The Ben Shapiro Show - October 25, 2018


The Great Leap Backward | Ep. 646

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The Question Of Motives | Ep. 645 Mail Bomber Identified: A Crazy Person | Ep. 647

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As the nation reels from a spate of attempted mail bombings, Democrats and the media blame President Trump, President Trump blames the media, and the stock market tumbles, it's good times all around. But is this a false flag? Is this a deliberate act by the Democratic Party, or is it something else entirely? Ben Shapiro argues that we need to wait for more evidence before we can even begin to figure out who is actually responsible for these attacks. Today's show is a mashup of Ben Shapiro's thoughts on the latest in the mail bomb scare, and his thoughts on whether or not this is the work of the Democrats or the White House, or if it's a hoax by the media and the FBI, or something else that's been going on for a long time and that we're just waiting for more information to come to light. Subscribe to Ben Shapiro s new podcast, "The Ben Shapiro Show," wherever you get your shows. If you like what you get, please HIT SUBSCRIBE so you don't miss out on the next new episode! Subscribe, rate, and review! and tell a friend about what you think of the show! Ben Shapiro is a great guy to talk about all things financial matters, politics, pop culture, and pop culture! . Subscribe and review Ben Shapiro: The Weekly BONUS EPISODE Subscribe to his new show on Apple Podcasts Subscribe on iTunes Learn more about your ad choices and get 20% off your first month free trial when you shop at Caffiliate discount code SHOPEXCLUSIVE when you become a supporter of The Daily Mail? Subscribe for a year of The Ben Shapiro Podcast! Get exclusive ad-free 7-free shipping and unlimited access to his newest book deal! Learn more by becoming a supporter and get 7% off his next month's ad discount when he becomes a patron! Click here to receive $5/month, plus a FREE 7-day VIP trial when he starts shipping anywhere else gets an ad discount starts starting in January 1st, starting on 7/27th, only he gets 7 months get 7GB gets 7GB and gets 7 GBPROGRAM PRODUCREPCORMS PRICING AND VIP PRICON THE FIRST MONTH OFF FREE, FREE MONEY OFF THE FIRST CHALLENGE PRICED TO BUY 3 MONTH AND VIP PACKAGE BUILDSIPPED WORLD RODE FREE?

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00:00:00.000 As the nation reels from a spate of attempted mail bombings, Democrats and the media blame President Trump, President Trump blames the media, and the stock market tumbles.
00:00:07.000 So it's good times all around.
00:00:08.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.
00:00:09.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.
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00:01:52.000 Okay, so, the latest with regard to this spate of quote-unquote attempted mail bombings is that it is possible that the bombs themselves were not actually structured to detonate.
00:02:03.000 So, Ala Pandit over at Hot Air writes, Judging by social media, some have glanced at an AP story and thought it was claimed that the explosive powder inside the bomb was harmless.
00:02:11.000 Not so.
00:02:13.000 A package sent to CNN contained a pipe bomb and an envelope with a mystery powder inside.
00:02:17.000 It's a mystery powder that's harmless.
00:02:19.000 The bombs themselves are supposedly workable and functional if crude, although there are other reports that suggest that the bombs lacked a detonator, and so this was either a test run or a hoax or something else like that.
00:02:30.000 We're still awaiting more information, and that is the key today.
00:02:33.000 Awaiting more information.
00:02:34.000 It's not the end of the world to say that we need more information, and this holds true on every side.
00:02:38.000 Yesterday, I said there were a bunch of folks who jumped to the false flag explanation.
00:02:43.000 Now, I'm not claiming that you are not allowed to speculate inside your own head as to who you think did this, or that you're not allowed to wonder whether there's enough information to condemn one side or the other.
00:02:52.000 What I am saying is if you are 100% sure this is a false flag, if you are 100% sure you went right there, like right away, you just went to, this is probably the Democrats hoaxing themselves,
00:03:01.000 That's not good, okay?
00:03:02.000 You shouldn't be using confirmation bias as a substitute for evidence.
00:03:05.000 And this is true in so many cases in our politics, I can't even tell you.
00:03:09.000 I've been saying this for years.
00:03:11.000 I mean, I remember with the Michael Brown case.
00:03:14.000 Michael Brown, black guy, shot by a cop.
00:03:16.000 And enormous swaths of the left, the entire left, basically said, this is a case of police racism and brutality in which a man was shot in the back because he was black.
00:03:25.000 And I said, well, let's wait for more evidence.
00:03:27.000 And then the evidence came out and it turns out that wasn't the story at all. 1.00
00:03:29.000 Well, here, if you're jumping to either this is Democrats hoaxing themselves or this is Donald Trump planting bombs in the mailboxes over at CNN, let me suggest to you that you're totally full of crap. 0.99
00:03:40.000 Hey, you don't know. 0.99
00:03:40.000 You don't know yet. 0.99
00:03:41.000 You know, I know you don't know yet because no one knows yet.
00:03:44.000 I don't know yet.
00:03:45.000 You don't know yet.
00:03:45.000 The press don't know yet.
00:03:46.000 And anybody suggesting they know who did this or why it was done or what the connection is to any particular political party is lying to you.
00:03:54.000 They don't have the information yet.
00:03:56.000 Now, there's some indicators that
00:03:59.000 Something weird is going on.
00:04:00.000 I mean, this person who should be put in jail forever, the person who is doing this, has now sent one of these packages to Robert De Niro, I guess, and sent one to Maxine Waters, and a picture of one of the bombs at the CNN bureau
00:04:15.000 I think?
00:04:34.000 Again, you don't know, I don't know, nobody knows, but here's what I do know.
00:05:00.000 I don't really believe that this is a person who sits up nights thinking, President Trump is telling me to go bomb people.
00:05:07.000 And I don't believe this is a person who's sitting up nights going, people on the left are telling me to bomb people. 1.00
00:05:11.000 I think this person is a crazy person. 1.00
00:05:13.000 I think this person is a loon bag who wants to pursue violence. 1.00
00:05:16.000 How do I know that? 0.97
00:05:17.000 Because they're sending bombs to Robert De Niro.
00:05:19.000 Robert De Niro, this is not somebody who smacks of, I'm a sophisticated domestic terrorist with a serious political agenda, deeply intertwined with the workings of modern politics.
00:05:29.000 And here's where it gets dangerous.
00:05:30.000 I said this yesterday.
00:05:31.000 People who are immediately jumping to Trump's rhetoric caused this, or the media's rhetoric caused this, those people are undermining the First Amendment.
00:05:38.000 Because the First Amendment's basic guarantee is that if I am not inciting you to violence, in my incitement to violence, I mean saying, go bomb someone.
00:05:47.000 Then I am not responsible for your violent actions.
00:05:49.000 You know who's responsible for the violent actions here?
00:05:51.000 The guy who put together bombs and mailed them to people.
00:05:53.000 That's the guy responsible.
00:05:55.000 Not President Trump, not CNN, not any of these folks.
00:05:58.000 Just as Bernie Sanders was not responsible for a Bernie Sanders supporter going and attempting to shoot up a congressional baseball game, and just as Barack Obama was not responsible for a apparent fan of Barack Obama trying to shoot up police officers in Dallas,
00:06:10.000 President Trump is not responsible for this.
00:06:12.000 The media are not responsible for this.
00:06:13.000 And I don't have to wait for the outcome to know that.
00:06:15.000 You know why?
00:06:16.000 Because the sort of rhetoric that President Trump has used, as much as I dislike it, as much as I have ripped it on this program for years, he has never once said, go mail bombs to my political opponents.
00:06:27.000 And shouting, lock her up, is not the same thing as saying, mail her a bomb.
00:06:31.000 It may raise the temperature.
00:06:32.000 It may be bad for our politics.
00:06:34.000 It may, in fact, lead people to condemn each other at higher rates.
00:06:37.000 We talked about that yesterday.
00:06:38.000 But it is not, in fact, incitement to violence.
00:06:40.000 The standard for incitement to violence is extraordinarily high under American law, as well it should be. 0.94
00:06:45.000 Well, President Trump reacted to all of this yesterday, and his first statement was, we all have to unify.
00:06:50.000 You know, these are trying times, but we all have to understand that violence is not appropriate.
00:06:55.000 And I just want to tell you that in these times, we have to unify.
00:06:59.000 We have to come together and send one very clear, strong, unmistakable message that acts or threats of political violence of any kind have no place in the United States of America.
00:07:14.000 Okay, well, that seems about the right answer, doesn't it?
00:07:16.000 That's the right answer, and what he really should add at the end of that is, listen, I use charged rhetoric, my opponents use charged rhetoric, maybe we all should take a step back and tone that down, but the reality is that nobody, not me, not my political opponents, nobody has actually incentivized this kind of violence in the United States.
00:07:33.000 Nobody in the United States is inciting this kind of violence in mainstream political rhetoric, which is true, okay?
00:07:38.000 If you actually want to see mainstream violence being pushed by political agitators, all you have to do is look at actual governments in Iran, where they literally chant death to America and call for violence against Jews.
00:07:49.000 All you have to do is look at the government of the Palestinian Authority or Hamas, actual terrorist groups.
00:07:54.000 All you have to do is look at governments around the world, repressive governments around the world that make clear they want violence done to their political opponents.
00:08:00.000 Even President Trump's worst statements, where he's making jokes about Greg Gianforte, which we talked about last week, body slamming a reporter.
00:08:07.000 There is an actual difference, it turns out, between body slamming a reporter and bombing someone.
00:08:11.000 Now, if somebody went out and punched a reporter and said, I did it because President Trump was making this sort of remark about Greg Gianforte and making light of that,
00:08:20.000 I would say, okay, there's at least some connection there, but I'm not going to say that there's a connection between people sending mail bombs to Maxine Waters and the President of the United States saying that Maxine Waters is a very low IQ individual.
00:08:31.000 We say that kind of stuff about each other all the time in a free country.
00:08:34.000 Maybe it's not the best thing to say, but that doesn't mean it's an incitement to violence.
00:08:38.000 This kind of stuff has to stop.
00:08:39.000 It really does.
00:08:40.000 But the media are not stopping it.
00:08:42.000 And President Trump fires back in just a second.
00:08:45.000 The media obviously are not lowering the temperature.
00:08:47.000 It's amazing to watch members of the media claim that violent rhetoric began with President Trump or overheated rhetoric.
00:08:53.000 Not violent rhetoric.
00:08:54.000 Overheated rhetoric began with President Trump.
00:08:55.000 If it weren't for Trump, we wouldn't have anything like this.
00:08:58.000 Really?
00:08:59.000 Ricin was sent to Senator Susan Collins two weeks ago.
00:09:04.000 A year and a half ago, a Bernie Sanders supporter shot or attempted to shoot 36 Congress people and nearly killed the House Majority Whip.
00:09:11.000 Donald Trump Jr.'
00:09:12.000 's wife was sent an actual toxic substance.
00:09:16.000 She had to go to the hospital for it.
00:09:17.000 This is like two and a half months ago.
00:09:19.000 No, this is not all Trump.
00:09:20.000 No, it didn't start with Trump.
00:09:21.000 This has been true in the United States for a very long time.
00:09:24.000 People use charged political rhetoric.
00:09:26.000 That does not mean violence is okay, but violence has been commonplace in political circles for literally decades.
00:09:31.000 In the 1960s and 1970s, bombings were actually quite routine in the United States.
00:09:36.000 They're not routine, thank God, now.
00:09:38.000 And we have an eye out for them, as well we should.
00:09:40.000 But to pretend that the world began spinning with President Trump is just absurd, especially considering some of the rhetoric that is used on a fairly frequent basis by folks on the left about President Trump himself.
00:09:51.000 So, for example, today,
00:09:53.000 In the New York Times, or yesterday in the New York Times.
00:09:55.000 There's an actual piece in the New York Times.
00:09:58.000 It's a fiction piece.
00:10:00.000 It says five novelists imagine Trump's next chapter.
00:10:03.000 This is in the New York Times.
00:10:04.000 It's in their book review section.
00:10:06.000 And here's what they say.
00:10:06.000 They say,
00:10:24.000 One of these novelists is a person named Zoe Sharpe.
00:10:26.000 Here's what Zoe Sharpe wrote. 0.68
00:10:27.000 This is in the pages of the New York Times Book Review.
00:10:28.000 Okay, quote.
00:10:29.000 The Russian landed at Dulles after 48 hours of traveling.
00:10:32.000 Of necessity, he came from Moscow by a circuitous route, a long way with a very specific task.
00:10:37.000 There would be no return flight.
00:10:38.000 In the airport bars, the TVs were tuned to different news channels, but the story was the same.
00:10:43.000 First, the president's campaign manager, then his lawyer, a Republican congressman, former aides, family members.
00:10:48.000 Those who weren't indicted were subpoenaed.
00:10:50.000 House arrests had become fashionable.
00:10:52.000 And then it goes on and on about how this guy was basically shadowing the president of the United States.
00:10:57.000 And here's where Zoe Sharpe gets to the key. 1.00
00:11:00.000 When it was time, he went downstairs, took his place in the lobby before the entourage appeared.
00:11:05.000 The hotel staff had been lined up to see their boss, the President, go by.
00:11:07.000 A few of them applauded.
00:11:09.000 Most did not.
00:11:10.000 The President didn't seem to notice.
00:11:11.000 He waved in his desultory fashion.
00:11:13.000 The Secret Service agents clustered around him, ushered him toward the armored limo idling outside at the curb.
00:11:18.000 The Russian waited until they were a few steps past before he drew the gun.
00:11:21.000 He sighted it on the center of the President's back and squeezed the trigger.
00:11:25.000 The Makarov misfired.
00:11:27.000 The Secret Service agent at the President's shoulder heard the click, spun into a crouch.
00:11:30.000 He registered the scene instantly, drawing his own weapon with razor-edge reflexes.
00:11:34.000 The Russian tasted failure. 1.00
00:11:35.000 He closed his eyes and waited to pay the cost.
00:11:37.000 It did not come.
00:11:38.000 He opened his eyes.
00:11:39.000 The Secret Service agent stood before him, presenting his Glock butt first.
00:11:42.000 Here, the agent said politely, use mine.
00:11:46.000 And this was printed in the New York Times the same day that the media decided that President Trump was the one who was pursuing violent rhetoric and was the only one pursuing violent rhetoric.
00:11:55.000 So I'll take a step back here.
00:11:56.000 Everyone is overheated.
00:11:58.000 It needs to stop.
00:11:59.000 A few things can be true at once.
00:12:00.000 1.
00:12:01.000 Wait for all the evidence.
00:12:02.000 2.
00:12:03.000 Don't blame non-violent but overheated rhetoric for violence.
00:12:06.000 And 3.
00:12:07.000 If you want to take the temperature down, you have to obey 1 and 2.
00:12:10.000 If you want to take the temperature down, wait for evidence, and don't blame people for violent acts by third parties unless they are actively telling the third parties to commit the violent acts.
00:12:19.000 You want a better country?
00:12:20.000 That's what we're all gonna need to do.
00:12:21.000 And that means don't jump to confirmation bias as soon as humanly possible.
00:12:25.000 Okay, I'm gonna get to the media's response to all of this, which is just egregious, and then President Trump's response to the media.
00:12:30.000 Basically, everyone is acting badly here.
00:12:31.000 Everyone is acting as badly as can be, which has become the usual state of affairs in American politics.
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00:13:47.000 Okay, so the media have decided that President Trump is to blame, which was predictable.
00:13:52.000 Again, I'm old enough to remember when I said, and many like me on the right said, Bernie Sanders is not to blame for the congressional baseball shooting.
00:14:00.000 The left has no such qualms.
00:14:02.000 The mainstream left has no such qualms.
00:14:04.000 So Paul Waldman in the Washington Post actually just blames the President of the United States straight out.
00:14:11.000 He just blames him straight out.
00:14:13.000 He says, allow me to suggest that blame is too narrow a way to make sense of a series of attempted bombings aimed at precisely the people Trump and other Republicans spend a huge amount of time vilifying.
00:14:22.000 We don't have to look for clues about whether the person responsible has a MAGA hat or what their party registration is.
00:14:27.000 We don't have to assign direct blame beyond a reasonable doubt.
00:14:30.000 What we can say is this, given what Trump has done and said, this was absolutely predictable.
00:14:35.000 In fact, it's a wonder it took this long.
00:14:37.000 So, in other words, we don't need to wait for evidence, right?
00:14:39.000 This is a guy who's overtly making the case in one of the nation's premier newspapers.
00:14:44.000 You don't need to wait for evidence.
00:14:46.000 And if you wait for evidence, then you're doing something wrong.
00:14:48.000 Instead, I'm going to jump to the conclusion I want to jump to, which is that President Trump is responsible for all of this.
00:14:55.000 Here's what Waldman says.
00:14:56.000 It's not just that Trump advocates violence against his political opponents, though he does, it's that everything about his rhetoric pushes his supporters in that direction, even if the overwhelming majority will never quite get to the point where they'll actually commit this kind of act of terrorism.
00:15:10.000 Well, there are those of us on the right who felt that President Obama verged pretty easily on promoting violence sometimes when he talked about what the police were, when he talked about how the police were
00:15:23.000 Overtly and systemically racist.
00:15:25.000 When he said that sort of stuff, we felt like, okay, well, you know, is that an indication that maybe violence is okay?
00:15:31.000 There are folks in New York who felt that way.
00:15:33.000 People on the NYPD who felt that way.
00:15:34.000 So much so that when Bill de Blasio, after ripping the police for months, actually went to a policeman's funeral who was shot to death, members of the NYPD turned their back on him.
00:15:42.000 Was Bill de Blasio responsible for the violence?
00:15:44.000 No, he wasn't.
00:15:45.000 Was Barack Obama responsible for the violence?
00:15:47.000 No, he wasn't.
00:15:48.000 And you know what?
00:15:48.000 You actually have to wait for evidence if you're going to even make that case, because that case is extraordinarily... The bar for evidence is extraordinarily high here.
00:15:55.000 If you want to blame somebody for violence incitement, you actually have to have evidence.
00:15:59.000 But the left doesn't care about evidence.
00:16:00.000 They're not interested in evidence.
00:16:02.000 And this prompted Jeff Zucker to sound off.
00:16:05.000 So, Jeff Zucker is the head of CNN.
00:16:08.000 Let's all remember, CNN has not been particularly
00:16:13.000 measured in its rhetoric with regard to the President of the United States or with regard to the right.
00:16:17.000 Every conspiracy theory that has been promoted against President Trump has been actively pushed by the folks at CNN.
00:16:24.000 Everything.
00:16:25.000 They've spent two years fulminating over supposed Russian collusion every day on the air, non-stop.
00:16:31.000 Folks on the left, they love CNN specifically because CNN has basically become a propaganda outlet in many ways for the anti-Trump agenda.
00:16:40.000 But Jeff Zucker says that when a bomb was sent to CNN headquarters, then that's because of President Trump.
00:16:46.000 So here is what Jeff Zucker said.
00:16:47.000 He put out a statement.
00:16:49.000 He said,
00:17:02.000 Again, I do not understand why Jeff Zucker thinks that the President of the United States is responsible for a bomb being sent to CNN headquarters just because the President says that he doesn't like the press, or the press are the enemy of the people.
00:17:14.000 I don't like that language either.
00:17:16.000 I think that language is bad. 1.00
00:17:17.000 But that is not language saying, go send a bomb to the people at CNN.
00:17:21.000 That's not a thing.
00:17:23.000 The President of the United States, in response to the media basically ginning up outrage at him and at the right,
00:17:30.000 Is, I think, not entirely inappropriate.
00:17:33.000 So, first of all, I will say this.
00:17:36.000 President Trump has used rhetoric I don't like at all.
00:17:38.000 He's used rhetoric that I think is immoral with regard to the press.
00:17:42.000 I think he has used rhetoric with regard to his political opposition that is immoral.
00:17:46.000 Does that mean, again, he is inciting violence?
00:17:48.000 No.
00:17:48.000 And the press have used very similar rhetoric about President Trump.
00:17:51.000 Does that mean they are inciting violence?
00:17:53.000 No, it doesn't.
00:17:54.000 Heated rhetoric and violent rhetoric are not the same thing.
00:17:58.000 And to link the two means that eventually somebody's just going to say, let's censor all the rhetoric because otherwise it's going to lead to violence.
00:18:03.000 Here is President Trump going after the media.
00:18:06.000 Basically, the media and President Trump can't stop clobbering each other.
00:18:09.000 And I think there's some truth on both sides and there's a lot of falsehood on both sides.
00:18:12.000 Here's the president saying, stop with the media scares.
00:18:15.000 The media also has a responsibility to set a civil tone and to stop the endless hostility and constant negative and oftentimes false attacks and stories.
00:18:29.000 Have to do it.
00:18:32.000 Okay, now, I agree with the president that the media do a horrible job of covering the news.
00:18:36.000 And in response to President Trump, they promote even more falsehood, and more fakery, and more divisive politics.
00:18:42.000 This is what they do.
00:18:44.000 But, is there any question that President Trump is trolling them?
00:18:47.000 Of course not, because President Trump has used similar rhetoric about the media.
00:18:50.000 Basically, this is two folks slapping each other Napoleon Dynamite style in the face, and then blaming each other when a guy down the street decides he's gonna go bomb the local school.
00:18:59.000 Not the same thing.
00:18:59.000 She tweeted out, Okay, that is correct.
00:19:14.000 That is correct, and I don't understand why President Trump is getting bashed for saying the right thing at that rally, or at the White House, and then he is getting bashed on the other side when he goes after the media.
00:19:26.000 Anyway, in any case, CNN demonstrating full-scale
00:19:30.000 That they are going to go with this narrative, right?
00:19:32.000 They never went with this narrative with regard to Bernie Sanders.
00:19:34.000 They never went with this narrative with regard to the attempted attacks on Susan Collins.
00:19:39.000 But they are going to go full scale with these attacks on President Trump.
00:19:42.000 So here's CNN's Gloria Borger saying, you know, Trump's targets, is it a coincidence?
00:19:46.000 President Trump attacks a bunch of people and then those people get mail bombs.
00:19:50.000 You know what we do in politics?
00:19:51.000 We attack people on the other side and their ideas.
00:19:55.000 Now, I attack people on the other side all the time.
00:19:57.000 Does that mean I'm calling for a bombing of their house?
00:19:58.000 Of course not.
00:19:59.000 And people who attack me online are not calling for a bombing of my house.
00:20:01.000 That's not a thing.
00:20:03.000 But here's Gloria Borger blaming Trump.
00:20:05.000 You know, these are names, as you point out, that come up all the time in his rallies.
00:20:11.000 I mean, he's not particularly kind to Barack Obama either.
00:20:15.000 So I think it would have behooved him to be a little bit more complete in his statement.
00:20:21.000 So now we are going to conflate.
00:20:23.000 We're going to conflate President Trump ripping Barack Obama with President Trump calling for violence against Barack Obama.
00:20:28.000 If that's the case, then CNN calls for violence against Donald Trump every single day.
00:20:32.000 Because CNN spends its days ripping on President Trump, and now we are conflating criticism of political figures with a call for violence against those political figures.
00:20:40.000 It's just, this is bad stuff.
00:20:42.000 You can condemn rhetoric you don't like without blaming it for violence, and yet, as we'll see, folks in the media and folks on the Democratic side of the aisle are more than happy to, you know, they like to use the word weaponize, to weaponize politics in particular in this fashion in order to try and
00:20:59.000 Push for a ban, basically, on their opposition.
00:21:01.000 We'll talk about all of that in just one second.
00:21:03.000 But first, let's talk about emergencies.
00:21:05.000 So emergencies are usually called emergencies because they strike without warning, because you don't know anything about them in advance.
00:21:11.000 And that's why you should prep now in case there is some sort of emergency.
00:21:14.000 You know, the government says that you really ought to have a supply of food and water in your home, and there's no question you should.
00:21:19.000 Hurricane Michael hit with very little warning.
00:21:21.000 With earthquakes, there is no warning.
00:21:22.000 I live in California, where this sort of thing happens relatively frequently.
00:21:25.000 When it's breaking news, it's too late to prepare.
00:21:27.000 We're good to go!
00:21:47.000 I have to say that I think that the reaction
00:22:09.000 Of course.
00:22:27.000 When I spoke at Berkeley, there were people outside chanting, speech is violence.
00:22:31.000 That's basically the chant that's happening in CNN headquarters here.
00:22:34.000 But it's completely hypocritical, by the way, also, because what the left and what the folks at CNN really mean is that speech is only violent if it is coming from the right.
00:22:43.000 Here's an example. 0.87
00:22:43.000 So, Don Lemon rips into Trump. 0.87
00:22:45.000 He says, you know, President Trump is blaming members of the media, and he's being mean, and he's being cruel, and it's not nice.
00:22:51.000 He's blaming members of the media, who are really the victims in all of this.
00:22:54.000 Well, let's be real.
00:22:55.000 They're the victims of the bomber, but they are not necessarily the victims of President Trump.
00:22:58.000 The media can stand on their own two feet, and they are fully capable of fighting back against the president, as they have been for the last three years.
00:23:05.000 Here is Don Lemon saying, President Trump blamed the victim.
00:23:08.000 He had that opportunity.
00:23:09.000 He blamed the victim tonight.
00:23:11.000 For him to sit there and blame us, we're the victims here.
00:23:15.000 And only us. 0.99
00:23:16.000 It's disgusting.
00:23:18.000 He says, you know, we're the victims here. 0.92
00:23:20.000 We're the victims here.
00:23:20.000 Again, CNN, we're the victims.
00:23:23.000 But not of President Trump.
00:23:25.000 Not when it comes to this.
00:23:27.000 President Trump was saying that the overheated rhetoric on the part of the media are contributing to a bad environment in the United States, and the response of the folks in the media is, let's overheat the rhetoric even more.
00:23:38.000 And I'm sorry, but this is overdone.
00:23:43.000 Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon on CNN hugging each other outside of CNN in the middle of a segment.
00:23:49.000 Here is them doing this.
00:23:52.000 You know, all these folks who are acting as though there's some sort of existential threat to the media in the United States, I'm sorry, no.
00:23:57.000 I'm sorry, no.
00:23:57.000 There isn't.
00:23:57.000 Okay, this is a bad incident.
00:23:58.000 There's no question it's a bad incident.
00:24:12.000 The reason I have a little bit of lack of sympathy for this, we almost died here routine, is because this thing was stopped in the mail room with no detonator on it apparently.
00:24:21.000 My Jewish high school used to be evacuated three times a year for bomb threats minimum.
00:24:25.000 Three times a year.
00:24:27.000 And you know what?
00:24:27.000 It wasn't people hugging and kissing outside because
00:24:31.000 There are crazy people out there. 0.99
00:24:32.000 There are crazy people out there. 0.87
00:24:34.000 But the way that CNN is treating this is that it's not crazy people.
00:24:36.000 It's perfectly sane people who are being directed by the President of the United States to attack them.
00:24:40.000 They're an institution under assault by the presidency who is calling for violence on behalf of his political friends.
00:24:48.000 No, no.
00:24:48.000 And you don't get to do this.
00:24:49.000 I'm sorry.
00:24:50.000 Don Lemon does not get to do this routine where the media are the victims at the same time that he is out there claiming that Antifa is wonderful.
00:24:56.000 This is just a couple of months ago.
00:24:57.000 This is just a couple of months ago.
00:24:58.000 Don Lemon claiming that Antifa, an actual violent terror group in the United States, is totally fine. 0.51
00:25:04.000 Um, no one condones the violence, but there were different reasons for Antifa and for these neo-Nazis, uh, to be there. 0.97
00:25:12.000 One, racist fascists. 0.96
00:25:15.000 The other group, fighting racist fascists. 0.99
00:25:17.000 So they're not that bad. 0.95
00:25:18.000 I mean, they're just fighting racist fascists, Antifa.
00:25:20.000 It's just... 1.00
00:25:22.000 Again, everyone is garbage, okay? 1.00
00:25:24.000 Moral of today's show, everyone is garbage. 1.00
00:25:26.000 Including Chris Matthews, or as MSH says. 0.99
00:25:29.000 I don't need any evidence.
00:25:30.000 Get up in the morning, come out of the shoe, run on in here, get in this rolly chair, run around all crazy like, and I just talk about whatever pops in my brain.
00:25:37.000 Say, Kathleen, get me coffee. 0.99
00:25:39.000 She says, get your own coffee, Chris.
00:25:40.000 And I say, okay, fine.
00:25:41.000 And then I come in without any coffee because I'm too lazy to go to the coffee machine.
00:25:44.000 Go, Chris Matthews, go!
00:25:45.000 They say there is no connection between what Trump has said about Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Eric Holder, John Brennan, and CNN, and the thinking of the person who sent those pipe bombs is foolhardy.
00:25:58.000 How do you know that?
00:26:00.000 You don't know that.
00:26:02.000 He doesn't know that because he doesn't know things.
00:26:05.000 And yet everybody assumes the worst on behalf of everybody else.
00:26:08.000 And instead of us saying there's a difference between heated political rhetoric and violent political rhetoric, we just jump in with both feet. 0.99
00:26:13.000 The Democrats are even worse than the media on this because the Democrats are absolutely hypocritical and absurd. 0.98
00:26:18.000 So Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer put out a statement 0.99
00:26:21.000 on these attempted bombings.
00:26:24.000 And here is what they said.
00:26:26.000 This is Emily Zanotti reporting over at Daily Wire.
00:26:28.000 She says, Senate Minority Leader Senator Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi lashed out at President Donald Trump in a statement released Wednesday afternoon.
00:26:37.000 The pair jointly condemned a statement from the president issued earlier in the day expressing his concerns over a series of suspected explosive devices sent to prominent Democrats.
00:26:45.000 They say, we listened with great interest to the president's remarks this afternoon.
00:26:48.000 We all take an oath to support and defend the Constitution and protect the American people, and that is our first responsibility.
00:26:54.000 However, President Trump's words ring hollow until he reverses his statements that condone acts of violence.
00:26:59.000 Time and again, the President has condoned physical violence and divided Americans with his words and actions, expressing support for the congressman who bodyslammed a reporter, the neo-Nazis who killed a young woman in Charlottesville, his supporters at rallies who get violent with protesters, dictators around the world who murder their own citizens, and referring to the free press as the enemy of the people.
00:27:17.000 Now, I think President Trump says a lot of bad stuff.
00:27:20.000 Have I been unclear about this?
00:27:21.000 But, you're actually going to blame him for this bombing spate?
00:27:24.000 This is what you're going to do now?
00:27:26.000 I seem to remember somebody named Nancy Pelosi, just about a year and a half ago, who was asked about Steve Scalise nearly being shot to death.
00:27:32.000 He almost died.
00:27:34.000 Okay?
00:27:34.000 He was in critical condition.
00:27:35.000 He almost died.
00:27:36.000 It's a miracle that he lived.
00:27:37.000 Here's Nancy Pelosi saying, how dare you blame us or Bernie Sanders for heated rhetoric that could have been connected with the guy going onto a baseball field and shouting as he gunned down members of Congress about health care.
00:27:50.000 That's really what he was doing.
00:27:51.000 He was standing there screaming about health care while he tried to murder members of Congress.
00:27:54.000 Here was Nancy Pelosi's response at the time.
00:27:57.000 She was right then.
00:27:58.000 She's not right now.
00:27:58.000 What's the difference?
00:27:59.000 Now she gets to target right-wingers. 1.00
00:28:01.000 How dare they say such a thing?
00:28:03.000 How dare they? 0.99
00:28:05.000 So this sick individual does something despicable and it was horrible what he did, hateful. 0.95
00:28:12.000 But for them to all of a sudden be sanctimonious as if they don't never seen such a thing before. 0.80
00:28:20.000 It's just amazing.
00:28:22.000 So she's reversed.
00:28:23.000 I mean, I wonder what changed.
00:28:24.000 Oh, what changed is who is going to get blamed.
00:28:26.000 That's what changed.
00:28:27.000 So there is no such thing as a sword that cuts both ways.
00:28:30.000 All we have in the United States at this point are a bunch of hatchets. 0.96
00:28:33.000 Blunt on one end, directed toward you, and sharp on the other end, directed toward your opponent.
00:28:36.000 We don't recognize that what we're actually holding is a sword.
00:28:39.000 If you use it on your opponent, it can easily be turned back on you.
00:28:42.000 Every sword has two edges.
00:28:43.000 But according to the left, it's just a hatchet and you can bury it between the shoulder blades of your political opponents.
00:28:48.000 Hillary Clinton does the same thing. 1.00
00:28:49.000 So, the former first lady, senator, presidential candidate, she says, listen, as an American, I'm worried about the level of our rhetoric.
00:28:57.000 Well, as a person, I'm great.
00:29:00.000 As an American, I'm worried.
00:29:02.000 I worry about the direction of our country.
00:29:06.000 I worry about what kind of world will be waiting for them when their
00:29:12.000 Teenagers and young adults and beyond.
00:29:15.000 Okay, and it wasn't just Hillary Clinton saying this.
00:29:17.000 Her top aide, Philippe Rains, who is really one of the most vicious people in American politics, he was on MSNBC and he explicitly just blamed President Trump's rhetoric for all of this.
00:29:26.000 This is someone who has weaponized Trump's Twitter feed and made it into a hit list.
00:29:33.000 He is addicted to their response and they are addicted to his vitriol.
00:29:41.000 Okay, so next time somebody who's a big Hillary Clinton fan decides to go and shoot up an office or invade a Fox News studio, then I guess we can blame Hillary Clinton. 1.00
00:29:48.000 Because after all, I recall when a minute ago, one minute ago, Hillary Clinton was saying you cannot be civil with the other side.
00:29:56.000 You cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for, what you care about.
00:29:59.000 That's why I believe if we are fortunate enough 1.00
00:30:17.000 Okay, everybody is completely full of crap. 1.00
00:30:31.000 Everyone is completely full of crap. 1.00
00:30:33.000 We'll get to the fullness of the crap in just one second. 1.00
00:30:36.000 But first, let's talk about your ancestry. 0.96
00:30:38.000 So, you may have noticed that Elizabeth Warren released a genetic report recently.
00:30:41.000 It found that she is whiter than any human being ever found on planet Earth.
00:30:46.000 That she is as white as the moon at full waxing.
00:30:51.000 That's how white Elizabeth Warren is. 1.00
00:30:53.000 We wouldn't have known that, except for genetic testing.
00:30:55.000 Would you like to find out whether you're more Native American than Elizabeth Warren?
00:30:58.000 Well, then you should go check out 23andMe.
00:31:00.000 It's a DNA testing service that can offer insights into your ancestry, health, wellness, and traits.
00:31:04.000 It's actually a lot of fun, and it's really easy to do.
00:31:07.000 You simply spit into a tube provided in your 23andMe kit, and then you mail your gunk back to the lab to be analyzed.
00:31:13.000 The Bitter Taste Report and Sweet vs. Salt Reports can tell you how your DNA plays a role in determining food preferences that helps you change what kind of food you eat.
00:31:20.000 Sleep Reports, telling you if you're much more likely to be an especially deep sleeper.
00:31:24.000 You can have the Saturated Fat and Weight Reports, which tells you how your weight might be affected by saturated fats in your diet, so you can actually change your diet.
00:31:30.000 And the Lactose Intolerance Report that sheds insights into how your genetics could affect your ability to digest dairy products.
00:31:35.000 It's a lot of fun, and you're finding out
00:31:37.000 We're good to go. 0.99
00:32:00.000 Again, everyone is full of crap, including Andrew Cuomo and Bill de Blasio. 0.99
00:32:06.000 Both of them came out and they said, listen, we have to turn down the temperature in this country. 1.00
00:32:09.000 And it has to start at the top.
00:32:11.000 Weird. 0.96
00:32:11.000 I remember when Bill de Blasio was saying that police officers were just shooting black people for no reason. 0.96
00:32:16.000 And I remember when Andrew Cuomo, the governor of New York, said that everyone who disagrees with him on politics should get out of the state.
00:32:21.000 That is not an exaggeration.
00:32:22.000 He said that there is no place in the state of New York for you if you don't believe in same-sex marriage and his views on social issues.
00:32:28.000 But don't worry, it's just, it's the rhetoric on the other side that's a problem.
00:32:33.000 Let me explain. 0.94
00:32:33.000 If you are sitting around today and you're going, it's always the rhetoric on the other side that's a problem, buy a freaking mirror. 0.94
00:32:40.000 Buy a freaking mirror. 0.94
00:32:42.000 Everybody has a role in tamping down some of the rhetoric here. 0.96
00:32:46.000 Everybody does.
00:32:47.000 And that also means that blaming the other side and suggesting that the other side is responsible for violence is leading to a worse country.
00:32:54.000 It's so funny.
00:32:55.000 Everybody thinks they're fighting violence when they suggest the other side is responsible for violence when they just use mainstream political rhetoric.
00:33:01.000 You're actually increasing the chances of violence when you do that because you are heating everything up.
00:33:05.000 You're suggesting the other side is so evil that the very utterance of their ideas is likely to lead to death, chaos, and destruction.
00:33:13.000 That's an un-American perspective.
00:33:15.000 It's un-American. 0.82
00:33:16.000 Bernie Sanders can say whatever the hell he wants, no matter how wrong he is.
00:33:20.000 And unless he is actively saying, go shoot people on a congressional baseball field, that is not his fault.
00:33:24.000 And Donald Trump can say whatever he wants, and you don't have to like it. 0.97
00:33:28.000 But whatever Donald Trump says, he has the right to say that so long as he is not saying, go beat up somebody right now, go bomb someplace right now.
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00:34:29.000 If I sound weary of all of this, it's because I am weary of all of this, really.
00:34:32.000 I mean, if we're going to have any sort of level-headed conversation, we're going to have to stop blaming each other for every crazy person who does a crazy thing. 0.97
00:34:39.000 This guy's a crazy person. 0.89
00:34:41.000 This isn't somebody in the White House. 1.00
00:34:42.000 This isn't somebody at the DNC headquarters. 1.00
00:34:44.000 This is a crazy person.
00:34:46.000 By the way, there's a lot more connection politically between a guy who is an actual Democratic staffer doxxing Republican members of Congress, like, two weeks ago, than there is relation between this person and Donald Trump or this person and CNN. 0.95
00:34:59.000 Enough is enough, folks.
00:35:00.000 Really.
00:35:00.000 Really.
00:35:01.000 Let's stop making the country a worse place.
00:35:03.000 I don't feel like this is preachy, because I think this is just common sense, and I think most of the people listening understand that.
00:35:10.000 Gross.
00:35:10.000 Okay.
00:35:11.000 In other news, NBC News is actively hyping this Megyn Kelly blackface thing, and it's really stupid. 1.00
00:35:17.000 It's really stupid. 1.00
00:35:18.000 So speaking of stupidity in politics, so Megyn Kelly, we talked about this at length yesterday, Megyn Kelly said on a show that she doesn't really understand why this woman who is in the Real Housewives of whatever, why this woman 1.00
00:35:30.000 Was in trouble for dressing up as Diana Ross at a party because when she was a kid, people used to darken their skin for Halloween costumes and it wasn't a big deal. 0.99
00:35:37.000 And a bunch of folks said, well, blackface has a long and inglorious history in the United States.
00:35:40.000 That's insensitive.
00:35:41.000 She said, you know what?
00:35:42.000 I learned something today that's insensitive.
00:35:43.000 I was wrong.
00:35:44.000 That seems like that should be the end of the story. 0.95
00:35:46.000 Does anyone really believe Megyn Kelly is a brutal, vicious racist? 0.98
00:35:50.000 Does anyone actually believe that? 0.93
00:35:52.000 Of course, nobody believes that. 0.93
00:35:53.000 Nobody actually believes that Megyn Kelly thinks black people are inferior genetically and that black people are worse, black people are morally culpable at a higher level than white people or any of that. 0.94
00:36:02.000 No one actually believes that. 0.62
00:36:03.000 But NBC, and this just shows you that capitalism, when used by bad people,
00:36:09.000 You know, is not great.
00:36:10.000 Okay, NBC wants to get rid of Megyn Kelly. 1.00
00:36:12.000 They want to get rid of Megyn Kelly because they tried to push Megyn Kelly into a box that is not properly fitted for Megyn Kelly. 1.00
00:36:18.000 Megyn Kelly is an excellent interviewer.
00:36:20.000 She's an excellent questioner.
00:36:21.000 She's a former lawyer and prosecutor.
00:36:23.000 That is where her role is best.
00:36:24.000 They tried to fit her into the Katie Couric fluff fluff morning news routine, and that didn't work for them. 1.00
00:36:29.000 And so the ratings were not good.
00:36:30.000 And so they had signed her to an inordinate amount of money, and now they're trying to push her out the door.
00:36:35.000 How are they doing that?
00:36:37.000 By actively stoking racial resentment in the United States.
00:36:39.000 I mean, this is ugly stuff.
00:36:41.000 NBC News is now saying they're going to air taped episodes of Meghan's show this week, and that they're going to seek to terminate her contract based on her saying that she didn't understand what the big deal was about somebody darkening their face for a Halloween costume.
00:36:56.000 Now, does anyone really believe that the NBC brass is really upset about that?
00:36:59.000 Or that a boycott is on its way?
00:37:00.000 Or that this was actually vicious, brutal, KKK-style racism?
00:37:05.000 Does anyone actually think that?
00:37:06.000 No, of course not.
00:37:07.000 This is just NBC News trying to stoke racial resentment for purposes of being able to fire somebody.
00:37:13.000 The head of NBC News, Andy Lack, he openly lit into Kelly after she apologized.
00:37:18.000 She apologized and then Lack said, quote, And then Lester Holt covered her comments on NBC Nightly News.
00:37:29.000 So NBC decided to eat their own by going after Megyn Kelly. 1.00
00:37:33.000 It's amazing how convenient that is.
00:37:36.000 No one on CNN criticizes CNN.
00:37:38.000 Nobody on NBC News criticizes NBC News unless they're preparing to chop somebody up and throw them in the wood chipper.
00:37:44.000 And that's basically what NBC is doing here.
00:37:46.000 I wonder why nobody trusts the media.
00:37:47.000 I mean, this really is a great media story of just how corrupt the media are.
00:37:52.000 There's no question that NBC is just attempting to flame the- the- stoke the flames here in order so that they can make a move on Megyn Kelly that they wouldn't otherwise be able to make contractually.
00:38:00.000 So well done over at NBC, making the country a worse place so you can save some money on a host that you yourselves boxed in the wrong way.
00:38:07.000 Speaking of bad stories, so President Trump apparently has been exposing
00:38:14.000 National security secret, supposedly, to outside prying eyes.
00:38:18.000 Now, before you say anything, folks on the right, before all of my conservative friends say, Hillary Clinton!
00:38:22.000 Emails!
00:38:23.000 Yoga!
00:38:23.000 I know.
00:38:24.000 It was bad.
00:38:26.000 We chanted, lock her up, right? 0.70
00:38:29.000 When I say we, not me, but there are a lot of people who said that she should have been locked up.
00:38:34.000 Now, I said that she should have been tried, that she committed a criminal act, according to the evidence that I saw.
00:38:38.000 With that said, that was bad.
00:38:41.000 You know what else is bad?
00:38:42.000 When President Trump does it.
00:38:44.000 Whataboutism is strong in our country right now.
00:38:46.000 Here is the story from the New York Times.
00:38:47.000 When President Trump calls old friends on one of his iPhones to gossip, gripe, or solicit their latest take on how he is doing, American intelligence reports indicate Chinese spies are often listening and putting to use invaluable insights into how to best work the president and affect administration policy, current and former American officials said.
00:39:03.000 Mr. Trump's aides have repeatedly warned him cell phone calls are not secure.
00:39:07.000 They've told him Russian spies are routinely eavesdropping on the calls, but aides say that the president
00:39:11.000 Who's been pressured into using his secure White House landline more often these days, has still refused to give up his iPhones.
00:39:17.000 White House officials say they can only hope he refrains from discussing classified information when he is on them.
00:39:23.000 President should not be doing this.
00:39:23.000 Now, the president has denied the accounts.
00:39:25.000 The president says that he has not done any of this.
00:39:28.000 That, you know, this is all fake news.
00:39:30.000 Again, it's all fake news.
00:39:31.000 Maybe it's fake news, maybe it's not.
00:39:33.000 If it's not, Mr. President, please stop doing this, okay?
00:39:35.000 Like, really, it's not good.
00:39:37.000 And if we really believe that it's bad to expose America's national security secrets to prying eyes, then we probably shouldn't be doing it on our side either.
00:39:45.000 In other news,
00:39:46.000 The stock market has taken a massive hit this month.
00:39:49.000 It is now at a full loss for the year.
00:39:51.000 Remember, we're already in October, so that means that all the gains of the last 10 months were basically erased over the course of October.
00:39:58.000 The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 608 points at 24,583 and erased all of its gains for 2018.
00:40:01.000 The S&P 500 dropped 3.1% to 2,656 and turned negative for the year.
00:40:03.000 Why?
00:40:03.000 Well, the earnings are down.
00:40:04.000 So, a lot of the tech earnings are down and also,
00:40:16.000 There are a lot of fears about the idea that the economy was overheated in advance of the tariffs that President Trump has put in place against China.
00:40:23.000 So people basically stocked up on products before the tariffs were set to hit, and that means that there are a lot of forecasts that the economy is actually not going to grow as much next quarter.
00:40:31.000 We have yet to see whether that is the case.
00:40:33.000 Also, the housing numbers are down.
00:40:35.000 There's a lot of uncertainty heading into the end of the year, according to J.J.
00:40:38.000 Kinahan, chief market strategist at TD Ameritrade.
00:40:42.000 It feels like people feel more comfortable spending short term rather than long term.
00:40:46.000 Now, it is quite possible some of this has to do with the midterm elections.
00:40:50.000 The feeling that Democrats could get into power and then start stymieing every possibility of deregulation.
00:40:56.000 That they could be looking to raise taxes again.
00:40:59.000 That they could look to cut a deal with President Trump to raise deficits and to blow out the spending.
00:41:04.000 That's going to have some impact on the market as well.
00:41:07.000 That's why it's imperative that if you like your economy, if you want to keep your economy, if you like your economy, you can keep your economy, but only if you keep electing the people who brought you that economy, namely the Republicans in Congress.
00:41:18.000 Even more so than the President.
00:41:19.000 The Republicans in Congress were responsible for President Obama not getting through his worst
00:41:24.000 His worst legislative proposals, and they have been effectuating President Trump's economic policy for the last couple of years as well.
00:41:31.000 Now, what are the chances that the Republicans retain the House?
00:41:33.000 Well, they've been moving in the wrong direction in the House.
00:41:36.000 There's, according to FiveThirtyEight, a five and six chance that Democrats win control of the House.
00:41:41.000 The Senate, however, is a little bit different.
00:41:43.000 So they are forecasting that the Senate is going to be held by the Republicans in all likelihood.
00:41:49.000 And they say that right now the Senate is about 75% likely, that the Senate is, yeah, five in six chance Republicans keep control of the Senate, and they may gain up to two seats, two, three, four seats.
00:42:02.000 They say that there is a 17.8% chance that everything remains solid.
00:42:08.000 There is basically well within the bell curve that Republicans pick up anywhere from three to four seats, two to four seats.
00:42:16.000 That seems the most likely outcome at this point.
00:42:18.000 You know, all of that has led people on the right to suggest that maybe this latest bomb scare is some sort of democratic attempt to gin up voter rage just before the election.
00:42:30.000 But again, in the absence of evidence, I am not going to go there and I don't think anybody else should go there either.
00:42:35.000 We should not be
00:42:36.000 Moving based on, again, you know, evidenceless allegations at this point.
00:42:42.000 I'm perfectly fine with waiting another 24 hours to find out what the hell is going on.
00:42:46.000 And I think everybody else should be too if we want to have a stronger and better country.
00:42:50.000 Okay, well, let's do some things I like and then some things I hate.
00:42:53.000 So, things that I like.
00:42:55.000 I think that everybody likes cartoons.
00:42:57.000 That's what I think.
00:42:57.000 I think America can unify around liking cartoons.
00:43:00.000 Our country used to be a lot more literate with regard to classical music particularly.
00:43:05.000 My kids know some classical music specifically because they have watched some of the old timey cartoons.
00:43:10.000 Now, a lot of people look at these cartoons like, those cartoons are violent.
00:43:14.000 Those cartoons are violent.
00:43:16.000 Again, connecting speech to violence. 0.99
00:43:18.000 If you really think watching Tom and Jerry clobber each other is what leads to people raping people or shooting people, you're out of your mind.
00:43:26.000 My kids watch these cartoons, and you know what they don't do?
00:43:28.000 Slam the piano on each other's hands.
00:43:31.000 This cartoon actually won an Oscar.
00:43:33.000 It's called The Cat Concerto, and what you're going to hear is Tom.
00:43:37.000 Tom's the cat, Jerry's the mouse.
00:43:39.000 Tom is going to be playing Hungarian Rhapsody No.
00:43:42.000 2 by Liszt.
00:43:43.000 Here's a little bit of this cartoon, which is just hilarious.
00:44:06.000 I don't know.
00:44:29.000 So this is great.
00:44:30.000 This isn't the only cartoon of this era that used classical music.
00:44:33.000 There are a bunch of Bugs Bunny cartoons that use classical music, particularly The Barber of Seville.
00:44:38.000 There's a very famous one.
00:44:39.000 There's a very famous one of Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd doing a Wagner opera, which is pretty great.
00:44:47.000 There's one of Bugs Bunny as Leopold Stokowski, the famous conductor.
00:44:52.000 It used to be that people actually were cultured.
00:44:53.000 You know, this is one of the great lies that was told in the 1950s about the United States is that America was hollowing out, our soul was gone, we were a bunch of consumerists.
00:45:01.000 The fact is, more Americans attended classical concerts during like 1954 than attended baseball games.
00:45:07.000 Americans were actually seeking to educate themselves in new and interesting ways, and the availability of new means of listening to music like this was one of the reasons for that.
00:45:20.000 So, worth checking out.
00:45:21.000 And yes, you can show it to your small children, and they won't hit each other with pianos.
00:45:24.000 It's okay.
00:45:25.000 Okay, time for a thing that I hate.
00:45:30.000 The left love science.
00:45:31.000 When I say they love science, I mean they really don't like science very much.
00:45:33.000 What they like to do is speculate about science and then use the weakest possible scientific findings in order to push the idea that public policy should be shifted in their direction. 1.00
00:45:42.000 The latest example is incredibly stupid. 0.97
00:45:45.000 Okay, the latest example is from Vox.com, the great explaining website that explains nothing. 1.00
00:45:50.000 The piece is by Dylan Matthews and Bird Pinkerton.
00:45:53.000 Dylan Matthews is just awful.
00:45:55.000 And here's what they write.
00:45:59.000 Some researchers think putting lithium in our water could save lives.
00:46:03.000 So they actually want to lace the water you get from the tap with lithium, an actual psychiatric drug.
00:46:10.000 Here is what he writes.
00:46:41.000 Well, this one would fall under the category of correlation does not equal causation.
00:46:45.000 Buried deep down in the article is this news.
00:46:47.000 The size of the numbers that are being claimed should make you skeptical.
00:46:49.000 There are huge, arguably implausibly huge, effects.
00:46:53.000 The Open Philanthropy Project, which had previously been quite interested in new research on lithium, states on its website that the study makes us substantially less optimistic.
00:47:01.000 A 2017 study that traced lithium really helps guard against suicide.
00:47:06.000 Just this year, a study using healthcare claims data in the U.S.
00:47:08.000 found greater amounts of trace lithium in the water didn't predict lower diagnoses of bipolar disorder or dementia.
00:47:15.000 So why hasn't it been tried?
00:47:16.000 Because there's no science that suggests that it really works.
00:47:20.000 Also, if you really want to make Americans paranoid, really, start lacing their water.
00:47:24.000 Good idea.
00:47:25.000 Good idea, guys.
00:47:26.000 You want to make Americans paranoid? 0.60
00:47:28.000 Start lacing their water not with fluoride, which the crazies already think is controlling your brain. 0.62
00:47:32.000 Start lacing it with actual psychiatric drugs to pacify the population.
00:47:36.000 Good luck with that.
00:47:37.000 See how that goes in America.
00:47:39.000 Aye yi yi yi yi.
00:47:40.000 Well, I mean, I guess we're all crazy enough that we don't actually have to... We don't have to wait for the lithium. 0.89
00:47:44.000 We're all mutts at this point.
00:47:45.000 So, we'll be back here tomorrow.
00:47:47.000 We'll break down more of the nuttiness and we'll do the mailbag.
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