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00:01:51.000A kid who I have found to be strong, resilient, and classy, Kyle Kashuv, who is a Parkland survivor, is now being smacked by Harvard.
00:01:59.000He was admitted to Harvard, and now he has been rejected from Harvard.
00:02:02.000Now, I knew about this, honestly speaking, a couple of weeks ago.
00:02:04.000Kyle told me about this a couple of weeks ago when it first happened.
00:02:07.000He sort of asked my advice on how to navigate it.
00:02:10.000I'll tell you the whole story and what exactly happened to Kyle starting from the beginning.
00:02:14.000So, today, he announced on Twitter that Harvard University had withdrawn his admission from the school over the revelation of racist, offensive, idiotic posts written on a private Google document with friends when he was 16 years old.
00:02:27.000So back when Kyle was 16, before the Parkland shooting ever occurred, he was on a Google Doc with a bunch of his supposed friends, a private Google Doc, and he dropped the N-word and a bunch of other disgusting, nasty references.
00:02:39.000Now, this is something, not to make excuses for bad things, but this is something that 16-year-olds sometimes do because 16-year-olds are stupid.
00:02:49.00016-year-olds do not have fully developed prefrontal cortices, they are not geniuses, or at least if they are geniuses, they're geniuses for 16-year-olds.
00:02:56.000But, if you are a kind of person who would like everything that you did when you were 16 said in public or private, re-earthed, re-unearthed every time something good happened to you, well then you'll love this story.
00:03:08.000So, Kyle put all this stuff on a private Google document with supposed friends.
00:03:13.000Then the Parkland shooting happens, and Kyle becomes a very outspoken advocate for the Second Amendment, a very heavily publicized figure, particularly on the right.
00:03:22.000On the left, there are a bunch of heavily publicized figures from Parkland, ranging from, I think her name was Emily Gonzalez, to David Hogg, obviously.
00:03:30.000Cameron Kasky, who we had on the Sunday special to talk about Parkland.
00:03:34.000And so there are a bunch of these survivors, and many of them handle fame well.
00:03:37.000Some of them don't handle fame as well, but they're all kids, right?
00:03:40.000These are all people who are 17, 18 years old at the most.
00:03:43.000Well, Kyle Kashuv is one of these people.
00:03:46.000And he spends a couple of years basically going around with various other members of the Parkland class and trying to develop school safety initiatives.
00:03:54.000So he meets with a bunch of senators on both left and right.
00:03:57.000He meets the President of the United States.
00:03:58.000He becomes this very prominent figure.
00:04:00.000Now Kyle also has impeccable academic credentials.
00:04:03.000So Kyle graduated second in his class.
00:04:06.000He had a weighted GPA of something like 5.4, and he scored 50 and 50 on his SATs.
00:04:13.000His academic credentials were thoroughly in order, so he applies to Harvard, and he gets in.
00:04:17.000And after he gets in, some of the kids who he was on that Google private doc thread with back when he was 16, when he said all these terrible things, decide to now drop all of that.
00:04:27.000And our journalistic institutions decide to go all in on this.
00:04:31.000Will Sommer, who I think is one of the worst gotcha artists in the media.
00:04:37.000He sort of trolls Twitter for moments to attack folks.
00:04:41.000Over at the Daily Beast, he prints an article a couple of weeks ago, it was like May 23rd, so about a month ago now, called, Pro-Gun Parkland Team Kyle Kashuv Apologizes for Inflammatory Racial Comments.
00:04:52.000And Kyle had gone ahead and done that.
00:04:55.000He had called me after he said this stuff is resurfacing, and I said, you should come forward.
00:04:58.000You should explain to everybody that you apologize and that you never meant any of this stuff.
00:05:03.000If you didn't mean any of this stuff, you should explain where you were coming from.
00:05:06.000And what Kyle said is that, like many 16-year-olds, he fell in with a group of people who were trying to shock each other.
00:05:11.000If you remember being a 16-year-old boy, very often 16-year-old boys say shocking and terrible things to each other specifically for the shock effect.
00:05:18.000So, Kyle came out and he made a statement at the time, and Will Sommer and other members of the media covered this as though this was actual news.
00:05:24.000They covered it as actual news that a 16-year-old said stupid things in a private Google document, and then a lot of his political adversaries decided to go after him on that basis.
00:05:32.000There are also some members of the so-called alt-right who decided to go after Kashuv.
00:05:38.000Some members of sort of the fringy right who decided to go after Kashuv.
00:05:41.000The reason being that Kashuv had derided the alt-right for their racism.
00:05:45.000He had said racism is bad, particularly after Parkland.
00:05:48.000He had said that he was not going to participate in events with people who he perceived as racist.
00:05:54.000Back when you were 16, you said X. These were adults attacking a kid who was 17, 18 years old at the time.
00:06:01.000And then they all sent these notes to Harvard's admissions committee.
00:06:06.000So, Cashew says all this stuff, the Daily Beast reports all of this, and then Harvard gets a hold of it, and then Harvard rescinds his admission.
00:06:14.000So here is what Kyle explained on Twitter this morning.
00:06:20.000Three months after being admitted to Harvard Class of 2023, Harvard has decided to rescind my admission over texts and comments made nearly two years ago, months prior to the shooting.
00:06:31.000A few weeks ago, I was made aware of egregious and callous comments classmates and I made privately years ago, when I was 16 years old, months before the shooting, in an attempt to be as extreme and shocking as possible.
00:06:40.000I immediately apologized, and he did, in fact, issue an apology.
00:07:02.000So here's the apology that Kashuv didn't make.
00:07:05.000I have recently been made aware of screenshots circulating that include offensive comments former classmates and I made a few years ago long before the shooting.
00:07:13.000I want to address this with honesty and transparency.
00:07:16.000We are 16 year olds making idiotic comments using callous and inflammatory language in an effort to be as extreme and shocking as possible.
00:07:22.000I'm embarrassed by it, but I want to be clear that the comments I made are not indicative of who I am or who I've become in the years since.
00:07:28.000This past year has forced me to mature and grow in an incredibly drastic way.
00:07:32.000My world, like everyone else's in Parkland, was turned upside down on February 14th.
00:07:35.000When your classmates, your teachers, and your neighbors are killed, it transforms you as a human being.
00:07:39.000I see the world through different eyes, and I'm embarrassed by the petty, flippant kid represented in those screenshots.
00:07:44.000I believe those I've gotten to know since know I'm a better person than that.
00:07:48.000I can and will do better moving forward." That was his original statement.
00:08:10.000You're going after a 16-year-old who's now 18 for commenting two years before in a private Google chat and sending it to Harvard administrators in an attempt to ruin his life?
00:08:58.000who went to prison for actual crimes against other, not saying bad things, not saying mean things, not using racial slurs, who committed actual crimes.
00:09:07.000That is perfectly appropriate because if you committed a crime and you did the time and you paid your price, then why shouldn't you go to Harvard University?
00:09:15.000What exactly is the problem with that?
00:09:17.000There are lots of people who I'm sure believed a lot of terrible, crazy things when they were 16 years old or said terrible, crazy things when they were 16 years old.
00:09:24.000And who will say and do crazy and terrible things while they are at Harvard who are not going to be tossed out of Harvard?
00:09:30.000So Harvard then sent a letter stating that they reserved the right to withdraw an offer of admission and requested a written explanation within 72 hours.
00:09:38.000They said, Mr. Kashuv, we've become aware of media reports discussing offensive statements allegedly authored by you.
00:09:43.000As you know, Harvard reserves the right to withdraw an offer of admission under various conditions, including if you engage or have engaged in behavior that brings into question your honesty, maturity, or moral character.
00:09:53.000OK, now that right there, that statement is insane.
00:09:56.000If that's the excuse they're using to kick him out, that he engaged or that he engages or has engaged in behavior that brings into question honesty, maturity, or moral character, Has engaged in?
00:10:06.000So let's say when he was 11, he said the n-word.
00:10:08.000Okay, so now are we gonna make it that, like, where's the age cutoff here?
00:10:14.000Especially given the fact that Cashew's been in the public eye for two full-on years after the Parkland shooting, and yet nobody can point to an incident that he's had post that, that evidences this kind of racism or racist behavior.
00:10:31.000Says on behalf of the Admissions Committee, this is William Fitzsimmons, the Dean of Admissions.
00:10:35.000On behalf of the Admissions Committee, we write now to ask you to send us a full accounting of any such statements you have authored, including not only those discussed in the media, but any others as well.
00:10:43.000Please also provide a written explanation of your actions for the Committee's consideration.
00:10:47.000Please email these materials to us by no later than 10 a.m., Tuesday, May 28th.
00:10:51.000And they sent this to him on May 24th.
00:10:52.000So they wanted him to come up with a full list and they wanted a full mea culpa by May 28th.
00:10:59.000So Kashuv complied and he wrote a letter.
00:11:04.000It said, let me first state, it says, let me first state that I apologize unequivocally for my comments, which were made two years ago in private among equally immature high school students.
00:11:13.000In the attached document, I've attached all the comments I've been able to record.
00:11:16.000I do not have access to the electronic record of that conversation, and do not recall other things that may have been said.
00:11:20.000I have only seen what has appeared in the media.
00:11:22.000I take full responsibility for the idiotic and hurtful things I wrote two years ago.
00:11:25.000I make absolutely no excuse for those comments.
00:11:27.000I said them, I regret them, and by explaining the context and my subsequent experiences, I am not trying to excuse them.
00:11:33.000Instead, I am seeking to demonstrate the hurtful things I said do not represent the man I am today.
00:11:37.000I understand Harvard's concern over these offensive statements from my past, and I further understand that Harvard has been contacted about them by people expressing concern about them.
00:11:45.000I am very sorry to have put the College in this position.
00:11:47.000I am determined to take whatever steps are necessary to rectify this past wrong and to reassure Harvard of my commitment to values of tolerance, diversity, and inclusion, which I hope to advance as a member of the Class of 2024.
00:11:59.000This is the context in which I made these comments.
00:12:01.000While this does not excuse my comments, I made poor choices with a group in which those words bore little weight and were used only in a means for their shock value.
00:12:09.000The context was a group of adolescents trying to use the worst words and say the most insane things imaginable.
00:12:14.000Until these writings were disclosed, I had long forgotten about them.
00:12:16.000While I will forever bear incredible shame for typing them, I especially feel remorse now that they've been made public, knowing they have caused terrible pain to people I care about.
00:12:23.000I gave no consideration to the meaning and weight of the words I wrote in an effort to impress then-friends and classmates, and looking back, I know clearly now I wrote terrible things I can never unwrite.
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00:14:02.000OK, so Kyle continues in this letter back to Harvard.
00:14:06.000He says my intent was never to hurt anyone.
00:14:08.000To do so would have magnified the harm immensely.
00:14:10.000I also feel I am no longer the same person, especially in the aftermath of the Parkland shooting and all that has transpired since.
00:14:15.000I had to mature, not only to address that horrible situation, but to fulfill my new role as a school safety activist.
00:14:21.000I have tried hard to be a better man in honor of the friends I lost, and I believe I have grown and matured significantly through this experience.
00:14:26.000I am proud of some of the things I have accomplished in the wake of that tragedy, and I do not recognize the person who wrote those things.
00:14:31.000When I was reminded of the writings, I was mortified and embarrassed.
00:14:34.000My parents raised me to be better than what is represented in these screenshots from about two years ago.
00:14:38.000In an effort to be as honest and transparent as possible, I immediately apologized publicly when reminded of these messages, while knowing the media uproar that would ensue.
00:14:46.000It did ensue, and I have continued to accept responsibility and the resulting legitimate criticism.
00:14:50.000As you know, I intend to take a gap year before beginning my studies to continue my work promoting school safety.
00:14:55.000I will continue to mature, and will enter Harvard with three years and many life experiences between the foolish child who said those things and the man I am today.
00:15:01.000As an aspiring member of the Harvard community, I aspire to the values that the community strives to uphold.
00:15:06.000Therefore, I have already written to the Harvard College of Diversity, Education, and Support, both to express my deepest apologies and remorse, and to reach out to begin a dialogue that I hope will be the foundation of future growth.
00:15:15.000While I am no longer the same person who wrote those comments, there is always more to learn, especially about the legacy of racism in our society.
00:15:21.000Thank you again for this opportunity to address these issues.
00:15:24.000I hope this fully addresses your concerns, but if not, I would be happy to provide any further information or discussion you require.
00:15:29.000Okay, so that's the letter that Kashuv wrote back to them.
00:15:32.000And then, he also sent a letter to the Office of Diversity.
00:15:38.000Cashew doesn't just respond to Harvard admissions asking for some sort of justification with what I think is a very classy letter taking full blame for what he did, but also recognizing that he has grown as a human being since he was 16 years old and saw his friends shot.
00:15:54.000And then he issued another letter, this one to the Office of Diversity.
00:15:57.000Quote, to Harvard College Office of Diversity and Support.
00:16:01.000Around two years ago, when I was 16 years old, before the mass shooting that occurred at my high school, Marjorie Stoneman Douglas, I was part of a group in which we used abhorrent racial slurs.
00:16:08.000We did so out of misplaced sense of humor.
00:16:10.000We treated the words themselves as though they bore little weight and used them only for their shock value.
00:16:15.000Looking back two years later, I cannot recognize that person.
00:16:18.000I make absolutely no excuse for those comments.
00:16:38.000They say, Dear Mr. Cashew, thank you for your response to our letter of May 24th.
00:16:41.000The admissions committee has discussed at length your accounts of the communications about which we asked, and we appreciated your candor and your expressions of regret for sending them.
00:16:48.000As you know, the committee takes seriously the qualities of maturity and moral character.
00:16:52.000After careful consideration, the committee voted to rescind your admission to Harvard College.
00:16:56.000We are sorry about the circumstances that have led us to withdraw your admission, and we wish you success in your future academic endeavors and beyond.
00:17:02.000So in other words, you're an irredeemable racist, and now we are going to ensure that you don't get into Harvard College and that you're smeared as such for the rest of your life because your political opponents unearthed stuff from when you were 16 years old that you said when you were young and stupid.
00:18:12.000Hey, after receiving Harvard's letter, Cashew then responded by asking for an opportunity to make his case face-to-face and work toward any possible path toward reconciliation, and they said no.
00:18:23.000They said, "Thank you for your correspondence.
00:18:24.000We understand this outcome is disappointing.
00:18:26.000Please be aware the admissions committee carefully and thoroughly considered your application reaching its determination.
00:18:31.000Decisions of the admissions committee are final.
00:18:33.000We wish you the best." So I have a couple of notes about Harvard University.
00:18:37.000One, Harvard University is currently embroiled in a scandal where they have been rejecting Asian applicants on the basis of their race.
00:18:45.000Okay, that is a decision of the admissions committee.
00:18:47.000So the admissions committee is racist enough that they are rejecting Asian applicants on the basis of their race alone.
00:18:53.000They're in the middle of a lawsuit about this right now.
00:18:57.000But if a kid said something when he was 16 years old and is demonstrated, full scale, that not only is he remorseful, but that's not who he is as a person, then Harvard deigns to expel him based on unearthed private correspondence from when he was 16 years old.
00:19:14.000Like, this is the new standard now, that anybody who has their crap from when they were 16 unearthed and then cast into public view, no matter what they've done since, no matter what they've gone through or what they've become as a person, that person's academic life gets ruined and that person is then smeared across academia.
00:19:32.000That a person can earn admission to Harvard not on the basis of activism as some of Kyle's classmates did.
00:19:39.000There are certain of Kyle's classmates who did not score appropriately to get into places like Harvard or Columbia, and they are attending places like Harvard and Columbia solely on the basis of their activism.
00:20:28.000If he were not in public, none of this ever comes out.
00:20:31.000And if you say, well, this is really about who makes these kinds of comments when they are 16 years old.
00:20:36.000Yeah, I urge you to go back and look at the crap you said and did when you were 16 years old and think about whether you would want the private, not even the public stuff, which is bad enough, I'm sure.
00:20:44.000The private stuff that you said unearthed and then cast before the world view, the world's view, and you being given no grace at all.
00:21:01.000As I say, Cameron disagrees with me on gun rights.
00:21:04.000I would absolutely defend Cameron the same way.
00:21:06.000I have defended people on the left in the exact same way.
00:21:09.000Sarah Zhang, who's a columnist for the New York Times, with whom I heartily disagree on politics, said vile things on Twitter.
00:21:16.000People unearthed it when she was hired by the New York Times.
00:21:18.000I said she shouldn't even lose her job, and she was an adult when she said those things, and she said them publicly on Twitter, not privately when she was 16 years old.
00:21:25.000When James Gunn, the director of the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise, was targeted by online activists with old tweets, where people were looking through his old tweets and they found bad old jokes that he had told publicly about molesting children.
00:22:02.000If this had happened to David Hogg, the entire media infrastructure activates in order to defend him.
00:22:07.000When Laura Ingraham committed the grave sin of suggesting that David Hogg was spoiled, boycotts were started against her program based on media coverage of Ingraham.
00:22:17.000With Kashuv, his political opponents from high school, his high school quote-unquote friends, target him.
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00:24:07.000OK, so back to Harvard's standards here.
00:24:09.000So again, the new Harvard standard is if your political opponents dig up something that you said privately when you were 16 years old and then dump it in front of the Harvard Admissions Committee and you happen to be conservative and it happens to be something terrible, And it doesn't matter what you've done since, then Harvard will get rid of you.
00:24:27.000Ex-convicts, which is perfectly appropriate.
00:24:29.000By the way, I am sure that if we start going through the social media posts of everybody who's been at Harvard for the past several years, I promise you there's some real ugly crap there.
00:24:37.000And that's just social media, not what they've been saying privately.
00:24:39.000Again, this wasn't even public, this was private.
00:24:42.000This is an insane standard no one can uphold, but it shows the absolute gutlessness of the Harvard administration.
00:24:48.000Let us all recall that Elizabeth Warren, now a leading contender for the Democratic nomination for president, spent years claiming she was a Native American and being listed as such in the faculty handbook at Harvard Law School, and she has felt no blowback whatsoever from the Harvard administration.
00:25:52.000It's about whether we live in a society in which forgiveness is possible or mistakes brand new is irredeemable, as Harvard has decided for me.
00:26:20.000They have been, by the way, even when I was there.
00:26:22.000And they were trying to get rid of Larry Summers as dean because Larry Summers had the temerity to suggest that there are natural differences between men and women.
00:26:31.000And of course, over the past few weeks, we've seen the case of Ronald Sullivan.
00:26:36.000A black leftist member of Harvard Law School's faculty, who has acted as a defense lawyer in a bevy of cases, acted as a defense lawyer for Harvey Weinstein, and ended up getting his deanship of a residential hall canceled on him.
00:26:51.000Harvard is no longer an educational institution.
00:26:54.000It is an institution of tyrannical overlordship based on politics.
00:27:03.000Because what you would assume is that this is a place where you would come to be educated again.
00:27:07.000Let's say that you just had a student, you know, a random student, and the student had racist views at Harvard.
00:27:12.000Wouldn't it be Harvard's job as a school to try and train that student out of the racist views?
00:27:17.000Wouldn't it be Harvard's job as a school to try and work with, especially if the student expressed interest, to try and work with the student to educate the student beyond the stupidity?
00:28:40.000You said that you were a member of the Nation of Islam, and that means that you are irredeemable and you can never change in any way, even though you are 18 years old.
00:28:49.000Well, that's what Harvard has done here.
00:28:51.000Mainly because they were afraid of the blowback from the social justice warriors.
00:28:54.000They were afraid, I am sure, that the Black Student Association was going to descend on the doors of the Dean of Admissions office and protest and make them look bad.
00:29:00.000And then it would be, Harvard admits racist.
00:29:04.000That was going to be how the media covered it.
00:29:05.000So Harvard was scared of the same media that is despicable enough to say that a 16-year-old in private conversation saying a bad thing for which he apologizes and then spends years trying to live down.
00:29:17.000That media was interested in bullying Harvard, that's why those articles came out in the first place, and Harvard caved because they have no spine.
00:29:24.000That's the story of our social justice day and age.
00:29:27.000A media that is not a media, that is not a journalistic institution.
00:29:30.000There are pseudo-journalists who are actually activists, who are determined to use institutional power to club everyone else into submission, and a bunch of administrators at these various institutions who are willing to cave in because they don't want the pressure.
00:29:43.000Harvard made a very simple decision here.
00:29:48.000This is a very simple decision by Harvard University.
00:29:50.000The decision is, we would rather cave in to the woke-skulled media and their allies, these pseudo-journalist activists, and their activist friends.
00:29:58.000We'd rather cave in to them than stand up for a principle of academic freedom and repentance.
00:30:05.000This is dangerous stuff for the country.
00:30:09.000If you are a Harvard alum today, you should seriously consider withdrawing your donations to Harvard.
00:30:16.000I've never been a donor to Harvard Law.
00:30:19.000I might have considered it at one point.
00:30:20.000They are not getting any donation from me, that's for damn sure.
00:30:22.000And if you are an alum from Harvard, you should think seriously about whether your money ought to go to an institution that decides that 16-year-olds are irredeemable based on private posts that are unearthed by political opponents two years after the fact in order to hurt them.
00:30:36.000And the admissions committee goes along with that.
00:30:39.000I would also suggest that media members, if you want to do some digging, if you're not just activists, if you're just concerned about people in positions of power who are maybe holding bad views, maybe your job should be not to go after 16-year-olds.
00:30:53.000Maybe your job should be to look at Harvard's admissions committee and find out what exactly they have been saying on their social media for years.
00:30:59.000I noticed that everyone in the Harvard admissions committee that I could find, I noticed that all of them had their social media accounts locked.
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00:32:31.000Okay, so we're going to get to a little bit more on this Harvard insanity.
00:32:34.000Because I really do think it's indicative of something deeper in American public life that cannot be lived down in something I've talked about a lot.
00:32:40.000And that is the choice that is now being forced on people.
00:32:44.000Basically, do not enter public life unless you are shameless, or unless you are willing to let people destroy you.
00:32:49.000That's basically the choice that is now being placed before the American public, and it's disgusting.
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00:34:05.000So one of the things that I think is worth pointing out here is the broader standard that has now been established.
00:34:20.000So we've seen it already with folks like Ralph Northam, that if you do something earlier in your life, at least Northam was like 25 when he was in med school, and took a picture in blackface or a KKK hood.
00:34:32.000So saying that he was doing something racist when he was 25, that's a lot worse than doing something racist when you are 16 years old.
00:34:38.000But even with that said, I said, even in the middle of the Ralph Northam saga, that if you spend the next 30 years of your life not being a racist, this should weigh into the consideration as to whether you are actually a racist.
00:34:52.000But what Northam ended up doing is basically saying he wasn't in the photo and now he's able to live this down.
00:35:27.000Now, if you're a Republican, they would never stop talking about him, but Ralph Nordham, they all just kind of shook their head and went on with their life.
00:35:32.000After all, he holds the correct political positions.
00:35:43.000If you're James Gunn, everybody eventually moves on, even for James Gunn.
00:35:46.000If you're on the right, you're forever tarred and feathered.
00:35:49.000And this double standard only applies to one side, obviously, which is why it is a double standard.
00:35:54.000But even more importantly than that, if you enter the public square, you know that you will be exposed to scrutiny on everything that you have ever done.
00:36:03.000And there will be no forgiveness if you have the wrong political perspective, which means that you're going to end up with people who are either shameless, You know, people who don't really care.
00:36:14.000Like, you expose them and they just go ahead and they say, fine, expose me, and I'm just gonna double down on that.
00:36:18.000You end up with Joy Reid over at MSNBC claiming she was hacked.
00:36:22.000Or people, so shameless, or people who attempt to hide everything.
00:36:29.000People who are either absolute blank slates who have said nothing in the past so you have no actual read on them, or people you have a read on and the read is they're shameless.
00:36:37.000Those are the only two types of people who will rationally enter public life ever again.
00:36:41.000Because everyone who is honorable, I am sure, would apologize for bad things in their life.
00:36:56.000Which means that the normal, good human being, who makes mistakes across the course of their life, and speaks publicly and openly and tries to add their opinions to the public discourse, that person gets ruined.
00:37:08.000The only people who are welcome are people who are absolute anodyne enigmas.
00:37:15.000They're just blank slates like Barack Obama who don't really have a public record or you end up with people who are utterly shameless or both.
00:37:22.000That's what you end up with in public life.
00:37:26.000Our educational institutions, obviously, have already been wrecked.
00:37:29.000This is probably, it's gotta be one of the worst moves I've ever seen in academia.
00:37:33.000I mean, to reject a student on the basis of old private posts that, again, you can show no evidence that Kyle has ever acted in a racist way other than these posts.
00:37:50.000Okay, meanwhile, Our media, you know, our honorable, dutiful, beautiful folks in the press, the guardians of our freedoms, you know, the people who are really on the front lines of ensuring that you get the information you need, like what a 16-year-old said in a private Google Doc back when he was a junior or sophomore in high school.
00:38:10.000We need those people on the front lines.
00:38:11.000We especially need them on the front lines when they are basically doing the work of the Iranian government.
00:38:16.000So, over the past week, we have seen the Iranian government really escalate its attacks in the Middle East.
00:38:21.000They attacked, allegedly, and by all available evidence, they attacked a couple of tankers in the Gulf of Oman.
00:38:27.000This is the second time they've done this in the past four months.
00:38:30.000And this has really raised a lot of tensions in the Middle East.
00:38:34.000And by the way, there's a bipartisan consensus among people who have seen the intelligence that this is what happened.
00:38:40.000When there was a bipartisan consensus in the intelligence community that Russia impacted the election or tried to impact the election, Then everybody ripped on Trump, right?
00:38:50.000And they're right to rip on Trump because when the intel community says something and there's a pretty good consensus on it, the chances are pretty good that it's right.
00:39:00.000Even when it came to WMD in Iraq, the reason that the intelligence community worldwide got it wrong was not because of the Bush administration seeking to go to war.
00:39:08.000It was because the international intelligence community universally was lied to by Saddam Hussein.
00:39:14.000There's a reason that the Brits and the French And the Germans, everybody's intelligence services were coming up with the same answer on that one.
00:39:21.000So for all the talk about how this was all manipulated and our intelligence community, this and that, it's the intel, you gotta pick one.
00:39:28.000Weird how everybody trusts the intelligence community on Russian interference in the election, but suddenly it comes to Iran and they don't anymore.
00:39:34.000And by the way, there is a bipartisan understanding that Iran is behind these things.
00:39:40.000So Mike Pompeo, the secretary of state, said over the weekend that there is no doubt that Iran is behind these attacks.
00:39:45.000How certain are you that Iran was responsible for these attacks, and do you have more evidence that you can share with us?
00:39:53.000Well, Chris, it's unmistakable what happened here.
00:39:55.000These were attacks by the Islamic Republic of Iran on commercial shipping, on the freedom of navigation, with the clear intent to deny transit through the strait.
00:40:04.000This was on the Gulf of Oman side of the Strait of Hormuz.
00:40:07.000The Intelligence Committee has lots of data, lots of evidence.
00:40:11.000The world will come to see much of it, but the American people should rest assured we have Okay, so the media seek to paint this as propaganda.
00:40:25.000And the media seek to say, no, this is propaganda, and this is exactly what Russia's pushing, right?
00:40:31.000So, Moscow, the Kremlin on Sunday, warned against the baseless accusations of her last week's attack in the Gulf of Oman on two oil tankers blamed by Washington and Riyadh on Iran.
00:40:41.000Such incidents can undermine the foundations of the world economy.
00:40:43.000That's why it's hardly possible To accept baseless accusations in this situation, said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
00:40:50.000Peskov said we always urge a sober appraisal of the situation and to wait for more or less convincing evidence to appear.
00:40:55.000Worth noting, the Russians basically denied for years that Bashar Assad had ever used chemical weapons against his own people.
00:41:02.000The Russians, needless to say, are not folks to trust when it comes to this because they've been on Iran's side.
00:41:06.000They were important in building the nuclear reactor in Iran.
00:41:12.000They've been instrumental in Iran's gaining regional power.
00:41:15.000They've stood with Iran in all of that.
00:41:18.000And then Iran, of course, is pushing this, too.
00:41:20.000So Iran's parliament speaker hinted on Sunday that Washington was behind the suspicious tanker attacks.
00:41:43.000So this is, when propaganda is being repeated by Moscow and Iran, the media might want to, you know, take a little break and think, hmm, maybe this doesn't have a lot of credibility.
00:41:53.000So here's the headline from the Washington Post.
00:41:55.000"Standoff with Iran exposes Trump's credibility issue "as some allies seek more proof of tanker attack.
00:42:01.000"Japan and Germany have requested stronger evidence "than the grainy video released by the Pentagon.
00:42:06.000Now, you might be saying to yourself, as Paul Krugman at the New York Times is saying, oh, it's a wag the dog attack, first of all.
00:42:11.000If this is a wag the dog sort of scenario, then what exactly is Trump wagging the dog away from?
00:42:16.000You think he wants to go to war in the Middle East?
00:42:17.000What do you think that would do for his approval ratings?
00:43:13.000I can imagine there are some Iranian heads rolling for that botched operation.
00:43:18.000But nonetheless, the problem is that we are struggling, even in the midst of this solid evidence, to persuade our allies to join us in any kind of a response.
00:43:29.000And it shows just how isolated the United States has become.
00:43:33.000Okay, well, you know what would help, Adam Schiff, is if you went out there and forcibly made the case that the Trump administration is correct on what is going on with regard to Iran.
00:43:53.000You know, you guys are just doing yeoman's work.
00:43:57.000Not only that, not only are they doing amazing work.
00:43:59.000So there's an article at the New York Times, this is just insane.
00:44:01.000So the New York Times prints an article.
00:44:06.000The United States is stepping up digital incursions into Russia's electric power grid in a warning to President Vladimir Putin and a demonstration of how the Trump administration is using new authorities to deploy cyber tools more aggressively, current and former government officials said.
00:44:19.000So nothing says You know, standing up to the Russians, quite like giving over a bunch of confidential information to the Russians via the New York Times.
00:44:29.000The same New York Times who accuses Trump of being a Russian's catpaw in the pay of Vladimir Putin.
00:44:33.000That same New York Times is printing articles on their front page about how the United States is attacking the electric grid based on confidential and classified information.
00:44:42.000The New York Times says in interviews over the past three months, the officials described the previously unreported deployment of American computer code inside Russia's grid and other targets as a classified companion to more publicly discussed action directed at Moscow's disinformation and hacking units around the 2018 midterm elections.
00:45:00.000Buried in this article is this hilarious aside.
00:45:03.000There's an aside in which the New York Times reports that a bunch of people in the U.S.
00:45:09.000government were hesitant to tell President Trump about this because they were worried what President Trump might do.
00:45:15.000Quote, Pentagon and intelligence officials described broad hesitation to go into detail with Mr. Trump about operations against Russia for concern over his reaction and the possibility that he might countermand it or discuss it with foreign officials, as he did in 2017 when he mentioned a sensitive operation in Syria to the Russian foreign minister.
00:45:46.000I mean, look, that is some patriotic deep state stuff right there.
00:45:49.000You're worried that the president might do something you don't want him to do, so instead what you do is you dump it in full public view so the Russians know exactly what we're doing.
00:45:56.000And the New York Times runs with it, because they're patriotically standing up for America's interests.
00:46:08.000I think they are definitely, definitely journalists.
00:46:12.000You wonder why the credibility of the press is at an all-time low?
00:46:15.000I would suggest that it might have something to do with the fact that they're taking the word of Moscow and Iran over that of America's intelligence community.
00:46:21.000Except when it benefits them to stand with the intelligence community against the Trump administration.
00:46:26.000Simultaneously attacking 17-year-old, 18-year-old college admittees.
00:46:32.000And ensuring that the Russians know about secret American interference with their electric grid.
00:46:47.000has come under a lot of fire from a lot of folks on the right side of the aisle because he is militantly anti-Trump.
00:46:52.000The reason that he is militantly anti-Trump, as he has said, is because he believes that Trump does not have the character to be president.
00:46:58.000Now, as I have said, you know, I said at the time that Trump's character is not my thing.
00:47:04.000I'm still very critical of President Trump's character, as anyone who listens to the show on a regular basis notes.
00:47:10.000So I don't disagree with George Will's characterization of President Trump I also think that things are not going to get better if you turn this thing over at this point to a Democrat who not only has similar character flaws, but also is dedicated to rooting out fundamental notions of the Constitution.
00:47:29.000But put the Trump stuff aside, George Will has a new book out.
00:47:31.000It's called The Conservative Sensibility, and it basically is a comparison between Madisonian democracy, the ideas that are embedded in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, Versus Woodrow Wilson's Progressive Revolution.
00:47:51.000I have some substantive disagreements with Will on the nature of that Madisonian democracy, on the nature of what stands behind our rules of natural right.
00:48:01.000But his contrast between the founding and the progressive era is exactly correct.
00:48:06.000And his explication of this stuff is quite beautiful.
00:48:09.000The book is called The Conservative Sensibility.
00:48:11.000I would suggest that our disagreements lie more in sort of the understanding of the roots of the American Revolution and founding era philosophy.
00:48:20.000You know, Will's very secular take on this, mine is a little bit more of, I think, a historically based religious take on it.
00:48:25.000But with that said, the book itself is really good and all the criticism he's receiving right now because he's anti-Trump, people saying he's not conservative.
00:48:32.000Guys, George Will has spent his entire career being conservative.
00:48:37.000You know, if the conservative movement can't handle people who don't like a particular president, I would suggest the conservative movement is doomed to failure.
00:48:51.000So there's this ironic, this sort of ironic.
00:48:53.000So there's an article by Katlin Beattie called How Should Christians Have Sex?
00:48:58.000It says, "Purity culture was harmful and dangerous, "but its collapse has left a void "for those of us looking for guidance "in our intimate lives." The entire article is basically about how you, if you suggest that sex should be reserved for marriage, you're bad, but also getting rid of that standard has basically destroyed sex in our culture.
00:49:16.000So the entire article is, I don't like this original standard, but I also realize all of the standards that supplanted it are basically garbage, at least for human beings who wanna be happy.
00:49:32.000This author writes, when I was 14, a circuit speaker came to my church's youth group to talk about sexual purity.
00:49:37.000I don't remember many details from the talk, but vividly recall signing a true love waits pledge, a small note card promising I would remain a virgin until marriage.
00:49:44.00020 years later, that ritual strikes me as almost innocuous.
00:49:47.000How much power do we give to a scribbled signature of a teenager who had only the faintest idea what sex was?
00:49:51.000Yet it also carried a psychological burden that many of my peers and I are still unloading.
00:49:55.000This is where we get the whole, it was such a burden to be have to, People expecting us to have a moral standard, to wait until ma- Oh my god, I'm still living that down.
00:50:07.000A majority of adults who came of age in evangelical churches in the 90s and 2000s were exposed to purity culture, a term for teachings that stressed sexual abstinence before marriage.
00:50:18.000We had our own rituals such as purity balls and our own merchandise such as purity rings.
00:50:22.000I had a Wait For Me journal that I kept as a college freshman.
00:50:25.000Created by a prominent Christian pop singer, the journal was designed to hold letters to my future husband.
00:50:29.000It held out the promise that if I remained pure, then God would reward good behavior with a husband, surely before I turned 30 so that we could have lots of children.
00:50:43.000It's not like you do what God wants and then God gives you everything that you could possibly want.
00:50:48.000That would make you a bad person, by the way.
00:50:49.000If the only reason to do things is because you think God is then going to give you what you want because you bribe God, You have a mistaken idea of God and also a mistaken idea of morality.
00:50:58.000The idea instead is that if you wait until marriage to have sex, you are saving yourself for your spouse.
00:51:04.000And if your spouse saves himself for you, then you get to enjoy one of the most wonderful things God ever created with the person that you trust and love the most without having to think about all of the prior experiences with people or without demeaning or debasing yourself.
00:51:17.000Now, again, this is not to suggest that if people have premarital sex, they've done something irredeemable or terrible or anything like that.
00:51:24.000But, from a religious perspective, and from, I think, a basic natural law perspective, the idea of sex within marriage makes a lot of sense.
00:51:30.000It makes a lot of sense, and it is spiritually fulfilling.
00:51:33.000And I speak as someone who is a virgin until marriage, as was my wife.
00:51:38.000I don't think it's a bad thing to teach to our children.
00:51:40.000In fact, I am going to teach it to our children.
00:51:42.000I think it's a very, very good thing to teach to children that sex is important enough, that you ought to wait for somebody that you love enough to actually spend a lifelong commitment with.
00:51:51.000And if you can't reach that, if you decide differently or you make a mistake or whatever that is, you're an adult.
00:51:57.000Those are decisions that you can make.
00:51:58.000But to have a standard and not to live up to a standard is one thing.
00:52:01.000To say the standard itself is wrong or bad or damaging, I think that's very silly.
00:52:06.000So this lady writes, somehow God and I got our wires crossed because the husband hasn't arrived.
00:52:10.000Again, it ain't on God for you to find a husband.
00:52:15.000When people blame Everything bad that happens to them on God or the society around them, I start to think that you have a mistaken impression of how cause and effect work.
00:52:24.00020 years later, I no longer subscribe to purity culture, largely because it never had anything to say to Christians past the age of 23.
00:52:30.000Oh really, I was 24 when I got married.
00:52:41.000So now she realizes, okay, so I didn't like that, now I'm in my 30s and I've had sex and all that, but I'm really not liking the new secular standard.
00:53:17.000As a general rule, it is a consensual act.
00:53:19.000Putting aside pressures or how people got into prostitution, the act of prostitution itself is an act of consent, which is why I'm very torn on its legalization.
00:53:27.000Does that mean that it is good for either the prostitute or the john?
00:53:33.000So this person says, I don't think that's true at all.
00:53:34.000You literally just said, one second ago, that you kept a journal of letters to your prospective husband about the gift of sex within marriage.
00:53:47.000You literally just said one second ago that you kept a journal of letters to your prospective husband about the gift of sex within marriage.
00:53:53.000It is hilarious to me that there are so many people on the secular left who have decided, and this woman, she still considers herself Christian, by the way, so I'm not labeling her secular left, but her perspective on sex is much more secular than Christian. - Yeah.
00:54:10.000They got rid of the traditional standard, and then their solution to the traditional standard was a completely unworkable standard, and now they're sad that the standard is gone.
00:54:18.000Here's how this lady, the author of A Woman's Place, completes her article.
00:54:21.000Occasionally, I think about my purity pledge and letters to my mystical future husband, and find those practices naive and manipulative.
00:54:28.000But part of me wishes that the fairy tale of purity culture had come true.
00:54:31.000While I hate the effects that purity culture had on young women like me, again, no, you made choices, you're an adult, I still find the traditional Christian vision for married sex radical, daunting, and extremely compelling, and one I still want to uphold, even if I fumble along the way.
00:54:44.000So in the end, you end up coming back around to the standard.
00:54:48.000Well, maybe the problem was with you not upholding the standard if you're so upset about not upholding the standard.
00:54:53.000If you don't want to uphold the standard, don't.
00:54:55.000But to pretend that the standard is bad simply because you had a bad emotional response to the standard is to get rid of rules in favor of subjective feeling, which is not something I like.
00:55:04.000Okay, time for some things that I hate.
00:55:09.000We have now reached the point of utter absurdity.
00:55:11.000There is a transgender track star, which is to say, a genetic male named C.C.
00:55:36.000I'm disadvantaged running against women, which comes as a shock to all of the women who are getting beat by a guy who has six inches and a significant amount of musculature to his advantage.
00:55:47.000If anything, me competing against cisgender females is a disadvantage because my body is going through so many medical implications, like it's going through biochemistry changes.
00:55:58.000So being on hormone placement therapy, it gives you So, your muscle depletion, your muscle is deteriorating.
00:56:08.000You lose a lot of strength because testosterone is where you get your strength, your agility, all of that athletic stuff.
00:56:16.000So, I have to work twice as hard to keep that strength.
00:56:20.000Okay, can we go back to some of the pictures here?
00:59:06.000The only one who probably was gay, according to at least, or at least possibly was gay, according to Most historians with James Buchanan who, you know, I don't know that gay folks actually want to claim James Buchanan.
00:59:16.000Pretty widely considered the worst president in American history.
00:59:20.000Not because he was gay, but because he was a crap president.
00:59:22.000So this is all very weird and I'm just weirded out by the idea that Pete Buttigieg has to make the claim.
00:59:28.000That other presidents were gay in order for him to be legitimate as a gay president.