The Ben Shapiro Show - Remembering HW | Ep. 674

00:00:00.000 Washington, D.C.

00:00:01.000 gathers to mourn George H.W.

00:00:02.000 Bush 41.

00:00:03.000 We explore Bush 41's political legacy.

00:00:06.000 And the radical left gains more esteem among the democratic intelligentsia.

00:00:10.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:00:10.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:00:12.000 Okay, so I do want to get to everything Bush-related.

00:00:19.000 I also want to get to Elizabeth Warren, who even the New York Times is now acknowledging sort of blew herself up at the behest of President Trump.

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00:01:37.000 Okay, yesterday...

00:01:38.000 It was supposedly a moment of unity in Washington, D.C.

00:01:41.000 We had all of the living ex-presidents at the National Cathedral to do a memorial service for George H.W.

00:01:49.000 Bush.

00:01:49.000 And it really was moving, particularly when people who were close to George H.W.

00:01:52.000 Bush spoke.

00:01:52.000 So when George W. Bush spoke, for example, it was incredibly moving.

00:01:56.000 That, however, was not the main headline that came out because that was never going to be the main headline that came out.

00:02:01.000 Whenever there's a political gathering, let's face it, Okay, when there's a memorial like this, we all get together for five minutes and we pretend that we still have something in common.

00:02:10.000 And it's just like a family reunion at Christmas or at Hanukkah or at Thanksgiving.

00:02:14.000 You all get together and go, oh, remember we're all family.

00:02:16.000 And by halfway through the meal, everybody's throwing food at each other and trying to club each other with the empty bottle of Martinelli's.

00:02:22.000 And that's basically how things are.

00:02:24.000 Yesterday at the National Cathedral, the good part was everything that genuine friends and family of George H. W. Bush had to say.

00:02:30.000 Here was George W. Bush talking about his father.

00:02:32.000 Ed taught us that public service is noble and necessary, that one can serve with integrity and hold true to the important values like faith and family.

00:02:45.000 He strongly believed that it was important to give back to the community and country in which one lived.

00:02:52.000 He recognized that serving others enriched the giver's soul.

00:02:57.000 To us, his was the brightest of a thousand points of light.

00:03:03.000 And George W. Bush talked movingly about his own relationship with his father, all of which was good and decent.

00:03:10.000 And then John Meacham, who's a historian, got up and talked about how George H.W.

00:03:14.000 Bush was a 20th century founding father, and here's what he had to say.

00:03:18.000 George Herbert Walker Bush was America's last great soldier statesman.

00:03:26.000 A 20th century founding father.

00:03:30.000 He governed with virtues that most closely resemble those of Washington and of Adams, of TR and of FDR, of Truman and of Eisenhower, of men who believed in causes larger than themselves.

00:03:50.000 Okay, well, the truth is that George H.W.

00:03:53.000 Bush was not a visionary, right?

00:03:55.000 He lacked what they called the vision thing, and in 1992 it came back to bite him.

00:03:58.000 He was much more of a technocrat, as we talked about yesterday on the program.

00:04:02.000 He was much more of a guy who sort of handled his business.

00:04:04.000 And if he'd been president between 1924 and 1928, for example, I think he would have made a fine president.

00:04:09.000 His presidency between 1988 and 1992 was, to put it mildly, rather lackluster.

00:04:15.000 But the fact that we see him as a unifying figure I think says more about where we are as a country than it does about George H.W.

00:04:22.000 Bush.

00:04:22.000 The reality is that when John Meacham says he was the last soldier statesman, remember John McCain ran for the presidency in 2008 on a similar war heroism record, on a similarly moderate record as a legislator, and he lost to Barack Obama, a wild leftist.

00:04:38.000 In 2012, a classy, middle-of-the-road guy who probably in temperament most resembled George H.W.

00:04:44.000 Bush lost, again, to Barack Obama.

00:04:48.000 In 1992, George H.W. 0.99

00:04:49.000 Bush, that soldier statesman, lost to a probable rapist.

00:04:56.000 So George H.W., the American people decided they weren't interested in the soldier-statesman model, and perhaps that's because we actually have had a breakdown in the social fabric. 0.89

00:05:05.000 When you think about what George H.W.

00:05:06.000 Bush represented, there's been a lot of talk about him representing higher ideals, but the truth is I think what he mostly represented is he reflected the fact that we used to have a commonality of interest.

00:05:16.000 And look at the institutions to which George H. W. Bush belonged.

00:05:19.000 He was a belonger to the military, obviously.

00:05:21.000 He was a military hero.

00:05:22.000 That was a unifying institution in American life.

00:05:24.000 He was somebody who belonged to the upper crust of the Ivy League establishment.

00:05:30.000 This was an institution in American life where a lot of people had common interests and common values.

00:05:35.000 He was a member of a church.

00:05:37.000 He was a church-going man.

00:05:39.000 That was a unifying factor in his life.

00:05:41.000 All of the sort of soft things in the background, all of these soft things in the background that allow us to be a country together, those are what have faded.

00:05:49.000 And that's what we're really mourning when we mourn George H.W.

00:05:52.000 Bush's legacy and his passing, is what exactly happened to that background?

00:05:58.000 What happened to the social fabric that was always the background for the tapestry that was going to be the American story?

00:06:04.000 That's what's missing.

00:06:06.000 And the reason I say that's what's missing is when Meacham says that George H.W.

00:06:09.000 Bush reminds us of George Washington, I think that's because George H.W.

00:06:12.000 Bush reminds us of a time when Americans had a lot more in common than they do now.

00:06:16.000 Now, what's weird about that is that we should have more in common now than we did then.

00:06:19.000 Obviously, racial conflict in the United States is, thank God, on a downward spiral and has been for decades.

00:06:26.000 Prosperity in the United States continues to rise.

00:06:29.000 There are a lot of reasons why we should be unified, but we are not, in fact, unified.

00:06:33.000 And this goes back all the way to George Washington's farewell address.

00:06:37.000 He wrote a 32-page address to the people of America in which he warned against the spirit of faction.

00:06:42.000 He said that that spirit agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection, it opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions.

00:07:00.000 He talks about the divisions, the things that divide us.

00:07:02.000 But what is it that will unify us, said George Washington?

00:07:05.000 He said, in vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.

00:07:14.000 This would be religion and morality.

00:07:16.000 He says the mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them.

00:07:21.000 A volume could not trace all their connections with private and public felicity.

00:07:24.000 Let it simply be asked.

00:07:25.000 Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice?

00:07:34.000 And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.

00:07:39.000 Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

00:07:50.000 It is substantially true that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.

00:07:55.000 The rule indeed extends with more or less force to every species of free government.

00:07:59.000 Who that is a sincere friend to it can look with indifference upon attempts to shake the foundation of the fabric.

00:08:06.000 The foundation of the fabric has been shaken.

00:08:07.000 When we look at the tributes to George H.W.

00:08:10.000 Bush, that is the biggest reminder.

00:08:12.000 That is the biggest reminder is that George H. W. Bush reminded us of a time when there was a common social fabric.

00:08:17.000 Now, there are a lot of people who will say, yeah, but I wasn't part of that social fabric.

00:08:19.000 I was excluded.

00:08:21.000 Right.

00:08:21.000 And then we made moves to try and include more people in that social fabric.

00:08:24.000 But at the same time, we decided it was necessary to shred the social fabric in the name of inclusion.

00:08:29.000 And what that means is that we are now included in a group in which we have no commonality.

00:08:33.000 And that's what we are all reminded of.

00:08:34.000 And when I look at the lineup of presidents who are sitting there, President Trump, who is, for all of the policies that I like about President Trump, a divisive figure.

00:08:42.000 Barack Obama, who is a radical, radical leftist with a corrupt history in Chicago. 0.53

00:08:46.000 Bill Clinton, who is a corrupt politician through and through. 0.99

00:08:49.000 And his wife, Hillary Clinton, who ran for president, being a very corrupt politician.

00:08:53.000 And what we are looking at is a country that really has less and less in common these days.

00:09:00.000 Well, that has led Ross Douthat over at the New York Times to write a piece talking about why we miss the Wasps.

00:09:06.000 And what he's specifically talking about is what exactly is it about George H.W.

00:09:10.000 Bush that we miss?

00:09:11.000 What is his sensibility that we miss?

00:09:12.000 He says, has many wellsprings, admiration for the World War II generation and its dying breed of warrior politicians, the usual belated media affection for moderate Republicans, the contrast between the elder Bush's foreign policy successes and the failures of his son, and the contrast between any honorable politician and the current occupants of the Oval Office.

00:09:31.000 But two of the more critical takes on Bush nostalgia got closer to the heart of what was being mourned in distant hindsight with his death.

00:09:36.000 Writing in The Atlantic, Peter Beinart, who is just an awful human being, described the elder Bush as the last president deemed legitimate by both of our country's warring tribes before the age of presidential sex scandals, plurality winning and popular vote losing chief executives and white resentment of the first black president.

00:09:51.000 All Also in the Atlantic, Franklin Ford described the subtext of Bush nostalgia as a fondness for a bygone institution known as the establishment, hardened in the cold of New England boarding schools, acculturated by the late night rituals of skull and bones, sent off to the world with a sense of noblesse oblige.

00:10:06.000 So Douthat says, I think you can usefully combine these takes and describe Bush nostalgia as a longing for something America used to have and doesn't really anymore.

00:10:13.000 A ruling class that was widely, not universally, but more widely than today, deemed legitimate and that inspired various kinds of trust, intergenerational, institutional, conspicuously absent in our society today.

00:10:23.000 Put simply, Americans miss Bush because we miss the wasps, because we feel at some level that their more meritocratic and diverse and secular successors rule us neither as wisely nor as well.

00:10:34.000 Now, I have my disagreements with this, because if you look at the presidents who we've admired the most, people like Harry Truman, to take a particular example, he was a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant, but he was certainly not upper crust.

00:10:46.000 And this feeling like, this noblesse oblige feeling that Dowd had us talking about, that this was our group of rulers who we were going to pick from among them, Yeah, I think that has its discontents and certainly it has its downsides as well.

00:10:59.000 I think something else has happened.

00:11:00.000 I don't think that we miss the ruling class.

00:11:02.000 I think that we miss the idea that the ruling class in the United States, this sort of aristocratic caste at the top of society, that they actually still had a lot in common with us.

00:11:14.000 What's weird is that as the people who we vote for become more like us, we seem to have less in common with the people we vote for.

00:11:22.000 And I think that's just because, as a country, as a whole, we have less in common with the people around us.

00:11:27.000 We don't know our neighbors.

00:11:29.000 We don't spend any time with them.

00:11:30.000 And we don't aspire to be a George H.W.

00:11:32.000 Bush.

00:11:32.000 We resent people who make a lot of money.

00:11:34.000 We resent people who are at the top of the so-called meritocracy.

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00:13:15.000 Okay, so Ross Douthat basically makes the claim that George H.W.

00:13:18.000 Bush was beloved because we accepted our ruling haste more Way back when.

00:13:24.000 I don't think that's right.

00:13:25.000 Again, I think it's that we had more in common with our ruling case.

00:13:28.000 That we thought, okay, one day if I work hard, I can be like those people because this is a free society and we share the same values.

00:13:34.000 We have all the things in common that George Washington talked about in his farewell address.

00:13:38.000 But we don't anymore.

00:13:40.000 We don't anymore.

00:13:42.000 Here's what Douthat writes in contravention of this idea.

00:13:45.000 He says, If some of the elderbush's mourners wish we still had a wasp establishment, their desire probably reflects a belated realization that certain of the old establishment's vices were inherent to any elite, that meritocracy creates its own forms of exclusion, and that the wasps had virtues that their successors have failed to inherit or revive.

00:14:01.000 Those virtues included a spirit of noblesse oblige and personal austerity and piety that went beyond the thank you notes and boat shoes and prep school chapel going.

00:14:08.000 A spirit that trained the most privileged children for service, not just success, that sent men like Bush into combat alongside the sons of farmers and mechanics in the same way that it sent missionaries and diplomats abroad in the service of their churches and their countries.

00:14:20.000 So, he sort of chalks this up to WASP habits.

00:14:24.000 What I would say is that these used to be much more universal values, and they also applied to the people who ruled the country.

00:14:29.000 And now they're not universal values, and they apply to no one.

00:14:31.000 And so, our last several presidents have had significant moral failings.

00:14:34.000 Have real significant moral failings.

00:14:36.000 And the one who's probably the best man among them, George W. Bush, was excoriated as warmonger by everybody else.

00:14:42.000 Well, none of this really... all the feel-goodism didn't really hold up to scrutiny for very long because, as it turns out, we are still an extraordinarily divided nation.

00:14:52.000 And, as you know, I'm not ripping on displays of patriotic unity.

00:14:57.000 I think that sometimes those are necessary.

00:14:59.000 But it is hard not to look at the display Yesterday, in which you had President Trump sitting next to Melania, sitting next to the Obamas.

00:15:07.000 The Obamas despise the Trumps, and probably vice versa.

00:15:10.000 And then you have the Obamas sitting next to the Clintons.

00:15:12.000 The Obamas despise the Clintons, and the Clintons despise the Trumps.

00:15:15.000 And they all despise each other.

00:15:16.000 And now think to yourself...

00:15:19.000 Maybe we as a country have lost something, right?

00:15:21.000 And that's not a rip on Trump specifically, or even Obama specifically, or even Clinton specifically, although I have serious problems with all of the aforementioned.

00:15:28.000 It does raise questions as to what we as a country have in common when our leadership has virtually nothing in common with each other.

00:15:34.000 And you can see that in some of the video from yesterday.

00:15:38.000 Some of the video from yesterday that was going viral was Hillary Clinton purportedly snubbing the Trumps, and I can see the media trying to gin this up.

00:15:44.000 I am unclear as to whether Hillary Clinton is actually spurning Melania Trump here. 0.85

00:15:49.000 It would not be supremely surprising if she were, but I think it's a tape that can be read both ways.

00:15:53.000 What certainly cannot be read both ways is the media coverage of it.

00:15:55.000 So here's what it looked like when Donald Trump and Melania Trump sat down next to the Obamas and the Clintons.

00:16:04.000 So what you will see is Melania and Trump, they're shaking hands with people, and Trump reaches over, he shakes hands with Michelle Obama, and then the Clintons sort of look away from him.

00:16:14.000 President Trump shaking the hands of the Obamas.

00:16:16.000 The Clintons did not acknowledge President Trump.

00:16:20.000 So, obviously the media very into the idea that all these people hate each other, because the truth is, we all know, deep down, they really do hate each other.

00:16:27.000 But, you know what the media hates most of all?

00:16:28.000 What the media hates most of all are the Trumps.

00:16:31.000 So, MSNBC went nuts over Trump.

00:16:33.000 Now, Trump's behavior at the funeral was nothing, right?

00:16:35.000 I mean, like, he didn't do anything wrong at this memorial service.

00:16:38.000 Trump's behavior at the memorial service was perfectly normal.

00:16:40.000 That didn't stop the media from losing its ever-loving mind over his presence at the funeral.

00:16:44.000 What I love is all of the people in the media saying, well, Trump ripped on George W. Bush, and he ripped on Jeb Bush, and he was mean to them, so he shouldn't have shown up.

00:16:53.000 Does anyone remember?

00:16:54.000 Barack Obama calling George W. Bush a war criminal, in essence.

00:16:58.000 And he did it a lot.

00:16:59.000 Does anybody remember Bill Clinton going after George H.W.

00:17:03.000 Bush in 1992?

00:17:05.000 Excoriating him?

00:17:07.000 Trying to destroy him?

00:17:08.000 Does anybody remember any of this?

00:17:10.000 Politics is partisan game.

00:17:12.000 But the media were very upset that Trump would even be in the same vicinity as an event that people have emotional attachment to.

00:17:18.000 So here's MSNBC going nuts over President Trump.

00:17:20.000 There has not been an example since he emerged on the political stage of him being able to see anything as not about him.

00:17:28.000 So this was a service that was not about him.

00:17:32.000 And the premise of being invited was that at least for maybe two hours you'd stop all this and it's not about you and just take it in.

00:17:41.000 And it really wasn't about him, and you could completely ignore him.

00:17:45.000 I mean, because all he could do was sort of sit there, and the rest of the program went on.

00:17:50.000 Okay, so MSNBC is very upset that Trump did not make it about himself, but it was still all about him.

00:17:56.000 Okay, Don Lemon was even worse.

00:17:57.000 He says that Trump should not have even shown up to the funeral after talking smack about George W. Bush.

00:18:03.000 Again, the great meeting of the mental luminaries Don Lemon and Chris Cuomo on CNN discuss.

00:18:09.000 I don't think that's respect for the human being.

00:18:12.000 If you talk smack about them, if you say the nastiest things about them, if you treat them as subhuman, and then you want to show up at their funeral?

00:18:21.000 Really? 0.98

00:18:21.000 Hell, no. 0.98

00:18:25.000 First of all, the Bushes invited President Trump, right?

00:18:28.000 John McCain, Senator McCain's family didn't invite President Trump, so President Trump didn't show up.

00:18:32.000 The Bush family invited President Trump and wanted him there specifically for the show of unity.

00:18:37.000 But it doesn't matter.

00:18:38.000 Trump can obey the wishes of the Bush family, and he still will get ripped up and down.

00:18:42.000 The Washington Post's coverage of this was particularly absurd.

00:18:45.000 They have a piece by Greg Jaffe today that says, at George H.W.

00:18:48.000 Bush's funeral, a magisterial presidency meets one diminished by division.

00:18:52.000 Are we gonna pretend that George H.W.

00:18:54.000 Bush's presidency wasn't diminished by division?

00:18:58.000 That his presidency was purely magisterial?

00:19:00.000 Is that what we're gonna do now?

00:19:00.000 He served one term, and then he lost because a third-party candidate won 19% of the vote.

00:19:05.000 But apparently, you know, every opportunity to use George H. Bush to contrast to Trump, as opposed to contrasting what the country was in 1990, And maybe before, with the spirit of America now.

00:19:18.000 No, it's all going to be about Trump.

00:19:18.000 I don't think they would be writing the same thing about Barack Obama, who militarized the executive branch against his political enemies.

00:19:44.000 That wasn't the only article on the front page of the Washington Post website.

00:19:48.000 They had another article that said, This one from Philip Rucker.

00:19:55.000 From the moment he crossed the transept of the soaring Washington National Cathedral, tore off his overcoat, and took his seat in the front pew, President Trump was an outsider.

00:20:03.000 When the others sang an opening hymn, his mouth did not move.

00:20:05.000 When the others read the Apostles' Creed, he stood stoically.

00:20:08.000 And when one eulogist after another testified to George H.W.

00:20:10.000 Bush's integrity and character and honesty and bravery and compassion, Trump sat and listened, often with his lips pursed and his arms crossed over his chest.

00:20:18.000 So now we're doing body language breakdowns of President Trump at a funeral for national unity.

00:20:25.000 Mm-hmm.

00:20:25.000 Well done, Washington Post.

00:20:27.000 Really good stuff.

00:20:28.000 Also, I do love that a lot of people are very upset that President Trump and Melania didn't say the Apostles' Creed.

00:20:33.000 Well, other people said the Apostles' Creed.

00:20:35.000 Are we supposed to pretend that Bill Clinton saying the Apostles' Creed makes him a saint?

00:20:39.000 That suddenly Bill Clinton gets canonized because he was saying the Apostles' Creed?

00:20:42.000 He's a true Christian, Bill Clinton.

00:20:44.000 You know, and he's not schtuping everything in sight with or without consent.

00:20:48.000 We're supposed to pretend that that is just a sign of decency now?

00:20:52.000 The Washington Post continues, Wednesday's state funeral was carefully orchestrated to be about one man and his milestones, Bush the father, the friend, the war hero, but inevitably became about Trump too.

00:21:01.000 For it was impossible to pay tribute to the 41st president without drawing implicit contrast with the 45th.

00:21:05.000 I've been saying this for days, that the reason the media are doing a lot of the over-the-top hagiography of George H.W.

00:21:11.000 Bush is specifically in order to tear down President Trump.

00:21:13.000 That was pretty obvious from the outset.

00:21:16.000 Look, again, you can look at George H.W.

00:21:18.000 Bush and miss maybe a time when Americans valued statesmanship, but let's not pretend that the end of statesmanship began with President Trump because that is a bunch of nonsense and we all know it.

00:21:27.000 We all know it.

00:21:29.000 In a second, I want to talk a little bit about George H.W.

00:21:31.000 Bush's sort of reaction to President Trump.

00:21:34.000 And I also want to talk about the Democrats preparing for 2020.

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00:22:50.000 Well, all this morning for George H.W.

00:22:52.000 Bush goes on, and while we contrast the era of George H.W.

00:22:55.000 Bush and maybe the social fabric of George H.W.

00:22:58.000 Bush with today's social fabric, it is important to note, as I said yesterday, that George H.W.

00:23:04.000 Bush and the establishment Republicans' disdain for people who are not of the elite did breed a backlash.

00:23:10.000 So here's what Rod Douthat is right over at the New York Times.

00:23:13.000 When he says that there's a nostalgia for a sort of aristocracy in the United States, let's not pretend that that did not create a backlash.

00:23:20.000 It absolutely did.

00:23:21.000 One of the things that always used to make me a little sick to my stomach was watching as the Bush family embraced the Clinton family.

00:23:26.000 I never understood it.

00:23:27.000 It made no sense to me.

00:23:28.000 These were not people who shared values.

00:23:30.000 These were not people who shared a vision for the country.

00:23:32.000 And if they embraced each other because they felt that they had something else in common, I'm wondering what exactly that was.

00:23:38.000 I always felt like a fan of the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees, and you're rooting for your team to beat the other team, and then you find out that the players in the offseason are best friends and go fishing together, and you think to yourself, wait a second.

00:23:52.000 Aren't they supposed to, you know, be fighting against each other?

00:23:55.000 That doesn't mean they should be beating each other's brains in, but the sort of warmth that Bush showed toward the Clintons, the Bush family showed toward the Clintons, was always off-putting to a lot of people who felt like this was more of an evidence of an inborn elite who had decided to associate with each other than people who were really unified with the American people per se.

00:24:14.000 So when Maureen Dowd says that George H.W.

00:24:17.000 Bush cursed about Trump and threw his shoe at the TV whenever he appeared, You know, that creates a rather large backlash against exactly the sort of aristocracy that Ross Dude had us talking about.

00:24:27.000 H.W.

00:24:28.000 was talking about how much he liked Bill Clinton and Obama, and I said, what do you think of this Trump-Berther thing? 1.00

00:24:33.000 And he just said, you know, in essence, he's a jerk with a different word. 0.99

00:24:40.000 I just, I think, I heard later that he was throwing a shoe at the television set when Trump came on. 0.99

00:24:47.000 And this is why the media, of course, are doing a hagiography of George H.W.

00:24:50.000 Bush, because this is what they want.

00:24:52.000 They want this division.

00:24:53.000 Now, again, we are going to have to rebuild the social fabric from the ground up, but that's not going to happen anytime soon, not with the politics that we currently have.

00:25:00.000 The latest evidence of this comes courtesy of Elizabeth Warren, so this is just too funny.

00:25:05.000 Do you remember a few weeks back, this is mid-October, Elizabeth Warren decided that it was imperative that she release a DNA test to demonstrate her Native American bona fides, because many people had said, Lady, you are whiter than the backside of this sheet of paper right here.

00:25:19.000 I mean, you are as white as the driven snow.

00:25:22.000 And Elizabeth Warren said, No!

00:25:24.000 I have high cheekbones!

00:25:25.000 I'm Native American!

00:25:26.000 And then she went and she got like a genetic test, a DNA test, and it turned out she was maybe 1,024th Native American.

00:25:34.000 And the media celebrated this.

00:25:35.000 We read the headlines at the time.

00:25:37.000 The media said, she has been vindicated.

00:25:39.000 She's a Native American.

00:25:40.000 How dare you question her ancestry?

00:25:43.000 Well, the rest of us were like, uh, that's not what the test showed.

00:25:46.000 And also, what?

00:25:48.000 Well, now it turns out, That we won the argument, right?

00:25:51.000 Those of us who actually have any tenuous relationship with reality, we won this particular argument because now the New York Times is reporting that one-time Democratic 2020 presidential frontrunner, Senator Elizabeth Warren, has fallen on hard times politically.

00:26:03.000 Why?

00:26:04.000 Because of that DNA test.

00:26:05.000 So Trump trolled her into taking a DNA test and now she's got problems. 1.00

00:26:08.000 Quote from the New York Times.

00:26:09.000 Nearly two months after Ms.

00:26:10.000 Warren released the test results and drew hostile reactions from prominent tribal leaders, the lingering cloud over her likely presidential campaign has only darkened.

00:26:19.000 Conservatives have continued to ridicule her.

00:26:20.000 More worrisome to supporters of Ms.

00:26:22.000 Warren's presidential ambitions, she has yet to allay criticism from grassroots progressive groups.

00:26:27.000 Liberal political operatives and other potential 2020 allies who complain that she put too much emphasis on the controversial field of racial science, and in doing so, played into Mr. Trump's hands.

00:26:37.000 So, she tried to break into the intersectional group by releasing a DNA test, and everybody was like, no lady, you're white. 0.79

00:26:43.000 Not allowed.

00:26:44.000 So it's really fun to watch all of these upper-crust white candidates try to break into the intersectional battleground that the Democratic Party has become. 0.53

00:26:52.000 On the one hand, you have somebody like Kirsten Gillibrand, another rich white lady, who tweets out, And we're just getting started. 0.94

00:26:57.000 intersectional, powered by our belief in one another.

00:26:59.000 And we're just getting started.

00:27:01.000 As my friend and business partner, Jeremy Boring says, I'm not sure why she's allowed to assume the gender of the future. 0.96

00:27:09.000 That seems transphobic.

00:27:10.000 But in any case, Warren went even further in an attempt to prove she could compete with all the other minority candidates. 0.74

00:27:15.000 She didn't just pay tribute to intersectionality.

00:27:17.000 She tried to become part of the intersectional coalition, and she looked really bad doing it, and now the New York Times is recognizing this.

00:27:23.000 So, how's the Democratic Party breaking down for 2020?

00:27:26.000 Well, they've got the intersectional radicals, then they've got the establishmentarians, and then they have the Bernie Sanders radicals.

00:27:33.000 And this means that if you had to name the people who are the top candidates right now, it would be from the establishment Joe Biden, from the intersectional side Kamala Harris, and from the Sanders bro flavor of the month, that'd be Beto O'Rourke.

00:27:44.000 So those would be your top three candidates if you had to handicap this race right now.

00:27:47.000 All three of them Are increasingly radical and Elizabeth Warren was not radical enough.

00:27:51.000 She tried to break from the Sanders, bro.

00:27:55.000 Take, for example, the issue of intersectionality.

00:27:57.000 the intersectional area of the party and she failed dramatically because as it turns out, there are serious gaps between these three sections of the party if you are a Democrat.

00:28:05.000 And these gaps are only going to get larger as the Democratic Party becomes more and more radical on a wide variety of issues.

00:28:11.000 Take, for example, the issue of intersectionality.

00:28:14.000 So intersectionality now demands that we ignore anti-Semitism in favor of more put upon intersectional groups, right?

00:28:24.000 We've talked about this in the past.

00:28:25.000 That intersectionality, for those who don't know, is a theory that says that everybody's experience is defined by their group identity.

00:28:30.000 So if you're a black person, you have a different experience in America than a white person.

00:28:34.000 If you're a black woman, you're a member of two intersectional groups, and those overlapping experiences, those intersecting experiences, define your life in America.

00:28:41.000 And we can determine how seriously to take your opinion, or how victimized you have been, which are flip sides of the same coin in leftism.

00:28:48.000 Well, when it comes to this intersectional hierarchy, we rank various groups by level of victimization in American society.

00:28:57.000 Jews, because they're economically successful in the United States, rank very low on the intersectional hierarchy. 0.99

00:29:02.000 So the left has decided that anti-Semitism is no longer a problem.

00:29:05.000 They're not going to focus in on serious anti-Semitism.

00:29:08.000 Unless they can shout about anti-semitism in order to bash President Trump like they did after the Pittsburgh white supremacist shooting.

00:29:15.000 Thus, you now have several members of the Democratic caucus who have come out in favor of the openly anti-semitic proposal to boycott, divest, and sanction the state of Israel for building extra bathrooms in East Jerusalem.

00:29:25.000 And they're still willing to hobnob with folks like Mark Lamont Hill.

00:29:27.000 Mark Lamont Hill recently fired from CNN after going to the UN and shouting the Hamas slogan from the river to the sea, Palestine shall be free.

00:29:35.000 Well, it turns out that just a few months ago, nobody cared about this, back a few months ago, September 2018, Marc Lamont Hill suggested that the Jews were poisoning the water of the Palestinians.

00:29:47.000 That's called the blood libel.

00:29:48.000 For those who don't know any Jewish history, back during the Crusades, there were suggestions, lies, back in the 11th and 12th centuries, there were lies that Jews had been poisoning the wells of Christians in order to kill them. 0.89

00:30:01.000 How can you romanticize nonviolence when you have a state that is at all moments waging war against you, against your bodies, poisoning your water, limiting your access to water, locking up your children, killing you?

00:30:11.000 you know, an intellectual of sorts.

00:30:14.000 How can you romanticize nonviolence when you have a state that is at all moments waging war against you, against your bodies, poisoning your water, limiting your access to water, locking up your children, killing you?

00:30:28.000 We can't romanticize resistance.

00:30:30.000 Poisoning your water.

00:30:31.000 Poisoning your water.

00:30:32.000 Yes, he gets away with that.

00:30:33.000 No problem at all.

00:30:34.000 And on the intersectionality side of the Democratic Party, it gets even more radical when we get to gender.

00:30:39.000 And then wait till we get to sort of the Bernie Sanders side of the party, which is becoming more radical as well.

00:30:44.000 So for all the Democrats who think they're going to just walk over President Trump in 2020, all I would say is look to your own house first, guys.

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00:33:17.000 So the intersectional left growing increasingly radical.

00:33:24.000 Elizabeth Warren, not radical enough for them.

00:33:26.000 In fact, insulting to them.

00:33:29.000 Elizabeth Warren.

00:33:30.000 It's really insulting to them.

00:33:31.000 Speaking, by the way, of the intersectional left, it'll be amazing to watch as the bad behavior of particular candidates who please the intersectional left are completely overlooked.

00:33:40.000 So I will take, for example, Kamala Harris, who I mentioned before as a possible tier one candidate for the Democrats in 2020. 0.83

00:33:46.000 What makes her a tier one candidate? 0.89

00:33:48.000 Well, she's a senator from California and she's a woman and she's black. 1.00

00:33:50.000 That's pretty much it. 0.88

00:33:51.000 Those are the things.

00:33:52.000 Because she doesn't have a legislative record. 1.00

00:33:54.000 She was not a good attorney general in the state of California. 0.93

00:33:56.000 I was there.

00:33:57.000 I remember.

00:33:58.000 She Does not do anything of note except for tell lies about Brett Kavanaugh apparently in judicial hearings, but this has made her a frontrunner because something.

00:34:07.000 Okay, but she's such a frontrunner. 1.00

00:34:09.000 She's so high on the intersectionality scale that she can get away with ignoring the fact that a longtime top staffer of hers just had to pay out $400,000 in a harassment and retaliation settlement. 0.99

00:34:19.000 And she didn't do anything about it.

00:34:20.000 This is according to the Sacramento Bee today.

00:34:22.000 A longtime top staffer of U.S.

00:34:23.000 Senator Kamala Harris resigned on Wednesday after the Sacramento Bee inquired about a $400,000 harassment and retaliation settlement resulting from his time working for Harris at the California Department of Justice.

00:34:34.000 Larry Wallace, who served as the director of the Division of Law Enforcement under then Attorney General Harris, was accused by his former executive assistant in December 2016 of gender harassment and other demeaning behavior, including frequently asking her to crawl under his desk to change the paper in his printer.

00:34:50.000 The lawsuit was filed December 30th, 2016, when Harris was still Attorney General, but prepping to be sworn in as the Democratic Senator.

00:34:56.000 It was settled less than five months later, in May 17, by Xavier Becerra, who was appointed to replace her as Attorney General.

00:35:03.000 By that time, Wallace had transitioned to work for Harris as a senior advisor in her Sacramento office.

00:35:09.000 We are unaware of this issue and take accusations of harassment extremely seriously.

00:35:12.000 This evening, Mr. Wallace offered his resignation to the Senator, and she accepted it.

00:35:16.000 Harris spokeswoman Lily Adams wrote in an email, I love this.

00:35:19.000 Harris, who said she will decide over the holidays whether to run for president in 2020, has been a prominent figure in the MeToo movement.

00:35:26.000 So in other words, she knew this for years and she didn't care for years until the Sacramento Bee asked her about it.

00:35:32.000 How do we know she didn't care?

00:35:33.000 Because she brought him along when she moved to the senator's office.

00:35:36.000 Right, so sexual harassment... Don't worry, don't worry.

00:35:38.000 They'll cover up for Kamala Harris.

00:35:39.000 There's no way they're gonna let Kamala Harris go down on something like this. 0.92

00:35:43.000 The same thing is true of folks on the left who are... I mean, it's not just her.

00:35:48.000 There's a story out of New Jersey today that's astonishing about the New Jersey governor, Governor Murphy.

00:35:55.000 Governor Murphy is a new Democratic hero, Governor Murphy, but...

00:36:00.000 It's okay, because he's a Democratic hero, for him to have overlooked allegations of sexual assault in his administration.

00:36:08.000 This is according to Andrew Seidman over at the Philadelphia Inquirer.

00:36:14.000 An official in the Murphy administration described in harrowing terms Tuesday how high-ranking members of Governor Murphy's campaign and staff, including the governor himself, failed to act when she tried to alert them about a campaign aide who she says raped her.

00:36:26.000 I had access to people in the highest positions of power in the state of New Jersey.

00:36:30.000 Katie Brennan, Chief of Staff for the State's Housing Agency, testified during a legislative hearing.

00:36:34.000 At each turn, my pleas for help went unanswered.

00:36:36.000 Somehow, it wasn't a priority to address my sexual assault and working with my rapist until it impacted them.

00:36:42.000 So she testified about all of this.

00:36:44.000 This is the first major scandal for Murphy, for Governor Murphy.

00:36:49.000 But is it going to take him down?

00:36:50.000 Of course not.

00:36:51.000 Of course it's not going to take him down.

00:36:52.000 He's a Democrat! 0.99

00:36:53.000 Let's not be silly. 0.98

00:36:54.000 Okay, the current senator from the state of New Jersey was embroiled in sexual allegations about underage prostitutes in Puerto Rico, or in the Dominican Republic, rather, and is still doing just fine. 0.85

00:37:04.000 So New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy will survive all of this and continue to be a Democratic star because Democratic priorities trump all else.

00:37:11.000 So the intersectional nonsense that the Democratic Party continues to embrace will continue to unfold before us in real time, ignoring all of the downsides.

00:37:19.000 Speaking of intersectional nonsense today, the American Association of University Professors, which is this highfalutin group of university professors, they've decided that there are not two sexes.

00:37:29.000 They're no longer two sexes, so intersectionality, picking up steam as we go on.

00:37:34.000 It's not just intersectionality, intersectional wings of the Democratic Party that are moving far to the left.

00:37:40.000 It is the economic wings of the Democratic Party that are also moving increasingly far to the left.

00:37:45.000 Their latest bugaboo, the thing that they are going to use to scare everybody into giving them control of the economy, Global warming is going to be the tool that they use for global redistributionism.

00:38:02.000 Despite the fact, by the way, that the United States is the number one carbon emissions reducer this year on planet Earth, and the fact that global carbon emissions continue to increase thanks to countries that are signatories to the Paris Accords.

00:38:15.000 This is according to the Washington Post today.

00:38:17.000 Global emissions of carbon dioxide are reaching the highest levels on record, scientists projected on Wednesday in the latest evidence of the chasm between international goals for combating climate change and what countries are doing.

00:38:27.000 Between 2014 and 2016, emissions remained largely flat, leading to hopes that the world was beginning to turn a corner.

00:38:33.000 Those hopes appear to have been dashed.

00:38:35.000 In 2017, global emissions grew 1.6 percent.

00:38:38.000 The rise in 2018 is projected to be 2.7 percent.

00:38:42.000 Why?

00:38:43.000 Well, let's see.

00:38:43.000 It says the unmitigated growth of carbon emissions, 4.7% increase thanks to China.

00:38:50.000 The United States basically kept level with its prior increases.

00:38:55.000 EU dropped.

00:38:57.000 India increased by 6.3%.

00:39:00.000 The expected increase is being driven by nearly 5% growth of emissions in China and more than 6% in India.

00:39:06.000 As nations continue climate talks in Poland, the message of Wednesday's report was unambiguous.

00:39:10.000 When it comes to promises to begin cutting greenhouse gas emissions that fuel climate change, the world is well off target.

00:39:15.000 But this makes Democrats happy because this gives them an excuse, the Bernie bros, it gives them an excuse to push for vast redistribution of wealth.

00:39:23.000 And of course, the person leading that charge in terms of vast distribution of wealth, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

00:39:28.000 Now, again, I don't mean to pick on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. 0.98

00:39:32.000 She just says dumb stuff a lot. 1.00

00:39:34.000 It is also true that if were Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez an actual presidential candidate, there's a good shot that she would wipe out everybody else in the Democratic Party in the primaries. 0.99

00:39:44.000 I kid you not.

00:39:45.000 A first-term congressperson.

00:39:47.000 She could easily... I mean, Barack Obama was in Congress for five seconds before he ran for president.

00:39:52.000 If Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez were to run for president... I mean, she can't.

00:39:55.000 She's ineligible. 0.79

00:39:55.000 She's too young. 0.79

00:39:56.000 If she were old enough to run for president, she would do serious damage on the Democratic side because she spans two of the groups. 1.00

00:40:03.000 So again, there are three groups in the Democratic Party.

00:40:04.000 The establishment, the Bernie bros, and the intersectional group.

00:40:09.000 She spans the intersectional group and the Bernie bros.

00:40:12.000 And she knows how to pay homage to the Establishment group. 0.59

00:40:17.000 You have to have two of those groups in order to win a primary.

00:40:19.000 There are very few of these candidates who do.

00:40:21.000 Well, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, using the climate change issue as a baton to wield against the United States economy, here she is explaining that climate change is going to establish economic justice across the world, meaning redistributionism.

00:40:35.000 It's not just possible that we will create jobs and economic activity by transitioning to renewable energy, but it's inevitable that we are going to create jobs.

00:40:46.000 It's inevitable that we're going to create industry, and it's inevitable that we can use the transition to 100% renewable energy as the vehicle to truly deliver and establish economic, social, and racial justice in the United States of America.

00:41:01.000 I mean, that is sheer nonsense what she is saying there.

00:41:03.000 She's saying basically that if you cram down enormous amounts of regulation and destroy the carbon basis for the economy, which is particularly effective for poor people, that this will somehow establish economic and racial justice.

00:41:13.000 Really?

00:41:13.000 They're trying that in France right now.

00:41:15.000 You know what it resulted in?

00:41:16.000 Massive riots in the streets and the government of France backing off their own carbon tax.

00:41:19.000 So, no, none of that is true, but she's saying the stuff that is necessary inside the Democratic Party.

00:41:25.000 So, the great hope for the Republicans is not that President Trump somehow pulls a rabbit out of the hat again in 2020. 0.70

00:41:30.000 The great hope for the Republicans is that the divisions in the Democratic Party continue to widen, the divisions between the intersectional side and the progressive side, and that both of those sides continue to double down on the stupid, that both of those sides continue to grow more and more radical, that the intersectional politics of the left causes them to savage each other, Which intersectionality inherently does.

00:41:51.000 And that the progressive side, the Bernie Sanders side, continues to embrace more and more socialistic policies, including massive crackdowns on the U.S. 0.70

00:41:57.000 economy.

00:41:58.000 It was amazing.

00:41:58.000 Bernie Sanders was tweeting out the other day that Europe has gotten their emissions under control.

00:42:03.000 Why can't we do the same?

00:42:04.000 Okay, so what carbon tax rate would Bernie Sanders prefer?

00:42:07.000 It's always amazing.

00:42:08.000 You never hear anybody on the left actually talk about the tax rates in Europe, which are exorbitant.

00:42:12.000 We talked about it the other day.

00:42:13.000 The tax on diesel fuel in France is 60%.

00:42:16.000 The tax on unleaded gas in France is over 60%.

00:42:19.000 There's not a country in the EU that has taxes on unleaded fuel below 50%.

00:42:23.000 You think that'll work out well?

00:42:26.000 You try that in the United States?

00:42:28.000 It's real easy for all these folks to say this when we are the biggest booming economy in the history of the world.

00:42:32.000 What happens when the United States economy drops?

00:42:34.000 Do you think that Europe's going to be able to continue to grow economically if the U.S.

00:42:37.000 destroys its own economy on the shoals of this environmental redistributionist nonsense?

00:42:42.000 Of course not.

00:42:43.000 Of course not.

00:42:43.000 But Democrats will continue to promote it because they have lied to their base about the impact of all of their proposed policies.

00:42:50.000 Now speaking of liars, this is an amazing story. 0.89

00:42:52.000 Lena Dunham Who's the creator of Girls and just an awful person. 1.00

00:42:57.000 She claimed she had inside information in November 2017 exonerating a writer named Murray Miller from claims by actress Aurora Perrineau that he had sexually assaulted her in 2012 when she was 17.

00:43:07.000 Well, it turns out that she lied.

00:43:10.000 So she issued a statement in 2017.

00:43:10.000 She said, While our first instinct is to listen to every woman's story, our insider knowledge of Murray's situation makes us confident that, sadly, this accusation is one of the 3% of assault cases that are misreported every year.

00:43:40.000 On Wednesday, writing in The Hollywood Reporter, Lena Dunham offered an apology to Perrineau, beginning by celebrating the past year for unprecedented dialogue about issues like wage equality and systematic bias, and most notably, sexually assault and harassment.

00:43:53.000 But then, she got to the issue.

00:43:56.000 So many of us have spent such a long time hiding our trauma.

00:43:58.000 At least I know I had.

00:43:59.000 And I walked around feeling like such a victim.

00:44:02.000 And she talked about how tough she's had.

00:44:03.000 Tadish says, I never stopped, much less stopped to consider that I might be capable of traumatizing somebody too.

00:44:08.000 And so I made a terrible mistake.

00:44:10.000 When someone I knew, someone I had loved as a brother, was accused, I did something inexcusable.

00:44:14.000 I publicly spoke up in his defense.

00:44:15.000 There are a few acts I could ever regret more in this life.

00:44:18.000 I did not have the insider information I claimed, but rather blind faith in a story that kept slipping and changing and revealed itself to mean nothing at all.

00:44:26.000 So, Lena Dunham lied about having insider information exonerating a friend of hers in the Me Too movement. 0.96

00:44:32.000 Which, again, goes to show you that so many of these movements can be easily politicized for personal gain.

00:44:37.000 It is astonishing.

00:44:38.000 It is astonishing.

00:44:39.000 Okay.

00:44:40.000 In just a second, let's get to some things I like and then some things I hate.

00:44:43.000 So let's do a thing that I like.

00:44:45.000 The thing that I like today... So I had a plane ride yesterday.

00:44:48.000 The thing that I hate is that this plane ride had no internet, but you were able to at least download the United app, and that meant that you could watch a certain number of movies.

00:44:56.000 While I'd seen a lot of the movies that were there, I had not seen Borg vs. McEnroe.

00:45:01.000 I am a tennis fan.

00:45:02.000 And this movie is really quite good.

00:45:04.000 Shia LaBeouf basically plays Shia LaBeouf.

00:45:07.000 Actual cannibal Shia LaBeouf. 0.99

00:45:08.000 He actually plays Shia LaBeouf.

00:45:09.000 And he stars as John McEnroe and a guy whose name I'm gonna mispronounce dramatically here, Sverre Gudnadsson.

00:45:16.000 He, not even close.

00:45:18.000 He plays Björn Borg.

00:45:20.000 The movie is really first rate.

00:45:22.000 Here's a little bit of the trailer.

00:45:23.000 It's the perfect rivalry.

00:45:32.000 The baseline player and the net rusher.

00:45:38.000 So, a lot of the movie is in Swedish, obviously, because Borg grew up in Sweden.

00:45:46.000 No special build.

00:45:46.000 when you flick the bullet. - No special villains.

00:45:54.000 Just funny, bro. - The only thing standing between Borg and that record is you.

00:46:00.000 You and Borg are as different-- - So the movie is really worth watching if you're a tennis fan, if you're a sports fan, And it's good drama.

00:46:08.000 It's well acted.

00:46:09.000 LaBeouf is really first rate in it.

00:46:11.000 He's actually a really good actor.

00:46:12.000 He's a talented guy, Charlie LaBeouf.

00:46:13.000 It's too bad the guy has such issues.

00:46:15.000 Because if he could control himself, he'd really be a bigger star than he is, as opposed to making headlines for whatever is his latest shtick.

00:46:24.000 Okay, so time for another thing that I... Let's see, is there anything else that I like today?

00:46:28.000 No, let's do some stuff that I hate.

00:46:29.000 So, things that I hate.

00:46:35.000 Okay, thing that I hate, number one.

00:46:36.000 So California is now looking to mandate solar power for new homes.

00:46:40.000 According to the Orange County Register, California officially became the first state in the nation on Wednesday to require homes built in 2020 and later be solar powered.

00:46:48.000 To a smattering of applause, the California Building Standards Commission voted unanimously to add energy standards approved last May by another panel to the state building code.

00:46:56.000 Two commissioners and several public speakers lauded the new code as a historic undertaking and a model for the nation.

00:47:01.000 The new provisions are expected to dramatically boost the number of rooftop solar panels in the Golden State.

00:47:06.000 Last year, buyers took out permits for more than 115,000 new homes, almost half of them for single-family homes.

00:47:12.000 Why do I hate this?

00:47:13.000 Not because I hate solar energy.

00:47:14.000 I'm fine with solar energy.

00:47:15.000 I hate this because, inevitably, this is going to increase real estate prices because now it costs more to build a home.

00:47:21.000 When the cost goes up, that cost is passed on to the consumer.

00:47:24.000 Or, theoretically, it will be the state of California paying for the subsidy for all of this, which means raising taxes in the state of California yet again.

00:47:30.000 The state of California is already running massive, massive, hundreds of billions of dollars of debt, and the idea, trillions of dollars of debt if you count their unfunded liabilities.

00:47:39.000 And if you look at all of that combined with the tax rates in California, which are the highest in the nation, Let's just add some more regulation on top of that and increase real estate prices in the middle of a real estate shortage.

00:47:51.000 Makes perfect sense to me.

00:47:52.000 Just genius stuff happening in California every single day.

00:47:56.000 When there are no consequences to your activity because people in California vote basically straight-line Democrat no matter what, then you can do presumably whatever you want.

00:48:05.000 Okay, other things that I hate.

00:48:07.000 So there's a story over at BuzzFeed News today about Neil deGrasse Tyson.

00:48:10.000 This is really starting to gain steam now.

00:48:12.000 And it is amazing.

00:48:13.000 Neil deGrasse Tyson has had a bevy of allegations now come out against him about sexual harassment and one case sexual assault. 0.71

00:48:21.000 There was a claim by a woman that way back when they were at University of Texas at Austin together that he sexually assaulted her, that he raped her.

00:48:28.000 That allegation came out a couple of years ago and didn't make a lot of waves.

00:48:31.000 But now there are a bunch of other women who are coming forward And saying that they have been sexually harassed or abused by Neil deGrasse Tyson.

00:48:40.000 Apparently there was an assistant named Ashley Watson who was ecstatic earlier this year when she got a job to be Neil deGrasse Tyson's driver.

00:48:47.000 She wanted to be a Hollywood producer and thought the gig with his hit TV show Cosmos could help make her useful industry connections.

00:48:54.000 And then she was driving him around at one point and apparently he invited her up to his apartment to unwind over a bottle of wine.

00:49:02.000 She felt uncomfortable as he gazed into her eyes and held her wrist to feel her spirit connection.

00:49:06.000 Which is... That's a move, I guess.

00:49:09.000 They spent two hours together as he made sexual references to song lyrics and described his need for physical release.

00:49:14.000 As she was leaving, he took her by the shoulders and said, I want to hug you so bad right now, but I know that if I do, I'll just want more.

00:49:21.000 So, she went to the line producer and reported the incident, and she resigned.

00:49:26.000 And the line producer said that she should tell everybody she was leaving due to a family emergency.

00:49:31.000 So that was another story.

00:49:33.000 And then there's the rape story.

00:49:34.000 And there's a third story, where apparently he was at a party with this woman who had a tattoo of the solar system, which is a weird thing to do, and he asked if he could see Pluto and then tried to look down her shirt, apparently.

00:49:48.000 In front of other people, this is the allegation.

00:49:50.000 And now there is a fourth allegation of something similar.

00:49:55.000 The fourth allegation essentially states that he came on to her at a museum holiday party.

00:50:03.000 She says that they were at this museum holiday party and he started hitting on her and he tried to touch her or something.

00:50:09.000 In any case, none of this is great stuff for Neil deGrasse Tyson.

00:50:15.000 And it just shows you that powerful men in positions of power You know, they really have to... Number one, they should be careful.

00:50:20.000 Number two, they should be moral.

00:50:21.000 And number three, depending on which side of the political aisle you're on, you can survive any amount of this.

00:50:26.000 So, again, if this had been a claim that was made about anybody on the right, I highly doubt that everybody would have been treating the claims with quite such skepticism, considering how they treated unverified and unverifiable claims against Brett Kavanaugh.

00:50:37.000 So, that's that.

00:50:38.000 All right, so we will be back here tomorrow.

00:50:40.000 We'll be back in our normal studios.

00:50:42.000 We will have reactivated our Leftist Tears hydrocold tumbler, so you'll be able to physically see it.

00:50:46.000 But until then, keep...

00:50:48.000 Keep your head down, have a nice day, and we'll see you here tomorrow.

The Ben Shapiro Show - December 06, 2018

Remembering HW | Ep. 674

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