterday.

00:08:26.000 Is anyone talking about New Jersey?

00:08:28.000 In order of deaths yesterday, it goes California number one.

00:08:32.000 California had 137.

00:08:33.000 No one's mentioning California.

00:08:35.000 Florida number two, it's according to worldometers.

00:08:37.000 New Jersey is number three.

00:08:39.000 So two of the top three are blue states, right?

00:08:41.000 But you don't hear California and you don't hear New Jersey.

00:08:44.000 New Jersey had over 100 deaths yesterday.

00:08:46.000 Texas is number 4 behind New Jersey at 102.

00:08:48.000 Arizona's number 5 at 75.

00:08:51.000 Then New York at 32.

00:08:52.000 Then Virginia, which is now blue, at 32.

00:08:55.000 Then Pennsylvania, which is now blue, at 31.

00:08:58.000 Right?

00:08:59.000 Then you've got Massachusetts, which is blue, at 25.

00:09:01.000 Okay, then you get down into Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina.

00:09:05.000 Okay, so that list does not suggest that red versus blue is the deciding factor here, right?

00:09:11.000 You're seeing it in red states and you're seeing it in blue states.

00:09:13.000 You're seeing it in lockdown states and you're seeing it in non-lockdown states.

00:09:15.000 What does this actually suggest?

00:09:17.000 It suggests that when the virus goes around, it kills everybody who's vulnerable.

00:09:20.000 And the only thing you can really do is protect the vulnerable.

00:09:23.000 That's really what it suggests.

00:09:24.000 And the less time you can spend in confined areas with people breathing from the same air conditioning facilities, the better off you are.

00:09:30.000 That's all this suggests.

00:09:31.000 It doesn't suggest even that masking is the particularly effective factor, right?

00:09:35.000 Maybe masking works.

00:09:36.000 Maybe it doesn't.

00:09:37.000 Maybe it slows the spread.

00:09:38.000 Maybe the evidence on this is actually kind of mixed, okay?

00:09:41.000 By the way, the going medical wisdom up until 2016-2017 is that wearing masks to prevent the spread of flu, for example, Was not supremely effective.

00:09:49.000 So there's some evidence that suggests, sure, it helps stop the spread of this thing, particularly if you're in close quarters for not huge periods of time.

00:09:57.000 But it is also true that a lot of the particles do escape the mask and all the rest of this sort of stuff.

00:10:00.000 So I think that clarity here in what we don't know is actually quite useful.

00:10:06.000 But the media are attempting to drive a narrative, and so the media are just being dishonest about all of this stuff.

00:10:10.000 The suggestion that lockdowns are the key, and that we should re-lockdown because lockdowns are the key, is absolutely anti-data.

00:10:17.000 There is not enough data to support this perspective.

00:10:20.000 Let me give you the total deaths by state.

00:10:22.000 Total deaths by state.

00:10:23.000 Because remember, we're told that some of these states—Texas, Florida, Arizona, you're doing it wrong.

00:10:28.000 You opened up too early.

00:10:29.000 Georgia, you did it, you opened up too early.

00:10:31.000 New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut, you locked it down, guys.

00:10:34.000 You were really solid on this stuff.

00:10:36.000 Wait until you hear the differential in deaths in these states.

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00:12:02.000 Here are the actual death statistics from each of these states.

00:12:05.000 Because remember, the narrative of the media, that was the New York Times' headline, not my headline, the New York Times' headline, current spike being driven by states that reopened.

00:12:13.000 It's the lockdowns that caused all of this, right?

00:12:15.000 The end of the lockdowns is what has caused all of this.

00:12:17.000 Never mind the fact that the media were literally cheering on mass protests in the streets in state after state across the country among young people, and then showed surprise, surprise, a bunch of young people ended up sick with COVID.

00:12:28.000 Who could have predicted such a thing?

00:12:30.000 Who could have?

00:12:31.000 Except for everyone with half a working brain.

00:12:33.000 But again, that stark divide the media are trying to draw between good blue states, good, excellent blue states.

00:12:38.000 And bad, evil, anti-lockdown red states where they don't believe in science?

00:12:42.000 Okay, let me give you the actual deaths per state.

00:12:45.000 And then I'll give you the population adjusted.

00:12:47.000 Deaths per million.

00:12:48.000 Okay, deaths by state.

00:12:49.000 New York, 32,343.

00:12:50.000 They have a population of 19.5 million.

00:12:55.000 New Jersey, 15,522.

00:12:57.000 Total population of New Jersey, 8.9 million.

00:13:01.000 Massachusetts, 8,268.

00:13:04.000 Total population, 6.9 million.

00:13:06.000 Connecticut, 4,348.

00:13:08.000 Total population, 3.5 million.

00:13:10.000 Okay, so some of those states you haven't even heard about, right?

00:13:12.000 You've heard a lot about New York and New Jersey because those were the big headlines.

00:13:15.000 Who knew that Massachusetts had had over 8,000 deaths?

00:13:18.000 8,000, that's a lot of deaths, guys.

00:13:21.000 Who knew that Connecticut, which is a tiny postage stamp of a state, who knew that Connecticut, gorgeous state, but only 3.5 million people live there, had had over 4,000 deaths?

00:13:30.000 Who knew that?

00:13:31.000 That's a big number for a very small state.

00:13:34.000 Now, here by contrast are your evil, terrible, no good, very bad, anti-lockdown states.

00:13:39.000 You ready?

00:13:40.000 Texas, with a total population of 29 million, 10 million higher than New York, right?

00:13:45.000 It has the population of New York and New Jersey combined.

00:13:47.000 Does Texas.

00:13:48.000 Has a bigger population than New York and New Jersey combined.

00:13:50.000 Remember, New York and New Jersey have had a combined total of nearly, at this point, approaching 50,000 deaths in those two states.

00:13:57.000 Texas, with a total population of 29 million, is at 3,046 deaths.

00:14:02.000 As of today.

00:14:03.000 Florida, with a total population of 21.5 million, which is, again, 2 million higher than New York State, has about 4,000 deaths right now.

00:14:11.000 Arizona, which has 7.3 million citizens, which is a population slightly larger than that of Massachusetts, by about 400,000, has 2,000 deaths.

00:14:20.000 Okay, so who crushed what curve now?

00:14:22.000 Who's done it like a great job?

00:14:24.000 Here's a quick list of the deaths per million by those populations, okay?

00:14:28.000 New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut in the one group, and then Texas, Florida, Arizona in the other group, right?

00:14:33.000 Because we're now following the media's narrative.

00:14:35.000 The media's narrative is that the second group is the evil group.

00:14:37.000 The second group did it wrong.

00:14:39.000 They didn't lock down long enough.

00:14:40.000 And maybe we need to go back to lockdown because lockdown is the key, right?

00:14:43.000 Okay, here are the deaths per million population by state.

00:14:48.000 New York, 1,663.

00:14:50.000 New Jersey, 1,748.

00:14:53.000 Massachusetts, 1,200.

00:14:55.000 Connecticut, 1,200.

00:14:56.000 Texas, 105.

00:14:58.000 Florida, 187.

00:15:01.000 Arizona, 280.

00:15:02.000 So in other words, the lockdown, lock it all down, we're gonna crush the curve, flatten the curve states, have a death rate per million that is somewhere between eight and 15 times as high as the evil, no good, very bad Texas, Florida, Arizona states.

00:15:18.000 So maybe that's going to change.

00:15:19.000 Maybe that'll change, right?

00:15:20.000 We don't know.

00:15:21.000 We don't know.

00:15:21.000 Maybe this is a time lag.

00:15:23.000 Maybe the reality is that as the summer goes on, many more people will die in Texas, Florida, and Arizona.

00:15:28.000 What is one thing you certainly cannot justify at this point?

00:15:30.000 You cannot justify the argument that lockdowns themselves were the key to answering this question because they clearly weren't in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Connecticut.

00:15:39.000 They clearly were not A far more plausible theory is that the population was subjected to the virus at mass numbers, and a lot of people died, and now the R-naught has basically declined.

00:15:49.000 Because now there are not enough people to infect other people.

00:15:52.000 Because once a significant percentage of your population has already had this thing, Well, then you've reached some level of quasi-herd immunity. 0.90

00:15:59.000 At least you've slowed the spread.

00:16:00.000 There are two ways to slow the spread, right?

00:16:02.000 One is to prevent people from getting the infection in the first place.

00:16:04.000 The second is you take people off the board.

00:16:06.000 Unfortunately, tragically, either many people died from this thing or they were infected and then they recovered, right?

00:16:13.000 And now they can't pass the thing.

00:16:15.000 But the media are so invested in the narrative that they are willing to sell you a basic lie.

00:16:19.000 And that's incredible.

00:16:21.000 And again, the basic lie is driven in pursuit of a broader agenda.

00:16:21.000 That's incredible.

00:16:25.000 And that broader agenda is we got to keep everything shut down.

00:16:27.000 Everything has to be shut down.

00:16:28.000 And if you mentioned that the schools, you might want to open them.

00:16:30.000 If you suggest that companies should remain open, well, then you're the bad guy.

00:16:36.000 Now, let's be real about this.

00:16:37.000 At no point along this entire way, Is anyone in the media being honest with you?

00:16:42.000 That there is no alternative by which we all remain locked down until a vaccine is available.

00:16:47.000 That is not an alternative.

00:16:48.000 It is not a thing that is going to happen.

00:16:49.000 It's not happening in Europe.

00:16:50.000 France has already announced they're not going back into lockdown.

00:16:53.000 If they start to have another uptick, they're not going back into lockdown.

00:16:56.000 They're just going to move with mitigation.

00:16:57.000 Canada has basically suggested the same thing.

00:17:01.000 The idea that everybody's going to go back into lockdown until a non-existent vaccine that may never arrive properly is going to save us all from Deus Ex Machina style?

00:17:09.000 Like, I wish.

00:17:10.000 I wish.

00:17:10.000 You wish.

00:17:11.000 We all wish, right?

00:17:11.000 But that doesn't have anything to do with reality.

00:17:13.000 The reality is we're all going to have to learn how we live with this thing.

00:17:16.000 And this brings up the question of schools, which we're going to get to in just a second.

00:17:20.000 Again, all of this tied into a broader narrative about the media's newfound honesty in their dishonesty.

00:17:25.000 It's amazing.

00:17:27.000 They're still claiming objectivity.

00:17:28.000 At the same time, they are openly promoting particular points of view.

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00:18:51.000 Okay, so the media's narrative on a lot of this stuff is obviously driven by politics more than it is driven by data.

00:18:58.000 The reality is that hospitals are indeed seeing an increased burden.

00:19:03.000 We are not seeing the hospitals being overloaded.

00:19:05.000 Even in New York, by the way, where it got really close to being overloaded, they were actually not overloaded with COVID, right?

00:19:09.000 A lot of the facilities ended up going empty, the new facilities that were built.

00:19:13.000 One Houston ER doctor, right?

00:19:14.000 Things are bad in Houston.

00:19:16.000 One Houston ER doctor said, you know, you guys really need to stop making the comparison to New York, because this ain't New York, right?

00:19:22.000 We are seeing an uptick in cases and we are seeing an uptick in hospitalizations, but we have resources.

00:19:27.000 This is not New York.

00:19:29.000 I think everybody's worried about, you know, the continued escalating cases and what happens then.

00:19:35.000 But today, we are full, but we are making new beds and we are pulling more people into work and staff those beds.

00:19:44.000 So, that's where we're at.

00:19:46.000 It's certainly not as bad as it was in New York City and my colleagues there went through.

00:19:53.000 It's horrifying what they went through.

00:19:55.000 We are not at that point.

00:19:58.000 That being said, everybody wants to prevent us from getting to that point.

00:20:00.000 So we're also asking everyone to please stay at home if possible and wear a mask.

00:20:05.000 Okay, so again, the notion that we should be worried is correct.

00:20:08.000 The notion that we are about to be overwhelmed New York style.

00:20:12.000 And remember, the goal of flattening the curve for the one millionth time was never to prevent the spread.

00:20:16.000 Okay, the goal of flattening the curve was to prevent the system from being overwhelmed.

00:20:20.000 We are not seeing that right now.

00:20:21.000 Okay, so this has also opened up a whole conversation about whether we should reopen the schools.

00:20:26.000 Now, what the data suggests is that kids are not getting this, particularly young kids.

00:20:30.000 Young kids, if you're under the age of 20, the statistics suggest you are more at risk from the flu than you are from this.

00:20:36.000 It is less deadly to kids under the age of 20, to young people, than the flu.

00:20:41.000 Okay, we don't cancel school because of the flu.

00:20:43.000 We don't.

00:20:43.000 On rare occasions, I have seen stories about schools being canceled because of the flu.

00:20:47.000 That is a very, very rare circumstance.

00:20:49.000 What people are really worried about are the teachers.

00:20:51.000 They're really worried that the teachers are gonna come in, and you got a 50-year-old math teacher gets infected with COVID and dies from one of the students.

00:20:57.000 And that's a legit worry.

00:20:58.000 It's legit to worry about the teachers.

00:21:00.000 But we have this bizarre situation where now everybody is staying at home, but kids are going out and playing with their friends.

00:21:05.000 Many of them are going to summer camp.

00:21:07.000 And then you basically have de facto school.

00:21:11.000 You have de facto kids getting together, With counselors, and then they come home and their parents are older.

00:21:17.000 In other words, a lot of this doesn't make any sense.

00:21:20.000 President Trump has said, listen, we should open the schools.

00:21:22.000 What we are seeing right now with vast numbers of kids, like literally 40% of kids apparently in Los Angeles, never even did one Zoom session in school during the last school year.

00:21:32.000 So when things shut down, they just were like, okay, well, I guess it's summer.

00:21:34.000 And it was the middle of March, right?

00:21:36.000 So the idea that we're gonna have an entire another school year where people are going to school for two days a week, More four-year-olds are socially distancing and this kind of thing.

00:21:44.000 That is really not a possibility.

00:21:46.000 And there have been some columnists in the New York Times who are not of the right saying, listen, what are you going to do for single moms who have to work?

00:21:52.000 They have to work.

00:21:53.000 What's your plan here?

00:21:54.000 Because you're basically suggesting that they have no childcare.

00:21:56.000 Remember, school isn't just a place where kids learn.

00:21:58.000 It is also a place where parents drop off their kids and then go to work.

00:22:01.000 So what exactly happens here?

00:22:03.000 So it seems like schooling is kind of vital.

00:22:05.000 And it also seems like one of the only things we know about this disease is that it does not strike kids.

00:22:10.000 Thank God, thank God, right?

00:22:11.000 That it's one of the only things we know, which would suggest that maybe some creative solutions could be in the offing.

00:22:15.000 So for example, why not have schools, my friend Jon Podhoretz on the Commentary Podcast Magazine, which is definitely worth the subscription.

00:22:22.000 You should go listen to it.

00:22:24.000 Jon Podhoretz has made the suggestion.

00:22:25.000 I think it's a smart suggestion.

00:22:26.000 Why not have schools where kids go to school and you have 21-year-olds out of college, proctors basically, and then the teacher zooms in?

00:22:35.000 Why is it that the teacher has to zoom into all their kids in their own homes?

00:22:38.000 Why not let the kids go to school? 0.97

00:22:40.000 Then you have sort of the best of both worlds, and you have younger teachers who are there, who are likely not going to be infected with this in a very serious way.

00:22:48.000 If you're 21 or 22, you're not dying from this thing on a statistical level.

00:22:52.000 Some people will die.

00:22:53.000 That's a real, real, real exception, statistically speaking.

00:22:56.000 And why isn't that on the table?

00:22:57.000 But the idea is if you even mention opening schools, it's because you don't care about the children.

00:23:01.000 Well, but kids aren't dying from this.

00:23:03.000 What the hell are you talking about?

00:23:04.000 What you're really talking about is protecting the teachers.

00:23:06.000 Okay, fair enough.

00:23:07.000 But you don't shut down the schools to protect the teachers.

00:23:10.000 If the education is for the students, what you do is you make sure that the students can go to school and then you let the teachers Skype in.

00:23:18.000 Why is this off the table?

00:23:19.000 So Trump mentions this and all hell breaks loose.

00:23:21.000 We have to open our schools.

00:23:24.000 Open our schools.

00:23:26.000 Stop this nonsense.

00:23:29.000 We open our schools.

00:23:31.000 Germany, Norway, so many countries right now.

00:23:35.000 They're open.

00:23:36.000 The schools are open.

00:23:37.000 And they're doing just fine.

00:23:39.000 And they're opening in the fall.

00:23:41.000 So we have to get our schools open.

00:23:44.000 Denmark, Sweden.

00:23:46.000 We have to get our schools open.

00:23:49.000 Okay, so people are saying, yeah, but all those places have this thing under control. 0.92

00:23:52.000 And that's true, that's true.

00:23:53.000 It makes things a lot easier when you don't have a large baseline of cases, right?

00:23:57.000 That's true.

00:23:58.000 But it is also true that the rate of kids dying from this thing is the same across the world, right?

00:24:02.000 And that is extraordinarily, extraordinarily low.

00:24:04.000 So then you have Nancy Pelosi just demagoguing this thing, right? 0.99

00:24:07.000 Nancy Pelosi says, we don't want our children risking school.

00:24:09.000 The kids aren't at risk, okay?

00:24:10.000 They're the only subgroup of the population who are at lower risk for this thing than they are of the flu.

00:24:16.000 But here's an answer.

00:24:16.000 I mean, this is just lying with not even real statistics, with fake statistics.

00:24:22.000 The Secretary of Education indicated that children should go to school.

00:24:28.000 They have to take risks.

00:24:30.000 Everybody takes risks.

00:24:31.000 Take risks to ride a bicycle, to be an astronaut.

00:24:34.000 There's risk.

00:24:35.000 You have to take risk.

00:24:36.000 No, we don't want our children to take risk to go to school.

00:24:40.000 We're supposed to mitigate for any damage.

00:24:43.000 We're supposed to keep them safe.

00:24:46.000 So with stiff competition, that was one of the most ill-informed statements—stiff competition, though, in this administration.

00:24:54.000 OK, that's absurd.

00:24:57.000 The risk to kids from going to school from this thing is lower than the risk to the kids going to school with the flu out and about.

00:25:04.000 Right.

00:25:04.000 And so she's just lying about this sort of stuff.

00:25:05.000 But this has become, again, the conventional wisdom in the media.

00:25:08.000 How dare we discuss going to school again?

00:25:11.000 Like two weeks ago, again, half the left was like, kids need to go to school so parents can go to work.

00:25:16.000 Because what do we do with all the single moms who need to work? 1.00

00:25:19.000 And now it's like Nancy Pelosi's out there.

00:25:20.000 The kids are at risk.

00:25:21.000 The kids are not at risk.

00:25:22.000 That's the only thing we do know.

00:25:24.000 We know very little about this virus.

00:25:25.000 That is literally one of the only things we know.

00:25:27.000 We're going to get into more of the media just stripping off the mask.

00:25:31.000 It's incredible.

00:25:32.000 It's incredible to watch in real time as the media just strips off the mask.

00:25:35.000 It's particularly for issues of race.

00:25:36.000 We'll get to that in a second.

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00:27:00.000 Okay, so it's not just on COVID-19 where the media have been doing yeoman's work on behalf of a narrative that is unrelated to the factual situation undergirding it.

00:27:12.000 On race, obviously, the media have been doing the same thing in dramatic, dramatic ways.

00:27:16.000 It's a good article by my friend John Lott over in Real Clear Politics talking about the media divide on reporting in race-based cases.

00:27:25.000 He says, On Saturday, a man drove his car onto a Seattle freeway that had been closed by a Black Lives Matter crowd.

00:27:31.000 The driver killed one person and seriously injured another after going the wrong way up a ramp and then around a barricade.

00:27:36.000 Reports noted that the police, quote, Don't believe impairment was a factor.

00:27:42.000 Over the weekend, news outlets replayed the brutal hit, but here's one thing you won't learn from their coverage.

00:27:46.000 The driver was black, his victims were white.

00:27:48.000 NPR linked this attack to other car-ramming incidents by, quote, right-wing extremists targeting Black Lives Matter protesters.

00:27:54.000 They quoted a researcher about how these right-wingers were, quote, trying to intimidate the most recent wave of BLM protesters to stop their movement.

00:28:00.000 The driver was a Seattle local named Dawit Kilit, but you'll find scant mention of the driver's ethnicity in mainstream media coverage.

00:28:07.000 He might have more easily learned that he was black by going to Australia's Broadcasting Corporation.

00:28:12.000 The American national media don't note that Keeley's two victims were white.

00:28:15.000 You can only find that out over the UK Daily Mail.

00:28:19.000 One case doesn't prove a pattern.

00:28:20.000 It could be that while the American media knows almost everything about this killer, including his name, age, where he lives, they couldn't find information on his race, but probably not.

00:28:28.000 Research conducted by the Crime Prevention Research Center, of which I am president, says John Lott, on all police shootings from 2013 to 2015 found that while local news coverage will often mention the race of the officer and the suspect, the national coverage is much more selective.

00:28:40.000 While the evidence indicates that black officers are no less likely to shoot suspects than white officers, local news coverage of black officers shooting black suspects gets picked up by the national news in just 9% of cases.

00:28:52.000 By contrast, 38% of the cases in which local news reported on a white officer shooting a black suspect get national coverage.

00:29:00.000 Okay, so in other words, they're only covering the story when the story supports their broader narrative.

00:29:04.000 We've talked about this very often on the program.

00:29:07.000 And by the way, we put in calls here at Daily Wire.

00:29:09.000 We put in calls to places like the LA Times and the New York Times looking for what is your objective journalistic standard on when you mention race in a particular case.

00:29:17.000 Why is it that you won't mention race if a black person kills a white person, but if a white person kills a black person, you will 100% of the time mention the race? 0.55

00:29:24.000 It's not just the stories that get picked up at the national level.

00:29:27.000 It's how the races are mentioned when the stories are picked up at the national level as well.

00:29:32.000 This is not a shock.

00:29:34.000 This is what the media do.

00:29:36.000 And then they call it objective news coverage.

00:29:38.000 Now, the most obvious about this sort of stuff is Don Lemon.

00:29:41.000 So Don Lemon still bizarrely claims that he's an objective news reporter, which is just, I mean, you have to be an insane person to believe this.

00:29:48.000 You have to have been dropped on your head as a baby, not one time, but like repeatedly and from a great height.

00:29:53.000 And with force in order to believe this contention.

00:29:56.000 So here is Don Lemon explaining on Uproxx that he is not a biased reporter.

00:30:00.000 He's just speaking his truth, which is the definition of bias.

00:30:04.000 OK, once you say it's my truth and not the truth, then you are no longer an objective news reporter.

00:30:09.000 You're an opinion person.

00:30:11.000 My truth is your subjective perception of the world.

00:30:14.000 The truth is an objectively verifiable description of a situation.

00:30:18.000 Here is Don Lemon conflating the two and then claiming that he's an objective news reporter.

00:30:23.000 My role as a journalist is to speak from my truth and from my lens and from where I come from.

00:30:29.000 And I don't think those things are biases.

00:30:31.000 I am a black man who grew up and who lives and survives and works in America.

00:30:36.000 I have a certain perspective and a certain point of view, and I'm bringing that important part of the diverse culture of this company to the fore.

00:30:44.000 And I should be.

00:30:45.000 And so the people who don't want to hear that, who don't want to hear my truth, will say to you that I am biased.

00:30:52.000 I'm not biased.

00:30:54.000 This is my truth as a black man in America.

00:30:56.000 He's not biased, guys.

00:30:57.000 He's not biased at all.

00:30:58.000 This is just his truth, which is bias, the definition of bias.

00:31:02.000 It's pretty incredible stuff, right?

00:31:03.000 The media's masks, they're all coming off and they don't even understand the masks are slipping, right?

00:31:08.000 They keep going, why are we losing credibility?

00:31:09.000 Because you keep promulgating narratives that are not true about the state of the United States because they are, quote unquote, your truths.

00:31:16.000 And politicians pick up on this, by the way.

00:31:19.000 Politicians pick up on all of this, and then they run with it.

00:31:23.000 Bill de Blasio has picked up on this, and he's running with it.

00:31:25.000 So people are getting shot every single day in New York.

00:31:27.000 They're seeing a vast uptick in the murder rate in New York City.

00:31:31.000 I believe last I checked, 100% of all people shot in New York City over the course of the last month are people of color. 0.96

00:31:37.000 Nearly all of them are black. 0.65

00:31:39.000 That is not something Bill de Blasio will talk about. 0.94

00:31:43.000 Instead, Bill de Blasio will simply say that it's time to paint giant murals that say Black Lives Matter in front of Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue.

00:31:52.000 And what will the media cover?

00:31:54.000 Will the media cover this stuff?

00:31:55.000 No, the media won't cover the shootings, really.

00:31:58.000 They'll cover it, but kind of tangentially.

00:31:59.000 There was a headline yesterday, I believe it was from the AP, talking about it's puzzling why the shootings have increased.

00:32:05.000 I think they used the word mysterious to describe why the shootings have increased.

00:32:09.000 Get the Scooby van, guys.

00:32:10.000 Who the hell knows?

00:32:11.000 Get the mystery machine.

00:32:12.000 We gotta get Shaggy on the case.

00:32:15.000 Who could?

00:32:16.000 Ruh-roh. 0.99

00:32:17.000 Who could figure it out? 1.00

00:32:20.000 Why would there be more shootings when you're trying to defund the police, you idiots? 1.00

00:32:23.000 And when you're focusing on painting giant yellow signs that say Black Lives Matter in front of Trump Tower, ooh, we showed Trump. 1.00

00:32:29.000 Orange man bad. 0.78

00:32:30.000 Problem solved.

00:32:32.000 So Bill de Blasio, here he was painting BLM in front of the Trump Tower.

00:32:36.000 He said, this is an example of action we can take for black Americans.

00:32:41.000 Wow, America's a better place today because you painted some letters on a sidewalk.

00:32:45.000 Boom.

00:32:46.000 Done.

00:32:47.000 Magical.

00:32:48.000 Wow. 0.94

00:32:49.000 The great irony is going to be, and the great horrible irony is going to be, when a person of color gets shot and dies on the logo that says Black Lives Matter outside Trump Tower. 0.78

00:32:58.000 Because that's what's going to happen in New York City eventually, right?

00:33:00.000 I mean, that is the symbol of Bill de Blasio's mayoralty.

00:33:03.000 It's a giant strip painting that says Black Lives Matter, and then people of color dying on it after being shot in his city.

00:33:10.000 OK, because that's what's actually going on in his city.

00:33:12.000 Here's Bill de Blasio talking about all the wonderful things he's done for black people, like putting paint on a sidewalk.

00:33:16.000 I mean, like, great work there, Commie Bill.

00:33:20.000 It was such an important message.

00:33:22.000 The people of this city believe black lives matter.

00:33:24.000 And we wanted to send that message to our whole city, but to our whole nation.

00:33:28.000 And it can't just be words, Wolf.

00:33:29.000 It has to be actions.

00:33:30.000 So we're taking resources from our police department and putting it into youth programs.

00:33:36.000 We're acknowledging institutional racism and coming up with specific plans to tear it down.

00:33:41.000 We need to take this transcendent moment and get the most out of it.

00:33:45.000 Oh man, transcendent moment.

00:33:47.000 Paint some stuff.

00:33:48.000 Let's paint peace murals.

00:33:50.000 We've done it.

00:33:50.000 Build, wow, wow.

00:33:52.000 I mean, he's really committed to this thing.

00:33:54.000 It's incredible.

00:33:56.000 Really, really great. 1.00

00:33:57.000 And by the way, then Trump came out and he was like, this mural is stupid and Black Lives Matter means more than just the slogan. 1.00

00:34:02.000 The organization is really radical. 0.99

00:34:03.000 And de Blasio's like, ah, well now I've trolled you.

00:34:06.000 I've trolled you successfully.

00:34:07.000 It's pure racism for Trump to oppose the mural.

00:34:09.000 Okay, meanwhile, meanwhile, I'm just gonna point out, Two nights ago, five people in his city were shot and one person died.

00:34:17.000 That was two nights ago.

00:34:18.000 I don't know the updates from last night because the reporting hasn't come out yet.

00:34:21.000 I'm sure more people were shot last night because that is the way that this is all working.

00:34:25.000 Bill de Blasio, by the way, he also says that in the middle of a pandemic, he says he's not going to allow any large gatherings except for BLM gatherings.

00:34:33.000 I'm not kidding.

00:34:33.000 It's this thing he said.

00:34:34.000 This is purely unconstitutional, by the way.

00:34:36.000 You cannot do this.

00:34:37.000 You cannot say only one type of protest is so important and so legit that they get to hold it.

00:34:43.000 That's not the way the First Amendment works in the United States.

00:34:46.000 Here's Bill de Blasio, Commie Bill, explaining.

00:34:50.000 Things here in this city can mean not just thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people.

00:34:56.000 It's just not time for that now.

00:34:57.000 What about protests?

00:34:58.000 If people want to march down Fifth Avenue, are they going to be allowed to do so?

00:35:02.000 Look, Wolf, this is always an area of real sensitivity.

00:35:05.000 If you're just talking about health, we would always say, hey folks, you know, stay home if you can.

00:35:10.000 But we understand at this moment in history, people are talking about the need for historic changes.

00:35:15.000 I mean, today, in New York City, you know, recognizing the power and the meaning of the message Black Lives Matter, which we did in front of Trump Tower today.

00:35:25.000 Basically, Blitzer asked him, so are you going to allow these protests?

00:35:27.000 He's like, oh, maybe.

00:35:29.000 Kinda.

00:35:30.000 He just said no large gatherings. 0.65

00:35:31.000 Shut down those Hasidic Jews with their praying. 1.00

00:35:34.000 But Black Lives Matter gatherings? 0.99

00:35:36.000 Absolutely, guys.

00:35:36.000 I mean, this is just such an important moment.

00:35:38.000 It's such an important moment.

00:35:38.000 By the way, this giant important moment has not prevented people from shooting each other en masse in his city.

00:35:44.000 The New York Police Department is now begging cops to delay retiring.

00:35:48.000 So cops are like, I'm not sticking around for this. 0.94

00:35:50.000 Are you crazy?

00:35:51.000 Why would I possibly stick around for this? 0.92

00:35:52.000 I've got that city that will prosecute me for defending myself.

00:35:55.000 I've got a city that will not allow me to do my work with local communities trying to protect innocent citizens. 0.85

00:36:00.000 You think I'm sticking around for this bullcrap?

00:36:02.000 According to a report by the New York Post, 503 cops in New York City have filed for retirement since May 25th.

00:36:08.000 That was the day that George Floyd was killed.

00:36:11.000 That is a 75% increase, a near doubling, over the same period in 2019.

00:36:17.000 The past week, 179 cops filed for retirement in one week, compared to 35 in 2019, a 411% increase.

00:36:23.000 in 2019, a 411% increase.

00:36:26.000 So the city is now begging people, begging people not to leave.

00:36:30.000 So Bill de Blasio, the mayor of New York controls the NYPD.

00:36:34.000 Bill de Blasio, what has he been relegated to?

00:36:37.000 At the same time, people are shooting each other en masse in his city, and he's painting murals on the sidewalk.

00:36:41.000 Here is Bill de Blasio's answer to how do you stop violence.

00:36:44.000 He's begging people, please stop killing each other.

00:36:47.000 I'm sure it's gonna go great, Bill.

00:36:48.000 I'm sure. 1.00

00:36:50.000 Again, there are not enough slow claps on planet Earth to provide for this idiot, giant weirdo. 1.00

00:36:58.000 You can't just do it with police. 1.00

00:36:59.000 You need community leaders, clergy, community organizations to come together.

00:37:03.000 We're having a particular issue in Harlem and we've gathered community leaders from all over Harlem who in common cause this weekend are going to be out there with the police shoulder to shoulder saying we're not going to allow this violence in our community.

00:37:14.000 The second piece is to get our court system up and running.

00:37:18.000 It's been at a very low speed.

00:37:20.000 The criminal justice system in this state is not fully functioning, and that's creating a lot of problems.

00:37:25.000 Even when police arrest someone, the consequences aren't there.

00:37:29.000 Oh, you mean like how your plan was to release everybody without bail?

00:37:32.000 Like that plan?

00:37:34.000 Where you're taking career criminals, arresting them, and just releasing them without bail because bail is racist or something?

00:37:40.000 This guy, this guy, but the media continue to promulgate the narrative that Bill de Blasio is like a racial justice warrior while black people are getting shot en masse in his city.

00:37:47.000 It's unbelievable.

00:37:48.000 It truly is incredible.

00:37:50.000 So listen, politicians respond to incentive structures.

00:37:53.000 The media have created an incentive structure.

00:37:55.000 The media incentive structure is you repeat the narrative that we want you to repeat, and we will bless you.

00:38:00.000 We will bless you top down.

00:38:02.000 You will always receive our love.

00:38:03.000 And if you process, we will break you on the wheel of fire.

00:38:08.000 If you're Ron DeSantis or Greg Abbott, if you're Doug Ducey in Arizona, we'll break you on the wheel of fire. 0.98

00:38:13.000 But if you're Bill de Blasio, you can basically let a virus, like, kill everyone in your city. 0.94

00:38:17.000 And then the ones who are left, you could let them shoot each other. 0.98

00:38:20.000 And everyone, you know what? 0.87

00:38:21.000 As long as you've made a mural, everything's good.

00:38:23.000 Everything's perfectly good.

00:38:25.000 The media create the incentive structure, guys. 0.96

00:38:27.000 And that's why it kind of matters when the media suck at their jobs, royally suck at their jobs. 0.99

00:38:31.000 And by the way, continue to promote A cancel culture that expediently exempts those who are allied with it. 0.69

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00:39:50.000 Alrighty, we're going to get to the mainstream media pushing forward the cancel culture because this is the new move.

00:39:56.000 It's members of the media trying to shut the door behind them.

00:39:58.000 Only they can be the great disseminators of information. 0.98

00:40:01.000 Everybody else, you shut up!

00:40:02.000 And we're going to try and bully all the social media companies into shutting the doors to everyone except like the New York Times. 0.95

00:40:07.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

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00:42:50.000 Okay, so the media and the left have united in promoting cancel culture, obviously.

00:43:00.000 You're only canceled, by the way, if you are not a member of the cancel culture.

00:43:03.000 So if you are a member of the braying mob, you will never be canceled.

00:43:07.000 As long as you bray along with the mob for people's heads, you're fine.

00:43:10.000 Perfect example, Joy Reid.

00:43:12.000 Remember that time that Joy Reid had like a bunch of really, really bad old tweets? 0.91

00:43:16.000 Remember?

00:43:16.000 And this is the game that we play online, is we find your bad old tweets.

00:43:19.000 Capital B, capital O, capital T. Bad old tweets trademark.

00:43:23.000 Right, then we find your bad old tweets, we resurface them.

00:43:26.000 And then we come after your career. 0.57

00:43:27.000 Well, probably a year ago, a bunch of bad old Joy Reid tweets surfaced, like on race and on homosexuality, and they're pretty yucky, right?

00:43:37.000 And Joy Reid promptly claimed that she had been hacked retroactively. 0.51

00:43:40.000 And Marty McFly got in his time machine and went back to 2006 and hacked into Joy Reid's blog page and put up all these old posts.

00:43:48.000 Somehow the mysterious one-armed blogger was never found.

00:43:52.000 Okay, so it turns out that obviously that doesn't exist.

00:43:54.000 She wrote the stuff, but she's not canceled.

00:43:56.000 Joy Reid is not.

00:43:57.000 She now has a brand new show on MSNBC!

00:44:01.000 Oh yeah!

00:44:03.000 She has hosted the MSNBC Weekend Talk Show AM Joy since 2016.

00:44:07.000 She's gonna move to the 7 p.m. 0.77

00:44:08.000 hour on July 20th.

00:44:09.000 Her show, The Readout, succeeds Hardball, and it has Chris Matthews!

00:44:13.000 Which is sad.

00:44:14.000 I mean, first of all, I do miss my Chris Matthews impersonation. 0.96

00:44:18.000 You can just imagine him at home like, Joy Reid, they threw me out for being a jerk and putting this lady on who has old tweets talking about homophobia? 0.99

00:44:26.000 What the hell happened here? 0.96

00:44:27.000 The answer here is that Chris Matthews was out of step with the times, but Joy Reid is a full-fledged member of the Committee on Public Safety over at MSNBC, and she is willing to guillotine anyone who disagrees with the left, politically speaking.

00:44:39.000 Miss Reed's promotion, says the New York Times, is a significant programming move by Cesar Conde, the new chairman of NBC's News Network.

00:44:45.000 Black women, including Gayle King of CBS and Robin Roberts of ABC, hold leading roles in morning and daytime television, but none currently host a nightly evening show on a major network.

00:44:53.000 The last to do so was Gwen Ifill, who co-anchored PBS NewsHour until shortly before her death in 2016.

00:45:01.000 Evening and primetime news has been a universe of white men. 0.87

00:45:03.000 Really, since I was growing up, said Ms.

00:45:05.000 Reid.

00:45:05.000 For somebody who grew up as a nerdy kid obsessed with news, watching Nightline and Meet the Press, the idea of being a part of that family has always just been kind of overwhelming.

00:45:12.000 Well, you know, good for her, because now it turns out the cancel culture does not come after you if you are a member of the cancel culture.

00:45:22.000 The New York Times buries down in this piece that Reid apologized for writing mocking claims that Charlie Crist, former Florida governor, was gay. 0.94

00:45:28.000 But then there were additional posts where she opined that most straight people cringe at the sight of two men kissing, and a lot of heterosexuals, especially men, find the idea of homosexual sex to be gross.

00:45:36.000 And she said Rachel Maddow held views at the most left-wing end of the political spectrum. 0.68

00:45:41.000 She claimed the posts have been fabricated.

00:45:43.000 She said, I genuinely do not believe I wrote those hateful things because they are completely alien to me.

00:45:48.000 The person I am now is not the person I was then.

00:45:50.000 Listen, you can apologize for stuff.

00:45:51.000 Right?

00:45:52.000 I mean, that's okay.

00:45:53.000 But not in cancel culture, you can't.

00:45:53.000 Apologizing for stuff.

00:45:55.000 Unless you're a member of the cancel culture.

00:45:57.000 In which case, absolution is just one brutal beating of a third party around the corner.

00:46:03.000 If you want to absolve yourself, all you have to do is find somebody else to join in mobbing.

00:46:08.000 Right, if you don't want to be mobbed, all you have to do is point to that guy over there and then join the mob, pick up that pitchfork, and you are good to go, which is exciting stuff.

00:46:16.000 AOC, by the way, now pushing the cancel culture pretty hard.

00:46:18.000 What's amazing about AOC pushing the cancel culture is literally a year ago, she was whining about how she was being canceled by the Democratic brass.

00:46:24.000 And there were members of the Democratic Party who were like, maybe we shouldn't give money to AOC's committees when she is trying to primary sitting members of the Democratic Party.

00:46:33.000 And she was like, this is mean, this is cruel.

00:46:35.000 And now she's like, cancel culture doesn't even exist. 0.76

00:46:38.000 People who are actually cancelled, like, don't get their thoughts published and amplified in major outlets.

00:46:43.000 This has been a public service announcement.

00:46:45.000 Okay, well, a lot of people who are cancelled don't get their thoughts published and amplified in major outlets.

00:46:49.000 In fact, I can think of somebody who is the editor of the New York Times op-ed page who just got fired for amplifying a message that the left didn't like in the New York Times op-ed page.

00:46:59.000 Right, that editor got fired for that. 0.99

00:47:00.000 She said, but it doesn't exist.

00:47:01.000 She says, the term cancel culture comes from entitlement as though the person complaining has the right to a large captive audience and one is a victim if people choose to tune them out.

00:47:09.000 Odds are you're not actually canceled.

00:47:11.000 You're just being challenged, held accountable, or unliked.

00:47:13.000 Oh, is that what the odds are?

00:47:15.000 Is that what the odds are?

00:47:16.000 Listen, nobody cares about being criticized more than AOC.

00:47:20.000 She claimed I was catcalling her when I suggested that she come on my Sunday special.

00:47:25.000 This is a person who really, really does not like criticism in any way.

00:47:29.000 I don't care.

00:47:29.000 And I get a lot of criticism.

00:47:30.000 I haven't been canceled.

00:47:31.000 Except on college campuses where I was literally canceled from some college campuses.

00:47:35.000 That's happened.

00:47:36.000 That's cancel culture. 0.99

00:47:37.000 People attempting to go after advertisers or people attempting to go to corporations to try and blacklist people, that's cancel culture.

00:47:46.000 But people criticizing me is not cancel culture.

00:47:48.000 I've taken plenty of it.

00:47:49.000 I'll take plenty more.

00:47:50.000 And sometimes I deserve it.

00:47:52.000 But this notion from people like AOC that cancel culture purely does not exist at a time when people are openly trying to cancel people and ruin their businesses and ruin their livelihoods is pretty incredible.

00:48:02.000 She says, I have an entire TV network dedicated to stoking hatred of me.

00:48:05.000 A white supremacist with a popular network show regularly distorts me in dangerous ways, and it's a normal part of my existence to get death threats from their audience.

00:48:12.000 You don't see me complaining about cancel culture.

00:48:13.000 Well, actually, again, you did like a year ago.

00:48:16.000 She says many of the people actually cancelled are those long denied a fair hearing of their ideas to begin with.

00:48:20.000 And this is where we get into.

00:48:21.000 It's not cancelled culture unless I agree with the people who are being cancelled.

00:48:25.000 Then it's cancelled culture.

00:48:27.000 So she says Palestinian human rights advocates have been cancelled.

00:48:29.000 Really, have they?

00:48:31.000 Because it seems like the entire editorial board of the New York Times routinely amplifies the ideas of so-called Palestinian human rights advocates.

00:48:31.000 Have they now?

00:48:39.000 She says abolitionists have been cancelled.

00:48:42.000 Abolitionists have been cancelled?

00:48:44.000 What?

00:48:45.000 Of slavery?

00:48:46.000 Abolitionists have been cancelled?

00:48:47.000 I feel like it's a pretty thoroughgoing ideology in the United States if you want to abolish slavery.

00:48:51.000 Because anti-capitalists have been cancelled.

00:48:54.000 No, they just cancelled themselves because they couldn't actually engage in the business world.

00:48:58.000 Anti-imperialists have been cancelled.

00:48:59.000 Really, anti-imperialists have been cancelled.

00:49:02.000 Are you serious now?

00:49:04.000 Just not spicy contrarians who want to play devil's advocate with your basic rights in the New York Times.

00:49:09.000 Okay, if somebody is, if they have their editorials run and then canceled, like pulled because their ideas are not appropriate in the New York Times, that is the definition of a cancellation.

00:49:18.000 They were literally canceled.

00:49:20.000 But apparently cancel culture is good with AOC.

00:49:22.000 She just recharacterizes this. 1.00

00:49:24.000 The playing with words is pretty incredible here.

00:49:26.000 The left does it all the time.

00:49:27.000 Cancel culture is no longer cancel culture.

00:49:28.000 It's just accountability.

00:49:30.000 Racism is no longer racism.

00:49:31.000 Support of the system is racism.

00:49:34.000 The linguistic tricks the left plays on a routine basis are really quite awful.

00:49:38.000 And the media go along with them.

00:49:39.000 And by the way, the media loves this cancel culture stuff because it allows them to play nightcrawler.

00:49:45.000 The Jake Gyllenhaal movie.

00:49:46.000 Nightcrawler, again, I mentioned this on the show, it really is this.

00:49:50.000 Jake Gyllenhaal plays a sociopathic photographer who makes money by freelancing.

00:49:53.000 He'll hear a call on the radio that there's been a car crash.

00:49:57.000 He'll drive over there.

00:49:58.000 He'll take pictures and sell it to the local news.

00:49:59.000 And then he realizes, hey, wait a second.

00:50:01.000 If I actually stage this stuff, I'm the first person on scene.

00:50:04.000 If I kill somebody and then I take pictures of it, then I'm the first person who can make money off of that.

00:50:09.000 Well, that's the media when it comes to cancel culture.

00:50:12.000 So the media will do things like, a bad old tweet just resurfaced, guys.

00:50:16.000 And it's like, well, how did it resurface?

00:50:17.000 I stumbled on it while I was just searching the advanced search function on Twitter for specific people to cancel.

00:50:23.000 And then what they do is they'll say, and you know what's even bigger news?

00:50:26.000 I'm going to call up an advertiser on that person's show, and I'm going to ask them whether they approve of this.

00:50:30.000 That's not news.

00:50:31.000 It's not news that people advertise on shows.

00:50:33.000 And they've been doing this to Tucker Carlson for years.

00:50:36.000 They do this with everybody on the right.

00:50:36.000 They've done this with me.

00:50:37.000 That's not news, that's activism.

00:50:39.000 If what you're doing is literally indistinguishable from the sleeping giants or media matters of the world, then you're just sleeping giants for media matters.

00:50:47.000 And that's fine, but just to own it.

00:50:49.000 But the media won't own it.

00:50:50.000 So instead, you get articles like this one from the Washington Post about Goya Foods.

00:50:55.000 So Goya Foods is a Latino-owned food company, which does enormous amounts of charitable work in Latin and South America, like enormous amounts of this stuff.

00:51:05.000 But, Hawaii Food CEO Robert Yunanu committed a sin.

00:51:08.000 A grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Terrible.

00:51:29.000 What was he there to do, by the way?

00:51:30.000 He was there to mark Trump signing an executive order pledging to improve Hispanic Americans' access to educational and economic opportunities.

00:51:38.000 Obviously a bad, bad man.

00:51:39.000 Very bad.

00:51:40.000 So AOC tweeted, oh look, it's the sound of me Googling how to make your own adobo.

00:51:45.000 Because now I'm not going to go to Goya anymore.

00:51:48.000 Castro then urged, Castro urged, Julian Castro urged Americans to, quote, think twice before buying Goya products.

00:51:56.000 If the CEO praised Trump, it is time to remove support from this.

00:52:01.000 And the media just run with it.

00:52:03.000 The Washington Post has a long article about all of this.

00:52:07.000 By the way, they employ thousands of people worldwide.

00:52:10.000 In past interviews, members of the Unanue family have credited the brand's authenticity for its popularity.

00:52:16.000 But, says the Washington Post, maybe, maybe we should take a second look.

00:52:20.000 We're just reporting, guys.

00:52:21.000 We're just reporting.

00:52:23.000 It is not worthy of a massive report on Goya Foods when a few losers on Twitter decide that they are going to boycott people that they don't like.

00:52:30.000 Again. 1.00

00:52:31.000 If you think the Goya is going under because the CEO praised President Trump, you're an idiot, but apparently it's news so long as the media make it news. 1.00

00:52:37.000 This is the way the media push all this stuff. 0.99

00:52:40.000 In the same way that the media push the boycotts of Facebook in order to get Facebook to lower its standards for what constitutes hate speech and therefore go after people that the media don't like and shut the doors of the media to other actors in the media.

00:52:53.000 As I mentioned yesterday, The New York Times spends tens of millions of dollars every year on Facebook, marketing its own material, but they want to make sure that Facebook cuts down the popularity of people that they don't like.

00:53:05.000 The media's malaction here is, it continues to be, the great story in the unraveling of America.

00:53:09.000 Because it turns out the people who are supposed to translate the experts to you are not translating.

00:53:14.000 They're just telling you something different from what the experts say.

00:53:15.000 It turns out the people who are supposed to bring you objective truth are giving you their truth.

00:53:19.000 It turns out that the people who are supposed to be reporting on the news are instead part of the news and making the news.

00:53:25.000 It turns out that that's what a lot of this is all about.

00:53:27.000 And that's gonna get better.

00:53:29.000 That's gonna get worse.

00:53:30.000 Not better, unfortunately.

00:53:32.000 Again, this is not the only example.

00:53:33.000 Again, there's a guy named Thomas Bosco, who owns the Indian Road Cafe in Manhattan.

00:53:38.000 He voted for President Trump in 2016.

00:53:40.000 And now, there are a bunch of people who are trying to boycott him, and the media are covering it.

00:53:44.000 The New York Times is covering it.

00:53:47.000 It's not worthy of a media coverage story when a few people tweet that they don't want to eat at the local eatery because the owner supported Trump.

00:53:53.000 That's just the media trying to pick a message and then push the message.

00:53:56.000 That's all that's happening here.

00:53:58.000 Okay, meanwhile, I'd be remiss if I did not comment on the Supreme Court ruling suggesting that President Trump has to turn over his tax records.

00:54:05.000 So, the Supreme Court ruled yesterday that prosecutors in New York can see President Trump's financial records The decision said he has no absolute right to block release of the papers.

00:54:15.000 Now, that's not a shock.

00:54:16.000 I mean, his claim was overbroad.

00:54:17.000 Even Clarence Thomas, who's a 7-2 decision on this one, because the claim Trump was making was overbroad.

00:54:22.000 He was basically saying anything that could possibly impact my performance as president under any circumstances cannot be turned over to a local prosecutor.

00:54:29.000 And that's way too broad a case.

00:54:30.000 Even Clarence Thomas, like, that's way too broad a case.

00:54:32.000 Thomas ruled that the problem was that Trump can then claim That once the specific subpoena is made for the tax records, that he was likely to win it.

00:54:41.000 So it should be remanded back to the district court and Trump should do that and we should basically just dismiss the case from Cyrus Vance.

00:54:46.000 But there is basic unanimity on the court that you don't, that you can simply block all access to paperwork because you're the president of the United States.

00:54:55.000 Chief Justice John Roberts said, no citizen, not even the president, is categorically above the common duty to produce evidence when called upon in a criminal proceeding.

00:55:03.000 He said Trump can still raise objections to the scope and relevance of the subpoena.

00:55:07.000 So what does that mean?

00:55:08.000 Well, you know, the kind of going notion is that Trump lost the case and it's really bad for him, but not really, because this thing gets remanded back to the lowest level and then Trump can simply say the subpoena is too broad.

00:55:18.000 Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented.

00:55:21.000 President Trump then went after the court.

00:55:24.000 He said that the court is really bad and really terrible.

00:55:26.000 Listen, the court may be bad and terrible for a variety of reasons, but this is not one of them.

00:55:29.000 This ruling is actually not particularly controversial.

00:55:32.000 And the claims that were being made by Trump's lawyers were simply too broad.

00:55:36.000 Here's Trump going after the Supreme Court anyway.

00:55:38.000 Well, the rulings were basically starting all over again, sending everything back down to the lower courts, and you start all over again.

00:55:45.000 So, from a certain point, I'm satisfied.

00:55:49.000 From another point, I'm not satisfied, because, frankly, this is a political witch hunt, the likes of which nobody's ever seen before.

00:55:56.000 It's a pure witch hunt.

00:55:57.000 It's a hoax.

00:55:58.000 It just continues.

00:55:59.000 It's been from before I got here, when Obama and Biden and everybody else was spying on my campaign illegally.

00:56:07.000 OK, the big problem for President Trump here is not the legal problem.

00:56:09.000 He's not going to release his tax returns before the election.

00:56:12.000 It's not going to happen.

00:56:13.000 OK, but the big problem is now the Supreme Court has said you kind of should release your tax returns.

00:56:17.000 That gives Biden a club to hit him with.

00:56:19.000 And there's been a lot of talk about Biden not debating Trump until Trump releases his tax returns.

00:56:23.000 Now the Supreme Court has said you should probably release your tax returns or at the very least.

00:56:27.000 I mean, they literally say this in the decision that you should probably release the tax returns.

00:56:31.000 Because of that, Trump now has less of a leg to stand on when he says, I don't want to release my tax returns.

00:56:36.000 And then Biden says, you're not obeying a Supreme Court dictate.

00:56:39.000 Now, it isn't a Supreme Court dictate, but that's not how politics works.

00:56:42.000 And so it looks like Trump is hiding something, obviously, which is why the White House didn't have great answers when Kayleigh McEnany was asked, isn't he kind of hiding something, not turning over his tax returns at this point?

00:56:52.000 The president can release his taxes whenever he likes.

00:56:55.000 So why shouldn't Americans at this point believe that the president isn't trying to hide something?

00:56:59.000 The media has been asking this question for four years, and for four years the president has said the same thing.

00:57:04.000 His taxes are under audit, and when they're no longer under audit, he will release them.

00:57:08.000 But I would also note the excruciating ruling for House Democrats, who were very much called out for their partisan games.

00:57:16.000 They also subpoenaed the president's information, financial information.

00:57:20.000 And Justice Roberts said, far from accounting for separation of powers concerns, the House's approach aggravates them.

00:57:27.000 Okay, so there were two cases here.

00:57:28.000 One was about whether Congress could grab records from the President of the United States.

00:57:33.000 That remains somewhat controversial.

00:57:35.000 So, Roberts basically said that the courts have to perform a careful analysis that takes adequate account of the separation of powers principles at stake.

00:57:42.000 Including both the significant legislative interests of Congress and the unique position of the president.

00:57:47.000 Clarence Thomas said, the Congress does not have the ability to just grab private, unofficial documents for any random citizen.

00:57:53.000 That's not what Congress is there to do.

00:57:54.000 You can do this under the impeachment power, but you actually have to do it under the impeachment power.

00:57:58.000 The one about the DA, right, which is Cyrus Vance in New York, who's under attack from his left flank, that ruling basically said that Cyrus Vance does have the ability to subpoena for these records.

00:58:09.000 He was joined in the majority by Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan.

00:58:14.000 Roberts dismissed the idea that the stigma of being subpoenaed will undermine Trump's leadership at home and abroad, and he pushed back against the president's contention that having to comply with a state criminal subpoena would distract him from his job as president, according to SCOTUSblog, which does good analysis of these sorts of issues.

00:58:30.000 Roberts stressed that the Constitution does allow such investigations.

00:58:32.000 The mere fact the president is served with the subpoena is not likely to have much of an effect on the president's reputation.

00:58:38.000 Roberts also declined to adopt a rule suggested by the feds that supported Trump in this case that would have required state grand jury subpoenas for the president's private papers to meet a higher standard, demonstrating, for example, the evidence is critical and it cannot wait until the end of a president's term.

00:58:51.000 He said this would create a double standard because federal subpoenas to the president, unlike state subpoenas, would be allowed whenever the evidence is material.

00:58:58.000 So Roberts basically ended up sending the case back to the lower courts and Trump can raise further arguments challenging the subpoena in this case as appropriate.

00:59:06.000 So, you know, Kavanaugh voted with them with majority.

00:59:10.000 Gorsuch voted with the majority.

00:59:12.000 They both agreed that the president is not absolutely immune from state criminal subpoenas and that the case should go back to the district court.

00:59:17.000 It would require state grand jury subpoenas like this one to meet a higher standard that would require a showing of demonstrated specific need.

00:59:25.000 Clarence Thomas dissented.

00:59:26.000 He said the president isn't immune from the issuance of the subpoena, but that the president may be entitled to relief from the enforcement of a subpoena.

00:59:32.000 And Alito also dissented in this case.

00:59:35.000 Bottom line here is that, again, it's more of a political problem than a legal problem for Trump.

00:59:38.000 Because by the time this whole thing works its way through the system, it's already July, the election will have already happened.

00:59:43.000 And by the time this goes back to a local court and there's a big legal fight over all of this, it's probably November, December.

00:59:49.000 But all it really does is it puts back on top of the table, why is Trump hiding all this information?

00:59:54.000 It'll set the speculation going anew.

00:59:56.000 And that is not a great shock.

00:59:57.000 So another hit for the president politically, even though it really isn't that much of a hit at him legally speaking.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - July 10, 2020

Political Lives Matter | Ep. 1049

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