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00:00:00.000The 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.
00:01:58.000And the entire West mourns because this is an act of evil.
00:02:01.000And 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.
00:02:18.000How many people did you see who are sympathetic to the evil white supremacist murderer on Friday?
00:02:26.000They're really pretty much nobody, pretty much nobody.
00:02:28.000Yet the media decided that this was an opportune moment to push a political narrative.
00:02:32.000And this is one of the worst aspects about our polarized politics.
00:02:35.000That is, whenever there is a flashpoint, whenever there's an incident, the media immediately jump to which narrative does it back?
00:02:41.000And can we support that narrative with other pieces of evidence or non-evidence?
00:02:45.000Can we draw a narrative from a flashpoint?
00:02:47.000So, in Ferguson, Missouri, where a white police officer shoots a black guy, they immediately draw a narrative.
00:02:53.000White police officers across America are racist.
00:02:56.000The criminal justice system is racist.
00:02:58.000In 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.
00:03:08.000It's not about Bernie Sanders' large-scale radical rhetoric.
00:03:12.000Nothing of that comes up because that doesn't back the narrative.
00:03:16.000Okay, so what are the narratives that the media wishes to draw from New Zealand?
00:03:19.000We talked a little bit about this on Friday because it was pretty obvious that the media were attempting to draw a narrative.
00:03:23.000Their original narrative was going to be about gun control.
00:03:26.000Then they realized that New Zealand actually is relatively gun controlled and it's a bad, it's a bad example.
00:03:30.000If you're going to choose a country that requires gun control, New Zealand is probably not that country.
00:03:34.000They have 1.2 million guns and 35 murders a year in the entire country of New Zealand.
00:03:39.000So it is not a perfect example of a country that desperately needs gun control.
00:03:43.000Nonetheless, the country will look at gun control.
00:03:45.000So that took the narrative off the table.
00:03:46.000The secondary narrative was going to be a narrative about Islamophobia.
00:03:50.000The idea that all across the West, there are people who deeply hate Muslims.
00:03:54.000And because there are people who deeply hate Muslims all across the West, they led this white supremacist to go around shooting people.
00:04:00.000Now, 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.
00:04:08.000Or points out that radical Islam is not just a tiny fringe phenomenon inside the Muslim community.
00:04:13.000That 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.
00:04:31.000And 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.
00:04:59.000Now 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.
00:05:09.000But 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.
00:05:24.000Now today isn't necessarily the day to talk about radical Islam, although radical Islam had itself a weekend.
00:05:29.000There was a terrorist attack in Israel, there's now a terrorist attack going on in the Netherlands.
00:05:35.000Both of them have been linked to radical Islam at this point.
00:05:38.000But it is true that in the wake of the murder of Muslims, that is not the time to talk about radical Islam.
00:05:44.000That'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.
00:06:01.000And yet that is what you saw across the media.
00:06:04.000That is what you saw across the media.
00:06:06.000I'm going to start with some students confronting Chelsea Clinton.
00:06:08.000So Chelsea Clinton made the mistake, this terrible, terrible mistake.
00:06:38.000We'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.
00:06:45.000So Chelsea Clinton was one of the people who called out Ilhan Omar for using anti-semitic language.
00:06:50.000Well students confronted Chelsea Clinton and they are blaming Chelsea Clinton, these students, they are blaming Chelsea Clinton for the shooting in Christchurch.
00:06:58.000This is how radical the radical fringe of the left is.
00:07:00.000Chelsea Clinton is somehow to blame for a white supremacist shooting up a church in Christchurch because she called out anti-semitism from Ilhan Omar.
00:07:47.000What is she supposed to apologize for?
00:07:48.000She's supposed to apologize because she called out Ilhan Omar for being anti-semitic.
00:07:52.000So 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.
00:08:00.000And then these two people, the people who were going after Chelsea Clinton, for goodness sake.
00:08:10.000These two people were given a platform in BuzzFeed News, a platform to explain why they called out Chelsea Clinton for the shooting in Christchurch.
00:08:18.000BuzzFeed 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.
00:08:29.000Yesterday we posted a video of Leon confronting Chelsea Clinton at a vigil for the victims of the white supremacist New Zealand mosque massacre.
00:08:36.000Today we woke up with over 100,000 people talking about it on Twitter.
00:08:39.000Needless to say, this is not what we expected.
00:08:42.000We went to the vigil for one reason, to grieve the loss of innocent lives that were stolen from this world by vile hatred.
00:08:47.000We 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.
00:08:53.000We did a double take when we first noticed Chelsea Clinton was at the vigil.
00:08:56.000Just 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.
00:09:07.000We 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.
00:09:16.000We were shocked when Clinton arrived at the vigil, given that she had not yet apologized to Representative Omar for the public vilification against her.
00:09:23.000So 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.
00:09:37.000Many have said it was unfair to connect Chelsea's words to the massacre in Christchurch, these two dolts, right?
00:09:41.000To them, we say that anti-Muslim bigotry must be addressed wherever it exists.
00:10:23.000So 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.
00:10:59.000Hey, Linda Sarsour did the same thing.
00:11:01.000Linda Sarsour, radical anti-Semite and, by the way, friend to terrorists.
00:11:05.000Right, legitimately has stood with terrorist Rasmia Odette on stage and hugged her and all the rest.
00:11:11.000Linda 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.
00:11:20.000What we need you to do is reflect on how you contribute to Islamophobia and stop doing that.
00:11:25.000The idea now is that if you criticized Ilhan Omar for being an anti-Semite, somehow you're responsible for the massacre in Christchurch.
00:11:33.000That is the most extreme wing of this push.
00:11:36.000But that is not the leading edge of the push.
00:11:39.000That is not the mainstream of the push.
00:11:40.000The mainstream of the push is that anybody who has criticized radical Islam in any way is somehow responsible for what happened in Christchurch.
00:11:57.000It'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.
00:12:04.000Yes, amendments that could force Congress to stay within its boundaries, could force the executive branch to stay within its boundaries.
00:12:09.000The 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.
00:12:25.000That's why we need a convention of states.
00:12:49.000It 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.
00:12:55.000Conventionofstates.com slash Ben to sign the petition today.
00:12:59.000So as I say, the most radical wing of the left is suggesting that people like Chelsea Clinton are responsible for Christchurch.
00:13:06.000The mainstream of the left is suggesting that people like Sam Harris and I are responsible for Christchurch.
00:13:12.000And 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.
00:13:19.000And he suggests that anybody who criticizes Islam as having an internal problem is responsible for the situation in Christchurch.
00:13:27.000He says, Islamophobia is not a fringe problem.
00:13:29.000It is embedded in much of Western society.
00:13:31.000For 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.
00:13:41.000Never would or should this standard be applied to white people who seem to have kept the privilege of individual differentiation for themselves.
00:14:00.000Nearly all of them were not in the West.
00:14:02.000That'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.
00:14:11.000you 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.
00:14:22.000This 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.
00:14:38.000That attempt to expand the argument is really in bad faith.
00:14:43.000And not only in bad faith, counterproductive.
00:14:46.000Because 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.
00:15:27.000And the push from the left is that if you criticized Ilhan Omar, this meant that you were actually anti-Islam.
00:15:33.000That a criticism of Ilhan Omar made you an Islamophobe.
00:15:36.000Now 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.
00:15:46.000Or if you say anti-Israel things, that doesn't make you anti-Semitic.
00:15:48.000That's a proposition with which I generally agree.
00:15:50.000But those same people will say that if you criticize Ilhan Omar, then you're anti-Islam.
00:15:55.000The Washington Post just gave a full op-ed space to Ilhan Omar to talk about her foreign policy.
00:16:00.000I don't remember them doing the same thing to Steve King.
00:16:05.000And 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.
00:16:15.000The 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.
00:16:29.000The growth of radical ideology has consequences no matter which ideology we are talking about.
00:16:34.000I've worried about the growth of white supremacism for years.
00:16:37.000I've been talking about it openly since 2015-2016.
00:16:39.000It's been four years I've been talking openly about the growth of white supremacy and white supremacism online.
00:16:45.000I'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.
00:16:56.000Linking President Trump and the right generally with white supremacism and linking anybody who has critiques of radical Islam with violence against Muslims.
00:17:05.000And that is not only inappropriate, it's disgusting.
00:17:09.000Calling out radical Islam is not the same thing as suggesting that ordinary Every day, non-radical Muslims, innocent people ought to be killed.
00:17:20.000That's absurdity at its highest level.
00:17:23.000And 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.
00:17:34.000And people say, well, this is Islamophobic.
00:17:48.000And 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.
00:18:00.000Okay, so this is not a matter of you criticize radical Islam and therefore you're okay with the murder of Muslims in Christchurch.
00:18:09.000And 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.
00:18:16.000Which again, if you've seen the response of the West to this terrorist attack, I'm failing to see it.
00:18:30.000Now, 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.
00:18:42.000The reason there's outcry in the West is because this does not meet the West's values.
00:18:48.000And 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.
00:18:58.000The West is unified against this sort of stuff and attempting to draw lines in order to make political hay is really pretty vile stuff.
00:19:08.000Now, the easy in for a lot of folks on the left is, of course, attacking President Trump.
00:19:13.000And that's because President Trump is a is a clod who says cloddish things.
00:19:18.000But if you are going to blame President Trump for the shooting in Christchurch, I don't know how you get there.
00:19:22.000I really don't know how you get there.
00:19:24.000Unless you are also going to blame Bernie Sanders for the congressional baseball shooting.
00:19:28.000You're gonna have to explain how President Trump called for violence against people who go to mosque.
00:19:32.000Because Bernie Sanders used radical language against everybody who doesn't agree with him on economics or climate change.
00:19:37.000We don't blame him for the congressional baseball shooting.
00:19:39.000Does that mean that his language is appropriate?
00:19:44.000But trying to link him to white supremacism?
00:19:47.000And shooting attacks in New Zealand is really pretty gross.
00:19:50.000And not only is it gross, it's exactly what the shooter wanted.
00:19:53.000So I said last week that we shouldn't discuss the manifesto.
00:19:55.000We shouldn't go out of our way to talk about the disgusting ideas in this killer's manifesto.
00:20:00.000And I meant that because that's what he wanted.
00:20:01.000What he wanted was for his ideas to get out there.
00:20:04.000I was perfectly fine and more than fine.
00:20:07.000I thought it was important to label this a white supremacist terror attack on Muslims.
00:20:11.000I 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.
00:20:27.000They 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.
00:20:40.000Here's an entire montage of people in the media racing to blame President Trump for an action he had nothing to do with.
00:20:45.000The shooter, according to these reports, specifically invoked our president as an inspiration.
00:20:52.000There's an intolerance that's being spread in this country, in this world, and it comes from the political dialogue.
00:20:59.000Let's be clear, it comes from political leaders.
00:21:01.000Words have consequences, like saying we have an invasion on our border.
00:21:05.000The language he uses in this manifesto is all about invaders.
00:21:10.000It's also language that President Trump used in a campaign ad before the midterm election.
00:21:13.000You have a president who, when he was a candidate, talked about banning Muslims from entering this country.
00:21:20.000So this is a president who has given plenty of rhetorical ammunition, I think, to terrorists like this.
00:21:28.000One, 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.
00:21:37.000This wasn't an attack on illegal immigrants, number one.
00:21:39.000Number two, I can disagree with the president on his use of the word invasion.
00:21:44.000I've forcefully spoken out against that sort of language.
00:21:47.000But to link the president's border policy with the shooting of Muslims in New Zealand...
00:21:52.000Forgive me if that seems like a bit of a stretch.
00:21:54.000Now, 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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00:23:12.000So as you see, The media are attempting to broaden the narrative.
00:23:14.000So 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.
00:23:22.000And then it was moved into everybody who has ever said anything about radical Islam is responsible for what happened in Christchurch.
00:23:28.000And now it's President Trump is personally responsible for what happened in Christchurch because of his language about invaders.
00:23:34.000Because of his language about the invasion of the country.
00:23:38.000Don Lemon on CNN was trying to say this.
00:23:40.000He was saying that the New Zealand terrorists looked up to Trump and therefore this is President Trump's fault.
00:23:45.000A suspect in the murders of at least 49 people at two mosques in New Zealand posted a manifesto online before staging his rampage.
00:23:54.000It's a white nationalist screed, filled with hateful messages against immigrants, minorities, and Muslims.
00:23:59.000There'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.
00:24:07.000What 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.
00:24:32.000Way 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.
00:24:40.000By the way, his actual practical ban is not a Muslim ban.
00:24:43.000Only five of the seven countries on the travel ban are Muslim, and they are the same seven countries named by President Obama.
00:24:48.000So the actual policy implemented is not reflective of the language.
00:25:04.000Because it didn't match the narrative.
00:25:06.000We 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.
00:26:39.000It was enough to simply call out and say, listen, white supremacism is evil.
00:26:43.000This person was evil, and white supremacism should be called out wherever it's seen.
00:26:47.000But 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?
00:27:04.000So, there's an amazing disconnect between what happens in the political commentariat and what happens in the real world.
00:27:10.000Beto 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.
00:27:18.000Yeah, I think that calls for some Beto music.
00:27:57.000Beto has issued about 37 apologies in his first 48 hours campaigning.
00:28:02.000For 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.
00:28:12.000Nonetheless, crazy people went nuts over this.
00:28:15.000How dare Beto say that his wife did most of the raising of his children?
00:28:23.000It's absolutely valid criticism and it's constructive criticism.
00:28:28.000It has already made me a better candidate.
00:28:31.000Not 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.
00:28:47.000If you can't get enough of Beto apologizing, I have some more for you.
00:28:53.000So here's Beto apologizing for his failure to acknowledge his own white privilege.
00:28:57.000should have also been a moment for me to acknowledge that that is far too often the case.
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00:32:46.000But here's the funny thing about this.
00:32:48.000The 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.
00:32:56.000So you'll recall all the way back to 2016.
00:32:58.000I know, you're older than four years old.
00:33:00.000So 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.
00:33:07.000They figured, okay, we'll build up President Trump.
00:33:09.000We'll spend a billion dollars in free media coverage on Donald Trump, because dude's a joke, and people will figure it out.
00:33:15.000And 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.
00:33:22.000And then, by the time they tried to push him back in the corner, they couldn't.
00:33:30.000Hey, Reuters, this is the best evidence ever.
00:33:32.000So Reuters is now coming out with this story about how Beto O'Rourke, when he was a teenager, was into hacking.
00:33:38.000Well, there's a story from Reuters in which they reveal that they had all this information years ago.
00:33:44.000Quote, 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.
00:33:54.000His special report was the most popular story on Reuters.com here and was picked up by other news outlets.
00:33:59.000But the origin of the story goes back more than two years.
00:34:02.000Members 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.
00:34:11.000After more than a year of reporting, men persuaded O'Rourke to talk on the record.
00:34:14.000In 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.
00:34:26.000What in the actual... So, let me get this straight.
00:34:29.000A Reuters reporter said, here is some newsworthy information.
00:34:32.000I will bury it until after your election with Ted Cruz.
00:34:36.000That's what the media were doing with Beto all along.
00:34:40.000One of President Trump's favorite terms.
00:34:42.000Beto O'Rourke has no original thoughts.
00:34:44.000Beto O'Rourke is not a shiny example of deep thought.
00:34:47.000Honestly, 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.
00:35:00.000That guy actually seems kind of smart, but Beto O'Rourke is not it, but it's too late.
00:35:03.000The 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.
00:35:13.000The media spent their attention building this guy up to fight Ted Cruz, and then it is too late now to shove him back in.
00:35:22.000There's no way to get him back in there.
00:35:24.000Now, Beto can be a gaffe machine from here till Election Day, and that is what he is doing.
00:35:28.000For 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.
00:35:42.000But here is Beto making that claim yesterday.
00:35:44.000We 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.
00:36:21.000Beto O'Rourke will do well among suburban women.
00:36:22.000If 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.
00:37:48.000You know what else is not really funny?
00:37:49.000The 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.
00:39:11.000Okay, 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.
00:40:59.000So, Amy Klo- We have some Fargo music for Amy Klobuchar from the Frozen North.
00:41:07.000So she too is attempting to now pander.
00:41:09.000She understands there's an intersectional lane of the Democratic primaries and that she has no chance within it.
00:41:14.000That's not going to stop her from talking about reparations.
00:41:16.000So we have half the Democratic field now embracing slavery reparations.
00:41:20.000In the year 2019, slavery was officially ended in the United States in 1865.
00:41:24.000Not 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.
00:41:35.000Here Amy Klobuchar does the same thing before apparently beating one of her interns to death with a chair.
00:41:39.000I believe we have to invest in those communities that have been so hurt by racism.
00:41:44.000It 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.
00:41:56.000That 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.
00:42:16.000And also, everything she does to pander just makes her look less authentic.
00:42:20.000Speaking 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.
00:42:30.000Let's get some Kirsten Gillibrand music.
00:43:38.000That is, that is a, That is a rocket blowing up on launch, oh my goodness.
00:43:43.000Yeah, 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.
00:43:50.000Now, what you'll notice about Kamala Harris' launch video or Bernie Sanders' launch video is that they always have a big crowd, right?
00:45:00.000A couple, so a thing that I like today.
00:45:02.000There's a very good book about Israel's history.
00:45:04.000I'm very often asked about what's a good book to read about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
00:45:09.000That 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.
00:45:20.000Decided that they would hand out candies upon the death of innocent Israelis.
00:45:44.000Reclaiming Israel's History by David Bragg.
00:45:46.000Speaking 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.
00:46:14.000I was specifically talking about the leadership of Hamas.
00:46:17.000I 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.
00:46:26.000I was specifically talking about that.
00:46:28.000The 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.
00:46:35.000And now they're shooting their own citizens in the Gaza Strip.
00:47:11.000Okay, 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.
00:47:25.000Here 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.
00:47:52.000If 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.
00:47:59.000I don't think you should slap eggs on the heads of people with whom you disagree.
00:48:02.000I 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.
00:49:04.000They're just not... I'm just not a big fan.
00:49:06.000But, 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.
00:49:16.000She reveals that there was a sexual dimension between Albus Dumbledore and Gellert Grindelwald.
00:49:23.000So 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.
00:49:32.000Nobody knew it, that Hermione was black.
00:49:34.000Because, obviously, it turns out that Hogwarts was not intersectional enough.
00:49:45.000Rowling to get away with this nonsense is really astonishing.
00:49:47.000Doesn't it demonstrate how exploitative SJW nonsense is?
00:49:50.000Meaning 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.
00:50:00.000Shouldn't they have criticized her at the time for not making the characters openly that way?
00:50:06.000I mean, if you want a transformative world, wouldn't you want J.K.
00:50:37.000So I look forward to hearing from the Tolkien Estate.
00:50:39.000What an inane, stupid world we live in.
00:50:41.000Okay, we will be back here a little bit later this afternoon with two more hours.
00:50:44.000Also, 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.
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00:50:58.000That 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.
00:51:03.000We'll see you a little bit later today, or we'll be here tomorrow with you.