The Ben Shapiro Show - The ‘Real’ Jews | Ep. 669

00:00:00.000 President Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, pleads guilty.

00:00:03.000 And there's a lot of news about it.

00:00:04.000 A CNN commentator calls for the elimination of the Juden from the Middle East.

00:00:08.000 And a new study suggests that white leftists pandered to minorities.

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00:02:01.000 OK, so the big breaking news, Michael Cohen, the president's personal lawyer.

00:02:06.000 Not a smart cookie, as the president might say.

00:02:08.000 He has now pled guilty in a new deal with Robert Mueller.

00:02:12.000 Now, this is kind of a shock because people thought that Michael Cohen, the president's personal lawyer, was going to plead guilty in a deal with the Southern District of New York, the D.A.

00:02:19.000 of the Southern District of New York.

00:02:20.000 That's because the original investigation around Michael Cohen that everybody was worried about was the investigation concerning the supposed bribery of Stormy Daniels.

00:02:30.000 The original story, if you recall, was that President Trump had allegedly used Michael Cohen as a thoroughfare for paying off his former lover, Stormy Daniels, and had done so specifically in order to avoid campaign finance law.

00:02:43.000 That was the allegation, in any case.

00:02:44.000 That's why the Southern District of New York was investigating, because it had nothing to do with election 2016 and the Trump-Russia election stuff.

00:02:51.000 It had to do with campaign finance reform.

00:02:52.000 It had to do with the election, but not with any of the Trump-Russia stuff that is actually under Robert Mueller's purview.

00:02:57.000 Well, now it turns out that Michael Cohen has pled guilty in a deal with Robert Mueller.

00:03:01.000 So why exactly is he pleading guilty in a deal with Robert Mueller?

00:03:05.000 Well, here's where things begin to get quite dicey for the Trump campaign slash administration.

00:03:09.000 Here is the ABC News report.

00:03:11.000 Special Counsel Robert Mueller has reached a tentative deal with Michael Cohen, the former personal attorney and longtime fixer for President Donald Trump, sources told ABC News.

00:03:20.000 Cohen appeared in federal court in Manhattan Thursday, where he entered a guilty plea for misstatements to Congress in closed-door testimony last year about his contacts during the presidential campaign, when the AP reported that it was a surprise appearance, which is sort of a weird statement.

00:03:34.000 It's like Barbara Streisand showing up randomly at the Hollywood Bowl, except that it was Michael Cohen showing up in court to plead guilty.

00:03:40.000 First of all, It is a very rare occurrence when somebody pleads guilty for misstatements to Congress.

00:03:46.000 That's very rare.

00:03:46.000 What it suggests is that Mueller thinks that he had more hanging over Cohen's head.

00:03:50.000 Cohen pled guilty to a lesser charge and then gave all sorts of material to the Mueller investigation.

00:03:56.000 So what exactly is the Mueller investigation getting in return for allowing Michael Cohen to take a light guilty plea?

00:04:02.000 Well, here's what ABC News reports.

00:04:05.000 Cohen's earlier plea deal with federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York implicated President Trump in campaign finance felonies.

00:04:10.000 Since then, Cohen has spent more than 70 hours in interviews with Mueller's team.

00:04:14.000 Never a good thing.

00:04:15.000 The questioning has focused on contacts with Russians by Trump associates during the campaign, Trump's business ties to Russia, obstruction of justice, and talk of possible pardons.

00:04:24.000 Sources familiar with the discussions have told ABC News.

00:04:27.000 Kendall Coffey, a former U.S.

00:04:28.000 attorney in Florida, says the potential significance of Cohen's cooperation is immense.

00:04:33.000 So what exactly is Cohen telling the Mueller investigation?

00:04:37.000 That is not eminently clear at this point, but the suggestion is that Cohen lied to Congress about President Trump's continuing connections with Russian companies in the middle of the 2016 election.

00:04:49.000 Sources familiar with the special counsel's proposed agreement with Cohen told ABC News the 52-year-old New Yorker will admit to making multiple misstatements to two congressional intelligence committees investigating alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia to influence the 2016 presidential election.

00:05:03.000 It was not immediately clear what Cohen told the congressional committees in the fall of 2017 that he will now say was false.

00:05:10.000 The other reports are already speculating that it's that Cohen had said that Trump was not involved in negotiations over the building of a Trump Tower in Moscow into mid-2016, and now it turns out that Trump was directly involved in exactly those sorts of conversations.

00:05:26.000 Cohen played an integral role, according to ABC News, in discussions about a possible Trump Tower in Moscow, negotiations that were going on at least through the early stages of the 2016 presidential campaign.

00:05:37.000 So, here's where we get a problem, okay?

00:05:41.000 The reason that this is a problem is because If it turns out that the president of the United States during the 2016 campaign was involved in business transactions with the Russian government and the Russian government was basically rooting for Trump to win because they thought that they had him bought and thus they were helping him out in the election, this is another avenue of investigation for Mueller.

00:06:01.000 Cohen, according to the Steele dossier, it asserted that Cohen had a key role in secretive Trump campaign connections with Kremlin operatives.

00:06:09.000 Cohen claimed in a statement that the proposal he worked on during the campaign to build a Trump property in Moscow, quote, was solely a real estate deal and nothing more.

00:06:16.000 Cohen said the plan was terminated in January 2016 after it was determined that the project was not viable for business reasons.

00:06:22.000 Now, apparently, he is saying something different.

00:06:25.000 Now he is saying that the deal continued all the way into June 2016.

00:06:28.000 This is according to Reuters.

00:06:31.000 President Trump has responded.

00:06:32.000 He denied working on a Trump Organization real estate project in Moscow, which Cohen said they'd pursued until June 2016 during the presidential campaign.

00:06:40.000 Trump attacked his former lawyer, who called him a weak person, and accused Cohen of lying about the real estate project to try and obtain a reduced sentence from prosecutors.

00:06:47.000 Trump told reporters outside the White House he had decided not to build the building in Moscow, although he did not specify when he decided against pursuing that project.

00:06:55.000 Now, again, the reason this is important is because if Trump was actually in the middle of business negotiations with a geopolitical enemy of the United States in the middle of a presidential run in which there are accusations that that geopolitical enemy was rooting for Trump and trying to hack his political opponent in order to release material to get an ally elected, that is a problem.

00:07:12.000 Now, even if that were true, would that mean that there was active collusion between Trump and the Russians?

00:07:17.000 No, actually.

00:07:18.000 Let's say that President Trump were in the middle of a business relationship with the Russian government to build a Trump Tower in Moscow.

00:07:25.000 Would that look bad?

00:07:26.000 Sure, that would look really bad.

00:07:27.000 Would it look about as bad as Hillary Clinton using the State Department to reach out to various and sundry governments who were giving donations to the Clinton Foundation?

00:07:33.000 It would look kind of like that.

00:07:34.000 Would it mean that President Trump was selling influence?

00:07:38.000 No, because he wasn't president yet.

00:07:39.000 Would it mean that he was colluding with the Russians to release Hillary Clinton's emails?

00:07:43.000 No, that would have to be proven independently.

00:07:45.000 However, it would create an incentive for the Russian government to want Trump to win, and this has been a hot point of contention In the Mueller investigation all along.

00:07:53.000 Is it the Russians really wanted Trump to win or is it that they just wanted to cause electoral chaos? 0.90

00:07:58.000 There's been a split in the intelligence community over which it is.

00:08:01.000 Did they actually want Trump to become president and so they were rooting against Hillary and trying to undermine Hillary or were they undermining Hillary just to create chaos assuming that Hillary Clinton was going to win anyway?

00:08:12.000 So all of this is is obviously dicey for President Trump and it comes amidst a bunch of other dicey material with regard to President Trump That other material includes the Mueller office now looking at phone calls between President Trump and Roger Stone, a longtime President Trump confidant.

00:08:32.000 As we mentioned yesterday, there was all this material that was coming out with regard to Roger Stone, the suggestion that Roger Stone had been coordinating with WikiLeaks in the dump of material on Hillary Clinton and that he had been sort of a go-between for President Trump.

00:08:46.000 Mueller's office is now apparently looking at late-night phone calls between Roger Stone and President Trump, according to the Washington Post.

00:08:54.000 This broke late yesterday.

00:08:55.000 The calls almost always came deep into the night.

00:08:57.000 Caller ID labeled them unknown, but Roger Stone said he knew to pick up quickly during those harried months of the 2016 presidential campaign.

00:09:03.000 There'd be a good chance the voice on the other end of the line would belong to President Donald Trump than just Donald Trump.

00:09:09.000 Dialing from a blocked phone number, those nocturnal chats and other contacts between the man who now occupies the Oval Office and an infamous political trickster have come under intensifying scrutiny as Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation bores into whether Stone served as a bridge between Trump and WikiLeaks as the group was publishing hacked emails.

00:09:26.000 Roger Stone, of course, denies that President Trump and he ever talked WikiLeaks.

00:09:30.000 Who the hell knows whether that is true or not. 0.94

00:09:32.000 Roger Stone is a congenital liar, and President Trump is not exactly forthcoming on these matters. 0.95

00:09:37.000 Here's Roger Stone telling Sean Hannity, no, no, no, we never talked about any of that sort of WikiLeaks stuff. 0.87

00:09:41.000 Did you ever talk to the president about Julian Assange or WikiLeaks ever?

00:09:47.000 Absolutely not.

00:09:49.000 So the president told the truth in what we learned today?

00:09:52.000 Yes, absolutely.

00:09:54.000 At no time did Donald Trump and I, either candidate Trump or President Trump, discuss WikiLeaks.

00:10:00.000 Meanwhile, Jerome Corsi, another supposed go-between between WikiLeaks and actually Roger Stone, Jerome Corsi rejected a plea agreement this week suggesting that he was not going to be forced to lie by the Mueller team.

00:10:12.000 He says, listen, I'm not taking a deal and I could go to jail because I'm not going to allow Team Mueller to force me to lie in order to go after President Trump.

00:10:19.000 You were offered a plea deal by Bob Mueller's team.

00:10:23.000 That's correct.

00:10:23.000 Why did you reject it?

00:10:25.000 Well, I felt the deal was fraudulent.

00:10:27.000 It required me to lie, and it required me to violate various regulations, and even, I thought, commit fraud.

00:10:34.000 And I won't do that.

00:10:35.000 I will not lie to keep myself out of jail.

00:10:38.000 And I realized that I could go to jail for the rest of my life.

00:10:41.000 I'm 72 years old.

00:10:42.000 I might die in jail, but I'm still making this decision.

00:10:46.000 OK, so one of the possibilities here is that it's not that he's actually innocent and all this stuff.

00:10:51.000 It's that he's angling for a presidential pardon like Paul Manafort.

00:10:55.000 But Michael Cohen obviously has a spirit of a presidential pardon and is now working with the Mueller investigation forthwith.

00:11:00.000 Stone and Corsi both have defense arrangements with President Trump's team.

00:11:05.000 This leads to a point that we were talking about yesterday with regard to the possibility of President Trump pardoning Paul Manafort or pardoning Roger Stone or pardoning Jerome Corsi.

00:11:14.000 The president could theoretically cut off all ends of an investigation simply by pardoning all the people who are under investigation.

00:11:21.000 Ken White, known as Pope had on Twitter, is a criminal defense lawyer, former federal prosecutor.

00:11:25.000 He has an article in The New York Times specifically talking about Paul Manafort and why Paul Manafort has a defense agreement and why exactly the Mueller team is now deciding to revoke his plea arrangement in favor of prosecuting him more strongly.

00:11:41.000 Here's what Ken White says.

00:11:42.000 He says, on Tuesday, The Times reported that Mr. Manafort's lawyers have been telling Mr. Trump's lawyers what the special counsel asked Mr. Manafort and what the latter said in response.

00:11:51.000 The first development isn't much of a surprise.

00:11:54.000 This is the development that suggests that Mueller filed a status report accusing Manafort of lying.

00:11:58.000 Wise prosecutors know cooperating witnesses can be notoriously unreliable.

00:12:02.000 It's not unusual for prosecutors to catch cooperators in lies or recidivism.

00:12:06.000 But the second development, Mr. Manafort's lawyers have been spilling the details of their clients' cooperation to Trump lawyers under the cover of an often used but little understood pact called a joint defense agreement is shocking.

00:12:17.000 The revelation is a potential catastrophe for everyone involved.

00:12:20.000 In a second, I'm going to get into Ken White's analysis of what exactly it means that Paul Manafort now has a joint defense agreement with President Trump.

00:12:27.000 And apparently it looks like the same thing may soon exist with Jerome Corsi or Roger Stone.

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00:13:51.000 OK, so back to the analysis of Paul Manafort and whether Paul Manafort will be pardoned by President Trump.

00:13:57.000 Ken White analyzing this over at The New York Times.

00:14:00.000 He says that the development that Manafort has been coordinating with Trump is a blow to Robert Mueller's team, because their questions to Mr. Manafort may be a roadmap to at least part of their special counsel investigation.

00:14:10.000 Mr. Trump's lawyers can now adjust their defense and the president's responses, and with their filing on Monday asserting Mr. Manafort's dishonesty, the prosecutors have now lost him as a cooperating witness.

00:14:19.000 It's a blow to Mr. Manafort, who will receive no sentencing credit for his brief cooperation.

00:14:24.000 But it also may be a blow to President Trump.

00:14:27.000 Why?

00:14:28.000 Because it turns out that the joint defense agreement may not, in fact, hold.

00:14:31.000 Here's what Ken White says.

00:14:32.000 He says, Mr. Manafort, like many of the hapless former luminaries snared in Mr. Mueller's investigation, had a joint defense agreement with Mr. Trump.

00:14:39.000 Such a pact lets defense lawyers exchange information without waiving attorney-client privilege.

00:14:43.000 So Manafort's lawyer could talk with Trump's lawyer about what was going on and privilege would not be waived.

00:14:48.000 And so the federal government couldn't come in and say, OK, what were you guys talking about?

00:14:51.000 What were you coordinating about?

00:14:54.000 is very beneficial to Team Trump, obviously.

00:14:56.000 Under normal circumstances, if a lawyer reveals what a client said in confidence or reveals strategy and analysis of a case, that information is no longer confidential, however, and the government can compel testimony about it.

00:15:07.000 A joint defense agreement allows lawyers for people with a common interest in a case to share what they learned from clients without that information losing its confidential nature.

00:15:16.000 Joint defense agreements are pretty common, but the pact almost always explicitly require the parties to withdraw from the agreement immediately if they cooperate with the government.

00:15:25.000 In other words, if Manafort's team and Trump's team were coordinating before any of the plea agreement was arranged with Manafort, And then Manafort made the plea deal.

00:15:36.000 And anything they said after the plea deal is no longer confidential.

00:15:40.000 When someone begins to cooperate, says Ken White, his interests are no longer in common with the other members of the joint defense agreement.

00:15:45.000 By definition, they're now adverse.

00:15:46.000 This is often how we learn that someone will soon plead guilty.

00:15:49.000 The former national security advisor, Michael Flynn, also had a defense pact with the president, but his withdrawal from it signaled his cooperation and plea.

00:15:56.000 So maybe what happened here is that Mr. Manafort's lawyers actually uncovered By doing this, they may have actually uncovered their communications with Team Trump and offered material to Mueller.

00:16:07.000 So all of this is complicated.

00:16:08.000 All of it's complex.

00:16:09.000 Suffice it to say, none of it is very good for President Trump.

00:16:13.000 Now President Trump is responding to all of this with the ire that Could either demonstrate guilt or innocence, right?

00:16:20.000 He's saying that all of this is a witch hunt, that there was no collusion with the Russians.

00:16:25.000 And again, I tend to believe that there was no collusion with the Russians, of which President Trump was aware, because President Trump does not have a greatly functional brain to malfilter.

00:16:34.000 And that means that he says whatever comes to mind.

00:16:37.000 He never said that he was colluding with the Russians, so I don't think that he was.

00:16:40.000 I mean, really, it almost is that simple, because the president is not particularly good at hiding things.

00:16:46.000 But With that said, is it possible that collusion was going on at a low level with Don Trump Jr.

00:16:51.000 and the Russians, or with Paul Manafort and the Russians?

00:16:54.000 That's a possibility as well.

00:16:55.000 President Trump is responding to all of this by saying, listen, enough is enough.

00:16:59.000 Enough is enough.

00:16:59.000 If we're actually going to do this thing, then I will go after the Democrats.

00:17:02.000 If the Democrats continue to push this forward, then I will hit back as hard as I possibly can.

00:17:08.000 I'm just going to declassify everything that makes Democrats look bad.

00:17:11.000 Here's what President Trump had to say about it.

00:17:13.000 He said, what he actually said is in an interview with the New York Post, He said, if they go down the presidential harassment track, if they want to go and harass the president and the administration, I think that would be the best thing that would happen to me.

00:17:24.000 I'm a counterpuncher and I will hit them so hard.

00:17:27.000 They'd never been hit like that. 0.98

00:17:28.000 He said, I think it would help my campaign.

00:17:31.000 If they want to play tough, I will do it.

00:17:32.000 They will see how devastating these pages are, meaning that the FBI investigation was a setup by members of the Obama administration to get him back in 2016.

00:17:40.000 There's no actual material.

00:17:42.000 This is all basically just a hit job.

00:17:44.000 He says that he could declassify FISA warrant applications and other documents from Robert Mueller's probe.

00:17:49.000 He predicted the disclosure would expose the FBI, the Justice Department, and the Clinton campaign as being in cahoots to set him up.

00:17:56.000 This would be the longtime theory on the right.

00:17:58.000 The Mueller investigation was launched under false pretenses before it was the Mueller investigation, right?

00:18:02.000 When it was just an FBI investigation into Russian collusion, it was launched by people like Peter Strzok, And Lisa Page in an attempt to get Trump because they didn't like Trump personally.

00:18:12.000 And then this thing is just spun out of control and that the Clinton campaign had put together the Steele dossier, which was used as the most solid basis for attempting to go after President Trump and his allies like Carter Page.

00:18:25.000 President Trump threatening to declassify all that.

00:18:27.000 I've always asked why he didn't declassify all of that.

00:18:29.000 He basically said, I didn't want to do it yet because I can save it.

00:18:35.000 Meaning that maybe he wants to drop that as the responsive bombshell.

00:18:38.000 Instead of just declassifying the stuff and undercutting the Mueller investigation, he wanted to wait until it was most useful to him and then drop it at that point, which is An interesting move.

00:18:49.000 I don't think that it's very good for transparency, but if President Trump does have the material, I think that it would behoove him to drop it now as opposed to later.

00:18:57.000 Again, using material that implicates the FBI, DOJ, and Clinton campaign and corruption, keeping that under wraps as just a response may be politically smart, but it's not particularly good for the country.

00:19:10.000 President Trump also responded to accusations that he is engaged in obstruction of justice because the president I came out and you recall that he has now gotten rid of Rod Rosenstein over at the Department of Justice.

00:19:27.000 And he had retweeted a picture of a bunch of Democrats and Rod Rosenstein showing his deputy attorney general there.

00:19:39.000 And they are all behind bars.

00:19:41.000 Why was he showing his own deputy attorney general behind bars?

00:19:45.000 Well, I guess the reason he's showing his own deputy attorney general behind bars is because, as he says, he never should have picked a special counsel.

00:19:51.000 So obviously he's very angry about all of this.

00:19:56.000 He's not happy about Anything that is happening.

00:20:01.000 He said that Rosenstein belongs in jail because he never should have picked a special counsel.

00:20:07.000 By the way, I'm sorry.

00:20:08.000 He has not actually fired Rod Rosenstein at this point.

00:20:11.000 He just... Sessions is gone, but Rosenstein is still there.

00:20:13.000 In any case...

00:20:15.000 None of this translates well for President Trump.

00:20:17.000 Does any of this actually spell Russian collusion?

00:20:19.000 That's the bottom line to everybody.

00:20:21.000 The claim that was made by the Mueller investigation, and that they still have to prove, is that there was actual collusion between Team Trump and the Russian government, and that that investigation is going to undercover that collusion, and that the president is going to be implicated in that collusion.

00:20:33.000 It's now been nigh on two years.

00:20:36.000 It's been two years since all of this began.

00:20:38.000 We have yet to see any solid evidence that that occurred.

00:20:41.000 We've seen hints.

00:20:42.000 We've seen talk about Roger Stone and Jerome Corsi.

00:20:45.000 We've seen a lot of dots.

00:20:46.000 We've seen not a lot of connections between those dots.

00:20:48.000 We haven't seen clear testimony at this point.

00:20:50.000 Jumping to conclusions would be wrong.

00:20:53.000 And while the left is overtly excited about everything that is currently happening right now, I have my doubts that this is going to result in exactly what people on the left and in the media hope it results in, namely the demise of President Trump.

00:21:07.000 I don't actually think that that's...

00:21:10.000 What's going to happen here?

00:21:11.000 I think that in the end, the Mueller report will come out.

00:21:14.000 It will implicate some low level people.

00:21:16.000 It will implicate people like Michael Cohen.

00:21:17.000 It may hit Paul Manafort.

00:21:19.000 But I don't think it's going to get all the way to the president of the United States.

00:21:21.000 I think Trump is probably safe here, which is why his best strategy is to not do much here and simply let the investigation go forward.

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00:21:32.000 And An epidemic of anti-semitism that is acceptable, according to the left.

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00:22:56.000 So I have to say that in the past few weeks, really since the Pittsburgh shooting, the left has been on a tear about the supposed anti-Semitism of the Trump administration, We saw a piece from the New York Times saying that Jared and Ivanka were complicit in anti-Semitism.

00:23:10.000 We saw many pieces talking about how the Trump administration had forwarded anti-Semitism, rises in hate crimes against Jews and all the rest.

00:23:16.000 First of all, The statistics that were cited by the ADL were just not true.

00:23:20.000 But, beyond that, if you want to talk about real, mainstreamed antisemitism, it does not exist in the Trump administration.

00:23:27.000 It exists on the left.

00:23:28.000 And this is coming from a guy who received an enormous amount of antisemitism in 2016, like the most of anyone on the internet in 2016, from the alt-right, from people who I thought Trump was winking and nodding at during 2016.

00:23:37.000 But, To suggest the Trump administration has been complicit in antisemitism is just bizarre.

00:23:44.000 It's a bizarre claim.

00:23:45.000 There's no evidence of it whatsoever.

00:23:47.000 The Trump administration, not the Trump campaign.

00:23:48.000 The Trump administration.

00:23:49.000 That is a bizarre, weird, and unsupportable claim.

00:23:53.000 The mainstream left, however, is daily involved in antisemitism.

00:23:57.000 And it is amazing to watch as the left defends its own from open antisemitism.

00:24:02.000 The latest example comes courtesy of a guy named Mark Lamont Hill.

00:24:05.000 Mark Lamont Hill is considered an intelligent political commentator over at CNN.

00:24:09.000 And he was speaking at the UN yesterday, and he called for the elimination of the state of Israel.

00:24:14.000 He used the language of Hamas.

00:24:16.000 Here's what Mark Lamont Hill had to say.

00:24:18.000 We must advocate and promote nonviolence at every opportunity, but we cannot Endorse a narrow politics of respectability that shames Palestinians for resisting, for refusing to do nothing in the face of state violence and ethnic cleansing.

00:24:36.000 To commit to political action that will give us what justice requires, and that is a free Palestine.

00:24:45.000 Okay, of free Palestine. 0.91

00:24:46.000 And then he went on, and he said that the free Palestine must be from the river to the sea.

00:24:51.000 Which is the 1488 statement.

00:24:53.000 So the 1488 statement in Nazi terminology, it's meant to be, 88 is supposed to be the 8th letter of the alphabet twice.

00:25:01.000 So, Heil Hitler. 0.89

00:25:03.000 The 14 words are something like, uh, we pledge to protect and keep the white race, or some such nonsense. 0.88

00:25:08.000 The 1488 statement is sort of the credo of Nazis, okay? 0.96

00:25:10.000 The credo of radical Muslim Nazis, okay? 0.96

00:25:14.000 The credo of these folks is, Palestine shall be free from the river to the sea. 0.87

00:25:18.000 This is a thing that gets chanted at every terrorist rally.

00:25:21.000 The idea being that Palestine from the river to sea, meaning Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, will be entirely Judenrein. 0.93

00:25:27.000 The idea here will be that Palestine will exist.

00:25:30.000 Israel will no longer exist. 0.92

00:25:31.000 Palestine will replace Israel. 0.99

00:25:33.000 And that inherently means the destruction of the Jews and the genocide of the Jews. 0.88

00:25:36.000 They've not been hiding the ball on this.

00:25:39.000 It is not as though any of this is a giant secret.

00:25:42.000 None of this is a giant secret.

00:25:44.000 Okay, and Marc Lamont Hill has a long history of such anti-Semitic comments.

00:25:49.000 In May 2018, Hill implied that Israelis were murderers in the Huffington Post, according to Hank Barian over at the Daily Wire.

00:25:55.000 He says, this is about the 70-year struggle of a people who have been expelled, murdered, robbed, imprisoned, and occupied.

00:26:01.000 He defended Palestinians' right to use violence against Israel, and then said the Palestinians actually wanted peace, which is nonsense.

00:26:07.000 He then continued by slamming Israel's right to exist.

00:26:09.000 He said, by naturalizing the idea that nation states have a right to exist, we undermine our ability to offer a moral critique of Israel or any settler colony's origin story.

00:26:18.000 Israel is not a settler colony.

00:26:20.000 Israel is the eternal homeland of the Jewish people.

00:26:22.000 The only reason anyone cares about it ever historically is because the Jews were there first. 0.96

00:26:26.000 It is biblically promised.

00:26:27.000 And not only that, there's been a continuous presence in the land of Israel by Jews since anyone gave a damn about the land. 0.87

00:26:34.000 Mark Lamont Hill is also a guy who has basically sloughed off openly anti-Semitic commentary from Louis Farrakhan.

00:26:43.000 Mark Lamont Hill said that it was offensive to compare Palestinian resistance to settler colonialism to the actions of ISIS, even while Hamas was firing rockets at Jewish areas.

00:26:54.000 And in 2014, he tweeted that he opposed the occupation of Gaza.

00:26:59.000 The only problem being that there was no occupation of Gaza.

00:27:01.000 Israel left Gaza in August of 2005.

00:27:04.000 In 2008, Sean Hannity confronted Marc Lamont Hill with the remarks of Louis Farrakhan.

00:27:10.000 Louis Farrakhan had called Judaism a gutter religion.

00:27:12.000 Marc Lamont Hill was tight with Louis Farrakhan.

00:27:14.000 And here is what Hill said.

00:27:15.000 He said, quote, I do not know whether Farrakhan is an anti-Semite.

00:27:18.000 Those quotes are severely out of context.

00:27:21.000 So, Marc Lamont Hill has been a longtime anti-Semite.

00:27:24.000 There's not really a lot of question about this.

00:27:26.000 His statement here is an open embrace of anti-Semitism.

00:27:28.000 So, what have you seen from the left?

00:27:29.000 Nothing.

00:27:30.000 Dead silence.

00:27:31.000 Nothing.

00:27:31.000 Not a thing.

00:27:32.000 So, we get a lot about Steve King.

00:27:34.000 We get a lot about President Trump.

00:27:35.000 We get a lot about the alt-right.

00:27:36.000 And we hear a lot about anti-Semitism on the right, even though the amount of anti-Semitism on the right is significantly lower than the amount of anti-Semitism on the left.

00:27:43.000 But Marc Lamont Hill goes out there and says, from the river to the sea, Palestine shall be free, calling for the full-scale genocide of 7 million Jews.

00:27:51.000 And everybody's like, oh, whatever.

00:27:52.000 Whatever, he's just a CNN commentator.

00:27:54.000 So what?

00:27:55.000 And this, this does have an interesting relationship with the left's view of antisemitism generally.

00:28:01.000 So in this context, I bring up Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

00:28:04.000 Now, every time I bring up Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, I do so with this proviso.

00:28:08.000 The reason I'm talking about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is because she has been appointed by the media and many on the left as a thought leader for the Democratic Party.

00:28:16.000 I'm not picking, It's not like I just pick random Congress people out of a hat.

00:28:20.000 It's not like I'm just, there are 435 of them.

00:28:22.000 It's not like I'm just like, you know what, let's talk about some weirdo from like, from Kansas today.

00:28:27.000 Okay, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez was a national figure.

00:28:29.000 She was made a national figure and the face of the party by the media.

00:28:32.000 When the face of your party is associating with open anti-Semites like Linda Sarsour, when the face of your party Has embraced everyone associated with the boycott divest sanctions movement, which is anti-semitism.

00:28:44.000 The idea that people should not buy products from Israel and every product from Israel should be labeled basically with a Jewish star so people cannot buy.

00:28:53.000 But then Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, she does all this, right?

00:28:55.000 She supported the Iran deal.

00:28:57.000 She is a routine basher of Israel.

00:29:00.000 She spent a long time bashing Israel.

00:29:02.000 We'll get to her past comments in a second.

00:29:03.000 She has said that she is not in favor of a two-state solution.

00:29:06.000 She told Haaretz, which is the anti-Israel Israeli newspaper, she told Haaretz back in, this would have been July, that she didn't know whether she was in favor of the two-state solution.

00:29:18.000 She said maybe there should be a one-state solution, which means the abolition of the state of Israel, right?

00:29:22.000 She said all of this clearly, and then she tweets out stuff like this.

00:29:26.000 This is a picture from NBC News of that migrant family running away from tear gas.

00:29:32.000 gasp says asking to be considered a refugee and applying for status isn't a crime.

00:29:35.000 It wasn't for Jewish families fleeing Germany. 0.61

00:29:38.000 It wasn't for targeted families fleeing Rwanda.

00:29:40.000 It wasn't for communities fleeing war torn Syria.

00:29:42.000 It isn't for those fleeing violence in Central America. 0.87

00:29:44.000 Comparing migrants at the southern border to Jewish victims of the Holocaust is not only disgusting, it's insulting historically, intellectually on every level.

00:29:58.000 But it does speak to something deeper.

00:29:59.000 And this is something I want to get into in just one second.

00:30:01.000 Something deep and important about how the left views anti-Semitism. 0.75

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00:33:02.000 Okay.

00:33:02.000 So let's talk about what this actually means in terms of anti-Semitism on the left.

00:33:12.000 So, Marc Lamont Hill makes openly anti-semitic statements.

00:33:14.000 He's pretending it's not anti-semitic to say, from the river to the sea, Palestine shall be free, which means Israel no longer exists, and Israel as a Jewish state no longer exists. 0.78

00:33:27.000 I'd like for him to name a Muslim-dominated country where the Jews are treated fantastic and where the Jews exist.

00:33:34.000 Quick quiz!

00:33:35.000 What percentage of Israel's population is Arab or Muslim?

00:33:39.000 Answer.

00:33:39.000 About 20%.

00:33:40.000 Quick quiz.

00:33:41.000 What percentage of the Palestinian Authority or Hamas population is Jewish?

00:33:47.000 Answer.

00:33:48.000 Zero.

00:33:49.000 Zero.

00:33:49.000 Zero Jews live in those areas.

00:33:51.000 And yet we are supposed to believe that these are morally equivalent entities. 0.78

00:33:54.000 It's just insane.

00:33:55.000 And not only that, Marc Lamont Hill wants the latter entity to take over for the former entity.

00:34:00.000 Fantastic.

00:34:01.000 But what you see from the left are Open engagements with anti-Semites like Louis Farrakhan, like Linda Sarsour, like Ilhan Omar, like Rashida Tlaib, both of the latter two of whom are elected members of Congress, like Keith Ellison, who's now attorney general of the state of Minnesota and was the deputy DNC head.

00:34:19.000 All of these people in positions of prominence, anti-Semites all, involved in anti-Semitic activity and rhetoric, No problem, but then you'll see the exact same people using the Holocaust as a club on ancillary issues.

00:34:33.000 And here's what's happening.

00:34:34.000 Basically, a lot of folks on the left have decided that anti-Semitism is only important when it is not applied to the Jews.

00:34:40.000 So anti-Semitism is good to use as a model, right? 1.00

00:34:44.000 You can talk about the Holocaust, but only in the context of talking about people who are the new Jews. 1.00

00:34:49.000 Right?

00:34:49.000 The Jews themselves, they're not victims.

00:34:51.000 The Jews are very powerful.

00:34:52.000 The Jews are behind world events. 1.00

00:34:53.000 The Jews themselves are very rich and well-educated.

00:34:56.000 But what we can learn from history is that people can be victimized.

00:34:59.000 And those people now would be the new Jews. 1.00

00:35:02.000 So the migrants, according to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, are the new Jews.

00:35:05.000 The Jews in Israel? 0.84

00:35:07.000 Not the new Jews. 1.00

00:35:08.000 Right?

00:35:08.000 Not Jews at all.

00:35:09.000 Right?

00:35:09.000 In terms of anti-Semitism.

00:35:10.000 They're not victims of circumstance.

00:35:12.000 The left says anti-Semitism is about victimhood.

00:35:15.000 Victimhood does not apply to the Jews.

00:35:17.000 It applies to the new Jews. 1.00

00:35:18.000 There's been a sort of replacement theology in antisemitism on the left, in which the Jews have been removed from the question of antisemitism.

00:35:25.000 And this allows folks on the left to engage in open anti-Jewish behavior, open antisemitism, while simultaneously using antisemitism as an excuse for pushing policy with regard to other groups.

00:35:36.000 Now, you would never see this.

00:35:37.000 This in and of itself is a form of antisemitism.

00:35:40.000 The reason I say that is that you would never see this with regard to any other group.

00:35:44.000 You don't see it.

00:35:45.000 You don't see anybody say, you know what?

00:35:48.000 Black slavery. 0.96

00:35:49.000 Black slavery. 0.99

00:35:51.000 The black folks in America, they're just fine. 0.99

00:35:52.000 Let's not talk about black folks in America anymore. 0.98

00:35:54.000 The real slaves, the real black slaves in America today are X group. 1.00

00:35:59.000 If you said that, you'd be accused of making light of slavery and properly so. 1.00

00:36:03.000 But instead, what we've got on the left is we can use the Holocaust and use it as the basis of arguing about migration patterns on our southern border, but we can simultaneously pretend that Hamas is fine and that Israel should be boycotted and divested from. 0.69

00:36:18.000 If you're making anti-semitism a political tool on behalf of a non-Jewish disfavored group, and you're ignoring your own treatment of the Jews, I would suggest that you are making light of anti-semitism and, in fact, engaging in a soft form of it.

00:36:32.000 In Marc Lamont Hill's case, not even a soft form, a very hard form of anti-semitism.

00:36:35.000 Okay.

00:36:36.000 Speaking of intersectionality and race, I do have to point out today that when it comes to leftist hypocrisy on racism, There is really no limit.

00:36:45.000 Jay-Z, who has been hosted at the White House, right?

00:36:48.000 He's a great American political figure.

00:36:50.000 You know, it was really bad when Kanye West went to the White House.

00:36:53.000 Well, when Jay-Z went there with Obama, like, every five minutes, that was totally cool.

00:36:56.000 Jay-Z, he made a statement today.

00:37:00.000 He is in a case with the American Arbitration Association.

00:37:05.000 They are judging a trademark case.

00:37:06.000 And here is what he said.

00:37:08.000 He said, the AAA's lack, the American Arbitration Association's lack of African-American arbitrators came as a surprise, in part because AAA's advertising touts its diversity.

00:37:20.000 He says that the panel from the American Arbitration Association is too white to be fair.

00:37:26.000 What is in this case is basically Jay-Z filed a case against the clothing company Iconics to delay an impending arbitration over his trademark infringement claims related to a line of Roc Nation baseball caps.

00:37:37.000 Iconics bought Jay-Z's apparel brand in 2007, and then Iconics sued the mogul in Manhattan federal court last year, claiming that a hat deal with Major League Baseball interfered with their licensing agreement.

00:37:48.000 Jay-Z said he was confronted with a stark reality when he reviewed members of the American Arbitration Association.

00:37:53.000 He could not identify a single African-American arbitrator on the large and complex cases roster, composed of hundreds of arbitrators that had the background and experience to preside over the situation.

00:38:04.000 The association eventually identified three black arbitrators, but one of them couldn't serve due to a conflict of interest.

00:38:10.000 Jay-Z argues minority business owners should be able to select from a group that reflects the diverse population.

00:38:16.000 I'm old enough to recall when President Donald Trump, then a candidate Donald Trump, said that a judge of Mexican heritage could not adjudicate properly his Trump University case in California because he had a particular immigration program and the quote-unquote Mexican judge would be biased against him.

00:38:30.000 This was called racism.

00:38:32.000 It is also called racism when Jay-Z says, I cannot have anyone but a black person arbitrate my case.

00:38:37.000 It's plain, simple racism.

00:38:39.000 But, if you're on the left, that sort of racism is just fine.

00:38:42.000 So, racism in which a member of the black community says, only black people can judge me, that's cool. 1.00

00:38:49.000 Anti-Semitism, in which we talk about the elimination of Israel while at the same time using the Holocaust to promote immigration policy on our southern border, that's totally fine, according to the left. 1.00

00:38:58.000 And the white left just goes along with this.

00:39:00.000 Why do they go along with this? 0.82

00:39:01.000 Because the white left panders. 0.95

00:39:03.000 And they don't just pander in terms of their policy.

00:39:05.000 They pander in terms of their language.

00:39:07.000 This is a fascinating new study.

00:39:09.000 It's a study from Yale Insights.

00:39:10.000 It reports that Sydney Dupree, Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior at Yale School of Management, and her co-author Susan Fisk of Princeton University, they wanted to know how whites interacted with minorities.

00:39:21.000 Dupree stated, there's less work that explores how well-intentioned whites try to get along with racial minorities.

00:39:26.000 We wanted to know their strategies for increasing connections between members of different social groups and how effective these strategies are.

00:39:32.000 I'll tell you the punchline of the study in just one second.

00:39:35.000 So here's what happened.

00:39:36.000 The researchers examined the words used in 74 different campaign speeches delivered by Democrats and Republicans over a 25-year period.

00:39:44.000 Around half the speeches were delivered to a mostly minority audience.

00:39:46.000 Those speeches were then compared to speeches delivered to a mostly white audience.

00:39:51.000 Two elements of the speech were analyzed, words related to competence and words related to warmth.

00:39:55.000 Here's what the results showed.

00:39:57.000 The results showed that Democratic candidates used fewer competence-related words speaking to minorities than when speaking to white audiences.

00:40:05.000 Republican candidates did not change their discourse.

00:40:08.000 In other words, Democrats pander to minority audiences by refusing to talk about the same topics in the same way that they would talk to white audiences. 0.95

00:40:17.000 They are racially discriminating against black people. 0.98

00:40:19.000 They are. 0.85

00:40:21.000 Maybe you think it's a beneficial discrimination, but it is certainly a discrimination.

00:40:24.000 When you say something in front of a black audience, you would never say it in front of a white audience, and vice versa. 1.00

00:40:29.000 Dupree said it was really surprising to see that for nearly three decades, Democratic presidential candidates have been engaging in this predicted behavior.

00:40:37.000 The researchers then tested white participants to see how they would interact with a hypothetical or presumed real interaction partner.

00:40:43.000 Half the time, the partner was given a name that ostensibly sounded white, like Emily.

00:40:46.000 The rest of the time, the partner received a name that sounded ostensibly non-white, like Lakeisha.

00:40:50.000 Participants chose a list of words, all of which had been rated for warmth or competence, to use to send an email to the partner.

00:40:56.000 The researchers found that leftists eschewed using words that would limb them as highly competent when addressing minorities.

00:41:03.000 Conservatives simply talked the way they always did.

00:41:05.000 According to Dupree, it was kind of an unpleasant surprise to see this subtle but persistent effect.

00:41:09.000 Even if it's ultimately well-intentioned, it could be seen as patronizing.

00:41:13.000 Seen as patronizing, it is patronizing.

00:41:14.000 If you are using words that you would never use with white people, with black people, because you think that you have to pander to black people in some way, this would be intersectional discrimination.

00:41:24.000 But the left's okay with that.

00:41:26.000 Because if you have to pander to certain members of the intersectional...

00:41:29.000 Pretty astonishing stuff.

00:41:30.000 And then you hear folks on the left say that President Trump is undermining the unity of the country?

00:41:34.000 President Trump is undermining the unity?

00:41:35.000 Listen, I have no illusions that President Trump is a great unifier.

00:41:37.000 Not so much by white liberals who are attempting to reach out to black audiences.

00:41:41.000 Pretty astonishing stuff.

00:41:43.000 And then you hear folks on the left say that President Trump is undermining the unity of the country.

00:41:48.000 President Trump is undermining the unity.

00:41:50.000 Listen, I have no illusions that President Trump is a great unifier.

00:41:53.000 I don't think that he is.

00:41:54.000 I think President Trump can do better on that score.

00:41:57.000 But to suggest that the left is a great unifying body in America is a lie.

00:42:01.000 President Trump is a reactionary force.

00:42:03.000 President Trump and the current Republican administration are a direct reaction to the polarization of politics around racial and identity politics for eight years under Barack Obama and longer under the Democratic Party more generally.

00:42:14.000 You know, Chris Matthews, I remember they say, saying that, President Trump's thinking about, it's like Zimbabwe over here.

00:42:21.000 Neglecting the fact that Zimbabwe is a case in point in which the leadership of Zimbabwe, a tyranny, forcibly discriminated against white farmers I was reading about Zimbabwe today, and I've been to Zimbabwe.

00:42:36.000 I was reading about Zimbabwe today, and I'd been to Zimbabwe.

00:42:51.000 I know it's a young country with all kinds of problems, but that's sort of a young democracy trying to figure things out.

00:42:58.000 He is taking us back to where they are.

00:43:00.000 Where all the opposition does is say that people win elections are crooked, that everything's rigged, nothing's on the level, there's no such thing as objective truth, everything is tribal. 0.99

00:43:10.000 I swear, these people are insane. 0.99

00:43:12.000 This is insane. 1.00

00:43:13.000 This is insane.

00:43:14.000 They're saying that President Trump is the one who started tribalism?

00:43:17.000 He's the one?

00:43:18.000 Barack Obama said about Trayvon Martin, if I had a son, he would have looked like Trayvon Martin without even bothering to examine the facts of the case.

00:43:24.000 President Obama went out there in the middle of the Ferguson riots and said that the community of Ferguson wouldn't make something up like Michael Brown, except that it was made up about Michael Brown.

00:43:33.000 It's just, it's maddening.

00:43:35.000 And then you wonder why there's a reactionary tribalism on the other side? 1.00

00:43:39.000 Tribalism in all of its forms is garbage. 1.00

00:43:42.000 This sort of tribal politics is yucky. 1.00

00:43:44.000 Your identity group politics is gross.

00:43:46.000 But let's not pretend that the left is not the initiator of it, because the left is the initiator of it, and it's pretty obvious the left has initiated all this sort of stuff. 0.93

00:43:54.000 Yuck, yuck, yuck.

00:43:55.000 Okay, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.

00:43:58.000 So, things that I like.

00:44:00.000 My wife and I have delved into another series.

00:44:01.000 This is the series Bodyguard on Netflix, starring the guy who plays Rababa from Game of Thrones, who it turns out is actually a really good actor.

00:44:10.000 So he's good in Game of Thrones and he plays a completely different character in this.

00:44:13.000 It's compelling, it's well shot, it's interestingly written.

00:44:17.000 I have no idea where it's going specifically, but you can check out Bodyguard on Netflix, really good.

00:44:22.000 Here's a little bit of the preview.

00:44:24.000 David, I'm signing you to the Home Secretary.

00:44:27.000 Very good, Mum.

00:44:30.000 To move up.

00:44:32.000 Mum, this is P.S.

00:44:33.000 Bunn.

00:44:34.000 Pleasure to meet you, Mum.

00:44:35.000 I'm late for a meeting.

00:44:37.000 She's got an agenda.

00:44:38.000 To heighten fear and to seize power.

00:44:42.000 That doesn't require apologising for the past.

00:44:45.000 Did you mean what you said?

00:44:46.000 I don't need you to vote for me.

00:44:48.000 I need you to protect me.

00:44:51.000 Rest assured, Mum.

00:44:54.000 I'll do as required.

00:44:58.000 Stay down! 0.93

00:44:59.000 It's okay.

00:45:00.000 It's okay.

00:45:03.000 It's really good.

00:45:04.000 Okay, so this series is well worth watching, well shot, interesting. 0.93

00:45:08.000 Also, it turns out that you're allowed to make a TV show with radical Muslims who commit terror attacks. 0.66

00:45:12.000 Who knew?

00:45:13.000 Who knew you were allowed to make such TV shows?

00:45:14.000 But it turns out that you actually are.

00:45:16.000 Now, I don't know where this series is going. 0.57

00:45:18.000 All I can say is that it does actually take that threat somewhat seriously, which is Something I haven't seen on TV too often, really since, I guess in the Jack Ryan series they do it a little bit, and really since before that, maybe 24, you'd have to go all the way back to 24, early seasons before they were told they're not allowed to have radical Muslim terrorists be bad guys. 0.94

00:45:35.000 Okay, time for a bevy of things that I hate. 0.90

00:45:38.000 So many hateful things today.

00:45:43.000 OK, thing that I hate, number one.

00:45:45.000 So number one, there is a there's a video of me talking about global warming that's going around. 1.00

00:45:50.000 And I just want to correct the record because people are such stupid idiots. 0.99

00:45:53.000 So the the the video of me is talking about the fact that human migration has always reflected climate change. 1.00

00:45:59.000 Meaning that people move to places that are not underwater, for example.

00:46:03.000 Like there are places now, cities, that are underwater.

00:46:06.000 Who lives there?

00:46:06.000 The answer, no one.

00:46:07.000 Okay, you know why?

00:46:09.000 Because you can't live underwater.

00:46:10.000 You can't breathe underwater.

00:46:11.000 So, in any case, there's a speech that I was giving where I was talking about, you know what will happen if the water level rises on the coast?

00:46:17.000 People will move.

00:46:18.000 They will sell and they will move.

00:46:19.000 And people are like, well, they can't sell their houses if they're underwater. 1.00

00:46:22.000 It's like, oh God, you people are so stupid. 1.00

00:46:25.000 That's not what I'm saying at all. 1.00

00:46:27.000 What I'm saying is that if you forecast that in 20 years your place is going to be underwater, you're going to sell it right now at the earliest available opportunity.

00:46:34.000 I don't see Barbara Streisand selling her beachfront property in Malibu.

00:46:38.000 I don't see any of these folks in Miami who are complaining about global warming selling their property.

00:46:42.000 If they really thought this was a grave threat, wouldn't they be selling it right now?

00:46:46.000 And by the way, If you aren't, if there's no market, if you can't sell the property because everybody knows it's going to be underwater, then you don't sell and you move.

00:46:54.000 The point that I was making there is not that you're not going to lose money if you live on a beachfront property and the water level rise.

00:47:00.000 Of course, you're going to lose money.

00:47:01.000 What I'm saying is you're not going to die because if it's rising three inches a year, you're not just going to sit there in your living room for like 50 years waiting for the water level to reach your nose.

00:47:14.000 That's what I'm saying.

00:47:15.000 People don't stay where there is a slow creeping knowledge that they are going to die. 1.00

00:47:21.000 Because that's stupid. 0.99

00:47:22.000 And if they think that's going to happen over the next 50 years, they're going to sell and move inland. 1.00

00:47:26.000 That was the point that I was making.

00:47:27.000 So, well done Lefty.

00:47:29.000 Great gotcha. 0.99

00:47:29.000 Just want to point out how dumb that is. 0.99

00:47:31.000 Okay, a couple of other things that are incredibly dumb. 0.99

00:47:34.000 So, the Huffington Post, making everything garbage, they've now cut a video saying that Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is bad. 0.98

00:47:41.000 Because everything is bad. 0.52

00:47:42.000 All the things are bad.

00:47:43.000 There are no good things.

00:47:44.000 Now, suffice it to say, I'm not a devotee of the Santa.

00:47:48.000 Right?

00:47:49.000 Santa?

00:47:49.000 Never sat in his lap.

00:47:51.000 Never got, he never came down my chimney. 1.00

00:47:53.000 Wouldn't know I'd get his fat butt down there anyway. 1.00

00:47:55.000 Have no clue. 1.00

00:47:57.000 I'd be, frankly, if some random dude showed up in my house and was sticking gifts under the tree, he'd get shot.

00:48:02.000 I mean, that's just that's I'm not I'm not a fan of strangers entering my premises.

00:48:05.000 But in any case, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer is a charming little stop action cartoon.

00:48:11.000 It's it's it's charming and it's lovely and there's nothing wrong with it.

00:48:14.000 But it is problematic, according to The Huffington Post.

00:48:16.000 Why is it problematic?

00:48:18.000 It is heteronormative, cisgender and racist. 0.97

00:48:21.000 Well, yes. 0.81

00:48:22.000 No, really, this is.

00:48:24.000 Raggy?

00:48:25.000 What?

00:48:26.000 What?

00:48:28.000 Huh?

00:48:28.000 Okay, so here is Huffington Post trying to explain why you should never let your children watch Rudolph the Red-Nosed Ranger.

00:48:34.000 Instead, you should let them watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade where two women make out. 1.00

00:48:38.000 Rudolph the Red-Nosed Ranger is a holiday classic, says the Huffington Post.

00:48:46.000 That returns to TV each holiday season.

00:48:49.000 But lately, viewers are noticing the tale may not be so jolly after all.

00:48:54.000 Uh-huh.

00:48:54.000 Former fans are pointing out Rudolph's father verbally abuses him.

00:48:58.000 Santa Claus berates Donner for his son's nose.

00:49:02.000 The school coach encourages bullying.

00:49:05.000 Donner forbids his wife from joining the search for their son.

00:49:09.000 Clarice's dad is a bigot.

00:49:12.000 Even the elf is an outcast for wanting to be a dentist.

00:49:15.000 Okay, let me point out a couple of things.

00:49:17.000 The entire narrative of Rudolph is that he's mistreated for 95% of the story.

00:49:22.000 That's literally the story.

00:49:24.000 This is like...

00:49:25.000 Honestly, honestly, God, this is like the story of the ugly duckling.

00:49:27.000 Like, you know what we just found out?

00:49:28.000 The story of the ugly duckling is problematic because the swans treat the duck badly.

00:49:32.000 Like, yeah, that's the story.

00:49:34.000 I bet.

00:49:35.000 What?

00:49:36.000 Now?

00:49:37.000 But yes, everything is bad.

00:49:38.000 So I love this.

00:49:39.000 It's going to ruin your child's innocence if they watch a fictional reindeer be mistreated because of his glowing nose, only to emerge triumphant in the end.

00:49:48.000 Your child will not be damaged if you put them on puberty blockers at age six.

00:49:54.000 Yeah, I'm gonna trust you guys with my kids.

00:49:56.000 Makes perfect sense to me.

00:49:57.000 Okay, speaking of people who you should not trust with your kids, another thing that I hate today.

00:50:00.000 So, there's a story from ABC about how some people at Southwest were making fun of a five-year-old.

00:50:06.000 Why are they making fun of the five-year-old?

00:50:07.000 Because she has a weird name.

00:50:08.000 Here's the mom talking about it. 0.89

00:50:10.000 The gate agent started mocking my child's name, laughing, pointing at me and my daughter, and talking to other employees.

00:50:18.000 So I turned around and just said, like, hey, I can hear you.

00:50:20.000 So if I can hear you, my daughter can too.

00:50:22.000 Like, I'd appreciate it if you just stop.

00:50:25.000 OK.

00:50:26.000 It turns out that the reason that everybody is going to, the reason that her daughter was being mocked is because she named her daughter, I kid you not, Abciddy, spelled A-B-C-D-E.

00:50:39.000 Now, you shouldn't mock the five-year-old. 1.00

00:50:42.000 It's not the five-year-old's fault what their idiot parent named them. 1.00

00:50:45.000 You should mock the mother. 1.00

00:50:46.000 And the mother is well worthy of mockery. 0.99

00:50:48.000 Please, parents, do not name your kids something that is just going to get them mocked.

00:50:52.000 Like, your kids are people.

00:50:54.000 They have lives.

00:50:55.000 Please don't do that, right?

00:50:56.000 Name your kid something that has meaning, you know?

00:51:00.000 Like, I'm just glad that she didn't pick, like, VWXYZ, right?

00:51:05.000 Then her kid's name would have been Wixes.

00:51:09.000 Which would have been really awkward. 0.97

00:51:11.000 And I wouldn't mock the kid, but I'd mock the mom, who has the brains of a kumquat, apparently. 1.00

00:51:17.000 Parents, you have responsibility to your children, and just because you wanted to name your kid after the alphabet... I mean, is her name Alphabetty?

00:51:25.000 Maybe that'd be kind of great, if her name was Alphabetty.

00:51:27.000 In any case, it's... yeah.

00:51:31.000 Bad parenting at work, right there.

00:51:33.000 Okay.

00:51:33.000 Other things that I hate today.

00:51:36.000 So, there's a video that's now making the rounds.

00:51:38.000 If Jesus is a... If Jesus was Republican.

00:51:42.000 If Jesus was a Republican. 1.00

00:51:44.000 So, this is coming from NowThis, which is the repository for many things stupid. 0.99

00:51:47.000 I can't say all things stupid, because I've already reserved Vox for that. 0.99

00:51:51.000 Although, technically, if Vox is the repository of all things stupid, there wouldn't be any stupid left over for NowThis. 0.99

00:51:55.000 So I have to revise my statement. 1.00

00:51:56.000 In fact, they're both repositories for many stupid things. 0.96

00:51:59.000 Here is NowThis, which is promoting a video in which Jesus is a Republican, but Of course, it's a bunch of people who have done a cursory read of the Old and New Testament, if they've done that, and then they basically misinterpret radically what Jesus was saying, and then they say that Jesus is actually a social justice democrat in favor of transgenderism, abortion, and gay rights. 0.99

00:52:19.000 So here is a little bit of this comedic video.

00:52:21.000 Allegedly comedic.

00:52:23.000 I say unto you, whoever welcomes one of these little ones in my name might be letting in a murderer or a drug.

00:52:33.000 Let's get her to a detention center. 1.00

00:52:35.000 You know, so we can figure out what's going on.

00:52:40.000 This comedy sketch asks, what would Jesus do if he were a Republican?

00:52:44.000 I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat.

00:52:47.000 I was thirsty, and you gave me something to drink.

00:52:50.000 and behold now i'm all lazy and entitled you shouldn't have done that do unto others as you suspect they might want to do unto you what is a man profited if he gained the whole world but lose his soul a lot he has profited a lot okay like you don't understand conservatism you don't understand republicanism and you don't understand anything about the bible like a thing about the bible Jesus never says illegal immigration is mandated by the Bible.

00:53:18.000 That's absurd.

00:53:20.000 That's absurd.

00:53:21.000 In fact, Jesus' family was on the way to register Jesus' birth.

00:53:25.000 I'm not a New Testament scholar, but that's what they were doing when he was born in Bethlehem.

00:53:28.000 And as far as this idea that do unto others as you would have them do unto you, that that is somehow do unto others as you think they're going to do unto you.

00:53:38.000 Nothing, nothing in Christianity says you have to allow other people to murder you or endanger your kids, obviously.

00:53:45.000 The idea that the Republicans are anti-charity?

00:53:47.000 I'd like to see this guy's tax returns.

00:53:49.000 Okay, on a per capita basis, religious people in the United States give far more charity than anyone else, and people who are Republican give far more charity than people who are Democrats.

00:53:56.000 Not close.

00:53:57.000 Red states, per capita, much more charitable than blue states, per capita.

00:54:01.000 But again, this lazy misreading of the Bible by people who don't care about the Bible at all.

00:54:07.000 Okay, I want to see your video on what Jesus actually had to say about, you know, the sanctity of human life.

00:54:13.000 Or, Or marriage.

00:54:16.000 Getting real controversial there, what Jesus had to say about marriage.

00:54:18.000 You know, women submitting to their husbands and all that? 0.91

00:54:20.000 Real dicey stuff.

00:54:22.000 Like, I love that when they selectively quote Jesus at people.

00:54:25.000 It's like, come on.

00:54:26.000 Come on.

00:54:28.000 It's like when people selectively quote the Old Testament at me.

00:54:30.000 I'm like, okay, you wanted the original Hebrew?

00:54:32.000 You want the surrounding Psukim? 1.00

00:54:33.000 Like, what do you want here?

00:54:35.000 And I'm not even a great expert.

00:54:36.000 I'm just like a normal Orthodox Jew.

00:54:37.000 It's what we do.

00:54:37.000 Like, on a daily basis.

00:54:38.000 You idiots. 1.00

00:54:39.000 Okay. 1.00

00:54:40.000 Time for one more thing that I hate, and then we will get out of here.

00:54:44.000 So this is a horrifying story.

00:54:46.000 So it turns out that there's a guy named Jeffrey Epstein.

00:54:49.000 You may remember Jeffrey Epstein. 0.87

00:54:51.000 Jeffrey Epstein, as you'll recall, was a pedophile, okay?

00:54:56.000 And this pedophile was deeply connected with a multiplicity of major characters, including Bill Clinton and Donald Trump, okay?

00:55:05.000 According to the Miami Herald, Jeffrey Epstein had a little black book filled with the names and personal phone numbers of some of the world's wealthiest and most influential people, from Bill Clinton and Donald Trump to actors, actresses, scientists, and business tycoons.

00:55:16.000 A money manager for the super rich, Epstein had two private jets, the largest single residence in Manhattan, An island in the Caribbean, a ranch in New Mexico, and a waterfront estate in Florida.

00:55:25.000 But Epstein also had an obsession.

00:55:27.000 For years, Epstein lured an endless stream of teenage girls to his Palm Beach mansion, offering to pay for them for massages.

00:55:34.000 Instead, police say, for years he coerced middle and high school girls into engaging in sex acts with him and others.

00:55:40.000 As evidence emerged that there were victims and witnesses outside of Palm Beach, the FBI began an investigation in 2006 into whether Epstein and others employed by him were involved in underage sex trafficking.

00:55:50.000 But in 2007, despite substantial evidence that corroborated the girls' stories of abuse by Epstein, The U.S.

00:55:55.000 Attorney in Miami, Alexander Acosta, signed off on a secret deal for the multimillionaire, one that ensured he would never spend a day in prison.

00:56:02.000 Acosta is now President Trump's Secretary of Labor.

00:56:04.000 He agreed to seal the agreement so that no one, not even Epstein's victims, would know the full extent of his crimes or who was involved.

00:56:11.000 So basically what happened is that Epstein was able to get off on a minor charge for legitimately hundreds of cases of child molestation because he apparently had deep connections to a variety of highfalutin characters.

00:56:26.000 Epstein was basically a career Democrat.

00:56:29.000 The prosecutor in this case is a Republican.

00:56:32.000 All this goes to show is that there is truth to the idea that if you have friends in the right places, America's criminal justice system can be a serious, serious problem.

00:56:41.000 That there is the ability for prosecutors to let you off on crimes you never should have been let off on.

00:56:45.000 And what's worse is that we still don't know who's out there.

00:56:48.000 Because the agreement was sealed, we don't know who else was implicated.

00:56:52.000 We don't know which friends and associates were implicated in all of this.

00:56:56.000 And this is ugly, ugly stuff.

00:57:00.000 If you look at his inner circle, you're looking at, you know, you are looking at big names.

00:57:06.000 You're looking at his associates.

00:57:07.000 You're looking at people ranging from Bill Clinton to Donald Trump to Alan Dershowitz.

00:57:14.000 There's just a variety of people.

00:57:16.000 Now, were all of these people implicated in his sex abuse?

00:57:19.000 No.

00:57:19.000 But we don't know who was implicated and we don't know how many victims there were because of this perversion of justice.

00:57:26.000 You want to talk about a MeToo problem?

00:57:27.000 This is a MeToo problem.

00:57:29.000 And it spans the political aisle.

00:57:31.000 You want to talk about a MeToo problem?

00:57:33.000 How about Les Moonves over at CBS, who apparently had a plan To bury a sexual assault allegation.

00:57:40.000 And it's reported by the New York Times today.

00:57:42.000 Powerful people have been getting away with bad crimes for a very, very long time in this country and in every other country as well.

00:57:48.000 It is why the Bible says that you should treat the poor and the rich equally under justice and under the law.

00:57:53.000 And it's why we have to have a justice system that is answerable for everybody.

00:57:57.000 This Epstein case is just an example of how that is not true.

00:58:00.000 Just a shocking, shocking story.

00:58:01.000 Okay.

00:58:02.000 We will be back here tomorrow with all the latest.

00:58:03.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - November 29, 2018

The ‘Real’ Jews | Ep. 669

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