The Ben Shapiro Show - The Molehunt Is On! | Ep. 618

00:00:00.000 A New York Times op-ed features an anonymous resistance leader inside the White House.

00:00:05.000 Ooh.

00:00:05.000 The Brett Kavanaugh hearings continue with Cory Booker and Kamala Harris running for president and Alex Jones invades Capitol Hill.

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00:02:01.000 Alright, so we begin today with this anonymous op-ed in the New York Times, which is solely designed to lead to a full-on mole hunt inside the White House.

00:02:09.000 Basically, there's an op-ed in the New York Times.

00:02:11.000 It is by an anonymous person.

00:02:13.000 The New York Times did not reveal the name of the person who wrote this op-ed. 0.98

00:02:16.000 And the essential contention of the op-ed is that President Trump is a crazy person and all the people around him are restraining him from being crazy. 0.98

00:02:23.000 Which... 0.99

00:02:24.000 Okay.

00:02:26.000 All right.

00:02:29.000 What do you want from me?

00:02:30.000 Okay.

00:02:32.000 We'll talk about the ramifications of this.

00:02:34.000 It is titled, I am part of the resistance inside the Trump administration, which of course is titled just to piss off President Trump.

00:02:40.000 I mean, this is almost specifically designed to make President Trump go full Captain Queeg looking for the strawberries.

00:02:46.000 We're pretty much going to get the entire cane mutiny in real life. 0.99

00:02:50.000 It'll be just spectacular.

00:02:51.000 Here's what the article says.

00:02:53.000 President Trump is facing a test to his presidency unlike any faced by a modern American leader.

00:02:57.000 Sorry, I first have to note, the New York Times ran an editorial note at the top of this piece.

00:03:01.000 And here's what they write.

00:03:02.000 I mean, this is just virtue signaling of the highest order.

00:03:04.000 The Times today is taking the rare step of publishing an anonymous op-ed essay

00:03:09.000 We have done so at the request of the author, a senior official in the Trump administration, whose identity is known to us and whose job would be jeopardized by its disclosure.

00:03:16.000 We believe publishing this essay anonymously is the only way to deliver an important perspective to our readers.

00:03:21.000 We invite you to submit a question about the essay or our vetting process here.

00:03:24.000 Well, this does raise a weird question.

00:03:26.000 Will the New York Times reporters now seek to dig into who actually wrote the anonymous New York Times op-ed?

00:03:32.000 They could just like walk down the hall and presumably start grilling their own editors, but that gets real weird.

00:03:37.000 Anyway, here's what the piece says.

00:03:39.000 President Trump is facing a test to his presidency unlike any faced by a modern American leader.

00:03:43.000 It's not just that the special counsel looms large, or that the country is bitterly divided over Mr. Trump's leadership, or even that his party might well lose the House to an opposition hell-bent on his downfall.

00:03:51.000 The dilemma

00:03:52.000 Which he does not fully grasp is that many of the senior officials in his own administration are working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.

00:04:01.000 I would know.

00:04:02.000 I am one of them.

00:04:04.000 I, QAnon, I, Anonymous, am one of them.

00:04:07.000 To be clear, ours is not the popular resistance of the left.

00:04:10.000 We want the administration to succeed and think that many of its policies have already made America safer and more prosperous.

00:04:15.000 But we believe our first duty is to this country, and the president continues to act in a manner that is detrimental to the health of our republic.

00:04:20.000 So let me just

00:04:21.000 Point out here that this editorial has already gone off the rails for a couple of reasons.

00:04:25.000 One, if you say that you're part of the resistance to Trump helping him to do the right thing, you just made sure that President Trump is going to go on a mole hunt to oust anyone who is trying to help him do the right thing from your own point of view.

00:04:37.000 You've ensured that President Trump is going to go full on

00:04:42.000 Bring everybody into a room.

00:04:43.000 Prisoner's dilemma.

00:04:43.000 Bring in the rubber pipe.

00:04:44.000 Beat the crap out of people. 0.98

00:04:46.000 We're going to separate people into rooms and threaten their families until we find out who is thwarting the president's will. 0.99

00:04:51.000 Second, those two sentences are in complete contrast with one another.

00:04:54.000 One is that they want the administration to succeed and think many of its policies have been great.

00:04:59.000 And then there's a sentence that says that they believe their first duty is to the country, and the president continues to act in a manner detrimental to the health of our republic.

00:05:07.000 How do you want the administration to succeed if you think the president is acting in a manner detrimental to the health of the republic?

00:05:12.000 This is basically justifying everything President Trump ever said about the deep state, but it's actually just the shallow state.

00:05:17.000 It's a bunch of people working inside his administration, who presumably he appointed, who are working to thwart his will, and then talking about it in the New York Times.

00:05:25.000 The predictable effect of which will be to lower his approval ratings and ensure that he has a tougher time with re-election in 2020.

00:05:30.000 So why exactly would you say that you're standing up for the administration?

00:05:35.000 If you actually believe that your job in the administration is to help the administration succeed, make sure that President Trump doesn't go off the rails, make his policy better, thwart him when necessary, why would you go talk about it?

00:05:46.000 Why would you then go and talk about it?

00:05:48.000 That doesn't make any sense at all.

00:05:50.000 I mean, it's legitimately a member of the criminal conspiracy saying, you know what?

00:05:53.000 I'm involved in criminality.

00:05:54.000 I'm going to go talk to the police about how well I'm attempting to make this criminal conspiracy work.

00:05:59.000 You're talking to the very people who are attempting to make sure that Trump exits office.

00:06:03.000 So clearly there's something disingenuous about this piece from the outset.

00:06:06.000 The piece continues.

00:06:08.000 This is why many Trump appointees have vowed to do what we can to preserve our democratic institutions while thwarting Mr. Trump's more misguided impulses until he's out of office.

00:06:16.000 So clearly you don't want the administration to succeed, you want him out of office.

00:06:19.000 The root of the problem is the president's amorality.

00:06:21.000 Anyone who works with him knows he is not moored to any discernible first principles that guide his decision making.

00:06:25.000 Which is like...

00:06:27.000 Forget about people who work with him, like anybody who watches him for any prolonged period of time knows this is true.

00:06:32.000 The president considers himself a pragmatist.

00:06:33.000 He has never said that he is a first principles guy.

00:06:36.000 Although he was elected as a Republican, the president shows little affinity for ideals long espoused by conservatives.

00:06:41.000 Free minds, free markets, free people.

00:06:43.000 At best, he has invoked these ideals in scripted settings.

00:06:45.000 At worst, he has attacked them outright.

00:06:47.000 In addition to his mass marketing of the notion that the press is the enemy of the people, President Trump's impulses are generally anti-trade and anti-democratic.

00:06:54.000 Don't get me wrong, there are bright spots that the near-ceaseless negative coverage of the administration fails to capture.

00:06:59.000 Effective deregulation, historic tax reform, a more robust military, and more.

00:07:03.000 But these successes have come despite, not because of, the president's leadership style, which is impetuous, adversarial, petty, and ineffective.

00:07:10.000 And it continues along these lines for paragraphs and paragraphs, with the result that they say that there's this anonymous author inside the Trump administration says they have a two-track presidency.

00:07:20.000 Take foreign policy.

00:07:21.000 In public and in private, President Trump shows a preference for autocrats and dictators such as Vladimir Putin of Russia and Kim Jong-un, and displays little genuine appreciation for the ties that bind us to allied like-minded nations.

00:07:32.000 Astute observers have noted, though, that the rest of the administration is operating on another track, one where countries like Russia are called out for meddling and punished accordingly, and where allies around the world are engaged as peers rather than ridiculed as rivals.

00:07:43.000 Well, we know all of this.

00:07:46.000 The piece says this isn't the work of the so-called deep state.

00:07:48.000 It's the work of the steady state.

00:07:50.000 So yes, we are thwarting the president, but we are doing so because we are the steady state.

00:07:53.000 And then this author suggests that perhaps we should think about removing the president through the 25th Amendment, invoking the 25th

00:08:00.000 We're good to go.

00:08:17.000 Okay, it is not a cabinet-level official.

00:08:19.000 It is known with presidential aspirations.

00:08:21.000 It's the riskiest political move ever.

00:08:22.000 It is not Mike Pence, despite how much the left would love it to be Mike Pence quietly stabbing President Trump between the shoulder blades with his trademark bland smile.

00:08:30.000 That is not happening.

00:08:31.000 Okay, the vice president is not doing that.

00:08:33.000 It is not Nikki Haley, who is safely ensconced in New York, far away from the silliness of the White House.

00:08:38.000 This is some second-tier, low-level staffer.

00:08:40.000 Okay, it's a senior official.

00:08:42.000 Half the people in the White House have the title senior official in the White House.

00:08:46.000 This is probably some senior official in like John Kelly's team who doesn't like Trump very much and feels like they might feather bed their exit.

00:08:54.000 And that's really what the motive here is.

00:08:55.000 The motive here is that it will be revealed.

00:08:57.000 Okay, within a week we'll know who this person is.

00:08:59.000 And this person, because it's not going to stay secret, and this person is going to come out to great applause from the left

00:09:05.000 This was a person who was trying to thwart Trump.

00:09:07.000 And Trump fired him!

00:09:08.000 How could Trump fire this person who was trying to just make the administration better?

00:09:11.000 And this person will become, not an inside the White House resistance leader, but a resistance resistance leader.

00:09:17.000 They will turn into a full-on Anna Navarro character on MSNBC. 1.00

00:09:21.000 They'll be given a rich TV contract.

00:09:23.000 They'll be given a rich book contract.

00:09:25.000 They will be exonerated.

00:09:27.000 Exculpated for all of their terrible, terrible activity in associating with President Trump.

00:09:32.000 This is the mea culpa.

00:09:33.000 It's a preliminary mea culpa, and it allows the person to exit the administration amidst glory and huzzahs.

00:09:38.000 That's really what this editorial is for.

00:09:40.000 So if you believe for a second that this editorial is truly designed to either make the administration better,

00:09:46.000 Or to inform the American people, you're wrong.

00:09:48.000 First of all, we already knew all this stuff.

00:09:50.000 Legitimately.

00:09:51.000 Like, everything that this guy says in the editorial, I've been saying for well over a year on this program.

00:09:56.000 Since legitimately a couple of months into the administration, I said this administration is running along two tracks.

00:10:01.000 President Trump says stuff, and then the people around him implement stuff.

00:10:04.000 And those are not the same stuff.

00:10:06.000 This has been very obvious to anyone who watches

00:10:09.000 At any level.

00:10:10.000 When I was on Bill Maher's show, I said this.

00:10:11.000 Bill Maher said, well, he always talks about Vladimir Putin.

00:10:13.000 And I said, right.

00:10:14.000 But then if you look at the policy of the administration, it is not what he says.

00:10:18.000 The policy of the administration is very harsh on Russia.

00:10:21.000 It's quite obvious that this administration involves the president saying a lot of stuff, being hands-off, delegating power to a lot of folks, and when people say it's a constitutional crisis to have people around the president thwarting his will, I'm not even sure what that means.

00:10:35.000 It's not as though they are hiding him in a closet, preventing him from doing things he wants to do.

00:10:39.000 They understand that the president forgets about things and doesn't care that much about other things, and that if they just don't put something on his desk, he's unlikely to ever remember it again, so they just don't put it on his desk.

00:10:48.000 Like, is the president's will what he wants to do in the moment?

00:10:51.000 Or is the president's will what he cares about over the long haul?

00:10:54.000 Because this sort of manipulation does happen at a much lower level in other administrations.

00:10:58.000 There are people who are slow walking policy all the time.

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00:11:05.000 And you think, you know what?

00:11:06.000 It'd be better if my boss got this tomorrow.

00:11:08.000 I'm just going to slow walk it today.

00:11:09.000 Is that you thwarting the will of your company?

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00:13:02.000 Okay, so the President of the United States reacts as you would expect him to react to an op-ed from inside his administration.

00:13:09.000 The killer's in the house!

00:13:12.000 Ah!

00:13:12.000 Calling from upstairs on the phone!

00:13:14.000 Oh my God!

00:13:15.000 Okay, so, President Trump reacts in typical Trumpian fashion.

00:13:19.000 He is in front of a crowd of sheriffs, who are some of his closest allies because he's very pro-law enforcement.

00:13:24.000 And here's President Trump ripping into the filling New York Times.

00:13:28.000 The New York Times and CNN and all of these phony media outlets will be out of business, folks.

00:13:34.000 They'll be out of business because there'll be nothing to write and there'll be nothing of interest.

00:13:38.000 So if the failing New York Times has an anonymous editorial, can you believe it?

00:13:43.000 Anonymous.

00:13:44.000 Meaning gutless.

00:13:45.000 A gutless editorial.

00:13:47.000 We're doing a great job.

00:13:49.000 Okay, and the truth is, he's not wrong about it being gutless.

00:13:51.000 Like, if the person actually wants to take a stand against the administration publicly, quit.

00:13:56.000 Quit and talk about how terrible it was. 0.98

00:13:58.000 Or, alternatively, if you actually want to work inside the administration and make it a better place, shut your face.

00:14:03.000 Why are you going to the New York Times to brag about how you anonymously are helping the administration from the inside, except to provide yourself cover later?

00:14:10.000 This is very obviously self-interested.

00:14:12.000 Do you really think anybody at the New York Times would have printed an anonymous op-ed from somebody inside the Obama administration making the same claims?

00:14:18.000 Highly, highly, highly doubtful.

00:14:20.000 Because printing anonymous op-eds is kind of frowned upon.

00:14:24.000 It's kind of frowned upon for pretty good reason, which is that there's no way to vet the claims of the person who's actually making those claims.

00:14:30.000 Like, we don't know who the senior official is.

00:14:32.000 It could be some low-level person who's met Trump once.

00:14:34.000 There are hundreds of people working in the White House.

00:14:36.000 Hundreds of them.

00:14:37.000 So, that is quite plausible.

00:14:39.000 But, President Trump then goes to Twitter and he decides that he is going to lose it.

00:14:44.000 So, President Trump had a couple of tweets.

00:14:46.000 He tweeted out, Does the so-called senior administration official really exist?

00:14:51.000 Or is it just the failing New York Times with another phony source?

00:14:55.000 If the gutless, anonymous person does indeed exist, the Times must, for national security purposes, turn him or her

00:15:03.000 So, no.

00:15:03.000 The New York Times isn't going to do that.

00:15:10.000 That's not a thing.

00:15:11.000 The press doesn't have to turn people over to the federal government for writing an op-ed that rips on the administration.

00:15:16.000 That's not an actual thing.

00:15:17.000 And then the president had one more tweet.

00:15:20.000 All caps.

00:15:21.000 Treason, question mark. 0.99

00:15:23.000 So I guess now we're going to execute this person. 0.99

00:15:25.000 We're going to find them. 0.99

00:15:26.000 The prescribed penalty in the Constitution for treason is death. 0.99

00:15:29.000 So presumably we will find this person, take them out back, and trample them. 0.92

00:15:33.000 He'll take his tie off and then he will strangle him with the oversized red tie.

00:15:37.000 It'll be quite amusing.

00:15:38.000 But...

00:15:39.000 Here's the problem with President Trump's response. 1.00

00:15:41.000 Basically the op-ed says, and it is, it's a terrible, stupid, backwards, outrageously dumb op-ed. 1.00

00:15:48.000 But the central contention is President Trump is a crazy man and we have to restrain him. 1.00

00:15:52.000 And President Trump's response is, I'm not crazy. 1.00

00:15:55.000 You're crazy. 1.00

00:15:56.000 You're so crazy. 1.00

00:15:57.000 I'm going to take your head off. 1.00

00:15:58.000 I'm going to rip it off your neck. 1.00

00:16:01.000 And then I'm going to defecate down your throat hole. 1.00

00:16:04.000 That's what I'm going to do to you. 1.00

00:16:05.000 I'm going to rip your legs off and beat you to death with them. 1.00

00:16:08.000 You're calling me crazy and out of control. 1.00

00:16:10.000 How dare you? 0.83

00:16:12.000 Unbelievable.

00:16:13.000 Unreal.

00:16:15.000 Mr. President.

00:16:16.000 If you wanted to react in, you know, the fashion that is most likely to put this to bed, what you would say is, ah, there they are talking again.

00:16:24.000 Ah, of course the New York Times is going to print this sort of stuff. 0.99

00:16:26.000 Not, not, they should turn over this bastard to me so I can blow a hole in him with this drill. 0.98

00:16:31.000 I'll just take this, this, I have a screwdriver right here. 1.00

00:16:34.000 I will stab him in the face 100 times. 1.00

00:16:36.000 I will shoot him on Fifth Avenue and I will lose no support. 1.00

00:16:40.000 At this point, you have to laugh so you don't cry because it is pretty wild stuff. 0.95

00:16:45.000 But it is also true that this op-ed does no good.

00:16:49.000 It is actually deeply counterproductive because all it does in the end is drive President Trump to throw out anyone who may be actually trying to curb those worst excesses.

00:16:57.000 And now we get to spend months trying to 0.98

00:17:02.000 Okay, meanwhile, speaking of stupidity, awfulness, counterproductive nonsense, we need to stop these judicial hearings. 1.00

00:17:14.000 These judicial hearings are a waste of time. 1.00

00:17:16.000 These Senate Judiciary Committee hearings are just a place for prospective presidential candidates to grandstand. 0.56

00:17:22.000 Now, Brett Kavanaugh is doing, you know, a fine job at what his job is here in these judicial hearings, which is to obfuscate how he feels on every particular issue.

00:17:30.000 The way this works, thanks to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, is that Ruth Bader Ginsburg, when she was questioned about specific cases, she said, I'm not going to answer any questions about prospective cases or cases in the past.

00:17:39.000 I'm going to sit here and look at you weird.

00:17:41.000 And that was basically how every... That's now how we do judicial hearings.

00:17:45.000 People ask questions that are designed to elicit a response from the cheering throng on either side of the aisle, and then the judge sits there, and the judge basically stares weirdly at them.

00:17:53.000 Well, that's basically what happened yesterday.

00:17:56.000 And Kavanaugh's a pro at it.

00:17:57.000 I mean, here's Kavanaugh, for example, giving an answer on Roe vs. Wade.

00:18:01.000 This is clip 11.

00:18:02.000 Here's Kavanaugh answering on Roe vs. Wade, giving about the vaguest answer you could possibly give.

00:18:06.000 Senator, I said that it's settled as a precedent of the Supreme Court entitled to respect under principles of stare decisis.

00:18:14.000 And I understand your point of view on that, Senator, and I understand how passionate and how deeply people feel about this issue.

00:18:26.000 I understand the importance of the issue.

00:18:28.000 I understand the importance that people attach

00:18:36.000 That's a big way of saying nothing.

00:18:43.000 And he says that it's precedent based on precedent?

00:18:46.000 Right.

00:18:46.000 And the Supreme Court is not bound by precedent.

00:18:48.000 So what are you going to do on the case?

00:18:49.000 The answer is we have no idea.

00:18:50.000 That's not stopping the New York Times from printing leaked Kavanaugh documents about abortion and affirmative action.

00:18:55.000 And they're calling it a bombshell.

00:18:57.000 A bombshell.

00:18:59.000 Is it really a bombshell?

00:19:00.000 No, of course it's not a bombshell.

00:19:01.000 Of course, it's not a bombshell.

00:19:03.000 Judge Kavanaugh, when he was working for the Bush administration, was considering a draft opinion piece that supporters of one of Mr. Bush's conservatives' appeals court nominees hoped they could persuade anti-abortion women to submit under their names.

00:19:14.000 It stated it is widely accepted by legal scholars across the board that Roe v. Wade and its progeny are the settled law of the land.

00:19:19.000 And Kavanaugh proposed deleting that line, writing, I am not sure that all legal scholars refer to Roe as the settled law of the land at the Supreme Court level, since the court can always overrule its precedent, and three current justices on the court would do so.

00:19:30.000 That doesn't mean he would do so.

00:19:32.000 That is an apt and accurate description of the state of the law.

00:19:34.000 The Supreme Court can overrule anything.

00:19:36.000 When people say settled law of the land, what they really mean is we don't want people to reopen it.

00:19:41.000 And it's an inaccurate description.

00:19:42.000 There's no such thing as the settled law of the land in Supreme Court jurisprudence.

00:19:47.000 Stare decisis does not always apply.

00:19:49.000 Precedent does not always apply.

00:19:50.000 If it did, then Plessy versus Ferguson would still be on the books and people would still be segregating bus cars at the behest of the state.

00:19:56.000 So that's not a thing.

00:19:57.000 But again, Brett Kavanaugh is being run through the ringer specifically for political purposes.

00:20:03.000 Here, for example, is Kavanaugh being asked about presidential pardons.

00:20:07.000 Again, he's not going to answer this question, but we're going to pretend like these hearings matter.

00:20:11.000 The question of self-pardons is something I've never analyzed.

00:20:16.000 It's a question that I've not written about.

00:20:19.000 It's a question, therefore, that's a hypothetical question that I can't begin to answer in this context as a sitting judge and as a nominee to the Supreme Court.

00:20:30.000 And the other half of that is...

00:20:32.000 Okay, so again, he's got no answer on that because he doesn't have to answer any of that.

00:20:36.000 This entire hearing is just designed for Democrats to grandstand for 2020.

00:20:40.000 They are basically just standing there shouting, just shouting.

00:20:44.000 That's it, right?

00:20:45.000 They're my son when he wakes up in the morning and he screams from his crib, Dada, come get me!

00:20:51.000 Okay, these are the Democrats.

00:20:54.000 Pay attention to me!

00:20:55.000 Attention! 0.86

00:20:56.000 Now!

00:20:57.000 Please!

00:20:58.000 Ah!

00:20:59.000 I just saved you, like, 35 hours of watching Senate Judiciary Committee hearings.

00:21:04.000 That's all Senate Democrats are doing. 0.79

00:21:06.000 And right now, the two who are best at it are Kamala Harris, who is being taken seriously, and Cory Booker, who is a parody of a parody. 0.92

00:21:13.000 Cory Booker is a muppet. 0.93

00:21:14.000 He's a human muppet. 0.95

00:21:15.000 And all he does as a human muppet is just make weird faces at people.

00:21:20.000 And, I mean, he literally called himself Spartacus in a hearing this morning.

00:21:24.000 I am not kidding you.

00:21:26.000 Cory fricking Booker just called himself Spartacus at a hearing this morning.

00:21:31.000 I'll have to explain why he calls himself Spartacus at a hearing this morning, because he really is astonishing and hilarious, and also he doesn't understand how Spartacus worked.

00:21:38.000 Like, Spartacus ended up crucified, so there's that.

00:21:41.000 But it's all good times for Cory Booker and the Senate Judiciary Committee.

00:21:44.000 We'll talk about all that in just a second.

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00:23:03.000 Okay, so Cory Booker, as I say, he calls himself Spartacus.

00:23:05.000 Why?

00:23:06.000 Because he decided today that he was going to violate the rules of the Senate by simply releasing a bunch of classified documents.

00:23:12.000 Now the way this works is that there are a bunch of documents that are shown to the various senators on the Judiciary Committee that are

00:23:19.000 Held closely by executive privilege.

00:23:21.000 If you're working for the Bush administration, the Bush administration has the right to say that the legislative branch does not get to see things because that is executive privilege.

00:23:31.000 The executive is not subject to the dictates of the legislature.

00:23:34.000 So the legislature can't just say, we want every document, everything Bush ever said to all of his advocates, we want all of that in front of us.

00:23:40.000 Now, that's not a thing in constitutional jurisprudence.

00:23:43.000 So there's basically a deal that was made with the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is they get to see all these Kavanaugh documents on the condition that they are not asked about publicly.

00:23:51.000 So it can decide the votes of the people on the committee.

00:23:55.000 But it is not meant to undercut the executive power. 1.00

00:24:00.000 So Cory Booker, being a grandstanding idiot, he decides, you know what? 0.99

00:24:05.000 It's a great idea. 1.00

00:24:05.000 I'm just going to release these documents. 1.00

00:24:06.000 I'm just going to come out and release these documents.

00:24:08.000 I'm going to violate Senate rules.

00:24:10.000 I'm just going to state it up front.

00:24:11.000 And then, if you want to expel me from the Senate for violation of Senate rules, if you want to,

00:24:17.000 If you want to expel me from the Senate, please, please do it.

00:24:19.000 I need a headline.

00:24:20.000 If you want to expel me, then do it! 0.95

00:24:23.000 I'm just like Spartacus, except I'm begging you to crucify me! 0.92

00:24:26.000 See, the thing about Spartacus is that he didn't actually want to be identified as Spartacus, because then they would kill him.

00:24:33.000 Which is why everyone identified as Spartacus.

00:24:35.000 But Cory Booker doesn't know anything. 1.00

00:24:37.000 Because he's stupid. 1.00

00:24:39.000 So instead, he says that he is like Spartacus in basically begging to be crucified. 1.00

00:24:44.000 Please, please expel me.

00:24:45.000 Please do it.

00:24:45.000 Because if you do it, maybe I can run for president.

00:24:47.000 Because I'll show how much Republicans hate me.

00:24:49.000 And then I can make weird googly eyes.

00:24:51.000 And I can do my weird jazz fingers.

00:24:52.000 It'll be all weird!

00:24:53.000 But I'll be president because it's weird!

00:24:55.000 So here's Cory Booker being all weird.

00:24:58.000 I will say that I did willingly violate the chair's rule on the committee confidential process.

00:25:04.000 I take full responsibility for violating that, sir.

00:25:07.000 And I violate it because I sincerely believe that the public deserves to know this nominee's record, in this particular case, his record on issues of race and the law.

00:25:18.000 And I could not understand, and I violated this rule knowingly, why these issues should be withheld from the public.

00:25:26.000 Now I appreciate the comments of my colleagues.

00:25:28.000 This is about the closest I'll probably ever have in my life to an I Am Spartacus moment.

00:25:33.000 Oh.

00:25:34.000 My.

00:25:35.000 God.

00:25:37.000 This guy's like the Nick Cage of the Senate.

00:25:39.000 Every scene that he acts in, it's like, what?

00:25:46.000 Have you ever seen Chewing of the Scenery like this?

00:25:48.000 Here's the thing, Kamala Harris is good at playing the prosecutor on TV, and she's actually good at this. 1.00

00:25:53.000 Cory Booker is just, he's the worst kid in your high school drama class.

00:25:58.000 The kid who watched

00:26:00.000 Who at one point watched movies in like the 1980s and thought that Arnold Schwarzenegger's performance in Kindergarten Cop was the apotheosis of good acting.

00:26:10.000 I was like, you know what I'm going to do?

00:26:11.000 I'm just going to shout a lot.

00:26:13.000 Who thinks that William Shatner is a great actor?

00:26:16.000 And he's like, William Shatner, everything he says is GONE!

00:26:21.000 Every single thing.

00:26:22.000 So there's Cory Booker doing that.

00:26:23.000 And then Cory Booker, uh, he's just, he's just the worst.

00:26:27.000 The knowingly violating the rules.

00:26:29.000 Like, he's been, when he says, I knowingly violated the rules, I am giving you every motivation that you can for it.

00:26:33.000 Please, I need the attention.

00:26:35.000 No one's paying attention to me.

00:26:36.000 Pay attention to me!

00:26:37.000 Please!

00:26:38.000 There's Cory Booker again.

00:26:40.000 Pay attention to him, people.

00:26:41.000 Pay attention.

00:26:42.000 He needs your attention.

00:26:43.000 He wants your attention.

00:26:44.000 Why don't you love him?

00:26:44.000 Why don't you pay attention?

00:26:45.000 You can't just ignore me.

00:26:47.000 He's gonna boil a rabbit.

00:26:49.000 Here's Cory Booker.

00:26:50.000 Senator Cornyn actually made a very good point.

00:26:53.000 I knowingly violated the rules that were put forth, and I'm told that the committee confidential rules have knowing consequences.

00:27:03.000 And so, sir, I come from a long line, as all of us do as Americans, and understand what that kind of civil disobedience is, and I understand the consequences.

00:27:10.000 So I am right now, before your

00:27:13.000 Before your process is finished, I'm going to release the email about racial profiling.

00:27:19.000 And I understand that the penalty comes with potential ousting from the Senate.

00:27:26.000 Please oust me.

00:27:27.000 Please!

00:27:28.000 Please!

00:27:29.000 Show the Democrats that I'm really committed to this.

00:27:30.000 Show all the base that I'm really committed to this by ousting me.

00:27:32.000 Make me a martyr. 0.94

00:27:33.000 Martyr me!

00:27:35.000 Martyr me!

00:27:37.000 It's like, oh my god, he's just terrible at this.

00:27:40.000 So it actually makes you appreciate Kamala Harris, who is better at this, right?

00:27:43.000 I mean, at least if you're gonna watch this sort of thing.

00:27:46.000 You hope that they're pretty good at it.

00:27:47.000 Kamala Harris is better at it, or at least she's being taken more seriously by the media. 0.99

00:27:50.000 She's decided that she is now going to go after Brett Kavanaugh.

00:27:54.000 Based on what? 1.00

00:27:55.000 Based on, like, the stupidest crap you've ever heard. 1.00

00:27:57.000 So here's Kamala Harris completely getting wrong the law about abortion. 1.00

00:28:01.000 Well done, Kamala.

00:28:02.000 Can you think of any laws that give government the power to make decisions about the male body?

00:28:13.000 I'm happy to answer a more specific question.

00:28:17.000 Male versus female? 0.92

00:28:19.000 There are medical procedures.

00:28:25.000 That the government has the power to make a decision about a man's body?

00:28:30.000 I'm not thinking of any right now, Senator.

00:28:34.000 Okay, what she's trying to go for is, when it comes, I mean, she's obviously phrasing this in the dumbest possible way, so that it looks as though the law is unequal when it comes to abortion.

00:28:42.000 Because all we're talking about is a female body, whereas there are no restrictions on what a male can do to his own body.

00:28:48.000 Except for we actually do have laws against suicide.

00:28:50.000 Like, we can actually put you in jail for, well, not jail, but we can actually forcibly

00:28:59.000 What's the word I'm looking for?

00:29:00.000 We can put you on a psychiatric hold for 48 hours if you're suicidal.

00:29:03.000 So, if you are a man, we can call the cops on you and do that.

00:29:07.000 Also, we do have laws on the books that allow male bodies to be harmed. 0.81

00:29:10.000 They're actually called pro-abortion laws.

00:29:12.000 Those pro-abortion laws allow male bodies to be harmed because they're inside female bodies. 0.96

00:29:16.000 So, there's that.

00:29:17.000 There's Kamala Harris grandstanding. 0.99

00:29:19.000 I do love Brett Kavanaugh just looking blankly at her like, what are you saying now?

00:29:23.000 Say what in the world?

00:29:26.000 And then this is the best one.

00:29:27.000 So Kamala Harris has decided she's got the goods. 1.00

00:29:30.000 What are the goods?

00:29:31.000 She thinks that Brett Kavanaugh has talked to someone from the firm of Kasowitz.

00:29:35.000 Kasowitz is a firm that is used by the President of the United States with regard to his defense.

00:29:41.000 And so she asks Brett Kavanaugh if he's ever had a conversation with anyone who worked for Kasowitz, which is a firm that legitimately has hundreds and hundreds of lawyers, about the Mueller investigation.

00:29:50.000 The implication being that Brett Kavanaugh somehow talked to Trump's lawyers about how he would handle the Mueller investigation, with which he is not involved in any way.

00:30:00.000 But she's going to suggest the reason Trump is picking Kavanaugh is because Kavanaugh is somehow going to allow Trump to escape the Mueller investigation.

00:30:08.000 This was ranking real high.

00:30:10.000 On sort of the leftist pornography list yesterday.

00:30:12.000 So this one is running up the pornography list.

00:30:15.000 People were really just self-flagellating over it, really enjoying themselves. 0.96

00:30:19.000 Here was Kamala Harris making a fool of herself. 1.00

00:30:21.000 And then Michael Avenatti got involved, and Michael Avenatti basically shredded her, so it's pretty funny.

00:30:25.000 Kasowitz, Benson, and Torres, which is the law firm founded by Mark Kasowitz, who is President Trump's personal lawyer.

00:30:35.000 Have you had any conversation about

00:30:39.000 Robert Mueller or his investigation with anyone at that firm.

00:30:46.000 Yes or no?

00:30:48.000 Is there a person you're talking about?

00:30:49.000 I'm asking you a very direct question.

00:30:51.000 Yes or no?

00:30:53.000 I need to know the... I'm not sure I know everyone who works at that law firm.

00:30:57.000 I don't think you need to.

00:30:58.000 I think you need to know who you talked with.

00:30:59.000 Who'd you talk to?

00:31:02.000 Okay.

00:31:03.000 And then it continued like this for like seven and a half minutes.

00:31:05.000 Okay.

00:31:06.000 Cass Waspenson has 266 attorneys.

00:31:10.000 Do you think that he's racking his brains right now going, who have I talked to?

00:31:14.000 Did they once work at Kasowitz?

00:31:15.000 I don't want to perjure myself by saying I've never talked to anybody about the Mueller investigation.

00:31:18.000 Like, I don't remember every conversation I've ever had about the Mueller investigation.

00:31:22.000 I've talked to thousands of people, it turns out, about the Mueller investigation.

00:31:25.000 But I'm not sure who worked for Kasowitz at the time.

00:31:28.000 But this was supposed to be, you know, the great uncovering.

00:31:31.000 Of course, there's nothing there.

00:31:32.000 Michael Avenatti basically said, this is a big mistake.

00:31:35.000 Prosecutors are not supposed to ask questions to which they don't already know the answers.

00:31:39.000 So if it turns out that Kamala Harris has nothing here, then she was just grandstanding.

00:31:42.000 And speaking of grandstanding, you just heard Cory Booker talking about how he was going to uncover all of the evils of Brett Kavanaugh by revealing all this classified information.

00:31:53.000 Well, it turns out that Cory Booker, he played himself.

00:31:56.000 Cory Booker played himself.

00:31:57.000 Congratulations!

00:31:58.000 He played himself.

00:32:00.000 Cory Booker.

00:32:00.000 The emails, what do they show?

00:32:02.000 There's an email titled Racial Profiling.

00:32:05.000 And then, it turns out that in these emails titled Racial Profiling, Brett Kavanaugh openly says that we are not going to allow people to use race or national origin in airport screening and law enforcement generally in the immediate aftermath of 9-11.

00:32:22.000 He says, My own view is that, as required by the traditional equal protection standards, we must at least consider how to construct a race-neutral system.

00:32:28.000 I can imagine such a system that could be effective, perhaps even more effective than the one based on racial classifications.

00:32:34.000 This sort of system would require airlines and governmental authorities to obtain more personal information from the flying public, and there is some resistance to that within the group on the grounds that that would be too burdensome, invasive of privacy, and so forth.

00:32:44.000 The people who favor some use of race or national origin obviously do not need to grapple with the interim questions, but the people who generally favor effective security measures that are race-neutral in fact do need to grapple, and grapple now, with the interim question of what to do before a truly effective and comprehensive race-neutral system is developed and implemented.

00:33:01.000 So in other words, Cory Booker wanted to show how

00:33:04.000 Kavanaugh was a racist and instead showed how Kavanaugh was not, in fact, a racist.

00:33:09.000 So, well done, Cory Booker. 1.00

00:33:10.000 You complete and utter douchebag. 0.97

00:33:12.000 In just one second, we'll get to more from the Senate Judiciary hearing. 0.98

00:33:15.000 We'll also get to other hearings that were happening on the Hill yesterday, which were similarly bizarre because we live in a parallel universe in which nothing makes sense anymore.

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00:34:31.000 So just spectacular performance by all the members of the left in this judicial hearing.

00:34:36.000 But that wasn't the only hearing where things were going wildly wrong in the Senate.

00:34:40.000 They were also going wildly wrong in the Senate at tech hearings.

00:34:44.000 So yesterday there was a Senate

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00:36:09.000 So, big tech hearings on the Hill yesterday, and things got weird even before the tech hearings started.

00:36:13.000 Alex Jones arrives.

00:36:15.000 That's not — if you saw him holding his phone, that was not trans porn on his phone. 0.84

00:36:19.000 Stop thinking that.

00:36:20.000 It was not.

00:36:21.000 It was not.

00:36:21.000 But he arrives, and he accosts Marco Rubio.

00:36:24.000 Now, Rubio is one of the more polished politicians on the Hill, obviously.

00:36:28.000 Rubio happens to be a nice guy.

00:36:30.000 I know Senator Rubio.

00:36:32.000 Alex Jones is not a nice guy. 0.93

00:36:33.000 Alex Jones is a crazy person who says crazy things, and then he just sort of randomly takes off his shirt and starts yelling about Satan! 0.97

00:36:41.000 But Satan just goes wild all the time! 0.63

00:36:44.000 So he brings that brand to the halls of the Senate and he accosts Marco Rubio about the fact that he's been banned from social media.

00:36:49.000 Now, as I say, I oppose Alex Jones' ban from social media unless there's an articulable standard, an articulable standard of why he was banned.

00:36:57.000 Was he banned because he threatens violence?

00:36:59.000 Was he banned because he promotes

00:37:01.000 Libelous conspiracy theories?

00:37:03.000 Like legally libelous conspiracy theories?

00:37:05.000 Why exactly was he banned?

00:37:06.000 If it's just because you don't like him, that's not a good reason.

00:37:08.000 So I had sympathy for the argument that all these social media companies that say he was engaged in hate speech, so ban him.

00:37:14.000 That's a problem because hate speech has no actual definition with any sort of distinguishing principle involved.

00:37:19.000 There's no limiting principle to hate speech.

00:37:22.000 That said, Alex Jones arrives and he starts harassing Marco Rubio about this.

00:37:24.000 Why he's not going and harassing the Democrats about this, I'm not really sure.

00:37:27.000 But he goes and he harasses Marco Rubio and things go wildly wrong.

00:37:31.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:37:32.000 Who are you, man?

00:37:32.000 Yeah, sure.

00:37:32.000 I swear to God, I don't know who you are, man.

00:37:33.000 You better hope you're de-platforming.

00:37:35.000 Tens of millions of views?

00:37:36.000 InfoWars.

00:37:37.000 Bigger than Rex Limbaugh?

00:37:38.000 He knows who InfoWars is.

00:37:39.000 Playing this joke over here.

00:37:40.000 That's why, hey, the de-platforming didn't work.

00:37:42.000 Here's the question, here's the question.

00:37:44.000 Wait, don't touch me again, man.

00:37:45.000 I'm asking you not to touch me.

00:37:46.000 Sure, I'm just patting you nicely.

00:37:47.000 I know, but I don't want to be, I don't know who you are.

00:37:49.000 You want me to get arrested?

00:37:50.000 It's not just good to take my first amendment.

00:37:51.000 I can't get arrested, man.

00:37:51.000 It's not just enough to take my first amendment.

00:37:53.000 I can't take care of myself.

00:37:54.000 Oh, oh, he'll beat me up.

00:37:55.000 Did you?

00:37:55.000 I didn't say that.

00:37:57.000 I know I am, but he's so mad.

00:37:59.000 You're

00:38:00.000 Okay, so it's just amazing.

00:38:01.000 So first of all, the first rule of engaging with trolls is don't engage with trolls because there's really no way that it works out well. 0.99

00:38:08.000 Although I will say that if there would be a physical altercation between Alex Jones and Marco Rubio, and Marco Rubio, who's considered beta-cuck number one by the Alex Jones crowd, were to knock Alex Jones and his mega-steroidal coffee crop of garbage, if you were to knock him on his ass, 0.99

00:38:29.000 I'm not in favor of physical violence. 0.99

00:38:30.000 I think law enforcement is useful.

00:38:32.000 We live in a civilized society for a reason.

00:38:34.000 But if they were to get into physical altercation and Marco Rubio were to undercut Alex Jones' entire brand by knocking out Alex Jones,

00:38:44.000 I would laugh a little.

00:38:45.000 And when I say a little, I mean I would never stop laughing.

00:38:47.000 I'd miss the show the next day because the laughter would be so great.

00:38:50.000 So, that's how it went.

00:38:51.000 Marco Rubio then did an interview in which he said, you know, I know you guys have to cover it, but you guys give these crazy people way too much attention.

00:38:57.000 We're making crazy people superstars, so you're gonna get crazier people.

00:39:00.000 And of course, Rubio is right.

00:39:01.000 All the coverage on Alex Jones is designed for that.

00:39:03.000 It is also, also true, that the President of the United States happens to be one of the people giving Alex Jones inordinate attention.

00:39:09.000 Alex Jones has been known as a crazy person for many, many, many years.

00:39:13.000 The President of the United States decided that he was afriendly and therefore he sort of legitimized him.

00:39:18.000 In any case, let's talk a little bit more about these tech hearings.

00:39:21.000 So these tech hearings, they were demonstrative of the fact that these social media companies really have no clue as to what their actual goal is.

00:39:29.000 Is their goal to, quote unquote, better the public discourse?

00:39:32.000 Because if their goal is to better the public discourse, then they need to be held accountable for all the material that appears on their pages.

00:39:39.000 Over at Daily Wire,

00:39:40.000 We can be sued for libel, we can be sued for copyright violation, we can be sued for a variety of causes because we are a private company that is engaged in the business of editorial oversight.

00:39:53.000 If you are basically just a platform and you're not involved in editorial oversight like Reddit or 4chan or presumably Facebook, then you can't be sued on the same grounds.

00:40:01.000 So an article that we could be sued for, if we post it on Facebook, Facebook could not be sued for.

00:40:05.000 But if Facebook is policing everything and deciding what comes down and what stays up, well now they look a lot more like the Daily Wire than they look like the phone line, than they look like just AT&T.

00:40:14.000 They now look like a publisher.

00:40:15.000 So if you're a publisher and not a platform, then you have to be held to the same standard, and we have to have an articulable standard so that we know exactly what's going on at your company.

00:40:23.000 And that was made pretty clear when Representative Mark Wayne read tweets to the, I guess his name is Mark Wayne Mullen.

00:40:32.000 He read tweets to the Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey about race from Sarah Zhang.

00:40:39.000 You remember Sarah Zhang, who's now on the New York Times editorial board because only certain types of racism are okay.

00:40:44.000 Here is Representative Mullen grilling Dorsey on why it is that Sarah Zhang is still on the platform, but other people have been banned for similarly racist talk.

00:40:52.000 Let me read what Ms. 0.93

00:40:55.000 Jong wrote. 0.97

00:40:57.000 Hashtag, cancel white people. 1.00

00:41:00.000 White people marking up the internet with their opinions like dogs pissing on fire hydrants. 1.00

00:41:08.000 Are white people genetically predisposed to burn faster in the sun, thus logically being only fit to live underground like graveling goblins? 1.00

00:41:18.000 Oh man, it's kind of sick how much I enjoy 0.99

00:41:22.000 Or how much joy I get out of being cruel to old white men. 0.95

00:41:26.000 And you can sort of see the Twitter CEO in the cutaway shot.

00:41:31.000 You can see him feeling pretty uncomfortable.

00:41:34.000 He should feel pretty uncomfortable because it's ridiculous, frankly, that Twitter and all of these social media companies are run the way they are, where they pretend that they're policing things when they really are only policing one side.

00:41:46.000 And that side is really perceived to be sort of the pro-Trump side. 1.00

00:41:48.000 And meanwhile, speaking of stupidity, 1.00

00:41:50.000 Nike has now released its new ad involving Colin Kaepernick. 1.00

00:41:54.000 It's designed to obviously draw all sorts of media scrutiny, so we'll give them what they want here.

00:41:58.000 Here is the Nike ad.

00:41:59.000 It's a voiceover from Colin Kaepernick, who obviously is not in uniform since he doesn't play football anymore.

00:42:04.000 He stands around and talks about cops being bad from his multi-million dollar mansion, presumably.

00:42:09.000 And they juxtapose Colin Kaepernick's heroism with, like, actual heroes in sports.

00:42:15.000 I mean, they actually show video of, like, small kids who have

00:42:19.000 Who have genetic conditions trying to play sports, and they're comparing that to Colin Kaepernick, whose great sacrifice was kneeling after he'd already become a useless backup quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers.

00:42:30.000 If you're born a refugee, don't let it stop you from playing soccer for the national team at age 16.

00:42:39.000 Don't become the best basketball player on the planet.

00:42:43.000 Be bigger than basketball.

00:42:46.000 Believe in something.

00:42:49.000 Even if it means sacrificing everything.

00:42:53.000 When they talk about the greatest team in the history of the sport, make sure it's your team.

00:42:59.000 If you have only one hand, don't just watch football.

00:43:03.000 Play it.

00:43:04.000 At the highest level.

00:43:06.000 And if you're a girl from Compton, don't just become a tennis player.

00:43:11.000 Become the greatest athlete ever.

00:43:14.000 You have to sacrifice everything like Colin Kaepernick did by being signed to a multi-million dollar contract and being treated as a civil rights hero despite having lived in a Tony White suburb for most of his upbringing and then playing for millions of dollars badly.

00:43:28.000 So thank you for that, Nike.

00:43:31.000 What's amazing about this is all of these success stories, or at least a huge number of these success stories that are being shown here,

00:43:36.000 Our American success stories.

00:43:37.000 Venus Williams and Serena Williams are American success stories.

00:43:40.000 The U.S.

00:43:40.000 women's soccer team is an American success story.

00:43:42.000 These are stories that happen in America, because America is a great country, but we are going to be presented with this theme by a corporation attempting to make money in America off American citizens, that really America is a place that presents nothing but endless obstacles and challenges, and you have to be a self-sacrificial character like Colin Kaepernick to truly sacrifice everything.

00:44:01.000 We're good to go.

00:44:20.000 Porny, then sort of later HBO. 0.55

00:44:22.000 Yeah, you can see this with Game of Thrones, where Game of Thrones started and every two scenes there was some graphic sex scene because it was like, we know, we're pay cable. 0.97

00:44:29.000 If you want to watch pay cable, at least you'll get some boobies. 1.00

00:44:32.000 That's really how the programming goes at HBO.

00:44:34.000 So there's some of that in Rome.

00:44:36.000 If you can ignore all of that.

00:44:37.000 The series is actually really, really good.

00:44:40.000 Here's some of the preview for Rome, which is worth re-watching.

00:44:44.000 Especially now, you can get it on Amazon Prime, and that means that if you are apt to do as I am, you can just fast-forward right through those scenes and get to the good stuff, the actual politics.

00:44:57.000 Make way for the pro-consul, Gaius Julius Caesar!

00:45:03.000 You've entered the city under arms.

00:45:06.000 The gods know my intentions are peaceful. 1.00

00:45:11.000 Rome has fallen into the hands of a corrupt monster. 0.99

00:45:15.000 What do you do? 1.00

00:45:17.000 By the spirits of my ancestors, I curse Caesar.

00:45:23.000 It's good.

00:45:24.000 It's really well done.

00:45:26.000 It's entertaining.

00:45:26.000 It's got some of the best characters.

00:45:28.000 One character named Titus Pillow is one of the better characters in TV history.

00:45:32.000 And TV aficionados are big fans.

00:45:33.000 So, check it out.

00:45:35.000 It's available via Amazon Prime on HBO or if you're an HBO subscriber.

00:45:40.000 So, that's worth watching.

00:45:41.000 Okay, time for some things that I hate.

00:45:47.000 And now every corporation feels the necessity to get involved in politics.

00:45:50.000 Levi's is now pledging more than a million dollars to gun control organizations in an effort to curb the gun violence in the, quote, very communities where we live and work.

00:45:58.000 One of the reasons why this is happening is because Nielsen numbers show that there are large numbers of people on the left who want their corporations to be socially conscious.

00:46:07.000 People on the right, we basically just go and buy what we want.

00:46:09.000 And most people buy what they want.

00:46:10.000 But there are a lot of people on the left who are like, well, I'm not going to buy those jeans unless I feel good about it.

00:46:14.000 It's conspicuous consumption.

00:46:16.000 There are actual studies that show that people only buy Priuses because they look strange.

00:46:21.000 Really, if you go up to San Francisco, there's a study, it's probably five years ago, there's this study and what it showed was that the Toyota Prius, which looks like a weird bubble, it's a very ugly car, and the Honda Hybrid Civic, which looks exactly like a normal car, but gets exactly the same kind of electric gas mileage as the Toyota Prius,

00:46:40.000 The hybrid Civic did not sell at all.

00:46:42.000 The Prius sold a lot.

00:46:43.000 Why?

00:46:44.000 Because the real reason people were buying a Prius was not because it was energy efficient, because they didn't actually care what it did.

00:46:49.000 They just wanted to signal to all of their friends they cared about the environment.

00:46:51.000 It's like slapping a bumper sticker on your car.

00:46:53.000 Well, it's the same thing now with corporate brands.

00:46:55.000 So you're going to see more and more of this preening from these various companies.

00:46:58.000 And then if the companies don't preen, then they are going to be considered just awful, terrible,

00:47:04.000 You know, how dare they not kowtow to the social justice warriors?

00:47:08.000 Everything's gonna get more political, not less political.

00:47:10.000 It's gonna get uglier before it gets better.

00:47:12.000 Okay, other things that I hate.

00:47:14.000 So the President of the United States made some comments about the current controversy in the Catholic Church.

00:47:19.000 And it is... These comments are just foolish. 1.00

00:47:22.000 He made these comments to the Daily Caller. 0.99

00:47:24.000 Do we have audio of it?

00:47:26.000 Okay, so here's what he said.

00:47:26.000 He said, it's so sad to watch.

00:47:28.000 To me, it's one of the sadder stories because I respect so much the Catholic Church.

00:47:31.000 And to me, it's a very sad story.

00:47:33.000 Which is correct.

00:47:35.000 But then he says that he was surprised at Cardinal McCarrick.

00:47:38.000 And then he was asked about the Pope.

00:47:40.000 And he said, the Pope is handling the crisis the best anyone can handle it.

00:47:43.000 The Pope is handling, I get the best anyone can handle it.

00:47:46.000 How is he going to handle it?

00:47:48.000 Okay, well, no, the Pope is not actually.

00:47:50.000 It's funny because you remember that Trump has attacked the Pope in the past, right?

00:47:53.000 He actually went to war with the Pope over illegal immigration.

00:47:56.000 But when it comes to child molestation, he's not willing to make a couple of comments about the Pope.

00:47:59.000 That seems sort of strange to me.

00:48:02.000 I don't understand why exactly he would not.

00:48:05.000 You know, why he would not be calling for more from the Pope, except that he just doesn't want that controversy.

00:48:10.000 If you're, I understand not wanting the controversy, but if you're going to engage with every political controversy under the sun, it seems to me this would be a good place to put a little bit of weight.

00:48:18.000 Okay, final thing that I hate, and then we'll do a quick psalm for a little bit of uplift.

00:48:22.000 So Beto O'Rourke, who is not in fact Hispanic,

00:48:24.000 I think so.

00:48:40.000 White, young John Kerry.

00:48:42.000 If you watch him, he looks more like John Kerry.

00:48:44.000 His mannerisms are more like John Kerry.

00:48:45.000 He doesn't have the Boston accent.

00:48:47.000 Otherwise, he resembles John Kerry in a lot of ways.

00:48:50.000 He was on Ellen, because this is what we do now.

00:48:52.000 Ellen, she's a nonpartisan guy. 0.98

00:48:53.000 Stop it.

00:48:54.000 She's nonpartisan.

00:48:55.000 She just wants humor.

00:48:56.000 She just wants everybody to get along. 0.97

00:48:58.000 Which is why she's going to host a bunch of Republicans next thing you know. 1.00

00:49:01.000 Except she never will.

00:49:01.000 She's going to host Beto O'Rourke.

00:49:03.000 So here's Beto O'Rourke talking about the National Anthem protests and, of course, coming down on the side of people who protest the National Anthem.

00:49:09.000 If this guy wins in Texas, man, the Republicans are in serious trouble.

00:49:13.000 But it's hard to think of a major or important or significant change that we've made as a country that wasn't painful, that didn't require these difficult conversations, these unguarded moments with one another that ultimately produced change and progress in the right direction.

00:49:29.000 He is so exciting.

00:49:30.000 I understand what all the buzz is about.

00:49:33.000 Oh, the excitement.

00:49:33.000 But this idea, well, we'll have these conversations and they'll generate change in the right direction.

00:49:37.000 No, they won't.

00:49:38.000 They won't.

00:49:38.000 I'm sorry.

00:49:39.000 People who are kneeling for the national anthem are generally not interested in a conversation, which is why they are kneeling for the national anthem.

00:49:45.000 If they wanted to have an intelligent conversation about police regulations and police implementation of rules, we could have that conversation in an intelligent way.

00:49:52.000 Or, theoretically, we could just kneel for the anthem and pretend the entire country is in favor of police malfeasance.

00:49:58.000 Okay, time for a quick psalm.

00:50:00.000 So we have been going through a psalm a week.

00:50:01.000 We are up to psalm number eight.

00:50:03.000 For the director of music.

00:50:05.000 Lord, oh Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth.

00:50:07.000 You have set your glory in the heavens.

00:50:08.000 Through the praise of children and infants, you have established a stronghold against your enemies to silence the foe and the avenger.

00:50:13.000 And this is the part that's, that's, there are a couple of, of what we call Pesukim in, in Judaism, in Hebrew, which means verses.

00:50:20.000 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is mankind that you are mindful of them?

00:50:26.000 Human beings that you care for them.

00:50:27.000 You have made them a little lower than the angels and crowned them with honor and glory.

00:50:30.000 You have made them rulers over the works of your hands and you put everything under their feet.

00:50:33.000 This is why when people say that Judeo-Christian religion is all about kind of crushing mankind in the face of God, that's really not what Judeo-Christian religion is about at all.

00:50:41.000 The Psalms glorify man.

00:50:42.000 They say that God made us just a little bit lower than the angels, which comes with a tremendous responsibility.

00:50:47.000 The creator of heaven and earth, the force that stands behind the logic of the universe,

00:50:52.000 That force made you.

00:50:53.000 And that force expects something of you.

00:50:55.000 God expects something of you.

00:50:57.000 He made us a little lower than the angels.

00:50:59.000 And in some ways, in our creative capacity, He made us higher than the angels because the angels don't create.

00:51:05.000 The angels are just emissaries.

00:51:07.000 When God suggests that we are a little lower than the angels and that we've been crowned with glory and honor and has made us rulers over the works, that comes with a responsibility.

00:51:16.000 It's not just about... I think in Western civilization we've erred too much on the side of man is glorious and therefore he should feel free to do whatever he wants.

00:51:23.000 And in guilt cultures, shame cultures, there's a difference.

00:51:27.000 I think that we are a guilt culture.

00:51:28.000 I think shame cultures have basically said that man is mud and can be ground under people's feet for the sake of the collective.

00:51:35.000 We're somewhere in between, right? 0.67

00:51:36.000 What we say is that man is capable of being an angel, and man is capable of being a worm.

00:51:42.000 But we have to make that decision, and God has expectations of us.

00:51:45.000 One of the more beautiful of all the psalms, Psalm number 8.

00:51:48.000 God, how majestic is your name in all the earth.

00:51:50.000 Alrighty, we will be back here tomorrow with more of the absurdities of our daily politics, plus the mailbag.

00:51:54.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

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The Molehunt Is On! | Ep. 618

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