The Ben Shapiro Show - The End Of The Beginning | Ep. 906

00:00:00.000 Elizabeth Warren collapses in the polls as Pete Buttigieg comes under fire, the media check into the gender of a dog at the White House, and America's life expectancy drops.

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00:00:23.000 Well, it has been a rough week for Elizabeth Warren. 0.99

00:00:25.000 Rough several weeks for Elizabeth Warren ever since she started actually releasing details of her plans and people realized that these plans were incredibly stupid. 0.98

00:00:33.000 Her poll numbers have just been in free fall. 0.98

00:00:35.000 And you've seen this in Iowa, you've seen this in New Hampshire as well.

00:00:38.000 She has now dropped behind several candidates in New Hampshire according to the RealClearPolitics polling average.

00:00:43.000 So according to RealClearPolitics right now, she is trailing in Iowa to Pete Buttigieg.

00:00:48.000 She is also trailing in New Hampshire, not only to Buttigieg, but also to Bernie Sanders according to the most recent poll.

00:00:53.000 There's a New Hampshire poll today that has Sanders at 26, Buttigieg at 22, and Warren and Biden tied at 14, which is a disaster area for Elizabeth Warren. 0.95

00:01:01.000 She's running in third in New Hampshire according to the RCP poll average behind both Buttigieg and Sanders.

00:01:06.000 In Iowa, she's also running third behind both Buttigieg and Sanders.

00:01:09.000 A disaster, disaster area for Elizabeth Warren without A doubt. 0.54

00:01:14.000 And the latest polls show that she has also dropped nationally.

00:01:17.000 Down to third.

00:01:18.000 She's down to third nationally.

00:01:20.000 With Pete Buttigieg rising into double digits in the RCP polling average, Biden remains at 28% in the RCP polling average, Sanders at 18%, Warren at 17%, Buttigieg at 11%.

00:01:32.000 And in the latest polling numbers from Quinnipiac, she has utterly fallen apart.

00:01:37.000 According to Yahoo News, Buttigieg, the moderate millennial mayor of South Bend, Indiana, moderate, leapfrogged the race's main liberal candidates, Warren and fellow Senator Bernie Sanders, to claim second behind the resilient national leader, Joe Biden, according to Quinnipiac University's latest poll.

00:01:52.000 Biden is still ahead with 24% among Democratic voters and independents who lean Democrat, a rise of three percentage points, a reclaiming of the poll position since Quinnipiac's last poll on October 24th when he trailed Warren.

00:02:03.000 Buttigieg jumped from 10% to 16% in that time frame.

00:02:06.000 Warren's support dropped from 28% to 14%.

00:02:11.000 Which is just an utterly enormous implosion.

00:02:14.000 Sanders is down from 16% to 13%.

00:02:18.000 So full-on disaster area for Elizabeth Warren.

00:02:20.000 She has got to be in a state of utter panic.

00:02:23.000 Meanwhile, she tries to whistle past the graveyard.

00:02:25.000 She's been suggesting that she'll choose a woman as VP. 0.99

00:02:27.000 Well, lady, you're not gonna be the nominee, so I'm not sure that this is gonna matter.

00:02:30.000 Here's Elizabeth Warren doing the, I'm the, I am woman, hear me lecture you. 1.00

00:02:34.000 First, it would be entirely presumptuous of me to talk about running mates.

00:02:39.000 I'm out here talking about why I'm running for president and asking for all of you to get out and caucus for me.

00:02:46.000 That's how I'm going to end this.

00:02:47.000 I'm going to ask you to get out and caucus for me.

00:02:50.000 But I've got to say, why wouldn't I have a woman for a running mate?

00:02:54.000 Why wouldn't you have a woman for a running mate? 1.00

00:02:55.000 Because you're not going to be the presidential nominee.

00:02:57.000 That's why you're not going to have a woman for a running mate. 1.00

00:02:59.000 By the way, someone, I get this frequently on my sort of public email address, very kind folks on the left, will sign me up to the mailing list of places like Planned Parenthood and, as it turns out, the Elizabeth Warren campaign.

00:03:11.000 And I received this email from Senator Warren today, quote, Thanks for being a part of the conversation about how we can make big structural change in our country.

00:03:19.000 For Elizabeth, the fight to level the playing field for working families is personal.

00:03:23.000 When she was growing up in Oklahoma, her family barely hung on by their fingernails.

00:03:26.000 Her dad had a heart attack when she was 12, and her mom saved their home by getting a minimum wage job answering the phones at Sears.

00:03:32.000 Elizabeth graduated from a public commuter college that cost $50 a semester, and it opened a million doors for her.

00:03:37.000 She went on to become a public school teacher, law professor, U.S. 0.98

00:03:40.000 Senator, and now a presidential candidate because she grew up at a time when America invested in kids like her. 0.88

00:03:45.000 Okay, so this is why her pitch falls flat.

00:03:49.000 This is a lady who really has had a pretty wonderful American life.

00:03:53.000 Moaning about how terrible America is.

00:03:55.000 And let me just note the timeline here.

00:03:56.000 She is now 70 years old.

00:03:58.000 So her dad had a heart attack when she was 12.

00:03:59.000 That means that her dad had a heart attack in 1961.

00:04:03.000 And her suggestion is that the federal government spends less in terms of resources now than they did in 1961.

00:04:10.000 Which is patently absurd.

00:04:11.000 That's even before the Great Society programs.

00:04:13.000 Right?

00:04:13.000 None of that makes any sense whatsoever.

00:04:16.000 When she suggests that her mom saved their home by getting a minimum wage job answering the phones at Sears, was the minimum wage higher or lower back in 1961?

00:04:24.000 When she suggests that she graduated from a public commuter college that cost 50 bucks a semester, yes, because that is not inflation adjusted from 1967.

00:04:34.000 Also, there are public commuter colleges.

00:04:36.000 They still exist.

00:04:38.000 So, the entire pitch that she is making, that somehow America has grown crueler, that somehow America has grown Less spendthrift, less willing to spend on the American public is just untrue.

00:04:51.000 The government is spending $4 trillion a year.

00:04:53.000 We're running a $1 trillion a year deficit.

00:04:57.000 We're spending more than we ever have.

00:04:58.000 It is not close.

00:04:59.000 And yet Elizabeth Warren is trying to maintain that she had it better in 1961, and at the same time suggesting that the governing system in 1961 was somehow much better than it is now.

00:05:09.000 Which, again, I'm gonna have to call BS on that one because it's absolute nonsense.

00:05:13.000 So Warren is completely falling apart.

00:05:15.000 And the more people see of her, the less they like her.

00:05:18.000 Well, now the question becomes, will the same thing happen to Pete Buttigieg?

00:05:21.000 So the press are out to get Buttigieg now.

00:05:23.000 They do not want Buttigieg to be the nominee.

00:05:25.000 They were in love with Elizabeth Warren.

00:05:27.000 She made them feel good about themselves.

00:05:29.000 Buttigieg makes them feel okay about themselves, but not as great as they could, because the fact is that Buttigieg has only gained momentum again by pushing back to the center.

00:05:39.000 Again, he launched his campaign as a sort of centrist By the way, you wonder why Cory Booker is staying in the race?

00:05:44.000 Why Amy Klobuchar is staying in the race? 1.00

00:05:45.000 The answer is because everybody in the Democratic field at this point has to understand that this is now a revolving wheel.

00:05:50.000 It's the wheel of fortune.

00:05:51.000 And he has fought against Elizabeth Warren on that basis and gained polling credibility.

00:05:54.000 By the way, you wonder why Cory Booker is staying in the race, why Amy Klobuchar is staying in the race.

00:05:59.000 The answer is because everybody in the Democratic field at this point has to understand that this is now a revolving wheel.

00:06:05.000 It's the wheel of fortune.

00:06:06.000 And wherever that wheel stops, you may be the next leader in the polls.

00:06:10.000 They've already gone through Biden- They've gone through Warren.

00:06:13.000 They've gone through Sanders.

00:06:14.000 They're going to go through Buttigieg.

00:06:16.000 And then people are going to start taking a second look at some of these candidates.

00:06:19.000 That's why Kamala Harris is desperately attempting to stay in the race. 1.00

00:06:22.000 It's why Cory Booker is staying in the race.

00:06:23.000 It's why Klobuchar is staying in the race.

00:06:25.000 Klobuchar, most of all, maybe, because she figures that as a moderate, maybe she will pick up Buttigieg's pieces if Buttigieg should get stomped on by the media. 0.65

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00:07:43.000 The media attacks on Pete Buttigieg have just begun, because the media loved, loved, loved Elizabeth Warren, and they are a little bit more split on Pete Buttigieg, who they don't really understand.

00:07:54.000 The attack on Pete Buttigieg has largely come based on the notion that he has no appeal to black voters.

00:08:00.000 This, of course, is true. 1.00

00:08:00.000 If you look at his polling numbers among black voters, they absolutely stink. 1.00

00:08:03.000 They are awful. 0.99

00:08:05.000 They are worse than Bernie Sanders, because he's not as famous as Bernie Sanders. 0.99

00:08:07.000 They're worse than Elizabeth Warren, who basically had no black support. 1.00

00:08:10.000 W. Kamau Bell, Who hosted one of the worst shows on CNN for several years there. 0.56

00:08:14.000 It was this travel show and it was just awful.

00:08:16.000 If you've ever been stuck in an airport watching W. Kamau Bell talk to Spring Breakers down in Florida, you'll know what I'm talking about.

00:08:22.000 Anyway, W. Kamau Bell tweeted out, We're about to find out how someone can get less than 0% of the black vote.

00:08:27.000 Why?

00:08:28.000 Well, because Pete Buttigieg, back in 2011, suggested that kids from lower income minority neighborhoods don't have someone they know personally who testifies to the value of education.

00:08:37.000 Which happens to be true.

00:08:39.000 Okay, disproportionately that is true.

00:08:40.000 That doesn't mean everybody in low-income minority communities doesn't testify to the value of education.

00:08:46.000 It means that if you have a single-parent household, there are other priorities very often in that household.

00:08:50.000 It does mean, Barack Obama has said this, that in many cases there is a stigma on higher education.

00:08:55.000 There's a stigma on quote-unquote acting white.

00:08:59.000 Okay, Roland Fryer over at Harvard University has said exactly the same thing.

00:09:03.000 We talked about a lot of the statistics on education yesterday in terms of the education differential, and we also talked about the fact...

00:09:09.000 That if you adjust for income, then what you see is that black women actually go to college at a higher rate than white men do.

00:09:15.000 So what happened to the racism?

00:09:17.000 What happened to the racism?

00:09:18.000 It turns out that this really is not about race.

00:09:20.000 It is about where you grow up.

00:09:22.000 It is about the culture where you grow up.

00:09:24.000 It is about whether there are a number of fathers in the area.

00:09:26.000 Not just a father in the home, but a number of fathers in the area.

00:09:29.000 Right, all of that matters.

00:09:30.000 Well, Pete Buttigieg said all that, and then he just got shellacked by this guy named Michael Harriot over at The Root, and it went viral yesterday.

00:09:36.000 Well, now, Pete Buttigieg called up Michael Harriot, and Michael Harriot writes this really ridiculous piece about how he lectured Pete Buttigieg, which makes him a hero, because having a conversation is one thing, but lecturing somebody is totally great.

00:09:49.000 I mean, lecturing somebody when they call you up is just, it shows how strong you are.

00:09:54.000 And it shows how wonderful you are, and you've really added to the debate by lecturing a presidential candidate who, by the way, said something eminently reasonable that we are all going to rip him up and down for right now.

00:10:03.000 The praise that is being received by Michael Harriot for his writing style, again, it is just another sort of Ta-Nehisi Coates, James Baldwin knockoff where you insert random anecdotes that are supposed to make people feel.

00:10:16.000 It's very purple, it's very over-the-top, but because people feel and because they are passionate, this means that the writing is good.

00:10:22.000 Because writing is only good when it's very passionate.

00:10:24.000 Not when it is reason.

00:10:25.000 Not when there's an actual argument.

00:10:26.000 Just when it's very passionate.

00:10:27.000 And when, apparently, you yell at a presidential candidate.

00:10:29.000 So, Michael Harriot has a follow-up.

00:10:31.000 Apparently, Pete Buttigieg saw his piece yesterday in which he called Pete Buttigieg a lying MF-er.

00:10:36.000 And Pete Buttigieg called him up.

00:10:38.000 Which, by the way, good for Pete Buttigieg.

00:10:40.000 I've done the same thing.

00:10:41.000 I mean, there are a number of people who have attacked me over the years in print.

00:10:44.000 I've reached out to them. 1.00

00:10:45.000 Some of them are jerks. 1.00

00:10:46.000 I won't name names. 0.99

00:10:47.000 Some of them have been quite nice, and we've become friendly.

00:10:50.000 So Pete Buttigieg did the right thing.

00:10:51.000 He called this guy up.

00:10:53.000 And this guy proceeded to lecture Pete Buttigieg, and then suggest that Pete Buttigieg is better in his eyes because he's a white man who listened to him.

00:11:00.000 I mean, the piece is really absurd.

00:11:02.000 Michael Harriot says, the first thing you should know about me is that I absolutely hate talking on the phone.

00:11:06.000 Well, I think the first thing we should know about you is that you call people lying MFers based on political disagreements.

00:11:10.000 That seems like a pretty good thing to know.

00:11:12.000 But he says, My friends, family, and co-workers all know this about me.

00:11:15.000 I'm not the talk.

00:11:16.000 It's not the talking that bothers me.

00:11:17.000 It's the anticipation angst from waiting for a phone call.

00:11:20.000 Therapy and self-reflection have informed me that my subconscious anxiety is fueled by the fact that I've received news of personal and family tragedies via telephone.

00:11:26.000 Oh god, this is so over the top and people praising this sort of writing.

00:11:30.000 It's just, ugh. 0.97

00:11:31.000 Why would you praise this sort of self-indulgent bullcrap? 0.98

00:11:34.000 He says, Also, talking bothers me. 0.96

00:11:36.000 The second thing you should know about me is that I will fight.

00:11:38.000 I don't enjoy fighting.

00:11:40.000 I don't even fight very well, says Michael Harriot.

00:11:41.000 In fact, if I combine my amateur fistfighting record, my jiu-jitsu sparring, all of my slapboxing exhibitions, and the times of Vollen Jackson tapped me for talking smack while running a Boston honor in spades, my winning percentage is well below 500.

00:11:53.000 But I believe fisticuffs are a legitimate way to settle disputes, while arguments are usually pointless exercises to get one party to proclaim why the other party is wrong.

00:12:00.000 I'd rather you beat me up.

00:12:02.000 So, when I received the text message from South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg's presidential campaign about an article I wrote. 0.95

00:12:08.000 I genuinely hoped he was going to send four or five of his thugs over to rough me up and that would be it.

00:12:12.000 And if you don't believe there are Pete Buttigieg supporters out there willing to throw hands, you probably aren't on Twitter.

00:12:17.000 I figured one of his surrogates would argue with me for a few minutes and I would continue my day trying to be a thorn in the side of white supremacy. 0.97

00:12:22.000 Wow.

00:12:23.000 I mean, does this guy ever puncture his ego?

00:12:27.000 Ever?

00:12:27.000 He says, the third thing you should know about me is that I actually keep a small photo of the mouse from Pinky and the Brain beside my bed that says, what are you going to do today, Michael?

00:12:34.000 The answer is always the same. 0.97

00:12:35.000 F with white people. 0.99

00:12:36.000 What a joy this guy seems. 0.95

00:12:38.000 I mean, really, he seems like an absolute joy.

00:12:40.000 So Pete Buttigieg calls him up.

00:12:42.000 And the first thing he says is, I don't think I've ever been called a lying MF-er before.

00:12:46.000 And this guy says, well, I thought maybe he does want to fight.

00:12:49.000 And then he starts telling stories about one time when he had a cousin who said a thing.

00:12:53.000 Really, that's completely irrelevant.

00:12:55.000 But since he inserted it in the middle of the piece, it's supposed to have some sort of deeper meaning.

00:12:58.000 And then he gets back to the conversation.

00:13:00.000 He says, Pete Buttigieg didn't want to tell me his side of the story.

00:13:02.000 He didn't excuse himself by explaining that the comments referenced by the article were made years ago.

00:13:06.000 He didn't even try to explain his plan for black America. 0.61

00:13:09.000 I think the context was important, especially the fact that it was before I took office, Buttigieg said, but mostly he wanted to listen.

00:13:15.000 For 18 minutes and 45 seconds, we talked about educational inequity, inequality, poverty, and institutional racism in America and how to fix it.

00:13:22.000 Okay, I'm lying.

00:13:23.000 I don't know how to fix Bleep.

00:13:24.000 As I explained to the presidential candidate, For some reason I had to refrain from reflexively calling him Mr. President.

00:13:31.000 My problem with his comments was not only that they were wrong, it's that he knows they were wrong.

00:13:35.000 This is the part that's so gross about the Michael Harriot attack, is it can't just be a good faith disagreement about the sources of educational inequality and outcome inequality.

00:13:43.000 It has to be that Pete Buttigieg is badly motivated.

00:13:46.000 That it was all about how Pete Buttigieg is actually a person who has internalized racism and doesn't even realize it.

00:13:52.000 And then Michael Harriot basically just transcribes all of the things that he bravely told people to judge.

00:13:56.000 We have to disabuse ourselves from the notion that the problem with educational inequality is because of an esoteric lack of support.

00:14:02.000 I explained that's a lie.

00:14:03.000 And a man as educated as yourself knows it's a lie.

00:14:06.000 And to regurgitate that narrative publicly is not just dangerous.

00:14:09.000 It is malpractice.

00:14:10.000 I conceded.

00:14:11.000 He said that the problems with institutional racism are so complex and go back so far, I'm not sure that anyone, a mayor, a governor, even a president, could fix them.

00:14:18.000 Buttigieg, however, insisted there are some things that people in power could do to make things more equal, a point I actually agreed with.

00:14:23.000 I do think there are some ways to attack these issues with policies that might solve these issues, but would certainly help, he said.

00:14:29.000 But did you disagree with the point I was making, Buttigieg asked, listing a few programs designed to alleviate this specific problem?

00:14:35.000 Sometimes children don't get to see the possibilities.

00:14:37.000 Do you think the lack of positive examples of educational success can lead to mistrust and a lack of confidence in the system?

00:14:43.000 No.

00:14:44.000 Well, yes, I answered.

00:14:45.000 But the lack of confidence doesn't have anything to do with role models or support from parents.

00:14:48.000 It's because the bleep is true.

00:14:51.000 Lack of confidence in the educational system?

00:14:51.000 Right?

00:14:53.000 Dropping out of school in high school?

00:14:54.000 That's obviously a reflection of truth.

00:14:56.000 As opposed to Michael Harriot, who, as he discussed in his column yesterday, went to college and proceeded to get himself a job.

00:15:02.000 And walked the... walked the board... walked the ditch between his lower-income side of town and his school.

00:15:10.000 And then he goes on to talk about how every study in DataPoint shows that racism is baked into the education system.

00:15:16.000 Well, not every study in DataPoint shows that, actually.

00:15:18.000 He says, if your goal was to fix the problem in America's schools, why would you even mention confidence?

00:15:22.000 A president can't fix confidence, and you can't say black kids don't have confidence in the system without pointing out all the reasons they shouldn't have confidence in the system. 0.66

00:15:30.000 And then Buttigieg agreed, right?

00:15:32.000 Then Buttigieg did what he is expected to do.

00:15:33.000 He agreed that the family values argument has no place in political discussions because, as I noted, it infers that black parents don't know the importance of a healthy family structure.

00:15:42.000 However, the issues that cause these problems are rooted in poverty, inequality, and America's history of racism.

00:15:46.000 So in other words, if you get pregnant out of wedlock, Like 71% of all of the children born in the black community, their parents have, then that is poverty, inequality, and systemic racism, not you had sex before being married and then got pregnant without being married and then had a kid without being married.

00:16:04.000 No, it's got to be about systemic racism.

00:16:06.000 The end of this piece is the part that matters.

00:16:10.000 Michael Harriot says, here's why black voters support black candidates.

00:16:12.000 When you go into a room and sit around a table of white men, we are worried that this is what will happen. 1.00

00:16:16.000 That a room full of white people will talk about role models and confidence in crime. 0.99

00:16:19.000 And no one in the room will say, hold up.

00:16:21.000 We can't talk about any of this without talking about racism.

00:16:23.000 We can't talk about education without talking about discrimination.

00:16:26.000 That is our fear.

00:16:27.000 Well, I have a question.

00:16:29.000 If you just suggested throughout the piece that you have no solutions to the problems of racism and discrimination, that those problems are unsolvable, right?

00:16:37.000 This is what Michael Harriot himself says.

00:16:39.000 Then, are you basically just expecting that politics is a group therapy session?

00:16:44.000 And that politics is designed to relieve people of individual responsibility to make the decisions that they can make to make their lives better?

00:16:51.000 And then of course he tells another story, and his story is supposed to be very moving, and then he gets back to Buttigieg.

00:16:58.000 And I'll give you the end of this ridiculous piece in a second.

00:17:01.000 Again, the attacks on Buttigieg are not going to cease. 0.97

00:17:04.000 And this particular attack, being cheered on by the intersectional woke Twitterites, It's ridiculous. 0.95

00:17:09.000 This particular attack is an attack on a perfectly valid point of view, the booty judge expressed, but because he's white, he's not allowed to say it. 0.95

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00:18:35.000 He says, Pete Buttigieg is a white man.

00:18:37.000 I didn't say it like that.

00:18:38.000 I told him he was obviously intelligent.

00:18:39.000 I told him he was lucky to have all the privileges he was afforded.

00:18:42.000 I told him it was clear that he was hardworking.

00:18:44.000 But, I said, you're a white man. 0.99

00:18:46.000 A mediocre white kid with mediocre intelligence and mediocre parents can easily make it in America. 1.00

00:18:50.000 I explained, blackly. 0.97

00:18:51.000 And this is exactly the parallel to when he suggested that Buttigieg's talk about education was Buttigieg explaining whitely.

00:19:00.000 See, it's not that he is saying something right or wrong, it's that he is saying something from a black perspective and therefore it is inherently correct. 1.00

00:19:05.000 That is the point that Harriet is making. 0.98

00:19:06.000 Is that a smart black kid with smart parents and a supportive community still has to fight every day to hope to reach the levels of what a mediocre white man accomplishes. 0.97

00:19:13.000 Okay, first of all, untrue. 0.98

00:19:15.000 If you wanna say a black male, then perhaps you have more statistical support. 0.96

00:19:19.000 If you wanna say black kid, false.

00:19:22.000 As I just mentioned, black women who grow up in similar circumstances to white women actually do better than white women in terms of income and college education. 0.99

00:19:30.000 Black men have a different problem. 1.00

00:19:32.000 In fact, black men growing up in the top 1% of family household income are still as likely to be arrested as a white kid growing up at $36,000 level of income. 0.88

00:19:41.000 That is not due to systemic criminal justice racism.

00:19:46.000 That's a bigger problem than that.

00:19:49.000 That is personal behavior, because people aren't being arrested just for the sake of being arrested.

00:19:53.000 But this notion that if you are black, you're inherently behind the eight ball in the United States, no matter what decisions you make, no matter what decisions you make or the household you grew up in, the data is just not there to support that.

00:20:05.000 And then Harriet concludes, he says, the only thing I actually know about Pete Buttigieg is that he is a white man, which is the most racist statement ever, right?

00:20:13.000 I mean, that's truly racist to suggest that all you know about Pete Buttigieg, not what he has said about his policies, not what his record has been. 0.96

00:20:19.000 Again, you're turning me into a Pete Buttigieg supporter here or defender here because the left is so rampantly ridiculous here. 0.96

00:20:28.000 He says, the only thing I actually know about Pete Buttigieg is that he is a white man. 0.89

00:20:31.000 Because, he says, as I told the mayor, the article wasn't meant to inspire outrage.

00:20:35.000 Its purpose was to make a necessary point about black voters and real issues.

00:20:38.000 There is no way I can know if he is genuinely interested in engaging black voters, attacking discrimination, or crossing the racial divide.

00:20:44.000 There are an infinite number of candidates who have waded into black barbershops or sashayed into black pulpits to assure us that they were on our side when they were only interested in our vote.

00:20:52.000 I am not smart or prescient enough to tell the difference.

00:20:54.000 But, you suggested earlier in the article that black voters support black candidates because you do know by the color of their skin that they're not just there to live off your vote.

00:21:03.000 He says, the only thing I actually know about Pete Buttigieg is that he is a white man.

00:21:07.000 But, Pete Buttigieg, listen, which is all you can ask a white man to do.

00:21:11.000 Unless, of course, he wants to fight.

00:21:13.000 That's all you can ask a white man to do, is listen.

00:21:15.000 Because he's just a white guy, guys.

00:21:18.000 This is such a racist take on America, but it is being echoed on Twitter.

00:21:22.000 This article, too, was trending on Twitter.

00:21:25.000 You're not going to solve any of the problems that plague the educational system if your first move is to declare that anyone who calls out problems you don't like is somehow endemic of white racism.

00:21:37.000 And that the only thing you can talk about, according to Michael Harriot, is exactly the stuff that you can't solve.

00:21:42.000 It's just, it's an absurdity piled on an absurdity, but this is part of a broader media attack on Buttigieg.

00:21:48.000 By the way, Huffington Post, which has been openly supporting Elizabeth Warren at this point, they launched another attack on Buttigieg over the last 24 hours, attacking his super PAC.

00:21:58.000 According to Huffington Post, his PAC, dubbed Hitting Home, It was designed to mobilize resources to elect Democrats at every level and in communities both red and blue, who will put the lived experiences of Americans front and center.

00:22:09.000 And he said that they would support candidates focusing on showing voters what we are for, not just what we are against.

00:22:14.000 In 2020, Buttigieg shut down the group or when he started his race.

00:22:19.000 The PAC had done pretty much nothing to help Democrats during the 2018 midterm elections.

00:22:24.000 Of the slightly more than $400,000 Buttigieg raised for the PAC, it donated just $37,000 to other Democratic candidates.

00:22:30.000 At the same time, the PAC paid nearly $70,000 to Liz Smith, who served as Buttigieg's spokesperson and became the communications director for his presidential bid.

00:22:37.000 Another $30,000 went to Michael Schmuel, who served as the PAC's treasurer and is now a Buttigieg campaign manager.

00:22:42.000 The PAC's financial director received $34,000.

00:22:44.000 A top Democratic media consulting firm was paid $28,000.

00:22:49.000 The PAC helped Buttigieg catapult from a well-credentialed mayor of 100,000 population College Town to a leading contender for the nation's highest office.

00:22:57.000 Buttigieg suggested that the PAC's low rate of support for other Democrats was because of a failure to raise money.

00:23:03.000 Some of the PAC's admin costs were similar to those of other presidential contenders.

00:23:07.000 He spent about $77,000 on accountant's compliance legal fees.

00:23:10.000 Biden spent $67,000.

00:23:11.000 Kamala Harris's group spent $90,000.

00:23:14.000 But the PAC was not exactly doing what it was billed to do.

00:23:20.000 So Huffington Post coming after Pete Buttigieg as well.

00:23:24.000 Now, meanwhile, the Democrats may be beginning to realize that they do, in fact, have to tack to the center if they hope to win the 2020 election, because the fact is that they have moved far too radical.

00:23:35.000 And you know who's leading that charge?

00:23:36.000 Barack Obama.

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00:24:40.000 Just Barack Obama, of all people, is telling Democrats that they've swung too far to the left.

00:24:44.000 promo code Shapiro.

00:24:45.000 Okay.

00:24:45.000 Meanwhile, the Democrats are beginning to realize that they have swung too far to the left.

00:24:50.000 Barack Obama, of all people, is telling Democrats that they've swung too far to the left.

00:24:55.000 Politico had an article yesterday in which Barack Obama's aides were quoted as saying that Obama might have stepped in, in the middle of this presidential race, to stop Bernie Sanders if he thought Sanders was going to be the nominee.

00:25:05.000 Okay.

00:25:06.000 According to Ryan Lizzo's report over at Politico, back when Sanders seemed like more of a threat than he does now, Obama said privately that if Bernie were running away with the nomination, Obama would speak up to stop him.

00:25:16.000 One advisor told Liza he can't confirm that.

00:25:18.000 He hasn't said that directly to me, said the advisor.

00:25:20.000 The only reason I'm hesitating at all is because, yeah, if Bernie were running away with it, I think maybe we'd all have to say something, but I don't think that's likely.

00:25:26.000 It's not happening.

00:25:27.000 So the Democrats are beginning to realize that the full-scale embrace of Medicare-for-all democratic socialism is not going to be a successful strategy.

00:25:34.000 This is particularly true in the swing states.

00:25:37.000 Really interesting article by Nate Cohen and Claire Miller over at the New York Times today called, They Voted Democrat, Now They Support Trump.

00:25:43.000 Talking about how in 2018, a bunch of people who had supported Trump in 2016 voted for the Democrats, and now they're swinging back to Trump for 2020.

00:25:52.000 According to the New York Times, success in the midterms might not mean as much for Democratic presidential candidates as the party might think.

00:25:58.000 Nearly two-thirds of voters in six battleground states who voted for Trump in 2016 but for Democratic congressional candidates in 2018 say they intend to back the president against each of his top rivals, according to recent polling by the New York Times' upshot Siena College.

00:26:11.000 The results suggest the party's winning formula in last year's midterm elections may not be so easy to replicate in a presidential election.

00:26:18.000 The Democrats, relatively moderate House candidates, succeeded in large part by flipping a crucial segment of voters who backed the president in 2016.

00:26:25.000 If those voters remain open-minded again in 2020, Democrats will have a ready-made blueprint for winning back the crucial Rust Belt battleground.

00:26:31.000 The group is only a sliver of the electorate, 2% of registered voters, not representative of all voters, They're overwhelmingly white, 60% are male, two-thirds have no college degree.

00:26:39.000 But the president's strength among them helps explain why he is highly competitive in states the Democrats carried just one year ago.

00:26:46.000 Many of the voters who said they voted Democrat, but now intended to vote for Trump, offered explanations that reflect long-standing theories about why the party out of power tends to excel in midterms.

00:26:55.000 So, for example, some of these Democrats, people who voted Democrat in 2018, suggested that congressional Democrats had pledged to bring jobs back.

00:27:03.000 Some of them had sought to balance out Trump by electing as they are splitting the ticket.

00:27:06.000 They're voting Democrat for Congress, but Republican for the presidency.

00:27:11.000 And it turns out that a lot of these people just believe that the Democrats have lost touch with the generic swing state voter.

00:27:21.000 Some voters say they are preparing to take the leap to vote for Trump after supporting both Democratic congressional candidates in 2018 and Hillary Clinton in 2016.

00:27:29.000 In the survey from the New York Times, 7% of people who supported Clinton in 2016 said they now approved of the president's performance despite his personality and his Twitter account.

00:27:39.000 According to Juliana, California, 57, a nurse from Coral Springs, Florida, she said in 2016, I hated both candidates.

00:27:44.000 I went with Hillary because Trump had no history as a politician.

00:27:46.000 She said he's not exactly the person I'd have as my best friend of Trump, but he's a great president.

00:27:51.000 Most politicians just talk about doing things, but Trump actually does things.

00:27:55.000 People on the Democratic side also like Trump's talk about the unions and trade.

00:28:01.000 So in other words, Trump is running pretty durable in the swing states that he actually needs to win, which is pretty fascinating.

00:28:09.000 One of the reasons why you're seeing Democrats.

00:28:11.000 Embracing at an electoral level Biden and Buttigieg, right?

00:28:14.000 Biden and Buttigieg, the support level for those two candidates is far greater than the support level for Warren and Sanders in the latest polling data.

00:28:22.000 Which means that the left wing of the party is actually losing.

00:28:24.000 Again.

00:28:25.000 And there's a reason for that because the fact is Democrats understand that if Trump runs against the radical left of the party, he's likely to win.

00:28:31.000 And President Trump did a rally last night and he made the case against the Democrats and it is a very good case.

00:28:35.000 Here's President Trump.

00:28:37.000 Defend privacy, free speech, free assembly, religious liberty, and the right to keep and bear arms.

00:28:47.000 And above all, we will never stop fighting for the sacred values that bind us together as one beautiful country, as one America.

00:28:59.000 Okay, I mean, that pitch is a better pitch than the Democrats' Medicare for all, drag queens will take down Trump, the more radical wing of the Democratic Party. 1.00

00:29:08.000 That stuff is not going to play, particularly in the swing states, which is one of the reasons why Michael Bloomberg is even throwing his hat into the race.

00:29:14.000 We'll get to Michael Bloomberg in just one second.

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00:32:26.000 So it is because the Democrats are beginning to realize they've skewed too far to the left and Michael Bloomberg is jumping in the race.

00:32:37.000 What exactly is his strategy?

00:32:38.000 Well, he's going to skip Iowa, he's going to skip New Hampshire, he's going to skip all the early states, and he's going to skip the debates.

00:32:43.000 Sean Trent has an interesting piece over at RealClearPolitics in which he basically says that what Bloomberg is betting is that Biden might get knocked out early and then Bloomberg becomes sort of the moderate choice to supplant Biden if Biden starts to drop in the polls.

00:32:58.000 Sean Trent says, if Bloomberg were to enter early contests, he'd become an immediate threat.

00:33:02.000 His opponents would take shots at him for all of the above mentioned issues, right?

00:33:05.000 All of his running of New York and stop and frisk and all of that kind of stuff.

00:33:08.000 If he avoids the scrum, Biden has finite resources and has to decide whether to spend $5 million attacking Bloomberg, who's waiting in the wings, or to spend that $5 million attacking Elizabeth Warren or Pete Buttigieg.

00:33:17.000 That seems like an easy choice.

00:33:19.000 Again, while Bloomberg is largely being ignored by his competitors, he can define himself in later states.

00:33:24.000 Sean Trend, who's an elections analyst over at RealClearPolitics, he says, whoever emerges from the first floor contests is likely to be bloodied and perhaps cash strapped.

00:33:32.000 It is even possible it will be Sanders and Warren who stagger out of South Carolina.

00:33:36.000 At that point, if Biden has tanked in Iowa and New Hampshire, Bloomberg is the only viable option for Democratic moderates and establishment liberals.

00:33:42.000 This probably won't work, but Bloomberg can easily drop 500 million bucks on this race and still live out the rest of his years quite comfortably.

00:33:48.000 There's a chance the stars will align and he becomes the next president of the U.S.

00:33:52.000 It isn't a particularly bad bet to make.

00:33:53.000 That is why Michael Bloomberg is sticking around.

00:33:55.000 It's why you're seeing all of the other Democrats sticking around.

00:33:57.000 They're figuring that with all the attacks on Buttigieg, Buttigieg is likely to drop in the polls sometime in the near future. 0.98

00:34:03.000 Meanwhile, controversy breaks out at the White House over the stupidest possible topic. 0.97

00:34:07.000 So, We are big fans of Conan the Dog. 0.98

00:34:11.000 Big fans of Conan the Dog here at the Daily Wire.

00:34:13.000 We created a meme that President Trump then tweeted out.

00:34:16.000 It was a picture of President Trump giving the Medal of Pawner, because it had a paw on it, to Conan.

00:34:21.000 Conan, of course, is the dog that chased down Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who then blew himself up in a tunnel.

00:34:25.000 The dog was slightly wounded and is now fine.

00:34:27.000 So Trump had him to the White House yesterday.

00:34:30.000 And this turned into a major controversy because the White House claimed that Conan was a boy, but the Pentagon suggested that Conan was a girl, and the media went nuts over this.

00:34:38.000 They went nuts over this.

00:34:39.000 They then suggested that the White House and the Pentagon had changed their story to match... I'm not kidding you.

00:34:46.000 To match the White House's take on all of this.

00:34:49.000 So you had journalists, blue check marks, reporting hot news on Conan's gender.

00:34:55.000 Luis Martinez over at ABC.

00:34:57.000 Update to the Conan gender.

00:34:58.000 Another U.S. 0.83

00:34:59.000 defense official now says for sure that Conan the Hero Dog is a male based on multiple internal checks.

00:35:05.000 John Roberts of Fox suggested that there had to be regular updates.

00:35:10.000 There's no Conan as female again, according to some reports.

00:35:12.000 The one photo I've seen of the relevant area definitely looks like the dog has lady parts, but the resolution, admittedly, is not great.

00:35:17.000 So you had all of these reporters who were checking into the genitals of the dog, which, by the way, is not the way I've been informed by the people who know in the scientific community.

00:35:26.000 I've been informed by folks who know that that is not the way you check the gender of a dog.

00:35:29.000 You ask the dog.

00:35:31.000 You have to check the dog's gender and or species identity, because gender and sex are completely different, and perhaps the dog feels like a female dog, even if it is a biologically male dog.

00:35:42.000 So just looking at the gender, that is the sex assigned at birth to the dog.

00:35:45.000 Let's not be, in any way, intolerant on this particular issue.

00:35:50.000 Well, Kellyanne Conway decided to play a game with the press yesterday. 0.83

00:35:52.000 They asked her about the gender of the dog, and she simply refused to answer the question, which is quite hilarious.

00:35:56.000 Here she was yesterday. 0.99

00:35:58.000 Can we just get you to definitively say the sex of Conan?

00:36:01.000 No, I won't do that.

00:36:02.000 You don't know if it's a boy or a girl?

00:36:03.000 No, I won't do that because then you'll say that I was talking about somebody's sex or gender.

00:36:08.000 So I'm not doing that.

00:36:09.000 Well, it's just a dog. 0.91

00:36:11.000 We don't talk about sex in the White House breaking room. 0.74

00:36:11.000 Is it a good boy or a good girl? 0.74

00:36:13.000 So this prompted an actual editorial piece from Molly Roberts at the Washington Post called, How the White House Ruined the Hero Dog.

00:36:24.000 No, I'm pretty sure it's you guys who ruined the hero dog, because everybody was pretty much on board with the hero dog.

00:36:28.000 And then you guys started fact-checking whether or not the President of the United States had actually given a medal to the hero dog, like, three weeks ago.

00:36:33.000 And then Trump has the dog there, and you start moaning, you start bitching and moaning about why the President wasn't nice enough to the hero dog, and how there was a big controversy over the sex of the dog.

00:36:44.000 I definitely trust you guys on these issues.

00:36:48.000 By the way, do I really think that the media even care about facts?

00:36:53.000 No, I don't.

00:36:54.000 I think that they have an agenda.

00:36:55.000 I think it's pretty obvious they have an agenda.

00:36:57.000 Speaking of which, my friend Andy Ngo, who's been a guest on the radio show several times, he was suspended from Twitter on Monday.

00:37:04.000 Why?

00:37:05.000 Well, he posted statistically accurate information about violence against transgenders in the United States in response to former first daughter Chelsea Clinton, according to Amanda Prestigiacomo over at Daily Wire.

00:37:14.000 No posted in a tweet that earned him a suspension.

00:37:17.000 He was suspended for this.

00:37:18.000 of the safest countries for trans people.

00:37:19.000 The murder rate of trans victims is actually lower than that for the cis population.

00:37:23.000 Also, who is behind the murders? 0.98

00:37:25.000 Mostly black men. 0.97

00:37:25.000 He was suspended for this. 0.97

00:37:28.000 He was suspended from Twitter for this because journalism, guys.

00:37:32.000 Because if you actually state a statistically verifiable fact, you must be banned from Twitter if that statistically verifiable fact is offensive.

00:37:39.000 This is the direction we are now moving.

00:37:41.000 The media fact-checking the genitals of dogs, and Twitter banning people who state statistically verifiable statements about violence against transgender people in the United States.

00:37:51.000 No was who notified by Twitter that he had been suspended for violating the tech giant's rule against so-called hateful content.

00:37:58.000 No said in a statement, quote, stating a verifiable empirical claim with no value judgment attached is determined to be hateful conduct by Twitter.

00:38:04.000 The platform mostly used by journalists to communicate and counter fake news also actively punishes individuals for communicating truths when they are deemed politically inconvenient.

00:38:14.000 This was, No had posted this in response to Chelsea Clinton writing, since 2013, more than 150 trans people have been murdered in the US, the majority black transgender women.

00:38:24.000 On Transgender Rights Day in 2019, Transgender Day of Remembrance 2019, we remember and honor the lives lost, hold their loved ones in our hearts, and must commit to doing all we can to end this epidemic of violence and hate.

00:38:36.000 The statistical information provided by NOW is actually also provided by the Human Rights Commission, the same organization that Clinton centered her Transgender Day of Remembrance tweet around.

00:38:47.000 I mean, Chad Felix Green, who has outlined this in the Federalist, he says, of the 118 cases listed from 2015 to 2019, 52 have known murderers.

00:38:55.000 The above chart reveals that the racial identity of the victim and the murderer seem entirely irrelevant to the murder motivation.

00:39:00.000 While 67% of the victims are indeed black and the majority are trans women, as reported, the majority of their killers are black as well.

00:39:06.000 This is true for white victims and a single Native American victim who was murdered by a Native American killer.

00:39:12.000 It's not shocking, of course, that no was banned from Twitter, because this is the same platform that banned feminist writer Megan Murphy for suggesting that men are men and women are women.

00:39:22.000 Yes, facts rule the day in the world of social media, as well as in the media as well.

00:39:26.000 Speaking of bad media coverage, there's an absurd article about same-sex relationships, same-sex behavior in animals, according to the New York Times, and it just shows you how science is becoming secondary to politics.

00:39:38.000 There's an article in the New York Times called Seeking a New Lens to Study Same-Sex Behavior in Animals.

00:39:43.000 A team of researchers say that science has relied on a human heterosexual baseline and made faulty assumptions about sexual activity in the animal kingdom.

00:39:50.000 How so?

00:39:51.000 Well, it turns out that homosexual activity is not supremely uncommon in the animal kingdom.

00:39:58.000 Which, so what?

00:39:59.000 I mean, really, so what?

00:40:01.000 But, the question that has been asked by a variety of researchers, of all political stripes, has been, okay, so why does homosexual behavior continue to occur in the animal kingdom, considering that it is not, on its face, evolutionarily beneficial?

00:40:15.000 Homosexual activity does not produce offspring, obviously.

00:40:18.000 And so if you're talking about the value of evolutionary biology and carrying on genetic lineage, then why would you engage in, why would there be a continuation of same-sex behavior in animals when this obviously does not forward the genetic profile of the animals at issue?

00:40:33.000 And so there have been a bunch of theories, the idea that this creates some sort of bonding between animals, or the idea that this is some sort of This is some sort of altruistic, that animals that are oriented this way provide some sort of altruistic service to other young offspring in the community, right?

00:40:50.000 There have been a bunch of biological theories about this, but the New York Times is angry at all of those biological theories.

00:40:55.000 Why?

00:40:56.000 Because they say it is heterosexist.

00:40:59.000 The origins of such same sexual behavior have long puzzled evolutionary biologists.

00:41:03.000 How could this behavior evolve and persist in so many lineages, even when it doesn't directly aid reproduction, says the New York Times.

00:41:08.000 That very question may be the wrong one to ask.

00:41:10.000 A group of researchers argue in a study published last week in Nature, Ecology, and Evolution, seeking to flip the underlying assumptions of a whole wing of biology.

00:41:17.000 Ambika Kamath, a researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, and co-author on the study says, Instead, the researchers suggest that same-sex behavior is bound up in the very origins of animal sex.

00:41:26.000 It hasn't had to continually re-evolve.

00:41:27.000 of heterosexual sex.

00:41:28.000 And what we're saying is that the baseline isn't necessarily the right baseline.

00:41:31.000 Instead, the researchers suggest that same-sex behavior is bound up in the very origins of animal sex.

00:41:36.000 It hasn't had to continually re-evolve.

00:41:38.000 It's always been there.

00:41:39.000 But that doesn't answer why it has remained, right?

00:41:43.000 Because if there is behavior that is evolutionarily non-sustainable, then why exactly would it remain?

00:41:48.000 This has been the mystery that has puzzled evolutionary biologists, but the fact that people even ask the question is apparently cis-normative.

00:41:55.000 According to the New York Times, evolutionary biologists have long pondered same-sex behavior, often describing it as a Darwinian paradox.

00:42:01.000 Paul Vasey, an expert on non-conceptive sexuality at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, who didn't participate in the study, says one school of thought held that such behaviors weren't primarily sexual, instead relating to dominance or grooming.

00:42:12.000 Other researchers have suggested it persists in some species because it helps social animals maintain communities, according to Max Lambert, a biologist at Berkeley.

00:42:20.000 Still others suggested that examples of same-sex behavior were practiced for reproductive sex or even cases of mistaken identity.

00:42:26.000 Most agreed it had to have some sort of evolutionary benefit to make up for the presumed cost of non-reproductive sexual behavior.

00:42:32.000 But this study says no.

00:42:35.000 One of the authors, Julia Monk, a PhD candidate at Yale and the study's lead author, says the idea that same-sex sexual behavior had to be justified at all seemed like a perspective of dominant cultural norms rather than a more holistic view of the actual biology.

00:42:47.000 I really disagreed with some of the ways I saw that discussion framed.

00:42:50.000 So, what exactly are these researchers looking for?

00:42:54.000 They are looking to bring into the conversation gender theorists.

00:42:59.000 Not kidding.

00:43:01.000 At issue with past research in the field, Dr. Lambert says, is that unexamined cultural projections, largely by the white heterosexual men who have dominated the field, resulted in many researchers failing to accurately document what they were seeing.

00:43:14.000 Ah, you see, there's too many white heterosexual male scientists, and that's why they ask the question, why sexual behavior that obviously and explicitly cannot lead to reproduction continues to maintain in the animal kingdom.

00:43:27.000 So the question itself is a reflection of the patriarchy, not a reflection of an actual biological mystery.

00:43:34.000 Ms.

00:43:35.000 Monk and her colleagues say that explicitly flipping the cultural assumptions, in this case by conducting the study with researchers who self-identify as queer and bringing in outside disciplines like social science, can yield better research.

00:43:46.000 Ah, see that'll change the... We have to change the science by bringing in scientists who are gay. 1.00

00:43:51.000 Because they will have a vested stake in the notion that the underlying patterns of sexual behavior are homosexual in origin, and therefore, that will change the entire script.

00:44:01.000 Of course, none of this actually answers the question, but they are saying that the question is irrelevant, but it's only being asked because people are heterosexual, which again, does not explain the Darwinian evolution of homosexual behavior in animals and its continued maintenance.

00:44:13.000 But again, to even ask that question is apparently heterosexist.

00:44:16.000 The whole thing is, it's just absurd.

00:44:18.000 Speaking of scientific absurdity, There's a piece today, again, from the Washington Post, talking about the fact that Americans are continuing to die young at rather alarming rates.

00:44:29.000 America's life expectancy dropped for the third consecutive year, according to the Washington Post.

00:44:34.000 Death rates from suicide, drug overdoses, liver disease, and dozens of other causes have been rising over the past decade for young and middle-aged adults, driving down overall life expectancy in the United States for three consecutive years, according to a strikingly bleak study published Tuesday that looked at the past six decades of mortality data.

00:44:49.000 The report, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, JAMA, which is a pretty prestigious journal, was immediately hailed by outside researchers for its comprehensive treatment of a still enigmatic trend, the reversal of historical patterns in longevity.

00:45:03.000 Despite spending more on healthcare than any other country, the U.S.

00:45:06.000 has seen increasing mortality and falling life expectancy for people aged 25 to 64 who should be in the prime of their lives, which has nothing to do with the healthcare system and everything to do with suicide, opioid epidemic, and obesity.

00:45:18.000 And the single greatest factor in this particular study is obesity.

00:45:24.000 And it is buried way down in the article.

00:45:28.000 Way down in the article.

00:45:29.000 According to one of the analysts who is looking at the study, Stephen Wolf, who is Director Emeritus of the Center on Society and Health at Virginia Commonwealth University, He says, some of it may be due to obesity.

00:45:41.000 Some of it may be due to drug addiction.

00:45:42.000 Some of it may be due to distracted driving from cell phones.

00:45:45.000 Given the breadth and pervasiveness of the trend, it suggests that the cause has to be systemic, that there's some root cause that's causing adverse health across many different dimensions for working age adults.

00:45:52.000 Now, listen, I wrote an entire book suggesting that the rise in the opioid epidemic and the increase in suicide is at least partially due to a lack of meaning that Americans are feeling each and every day.

00:46:02.000 But beyond that, the most obvious medical Explanation for all of this, beyond drug overdose, is obesity.

00:46:10.000 Obesity has been rampant.

00:46:12.000 According to the Washington Post, burying this all the way down in the middle of the story, I mean like paragraph 15, obesity is a significant part of the story.

00:46:19.000 The average woman in the United States today weighs as much as the average man did half a century ago. 0.63

00:46:25.000 Whoa.

00:46:26.000 Men now weigh about 30 pounds more than that.

00:46:28.000 Most people in the United States are overweight, an estimated 71.6% of the population age 20 and older, according to the CDC.

00:46:35.000 That figure includes 39.8% who are obese.

00:46:38.000 4 in 10 Americans over age 20 are obese, which means having a body mass index of 30 or higher in adults.

00:46:47.000 Obesity is also rising in children.

00:46:49.000 Nearly 19% of the population age 2 to 19 is obese.

00:46:53.000 Jay Olshansky, professor of public health at the University of Illinois in Chicago, says these kids are acquiring obesity in their early teen years, sometimes under the age of 10.

00:47:01.000 When they get into their 20s, 30s, and 40s, they are carrying the risk factors of obesity that were acquired when they were children.

00:47:06.000 We didn't see that in previous generations.

00:47:08.000 He says this isn't a one-time phenomenon.

00:47:10.000 It's going to echo through time.

00:47:11.000 In other words, people are eating too much.

00:47:14.000 The reason I bring this up is because this is buried all the way down there in the article.

00:47:18.000 Past factors like drugs or the healthcare system.

00:47:21.000 If we eat ourselves to death and die at age 50, that's going to really skew the life expectancy statistics in the United States.

00:47:29.000 And these are the same members of the media who, in the style section, will be pushing the idea that you can be healthy at any weight, which is obviously untrue.

00:47:36.000 Obviously untrue.

00:47:37.000 This has been one of the big pushes in social media, is you are beautiful no matter what weight you are.

00:47:42.000 Well, beautiful is an aesthetic judgment, right?

00:47:44.000 It's subjective and aesthetic to a certain extent.

00:47:47.000 I think beyond a certain extent, it is not.

00:47:49.000 I think there is such a thing as objective beauty in the sense that pretty much everybody agrees what is beautiful and what is not.

00:47:55.000 Beauty is, to a certain extent, in the eye of the beholder.

00:47:57.000 What is not in the eye of the beholder is your health status.

00:47:59.000 And the idea that you are healthy at any weight is simply untrue.

00:48:02.000 There is not a single serious medical professional in the United States who will suggest that you are healthy at any weight.

00:48:06.000 And the media's prevailing sentiment that you are healthy at any weight is, again, anti-scientific.

00:48:11.000 The anti-scientific tilt of the media, and increasingly of scientists themselves, is an extraordinarily dangerous phenomenon in the United States.

00:48:19.000 It is going to lead to severe consequences.

00:48:22.000 It's going to lead to people leading less healthy lives.

00:48:24.000 It's going to lead to the skewing of science in crucial areas of American life.

00:48:28.000 And then we are told, of course, that if we question the anti-scientific consensus, then we are anti-science in some way.

00:48:36.000 Political correctness should never trump the ability of people to live healthy lives, and what we are seeing right now is exactly that.

00:48:41.000 Okay, time for a couple of quick things that I like and then a couple of quick things that I hate.

00:48:45.000 So first of all, things I like.

00:48:46.000 Thanksgiving is coming up.

00:48:47.000 I love Thanksgiving.

00:48:48.000 Thanksgiving is phenomenal.

00:48:50.000 So first, I just want to give thanks to you, the listener.

00:48:52.000 You guys make it all possible.

00:48:53.000 I really appreciate you engaging with our content every single day.

00:48:56.000 It is awesome to be able to speak to you and to have this conversation with you on an ongoing basis.

00:49:01.000 I want to say thanks to our staff.

00:49:02.000 Our staff is Aside from the ones who get fired during every ZipRecruiter ad, our staff are just phenomenal.

00:49:07.000 They do an amazing job each and every day dealing with my ridiculousness and vicissitudes and arriving late for each and every broadcast.

00:49:13.000 They do a great job here at The Daily Wire.

00:49:15.000 I want to thank the administrators here at The Daily Wire.

00:49:17.000 They do a great job of ensuring that we have great staff and making sure that all of the trains run on time.

00:49:21.000 I obviously want to thank my family.

00:49:23.000 I'm thankful for my family.

00:49:25.000 Which provides the support basis and also the duty that makes me a better person.

00:49:30.000 I want to thank specifically obviously my wife and my kids who are wonderful in every way.

00:49:34.000 I know it sounds like an Oscar speech, but since it's Thanksgiving coming up, sounds like a good time to say what I'm thankful for.

00:49:39.000 And I am thankful for the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States, the greatest documents ever written by man.

00:49:45.000 These documents enshrine basic notions.

00:49:47.000 of human individual rights and liberty, the value of each individual human being, those eternal principles spelled out in those documents, not fulfilled at the founding, but gradually broadened to encompass everyone they should encompass over time.

00:50:00.000 That is the legacy of the United States.

00:50:02.000 I could not be more grateful to live in this phenomenal, phenomenal country.

00:50:06.000 Okay, one other thing that I like.

00:50:08.000 So, a guy named Scott Alexander, he's a magician, and I have to say, I'm a big fan of close-up magic, so I love sleight of hand.

00:50:14.000 I just think that it is spectacular.

00:50:15.000 I think that it is, it's an incredible skill set.

00:50:17.000 I mean, it's not like, you know, big magic tricks don't do it for me, like the David Copperfield, because once you know how the trick is done, you could do the trick, I could do the trick.

00:50:23.000 But the guys who do sleight of hand, these are people who practice hours a day to develop an actual craft, and it really is very cool.

00:50:30.000 Well, Scott Alexander, magician, he, it turns out, is a big fan of the show, and has our Leftist Tears Tumblr, and sent me a tape of himself performing a magic trick about impeachment using our Leftist Tears Tumblr.

00:50:42.000 This is why you should subscribe, so you can actually see this thing, because it ain't gonna sound as good as it looks.

00:50:46.000 Here is Scott Alexander performing some magic with the Leftist Tears Tumblr.

00:50:50.000 Now, the left is hoping that they're going to end up with a great, big, juicy impeachment in the House.

00:50:58.000 Yeah, that's a peach.

00:51:00.000 But that could be just an illusion.

00:51:02.000 What's more likely is that they'll end up with a lemon in the Senate.

00:51:11.000 Now, I don't know which is going to happen, but the thing that I don't understand is mainly how this vessel itself, this magical vessel, was able to be used in this little demonstration of sleight of hand, when it has the power to constantly be full of tears.

00:51:36.000 Check that out, that's cool stuff.

00:51:37.000 Okay, so, as a big Magic fan, thanks Scott, really appreciate it.

00:51:40.000 And, you should go check out his work, you can see a lot of his work on YouTube.

00:51:42.000 Scott Alexander, that's some pretty cool stuff.

00:51:44.000 Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate. 0.64

00:51:51.000 So, Colin Kaepernick, he posted a video complaining about his fate because he did this ridiculous workout, right?

00:51:58.000 So the NFL specifically set up a workout for him so that he could work out for all of the teams.

00:52:03.000 And he ditched the workout, said he didn't want to do the workout, and he did his own workout.

00:52:07.000 Apparently, it wasn't that great.

00:52:08.000 And then he talked about what a hero he was.

00:52:10.000 He then released a video online talking about his fate, and it was a defiant message to the NFL, which he says is banning him, which of course is not true.

00:52:17.000 Nobody wants him because, one, he is We're waiting for the 32 owners, the 32 teams, Roger Goodell, all of them to stop running.

00:52:23.000 Stop running from the truth, stop running from the people.

00:52:25.000 We'll let you know if we hear from them.

00:52:26.000 terrible his life is because the NFL has victimized him while he earns a million bucks for kneeling for the national anthem, which is about as ungrateful as it gets on Thanksgiving.

00:52:33.000 We're waiting for the 32 owners, the 32 teams, Roger Goodell, all of them to stop running.

00:52:39.000 Stop running from the truth.

00:52:41.000 Stop running from the people.

00:52:42.000 We'll let you know if we hear from them.

00:52:46.000 Ball's in their court.

00:52:47.000 We're ready to go.

00:52:48.000 Okay, so he posted this clipped up video of himself talking about this with some cool music and some pictures and self-signing autographs.

00:52:56.000 Okay, well, I will say one thing I'm grateful for.

00:52:59.000 This is hilarious.

00:53:00.000 So Colin Kaepernick didn't get any interest.

00:53:02.000 None.

00:53:03.000 But Jordan Veazey was one of his wide receivers from the workout and has now earned an opportunity to try out with the Cleveland Browns according to Heavy.com.

00:53:09.000 According to Howard Balzer, Veazey was among the six players the Browns worked out on Monday.

00:53:13.000 He played college football at California.

00:53:15.000 He has not yet found a long-term NFL home.

00:53:17.000 He's been on the practice squads for the Titans, Jags, Colts, and most recently the Buffalo Bills.

00:53:21.000 He was released in October from Buffalo.

00:53:24.000 Unlikely that anything comes from the tryout, but pretty hilarious that dude showed up for Colin Kaepernick's tryout, and Colin Kaepernick didn't get a tryout with any of the teams, but one of his receivers did.

00:53:36.000 That is pretty hysterical, and I kind of love it.

00:53:39.000 Okay, final thing that I hate.

00:53:41.000 Okay, so it's Thanksgiving season.

00:53:42.000 That means you're gonna have to talk with your annoying uncle or aunt.

00:53:45.000 How about this?

00:53:46.000 How about just have like a nice conversation, and if it's not going well, just don't talk politics.

00:53:50.000 I'm constantly amazed at the number of articles that come out. 0.95

00:53:52.000 How to talk to your crazy right-wing uncle. 0.85

00:53:54.000 Hey, how about you just don't talk politics at the table if you can't handle it? 0.97

00:54:00.000 Like, really, if you can't handle it.

00:54:01.000 My favorite is that the National Network of Abortion Funds put out a tweet talking about how you should bring your abortion toolkit to dinner.

00:54:08.000 What, in case you can't carve the turkey and you run out of scalpels?

00:54:12.000 You need the abortion toolkit at dinner? 1.00

00:54:14.000 If you're talking abortion at Thanksgiving, you're doing Thanksgiving wrong, guys.

00:54:17.000 Just suffice it to say, I think that that is obviously the case.

00:54:19.000 Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with two additional hours.

00:54:21.000 Otherwise, we will see you after Thanksgiving.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - November 27, 2019

The End Of The Beginning | Ep. 906

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