The Ben Shapiro Show - The Final Countdown | Ep. 652

00:00:00.000 Four days until Election Day, we assess the state of the race, President Trump goes off on an illegal immigration, and we check the mailbag.

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00:01:44.000 We are now four days from the election.

00:01:46.000 It approacheth.

00:01:48.000 And suffice it to say that nobody knows what exactly is going on.

00:01:52.000 The data suggests that Republicans could lose anywhere from 30 to 40 seats in the House, and they could pick up anywhere from zero to five seats in the Senate.

00:01:58.000 But all of the modeling is is sketchy at best.

00:02:03.000 The sort of 538 modeling suggests an 85 percent chance that Republicans

00:02:07.000 Lose the House and an 85% chance they retain the Senate, but we've seen those sorts of odds bucked before.

00:02:13.000 We simply don't know how turnout is going to be reflected, especially because there is high voter enthusiasm from both parties going into the election.

00:02:21.000 Now, I would say that my feeling, my general feeling, is that Republican enthusiasm was higher three weeks ago during the Kavanaugh hearings because I've literally never seen Republican enthusiasm higher than it was during that period.

00:02:31.000 With that said, Republican enthusiasm remains high because the country is simply so polarized.

00:02:37.000 With that in mind, it's time to take a look at exactly what this election is going to be like.

00:02:43.000 Well, there's very good news for Republicans going into the election.

00:02:46.000 That news is the economic news that broke today.

00:02:49.000 Job growth blew past expectations in October, and year-over-year wage gains jumped past 3% for the first time since the Great Recession, according to the Labor Department.

00:02:57.000 So this is just a stunningly good jobs report.

00:02:59.000 Non-farm payrolls

00:03:00.000 Powered up by 250,000 jobs for the month, well ahead of refinitive estimates of 190,000.

00:03:06.000 The unemployment rate stayed at 3.7%, the lowest since December 1969.

00:03:11.000 Jim Baird, Partner and Chief Investment Officer for Plant Moran Financial Advisors, talking to CNBC.

00:03:17.000 He said the job market is doing remarkably well, particularly this late in the expansion.

00:03:21.000 This report adds yet another data point to a narrative that has been positive for the labor market this year.

00:03:25.000 Little seems to stand in the way of the economy finishing 2018 out on solid footing.

00:03:30.000 Which would seem to cut in favor of Republicans, because obviously when the economy is good, the economy is good.

00:03:34.000 We, however, are in the middle of an extraordinarily polarized political environment.

00:03:38.000 To just finish out the news on the economy, the ranks of the unemployed rose to a fresh record.

00:03:43.000 Sorry, the ranks of the employed rose to a fresh record of 156.6 million, and the employment-to-population ratio increased to 60.6 percent.

00:03:52.000 That's the highest level since December 2008, so prior to the recession.

00:03:56.000 That headline jobless number stayed level, even amid a two-tenths of a percentage point rise in the labor participation rate of 62.9 percent.

00:04:03.000 This is unmitigated good news.

00:04:06.000 People counted outside the labor force tumbled by $487,000 to $95.9 million.

00:04:12.000 But wage growth is the biggest story.

00:04:14.000 Average hourly earnings increased by $0.05 an hour for the month, $0.83 year over year.

00:04:18.000 That's a 3.1% gain.

00:04:20.000 The annual increase in wages was the best since 2009.

00:04:23.000 It outstripped inflation, so that means a real wage growth.

00:04:25.000 That number is being watched closely by the Federal Reserve, which has been increasing its benchmark interest rate.

00:04:30.000 They did it three times this year.

00:04:31.000 They're on track to do it again in December.

00:04:33.000 There's a lot of talk about whether the Fed is actually tamping down growth by essentially curtailing the ability to lend.

00:04:40.000 But suffice it to say that if the economy is this strong with a tighter Fed, that means that the economy is really busting loose.

00:04:46.000 It's doing some pretty amazing things.

00:04:47.000 And that is largely thanks to consumer confidence being extraordinarily high.

00:04:51.000 It's due to the fact that a lot of voters and citizens feel that

00:04:56.000 Their money is not going to be taken away from them with a Republican Congress and a Republican president.

00:05:00.000 All of this should cut very much in favor of the Republicans.

00:05:03.000 And indeed, the Republicans do have a serious shot at keeping the House, even though the odds are stacked against it.

00:05:08.000 So Sean Trent, who's an elections analyst over at RealClearPolitics, has a really good piece over there talking about what it would take for Republicans to retain the House.

00:05:16.000 Here's what he says.

00:05:18.000 He says, as we move toward the close of this election cycle, impending control of the House of Representatives remains up in the air.

00:05:24.000 The general consensus among analysts is that Democrats are the favorites, perhaps by a substantial margin, but that Republicans remain in the game.

00:05:30.000 Which raises a question.

00:05:31.000 What do we mean by Republicans staying in the game?

00:05:34.000 Regardless of what the math might indicate, are there plausible scenarios that result in the GOP keeping the House?

00:05:38.000 He says, yes.

00:05:39.000 He says there really are believable scenarios that don't require Republicans to win districts they've written off.

00:05:44.000 Republicans have to catch some breaks, but they don't have to catch breaks in ways that shock and surprise us.

00:05:48.000 We can still assume that suburban districts move against them, which they almost certainly will.

00:05:52.000 We can even include some surprising Democratic wins.

00:05:54.000 He says, in Arizona, Republicans could lose Arizona District 2.

00:05:59.000 This open Romney-Clinton district is too much for Republicans to hold on to.

00:06:02.000 In California, low Hispanic turnout enables Republicans to hold the 10th in the Central Valley.

00:06:06.000 Steve Knight squeaks out a win in the northern reaches of L.A.

00:06:09.000 Dana Rohrabacher keeps his seat.

00:06:10.000 There's a poll today showing that Dana Rohrabacher is likely 0.95

00:06:14.000 He basically goes through state by state and he says that there is indeed a significant possibility in which Republicans retain the House even as they lose 22 districts to the Democrats.

00:06:23.000 So he says that basically this could be Democrats win 22 seats, two Democrats win 40 seats.

00:06:29.000 We just don't know.

00:06:30.000 And that is why, you know, how the president acts right now and how the Democrats act does have an impact on the election.

00:06:37.000 So let's talk about the president's closing, his closing argument.

00:06:42.000 A lot of folks, as I said yesterday, are saying, why is it that Republicans don't focus on all the good economic news and just make their message, the economy is great?

00:06:50.000 And the answer is, saying the economy is good doesn't necessarily save you from voter ire.

00:06:54.000 If voters are pissed off about a secondary issue, then the economy being excellent doesn't actually help you.

00:06:59.000 Remember, the economic recovery of the early 1990s began under George H.W.

00:07:03.000 Bush.

00:07:03.000 It was not enough to save him, as Bill Clinton went around railing against George H.W.

00:07:07.000 Bush's economy.

00:07:09.000 So, a good economy is not necessarily a savior, and a bad economy is definitely a killer.

00:07:15.000 That's the rule about economics in elections. 0.79

00:07:18.000 So, what that means is that both sides have to get their base ramped up to ignore the economy.

00:07:23.000 And the Democrats are doing this by essentially suggesting that President Trump is a very, very mean man, right?

00:07:27.000 This is the way that they are doing this.

00:07:28.000 And President Trump is doing this by suggesting that there are real, present threats to the United States that Democrats are willing to ignore.

00:07:34.000 So Democrats claim that Trump is an alarmist.

00:07:37.000 Trump claims that Democrats are sanguine about bad things happening to the United States.

00:07:40.000 Both are sort of half right and half wrong.

00:07:43.000 But the Democrats have decided also that Trump is Satan and Trump has decided that the Democrats are completely apathetic about bad things happening to the country.

00:07:52.000 Now,

00:07:53.000 I think that Trump is closer to right than the Democrats are, but here is the Democrat closing argument.

00:07:58.000 The Democrat closing argument is put by Paul Krugman, who has been on this this terror recently about how Republicans are legitimately evil.

00:08:06.000 There's a piece today in the New York Times, it's called A Party Defined by its Lies.

00:08:09.000 At this point, good people can't be good Republicans.

00:08:13.000 Well, that's a pretty strong statement.

00:08:15.000 I think that good people can be good Democrats, so I'm concerned why he would think that good people can't be good Republicans.

00:08:20.000 Why?

00:08:21.000 Well, you know the answer.

00:08:22.000 It's because of Trump, right?

00:08:22.000 He says, During my first year as an op-ed columnist for the New York Times, I wasn't allowed to use the word lie.

00:08:27.000 That first year coincided with the 2000 election, and George W. Bush was, in fact, being systemically dishonest about his economic proposals, saying false things about who would benefit from his tax cut and the implications of Social Security privatization.

00:08:38.000 But the notion that a major party's presidential candidate would go beyond spin to outright lies seemed dangerous and saying it was considered beyond the pale.

00:08:45.000 Obviously that prohibition no longer holds on this opinion page.

00:08:48.000 Suffice it to say that the opinion pages of the New York Times were better when Democrats like Paul Krugman couldn't overuse the word lie to label anything that they think is a misinterpretation.

00:08:58.000 He says, at this point, the GOP's campaign message consists of nothing but lies.

00:09:02.000 Yeah, that's not an overstatement.

00:09:03.000 It's hard to think of a single true thing Republicans are running on.

00:09:07.000 Really?

00:09:07.000 Is it that hard to think of a single true thing?

00:09:09.000 How about the economy?

00:09:11.000 How about the fact that Obamacare has been a failure?

00:09:13.000 How about the fact that we do, in fact, need to secure our borders?

00:09:16.000 How about the fact that we do need to build up our military?

00:09:18.000 There are a lot of things Republicans run on that are not, in fact, lies.

00:09:22.000 But what are the big lies?

00:09:23.000 Well, here's what Krugman says.

00:09:24.000 He says,

00:09:25.000 It's a Republican problem, and it's not just Donald Trump.

00:09:27.000 What he really means is it's just Donald Trump and his Republicans.

00:09:30.000 Democrats aren't saints, but they campaign mostly on real issues.

00:09:34.000 Really?

00:09:34.000 They've been campaigning on transgender bathrooms.

00:09:37.000 They've been campaigning on, we should let everybody through the border because Donald Trump is mean.

00:09:43.000 They've been campaigning on Russia collusion.

00:09:46.000 Those are all real issues?

00:09:47.000 All right.

00:09:48.000 Says, Democrats aren't saints, but they campaign mostly on real issues and generally do, in fact, stand for more or less what they claim to stand for.

00:09:54.000 As we'll see, this is not, in fact, true.

00:09:56.000 He says, Republicans don't.

00:09:57.000 And the total dishonesty of Republican electioneering should itself be a decisive political issue, because at this point, it defines the party's character.

00:10:03.000 What are Republicans lying about?

00:10:05.000 As I said, almost everything.

00:10:07.000 Thanks, Paul.

00:10:08.000 Says, but there are two big themes.

00:10:09.000 They lie about their agenda, pretending their policies would help the middle and working classes when they would, in fact, do the opposite.

00:10:15.000 Um, did he see the economic report today?

00:10:18.000 In which job growth was massive and wage growth was massive?

00:10:23.000 Like, that helps the poor and working class, actually, when the economy is good.

00:10:27.000 And he says, and they lie about the problems America faces, hyping an imaginary threat from scary dark-skinned people and increasingly attributing that threat to Jewish conspirators.

00:10:35.000 Okay, that last part is just a lie.

00:10:37.000 Republicans are not going around attributing the threat to the United States to quote-unquote Jewish conspirators.

00:10:42.000 They're saying that George Soros funds bad people.

00:10:44.000 That is absolutely true.

00:10:46.000 That does not mean it's an anti-Semitic riff.

00:10:48.000 Any more than it's anti-Semitic for the Democrats to claim that Sheldon Adelson funds a lot of Republican causes, which is also true. 0.69

00:10:55.000 See, this is what I was saying yesterday.

00:11:01.000 The Democrats have fallen right into Trump's trap, because Trump says, we've got a crisis on the southern border.

00:11:05.000 Democrats, instead of saying, we do have a problem with our southern border and we need to solve that, but it's not a crisis, instead of saying that, they go to,

00:11:12.000 There's no crisis at all.

00:11:13.000 Everything's hunky-dory.

00:11:14.000 And you're just saying that because you're racist. 0.99

00:11:16.000 To which the Republican response is, go F yourself. 0.87

00:11:20.000 I say that there's a threat, and you say that I'm a racist for saying there's a threat?

00:11:24.000 And we'll go through the rest of Paul Krugman's column, because this is basically the Democratic closing argument, and then we'll get to how President Trump is fighting back against that.

00:11:31.000 I also want to make a couple of comments about his statement that Democrats are telling the truth about their agenda.

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00:12:44.000 Okay, so Paul Krugman of the New York Times continues.

00:12:47.000 Well, no, that is not what the CBO report actually said.

00:12:49.000 What the CBO report actually said

00:13:09.000 is that a bunch of people who had individual plans before and now have to be covered by Obamacare would no longer have Obamacare and presumably go back to individual plans.

00:13:18.000 So that is not actually what the CBO said.

00:13:20.000 He says,

00:13:31.000 And here's where Krugman gets to the center of his contention that only bad people can vote Republican.

00:13:50.000 Now, as I've said, do I think that the threat of the caravan is exaggerated?

00:13:54.000 I do, because last time there was a caravan, by the time it reached the United States border, it was like 200 people, and they showed up asking for asylum at a border patrol station, and then they were processed and most of them were sent back.

00:14:04.000 So is this an existential threat to the security of the United States?

00:14:07.000 No, I don't think the caravan is, but it is symbolic, and it is obviously symbolic, and the fact that Democrats refuse to acknowledge the symbolism of the caravan, the fact that Democrats refuse to acknowledge that it is a stand-in

00:14:19.000 For the broader issue of people crossing the border illegally without permission of the U.S.

00:14:22.000 government, making themselves at home, sometimes having criminal backgrounds.

00:14:26.000 That's why Democrats are not resonating with the American people on this issue.

00:14:30.000 And Krugman then says, Well, no.

00:14:36.000 It turns out that demonizing George Soros is not anti-Semitic.

00:14:39.000 Demonizing George Soros may be bad, but there's a difference between bad and inflammatory and anti-Semitic.

00:14:45.000 He says,

00:14:54.000 Or possibly a bunch of people who don't want anyone like Paul Krugman anywhere near the levers of power.

00:14:59.000 Because the Democrats have shown themselves to be utterly irresponsible.

00:15:02.000 People like Paul Krugman are completely wild.

00:15:05.000 They have not posited either anything remotely approaching a moderate policy or even a moderate rhetoric.

00:15:12.000 I mean, Paul Krugman is literally sitting there labeling 60 million Americans bad human beings because they're voting the way he doesn't want them to vote.

00:15:18.000 He says, what will this party do if it retains full control of Congress next week?

00:15:21.000 What we've seen over and over again is that for these people, there are no limits, no bottom.

00:15:25.000 If they pull this midterm election out, expect the worst.

00:15:28.000 What would the worst be, Paul Krugman?

00:15:31.000 Would the worst be like the Holocaust? 0.99

00:15:32.000 Like, well, you want to specify?

00:15:34.000 Of course, he's not going to because this is a scare tactic in and of itself.

00:15:37.000 So it's so funny to hear the Democrats saying Trump engages in the politics of fear.

00:15:42.000 As they suggest that half of Americans are evil human beings for voting the way they don't want, which is indeed engaging in the politics of fear.

00:15:48.000 Now, it is true that both sides are engaging in the politics of fear.

00:15:52.000 The question is, which fear is more justified?

00:15:53.000 So President Trump yesterday gave a speech in the White House in which he talked about the military response to the caravan.

00:15:59.000 Now, is it necessary to send 15,000 troops the size of the Afghanistan surge down to the border of Mexico?

00:16:07.000 No, I don't think that logistically speaking that is necessary to deal with a caravan that is dwindling by the day.

00:16:14.000 With that said, should we secure our border?

00:16:15.000 Of course we should secure our border.

00:16:18.000 And the president is using language being tough on immigration that is obviously directed toward the election.

00:16:23.000 Again, directed at reminding Americans that Democrats don't take this issue particularly seriously.

00:16:28.000 And he wins every time they declare that he's a white supremacist.

00:16:31.000 Because here's how the logic goes.

00:16:32.000 Trump says, listen, we got a crisis at the border.

00:16:34.000 And Democrats say, you're a racist for saying so.

00:16:36.000 And he says, OK, so you don't even want to acknowledge that there's a problem. 0.93

00:16:39.000 They say, you're a racist for exaggerating the problem.

00:16:42.000 If you just keep shouting racist over and over and over, while the American people look at a caravan of illegal immigrants coming through Mexico, in some cases you can see there are tapes of people in the caravan.

00:16:53.000 I'm sure a lot of people in the caravan are fine folks who just want a better economic life.

00:16:58.000 There are some people in the caravan.

00:16:59.000 There's video of it.

00:16:59.000 Benny Johnson has it up at Daily Caller.

00:17:02.000 There's video of some of the members of the caravan throwing rocks at members of police.

00:17:05.000 Those are not people we need in the United States.

00:17:08.000 But President Trump is obviously ginning up the base for the election.

00:17:12.000 Is it right?

00:17:14.000 I don't think it's right to exaggerate.

00:17:15.000 Is it politically effective?

00:17:17.000 Yeah, it probably is politically effective.

00:17:19.000 Here's President Trump yesterday talking about what he's told the military to do in the case of people who are throwing rocks.

00:17:24.000 But I will tell you this, anybody throwing stones, rocks, like they did to Mexico and the Mexican military, Mexican police, where they badly hurt police and soldiers of Mexico, we will consider that a firearm.

00:17:37.000 Because there's not much difference when you get hit in the face with a rock

00:17:42.000 Which, as you know, it was very violent a few days ago.

00:17:46.000 Very, very violent. 0.95

00:17:48.000 OK, so people, of course, saying that Trump now says that if you throw a rock at the border police that they're going to shoot you to death.

00:17:53.000 OK, that's not what he's really saying there.

00:17:56.000 OK, and nobody in the military is going to obey that order.

00:17:58.000 He's saying if you feel that your life is in danger, you can you can use rules of engagement that allow you to defend yourself with a firearm.

00:18:04.000 Right.

00:18:04.000 Which is basically what every civilized country would do.

00:18:06.000 Trump just puts it in the most brutal way.

00:18:08.000 So people react in the most overwrought way.

00:18:10.000 And then Trump says, listen, migrants who want asylum can show up at a port of entry.

00:18:14.000 But if they show up between the borders, we are deporting them.

00:18:17.000 Instead, migrants seeking asylum will have to present themselves lawfully at a port of entry.

00:18:25.000 So they're going to have to lawfully present themselves at a port of entry.

00:18:29.000 Which presumably is what they're going to do.

00:18:31.000 I mean, that's exactly what the migrants did a couple of years ago. 1.00

00:18:35.000 The problem for the Democrats is that they react with outsized outrage at everything President Trump does.

00:18:40.000 And Trump is trolling them.

00:18:42.000 Just politically speaking, President Trump is obviously trolling them.

00:18:44.000 But the Democrats react by saying that anything Trump says about immigration is just due to racism.

00:18:50.000 Which, again, alienates a huge swath of the American public that is concerned about illegal immigration, may not even love President Trump's exaggerations, but if they have to choose between Trump's exaggerations and his sort of maligning of broader groups and a Democratic Party that assumes that any talk about this issue is endemically racist, they're going to choose Trump.

00:19:11.000 Trump understands it's binary.

00:19:12.000 The Democrats think it's binary, too.

00:19:14.000 But if they think they're going to win on the basis of calling people racist, they are wrong.

00:19:17.000 Here's Simone Sanders and CNN suggesting that, you know, President Trump's remarks are a defense of white supremacy.

00:19:24.000 I hope when the White House sent out those statements today, the remarks of the President, they titled it, In Defense of White Supremacy, because that's exactly what I heard from the White House, which is unfortunate.

00:19:34.000 Look, if we want to have a conversation about fixing our broken immigration system, it's not dividing, he's calling out the facts. 0.97

00:19:41.000 The facts are, he's saying these brown people are coming to take your jobs, they're criminals, we can't trust them, we're going to shoot them at the border, and the Democrats just want them to come in, so you need to vote for the Republicans. 1.00

00:19:52.000 Okay, well, she's adding the brown people section of that. 0.99

00:19:55.000 He's saying there are people who are coming into the United States who may be criminals.

00:19:57.000 There are people coming into the United States we haven't vetted. 1.00

00:20:00.000 There are people coming into the United States who are going to undercut our labor base. 1.00

00:20:04.000 You know who used to say that sort of stuff?

00:20:05.000 Bernie Sanders.

00:20:05.000 You know who else used to say that sort of stuff?

00:20:07.000 Harry Reid.

00:20:08.000 It's not racist just because you are talking about a group of people coming up from a place where people have brown skin.

00:20:14.000 Presumably, if there were a bunch of people coming from Canada throwing rocks at police officers while carrying the Canadian flag and trying to cross the border, Trump would react similarly.

00:20:22.000 That's not going to happen because Canada is actually not a country where people are desperate to leave.

00:20:27.000 It is happening from Central and Latin America because those are countries where people are desperate to leave.

00:20:31.000 That's just a fact.

00:20:32.000 And now we're going to talk about the media's response.

00:20:35.000 And again, Paul Krugman suggests over the New York Times, the Democrats are telling the truth about their agenda.

00:20:40.000 We will show that is certainly not the case in just one second.

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00:21:53.000 So the media are so upset about Trump, they don't even want to play.

00:21:55.000 They don't even want to play his ads.

00:21:57.000 We talked yesterday about an ad that President Trump put out that showed a guy named Luis Bracamontes, who was an illegal immigrant who entered the United States a couple of different times, once under Clinton, once under Bush, remained under Obama, killed a couple of police officers.

00:22:10.000 And Trump linked that to the illegal immigrant migrant caravan that is coming up from the South.

00:22:16.000 And people immediately jumped to racist.

00:22:18.000 Here's Wolf Blitzer, an objective journalist, being objectively journalismic.

00:22:22.000 Right?

00:22:22.000 Suggesting that he doesn't even want to play the ad.

00:22:24.000 It's just so terrible, I can't even play it.

00:22:26.000 I just can't, I can't play it.

00:22:27.000 I mean, it's just that bad.

00:22:28.000 It's just, everything's terrible.

00:22:48.000 It's totally, OK, except that the fact is that we don't know who the migrants are who are coming up.

00:22:53.000 And while I say that, I think that the ad is alarmist.

00:22:56.000 And I do think the ad is alarmist.

00:22:57.000 The suggestion it's so awful you can't even play it is just it's a bizarre contention.

00:23:02.000 Again, these are folks who are fully willing to play every ad coming from Democrats suggesting that Republicans were going to deprive millions of people of their health care and leave them to die.

00:23:09.000 That was totally okay.

00:23:10.000 But Trump's saying, we may have a problem with illegal immigration, and then exaggerating that case for political effect.

00:23:16.000 That's unplayable.

00:23:17.000 Valerie Jarrett says, this ad is sad.

00:23:19.000 Political fear-mongering.

00:23:20.000 It's just fear-mongering.

00:23:21.000 So this is the new Democratic bi-word these days.

00:23:24.000 The Republicans are engaged in fear-mongering.

00:23:25.000 Welcome to politics, gang.

00:23:28.000 It's just a sad page from an old playbook called Political Fearmongering 101.

00:23:36.000 We've seen it used time and time and time again.

00:23:38.000 It's designed to scare people and to motivate them to not focus on the issues that are really important, to distract them from issues that as I travel around the country I hear about from everyday Americans.

00:23:50.000 Okay, if you're actually hearing the issues that everyday Americans care about, they do care about illegal immigration.

00:23:55.000 They do care about the economy.

00:23:56.000 Again, Democrats suggesting they are on their high horse about fear-mongering, it's just astonishing.

00:24:02.000 There's a really good post by Noah Rothman over at Commentary Magazine in which he goes through this.

00:24:07.000 He says, The Washington Post declared that Trump and the GOP have settled on fear and falsehoods as a closing argument, with a little racially-tinged rhetoric as a topper.

00:24:15.000 He says, on health care and entitlements, the report noted the GOP has shown a willingness to instill fear in their electorate.

00:24:20.000 You see, Republican lawmakers are suddenly supportive of protections for pre-existing conditions, despite their oppositions to the ACA.

00:24:26.000 And then he goes on to talk about all of the supposed Republican fearmongering.

00:24:31.000 And he says, these articles have a point.

00:24:33.000 Donald Trump's attempts to suggest that radical Islamist terrorists from the Middle East had infiltrated a caravan of asylum seekers traveling north through Mexico from Honduras is fearmongering.

00:24:41.000 The Times is on solid ground when it impugns efforts by Republican candidates to cast Antonio Delgado, a Rhodes scholar who toyed with the career of music, as a big city rapper.

00:24:49.000 And just as all these articles note, election year efforts by the incumbent party to stoke baseless fears is a pretty standard tactic.

00:24:56.000 And yet you would be hard pressed to find such ubiquitous denunciations of Democratic efforts to instill in the minds of voters a near existential fear of the GOP.

00:25:04.000 And then he just lists off all of these fear tactics used by Democrats.

00:25:09.000 In 2010, Republicans were admonished for circulating RNC-approved documents that labeled President Obama a socialist.

00:25:15.000 The GOP's candidates were scolded for criticizing Barack Obama's support for the construction of a mosque near Ground Zero in Manhattan.

00:25:21.000 ABC News savaged Republican candidates who attacked Democrats for supporting programs that outsourced American jobs and exported American capital to China.

00:25:30.000 A party with its back against the wall routinely resorts to fear tactics.

00:25:33.000 For much of the last decade, that was the Democratic Party.

00:25:35.000 The Agenda Project accused the GOP of wanting to eliminate Medicare in 2011, and they illustrated that by showing Paul Ryan tossing an elderly woman off a cliff.

00:25:43.000 In 2002, in 2012, sorry, Vice President Joe Biden accused the GOP of seeking to reinstitute black slavery.

00:25:50.000 Senator Bernie Sanders, Senate Republican, sought the elimination of the Department of Veterans Affairs and Social Security in 2013.

00:25:56.000 DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz

00:25:59.000 Summarize the Republican platform as let's kick women and immigrants out of the country in 2015. 1.00

00:26:04.000 Hillary Clinton followed suit, claiming that Ted Cruz had tried to ban contraception. 0.55

00:26:08.000 So all of the fear mongering, welcome to American politics, where this sort of stuff happens all the time.

00:26:13.000 And it does raise a severe question for the Democrats that they don't want to deal with.

00:26:16.000 And this is why they're going to simply shout racist.

00:26:19.000 What would you do with this caravan of migrants? 1.00

00:26:21.000 What would you do with folks who are seeking asylum and are coming here not because they actually are being targeted by any sort of political violence, but because they are looking for more economic opportunity and don't have any intention of assimilating?

00:26:35.000 What would you do with those people?

00:26:36.000 Well, the answer for Democrats is they won't answer the question or they'll lie about it.

00:26:40.000 So, just today, a group of caravan migrants from Honduras filed a class-action lawsuit against President Trump and various government agencies, including Homeland Security, for violating their Fifth Amendment due process rights if the government turns the caravan away, as Trump has signaled he intends to do.

00:26:55.000 The lawsuit was filed by 12 Honduran nationals, and it maintains that since the migrants are coming from three countries, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, suffering human rights crises, some migrants have grounds for admission as asylum seekers.

00:27:07.000 By turning them away without fully hearing their asylum claims, they contend the president and his administration are infringing upon their rights under the Administrative Procedures Act and the Declaratory Judgment Act, this according to James Barrett over at Daily Wire.

00:27:20.000 Though the Constitution applies to those living legally in the U.S., legal precedent has applied due process to aliens in deportation proceedings, so the lawsuit

00:27:28.000 Democrats are going to have to answer. 0.92

00:27:29.000 Do they think that these folks should be able to sue their way into the United States?

00:27:33.000 Democrats are also going to have to answer questions about their own treatment of people who have sought asylum in the United States and crossed the border in order to do so.

00:27:42.000 James O'Keefe's Project Veritas released an undercover sting video on Thursday night, appearing to show campaign staffers for Beto O'Rourke, quote, illegally using campaign resources to buy supplies and help transport Honduran aliens.

00:27:54.000 Now, listen, you want to help folks who are already across the border in the United States and they are here pending an asylum claim?

00:28:01.000 That's legal.

00:28:01.000 There are folks who do it.

00:28:03.000 But misappropriating campaign resources in order to do that, that is illegal.

00:28:07.000 And apparently that was happening over at Beto O'Rourke's campaign.

00:28:10.000 And then they wonder why so many Americans are not resounding to the Democratic take on illegal immigration.

00:28:16.000 This is why when Paul Krugman says that Democrats are being honest about their agenda, no, they are not.

00:28:22.000 James O'Keefe has almost single-handedly unmasked the Democrats for just how dishonest they are, but just by speaking to members of their own campaign.

00:28:29.000 Here's a little bit of the tape when O'Keefe's folks over at Project Veritas went into the Beto O'Rourke headquarters and started asking around about whether the funds for Beto O'Rourke were being used to help out Honduran caravan folks.

00:28:43.000 So there's like a, you know, that migrant caravan.

00:28:46.000 They just, a few of them got here already and they're dropping them off, like, really close to Missouri.

00:28:50.000 Who?

00:28:51.000 Oh, that, the Hondurans?

00:28:53.000 Oh, the Hondurans, yeah.

00:28:54.000 Um, it's this holy thing, holy something church, but it's actually really closer to downtown, she said.

00:28:59.000 Okay.

00:28:59.000 Do you want to have a repeat?

00:29:00.000 This one's about, like, if you just say we're buying food for some event, like the Halloween events, because there's block walks coming up for Halloween.

00:29:18.000 Okay.

00:29:24.000 So, you know, obviously Beto O'Rourke not exactly being forthcoming about his own politics.

00:29:28.000 And then there's Andrew Gillum.

00:29:30.000 So Andrew Gillum, over in Florida, who's being given the royal treatment by the media. 0.92

00:29:34.000 Andrew Gillum's own staffers are saying that he is the craziest of the craziest. 0.78

00:29:38.000 This is Omar Smith, a Gillum campaign staffer, saying that this guy is basically a radical. 0.75

00:29:44.000 So you have the extreme right-wingers. 1.00

00:29:46.000 Those are the Trump and the crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy Republicans. 1.00

00:29:53.000 The progressives are the crazy, crazy, crazy Democrats. 1.00

00:29:58.000 Oh, you're not a progressive? 1.00

00:29:59.000 Isn't Gillum a progressive?

00:30:00.000 Gillum is a progressive. 0.91

00:30:02.000 So Gillum is part of the crazy crazies? 1.00

00:30:04.000 He is part of the crazy crazy crazies. 1.00

00:30:23.000 Representative DeSantis, that is a bunch of crap. 1.00

00:30:25.000 It is just not true in any conceivable way. 1.00

00:30:28.000 And not only that, Andrew Gillum, like, that guy's going to call Ron DeSantis, you know, a racist and anti-Semite.

00:30:35.000 Andrew Gillum has been connected with a wide variety of groups that promote boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel, OK, which would destroy the state of Israel if it were adopted.

00:30:44.000 Gillum has ignored growing calls to disavow this group with which he is associated, Dream Defenders, even as the largest Jewish weekly publication in the country, The Jewish Press, urged Florida's Jewish residents to vote for DeSantis.

00:30:55.000 Dream Defenders and Gillum have an extensive history.

00:30:57.000 He recently signed the group's freedom pledge, promising not to accept money from private persons.

00:31:01.000 By signing the pledge, he endorsed the group's radical freedom papers that decry police and prisons as racist.

00:31:07.000 That's the actual Democratic Party.

00:31:08.000 So Paul Krugman says Republicans are hiding their agenda?

00:31:12.000 No.

00:31:12.000 Democrats are hiding their agenda a lot more, and they're hiding their corruption, too.

00:31:16.000 Andrew Gillum is deeply corrupt by every available indicator.

00:31:20.000 Any Republican who had the kind of corruption record Andrew Gillum has would not survive an election cycle.

00:31:26.000 Really, it's at least not at the gubernatorial level.

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00:33:11.000 OK, so let's talk about Andrew Gillum's campaign for just a second.

00:33:14.000 So the dude has an FBI problem and the mainstream media have been ignoring it, like really ignoring it in a major way.

00:33:20.000 Imagine that a Republican candidate had basically been implicated in an FBI sting scheme to give them a bunch of goodies.

00:33:29.000 They accepted a bunch of goodies from an FBI undercover agent.

00:33:33.000 Hey, that might be a front page story.

00:33:40.000 Well, that's pretty much what's happened with Andrew Gillum and the Tampa Bay Times has covered it, but it's not being widely covered in the mainstream kind of national media.

00:33:48.000 Here's what the Tampa Bay Times says.

00:33:49.000 Starting in 2015, FBI agents came to Tallahassee, he was the mayor of Tallahassee, posing as businessmen, considering investments in the city.

00:33:57.000 The three men, who reportedly identified themselves as Mike Sweets, Mike Miller, and Brian Butler, spent months cozying up to city officials and people close to them.

00:34:04.000 The FBI investigation, based in part on their undercover work, has yielded several rounds of subpoenas, but no charges as of yet.

00:34:10.000 A slew of Tallahassee officials and insiders have been named in those subpoenas over the past year.

00:34:16.000 In 2013, the Community Redevelopment Agency in Tallahassee voted to give $1.3 million in taxpayer money to help a particular lobbyist named Adam Corey, who's a longtime Gillum friend and ally, until Gillum cut ties with him when he became inconvenient.

00:34:31.000 Gillum voted with the rest of his fellow city commissioners to fund the project.

00:34:34.000 At the time, Gillum's vote raised eyebrows because of his close association with Corey.

00:34:38.000 One year later, Corey served as treasurer of Gillum's mayoral campaign.

00:34:42.000 It also turns out that the FBI was giving all sorts of goodies to Gillum and his friends.

00:34:47.000 Okay, so there's an ethics board that's been checking this out.

00:34:50.000 According to the newspapers, Cory became close with Miller, reportedly introducing Gillum to an undercover agent sometime in 2016.

00:34:57.000 One of the reported meetings between Cory, Gillum, and Miller, Miller being the FBI agent, at the Edison in May of that year, became a point of controversy when the Democrat, the

00:35:07.000 Local newspaper, the Tallahassee Democrat, reported that Corey scheduled the meeting while on vacation with Gillum and other city lobbyists in Costa Rica.

00:35:14.000 So now they're checking out.

00:35:15.000 What's the deal with Costa Rica?

00:35:17.000 That's a violation of ethics.

00:35:19.000 Gillum says he did not discuss business in Costa Rica.

00:35:21.000 It was just a vacation with longtime friends.

00:35:23.000 But Corey's attorney has maintained Gillum never reimbursed the lobbyists for his portion of the trip.

00:35:28.000 Also under investigation, Gillum took a trip with his brothers, Marcus, Cory, and Miller, to New York in August 2016.

00:35:33.000 In an email inviting Gillup to meet up in New York, Cory noted that Miller had arranged hotel rooms, an outing to a Mets game, and a boat trip to the Statue of Liberty.

00:35:42.000 The group didn't go to the Mets game, but they did get free tickets to Hamilton.

00:35:46.000 Gillum says he didn't allow the FBI agent to pay for any part of his trip to New York, but the texts released by his chief lobbyist attorney showed the undercover agent paid for the Hamilton tickets.

00:35:57.000 So, bottom line is that, theoretically, this FBI agent solicited help from a lobbyist who proceeded to allow payoffs to go through to Gillum, who then helped vote for this project that helped the lobbyists, right?

00:36:09.000 That's the basic scheme here.

00:36:11.000 And the mainstream media are basically ignoring all that.

00:36:14.000 I have to ask why it is that Andrew Gillum is getting this sort of attention when John James, the Republican senatorial candidate in Michigan, who's a black former Air Force pilot, is getting very little attention running a very competitive race in a purple state in Michigan.

00:36:29.000 And the answer has to be that the media love Andrew Gillum because Andrew Gillum is a future Barack Obama in their view.

00:36:34.000 He is very radical in his politics.

00:36:36.000 So when Democrats tell you they're not lying about their own agenda, that is simply not true.

00:36:40.000 They are, in fact, lying about their agenda on a fairly regular basis.

00:36:44.000 And when they are honest about it, it doesn't go well for them.

00:36:45.000 So John Tester, who's a senator from Montana, he was asked about gun control.

00:36:49.000 He basically admits it doesn't even work and he wants it anyway.

00:36:51.000 This is how radical Democrats are.

00:36:53.000 Here's what he said.

00:36:54.000 He was asked in June about all this.

00:36:56.000 He said that gun control would not stop school shootings, but it's going to help.

00:37:01.000 OK, so this is the way that Democrats push.

00:37:03.000 They push their policies regardless as to whether those policies are actually effective or not.

00:37:08.000 OK, so let's do a little bit of mailbagging because it is indeed a Friday.

00:37:13.000 So.

00:37:14.000 Let's jump in.

00:37:19.000 I really like Representative Jordan.

00:37:24.000 I think that he was falsely maligned by the press.

00:37:26.000 I don't see any reason Jim Jordan wouldn't make an excellent Speaker of the House.

00:37:30.000 I'm not opposed to Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House, even though there's been a lot of talk about him being too squishy.

00:37:35.000 The fact is that Kevin McCarthy is

00:37:38.000 Less squishy, I think, on some of these issues than, for example, Paul Ryan has been.

00:37:42.000 He might be able to build more coalitions than Jim Jordan.

00:37:43.000 Jim Jordan will be harder to line.

00:37:45.000 If I had to choose between the two, I would choose Jim Jordan.

00:37:53.000 Well, it depends.

00:37:53.000 I mean, if you are dating for marriage, then you obviously need to put your values at the center of your dating life.

00:37:57.000 And that means discussing issues of deep concern to you and how you want to raise your kids.

00:38:00.000 If you're just dating for quote-unquote fun,

00:38:21.000 If you're doing that, then presumably you do what everybody else does when they're dating for fun, which is you hide your crazy until a little bit later in the relationship.

00:38:29.000 I don't think that you necessarily lead with your most extreme positions when you're talking with somebody you want to date, but you should make clear that you are of conservative political bent, that you have certain central values that you think are important to you.

00:38:41.000 And then you have conversations about those values.

00:38:43.000 Like when I started dating my wife, our very first date was a three-hour date in which we discussed free will and determinism and talked about sort of central values.

00:38:52.000 We didn't talk a lot of politics, per se.

00:38:54.000 We were talking sort of deeper levels than that.

00:38:56.000 But I also knew that my wife was Orthodox.

00:38:58.000 I knew my wife was an Orthodox Jew.

00:38:59.000 So we already had certain central values in common, which is why I think that dating folks within your religious tradition is a very good idea as a general rule.

00:39:08.000 When it came to politics, my wife used to be, I think, a lot more moderate on politics. 0.99

00:39:14.000 So I remember one of our first dates, we talked about the death penalty and gun control.

00:39:17.000 She was more pro-gun control at that time.

00:39:20.000 She was also more skeptical of the death penalty than I was.

00:39:23.000 But we were able to discuss those things, and she didn't think it was crazy that I was anti-gun control, and she didn't think it was crazy that I was in favor of the death penalty.

00:39:31.000 We were able to talk all of those things through.

00:39:33.000 So the real question is, can you talk those things through, or are you dealing with somebody who is going to throw you out because you disagree on these issues and is non-malleable on these issues?

00:39:43.000 Maybe you'll be changed by her opinions, but you should at least be able to have the conversation.

00:39:46.000 If you can't, it's no good.

00:39:47.000 Edward says, Hey Ben, this week, one of my poli-sci professors taught extensively about Republicans and their disgraceful Southern strategy as if it were established fact.

00:39:54.000 It seems like this line of thinking has been taught for so long, it just seems to pass as accepted wisdom.

00:39:58.000 How do you rebut these claims?

00:40:00.000 What really happened in the South to flip it from blue to red?

00:40:02.000 And why exactly do folks on the left still insinuate the South is full of racist white men who would immediately turn back to slavery if given the chance?

00:40:08.000 Thanks, love the show.

00:40:09.000 Well, the last part is really the question, because the truth is that as the constituency in the South got younger, it got more Republican.

00:40:17.000 So, as the South got less racist, it also got more Republican.

00:40:20.000 There are regional polls from Pew showing that all of the kind of malign talk about people from the South being more racist than people from other parts of the country is just not true.

00:40:29.000 Racism is fairly equivalent all the way across the country.

00:40:32.000 Not only that, if you look historically, the Republicans didn't actually take the South in terms of the House of Representatives until basically 1994.

00:40:41.000 So if it was the 1968 Southern strategy that shifted everything, then why did it take until 1994 for Republicans to take the House?

00:40:49.000 The trends are just not strong enough to suggest that race alone is what shifted all of this.

00:40:54.000 Now, was there a Southern strategy that was used by the Nixon campaign?

00:40:57.000 Well, some members of that campaign have suggested that there was, and they've basically admitted that.

00:41:01.000 Were there racial strategies used by Democrats at the same time?

00:41:04.000 Sure, George Wallace was a Democrat, and the vast majority of people who voted racist continued to vote Democrat.

00:41:10.000 OK, so this notion that the Southern strategy is what completely changed the facts on the ground is similar.

00:41:18.000 It's just not true.

00:41:19.000 It's just not.

00:41:20.000 It does not happen to be true.

00:41:22.000 So there is a great piece by Dan McLaughlin from about 2012 called The Southern Strategy Myth and the Lost Majority.

00:41:29.000 And it basically suggests that

00:41:31.000 This stuff is exaggerated.

00:41:34.000 So it was, you know, we can go through this a little bit.

00:41:37.000 So let me go through a little bit of this.

00:41:38.000 First, according to professors Richard Johnston of the University of Pennsylvania and Byron Schaffer of the University of Wisconsin, the shift in the South from Democratic to Republican was overwhelmingly a question not of race, but of economic growth.

00:41:49.000 The movement toward Republicanism in the South began in the 1950s.

00:41:53.000 Well, the Eisenhower administration was forcibly desegregating schools.

00:41:56.000 As the South industrialized, working-class whites and blacks remained Democrats until the 1990s.

00:42:01.000 Here's the New York Times reporting on this, quote, To give one example, in the 50s, among Southerners in low-income tercile, 43% voted for Republican presidential candidates.

00:42:09.000 In the high-income tercile, 53% voted Republican.

00:42:12.000 By the 1980s, those figures were 51% and 77%.

00:42:16.000 Wealthy Southerners shifted rightward in droves.

00:42:18.000 Poorer ones did not.

00:42:20.000 Sean Trent of RealClearPolitics agrees.

00:42:22.000 He says the GOP gradually increased its support in the South from 1928 to 2010.

00:42:26.000 And Dan McLaughlin says, as late as 2010, there were still states like Alabama and North Carolina that were voting in their first Republican legislative majority since Reconstruction, something that would have happened overnight in the late 60s if the partisan realignment had been driven by lockstep white voting loyalties along racial lines.

00:42:43.000 So the data just are not there to support the idea that the entire South shifted Republican because of the race issue.

00:42:48.000 Was it one of many issues?

00:42:50.000 Yes.

00:42:50.000 Was it the key issue or even a key issue?

00:42:54.000 Probably not.

00:42:55.000 Probably not.

00:42:55.000 Okay.

00:42:55.000 A couple more of these.

00:42:57.000 Let's see.

00:42:58.000 Jesse, what are your thoughts on conservative think tanks?

00:42:59.000 The left obviously is willing to distort science to fit whatever their ideology is at the moment.

00:43:03.000 And I think it's important to have institutions that are somewhat protected from their assault.

00:43:08.000 Personally, I love crunching numbers and analyzing data, so I also wonder how one goes about working at a think tank.

00:43:12.000 Thanks for all you do.

00:43:13.000 Well, you can get an internship at places like Heritage Foundation or AEI.

00:43:16.000 I have friends, I have relatives who have done that.

00:43:19.000 I think that it is important for these institutions to be there.

00:43:23.000 I get a lot of my data from think tanks on both left and right.

00:43:26.000 The fact that there are people who spend their day actually diving into the numbers and the data is deeply helpful.

00:43:30.000 I'm a big fan.

00:43:31.000 Santino says, hi, Ben.

00:43:32.000 I have a debate coming up against my university's Democrat club, and I've been dealt the topic of health care.

00:43:37.000 Well, I believe that there's a guy named Matt Brunig, who is a big advocate of sort of Nordic socialism, or Nordic democratic socialism, because democratic socialism has a capitalist root.

00:43:58.000 And he talks about healthcare fairly regularly.

00:44:02.000 The truth is that the spectrum of healthcare thought is not quite broken down along left-right.

00:44:06.000 Like, Avik Roy is a really good healthcare analyst, and he tends to be more right-leaning on some things and more left-leaning on others.

00:44:12.000 He's kind of moderate.

00:44:14.000 Ezekiel Emanuel, who was one of the creators of Obamacare, has written extensively about these topics.

00:44:19.000 There are a bunch of studies out there that are worth noting, by the way, on healthcare, and American healthcare in particular, some fibs that have been put out there.

00:44:27.000 The fib that the U.S.

00:44:28.000 spends grossly more per capita GDP on healthcare than any other country, we also make grossly more money.

00:44:33.000 If you actually were to chart a line among industrialized countries as to income versus healthcare spending, what you see is basically a straight arithmetic relationship, meaning that as GDP increases per capita, so does healthcare spending, and the United States is basically right along that line.

00:44:48.000 We're not wildly overspending on healthcare.

00:44:50.000 The other point to be made is that when people talk about life expectancy in the United States is low for spending this much money.

00:44:56.000 Well, not when you remove car accidents and murders, both of which we have disproportionately here in the United States, and neither of which reflects on the U.S.

00:45:02.000 health care system.

00:45:03.000 All of that just reflects on people dying prematurely for reasons having nothing to do with health care.

00:45:08.000 So those are a couple of facts that you should have in your back pocket.

00:45:10.000 I would recommend there's a good book called Mortal Peril.

00:45:13.000 By Richard Epstein, all about the quote unquote right to health care that's worth reading.

00:45:18.000 And there are a bunch of good sources on health care that are worth checking out.

00:45:21.000 Mitchell says, Ben.

00:45:24.000 I recently decided to go back to school for a degree in engineering, being 30 and back in college.

00:45:27.000 I have a different look on things than my peers, needing to take a college writing course.

00:45:31.000 We were presented with our final project this week.

00:45:33.000 We had to choose a topic pertaining to the workforce and create a persuasive research paper regarding our topic.

00:45:38.000 I informed my instructor I intend to research why the gender pay gap is a myth. 0.93

00:45:41.000 This did not go over well.

00:45:42.000 A few of the students and the instructor became very unhappy that I could even think such a thing.

00:45:46.000 I was then told that in the spirit of the project, I would not be allowed to continue with the topic because it is considered too offensive.

00:45:51.000 So my question is, if this is supposed to be a persuasive paper, wouldn't this fit the criteria and what makes this offensive?

00:45:56.000 Also, the only thing I can think of is they believe I'm attacking their victimhood.

00:45:59.000 Any advice on another topic I could do?

00:46:01.000 Well, I mean, dude, you knew when you said that that you were slapping them right in the face.

00:46:05.000 I mean, obviously, if you had just said, listen, I want to research the pay gap and then come to the conclusion the pay gap may be a myth, then maybe they'd let you get away with it.

00:46:14.000 Yeah, obviously there's nothing sexist or offensive about the idea the pay gap is a myth.

00:46:19.000 The pay gap is a myth by all available data.

00:46:21.000 So that is just, again, this is people taking offense at facts.

00:46:25.000 I just did a speech in British Columbia at the University of British Columbia in which I began the speech by saying facts are not offensive.

00:46:31.000 And then I just read basically a list of facts and people got offended because that's what happens when you say things that are factual that people do not like, unfortunately.

00:46:38.000 So as far as other topics that you could do,

00:46:42.000 You know, I think there are a lot of topics that you could do, but if you want one that's not going to offend people all that much, then you're going to have to pick something that is outside the realm of the quote-unquote offensive.

00:46:53.000 You might do one on where you think that it is necessary for the government to start thinking about global warming, for example, because that's more of a nuanced topic.

00:47:02.000 The current Nobel Prize winners have some great papers on that particular topic.

00:47:05.000 It cuts against a lot of leftist preconceptions.

00:47:07.000 You can go back and listen to our show.

00:47:08.000 A couple of weeks ago, we talked about it.

00:47:09.000 OK, time for some things I like and some things that I hate.

00:47:11.000 So this entire week, because of the Pittsburgh shooting, we've been doing Jewish Negunim, meaning kind of Jewish tunes that are used in prayer a lot.

00:47:19.000 This one is a very famous one.

00:47:20.000 It's actually an old Hebrew lullaby, and it comes from the Book of Genesis in the portion when Jacob is giving a blessing to Menachem and Ephraim.

00:47:32.000 The Sons of Joseph.

00:47:34.000 And the text of it talks about the angel that protects me.

00:47:39.000 That angel should protect you and allow you to prosper in the land of Israel.

00:47:43.000 Here is a little bit of that tune.

00:47:44.000 I use it pretty frequently.

00:47:45.000 I tend to, I do chazanas for the minions.

00:47:48.000 So very often I'm asked to kind of pray for the group on Sabbath, particularly.

00:47:53.000 This is a tune I really like using.

00:47:54.000 So here's a little bit of that tune.

00:48:05.000 We're good to go.

00:48:47.000 I don't know.

00:49:03.000 It's a very nice tune.

00:49:05.000 With all of the Negunim that I've been playing this week, the tunes are adaptable to various kind of biblical texts.

00:49:10.000 This one, as I say, is from Genesis 48, 16.

00:49:12.000 It says, So that's the basic translation.

00:49:13.000 Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate.

00:49:28.000 OK, so this is pretty spectacular.

00:49:31.000 Apparently, an actor who has appeared on the television shows Better Call Saul and Longmire admitted to a local news outlet on Monday he severed his arm and lied about how it happened by posing as a war veteran.

00:49:42.000 So Todd LeTourette is an Albuquerque, New Mexico based actor.

00:49:45.000 He said he'd been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and that he sawed off his arm during a psychotic episode 17 years ago.

00:49:51.000 First of all, I don't know if he was mentally disordered.

00:49:53.000 Maybe he just felt that he was a

00:49:55.000 Dude, it's called acting.

00:50:14.000 Like, whoa, that seems like a really extreme way to get a job.

00:50:19.000 But I mean, I guess I'm burdens on you, Daniel Day-Lewis.

00:50:24.000 Your move, Daniel Day-Lewis.

00:50:26.000 My goodness.

00:50:27.000 Wow.

00:50:28.000 He said that he apologized for

00:50:31.000 He apologized for his stolen valor because he then claimed that he was a military vet.

00:50:36.000 But that's that's not good stuff.

00:50:38.000 Guys, you know, treat it treating mental illness as though it is nothing.

00:50:43.000 It's not a big problem.

00:50:44.000 Is a large, large mistake in virtually every in virtually every circumstance.

00:50:49.000 OK, so we will be back here on Monday in preparation for the election because it is coming.

00:50:56.000 It is nearly here.

00:50:58.000 We are in the final countdown.

00:51:00.000 OK, so we'll be back here on Monday with all that.

00:51:03.000 Have a good weekend.

00:51:04.000 Try to enjoy yourself.

00:51:05.000 Try to stay off Twitter.

00:51:06.000 And I will see you back here with all the latest news.

00:51:08.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - November 02, 2018

The Final Countdown | Ep. 652

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