The Ben Shapiro Show - The Enemy Of The People | Ep. 793

00:00:00.000 The Daily Beast tracks down the nefarious American who made a funny video about Nancy Pelosi, Democrats turn on Joe Biden, and Nancy Pelosi struggles with impeachment.

00:00:08.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

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00:00:10.000 The media really doing yeoman's work over the weekend.

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00:01:29.000 Okay, so over the weekend, the media proved that they really stand up for the American people.

00:01:34.000 How?

00:01:34.000 By tracking down a rando who made a video about Nancy Pelosi.

00:01:39.000 Now, I've never been a fan of the phrase, enemy of the people, that President Trump uses about the press.

00:01:44.000 I think it is overwrought.

00:01:45.000 I think that it is a phrase that has Stalinist origins.

00:01:48.000 Stalin himself used to use the phrase in order to make excuses for shooting people.

00:01:52.000 So I don't really believe in use of the phrase, the enemy of the people, to describe the media.

00:01:56.000 But if the media want to make themselves wildly unpopular, if the media seek to Spread the perception that Trump is right about them.

00:02:03.000 All they have to do is keep doing this kind of stuff.

00:02:06.000 So over the weekend, The Daily Beast ran a piece by one Kevin Poulsen, who himself, by the way, is a convicted felon, I believe, who wrote a piece called We Found the Guy Behind the Viral Drunk Pelosi Video.

00:02:18.000 Now, this video, you remember a couple of weeks ago, it came out on the Internet and it was just The apotheosis of evil in today's modern American politics.

00:02:26.000 What was it?

00:02:27.000 It was Nancy Pelosi slowed down a little bit so it looked like she was drunk. 1.00

00:02:30.000 Now, as somebody whose words are routinely slowed down so that it sounds like I am drunk in joke videos, all I could do was kind of laugh.

00:02:39.000 This is just the way people act online. 0.99

00:02:42.000 Welcome to the world of online politics, where people make funny, stupid little videos and then post them. 0.99

00:02:46.000 But this was meritorious of a full-scale investigation by the Daily Beast. 0.97

00:02:51.000 And it really is reminiscent of the time that Joe Wurzelbacher, the plumber who was on his driveway when Barack Obama came to visit in 2008 his neighborhood, and then he asked Barack Obama about the debt, and he asked him about spending, and then the media proceeded to uncover every single detail about Joe the and then the media proceeded to uncover every single detail about Well, this is sort of the same thing, except that at least Joe the plumber's face was on video.

00:03:14.000 In this particular case, the guy who made the video was just some guy.

00:03:18.000 So what did the media do?

00:03:19.000 The Daily Beast went ahead and discovered everything about him and then published it online.

00:03:23.000 Now, it would be one thing if this guy had turned out to be some sort of Republican political operative.

00:03:28.000 If they'd investigated and it turned out that he was an intern at Senator Mitch McConnell's office or something.

00:03:32.000 But it is not a story that a random person posted a random video that then went viral.

00:03:38.000 The person's identity is really not supremely important.

00:03:42.000 It truly is not.

00:03:44.000 And yet the Daily Beast not only went out there and discovered things about him and then publicized it, which means that this guy is now going to have a tough time getting a job simply for making a funny video about Nancy Pelosi.

00:03:53.000 He's now going to be excoriated by the left wing media.

00:03:55.000 He's now going to be made persona non grata in his industry, whatever that is.

00:03:59.000 Here is the Daily Beast story.

00:04:01.000 On May 22nd, a Donald Trump superfan and occasional sports blogger from the Bronx named Sean Brooks posted a video clip of Nancy Pelosi on his personal Facebook page.

00:04:09.000 The clip showed Pelosi at her most excitable, stammering during a press conference as she voiced frustration over an abortive infrastructure meeting with the president. 0.71

00:04:16.000 Brooks' commentary on the video was succinct.

00:04:18.000 Is Pelosi drunk?

00:04:19.000 Thirteen minutes later, a Facebook official told the Daily Beast Brooks posted a very different Pelosi video to a Facebook page called Politics Watchdog, one of a series of hyper-partisan news operations Brooks runs with help, he claims.

00:04:30.000 This clip had been altered to slow Pelosi down without lowering the pitch of her voice.

00:04:33.000 The effect was to make it sound as though the Speaker of the House was slurring her words drunkenly while criticizing Donald Trump.

00:04:39.000 Fifteen minutes after that, the same doctored video appeared on a second Facebook page Brooks Manage's All News 24-7.

00:04:44.000 This clip was identical to the Politics Watchdog video in every way, except it didn't carry the Politics Watchdog branding that was superimposed over the earlier video.

00:04:52.000 Whoever posted it had access to the director's cut.

00:04:54.000 On both pages, the clip was accompanied by the exact same dispassionate newsy prose.

00:04:59.000 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on President Trump walking out infrastructure meeting.

00:05:02.000 It was very, very, very strange.

00:05:04.000 The video was an instant social media smash, surging through the Internet's well-worn ley lines of credulity and venom.

00:05:11.000 It was shared more than 60,000 times on Facebook and accumulated 4 million page views from links.

00:05:15.000 Drunk as a skunk, mused actor turned to alt-right curmudgeon James Woods, whose tweet of the video scored 17,000 retweets and 55,000 likes.

00:05:22.000 What is wrong with Nancy Pelosi? 0.99

00:05:23.000 Wrote Rudy Giuliani.

00:05:25.000 Her speech pattern is bizarre.

00:05:26.000 So what did they do?

00:05:27.000 They went and uncovered the guy, and then they proceeded to try to shame him online for posting a video in which he slowed down her speech slightly.

00:05:34.000 Again, you know how easy it is to do that?

00:05:37.000 People who listen to my podcast, many of them, listen to my podcast on twice speed or 1.5 speed.

00:05:42.000 Many of them probably listen to it at 0.75 speed.

00:05:45.000 If you listen to my podcast at 0.5 speed, you will get the exact same tenor of my voice, except I will now sound like I am slurring my words and I am deeply drunk.

00:05:51.000 Is that an act of tremendous malicious evil?

00:05:54.000 Does that merit everybody who posts video of me talking that way online, being uncovered and shamed for the public view?

00:06:01.000 The Daily Beast dug up who this guy was and then proceeded to spill all of his details on the internet.

00:06:06.000 He said, Brooks, a 34-year-old day laborer currently on probation after pleading guilty to domestic battery, claims that his drunk commentary on an unaltered Pelosi video had no connection to the now infamous fake clip that premiered less than 15 minutes later.

00:06:19.000 I wasn't the individual who created that Pelosi video.

00:06:21.000 He insisted in a telephone interview.

00:06:23.000 It's conceivable that someone else actually edited the clip, but a Facebook official confirming a Daily Beast investigation said the video was first posted on Politics Watchdog directly from Brooks' personal Facebook account.

00:06:34.000 So now I have a question.

00:06:35.000 Why is Facebook answering that question from the Daily Beast?

00:06:39.000 If the Daily Beast goes to Facebook and says, I want the identity of whomever published this video, why is Facebook revealing that identity?

00:06:44.000 The guy didn't commit a crime.

00:06:46.000 The guy didn't involve himself in slander or libel.

00:06:49.000 How in the world is it Facebook's job to answer questions from the Daily Beast about the source of this sort of video?

00:06:56.000 And how is it not an act of tremendous nastiness and evil for the Daily Beast to report on this guy's criminal record because he committed the grave crime of making fun of Nancy Pelosi online?

00:07:09.000 Brooks acknowledged he's involved in the management of both Politics Watchdog and All News 24-7, the Facebook pages that sent the bogus video on its viral tear.

00:07:16.000 To the outside observer, the two pages are unconnected, but after a telltale link on one of the pages led the Daily Beast to Brooks, he admitted the ad revenue for both outlets goes directly into his personal PayPal account.

00:07:27.000 In the first hint at a possible motive for the Pelosi smear, Brooks volunteered that the video brought in nearly $1,000 in shared ad revenue.

00:07:32.000 So it wasn't that he disliked Pelosi, it's that he was seeking to make nefarious cash off of this doctored, altered video.

00:07:40.000 Okay, then I have a question.

00:07:41.000 What does the media do every day when they doctor video?

00:07:43.000 When I say doctor video, I don't mean slow things down.

00:07:46.000 I mean when they cut things out of context.

00:07:47.000 Let's say, how much money did the media make off the Covington Catholic Boys smear?

00:07:51.000 How much?

00:07:52.000 I bet it was not a thousand dollars.

00:07:53.000 I bet you it is hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars in additional links, in views, in ads.

00:07:59.000 How much money did the media make off taking President Trump out of context?

00:08:02.000 Or taking me out of context?

00:08:03.000 Or taking any conservative out of context?

00:08:05.000 And then pretending as though they have covered the news?

00:08:09.000 So is their motive to make money?

00:08:11.000 Or is their motive to cover the news and they happen to be biased?

00:08:13.000 It makes money for Facebook too, he growls.

00:08:16.000 Brooks, except that Facebook cut off any future earnings when the company's fact check partners ruled the clip as a hoax about 36 hours after its politics watchdog debut.

00:08:23.000 It makes money for Facebook too, he groused.

00:08:26.000 I'm sure that's their motive for not taking it down.

00:08:28.000 Over the course of an hour and a half interview, Brooks insisted repeatedly he was not the one who posted the Pelosi clip on politics watchdog.

00:08:35.000 He claimed he's just one of half a dozen administrators who jointly control the page and its content.

00:08:40.000 It was one of the others, he said, who debuted the doctor video.

00:08:42.000 It was a female admin who posted it. 0.99

00:08:43.000 So if he's not lying, if the guy's not lying, not only did the Daily Beast out this guy with a criminal record, but then they got it wrong.

00:08:52.000 I mean, this is...

00:08:54.000 I don't know how the media can justify this sort of stuff.

00:08:57.000 A review of Brooks' personal fan page reveals him as an avowed conservative and a proud member of Trump's razor-thin African-American support base.

00:09:04.000 Yeah, there's some solid journalism there.

00:09:05.000 Trump's razor-thin. 0.99

00:09:06.000 So that means that he's a weirdo, obviously. 0.98

00:09:08.000 I mean, this guy. 0.84

00:09:09.000 A couple of Brooks' Instagram posts feature misogyny.

00:09:12.000 The strongest example is a post last year featuring a photo he evidently snapped of a woman sitting next to him on the subway. 0.98

00:09:17.000 This dumb B-word sitting in front of me on the E-train continues to kick me without saying excuse me, he wrote. 0.98

00:09:23.000 Wow. 0.99

00:09:23.000 Well, I mean, obviously we need to uncover everything this person has ever said. 0.99

00:09:27.000 He posted a mean video of Nancy Pelosi.

00:09:30.000 This rando published a mean video of Nancy Pelosi, just like hundreds of thousands of other people probably have done or seen. 0.94

00:09:37.000 We must out him, and then we must dig through everything he has ever said, and then we must destroy his life.

00:09:42.000 But don't worry, the Daily Beast has you covered as far as his personal likes in football.

00:09:46.000 I kid you not.

00:09:47.000 According to the Daily Beast, he runs other pages as well.

00:09:50.000 An ardent New England Patriots fan, Brooks has a long history of online ventures around athletics, including a Facebook page called Outkick the Sports.

00:09:56.000 Brooks' Spark LinkedIn profile lists him as an analyst at SportsBlogger, a long-shuttered blog platform where Brooks once blogged under his current Twitter screen name, SportsGruffser.

00:10:07.000 He says, I'm in New York City, very liberal.

00:10:08.000 People make judgments.

00:10:09.000 I don't want to be linked to a conservative right winger and be potentially denied services and stuff.

00:10:13.000 People are nasty.

00:10:14.000 You should see some of the messages that are coming in.

00:10:17.000 You know, I was told by the left that if I quoted Ilhan Omar, that was incitement to violence.

00:10:17.000 Weird.

00:10:21.000 If the Daily Beast posts all of this guy's personal details for the grave sin of having published an anonymous video, slowed down of Nancy Pelosi seeming drunk, Well, then that's not incitement in any way.

00:10:32.000 That's just them covering the news, guys.

00:10:34.000 That is them doing all the news that's fit to print over at the Daily Beast.

00:10:38.000 Brooks said that he became a conservative after seeing firsthand the failure of liberal policies during the Obama era.

00:10:43.000 He said, I've traveled around and seen too many things.

00:10:45.000 I don't like the way things have been run.

00:10:47.000 A key turning point came years ago, he said, when he was working in a warehouse in Queens doing forklift work, loading, unloading, and labeling.

00:10:54.000 He started the job off the books, but eventually became an official hire.

00:10:57.000 Then the managers began supplementing their workforce with undocumented immigrants willing to do the same work for less, he claimed.

00:11:03.000 He said, I was working there four or five years and I was being paid pretty well.

00:11:07.000 Then suddenly they started bringing these guys in vans through the side door.

00:11:10.000 This was going on for months.

00:11:11.000 Then all of a sudden they told me, we can't pay you anymore.

00:11:13.000 Since then, he's taken up a bunch of temporary jobs and he showed up in California.

00:11:17.000 He crashed a girlfriend's Riverside apartment for about a month.

00:11:21.000 And then they went and they found the girl and she said, we got into apartments.

00:11:23.000 We got into arguments and fights all the time.

00:11:25.000 He has a lot of issues going on.

00:11:26.000 He has a lot of anger issues.

00:11:27.000 This piece is thousands of words long because a man posted a video of Nancy Pelosi sounding drunk.

00:11:35.000 This is insanity.

00:11:37.000 This is how journalism works in the Trump era.

00:11:40.000 Seriously?

00:11:41.000 And then we're supposed to respect the media?

00:11:42.000 We're supposed to pretend that the media are really doing the hard work of uncovering the truth?

00:11:49.000 Really, this is what they spend their time doing?

00:11:50.000 This is what Noah Schachtman over at the Daily Beast is doing these days?

00:11:54.000 They have some good reporters over at the Daily Beast, by the way.

00:11:55.000 Lachlan Markey is a good reporter over at the Daily Beast.

00:11:58.000 But this guy is not.

00:11:59.000 And the fact that the Daily Beast sees this as its mission is pretty astonishing.

00:12:03.000 At least part of its mission.

00:12:04.000 I'll show you what the editor of the Daily Beast had to say over the weekend about this nonsense first.

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00:13:21.000 All right, so Noah Schachtman over at the Daily Beast appeared on Reliable Sources on CNN with Brian Stelter.

00:13:27.000 And Shackman defended their choice to run this several thousand word piece about the terrible, evil, horrible, forklift operator who made a video of Nancy Pelosi slightly slowed down so that she sounded drunk.

00:13:42.000 There's a profit motive here, that you can put up a lot of these videos on Facebook, you can make a quick buck.

00:13:47.000 Didn't this guy say he made a thousand dollars?

00:13:49.000 Yeah, I mean, but look, that's not... It might have been a lot of money to him, but I don't think it was a pure profit motive.

00:13:54.000 I think for him it was a matter of ideology.

00:13:57.000 It was, you know, he's a big Trump supporter.

00:14:00.000 And, you know, one of the most interesting things about this story to me was that, you know, you don't need some sophisticated operation in order to Wow, so important.

00:14:14.000 We didn't know that before.

00:14:15.000 Nobody had ever posted anything on Facebook that was flawed or fake news or skewed in any way.

00:14:22.000 We needed to uncover this guy.

00:14:23.000 We needed to shame him and we needed to get his mug shot and put it up there on the internet.

00:14:26.000 Deeply important that we ruin his future employment history so that we can show that fake news appears.

00:14:31.000 You wonder why people are angry at the media?

00:14:33.000 Because the media did nothing for years while Barack Obama's administration was deeply corrupt at a variety of levels and now they are digging up personal material on private citizens who post videos on Facebook.

00:14:46.000 That is why people are angry at people in the media.

00:14:48.000 Now, I'm for a lot of the media scrutiny of the Trump administration.

00:14:52.000 I wish they'd done it during the Obama administration, too.

00:14:54.000 My critique is not that they are hard on Trump.

00:14:56.000 My critique is that they were easy on Obama.

00:14:58.000 But there's one thing that I really dislike, and that is the idea that if regular citizens take part in politics, that now they're going to be raked over the coals in the same way as somebody who's running for elected office. 0.63

00:15:08.000 It's really disgusting. 0.77

00:15:09.000 It really is.

00:15:10.000 I mean, and these places do do it for clicks.

00:15:13.000 It's funny, there was a website a few weeks ago that, in the midst of one of my numerous controversies, because every week seems to be a controversy now, in the midst of one of the numerous controversies surrounding me, decided to post a piece, the top five things you need to know about my wife.

00:15:28.000 My wife is a private citizen.

00:15:30.000 My wife does not participate in politics.

00:15:33.000 She votes.

00:15:34.000 That's it.

00:15:35.000 My wife does not give speeches. 1.00

00:15:36.000 My wife does not appear publicly.

00:15:37.000 My wife is a private citizen.

00:15:40.000 And this website printed a bunch of facts about my wife, including where she works.

00:15:44.000 They printed a bunch of facts about her, including where she'd gone to high school and all the rest of this stuff.

00:15:49.000 And there's only one purpose for that, to satiate curiosity, to get clicks, and to expose her to public scrutiny.

00:15:56.000 Now, listen, the people at my wife's work know exactly who her husband is.

00:16:00.000 Many of her patients know exactly who my wife is.

00:16:02.000 But the fact that this website saw fit to make my wife an issue is insane.

00:16:08.000 To their credit, we called them up and we said, this is inappropriate, and they pulled it down.

00:16:11.000 But the first instinct for many in the media is to get those clicks.

00:16:13.000 So while they're accusing this guy of being clickbait motivated, you think Daily Beast isn't clickbait motivated?

00:16:19.000 They certainly are.

00:16:20.000 And there's another agenda here, too.

00:16:21.000 And that is to rip on these big tech companies and try to promote Their leftism.

00:16:26.000 What we are seeing now from both right and left is an attempt to grab the means of production.

00:16:30.000 So Facebook is an independent means of distribution.

00:16:33.000 And people on the left are fighting mad that because so many people get their news from Facebook, They're fighting mad they can't control this, and this is why you saw Nancy Pelosi say last week that Facebook willingly, willingly promotes lies about her, which is why they willingly promoted lies about Hillary Clinton, which is why Hillary Clinton is not president.

00:16:50.000 This is her way of claiming that the government, and Democrats in particular, should take control of major social media pages in order to cure the dialogue. 0.79

00:16:59.000 Whenever somebody talks about curing or purifying the dialogue, get ready for your First Amendment rights to be infringed upon.

00:17:06.000 Here's Nancy Pelosi making that case. 1.00

00:17:08.000 Facebook says, I know this is false, but we're, it's a lie, but we're showing it anyway.

00:17:16.000 I was giving them the benefit of the doubt on Russia, but clearly they, I thought it was unwitting, but clearly they wittingly were accomplices and enablers of false information to go across Facebook.

00:17:29.000 Yeah, well, this is just a- I mean, she's lying.

00:17:32.000 She's lying.

00:17:33.000 Facebook was not willingly an accomplice to the Russians.

00:17:36.000 It's a platform.

00:17:37.000 They put up lots of stuff.

00:17:38.000 This is one of the things that I've been arguing, is that Facebook needs to stay a platform and not become a Nancy Pelosi-driven editorial board.

00:17:46.000 The reason the Democrats are complaining about this stuff, the reason they're trying to uncover people, is because what they actually want to do, what many members of the media hope to do, is stop people from speaking out politically.

00:17:54.000 What they hope to do is turn Facebook into just another New York Times editorial page.

00:17:59.000 This is what they would like to see.

00:18:01.000 And by the way, this is not restricted to the left.

00:18:03.000 President Trump, unfortunately, has the same sort of tendencies.

00:18:06.000 So President Trump tweeted out this morning, quote, just arrived in the United Kingdom.

00:18:11.000 The only problem is that CNN is the primary source of news available from the United States.

00:18:16.000 After watching it for a short while, I turned it off.

00:18:18.000 All negative and so much fake news.

00:18:20.000 Very bad for U.S.

00:18:21.000 Big ratings drop.

00:18:22.000 Why doesn't owner AT&T do something?

00:18:24.000 I believe that if people stopped using or subscribing to AT&T, they'd be forced to make big changes at CNN, which is dying in the ratings anyway.

00:18:31.000 It is so unfair with such bad news.

00:18:33.000 Fake news.

00:18:34.000 Why wouldn't they act?

00:18:35.000 When the world watches CNN, it gets a false picture of USA.

00:18:38.000 Sad.

00:18:40.000 Now listen, I think CNN puts out an awful lot of misinformation or at the very least biased information.

00:18:45.000 But the president of the United States suggesting that the owner AT&T should crack down on the editorial viewpoint of CNN does not seem like a good move to me.

00:18:54.000 And we have seen the same thing from President Trump with regard to Amazon.

00:18:59.000 So there's been this push from the Trump administration to go after Amazon for violation of antitrust.

00:19:05.000 As I've said before, I don't think that Amazon is in violation of antitrust law.

00:19:08.000 They are not effectively a monopoly.

00:19:10.000 There are lots of other companies in the various spaces in which Amazon participates.

00:19:14.000 Amazon is certainly not a monopoly from the consumer point of view.

00:19:17.000 The danger of monopoly, from the consumer point of view, was, is, and always will be, that a monopoly racks up giant prices, that they gouge consumers because they're the only producers in the market.

00:19:27.000 If you're the only producer of a good in the market, you're the only person producing cameras in the market, you can then charge $1 million per camera, and no one can compete with you because you've bought everybody else out, or forced them out, or crowded them out of the market, or you've participated in some form of regulatory capture that has prevented anyone else from entering the market.

00:19:43.000 That is not the case with Amazon.

00:19:46.000 The fact that the Trump administration is seeking to crack down on Amazon, I can't help but believe that it has something to do with the fact that Donald Trump does not like Jeff Bezos.

00:19:54.000 So in the same way that the left doesn't like Facebook because they think that Facebook led Hillary Clinton to lose, Donald Trump doesn't like Amazon because he doesn't like Jeff Bezos and Bezos also operates the Washington Post.

00:20:05.000 According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Amazon could face heightened antitrust scrutiny under a new agreement between U.S.

00:20:10.000 regulators that puts it under closer watch by the Federal Trade Commission, three people familiar with the matter said.

00:20:16.000 The move is the result of the FTC and the Department of Justice, U.S.

00:20:19.000 government's leading antitrust enforcement agencies, quietly divvying up competition oversight of two of the country's top tech companies, according to those people who spoke on condition of anonymity.

00:20:29.000 The Justice Department is set to have more jurisdiction over Google, the Washington Post reported on Friday, paving the way for a potential investigation of the search and advertising giant.

00:20:38.000 So they're now looking to put Google under the thumb.

00:20:41.000 They're also looking to put Amazon under the thumb.

00:20:43.000 Very interesting article from the Wall Street Journal today about Google explaining that while the Justice Department is now looking at Google as a monopoly, Google is losing market share.

00:20:52.000 Here's what the Wall Street Journal reports today.

00:20:54.000 The irony that surely won't register in Washington.

00:20:57.000 The latest crackdown on Google comes just as the internet giant is demonstrating that it is far from invincible.

00:21:02.000 The Justice Department is preparing a new antitrust investigation against Google parent Alphabet Inc.

00:21:07.000 This comes six years after a similar probe from the Federal Trade Commission, which resulted in no significant damage to the company that powers more than 90% of the world's internet search activity.

00:21:17.000 Google's dominance of internet search and related advertising business make it an easy target.

00:21:21.000 The company garners more than 60% of the world's search ad market, according to eMarketer.

00:21:25.000 Its total advertising business has averaged 19% growth annually over the past decade.

00:21:29.000 Analysts expect advertising revenue to surpass $135 billion this year, which is almost twice the size of its nearest competitor, Facebook.

00:21:38.000 Yet recent developments have demonstrated that even Google isn't invulnerable.

00:21:42.000 Alphabet's most recent quarterly results showed a significant and surprising slowdown in Google's ad business.

00:21:47.000 That hurt the stock.

00:21:48.000 Investors found the company's clumsy explanation unsatisfactory.

00:21:52.000 Amazon is emerging as a potent advertising force in its own right, as the company is now charging merchants for favorable placement on its massive online marketplace.

00:22:00.000 Amazon generated $11 billion in revenue for its other category that is primarily composed of advertising for the trailing 12-month period ending in March.

00:22:09.000 Analysts predict that Amazon's ad business is going to more than double in size and it will come at Google's expense.

00:22:14.000 Also, Google's dominance in search has not translated to other businesses the company has entered.

00:22:19.000 Its Pixel smartphone has less than 1% of the global market.

00:22:22.000 Google trails both Amazon and Microsoft by a wide margin in the fast-growing market for cloud computing services.

00:22:27.000 In other words, all the talk about Google being a monopoly is simply not the case.

00:22:32.000 All the talk about Amazon being a monopoly is simply not the case.

00:22:36.000 Here's the problem.

00:22:37.000 There are a bunch of people at the governmental level and in the media who are very much interested in controlling other folks, controlling other companies.

00:22:43.000 It's bad news.

00:22:44.000 You do not want these folks controlling your life.

00:22:47.000 I would rather have open competition between companies that are run by people with whom I disagree.

00:22:52.000 Companies run by Zuckerberg, companies run by the Eric Schmitz of the world over at Alphabet Inc.

00:22:57.000 I'd rather have that than have it run by regulators, than have it run by members of the government.

00:23:01.000 Because here's the thing.

00:23:02.000 Once the government takes control of these companies, Do you really trust that the government is going to run these in fair and impartial fashion?

00:23:09.000 If you think that's the case, remember when the government was in the Fairness Doctrine business and decided that they were going to operate how much conservative content could be put on your radio.

00:23:19.000 I know, for those not old enough to have a radio, this was a thing.

00:23:23.000 And the fact is that the government in control of these businesses is a bad thing.

00:23:27.000 But that's what Democrats want.

00:23:29.000 If Democrats want something, you can fairly certainly predict that Republicans should not want it.

00:23:33.000 The fact that both Republicans and Democrats are now vying for control over major tech companies, I think it's pretty scary and it's fairly un-American.

00:23:41.000 Okay, in a second.

00:23:43.000 We're going to get to the culture war and the 2020 Democratic fight for the nomination.

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00:24:52.000 OK, so.

00:24:53.000 Let's talk about this 2020 Democratic race.

00:24:56.000 The Democrats have to rely on how much President Trump is supposedly hated.

00:25:00.000 Now, there's a new Harvard poll out today that shows President Trump's approval rating up to 48%.

00:25:05.000 If President Trump is at 48% in the approval rating come election 2020, he retains the presidency.

00:25:10.000 It is that simple.

00:25:11.000 If he is anywhere within spitting distance of 50%, he will win.

00:25:15.000 If he is anywhere close to 40%, he will probably lose.

00:25:18.000 So, what President Trump does from here on in is very important, and how radical Democrats are from here on in is also very important.

00:25:25.000 So, how radical are Democrats?

00:25:27.000 They are, the base is really radical, but there's this silent majority of the Democratic Party, or at least plurality of the Democratic Party, that is not nearly as radical as the base.

00:25:37.000 And that gap is beginning to be felt, and I'm wondering whether the silent plurality of the Democratic base can withstand the pressure from the left wing, because now it's breaking out into the open.

00:25:47.000 I said for a long time I thought that the best day for Joe Biden was going to be his first day.

00:25:51.000 Well, that hasn't been true.

00:25:52.000 He's had a lot of good days since then.

00:25:53.000 But could it be that the best couple of months for Biden come at the very beginning?

00:25:57.000 That certainly could be the case.

00:25:59.000 Now, you want to know where the energy is in the Democratic Party?

00:26:01.000 It is with the wild left wing.

00:26:03.000 There's a Democratic candidate for the presidency who is so obscure we haven't even created a theme song for him yet named John Delaney.

00:26:10.000 And John Delaney was speaking at the California Convention, which is sort of ground zero for the Democratic Party.

00:26:18.000 He's a businessman who is running for president.

00:26:21.000 He was the U.S.

00:26:22.000 representative for Maryland's 6th congressional district from 2013 to 2019.

00:26:26.000 You've never heard of him because he was just a random congressperson.

00:26:28.000 Well, here he was explaining that he is not pro-socialism and getting booed for his trouble.

00:26:33.000 What we need as Democrats to build an economy that works, but it's got to be with smart policies.

00:26:40.000 Medicare for all may sound good, but it's actually not good policy, nor is it good politics.

00:26:48.000 I'm telling you.

00:26:51.000 We should have universal health care.

00:26:53.000 We should have universal health care, but it shouldn't be a kind of health care that kicks 150 million Americans off their health care. 0.51

00:27:03.000 That's not smart policy.

00:27:05.000 Okay, he's getting booed.

00:27:06.000 This is the best moment John Delaney has ever had, or will ever have.

00:27:09.000 He should be campaigning on this.

00:27:11.000 If he did, you know how many votes he would get inside the Democratic Party?

00:27:14.000 A hell of a lot more than all of the jokers who are running to the far left of the Democratic Party.

00:27:18.000 But you can see where the energy is in the Democratic Party.

00:27:21.000 The easiest way to see where people think the energy is in the Democratic Party is to follow Kirsten Gillibrand, because Kirsten Gillibrand Basically, she's a pander machine. 0.99

00:27:29.000 She's a pander bear. 1.00

00:27:30.000 That's all she does.

00:27:31.000 I mean, she changes her positions routinely. 1.00

00:27:34.000 She's got her finger in the wind all the time. 1.00

00:27:36.000 And so she's constantly taking the position she thinks will be most beneficial to her. 0.98

00:27:40.000 When she first ran for Senate in New York, she was fairly pro-gun.

00:27:44.000 She was somewhat pro-life and now she's switched all of her positions because that's where she believes that the money is in the Democratic Party. 0.98

00:27:51.000 That's where she believes the enthusiasm is in the Democratic Party.

00:27:54.000 So here she was over the weekend, Kirsten Gillibrand, the bellwether for the Democratic Party, the weathervane for the Democratic Party, explaining that she is very much in favor of third trimester abortion.

00:28:04.000 Are you saying also then for late term?

00:28:07.000 So I support Roe v. Wade, okay? 0.67

00:28:09.000 Roe v. Wade is the settled Supreme Court precedent that decides the entire issue.

00:28:14.000 And so I support Roe v. Wade.

00:28:16.000 I believe it should be codified.

00:28:17.000 It's been law of the land for over 30 years.

00:28:20.000 It should be law of the land.

00:28:21.000 As President of the United States, I will repeal the Hyde Amendment.

00:28:25.000 It's the amendment in law that makes it impossible for low-income women to access the care they need. 1.00

00:28:30.000 I will make sure no matter what state you live in, you have access to reproductive care including abortion services. 1.00

00:28:36.000 And there she is defending third trimester abortion.

00:28:38.000 She also attacked Fox News.

00:28:39.000 She understands this is where the enthusiasm is.

00:28:41.000 The Democrats understand the game right now, right?

00:28:43.000 Which is you go on Fox News and you rip into Fox News, which frankly is pretty smart.

00:28:47.000 But they all understand that even treating people on Fox News as though they are human is a bad idea.

00:28:52.000 This is one of the things that I think has driven the right absolutely off its rocker.

00:28:56.000 I mean, driven us mad, is this notion from the left that if I disagree with you, I'm not a human being.

00:29:02.000 I have conversations with people on the left all the time.

00:29:04.000 I'm trying to reach out to people on the left on a regular basis.

00:29:07.000 I really do.

00:29:07.000 I have conversations with folks with whom I disagree on a regular basis.

00:29:11.000 The unwillingness of many on the left to grant the humanity of people who disagree with them is a truly crucial and terrible thing.

00:29:19.000 Here is Kirsten Gillibrand appealing to precisely that instinct by ripping on Fox News. 1.00

00:29:23.000 Before President Trump gave his State of the Union, Fox News talked about infanticide.

00:29:29.000 Infanticide doesn't exist.

00:29:32.000 Senator, I just want to say we've brought you here for an hour.

00:29:35.000 We have given you, we're treating you very fairly.

00:29:38.000 I understand that maybe to make your credentials with the Democrats who are not appearing on Fox News, you're going to attack us.

00:29:47.000 I'm not sure it's frankly very polite when we've invited you to be here.

00:29:52.000 I will do it in a polite way, but it's to her point.

00:29:54.000 It's to her point.

00:29:55.000 Why don't we, instead of talking about Fox News, why don't you answer Susan's question?

00:30:00.000 Okay, so she again knows where her bread is buttered, and this is sort of the point.

00:30:05.000 You see the same thing from Kamala Harris, who is pandering to the far left. 1.00

00:30:09.000 She says all women have the right to do whatever they want with their own bodies. 1.00

00:30:12.000 This is, of course, her speaking at a Planned Parenthood event over the weekend.

00:30:17.000 This is a party about our conviction.

00:30:19.000 Our conviction to make sure that every woman has the right to do whatever she chooses to do with her life and her body.

00:30:29.000 So the enthusiasm in the Democratic Party is far to the left.

00:30:32.000 Another example from Kirsten Gillibrand, I do find this amusing.

00:30:35.000 So she just flat out lies about the NRA over the weekends.

00:30:38.000 There's this terrible shooting in Virginia Beach.

00:30:40.000 It was apparently done by a disgruntled employee.

00:30:43.000 Something like 12 people are killed.

00:30:45.000 And she goes after the NRA hard, does Kirsten Gillibrand.

00:30:48.000 There's only one problem, which I'll explain momentarily.

00:30:50.000 Is there anything you could have done that would have stopped this terrible incident?

00:30:54.000 Yeah, stop being beholden to the NRA like President Trump is.

00:30:58.000 He does President Trump's bidding.

00:30:59.000 Remember, after the shooting in Las Vegas, he said, yeah, yeah, we're going to ban the bump stocks.

00:31:04.000 Did he ban the bump stocks?

00:31:05.000 No.

00:31:06.000 Because the NRA came crashing down and said, don't you dare do any restrictions on our guns around this country.

00:31:13.000 It is such a false choice.

00:31:15.000 The NRA is lying to the American people.

00:31:17.000 It is not about the Second Amendment.

00:31:20.000 It is about gun sales.

00:31:22.000 It is literally about greed and corruption.

00:31:26.000 Okay, this is such a lie and it is also indicative of who Kirsten Gillibrand is.

00:31:30.000 Letter from Kirsten Gillibrand, September 19th, 2008 to Chris Cox, Executive Director of the NRA.

00:31:35.000 Dear Chris, Thank you again for meeting with me before the August recess.

00:31:39.000 Even though we discussed many of my positions regarding Second Amendment issues, I wanted to provide you with a more full description of my beliefs on this issue.

00:31:45.000 To begin with, I want to be very clear I always have and always will believe that the correct interpretation of the Second Amendment is that it applies to an individual's right to carry guns and does not apply generally to the National Guard or a group of individuals in a state.

00:31:58.000 On the question of outright banning certain firearms for cosmetic features, bullets of a random size, or banning magazines holding an arbitrary number of cartridges, I am adamantly opposed and do not believe that laws should be based on random limits just for the sake of limiting gun ownership and usage.

00:32:11.000 In addition, this development of smart guns that can be fired only by their owner is an intriguing idea, but I'm afraid that mandating such technologies will harm consumers' ability to use their guns in emergency situations.

00:32:22.000 And then she concludes this letter.

00:32:23.000 She says, It's from about 11 years ago.

00:32:24.000 that the NRA does to protect gun owners' rights.

00:32:26.000 I look forward to working with you for many years in Congress.

00:32:28.000 Signed, Kirsten Gillibrand, member of Congress.

00:32:31.000 That's from about 11 years ago.

00:32:33.000 Now, of course, she's flipped on the NRA, and the NRA is deeply evil, all of which prompted Chris Wallace to say to her, Lady, you switch your positions more often than the Kama Sutra recommends.

00:32:41.000 Your campaign slogan is brave wins.

00:32:46.000 But when you were a congresswoman representing a conservative district in upstate New York, you took pretty conservative positions on guns and immigration.

00:32:57.000 Once you became the senator for the entire liberal state of New York, you flipped and took much more liberal positions on guns and immigration.

00:33:05.000 So, how is that brave?

00:33:08.000 It's because I came from a district that was really rural.

00:33:12.000 Second Amendment was important.

00:33:14.000 Hunting was important. 0.96

00:33:15.000 My mom, of course she cooked the Thanksgiving turkey, but she also shot the Thanksgiving turkey. 1.00

00:33:21.000 Okay, so that is her explaining that she switched all of her positions. 1.00

00:33:23.000 So, solid response there for Kirsten Gillibrand.

00:33:26.000 The point here being that Gillibrand is a great indicator of where she thinks the arrows are pointing in the Democratic Party, and they are pointing in the Bernie Sanders direction, not the Joe Biden direction.

00:33:35.000 We'll get to more of that in just one second.

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00:34:57.000 That's basically what Joe Biden is up to.

00:34:59.000 We'll get to that in just one second, plus Elizabeth Warren joining the Panda Express. 1.00

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00:36:20.000 So let's talk for a second about a little more pandering on the part of the Democrats.

00:36:31.000 I've played you some Kirsten Gillibrand, who knows where where the party is going.

00:36:35.000 I played you some Kamala Harris.

00:36:37.000 I thought the most pandering, most pandering move of the weekend had to come from Elizabeth Warren. 0.93

00:36:42.000 So now it is Pride Month, LGBTQIAAQZ Pride Month.

00:36:47.000 And all right.

00:36:49.000 Whatever.

00:36:49.000 But she tweets out a video of herself in the most awkward possible way.

00:36:54.000 She is just Hillary Clinton on awkward steroids. 1.00

00:36:58.000 Remember Mark McGuire was a big strong guy before he started taking steroids and then he started taking steroids and he sort of exploded?

00:37:04.000 Well, the same thing has happened to Elizabeth Warren.

00:37:06.000 She was an awkward person before she ran for president, and now she's taking the awkward steroids and she's exploding like Mark McGuire. 1.00

00:37:12.000 She's breaking Roger Maris' record in terms of awkwardness.

00:37:15.000 If you can't see this video, it is her wearing a rainbow feather boa that she must have picked up at some sort of Halloween shop, and she's walking around high-fiving people with extraordinary enthusiasm that nobody else in the crowd seems to share.

00:37:30.000 She tweeted out, Okay, so, quick note.

00:37:32.000 This is America 2019.

00:37:33.000 I live in Los Angeles. 0.73

00:37:34.000 Not a lot of gay folks who are not living without pride. 0.95

00:37:35.000 LGBTQ plus civil rights today and every day we renew our commitment to fight until everyone can live proudly without fear I'll be right there alongside you happy hashtag pride.

00:37:43.000 Okay, so quick note This is America 2019.

00:37:46.000 I live in Los Angeles um Not a lot of gay folks who are not living without pride Lots of gay folks who are living quite openly as is their prerogative in a free society I don't really see what exactly she is suggesting the changes be But in any case, there she is being super awkward. 0.78

00:38:03.000 She knows where the future of the Democratic Party lies.

00:38:05.000 It lies with the radical left.

00:38:07.000 Let's see how she does in the middle of the country and with voters who may not be her own. 1.00

00:38:11.000 By the way, it's this sort of social issue pandering that is leading to one of the great divides in the country at large.

00:38:17.000 We'll get to that in just a minute.

00:38:19.000 First, I want to talk a little bit about Joe Biden.

00:38:21.000 So the guns are finally starting to open up on Joe Biden from the left side of the aisle.

00:38:26.000 According to the Associated Press, all the 2020 Democratic presidential campaigns show up in California to pander.

00:38:31.000 Joe Biden does not.

00:38:32.000 Why?

00:38:32.000 Well, maybe he's afraid that he's going to say what John Delaney said and then get booed.

00:38:36.000 According to the AP, Democratic presidential hopefuls took rival Joe Biden's absence at a California state party gathering Saturday as a chance to take subtle digs at the former VP and craft themselves as better positioned to bring Democrats into the future.

00:38:48.000 Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren said, quote, Some say if we all just calm down, the Republicans will come to their senses.

00:38:54.000 Apparently, this was a reference to Biden's comments that the GOP may have an epiphany after Trump is gone.

00:38:59.000 But our country is in a crisis.

00:39:00.000 The time for small ideas is over.

00:39:04.000 She wasn't the only one to be saying stuff like this.

00:39:08.000 Gavin Newsom said, Joe Biden is very familiar to Californians.

00:39:10.000 He spent a great deal of time in California.

00:39:13.000 But of course, he has also endorsed Kamala Harris, the senator from California.

00:39:18.000 Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, who governs a city smaller than What, 120th of my Twitter following?

00:39:25.000 He says, the riskiest thing we can do is play it safe.

00:39:28.000 There's no going back to normal.

00:39:30.000 Representative Eric Swalwell, who is running the most bizarre campaign for president I have ever seen in my life, he referenced Joe Biden.

00:39:36.000 He said, we don't need a crime bill.

00:39:38.000 We need a hope bill.

00:39:39.000 I don't even know what the hell a hope bill would look like.

00:39:41.000 What the hell's a hope bill?

00:39:45.000 I'm just, I'm confused what policy that is.

00:39:49.000 Apparently, Warren and New Jersey Senator Cory Booker received the most enthusiastic response from the crowd.

00:39:55.000 Warren reprised her, I've got a plan for that slogan.

00:39:57.000 And Cory Booker talked about how evil guns are.

00:40:01.000 Beto O'Rourke spoke also.

00:40:02.000 Basically, everybody kind of took subtle digs at Biden.

00:40:05.000 I think those break out into the open in pretty short order.

00:40:08.000 And the New York Times is leading the way.

00:40:09.000 They've got a long piece today titled, Biden's first run for president was a calamity.

00:40:13.000 Some missteps still resonate.

00:40:15.000 They say in 1988, Joe Biden was prone to embellishment.

00:40:18.000 Hints of that linger today.

00:40:19.000 But unlike then, his message to voters is clear.

00:40:21.000 He's a stabilizing statement, statesman in a tumultuous time.

00:40:25.000 And they talk about all of the lies that Joe Biden told back when he was running for president in 1988.

00:40:31.000 And they talk about how Biden still has a tendency to exaggerate and all the rest of this.

00:40:37.000 As I say, I think that it was only a matter of time until the Democrats opened up on Biden.

00:40:41.000 And once they open up on Biden, we'll see how well he withstands the assault.

00:40:44.000 Especially because I don't think that Joe Biden has a lot of taste.

00:40:47.000 For going up against the radicals inside his own party.

00:40:51.000 Eventually, he's going to be put to a choice.

00:40:53.000 Is he going to side with the radicals, with the Kamala Harrises, with the Elizabeth Warrens, with the Bernie Sanders?

00:40:57.000 Is he going to try and co-opt them?

00:40:59.000 Or is he going to stand strong against them?

00:41:01.000 And if he tries to co-opt them, if he tries to move into their lane, how long before they start to chip away at him?

00:41:08.000 Because after all, Elizabeth Warren is a more eloquent expositor of far leftism than Joe Biden, who is not actually on the far left in terms of most of his policies.

00:41:17.000 And meanwhile, I think this is worthy of note.

00:41:20.000 Not because anything Taylor Swift does is ever really worthy of note, but because it isn't.

00:41:25.000 Here's what I mean.

00:41:25.000 So, apparently Taylor Swift has now publicly rejected President Trump's stance on LGBTQ rights in a letter to Senator Lamar Alexander.

00:41:33.000 Now, you'll remember that Taylor Swift tried to endorse a Tennessee gubernatorial candidate a couple of years ago, or last year, in the gubernatorial race, and that ended up being a giant fail for her.

00:41:43.000 Nobody cared what Taylor Swift thought about politics. 0.58

00:41:45.000 That is not stopping her.

00:41:47.000 But here is what the Washington Post reports today.

00:41:49.000 Taylor Swift's newfound political streak was on full display Saturday when she posted to Instagram a lengthy letter to Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee imploring him to protect LGBTQ rights by voting to support the Equality Act.

00:42:01.000 The act, which was passed by the House last month, would ban discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in employment, housing, education, jury service, and federal financing.

00:42:10.000 Well, it would do a lot more than that.

00:42:11.000 It would basically mandate that if you are a private person in private life, that you have to imbibe everything that the social left tells you about the malleability of gender, of sexual orientation, of all of that stuff.

00:42:23.000 Swift said, There are hundreds of Tennessee faith leaders who have recently disagreed and spoken out to defend the LGBTQ community, which is not an argument.

00:42:53.000 That's an argument that if you are a traditional Christian who believes in traditional values about sin and sex, that you should basically be disregarded because she found some liberal pastors who echo her viewpoint.

00:43:03.000 She wrote that protecting the LGBTQ community from discrimination could bring more jobs to Tennessee, citing the fact that several corporations, including Amazon, have spoken out against the anti-LGBTQ slate of hate, referring to bills moving through the state legislature that would, according to Human Rights Campaign, allow businesses, organizations, and contractors to discriminate against LGBTQ people in employment policies.

00:43:24.000 First of all, that sort of language demonstrates the overreach that people want from government.

00:43:29.000 Okay, it's not about allowing businesses to discriminate.

00:43:32.000 If it's a private business, the question is, does the government have a right to interfere in private business, not what will they allow businesses to do?

00:43:38.000 You do not get your writ from the government.

00:43:40.000 This is not 17th century Britain.

00:43:43.000 Free association, freedom to pursue your business in a way you see fit, is a basic American right.

00:43:49.000 This has nothing to do with religious freedom, really.

00:43:51.000 It has to do with freedom of association.

00:43:54.000 If you don't want to have to hire A conservative.

00:43:57.000 For your business.

00:43:58.000 This would be a you thing.

00:43:59.000 And if I don't feel like hiring somebody from the left for my business, this would be a me thing.

00:44:03.000 And if I'm a religious institution that doesn't feel like violating my own religious precepts by performing a same-sex marriage, that's a me thing.

00:44:10.000 And if you don't feel like accepting somebody from my synagogue into your church, that's a you thing.

00:44:14.000 You know how we can all live in society together?

00:44:16.000 We can lighten the F up and leave each other alone.

00:44:19.000 That's what we can do.

00:44:20.000 But Taylor Swift is writing this letter.

00:44:21.000 Now, why does it matter that Taylor Swift and all these celebrities write these letters?

00:44:25.000 The left wants to play this double game.

00:44:27.000 The double game is this.

00:44:28.000 Every time the right complains about a cultural figure intervening in politics, people on the left say, well, why do you care?

00:44:35.000 They're citizens just like anyone else.

00:44:36.000 What are you whining about?

00:44:38.000 I mean, you say you don't care about celebrity.

00:44:40.000 Why does it matter to you what Taylor Swift has to say?

00:44:42.000 But then they tried out all these people at the DNC because they obviously believe that these people have something to say.

00:44:47.000 So here's what has happened, and it's really bad for the country.

00:44:50.000 Because the cultural has now become political, because there is no element of American culture that is free from politics, or at least mildly free from politics, because every aspect of American culture has become more and more political, from Gillette ads to sports, because every movie must be replete with social justice warrior messaging, because everything from children's book to library time has become a battleground for social issues, What's happened is that the right feels like it's not in control of the culture.

00:45:18.000 And the right is correct.

00:45:18.000 The right is not in control of the culture.

00:45:20.000 The people in Hollywood are universally to the left. 0.66

00:45:23.000 So universally to the left that people in Hollywood, it is far, far harder in Hollywood to be a conservative than it is to be gay. 0.81

00:45:29.000 There is no question about that.

00:45:32.000 It's just, really.

00:45:33.000 I mean, I know many people in Hollywood, many of whom are gay and many of whom are conservative.

00:45:37.000 And many of whom are both.

00:45:38.000 There's no question it is harder to come out of the closet as a conservative in Hollywood than it is to be gay in Hollywood, to take an example.

00:45:46.000 And this is why I've had Hollywood people who are friends, high-placed people in the Hollywood industry, and every time I meet with them or get together with them, I will overtly explain to them that they should never reveal to the public that we have met, because they will be destroyed by their own folks.

00:46:03.000 The commanding heights of the culture are run by the left, and Taylor Swift proves it.

00:46:07.000 And Taylor Swift, who was silenced for years, there was a meme online, a joke online, why doesn't Taylor Swift speak out about this issue, her silence is deafening?

00:46:14.000 Because basically, she was apolitical and she didn't say anything about politics.

00:46:17.000 Then in the last couple of years, her SJW friends convinced her that it was time for her to speak out about politics, and now she won't shut up about politics.

00:46:24.000 Well, people on the right, feeling like they're not in control of the culture, then move to the realm of government for protection.

00:46:31.000 So they pour all of their energies not into culture and not into the culture war.

00:46:34.000 They pour all of their energies into politics because this is something that they understand.

00:46:38.000 We can put our money behind candidates.

00:46:40.000 And not only that, whenever there is a cultural figure with any sort of cachet who endorses the right-wing position, people on the right freak out because like, wow, there's finally someone in the culture who doesn't disdain us and sneer at us.

00:46:54.000 It's a major reason Donald Trump is president.

00:46:56.000 Donald Trump was a cultural figure, not a political one.

00:46:59.000 But he was a cultural figure who did not sneer at everybody who was on the right.

00:47:02.000 And the right was so flattered by this that they thought, oh wow, somebody who actually is willing to fight the culture wars.

00:47:08.000 The left, meanwhile, has ratcheted up the cultural battles.

00:47:11.000 And so people on the right have reacted by saying, okay, well we're going to elect politicians who at least are not going to kowtow to Lena Dunham out in Los Angeles and New York.

00:47:20.000 We're going to elect people who fervently wish to ignore Taylor Swift.

00:47:24.000 And the left has responded by saying, OK, well, if we don't have political power, we'll ratchet up our cultural power.

00:47:28.000 As the left takes over the culture and the right moves back into politics, what you are getting is this massive war where the political class on the left has merged with the cultural class and the same thing is happening on the right.

00:47:40.000 So politics and culture are becoming two sides of the same coin.

00:47:44.000 And it's really not good for the country.

00:47:45.000 It used to be that the cultural sphere is where we all got together to chat during work breaks.

00:47:51.000 And now we can't even do that anymore.

00:47:53.000 And it's leading to political divides, too.

00:47:56.000 Because if all of our culture is political, and all of our politics is cultural, what do we share?

00:48:02.000 We didn't used to share politics, but at least we shared culture.

00:48:04.000 Now we don't share politics or culture.

00:48:07.000 And things, I think, are getting to a breaking point.

00:48:10.000 That's why this sort of stuff from Taylor Swift or Reese Witherspoon sounding off about abortion, that's why this matters.

00:48:16.000 It's only a matter of time before the United States has two separate cultures. 0.95

00:48:19.000 There's no cultural space that is shared either.

00:48:22.000 That's not going to be good for the country.

00:48:23.000 The left is pushing it so that there will have to be two different business lines in every business.

00:48:27.000 People who decide to endorse the social justice warrior left, the Gillettes of the world, and people who do not.

00:48:33.000 People who endorse the Starbucks view of the world, and people who endorse the Black Rifle Coffee view of the world.

00:48:39.000 That's where the politics of the country is going.

00:48:41.000 I don't think it's good for the country, but it is quickly becoming a reality, and that's because the left could not leave the culture alone.

00:48:47.000 They decided to ratchet up the cultural control that the left utilizes on a regular basis.

00:48:52.000 Okay, time for some things I like, and then some things that I hate.

00:48:55.000 So, Things that I like today.

00:48:57.000 So, number one, I've gotten... Comfort food for me is Westerns.

00:49:01.000 Westerns are just great.

00:49:03.000 I've gotten into watching some old Westerns recently.

00:49:05.000 So, this happened because, you know, a couple of weeks ago I was just looking for some movie comfort food, and I came up with Tombstone, which is just fantastic.

00:49:12.000 And then I thought, okay, well, what are some of the best Westerns I've never seen?

00:49:15.000 Well, at the very top of the list was John Ford's My Darling Clementine.

00:49:18.000 So John Ford, one of the great directors in American film history, directed At least 12 films that are actual honest-to-goodness classics.

00:49:26.000 Well, one of them is My Darling Clementine, which was one of the first movies about Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp.

00:49:34.000 Maybe the first major film about Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp.

00:49:37.000 It stars Henry Fonda and Linda Darnell and Victor Mature.

00:49:40.000 And it really is a good movie.

00:49:42.000 Also, the use of the camera is pretty fantastic.

00:49:45.000 Apparently, this is one of the movies that was utilized by Orson Welles as sort of a model for how he liked to use the camera.

00:49:53.000 John Ford is really an underrated director in his use of the camera.

00:49:56.000 Here's a little bit of the trailer for My Darling Clementine. 0.96

00:50:01.000 Shave, please.

00:50:02.000 Well, we sure want to thank you, Mr. Earp.

00:50:04.000 Wyatt Earp.

00:50:05.000 What?

00:50:06.000 You're not by any chance the marshal from Dodge City?

00:50:09.000 Ex-marshal.

00:50:10.000 What are you doing up here?

00:50:11.000 None of your business.

00:50:13.000 Why don't you behave yourself?

00:50:14.000 Go on, get out, go on back where you belong.

00:50:16.000 I'm not leaving until she gets out of town! 1.00

00:50:19.000 So, one of the things about the movie that's kind of fun, all of the, there's a bunch of movies about Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday.

00:50:36.000 And all of the movies are basically dependent on the relationship between Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp.

00:50:42.000 In this one, Victor Mature, who was considered kind of a beefcake at the time and not much of an actor, actually turns in a very good performance as Doc Holliday.

00:50:49.000 And the contrast between Victor Mature and Henry Fonda In this movie is quite good.

00:50:54.000 They changed the story, obviously.

00:50:56.000 Tombstone is a much more accurate version of the Wyatt Earp Doc Holliday story.

00:51:00.000 And Val Kilmer gives an iconic performance in that one.

00:51:02.000 But Victor Mature is really good in this, and the direction is beautiful.

00:51:04.000 It's a black and white film, but the use of churro scurro is just gorgeous.

00:51:08.000 Really a good film, worthy of the watch.

00:51:10.000 Go check out My Darling Clementine. 1.00

00:51:11.000 Okay, other things that I like.

00:51:13.000 So, there is an article in the New York Times.

00:51:16.000 It's so funny how folks on the left in the media don't even understand what they are writing about, and so they think they are writing the opposite of what they are writing.

00:51:23.000 There's an article by Joanna Klein called Fighting the Gender Stereotypes that Warp Biomedical Research.

00:51:29.000 And they say, Rebecca Shansky, a neuroscientist at Northeastern University in Boston, thinks you might not.

00:51:34.000 When she tells non-scientific audiences that researchers, for the most part, don't study female animals, people are blown away.

00:51:38.000 a neuroscientist at Northeastern University in Boston thinks you might not.

00:51:42.000 When she tells non-scientific audiences that researchers for the most part don't study female animals, people are blown away.

00:51:47.000 She added, "It seems like such an obvious thing to a normal person.

00:51:50.000 What you come up in the academic and science world, it's like, oh no, females are so complicated, so we just don't study them." In 2016, the National Institutes of Health and its Canadian counterpart mandated that all preclinical research they fund must include female subjects. 0.98

00:52:03.000 Now, Dr. Shansky and other scientists wondered if that requirement will do enough to improve how research is conducted.

00:52:09.000 In an essay published Thursday in Science, Dr. Shansky questions whether simply adding female organisms to experiments or looking for sex differences misses the point.

00:52:16.000 She warns that this is a public health problem and says scientists should design experiments better suited to both biological sexes.

00:52:22.000 She says if scientists don't stop looking through a male lens, outdated gender stereotypes will continue to foster dangerous assumptions about the brain and behavior, resulting in clinical studies and eventual treatments that don't work equally for all people on the gender spectrum.

00:52:35.000 So what is she saying?

00:52:35.000 She's saying we have to treat the sexes differently so that we can treat the sexes the same, is sort of where she's going.

00:52:41.000 Now, what's hilarious about this, and the reason I'm pointing this out, is that It is obvious to scientists of all stripes that males and females are different.

00:52:50.000 And yet we are told by our media betters that males and females are exactly the same, except for the fact that there are gender stereotypes that have been placed on males and females.

00:52:58.000 Now, I am all for more scientific studies about what exactly is the biological basis for differences between males and females. 0.78

00:53:05.000 But a science that fails to take into account those differences, and instead ignores those differences on behalf of crap science, like suggesting that male and female are cultural constructs, and that gender stereotypes are responsible for the vast majority of differences between men and women, it is just ascientific nonsense.

00:53:20.000 And when we study the animal kingdom, we all know this.

00:53:23.000 Because there are no social constructs in the animal kingdom.

00:53:25.000 And yet scientists very obviously treat male and female animals differently as well they should, because they are different.

00:53:31.000 The fact that the media are now recognizing that it was sexist to only perform experiments on male animals... I don't know how sexism can coexist with the idea that there is no such thing as biological sex.

00:53:45.000 If there's no such thing as biological sex, and gender is really what we should be looking at, self-identification as gender, then how is sexism even an issue?

00:53:54.000 It isn't, really, because what exactly is the... there's no biological basis for the quote-unquote stereotype.

00:54:00.000 Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate.

00:54:07.000 Well, one of the nice things about AOC is she is just a font of material.

00:54:10.000 So the incredibly brilliant congresswoman from New York, she did a bit of bartending over the weekend to demonstrate the plight of low-income workers, and she dropped this little gem about what it must be like to be a low-income worker working at a bar. 0.64

00:54:27.000 It is so real, the amount of exploitation and harassment.

00:54:31.000 And labor violations that you will endure for the sake and the structure of tipped work.

00:54:40.000 In the federal tipped minimum wage is $2.13 an hour.

00:54:44.000 That is unaccessible.

00:54:45.000 Any job that pays $2.13 an hour is not a job.

00:54:48.000 acceptable.

00:54:49.000 Any job that pays $2.13 an hour is not a job.

00:54:56.000 It's indentured servitude. - That's right. - And then people cheer for this.

00:55:01.000 Me thinks she does not understand the concept of indentured servitude, which was when a person signed a fixed contract for a long period of time and then had to work off whatever debt they had by working for the company.

00:55:12.000 You working at a job that you signed up for at a wage that you signed up for is not, in fact, indentured servitude.

00:55:18.000 This idea that it's exploitation to hire somebody at a wage they are willing to accept is absolute nonsense.

00:55:23.000 But again, I wouldn't expect AOC to know things.

00:55:25.000 I mean, that seems a little bit beyond her ken. 0.98

00:55:27.000 Other things that I hate. 0.98

00:55:29.000 So, it is amazing how religious intolerance is considered totally fine so long as it is from radical Muslims. 1.00

00:55:35.000 There's a story over the weekend.

00:55:37.000 Jews were allowed to enter the Temple Mount for Jerusalem Day.

00:55:40.000 So, one of the unbelievably ridiculous things in Israel is that the Temple Mount, which is the holiest site in Judaism, long pre-existing, long pre-existing even the existence of Islam as a religion, the holiest site in Judaism has been the Temple Mount. 0.86

00:55:52.000 There's not only, the reason it is called the Temple Mount is because it is where the Temple stood.

00:55:56.000 It is the mount upon which the Temple Mount Jews are not generally allowed to pray on the Temple Mount.

00:56:02.000 Why?

00:56:02.000 Because the state of Israel, out of its respect for Islam, decided to hand over the keys to the Temple Mount to the Islamic Waqf, which is religiously discriminatory and does not allow Jews to go up on the Temple Mount and say psalms.

00:56:14.000 And if you say psalms on the Temple Mount, you could be arrested by the Israeli troops that are supposed to guard you.

00:56:20.000 Why?

00:56:20.000 Because everybody is so afraid of ticking off the Muslims on the Temple Mount who will then go and riot.

00:56:24.000 Well, why are they so upset about this?

00:56:26.000 Because this is exactly what happens on the Temple Mount on a fairly regular basis.

00:56:29.000 When people talk about religious discrimination in Israel, let me make this clear.

00:56:33.000 In Israel, Muslims are allowed to worship wherever they please.

00:56:37.000 Jews are not allowed to worship wherever they please. 1.00

00:56:40.000 Out of some sort of deference, wrong-headed and stupid deference, to religiously intolerant bigots who control the Temple Mount. 1.00

00:56:47.000 So over the weekend, here's what happened. 0.99

00:56:49.000 Jews were allowed to enter the Temple Mount for Jerusalem Day.

00:56:51.000 They still weren't allowed to say psalms.

00:56:53.000 If you go up there and you say psalms, they will actually arrest you.

00:56:56.000 Riots broke out on the Temple Mount on Sunday.

00:56:58.000 The commander of the Jerusalem District, Major General Doron Yedid, ordered the police to enter the Temple Mount and take care of the rioters.

00:57:04.000 As the police attempted to enter the place, Arab worshipers began throwing stones, chairs, and other objects at the forces.

00:57:09.000 The forces responded with riot dispersal means.

00:57:13.000 Jews are generally forbidden to enter the compound during the last days of the month of Ramadan.

00:57:18.000 The police allowed the entrance of Jews, especially for Jerusalem Day, and people rioted.

00:57:24.000 It's amazing to me that Israel is considered the religiously intolerant nation in the region where Muslims are allowed to pray openly, worship wherever they want, where Muslims vote, where Muslim parties sit in the Knesset.

00:57:38.000 There are zero Jews living under Palestinian authority dictates.

00:57:42.000 And if a Jew so much as dares to step on the Temple Mount, they risk setting off a riot. 0.81

00:57:46.000 But don't worry, religious intolerance is apparently the province of the Jews, according to the mainstream media. 0.99

00:57:50.000 It's really ridiculous. 0.87

00:57:51.000 OK, well, we'll be back here a little bit later today with two additional hours of content.

00:57:54.000 Go check us out over there, or we'll see you here tomorrow.

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00:58:25.000 Pride Month is upon us when corporate America, politicians, and even priests cash in on America's obsession with unusual sex.

00:58:34.000 We will analyze how the left took the queen of vices and turned it into the most important virtue in the country.

00:58:39.000 Then, the 2020 Democrats continue to humiliate themselves.

The Ben Shapiro Show - June 03, 2019

The Enemy Of The People | Ep. 793

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