Samantha Bee gets herself into hot water, Roseanne begs for clemency, and Joy Reid somehow keeps on keeping on. Ben Shapiro explains why Samantha Bee should be fired, and why she should apologize to Ivanka Trump and her family for calling her a feckless c-word on air. He also explains why TBS should have fired Samantha Bee if she crossed a line with her comments about Ivanka Trump. And he explains why they should keep her on air, even though she called her own daughter a little girl and suggested that she should wear a thong to bed with her father. All of this and more on this week s episode of The Ben Shapiro Show with Ben Shapiro! Want more Secret Life? Check out our newsletter! Subscribe to Secret Life to get 10% off your first month with discount code: CROWN10 at checkout. Want to become a Friend of the Watchdog? Don t forget to rate, review, and subscribe to our new podcast CROWN on Apple Podcasts and help spread the word to your friends about what's going on in the world of CROWN! If you like what you hear, share it with a friend, tell them about what you're listening to, and tell them what you think about it on your social media and what they can do to help support the show! It'll be the best thing you're hearing about it! Thanks for supporting the show: bit.ly/support-theBenShaw_BenShapiro Thank you, Ben Shapiro - the podcast you can be a friend of the show and get 20% off a bottle of wine, and get 15% off their first purchase of wine at $5 or $10 or more when you review it's 24/7 access to the service? You'll get $20 off a month for a maximum of $25 or $50 or $25 gets you a month, and they'll get a whole month of free shipping and shipping starts starting at $99 or $99 a month and they get a discount of $24/month, they're getting a maximum discount, plus a discount on their first month, plus they get an ad discount, they'll also get $10 off your choice of two months of your first carton of wine and two months only that starts after they receive $24 or they get your first rate shipping starts only $99, they get it's all-in-depth training?
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00:01:55.000But, Samantha Bee decided that this made Ivanka Trump a feckless seaward, and that she should instead dress sexy for her dad because her dad wants to have sex with her, according to Samantha Bee, and then she should stump for Samantha Bee's preferred immigration policy.
00:02:06.000Well, all of this broke, and the right, predictably, and correctly, went nuts.
00:02:12.000Why would you go after Ivanka Trump this way?
00:02:14.000We just had a controversy in which Roseanne Barr lost her show for using a racist slur against Valerie Jarrett.
00:02:19.000And her show actually had ratings, unlike Samantha Bee's show, where seven people watch it, including Samantha Bee's immediate family.
00:02:25.000And yet, Samantha Bee still gets to remain on air.
00:02:28.000Now, I'm not calling for Samantha Bee to be fired because, frankly, I think that her viewers got exactly what they were looking for.
00:02:34.000I think TBS hired her knowing full well what they were getting.
00:02:36.000I think the Roseanne situation is just a little bit different in the sense that when Roseanne's creators decided to put her on the air, they were not fully expecting that she was going to do this, and it sort of undercuts the integrity of their product.
00:02:48.000Samantha Bee didn't undercut the integrity of her product.
00:03:06.000She put out a statement saying that she crossed a line.
00:03:09.000Her original apology is just ridiculous.
00:03:12.000She says, I would like to sincerely apologize to Ivanka Trump and to my viewers for using an expletive on my show to describe her last night.
00:03:35.000Quote, Samantha Bee has taken the right action in apologizing for the violent and inappropriate language she used about Ivanka Trump last night.
00:03:41.000Those words should not have been aired.
00:03:42.000It was our mistake, too, and we regret it.
00:03:45.000Samantha Bee, unlike Roseanne, who's just tweeting out crazy stuff because it was late at night and Roseanne's a crazy person who takes Ambien,
00:03:51.000Okay, I actually believe her Ambien story in the sense that Roseanne is actually a crazy person, and Ambien makes crazy people crazier.
00:03:58.000It makes sane people a little bit crazier.
00:04:00.000It doesn't make them racist, but if you're a little racist, it's gonna make you more racist, presumably.
00:04:03.000But in any case, TBS's statement that they are responsible, this is correct.
00:04:07.000Samantha Bee's rant was scripted, it was put into the script, it was filmed, it was distributed, it was greenlit.
00:04:13.000Everybody at every step of the way had an opportunity to say, guys, this might be a little over the top, but they didn't, because why would they?
00:04:26.000So, it demonstrates just how tied in Samantha Bee is to the mentality of the left.
00:04:31.000You know, what has happened to Samantha Bee over the last 24 hours.
00:04:34.000There was a tweet from Chris Hayes that was just inane about Roseanne, basically saying that Roseanne's worldview represents a large segment of the Trump base, or significant segments of the Trump base.
00:04:44.000There's no evidence to suggest that at all.
00:04:45.000That large segments of the Trump base believe that Valerie Jarrett looks like an ape, or believe that it's appropriate to say such things in the first place.
00:04:52.000That's just absurd, and there's no evidence to support it.
00:04:54.000There's pretty good evidence to support the idea that a lot of Samantha Bee's base are Hillary Clinton's base, and they all believe what Samantha Bee just said.
00:05:02.000I was at a wedding for my sister over the weekend, and a person who shall remain nameless came up to me and was talking about politics a little bit, and at one point actually said, I wish someone would shoot Donald Trump.
00:05:39.000She got an award from the Television Academy for social change, right?
00:05:43.000Because she's a good person who infects social change by shouting the c-word on air about Ivanka Trump for holding her baby.
00:05:50.000So here is what Samantha... So this is the funny part.
00:05:52.000Television Academy does the social change award about freedom in the media, free press, Samantha Bee changing the world, and they bar the press.
00:05:59.000They legitimately bar the media from essentially a free press celebration award because Samantha Bee was in a lot of hot water.
00:06:15.000I take it seriously when I get it right, and I do take responsibility when I get it wrong.
00:06:19.000We spent the day wrestling with the repercussions of one bad word, when we all should have spent the day incensed that as a nation we are wrenching children from their parents and treating people legally seeking asylum as criminals.
00:06:29.000Okay, so you apologize, but it's our fault, so it's my fault.
00:06:35.000So I got offended that you called Ivanka Trump a c-word, and that's my fault, because really I should be more worried about the children at the border, in which case it should be okay that you called her a c-word, in which case it's totally fine.
00:08:36.000An emissary of Hollywood, and Hollywood is very much in favor of Samantha Bee.
00:08:39.000Kathy Griffin, of course, came out and defended Samantha Bee.
00:08:41.000No shock there, because Kathy Griffin is gross.
00:08:43.000What's hilarious is that the mainstream media also defended Samantha Bee.
00:08:46.000So, I just have to give you some of the headlines from the media.
00:08:50.000Now remember, the headline about Roseanne Barr is Roseanne Barr tweets racist nonsense at Valerie Jarrett, or Roseanne Barr calls Valerie Jarrett an ape, or whatever the headline was, but they were all anti-Roseanne Barr, obviously.
00:09:01.000Then, there's the media's coverage of the Samantha Bee comments.
00:10:51.000Chris Hayes spends time trying to proclaim that people on the right support Roseanne Barr and Trump for the same reason, which is that they all think like Roseanne Barr about Valerie Jarrett.
00:11:23.000And the basic proof of that, by the way, is that Samantha Bee will not be pulled off the air.
00:11:26.000The reason that Roseanne Barr was pulled off the air is not just because she said something terrible.
00:11:29.000It's because the network forecast that what was going to happen is that a bunch of people who watched Roseanne's show were going to turn out and boycott the show.
00:11:37.000The same will not happen to Samantha Bee.
00:11:40.000A bunch of leftists who love this kind of stuff will go watch her show specifically because they feel the same way about Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump as Samantha Bee.
00:11:47.000Okay, so I have a few more comments on this about apology culture and whether people ought to be fired for this sort of thing.
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00:13:38.000She's in this position of leadership, not to mention a role model to millions of young girls and to women, and to use that word, from a woman to another woman.
00:14:56.000And at the same time, I don't see the corporate rationale for firing her in quite the same way that I do for Roseanne, simply because I don't think that the corporate blowback is going to be quite as great.
00:15:06.000Well, there I say, like, if you just want to tune out of her show, go for it.
00:15:18.000Nasty human being and so that's not a shock at all I don't think boycotts are liable to work and that raises the question of apology culture I'm gonna get to that in just one second.
00:15:26.000So we as a society have decided That we are going to demand apologies from everyone at any time for anything and then we decide whether we like the apology or not and it seems that if you're on the left and you apologize we accept it and if you're on the right and you apologize we don't accept it so
00:15:40.000When Laura Ingraham got in hot water because she tweeted something slightly mean about David Hogg, the Parkland survivor, she said he was kind of whiny, and then she got hit with boycotts by David Hogg and company because stupid.
00:15:49.000Okay, when all that happened, and it wasn't even her getting boycotted, it was her advertisers getting boycotted.
00:15:54.000By the way, I do think there's a difference between primary boycotts and secondary boycotts.
00:15:58.000If you want to boycott my show and not listen to it,
00:16:08.000People should not be boycotting her advertisers.
00:16:10.000The only reason to boycott other advertisers on the left is just to create a feeling of mutually assured destruction so that people stop doing it.
00:16:16.000I don't like the idea that advertisers are going to be penalized for attempting to reach out to particular audiences.
00:16:38.000I think that Roseanne's apology was probably genuine because I think Roseanne is legitimately a person who has serious mental issues, okay?
00:16:43.000And I don't say that as somebody trying to label her from the outside.
00:16:46.000Roseanne herself has said for 30 years she has serious mental issues.
00:17:40.000And then she concluded by saying, So this is a person who clearly has problems.
00:17:58.000And I think her apology is more genuine than Samantha Bee's.
00:18:00.000Samantha Bee's is clearly not genuine.
00:18:01.000She went in front of an audience last night and basically said her apology was not genuine.
00:18:05.000And here are some pictures of Roseanne Barr on the phone yesterday that were taken by the tabloids.
00:18:09.000This is what Roseanne Barr, I mean, she's sitting there in beat-up jeans and essentially a white shirt, smoking a cigarette, looking haggard, looking weary, looking deeply troubled, right?
00:18:19.000I mean, with a plastic bag around her arm, sitting on a curb, making phone calls.
00:18:25.000You gotta feel a little bit bad for Roseanne Barr.
00:18:27.000I mean, this is a person who has problems.
00:18:29.000But we treat it as though her apology is not genuine, but Samantha Bee's apology is genuine.
00:18:34.000Because we have deemed that people on the left are allowed to apologize and get away with anything, whereas people who support Trump in the case of Roseanne Barr, who's not even right-wing, or people like Laura Ingraham, we won't accept their apologies, because if we accept their apologies, then that would assume that we can let them back into the realm of thinkers whom we respect and people who are willing to deal with.
00:18:53.000I don't like the apology culture in general.
00:18:55.000If you want to apologize, apologize, but the sort of pressure to apologize, and then we get to deem whether your apology is good or not, I find to be a giant waste of time.
00:20:46.000Each episode's about 25 minutes long, so you listen to it, you're on the road, that's how long it is, and you'll be able to get through the whole thing.
00:20:55.000It stars a bunch of guys who are basically known in Canada, and it was created by a Vancouver-based creative studio, but it's super, it really is really funny.
00:21:20.000Joy Reid never even has to apologize for being just the worst person ever.
00:21:23.000So it turns out that Joy Reid, who claims that she had amnesia, it's so funny, everybody on the left was laughing at Roseanne Barr when she said that it was Ambien that made her tweet racist things.
00:21:33.000And Ambien tweeted out, well, it wasn't us.
00:21:36.000Well, Joy Reid said that she literally had amnesia, which is a bad plot point from a 1980s soap opera.
00:21:42.000And she said that was the reason that she had written all of these pieces before, talking about why she had problems with gay people and why she had problems with Jews.
00:21:50.000Well, literally every day there's a new thing coming out about the nasty stuff Joy Reid has said in the past.
00:22:15.000And then it turns out that it's not restricted to that.
00:22:17.000It turns out that she also had a post on her website in which she parroted claims from the Iranian government saying that that Jews should be shipped out of Israel and back to Europe.
00:22:28.000This is being reported over at the Federalist.
00:22:30.000So that's very exciting stuff from Joy Reid.
00:22:34.000And she also attacked Wolf Blitzer in an old blog post for being too nice to Jews.
00:22:39.000In a post dated July 16, 2006, Reid called Blitzer an AIPAC flak after he didn't ask Israeli officials questions that Reid liked on air.
00:22:48.000And again, she had another post in which Reid said that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, president of Iran, was really on to something when he suggested that the Zionist regime of Israel should just relocate to Europe.
00:22:58.000She said, God is not a real estate broker.
00:23:00.000He can't just give you land 1,000 years ago that you can come back and claim today.
00:23:03.000Which is hilarious, considering that Joy Reid backed the Palestinians' claim to this land that they had, you know, supposedly 60 years ago.
00:23:10.000But apparently, the UN is a real estate broker.
00:23:12.000In any case, Joy Reid has said all this stuff.
00:23:28.000Apparently, amnesia is a good excuse if you're on the left.
00:23:30.000And fake apologies, if you're Samantha Bee, are OK if you're on the left.
00:23:33.000But if you're on the right, we must never forgive you ever.
00:23:36.000We must maintain forever that you did something that is excrable and awful, and you can never be given forgiveness, even if you are legitimately mentally ill, as I think Roseanne Barr is.
00:23:44.000Again, I'm not saying Roseanne Barr said something decent or that she should have kept her show.
00:23:47.000I'm not saying either of those things.
00:23:49.000I am saying that there is a massive double standard when it comes to media treatment of people on the left and the right.
00:23:53.000And Joy Reid being able to maintain a show and give commentary on Roseanne Barr is insane.
00:23:57.000Samantha Bee being able to keep her show and be seen as a figure of light and happiness on the left is similarly insane.
00:24:05.000No wonder people on the right are so frustrated with the culture.
00:24:07.000And this leads to the gap that I've talked about before.
00:24:10.000The right doesn't have power over the cultural levers.
00:24:13.000The right doesn't have the power to actually get more things on the air that are pro-conservative.
00:24:17.000And so the right responds politically to the left's culture war.
00:24:59.000And Trump was so excited about it that he broke protocol and actually announced before the announcement of the jobs numbers that the jobs numbers would be dropping in half an hour.
00:27:11.000These tariffs are totally unacceptable.
00:27:15.000For 150 years, Canada has been the United States' most steadfast ally.
00:27:22.000These tariffs will harm industry and workers on both sides of the Canada-US border, disrupting linked supply chains that have made North American steel and aluminum more competitive all around the world.
00:27:36.000We have to believe that at some point,
00:29:35.000In a second, I'm going to get to President Trump's other foolish economic policies he's pursuing in the middle of a big economic boom, which makes no sense.
00:29:41.000But first, you're going to have to go over to DailyWire.com because today is Mailbag Day.
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00:30:57.000Okay, so to finish up the bad Trumpian policy of the day, President Trump also has now suggested that they want to make plans to order grid operators, like power grid operators, to buy electricity from struggling coal and nuclear plants in an effort to extend their life, a move that would represent an unprecedented intervention into U.S.
00:31:15.000According to a 41-page draft memo obtained by Bloomberg and circulated before an NSC meeting on the subject Friday, quote, federal action is necessary to stop the further premature retirements of fuel-secured generation capacity.
00:31:27.000So they're saying that for strategic reasons, we have to actually protect our coal plants and that are obsolete or our nuclear plants that are obsolete.
00:31:38.000The reason it's really stupid is, of course, it means that you are now going to have to pay more for power.
00:31:42.000Whenever the government decides that you have to subsidize a particular industry, this means that you're going to have to pay more for power.
00:31:47.000Now, the reason this is so dumb is because the economy is doing great.
00:31:50.000OK, this is a headline from The New York Times today.
00:31:52.000Quote, We ran out of words to describe how good the job numbers are.
00:31:56.000That's basically what he's talking about.
00:32:12.000He's talking about redistributing from one industry to another, from certain taxpayers to other taxpayers.
00:32:40.000The government does not have the capacity to tell you how to shop.
00:32:43.000It does not have the capacity to tell you that you should spend more on particular goods and services simply because Donald Trump wants to win votes in particular areas of the American economy.
00:33:02.000It's mailbag time, so let's mailbag it up.
00:33:07.000Recently, I was talking to a friend about the current state of the Middle East, and he got fed up and essentially questioned the necessity of average Americans needing to be constantly updated and aware of foreign affairs and national controversies, arguing ignorance is bliss.
00:33:17.000What is the baseline of knowledge of politics and current events an average person should be aware of, and what do you believe is the main reason the average citizen should stay informed?
00:33:46.000But as far as what is the baseline of information that you need to be informed, I mean, it's up to you.
00:33:51.000You don't have to be informed about news.
00:33:52.000But if you want to know what's coming, if you're interested in being a good citizen, I think good citizenship, meaning involvement in the public sphere, requires a baseline level of knowledge.
00:34:00.000I would say that reading the front page of the newspaper every day and the articles on the front page of the newspaper every day, or reading the most trafficked articles at Daily Wire, for example, will give you a broad overview.
00:34:08.000Listening to my show, I think, will give you a broad enough overview of the news of the day that you can speak fluently about these issues.
00:34:16.000I don't think you have to know who the president of Kazakhstan is.
00:34:18.000I don't think you have to know about the local oil crisis in Myanmar.
00:34:22.000I don't think you have to know all of these things, but I do think that there are certain broad narratives that have been important over time.
00:34:28.000Knowing enough about the Israel-Arab issue is important because that crops up
00:34:51.000Politics are really just an extension of your values.
00:34:53.000So know your own values, and that very often will dictate politics, because the facts may change, and the evidence may change, but your values are rarely going to change.
00:35:00.000Your underlying values are rarely going to change.
00:35:02.000Joshua says, Hey Ben, even though midterm polls are not nearly as devastating to Republicans as originally anticipated, how do you think Trump reacts if the House and or Senate flip while he is president?
00:35:10.000Is there any chance he continues to walk the conservative line, or is it far more likely we start to see more liberal policy out of the White House?
00:36:23.000There are a couple of books that I've recommended in the past on body language.
00:36:25.000I'm trying to remember what the names of the books were off the top of my head.
00:36:30.000But you should study some basic body language.
00:36:32.000You can do that also through YouTube videos.
00:36:35.000There are just some good things to know about how you reflect body language back at people and what it is that people are looking for when they communicate.
00:36:43.000I'm trying to find out, like, I'm currently searching to try and figure out exactly what those books were that I'd recommended.
00:37:33.000These were all built on certain Enlightenment principles, and to pretend otherwise is to be ignorant of exactly what drove a lot of the Enlightenment and so-called counter-Enlightenment.
00:37:41.000Jean-Jacques Rousseau considered himself a part of the Enlightenment.
00:37:43.000He was considered an Enlightenment thinker.
00:37:44.000So it always is frustrating to me when people say, well, the Enlightenment was just John Locke.
00:37:48.000Basically, this is my critique of Steven Pinker's book.
00:37:50.000So Steven Pinker has a book called Enlightenment Now.
00:37:52.000It's 400 pages about why the Enlightenment's awesome.
00:38:21.000My entire new book is actually about exactly this, why it is that we can't just say Enlightenment, why we have to say Enlightenment rooted in Judeo-Christian principles.
00:38:27.000You also have to ask the question, why is it that if the Enlightenment was really separable from Judeo-Christian principles, it didn't just happen anywhere?
00:38:34.000Why didn't the Enlightenment just crop up in China, or India, or South America, or Africa?
00:38:38.000Why did it crop up in a Judeo-Christian civilization that has a 2,000-year history of dealing with exactly these ideas?
00:38:43.000So, I don't buy the argument that the Enlightenment alone is enough.
00:38:47.000Reason unmoored from traditional values ends in gulags and death camps, and religion unmoored from reason ends in theocratic tyranny.
00:39:00.000And I think that's what brings about the Enlightenment, is the merger of Judeo-Christian values and reason.
00:39:05.000There's a reason that the Founders were largely religious, despite all the talk about it.
00:39:08.000Even the ones who were not quote-unquote religious were deists who believed in the power of a divine being who created an understandable universe and a certain teleological ability to understand how the universe is directed.
00:39:19.000So, I find the argument that the Enlightenment just sort of floats out there on its own and everything that's good is Enlightenment-based, like Pinker says, and everything that's not good we can just call counter-Enlightenment.
00:40:00.000I can say whatever garbage thing I want to say, and you should back me in that because I think that I should be able to say what I want to say.
00:40:05.000And my view was, the government should not tell you what to say, but it doesn't mean your opinion ain't garbage.
00:40:09.000Doesn't mean you didn't say a garbage thing.
00:40:10.000So, should Peter Singer be restricted from speaking?
00:40:39.000So Zachary says, Dear Ben, as someone gearing up to start law school but working full time, how do you stay organized and prioritize all your activities while still finding free time and are able to get good sleep?
00:40:48.000Well, number one, you have to know your actual skill set, and you have to know what you're good at and what you're bad at, and then you have to chart out your time.
00:40:54.000You legitimately have to chart out your time, including charting out breaks.
00:40:56.000So that means you're going to work for a certain amount of time in the morning, and then you're going to take a break, and you're going to enforce that break.
00:41:02.000And then you are going to come back, and you're going to work for a certain amount of time in the afternoon, and then you're going to enforce that break.
00:41:06.000What people usually do is they sort of drift in and out of work, right?
00:41:09.000They work, and then they check Twitter for a while, and then they work some more, and then they go out, and then they work.
00:41:14.000That's not the way that people should be focusing.
00:41:16.000Virtually every study I've ever seen says that the way to focus is to look directly at the work that you are doing.
00:41:21.000To look at that work and to take that work seriously until you are done.
00:41:25.000No one is really good at multitasking.
00:41:27.000I'm pretty good at multitasking for somebody multitasking but
00:41:31.000It's not nearly as good as when I'm concentrating on a project.
00:41:33.000In fact, one of the great irritants to my wife is the fact that when I'm concentrating on something, she can be talking directly at me and I do not even notice that it is happening.
00:41:40.000People in the office know this is a reality.
00:41:42.000Legitimately, before every show, I'm probably working on an article and Senya or Mathis or Jess have to try and shout into my ear that the show's about to begin because I'm too busy doing whatever it is that I'm doing.
00:41:51.000It's a good quality in terms of being able to work.
00:41:53.000It's a bad quality in terms of being respectful to other people.
00:41:55.000So, I've been working on it a little bit.
00:41:57.000Alan says, I agree with your position on tariffs and trade but I have a question.
00:42:01.000Don't the countries being targeted for tariffs impose tariffs against the USA already?
00:42:05.000Why is it wrong for Trump to fight for a balanced playing field?
00:42:08.000My preference would be for his actions to be successful in the elimination of all tariffs among our trading partners.
00:42:16.000I mean, if the idea of trying to tariff another country to leverage them to lower their own tariffs is the idea, that's one thing.
00:42:22.000If you're trying to use it as a tactic to get them to lower tariffs, that's one thing.
00:42:25.000If you're using it as a tactic in order to damage the other side, just because you think that trade is a zero-sum game, or if you're trying to use tariffs as a way to enrich certain industries at the expense of others in your own country, then tariffs are stupid.
00:42:36.000By using tariffs as a tactic, I mean, you use it in war, right?
00:42:40.000So, if you're trying to leverage them, tariffs can be used as a leverage point, which is why, for example, you see the EU raising tariffs on the United States when the United States raises tariffs on the EU.
00:42:54.000Yeah, I'd purchase Nerf guns and water guns for my kids.
00:43:42.000That I actually have a problem with, mainly because I think that you buy that for your kid and your kid pulls that out in a public area, it's a serious problem.
00:43:50.000So, you should get guns that, if you're gonna get a water gun, get a colorful water gun that doesn't look like an actual gun, obviously.
00:43:57.000I, of course, have been as well, but my views might be beginning to change on the subject.
00:44:07.000I agree with everything our spirit animal has said about Cuba and the UN, especially about Cubans not being free, our spirit animal being Nikki Haley.
00:44:13.000I just feel that maybe it might be time to let free trade happen between the two countries and see what happens.
00:44:19.000Well, the pro of dumping the embargo is presumably that the country will get richer and that eventually some of those benefits will accrue to the population.
00:44:30.000The proof of this is China, where poverty has been sliced by a significant margin thanks to opening the Chinese economy.
00:44:35.000The con is that the Chinese government is still run by a bunch of communist thugs.
00:44:40.000So the con is that you are re-enshrining that dictatorship for a longer period of time.
00:44:44.000The pro is that you might be helping some of the people who are living there.
00:44:46.000The real question is, do we have any real plan to topple the regime in Cuba?
00:44:50.000If we don't have a real plan to topple the regime in Cuba, it seems to me that there is no reason to keep the embargo going other than to punish the regime.
00:44:57.000And punishing the regime for 50 years has not actually done anything to actually topple the regime.
00:45:01.000So either topple the regime or don't topple the regime or come up with a better plan to topple the regime.
00:45:09.000And I would be fully in favor of us providing covert aid to any rebel group in Cuba who wants to kill the Castros and take over the country.
00:45:16.000So long as they would like to replace it with something better.
00:45:40.000I really like the director of La La Land, first of all.
00:45:41.000He also did Whiplash, which is a better movie.
00:45:44.000La La Land, I thought the songs were unmemorable.
00:45:46.000It makes me upset when they cast musicals where people cannot sing or dance.
00:45:50.000It seems to me that there are lots of people who can sing and dance and you could cast those people instead of casting Ryan Gosling who cannot sing or dance or Emma Stone who cannot sing or dance.
00:45:57.000Emma Stone's a very good actress but her voice is extraordinarily weak and she cannot move on screen.
00:46:04.000I mean, I appreciate the effort, although I didn't particularly like the ending of La La Land.
00:46:08.000Les Mis and Phantom of the Opera, I didn't like on stage very much, but I actually think they're both relatively effective movies.
00:46:14.000So Les Mis, I think, is actually more effective as a movie than it is on stage.
00:46:18.000On stage, it's just really long, and the 30 years dominate, and they're obnoxious and irritating.
00:46:24.000Also, the scoring for the movie's a lot better.
00:46:25.000One of the big problems with the score in the original Les Mis is that it's all synthesized.
00:46:29.000So having a synthesized score to represent 19th century France is really stupid.
00:46:35.000I have a lot of problems with Les Mis as a musical.
00:46:38.000I like the book, but I think that the musical itself, there are like two memorable songs in Les Mis, and they're not the ones everybody thinks.
00:46:45.000So Stars is a memorable song, and One Day More at the end of the first act is a memorable number, and all the other numbers I find kind of boring.
00:46:56.000And if you want to see video of me singing stars, you can actually find that on YouTube because that was something I did one day for no reason.
00:48:16.000But I think the best option is probably going to be a constitutional amendment to at least retract Roe v. Wade.
00:48:21.000Even if you don't believe that there should be a constitutional amendment to ban abortion and protect life, unborn life, under the Constitution, then at the very least you can retract Roe v. Wade and toss it back to the states, which should at least be a step in the right direction.
00:48:32.000So, let's do a couple of things I like, and then a couple of things I hate, and then let's get out of here.
00:49:39.000Okay, time for a couple of quick things that I hate.
00:49:45.000Okay, so John Boehner, who apparently is just going around becoming like a lounge act, he just goes around drinking and smoking and then growling at people while leaning on a piano.
00:49:53.000He was, you can see him drinking literally in this video, right?
00:49:57.000He's literally sitting there drinking in the video while he does this interview because that's John Boehner, man.
00:50:01.000And John Boehner says, there is no Republican Party under President Trump.
00:50:04.000But I want to talk to you about what's happened with the Republican Party.
00:50:19.000President Trump does not get everything that he wants.
00:50:20.000President Trump has largely been a good advocate for Republican policies, a better advocate than John Boehner was, I think, in many ways.
00:50:27.000Now, I don't think Boehner was as bad a Speaker of the House as some people think he was.
00:50:30.000That said, he was certainly not a hard fighter for Republican principles in any serious way.
00:50:34.000So, this idea that the Republican Party was hijacked by Trump completely, it was one of my worries.
00:50:40.000I don't think that word is fully materialized.
00:50:41.000Okay, one other correction I want to make.
00:50:43.000So I've been getting tons of mail about Tommy Robinson.
00:50:45.000So Tommy Robinson, I said earlier this week on one of the shows, I said that he was alt-right, or that he was far-right, or whatever it was.
00:50:55.000And I'll be honest with you, I had read some accounts of him.
00:50:57.000He had said a couple of things that looked alt-right-ish.
00:51:19.000And so I want to apologize and replace it with Douglas Murray's take.
00:51:21.000So here's what Douglas Murray writes over at National Review.
00:51:24.000Tommy Robinson is a British political activist and citizen journalist who came to prominence in Britain almost a decade ago when he founded the English Defence League.
00:51:31.000The EDL was a street protest movement in Britain whose aims could probably best be summarized as anti-Islamization.
00:51:36.000It emerged in the town of Luton after a group of local Islamists barracked the homecoming parade of a local regiment returning from service in Afghanistan.
00:51:43.000From their earliest protests, the EDL's members sought to highlight issues including Sharia law, Islam's attitudes toward minorities, and the phenomenon that would become euphemistically known as grooming gangs.
00:51:51.000In reality, these protests often descended into hooliganism and low-level violence, naturally helped along by self-described anti-fascists.
00:51:58.000The authorities did everything they could to stop the EDL, and the media did everything possible to demonize them.
00:52:02.000In a foretaste of things to come, very few people made any effort to understand them, and nobody paid any price
00:52:07.000For claiming that the EDL was simply a fascist organization and that anybody who even tried to understand them must be a fascist, too.
00:52:12.000I interviewed Tommy Robinson five years ago after he'd left the EDL, having by his own admission failed to keep extremists, including actual neo-Nazis, away from the movement.
00:52:20.000As he said then, one of the problems of everyone insisting that a particular movement is campaigning for the Fourth Reich is that very few people who think that sounds like a great ideal will show up.
00:52:27.000Whatever his other faults, there is no evidence Robinson thinks that way.
00:52:30.000Indeed, he was once charged with assault for headbutting a Nazi sympathizer who wouldn't leave an EDL protest.
00:52:35.000Not many people bothered with those details.
00:52:37.000The assault got reported, but not the cause.
00:52:38.000So the fact that Robinson had headbutted a Nazi became yet more evidence that he himself must be some kind of Nazi.
00:52:45.000And then he tells—Douglas Murray tells a bunch of stories about the sort of stuff that Tommy Robinson has done.
00:52:50.000In March, Robinson was suspended from Twitter, where he had almost half a million followers.
00:53:13.000Earlier in the week, the fact that Robinson was arrested for even covering a trial about grooming gangs.
00:53:17.000Grooming gangs are these apparently Muslim groups of men in Britain, in several major cities, who have been essentially creating rape gangs of children and grooming them for rape.
00:53:27.000That's what the cases actually are about.
00:53:30.000So here's what Douglas Murray writes about this.
00:53:34.000He says, Robinson would not now be in jail if he had not once again accosted defendants in an ongoing trial outside the courthouse.
00:53:39.000He had been told by a judge last May not to do this, and yet he did it again.
00:53:42.000It isn't the worst thing in the world.
00:53:43.000It isn't child rape, for instance, but it is an offense to which Robinson understandably pled guilty.
00:53:47.000More important, the trial that was coming to a close last Friday is just one part of a trial involving multiple other defendants.
00:53:52.000It is certainly possible that Robinson's breaking of reporting restrictions at the Leeds trial could have prejudiced those trials to have caused the collapse of such trial
00:53:58.000And then he talks about Tommy Robinson fighting the Islamic extremists in Great Britain.
00:54:12.000Tommy Robinson will be in prison for another year.
00:54:14.000All the people happy with the status quo will breathe a sigh of relief.
00:54:16.000Thank goodness that troublemaker has gone away.
00:54:18.000But the real problem has not gone away.
00:54:20.000There's no chance of the real problem going away because they have no plan for making it go away.
00:54:24.000So I just wanted to give a little bit more context to who Tommy Robinson is from somebody who I trust, Douglas Murray, about this over at National Review, talking about what his past is with the EDL and some of the things that he has said and apologized for.
00:54:35.000And I hope that that corrects some of the misconceptions that I put out earlier this week.