The Ben Shapiro Show - August 29, 2018


The Worst Headline Of The Month | Ep. 613

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The Catholic Church has been accused of covering up the fact that a cardinal was involved in sexual abuse of minors by Cardinal Blaise Cupich. Pope Francis has not confirmed or denied that he knew about this, and now the media are coming out to defend him. Ben Shapiro argues that the Church should focus on other issues like immigration and climate change, not on sex abuse within the Catholic Church, and that Pope Francis should be given a pass on politics because he has a bigger agenda than stopping child molestation inside the church. He also points out that the church does not need to go down the "red-hole" on issues like climate change and illegal immigration, but rather, they need to focus on the bigger issues, like combating sexual abuse inside the Church, like immigration, climate justice, and the fight against climate change. Ben Shapiro is a conservative commentator and writer who writes for The Daily Wire, Mother Jones, and The New York Times. His latest novel Other Words For Smoke is out now and is available for pre-order on Amazon Prime and Vimeo worldwide. Subscribe to Ben Shapiro's new podcast, The Ben Shapiro Show, wherever you get your books, on all of your favorite podcasting platforms, starting at just 99 cents. That s right now! You get two months of unlimited access to over 20,000 courses and access to all of Ben Shapiro s latest books, including The Devil Next Door, for 99 cents! and more! Links From This Episode: This episode was produced by Ben Shapiro and his new book, "The Devil's Playbook" is also available on Audible: The Devil s Guide to the Devil s Playbook: How They Know What They're Good at It All About It? is out on Amazon, wherever else you get the best deal on the best thing you can get the most authentic and most authentic, the best podcast on the freshest and the most beautiful thing on the highest quality source of everything you can read about it? FREE FASTEST, the most up-to-date guide to everything you need to know about everything you'll ever learn about the devil s gotta have it all, including the truth about it, including: It s all on the truth, the whole thing you ve ever heard about it! FREE PRICING, the real deal, the truth and everything else that s true about it. It s not even better than it s all right here on the internet, here s your chance to find it anywhere else.

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00:01:27.000 Okay, so the media...
00:01:29.000 are absolutely destroying themselves on the shoals of their own political bias.
00:01:35.000 The clearest example of this doesn't even have to do with President Trump today.
00:01:38.000 The clearest example of this has to do with the scandal that is now plaguing the Catholic Church.
00:01:41.000 Now, as I have said, I think it is very important to put in context the fact that the Catholic Church, which has obviously an institutional problem with the sexual abuse of minors, is not unique in this way.
00:01:51.000 There are lots of institutions across the United States and internationally in which abuse of children is looked
00:01:57.000 I think?
00:02:15.000 Well, to recap, the Catholic Church basically was experiencing
00:02:30.000 A serious issue in which a cardinal named McCarrick was accused of the abuse of a bunch of minors as well as with homosexual activity with a bunch of seminarians as well.
00:02:42.000 He was accused by one of his, by an archbishop named Carlo Maria Vigano.
00:02:49.000 The accusation is that the higher ups at the church, particularly Pope Francis, basically covered all this up.
00:02:54.000 That he knew about this and that Cardinal McCarrick was
00:02:58.000 Put into essentially a form of private excommunication almost.
00:03:04.000 He was basically ordered to do prayer and penance for the rest of his life by Pope Benedict and then Francis took him out of that and made him a public figure again.
00:03:10.000 That was the accusation that was made by Vigano.
00:03:13.000 And all of this matters because now the media are coming out and they are defending the Pope.
00:03:19.000 They're defending Pope Francis.
00:03:20.000 Pope Francis refuses to comment on this.
00:03:22.000 He has not confirmed or denied that he knew that this cardinal was engaged in homosexual abuses inside the church.
00:03:29.000 There are two forms of abuse, obviously.
00:03:30.000 There's homosexual abuses because it's against Catholic canon law for priests to engage in sexual activity of any sort, and then it's doubly against canon law for them to engage in homosexual activity, and then it is triply against canon law to engage in all of that, plus children.
00:03:44.000 Well, now it turns out the members of the upper echelon of the church, Pope Francis' greatest defenders, are coming out and defending Pope Francis, not by saying that Pope Francis fights this kind of stuff within the church on a regular basis.
00:03:55.000 Instead, they're fighting back by suggesting that Pope Francis should be given a pass because Pope Francis is to the left on politics.
00:04:01.000 Leading the way is Cardinal Blaise Cupich.
00:04:03.000 Blaise Cupich is one of the archbishops, I believe, over in Chicago, and he is
00:04:11.000 The Pope has a bigger agenda.
00:04:19.000 He's got to get on with other things of talking about the environment and protecting migrants and carrying on the work of the church.
00:04:27.000 We're not going to go down a rabbit hole on this.
00:04:31.000 Hey, we're not going to go down a rabbit hole on stopping child molestation inside the church.
00:04:35.000 We have to focus on greater issues like climate change and illegal immigration.
00:04:39.000 Those are the bigger issues.
00:04:41.000 Not the sexual abuse of minors by people in positions of authority supposedly representing God and Jesus.
00:04:47.000 No.
00:04:48.000 No.
00:04:48.000 What it really has to do with is protecting the Catholic Church from allegations that would stop their progressive agenda.
00:04:55.000 Now, I've been a critic, a longtime critic, of Pope Francis.
00:04:58.000 I think a lot of conservative Catholics have joined me in that criticism. 0.76
00:05:00.000 Or rather, I have joined them in that criticism.
00:05:02.000 The reality is that Pope Francis is a liberation theologist who believes that the auspices of the Church ought to be used to push a sort of proto-Marxist economics, as well as a social liberalism when it comes to
00:05:14.000 We're good to go.
00:05:29.000 That comment by Cupich is so telling, Cardinal Cupich.
00:05:33.000 To say that the Pope has a bigger agenda, he's got to get on with other things like talking about the environment and protecting migrants and carrying on the work of the Church, that's an insane statement.
00:05:42.000 How insane is that statement?
00:05:43.000 The Babylon Bee.
00:05:45.000 Which is a parody website.
00:05:46.000 They printed a headline two weeks ago in which they said Pope defends himself from allegations of cover-up of child molestation by pointing to climate change work.
00:05:55.000 It was a parody headline.
00:05:57.000 And then Cupich actually said the parody headline.
00:06:00.000 And prosecutors are saying now, it's not just this one Cardinal Vagano who's accusing the church of knowing about all this.
00:06:06.000 According to a state attorney general in Pennsylvania, the Vatican knew about all of this as well.
00:06:11.000 This is according to Reuters, the Vatican knew of a cover-up of child sex abuse by Roman Catholic priests in Pennsylvania through secret archives that bishops in the state shared with church leaders in Rome, according to state attorney general Josh Shapiro.
00:06:22.000 No relation.
00:06:38.000 During an August 14th news conference to unveil a report on a two-year investigation into how Catholic clergymen in the state allegedly groomed and sexually abused children.
00:06:46.000 It was largely based on documents from the archives kept by the state's six diocese, he said.
00:06:50.000 He said, quote, there are specific examples where when the abuse occurred, the priests would go, the bishops would go and lie to parishioners, lie to law enforcement, lie to the public, but then document all the abuse in secret archives that they would share oftentimes with the Vatican.
00:07:05.000 Shapiro did not comment on whether Pope Francis or his predecessors knew of the information.
00:07:08.000 Again, the allegation is by Cardinal Vigano that Pope Francis knew all about them.
00:07:12.000 Vigano, over the weekend, published this 11-page public statement talking about Pope Francis and Pope Francis's willingness to overlook all of this and calling on Francis to resign on the grounds the Pope knew for years about the sexual misconduct of Cardinal McCarrick.
00:07:26.000 Vigano said he told the Pope himself five years ago, a little more than three months after Francis' election, and Francis reacted badly to that and put pressure on him in the opposite direction, was actually angry at him for having revealed any of this stuff.
00:07:39.000 George Weigel is a senior fellow in Catholic studies at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.
00:07:44.000 He said, Now, how are the media treating all of this?
00:07:46.000 You would imagine the media might be a little upset 0.62
00:07:55.000 I think normally the media are pretty upset when it comes to Catholic priests abusing children.
00:07:59.000 There was a movie that just won an Oscar based on this.
00:08:02.000 Spotlight was based on the Boston Globe uncovering hundreds of abuse cases in Massachusetts archdiocese.
00:08:10.000 So the media have been all over sexual scandals within the Catholic Church for good reasons and bad.
00:08:15.000 Good reasons because all of that stuff should be uncovered and all of it should be brought to light and that stuff should be, I mean, it's evil and people involved should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
00:08:25.000 We're good to go!
00:08:40.000 We're certainly attentive to this problem inside the Catholic Church for years and years and years and years.
00:08:46.000 And as I say, with good reason.
00:08:48.000 But in this particular case, they're not reacting.
00:08:51.000 They are not reacting with the sort of outrage you would normally see directed at the Catholic Church.
00:08:56.000 Instead, their outreach is directed at the people who are making the accusations.
00:08:59.000 They're very upset with Cardinal Vigano.
00:09:01.000 They're very upset with Catholics who are upset with Pope Francis.
00:09:04.000 Why?
00:09:04.000 Because Pope Francis must be protected at all costs because Pope Francis is a political leftist.
00:09:09.000 And this is a headline from Reuters.
00:09:13.000 Hey, here it is by Philip Pulela.
00:09:15.000 Defenders rally around the Pope, fear conservatives escalating war.
00:09:20.000 Conservatives escalating war?
00:09:23.000 Like, really?
00:09:24.000 That's the great fear here?
00:09:26.000 Not the Catholic Church covering up cases of sexual abuse of minors?
00:09:30.000 Not the violation of Catholic canon law over and over and over by top members of the church with the knowledge of the top Vatican hierarchy?
00:09:39.000 That's not the real issue here.
00:09:41.000 The only real issue here is that Pope Francis has fallen under assault.
00:09:44.000 This is why folks don't trust the media, and they shouldn't trust the media, because when it comes to protecting their favorite figures, the media will rush to their defense at the first available opportunity, whether it is Barack Obama or Pope Francis.
00:09:54.000 They like Pope Francis because they think that he is a liberal when it comes to matters of homosexuality, and when it comes to matters of climate change, and when it comes to matters of illegal immigration.
00:10:01.000 And so they are rallying around Pope Francis, even though it now appears there are significant, credible allegations that Pope Francis knew
00:10:08.000 I think?
00:10:23.000 And the problems of targeting abusive minors.
00:10:26.000 So the fact is that Cardinal McCarrick, the accusations made by Vagano, don't actually even extend to the abusive minors. 0.85
00:10:32.000 They just extend to Vagano basically having a bunch of homosexual affairs with seminarians and pressuring those seminarians into sex.
00:10:39.000 The media doesn't think that's a bad thing, and so they're angry that conservatives are talking about that in the first place.
00:10:44.000 They also are refusing to acknowledge that there is, in fact, a correlation between McCarrick's activities in certain areas and McCarrick's activities in other areas.
00:10:52.000 There are certain uncomfortable truths that no one is allowed to speak about the culture of the church and the targeting particularly of young males in the church.
00:11:01.000 The reality is that a disproportionate number of the victims of sexual abuse for minors in the church have been male. 0.82
00:11:07.000 Which is something that the media don't want to talk about specifically because they think that will then be used as a way to club homosexuals and gay and lesbian folks and tar them as innate child molesters.
00:11:20.000 I don't think that has to be done. 0.95
00:11:21.000 I think that you can point out that there is a disparity in the number of boys who have been abused in the church and girls who have been abused in the church without accusing all homosexuals, for example, of wanting to prey on children, which is a bunch of nonsense.
00:11:31.000 But the attempt to defend Pope Francis is obviously very telling.
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00:12:51.000 The worst headline of the day was not the Reuters headline, Defenders rally around the Pope, fewer conservatives escalating war.
00:12:57.000 The worst headline of the day was this from the New York Times, Vatican power struggle burst into open as conservatives pounce.
00:13:05.000 So this has become sort of a meme on the right.
00:13:07.000 Is that when you is that when the media report on issues that are harmful to the left, it's never
00:13:13.000 Leftists within the church defend Pope as he covers up sexual abuse allegedly.
00:13:17.000 That's not the headline.
00:13:18.000 The headline isn't leftists in the media cover for Pope as Pope undergoes allegations of sexual abuse cover-ups.
00:13:24.000 That's not the line.
00:13:25.000 The line is conservatives pounce.
00:13:27.000 So when it is a grave sin on the part of somebody on the left, it's conservatives pounce.
00:13:32.000 When it's a grave sin on the part of somebody on the right, it's the conservative committed the sin.
00:13:35.000 That's the way the media cover these issues.
00:13:37.000 That's the way the New York Times covers these issues.
00:13:39.000 So when it's Duncan Hunter involved in a corruption scandal, then it's Representative Duncan Hunter of California, Republican, involved in corruption.
00:13:47.000 And then when it is a Democrat, when it's Senator Bob Menendez from New Jersey, when there are allegations made about him of sexual abuse, for example, or corruption,
00:13:56.000 When instead of it saying allegations of corruption made about Senator Bob Menendez, it's conservatives pounce on allegations.
00:14:04.000 Like, why is that news?
00:14:05.000 I'm so confused as to why that's even news.
00:14:07.000 Why isn't news how conservatives react to an allegation of sexual abuse cover-up by the Pope?
00:14:12.000 Isn't the news the sexual abuse cover-up by the Pope? 0.89
00:14:16.000 It's such an insane statement.
00:14:17.000 You'd never see that in reverse.
00:14:19.000 You'd never see liberals pounce as allegations of Trump corruption mount.
00:14:23.000 Because then that puts the onus on liberals to explain why they are pouncing.
00:14:26.000 Instead, it's allegations of Trump corruption mount.
00:14:29.000 But this is how the New York Times covers the issue.
00:14:31.000 And here is the way that they have decided to cover this.
00:14:34.000 Quote,
00:14:47.000 That is the first paragraph of a story about a Pope who is alleged to have covered up sexual abuse and molestation inside the church.
00:14:57.000 The first paragraph is about what a great guy Pope Francis is for not paying attention to social issues like abortion and homosexuality.
00:15:04.000 Is it possible that the Pope's
00:15:06.000 Reason for ignoring some of those issues is specifically because he does want to focus on those quote-unquote bigger issues the left likes and he knows the media will help cover for him.
00:15:14.000 That's not even the worst of the New York Times article.
00:15:16.000 We'll get to that in just a second.
00:15:18.000 So, the New York Times article continues.
00:15:38.000 That's an insane statement.
00:15:40.000 The focus is on how angry they are?
00:15:42.000 Oh wow, look at these people.
00:15:44.000 You mad, bro? 0.99
00:15:46.000 That the Pope was covering for sexual abuse allegedly? 0.99
00:15:48.000 Yes, I'm angry.
00:15:50.000 Yes, Vigano was angry.
00:15:51.000 Yes, conservatives inside the church and liberals inside.
00:15:54.000 Why is this a partisan issue?
00:15:55.000 Why is the Pope covering for sexual abuse a partisan issue?
00:15:57.000 By the way, it wouldn't be a partisan issue if the Pope's name were Benedict.
00:16:01.000 If the Pope's name were John Paul II.
00:16:03.000 If it were John Paul II, there would not be any of this blowback from the New York Times, because then it would be targeting a conservative Pope.
00:16:10.000 But because we are targeting a Pope who is liberalizing on a bunch of issues the New York Times likes, then it's all about conservatives' pounce.
00:16:17.000 With the letter reports the New York Times released in the middle of the Pope's visit to Ireland, an ideologically motivated opposition has weaponized the Church's sex abuse crisis to threaten not only France's agenda, but his entire papacy.
00:16:29.000 Weaponized?
00:16:30.000 This is a word that the New York Times is using a lot lately.
00:16:33.000 So we've heard from the New York Times that conservatives are weaponizing the First Amendment.
00:16:37.000 That conservatives are, you know, using the free speech part of the First Amendment in order to push their view.
00:16:42.000 Ooh, weaponizing the First Amendment.
00:16:44.000 So the issue isn't that the left wants to shut down the First Amendment. 0.51
00:16:47.000 The issue is that the right is, quote-unquote, weaponizing the First Amendment.
00:16:51.000 Now the issue isn't that conservatives are trying to stop sexual abuse inside the Vatican.
00:16:55.000 No, now the issue is that they are weaponizing sexual abuse inside the Vatican.
00:16:59.000 It seems to me that if you were going to worry about weaponizing sexual abuse, maybe you ought to start with a Vatican hierarchy that looked the other way and put 0.77
00:17:07.000 Abusive priests back in positions to abuse more children.
00:17:10.000 Would that not be weaponizing sexual assault against innocent people? 0.87
00:17:14.000 It's not weaponizing sexual assault to accuse people of covering up sexual assault.
00:17:18.000 That's not weaponizing anything.
00:17:19.000 That's called telling the truth.
00:17:21.000 But what's the New York Times' real agenda?
00:17:23.000 It's the next sentence.
00:17:24.000 At the very least, it has returned the issue of homosexuality in the Roman Catholic Church, which many conservatives are convinced lies behind the abuse crisis, to the center of the debate.
00:17:33.000 Well, this is really where the New York Times gets concerned.
00:17:34.000 What the New York Times is deeply concerned about is that there's going to be a lot of talk about homosexuality within the church, and we can't allow that.
00:17:41.000 We can't allow that.
00:17:41.000 Now, what's weird about this is that homosexuality is banned by the Catholic Church.
00:17:45.000 At least homosexual activity is. 1.00
00:17:47.000 And the toleration of homosexual activity inside the Catholic Church is a violation of Catholic canon law, and has been since the inception of the Catholic Church. 0.74
00:17:55.000 There's a 3,500-year tradition in Judeo-Christian religion of banning homosexual activity, or at least opposing homosexual activity.
00:18:03.000 It's pretty clear here that what the New York Times really wants is for the Catholic Church to ignore the fact that there's a violation of Catholic canon law going on inside high levels of the priesthood.
00:18:14.000 The New York Times says Vatican intrigues and power struggles are nothing new, but they usually remain within the medieval walls or fly over the heads of the Catholic faithful around the globe.
00:18:21.000 This battle, however, is being waged in an exceptionally open and brutal manner.
00:18:25.000 This is an objective news story.
00:18:27.000 It's exceptionally open and brutal.
00:18:29.000 How about the media uncovering all these sex abuse scandals in the first place?
00:18:32.000 Was that exceptionally open and brutal?
00:18:33.000 Or was that called good reporting that they were supposed to do?
00:18:36.000 But it's exceptionally open and brutal when it turns out that this sort of thing ties into a homosexual subculture within the church. 0.80
00:18:43.000 When the two correlate, and again, that doesn't mean causation, when the two correlate, then the New York Times is more interested in protecting the homosexual subculture of the church than in protecting children.
00:18:52.000 Hey, that is what is going on here.
00:18:53.000 What is going on is that the New York Times and folks in the press are more interested in protecting their social agenda within the church than with protecting children.
00:19:01.000 Because if it comes down to a choice between targeting people like McCarrick, who apparently was having sex with seminarians, and protecting children that McCarrick was also abusing, they would prefer to preserve McCarrick at the cost of the children.
00:19:14.000 That's all I can take away from these press reports.
00:19:17.000 These accusations in the letter remain unsubstantiated, says the New York Times.
00:19:21.000 Really, would they treat them as unsubstantiated if they were against Pope Benedict?
00:19:23.000 Or would it be on the front page of every newspaper ever?
00:19:26.000 Asked Sunday night about their validity, Francis said he would not dignify them with a response, which is, of course, a non-response.
00:19:32.000 That is dignifying them with a response.
00:19:34.000 If I ask you if you sexually abuse children, and I have a credible allegation from people who know you, and you say, I'm not going to dignify that with a response, or I don't know, I'm not going to say yes, I'm not going to say no, I think it's fair to say that we should have some serious follow-up questions.
00:19:47.000 They are serious, as the New York Times, the Pope's vague answer has only heightened public interest, particularly in the core accusation that he was told about Mr. McCarrick's history of sexual relations with seminarians and did nothing about it.
00:19:58.000 But Francis' non-answer is in keeping with his reluctance to give oxygen to a small, if influential and noisy, group of conservative prelates and writers aligned with the author of the letter.
00:20:08.000 So it's all a political war.
00:20:08.000 That's all this is.
00:20:09.000 It's just a political war.
00:20:11.000 And then I'm supposed to wonder?
00:20:12.000 That people on the right don't trust the media when they're willing to cover for a Pope who may indeed be covering up for sexual abuse of children and seminarians because they like the Pope's agenda? 0.98
00:20:22.000 Fully insane.
00:20:23.000 And that's not the limit of how far the media went in the last couple of days on a variety of issues.
00:20:28.000 We'll get into their insane defense of Antifa in just a second.
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00:21:52.000 Okay, so it wasn't just that the media are now covering for the Pope because they think that climate change is more important than the abuse of children.
00:21:59.000 Or because they think that the promotion of homosexuality within the church is more important than the abuse of children.
00:22:04.000 No.
00:22:04.000 They are now covering for the media.
00:22:07.000 Because they believe that the media are now covering not just for the Pope, they're also covering for groups like Antifa.
00:22:12.000 So the folks over at CNN seem to have some bizarre love for Antifa.
00:22:16.000 We've already seen Chris Cuomo in the past, the less smart or more smart of the Cuomo brothers, depending on which day it is.
00:22:23.000 We've already seen him defend Antifa.
00:22:24.000 Don Lemon last night on CNN defended Antifa as well. 0.90
00:22:27.000 Antifa, you will recall, is a group of people who call themselves anti-fascist, but then they dress up in masks and beat the crap out of people, which is actually fascist.
00:22:34.000 Here's Don Lemon defending them.
00:22:36.000 It says it right in the name, Antifa, anti-fascism, which is what they were there fighting.
00:22:42.000 Listen, there's, you know, no organization is perfect.
00:22:44.000 There was some violence.
00:22:46.000 No one condones the violence, but there were different reasons for Antifa and for these neo-Nazis to be there. 0.98
00:22:53.000 One, racist fascists. 0.97
00:22:56.000 The other group, fighting racist fascists. 0.98
00:22:59.000 There is a fascist, there is a distinction there. 0.99
00:23:01.000 Okay, that's insane.
00:23:01.000 I love that he says it's right there in the name.
00:23:04.000 Right, and the name Affordable Care Act is right there in the name, but it didn't make it affordable or care.
00:23:09.000 Every act is named after something.
00:23:11.000 It doesn't mean that it actually is that thing.
00:23:14.000 The People's Republic of North Korea is not actually a republic.
00:23:20.000 The USSR, the Union of Soviet Republics, it was not actually a union of Soviet republics.
00:23:28.000 It was actually a dictatorship from the top, run by a one-party state.
00:23:31.000 So, um, no.
00:23:33.000 I love that he says Antifa is anti-fascist.
00:23:36.000 Therefore, not every group is perfect.
00:23:38.000 Well, I can say this.
00:23:39.000 Groups that I belong to don't go out in masks with clubs and beat the living crap out of people, break ATMs and shatter windows.
00:23:45.000 That's actually not the groups that I'm a part of, nor the groups that I support.
00:23:48.000 And when those groups do those things, I disassociate from those groups because, as far as I'm aware, I've never been a member of any of those groups or backed any of those groups.
00:23:57.000 I love that the Tea Party were terrorists, according to the left, but Antifa, who legitimately require 600 police officers to be prevented from shutting down a speech I'm doing in Berkeley.
00:24:06.000 Those people are just a few bad apples who just always seem to come to the forefront every time Antifa does any sort of activity.
00:24:13.000 Weird how that works.
00:24:16.000 The same CNN that labels the Tea Party a bunch of terrible, awful, violent people, when it's really a bunch of 60-year-old dudes with don't-try-it-on-me flags.
00:24:25.000 Clearly, that's the threat, not Antifa.
00:24:28.000 I can't imagine why we don't trust the media.
00:24:30.000 I love this.
00:24:30.000 Allison Camerata did an interview with John Sununu, John Sununu's former governor of New Hampshire, very close friends with John McCain.
00:24:37.000 And this demonstrates, again, why folks don't trust the media.
00:24:40.000 So John Sununu doesn't trust the media, and he doesn't trust some of the headlines that come out from the Washington Post or CNN.
00:24:45.000 Which he has every right not to do.
00:24:47.000 And Alison Camerata brings him on, supposedly to talk about the death of his very close friend John McCain. 0.98
00:24:53.000 And instead she starts to grill him about President Trump, because the only thing he's allowed to say on CNN is that President Trump is garbage, even when he's there just to talk about John McCain. 0.98
00:25:02.000 And folks don't trust CNN. 0.99
00:25:03.000 Shocker, shocker.
00:25:05.000 You come on CNN, and we appreciate you coming on CNN, and we appreciate your take on it, but I don't appreciate you denigrating our reporting.
00:25:15.000 I think that you know we have excellent reporters here, but are you saying that you don't want to believe that?
00:25:20.000 You don't want to believe that President Trump would do that about John McCain?
00:25:24.000 I'm saying that I don't want to comment on a report that I haven't satisfied myself is correct.
00:25:29.000 Okay, and that's the way CNN's going to approach this.
00:25:32.000 Any questions about CNN are off the table.
00:25:34.000 By the way, CNN analyst Jeffrey Toobrin yesterday claimed that any criticism of Antifa was Donald Trump's appeal to racism.
00:25:40.000 Okay, Antifa is whiter than the local branch of the KKK. 0.84
00:25:45.000 I mean, Antifa is a bunch of white people. 0.74
00:25:47.000 Every time there are a bunch of arrested in an Antifa rally, it is always a bunch of white people. 0.94
00:25:50.000 So that's pretty astonishing stuff from the media, all of which has driven a lot of the
00:25:56.000 A lot of the support for President Trump's rips on the media.
00:25:59.000 So this is actually quite funny.
00:26:00.000 Yesterday, President Trump was meeting with the head of FIFA.
00:26:03.000 In FIFA, FIFA is a soccer association.
00:26:05.000 FIFA, okay, okay, I don't really care.
00:26:07.000 Thanks for the correction, Alex, don't care.
00:26:09.000 Okay, but the president was meeting with the head of FIFA McFIFA, the head of the soccer association, and he actually turns to the press and gives them a red card.
00:26:18.000 He's actually pretty funny.
00:26:19.000 Yellow card is a warning.
00:26:22.000 And when you want to kick out someone, you should remember.
00:26:29.000 Because he took the red card and he started trying to throw them at the members of the press because he doesn't like the members of the press.
00:26:35.000 I think that Trump and the right are well justified in their dislike of a dishonest press that reports issues like Antifa and the Catholic Church the way that they do.
00:26:43.000 Also, the media's malfeasance here drives a lot of fear and that fear drives bad politics.
00:26:47.000 So yesterday, President Trump was excoriated for statements that he made to members of the evangelical community.
00:26:52.000 As per NBC News, President Trump was talking to a bunch of evangelical leaders at the White House, and he said, He said,
00:27:20.000 Well, while I disagree that we are going to look at a violent overturning from the bottom up of the First Amendment, what I do see from the left is that level of anger and level of hatred directed at religious people, and it's very real.
00:27:31.000 Unless that religious person happens to be somebody that folks on the left believe is going to overturn the
00:27:37.000 Priorities of conservatives.
00:27:39.000 If it's Pope Francis, then he has to be praised to the skies and protected even if he is covering up for sexual abuse.
00:27:44.000 If it is an actual conservative, then they will attack that conservative up and down.
00:27:47.000 So I think that the left ignores its own role in driving the polarization.
00:27:52.000 They like to pretend that Donald Trump, the universe began with Donald Trump, with the birth of Donald Trump.
00:27:56.000 The coverage of the press in other areas of human life, including the coverage of the church scandal or Antifa, demonstrates that reactionary politics is alive and well on both sides.
00:28:04.000 I think that this fight was started by the left.
00:28:06.000 I don't like how the right has responded to the left, but that doesn't mean that the left didn't start this fight and that the right doesn't have pretty good reason to worry about the excesses of the left if the left should ever take power.
00:28:16.000 Speaking of the excesses of the left,
00:28:18.000 I mean, you wonder why we don't trust folks on the left to have power?
00:28:21.000 Maybe it's because they seriously write articles like this.
00:28:24.000 I love this one.
00:28:25.000 It's so astonishing.
00:28:25.000 It's from Daisy Alioto over at Vox.com.
00:28:29.000 So, full disclosure, I have a couple of people with whom I am friendly at Vox.com, but overall, Vox is a steaming pile of human debris. 0.98
00:28:38.000 It is just an awful, awful website, and they print garbage pieces on a regular basis. 0.64
00:28:44.000 And in just a second, I'm going to give you the latest of the garbage pieces, but first, 0.97
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00:30:20.000 Okay, in just a second, I get to the... I've talked a lot about media ridiculousness today, but this one takes the cake.
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00:31:12.000 Professor Ed Fazer, here's a little bit of what we talked about.
00:31:15.000 Hi, I'm Edward Fazer, the author of Five Proofs of the Existence of God, and this Sunday on the Ben Shapiro Show Sunday Special, we'll be talking about the book and about the traditional arguments for the existence of God.
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00:31:46.000 The most ridiculous story of the day comes courtesy of, as I say, Daisy Aliota over at Vox.com.
00:31:51.000 Here is the title.
00:31:52.000 The Big Problem with the Animal Crackers Cage-Free Box Redesign.
00:31:56.000 So we covered this a little bit earlier this week.
00:31:58.000 Animal Crackers, it's Barnum's Animal Crackers, it's based on the circus.
00:32:01.000 Now Barnum and Bailey's circus is no longer operational because they no longer use elephants and people stopped going because it was supposedly cruel to animals.
00:32:08.000 So they fixed the box to get rid of the bars that were holding these animals
00:32:13.000 We're good to go.
00:32:31.000 It's so funny, folks on the left are like, people on the right are really upset about this. 0.62
00:32:34.000 I wasn't upset about it, I just thought it was hilarious and stupid that this was like a top priority for folks on the left and at PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
00:32:41.000 But, folks on the left are actually upset about the new box redesign.
00:32:44.000 This is almost, as someone said online, the platonic ideal of a Vox.com article.
00:32:49.000 The big problem with the Animal Crackers cage-free box redesign
00:32:53.000 Here's what it says.
00:32:53.000 Nabisco's animal crackers are a staple of American snack food aisles, and the box, a red and yellow rectangle featuring brightly colored circus animals cavorting in cages, is instantly recognizable.
00:33:03.000 Just last week, though, Nabisco's parent company, Mandalay, announced it will change the design of the box.
00:33:08.000 Instead of depicting the animals behind the bars of a circus wagon, it will show them striding free along a savannah.
00:33:14.000 The change is the result of a recent successful lobbying effort by PETA, which said no living being exists simply to be a spectacle or perform tricks for human entertainment, yet all circuses and traveling shows that use animals treat them as mere props, denying them everything that's natural and important to them.
00:33:28.000 So they had to change the box because PETA said that no living being exists simply to be a spectacle or perform tricks for human entertainment, which ignores PETA, which exists solely to be a spectacle and provide tricks for my entertainment.
00:33:39.000 Though the change is symbolic, it stirs up some mixed feelings for me ethics-wise as well as personally, because the designer of the previous box was my great-grandfather's brother.
00:33:48.000 Box.com.
00:33:49.000 Swapping the art on the box doesn't address the real issue PETA raises, but it does do a disservice to my uncle's art and legacy.
00:33:55.000 My uncle's design was about joy.
00:33:57.000 Not cruelty.
00:33:58.000 The New York Times reports the design had been in place since 1902, but according to the paper's own records, commercial artist Sidney Stern, my great-granduncle, designed the recognizable packaging in 1923.
00:34:07.000 Uncle Sidney died in 1989 at age 99, two years before I was born, so I never got to meet him, but I believe his design wasn't about animal cruelty.
00:34:14.000 He was thinking about joy.
00:34:16.000 A vintage poster for his animal cracker design reads, A Circus for Children, and shows the animals marching out of the box.
00:34:22.000 Stern added a polar bear to the box so it would have more color variation, and a string so the box could be used as an ornament.
00:34:27.000 Much like his idea to call a new cracker Ritz, despite it being the height of the Great Depression, his art thrived on being a light in dark time.
00:34:33.000 His own life was far from easy.
00:34:34.000 He was one of six siblings raised by Hungarian immigrants in a cramped tenement in lower Manhattan.
00:34:40.000 And it goes on like this for a long... But this is the best part.
00:34:43.000 Redesigning the box doesn't remedy the inequalities in play.
00:34:46.000 The inequalities on the Animal Crackers box.
00:34:49.000 Norms like those since times have changed, including the public consensus around the prospect of animals being abused for entertainment.
00:34:55.000 Yet the symbolic significance of changing the animal cracker box does little to dismantle the elements of capitalism that exploit animals, people, and the environment.
00:35:05.000 When art and advertising bears the burden for corporate malpractice, the people involved in these changes get to feel good, but other mechanisms continue to thrive under the surface.
00:35:13.000 This is the best part.
00:35:14.000 Before she stepped down last year, Mondelez CEO Irene Rosenfeld was making 402 times more than the company's median worker, according to the Chicago Tribune. 0.99
00:35:22.000 That's $17.11 million to the median of $42,000.
00:35:28.000 In 2016, when Monsley moved some of his production to Mexico, it claimed it gave the workers' union a choice between moving and another option, to chip away at the $46 million a year they would save by moving, a chance to save their jobs.
00:35:38.000 That other option, a 60% pay cut, according to the LA Times.
00:35:41.000 This level of corporate greed cannot be fixed with a new box design!
00:35:48.000 Okay, so they removed the bars off the animals, which is dumb enough, because now the animals are going to eat each other in fake land, where people care about these bars being in place in the first place.
00:35:58.000 But now the real problem is that by removing the bars from the picture of the animal crackers box, we are underscoring the evils of capitalism.
00:36:08.000 Vox.com at its absolute finest.
00:36:11.000 I love it.
00:36:12.000 I love it so much.
00:36:15.000 When I was writing about Uncle Sidney in 2016 for Food and Wine, I was able to get in touch with a former corporate archivist at Kraft, one of the people responsible for maintaining the company's historic records.
00:36:24.000 She said after the merger there was no Nabisco archivist and possibly no archive.
00:36:28.000 As far as I know, the best archive of mid-century Nabisco box design is at Uncle Sidney's home in New Jersey, where the artwork fills multiple rooms.
00:36:35.000 Do you know who designed the Campbell Soup label?
00:36:37.000 Probably not.
00:36:38.000 But you certainly know Andy Warhol because he was a real artist.
00:36:41.000 If you've seen Mad Men, you know that in-house artists and marketers often work in teams.
00:36:44.000 Many gifted artists, without the money to pursue a career in fine arts, turned to commercial art as their day job and became nameless contributors to the brand's public face.
00:36:52.000 They are the real victims.
00:36:54.000 The real victims are all of the people who actually made the logos for these products.
00:37:00.000 Society is set up so that we have to make small ethical choices because the biggest ones are too hard to tackle.
00:37:05.000 Now my uncle's art has become a part of this cycle.
00:37:08.000 So if you see me at the grocery store buying up remains of his public legacy, it's not because I don't care about the ethical treatment of animals or people for that matter.
00:37:16.000 It's because the animal crackers box is my Balthus.
00:37:20.000 Wow.
00:37:21.000 Vox.com.
00:37:22.000 Doing the work no one cares about. 1.00
00:37:24.000 Because it's stupid. 1.00
00:37:26.000 Speaking of media bias... 1.00
00:37:27.000 There's a story that is worth noting here.
00:37:29.000 So there's a lot of talk over the last year or so about this case from April 29, 2017, in which a white Texas police officer was shot to death.
00:37:40.000 A black teenager named Jordan Edwards.
00:37:42.000 This officer and officer, Tyler Gross, had responded to a report of drunk juveniles and found teens leaving a house party on the night in question.
00:37:49.000 Oliver claimed that he saw a car moving toward fellow officer Tyler Gross, ignoring commands to stop.
00:37:53.000 Fearing for Gross' life, Oliver said he fired at the car where Edwards and other teens had been riding.
00:37:58.000 And then Oliver told the court he had heard what sounded like gunshots when he arrived to the scene and said people in the crowd were fleeing.
00:38:03.000 And then he said that he shot this kid who was in the car.
00:38:08.000 Officer Gross, however, testified that he was not in fear for his life when Oliver fired his weapon.
00:38:12.000 Additionally, there was video showing the car was really driving away from Gross, not toward him, and court records said Oliver had flipped off the car Edwards was in following the shooting.
00:38:20.000 This officer was convicted of murder and will now go to prison.
00:38:24.000 So for all the talk about how racist the criminal justice system is, this is a police officer who shot a black kid, wrongly, and will now go to prison for it.
00:38:30.000 That's why when people say that we live in a KKK system, it's like, no, this is not a KKK system.
00:38:34.000 This is a police officer in Texas, a very conservative state, who was convicted of shooting a kid because there was evidence that he'd shot the kid wrongfully.
00:38:42.000 That's how the system is supposed to work.
00:38:44.000 And yet we are treated to the spectacle of the media constantly claiming that the reality is that America is suffering from endemic racism, which can never be cured.
00:38:52.000 The latest proof of that comes courtesy of this election in Florida.
00:38:54.000 So the media is making a very big deal of this election down in Florida, where Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum shocked his Democratic rivals and won the nomination for governor.
00:39:03.000 According to the Miami Herald, Democrat Andrew Gillum wrote, So I have to say, I'm a little underwhelmed by the first black governor in Florida's history.
00:39:19.000 I think so.
00:39:38.000 Black everything? 0.99
00:39:39.000 Is this like a thing now?
00:39:40.000 I mean, I guess so.
00:39:41.000 I guess so.
00:39:41.000 But the implication seems to be that the people of Florida are racist, so it's some sort of big shock.
00:39:45.000 And then if he doesn't win, presumably we will suggest that it was because of the color of his skin, not because he's a political radical.
00:39:51.000 With 94% of the votes counted, Gillum had an unofficial 3 percentage point lead over his closest rival, former U.S.
00:39:56.000 Representative Gwen Graham.
00:39:58.000 Gwen Graham's father, of course, was a senator from the state of Florida as well.
00:40:03.000 So his program is insanely far to the left.
00:40:07.000 He's called for Medicare for All, just like Bernie Sanders.
00:40:09.000 Bernie Sanders campaigned for him.
00:40:11.000 And what we are seeing in a lot of these primaries, the real story of Gillum's win is not racial.
00:40:15.000 The real story of Gillum's win is that Bernie Sanders in the far left in primaries
00:40:19.000 I don't know.
00:40:39.000 Gillum says he yearns for the chance to take on DeSantis in November.
00:40:43.000 DeSantis says, I think he is way, way too liberal for the state of Florida.
00:40:46.000 There's another problem here.
00:40:49.000 His agenda includes a $15 an hour minimum wage, staunch opposition to the stand your ground self-defense law that exists in Florida, where if somebody attacks you, you have the right to defend yourself, and Medicare for all.
00:40:59.000 So this is what he supports.
00:41:01.000 That's a pretty left agenda, but there's a bigger problem, and the media are going to downplay it because he's a Democrat.
00:41:07.000 So again, when it's a Democrat, then the story is Republicans' pounds.
00:41:10.000 When it's a Republican, then the story is Republican corruption.
00:41:12.000 So this is a Republicans' pounds story, because Andrew Gillum is actually under investigation by the FBI for corruption, or at least his city mayor's offices.
00:41:21.000 According to tampabay.com, the Tampa Bay Times, Andrew Gillum's campaign for governor hasn't been the luckiest.
00:41:26.000 Just a few months into the Tallahassee mayor's run, FBI agents delivered a subpoena to his city hall in June 2017, requesting thousands of pages of records from key players in city government.
00:41:37.000 The investigation has dogged Gillum's campaign, with new developments dripping out with unpredictable frequency.
00:41:41.000 The FBI is usually tight-lipped about pending matters.
00:41:43.000 Although Gillum has not been named in any subpoenas, it's likely the Democratic Party voters wouldn't know the case's outcome before they head to the polls on August 28th.
00:41:52.000 And they didn't.
00:41:53.000 There was no outcome before that.
00:41:54.000 Starting in 2015,
00:41:55.000 FBI agents came to town posing as businessmen considering investments in the city of Tallahassee.
00:42:00.000 The three men, who reportedly identified themselves as Mike Sweets, Mike Miller, and Brian Butler, spent months cozying up to city officials and people close to them.
00:42:07.000 The FBI investigation, based in part on their undercover work, has yielded several rounds of subpoenas but no charges yet.
00:42:13.000 A slew of Tallahassee officials and insiders have been named in those subpoenas over the past year.
00:42:18.000 According to those documents, the part of the investigation that could be most relevant to Gillom centers around the city's Community Redevelopment Agency, which shares private and public money to revitalization and infrastructure projects.
00:42:30.000 One of the officials in the crosshairs of the FBI, lobbyist Adam Corey, was a longtime Gillum friend and ally until Gillum cut ties with him after all of this started to come to the fore.
00:42:40.000 In 2013, the Community Redevelopment Agency voted to give $1.3 million in taxpayer money to help a Corey-associated restaurant project, the Edison.
00:42:48.000 Gillum voted with the rest of the city commissioners to fund the project.
00:42:51.000 At the time, Gillum's vote raised eyebrows because of his close association with Corey.
00:42:55.000 So, we're going to pretend that this corruption doesn't actually exist because Gillum is a Democrat.
00:42:59.000 We're going to, meanwhile, go after President Trump on every available count that we can possibly dig up against him before the media.
00:43:05.000 But Gillum will wait for all the evidence to come in.
00:43:07.000 Now, should we wait for the evidence to come in?
00:43:08.000 Sure.
00:43:09.000 But to pretend those allegations don't exist is, I think, kind of telling about the media's agenda in all of this.
00:43:15.000 Sure.
00:43:18.000 Would it be good if the presidents of the United States were a little more popular going into the 2018 elections?
00:43:22.000 That would help as well.
00:43:23.000 Ron DeSantis would make an excellent governor of the state of Florida.
00:43:25.000 As I say, he's a down-the-line conservative.
00:43:28.000 And Gillum is a radical leftist.
00:43:31.000 So we'll see how all of this plays out.
00:43:33.000 But the only narrative the media really cares about is not the corruption narrative or the political narrative.
00:43:37.000 It's the first black governor of Florida narrative.
00:43:39.000 The implication, of course, being that America is still deeply racist.
00:43:43.000 And so it'd be a surprise if Gillum won the governorship of Florida, which, by the way, it would not be.
00:43:47.000 He has a serious shot.
00:43:48.000 It's a dead even race.
00:43:49.000 OK, let's do a couple of things that I like and then we'll do some things that I hate.
00:43:52.000 We'll do a federalist paper as well.
00:43:54.000 So things I like, we're doing some Neil Simon this week.
00:43:57.000 So Neil Simon did a play that was made into a movie called Plaza Suite with Walter Matthau playing three different parts in three different narratives.
00:44:04.000 The basic structure of the play is that there's this hotel suite and three different plots take place within it.
00:44:09.000 Walter Matthau, who's a really underrated actor, Walter Matthau.
00:44:12.000 And he's great in everything.
00:44:14.000 You want to see a great Walter Matthau performance, go see Charade, which is one of the kind of great classy movies from the 1960s.
00:44:19.000 It's Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant and James Coburn and George Kennedy.
00:44:27.000 It's a really fantastic cast.
00:44:28.000 It's really a lot of fun.
00:44:29.000 And Walter Matthau plays a great role in that one as well.
00:44:32.000 But here he is in Plaza Suite.
00:44:34.000 Walter Matthau and Maureen Stapleton have the Plaza Suite.
00:44:38.000 I brought your toothbrush.
00:44:40.000 You forgot my pajamas?
00:44:41.000 I didn't forget.
00:44:41.000 I just didn't bring it.
00:44:42.000 Why not?
00:44:44.000 Because it's suite 719 at the Plaza and I didn't think you'd want your pajamas.
00:44:47.000 You know I can't sleep without pajamas.
00:44:49.000 I took that into consideration.
00:44:50.000 I don't understand. 0.63
00:44:51.000 Your one lousy little bag is all I asked you to pack. 0.97
00:44:57.000 Walter Matthau and Barbara Harris have the Plaza suite.
00:45:01.000 I'm nervous about meeting you, Mr. Famous Hollywood Producer.
00:45:06.000 I haven't changed since I left Tenafly.
00:45:08.000 I made a couple of pictures, that's all.
00:45:13.000 Matt, that was great.
00:45:15.000 And of course, he's in a bunch of movies that were Neil Simon movies.
00:45:19.000 Basically because The Odd Couple was such a massive success.
00:45:22.000 So go check that out.
00:45:23.000 Okay, other things that I like.
00:45:24.000 There's a very good piece today.
00:45:26.000 By Bjorn Lomberg.
00:45:28.000 Bjorn Lomberg, of course, has become famous as the director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center.
00:45:33.000 And he's famously well known as a guy who's very skeptical of a lot of the climate change claims that are made by folks on the ardent left.
00:45:39.000 And he has a piece today talking about the solution to climate change and what it would actually cost.
00:45:43.000 This is something folks on the left never want to talk about.
00:45:45.000 They want to talk about the cost of climate change, which is fine.
00:45:47.000 And then they use the most catastrophic
00:45:49.000 Sort of numbers to come up with their estimates, which is not quite as fine.
00:45:54.000 You should really give a sort of range of outcomes and then talk about what's the probability of each outcome before you actually gauge what the solution is going to be, right?
00:46:02.000 This is what we have to do in policy all the time.
00:46:04.000 We gauge risk and benefit and risk and reward of every policy.
00:46:07.000 So, for example, whenever the left says, if it would just save one life, then we should do it.
00:46:12.000 That's a really dumb gauge because pretty much everything would save one life.
00:46:15.000 Virtually everything in the United States would save one life because there are 330 million people living in the United States. 0.97
00:46:20.000 You can make that case for banning automobiles.
00:46:22.000 It would save one life.
00:46:23.000 We should just ban automobiles.
00:46:24.000 Well, it would save lives.
00:46:25.000 It would also completely destroy the economy, make business wildly inconvenient, destroy a lot of people's, you know, happiness and livelihood.
00:46:33.000 But it would save one life.
00:46:34.000 Well, Lomberg makes clear there are actual costs to a lot of the solutions being proposed by climate change.
00:46:39.000 I would say alarmist in many cases.
00:46:57.000 Shocking, because those are some of the most populous places and poorest places on earth.
00:47:21.000 Trying to help 24 million people by imperiling 78 million people is a very poor policy.
00:47:26.000 You've heard similar stories before.
00:47:27.000 In a few short decades, climate policy has often created more damage than the benefits it attempts to deliver, says Bjorn Lomberg.
00:47:33.000 Ten years ago, a biofuels craze swept rich countries with full-throated support of green activists who held any shift away from fossil fuels.
00:47:40.000 Food crops were replaced to produce ethanol, and the resulting spike in food prices forced at least 30 million people into poverty and 30 million more into hunger, according to UK charity ActionAid.
00:47:49.000 If you want to eradicate hunger, there are more effective ways.
00:47:51.000 Around 800 million people are undernourished today, mostly because of poverty.
00:47:55.000 The single most significant initiative that could be undertaken tomorrow is not a policy that slows the global economy, but one that cuts poverty, a global trade deal.
00:48:02.000 A global free trade, which of course is exactly correct.
00:48:06.000 He talks about the EU's climate policy, says that will realistically cost $600 billion every year for the rest of the century.
00:48:12.000 And at best, it delivers a trifling temperature reduction of just 0.09 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the century.
00:48:19.000 For example, activists argue that Bangladesh should cut coal expansion.
00:48:27.000 That would deliver global climate benefits worth nearly $100 million.
00:48:30.000 But the foregone boost to the Bangladeshi economy would cost about $50 billion.
00:48:35.000 Which is why all of this talk about climate change solutions is basically a rich people problem.
00:48:39.000 You see a lot of folks in the EU and the United States talking about it.
00:48:42.000 If you're a person living in a developing country, what you're most worried about today is ensuring that you don't die and that your kids don't die.
00:48:48.000 This is not to say we shouldn't try and come up with solutions to climate change, but if those solutions involve the suffering of more people than the actual problem, then you're doing it wrong.
00:48:56.000 And you're doing it wrong.
00:48:57.000 Okay, time for a couple of things that I hate.
00:49:04.000 Okay, so a couple of things that I hate.
00:49:06.000 So, there's a report today that sexually transmitted diseases are on the rise in the United States, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
00:49:14.000 In fact, nearly 2.3 million cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis were diagnosed in the U.S.
00:49:19.000 in 2017, surpassing the record set in 2016 by more than 200,000, according to CDC scientists.
00:49:25.000 Experts say many factors have contributed to the rapid rise, though the biggest one may be less frequent condom use.
00:49:30.000 It's less clear whether dating apps like Tinder have contributed in some way to the spread of STDs than some researchers think they have.
00:49:36.000 You want to know why there are more STDs?
00:49:39.000 Because people are being more promiscuous.
00:49:41.000 Wow!
00:49:42.000 Wow, I know that was a shock to you.
00:49:44.000 I know that you just had that bluey one, that one blew you out of your seat. 1.00
00:49:47.000 I know. 0.56
00:49:47.000 When you say people are being more promiscuous and having more random sex with random strangers without protection, that that raises the rate of STDs. 0.56
00:49:54.000 I know that you've been told by feminism that this is a great enrichment to human life.
00:49:59.000 You've been told by a variety of folks on the social left that more and diverse forms of sex is not going to have any cost, it's just going to enrich human happiness.
00:50:10.000 Turns out giant fail.
00:50:11.000 In the past, the majority of syphilis infections were seen in gay men, bisexual men, and other men who have sex with men. 0.64
00:50:15.000 Boland told NBC News.
00:50:16.000 I'm confused what that third category is. 0.97
00:50:32.000 You already said gay men and bisexual men and other men who have sex with men. 0.55
00:50:34.000 I'm not sure what that last category is right there.
00:50:35.000 Well, my guess is that if you are starting to see an increase, what that means is that there's an increase
00:50:50.000 I think so.
00:51:10.000 An Australian study that followed nearly 17,000 gay and bisexual men before and after a campaign to promote pre-exposure prophylaxis, the use of drugs that protect against HIV infection, found that condom use had fallen dramatically.
00:51:21.000 Before the campaign, 46% of the men studied were using condoms, after only 31% were.
00:51:25.000 So it's more risky sexual behavior taken because the media have been pushing the idea that all sorts of sex are safe and that we have great treatments for everything now.
00:51:36.000 So, well done, media.
00:51:37.000 Well done for suggesting that the height of human happiness lies in sexual promiscuity and that we have solutions for all of the problems that you yourself create by putting your genitalia in places they ought not be, certainly not, without protection. 0.99
00:51:49.000 So, well done all around. 0.99
00:51:51.000 Okay, other things that I hate.
00:51:53.000 I'm not sure whether I hate this or I sort of think that it's hilarious.
00:51:55.000 So, U.S.
00:51:55.000 District Court Judge Gregory Woods was not having attorney Kafani Nkrumah's defense of his client, Jamal Russell, that a cooperating witness was not a reliable source of information, as per Donald Trump.
00:52:06.000 So the New York Daily News reported that Russell was being tried for conspiracy to deal crack and carrying a firearm in connection with dealing crack.
00:52:12.000 You know what's funny?
00:52:13.000 Yesterday Manafort was convicted, Nkrumah said.
00:52:15.000 He was referring to the trial of Trump's former campaign chair Paul Manafort.
00:52:20.000 And Nekrumah was immediately stopped due to an objection from the court.
00:52:23.000 At the bench, Nekrumah explained he planned to cite Trump on the matter of cooperating witnesses.
00:52:27.000 He was going to cite President Trump saying that flipping ought to be illegal.
00:52:30.000 So you remember last week, President Trump said about Michael Cohen that flipping is a bad practice and ought to be illegal?
00:52:36.000 So apparently, this criminal defense lawyer said, well, if Trump says it, I agree.
00:52:40.000 People shouldn't be allowed to flip on my client. 0.99
00:52:42.000 All of which is why what President Trump said was really, really dumb on pretty much every level. 0.96
00:52:45.000 The judge shut that down because it's a dumb argument, which is why Trump probably shouldn't try to make it in court. 0.97
00:52:49.000 Okay, time for a Federalist paper.
00:52:51.000 So back to founding principles and a little bit of uplift on this day of dark media coverage.
00:52:55.000 So Federalist 43 by James Madison.
00:52:58.000 This particular case makes, this particular Federalist paper, makes the case for federal jurisdiction over a variety of issues, including copyright, the nation's capital, and to admit new states, among others.
00:53:07.000 The feds also have the ability to guarantee a Republican form of government.
00:53:11.000 The Federalist Paper says in a confederacy founded on Republican principles and composed of Republican members, the superintending government ought clearly to possess authority to defend the system against aristocratic or monarchical innovations.
00:53:23.000 The more intimate the nature of such a union may be, the greater interest have the members in the political institutions of each other.
00:53:28.000 In other words, the United States has an interest in ensuring that Montana doesn't become a monarchy.
00:53:33.000 The feds also have the capacity to intervene and put down insurrection within a state.
00:53:37.000 Why?
00:53:38.000 Well, this is an interesting point.
00:53:39.000 The existence of a right to interpose will generally prevent the necessity of exerting it.
00:53:43.000 So this is a very early iteration of peace through strength.
00:53:46.000 If the government has the power to shut down insurrection, people are not going to actually engage in insurrection.
00:53:51.000 It's also the case that people have made in favor of the Second Amendment.
00:53:53.000 An armed population is a population safe from tyranny because the government is less likely to attempt tyranny on an armed population.
00:53:59.000 It's also why the United States should remain strong militarily.
00:54:02.000 People abroad are less likely to challenge us if we know we can curb-stomp them anytime we please. 0.98
00:54:07.000 Basically, it's Madison making that case with regard to domestic insurrection.
00:54:10.000 Madison also makes the case for being able to amend the Constitution.
00:54:13.000 He says, In other words, it's hard to pass an amendment, but it's meant to be hard to pass an amendment.
00:54:35.000 But we have a way to pass amendments so we can adjust the Constitution.
00:54:40.000 Madison and the founders believed in the amendment process specifically because they were not afraid of a runaway convention.
00:54:45.000 This has been one of the objections used to the so-called Convention of States, the idea that you can have basically three-fifths of the states get together and declare a convention in order to add amendments to the Constitution of the United States.
00:54:55.000 It's supported by people like me and Mark Levin.
00:54:58.000 There's a Convention of States program, an Article 5 Convention of States program.
00:55:02.000 One of the worries has been the idea of a runaway convention, but it's very hard to pass a constitutional amendment in any case, and the prospect of a runaway convention was discounted by the people who wrote the provision, and I think for good reason.
00:55:13.000 Okay, we'll be back here tomorrow with all the latest updates.
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