The Ben Shapiro Show - The Democratic Elitism Problem | Ep. 607

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00:01:35.000 Last night was the Video Music Awards, the most important of all award ceremonies.

00:01:39.000 Because it is deeply important that we have award ceremonies that give awards to people who earn millions and millions of dollars for making crappy music that is popular.

00:01:46.000 And I know, I know, you're going to tell me that I'm an elitist in my tastes.

00:01:50.000 Right!

00:01:50.000 Because I like good things.

00:01:51.000 And just because things are popular doesn't make them good.

00:01:53.000 See the movie Titanic for an example.

00:01:55.000 But the Avatar is an even better example.

00:01:58.000 What is more telling about the VMAs than anything else is the amount of political posturing that happens at the VMAs.

00:02:03.000 The reason the Democrats are having trouble in the middle of the country is because there's an elitist feel to the Democrats.

00:02:08.000 The reason Donald Trump won is not because there are all these dispossessed people in the center of the country who felt economically left behind.

00:02:14.000 The reason that Trump won is because Trump was a giant middle finger to a bunch of people in Hollywood and New York.

00:02:19.000 That's really what Trump was. 0.92

00:02:20.000 What Trump was, was people getting sick of being told that they were racist, sexist, bigot, homophobes, and Trump responding by basically flipping everybody off. 0.94

00:02:27.000 And the Republican base cheering, yeah! 0.90

00:02:29.000 Because we are so sick of hearing over and over and over that we are terrible people.

00:02:34.000 And that was sort of reinforced all throughout the 2016 campaign.

00:02:38.000 For example, Hillary Clinton bringing out ads with Lena Dunham, who 0.51

00:02:42.000 May have molested her sister, but she was supposed to be this great Hollywood moral icon who is going to tell us all about how we ought to think about issues like abortion and the DNC replete with all sorts of stars and and people cutting versions of fight song with Elizabeth Banks and and the stars of the Pitch Perfect movies and Everybody in the middle country went really that's your pitch to me in Ohio is Lady Gaga. 0.98

00:03:05.000 That's your big pitch Thanks for that

00:03:08.000 The VMAs are another way for the Democratic left to reinforce just how out of touch they are.

00:03:13.000 And what's funny is that the people who are actually in the business of politics know this.

00:03:17.000 So Sherrod Brown is a senator from Ohio.

00:03:19.000 He's a little bit more moderate than the typical Democrat, not much.

00:03:22.000 He's got that wild hair over there.

00:03:23.000 But he's the guy who's in touch with that blue-collar base in Ohio, right?

00:03:26.000 He has to be elected in the same state that Trump won by something like eight points.

00:03:29.000 Well, Sherrod Brown was on TV yesterday on the MSNBCs, and he said that Democrats aren't really showing that they're fighting for the little guy.

00:03:36.000 Well, I think Democrats have not talked enough about fighting for the little guy.

00:03:39.000 I mean, it really our party... Are they too enticed with too free trade?

00:03:42.000 Well, the party has been too free trade, but the Republicans have been more free trade, but that's our problem, to show where we are and fight for workers.

00:03:50.000 But I don't think the voters necessarily think what we should be thinking, and that is you fight for the little guy, whether she punches a clock, whether he works in a diner, whether she works construction, whether he works in manufacturing.

00:04:01.000 So, let's ask a question.

00:04:02.000 Those people who are punching a clock, working in a diner, working in manufacturing, the people who are working on assembly lines, or who are going to a factory in the evenings, do they really want to hear from a bunch of pampered celebrities who earn millions of dollars to read lines written by others, or sing songs written by others, or warble off-key songs that are then later auto-tuned for millions of dollars?

00:04:21.000 Do they want to hear from those people?

00:04:23.000 about what America really constitutes?

00:04:25.000 Is that really what's their cup of tea?

00:04:27.000 The answer, of course, is no.

00:04:28.000 And yet that's what Democrats continue to resonate to.

00:04:31.000 The Democratic elite are wildly out of touch with all the people who are in the middle of the country, which is why they continue to cater to the folks over at the VMAs.

00:04:39.000 So the VMAs, the Video Music Awards, it used to actually celebrate music of a sort.

00:04:44.000 Now it's basically just a place for political posturing.

00:04:46.000 Kevin Hart was hosting this thing with Tiffany Haddish.

00:04:49.000 Is that how it's pronounced?

00:04:51.000 And Kevin Hart

00:04:53.000 He started off by joking about President Trump a lot, which is a brave thing.

00:04:58.000 My favorite part of this is that when Kevin Hart jokes about all this, what you'll hear is a triumphalism in his voice.

00:05:03.000 Look at how brave I am.

00:05:04.000 It's very reminiscent of Robert De Niro at the Emmy Awards, where he started shouting, F you Trump, and then raising his arms, raising his fist, because he had single-handedly deposed the President of the United States.

00:05:14.000 Under Article 32 of the Constitution of the United States, if an actor who once played a boxer shouts, F you Trump, at the President, he's no longer the President.

00:05:22.000 So naturally, Robert De Niro was very enthusiastic about this.

00:05:24.000 He got a standing ovation for shouting F.U.

00:05:27.000 Trump.

00:05:28.000 So going to virtue signal in front of a bunch of people who totally agree with you at Rockefeller Center in the middle of New York City or in Los Angeles, this is the height of courage in the entertainment sphere.

00:05:40.000 It's just like Normandy.

00:05:41.000 It's like the guys who are coming off the boats and fighting the Nazis. 0.60

00:05:43.000 That's Kevin Hart and Tiffany Haddish saying, F you Trump.

00:05:46.000 This makes them feel good inside.

00:05:47.000 It makes them feel like they've done something virtuous and strong in a room full of people who agree with them and think that virtue and strength come from shouting at the President of the United States.

00:05:56.000 Here's Kevin Hart joking about Trump.

00:05:58.000 Again, if you don't think this is off-putting, then you're really not following how America works these days.

00:06:03.000 I'm looking at this like it's game day, people.

00:06:05.000 But do not worry, because at this game, you guys are allowed to kneel.

00:06:09.000 You can do whatever the hell you want.

00:06:10.000 There's no old white man that can stop you. 0.92

00:06:12.000 Do it!

00:06:14.000 I mean, beefs pop off, bad language, people run to the bathroom and send out crazy tweets.

00:06:19.000 It's basically like your typical day at the White House.

00:06:22.000 In your face, Trump! 1.00

00:06:22.000 Suck it! 1.00

00:06:24.000 In your face, Trump. 1.00

00:06:24.000 Suck it. 1.00

00:06:25.000 Well, first of all, funny would be good. 1.00

00:06:27.000 Kevin Hart used to be a comedian.

00:06:29.000 Now he's just a short guy who yells at the president.

00:06:31.000 And he's one of the few people in America that I'm allowed to call short because he's actually shorter than I am.

00:06:34.000 But in any case, I'm going to at least take a moment to enjoy that.

00:06:37.000 But Kevin Hart, doing this routine at the Video Music Awards broadcast across the nation, watched by seven people, but treasured by the celebrity culture in the Democratic Party.

00:06:47.000 Is that sort of thing going to hurt Trump?

00:06:48.000 Or is it going to help Trump?

00:06:49.000 The answer, of course, is it's radically going to help Trump.

00:06:51.000 Every time people in the culture decide to insert themselves into politics, everyone else gets really, really annoyed.

00:06:56.000 But it wasn't just that.

00:06:57.000 And there was somebody named Logic.

00:06:59.000 I assume that was his given name.

00:07:00.000 I assume he came out of his mother and his mother said, I shall call you Logic.

00:07:03.000 But apparently he's some sort of rapper.

00:07:06.000 Don't know.

00:07:06.000 Don't really care.

00:07:07.000 And he did some song called One Day.

00:07:10.000 He ran out while doing this song wearing a shirt that said, F the wall.

00:07:14.000 And then he brought out a bunch of kids who are either illegal immigrants or children of activists, and they're all wearing shirts that say, we are all human beings.

00:07:23.000 Right.

00:07:24.000 Okay, but some of you are here illegally.

00:07:25.000 Like, I'm confused.

00:07:26.000 There are lots of different types of human beings all over planet Earth and in the United States as well.

00:07:31.000 That does not answer the question.

00:07:32.000 I mean, you could go to prison and say, and have everybody wear shirts saying, we are all human beings.

00:07:36.000 Like, there are lots of types of human beings.

00:07:37.000 That's not even to say these kids are bad.

00:07:39.000 But again, the virtue signaling in the room is really strong.

00:07:41.000 Also, F the wall.

00:07:43.000 I just wonder whether Mr. Logic

00:07:46.000 Actually has a wall around his house.

00:07:48.000 I assume he lives in some sort of gated community.

00:07:50.000 He has security.

00:07:51.000 It's very easy to pick on celebrities this way because they live in a world that they don't actually inhabit.

00:07:56.000 There's a great book by Charles Murray called Coming Apart.

00:07:58.000 And what the book is really about is all of these people who are these kind of white upper crust elites who live on the coast.

00:08:03.000 And they push a message of social liberalism.

00:08:06.000 They push that single motherhood is totally wonderful.

00:08:08.000 And they push that abortion is totally cool.

00:08:10.000 And they push that not saving your money is fine.

00:08:13.000 They push all of these socially liberal messages about big government and high taxes.

00:08:16.000 And then they take all their money and they store it in offshore bank accounts and they get married and they have kids just like a normal family in 1955.

00:08:22.000 But everybody in the middle of the country who listens to them follows this advice and then they live crappy lives.

00:08:27.000 Well, that's exactly what happens when you see these celebrities talking about F the wall.

00:08:31.000 You think these people are going to be affected by the lack of a wall on the southern border?

00:08:34.000 They're not ranchers in Arizona.

00:08:36.000 These folks are not going to be affected by this.

00:08:38.000 All that a lack of a wall means to these folks is that they have cheaper illegal immigrant labor to do their lawns. 0.99

00:08:44.000 Legitimately, that's what celebrities in L.A. 0.88

00:08:46.000 do.

00:08:47.000 Most of the time, celebrities who are interacting with illegal immigrants are doing so in terms of household service. 0.96

00:08:52.000 Seriously, I live in LA.

00:08:53.000 I promise you, I know a lot of these celebrities.

00:08:55.000 And most of them, when they talk about illegal immigrants, they're talking about that. 0.97

00:08:58.000 They want a cheap housekeeper or a cheap nanny. 1.00

00:09:01.000 Now listen, I don't blame any of the people who are coming across the border to live a better life in the United States.

00:09:05.000 I do blame a system that allows people to cross the border illegally without checking them.

00:09:09.000 It seems to me that the least a country can do is check the folks coming across the border to make sure that number one, they are safe.

00:09:15.000 Number two, they are educated.

00:09:16.000 And number three, they're going to contribute to society and not mooch off of society. 0.98

00:09:19.000 But these folks, it doesn't affect them.

00:09:21.000 It doesn't matter to them.

00:09:22.000 They don't live in poorer neighborhoods where culture changes when thousands of people come across the border and they don't speak the native tongue and they bring customs from home.

00:09:32.000 That doesn't actually make any difference to people who are living in gated communities and gated establishments.

00:09:37.000 It doesn't make any difference to them because they are gated off from everyone else.

00:09:41.000 And the only actual contact they have with illegal immigration

00:09:44.000 Doesn't involve any additional crime.

00:09:46.000 It doesn't involve any sort of additional poverty that exists in certain communities in the United States, thanks to illegal immigration.

00:09:52.000 It doesn't actually change any of that for them.

00:09:54.000 So it's easy for them to go up there and virtue signal in front of all of their rich friends.

00:09:58.000 Here was the aforementioned Logic.

00:10:00.000 Again, I'm so confused by rapper names, I can't even express it.

00:10:04.000 But here is Logic performing one day in a shirt that reads, F the Wall.

00:10:20.000 I really have to admit, it's almost impossible not to watch this particular number and just get flashes to Popstar with Andy Samberg, because it legitimately is one guy singing like, like, who is it, George Michael in it?

00:10:34.000 With George Michael singing, and then some guy rapping about social justice in the background.

00:10:38.000 It's really, it's really incredible.

00:10:40.000 So, if you haven't seen that movie, you should go check it out.

00:10:43.000 It's very obscene, but it's really, really funny.

00:10:45.000 But that's what all of this stuff is, and it is inherently absurd.

00:10:48.000 It's inherently absurd.

00:10:49.000 They didn't just do that, they also cut a TV promo to get out the vote, which is really exciting.

00:10:53.000 They had all of these celebrities who cut a TV promo trying to tell everybody it's important to rock the vote, because this is what we need, is celebrities telling people to vote.

00:11:00.000 I would prefer, frankly, that fewer uninformed people vote, rather than everybody who watches the VMAs voting.

00:11:06.000 Also, if people are voting because a celebrity told you to, then you probably shouldn't be voting in the first place.

00:11:10.000 The final word on this comes courtesy of Michael Avenatti, who legitimately showed up at the VMAs.

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00:12:23.000 Okay, so, the best part of this, and when I say that the Democrats and the VMAs are basically one thing, that the celebrity culture of the Democratic Party has basically eaten the Democratic Party,

00:12:33.000 I don't mean that apocryphally.

00:12:36.000 I don't mean that in any sort of vague sense.

00:12:38.000 Barack Obama is sort of the celebrity to the celebrity culture, and the mutual backscratching of celebrity that went on during the Obama administration was pretty incredible.

00:12:46.000 Everybody in Hollywood

00:12:48.000 Thought Barack Obama was a celebrity.

00:12:50.000 And Barack Obama wanted to hang out with the celebrities who thought that he was a celebrity.

00:12:53.000 So the merger of celebrity and politics was already in place long before we elected a reality television star to the presidency of the United States.

00:13:01.000 Barack Obama was actually the first reality TV star to be president of the United States.

00:13:05.000 He had no real political experience.

00:13:06.000 He came out of nowhere.

00:13:07.000 TV glorified him.

00:13:08.000 And he was considered a celebrity more than he was a politician, even before he was elected president of the United States.

00:13:13.000 In any case,

00:13:14.000 What this leads to is the actual merger of reality TV and politics, which is, I have to admit, deeply entertaining.

00:13:22.000 So Michael Avenatti, you will remember, is the lawyer for Stormy Daniels.

00:13:25.000 He became famous literally by representing a porn star who once shtooped the president.

00:13:29.000 This is his legitimate claim to fame.

00:13:30.000 The only reason he is famous is because Stormy Daniels, during Shark Week, nailed the president and then went away for many years because the president paid her lots of money to go away, and then, in an act,

00:13:40.000 Of brazen bravery decided to come out and tell her important story.

00:13:45.000 She doesn't allege the president actually abused her in any way, right?

00:13:47.000 She just wanted to come out and make some money off of this thing so she could strip for higher rates. 1.00

00:13:50.000 But Michael Avenatti is her lawyer, and he's been out there saying that he is going to tear down the president.

00:13:56.000 He's the lawyer who's finally going to bring down the president of the United States.

00:13:59.000 And he shows up at the VMAs.

00:14:01.000 Now, everybody's sort of laughing at this.

00:14:03.000 I think Michael Avenatti has a shot at the 2020 nomination.

00:14:05.000 I do.

00:14:06.000 I'll explain why after you watch Michael Avenatti talk about why he's at the Video Music Awards.

00:14:11.000 What the heck are you doing here?

00:14:13.000 Well, you know, I was invited to this great event.

00:14:15.000 It's a pretty cool event.

00:14:17.000 And I thought I'd show up.

00:14:18.000 Were you surprised to be invited?

00:14:20.000 A little bit, a little bit.

00:14:22.000 But, you know, hopefully it won't be the first time.

00:14:24.000 Well, it is the first time.

00:14:25.000 Hopefully it won't be the last time.

00:14:26.000 So are you really considering a run for president?

00:14:28.000 I am.

00:14:28.000 I'm serious about it.

00:14:29.000 I'm seriously looking at it.

00:14:30.000 I'm traveling around talking to people in the country.

00:14:32.000 And, you know, I've been really surprised at how much enthusiasm there is out there for the potential.

00:14:37.000 So I'm going to make a decision.

00:14:39.000 I want to be smart about it, deliberate.

00:14:41.000 You know why?

00:14:41.000 Because the VMAs is a signifier of Democratic id.

00:14:47.000 If you want to know what Democrats feel, all you have to do is really watch the VMAs.

00:14:50.000 You want to know what Democrats think?

00:14:50.000 You have to look at their various policy proposals, and you have to talk to the Democrat Socialists of America, and all the rest.

00:14:55.000 If you want to know what they feel, watch the VMAs.

00:14:57.000 And that is a visceral hatred for the President of the United States.

00:15:00.000 And Michael Avenatti represents that in a pretty solid way.

00:15:03.000 His entire claim to fame is yelling at Trump.

00:15:05.000 And so now he's at the VMAs yelling at Trump.

00:15:07.000 And people look at him and they go, I like that guy.

00:15:08.000 You know why?

00:15:09.000 Because he yells at Trump.

00:15:10.000 That's awesome.

00:15:11.000 If the Democrats disappoint in 2018, if they don't take back Congress in 2018, for example, you could see such a strong backlash, so much anger, that somebody like Avenatti could actually win some primaries based solely on, I'm the only guy in this room who's actually sued the President of the United States.

00:15:25.000 I'm the only guy in this room who's willing to say basta.

00:15:28.000 I'm the only one in this room who's aggressive enough to take on the president.

00:15:31.000 That has some appeal to Democrats because the VMAs represent the id.

00:15:35.000 Michael Avenatti is the id.

00:15:36.000 And the Democrats have basically decided to cave to their id as opposed to following the sort of blue collar tactics that Sherrod Brown would prefer.

00:15:45.000 Meanwhile, as I say, you know, the president of the United States, Trump, was elected.

00:15:49.000 Because of cultural issues.

00:15:50.000 So here are a couple of cultural issues.

00:15:52.000 There are a lot of stories that we use in radio and podcasting on Twitter that signify, this is why Trump won.

00:16:00.000 You get that a lot.

00:16:00.000 This is why Trump won.

00:16:02.000 Something dumb happens and people tweet out, this is why Trump won. 0.98

00:16:04.000 But these dumb stories actually are sort of why Trump won. 0.97

00:16:07.000 So here is one of those examples today. 0.99

00:16:08.000 This is such a great story.

00:16:10.000 This is courtesy of the Associated Press.

00:16:11.000 You ready?

00:16:22.000 PETA, which has been protesting the use of animals in circuses for more than 30 years, wrote a letter to Mandalay in the spring of 2016 calling for a redesign.

00:16:30.000 Given the egregious cruelty inherent in circuses that use animals, and the public's swelling opposition to the exploitation of animals used for entertainment,

00:16:38.000 We urge Nabisco to update its packaging in order to show animals who are free to roam in their natural habitats, PETA said in its letter.

00:16:46.000 Mondeley agreed and started working on a redesign.

00:16:48.000 In the meantime, the Cracker's Namesake Circus, Ringling Brothers, and Barnum & Bailey folded for good.

00:16:53.000 The 146-year-old circus had removed elephants from its shows in 2016 because of pressure from PETA.

00:16:57.000 It closed down in May 2017 due to slow ticket sales.

00:17:00.000 The redesign retains all of the coloring, but instead of showing the animals in cages, implying they are traveling in boxcars for the circus,

00:17:06.000 The new boxes feature a zebra, elephant, lion, giraffe, and gorilla wandering side-by-side in a grassland.

00:17:13.000 The outline of acacia trees can be seen in the distance.

00:17:15.000 So, this was deeply important.

00:17:17.000 People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has now released the fake cookie animals.

00:17:23.000 It's no longer enough to have free-range chickens.

00:17:24.000 We now have to have free-range cookie chickens. 1.00

00:17:27.000 Very, very important.

00:17:28.000 But let's be real about this.

00:17:29.000 All of this is fun and games until the Cookie Lion and the Cookie Tiger decide to eat the Gingerbread Man.

00:17:36.000 At that point, it really gets seriously ugly.

00:17:38.000 The Muffin Man takes it right in the neck from the lion that has now been released from his cage.

00:17:43.000 On the Barnum's Animal Crackers.

00:17:45.000 They're really doing important things here in the United States.

00:17:48.000 And this is why people are like, oh, screw political correctness, screw this. 0.98

00:17:50.000 This is just ridiculous. 0.96

00:17:52.000 That is not even the most politically correct story of the day. 0.97

00:17:55.000 This one is spectacular.

00:17:56.000 Okay, so this is from Healthline.

00:17:58.000 Healthline is a publication, I believe they are connected with men's health in some way.

00:18:02.000 And they have something reviewed by Janet Brito, PhD.

00:18:07.000 It's called the LGBTQIAZBYL 1.00

00:18:12.000 Safe sex guy. 0.79

00:18:14.000 It's good times. 0.94

00:18:15.000 And here is... It's so good.

00:18:16.000 It's so good. 0.85

00:18:17.000 So, they have decided they are going to rename genitalia. 0.67

00:18:21.000 Rename them to be more sensitive to transgender folks.

00:18:24.000 You ready for this? 0.70

00:18:25.000 It's unbelievable.

00:18:26.000 It's unbelievable.

00:18:28.000 For the 1,000th time, my wife happens to be a doctor, which means she uses medical terminology.

00:18:32.000 Even when I teach my children what genitalia are, my daughter is four and a half years old and knows the name of genitalia, and then she calls it her private zone. 0.99

00:18:39.000 She uses a euphemism. 0.99

00:18:40.000 Just like most parents, I don't want my kids running around in stores screaming penis or vagina, right? 1.00

00:18:44.000 That's just what we do. 0.99

00:18:45.000 But that's because my children are children.

00:18:48.000 And when we actually discuss actual biology, it's good to know the terminology and not to say pee-pee, right?

00:18:54.000 It's good to know the actual terminology.

00:18:55.000 However, it's apparently very, very bad.

00:18:58.000 Very bad.

00:18:58.000 Because here's what Healthline says.

00:19:00.000 These guides, too many guides with regard to LGBTQ issues, often unnecessarily gender body parts as being male parts and female parts.

00:19:12.000 So it...

00:19:13.000 Yes.

00:19:15.000 Correct. 0.99

00:19:16.000 You know, like in every sexually dimorphic species, which is to say every animal species on planet Earth, the penis is a male part and the vagina is a female part because these still have biological meanings because we're not idiots. 1.00

00:19:27.000 But apparently we are idiots. 1.00

00:19:28.000 I've assumed too much. 0.99

00:19:30.000 These guides often unnecessarily gender body parts as being male parts and female parts and refer to sex with women or sex with men, excluding those who identify as non-binary. 0.90

00:19:41.000 You can't have sex with a non-binary body part. 1.00

00:19:44.000 It doesn't exist.

00:19:45.000 That's not a thing.

00:19:47.000 Unless you are screwing a tree. 0.69

00:19:48.000 That's not a thing.

00:19:50.000 Many individuals don't see body parts as having a gender.

00:19:53.000 People have a gender.

00:19:55.000 But body parts have a sex! 0.99

00:19:56.000 What in the world are you talking about?

00:19:58.000 Are you saying that it's just some sort of social construct? 0.99

00:20:00.000 That the presence of a penis seems to be connected with male genetics? 0.91

00:20:04.000 That's a social construct? 0.98

00:20:05.000 Okay, I can't wait to give you the punchline to this, because the punchline to this is so unbelievably good.

00:20:10.000 Okay, the punchline is just, it's astonishingly good.

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00:21:20.000 Okay, so here's the punchline to this LGBTQIA 1.00

00:21:35.000 Z-A-Y guide. 0.90

00:21:39.000 Here's the punchline.

00:21:39.000 So they've already said these guys unnecessarily gender body parts as being male parts and female parts.

00:21:44.000 So here's their solution.

00:21:46.000 Here's their solution. 0.97

00:21:47.000 The notion that a penis is exclusively a male body part and a vulva is exclusively a female body part is inaccurate. 0.98

00:21:55.000 No, it's not.

00:21:56.000 By using the word parts to talk about genitals and using medical terms for anatomy without attaching a gender to it, we become much more able to effectively discuss safe sex in a way that's clear and inclusive.

00:22:06.000 For the purpose of... Here it is.

00:22:08.000 It's so good.

00:22:09.000 It's so good.

00:22:10.000 Okay, there's no way to pitch how good this is. 0.96

00:22:12.000 For the purposes of this guide, we will refer to the vagina as the front hole instead of solely using the medical term vagina. 0.86

00:22:21.000 This is gender-inclusive language that's considerate of the fact that some trans people don't identify with the labels the medical community attaches to their genitals.

00:22:31.000 The front hole.

00:22:31.000 Okay, so, again, my wife's a doctor.

00:22:34.000 If she is doing a gynecological exam, she is not going to ask a biological woman if she can see her front hole. 1.00

00:22:42.000 Because that's absurd. 0.99

00:22:44.000 That is ridiculous. 1.00

00:22:45.000 And I'm afraid that these folks are mixing up their face hole with their rear hole. 1.00

00:22:51.000 Because basically, their head is up their ass. 1.00

00:22:53.000 That's what I'm trying to tell you here. 1.00

00:22:55.000 That is so ridiculous. 0.95

00:22:56.000 But this is how far we've come. 0.98

00:22:57.000 You want to know why you got Trump?

00:22:58.000 This is why you got Trump.

00:22:59.000 I know.

00:23:00.000 Everybody's like, what does this have to do with Trump?

00:23:01.000 It has to do with everybody looks at these stories and we go, that guy.

00:23:04.000 OK, fine.

00:23:05.000 Whatever.

00:23:05.000 You can do this.

00:23:06.000 Fine. 1.00

00:23:06.000 That that ridiculous human being. 1.00

00:23:08.000 Let's just make him president. 1.00

00:23:09.000 I don't even give a crap anymore. 0.99

00:23:10.000 At least he's not doing front hole. 0.98

00:23:12.000 At least we're not going to have a Democratic debate.

00:23:13.000 You're not going to see a Republican debate where they argue over the proper terminology for terms that have been settled by science for all of history.

00:23:21.000 Hey, so we're not going to do this.

00:23:22.000 We're not going to do this.

00:23:24.000 Honest to God.

00:23:25.000 Front hole.

00:23:32.000 Yeah, Democrats, let's keep going down. 1.00

00:23:34.000 Let's explore these paths.

00:23:35.000 It's just, just great.

00:23:37.000 Meanwhile, in other ridiculous stories today, this is an amazing story.

00:23:40.000 So we talked yesterday about Asia Argento.

00:23:42.000 Asia Argento is one of the Me Too leaders.

00:23:45.000 And she has said that we should believe all women, we should believe all victims, except for that 17-year-old boy that she apparently molested, right?

00:23:50.000 Who apparently she paid $380,000 to silence.

00:23:53.000 He was a child actor.

00:23:54.000 When she was 37 and he was 17, she invited him to a hotel room where she apparently essentially had sex with him. 0.67

00:24:00.000 Well, she said Tuesday,

00:24:03.000 And she never had any sexual relationship with a man who has accused her of molesting him, which is weird since he actually forwarded a picture of her in bed with him at a hotel to the New York Times.

00:24:11.000 But here's what she says.

00:24:12.000 She said Tuesday she'd never had any sexual relationship with a man who has accused her of molesting him when he was a minor, and that her former boyfriend, the late Anthony Bourdain, urged her to agree to a financial settlement to end the man's longstanding persecution of her.

00:24:25.000 So that's a strong tactic.

00:24:27.000 Blame the dude who just hung himself.

00:24:29.000 That seems like that's a very strong move by Eja Argento. 0.98

00:24:32.000 If that's not true, then she is not only a terrible person, she is THE terrible person.

00:24:38.000 That is about as terrible as it gets.

00:24:40.000 Again, what's amazing about this whole phenomenon with Eja Argento is to watch people give her the benefit of the doubt in an area they would not give anybody else the benefit of the doubt.

00:24:47.000 You know, the Bible is very clear about judging.

00:24:50.000 And what the Bible says, it's a very interesting verse, the Bible says,

00:24:53.000 I rarely quote the Bible, but this is an actual moral rule.

00:24:55.000 And the moral rule is when you judge, you're not supposed to judge in benefit of the rich or in benefit of the poor.

00:25:00.000 Why would the Bible specify you're not supposed to judge in benefit of the poor?

00:25:03.000 We all understand you don't, it would have to specify don't judge in favor of the rich because corruption tends to come from rich people who can pay off judges.

00:25:10.000 But

00:25:10.000 The notion of sympathy for particular victims allows people to make unjust decisions.

00:25:14.000 Okay, that is what is happening here.

00:25:16.000 There are a lot of folks on the left who are rushing to Asia Argento's defense and providing her with all sorts of credibility because they like Asia Argento.

00:25:23.000 We see this on all sides.

00:25:24.000 When President Trump is accused of sexual abuse, people who like Trump are like, ah, none of that's true.

00:25:28.000 And then when Keith Ellison is accused of sexual abuse, people on the right are like, yeah, that's totally true. 0.88

00:25:32.000 And exactly the reverse for Democrats.

00:25:34.000 You got to have one standard of guilt or innocence, and you have to have one standard for the level of evidence necessary in order for us to determine whether somebody is actually responsible for behavior or not.

00:25:45.000 The double standard is pretty telling, and that's a pretty shocking move by Asia Argento right there.

00:25:49.000 If that's not true,

00:25:51.000 She's got a real problem. 0.97

00:25:53.000 OK, meanwhile, a big story that broke last night is that over at the University of North Carolina, protesters knocked over a pro-Confederate statue from 1913.

00:26:00.000 Here's some video.

00:26:02.000 Here's what it sounded like when a bunch of students decided to topple Silent Sam, which is a 1913 statue placed on campus in memoriam of the 300 alumni who served in the Confederate Army.

00:26:13.000 Here's what it sounded like.

00:26:24.000 So they're pulling down the statue and people are celebrating and cheering and kicking the statue and stomping on the statue as though they've just pulled down a statue of Stalin or a statue of Saddam Hussein in the aftermath of the fall of the Soviet Union or the destruction of the Hussein regime.

00:26:39.000 I think that there is a solid case that Tyler and Sam should not be on public property.

00:26:44.000 I'm not a big fan of removing monuments.

00:26:46.000 I tend to agree with Condoleezza Rice, who I think made this case very well.

00:26:49.000 She says, I am a firm believer in keep your history before you and so I don't actually want to rename things that were named for slave owners.

00:26:55.000 I want us to have to look at those names and recognize what they did and to be able to tell our kids what they did and for them to have a sense of their own history.

00:27:00.000 When you start wiping out your history, sanitizing your history to make you feel better, it's a bad thing.

00:27:05.000 I agree with Condoleezza Rice.

00:27:06.000 I think that people should be forced to look at that statue and then cope with the legacy of slavery in the United States and the legacy of the Confederacy.

00:27:13.000 It is not fair to say that this statue was merely a sort of Amidine tribute to people who died in a war, because when it was actually dedicated in 1913, it was pretty obviously a symbol of

00:27:25.000 Anti-black hatred at the time.

00:27:26.000 Julian Carr, who is a local KKK member, who helped dedicate the statue, said this at the actual dedication ceremony.

00:27:31.000 He said,

00:27:39.000 And then he gets to the truly horrible part.

00:27:42.000 100 yards from where we stand, less than 90 days perhaps after my return from Appomattox, I horse-whipped a Negro wench until her skirts hung in shreds, because upon the streets of this quiet village, she had publicly insulted and maligned a Southern lady, and then rushed for protection to these university buildings where it was stationed a garrison of 100 federal soldiers. 0.91

00:27:59.000 I performed the pleasing duty in the immediate presence of the entire garrison, and for 30 nights afterwards slept with a double-barrel shotgun under my head.

00:28:06.000 So, yeah, the statue was pretty well connected with some awful, egregious, evil behavior, no question.

00:28:13.000 But, does that mean that we should start tearing down statues?

00:28:15.000 I don't think, number one, we should tear down statues.

00:28:17.000 And, number two, I don't think that, well, I mean, I don't think statues should be removed, number one.

00:28:21.000 Number two, I think that we are setting a really bad precedent when we are actually having mobs of people tear down statues.

00:28:28.000 For a couple of reasons.

00:28:30.000 The main reason why it's really bad when people tear down statues, when mobs tear down statues, is that you understand why people did it in the former Soviet Union, or why people did it in the Hussein regime, because legitimately, a regime that was repressive had fallen.

00:28:41.000 There was no government that had now taken control.

00:28:47.000 To get rid of the old vestiges.

00:28:48.000 And so the people, in a fit of wild enthusiasm, tore down these old symbols of tyranny.

00:28:54.000 But we have a Democratic government in the United States.

00:28:55.000 We have a Democratic Republic in the United States.

00:28:57.000 The governor of North Carolina is a Democrat, who doesn't actually like this monument. 0.99

00:29:02.000 If you're telling me that the people who run the University of North Carolina are people who are emissaries of white supremacy, you're out of your mind.

00:29:09.000 I mean, the people who run that university are very much on the left.

00:29:12.000 These are people who really oppose, I'm sure oppose that statue.

00:29:17.000 The point is that in the United States where you actually have a redress of grievances available through the democratic process to use mob rule as an excuse to do this is really bad and it actually leads to some even worse stuff.

00:29:27.000 So I got a letter from a student at UNC last night to tell me about this stuff.

00:29:32.000 And here's what the student wrote, quote, By the way, it's worth noting that if you think that the system of white supremacy is still in the offing in the United States,

00:29:52.000 In 1913, when an evil KKK member horse whipped a black woman for no apparent reason in front of a garrison of 100 federal officers who did nothing, the reverse happened last night.

00:30:03.000 A bunch of police officers stood around while a bunch of students tore down a statue in honor of the Confederacy.

00:30:09.000 I don't think the cops should have stood around for that.

00:30:11.000 I think the law should be enforced, whatever the law is in a democratic republic.

00:30:13.000 But...

00:30:25.000 Let's also note that those same police officers are not exactly standing up for white supremacy when they stand around allowing people to tear down a confederate statute. 0.96

00:30:31.000 That's just silly. 0.89

00:30:33.000 Here's what the student continued to say. 0.95

00:30:34.000 Here's where it gets ugly.

00:30:35.000 He says,

00:30:40.000 Almost immediately, some of these protesters started coming at me yelling, get out of here, whitey, which I found ironic because they were holding a sign that said, from Durham to Charlottesville to the White House, tear down racism.

00:30:49.000 Needless to say, I ran back to my dorm pretty darn fast.

00:30:51.000 I was hearing from several students who had similar experiences at UNC.

00:30:55.000 So it turns out that anti-racism only extends as far as battling the quote unquote superstructure of white supremacy.

00:31:01.000 It doesn't actually extend to not yelling at people who happen to be white walking by this rally as it's happening.

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00:33:59.000 So the media are celebrating the fall of Silent Sam.

00:34:01.000 Again, I think there's an argument to be made whether that statue ought to be removed from public property or not.

00:34:06.000 I don't think it's a particularly compelling argument, but at least that's an argument.

00:34:08.000 There is no argument that I can see that a mob should be able to tear this statue down.

00:34:12.000 I don't think mobs tearing things down is actually a good thing in the United States.

00:34:16.000 Mob rule is generally not something I'm in favor of.

00:34:18.000 But again, it's this feeling that is now

00:34:22.000 We're good to go.

00:34:45.000 The cover of New York Magazine, which is pretty incredible for a kid who is, I guess he's 18 now, he's 18.

00:34:50.000 He just is about to graduate high school or he just graduated high school and he's extraordinarily politically active, which is fine.

00:34:57.000 He says he wants to run for Congress and also he curses about Nancy Pelosi.

00:35:00.000 We know that he's authentic because he says the F word a lot. 0.99

00:35:02.000 He says, the reason Republicans are successful right now is because they're empowering young people.

00:35:06.000 Pointing out that Paul Ryan was 45 when he became Speaker of the House, ignoring the fact the President of the United States is 1,272 years old.

00:35:13.000 His older Democrats just won't move the F off the plate and let us take control. 0.94

00:35:17.000 Nancy Pelosi is old.

00:35:19.000 And then he says he wants to join Congress, and he says a lot of sloganeering that doesn't actually have any

00:35:26.000 Real basis in fact.

00:35:28.000 And he is championed as the face of the new movement on the cover of New York Magazine.

00:35:33.000 It's actually a really weird article because it talks about him refusing to move to his hometown without his parents granting him concessions.

00:35:39.000 He comes off as a bit of a prima donna in the New York Magazine article again. 0.97

00:35:42.000 Just like anybody else has the right to participate in politics, but this idea that the youth are the people who ought to be trusted is really, really dumb. 0.94

00:35:50.000 How about good ideas ought to be trusted? 0.96

00:35:53.000 Speaking as somebody who was writing when they were 17, I can say that I was dumber when I was 17 than I am now.

00:35:56.000 I know more things.

00:35:58.000 I know more about politics.

00:35:59.000 I think I am a more moral person.

00:36:01.000 All of life is about getting better at what you do.

00:36:03.000 And when you're 18 years old and you're getting coverage and the cover of the New York magazine,

00:36:07.000 As the future of the Democratic Party, that's a bit of a problem.

00:36:10.000 But maybe the future of the Democratic Party isn't, in fact, David Hogg.

00:36:13.000 Maybe the future of the Democratic Party is Chelsea Clinton. 1.00

00:36:16.000 So after years of people on the right warning that Chelsea Clinton would run for office, and her saying no, yesterday she came out and she said maybe.

00:36:24.000 Great.

00:36:25.000 She says, if my city councilor were to retire, if my congresswoman were to retire, my senators, and I thought I could make a positive impact, I think I would really have to answer that, I would really have to ask my answer

00:36:34.000 To that question.

00:36:35.000 For me it's a definite no now, but it's a definite maybe in the future because who knows what the future is going to bring.

00:36:41.000 Because every generation must run for office.

00:36:44.000 Every single one.

00:36:45.000 We have to have Kennedys and Clintons and Bushes and Trumps all the way down.

00:36:49.000 It's just going to be awesome.

00:36:50.000 We have to have a legacy of paternalism in politics that stretches across generations

00:36:56.000 Honestly, if I have to pick between David Hogg and Chelsea Clinton, I'll pick David Hogg. 0.99

00:36:59.000 Honest to God.

00:37:01.000 And I can't stand David Hogg.

00:37:03.000 I'll pick him just because at least he's fresh blood.

00:37:05.000 At least he's somebody who's engaged.

00:37:07.000 At least he's not just doing it because mommy and daddy were doing it and then got rich off of it.

00:37:11.000 It's really insipid.

00:37:13.000 If we're going to have legacy politics all the way through, then we've got a real problem in the country.

00:37:18.000 The reason Donald Trump became president is partially because he went around punching Jeb Bush, like they were in the back of the sixth grade class with the teacher, not watching.

00:37:25.000 That's the feeling I think that is going to accrue thanks to the dominance of big names in politics, the Bushes and the Clintons and all the rest of it.

00:37:32.000 There's a sort of pushback that's happening on a broad level.

00:37:35.000 Now, meanwhile,

00:37:37.000 President Trump is getting himself in hot water, but he's not getting himself in hot water with the American public, I think.

00:37:44.000 I think he's getting himself in hot water with the press, mostly.

00:37:47.000 And the stuff that he should be getting in hot water for is not the stuff he's actually getting in hot water for with the press.

00:37:52.000 So, yesterday, he was talking about the Mueller probe, and the president came out and said, if I want, I can lead the Mueller probe.

00:37:58.000 As I've said before, the president should stop talking about the Mueller probe.

00:38:01.000 He should let it take its course.

00:38:02.000 I don't think it's going to come up with anything.

00:38:03.000 But he keeps kind of feeding the fire on this thing, and this is driving the media up a wall.

00:38:08.000 So he said that he can leave the Mueller probe if he wants.

00:38:10.000 He also tweeted out about security clearances.

00:38:13.000 There's another thing that he tweeted.

00:38:14.000 He was watching TV last night. 1.00

00:38:15.000 And he tweeted, So, the President of the United States, it's just important to note, when we say that we now live in a reality TV universe filled with stupidity, 1.00

00:38:39.000 Yeah. 0.99

00:38:40.000 And President Trump loves pardons because he can sort of hand them out if you win The Apprentice.

00:38:44.000 And then he likes security clearances because he can withdraw them if you lose The Apprentice.

00:38:48.000 So he doesn't like Philip Mudd because Philip Mudd's saying mean things about him on TV.

00:38:51.000 And so he wants to withdraw his security clearance.

00:38:53.000 This is not good presidenting.

00:38:54.000 It's not good executive branching.

00:38:57.000 We should be a nation of rules, not of vindictive vendettas.

00:39:00.000 And when the president does this, it undercuts his own case.

00:39:03.000 But Democrats continue to focus in not so much

00:39:07.000 Adrian, come here.

00:39:08.000 I want to ask you a question.

00:39:09.000 So, how did you come... Come here.

00:39:10.000 You're not nervous, right?

00:39:27.000 Speaks perfect English.

00:39:29.000 Come here, I want to ask you about that.

00:39:30.000 78 lives.

00:39:31.000 You saved 78 people.

00:39:32.000 OK, I don't know why he would say the guy speaks perfect English.

00:39:36.000 I mean, I guess he looked at me and said, Hispanic dude, I have to point out that he speaks perfect English because the president is, suffice it to say, sometimes thick.

00:39:45.000 So that is not a great statement, but the media decided this is a deeply, deeply important scandal.

00:39:49.000 It's indicative of something deep and horrifying about President Trump.

00:39:52.000 Most of the country, though, is more focused on the fact that the Democrats are ripping on ICE generally than on the fact that the President says impolitic and dumb things about members of ICE.

00:40:02.000 The President is actually honoring that guy.

00:40:04.000 The Democrats would disband ICE.

00:40:06.000 So while the President is honoring that guy in the dumbest possible way, the Democrats would actually disband ICE and get rid of the borders.

00:40:11.000 They're sending out people with 0.87

00:40:13.000 Shirts that say F the wall at the VMAs.

00:40:15.000 And then they're ripping on Trump for saying this guy speaks perfect English.

00:40:18.000 Again, does that make the president brilliant?

00:40:21.000 No, but if you contended that, I think that you are delusional.

00:40:24.000 Does it mean that the president is a racist?

00:40:27.000 I think it means the president is racially insensitive, but did we not know that before?

00:40:31.000 But when it comes right down to it, if I have to choose between the racially insensitive guy who supports ICE and the person who is perfectly politically correct, who does not support ICE, most Americans are going to side with President Trump

00:40:42.000 Meanwhile, members of the media are still pushing President Trump on the Mueller stuff, and Trump is responding. 0.99

00:40:47.000 Here is Chris Cuomo, who is, again, in a running gun battle with his brother for stupidest Cuomo brother. 0.98

00:40:53.000 And he starts ripping into Corey Lewandowski, who, again, is about as bright as a tomato. 1.00

00:40:58.000 And Corey Lewandowski is a former campaign manager for President Trump, also an incredibly dumb man. 0.99

00:41:03.000 And here is Cuomo actually being dumber than Lewandowski, which is a pretty astonishing feat. 0.99

00:41:08.000 I mean, you really have to try to do that. 0.99

00:41:10.000 If you've got nothing to hide, you talk!

00:41:12.000 How many times has he said, I want to sit down with Mueller, I want to tell him?

00:41:15.000 So do it! 0.99

00:41:16.000 Man up and do it!

00:41:18.000 Hey, the president isn't talking to Robert Mueller, not because he's not man enough, but because if he does, he understands that any sort of misstatement will be used by Mueller to charge him with obstruction of justice or perjury.

00:41:27.000 The idea there is no perjury trap?

00:41:28.000 This is what the media are saying now.

00:41:30.000 If you have nothing to hide, why don't you talk to Mueller?

00:41:32.000 Okay guys, if you have nothing to hide, why don't you let the IRS audit your books every year?

00:41:35.000 If you have nothing to hide, why don't you let the police into your house?

00:41:38.000 This is just foolishness 0.99

00:41:52.000 says dumb things on a fairly regular basis. 0.99

00:41:54.000 But the media are always at 11. 0.91

00:41:56.000 You can't tell the difference between their treatment of him saying, he speaks perfect English, and the president should talk with Robert Mueller, and the president just complimented Vladimir Putin and compared the United States to Russia.

00:42:06.000 There's no difference in tone or tenor.

00:42:07.000 It's exactly the same tone, exactly the same tenor.

00:42:10.000 If the media actually cared about having an impact on politics, they might have some dynamic range.

00:42:14.000 They have no dynamic range.

00:42:16.000 Everything is played at the full possible volume, and that means that everything is basically muted.

00:42:21.000 Your brain.

00:42:21.000 If you are in a room with a very loud, constant noise, your brain will start to tune it out.

00:42:25.000 That's what the media have become these days.

00:42:27.000 And that's why President Trump, even continuing to ramp stuff up, doesn't have all that much impact on President Trump himself.

00:42:32.000 Okay, time for a thing I like, and then we'll get to a thing I hate.

00:42:35.000 So, things I like.

00:42:36.000 There is an HBO show that starts off kind of bizarre, like a mix between Billions and Arrested Development, and then it sort of morphs into a King Lear Shakespearean drama.

00:42:46.000 It's pretty good.

00:42:47.000 I'm not gonna say it's fantastic.

00:42:49.000 But it is compelling.

00:42:51.000 The show is called Succession.

00:42:52.000 Brian Cox is the star of the show.

00:42:54.000 He's definitely the best thing in it.

00:42:55.000 All of the characters are deeply unlikable, as per most HBO shows.

00:42:59.000 But if you are a fan of sort of corporate espionage kind of stuff and family drama, then this will work for you.

00:43:06.000 And it does have a couple of really fantastic scenes.

00:43:08.000 The best performance is actually given by, I'm trying to remember the name of the actor, Matthew McDermott, I think?

00:43:14.000 But he's really terrific.

00:43:16.000 He's not a member of the family.

00:43:16.000 Here's a little bit of the preview.

00:43:18.000 Everything I've done in my life, I've done for my children.

00:43:21.000 I know I've made mistakes, but I've always tried to do the best by them because I love them.

00:43:30.000 Have you thought about the possibility that your children are actually scared of you? 1.00

00:43:34.000 Oh, f*** off! 1.00

00:43:37.000 I want a broadcast network. 1.00

00:43:38.000 The show is pretty good.

00:43:39.000 It's obviously based on Rupert Murdoch.

00:43:41.000 Whether it's an accurate take on Rupert Murdoch or not doesn't really matter, but it does actually highlight a serious problem for folks who tend to be powerful, which is that their kids very often are deeply, deeply screwed up.

00:43:51.000 And that is because when you grant a sense of entitlement to your kids, it's difficult for them ever to recover from it.

00:43:56.000 So that's a challenge that parents who are powerful or rich, wealthy, accomplished have to pass on to their kids.

00:44:03.000 Okay, time for a couple of things that I hate.

00:44:09.000 So Facebook has decided they are now going to rank users.

00:44:12.000 Oh goody, how could this possibly go wrong?

00:44:14.000 According to the UK Sun, Facebook is rating users based on how trustworthy it thinks they are.

00:44:20.000 This won't, this won't, absolutely this will not result in people spamming other people's accounts to try and ding their trustworthiness rating.

00:44:27.000 It absolutely won't happen.

00:44:28.000 It's not like people have ever used social media to target others before.

00:44:31.000 Users receive a score on a scale from 0 to 1 that determines if they have a good or bad reputation, but it's completely hidden, so you can't even check your own reputational score, which is just great.

00:44:39.000 The rating system was revealed in a report by the Washington Post, which says it's in place to help identify malicious actors.

00:44:45.000 Facebook tracks your behavior across its site and uses that info to assign you a rating.

00:44:48.000 Tessa Lyons, who heads up Facebook's fight against fake news, said, quote, one of the signals we use is how people interact with articles.

00:44:54.000 For example, if someone previously gave us feedback that an article was false and the article was confirmed false by a fact checker,

00:45:00.000 That we might weight that person's future false news feedback more than someone who indiscriminately provides false news feedback on lots of articles, including ones that end up being rated as true.

00:45:07.000 The problem with that, of course, is that a lot of the fact-checkers happen to be left-wing, and those fact-checkers are going to confirm the preconceived biases of a bunch of folks on the left.

00:45:16.000 Facebook's tendency toward the left is going to be exacerbated by all this.

00:45:19.000 This is why when Facebook says, oh, we just run algorithms, how you define the algorithm is exactly the issue.

00:45:24.000 It's like saying,

00:45:26.000 I always abide by the law.

00:45:27.000 Well, it depends what the law is.

00:45:28.000 If the law is bad, then you abiding by the law isn't particularly useful, is it?

00:45:32.000 So Facebook, again, failing to understand its own bias, and that's going to create some problems.

00:45:37.000 Other things that I hate today.

00:45:38.000 So Oprah Winfrey has now promoted the Shout Your Abortion movement.

00:45:42.000 The July issue of O Magazine, according to LifeNews.com, featured Shout Your Abortion founder Amelia Bono in its inspiration section, because nothing is more inspirational than you talking about how you killed your baby. 0.71

00:45:51.000 Bono, who began the campaign to urge women to brag about aborting their unborn babies, soon will be coming out with a new book by the same title, according to the report.

00:45:58.000 I'm sure it will be a massive bestseller.

00:46:00.000 Nothing says fun quite like having shout your abortion on your coffee table. 0.93

00:46:04.000 She told the magazine how it all began in 2015.

00:46:05.000 She says, when I found out the House of Representatives had voted to defund Planned Parenthood, I kind of unraveled.

00:46:10.000 I opened Facebook and without thinking wrote, like a year ago I had an abortion at Planned Parenthood and I remember this experience with a nearly inexpressible level of gratitude.

00:46:17.000 I hit post 153 words later and everything changed.

00:46:20.000 And then her friends shared her post on Twitter with the hashtag shout your abortion.

00:46:24.000 On some level I'd internalized the stigma.

00:46:26.000 If I honestly wasn't ashamed, then why hide?

00:46:28.000 It wasn't out of character for me to disclose something so personal online.

00:46:31.000 What was out of character was my silence. 0.86

00:46:33.000 Which is to say, you're an oversharer, but then she felt bad about this because you should actually feel bad, it turns out, about killing babies.

00:46:39.000 It's probably not something you should shout.

00:46:41.000 But now this is something that the left has... I'm old enough to remember when Bill Clinton said things like safe, legal, and rare.

00:46:46.000 The idea being that abortion was a bad thing that was still necessary under certain circumstances.

00:46:51.000 I think that's a bad argument, but it's at least closer to a moral argument than abortion is an unfettered good that you should brag about, and it's some sort of mark of maturity and womanhood.

00:47:00.000 And yet that's what the left is pushing these days.

00:47:02.000 A culture that does not have shame is a culture that is soon going to degrade into full government dependency.

00:47:07.000 Seriously, shame culture, guilt, is a very good thing.

00:47:11.000 I think there's a difference between a guilt culture and a shame culture.

00:47:13.000 A shame culture is one where people are shamed in doing the right thing.

00:47:16.000 A guilt culture is one where morality is inculcated in individual citizens so they feel bad about doing the wrong thing.

00:47:22.000 Western civilization tends to be more of a guilt culture.

00:47:25.000 Islamic civilization tends to be more of a shame culture. 1.00

00:47:28.000 But, if there is neither shame nor guilt, then what you end up with is a culture where every sin is considered a positive, and we're all supposed to cover for you because after all, all behaviors are supposed to result in equal benefit to you.

00:47:42.000 Whether you have an abortion or not, whether you're a single mom or not, it's all supposed to end up exactly the same way for everyone.

00:47:47.000 This is how you end up with a society of people who are dependent on the largesse of others, who happen to be more responsible citizens anyway.

00:47:53.000 It's just, it's bad stuff all the way through, but Oprah's always been a deeply socially liberal person, and this is why if she ever ran for president, I think a lot of her veneer would immediately come off. 0.71

00:48:03.000 I think that she's got this cross-cultural appeal that comes out, that starts to be washed away the minute that she comes out as the partisan hack that she actually is.

00:48:11.000 Okay, we'll be back here tomorrow with all the latest.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - August 21, 2018

The Democratic Elitism Problem | Ep. 607

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