The Ben Shapiro Show - The Battle For Narrative Dominance | Ep. 739

00:00:00.000 The media turned the New Zealand white supremacist terrorist attack into a referendum on President Trump, Kirsten Gillibrand experiences predictable failure to launch, and President Trump goes wild on Twitter.

00:00:09.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

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

00:00:16.000 Oh man, lot of news to get to today.

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00:01:42.000 So last Thursday night, obviously, West Coast time, there was this horrible, evil terrorist attack in New Zealand.

00:01:51.000 A white supremacist goes to two mosques and shoots and kills now 50 people.

00:01:56.000 The death toll has been raised to 50. 0.96

00:01:58.000 And the entire West mourns because this is an act of evil.

00:02:01.000 And this, as I said last week, should be a moment of unity because when there are tremendous acts of evil, then we should at least grant the credibility that the vast majority of human beings in the West are saddened by an act of evil and are not sympathetic to the killer.

00:02:18.000 How many people did you see who are sympathetic to the evil white supremacist murderer on Friday?

00:02:24.000 Did you see any? 0.80

00:02:26.000 They're really pretty much nobody, pretty much nobody.

00:02:28.000 Yet the media decided that this was an opportune moment to push a political narrative.

00:02:32.000 And this is one of the worst aspects about our polarized politics.

00:02:35.000 That is, whenever there is a flashpoint, whenever there's an incident, the media immediately jump to which narrative does it back?

00:02:41.000 And can we support that narrative with other pieces of evidence or non-evidence?

00:02:45.000 Can we draw a narrative from a flashpoint?

00:02:47.000 So, in Ferguson, Missouri, where a white police officer shoots a black guy, they immediately draw a narrative. 0.98

00:02:53.000 White police officers across America are racist. 0.99

00:02:56.000 The criminal justice system is racist. 0.98

00:02:58.000 In the United States, when there is a shooting on a congressional baseball field, however, and Bernie Sanders is the person whose name is in the killer's mouth, then it's not about Bernie Sanders.

00:03:08.000 It's not about Bernie Sanders' large-scale radical rhetoric.

00:03:12.000 Nothing of that comes up because that doesn't back the narrative.

00:03:16.000 Okay, so what are the narratives that the media wishes to draw from New Zealand?

00:03:19.000 We talked a little bit about this on Friday because it was pretty obvious that the media were attempting to draw a narrative.

00:03:23.000 Their original narrative was going to be about gun control.

00:03:26.000 Then they realized that New Zealand actually is relatively gun controlled and it's a bad, it's a bad example.

00:03:30.000 If you're going to choose a country that requires gun control, New Zealand is probably not that country.

00:03:34.000 They have 1.2 million guns and 35 murders a year in the entire country of New Zealand.

00:03:39.000 So it is not a perfect example of a country that desperately needs gun control.

00:03:43.000 Nonetheless, the country will look at gun control.

00:03:45.000 So that took the narrative off the table.

00:03:46.000 The secondary narrative was going to be a narrative about Islamophobia.

00:03:50.000 The idea that all across the West, there are people who deeply hate Muslims. 0.87

00:03:54.000 And because there are people who deeply hate Muslims all across the West, they led this white supremacist to go around shooting people. 0.86

00:04:00.000 Now, what the left labels as deep hate of Muslims is anyone who points out that radical Islam, not Islam itself, radical Islam is a problem.

00:04:08.000 Or points out that radical Islam is not just a tiny fringe phenomenon inside the Muslim community.

00:04:13.000 That if you look at the global Muslim community, if you look at places like Afghanistan, or places like Iraq, or places like Iran, or places like Egypt, or places like Saudi Arabia, or places like Qatar, or places like the UAE, or places like Jordan, or places like Oman, or places like Yemen, if you look at any of those places, What you will see is that radical Islamism is not actually a fringe phenomenon alone.

00:04:31.000 And if you look at Pew Global Research polls of how people believe, what you see is that a large number of people in a lot of these countries, Pakistan, Afghanistan, 99% of people in a poll of Afghanis from 2010, Pew Research poll, thought that honor killing was okay.

00:04:47.000 Okay, that is extreme.

00:04:49.000 By any definition, that is extreme.

00:04:50.000 Now, if you point that out, the idea is that pointing that out led to what happened in Christchurch. 0.96

00:04:55.000 That is an absolute slander and it is an absolute lie and it is disgusting. 0.99

00:04:59.000 It is disgusting. 0.97

00:04:59.000 Now it's very funny because the same exact people who five minutes ago were suggesting that you are not allowed to use anti-semitic language the way that Ilhan Omar uses it. 0.97

00:05:09.000 But people who point that out, the people who point out that Ilhan Omar uses anti-semitic language, are actually trying to shut down the debate over America's foreign policy with regard to Israel, are today trying to shut down any sort of talk about radical Islam generally.

00:05:24.000 Now today isn't necessarily the day to talk about radical Islam, although radical Islam had itself a weekend.

00:05:29.000 There was a terrorist attack in Israel, there's now a terrorist attack going on in the Netherlands.

00:05:35.000 Both of them have been linked to radical Islam at this point.

00:05:38.000 But it is true that in the wake of the murder of Muslims, that is not the time to talk about radical Islam.

00:05:43.000 But that's true on every side.

00:05:44.000 That's true on every side, meaning that if you are somebody who wants to question whether radical Islam is a dangerous phenomenon across the world, Tying that to a white supremacist murdering a bunch of innocent Muslims at a mosque in Christchurch is a pretty vile tactic.

00:06:01.000 And yet that is what you saw across the media.

00:06:04.000 That is what you saw across the media.

00:06:06.000 I'm going to start with some students confronting Chelsea Clinton.

00:06:08.000 So Chelsea Clinton made the mistake, this terrible, terrible mistake.

00:06:11.000 What was her terrible mistake?

00:06:13.000 Chelsea Clinton said that Ilhan Omar had been anti-Semitic. 0.69

00:06:16.000 Ilhan Omar is the Muslim congresswoman from Minnesota who is an anti-Semite.

00:06:22.000 She has three times in the last two months humiliated herself with open anti-Semitism.

00:06:27.000 And the last time she did it so obviously and so clearly that the Democratic Party was on the verge of condemning her.

00:06:33.000 And then the radicals in the Democratic Party stood up and they said, no, no, no, no, no, no.

00:06:35.000 We're not going to do that.

00:06:36.000 We're not going to condemn her.

00:06:38.000 We'll take her name out of the resolution and then we'll turn it into a resolution condemning every bad thing on planet Earth, including Islamophobia.

00:06:45.000 So Chelsea Clinton was one of the people who called out Ilhan Omar for using anti-semitic language.

00:06:50.000 Well students confronted Chelsea Clinton and they are blaming Chelsea Clinton, these students, they are blaming Chelsea Clinton for the shooting in Christchurch.

00:06:58.000 This is how radical the radical fringe of the left is.

00:07:00.000 Chelsea Clinton is somehow to blame for a white supremacist shooting up a church in Christchurch because she called out anti-semitism from Ilhan Omar.

00:07:08.000 This went viral over the weekend.

00:07:10.000 Students confronting Chelsea Clinton.

00:07:12.000 I'm so sorry.

00:07:13.000 Well, certainly, it's never my intention.

00:07:16.000 I do believe words matter.

00:07:18.000 We do matter.

00:07:20.000 This right here is the result of a massacre stoked by people like you and the words you put out into the world.

00:07:25.000 And I want you to know that and I want you to feel that deep inside.

00:07:29.000 - You can hear people snapping in the background.

00:07:43.000 What does I'm sorry you feel that way mean?

00:07:45.000 What does that mean?

00:07:47.000 What is she supposed to apologize for?

00:07:48.000 She's supposed to apologize because she called out Ilhan Omar for being anti-semitic.

00:07:52.000 So if you call out a Muslim for being anti-semitic, then you're responsible for the murder of other unrelated Muslims who are not being anti-semitic in Christchurch.

00:08:00.000 And then these two people, the people who were going after Chelsea Clinton, for goodness sake.

00:08:05.000 I mean, how radical is left?

00:08:06.000 They're making me defend Chelsea Clinton now. 0.94

00:08:08.000 This is unbelievable.

00:08:10.000 These two people were given a platform in BuzzFeed News, a platform to explain why they called out Chelsea Clinton for the shooting in Christchurch.

00:08:18.000 BuzzFeed News posted a piece by these two radicals, whose names are Lynn Tweek and Rose Assaf, and it says why we confronted Chelsea Clinton at the Christchurch vigil.

00:08:28.000 Here's why.

00:08:29.000 Yesterday we posted a video of Leon confronting Chelsea Clinton at a vigil for the victims of the white supremacist New Zealand mosque massacre.

00:08:36.000 Today we woke up with over 100,000 people talking about it on Twitter.

00:08:39.000 Needless to say, this is not what we expected.

00:08:41.000 Well, it sort of was.

00:08:42.000 We went to the vigil for one reason, to grieve the loss of innocent lives that were stolen from this world by vile hatred.

00:08:47.000 We wanted to join our friends and colleagues in a time of heartbreak and agony to remember the 49 Muslims who were murdered for being Muslim.

00:08:53.000 We did a double take when we first noticed Chelsea Clinton was at the vigil. 1.00

00:08:56.000 Just weeks before this tragedy, we bore witness to a bigoted anti-Muslim mob coming after Representative Ilhan Omar for speaking the truth about the massive influence of the Israel lobby in this country.

00:09:07.000 We believe Ilhan Omar did nothing wrong except challenge the status quo, but the way many people chose to criticize Omar made her vulnerable to anti-Muslim hatred and death threats.

00:09:16.000 We were shocked when Clinton arrived at the vigil, given that she had not yet apologized to Representative Omar for the public vilification against her.

00:09:23.000 So Ilhan Omar was a wounded innocent in all this, Chelsea Clinton was the offender, and because Chelsea Clinton called out Ilhan Omar for being an anti-Semite, this supposedly led a white supremacist to murder people halfway around the world in New Zealand. 0.76

00:09:37.000 Many have said it was unfair to connect Chelsea's words to the massacre in Christchurch, these two dolts, right? 1.00

00:09:41.000 To them, we say that anti-Muslim bigotry must be addressed wherever it exists.

00:09:46.000 That includes Chelsea Clinton. 0.56

00:09:48.000 Okay, a couple of quick notes.

00:09:49.000 A couple of quick notes about the two people who were just given space in BuzzFeed to harass Chelsea Clinton some more.

00:09:57.000 Hey, it turns out that both of these people are deeply radical in every possible way.

00:10:05.000 And they got their defenders, of course, from the radical left and their friends, the folks over at The Intercept and such.

00:10:12.000 So a couple of things.

00:10:14.000 Dweek tweeted out, quote, you're only interested in demolishing Israel, not in finding a solution.

00:10:21.000 Demolishing Israel is a solution. 1.00

00:10:23.000 So the same people who are calling out Chelsea Clinton for supposedly being anti-Islam, for calling out Ilhan Omar, are themselves deeply anti-Semitic to the point where they are calling for the full demolition of Israel.

00:10:35.000 The full demolition of Israel. 0.85

00:10:38.000 It's unbelievable. 0.98

00:10:39.000 Okay, and the other woman who wrote this, repeatedly used the term, the F word, for gay people. 0.73

00:10:49.000 In the United States.

00:10:49.000 But those people were given a platform by BuzzFeed News.

00:10:52.000 It's just wonderful.

00:10:54.000 And this sort of dishonesty was endemic in the media.

00:10:59.000 Endemic.

00:10:59.000 Hey, Linda Sarsour did the same thing.

00:11:01.000 Linda Sarsour, radical anti-Semite and, by the way, friend to terrorists.

00:11:05.000 Right, legitimately has stood with terrorist Rasmia Odette on stage and hugged her and all the rest.

00:11:11.000 Linda Sarsour tweeted out, I am triggered by those who piled on representative Ilhan Omar and incited a hate mob against her until she got assassination threats, now giving condolences to our community.

00:11:20.000 What we need you to do is reflect on how you contribute to Islamophobia and stop doing that.

00:11:23.000 So, you see how this works?

00:11:25.000 The idea now is that if you criticized Ilhan Omar for being an anti-Semite, somehow you're responsible for the massacre in Christchurch.

00:11:33.000 That is the most extreme wing of this push.

00:11:36.000 But that is not the leading edge of the push.

00:11:39.000 That is not the mainstream of the push.

00:11:40.000 The mainstream of the push is that anybody who has criticized radical Islam in any way is somehow responsible for what happened in Christchurch.

00:11:47.000 I'll get to that in just one second.

00:11:48.000 First, let's talk about the fact that our federal government is simply out of control.

00:11:53.000 Out of control on every possible level. 0.99

00:11:55.000 Congress is filled with crazy people.

00:11:57.000 It's a nightmare, and people are tired of complaining about it, and that's why I'm a big believer in calling a convention of states where we the people can propose amendments. 0.93

00:12:04.000 Yes, amendments that could force Congress to stay within its boundaries, could force the executive branch to stay within its boundaries.

00:12:09.000 The fact is that the founding bargain, that there would be checks and balances between the various branches, that founding bargain has been eroded over the course of centuries, and it is time to restore that founding balance so that the legislative can check the executive, the executive can check the judiciary, and all the way around.

00:12:25.000 That's why we need a convention of states.

00:12:27.000 It's the only way to get a job done.

00:12:28.000 There are already 3.8 million people with us on this more every day, so join me and my friend Mark Meckler.

00:12:33.000 Go to conventionofstates.com slash ben and sign the petition today.

00:12:38.000 That is conventionofstates.com slash ben.

00:12:40.000 A lot of folks talk about how exactly this would work.

00:12:43.000 It is a fully constitutional provision under Article 5 of the Constitution.

00:12:47.000 It was designed to work this way.

00:12:49.000 It hasn't been taken advantage of, but now is the time for us to stand together and restore some of those constitutional balances and checks.

00:12:55.000 Conventionofstates.com slash Ben to sign the petition today.

00:12:58.000 Conventionofstates.com.

00:12:59.000 So as I say, the most radical wing of the left is suggesting that people like Chelsea Clinton are responsible for Christchurch.

00:13:06.000 The mainstream of the left is suggesting that people like Sam Harris and I are responsible for Christchurch.

00:13:12.000 And so there's a piece over at the New York Times In which a guy named Omar Aziz writes a piece called Our Brother, Our Executioner.

00:13:19.000 And he suggests that anybody who criticizes Islam as having an internal problem is responsible for the situation in Christchurch.

00:13:27.000 He says, Islamophobia is not a fringe problem.

00:13:29.000 It is embedded in much of Western society.

00:13:31.000 For over two decades now, the span of an entire generation, the whole Muslim community has been forced to accept collective guilt and punishment for every act of terror or violence committed by one of its members. 0.97

00:13:41.000 Never would or should this standard be applied to white people who seem to have kept the privilege of individual differentiation for themselves. 0.69

00:13:46.000 I don't know where he's getting this.

00:13:47.000 This is a lie.

00:13:48.000 Muslims are safer in the West than they are in the Muslim world. 1.00

00:13:52.000 And the fact is that in 2017, in 2017, Islamic extremism caused 84,000 deaths worldwide.

00:13:55.000 84,000 deaths.

00:13:55.000 Islamic extremism cost 84,000 deaths worldwide.

00:13:59.000 84,000 deaths.

00:14:00.000 Nearly all of them were not in the West.

00:14:02.000 That's according to CBS News, a new report from the Council on Foreign Relations, the Global Extremist Monitor, produced by Tony Blair's Institute for Global Change.

00:14:11.000 you And the fact is that Muslims in the West are not only overwhelmingly treated well, just as Jews in the West are overwhelmingly treated well even if there are anti-Semitic attacks from white supremacists on occasion.

00:14:22.000 This notion that widespread Islamophobia is dominant in the West because there are people like Sam Harris who ask about the nature of Islam or Bill Maher who ask about the nature of radical Islam or people like me who point out that polling data show that radical Islam is not a tiny, tiny, tiny phenomenon.

00:14:38.000 That attempt to expand the argument is really in bad faith.

00:14:43.000 And not only in bad faith, counterproductive.

00:14:46.000 Because the fact is that if we refuse to call out radical Islam, then radical Islam does grow in the same way that if you refuse to call out white supremacy, white supremacism grows.

00:14:56.000 You have to call it out.

00:14:58.000 It's important to call out this stuff.

00:15:00.000 That's what provides protection for actual non-radical Muslims.

00:15:03.000 And at the same time, you can call out an ideology and also say that innocent people should not be killed under any circumstances.

00:15:10.000 It's astonishing that folks in the media refuse to acknowledge this fact.

00:15:13.000 In a second, I'm going to show you how the media are contributing to this narrative.

00:15:18.000 So, for example, going back to Ilhan Omar for a second.

00:15:22.000 Ilhan Omar is radical on Israel.

00:15:24.000 She's not just radical on Israel, she's an anti-Semite.

00:15:26.000 She's an anti-Semite. 1.00

00:15:27.000 And the push from the left is that if you criticized Ilhan Omar, this meant that you were actually anti-Islam.

00:15:33.000 That a criticism of Ilhan Omar made you an Islamophobe.

00:15:36.000 Now again, this is hilarious because the same people who defended Ilhan Omar will say that being openly anti-Semitic does not make you anti-Semitic, but certainly if you're anti-Israel, that is not anti-Semitism.

00:15:46.000 Or if you say anti-Israel things, that doesn't make you anti-Semitic.

00:15:48.000 That's a proposition with which I generally agree.

00:15:50.000 But those same people will say that if you criticize Ilhan Omar, then you're anti-Islam.

00:15:55.000 The Washington Post just gave a full op-ed space to Ilhan Omar to talk about her foreign policy. 0.98

00:16:00.000 I don't remember them doing the same thing to Steve King.

00:16:02.000 I don't remember that at all.

00:16:05.000 And yet, that is something the Washington Post is pushing because the generalized narrative the media wish to draw is that what happened in New Zealand is the predictable result of Islamophobia in the West.

00:16:15.000 The same folks will say that radical Islamic terror attacks are not the predictable result of the growth of radical Islamist ideology, but they will suggest that radical white supremacist terrorist attacks are the growth of white supremacist ideology in the West.

00:16:27.000 Now, here's my view.

00:16:29.000 The growth of radical ideology has consequences no matter which ideology we are talking about.

00:16:34.000 I've worried about the growth of white supremacism for years.

00:16:37.000 I've been talking about it openly since 2015-2016.

00:16:39.000 It's been four years I've been talking openly about the growth of white supremacy and white supremacism online.

00:16:45.000 I'm glad that some people are finally arriving to the party, but the fact is That the media narrative here is not truly directed at stopping white supremacism.

00:16:54.000 It's directed at two things.

00:16:56.000 Linking President Trump and the right generally with white supremacism and linking anybody who has critiques of radical Islam with violence against Muslims. 0.99

00:17:05.000 And that is not only inappropriate, it's disgusting. 0.99

00:17:08.000 It's disgusting. 1.00

00:17:09.000 Calling out radical Islam is not the same thing as suggesting that ordinary Every day, non-radical Muslims, innocent people ought to be killed. 1.00

00:17:20.000 That's absurdity at its highest level. 0.62

00:17:23.000 And when people point out, I did a video a while back in which I just, all the video was, was me citing polls of Muslims from around the globe in different countries and talking about the level of radicalism in those various countries.

00:17:34.000 And people say, well, this is Islamophobic.

00:17:35.000 No, those are poll numbers.

00:17:37.000 I talked about all of this at University of Pittsburgh not four months ago.

00:17:41.000 And I talked about the various anti-semitic threats around the globe.

00:17:44.000 And I talked about Muslim anti-semitism. 0.90

00:17:46.000 I talked about radical Islam.

00:17:48.000 And I pointed out that westernized Muslims are significantly less radical and nearly non-radical in orientation as opposed to Muslims who are living in, for example, Afghanistan.

00:18:00.000 Okay, so this is not a matter of you criticize radical Islam and therefore you're okay with the murder of Muslims in Christchurch. 0.96

00:18:07.000 What kind of insanity is this?

00:18:09.000 And again, we only apply this logic on the level of the media when it is convenient to a narrative that the West is radically anti-Islamic.

00:18:16.000 Which again, if you've seen the response of the West to this terrorist attack, I'm failing to see it.

00:18:20.000 Honestly, I'm failing to see it.

00:18:22.000 Where are the people who are out there defending it?

00:18:23.000 Where are the people who are saying we should ignore the actual terrorist attack?

00:18:28.000 Where is that happening? 0.93

00:18:30.000 Now, the fact is that inside the Islamic world, inside countries that are governed by Islam, there are Muslim terrorists who are killing thousands and thousands and thousands of people every single year to no generalized public outcry. 0.96

00:18:42.000 The reason there's outcry in the West is because this does not meet the West's values. 0.95

00:18:46.000 Everybody in the West knows this. 1.00

00:18:48.000 And when we look at people like this white supremacist piece of garbage, citing the West as a rationale for his actions, we look at him, we say, you are a disgusting human being and your ideology is disgusting. 1.00

00:18:58.000 The West is unified against this sort of stuff and attempting to draw lines in order to make political hay is really pretty vile stuff. 1.00

00:19:08.000 Now, the easy in for a lot of folks on the left is, of course, attacking President Trump. 0.87

00:19:13.000 And that's because President Trump is a is a clod who says cloddish things.

00:19:18.000 But if you are going to blame President Trump for the shooting in Christchurch, I don't know how you get there.

00:19:22.000 I really don't know how you get there.

00:19:24.000 Unless you are also going to blame Bernie Sanders for the congressional baseball shooting.

00:19:28.000 You're gonna have to explain how President Trump called for violence against people who go to mosque.

00:19:32.000 Because Bernie Sanders used radical language against everybody who doesn't agree with him on economics or climate change.

00:19:37.000 We don't blame him for the congressional baseball shooting.

00:19:39.000 Does that mean that his language is appropriate?

00:19:41.000 No.

00:19:41.000 Does it mean that President Trump's language is appropriate?

00:19:43.000 No, it doesn't.

00:19:44.000 But trying to link him to white supremacism? 0.99

00:19:47.000 And shooting attacks in New Zealand is really pretty gross. 0.96

00:19:50.000 And not only is it gross, it's exactly what the shooter wanted.

00:19:53.000 So I said last week that we shouldn't discuss the manifesto.

00:19:55.000 We shouldn't go out of our way to talk about the disgusting ideas in this killer's manifesto.

00:20:00.000 And I meant that because that's what he wanted.

00:20:01.000 What he wanted was for his ideas to get out there.

00:20:04.000 I was perfectly fine and more than fine. 0.96

00:20:07.000 I thought it was important to label this a white supremacist terror attack on Muslims.

00:20:11.000 I was very clear about this last week, but I didn't think that it was necessary to go into the details of his manifesto, specifically because he says in the manifesto that he wants to divide Americans from each other, he wants to divide people in the West against each other, and so he was using his manifesto to do this.

00:20:25.000 And the media were complicit in that.

00:20:27.000 They decided they were going to jump on this too, and they were going to cite a line in which he said that he admired President Trump, and they were going to use that as a way to suggest that everyone who supports President Trump, as well as President Trump himself, is somehow responsible for what just happened in Christchurch.

00:20:40.000 Here's an entire montage of people in the media racing to blame President Trump for an action he had nothing to do with.

00:20:45.000 The shooter, according to these reports, specifically invoked our president as an inspiration.

00:20:52.000 There's an intolerance that's being spread in this country, in this world, and it comes from the political dialogue.

00:20:59.000 Let's be clear, it comes from political leaders.

00:21:01.000 Words have consequences, like saying we have an invasion on our border.

00:21:05.000 The language he uses in this manifesto is all about invaders.

00:21:10.000 It's also language that President Trump used in a campaign ad before the midterm election.

00:21:13.000 You have a president who, when he was a candidate, talked about banning Muslims from entering this country.

00:21:20.000 So this is a president who has given plenty of rhetorical ammunition, I think, to terrorists like this.

00:21:27.000 Okay, a couple of things.

00:21:28.000 One, you'll notice that a bunch of these media figures and political figures like Bill de Blasio are out there citing President Trump's calling the southern border an invasion as a rationale for all of this.

00:21:37.000 This wasn't an attack on illegal immigrants, number one.

00:21:39.000 Number two, I can disagree with the president on his use of the word invasion.

00:21:43.000 I don't think this is an invasion.

00:21:44.000 I've forcefully spoken out against that sort of language. 0.99

00:21:47.000 But to link the president's border policy with the shooting of Muslims in New Zealand...

00:21:52.000 Forgive me if that seems like a bit of a stretch.

00:21:54.000 Now, in a second, we'll get to President Trump's rhetoric itself, the quote-unquote Muslim ban, and all the rest.

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00:23:12.000 So as you see, The media are attempting to broaden the narrative.

00:23:14.000 So it starts at the very outer edge with Chelsea Clinton is responsible for Christchurch because she said mean things about Ilhan Omar, who's an anti-Semite.

00:23:22.000 And then it was moved into everybody who has ever said anything about radical Islam is responsible for what happened in Christchurch.

00:23:28.000 And now it's President Trump is personally responsible for what happened in Christchurch because of his language about invaders.

00:23:34.000 Because of his language about the invasion of the country.

00:23:38.000 Don Lemon on CNN was trying to say this.

00:23:40.000 He was saying that the New Zealand terrorists looked up to Trump and therefore this is President Trump's fault.

00:23:45.000 A suspect in the murders of at least 49 people at two mosques in New Zealand posted a manifesto online before staging his rampage. 0.82

00:23:54.000 It's a white nationalist screed, filled with hateful messages against immigrants, minorities, and Muslims.

00:23:59.000 There's a reason why this shooter, in his manifesto, says that Donald Trump is a renewed symbol of white identity who shares a common purpose. 0.99

00:24:07.000 What could be the common purpose that the President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, Who says, I think Islam hates us and calls Mexicans rapists and criminals, could have with a white nationalist shooter who shot and killed 49 people. 0.98

00:24:20.000 I think it's fairly obvious. 0.97

00:24:20.000 There's a couple of things that are, right, and there's Don Lemon. 0.97

00:24:23.000 It's totally obvious what the connection would be.

00:24:25.000 Okay, a couple of things.

00:24:25.000 One, is President Trump's language good on this stuff?

00:24:29.000 No.

00:24:29.000 Has it been good on this stuff?

00:24:30.000 No.

00:24:30.000 I condemned it when he said it.

00:24:32.000 Way back in 2015, when he was talking about a full-on Muslim ban, when he said it's time to ban Muslims from the country, I said that is stupid and wrong. 0.99

00:24:40.000 By the way, his actual practical ban is not a Muslim ban. 0.98

00:24:43.000 Only five of the seven countries on the travel ban are Muslim, and they are the same seven countries named by President Obama.

00:24:48.000 So the actual policy implemented is not reflective of the language.

00:24:51.000 Was the language good?

00:24:52.000 No, the language was never good.

00:24:54.000 Okay, but that's not the same thing as blaming him for the shooting in Christchurch.

00:24:58.000 I don't remember, again, anyone in the media saying, you know whose name was on the congressional baseball shooter's lips?

00:25:02.000 Bernie Sanders.

00:25:04.000 Why?

00:25:04.000 Because it didn't match the narrative.

00:25:06.000 We can condemn language, and we should condemn bad language, but trying to blame bad language for people shooting each other in Christchurch, shooting each other, a white supremacist shooting people in Christchurch, is a real attempt to tear apart our civilization.

00:25:21.000 It really is.

00:25:21.000 We should be condemning bad ideologies.

00:25:23.000 We should be actively fighting those bad ideologies.

00:25:26.000 But that is not the same thing as blaming President Trump for an event he did not have anything to do with.

00:25:31.000 I think it's a horrible event.

00:25:32.000 It's a horrible thing.

00:25:32.000 I saw it early in the morning when I looked at what was happening in New Zealand.

00:25:35.000 I just spoke, as you know, through the Prime Minister.

00:25:37.000 Now, let's be clear about this.

00:25:39.000 President Trump has, of course, condemned what happened in Christchurch.

00:25:42.000 Here's what President Trump had to say about it when it happened.

00:25:44.000 I think it's a horrible event.

00:25:47.000 It's a horrible thing.

00:25:48.000 I saw it early in the morning when I looked at what was happening in New Zealand.

00:25:53.000 I just spoke, as you know, through the prime minister.

00:25:55.000 I think it's a horrible, disgraceful thing and a horrible act.

00:25:59.000 OK, obviously, President Trump is not big in favor of all of this.

00:26:03.000 But with that said, should the president give some sort of address on the nature of radical Islam versus regular Islam?

00:26:09.000 Should he give an address on why Muslims are full-fledged citizens of the West?

00:26:13.000 Sure, I don't see why not.

00:26:14.000 I mean, the guy's got time, obviously.

00:26:15.000 He's tweeting like crazy.

00:26:17.000 I think that that would be a good thing for the President of the United States to do. 0.74

00:26:20.000 But make no mistake, the media's goal here is not to actively tamp down the aspirations of the white supremacists.

00:26:27.000 They are parroting his claims so that they can use them for politically divisive purposes.

00:26:31.000 They're doing exactly what the white supremacists wanted them to do.

00:26:35.000 He says so in the manifesto itself. 0.99

00:26:39.000 It was enough to simply call out and say, listen, white supremacism is evil. 0.98

00:26:43.000 This person was evil, and white supremacism should be called out wherever it's seen. 0.96

00:26:47.000 But to try and turn it into a baton to wield against people who are critical of radical Islam, or Ilhan Omar, or people who support President Trump? 0.94

00:26:56.000 That's obviously done in bad faith.

00:27:00.000 Pretty terrible stuff.

00:27:02.000 It really is.

00:27:02.000 Okay, let's talk about 2020.

00:27:04.000 So, there's an amazing disconnect between what happens in the political commentariat and what happens in the real world.

00:27:10.000 Beto O'Rourke raised in his first day in the race, in his very first day in the race, Beto O'Rourke raised, I kid you not, 6.1 million dollars.

00:27:18.000 Yeah, I think that calls for some Beto music.

00:27:25.000 That's right.

00:27:26.000 All right.

00:27:26.000 So Beto O'Rourke raised $6.136 million in online donations from all 50 states on his very first day.

00:27:33.000 That is the number one total.

00:27:35.000 It tops the $5.9 million one-day haul for Senator Bernie Sanders.

00:27:39.000 The other closest 2020 Democratic candidate, Senator Kamala Harris, at $1.5 million.

00:27:44.000 Now, that gives the lie to the suggestion that he had not raised a lot of money.

00:27:48.000 This was the suggestion made last week when O'Rourke was asked specifically about it, and he sort of deferred.

00:27:53.000 He said, I'm not going to talk about that.

00:27:55.000 Now the media have turned on Beto.

00:27:57.000 Beto has issued about 37 apologies in his first 48 hours campaigning.

00:28:02.000 For example, Beto said in one of his appearances that his wife did most of the raising of their kids, which seems to me a compliment to his wife, not an attempt to degrade his wife.

00:28:12.000 Nonetheless, crazy people went nuts over this.

00:28:15.000 How dare Beto say that his wife did most of the raising of his children? 0.94

00:28:18.000 Just absurd.

00:28:19.000 So Beto apologized for that.

00:28:20.000 So here's Beto doing that. 0.97

00:28:23.000 It's absolutely valid criticism and it's constructive criticism.

00:28:28.000 It has already made me a better candidate.

00:28:31.000 Not only will I not say that again, but I'll be much more thoughtful going forward in the way that I talk about our marriage and in my ham-handed attempt to try to highlight the fact that Amy has Okay, so there's Beto apologizing.

00:28:47.000 If you can't get enough of Beto apologizing, I have some more for you.

00:28:53.000 So here's Beto apologizing for his failure to acknowledge his own white privilege.

00:28:57.000 should have also been a moment for me to acknowledge that that is far too often the case.

00:29:03.000 Okay, so there's Beto apologizing.

00:29:05.000 If you can't get enough of Beto apologizing, I have some more for you.

00:29:08.000 So here's Beto apologizing for his failure to acknowledge his own white privilege.

00:29:12.000 So this will be the Beto O'Rourke apology tour.

00:29:13.000 As I've shared with others and certainly became a topic of conversation in the Senate campaign, I have been arrested twice in my life.

00:29:23.000 One for attempted criminal trespass and another more braver offense of driving while intoxicated.

00:29:30.000 Those mistakes didn't end up defining me or narrowing my options in life.

00:29:35.000 And it's not because I'm a great person or I'm a genius or I figured anything out.

00:29:39.000 A lot of it has to do with the fact that I'm a white man.

00:29:43.000 That I had parents who had the cash to post bail at the time.

00:29:47.000 A lot of people don't have that.

00:29:50.000 Okay, so there's Beto apologizing for being a white male, so that's very exciting for him as well.

00:29:54.000 Now, the media have been jumping on this.

00:29:56.000 Wow, look at all of Beto's gaffes.

00:29:58.000 So many gaffes.

00:29:59.000 Here is the problem.

00:30:00.000 They already let Beto out of the cage.

00:30:02.000 Okay, Beto is out of the cage.

00:30:04.000 You spent two years building him up as a Senate candidate against Ted Cruz, and now you want to shove him back in the cage because you don't want him to be the nominee.

00:30:11.000 Too late, my friends.

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00:32:12.000 So there's an attempt to shove Beto O'Rourke back into the box because Beto O'Rourke is, of course, a privileged white male.

00:32:23.000 I pointed this out last week, that there were a couple of rich lines of attack on Beto O'Rourke.

00:32:27.000 Now, I underestimated his popularity because I thought, come on, really?

00:32:31.000 Like this guy?

00:32:31.000 Him?

00:32:34.000 I sort of feel like Michael Bluth in Arrested Development looking at his son's girlfriend.

00:32:39.000 Her?

00:32:41.000 Beto?

00:32:42.000 Really?

00:32:42.000 Him?

00:32:44.000 Okay, I guess.

00:32:46.000 But here's the funny thing about this.

00:32:48.000 The media, who are now attempting to paint Beto O'Rourke as a child of privilege, who doesn't actually have any positions on the issues, they made him.

00:32:56.000 So you'll recall all the way back to 2016.

00:32:58.000 I know, you're older than four years old.

00:33:00.000 So you'll remember all the way back to 2016, when the media did the exact same thing with President Trump, hilariously enough, against Ted Cruz.

00:33:07.000 They figured, okay, we'll build up President Trump.

00:33:09.000 We'll spend a billion dollars in free media coverage on Donald Trump, because dude's a joke, and people will figure it out.

00:33:15.000 And eventually, they'll decide that they're not interested in him, but first we can use him to get past some of the more serious Republican candidates.

00:33:22.000 And then, by the time they tried to push him back in the corner, they couldn't.

00:33:26.000 Well, nobody puts Beto in a corner.

00:33:28.000 Nobody puts Beto in a corner.

00:33:30.000 Hey, Reuters, this is the best evidence ever.

00:33:32.000 So Reuters is now coming out with this story about how Beto O'Rourke, when he was a teenager, was into hacking.

00:33:38.000 Well, there's a story from Reuters in which they reveal that they had all this information years ago.

00:33:44.000 Quote, Reuters reporter Joseph Menn exclusively revealed on Friday that Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke belonged to one of the best known groups of computer hackers as a teenager.

00:33:54.000 Within minutes.

00:33:54.000 His special report was the most popular story on Reuters.com here and was picked up by other news outlets.

00:33:59.000 But the origin of the story goes back more than two years.

00:34:02.000 Members of the group, which calls itself Cult of the Dead Cow, protected O'Rourke's secret for decades, reluctant to compromise the former Texas congressman's political career.

00:34:11.000 After more than a year of reporting, men persuaded O'Rourke to talk on the record.

00:34:14.000 In an interview in late 2017, O'Rourke acknowledged he was a member of the group on the understanding that the information would not be made public until after his Senate race against Ted Cruz in November 2018.

00:34:26.000 What in the actual... So, let me get this straight.

00:34:29.000 A Reuters reporter said, here is some newsworthy information.

00:34:32.000 I will bury it until after your election with Ted Cruz.

00:34:36.000 That's what the media were doing with Beto all along.

00:34:37.000 They were building him up.

00:34:38.000 Beto is indeed a lightweight.

00:34:40.000 One of President Trump's favorite terms.

00:34:42.000 Beto O'Rourke has no original thoughts.

00:34:44.000 Beto O'Rourke is not a shiny example of deep thought.

00:34:47.000 Honestly, if you want somebody who is capable of intelligent thought on the Democratic side of the aisle, it seems to me the most intelligent candidate on the Democratic side of the aisle is that mayor of South Bend, Pete Buttigieg.

00:35:00.000 That guy actually seems kind of smart, but Beto O'Rourke is not it, but it's too late.

00:35:03.000 The media built him up as a media phenomenon, and now all of the people like Jake Gyllenhaal, who were wearing Beto for Senate t-shirts back in 2018, are donating money to Beto again.

00:35:13.000 The media spent their attention building this guy up to fight Ted Cruz, and then it is too late now to shove him back in.

00:35:20.000 They can't do it.

00:35:22.000 There's no way to get him back in there.

00:35:24.000 Now, Beto can be a gaffe machine from here till Election Day, and that is what he is doing.

00:35:28.000 For example, Beto said yesterday, like, offending everyone on every side of the aisle, that if you have an AR-15, you should be able to keep your AR-15, but you shouldn't be able to buy a new AR-15, which makes no sense to anyone infiscated in either gun confiscation or protection of Second Amendment rights.

00:35:42.000 But here is Beto making that claim yesterday.

00:35:44.000 We allow people in this country to buy weapons that were designed, engineered, and sold to the United States military for the express purpose of killing people as effectively as possible, in as great a number as possible.

00:36:00.000 Now, if you own an AR-15, keep it.

00:36:02.000 Continue to use it responsibly and safely.

00:36:04.000 I just don't think that we need to sell any more weapons of war into this public.

00:36:09.000 Okay, so, you know, at the same time, so you can keep it.

00:36:12.000 It's a weapon of war, an evil, evil weapon of war, but also you should keep it.

00:36:16.000 This guy is the one you built up, and now you own it, guys.

00:36:20.000 Now, here's the truth.

00:36:21.000 Beto O'Rourke will do well among suburban women. 1.00

00:36:22.000 If you were actually going to select among the Democratic candidates most likely to be President Trump, Beto would probably be up high on that list.

00:36:30.000 Why?

00:36:31.000 Because he does appeal to suburban women.

00:36:33.000 He's got this kind of softer feel to him.

00:36:35.000 He's not quite as hard-edged as a Bernie Sanders.

00:36:39.000 He's not an open socialist the same way.

00:36:43.000 The Twitterverse is not reality.

00:36:46.000 Once again, Twitter, online world, not reality, and Beto proved that with his fundraising numbers for sure. 0.91

00:36:51.000 Now, the GOP, I don't know who's running the social media accounts over the GOP, but all I can say is that it is ridiculous.

00:36:57.000 Okay, like, what are you doing? 0.96

00:36:59.000 Why would you do such a thing?

00:37:00.000 So, in honor of St.

00:37:03.000 Patrick's Day, the GOP decided to indulge in a little bit of making fun of the Irish, which is just a genius tactic. 1.00

00:37:09.000 Very, very smart stuff.

00:37:11.000 So here is what the GOP tweeted.

00:37:12.000 They tweeted out a picture of drunk Beto from back when he had his DUI in the 90s.

00:37:18.000 And he's got an Irish leprechaun hat and a four-leaf clover on his head, or three-leaf clover on his head.

00:37:25.000 It says underneath, please drink responsibly.

00:37:27.000 And then they tweeted out, on this St.

00:37:28.000 Paddy's Day, a special message from noted Irishman Robert Francis O'Rourke.

00:37:33.000 What are you even doing?

00:37:35.000 What is wrong with you people? 1.00

00:37:37.000 Like, legitimately, this is stupid politics. 1.00

00:37:39.000 I know, there are a bunch of people who love memes, and so they're... I understand. 0.99

00:37:45.000 You think it's funny.

00:37:47.000 All right.

00:37:48.000 You know what else is not really funny?

00:37:49.000 The fact there are lots of Irish people in the United States who may not be pleased with the notion that they are all drunk louts, and that Beto O'Rourke is representative of them on St. 0.95

00:37:59.000 Patrick's Day.

00:38:01.000 Just just absurd.

00:38:03.000 Just absurd.

00:38:04.000 So everybody being incompetent at their jobs.

00:38:07.000 Well done all around.

00:38:07.000 OK, meanwhile, the other Democratic candidates are preparing their own runs.

00:38:12.000 Some successfully, some less successfully.

00:38:14.000 Joe Biden sort of let it slip over the weekend that he was that he was going to run.

00:38:19.000 And here's the problem with Joe Biden.

00:38:20.000 His best day will be his first day.

00:38:21.000 Let's get some Joe Biden music.

00:38:25.000 Oh yeah.

00:38:26.000 That's going to be Joe Biden's run, because he's going to be tripping over that ottoman every five seconds.

00:38:31.000 He's a giraffe on roller skates, is Joe Biden.

00:38:34.000 And so Joe Biden quasi-launched his campaign by accident.

00:38:38.000 He said that he had the most progressive record of anyone running, and then immediately switched, oh, I'm not running yet.

00:38:43.000 Yeah, we all know, dude, just do it already.

00:38:44.000 Just pull the trigger.

00:38:45.000 Enough.

00:38:47.000 You know, I get criticized.

00:38:49.000 I'm told I get criticized by the new left.

00:38:51.000 I have the most progressive record of anybody running for the United...

00:38:55.000 Anybody who would run.

00:38:56.000 I didn't mean...

00:39:03.000 With anybody who would run.

00:39:11.000 Okay, now, I will note here, he's obviously at a dinner, so you can't take into account the population of dinners as sort of the base of the people who are gonna vote for that guy.

00:39:19.000 But there's a shot of the crowd.

00:39:20.000 Everyone is between the age of 70 and death.

00:39:23.000 At the Joe Biden rally.

00:39:25.000 Beto, however, has a bunch of 20-somethings who are out there dancing, dancing in the moonlight.

00:39:31.000 So, not good news for Joe Biden.

00:39:33.000 Beto may have stolen his thunder.

00:39:35.000 Meanwhile, Cory Booker is attempting to go as radical as possible in an attempt to fend off Kamala Harris.

00:39:40.000 It's basically like watching the Hunger Games, this version of the Democratic primary.

00:39:44.000 There are one million candidates and only one will survive.

00:39:47.000 Let's get some Spartacus music.

00:39:50.000 There he is.

00:39:51.000 Ah, Spartacus, Cory Booker.

00:39:53.000 What a wonderful dude.

00:39:54.000 So, Cory Booker, he came out over the weekend and he was trying to prove his, again, progressive bona fides that he is a fighter.

00:40:00.000 And the thing about Cory Booker being a fighter is that Cory Booker is constantly, endlessly manipulative.

00:40:06.000 And so, whenever he says something, you can feel the gears turning.

00:40:09.000 Well, over the weekend, he explained that it was not just enough not to be a bigot.

00:40:12.000 You have to be an anti-bigot.

00:40:14.000 It's not just enough to say, I'm not racist.

00:40:16.000 You have to be an anti-racist.

00:40:18.000 What the hell does this mean?

00:40:18.000 I don't know.

00:40:19.000 Talk about it, Corey.

00:40:20.000 It's not enough to say I'm not a bigot.

00:40:23.000 You must be an anti-bigot.

00:40:24.000 You must be an anti-racist. 1.00

00:40:27.000 You must be a racist.

00:40:28.000 Now, I have no problem with the general idea that it's not enough to not be racist. 0.87

00:40:34.000 You actually have to fight racism.

00:40:35.000 I just have a feeling that what Cory Booker means by that is you have to reflect my policy preferences, or I will call you a bigot.

00:40:41.000 I will say that you might not be racist, but you forward the aspirations of racists.

00:40:45.000 That's where that is going in pretty short order.

00:40:47.000 Booker has no path.

00:40:48.000 I'm not sure even why he's running.

00:40:50.000 There's nothing happening for Cory Booker in this race.

00:40:53.000 Speaking of people for whom nothing is happening in this race, Amy Klobuchar also on the pandering train.

00:40:58.000 She's bought herself a pander bear.

00:40:59.000 So, Amy Klo- We have some Fargo music for Amy Klobuchar from the Frozen North.

00:41:07.000 So she too is attempting to now pander.

00:41:09.000 She understands there's an intersectional lane of the Democratic primaries and that she has no chance within it.

00:41:14.000 That's not going to stop her from talking about reparations.

00:41:16.000 So we have half the Democratic field now embracing slavery reparations.

00:41:20.000 In the year 2019, slavery was officially ended in the United States in 1865.

00:41:24.000 Not a single Democrat Who back slavery reparations can explain what the hell it is other than it's a bunch of big government programs I was already proposing just called slavery reparations.

00:41:35.000 Here Amy Klobuchar does the same thing before apparently beating one of her interns to death with a chair. 1.00

00:41:39.000 I believe we have to invest in those communities that have been so hurt by racism.

00:41:44.000 It doesn't have to be a direct pay for each person, but what we can do is invest in those communities, acknowledge what's happened, and that means better education.

00:41:56.000 That means looking at, for our whole economy, community college, one-year degrees, minimum wage, childcare, making sure that we have that shared dream of opportunity for all Americans.

00:42:09.000 Okay, so there she is pandering. 1.00

00:42:10.000 Is it going to do her any good?

00:42:11.000 No.

00:42:11.000 Amy Klobuchar is in the last year of Democratic candidates.

00:42:14.000 She's too moderate.

00:42:15.000 She's too sane.

00:42:16.000 And also, everything she does to pander just makes her look less authentic. 0.99

00:42:20.000 Speaking of which, the least authentic candidate of all time, Kirsten Gillibrand has launched her campaign to the great excitement of dozens, dozens of people across the United States, desperately awaiting Kirsten Gillibrand's run.

00:42:30.000 Let's get some Kirsten Gillibrand music.

00:42:32.000 No one knows.

00:42:38.000 She's all over the place. 1.00

00:42:39.000 She's taken every position on every issue.

00:42:42.000 And she is, again, utterly inauthentic.

00:42:45.000 So here was some of Kirsten Gillibrand's 2020 launch video, watched by, as I say, her immediate family plus her paid staff.

00:42:52.000 Our anthem calls America the home of the brave.

00:42:57.000 But we don't realize that the lyrics first pose it as a question.

00:43:01.000 Oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave over the land of the free and the home of the brave?

00:43:09.000 It asks, will Brave win?

00:43:12.000 Well, it hasn't always, and it isn't right now.

00:43:15.000 We need a leader who makes big, bold choices.

00:43:19.000 Someone who isn't afraid of progress.

00:43:22.000 That's why I'm running for president.

00:43:24.000 And it's why I'm asking you for your support.

00:43:27.000 Will Brave win?

00:43:30.000 Oh my goodness.

00:43:30.000 Will Brave win?

00:43:34.000 Let's answer for ours.

00:43:35.000 What, what, okay, yeah, that's going nowhere.

00:43:38.000 That is, that is a, That is a rocket blowing up on launch, oh my goodness.

00:43:43.000 Yeah, first of all, if you are having to quote the lyrics to the Star Spangled Banner in your opening video, my favorite is these candidates who legitimately can't rock crowd.

00:43:50.000 Now, what you'll notice about Kamala Harris' launch video or Bernie Sanders' launch video is that they always have a big crowd, right?

00:43:56.000 People who actually cheer for them.

00:43:57.000 Kirsten Gillibrand, it's like her alone in a telephone booth.

00:44:00.000 This is my support base.

00:44:02.000 Sure, we started small, but soon, soon, a full hundred people might be with me at some point.

00:44:08.000 Kirsten Gillibrand, I mean, speaking of flip-flopping on positions, over the weekend, she was talking about the NRA.

00:44:13.000 Why?

00:44:14.000 Because of Christchurch, New Zealand, which, it turns out, New Zealand not in the United States.

00:44:17.000 Here's Kirsten Gillibrand, however, talking about how we need to call out the NRA in the United States.

00:44:22.000 It's just unbelievable that this president just continues to put fuel on the fire of hatred and bigotry.

00:44:28.000 It's not who we are in our best moments as a nation, and it's not who we should be in the future.

00:44:32.000 So I think it's outrageous.

00:44:34.000 And so my heart goes out to the victims.

00:44:37.000 It is a horrible shooting and another crisis in the world.

00:44:43.000 But we need to press it and who's actually going to do the right things and stand up to the NRA and stand up against hate.

00:44:49.000 I'm old enough to remember when Kirsten Gillibrand got an A rating from the NRA.

00:44:52.000 Wasn't that funny?

00:44:54.000 Yeah, Kirsten Gillibrand, that campaign going nowhere. 1.00

00:44:56.000 Okay, time for some stuff I like and then we'll do some stuff that I hate.

00:44:59.000 So...

00:45:00.000 A couple, so a thing that I like today.

00:45:02.000 There's a very good book about Israel's history.

00:45:04.000 I'm very often asked about what's a good book to read about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

00:45:09.000 That conflict, obviously, in the news again because there was another terrorist attack over the weekend in which a 47-year-old father of 12 was murdered by a Palestinian terrorist and the Hamas government in the Gaza Strip, which has been summarily shooting its own citizens.

00:45:20.000 Decided that they would hand out candies upon the death of innocent Israelis. 0.86

00:45:24.000 We ignore that.

00:45:25.000 We're not supposed to pay attention to that.

00:45:26.000 That's very important to ignore.

00:45:28.000 There's a good book about all of this called Reclaiming Israel's History by David Bragg.

00:45:32.000 Roots, Rights and the Struggle for Peace.

00:45:33.000 It is a nuanced look at Israel's history, acknowledging where Israel has failed and pointing out where Israel has succeeded.

00:45:39.000 The book is quite good.

00:45:40.000 It's an easy read.

00:45:41.000 It's only about 250 pages, maybe.

00:45:43.000 So go check that out right now.

00:45:44.000 Reclaiming Israel's History by David Bragg.

00:45:46.000 Speaking of which, you know, this goes under things I hate, obviously, but it is amazing to watch as the Western media completely ignore Hamas shooting its own citizens in the streets in the Gaza Strip.

00:45:57.000 They're legitimately doing this.

00:45:58.000 People are finally, finally protesting in the Gaza Strip against the egregious misrule of Hamas. 0.99

00:46:03.000 Years ago, I tweeted about Israelis loving to build and Arabs loving to live in crap and bomb things. 1.00

00:46:10.000 And I was specifically talking, as I said, in that thread. 0.99

00:46:13.000 You can go read it.

00:46:14.000 I was specifically talking about the leadership of Hamas.

00:46:17.000 I was specifically talking about the leadership of the Palestinian Authority that would rather its own citizens live in sewage than actually pay to better the lives of those citizens. 0.92

00:46:26.000 I was specifically talking about that.

00:46:27.000 That remains true.

00:46:28.000 The leadership in Hamas, the leadership in the Palestinian Authority, would rather line their own pockets and build terror tunnels than take care of their citizens.

00:46:35.000 And now they're shooting their own citizens in the Gaza Strip.

00:46:37.000 Here's what that looked like.

00:46:39.000 Any media coverage of this, guys?

00:46:46.000 Any media coverage of Hamas shooting its own citizens in the Gaza Strip?

00:46:50.000 Nope.

00:46:51.000 None at all.

00:46:53.000 Nope, it's all Israel. 0.99

00:46:54.000 Israel's the problem. 0.99

00:46:55.000 Okay, time for some things that I hate. 0.98

00:47:01.000 Okay, so, couple of quick things that I hate. 0.99

00:47:03.000 So, there is a senator in Australia, and this senator in Australia is indeed a basket of dung. 0.99

00:47:10.000 He's a bad guy. 0.98

00:47:11.000 Okay, so this Australian far-right senator named Fraser Anning put out an egregious statement in the aftermath of the Christchurch killing talking about how it was Muslim immigration to New Zealand that had caused it, which is just an absurdity and a moral blot and all the rest. 0.99

00:47:25.000 Here is this, so this guy was speaking to the media, and he's garbage, but A person behind him, a 17-year-old, hits him with an egg. 0.97

00:47:32.000 And here's what happens next. 0.96

00:47:34.000 Okay, and then his guys take down the kid.

00:47:45.000 Now, people have gone crazy on the politician for this.

00:47:48.000 Now, you should go crazy on the politician for his views. 1.00

00:47:50.000 His views are garbage. 1.00

00:47:52.000 If you're gonna go crazy on a guy for getting hit in the head with an egg and then turning around and slapping the guy who hit him with an egg, I'm not with you there. 1.00

00:47:58.000 I don't think you should punch Nazis. 0.96

00:47:59.000 I don't think you should slap eggs on the heads of people with whom you disagree.

00:48:02.000 I think that in a civilized society, we have discussions and debates about this stuff, and that violence in response to viewpoint is a terrible idea.

00:48:08.000 This is a bad idea.

00:48:09.000 So, you know, people who are all over the guy for- be all over the guy for his views.

00:48:13.000 Don't be all over the guy for turning around and slapping the kid who hit him in the head with an egg.

00:48:17.000 The kid got what he deserved for slapping the guy in the head with an egg.

00:48:20.000 Now, except for what happened afterward.

00:48:22.000 Apparently what happened afterward is that this guy's goons then beat the kid up.

00:48:26.000 That, of course, is inappropriate and absurd.

00:48:28.000 So many things can be true at once. 0.92

00:48:30.000 One, goons. 1.00

00:48:31.000 Once the guy is subdued, don't beat the crap out of him. 0.99

00:48:33.000 Two, don't slap your political opponents in the head with eggs.

00:48:36.000 Three, if you act in self-defense, even if you have bad views, that is still called self-defense.

00:48:41.000 All of these things can be true at once, but everything is gross.

00:48:43.000 Okay.

00:48:44.000 Final thing that I hate today.

00:48:45.000 So J.K.

00:48:46.000 Rowling has now decided it is time to make her books retroactively intersectional.

00:48:50.000 So that's exciting.

00:48:51.000 Nowhere in her books does she talk about Dumbledore being gay, but you remember a few years ago she suggested that Dumbledore was gay.

00:48:56.000 Now, this is not coming from a Harry Potter partisan.

00:48:59.000 I'm actually not a huge fan of the Harry Potter books.

00:49:01.000 I think that they are overwrought.

00:49:02.000 I think they are overlong.

00:49:04.000 They're just not... I'm just not a big fan.

00:49:06.000 But, she's now talking in her... She's now talking for the special features for the upcoming Fantastic Beats, The Crimes of Grindelwald Blu- Blu-Ray.

00:49:16.000 She reveals that there was a sexual dimension between Albus Dumbledore and Gellert Grindelwald.

00:49:22.000 Like, this is a thing now.

00:49:23.000 So she's now going to... She didn't write it in the books, and it's not in the movies, but she is going to actively... We're now going to learn that Hermione was black, she just didn't know it. 0.68

00:49:32.000 Nobody knew it, that Hermione was black.

00:49:34.000 Because, obviously, it turns out that Hogwarts was not intersectional enough. 0.94

00:49:39.000 Dobby was transgender. 0.84

00:49:41.000 It's very exciting to learn all of these things retroactively.

00:49:43.000 The fact that the media allowed J.K.

00:49:45.000 Rowling to get away with this nonsense is really astonishing.

00:49:47.000 Doesn't it demonstrate how exploitative SJW nonsense is?

00:49:50.000 Meaning that all she has to do is throw out there that these characters, who she never characterized in this way, are actually all these things the SJW left wants them to be, and then they're cheering.

00:50:00.000 Shouldn't they have criticized her at the time for not making the characters openly that way?

00:50:06.000 I mean, if you want a transformative world, wouldn't you want J.K.

00:50:08.000 Rowling?

00:50:08.000 But she's getting off easy by simply not writing any of that stuff so that I can buy these books for my eight-year-old.

00:50:14.000 And then later she'll tell us that Dumbledore was gay.

00:50:16.000 And get all the SJW plot.

00:50:17.000 It's pretty, pretty astonishing.

00:50:19.000 I am looking forward to learning about the sexual peccadillos that were happening in Gerald Tolkien's Middle Earth. 0.77

00:50:24.000 I need to know about Sauron's sex life.

00:50:26.000 I think it's deeply important.

00:50:28.000 I need to know if Hobbiton Was a see-me bed of vile undertakings?

00:50:34.000 I need to know about all of these things.

00:50:36.000 It's very, very important.

00:50:37.000 So I look forward to hearing from the Tolkien Estate. 1.00

00:50:39.000 What an inane, stupid world we live in. 1.00

00:50:41.000 Okay, we will be back here a little bit later this afternoon with two more hours. 0.99

00:50:44.000 Also, make sure that you go pre-order my book because you don't want to be one of the unlucky people who wants to buy the book when it runs out of stock.

00:50:50.000 It's the right side of history.

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00:50:53.000 It comes out tomorrow, or you can buy an autographed copy at premierecollectibles.com slash Ben Shapiro.

00:50:58.000 That comes along with the benefit of maybe being able to ask me a question in tomorrow's live book signing, so go check that out right now.

00:51:03.000 We'll see you a little bit later today, or we'll be here tomorrow with you.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - March 18, 2019

The Battle For Narrative Dominance | Ep. 739

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