The Ben Shapiro Show - August 29, 2026


They Blamed the Klan—Then the Video Came Out


Episode Stats


Length

8 minutes

Words per minute

175.88

Word count

1,407

Sentence count

118

Harmful content

Misogyny

3

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Toxicity

27

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Hate speech

12

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Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Well, an election is coming.
00:00:01.000 That means it's time to talk about you.
00:00:02.000 Wait, wait for it, wait for it, wait.
00:00:08.000 Racism.
00:00:10.000 It's going to get longer every time.
00:00:11.000 Every time the racism gets longer.
00:00:13.000 The fake race hoaxes, they're back.
00:00:15.000 Democrats are intent on randomly talking about white supremacy because that's a thing now. 0.99
00:00:19.000 We're just going to talk about how the whites are about to take over the country and they're evil and supremacist and all. 0.99
00:00:25.000 Well, there is a fake, wild story that is circulating that black people are being lynched across the American South. 0.97
00:00:30.000 It's being peddled by the likes of Representative Jasmine Crockett and also.
00:00:34.000 YouTube child propagandist Miss Rachel. 0.97
00:00:35.000 Why is Miss Rachel doing this? 0.95
00:00:36.000 I don't remember the last time Oscar the Grouch lectured me about lynchings. 0.70
00:00:39.000 Like, what's happening and why?
00:00:41.000 Surprise, surprise, it's total nonsense.
00:00:43.000 It's not true. 0.99
00:00:44.000 An enormous number of the most evocative race stories in America turn out to be total crap. 0.96
00:00:49.000 Like, not true at all. 0.89
00:00:50.000 Wilfred Riley has an entire book on the number of race hoaxes that have become gigantic topics of conversation across the United States.
00:00:58.000 Don't you think that if there had been a spate of black people being hanged for their race from trees, that might make the national news, like right now?
00:01:05.000 Don't you think so? 1.00
00:01:06.000 But I guess you have to be a moron like Jasmine Crockett, or alternatively, have a childlike mind like Miss Rachel in order to buy into that kind of nonsense. 0.99
00:01:15.000 John Assoff, who seems to want to play JFK in a new movie, but he's not a very good actor and also doesn't have the awesome Massachusetts accent, he's out there claiming that his opponents stand for bigotry, neo Nazism, and the Klan. 0.99
00:01:33.000 Do they, though?
00:01:35.000 Is that a thing happening?
00:01:39.000 The state of Georgia rejects hatred.
00:01:41.000 The state of Georgia rejects bigotry.
00:01:44.000 The state of Georgia rejects neo Nazism.
00:01:48.000 The state of Georgia rejects the Klan. 0.98
00:01:52.000 Cool. 0.75
00:01:53.000 I mean, agree?
00:01:57.000 But don't worry, Democrats have more to say about all this.
00:02:00.000 Representative Ayanna Presley, who, as you may have noticed, is a representative in our Congress, she says the Confederacy is alive and well, which is weird because it's not.
00:02:11.000 So there's that.
00:02:13.000 Like you are in Congress, madam.
00:02:17.000 So here we go.
00:02:20.000 And here is anti freedom, fascist agenda, the chaos and dysfunction.
00:02:27.000 I have to say, y'all, it is bigger than Trump.
00:02:31.000 Because whenever we do the work of ousting the occupant of the old office, the Confederacy is still alive and well.
00:02:40.000 That's all my business.
00:02:42.000 White supremacy is still alive and well. 0.99
00:02:45.000 Anti blackness will still be alive and well. 0.98
00:02:47.000 Xenophobia and LGBTQ. 0.97
00:02:49.000 It's not going to end with one person. 1.00
00:02:58.000 Wise words.
00:02:59.000 I'm lying.
00:02:59.000 Those are not wise words.
00:03:00.000 Jasmine Crockett, who lost to James Tallarico in that Texas Senate primary, says that we can no longer rely on the DOJ.
00:03:09.000 We continue to see these mysterious deaths.
00:03:14.000 Taking place in places like Mississippi.
00:03:18.000 And historically, whether it's Nolan Wells or Tasia or the long list of names that we could go through, Sean, that are being found hung or otherwise under these mysterious circumstances, when it is clear to everyone on the outside that y'all are just failing to investigate, we used to rely on the Department of Justice to come in and do that.
00:03:45.000 And we don't have that.
00:03:48.000 So she is claiming that there is a spate of unsolved murders of black people being hanged, you know, like old style KKK hanged.
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00:04:57.000 Miss Rachel is also claiming this.
00:04:59.000 You know, why is this. 0.95
00:05:02.000 Children's host from YouTube who just buys into every left wing agitprop nonsense campaign and then mirrors it back. 1.00
00:05:12.000 Again, Miss Rachel is face tattoo syndrome, but embodied as a human.
00:05:16.000 So, face tattoo syndrome, as I've said before, is where somebody gets a tattoo on their face and then you stare at them because they have a tattoo on their face and they're like, Why are you noticing my tattoo?
00:05:24.000 What are you looking at?
00:05:24.000 It's like, Your tattoo.
00:05:26.000 Miss Rachel is the one who decided that she was going to become extraordinarily political.
00:05:30.000 And then when you note that thing, then they say, How dare you target our beloved children's host, Miss Rachel?
00:05:34.000 I mean, it's clown nose on, clown nose off, but for children. 0.98
00:05:39.000 So, clown nose off for her to explain that black people are being hanged from trees randomly. 0.98
00:05:44.000 We just haven't noticed it. 0.99
00:05:48.000 Please listen to the black community. 0.89
00:05:50.000 Black people don't hang themselves from trees. 0.99
00:05:52.000 There's been at least seven black people found hanging from trees. 0.98
00:05:59.000 Now, I would be perturbed if it turned out that lots of black people were being hanged from trees by presumably random white people.
00:06:05.000 It turns out here is a black police chief in Raleigh, North Carolina, explaining that.
00:06:11.000 One of these people hanged himself, and they do have video of him hanging himself.
00:06:15.000 One of my favorite things about left wing race baiting is when people say things couldn't possibly be true, and it turns out to be true.
00:06:21.000 So I remember when Barack Obama said this about Ferguson, Missouri.
00:06:24.000 Michael Brown, the claim was that he said, hands up, don't shoot, and that he was shot in the front.
00:06:28.000 He was actually shot in the back, he was actually shot in the front, and all this.
00:06:31.000 And Barack Obama said, people wouldn't just make that up.
00:06:34.000 Nobody would make that up.
00:06:35.000 They all made it up.
00:06:36.000 Now you got Mr. Rachel.
00:06:37.000 Nobody. 0.99
00:06:38.000 Black people don't just hang themselves from trees. 0.99
00:06:40.000 Well, I mean, Actually, lots of people hang themselves, it turns out. 0.99
00:06:43.000 So here's a police chief who happens to be black in Raleigh, North Carolina, explaining.
00:06:49.000 At 1 59 p.m., video shows the young man carrying an electrical cord walking towards the tree by himself.
00:07:00.000 Between 2 06 p.m. and 2 07 p.m., video captures the actual incident taking place.
00:07:10.000 No one else is seen in the area when this incident occurred.
00:07:13.000 Okay, well, it turns out that a bunch of other cases that people keep citing, like Trey Reed in Mississippi, turns out it was ruled a suicide by the medical examiner.
00:07:23.000 There's a 16 year old Congolese immigrant found hanging from a tree, ruled a suicide by the medical examiner.
00:07:27.000 There is a person named Tania Nicole Miller in Florida, 27 year old woman found hanging in a park, suicide by the medical examiner.
00:07:36.000 There's literally one case outstanding.
00:07:38.000 The investigation is still pending.
00:07:40.000 Thousands of people hang themselves across the United States, unfortunately, every year. 0.94
00:07:45.000 And white people die by suicide by hanging significantly more than black people. 1.00
00:07:48.000 But again, our politics must remain stupid. 1.00
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