The Ben Shapiro Show - Putting Crazy People On TV | Ep. 489

00:00:00.000 The media can't get enough of Trump aide Sam Nunberg, social media goes crazy, and intersectionality makes people even crazier than usual.

00:00:08.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:00:08.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:00:14.000 So cable news yesterday was wild thanks to Sam Funberg.

00:00:18.000 I mean, Sam Nunberg, of course, the former Trump aide who decided to go on every TV network and basically vomit his thoughts everywhere.

00:00:25.000 And the media just kept featuring him.

00:00:26.000 We'll talk about all of that.

00:00:27.000 Plus, I want to get to the West Virginia teacher strike, which has really kind of avoided the major news, which is kind of amazing.

00:00:32.000 I also want to talk about

00:00:34.000 Something brewing inside left-wing circles that is really ugly.

00:00:37.000 And I'm not just talking about the intersectionality that animates college campuses.

00:00:40.000 I'm talking about something beyond that.

00:00:42.000 We'll get to all of that.

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00:02:30.000 Okay, so yesterday

00:02:32.000 The media went totally nuts over a guy named Sam Nunberg.

00:02:35.000 So who is Sam Nunberg?

00:02:36.000 So I had a conversation one time with Sam Nunberg.

00:02:39.000 It was shortly after Sam Nunberg had been fired by the Trump campaign.

00:02:43.000 And he called me up for some reason.

00:02:45.000 I can't remember what it was.

00:02:46.000 And he was, to say it,

00:02:48.000 To say it mildly, a kooky fellow.

00:02:50.000 Who exactly is Sam Nunberg?

00:02:51.000 Well, the Washington Post says Nunberg was an early member of Trump's political team when the mogul's potential candidacy was seen mostly as a stunt.

00:02:58.000 In 2014, as Trump continued a long-running flirtation with higher office, Nunberg was at his side.

00:03:03.000 BuzzFeed says, quote, he comes on a bit strong, as you know, according to Roger Stone, right?

00:03:07.000 Roger Stone is one of the more disgusting political operatives in the business.

00:03:10.000 He says, I mean, within a week of my meeting him, he was going around telling people I was his mentor. 0.96

00:03:13.000 He's got chutzpah, as they say.

00:03:15.000 Well, Nunberg is 36 years old, and he picked up a law degree from Touro College in 2009.

00:03:21.000 Apparently, according to BuzzFeed, his first foray into presidential campaigning came in 2007 when he worked as a volunteer for the Romney campaign while attending law school.

00:03:29.000 And he was put in charge of organizing turnout for the New York City GOP straw poll, and he helped pull up an upset win for Romney.

00:03:35.000 Over Rudy Giuliani.

00:03:36.000 He then went to work for the American Center for Law and Justice, which is a Christian conservative legal foundation run by Jay Sekulow, who works for Trump right now.

00:03:44.000 And of course, he has made the rounds in the media.

00:03:47.000 He was ousted in the middle of the last campaign by the Trump campaign.

00:03:51.000 The campaign apparently thought that he was a destructive person.

00:03:56.000 Hope Hicks said, quote, he's a highly self-destructive individual who makes routine calls begging for his job back.

00:04:01.000 This is the interview of a desperate person who is trying to hang on and stay relevant.

00:04:05.000 The Trump campaign downgraded him to low-level part-time consultant at the time of his firing.

00:04:08.000 His first meeting with Trump, apparently, is on tape.

00:04:11.000 This is from when he was a kid, and apparently he met Trump at a WWE event, which is perfectly fitting.

00:04:15.000 Here is tape from that time.

00:04:17.000 Donald Trump invited the young Sam Nunberg right into the heart of the action.

00:04:22.000 I'll give Hogan a job in Hollywood! 0.90

00:04:26.000 We were sitting right behind Trump and he had us move to the first row at another section.

00:04:32.000 It was actually funny because I ended up getting on the video for WrestleMania with my father.

00:04:37.000 We were doing like the Bushwhacker. 0.93

00:04:45.000 So there is Sam Nunberg, very young Trump political advisor, and apparently he was sued during the last election cycle.

00:04:51.000 Trump sued him for like $10 million, claiming he broke a confidentiality agreement or at least threatened to sue him.

00:04:56.000 So, you know, Sam Nunberg is a colorful character to say the least.

00:04:59.000 He's now being investigated by the Mueller investigation because the Mueller investigation is talking to every single person ever, including, they haven't talked to me, but I think I may be the only person in America they've left to talk to.

00:05:10.000 So they want to talk to Sam Nunberg.

00:05:11.000 So Nunberg decides that it's worthwhile to go on every television show he can possibly find and go kind of crazy.

00:05:16.000 So he goes on MSNBC and he explains that if Mueller wants to interview him, he's not going to do the interview.

00:05:22.000 In fact, he doesn't mind being sent to jail, no big deal.

00:05:25.000 So it starts off with this on MSNBC.

00:05:27.000 If they're trying to build a case against Roger, I'm not going to be a part of it.

00:05:32.000 I'm not.

00:05:33.000 Roger didn't do anything. 1.00

00:05:35.000 Roger didn't do anything except get treated like crap by Donald Trump, the president. 0.99

00:05:39.000 You keep saying you don't think there'll be a consequence. 0.99

00:05:42.000 What if the consequence for that is going to jail, Sam?

00:05:44.000 They're not going to send me to jail.

00:05:46.000 You know what, Mr. Mueller, if he wants to send me to jail, he can send me to jail.

00:05:49.000 And then I'll laugh about it.

00:05:52.000 And I'll make a bigger spectacle than I am on your TV show right now.

00:05:56.000 Well, sir, I don't know what they're going to do.

00:05:57.000 OK, there was a woman named Susan McDougal, who during the Obama administration refused to testify, and she ended up going to jail.

00:06:03.000 So this would not be the first time that somebody has refused to testify or talk to the FBI, and they've ended up in jail.

00:06:09.000 And then it gets even worse.

00:06:10.000 So Nunberg apparently was on CNN with Jake Tapper.

00:06:12.000 And he actually starts asking Jake Tapper whether he should cooperate with Mueller.

00:06:16.000 So he's just going crazy live on TV.

00:06:18.000 He called into every major television show.

00:06:20.000 He called into New York City One yesterday.

00:06:22.000 Here he is with Jake Tapper, and look at the incredulity on Tapper's face.

00:06:26.000 And we want to hear your side of it.

00:06:28.000 Do you think I should cooperate?

00:06:29.000 Should I spend 80 hours combing over my emails, Jake?

00:06:32.000 If it were me, I would.

00:06:33.000 I mean, if he's just asking my opinion, just because it sounds like a pain, but...

00:06:38.000 He is the special counsel and he does have the law arm of the law.

00:06:40.000 But why do I have to produce every email?

00:06:43.000 I talk to Steve Bannon or Roger Stone eight times a day.

00:06:46.000 Do you know what I mean?

00:06:47.000 Why do I have to go over it?

00:06:48.000 Why do I have to send out every email?

00:06:51.000 Sometimes life and special prosecutors are not fair, I guess.

00:06:55.000 I would cooperate were it me.

00:06:56.000 But, you know, I'm a different breed of cat.

00:06:59.000 Jake Tapper just puzzled by life right here.

00:07:01.000 And then Sandenberg calls into another show and he explains that President Trump really didn't go far enough during the campaign that President Trump should have had Bill Clinton's alleged illegitimate black child at the debate.

00:07:13.000 This is him calling into MSNBC and talking with Katie Tur.

00:07:16.000 It wasn't some smart idea that we had for us to be fired and then we were going to get the emails from Russia.

00:07:24.000 If Roger and me were there, Katie, we would have had the Benghazi parents there at the first debate.

00:07:32.000 We would have had Bill Clinton's illegitimate black child there at the second debate. 1.00

00:07:39.000 Okay, so he was just going wild on TV yesterday. 0.99

00:07:42.000 He calls Sarah Huckabee Sanders a fat slob. 0.99

00:07:45.000 He suggests that there's something there to the Trump-Russia investigation. 0.72

00:07:48.000 He says he's not going to talk to Mueller, but he thinks that there's something going on with the Trump-Russia investigation.

00:07:52.000 He thinks that Trump probably colluded with Russia.

00:07:54.000 Here's Nunberg yesterday saying that Lou Dobbs and Jeanine Pirro and Sean Hannity are going to be very embarrassed when all of the Trump-Russia stuff comes out.

00:08:02.000 You're going to be fine when it comes out what he did, but people like Sean Hannity, Lou Dobbs, Jeanine Pirro, they're going to be very embarrassed when it comes out.

00:08:13.000 So the big question here was, is Sam Nunberg a crazy person?

00:08:16.000 That's what everybody who's watching yesterday was watching this go on, and they were thinking, is this person a crazy person?

00:08:21.000 And if he is a crazy person, is it moral to put a crazy person on TV just to get President Trump? 0.60

00:08:27.000 And you can see that members of the media themselves, people who are interviewing him, are suggesting that he's either drunk or high or crazy on TV yesterday. 0.88

00:08:33.000 Ari Melber over at MSNBC actually asked Sam Nunberg if he's feeling stressed out because he says people are worried about you, Sam.

00:08:41.000 You and I have both been around these types of situations, these types of probes.

00:08:45.000 They can be very stressful, even for people who are completely innocent, did nothing wrong.

00:08:50.000 It can be stressful.

00:08:52.000 How are you holding up, and do you want to take more time to think this through?

00:08:56.000 Could you change your mind?

00:08:58.000 I'm not going to answer something so wide as this. 0.99

00:09:01.000 This is so ridiculous.

00:09:02.000 I'm not going to give them every email I had with Steve Bannon or Roger Stone. 0.89

00:09:06.000 I communicate with them every day.

00:09:08.000 And are you feeling okay?

00:09:09.000 Are you feeling stressed out by this?

00:09:11.000 No, and I'm feeling kind of... I want to see what Mr. Mueller does.

00:09:15.000 It's never been done before.

00:09:17.000 Okay, and then he goes on to Aaron Burnett on CNN, and Aaron Burnett says, you smell like you are drunk on the air right now.

00:09:22.000 Like, this is an actual thing that happened on TV yesterday.

00:09:25.000 You know, I've interviewed you before.

00:09:26.000 You're sitting very close to me.

00:09:28.000 Yes.

00:09:28.000 We talked earlier about what people in the White House were saying about you.

00:09:31.000 Yeah.

00:09:31.000 Talking about whether you were drinking or on drugs or whatever had happened today.

00:09:37.000 Talking to you, I have smelled alcohol.

00:09:42.000 Well, I have not had a drink.

00:09:44.000 You haven't had a drink, so that's not true.

00:09:46.000 No.

00:09:46.000 And then he says, but he is on antidepressants.

00:09:48.000 So, here is the big question.

00:09:49.000 Okay, there are two big questions.

00:09:51.000 One, does this guy have anything useful to say?

00:09:53.000 The answer seems to be no.

00:09:54.000 Nunberg doesn't have anything useful to say.

00:09:56.000 So the question becomes, why are the media having him on?

00:09:58.000 And there's really a larger question, which is, do the media have a responsibility not to put people on TV who are humiliating themselves and making reality TV shows spectacles of themselves?

00:10:08.000 And this is a real open question, because is Nunberg—is it their job to actually not put him on the air if he's drunk or if he's crazy?

00:10:15.000 So I would say that Erin Burnett does the worst job here, because she actually apparently thinks he's drunk. 1.00

00:10:19.000 Presumably, if an Obama official walked in completely drunk off his butt and walked into the CNN studios, security would be called. 0.92

00:10:26.000 They wouldn't put him on the air. 0.99

00:10:27.000 So if Aaron Burnett actually thought that Sam Nunberg was drunk or crazy or off his rocker, why put him on the air?

00:10:33.000 And the answer is because all these people in the media think that Sam Nunberg is going to suddenly drop the bomb about President Trump or because they think that it's humiliating to the Trump administration to have once had somebody like Sam Nunberg

00:10:44.000 So, on the one hand, you have to say that the media, their bias, their attempts to get Trump, have gone too far.

00:10:50.000 That there are a lot of members of the media who are so interested in getting Trump or humiliating Trump that they're willing to violate their own journalistic standards.

00:10:56.000 Over at Axios, the journalist there, Jim VandeHei, particularly, is ripping into other members of the media, saying that this is just spectacle, that there is no news value to this whatsoever.

00:11:04.000 You're putting on somebody who's clearly having a mental breakdown on national TV, and you're doing so for the ratings and because you hate President Trump.

00:11:10.000 And that wouldn't be a shock.

00:11:12.000 That wouldn't be a shock.

00:11:12.000 I mean, when you look at the media's desperation to get Trump, it really has reached fever pitch.

00:11:17.000 I mean, they are now reporting on things like CNN now traveled to Thailand.

00:11:22.000 They sent somebody to Thailand to dig up clues about Trump.

00:11:25.000 So first, last month, the network actually sent a reporter to St.

00:11:28.000 Petersburg to literally dig around in a dumpster looking for leads about President Trump. 0.91

00:11:33.000 And now they sent a reporter to Bangkok to speak with a prostitute 1.00

00:11:36.000 This woman claims to have evidence of Russian meddling in the U.S.

00:11:38.000 election.

00:11:38.000 The question, is this a desperate ploy to get out of jail?

00:12:02.000 Or as her friend claims, is this young woman truly in danger because she knows too much?

00:12:07.000 So CNN has hyped everything that is possible to hype about Trump and Russia, obviously, and that's pretty damning stuff when it comes to why they're having people like Sam Nunberg on TV.

00:12:18.000 I don't know that that's the whole story, though, and I want to be fair to CNN, I want to be fair to MSNBC, and I'll explain in just a second.

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00:13:45.000 Obviously, the media have an agenda with regard to President Trump, and that agenda is pretty obvious.

00:13:51.000 Now, with that said, is there something to be said for the media not actually being supremely responsible for what Sam Nunberg did here?

00:13:59.000 So, at The Atlantic, McKay Coppins, who has been following Sam Nunberg for a long time, he's a reporter over at The Atlantic, used to be at BuzzFeed, he has a long piece here about what Sam Nunberg did was actually on purpose.

00:14:10.000 So it says,

00:14:27.000 So when I talked to Nunberg months ago, he was always in a celebratory mood.

00:14:30.000 This is a guy who's kind of manic.

00:14:31.000 He said, can you report this?

00:14:32.000 He says, you have to report this.

00:14:33.000 The champ, champ does whatever the F he wants.

00:14:52.000 The Champ Champ, apparently, is a reference to one of his favorite UFC fighters.

00:14:56.000 And apparently, he was alternating between an unalloyed bravado and a kind of meta amusement.

00:15:01.000 So, what exactly was he doing?

00:15:03.000 What exactly was he doing?

00:15:05.000 Apparently, the mystery of his motivations had hovered over the day's astonishing events.

00:15:09.000 Theories attempting to explain his bizarre behavior proliferated quickly, according to Coppins.

00:15:13.000 Some believed he was responding to being caught in a genuine conspiracy, auditioning for immunity, perhaps, or covering up crimes committed by allies in the president's orbit.

00:15:22.000 But here's Nunberg's own explanation.

00:15:24.000 After being ordered to hand over his past private correspondence with several former Trump advisors, he was sorting through his inbox Monday morning and determined that complying with the subpoena would be an intolerable hassle.

00:15:32.000 He said, after all, I have a life.

00:15:34.000 Okay, that is fully possible.

00:15:36.000 But there is a question to be asked. 0.97

00:15:38.000 Okay, let's assume that Sam Nunberg is borderline nuts. 0.99

00:15:40.000 Let's say that the guy is a kook, which apparently he is. 1.00

00:15:44.000 What's the media's obligation not to put kooks on TV? 0.92

00:15:46.000 What's the media's obligation not to put crazy people on TV? 0.99

00:15:49.000 Because half the people in politics are totally crazy.

00:15:51.000 Let's say that I had told you back in circa like 2012 that there was some guy who was wandering around saying things like, the president of the United States was born in Kenya.

00:16:01.000 Let's say that he was wandering around commenting on Robert Pattinson's relationship with Kirsten Stewart.

00:16:07.000 Let's say that he was wandering around saying weird things about reality TV and also weird things about politics and just sort of generally mouthing off in somewhat crazy fashion.

00:16:17.000 Would you put him on TV?

00:16:18.000 The answer is maybe you'd put him on TV because now he's the President of the United States.

00:16:21.000 In other words, we've had some pretty crazy people in politics for a while, so while I'm ripping on the media, I'm not sure that it's fully justified to rip on the media for putting this guy on TV.

00:16:30.000 I will say I'm not sure the treatment would have been the same if you were an Obama official versus being a Trump official.

00:16:34.000 I also think that there's a difference between people like Jake Tapper or even Ari Melber putting him on TV and people like Aaron Burnett.

00:16:41.000 If Aaron Burnett actually thought that he was drunk, if Aaron Burnett actually thought

00:16:45.000 That Sam Nunberg was a loose cannon off his rocker, then that is irresponsible journalism.

00:16:52.000 But it does raise the question of what kind of journalistic ethics the media have been using recently, and the answer is not very good.

00:16:58.000 You have a lot of partisan hacks on both sides of the aisle who are either willing to cover for the president or willing to slander the president with anything that they can get their hands on.

00:17:05.000 And if they think that Sam Nunberg is going to come out of the woodwork,

00:17:08.000 And ramble on incessantly about crazy things that will put him on the air just for the sake of putting him on the air, which is not a good look.

00:17:16.000 It's really not a good look for the media.

00:17:18.000 And it's and, you know, they should be a little bit more careful.

00:17:21.000 Apparently, he was booked for like The Today Show this morning.

00:17:24.000 It's easy if you're Omarosa, apparently.

00:17:27.000 But look, some of the responsibility here also falls on the Trump campaign.

00:17:30.000 They really have to stop hiring top men from the end of Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark.

00:17:36.000 Their top men are not top men, and Sam Nunberg is just more proof of that. 0.99

00:17:39.000 Okay, so, meanwhile, intersectionality continues to make people on the left insanely stupid. 0.99

00:17:44.000 So overnight, literally over a 24-hour period, 0.99

00:17:48.000 There were a bevy of anti-right-wing disruptions on campus.

00:17:54.000 So, Christina Hoff Summer is a friend of mine, the Factual Feminist.

00:17:58.000 She's a professor.

00:17:59.000 She was speaking about feminism, and she was speaking about the failures of the Social Justice Warrior program, and she was shouted down.

00:18:06.000 This is at a law school.

00:18:08.000 OK, so this was happening at Lewis and Clark Law School, which is one of the better schools in the country.

00:18:12.000 And a coalition of student groups had demanded that what they called known fascist Kristina Hoff Sommers be no platform, meaning that they shouldn't allow her to speak. 0.98

00:18:20.000 And they put out—the Portland National Lawyers Guild put out a statement saying,

00:18:30.000 The National Lawyers Guild, Lewis and Clark Chappers, joined with the Minority Law Students Association, Black Law Students Association, Women's Law Caucus, Immigration Student Group, Jewish Law Society, Latino Law Society, Outlaw, and Lewis and Clark Young Democratic Socialists of America to ask the Federalist Society to rescind their invitation.

00:18:45.000 They did not.

00:18:47.000 They did not rescind the invitation.

00:18:50.000 And Christina Hoff Summers showed up anyway. 1.00

00:18:52.000 I really like Christina. 0.50

00:18:53.000 She is a charming woman.

00:18:55.000 And not only is she charming, she's also quite intelligent and has a lot to say.

00:19:00.000 She is not a fascist, okay? 0.99

00:19:01.000 There's no evidence that she's a fascist, and the attempt to boil down fascism to anything I don't like is simply idiotic. 0.99

00:19:08.000 Which is more fascist? 0.98

00:19:09.000 Christina Hoff Summer's coming and speaking about the lies of the feminist movement, or the people who are suggesting that they should actually be able to shut down her lecture by use of force?

00:19:17.000 That seems a little more fascist to me.

00:19:19.000 So here's a little bit of the video when Christina started trying to start her lecture last night at Lewis and Clark Law School.

00:19:28.000 Liars have repeatedly delegitimized the suffering of women worldwide.

00:19:39.000 But we believe our siblings and our comrades, women are not liars with victim mentalities.

00:19:47.000 Rape culture is not a myth. 0.97

00:19:58.000 OK, nothing quite says bucking trends like repeating verbatim, word for word, what people are telling you to say.

00:20:03.000 Nothing really says that you're thinking for yourself quite like repeating in North Korean fashion exactly what your dictator tells you to say.

00:20:09.000 Pretty amazing.

00:20:10.000 I love that the woman who's walking around here with a jacket saying, stay woke, is just standing at the front and shouting at people. 1.00

00:20:16.000 And then, according to Christina, what happened is that the diversity officer from the university came up to her and asked her to cut short her lecture and go directly to Q&A instead of finishing her lecture.

00:20:26.000 Just absolute class shown by the university over at Lewis and Clark.

00:20:30.000 Disgusting stuff, but not a shock.

00:20:32.000 I remember they tried to do this to me over at University of Wisconsin.

00:20:35.000 If I were Christina, I immediately would have done exactly what I did at University of Wisconsin.

00:20:38.000 She's got an entire whiteboard behind her. 0.97

00:20:40.000 That gives her the ability to create some pretty fun visuals with the people who are standing right there.

00:20:44.000 I remember I wrote on the

00:20:46.000 Blackboard.

00:20:47.000 It was a rising blackboard at University of Wisconsin. 1.00

00:20:49.000 I wrote in very large letter, idiots, with an arrow pointing to the people who are protesting. 0.99

00:20:53.000 And so that was in all the pictures, which is kind of funny. 0.99

00:20:55.000 I would have recommended to Christina that she do that as well. 0.98

00:20:57.000 It's just, it's asinine. 0.50

00:20:58.000 But that wasn't the only place this was happening yesterday. 0.97

00:21:00.000 So my friend Jordan Peterson.

00:21:02.000 I don't know.

00:21:26.000 Here's a little bit of the video from Jordan Peterson's lecture.

00:21:45.000 Okay, so, well done for the college.

00:21:47.000 Where is their security?

00:21:48.000 Why is security not removing those people?

00:21:50.000 Why is security not preventing those people from disrupting lecture?

00:21:52.000 The answer is because security allows people to do all this sort of stuff because they don't want to be seen as repressive of the actual repressive forces.

00:21:59.000 It's the same reason I get shuttled to satellite campuses at University of Minnesota.

00:22:03.000 It's the reason they shut my lectures to the public at University of Connecticut and University of California Los Angeles and University of California Berkeley.

00:22:09.000 It's the reason why we have trouble at every campus because the administrators are too chicken bleep 1.00

00:22:13.000 Okay, and it's not just them.

00:22:17.000 It's not just them.

00:22:18.000 There was another case of this last night as well, and I will tell you about that case, and I will tell you more about the intersectional failures of the left in just a second.

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00:23:48.000 Okay, so, it wasn't just Christina.

00:23:51.000 It wasn't just Jordan Peterson.

00:23:52.000 It was also Yaron Brook.

00:23:54.000 So Yaron Brook is an objectivist, meaning that he is a devotee of Ayn Rand.

00:23:58.000 I find his thought really interesting.

00:24:00.000 He and I disagree about some things, obviously, because I'm not an objectivist.

00:24:04.000 I think that Ayn Rand is great on economics and not great when it comes to extending her philosophy to personal relationships.

00:24:09.000 But in any case, he was speaking at King's College, I guess, in Britain.

00:24:15.000 And an Antifa mob showed up and shut him down.

00:24:18.000 So here's what that looked like.

00:24:21.000 We're good to go.

00:24:42.000 OK, then violence breaks out.

00:24:43.000 One of the students who's doing the filming is attacked.

00:24:45.000 Just wonderful stuff.

00:24:46.000 According to the Examiner—this is the London Examiner, I believe—the violent protests also broke out outside after around 200 students were turned away when King's College decided to prevent non-students from attending the event.

00:24:58.000 Again, King's College did exactly what so many colleges have done to me.

00:25:01.000 They've suggested that people should not be allowed to attend from the outside world.

00:25:05.000 We're good to go.

00:25:23.000 Students were in the line of fire.

00:25:24.000 One student told the news organization, quote, I feel strongly the university caved into the Antifa protesters.

00:25:30.000 They need to protect speech and not prevent people from joining peacefully.

00:25:33.000 They changed criteria just 2.5 hours prior to the event, despite it having been scheduled for months.

00:25:37.000 I'm very disappointed in an institution, a top university in the world, acting cowardly like this.

00:25:42.000 OK, but this has become, obviously, the thing the left does.

00:25:44.000 Now, why is the left so angry at Christina Hoff Sommers or Jordan Peterson or Yaron Brook and Sargon of Akkad?

00:25:51.000 Why are they so angry at these people?

00:25:52.000 Well, because all of these people violate the tenets of intersectionality.

00:25:55.000 Intersectionality is the philosophy.

00:25:57.000 It's identity politics.

00:25:57.000 It's the philosophy that says your identity as a person is your group identity.

00:26:02.000 You're not an individual.

00:26:03.000 You are a group identity. 0.99

00:26:04.000 So you're a black guy.

00:26:05.000 You are not a person with individual viewpoints. 0.98

00:26:08.000 And if you're a black guy, your viewpoint should be of the left, because otherwise you're not truly black. 0.82

00:26:12.000 If you're a Jewish person, you must be of the left, because as we all know, Jews vote Democrat, and that means that if you're Jewish and you're not of the Democratic left, then you must not be a good representative of Judaism, you must not be a good Jew, and therefore we rip away your intersectional identity. 0.95

00:26:27.000 The foolishness of this, obviously, is pretty obvious and pretty astonishing.

00:26:31.000 But unfortunately, it has infused the entire left.

00:26:34.000 It really has infused a large portion of the left.

00:26:36.000 Identity politics predominating over meaningful discourse.

00:26:41.000 Over meaningful discourse. 1.00

00:26:42.000 And it's not just these idiotic students, these Antifa members attempting to shut down debate on college campuses. 1.00

00:26:47.000 The most obvious example happened, actually, last night. 0.99

00:26:51.000 So, my good friend Bethany Mandel, who used to write over at Commentary Magazine, she writes for The Federalist on occasion, and Bethany does a podcast as well.

00:26:59.000 So, Bethany had one of the worst childhood experiences ever, right?

00:27:03.000 So, Bethany grew up dirt poor in a trailer park. 0.85

00:27:06.000 Her mom died.

00:27:08.000 She had to pull the plug on her mom when she was 16. 0.99

00:27:10.000 Her dad committed suicide when she was 19.

00:27:13.000 Her dad was a drug addict, apparently.

00:27:16.000 All of this is to say that Bethany's life story is not exactly a bed of roses.

00:27:20.000 She converted to Judaism.

00:27:21.000 She married my friend Seth.

00:27:23.000 They have a bunch of kids.

00:27:24.000 Really wonderful people.

00:27:25.000 She wrote a piece for the New York Times over the weekend.

00:27:28.000 I think it came out Monday, in which she talked about her experiences and why she owns a gun.

00:27:33.000 And the reason she says she owns a gun is because when she was growing up, she was living with her mom.

00:27:37.000 Her dad had already taken off.

00:27:39.000 And somebody legitimately—they were living, I guess, in an apartment on the second story.

00:27:44.000 Some robber put a ladder to her window and attempted to climb in her window when she was a kid.

00:27:49.000 And her mom walked in with a gun that she had, with a rifle that she had, and pointed it at the window and said to Bethany, move aside or you're going to get brains honey, basically. 1.00

00:27:58.000 And when the guy showed up at the top of the window, she said to him, you better run or I'm going to shoot you. 0.74

00:28:03.000 And that was the end of that.

00:28:03.000 And so Bethany said, Bethany got a lot of death threats in the last election cycle.

00:28:07.000 She was not pro-Trump.

00:28:08.000 And so she bought a gun in the aftermath of that.

00:28:10.000 Well, Shannon Watts is a gun control warrior.

00:28:14.000 Shannon Watts is a radical gun control advocate. 1.00

00:28:19.000 And she decided to attack Bethany for being white. 1.00

00:28:22.000 She said that Bethany suffered from white privilege. 0.62

00:28:24.000 So do we have some of those tweets?

00:28:26.000 This is 14.

00:28:27.000 So Shannon Watts attacked Bethany Mandel. 1.00

00:28:31.000 And what she said was,

00:28:49.000 I mean, never mind that there's an actual picture of a woman shopping for a gun right there, who's a woman of color.

00:28:53.000 Apparently, according to Shannon Watts, that person doesn't exist.

00:28:55.000 But then she says that all Bethany is is a white woman full of fear and paranoia. 1.00

00:29:01.000 Not that she had a personal experience with somebody trying to break into her house, or not that she received death threats. 0.61

00:29:05.000 Bethany is just a typical white woman, and if she really were not white, then she would understand the threat that guns pose. 0.98

00:29:11.000 And then it gets even worse.

00:29:14.000 She actually tweeted out a bunch of nastiness about Bethany.

00:29:18.000 She suggested that Bethany was actually a racist. 1.00

00:29:21.000 Shannon Watts actually suggested that Bethany was a racist for wanting to protect herself from neo-Nazis, which is just all class. 0.98

00:29:28.000 And again, all this comes down to is that intersectional politics.

00:29:32.000 All this comes down to is a nasty intersectional politics because, again,

00:29:38.000 You know, Bethany's story has nothing to do with her color, but according to Shannon White, Shannon Watts, that is all that matters.

00:29:45.000 She says that the problem with America right now is that people are making gun laws based on emotion, not data.

00:29:50.000 And Bethany replied, I'm sorry, have you not been promoting the Parkland students' emotions for the last two weeks, or are we only allowed to base decisions on certain emotions?

00:29:58.000 And Shannon Watts suggested, quote, your privilege in feeling that a gun will make you safer is in part because you are white.

00:30:04.000 CDC data actually shows the opposite about gun ownership.

00:30:08.000 So, Bethany says, a guy tried to climb in my bedroom and kill me when I was a kid, and my mom scared him off with a gun.

00:30:14.000 And Shannon Watts' reply was, you only care about this because you are white. 1.00

00:30:17.000 And then, Bethany said, I took my mom off life support at 16, had my father hang himself when I was 19, and grew up in a single wide trailer in Northrop's Trailer Park in upstate New York.

00:30:26.000 Besides that, I've been truly hashtag blessed, right?

00:30:28.000 Shannon Watts replied, quote, again, your white skin makes you less likely to be at risk as a gun owner, regardless of your hardscrabble background.

00:30:35.000 I guess you don't believe in racism.

00:30:37.000 Okay, so suddenly Bethany doesn't believe in racism because she's actually been threatened by a guy climbing in her window.

00:30:45.000 The intersectionality here is just astonishing. 0.99

00:30:47.000 Intersectionality, again, making people stupid every single day. 1.00

00:30:51.000 And I'm going to give you another example of intersectionality making people insane and stupid in just a second. 1.00

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00:32:32.000 All righty, so speaking of intersectionality, making people insanely stupid. 0.99

00:32:35.000 So, as I've been tracing over the course of the last few weeks, Louis Farrakhan is one of the more disgusting characters in American public life. 0.99

00:32:44.000 He is the head of the Nation of Islam. 0.97

00:32:46.000 He is an open anti-Semite. 0.98

00:32:47.000 He calls Jews satanic. 1.00

00:32:49.000 He suggests that white people are devils. 1.00

00:32:51.000 He is the worst of the worst of the worst. 1.00

00:32:53.000 And a couple of the heads of the Women's March are big fans of his. 0.89

00:32:57.000 They have been defended in turn by Linda Sarsour, another anti-Semite.

00:33:00.000 In other words,

00:33:17.000 Yes, I'm a Jew.

00:33:18.000 And I'm a member of the Women's March.

00:33:19.000 But I'm not insulted by the fact that Louis Farrakhan is backed by top members of the Women's March because we have common interests.

00:33:24.000 Our common interest is in tearing down the patriarchy.

00:33:26.000 So I'm not going to speak up.

00:33:27.000 I'm not going to say anything about the nastiness inside my own movement.

00:33:32.000 Now, I hate this kind of stuff.

00:33:33.000 When it was identity politics of the right, I said so.

00:33:35.000 I don't like tribalism.

00:33:37.000 Tribalism on the right suggested that when the Trump campaign was making common cause with the alt-right, that was totally okay because Hillary Clinton had to be taken down.

00:33:44.000 And I said, no, that's not okay.

00:33:45.000 It's not only counterproductive politically, it's immoral.

00:33:48.000 You can't make light of the alt-right.

00:33:49.000 You can't pretend these are nice people.

00:33:51.000 You can't pretend that the actual anti-Semites out there are people who ought to be brought into the fold because you share a common cause with them.

00:33:57.000 That's intersectionality identity politics of the right, and it's gross.

00:34:00.000 I was one of the lead advocates on that score.

00:34:02.000 On the left, however, the same people who were saying that the alt-right was gross and Trump had to throw them off, which is correct, are now saying that the Women's March is totally fine, they have no problem with anti-Semitism, even though top leaders of the Women's March are now obviously in league with open anti-Semites. 0.54

00:34:18.000 There's an article over at theforward.com talking about this unfortunate tendency, which has been largely ignored by the mainstream media, by the way.

00:34:28.000 Jake Tapper at CNN being the lone exception.

00:34:30.000 So there's a woman named Sophie Elman Golan.

00:34:34.000 She's a passionate feminist. 1.00

00:34:36.000 She runs communications for the Women's March.

00:34:39.000 And now she has ripped into a couple of these members of the Women's March. 1.00

00:34:42.000 She tweeted, quote,

00:34:49.000 We are tired and heartbroken.

00:34:52.000 But what's amazing is how people on the left have responded to that.

00:34:55.000 What's amazing is how people on the left have responded to the fact that Tamika Mallory, who is a member of the Women's March, a top member of the Women's March, has repeatedly praised and associated with Farrakhan, participated in a rally with him last week at which he maligned Jews as the spawn of Satan.

00:35:10.000 She's a former executive director of Reverend Al Sharpton's National Action Network.

00:35:13.000 Al Sharpton, again, another notorious anti-Semite, who is again featured in mainstream media on a repeat basis.

00:35:19.000 Farrakhan is the leading anti-Semite in the United States.

00:35:21.000 He has claimed that Adolf Hitler was a very great man. 0.86

00:35:23.000 It's not just Tamika Mallory.

00:35:25.000 There is another woman who is associated with the Women's March who was involved.

00:35:28.000 We talked about this in the last couple of days.

00:35:31.000 So they went and asked over at Forward.com a bunch of intersectional leaders on the left who are Jews about this.

00:35:36.000 You can see how identity politics trumps everything.

00:35:39.000 But identity politics doesn't actually mean standing up for your identity as a Jew.

00:35:43.000 It means standing up for the idea that you are a member of a dispossessed class.

00:35:46.000 So here's one of the funny things about being a member of an identity group.

00:35:49.000 Being a member of an identity group doesn't mean that there's anything special about your identity group.

00:35:53.000 The only thing about your identity group that matters in identity politics is that it is anti the quote-unquote establishment.

00:35:59.000 Is that it seeks to tear down the hierarchy that it seeks to break apart the status quo.

00:36:04.000 So it doesn't matter that there are differences between black folks and Jews on politics.

00:36:08.000 It doesn't matter.

00:36:08.000 There's a difference between Muslims and Jews, certainly on politics, so long as they all claim common cause in tearing down the structure.

00:36:14.000 They are all members of the same group. 0.87

00:36:16.000 So this is why people are constantly asking the question, why is it that folks on the left seem so tolerant of radical Muslims when radical Muslims are totally anti-gay, they're totally anti-women's rights, they're totally anti-liberalism.

00:36:27.000 Why is it that so many members of the left, like you'll see LGBT groups marching arm in arm with people who support Hamas. 0.81

00:36:33.000 Why is that?

00:36:34.000 Why is that?

00:36:34.000 And the answer is, because as member of identity groups, they don't actually have solidarity within identity groups against other identity groups.

00:36:41.000 The purpose of the identity group is to band together in this great cohesive unit of the so-called dispossessed to fight against the broader spectrum.

00:36:50.000 So, radical Muslims don't have anything in common with the LGBT crowd, but they do have common cause in tearing down what they see as America's terrible 0.95

00:36:58.000 Terrible superstructure of racism and oppression.

00:37:00.000 And so they will overlook the evils of the other in order so that they can tear down—they're allies of convenience and allies of identity.

00:37:07.000 That's the idea here. 0.53

00:37:08.000 So Jill Jacobs, who's just gross. 1.00

00:37:09.000 She's executive director of TRUA.

00:37:11.000 There have been a call for human rights.

00:37:12.000 Rabbi Jill Jacobs, who knows less about Judaism than my four-year-old daughter.

00:37:16.000 She says, what Louis Farrakhan said is disgusting and inexcusable.

00:37:19.000 I don't think one can dismiss the entire movement and certainly not the entire progressive world because of a statement by one person or two people.

00:37:26.000 OK, imagine that this were said about David Duke and the alt-right.

00:37:28.000 Let's say that there are a bunch of members of the alt-right associated with David Duke, which they have.

00:37:32.000 And let's say that somebody said, listen, David Duke is just deplorable. 0.99

00:37:35.000 He's disgusting. 1.00

00:37:35.000 He's awful. 1.00

00:37:36.000 But are you really going to slander the entire alt-right because of David Duke? 0.91

00:37:40.000 Are you really going to do that?

00:37:42.000 And the answer is, yeah, kind of.

00:37:44.000 I mean, if you tolerate this stuff, then you become a party to it.

00:37:47.000 Judy Levy is executive director of the Jewish Council on Urban Affairs, and she made excuses for it as well.

00:37:51.000 She said, And there it is, in a nutshell.

00:37:52.000 Identity politics is about the common cause.

00:37:54.000 It is not about actually standing up for your identity group, even.

00:38:10.000 Sharon Browse, who spoke at the 2017 Women's March, she is at least attempting to do something right.

00:38:15.000 She said,

00:38:25.000 Yeah, except that these women are not going to be tossed out. 1.00

00:38:27.000 Linda Sarsour is still being cheered.

00:38:29.000 And Linda Sarsour, by the way, is not only being cheered inside the Women's March, Linda Sarsour is being cheered over at UConn.

00:38:35.000 So it turns out that she's supposed to speak at University of Connecticut.

00:38:39.000 And when she speaks at University of Connecticut, she is not going to have to have tremendous security, nor are the students being offered preliminary counseling.

00:38:48.000 So you'll recall that when I spoke at University of Connecticut,

00:38:52.000 The general public was barred.

00:38:53.000 You'll also recall that the administration sent out a full letter to the student body suggesting that if they needed preliminary counseling, because I was going to say something so terrible, that that would be available.

00:39:03.000 Linda Sarsour has said Zionists cannot be feminists. 0.99

00:39:05.000 Linda Sarsour has repeatedly supported terrorists. 0.81

00:39:08.000 Linda Sarsour is one of the worst people in American politics. 1.00

00:39:11.000 She is a radical.

00:39:13.000 And yet she is being treated as royalty at UConn, while I was treated as basically a David Duke type, which is precisely the opposite of the truth when it comes to me versus Linda Sarsour.

00:39:23.000 So, pretty amazing.

00:39:24.000 But again, all that matters is the identity politics.

00:39:27.000 And it's infused the entire Democratic Party.

00:39:29.000 It's one of the reasons they're looking at candidates like Kamala Harris. 1.00

00:39:32.000 It's the reason they're looking at Cory Booker.

00:39:33.000 It's the reason they're looking at Julian Castro, as opposed to looking at Joe Biden.

00:39:37.000 The good news for Republicans is that the more the Democrats engage in this broader identity politics movement, the more they engage in intersectionality, which was mentioned, by the way, at the Oscars by Ashley Judd, talking about intersectionality.

00:39:49.000 The more the left tries to suggest that they are a coalition of the dispossessed fighting the great power structure, the more Americans think, I don't want any part of these people.

00:39:57.000 I don't want anything to do with these people.

00:39:59.000 The left is alienating more people with its identity politics than it's drawing in now.

00:40:03.000 They're banking on the idea.

00:40:05.000 That the changing demographics of the United States are going to create an intersectional majority coalition.

00:40:10.000 But I don't think that's the case, because again, I think people are individuals, not members of identity groups. 0.97

00:40:14.000 And I think people will turn away if they're treated as individuals from the stupidity and malice of the intersectional movement. 0.91

00:40:20.000 All right, so in other news, I wanted to point out a bit of a controversy over The Bachelor. 0.98

00:40:25.000 I mentioned the other day a very funny show called The Good Place.

00:40:27.000 It's on network TV.

00:40:27.000 I think you can also get it on Netflix.

00:40:40.000 I don't even know what channel it's on because I cut the cord a long time ago, but The Good Place has a joke in it where they're talking about people who get into heaven, and the people who get into heaven are apparently the people who do not watch The Bachelor.

00:40:53.000 Like, this is one of the actual criterias, that if you watch The Bachelor, you have emotional investment in The Bachelor, it makes you a bad person.

00:40:59.000 Well, I think that that's probably true.

00:41:00.000 So, ABC...

00:41:02.000 I'm sure there are good people who watch The Bachelor, but they are wasting their time and their life force. 1.00

00:41:06.000 So, last night on The Bachelor, you wonder why our country got so stupid. 1.00

00:41:09.000 You wonder why our country has turned into an emotional basket case. 0.99

00:41:12.000 Maybe it's because we watch reality TV and we think it's actual reality, and then we invest obviously fictionalized stories with the power of true human emotions.

00:41:21.000 So, The Bachelor, apparently, I didn't watch one minute of The Bachelor this season, so forgive me if I slightly botched this story.

00:41:26.000 Apparently, The Bachelor had picked

00:41:29.000 One woman as the woman he was going to marry. 0.90

00:41:31.000 And then it turns out that he divorced her.

00:41:34.000 And he didn't divorce her.

00:41:35.000 He broke up with her after they were engaged and got together with the second place finisher.

00:41:39.000 Now, what I would say about the second place finisher is, have you no pride, woman? 0.98

00:41:43.000 Have you no gumption?

00:41:45.000 If a guy throws you over for another girl, and then he leaves that other girl back for you, have you no sense of self-worth that you would go with that guy?

00:41:54.000 But here's what it looked like on The Bachelor.

00:41:56.000 And of course, this is exploitative television in every way.

00:41:58.000 These people signed up for it, so it's hard to feel terrible for them.

00:42:00.000 But it really is kind of yucky that so many people find meaning in what is obviously stagecraft.

00:42:07.000 Do you want a few minutes to yourself or do you want me just to go?

00:42:09.000 I want you to go.

00:42:11.000 Was it truly the most shocking finale in Bachelor history?

00:42:18.000 In a three-hour special episode Monday night, viewers saw Arie Luyendyk Jr.

00:42:23.000 break up with Lauren Burnham.

00:42:25.000 He just completely blindsided me.

00:42:27.000 And he proposed to Becca Kufrin.

00:42:30.000 I choose you today, but I choose you every day from here on out.

00:42:33.000 Only to dump Kufrin in a raw, painful, unedited scene.

00:42:38.000 You shouldn't have gotten that on me.

00:42:40.000 He told her he wanted to try again with Lauren.

00:42:44.000 I just felt the further along we got, the further I started drifting away from the possibility of trying it again with her.

00:42:51.000 Well, yeah, because that's a normal relationship.

00:42:54.000 And this may only be the start of the fallout.

00:42:57.000 Franchise favorite Becca Martinez revealed Monday night that the 36-year-old had been sending her a few private messages.

00:43:04.000 They seem harmless, but still, that is messaging an ex.

00:43:08.000 Super-duper classy.

00:43:11.000 Super-duper classy.

00:43:11.000 And then all of America gets invested in this kind of tawdry nonsense, and we wonder why a reality TV star ended up being president.

00:43:17.000 Hey, just a little bit of data for those of you who are fans of The Bachelor.

00:43:20.000 In 20 seasons of The Bachelor, 12 men have actually popped the question on air.

00:43:25.000 However, of those 20 seasons, two of the couples are still together.

00:43:30.000 One is married.

00:43:31.000 Okay, that is a worse ratio than people who are going down to the bar getting drunk and hitting on people.

00:43:36.000 That is an awful, awful ratio.

00:43:37.000 Okay, so it's a little bit better on The Bachelorette, apparently.

00:43:40.000 The Bachelorette, I guess that they've had a couple of successes.

00:43:46.000 So Season 7, they had a success.

00:43:47.000 Season 9, they had a success.

00:43:49.000 And Season 11 and Season 12, I guess people are still together.

00:43:52.000 But it's not, it's like 50%.

00:43:55.000 So the notion that any of this is real is just absurd.

00:43:59.000 Of course it's not real, but when we get caught up,

00:44:01.000 In investing our emotions in reality TV, which is all being produced behind the scenes.

00:44:05.000 My mom is a reality TV producer.

00:44:07.000 My mom has done this stuff. 1.00

00:44:08.000 I've watched raw footage of reality TV shows before.

00:44:10.000 It is nothing like what appears on television.

00:44:12.000 They can make virtually anything appear interesting and fascinating.

00:44:16.000 Reality TV is not.

00:44:17.000 But it just demonstrates once and for all that there are a lot of people who are finding value in relationship stuff that has nothing to do with relationships.

00:44:25.000 So, I was asked a question recently.

00:44:27.000 At a college, I think it was at University of Minnesota, about whether a leftist should date a conservative.

00:44:32.000 Now what I said is if you're dating for marriage, which is supposedly what the bachelor or the bachelorette are about, if you're dating for those things, the first thing you should be talking about is values.

00:44:40.000 Has there ever been an episode of the bachelor or the bachelorette where people actually talked about values?

00:44:44.000 Where they actually talked about what they wanted their lives to look like?

00:44:47.000 Or is it more just, we'll jet set off to the most romantic location, and then we will hang out together until we fall in love.

00:44:54.000 And we'll wear really sexy outfits and go in the jacuzzi together. 0.99

00:44:57.000 Again, all of this is really dumb. 0.92

00:44:58.000 None of it is built for relationships, but this is what relationships have become. 0.97

00:45:01.000 And then we're surprised when people imitate what they see on TV and ignore values in relationships.

00:45:06.000 No wonder people are not sticking together. 0.97

00:45:08.000 They're not sticking together because we have a stupid idea of how adult relationships are supposed to work, largely promulgated by the media. 0.98

00:45:14.000 Okay. 0.97

00:45:15.000 Time for some things I like, and then some things that I hate.

00:45:18.000 So, things that I like, since we did The Good Place yesterday, I figure we'll do some heaven-themed stuff this week.

00:45:25.000 So, an underrated movie, What Dreams May Come, with Robin Williams.

00:45:29.000 The visuals in this movie are really what make it interesting.

00:45:31.000 Anytime you watch a Robin Williams movie, it's really sad to watch Robin Williams movies now, obviously because of what happened to him.

00:45:38.000 But it's, what he did to himself.

00:45:41.000 The movie is quite moving, and I think that

00:45:44.000 It works.

00:45:44.000 Max von Sydow is in it.

00:45:46.000 Here's a little bit of the trailer.

00:45:48.000 I'm a doctor.

00:45:48.000 Don't move.

00:45:52.000 The moment that comes for everyone... ...has come for Chris Nielsen.

00:46:04.000 You've died, Chris.

00:46:06.000 If heaven is a place where you know only joy... Boy, I screwed up.

00:46:13.000 I'm in dog heaven.

00:46:14.000 You're creating an entire world here from your imagination, from anything you want.

00:46:19.000 where you feel no more fear.

00:46:21.000 I'm gonna drown. 0.98

00:46:23.000 You can't. 1.00

00:46:23.000 You're already dead. 1.00

00:46:25.000 And anything you can imagine is real.

00:46:29.000 It's not real!

00:46:31.000 Could you let go of the love you left behind?

00:46:38.000 I need Andy.

00:46:39.000 That'll change in time.

00:46:41.000 Time?

00:46:42.000 Okay, so the movie is actually quite moving, and it really works.

00:46:44.000 One of the things about Robin Williams as an actor is you can see that the man was a truly troubled individual, and you can always see there's a sort of pain behind his eyes, and in this movie it really works for him.

00:46:53.000 So check out what dreams may come worth while watching.

00:46:55.000 Okay, other things that I like.

00:46:56.000 Nikki Haley, my spirit animal at the UN.

00:46:58.000 So she was speaking at AIPAC yesterday, and she talked about Israel and the United Nations.

00:47:03.000 The United Nations, of course, is the most isolated of actual life.

00:47:07.000 Here's Nikki Haley talking about the U.N.

00:47:09.000 At the U.N.

00:47:10.000 and throughout the U.N.

00:47:11.000 agencies, Israel does get bullied.

00:47:14.000 It gets bullied because the countries that don't like Israel are used to being able to get away with it.

00:47:21.000 Well, just like when I was that little girl in South Carolina.

00:47:24.000 That just doesn't sit well with me.

00:47:26.000 Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.

00:47:28.000 That's a fact.

00:47:30.000 And President Trump had the courage to recognize that fact when others would not.

00:47:35.000 The United Nations spends half of its time attacking only one country.

00:47:40.000 We will not accept it any longer.

00:47:43.000 Yeah, good for Nikki Haley. 0.99

00:47:44.000 This is one of the best things about the Trump administration.

00:47:46.000 It's one area where they've bucked foreign policy conventional wisdom, and they've done really well with it.

00:47:50.000 Okay, time for some things that I hate.

00:47:56.000 Okay, so apparently the hatred of guns is so strong now that the dating app Bumble has announced that it will ban profile photos with guns in them in response to the shooting at Parkland.

00:48:05.000 A statement on the Bumble website said the company will now moderate all photos for the presence of guns, excluding users who are in military or law enforcement uniforms,

00:48:12.000 We're good to go.

00:48:31.000 But so much of corporate culture has now become virtue signaling that it's actually really troubling.

00:48:36.000 It's one of the reasons, by the way, that you are seeing a change in the actual way that news is done, the way that the news industry is done.

00:48:42.000 So if you look at Facebook, Facebook is now changing its algorithm.

00:48:45.000 YouTube has been changing its algorithm.

00:48:46.000 They're downgrading anything that has mildly controversial content.

00:48:49.000 They're attempting to weed out stuff that gets people excited or gets people irritated or

00:48:54.000 Confronts them with news they don't want to see because advertisers are getting blowback from people on this supposedly or at least advertisers don't want to be associated with controversial opinions.

00:49:05.000 The reason this is a real problem is because what this does it actually ensures that people are going to go to their own bubbles.

00:49:12.000 Because the way that the model works on places like Facebook or YouTube is their ad-supported model.

00:49:16.000 So, you know, if you get our show on YouTube, for example, then YouTube may play an ad beforehand, or they may demonetize one of our videos.

00:49:23.000 They may take the ads off beforehand.

00:49:25.000 Well, if they do that to people who are totally reliant on ad support, if they do it to Dave Rubin, for example,

00:49:31.000 Then that forces people to give money to Rubin, to subscribe to Rubin in order to get that content.

00:49:36.000 And what that means is that Dave Rubin's crowd of people from whom he is drawing money is going to be smaller than it normally would be.

00:49:41.000 So would ours be, so would Steven Crowder's be, so would Joe Rogan's be.

00:49:44.000 Anybody who gets demonetized on a regular basis is going to have to align a subscription model.

00:49:48.000 Well, subscription models are by nature opt-in models.

00:49:51.000 That means that people who are not familiar with the content are not going to subscribe.

00:49:55.000 And that means that if you're familiar with the New York Times, you're never going to see an opposing viewpoint.

00:49:58.000 If you're familiar with Daily Wire, you're never going to see an opposing viewpoint.

00:50:01.000 It actually ensures that the bubbles are strengthened.

00:50:03.000 So corporate weakness in these areas is really bad for the country.

00:50:06.000 And it's one of the reasons why Media Matters has done such awful work in trying to go after advertisers simply for advertising on sites that carry messages that they may not like.

00:50:15.000 I think it's a really dangerous business in which they are engaging.

00:50:19.000 OK, other things that I hate.

00:50:21.000 And so, worthwhile noting, the West Virginia teacher strike is apparently still continuing.

00:50:26.000 They were talking about settling it this morning.

00:50:27.000 I'm not sure if they have finally settled it or not.

00:50:29.000 It's in its second week.

00:50:30.000 This strike is illegal.

00:50:32.000 So basically, a bunch of teachers in West Virginia are striking against the state of West Virginia in order to get higher pay.

00:50:37.000 I don't like public sector unions because they're striking against the taxpayer.

00:50:40.000 This is why public sector unions should be illegal.

00:50:43.000 It should not be legal for people to strike against the taxpayer.

00:50:45.000 Can you imagine the cops striking against the taxpayer?

00:50:47.000 We're just not going to do our job.

00:50:48.000 We're just going to walk off.

00:50:50.000 The state should have to pay whatever it is that people are willing to take, but this is why unions that actually get together and band together and then have people walk out in order to deprive the taxpayers of services that we are owed for the tax money that we are paying are really, really bad.

00:51:04.000 Now, do I blame the teachers who are members of the unions?

00:51:06.000 No, but I do blame the union itself and the state for engaging in this sort of negotiation.

00:51:13.000 They should have filed a legal case, an injunction against the union on this, and they should have gone back to what West Virginia's law is, which is right to work. 0.55

00:51:21.000 They should have just gone to individual teachers and hired the individual teachers back at prices that they are willing to pay and prices that the teachers are willing to work for.

00:51:28.000 OK, we'll be back here tomorrow with all the latest.

00:51:30.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - March 06, 2018

Putting Crazy People On TV | Ep. 489

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