Ben Shapiro is celebrating his birthday with a special birthday episode of The Ben Shapiro Show on his birthday! Today's episode is a birthday gift to himself, a birthday present to the world, and a gift for everyone else. Happy Birthday Ben! Ben Shapiro is a conservative commentator and writer who writes for The Daily Wire, The Daily Caller, and The Weekly Standard, and is a regular contributor to the New York Times, CNN, NPR, and other media outlets. He's also a frequent contributor to The Daily Beast, The Huffington Post, and many other publications, and he's one of the most well-known conservative voices in the country. Today, he's celebrating his 31st birthday by celebrating three stupid things the world has done in the last three days, and it's not even close to as bad as it gets. The world is so stupid that it's hard to even begin to try to make sense of it, and the only thing worse than that is that it happens to be three days in a row on the heels of a riot at the Capitol Building, and yet I'm still trending on the Twittersphere for three days straight, and for some reason I have trended three times in the past three days for three specifically stupid reasons. What's going on, you ask? Well, it's my birthday, and I'm here to tell you what happened, and here's why it's a good birthday present for me: It's not only for me, but also for the world and for the rest of the world. You're listening to The Ben's birthday episode on The Ben. Thanks for listening, and Happy Birthday! - Ben Subscribe to the Ben Shapiro Podcast! Subscribe on Apple Podcasts! Subscribe on iTunes Learn more about your ad choices and become a supporter of the show by becoming a supporter on iTunes or wherever else you get your favourite podcast listening to the show. You'll get 10% off your ad-free version of the podcast on the show, and get 20% off the entire ad-planning service, plus free shipping throughout the entire world, including free shipping on future episodes, plus I'll be giving you a FREE 7-day shipping on all future episodes starting next week! Want to become a patron? Subscribe and review the show on Audible and I'll get $10% off my next month's ad-only version of my new book, BONUS shipping?
00:00:32.000We had a riot at the Capitol building.
00:00:34.000And yet I have now trended three separate times in the last three days for three specifically unbelievably stupid reasons.
00:00:40.000I'm gonna explain all of it in just one second.
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00:00:48.000Well, I'm looking forward to my birthday gift this year, but if you need to get somebody a birthday gift, let me tell you about an unbelievable birthday gift or a gift for yourself.
00:00:56.000I am talking, of course, about the Presto Dorothy Cold Brew.
00:01:46.000You insert the stirring cup into the carafe, you place the carafe on the power base, you add water to the line, you turn the knob halfway, and then a tornado magically forms.
00:02:38.000Okay, so I have been arguing for a week at this point, much longer than that more broadly speaking, but certainly since the Capitol riot, that the country could come together around a few common propositions.
00:02:50.000Propositions like political violence is bad.
00:02:53.000Propositions like you shouldn't tell lies about what Congress can and cannot do.
00:02:56.000Propositions like if you're going to make a broad scale argument about the United States or about the American system, you should have evidence to back those suggestions.
00:03:03.000And arguments like if there are people on the other side who do really bad things, Then, typically, you should assume that most of the people on the other side are not in favor of those bad things, unless they remain silent in the face of those bad things, or unless they express support for those bad things, right?
00:03:19.000These seem like these should be fairly common, well-accepted bipartisan principles, except they're not.
00:03:25.000Because what has happened in the aftermath of the Capitol riot is a wide-scale attempt by many on the left, particularly in the media, to lump together every single person on the right with the Capitol rioters.
00:03:35.000And a lot of that is driving the sort of drive for impeachment.
00:03:38.000See, the thing is that you can make the argument that Trump did something impeachable here.
00:03:42.000I have a lot of friends on the right who have made that argument.
00:03:44.000There are people in Congress ranging from Liz Cheney to certain senators like Pat Toomey who have made that argument.
00:03:50.000I don't find the argument completely unconvincing.
00:03:53.000I have friends in the commentariat ranging from the folks over at the Wall Street Journal to Commentary Magazine to National Review who have argued in some detail why they think that Trump's conduct over the past couple of months has been impeachable.
00:04:05.000And while I may disagree with some of their analysis, I can't pretend that there is no basis for the ire or for the outrage or even for the argument itself.
00:04:30.000What an argument that proves too much means is that there are certain arguments that you make that are specific to the circumstance, and then there are arguments that you make that actually are so broad that they encompass a bunch of stuff that you don't intend.
00:04:40.000So, if you were to make the argument, for example, that President Trump does bad things and bad things are impeachable.
00:04:46.000You'd say it's an argument that proves too much, because everybody does bad things, and you can't impeach everybody.
00:04:50.000Right, so whenever you set a standard, the standard should be equally applicable, it should be neutral, and it should be applied really only to the situations where it is in effect.
00:04:58.000Okay, the problem for the left is they are now making arguments that prove too much.
00:05:02.000What they are saying is that not only is what happened at the Capitol riot awful and evil, true, Not only is it that President Trump was saying untrue things about what Congress could do or about voter fraud or about the stolen election.
00:05:16.000What they are saying is that it was perfectly foreseeable that what happened at the Capitol riot was going to happen from the moment that Trump got on the escalator and that every Republican, every single Republican, whoever participated in anything, with Trump is responsible for this, and not only responsible for it, knew it was coming and looked the other way because anyone of intelligence and good heart could tell that this was going to end with bloodshed at the Capitol building.
00:05:38.000Now, first of all, that's just nonsense.
00:05:49.000That's to point out what an abject evil it is.
00:05:52.000I think that the most expected outcome of the election after Trump lost, in terms of his behavior based on his character, was that he was going to bitch and moan about it for a couple of months, that he was going to continually suggest that the election was not properly settled based on information that was not true, some people were going to buy into it, and then he would leave.
00:06:09.000I think that the institutions had hemmed him in for four years.
00:06:26.000I have a very strict standard when it comes to incitement.
00:06:28.000Unless you are telling people to go into acts of violence, because I'm trying to be as tailored as possible here so we can have a neutral standard like I discussed.
00:06:39.000Okay, but again, the argument that the left is making, the argument Democrats are making, members of the media are making, is that this was the natural culmination of four years of Trumpism, and thus anyone who was even tangentially linked to Trump in any way must be cast aside, must be thrown out of the body politic.
00:06:56.000And so when Republicans are being asked what they feel about impeachment, they are being asked essentially in their interpretation, which I think doubting the motives of the left in this case is probably good practice, Their interpretation is signing their own political death warrant because they're being asked not about Trump's specific behavior.
00:07:13.000They're being asked to pass a referendum on themselves.
00:07:16.000They're being asked to admit that they knew this was going to happen and didn't care if this happened.
00:07:50.000This was never just about Trump, you see.
00:07:53.000This is about a deep and abiding phenomenon inside the Republican Party, inside conservative circles, and that everybody who is even slightly right of center is complicit in all of this.
00:08:02.000So here is just a mashup by our friends over at Grabien of a variety of media figures who essentially are blaming every conservative, every person who voted for Trump, every Trump supporter for what happened at the Capitol riots.
00:08:16.000If you're looking to end political polarization, you have to assume that people on the other side aren't inherently bad.
00:08:21.000But unfortunately, the Capitol riots are being used, not surprisingly, as a rationale for castigating everybody you disagree with as morally decrepit and morally defunct.
00:08:31.000This has been going on, by the way, long before Trump.
00:08:33.000I wrote a book called Bullies in 2013, all about how this was the left's argument going back to then, right?
00:08:38.000I mean, that was several years before Trump was even a glint in the public imagination, so far as presidential politics was concerned.
00:08:44.000In any case, here's a brief mashup of just some of the people on cable news who have been making exactly this argument.
00:08:51.000Each of these people should be shamed, and they're going to go back, you know, to the Olive Garden and to the Holiday Inn that they're staying at.
00:08:59.000I wonder if you have thought through kind of how Republicans begin what someone on my team earlier today called debathification.
00:09:07.000Look, I think the challenge is that the rot is from the grassroots all the way to the presidency.
00:09:29.000They're just like the members of Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath Party.
00:09:32.000That's the kind of language that Joy Reid is using.
00:09:34.000And this kind of argument is extremely common in the press right now.
00:09:37.000Paul Krugman wrote an entire piece about how this was the natural consequence of 30 years of Republican malfeasance.
00:09:43.000Well, we heard from Thomas Friedman that he's happy that Trump is, quote unquote, breaking apart the Republican Party because it deserves to happen.
00:09:48.000Plus, hey, you know, we might be able to get our Democratic agenda through if the party fragments.
00:09:53.000So when Republicans and conservatives look at the impeachment charge, As always, and this has become, when Trump was elected, I said all Democrats had to do was not be crazy.
00:10:18.000There are many people in Trump's camp who believe things that are simply not true.
00:10:21.000Okay, but the left has also gone insane to the extent that they were pushing Russian collusion, hoax, nonsense for four years, to the extent that they were greenlighting rioting during the summer and pretending that this was some sort of racial reckoning moment for the United States.
00:10:33.000That was a broad, almost universally accepted tautology for nearly everybody on the left.
00:10:39.000And to the extent that now they're trying to label everybody a fellow traveler with rioters in order to excise them from the public debate.
00:10:57.000Every time Trump would tweet something dumb or something bad, there'd be some snap poll and it'd be like, many Republicans approve of what Trump said.
00:11:03.000And what I kept saying about these polls is that That is certainly a plausible way of reading the poll.
00:11:08.000Here's another plausible way of reading the poll.
00:11:10.000When people snap to a, are asked in a snap poll what they think of what Trump did, what they hear is, you are a bad person if you support Trump in any way, what do you think of you?
00:11:21.000And the reason they've done that is because the media have so, it's a reactionary move and people shouldn't do that, but that is how people react.
00:11:27.000And the fact is that when you lump everybody on the right in with every bad thing Trump does, and then you say, This is what you like most.
00:11:34.000What you like most about him is all the bad stuff that he does.
00:11:36.000People on the right go, you know what?
00:11:39.000Trump is a giant pulsating middle finger.
00:11:42.000He continues to be that and so long as the left lumps everybody together, this is going to continue.
00:11:48.000Again, this preceded Trump because they did this long before Trump.
00:11:51.000They've been demonizing Republicans as racist, sexist, bigot, homophobes literally as long as I've been in politics, which is since I was 17 years old.
00:12:00.000Okay, we're gonna get to more of this in just one second, because this has, again, real ramifications for your life.
00:12:05.000It is the underlying polarization that's tearing away at America, and it was proved in extraordinary colors by our friends, the staff over at Politico.
00:12:14.000We're gonna get to that in just one moment.
00:12:16.000That was the second reason that I trended this week.
00:12:18.000The first reason I trended this week, by the way, in case you were wondering, I hit the coveted birthday three-peat today.
00:12:22.000I trended three times in three days, which I've never heard of that before, so that's pretty fun.
00:12:26.000I trended earlier this week because some reporter for the New York Times was tweeting about zip ties and was like, does anybody even own zip ties?
00:12:38.000Zip ties, like who even owns zip ties?
00:12:39.000And I was like, like everybody owns zip ties.
00:12:41.000And so the entire media took this to mean that I was making excuses for people running through the Capitol building with zip ties, trying to hamstring Congress people and take them hot, which is like, have you listened to five seconds of the show?
00:12:51.000Have you read anything I have ever written?
00:12:56.000We're gonna get to that in just one second.
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00:14:27.000As I say, the broader media argument that everybody on the right is culpable for what happened in the Capitol riots, and therefore, everybody on the right should be excised, this sort of came to a bizarre culmination with regard to Politico.
00:14:40.000So, a couple of weeks ago, I was approached by somebody in upper management at Politico who shall remain nameless for the safety of their career.
00:14:47.000And they asked me to write the political playbook.
00:14:50.000So for those who are not Washington DC insidery, the political playbook is this thing that's been around since like 2007.
00:14:55.000It's sort of the morning briefing for a lot of people on Capitol Hill.
00:14:58.000I'm not going to say that it's like super widely disseminated.
00:15:01.000Our website Daily Wire has much, much more traffic than the playbook, but it's sort of prestigious, right?
00:15:05.000It's a prestigious thing from Politico.
00:15:07.000Well, The authors of Politico's playbook at the end of last year decided they weren't going to write the political playbook anymore.
00:15:13.000And so they've been trying to figure out who's going to write it.
00:15:15.000And in the meantime, they've been doing this kind of cavalcade of comedy stars.
00:15:17.000Basically, they have a famous person and write the political playbook each day.
00:15:23.000So about three weeks ago, it was before the beginning of the new year, somebody from Politico approached me and they said, would you like to write the political playbook one morning?
00:15:40.000I sort of consulted internally with other people at the business, and we thought this is kind of a fun, neat thing, and a good way to do a little bipartisan stuff at the beginning of the year.
00:15:49.000So, last week, all hell broke loose, right?
00:16:07.000On Monday, I thought, you know what, I actually did make the commitment and it's kind of a jerky thing to pull out like, you know, four days, five days in advance.
00:16:14.000So sure, I'll go, I'll go ahead and do that.
00:16:16.000And I warned him, by the way, the first day that I talked to this person at Politico, I warned them, you're going to have a riot on your hands.
00:16:22.000I mean, people, figuratively speaking, you're going to have people inside your staff who are going to get angry at you.
00:16:58.000So you can have Nicole Hannah-Jones writing absolute falsehoods for the New York Times.
00:17:01.000I will never be asked to write an op-ed for the op-ed page of the New York Times.
00:17:05.000And that's especially true in an era when you can literally be fired as an op-ed editor of the New York Times running an article from a sitting United States Senator like Tom Cotton.
00:17:13.000So I've had this experience many times before, where somebody from the left wants to get together or do something, and then they end up just blown out by the internet over it.
00:17:22.000Most famously, this happened with an actor named Mark Duplass.
00:17:24.000Mark Duplass You'll recognize from such things as new girl, and he directs his own movies, very talented guy.
00:17:30.000And maybe a few years back, Mark approaches me and he says, I'm making a new film and it's got it's about gun control and gun violence.
00:17:37.000And I wanted to hear like a good pro Second Amendment argument.
00:17:43.000We'll spend a little time together and I'll sort of explain the right-wing perspective, the conservative perspective, the constitutionalist perspective on what the Second Amendment represents.
00:18:04.000I spent an hour and a half with him explaining sort of the conservative perspective on the world, the conservative perspective on gun rights.
00:18:11.000Okay, so as he's leaving, I turned to him and I said, listen, you seem like a really nice guy.
00:18:16.000Never tell any of your friends you've been here.
00:18:17.000Like seriously, just don't say anything because you don't understand.
00:18:21.000People on the left, I can say to my heart's content that people on the left hang out with me and people on my side don't care because they understand that there can be such a thing as disagreement.
00:18:30.000But if you even utter my name, it's like Voldemort, if you utter my name, nothing good is going to happen.
00:18:37.000It's about three weeks later, Mark Duplass, this actor, in a fit of decency, decides to tweet something out.
00:18:43.000And what he tweeted out was something really innocuous.
00:18:45.000It was like, you know, I know a lot of you disagree with Ben Shapiro.
00:18:47.000I disagree with Ben Shapiro a lot, too.
00:18:49.000But he once did an act of kindness for me out of nothing but just a sense of decency.
00:18:53.000And he's a person who's worth listening to.
00:18:56.000He got hit so hard from the left that not only did he pull down the tweet, he then put up a tweet apologizing for ever having put the tweet up in the first place and now suggesting that I was a xenophobic, racist, sexist bigot.
00:19:10.000By the way, before he even put up the second tweet saying that I was the world's worst person and that he had never even heard of me and he'll have to look into his soul.
00:19:21.000How could he have been in the same room that I was?
00:19:25.000Before he did that, when he even took down the original tweet, I texted him and I said, you know, Mark, I appreciated the original tweet.
00:19:57.000I didn't just warn one editor over there, I warned two editors over there that this is going to happen.
00:20:01.000One of the people who had originally approached me, and then the person who helped me edit the playbook.
00:20:05.000And second, I'm going to read you what I actually wrote in the playbook, because it is sort of relevant to determining what the reaction was.
00:20:12.000This story is very telling, because it does tell you where we are at as a country.
00:20:16.000It tells you where we're at in terms of the new ruling class, members of the elite media who all speak the same woke language and will not abide dissent, and will use any flashpoint of a bad thing happening on, broadly speaking, the other side in order to castigate everybody as complicit in it.
00:20:58.000It's so much easier than walking into a store and someone demanding quick answers to things like, is your Odyssey an LX or an EX?
00:21:03.000And then again, they have to order that part online anyway.
00:21:05.000So just go to rockauto.com and you're going to be saving because rockauto.com always offers the lowest prices possible rather than changing prices based on what the market will bear like airlines do.
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00:22:11.000The big news of the day, as yesterday, is the House's impeachment of President Donald J. Trump for the second time in just over a year.
00:22:16.000It was a foregone conclusion that the Democratic House would do so.
00:22:19.000The only question was how many Republicans would vote, along with Democrats, to impeach Trump over his behavior leading up to and surrounding the Capitol riot.
00:22:25.000In the end, ten did, ranging from Representative Liz Cheney, the third-ranking Republican in the House, who called openly and clearly for impeachment, to Representative Fred Upton, who said he'd prefer censure, but that he'd settle for impeachment.
00:22:35.000The spotlight immediately moved to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who now says he hasn't made up his mind on impeachment and seems he'll leave Republicans to their own devices on the Senate vote when it takes place.
00:22:43.000Many in the media seem bewildered that House Republicans didn't unanimously join Democrats in supporting impeachment.
00:22:48.000Looking at you, playbook readers in the media.
00:22:50.000After all, Republicans were in the building when rioters broke through, seeking to do them grievous physical harm.
00:22:54.000My Republican sources tell me that opposition to impeachment doesn't spring from generalized sanguinity over Trump's behavior.
00:23:00.000I've been receiving calls and texts for more than a week from elected Republicans heartsick over what they saw in the Capitol.
00:23:05.000Opposition to impeachment comes from a deep and abiding conservative belief that members of the opposing political tribe want their destruction, not simply to punish Trump for his behavior.
00:23:13.000Republicans believe that Democrats and the overwhelmingly liberal media see impeachment as an attempt to cudgel them collectively by lumping them in with the Capitol rioters thanks to support for Trump.
00:23:21.000The evidence for that position isn't difficult to find.
00:23:24.000And this is all what I wrote for Politico's playbook.
00:23:27.000Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon suggested this week at NBC News that the only way to prevent a repeat of the Capitol riot was endorsement of a full slate of Democratic agenda items.
00:23:35.000Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez suggested that, quote, Southern states are not red states, they are suppressed states, which means the only way our country is going to heal is through actual liberation of Southern states.
00:23:44.000Paul Krugman of The New York Times placed blame for the Capitol riots on the entire Republican Party infrastructure, quote, this pooch was decades in the making.
00:23:51.000Unity looks a lot like sign onto our agenda or be lumped in with the Capitol rioters.
00:23:56.000It doesn't matter whether you held your nose when voting for Trump.
00:23:58.000It doesn't matter if you denounced his prevarications about a stolen election.
00:24:01.000For the record, I was met with great ire when I declared the night of the election that Trump's declaration of victory was deeply irresponsible.
00:24:06.000If you supported Trump in any way, you were at least partially culpable, the argument goes.
00:24:10.000It's not just Trump who deserves vitriol.
00:24:12.000It's all 74 million people who voted for him.
00:24:14.000And that claim, many conservatives believe, will serve as the basis for oppression everywhere from social media to employment.
00:24:20.000Evidence to support that suspicion wasn't in short supply this week.
00:24:23.000Parler, the social media competitor to Twitter, was taken off the internet entirely by Amazon Web Services.
00:24:28.000AWS pointed to violent and threatening posts appearing on Parler as the rationale for the takedown.
00:24:32.000But, as the single journalist most targeted by anti-Semitism on Twitter in 2016, as assessed by the ADL, I've got the medal on my shelf.
00:24:38.000I can fairly attest, Twitter is no wonderland.
00:24:40.000And according to the Washington Post, new evidence suggests that Facebook was used by capital rioters to coordinate too.
00:24:47.000Will tech companies dump them as well?
00:24:49.000To conservatives, the deplatforming of Parler looked far more like political retaliation than good housekeeping, especially after social media's decision to downgrade the New York Post's coverage of Hunter Biden in the month leading up to the election.
00:24:59.000GoDaddy kicked AR-15.com, the biggest gun forum in the world, offline.
00:25:02.000Corporations ranging from AT&T to Marriott, from Dow to Airbnb, announced they would cut off all political giving to Republicans who had challenged electors.
00:25:08.000No such consequences ever attended Democrats, who winked and nodded, and sometimes more, at civil unrest around the nation emerging from Black Lives Matter protests and Antifa violence over the summer.
00:25:18.000Furthermore, many conservatives doubt that Democrats are applying any sort of neutral standard toward Trump in pursuing impeachment.
00:25:23.000Is the standard refusal to accept election results?
00:25:25.000Stacey Abrams never accepted her election loss.
00:25:27.000She still claims she was the victim of voter suppression.
00:25:28.000Representative Jamie Raskin, Democrat of Maryland, has been appointed one of the Democrats impeachment managers by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, but challenged Florida's electors in 2016.
00:25:38.000Few serious lawyers believe Trump's activities would amount to prosecutable incitement.
00:25:42.000The real impeachment charge against Trump is extraordinarily reckless and inflammatory rhetoric and behavior.
00:25:46.000But that sort of rhetoric is unfortunately commonplace in today's day and age, sometimes even ends with violence.
00:25:51.000See, for example, a Bernie Sanders supporter shooting up a congressional softball game.
00:25:54.000Those on the political left see such questions as whataboutism.
00:25:57.000This is what I wrote in Politico, and then we'll get to the blowback.
00:25:59.000And yes, none of these politicians are the sitting president of the United States and head of the executive branch looking to pressure the legislature to violate the law and overturn a lawful election.
00:26:07.000But it's just as plausible to see such questions as demands for neutral political standards to hold everyone accountable.
00:26:12.000Without such standards, conservatives fear any political flashpoint will be used as a cudgel to cram down social, cultural, even governmental repression.
00:26:19.000Republicans may divide over impeachment.
00:26:21.000There are good prudential arguments against and good principled arguments in favor.
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00:29:59.000This show is extremely, extremely large.
00:30:02.000If you think that I was writing and spending like a day writing for Politico's playbook out of anything but a sense of fun and an attempt to appeal to broader audiences, you are out of your damn mind.
00:30:46.000Well, let's say, let's say, just for the sake of argument, that Politico's playbook had been handed over to a rotating cast of characters Most of whom were openly allied with the political left.
00:30:57.000And there had been not a peep, not an iota, not a whit of dissent inside Politico.
00:31:04.000Let's say, for example, that literally the day before I wrote the Politico playbook, Chris Hayes, who has gone kind of crazy, It was writing the political playbook.
00:31:11.000When I say he's gone kind of crazy, I mean that within the last 48 hours, Chris Hayes suggested that Amy Coney Barrett should basically resign her Supreme Court seat because Donald Trump appointed her to it because she is somehow complicit in the Capitol riot.
00:31:22.000I mean, like he tweeted out a picture of Amy Coney Barrett with Trump and he's like, well, maybe she has this picture on her wall.
00:31:29.000As though she is responsible for Trump's behavior, or as though you're supposed to turn down a Supreme Court nomination because Donald Trump is Donald Trump.
00:31:35.000So Chris Hayes has not been, I would say, the most responsible or factual actor in all of this.
00:32:06.000And when it trends on Twitter, you have to understand that your elite media guardians, the new ruling class, all the people who went to the same schools and speak the language of vokery, Twitter is like the place they go.
00:32:46.000They did one thing, which they didn't do for anybody else, which is that in their PM playbook edition, they then ran a letter to the editor essentially from somebody who opposed me.
00:32:52.000They didn't do that for anyone else this week.
00:32:54.000But overall, they stood up and they said, listen, we publish a wide range of views and that's important.
00:33:00.000OK, but what the management did is actually less indicative of what the media are than what the staff did.
00:33:49.000Now, let me tell you what would happen if we printed a piece and members of our staff came to us and they were like, we are very sad and upset that you printed this piece.
00:34:27.000Okay, in any case, this was reported with breathless anxiety by members of the media, like Eric Wemple from the Washington Post, like Maxwell Tani from the Daily Beast.
00:34:38.000How could they have turned over Politico playbook to that sick guy?
00:34:55.000So, I was under the impression the newsroom was supposed to be above a bunch of objective, factual-based journalists who are just there to report the news.
00:35:02.000I was not aware that the newsroom could be so upset about a viewpoint on what effectually is an op-ed page.
00:35:10.000If there is a strict divide between news and op-ed, then I'm just wondering, if the newsroom people, they don't have any political angle, why is it that there was universal rage in the newsroom at all this?
00:35:21.000But don't worry, guys, they're so objective, they're so fair-minded.
00:35:24.000And by the way, there were some people at the Politico staff who were like, this is overblown.
00:35:27.000And Eric Wemple, who was reporting all day on this yesterday, he explicitly said they weren't speaking up because they were afraid of the blowback inside the Slack channels, inside the call.
00:35:51.000Politico is facing backlash on Thursday, both internally and externally, for handing over the keys to its signature news product for the day, to Ben Shapiro, an oft-incendiary right-wing commentator.
00:36:33.000Nothing but plaudits for Politico's editors for doing what is, objectively speaking, the right thing.
00:36:37.000Standing by people that you actually asked to write for you.
00:36:40.000Unlike the coward Jeffrey Goldberg over at The Atlantic with Kevin Williamson.
00:36:44.000Hours later, says the Daily Beast, during a staff-wide Zoom call to address the controversy, staffers were vocally upset and demanded answers for why Company Brass published Shapiro the day after Congress voted to impeach President Trump for the second time.
00:37:30.000The rule under the Constitution is that if he's impeached in the House, but then I write the playbook the day after, he's unimpeached in the House.
00:37:50.000There are other conservatives who are slated to do this?
00:37:52.000On Thursday, Politico turned the newsletter over to Shapiro, said the Daily Beast, who used the space for a column making the case that House Republicans who voted against impeaching Trump, despite his repeated lies about the 2020 election and stoking of riders, are right to feel aggrieved.
00:38:05.000Shapiro's guest appearance was not particularly well-received.
00:38:08.000Internally at Politico, several staffers raised concerns about the decision to allow him to guest-write the key newsletter even for one day.
00:38:16.000One staffer pointed out in a company-wide Slack channel, the right-wing pundit has a long history of bigoted and incendiary...
00:38:23.000Sorry, I fell asleep because that is so boring.
00:38:27.000I have full articles on my own website in which I have talked about my most controversial comments and either apologized for or explained them, which is something no one else in media so far, like literally no one else in media so far, as I am aware, has ever done.
00:38:38.000Okay, if you're going to claim to me that many of the people who are writing Politico's playbook have never said a bad thing ever, that they are all pure as the driven snow, that's nonsense.
00:38:47.000Basically, it was, he wrote something I don't like, and now I'm really, really mad.
00:38:50.000He's conservative, and I'm really, really, really mad.
00:38:52.000The staffer said, it has clearly generated a wave of negative attention.
00:38:55.000First of all, nobody reads the playbook.
00:38:56.000I'll bet you they had better traffic on the playbook yesterday than they have had in five years.
00:39:01.000The staffer said, it has clearly generated a wave of negative attention.
00:39:04.000I fear it's already overshadowing a lot of great work being done by journalists across this newsroom.
00:39:08.000The comment received several dozen upvotes from, wow, upvotes.
00:39:11.000Apparently, there were a bunch of smile emojis also.
00:39:15.000Ooh, the emoji brigade is at it again.
00:39:19.000This is especially confusing given the newsroom's welcome efforts over the last year to cover issues related to race in a more intentional, elevated, thoughtful way, said another staffer.
00:39:26.000Oh, you mean like how the left would like?
00:39:29.000Outside the Beltway-centric outlet, reporters and columnists alike voiced anger and disappointment with Politico's decision.
00:40:04.000My entire point was you're going to lump us all together, and then you're going to declare us all deplorable, and then you're going to excise us from the public debate.
00:40:09.000That was literally the point of the piece.
00:40:15.000Shapiro is wrong, so we're going to do everything he predicted we would do, and we're going to do it in exactly the way we said he was going to do it.
00:40:22.000To prove he is wrong, we will do all the things that prove him right.
00:40:26.000Another staffer said the top editor was dismissive of the concerns brought up throughout the chat.
00:40:31.000But some Politico staffers stood by the publication's decision to publish, saying they were too afraid to speak up on the calls out of fear of being criticized by their colleagues.
00:40:38.000That's what an open-minded organization looks like, is that you're super-duper afraid of being criticized by your colleagues.
00:40:43.000Again, I have friends within many of these newsrooms.
00:40:46.000I have friends within many of the editorial boards of many of these websites.
00:40:50.000In fact, because it's my birthday, it's time to play one of my favorite birthday games.
00:40:54.000One of my favorite birthday games is when all the people who I'm friends with at leftist publications send me a text that says happy birthday, but will never acknowledge that I have had a birthday publicly, because that would acknowledge I'm a human being born of woman.
00:41:06.000Okay, we're gonna get into more of this in just one second, but it just, it demonstrates the complete disconnect, and it's that disconnect that is wrecking the social fabric that's been going on for years.
00:41:14.000It preceded Trump, it brought about Trump, it will post-date Trump, and it's gonna get worse.
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00:42:48.000All right, we're gonna get into more of the politico meltdown and then how this ties into broader trends in American public life that are gonna make things a lot worse in the very near future.
00:45:03.000One staffer in today's meeting at Politico over Ben Shapiro's guest written playbook argued that the decision to publish his thoughts complicates frequent conversations with Republicans and conservatives.
00:45:15.000I'm spending all this time trying to convince them that we're here for them and that there's a difference between what Ben Shapiro is doing and what Alex Jones is doing and what Politico is trying to do.
00:45:23.000And then just to have Ben Shapiro on the top thing that we publish undermines this huge problem in our country right now, which is just people don't even know who to trust.
00:45:30.000People don't know where to go to get information that is correct.
00:45:33.000I don't even know what to do, how to go to tell them not to listen to Ben Shapiro because we published Ben Shapiro, the place that I work for.
00:45:41.000So how can I get back on my soapbox and say there's a difference between news that's trying to give you information and news that is opinion, that is not fact-checked, that is not true?
00:45:48.000How do we separate Ben Shapiro from what we are doing?
00:45:55.000You say that you're trying to separate your news from opinion.
00:45:58.000And your chief complaint is that you are trying deliberately to stop people from hearing opposing points of view.
00:46:04.000Your view of your job is to set up a monopoly on information in which you are the only good source, and anyone who disagrees is akin to Alex Jones.
00:46:12.000So I don't trust you, and people shouldn't trust you.
00:46:15.000So as an award for Politico, demonstrating my point, we sent the Politico staff, or are in the process of sending them, 225.
00:46:23.000There are 225 staffers on this call, which is insane, by the way.
00:46:28.000225 staffers just to complain that I had written a piece, a piece, for Politico.
00:46:33.000And we sent them 225 Leftist Tears tumblers.
00:46:38.000We don't want them to get their desks wet from all of their tears.
00:46:40.000They need something to catch all of the moisture freely flowing from their faces over this horrific, horrific act.
00:46:46.000The fact that they see it as their mission to get people to stop listening to this show.
00:48:25.000I mean, it's almost like I wrote a piece in your publication about this.
00:48:29.000And then you went ahead and just explicitly did what I predicted you would do to prove my point.
00:48:34.000Slow clap for the geniuses at the political newsroom, you idiots.
00:48:38.000Okay, meanwhile, Twitter has announced that they want to make the conversation better by basically shutting down a lot of the conversation.
00:48:45.000So Jack Dorsey, yesterday, he was like, yeah, I feel like we have a problem here because on the one hand, we don't want people to foment violence, and on the other hand, we would like to shut down all the opinions we don't like.
00:48:57.000And so yesterday, James O'Keefe got some audio of Jack Dorsey from an internal phone call, I believe, talking about making the conversation better at Twitter.
00:49:06.000He says, banning Trump is just the beginning.
00:49:08.000Now again, you can dislike what Trump has to say.
00:49:12.000You can think Trump tweets things that are not true.
00:49:13.000In fact, Twitter had been putting on nearly every one of Trump's tweets a fact check, like a little fact check notification.
00:49:19.000That fact check notification did not apply to a wide variety of other falsehoods that were being told on Twitter, so those rules were not being evenly applied.
00:50:16.000And our role is to take the integrity of that conversation and do what we can to make sure that no one is being harmed based off that.
00:50:25.000Okay, so again, the focus for the left is always on how do we quote unquote minimize harm.
00:50:30.000But the way that they define harm always seems a little bit too broad.
00:50:35.000So if they're talking about threats of violence, obviously that stuff should be removed.
00:50:38.000If they're talking about plans for violence, obviously that stuff should be removed.
00:50:41.000But there's a tendency on the left to conflate everything when they call for violence.
00:50:45.000In fact, one of the complaints inside Politico apparently on the call is that I was making people feel unsafe, which is just like, come on.
00:50:56.000I have like 24-7 security because of death threats, and now I'm making you feel unsafe because I wrote that maybe Republicans feel excised from the public debate?
00:51:04.000I mean, the term snowflakes is overused, but my goodness, it's a blizzard over at Politico.
00:51:12.000So, You know, that is unfortunately where things stand in the state of the United States media.
00:51:20.000Meanwhile, members of Congress continue to foster this sort of attitude as well.
00:51:24.000The Honorable, Right Honorable, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, D-Twitch.
00:51:28.000She tweeted out yesterday in the middle of the Politico hubbub, and I can only assume that she was subtweeting the situation.
00:51:32.000People really twist themselves into knots, giving platforms to white supremacists and their enablers like, come on everyone, we must listen to both sides equally, fact and fiction.
00:51:40.000Hey, first of all, I find it super ironic hearing from AOC about fact and fiction when she literally said, on tape, on camera, that it does not matter whether you are factually accurate so long as you are morally true.
00:51:50.000And that is a thing that AOC actually said.
00:51:52.000I mean, she prevaricates an awful lot when it comes to politics, but not a particular surprise.
00:51:56.000Everybody who's her opponent is a white supremacist.
00:51:58.000And not only that, they ought to be silenced.
00:52:00.000She's also the same person who suggested, over the course of the past 72 hours, that Congress ought to look into reigning in the media.
00:52:12.000I remember there's this thing called the First Amendment that literally says Congress shall make no law abridging freedom of speech or freedom of the press.
00:52:47.000The media, the media who are supposed to be pro-free speech, I've been complaining about this for a very long time, is that members of the media have been for a long time cheering on social media censorship.
00:53:13.000They don't care about freedom of the press for you.
00:53:14.000They don't care about freedom of speech for you, you silly.
00:53:17.000They care about freedom of speech for them, so that they can give you their perspective.
00:53:20.000But your perspective is of no consequence, and all elements of distribution of information should be twisted so that only they, they and only they, have a monopoly on the dissemination of information.
00:53:31.000So, here's an article from the technology section of the Washington Post.
00:53:35.000And it's all about how the tech bros had the power all along.
00:53:40.000Craig Timberg writing, During President Trump's first impeachment in December 2019, he tweeted more than 600 times, an average of 58 times a day.
00:53:46.000One of the last said, can you believe I will be impeached today by the radical left, do nothing Democrats, and I did nothing wrong.
00:53:51.000During President Trump's second impeachment this week, he tweeted not once.
00:53:55.000This shift, the silence was momentous, made possible by Twitter's decision Friday to ban him from the platform.
00:54:00.000It may take historians years to grasp the full implications of the social media hurricane that Trump has conjured ever since he announced his intention to run for president five and a half years ago.
00:54:09.000But it took a single week, underscored by a single remarkable day, to appreciate what happened when that storm headed back out to sea.
00:54:15.000This emerging new world, free from Trump's tweets and the kaleidoscope of reactions to Trump's tweets, has dawned suddenly, costing the president his ability to speak directly with 88 million followers, unfiltered by journalists or other traditional gatekeepers, with a few finger taps on his iPhone.
00:54:29.000Trump's ability to shape events has diminished dramatically since he was banned on Friday night.
00:54:33.000Twitter's decision removed an account analysts said helped fuel the rage that consumed the U.S.
00:54:37.000Capitol last week and is threatening to flare again.
00:54:40.000But Twitter's action also removed a bountiful source of ideas and impressions followed avidly by his supporters.
00:54:44.000Joan Donovan, Research Director at the Harvard Kennedy School Shorenstein Center on Media Politics and Public Policy says this week will echo in history as the moment when Trump was unable to shape reality in real time.
00:54:55.000And the whole article is about the power of the small group of companies.
00:54:59.000Yeah, a small group of companies already with commanding power over the American economy, headquartered in liberal West Coast enclaves, has demonstrated rising corporate power over the national political debate.
00:55:08.000While Twitter is punishing Trump, in the span of a few days, Google, Apple, Amazon also moved against a social media site favored by his supporters, Parler, pushing it out of the app stores.
00:55:16.000All this happened after years in which the same companies studiously avoided challenging Trump and his backers, publicly embracing a high-toned doctrine of free speech, far beyond that required by the First Amendment, which constrains the federal government, not private companies.
00:56:06.000The turnabout was abrupt, says the Washington Post, and, as many have noted, timely, given that it came as Democrats took control of the Senate and President-elect Joe Biden's path to the White House, became assured.
00:56:17.000And so, again, the idea from the media over and over and over again is that it's very bad that these social media sites were open, now they are closing, and that's a good thing.
00:56:24.000That's a good thing, because then we can have a left-wing media monopoly again.
00:56:27.000Now, here's one of the problems with a left-wing media monopoly.
00:56:36.000So for months, up to the present day, we had headlines from places like the Washington Post, alleging that in Kenosha, Wisconsin, Jacob Blake, an alleged rapist, who went to his ex-girlfriend's house, the one he had allegedly digitally raped, and then she called the cops, the cops came, he resisted arrest, He threw the cops off his back.
00:56:57.000He walked around the other side of the car.
00:57:00.000He reached down to the floorboards and there was a knife and he was shot.
00:57:02.000The Washington Post printed a headline not all that long ago suggesting that the cops had shot an unarmed man.
00:57:07.000This was the going headline for a while, right?
00:57:09.000The tape shows that he was a victim of police brutality.
00:57:12.000How convincing was the narrative put out by the media?
00:57:15.000The narrative was so convincing that Kamala Harris personally called Jacob Blake, an alleged rapist who's resisting arrest, Joe Biden met with Jacob Blake's family to talk about systemic police racism.
00:57:31.000And now it turns out that Jacob Blake is speaking to ABC News, and he actually is telling the truth about what happened that night.
00:57:38.000And it is not the narrative, as it turns out.
00:57:40.000It turns out that Jacob Blake is, in fact, allegedly, and according to his own admission, a violent criminal.
00:57:46.000Who could have foreseen such an eventuality?
00:57:49.000I mean, we were told by people like Benjamin Crump that he was unarmed and victimized by the cops.
00:57:53.000The only person who's arguing with that assessment is all of the videotape, all of the officers, and the alleged victim himself.
00:57:58.000Here is Jacob Blake on ABC News admitting that he was carrying a knife and going for a knife when he was shot by the cops.
00:58:05.000All we had was months of false media coverage on this, but those are the people who should have a monopoly over your ability to access information.
00:58:10.000You shouldn't be able to listen to a podcast like this who is saying since day one that that's what happened.
00:58:16.000Okay, here's Jacob Blake admitting the truth.
00:58:27.000So I picked it up after I got off of him.
00:58:30.000Because they tased me and I fell on top of him.
00:58:34.000With an open knife in hand that Blake says fell out of his pocket, he walks around the front of the vehicle towards the driver's side door.
00:58:57.000The world was informed of this alleged fact.
00:58:59.000And this became the cause of destruction of property, destruction of businesses, risk to lives, injury in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
00:59:08.000But those media, you should trust them.
00:59:09.000You should absolutely, to the point where only they, only they should be able to speak.
00:59:14.000Again, the game that the media have been playing with the social media companies, I've been on this for years at this point, the game that members of the media have been playing with social media is social media was designed in order to facilitate broader conversation and broader dissemination of information.
00:59:31.000Let's reestablish our monopoly by pressuring the social media companies to crack down on the people we don't like by setting up bullcrap fact checkers.
00:59:38.000That the social media companies can use in order to crack down on our competitors, and we can claim that dissemination of false information is only on the other side of the aisle, so the only people you should be able to access are, wait for it, wait for it, us.
01:00:12.000But the staffers, what they did is much more telling to me about the state of the media than what a couple of editors with spine actually had to say.
01:00:18.000Because here's the truth, most of these editors do not have spine across the broad scale media.
01:00:23.000And they're not policing every single piece that goes out.
01:00:26.000Meanwhile, in other narratives that have been exploded, at least just a little bit.
01:00:30.000So, it happens to be that there's a lot of claim in the aftermath of the Capitol riot that there are some claims by folks on the right that there are a lot of Antifa involved.
01:00:39.000And I said day one, I did not see evidence that a lot of Antifa was involved.
01:00:42.000I still don't see evidence that a lot of Antifa was involved, but there was at least one member of a left-wing group.
01:00:47.000There was a left-wing activist who has now been charged.
01:00:50.000This left-wing activist was interviewed on CNN by Anderson Cooper, unbelievably enough.
01:00:54.000According to the Daily Caller, federal prosecutors on Thursday announced charges against John Sullivan, a self-described left-wing activist who recorded the fatal police shooting of a Trump supporter inside the U.S.
01:01:03.000Sullivan, the founder of a group called Insurgents USA, which formed in the aftermath of George Floyd's death, is charged with illegally entering the Capitol, civil disorder, and violent or disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds.
01:01:13.000Sullivan, 26, faces separate charges of rioting and criminal mischief in connection with an incident in Provo, Utah, on June 30, 2020, where a person was shot and injured during a protest against police brutality.
01:01:23.000An FBI affidavit issued against Sullivan on Thursday cites comments he made on video he recorded during the Capitol breach.
01:01:28.000Sullivan told FBI agents as well as members of the media he showed up at the Capitol to document the activities of Trump supporters, but the FBI affidavit indicates Sullivan was acting more as an active participant in the riots than as a journalist.
01:01:55.000In an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper hours after the fatal shooting, Solomon acknowledged he was not a Trump supporter but denied instigating the rioters who stormed the Capitol.
01:02:02.000I don't want to see people get hurt unnecessarily, he told Cooper.
01:02:41.000Sources in the media informed you that Ron DeSantis is an evil pile of garbage.
01:02:45.000Brian Kemp was doing an experiment in human sacrifice, according to The Atlantic.
01:02:50.000Now, the greatest of all governors, the greatest governor who has ever walked the earth, as we all know, Andrew Cuomo, he came out and he was like, yeah, you know what?
01:02:56.000We probably have to reopen society because this isn't working.
01:03:00.000Now we know that there is a study evaluating COVID-19 responses around the world, is according to Newsweek.
01:03:05.000I found mandatory lockdown orders early in the pandemic did not provide significantly more benefits to slowing the spread of the disease than other voluntary measures, such as social distancing or travel reduction.
01:03:16.000The peer-reviewed study, conducted by a group of Stanford researchers, published in the Wiley Online Library January 5, analyzed coronavirus case growth in 10 countries in early 2020. The study compared cases in England, France, Germany, Iran, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, and the US, all countries that implemented mandatory lockdown orders and business closures to South Korea and Sweden, which implemented less severe voluntary responses. It aimed to analyze the effect that less restrictive or more restrictive measures had on changing individual behavior and curbing virus transmission. The researchers used a
01:03:45.000mathematical model that subtracted the sum of non-pharmaceutical interventions, effects, and epidemic dynamics in countries that did not enact more restrictive non-pharmaceutical interventions from the sum of the NPI effects and epidemic dynamics in countries that did.
01:03:56.000In other words, they just looked at human behavior and said, okay, what was the difference in human behavior and transmission rates when there was a mandatory lockdown, when there was not a mandatory lockdown?
01:04:04.000Using that model, the researchers determined there is no clear significant beneficial effort or effect of more restrictive measures on case growth in any country.
01:04:47.000The nursing homes were ravaged with COVID.
01:04:50.000The statistics, people talk about Florida stats.
01:04:52.000Florida has extremely transparent stats on COVID.
01:04:54.000New York is still hiding the number of deaths in nursing homes by misclassifying deaths in hospitals.
01:04:59.000As non-nursing home deaths, if the person died in a hospital after getting the COVID at a nursing home.
01:05:04.000In any case, Janis Dean has been very, very critical of Andrew Cuomo's response.
01:05:08.000Richard, as a party, a spokesperson for Cuomo, then told the Daily Mail, quote, every state has had issue with vaccine distribution because of lack of federal funds. But we're rapidly ramping up distribution. Currently, we've administered more than 60% of vaccines we have. Last I checked, she's not a credible source on anything except maybe the weather. And way to dismiss somebody who had a parent who died on your watch as not a credible source on anything except the weather.
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