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.
00:01:29.000are absolutely destroying themselves on the shoals of their own political bias.
00:01:35.000The clearest example of this doesn't even have to do with President Trump today.
00:01:38.000The clearest example of this has to do with the scandal that is now plaguing the Catholic Church.
00:01:41.000Now, 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.
00:01:51.000There are lots of institutions across the United States and internationally in which abuse of children is looked
00:02:15.000Well, to recap, the Catholic Church basically was experiencing
00:02:30.000A 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.
00:02:42.000He was accused by one of his, by an archbishop named Carlo Maria Vigano.
00:02:49.000The accusation is that the higher ups at the church, particularly Pope Francis, basically covered all this up.
00:02:54.000That he knew about this and that Cardinal McCarrick was
00:02:58.000Put into essentially a form of private excommunication almost.
00:03:04.000He 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.
00:03:10.000That was the accusation that was made by Vigano.
00:03:13.000And all of this matters because now the media are coming out and they are defending the Pope.
00:03:20.000Pope Francis refuses to comment on this.
00:03:22.000He has not confirmed or denied that he knew that this cardinal was engaged in homosexual abuses inside the church.
00:03:29.000There are two forms of abuse, obviously.
00:03:30.000There'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.
00:03:44.000Well, 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.
00:03:55.000Instead, they're fighting back by suggesting that Pope Francis should be given a pass because Pope Francis is to the left on politics.
00:04:01.000Leading the way is Cardinal Blaise Cupich.
00:04:03.000Blaise Cupich is one of the archbishops, I believe, over in Chicago, and he is
00:04:48.000What it really has to do with is protecting the Catholic Church from allegations that would stop their progressive agenda.
00:04:55.000Now, I've been a critic, a longtime critic, of Pope Francis.
00:04:58.000I think a lot of conservative Catholics have joined me in that criticism.
00:05:00.000Or rather, I have joined them in that criticism.
00:05:02.000The 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
00:05:29.000That comment by Cupich is so telling, Cardinal Cupich.
00:05:33.000To 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.
00:05:46.000They 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.
00:05:57.000And then Cupich actually said the parody headline.
00:06:00.000And prosecutors are saying now, it's not just this one Cardinal Vagano who's accusing the church of knowing about all this.
00:06:06.000According to a state attorney general in Pennsylvania, the Vatican knew about all of this as well.
00:06:11.000This 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.
00:06:38.000During 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.
00:06:46.000It was largely based on documents from the archives kept by the state's six diocese, he said.
00:06:50.000He 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.
00:07:05.000Shapiro did not comment on whether Pope Francis or his predecessors knew of the information.
00:07:08.000Again, the allegation is by Cardinal Vigano that Pope Francis knew all about them.
00:07:12.000Vigano, 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.
00:07:26.000Vigano 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.
00:07:39.000George Weigel is a senior fellow in Catholic studies at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.
00:07:44.000He said, Now, how are the media treating all of this?
00:07:46.000You would imagine the media might be a little upset
00:07:55.000I think normally the media are pretty upset when it comes to Catholic priests abusing children.
00:07:59.000There was a movie that just won an Oscar based on this.
00:08:02.000Spotlight was based on the Boston Globe uncovering hundreds of abuse cases in Massachusetts archdiocese.
00:08:10.000So the media have been all over sexual scandals within the Catholic Church for good reasons and bad.
00:08:15.000Good 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.
00:09:26.000Not the Catholic Church covering up cases of sexual abuse of minors?
00:09:30.000Not 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?
00:09:41.000The only real issue here is that Pope Francis has fallen under assault.
00:09:44.000This 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.
00:09:54.000They 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.
00:10:01.000And so they are rallying around Pope Francis, even though it now appears there are significant, credible allegations that Pope Francis knew
00:10:23.000And the problems of targeting abusive minors.
00:10:26.000So the fact is that Cardinal McCarrick, the accusations made by Vagano, don't actually even extend to the abusive minors.
00:10:32.000They just extend to Vagano basically having a bunch of homosexual affairs with seminarians and pressuring those seminarians into sex.
00:10:39.000The media doesn't think that's a bad thing, and so they're angry that conservatives are talking about that in the first place.
00:10:44.000They 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.
00:10:52.000There 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.
00:11:01.000The reality is that a disproportionate number of the victims of sexual abuse for minors in the church have been male.
00:11:07.000Which 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.
00:11:21.000I 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.
00:11:31.000But the attempt to defend Pope Francis is obviously very telling.
00:11:34.000That wasn't even the worst headline of the day.
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00:13:27.000So when it is a grave sin on the part of somebody on the left, it's conservatives pounce.
00:13:32.000When it's a grave sin on the part of somebody on the right, it's the conservative committed the sin.
00:13:35.000That's the way the media cover these issues.
00:13:37.000That's the way the New York Times covers these issues.
00:13:39.000So when it's Duncan Hunter involved in a corruption scandal, then it's Representative Duncan Hunter of California, Republican, involved in corruption.
00:13:47.000And 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,
00:13:56.000When instead of it saying allegations of corruption made about Senator Bob Menendez, it's conservatives pounce on allegations.
00:15:06.000Reason 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.
00:15:14.000That's not even the worst of the New York Times article.
00:16:03.000If 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.
00:16:10.000But 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.
00:16:17.000With 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.
00:16:44.000So the issue isn't that the left wants to shut down the First Amendment.
00:16:47.000The issue is that the right is, quote-unquote, weaponizing the First Amendment.
00:16:51.000Now the issue isn't that conservatives are trying to stop sexual abuse inside the Vatican.
00:16:55.000No, now the issue is that they are weaponizing sexual abuse inside the Vatican.
00:16:59.000It 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
00:17:07.000Abusive priests back in positions to abuse more children.
00:17:10.000Would that not be weaponizing sexual assault against innocent people?
00:17:14.000It's not weaponizing sexual assault to accuse people of covering up sexual assault.
00:17:24.000At 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.
00:17:33.000Well, this is really where the New York Times gets concerned.
00:17:34.000What 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.
00:17:47.000And 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.
00:17:55.000There's a 3,500-year tradition in Judeo-Christian religion of banning homosexual activity, or at least opposing homosexual activity.
00:18:03.000It'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.
00:18:14.000The 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.
00:18:21.000This battle, however, is being waged in an exceptionally open and brutal manner.
00:18:29.000How about the media uncovering all these sex abuse scandals in the first place?
00:18:32.000Was that exceptionally open and brutal?
00:18:33.000Or was that called good reporting that they were supposed to do?
00:18:36.000But it's exceptionally open and brutal when it turns out that this sort of thing ties into a homosexual subculture within the church.
00:18:43.000When 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.
00:18:53.000What 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.
00:19:01.000Because 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.
00:19:14.000That's all I can take away from these press reports.
00:19:17.000These accusations in the letter remain unsubstantiated, says the New York Times.
00:19:21.000Really, would they treat them as unsubstantiated if they were against Pope Benedict?
00:19:23.000Or would it be on the front page of every newspaper ever?
00:19:26.000Asked Sunday night about their validity, Francis said he would not dignify them with a response, which is, of course, a non-response.
00:19:32.000That is dignifying them with a response.
00:19:34.000If 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.
00:19:47.000They 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.
00:19:58.000But 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.
00:20:12.000That 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?
00:21:50.000An easier, more user-friendly way to trade.
00:21:52.000Okay, 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.
00:21:59.000Or because they think that the promotion of homosexuality within the church is more important than the abuse of children.
00:22:24.000Don Lemon last night on CNN defended Antifa as well.
00:22:27.000Antifa, 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.
00:23:39.000Groups 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.
00:23:45.000That's actually not the groups that I'm a part of, nor the groups that I support.
00:23:48.000And 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.
00:23:57.000I 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.
00:24:06.000Those people are just a few bad apples who just always seem to come to the forefront every time Antifa does any sort of activity.
00:24:16.000The 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.
00:24:25.000Clearly, that's the threat, not Antifa.
00:24:28.000I can't imagine why we don't trust the media.
00:24:47.000And Alison Camerata brings him on, supposedly to talk about the death of his very close friend John McCain.
00:24:53.000And 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.
00:25:05.000You 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.
00:25:15.000I think that you know we have excellent reporters here, but are you saying that you don't want to believe that?
00:25:20.000You don't want to believe that President Trump would do that about John McCain?
00:25:24.000I'm saying that I don't want to comment on a report that I haven't satisfied myself is correct.
00:25:29.000Okay, and that's the way CNN's going to approach this.
00:25:32.000Any questions about CNN are off the table.
00:25:34.000By the way, CNN analyst Jeffrey Toobrin yesterday claimed that any criticism of Antifa was Donald Trump's appeal to racism.
00:25:40.000Okay, Antifa is whiter than the local branch of the KKK.
00:25:45.000I mean, Antifa is a bunch of white people.
00:25:47.000Every time there are a bunch of arrested in an Antifa rally, it is always a bunch of white people.
00:25:50.000So that's pretty astonishing stuff from the media, all of which has driven a lot of the
00:25:56.000A lot of the support for President Trump's rips on the media.
00:26:00.000Yesterday, President Trump was meeting with the head of FIFA.
00:26:03.000In FIFA, FIFA is a soccer association.
00:26:05.000FIFA, okay, okay, I don't really care.
00:26:07.000Thanks for the correction, Alex, don't care.
00:26:09.000Okay, 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.
00:26:22.000And when you want to kick out someone, you should remember.
00:26:29.000Because 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.
00:26:35.000I 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.
00:26:43.000Also, the media's malfeasance here drives a lot of fear and that fear drives bad politics.
00:26:47.000So yesterday, President Trump was excoriated for statements that he made to members of the evangelical community.
00:26:52.000As per NBC News, President Trump was talking to a bunch of evangelical leaders at the White House, and he said, He said,
00:27:20.000Well, 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.
00:27:31.000Unless that religious person happens to be somebody that folks on the left believe is going to overturn the
00:27:39.000If it's Pope Francis, then he has to be praised to the skies and protected even if he is covering up for sexual abuse.
00:27:44.000If it is an actual conservative, then they will attack that conservative up and down.
00:27:47.000So I think that the left ignores its own role in driving the polarization.
00:27:52.000They like to pretend that Donald Trump, the universe began with Donald Trump, with the birth of Donald Trump.
00:27:56.000The 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.
00:28:04.000I think that this fight was started by the left.
00:28:06.000I 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.
00:28:25.000It's from Daisy Alioto over at Vox.com.
00:28:29.000So, 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.
00:28:38.000It is just an awful, awful website, and they print garbage pieces on a regular basis.
00:28:44.000And in just a second, I'm going to give you the latest of the garbage pieces, but first,
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00:31:46.000The most ridiculous story of the day comes courtesy of, as I say, Daisy Aliota over at Vox.com.
00:31:52.000The Big Problem with the Animal Crackers Cage-Free Box Redesign.
00:31:56.000So we covered this a little bit earlier this week.
00:31:58.000Animal Crackers, it's Barnum's Animal Crackers, it's based on the circus.
00:32:01.000Now 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.
00:32:08.000So they fixed the box to get rid of the bars that were holding these animals
00:32:31.000It's so funny, folks on the left are like, people on the right are really upset about this.
00:32:34.000I 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.
00:32:41.000But, folks on the left are actually upset about the new box redesign.
00:32:44.000This is almost, as someone said online, the platonic ideal of a Vox.com article.
00:32:49.000The big problem with the Animal Crackers cage-free box redesign
00:32:53.000Nabisco'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.
00:33:03.000Just last week, though, Nabisco's parent company, Mandalay, announced it will change the design of the box.
00:33:08.000Instead of depicting the animals behind the bars of a circus wagon, it will show them striding free along a savannah.
00:33:14.000The 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.
00:33:28.000So 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.
00:33:39.000Though 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.
00:33:58.000The 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.
00:34:07.000Uncle 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.
00:34:16.000A vintage poster for his animal cracker design reads, A Circus for Children, and shows the animals marching out of the box.
00:34:22.000Stern 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.
00:34:27.000Much 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.
00:34:34.000He was one of six siblings raised by Hungarian immigrants in a cramped tenement in lower Manhattan.
00:34:40.000And it goes on like this for a long... But this is the best part.
00:34:43.000Redesigning the box doesn't remedy the inequalities in play.
00:34:46.000The inequalities on the Animal Crackers box.
00:34:49.000Norms like those since times have changed, including the public consensus around the prospect of animals being abused for entertainment.
00:34:55.000Yet the symbolic significance of changing the animal cracker box does little to dismantle the elements of capitalism that exploit animals, people, and the environment.
00:35:05.000When 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.
00:35:14.000Before 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.
00:35:22.000That's $17.11 million to the median of $42,000.
00:35:28.000In 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.
00:35:38.000That other option, a 60% pay cut, according to the LA Times.
00:35:41.000This level of corporate greed cannot be fixed with a new box design!
00:35:48.000Okay, 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.
00:35:58.000But 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.
00:36:15.000When 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.
00:36:24.000She said after the merger there was no Nabisco archivist and possibly no archive.
00:36:28.000As 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.
00:36:35.000Do you know who designed the Campbell Soup label?
00:36:38.000But you certainly know Andy Warhol because he was a real artist.
00:36:41.000If you've seen Mad Men, you know that in-house artists and marketers often work in teams.
00:36:44.000Many 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.
00:36:54.000The real victims are all of the people who actually made the logos for these products.
00:37:00.000Society is set up so that we have to make small ethical choices because the biggest ones are too hard to tackle.
00:37:05.000Now my uncle's art has become a part of this cycle.
00:37:08.000So 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.
00:37:16.000It's because the animal crackers box is my Balthus.
00:37:27.000There's a story that is worth noting here.
00:37:29.000So 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.
00:37:40.000A black teenager named Jordan Edwards.
00:37:42.000This 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.
00:37:49.000Oliver claimed that he saw a car moving toward fellow officer Tyler Gross, ignoring commands to stop.
00:37:53.000Fearing for Gross' life, Oliver said he fired at the car where Edwards and other teens had been riding.
00:37:58.000And 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.
00:38:03.000And then he said that he shot this kid who was in the car.
00:38:08.000Officer Gross, however, testified that he was not in fear for his life when Oliver fired his weapon.
00:38:12.000Additionally, 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.
00:38:20.000This officer was convicted of murder and will now go to prison.
00:38:24.000So 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.
00:38:30.000That's why when people say that we live in a KKK system, it's like, no, this is not a KKK system.
00:38:34.000This 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.
00:38:42.000That's how the system is supposed to work.
00:38:44.000And 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.
00:38:52.000The latest proof of that comes courtesy of this election in Florida.
00:38:54.000So 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.
00:39:03.000According 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.
00:40:49.000His 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.
00:41:01.000That's a pretty left agenda, but there's a bigger problem, and the media are going to downplay it because he's a Democrat.
00:41:07.000So again, when it's a Democrat, then the story is Republicans' pounds.
00:41:10.000When it's a Republican, then the story is Republican corruption.
00:41:12.000So 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.
00:41:21.000According to tampabay.com, the Tampa Bay Times, Andrew Gillum's campaign for governor hasn't been the luckiest.
00:41:26.000Just 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.
00:41:37.000The investigation has dogged Gillum's campaign, with new developments dripping out with unpredictable frequency.
00:41:41.000The FBI is usually tight-lipped about pending matters.
00:41:43.000Although 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.
00:41:55.000FBI agents came to town posing as businessmen considering investments in the city of Tallahassee.
00:42:00.000The 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.
00:42:07.000The FBI investigation, based in part on their undercover work, has yielded several rounds of subpoenas but no charges yet.
00:42:13.000A slew of Tallahassee officials and insiders have been named in those subpoenas over the past year.
00:42:18.000According 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.
00:42:30.000One 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.
00:42:40.000In 2013, the Community Redevelopment Agency voted to give $1.3 million in taxpayer money to help a Corey-associated restaurant project, the Edison.
00:42:48.000Gillum voted with the rest of the city commissioners to fund the project.
00:42:51.000At the time, Gillum's vote raised eyebrows because of his close association with Corey.
00:42:55.000So, we're going to pretend that this corruption doesn't actually exist because Gillum is a Democrat.
00:42:59.000We're going to, meanwhile, go after President Trump on every available count that we can possibly dig up against him before the media.
00:43:05.000But Gillum will wait for all the evidence to come in.
00:43:07.000Now, should we wait for the evidence to come in?
00:43:54.000So things I like, we're doing some Neil Simon this week.
00:43:57.000So 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.
00:44:04.000The basic structure of the play is that there's this hotel suite and three different plots take place within it.
00:44:09.000Walter Matthau, who's a really underrated actor, Walter Matthau.
00:45:28.000Bjorn Lomberg, of course, has become famous as the director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center.
00:45:33.000And 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.
00:45:39.000And he has a piece today talking about the solution to climate change and what it would actually cost.
00:45:43.000This is something folks on the left never want to talk about.
00:45:45.000They want to talk about the cost of climate change, which is fine.
00:45:47.000And then they use the most catastrophic
00:45:49.000Sort of numbers to come up with their estimates, which is not quite as fine.
00:45:54.000You 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?
00:46:02.000This is what we have to do in policy all the time.
00:46:04.000We gauge risk and benefit and risk and reward of every policy.
00:46:07.000So, for example, whenever the left says, if it would just save one life, then we should do it.
00:46:12.000That's a really dumb gauge because pretty much everything would save one life.
00:46:15.000Virtually everything in the United States would save one life because there are 330 million people living in the United States.
00:46:20.000You can make that case for banning automobiles.
00:46:25.000It would also completely destroy the economy, make business wildly inconvenient, destroy a lot of people's, you know, happiness and livelihood.
00:47:27.000In a few short decades, climate policy has often created more damage than the benefits it attempts to deliver, says Bjorn Lomberg.
00:47:33.000Ten years ago, a biofuels craze swept rich countries with full-throated support of green activists who held any shift away from fossil fuels.
00:47:40.000Food 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.
00:47:49.000If you want to eradicate hunger, there are more effective ways.
00:47:51.000Around 800 million people are undernourished today, mostly because of poverty.
00:47:55.000The 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.
00:48:02.000A global free trade, which of course is exactly correct.
00:48:06.000He talks about the EU's climate policy, says that will realistically cost $600 billion every year for the rest of the century.
00:48:12.000And at best, it delivers a trifling temperature reduction of just 0.09 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the century.
00:48:19.000For example, activists argue that Bangladesh should cut coal expansion.
00:48:27.000That would deliver global climate benefits worth nearly $100 million.
00:48:30.000But the foregone boost to the Bangladeshi economy would cost about $50 billion.
00:48:35.000Which is why all of this talk about climate change solutions is basically a rich people problem.
00:48:39.000You see a lot of folks in the EU and the United States talking about it.
00:48:42.000If 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.
00:48:48.000This 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.
00:48:57.000Okay, time for a couple of things that I hate.
00:49:04.000Okay, so a couple of things that I hate.
00:49:06.000So, 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.
00:49:14.000In fact, nearly 2.3 million cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis were diagnosed in the U.S.
00:49:19.000in 2017, surpassing the record set in 2016 by more than 200,000, according to CDC scientists.
00:49:25.000Experts say many factors have contributed to the rapid rise, though the biggest one may be less frequent condom use.
00:49:30.000It's less clear whether dating apps like Tinder have contributed in some way to the spread of STDs than some researchers think they have.
00:49:36.000You want to know why there are more STDs?
00:49:39.000Because people are being more promiscuous.
00:49:47.000When you say people are being more promiscuous and having more random sex with random strangers without protection, that that raises the rate of STDs.
00:49:54.000I know that you've been told by feminism that this is a great enrichment to human life.
00:49:59.000You'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.
00:51:10.000An 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.
00:51:21.000Before the campaign, 46% of the men studied were using condoms, after only 31% were.
00:51:25.000So 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.
00:51:37.000Well 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.
00:51:55.000District 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.
00:52:06.000So 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.
00:52:58.000This 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.
00:53:07.000The feds also have the ability to guarantee a Republican form of government.
00:53:11.000The 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.
00:53:23.000The more intimate the nature of such a union may be, the greater interest have the members in the political institutions of each other.
00:53:28.000In other words, the United States has an interest in ensuring that Montana doesn't become a monarchy.
00:53:33.000The feds also have the capacity to intervene and put down insurrection within a state.
00:53:39.000The existence of a right to interpose will generally prevent the necessity of exerting it.
00:53:43.000So this is a very early iteration of peace through strength.
00:53:46.000If the government has the power to shut down insurrection, people are not going to actually engage in insurrection.
00:53:51.000It's also the case that people have made in favor of the Second Amendment.
00:53:53.000An armed population is a population safe from tyranny because the government is less likely to attempt tyranny on an armed population.
00:53:59.000It's also why the United States should remain strong militarily.
00:54:02.000People abroad are less likely to challenge us if we know we can curb-stomp them anytime we please.
00:54:07.000Basically, it's Madison making that case with regard to domestic insurrection.
00:54:10.000Madison also makes the case for being able to amend the Constitution.
00:54:13.000He says, In other words, it's hard to pass an amendment, but it's meant to be hard to pass an amendment.
00:54:35.000But we have a way to pass amendments so we can adjust the Constitution.
00:54:40.000Madison and the founders believed in the amendment process specifically because they were not afraid of a runaway convention.
00:54:45.000This 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.
00:54:55.000It's supported by people like me and Mark Levin.
00:54:58.000There's a Convention of States program, an Article 5 Convention of States program.
00:55:02.000One 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.
00:55:13.000Okay, we'll be back here tomorrow with all the latest updates.
00:55:15.000I'm Ben Shapiro, this is The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:55:21.000The Ben Shapiro Show is produced by Senya Villareal, executive producer Jeremy Boring, senior producer Jonathan Hay.
00:55:27.000Our supervising producer is Mathis Glover, and our technical producer is Austin Stevens.