The Ben Shapiro Show - The Self-Pitying Media | Ep. 597

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00:01:44.000 So, we begin today.

00:01:46.000 With the update on the Alex Jones banning. 0.64

00:01:48.000 So Alex Jones is, as I have said about 1 million times at this point, an insane person. 0.95

00:01:54.000 Alex Jones is the guy who says that the government is attempting to turn the frogs gay. 0.88

00:01:58.000 He is a person who believes that the Sandy Hook shooting was actually a false flag and that the dead kids were actually child actors, or at least that's something he expressed on his show.

00:02:06.000 He has suggested the same thing about various other terrorist attacks.

00:02:10.000 He suggested that the Syrian gas attack by the Syrian government was actually performed by the White Helmets.

00:02:16.000 He says crazy, borderline libelous and slanderous things on a routine basis.

00:02:20.000 He said a couple of weeks ago that Robert Mueller was forwarding child rape or some such, and that he wanted to get in a duel with Robert Mueller.

00:02:27.000 Now, his supporters will say that all of this is just shock value entertainment kind of stuff. 1.00

00:02:31.000 Whatever it is, it's garbage. 0.58

00:02:32.000 But does that mean that Facebook and YouTube and Apple and all of these various social media platforms ought to ban his material? 0.85

00:02:40.000 Well, not really on the basis on which they are claiming.

00:02:42.000 If they wanted to say, listen, we're going to ban slanderous material, libelous material, we're going to ban material that incites violence, then that at least is a workable standard.

00:02:50.000 But instead, all of these social media groups said that they are going to use hate speech regulations, essentially, to ban Alex Jones.

00:02:57.000 And as I said yesterday on the program, hate speech is a really, really vague term.

00:03:01.000 When you say hate speech over and over and over, and then you apply it to a bunch of random people and topics that you just disagree with.

00:03:07.000 So I, Ben Shapiro, am participating in hate speech when I refuse to use your preferred pronoun as a transgender person, and Alex Jones is engaged in hate speech when he says that

00:03:17.000 Children who were murdered in a mass shooting attack were actually child actors in a false flag.

00:03:22.000 If you're going to equate those two things, then hate speech has no actual meaning.

00:03:26.000 And this is the problem.

00:03:26.000 The left actually wants hate speech to have no actual meaning, except for stuff they don't like.

00:03:31.000 And the proof is in the pudding.

00:03:32.000 The stuff that they want to ban is invariably stuff that is anti-left.

00:03:36.000 Now, I don't think Alex Jones is a conservative in any serious way.

00:03:38.000 I don't think that he's even on the right in any serious way.

00:03:40.000 He believes in bigger government and a variety of issues.

00:03:42.000 He is more a provocateur and an anti-left activist.

00:03:46.000 There is a difference between conservatism and being anti-left.

00:03:49.000 The Nazis were anti-left.

00:03:50.000 They weren't actually American conservatives.

00:03:52.000 There are a lot of folks who are anti-left who are not actually American conservatives.

00:03:56.000 American conservatism is a very specific brand about limited government and God-given rights.

00:04:01.000 With that said, Alex Jones is being targeted by the left because he doesn't like the left very much, even though he has some kind of common principles with them in terms of the size and scope of government.

00:04:10.000 Well, the left is suggesting that social media ought to use Alex Jones to get a foot in the door.

00:04:15.000 There's a CNN article today all about how CNN had basically pressured social media into banning Alex Jones.

00:04:22.000 You remember just a couple of weeks ago, Facebook came out and they said, listen, we're not going to throw Alex Jones off the platform.

00:04:26.000 And then just this week, they said, well, you know, maybe we'll do that after all.

00:04:30.000 The problem is that once politicians and folks on the left get their foot in the door, once they feel that they have the leverage to knock out anybody they don't like under the rubric of hate speech, you can fairly well guarantee that that is exactly what they are going to do.

00:04:43.000 Case in point, Chris Murphy, a senator from Connecticut.

00:04:45.000 So he tweets out last night,

00:05:00.000 So this is Chris Murphy, an actual elected government official, who is now calling on private companies to crack down on speech that he does not like.

00:05:09.000 That's all this is.

00:05:09.000 He is not suggesting any sort of principle that has any limits to it.

00:05:13.000 He is not suggesting slander and libel be the rules.

00:05:16.000 He is not suggesting that violence be the rule.

00:05:18.000 He is suggesting that anything he doesn't like

00:05:21.000 You know, anybody who he labels lying should be banned by Facebook and YouTube.

00:05:24.000 What's hilarious about this is that the entire left, which has suggested that President Trump is awful, awful, awful, awful for shouting fake news at CNN, these same people who shout fake news at any outlet they don't like, they say that they should be able to push private institutions into banning speech.

00:05:40.000 So my question to Chris Murphy was, okay,

00:05:43.000 Facebook's a private institution, it can do what it wants.

00:05:44.000 YouTube is a private institution, it can do what it wants.

00:05:47.000 But you are a congressperson, right?

00:05:48.000 You are a member of the Senate of the United States.

00:05:51.000 You do not have the governmental power under the First Amendment to make a law abridging freedom of speech.

00:05:56.000 So what you gonna do about it?

00:05:58.000 You gonna try and regulate Facebook and YouTube?

00:06:00.000 You gonna try and call them a monopoly and then break them up?

00:06:03.000 You gonna try and nationalize social media sites because you actually, the government, wants to control what people can and cannot say?

00:06:10.000 The fact is that even if the government owned a site like Facebook or YouTube, they would not be allowed to engage in any sort of content discrimination.

00:06:19.000 Under the First Amendment, government sources are not allowed to engage in content-based discrimination and content-based bias.

00:06:26.000 But the idea here really is that Democrats are going to punish all of these companies for not doing what they want.

00:06:30.000 They're going to punish Facebook.

00:06:31.000 They're going to punish YouTube. 0.97

00:06:32.000 And that's the reason you've seen Facebook and YouTube respond in such over-the-top fashion to all of the Democratic complaints about fake news on their platforms.

00:06:41.000 And we talked about this a few months ago when Mark Zuckerberg was called idiotically to the floor of the Senate to answer questions about Russian hacking and Russian interference in the election.

00:06:49.000 Democrats had been saying, people like Dianne Feinstein had been saying, well, the Russians really affected the election with Facebook.

00:06:55.000 Now, the evidence that the Russians affected the election with Facebook is extraordinarily minimal.

00:06:59.000 I mean, I've seen the Senate documents on this sort of stuff, and what they basically show is a bunch of crappy Russian memes that are really poorly done and were seen by a minute number of people.

00:07:08.000 I should know how the metrics works.

00:07:10.000 We have one of the most active Facebook pages in America.

00:07:12.000 The Ben Shapiro Facebook page is extraordinarily active.

00:07:14.000 We have about 4 million followers and we generate legitimately hundreds of millions of clicks per year.

00:07:20.000 But the Senate was suggesting that the entire election turn, the Democrats were suggesting the entire election turn on Russian fake news being distributed via Facebook.

00:07:28.000 The reason they were making a big issue out of this is because they wanted to push Facebook into regulating stuff they don't like.

00:07:33.000 And you're seeing Chris Murphy basically saying that openly.

00:07:36.000 Now, again, Facebook and YouTube, they have the capacity and the power and the ability under the First Amendment to do whatever they want.

00:07:41.000 They are a private company.

00:07:43.000 But once you get government officials sounding off and suggesting that various sites should be shut down in order to, quote-unquote, save democracy, that's burning the village in order to save it.

00:07:53.000 Once the government says you have to shut down outlets in order to save democracy, you have to start thinking about whether that is actually a destruction of democracy in order to, quote-unquote, save democracy.

00:08:01.000 If you think that America hangs on a knife's edge because InfoWars is out there,

00:08:06.000 Then I would suggest that perhaps you have the wrong idea of what a republic is. 0.99

00:08:10.000 The whole basis of a republic is that the people are smart enough to see past the stupidity of places like Infowars. 0.99

00:08:17.000 That the vast majority of people are not taken in by Alex Jones's shtick. 0.95

00:08:21.000 And the fact is that if we're going to get into the business of banning companies that routinely engage in fake news, there are a bunch on the left who we ought to be looking at.

00:08:28.000 But we shouldn't get into that business because it's a dangerous business.

00:08:32.000 And this is why, if Facebook and YouTube want to go after Alex Jones on the grounds that he is committing certain acts that could theoretically violate legal lines, that is one thing.

00:08:41.000 But if they want to set up this soft standard that can then be manipulated by the Democrats, that is completely another.

00:08:47.000 And it is astonishing to me that folks on the left don't see how this could be turned on the other ear.

00:08:51.000 The same people who are complaining that Trump calls the media fake news, these same people have no problem with Facebook and YouTube banning InfoWars.

00:08:57.000 And again, I'm not saying that InfoWars and CNN are on the same level.

00:09:00.000 I know that's an unpopular thing to say among conservatives, but CNN and InfoWars are not on the same level.

00:09:04.000 CNN actually does report the news, and when they get things wrong, they get things wrong and apologize for it, generally speaking.

00:09:10.000 They are biased in their approach to the news.

00:09:12.000 That is the big flaw with CNN.

00:09:13.000 But if you are just to look at the number of true things that CNN says on a daily basis versus the number of true things InfoWars says on a daily basis, there is no comparison.

00:09:21.000 CNN is not promulgating the conspiracy theory that Pizzagate is real.

00:09:26.000 I'm not going to pretend CNN and Alex Jones are exactly of the same ilk, because I don't think that they are.

00:09:32.000 However, if we're going to get into the business of policing speech, it's hard to see where you draw that line and why you would draw that line in a way that doesn't include InfoWars, but does include CNN, or does include Daily Cause, but doesn't include InfoWars, or does include Huffington Post, but doesn't include Daily Wire.

00:09:47.000 Very difficult to see limiting principles here.

00:09:49.000 And limiting principles are the necessity of a legal system.

00:09:53.000 If you're a lawyer, what you're looking for is a law that can be equally applied across the board.

00:09:57.000 If the law is just a tool of the powerful, that's when you start to have problems.

00:10:01.000 And right now, the law is becoming a tool of the powerful who are attempting to club companies like Facebook and YouTube into line.

00:10:06.000 This is why even when conservatives say they want to regulate Facebook and YouTube, Steve Bannon has said this, I think, no, it's more dangerous than it's worth.

00:10:15.000 And it violates First Amendment principles.

00:10:18.000 You shouldn't be regulating private companies just because you don't like what the private companies are doing.

00:10:22.000 There's a lot of talk today about, well, you can never launch a competitor to Facebook, you can never launch a competitor to YouTube.

00:10:27.000 Why not?

00:10:28.000 Facebook started as a competitor to MySpace.

00:10:30.000 Are you saying that we can never create a competitor to a company that was founded in what, 2007?

00:10:35.000 I'm old enough to remember when Yahoo was the dominant search engine and then Google took over.

00:10:39.000 I'm old enough to remember when AltaVista was the dominant search engine before Yahoo.

00:10:43.000 So, there's this weird idea that pervades America that companies that are very powerful today were always powerful and always will be powerful.

00:10:52.000 The reality is that companies drop in and out of the stock market and off the top 100 on a regular basis.

00:10:57.000 The number of really long-lasting companies in the United States without government subsidies is actually pretty low.

00:11:02.000 There's pretty high turnover in business, which is to say, if Facebook continues to be bad at its business, there will be a competitor that is launched.

00:11:08.000 If YouTube continues to ban ad revenue for a variety of various content creators, there will be alternative sources that are created that are not YouTube.

00:11:17.000 So there is a solution to material you don't like on YouTube or Facebook, and that is don't watch it.

00:11:21.000 It is not push Facebook and YouTube to ban all of that sort of material. 0.98

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00:12:42.000 So.

00:12:43.000 Speaking of leftist attempts to involve government in areas where it shouldn't be involved, I have to bring up this tweet that was shown to me by our very own Senya. 0.99

00:12:51.000 Full credit to Senya for spotting this idiocy. 1.00

00:12:53.000 Dylan Matthews over at Vox.com, the font of much of America's stupidity. 1.00

00:12:59.000 I would say that Vox has more impact on America's stupid than 1.00

00:13:03.000 Infowars does. 1.00

00:13:04.000 Because Vox actually purports to be a non-conspiratorial website that just prints dumb crap on a regular basis. 0.97

00:13:10.000 And this is not to say that every writer over at Vox is bad. 0.98

00:13:12.000 I'm fairly good friends with a couple of writers over at Vox, actually.

00:13:16.000 But Dylan Matthews is just... He's a first-year econ student who should have failed.

00:13:21.000 He says,

00:13:34.000 No, it's not fine.

00:13:36.000 And this just demonstrates the lack of understanding of how exactly medicine works.

00:13:41.000 He's citing a study that shows that doctors in America are paid significantly more than doctors in other parts of the world.

00:13:47.000 It shows that in Australia, doctors make about half what they make in the United States.

00:13:50.000 In Germany, they make about 70%.

00:13:52.000 In the UK, they make about 86% of what they make in the United States.

00:13:55.000 The pre-tax earnings net of expenses in the United States as of 2008 was about $186,000 for a doctor.

00:14:02.000 Believe it or not, that's actually not a lot of money for a doctor.

00:14:04.000 The reason that's not a lot of money for a doctor is number one, that is the average.

00:14:07.000 There are a lot of doctors making below that and a lot of doctors making above it.

00:14:10.000 If you're a dermatologist, you're probably making half a million dollars a year.

00:14:13.000 If you are a primary care physician, there's a good shot that you're making less than $186,000 a year, depending on where exactly you are practicing.

00:14:20.000 But if you lower the amount of money, forcibly lower the amount of money that doctors are making, do you think more or fewer doctors are going to go into the business of doctoring?

00:14:30.000 My wife and I, you know, we paid our bills and we had to spend on her college and medical school education.

00:14:36.000 We spent, let's see, four years of UCLA plus four more years of medical school.

00:14:42.000 So that would be a grand total of somewhere in the neighborhood of

00:14:48.000 $350,000?

00:14:48.000 $300,000 on her medical education?

00:14:52.000 And then she had a three-year residency, and in residency, residents are paid virtually nothing.

00:14:56.000 They're paid basically less than minimum wage.

00:14:58.000 If you actually average out the number of hours they work to the salary that they make, which is very often like 50 grand, then you're actually averaging out to below minimum wage numbers for people who have been trained to take care of you.

00:15:09.000 If you start cutting the salaries and she's not going to get to work until she's 30, right? 1.00

00:15:12.000 She's actually not her birthday is coming up.

00:15:15.000 I won't say how old my wife is. 0.97

00:15:16.000 She wouldn't care actually if I did, but her birthday is coming up next week.

00:15:19.000 Happy birthday, sweetheart.

00:15:21.000 If she once she becomes a doctor, she will be in her 30s.

00:15:24.000 And the fact is that she's already a doctor, but she won't be practicing doctor on her own until she's in her 30s.

00:15:29.000 If you're going to make up for all that money, you actually are going to have to charge a lot of money in order to do it.

00:15:34.000 If you want to lower the supply of doctors, all you have to do is forcibly lower the amount of money they can make.

00:15:39.000 They'll live is not an answer to how you provide more supply of medical care.

00:15:43.000 But this just shows the ignorance with which the left treats government intervention, whether it's with regard to Facebook or whether it is with regard to the medical system.

00:15:50.000 Okay, meanwhile, the media have decided

00:15:53.000 That they are the heroes.

00:15:55.000 So the same people who say that they are the heroes for having Alex Jones banned from Facebook and YouTube and they think that bad media ought to be banned, they're very, very upset that the President of the United States has called them the enemy of the people and that he's mean to them and that he gives them the sads with a Z at the end of the word.

00:16:10.000 He's just very, very mean.

00:16:11.000 So there's an article over at CNN by a guy named Joseph Holt.

00:16:15.000 He's an ethics professor at the University of Notre Dame, Mendoza College of Business.

00:16:20.000 And this article is so absurd, it's almost hard to describe the absurdity of this article.

00:16:26.000 So here is what the article is titled.

00:16:28.000 The press isn't the enemy of the people, it's the protector.

00:16:31.000 Not all heroes wear capes, folks.

00:16:33.000 Now, again, let me state for the 1,273,209th time that this is a bad thing.

00:16:35.000 The President of the United States should not be calling Americans the enemy of the people unless they are legitimately engaged in attempted terrorist acts or have allied with a foreign power.

00:16:41.000 But

00:17:00.000 With that said, is the press overblowing all of this?

00:17:04.000 It's overblowing all of this because the press is very focused on protecting itself.

00:17:08.000 They're not super focused on protecting the American people.

00:17:11.000 I love this.

00:17:12.000 It says, we thank soldiers.

00:17:14.000 This is how the article concludes.

00:17:15.000 We thank soldiers for their service because they devote themselves to protecting our freedoms.

00:17:20.000 And we should.

00:17:21.000 But we should also thank the media for the same reason, especially when the stakes have never been higher. 1.00

00:17:26.000 If you actually believe members of the press are like American soldiers, you are an idiot. 1.00

00:17:32.000 You're an idiot. 1.00

00:17:33.000 Okay, President Trump has arrested zero journalists. 1.00

00:17:37.000 Zero.

00:17:38.000 How many journalists are in danger of being shot every day in the United States?

00:17:41.000 The answer?

00:17:42.000 Zero.

00:17:42.000 Okay, and if they are shot at, God forbid, a place like happened in Virginia,

00:17:47.000 It had nothing to do with Trump.

00:17:48.000 And you'll see that there are members of the press who keep trying to suggest that President Trump is going to be responsible for the death of journalists.

00:17:54.000 There's no evidence that has happened yet.

00:17:55.000 There's a lot more evidence that Bernie Sanders is responsible for the near death of a bunch of Congress people than that Donald Trump is responsible for the death of journalists.

00:18:03.000 And you have folks like Bret Stephens.

00:18:04.000 Bret Stephens is a real never-Trumper.

00:18:05.000 You know, there are people who use the term never-Trump to just mean somebody I don't like.

00:18:09.000 Never-Trumpers are people who start saying silly things simply because they don't like Trump. 0.78

00:18:14.000 I mean, people who are conservatives, or are conservatives, who say ridiculous things just because they don't like President Trump. 0.61

00:18:20.000 So, Bret Stephens has become one of these people, even though I like a lot of what he has to say. 0.78

00:18:23.000 This is really absurd.

00:18:24.000 Max Boot is another.

00:18:25.000 We'll talk about him in just a second.

00:18:26.000 Bret Stephens writes for the New York Times, and he says that if journalists are shot, there will be blood on President Trump's hands.

00:18:32.000 I think we are marching towards the day when someone who thinks that he is taking directions from the president and acting in the best interest of the American people against those of us presumptive traitors around this table, someone like that is going to do that in a major American newsroom.

00:18:48.000 When that happens, Mr. President, the blood will be on your hands.

00:18:51.000 Okay, did anybody say this about the President of the United States before Donald Trump, who was ripping on the police day in and day out, and then there was a terrorist, essentially, who went and shot a bunch of police officers in Dallas?

00:19:00.000 I specifically wrote a column saying Obama was not responsible for that.

00:19:04.000 He was responsible for an uptick of anger against the police, but he was not responsible for somebody going and shooting members of the police force.

00:19:10.000 And yet now we have this sort of language emanating from the media.

00:19:13.000 I find it deeply depressing that there are so many members of the media who seem intent on treating the media as a separate class from the rest of Americans.

00:19:21.000 And this is what Americans are responding to.

00:19:23.000 The media don't seem to care when Americans are attacked on a regular basis by politicians or when media members attack regular Americans on a regular basis.

00:19:30.000 I remember when Joe Wurzelbacher, who was a plumber in the 2008 election, questioned President Obama, he was then Senator Obama, about his plan to raise taxes.

00:19:40.000 And Joe Wurzelbacher, the media dug through his entire life.

00:19:43.000 They dug through his entire life.

00:19:45.000 The media have used inflammatory language about a variety of figures, both political and apolitical.

00:19:50.000 And yet when it comes to the media being attacked, then all of a sudden the knives come out.

00:19:53.000 Listen, again, I don't think the president should say this sort of stuff, but the media's defensiveness just demonstrates that their real interest lies in self-protection, not in standing up for the American people.

00:20:02.000 And this is a serious problem.

00:20:03.000 This is why they're still hosting people like Rosie O'Donnell.

00:20:05.000 Rosie O'Donnell was on MSNBC yesterday.

00:20:08.000 What does Rosie O'Donnell have to say about anything? 0.99

00:20:10.000 Why is Rosie O'Donnell, who has not been relevant for a generation, even on TV?

00:20:15.000 Well, she's there to piss off Trump.

00:20:16.000 I mean, that's the only reason they're having her on. 1.00

00:20:17.000 Here she is. 1.00

00:20:18.000 He's a horrible, horrible human with no soul, and he has a very serious mental disorder. 0.99

00:20:24.000 There are so many psychiatrists who are trying to get out the duty to warn. 0.99

00:20:27.000 They wrote a book.

00:20:28.000 This guy is in no means mentally stable enough to run this country, and he should be impeached, and every congressman who hasn't filed those articles should lose their job.

00:20:37.000 Well, I'm so glad that we have Rosie O'Donnell to illuminate all of this for us.

00:20:40.000 The media are just, they're the firefighters, they're the soldiers.

00:20:43.000 Soldiers have on Rosie O'Donnell an actual crazy person to rant about the President of the United States. 0.99

00:20:48.000 That's what actual soldiers do.

00:20:50.000 They are just like the men and women on the front lines who are battling the Taliban. 0.99

00:20:53.000 That's what our journalists are like, according to that idiot professor from Notre Dame writing at CNN.com. 0.99

00:20:59.000 And then they wonder why we think the media are out of touch? 1.00

00:21:02.000 They wonder why we think the media are out of touch?

00:21:04.000 We think they're out of touch because it turns out they're out of touch.

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00:22:24.000 Of the media being out of touch.

00:22:25.000 The media seemed to be under this wild misimpression that everything is racist.

00:22:29.000 So Max Boot, another actual never-Trumper, right?

00:22:31.000 He's a guy who has decided essentially that you should vote for Democrats based on Donald Trump.

00:22:36.000 And Bret Stephens did the same thing.

00:22:37.000 The way that you can tell the real quote-unquote never-Trumpers from the people who just didn't vote for Trump in 2016, but

00:22:43.000 Didn't say that it was bad to vote for Trump and who might vote for Trump in 2020.

00:22:46.000 The way you can tell is whether they are saying to vote for Democrats in the 2018 elections.

00:22:50.000 So Max Boot says you should vote for Democrats in the 2018 elections.

00:22:53.000 I believe Bret Stephens said the same thing, if I'm not mistaken.

00:22:56.000 I know that, I know George Will has said that as well.

00:22:59.000 Well, Max Boot has an entire article out today in the Washington Post, of course, wearing his trademark journalist hat.

00:23:06.000 In which she says, As the post noted, her tweets include,

00:23:28.000 And the New York Times explanation that she had been countering the trolling she received from Racist Online doesn't make much sense.

00:23:34.000 And he basically says that the right is correct about all of this. 0.53

00:23:38.000 He says, And he's talking there about Quinn Norton, who actually long ago had been friendly with a tech writer who then turned into a Nazi and was fired by the New York Times for once having been friendly with that person.

00:23:56.000 So, the right has a point about Zhang.

00:23:58.000 Fine, is Max Boot.

00:23:59.000 But where are their voices, when a far more prominent bigot is spewing hatred from a much more powerful platform?

00:24:04.000 Friday night, President Trump tweeted,

00:24:13.000 Let me just get this straight. 0.99

00:24:15.000 According to Max Boot, it is the same thing to tweet, cancel white people, as it is to tweet that LeBron James was interviewed by a dumb guy, Don Lemon. 0.99

00:24:22.000 That's the same level of racism? 0.99

00:24:24.000 You know how far afield you have to go to reach that conclusion?

00:24:27.000 Now, I'm not one who has defended President Trump when I think that he has said racially charged things or even things that border on racism.

00:24:33.000 When he was defending the Charlottesville marchers, I was first in line to condemn that because I thought that that was gross. 0.98

00:24:40.000 But to suggest that this is racist, when he says about LeBron James that LeBron James is not smart or Don Lemon is not smart, is just ridiculous. 0.98

00:24:48.000 And I love this. 0.96

00:24:49.000 Max Boot says,

00:25:00.000 What exactly is that supposed to mean?

00:25:02.000 Can you do it by percentage?

00:25:03.000 Am I supposed to direct a certain percentage of my attacks against people of various races based on the population of the United States? 0.86

00:25:10.000 So if 10% of my attacks on dumb people can be on black people, and then 70% have to be against white people, and some 15% have to be against Hispanic people, 50% have to be against women, 50% have to be against men. 0.97

00:25:21.000 Only 2% can be against Jews. 0.99

00:25:23.000 How is this supposed to work? 0.97

00:25:24.000 I'm supposed to think before calling anyone stupid, I'm supposed to think about the proportionality of the name calling to the population of the United States? 0.97

00:25:35.000 What in the world is Max Boot even talking about? 1.00

00:25:37.000 He says, the kind of prejudice Trump exhibits is far more toxic and dangerous than Jung's remarks in which he suggested that white people should basically all die. 1.00

00:25:44.000 You're right. 0.99

00:25:44.000 President Trump saying he doesn't like LeBron James and he likes Michael Jordan, who happens to be, wait for it, a black guy. 0.99

00:25:50.000 Right?

00:25:51.000 That that's actually worse than what Sarah Jeong tweeted.

00:25:54.000 He says,

00:26:06.000 And while we have made real progress toward a more colorblind society, we are not there yet.

00:26:10.000 And with Trump at the wheel, we are going in reverse.

00:26:11.000 There are too many videos circulating online of police officers harassing, beating, even killing African Americans in situations where whites would have walked away unmolested.

00:26:19.000 Again, he's going to have to show the proof that this is happening disproportionately to black folks as opposed to white folks based on race.

00:26:26.000 There's a very famous case out here in California.

00:26:28.000 Homeless man named Kelly Thomas.

00:26:29.000 People don't know it across the nation because he was a white homeless dude who was beat to death by a bunch of cops.

00:26:34.000 This is far from sympathizing with the victims.

00:26:36.000 Trump attacks the African-American NFL players who protest police brutality.

00:26:40.000 Very clearly, Max Boot thinks that Trump is a worse guy than Sarah Jean. 0.97

00:26:44.000 He says there's a double standard on racism in the country and liberals are guilty as charged, but conservatives are far worse in their hypocrisy and their actions are far more destructive. 0.97

00:26:52.000 Anybody who believes that conservatives are far worse on racism 0.73

00:26:57.000 There's an entire theory from the left that racism is okay, actually okay, based on the ethnic identity of the person who is spewing the racism.

00:27:06.000 There's an entire school of thought on the left called intersectionality that suggests that we can judge how valuable your opinion is based on your membership in a variety of victim groups.

00:27:17.000 That is an actual tenet of the Democratic Party.

00:27:19.000 Now, I may not like how people have gone soft on President Trump's

00:27:24.000 Horrible statements at times.

00:27:26.000 I may think that's terrible, but to pretend that that is endemic to the Republican Party in the same way that the intersectional identity politics is rooted in the Democratic Party is to ignore the reality of the situation.

00:27:36.000 Donald Trump is a figure who I don't think has been good for racial tension in America.

00:27:40.000 I don't.

00:27:41.000 But if Donald Trump were to leave office tomorrow and Mike Pence were to take over, that would pretty much cure that particular problem.

00:27:49.000 Hey, if a Democrat were to take over tomorrow, the problem would not only be cured, it would not only not be cured, it would be exacerbated in a pretty significant way.

00:27:56.000 Because the Democratic Party has full-scale embraced the racist rhetoric of Sarah Jean. 0.92

00:28:01.000 Remember, if a Republican were to be caught saying the same thing Sarah Jean were saying, that person would be finished.

00:28:07.000 Their career would be over.

00:28:09.000 And the only person who's gotten away with anything that I would say even remotely resembles that stuff is Donald Trump, and his statements have not remotely resembled what Sarah Zhang actually said.

00:28:17.000 If Sarah Zhang were a Republican, she'd be out of a job right now. 1.00

00:28:20.000 She is not.

00:28:21.000 She's on the editorial board of the New York Times.

00:28:22.000 That should demonstrate the institutional power arrangement that allows the left to get away with their racism.

00:28:27.000 It's so funny.

00:28:28.000 The left will say that racism is prejudice plus power.

00:28:31.000 Well, if you want to talk about prejudice plus power, you're going to have to talk about the left that combines its own prejudice against various groups of people with the belief that that power should be enforced on behalf of those prejudices.

00:28:42.000 That's an actual, that's a bigger problem, it is.

00:28:45.000 And the attempt to paint Donald Trump as a racist based on these comments about LeBron James, it's not even remotely accurate.

00:28:53.000 That's the part that's so crazy.

00:28:55.000 If you want to go after Trump based on actual statements that are racially tinged, have at it.

00:29:00.000 But you don't have to stretch to go there.

00:29:01.000 In a second, I'm going to show you how far the left stretches to go there because it really is crazy.

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00:31:47.000 Alrighty, so the left has decided that President Trump's comments about LeBron James are full-scale racism, while Sarah Zhang's comments about white people being canceled, that's not actually racist because she's Asian.

00:31:56.000 Which is weird.

00:31:58.000 Also, the left is really going to have to decide whether Asian Americans are privileged members of American society or whether they are discriminated victims in American society.

00:32:05.000 Sarah Zhang went to Berkeley and she went to Harvard Law School.

00:32:07.000 Asian Americans earn more on average than white Americans do by a pretty significant margin, and they are more highly educated on average than white Americans.

00:32:14.000 So which is it?

00:32:15.000 Should we discriminate against Asian Americans in admissions decisions at Harvard?

00:32:20.000 Or should we label them victims of American society capable of saying cancel white people?

00:32:23.000 I'm going to have to pick one woke leftist.

00:32:25.000 In any case, Don Lemon says that the real racist is President Trump because President Trump has said mean things about LeBron James.

00:32:31.000 This president traffics in racism and is fueled by bullying.

00:32:37.000 From keeping children at the border in cages to bullying journalists at every one of his rallies and every chance he gets.

00:32:44.000 Okay, so he, you know, he says this over and over and over and over.

00:32:47.000 And again, linking this to LeBron James is pretty crazy.

00:32:50.000 Democratic representative Tim Ryan, who wants to run for president based on the yoga vote.

00:32:54.000 No, I'm not kidding you.

00:32:55.000 He's actually said this.

00:32:56.000 He's a representative from Ohio in a swing district.

00:32:58.000 And he says he doesn't want to campaign on his blue collar credentials.

00:33:01.000 Instead, he would prefer to campaign instead

00:33:08.000 Well, he says that Donald Trump is a racist because he was mean to LeBron James.

00:33:11.000 Now, again, I don't think LeBron James is a bad guy.

00:33:13.000 I said this yesterday.

00:33:13.000 I think he seems, by all measures, to be a fairly good guy.

00:33:16.000 He's a guy who married the mother of his children.

00:33:18.000 I know it's a pretty low standard for being a good person in today's America, but he did.

00:33:21.000 He married the mom of his kids, which is a good thing. 0.93

00:33:24.000 He just founded a charter school, which is a very good thing.

00:33:27.000 He's putting his own money into it.

00:33:28.000 He helps out the community.

00:33:29.000 He gives a lot of money to charity.

00:33:32.000 All that said, saying that you don't like LeBron James does not mean that you are in fact a racist, but according to Representative Ryan, Donald Trump is a racist because of what he had to say about LeBron.

00:33:40.000 The president is being racist?

00:33:42.000 No question about it.

00:33:43.000 I mean, come on. 0.95

00:33:44.000 He's always got to find a black person. 1.00

00:33:46.000 He's always got to find a brown person that he's got to prop up and make fun of to try to stimulate a certain portion of constituents that he has, a certain following that he has. 0.99

00:33:58.000 Okay, so I just want to point out, here's a list of the people that President Trump has called low IQ or dumb. 0.99

00:34:05.000 Mika Brzezinski, quote-unquote, dumb as a rock. 0.99

00:34:06.000 Dumb as a rock, by the way, is his favorite, it's his favorite description of somebody. 0.99

00:34:10.000 He's used, I searched his tweets, he has used dumb as a rock about 1,000 times in his tweets. 1.00

00:34:15.000 Here's just a partial listing of the people he has called stupid. 1.00

00:34:18.000 Mika Brzezinski, dumb as a rock, white person. 1.00

00:34:20.000 Katie Tour, incompetent, white person. 1.00

00:34:22.000 Jeb Bush, dumb as a rock, just like Mika, white person. 1.00

00:34:24.000 Lindsey Graham, dumb mouthpiece, white person. 1.00

00:34:26.000 Glenn Beck, dumb as a rock. 1.00

00:34:27.000 Don Lemon, black person, dumb as a rock. 1.00

00:34:29.000 Jennifer Rubin, untalented, a real dummy, low IQ, white person. 1.00

00:34:33.000 Chris Steierwald and Mark Thiessen, 0.96

00:34:34.000 Hey, the New York Times came up with a listing in January 2016 of all the people Trump had insulted online.

00:34:38.000 The total number was 487.

00:35:04.000 487 people he had insulted individually online.

00:35:06.000 I have like 120,000 tweets.

00:35:09.000 I really doubt that I've insulted that many people directly on Twitter.

00:35:12.000 I mean, for Trump, it's just a habit.

00:35:14.000 And I haven't seen the racial breakdown.

00:35:15.000 I'd like to see that.

00:35:16.000 Is he really insulting black people at like a 50% rate?

00:35:20.000 But the idea that everything he has to... The left only has a few adjectives it likes to use about people.

00:35:25.000 Racist, stupid. 1.00

00:35:27.000 Vicious. 1.00

00:35:28.000 So they try to use all of them on Trump simultaneously.

00:35:31.000 Not every comment Trump makes is racist.

00:35:33.000 And when you say to people that Trump is a racist based on the LeBron James statement, all you're doing is actually undermining your own case.

00:35:39.000 This is where the media really do themselves a disservice.

00:35:42.000 These firefighters who rush to the fire.

00:35:44.000 They spend as much effort on Donald Trump tweeting mean things about Don Lemon as they do when the President of the United States says something bad about Charlottesville.

00:35:51.000 Like, legitimately the same effort.

00:35:53.000 Hey, they're expending 100% effort all the time.

00:35:56.000 It's not really bright. 1.00

00:35:58.000 You shouldn't expend all of your energy in one place, particularly when that place happens to be stupid. 1.00

00:36:03.000 And meanwhile, speaking of stupid, the West Hollywood City Council has now voted to recommend that Donald Trump's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame be removed. 1.00

00:36:12.000 Now, there are a couple problems with this. 0.96

00:36:13.000 First of all, his star on the Walk of Fame is not actually in West Hollywood, so this has the same relevance as Pyongyang deciding that the star on the Walk of Fame should actually be removed.

00:36:22.000 We drove past the Star on the Walk of Fame the other day and people were crowded around it like it was the site of a killing.

00:36:28.000 It was pretty wild.

00:36:29.000 They had put up these pylons to protect the broken Star on the Walk of Fame.

00:36:34.000 And now they have passed a resolution.

00:36:36.000 Here's what they say.

00:36:37.000 This is Mayor John Duran.

00:36:38.000 He wrote,

00:36:45.000 Okay, so I would just like to ask a question.

00:36:47.000 And the question I would like to ask is whether, in fact, Hollywood is filled with people who abuse women, minorities, immigrants, and the disabled.

00:36:53.000 The answer, of course, is yes.

00:36:55.000 Okay, I know a lot of people in Hollywood.

00:36:57.000 Let's just put it this way.

00:37:14.000 If you're a woman in Hollywood and you have not been abused, you are in a minority.

00:37:17.000 The number of women in Hollywood who have been abused by a powerful man is extraordinarily high because men in positions of power, particularly with women who would like to be a star, when those men say, get on that couch or I'm not hiring you, a lot of women will do that.

00:37:30.000 And it's terrible and it's awful.

00:37:31.000 Those guys all have stars on the Walk of Fame.

00:37:34.000 They all do.

00:37:35.000 Harvey Weinstein still has his star on the Walk of Fame.

00:37:37.000 It has not been removed.

00:37:38.000 Kevin Spacey still has his star on the Walk of Fame.

00:37:40.000 The West Hollywood City Council doesn't care about that.

00:37:42.000 They don't like Trump because if Trump were on the left, is there any doubt that they would be begging to put his star on the Walk of Fame?

00:37:48.000 They're still looking for an excuse to put a Bill Clinton star on the Walk of Fame, even though he's never been in a movie.

00:37:52.000 They're still looking for an excuse to put a Hillary Clinton star on the Walk of Fame. 1.00

00:37:56.000 Being on the left or being on the right is the only thing that matters here.

00:37:59.000 But the good news is, for the left, I guess, that according to Article 49 of the U.S.

00:38:04.000 Constitution, once you remove Donald Trump's star from the Walk of Fame, he's no longer president of the United States.

00:38:09.000 So that's very exciting stuff.

00:38:10.000 I think that's what they're really attempting to do here.

00:38:12.000 They're attempting to remove Trump from the presidency through sheer force of rage face.

00:38:18.000 They're just gonna make rageful faces at things, and then hopefully Trump will sort of dissipate into the ether.

00:38:23.000 Except, of course, that is not actually going to happen.

00:38:26.000 But rage can help get out the vote.

00:38:28.000 I mean, let's make clear that 2018 may not be a good year for the president of the United States.

00:38:33.000 It may not be a good year for Trump.

00:38:35.000 It may not be a good year for Republicans.

00:38:36.000 But if you think that Democrats are going to win power on the basis of breaking Donald Trump's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame or shouting racist at Trump repeatedly, you haven't been watching politics for the past several years.

00:38:45.000 OK, meanwhile, the Democrats are struggling for an alternative vision, and their alternative vision is basically Trump is a traitor and let's be socialists.

00:38:53.000 And I'm not really joking or exaggerating about this.

00:38:56.000 Cynthia Nixon is seen as one of these figures who is going to be the future of the Democratic Party, along with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

00:39:02.000 Boom! 0.99

00:39:02.000 Got her name right this time. 0.99

00:39:03.000 Okay, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the new face of the Democratic Party, despite the fact that she knows no things. 0.99

00:39:09.000 Okay, all the things she thinks she knows are things that are not true.

00:39:12.000 She is... Okay, I'm not saying this because she's a woman or because of her race.

00:39:16.000 She's a stupid person. 1.00

00:39:17.000 Okay, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is not a bright egg. 1.00

00:39:20.000 Now,

00:39:21.000 I'm saying this only based on her public statements.

00:39:24.000 I do not think that she's a good expositor of her viewpoint.

00:39:26.000 There are many people on the left who agree with her, who I think are much better expositors of her particular viewpoint.

00:39:32.000 I do not think that Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez is a wise spokeswoman.

00:39:35.000 I think she's charismatic, but charisma and brains don't always come in the same package.

00:39:40.000 And if you disagree with me, those of you on the left, think about what you think of President Trump.

00:39:43.000 Okay, the fact is, charisma and brains, not exactly the same thing.

00:39:45.000 In any case, she is considered the new face of the Republican Party, another person, or the Democratic Party, another person considered a rising star in the Democratic Party is Cynthia Nixon, who you remember for playing one of the... Miranda, is it?

00:39:57.000 On Sex and the City?

00:39:59.000 Right, the least popular member of the Sex and the City crew.

00:40:01.000 You'll remember her from that.

00:40:02.000 But now, she is running against Andrew Cuomo, the living block of wood who acts as New York's governor.

00:40:08.000 She's running against him, and she's passionate about her agenda.

00:40:11.000 What is her agenda?

00:40:11.000 Well, she spoke at Nutroots Nation, which actually should be called Nutroots Nation.

00:40:15.000 I mean, it's just where everybody goes to be an insane person.

00:40:17.000 Cory Booker shows up and he does his weird jazz hands and talks about how socialism is the way and then holds up a sign saying America shouldn't have borders and Israel shouldn't have borders.

00:40:25.000 Good luck with that, Cory.

00:40:26.000 And then Elizabeth Warren shows up to basically announce she's running for president. 0.99

00:40:30.000 Good luck with that as well.

00:40:32.000 And what you really need is a more obnoxious version of Hillary Clinton who claims she's a Native American. 1.00

00:40:37.000 That's going to work out great for you.

00:40:38.000 Cynthia Nixon, though, summed up the new democratic platform in one statement. 0.99

00:40:42.000 Here it is.

00:40:43.000 I'm proud to be one of a small but growing number of candidates to identify as a democratic socialist.

00:40:51.000 If being a democratic socialist means believing that health care and housing and education should be a human right, then I am a democratic socialist.

00:41:01.000 Okay, and what she says is, if the Republicans are going to call us socialists anyway, maybe we should be socialists.

00:41:05.000 First of all, if anybody ever uses the formulation, if being X means blah blah blah blah blah blah blah, they're lying to you.

00:41:12.000 Okay, because usually what they're doing is they're saying, if, it's like, if being a communist means I just love puppies, then call me a communist!

00:41:22.000 No, that's not what being a Democratic Socialist means.

00:41:25.000 If you say that I think that Democratic Socialist means free healthcare, no, I think Democratic Socialist means you want to nationalize all major industries in the United States and abolish the profit margin, which is what the Democratic Socialist platform actually says.

00:41:37.000 I think being a Democratic Socialist does not actually mean that you want to just add a bunch of redistributionist programs atop a capitalist edifice.

00:41:44.000 That's not what your program actually says.

00:41:46.000 Because it wouldn't be less popular if she went up there and she said,

00:42:01.000 Then I'm a Democratic Socialist!

00:42:02.000 She can't say that, because that's actually what Democratic Socialist means.

00:42:05.000 So instead, she gets up there and she starts shrieking about, If being a Democratic Socialist means that I like to kiss babies, then that's me! 0.98

00:42:15.000 Okay.

00:42:16.000 Yeah.

00:42:18.000 If that's her schtick, okay, I guess that's her schtick.

00:42:20.000 But if the future of the Democratic Party is just declaring that you're a Democratic Socialist, which means unicorns and rainbow poop, then...

00:42:27.000 I don't know what to tell you.

00:42:28.000 Try running on that.

00:42:28.000 Let's see how that goes for you.

00:42:30.000 And if anybody on the right has any capacity to debate, they should be able to knock the Democratic-Socialist arguments down with legitimately the push of a finger.

00:42:37.000 It really is that easy.

00:42:39.000 The other program the Democrats are pushing, of course, is the idea that Trump is going to be removed from office via a deus ex machina that Robert Mueller will swoop in like a Valkyrie aboard his avenging horse, and then he will take out the President of the United States, a Democratic representative named Cicilline,

00:42:54.000 It has come out now and says that David Cicilline from Rhode Island, he says that we can probably oust Trump based on the Trump-Russia stuff right now.

00:43:02.000 Yeah, good luck with that.

00:43:03.000 I think there's enough evidence there, certainly, to present this information to a grand jury.

00:43:08.000 Obviously, Mr. Mueller and a grand jury will make that determination.

00:43:11.000 But on its face, this is sort of prima facie evidence of a conspiracy to violate campaign finance laws.

00:43:19.000 And with Mr. Trump Jr.'

00:43:21.000 's admissions of knowing the purpose of this meeting based on those emails, I think he definitely has liability.

00:43:26.000 Okay, well let's find out whether that is true or not, but if you are placing all of your faith in democratic socialism and Donald Trump is a Russian agent, I would say the Democrats have to come up with something better in the near future.

00:43:35.000 Maybe not for the congressional elections, but for 2020 for sure.

00:43:38.000 Okay, so now it's time for some things I like and some things I hate, correct?

00:43:42.000 Yes, we are at that point in the show.

00:43:44.000 Let's do it.

00:43:44.000 OK, so things I like.

00:43:45.000 I've started watching Big Little Lies with Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman and Shailene Woodley.

00:43:52.000 And I have to admit that I was kind of off-put by the marketing campaign for this particular show because I felt like it was just going to be like a female gossip show, essentially not geared toward men at all. 1.00

00:44:01.000 And it turns out that the show is actually extraordinarily funny and well-written and pretty great.

00:44:06.000 Reese Witherspoon, particularly, is just awesome.

00:44:08.000 And I've always underestimated Reese Witherspoon as an actress, honestly.

00:44:11.000 I've always not been super impressed by her, but she really shows range here.

00:44:15.000 Was she nominated for an Emmy for this?

00:44:16.000 She should have been if she was not.

00:44:18.000 She's tremendous in the role.

00:44:20.000 Nicole Kidman is quite good as well, although I find her character less believable.

00:44:25.000 Shailene Woodley also shows her chops. 0.99

00:44:26.000 It's a really, really good cast, and the writing is really sharp.

00:44:29.000 I'm about four episodes in, and

00:44:32.000 Honestly, it's an addictive show.

00:44:33.000 It's a really, really good show.

00:44:34.000 Here's some of what it looks like.

00:44:37.000 Are you new to Monterey?

00:44:38.000 Yeah, we just moved here a few weeks ago.

00:44:40.000 You're gonna love it.

00:44:41.000 You're so nice.

00:44:43.000 This is Monterey. 0.98

00:44:44.000 We pound people with knives. 1.00

00:44:46.000 To death. 0.99

00:44:49.000 Everybody wants to prove who's the richest.

00:44:51.000 We're talking about viciously competitive people.

00:44:55.000 And at the root of it was Madeline.

00:44:56.000 Exactly how psychotic do you think I am?

00:45:01.000 He's a lot younger than her.

00:45:03.000 Celeste.

00:45:03.000 She must be pretty, you know.

00:45:06.000 So bad.

00:45:06.000 We are so bad.

00:45:08.000 Jane just didn't fit here. 1.00

00:45:09.000 I thought it was nice for the nannies to get to know each other.

00:45:11.000 You're not a Jane, it's not a nanny. 0.98

00:45:14.000 It's so snippy and so caustic and so wonderful.

00:45:17.000 And there are a bunch of great performances in it.

00:45:20.000 The cast is universally quite good.

00:45:22.000 But I will say that Ruth Witherspoon obviously has a medias role and she really does a lot with it.

00:45:27.000 Go check it out.

00:45:28.000 Obviously not for the kiddies. 0.92

00:45:29.000 It's HBO, which means that for no reason at all, they just have to show breasts. 1.00

00:45:32.000 This is like an HBO rule, is that every show that could easily be done without the showing of the breasts must show the breasts. 0.96

00:45:39.000 HBO's like, if you're going to pay for cable, man, then we're going to show you some boobs. 1.00

00:45:43.000 That's HBO's shtick, right? 0.99

00:45:44.000 Game of Thrones would be exactly the same show without showing the boobs. 0.99

00:45:47.000 Which is why it always used to be, you know, the basic campaign on Game of Thrones was that it was called sexposition, right? 0.85

00:45:54.000 And whenever they would do exposition, they'd have somebody having sex in the background. 0.58

00:45:57.000 So it's like, if you don't like what we're talking about, here's these two people doing it.

00:46:00.000 That's sort of how HBO does its business.

00:46:02.000 But you put aside sort of the random sex scenes.

00:46:06.000 There's a couple that are necessary, but you put aside sort of the random sex scenes and the show is really, really good.

00:46:11.000 So go check it out.

00:46:12.000 Big Little Lies.

00:46:12.000 OK, time for a couple of things that I hate.

00:46:19.000 Okay, so, the Russian embassy tweeted out yesterday, yesterday was the anniversary, the 73rd anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima.

00:46:26.000 Okay, the bombing of Hiroshima was a horrific event.

00:46:28.000 It was also generated by the fact that the Japanese would not surrender despite repeated attempts by the United States to get them to surrender.

00:46:34.000 It was necessitated by the fact that a full-scale invasion of the Japanese islands would have required

00:46:39.000 The death of probably a million people.

00:46:42.000 It was necessitated by the fact that we asked them to surrender over and over.

00:46:46.000 We leafleted the town beforehand, telling people to get out.

00:46:49.000 And then we dropped the A-bomb and within days the war was over. 1.00

00:46:53.000 Well, the Russian ministry, Russia is, the Russian government is just garbage. 1.00

00:46:57.000 They're just, Putin is an evil piece of human debris and the people who work for him seem to be no better. 0.99

00:47:02.000 Well, here is what they tweeted out yesterday. 0.96

00:47:26.000 Says the country that was responsible for the gulags, the death of 20 million people, the Holodomor, which is the forced starvation of forced collectivization of Ukraine ending with the deaths of legitimately probably 3 million people minimum. 0.78

00:47:40.000 The country responsible for the invasions and murder of people in Hungary, in Czechoslovakia, the building of the Berlin Wall, responsible for the backing of the Viet Cong in Vietnam, responsible for the backing of the Maoist regime that ended with the murder of 40 million people or so. 0.66

00:47:54.000 Yeah, talk to us about using the A-bomb to end World War II. 0.72

00:47:58.000 By the way, also necessary to remember that Russia was on the wrong side of this war originally.

00:48:02.000 As you recall, they were responsible for the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, which was the treaty signed in 1938 between the Russians and the Nazis that essentially led to World War II.

00:48:12.000 If the Russians never signed that treaty, the chances that World War II breaks out are significantly lower.

00:48:16.000 Then Russia switched sides and we're all supposed to pretend that Russia was grand in that war.

00:48:20.000 Russia was fighting for survival because the Nazis turned on the Russians.

00:48:23.000 It was not that the Russians decided to attack the Nazis.

00:48:26.000 It was the opposite.

00:48:27.000 So,

00:48:28.000 That's not to put down the sacrifice of the Russians when it came to fighting the Nazis, but it is to suggest that the Russian government run by Stalin was one of the most evil governments on the face of the earth and in human history.

00:48:37.000 Probably the most evil government on the face of the earth in human history.

00:48:39.000 The only one that could possibly challenge it, really.

00:48:41.000 There are couples.

00:48:42.000 There would be a couple that would be up there, right?

00:48:44.000 So, Hitler would be up there. 0.93

00:48:45.000 Stalin might rank higher than Hitler, honestly. 0.80

00:48:49.000 And then, maybe above him is Mao.

00:48:51.000 Mao killed more people.

00:48:53.000 And Pol Pot would have to be up there in Cambodia as well.

00:48:56.000 The Kim regime would have to be up there in North Korea in terms of evil regimes.

00:49:00.000 So Russians, you're going to rip on us about our human rights record? 0.99

00:49:02.000 You go after yourselves. 0.83

00:49:05.000 You have no leg to stand on here.

00:49:07.000 None.

00:49:07.000 And worth noting, two days after the United States dropped that A-bomb on Hiroshima,

00:49:12.000 Guess who entered the war against the Japanese?

00:49:14.000 Oh yeah, that's right.

00:49:15.000 The Russians declared war on Japan two days after the bombing of Hiroshima.

00:49:19.000 So they were actually on the side of the country that dropped the A-bomb. 0.90

00:49:22.000 So if they really don't like it, then maybe they shouldn't have done that.

00:49:24.000 All right, other things that I hate. 0.99

00:49:26.000 So there's an article that's just astonishingly great in its stupidity from Marie Claire. 0.99

00:49:32.000 Is that how it's pronounced? 0.99

00:49:33.000 Okay, good.

00:49:35.000 And it's all about how skinny eyebrows are apparently problematic now.

00:49:40.000 Everything is problematic.

00:49:42.000 It's an article by Christina Chavez.

00:49:45.000 Says, I'm Latina.

00:49:46.000 I find Rihanna's skinny brows problematic. 1.00

00:49:48.000 Jess, you are Latina.

00:49:50.000 Are skinny eyebrows problematic?

00:49:52.000 Okay, Jess is laughing and can, yes.

00:49:55.000 No, they are not problematic. 0.99

00:49:56.000 Because only stupid people sit around thinking about whether eyebrows are problematic. 0.98

00:50:01.000 First of all, if someone should know about problematic eyebrows, let's just say, right here, okay? 0.99

00:50:05.000 Check, check these babies out. 1.00

00:50:07.000 I got these ones right off the rack.

00:50:08.000 But,

00:50:10.000 Here's what the article says.

00:50:11.000 It says, I got my eyebrows threaded for the first time when I was 12 years old.

00:50:14.000 As I walked out of the salon, admiring my new skinny brows, my mother stared at me. 0.99

00:50:18.000 They gave you Chola brows, she gaffed, horrified before immediately making me swear to never thread them that thin again, because at the time, in the predominantly Mexican and Mexican-American city of Los Angeles, pencil-thin brows weren't seen as a fashion statement.

00:50:28.000 They were seen as a gang affiliation, marking you as a Chola, a female gang member.

00:50:32.000 Suddenly, I was the sixth grader with a hugely polarizing gang sign on her face, a sign I had been raised to furiously avoid and have avoided ever since.

00:50:39.000 I'm so confused.

00:50:40.000 So you're the racist?

00:50:42.000 Right?

00:50:42.000 Like, this seems like the article's basically saying that the person writing it's the racist, because she's the one who's— her mom is the one saying, like, if you get your eyebrows threaded in a particular way, that it's because you're— I wouldn't even know how to— I don't know Spanish, so I assume that's some sort of slur.

00:50:55.000 Right?

00:50:56.000 Chola? 0.98

00:50:56.000 Jess? 0.98

00:50:57.000 Help me out here.

00:50:59.000 A female gangbanger. 1.00

00:50:59.000 Okay, fine. 1.00

00:51:19.000 Oh my god.

00:51:20.000 Get a life.

00:51:23.000 Like, go out.

00:51:24.000 Look at the sunshine.

00:51:24.000 Make some friends.

00:51:25.000 Get a career.

00:51:27.000 Or sit around and worry about Rihanna's eyebrows.

00:51:31.000 I think our society is too rich.

00:51:33.000 Okay, I'm just gonna put it out there.

00:51:35.000 If being a democratic socialist means I think that society is too rich and we are in the late stage of capitalism, then perhaps I am a democratic socialist.

00:51:41.000 Because if you have the money to sit around worrying about Rihanna's eyebrows on your day, like in the middle of a weekday, if you don't actually have a job requiring you to do more than worry about how many hairs, the hair count on Rihanna,

00:51:54.000 I'm just going to suggest that you need to find something better to do with your life.

00:51:58.000 Okay, finally, let's deconstruct culture for just a moment.

00:52:02.000 So, there's a very controversial story out now about Evangeline Lilly.

00:52:07.000 So, Evangeline Lilly is the star of Ant-Man and the Wasp.

00:52:09.000 She became famous originally because she was in the show Lost, which was one of my favorite shows of all time, up to the point when they completely destroyed the show in the fifth and sixth seasons.

00:52:18.000 Yeah, even through the fifth season, it was okay.

00:52:20.000 And then they ruined everything!

00:52:22.000 They ruined it.

00:52:23.000 Season six. 1.00

00:52:24.000 Damn you, Damon Lindelof. 1.00

00:52:25.000 Damn you to hell. 1.00

00:52:27.000 In any case, one of the big problems, supposedly, that happened on the set is that Evangeline Lilly said in an interview that she was made to feel cornered on the show's set about doing partially nude scenes. 0.99

00:52:37.000 Creators and executive producers J.J.

00:52:38.000 Abrams, Damon Lindelof, Jack Bender, and Carlton Cuse issued a joint statement apology for the alleged problems on the show.

00:52:44.000 They said, So, she claims that she was mortified and trembling after filming a specific loss scene.

00:53:01.000 She said, in season three, I'd had a bad experience on set with basically being cornered into doing a scene partially naked, and I felt I had no choice in the matter.

00:53:07.000 And I was mortified, and I was trembling.

00:53:09.000 And when it finished, I was crying my eyes out, and I had to go on and do a very formidable, very strong scene thereafter.

00:53:13.000 And then she says, in season four, another scene came up where Kate was undressing, and I fought very hard to have that scene be under my control, and I failed to control it again.

00:53:20.000 And so then I said, that's it.

00:53:21.000 No more.

00:53:21.000 You can write whatever you want.

00:53:22.000 I won't do it.

00:53:23.000 I will never take off my clothes on this show again, and I didn't.

00:53:27.000 Okay, so I am confused by what, like, I'm gonna need a more specific definition of being cornered into doing a scene partially naked.

00:53:35.000 Did they, like, chain her to the set?

00:53:37.000 Did they threaten to fire her?

00:53:39.000 Did they threaten consequences?

00:53:40.000 Remember, Evangeline Lilly was the second lead on this show, right?

00:53:43.000 Matthew Fox was the first lead, and then Evangeline Lilly was the second lead.

00:53:46.000 And is the idea really here that if she had said, listen, I'm not doing that, that they would have forced her?

00:53:51.000 Like, they would have caned her? 0.87

00:53:52.000 Or they would have suspended her from the set?

00:53:54.000 Or replaced her on the show?

00:53:57.000 She's not making any of those allegations, so she's going to have to be a little bit more specific about what happened here.

00:54:01.000 Also, I'm just going to say I find it very, very difficult to believe.

00:54:05.000 Maybe it's true in her case.

00:54:05.000 Maybe Evangeline Lilly is one of the few infamous modest actresses in Hollywood.

00:54:11.000 But Hollywood actresses typically go into these roles knowing that there is a chance that they are going to have to take their clothes off at a certain point. 1.00

00:54:17.000 And on a network show, we're not even talking about like Evangeline Lilly

00:54:22.000 Showing her all, right?

00:54:23.000 It was a network show.

00:54:24.000 It's actually against FCC standards for her to actually get fully... I mean, this is what I say, HBO's a pay cable channel, so they can get as nude as they want, but you don't actually see that on network television. 0.99

00:54:34.000 By most standards, the stuff that she did for Lost is pretty mild for TV.

00:54:39.000 Now, am I saying she's being dishonest here?

00:54:41.000 No.

00:54:41.000 I mean, maybe that's how she felt.

00:54:43.000 I am saying that the idea that she was cornered into it, I'm going to need to see some more evidence of that before I jump to the conclusion that she was indeed cornered into it.

00:54:50.000 And again, it would be good to have, listen, I hope all actresses hold by the standard that they don't want to get nude on film. 1.00

00:54:55.000 I think that the country would be a better place if we had more of that.

00:54:59.000 So good for her for saying she's not going to do it anymore.

00:55:02.000 I just find it difficult to believe that a lot of Hollywood actresses actually feel that way.

00:55:05.000 I don't think a lot of Hollywood... I mean, we live in an era when critics actually say that actresses are brave for getting naked on film.

00:55:10.000 It's an actual sign of bravery.

00:55:12.000 You're baring your soul when you bare your breasts, is sort of the idea. 1.00

00:55:14.000 I've always thought that was idiotic. 1.00

00:55:16.000 If Evangeline Lilly agrees, I'm on her side. 0.99

00:55:18.000 But the immediate jump to, she must have been victimized on the set, based on, I don't know, is a little bit much for me.

00:55:25.000 Okay.

00:55:26.000 Other elements of the culture to deconstruct.

00:55:28.000 So,

00:55:29.000 LeBron James is apparently now going to create a series called Shut Up and Dribble, in which he is going to take advantage of the fact that Laura Ingraham once said about him that he ought to shut up and dribble.

00:55:38.000 He is going to do this show on Showtime, he's going to serve as an executive producer on a three-part documentary, and it's going to look at the changing role of athletes in our fraught cultural and political environment through the lens of the NBA.

00:55:49.000 Do I think that we actually need more commentary from members of the NBA about politics?

00:55:55.000 They can do what they want.

00:55:56.000 I mean, it's free country, say what you want, but I'm not going to give extra credibility to NBA players about matters political simply because they're good at a different skill set.

00:56:03.000 I don't think that, for example, musicians have a skill set that involves politics.

00:56:07.000 If I said, you know, first of all, there was this whole idea that came out when Laura Ingraham said, shut up and dribble, that she was being racist about LeBron James.

00:56:13.000 Really? 0.98

00:56:14.000 She said about the Dixie Chicks, or as white as white can be, shut up and sing. 1.00

00:56:17.000 So it really has nothing to do with that?

00:56:19.000 I think inflation between celebrity and skill sets that cross the boundaries of celebrity is not good for the country.

00:56:25.000 I don't think LeBron James is a political expert because he's good at basketball.

00:56:28.000 I think he does a lot of wonderful charitable things.

00:56:30.000 But I'm not going to pretend that I think that he's an expert on tax policy or financial policy.

00:56:36.000 And I think that being sucked into the realm of celebrity as politician has not worked out well for anyone involved as a general rule.

00:56:42.000 OK, well, we'll be back here tomorrow with all the latest updates.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - August 07, 2018

The Self-Pitying Media | Ep. 597

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