The Ben Shapiro Show - When Black Cops Brutalize A Black Man, That’s White Privilege | Ep. 1657

00:00:00.000 Five black Memphis police officers are charged with murder in the killing of black man Tyree Nichols.

00:00:04.000 But the left still says it's systemic racism.

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00:00:33.000 Well, as we've discussed many times in the past here on The Ben Shapiro Show, narrative trumps all when it comes to the left wing.

00:00:39.000 And it never has this been truer than in the case of Tyree Nichols.

00:00:42.000 Terry Nichols is a 29-year-old black man who was hospitalized after a confrontation with police during a traffic stop earlier this month.

00:00:49.000 The officers were then fired.

00:00:50.000 This is in Memphis, Tennessee.

00:00:51.000 They were accused of using excessive force in an encounter that was captured on the video.

00:00:54.000 We're going to go through the video because it's kind of important to see what exactly was going on.

00:00:59.000 The key fact here, because again, narrative means everything to the left, is that the five police officers who have now been charged, they were all arrested on charges including second-degree murder, Their names are Tadarius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Emmett Martin III, Desmond Mills Jr., and Justin Smith.

00:01:13.000 They were all arrested, and they were all black. 0.99

00:01:15.000 And the victim in this particular case was also black. 0.98

00:01:19.000 This does not stop the left from claiming that white supremacy is to blame, because white supremacy is the ghost in the machine. 0.96

00:01:24.000 It is responsible for literally everything in life. 0.85

00:01:27.000 Just as to the feminist movement, everything in the world is the patriarchy. 0.99

00:01:32.000 To the left, when it comes to race, every single thing is white supremacy, even if it is black police officers who are beating and effectively killing a black man. 0.98

00:01:41.000 That is still white supremacy. 0.94

00:01:43.000 One of the worst things about politics is that single factor analysis tends to be the most easily available way of approaching politics.

00:01:51.000 And it's also the worst way.

00:01:53.000 People tend to think very simplistically about politics, just as they think about other things in their life.

00:01:56.000 And so if you are a hammer in search of a nail, everything looks like a nail.

00:02:00.000 And so if you are a left winger on race, everything looks like white supremacy.

00:02:04.000 If you're a feminist, everything looks like the patriarchy. 1.00

00:02:06.000 If you're a Marxist, everything looks like class warfare.

00:02:08.000 Now, the reality is that life is much more complicated than that.

00:02:11.000 That there are a bunch of different forces that play on individuals in our world, and that it's a combination of those forces and the individual decisions made by those individuals that leads to particular action.

00:02:22.000 But when it comes to politics, the easiest thing is to blame some sort of gigantic force and then say that you are fighting that force.

00:02:28.000 And if you fight that force properly, well, then this thing never would have happened.

00:02:31.000 If you're a Marxist, if you just fight the predations of capitalism, well, then all evil will go away.

00:02:35.000 If you're a feminist and you fight the patriarchy, all evils will go away. 1.00

00:02:38.000 You will alleviate the generalized condition and all of the evils go away.

00:02:41.000 Well, as we will see, this is not the case in Memphis, Tennessee, not by a long shot.

00:02:45.000 Hey, so what exactly happened in the case of Tyree Nichols?

00:02:49.000 Well, we now have video of the traffic stop.

00:02:53.000 Apparently, according to the videos, you can see that Tyree Nichols was pulled over by the cops.

00:03:00.000 And they stopped their cars in front and in back of him.

00:03:04.000 And then they tell him to get on the ground.

00:03:07.000 And he sits down.

00:03:08.000 He's not sure exactly what is meant by get on the ground.

00:03:10.000 And they tell him they want to lie on the ground.

00:03:12.000 They're yelling orders at him.

00:03:13.000 He's apparently trying kind of have to comply.

00:03:15.000 At a certain point, he just runs away.

00:03:17.000 First point, never run away from the cops.

00:03:20.000 This does not end well. 1.00

00:03:21.000 Running from the cops is a stupid thing to do. 0.96

00:03:24.000 This does not alleviate any of the evils of the police officers who are rightly being charged with aggravated assault and some of them being charged with second degree murder. 0.99

00:03:32.000 But many factors lead up to a situation in which the police do something like this.

00:03:37.000 So, you can see in the video what exactly happened.

00:03:40.000 There are multiple camera angles.

00:03:43.000 And in this particular case, what you see is that Tyree Nichols is pulled over.

00:03:47.000 One of the questions in this particular case is whether he was pulled over for a good reason or a bad reason, whether they had reasonable suspicion to pull him over or not.

00:03:52.000 He did not have a prior criminal record.

00:03:54.000 It is not clear why exactly they pulled him over.

00:03:56.000 I'm sure that's going to be the defense's case at trial, because one of the things that some of the police officers are being charged with here is kidnapping, meaning that it was sort of arrest under false pretenses.

00:04:04.000 They pulled him over for no apparent reason is sort of the implication here.

00:04:09.000 So before they actually released the tape and before we found out all the details, the Memphis police chief actually came out preemptively and said it was worse than Rodney King, which is not something that police chiefs should be saying.

00:04:19.000 The reason they should not be saying this is it sets the stage for riots.

00:04:21.000 What they should say is these police officers have already been arrested.

00:04:24.000 They've already been charged.

00:04:26.000 Most of them will go to jail, undoubtedly.

00:04:29.000 This is how the justice system is supposed to work, is that when this stuff emerges, people get arrested and they go to jail.

00:04:34.000 Instead, when you start ratcheting up the tensions, you are leading the way to something that is going to look very much like street violence, because this is exactly what we saw in Ferguson, Missouri.

00:04:44.000 It's exactly what we've seen in the past with regard to George Floyd.

00:04:47.000 Anyway, here was the Memphis police chief who was talking up the evils of the incident.

00:04:52.000 It has been said that it is reminiscent, perhaps worse, than the Rodney King video.

00:04:57.000 Is that your assessment?

00:04:58.000 That's my assessment.

00:05:00.000 I was in law enforcement during the Rodney King incident and it's, you know, very much aligned with that same type of behavior.

00:05:11.000 That it's worse?

00:05:12.000 Sort of group think.

00:05:15.000 I would say it's about the same, if not worse.

00:05:20.000 Okay, so I don't know, number one, why the Memphis police chief is doing interviews with Don Lemon, who obviously is a motivated political actor, as opposed to, for example, just doing a presser, releasing the tape, saying that we are doing our best to lock down the violation of law.

00:05:32.000 That is what a normal police chief would do.

00:05:34.000 That is not what happened here.

00:05:35.000 We're going to go through the timeline of what actually happened in the Tyree Nichols killing, and we're going to talk about the media narrative.

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00:06:46.000 So, what exactly happened?

00:06:47.000 We're going to go through the timeline.

00:06:48.000 So, 824 p.m.

00:06:48.000 that's according to NBC News, officers conducted a traffic stop in the apprehended Nichols.

00:06:53.000 They shouted, get out of the effing car. 1.00

00:06:55.000 And Nichols said, I didn't do anything, which of course is not the proper response to the police when they started.

00:07:00.000 Yelling at you.

00:07:01.000 The proper response to the police is you try your best to comply.

00:07:04.000 Now, this does not always result in the proper result.

00:07:06.000 You remember that there was a case a while back in which there was a it was in a hotel room and there was a suspicion that somebody had a gun in a hotel room and the police were actually ordering, in this case, a white victim to get on the floor and he was trying his best to comply.

00:07:18.000 They're giving all sorts of conflicting orders and they shot him to death, right?

00:07:20.000 But at the very least, you try to comply.

00:07:23.000 You don't start off with I didn't do anything. So a scuffle ensued. An officer yells, get the F on the ground. 0.79

00:07:28.000 And Nichols says, all right, I'm on the ground. And what they actually meant by that is we want you to lie on the ground. Police said they stopped him for reckless driving.

00:07:35.000 In Memphis, police chief that was Sarah Lynn C.J. Davis said early Friday morning that they found no proof of that, which again, we'll see whether that is true or not.

00:07:44.000 Nichols says, you guys are really doing a lot right now.

00:07:47.000 I'm just trying to go home.

00:07:49.000 By 825, he's pepper sprayed.

00:07:52.000 And then he attempts to leave.

00:07:54.000 And by leave, I mean run away.

00:07:56.000 And you can see this in the tape.

00:07:58.000 So we're going to go through the tape right now.

00:08:00.000 You can see that he's on the ground.

00:08:01.000 They pepper spray him and then he's gonna get up and he's gonna run away.

00:08:03.000 They keep yelling at him and put his hands behind his back.

00:08:13.000 He's not complying.

00:08:14.000 He's not putting his hands behind his back.

00:08:25.000 And then, somehow, he gets up and he takes off.

00:08:28.000 Okay, now that is not complying with the officer's orders, and that is not a smart move.

00:08:33.000 Okay, then, they hit him with the taser, and he keeps running.

00:08:37.000 And he leaves.

00:08:39.000 Backup comes.

00:08:40.000 Two police officers, two more police cars arrive at the intersection where Nichols was initially stopped, again, according to NBC News.

00:08:45.000 An officer can be heard on the radio saying they've spotted Nichols running on foot.

00:08:49.000 Now, again, if they have an impression that he is actually, he was apprehended for a good reason or that he's going to go commit another crime or something, they're allowed to pursue him on foot.

00:08:56.000 So at this point, nothing untoward has happened.

00:08:59.000 At 8.32 p.m., they re-apprehend him.

00:09:02.000 And then they spray him with pepper spray a bunch of times.

00:09:05.000 Two officers are then on top of Nichols, he is lying on the pavement, and they keep shouting to him to give him their hands, and he won't give him his hands.

00:09:14.000 So you can see that in the tape as well.

00:09:16.000 And he starts screaming for his mom repeatedly.

00:09:19.000 Apparently, the police caught up with Nichols in a neighborhood that was about 200 feet from his mom's home.

00:09:26.000 And finally, he seems to appear to move his hands to his back, and then they continue to pepper spray him.

00:09:30.000 And this is where things are gonna start getting out of control pretty quickly here.

00:09:34.000 So you can see in the tape, they apprehend him, he's on the ground, they're pepper spraying him.

00:09:41.000 Okay, here's where things start to get wild, right?

00:09:47.000 So they're starting to kick him.

00:09:48.000 They're shouting for mom.

00:09:57.000 They're telling him to give the hands. He's not giving the hands.

00:09:59.000 How many times do they have to, I mean, again, they're telling him over and over and over, give him the hands. He's not giving the hands. He's already run away once.

00:10:17.000 But, again, officers are trained to respond to these sorts of situations, and here's where things are going to get out of control.

00:10:21.000 Okay, so, you can see in this case he's still not complying.

00:10:25.000 There's a street lamp video.

00:10:26.000 The officer is using the baton on him to get him to comply.

00:10:29.000 He keeps getting up.

00:10:30.000 He's not, he's not sitting down.

00:10:31.000 And here's where things get out of control, right?

00:10:33.000 You can see right there, police officer on the, uh, on the right, on the right hand side of the video.

00:10:39.000 He actually takes a swing at this guy and he hits him with what they call hard hand and, uh, soft hand is where you grab somebody.

00:10:46.000 Hard hand is where you hit somebody.

00:10:48.000 And again, thanks to multiple police officers who I've talked to and asked about this particular case.

00:10:54.000 And this police officer is now probably in violation of the law, right?

00:10:59.000 The police officer is now hitting this guy in the face.

00:11:01.000 He appears to be somewhat under control.

00:11:03.000 It's kind of amazing to me that you have this many police officers and they still don't have this one guy under control.

00:11:07.000 That's a lot of bodies around this particular person.

00:11:10.000 And he doesn't appear to be totally At this point, physically free, right?

00:11:15.000 He's somewhat incapacitated, and they're still hitting him.

00:11:18.000 And it gets worse, right?

00:11:19.000 Officers stand Nichols upright, they pin his hands behind him, and now while his hands are pinned behind him, that's the thing, they're punching him while his hands are behind him, right?

00:11:25.000 You're not looking at aggravated assault, and if he dies, you're looking at second-degree murder at that point.

00:11:29.000 Right, so now he's on the ground.

00:11:32.000 You can see the video and now some of them are kicking him while he's on the ground.

00:11:36.000 ...in real time that there's no audio on this but you do not need to listen to this because what we are seeing here is kick after kick. It looks like in the direction of Tyree Nichols' head.

00:11:48.000 The family described this video. They are literally holding him up. Oh.

00:11:52.000 And you're seeing some kicks, you're seeing punches, he's lying on the ground.

00:11:57.000 And at this point there's nobody around him, right?

00:11:58.000 He's just kind of lying on the ground.

00:12:01.000 So they're obviously not trying to subdue him at this particular point.

00:12:06.000 So that is the video.

00:12:08.000 And Nichols ends up hospitalized in critical condition after the encounter.

00:12:11.000 He dies three days later, and five officers involved in the case are fired.

00:12:15.000 So not every officer should be charged with second-degree murder.

00:12:17.000 Not every officer was hitting him in the face, for example, or participating in the actual beating of him.

00:12:22.000 People who pulled him over are not going to get the same charges, presumably, as people who actually punched him in the face while he was already subdued.

00:12:28.000 The former officers were all members of the department's vaunted Scorpion unit. 0.96

00:12:31.000 They were charged on Thursday with second-degree murder, two counts of official misconduct, two counts of aggravated kidnapping.

00:12:36.000 That's the question as to whether he was recklessly driving in the first place.

00:12:39.000 One count of official oppression, one count of aggravated assault.

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00:13:59.000 Okay, so what is shown on screen and what is not shown on screen is going to be really the question in the actual criminal case here.

00:14:06.000 As the Wall Street Journal points out, the body camera footage capturing the police encounter that led to the death of Tyree Nichols is likely to be central in any future murder trial of the officers involved.

00:14:14.000 Lawyers cautioned even vivid videos can present challenges for prosecutors in court, which of course is true.

00:14:18.000 We've seen cases before in which the officers have successfully maintained that there is resistance by the suspect that you can't actually see on the body cams, for example.

00:14:26.000 The lamp is actually, the lamp light there, the camera, is actually obscuring the angle of what Nichols was doing on the ground, for example.

00:14:32.000 You might see that in a defense case.

00:14:34.000 Some of that footage is devastating, said Robert Frenchman, defense attorney, and Mukasey Frenchman on the flip side.

00:14:38.000 These aren't easy cases for prosecutors.

00:14:40.000 When police arrest and make split-second decisions, jurors tend to give them the benefit of the doubt.

00:14:45.000 Attorneys for three of the former officers couldn't immediately be determined.

00:14:48.000 An attorney for another of the ex-officers did not respond to requests for comment.

00:14:53.000 Prosecutors said the presence of video evidence can heighten jurors' expectations at trial.

00:14:57.000 After seeing some conduct in question in detail, jurors can begin to expect the same sort of evidence for any allegation.

00:15:03.000 Videos from police body cams obviously have become a lot more common these days.

00:15:08.000 And people are drawing a comparison to Rodney King here.

00:15:12.000 Honestly, it's possible to make the case.

00:15:15.000 I'm not sure that the comparison is particularly necessary.

00:15:17.000 I'm not sure why the comparison to Rodney, I mean to own individual criminal case.

00:15:21.000 There are a couple of factors that distinguish this actually.

00:15:24.000 Rodney King was driving 120 miles an hour apparently through like a residential neighborhood and they suspect it was high on PCP.

00:15:31.000 Also, the officers in that particular case were poorly trained.

00:15:33.000 In this case, these are like the supposedly most highly trained members of the Memphis, Tennessee police force.

00:15:37.000 So it's possible that it's actually worse than Rodney King in particular respect.

00:15:41.000 The big distinctive factor, obviously, is the race of the officers.

00:15:44.000 And this is where things start to fall apart pretty quickly.

00:15:48.000 So it's pretty easy to make the case this is police brutality.

00:15:51.000 It looks like police brutality from the tape.

00:15:52.000 It looks like people are violating the law.

00:15:54.000 It looks like the police are using methodologies that are not approved to subdue a suspect who's effectively already subdued.

00:16:02.000 Again, that is obviously putting aside the fact that the suspect got up and ran, was refusing to comply with demands, all of that's going to come up in the defense of the trial.

00:16:09.000 But once he's subdued, the last part of the video is particularly the part that's disturbing.

00:16:12.000 He's already been subdued, he's got his hands behind his back, and now they're punching him, even with his hands behind his back, right?

00:16:17.000 That's the part that looks particularly criminal here.

00:16:20.000 Spraying him with pepper spray while he's refusing to comply with demands, put his hands behind his back, that does not nearly look criminal, for example.

00:16:27.000 But it's the response that's really amazing here.

00:16:29.000 So the response comes in a couple of forms.

00:16:31.000 Response number one is the policy response.

00:16:34.000 So because of incidents like this, Memphis has now decided that they are going to disband that specialized police unit of which these officers were members.

00:16:43.000 According to Reuters, the police department said in a statement it was permanently deactivating the Scorpion unit after the police chief spoke with members of Nichols' family, community leaders, and other officers.

00:16:52.000 A police spokesperson confirmed all five officers were members of the unit.

00:16:56.000 The Scorpion Unit was Memphis's response to the fact that it is one of the most violent cities in the United States.

00:17:02.000 Statistically speaking, Memphis has one of the highest murder rates in America.

00:17:07.000 Memphis is ranked by murder rate number 12 in the United States with a murder rate of 44.4 per 100,000 people.

00:17:16.000 To put that in contrast, the murder rate across the United States is about 6.5 per 100,000 people.

00:17:21.000 So Memphis has an extraordinarily high murder rate, very, very high crime rate.

00:17:25.000 In fact, The Atlantic did an entire piece in November, I mean, just this last November, talking about the disaster area that is Memphis.

00:17:34.000 They talk about the fact that the homicide rate in Memphis is four to five times as high as the national murder rate minimum.

00:17:44.000 And there has been no real way of getting this under control.

00:17:50.000 According to the Atlantic, two years ago, at a time of historically low crime rates and unprecedented anger about police brutality, reforms to law enforcement felt possible, maybe even imminent.

00:17:58.000 Peace was not evenly distributed.

00:17:59.000 Places like Memphis were still more violent than some other big cities, but the trends were in the right direction and across generations and races. 1.00

00:18:04.000 Americans were upset about bad policing.

00:18:06.000 Now the country has entered a grim period as violent crime has risen nationwide.

00:18:09.000 The effect is both higher crime rates and failed policing seem locked in place because they're still blaming the Atlantic, quote unquote, failed policing.

00:18:15.000 But one thing that is going to happen here, is that Memphis is going to get worse in terms of crime.

00:18:21.000 Many of the policy prescriptions in the aftermath of a terrible incident like this end up being significantly worse for the people of Memphis than what existed before.

00:18:30.000 We've seen this in nearly every major American city that has had a serious police scandal.

00:18:35.000 There's a social scientist at Harvard, Roland Fry, and he's taking a look at this, and what he found is that the murder rates in cities that have been hit by high-profile protests over quote-unquote police brutality, the murder rates have risen dramatically in the aftermath of those protests.

00:18:50.000 Why?

00:18:50.000 Because if you're a cop, you're not going to do your job.

00:18:52.000 If you're a cop, you're going to sit aside.

00:18:53.000 And your response, on a predictable human level, isn't going to be, those were bad apples and they're getting prosecuted because they're bad apples.

00:18:59.000 It's, everything I do in the field is a judgment call.

00:19:02.000 If anything gets caught on tape, I may end up behind bars.

00:19:04.000 I'm not going to do any of this anymore.

00:19:05.000 When you disband things like the Scorpion unit in Memphis, is that going to make the murder rate go up or is it going to make the murder rate go down?

00:19:10.000 Is it going to make the violent crime rate go up or is it going to make the violent crime rate go down?

00:19:14.000 In other words, when you look at incidents like this, Which appear exceptional.

00:19:18.000 And you use them as an example of redoing entire policies. 0.82

00:19:21.000 To the detriment of the police force, what you're going to end up with is more dead black people in Memphis. 0.99

00:19:25.000 Because disproportionately people who are being murdered in Memphis are black. 1.00

00:19:29.000 So, the policy response to this sort of thing is usually garbage. 0.98

00:19:32.000 Usually, you'll have an incident like this, and just like everything else in American life or in politics generally, people take individualized incidents, and then they construct entire edifices of law around those individualized incidents, and the edifices of law end up being significantly worse than they were before.

00:19:48.000 A perfect example of this, by the way, would be the predations of, for example, the Patriot Act in the aftermath of September 11th.

00:19:54.000 September 11th, horrific, evil terrorist incident.

00:19:57.000 And then it turns out we emboldened our government to basically look through everything we've got.

00:20:02.000 And that's a serious problem.

00:20:04.000 The policy response tends to be disproportionate to the actual violation.

00:20:08.000 Not in terms of the violation not being evil.

00:20:09.000 The violation here is particularly evil.

00:20:11.000 But in terms of the policy response not being calibrated to stop that thing.

00:20:14.000 Instead, the policy response ends up being a blunderbuss.

00:20:16.000 It ends up being a shotgun.

00:20:18.000 And it ends up actually damaging issues far beyond this particular issue.

00:20:23.000 According to the New York Times, Chief C.J.

00:20:25.000 Davis of the Memphis Police had been on the job for only a few months in 2021 when she saw that homicide numbers were rising toward a record.

00:20:31.000 Near her new home downtown, drivers were buzzing wildly through the streets.

00:20:34.000 Often late at night, she had a plan to confront the mayhem.

00:20:36.000 For reckless drivers, she told her team, officers were to focus less on writing tickets, And more on all out strategy of seizing cars from the most dangerous drivers.

00:20:44.000 Violent offenders needed to be targeted with new urgency.

00:20:46.000 If the state could not take a case to court, she determined, her agency should ask federal prosecutors to take the case instead.

00:20:51.000 She said at a community event in November of 2021, quote, we all have the understanding about being tough on tough people.

00:20:57.000 Two days later, Chief Davis, the first African-American woman to lead the department, launched her most ambitious strategy, a new police unit named Scorpion, or Street Crimes Operation to restore peace in our neighborhoods, and would deploy some 40 officers as a strike team in some of the most volatile corners of the city.

00:21:11.000 So now she's disbanding that exact unit.

00:21:14.000 The city had for months touted the Scorpion team as a key to its crime-fighting strategy, promoting it as nearly an overnight success at a time when the city was posting record homicide numbers.

00:21:22.000 Memphis recorded more than 300 murders in 2021.

00:21:25.000 By comparison, New York City, which is 13 times larger, had fewer than 500.

00:21:30.000 Scorpion's supposed successes became a talking point for city officials, including the mayor, Jim Strickland, who highlighted the unit during his January 2022 State of the City speech.

00:21:39.000 Listed its early accomplishments, 566 arrests, 390 of them for felonies, etc.

00:21:43.000 Well now, they're disbanding the Scorpion unit.

00:21:45.000 What's the predictable result?

00:21:47.000 The same as it's been in every other major city, you're about to see a major uptick in crime in the city of Memphis.

00:21:52.000 And this is going to be combined, as we're about to see, with the left-wing narrative that this was all about race.

00:21:57.000 So the media are pushing a couple of narratives.

00:21:59.000 One of them is, of course, that the most important thing here to do is to curtail the police, which of course is going to end very, very badly for impoverished, crime-ridden communities.

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00:23:08.000 So you have two narratives that are now being pursued by the left.

00:23:11.000 One is that policing all over the nation has to be redone.

00:23:14.000 That significant restrictions have to be put on police officers.

00:23:16.000 This is all a training issue.

00:23:18.000 Now, the reality is, sure, there are training issues in police departments.

00:23:22.000 Sure, we all want to see officers who violate the law prosecuted.

00:23:25.000 That is not quite the same thing as saying that police all over the United States are mistrained.

00:23:31.000 It's not quite the same thing as the DOJ under Merrick Garland, as I'm sure he's about to do, pushing consent decrees that are going to tie the hands of the police behind their back.

00:23:38.000 You're about to see, again, a major rise in violent crime all around the United States on the basis of reaction to incidents like this one.

00:23:45.000 So that's narrative number one.

00:23:46.000 The police are bad at their jobs.

00:23:47.000 The police are the real threat.

00:23:49.000 These are the people you should really fear are the cops.

00:23:52.000 Now, I will repeat again.

00:23:53.000 The cops in this case should be prosecuted.

00:23:55.000 They violated the law.

00:23:57.000 Also, this incident stops before it begins if Tyree Nichols surrenders to the police and puts his hands behind his back and does not run away.

00:24:04.000 Those two things can be true all at once.

00:24:06.000 Hey, that's narrative number one, and it's going to have real damaging effects in the city of Memphis.

00:24:10.000 Then there's narrative number two, and this is the broad national narrative.

00:24:13.000 The broad national narrative is that this has something to do with white people.

00:24:16.000 It's about white supremacy. 0.58

00:24:17.000 Now, you look at this and on its face, that's absurd. 0.99

00:24:20.000 How exactly are five black police officers who punch and kick a guy who's black and then the guy dies? 0.96

00:24:27.000 How exactly is that a white supremacy issue? 0.94

00:24:30.000 And yet this is precisely the response of many on the left.

00:24:33.000 Because again, when you're a hammer in search of a nail, everything looks like a nail.

00:24:38.000 So Joe Biden responded to this particular incident.

00:24:41.000 There was the president of the United States responding to what happened to Harry Nichols.

00:24:47.000 Your comments today were moving.

00:24:48.000 I don't know how you did it for Rodney.

00:24:51.000 I know Tyree's dad is devastated.

00:24:54.000 Yes, sir.

00:24:55.000 I know people are able to say that to you, but I do know I lost my son in a war.

00:25:00.000 The consequence of the war in Iraq being every year.

00:25:03.000 I lost my daughter. 0.99

00:25:05.000 I had to kill my wife and daughter. 0.98

00:25:08.000 I don't know how you stood there. 1.00

00:25:11.000 I didn't have the courage.

00:25:15.000 Joe Biden isn't going particularly racial there.

00:25:17.000 I will say Benjamin Crump being part of any case is a very, very good indicator that things are about to get ugly and racial very quickly. 0.96

00:25:22.000 Benjamin Crump is one of the great race grifters in America. 1.00

00:25:25.000 He has been by the side of people who have, this is not the case in this particular case, but with regard to Michael Brown, for example, Ben Crump was right at the center of that.

00:25:32.000 He is there whenever something bad happens that is alleged to have been the conduct of police.

00:25:38.000 He's always there on the scene in any case.

00:25:41.000 You gotta say about Joe Biden, how delusional is the President of the United States that he calls up grieving parents of a person who was killed in police custody, and his first move is to pretend that his son was killed in the Iraq war.

00:25:50.000 He was not.

00:25:51.000 I don't know how many times we have to debunk this idea that Beau Biden was killed and he served in the Iraq war bravely, and then he died of brain cancer years later.

00:25:57.000 He was not killed in the Iraq war.

00:25:59.000 Also, just as a general rule, what you don't do when you're making a mourning call, we do it routinely in the Jewish community when somebody dies, you have to, you do what's called a shiva visit.

00:26:07.000 The first thing you do is you don't talk about all the dead members of your family.

00:26:10.000 The guy just has no class whatsoever on these sorts of issues.

00:26:13.000 It's really kind of gross.

00:26:14.000 Anyway, that is not the political. 0.87

00:26:16.000 The political is, you see people who are claiming that this is an aspect of white supremacy.

00:26:20.000 So speaking of Ben Crump, here was the lawyer for the family.

00:26:23.000 Again, first on the scene.

00:26:25.000 Ambulance chaser par excellence, Ben Crump, saying that black communities have different types of police officers. 0.91

00:26:30.000 So really it is white supremacy because they get the worst police officers, which again is kind of racist considering all these police officers were black.

00:26:37.000 It almost doesn't make any sense the way they conducted themselves. 0.85

00:26:40.000 It's like we're witnessing, not police officers, but people acting like criminals themselves.

00:26:47.000 You know, unfortunately Dana, and communities of color, They often have different types of policing than many of our white brothers and sisters have in their community.

00:27:00.000 And this video illustrates it, that it's this culture that says it doesn't matter whether the police officers are black, Hispanic, or white, that it is somehow allowed for you to trample on the constitutional rights of certain citizens from certain ethnicities and certain communities.

00:27:23.000 It's always white supremacy.

00:27:24.000 Now, again, you want to deal with the issue of police brutality?

00:27:26.000 That's a real issue.

00:27:27.000 You want to deal with police violence?

00:27:28.000 That's a real issue.

00:27:29.000 You want to talk about how do you balance the needs of a community that is suffering from wild criminality like Memphis is, particularly black areas of Memphis, Tennessee, very, very high crime rates. 0.67

00:27:38.000 How do you deal with that while also preserving the civil rights of people who are, for example, pulled over for reckless driving?

00:27:43.000 That's a real conversation.

00:27:44.000 But if your first move is to turn this into, well, you know, black communities have different kinds of police officers.

00:27:50.000 That's not the key issue here.

00:27:51.000 The key issue here is high crime communities have very different brands of police officers because the police officers have to deal with a lot of crime.

00:27:58.000 I know, believe it or not, the police officers in Beverly Hills, they're not having to deal with nearly this much crime, and particularly not this much violent crime, which means they tend to engage in less violent activity.

00:28:08.000 Policing is a really ugly business.

00:28:09.000 One of the things that body cams have shown is just how ugly that business is.

00:28:12.000 You have to make split-section decisions in which you are dealing with violent criminals on a regular basis, or people who are disobeying the law in particularly egregious ways.

00:28:22.000 And so nobody ever takes that instead of just suggesting maybe we ought to recalibrate how we do some of the policing issues without throwing out the baby with the bathwater.

00:28:32.000 Instead, the idea is that it must be a racial issue.

00:28:35.000 This also led a Democratic freshman representative to suggest that this was the result of white supremacy.

00:28:41.000 the representative Maxwell Frost of Florida, he said, doesn't matter what color those police officers are, the murder of Tyree Nichols is anti-black and the result of white supremacy. 0.85

00:28:49.000 It's all white supremacy, you see, because everything bad in the universe is white supremacy. 0.89

00:28:53.000 It's all about systemic racism.

00:28:55.000 Now, you can't have it both ways.

00:28:57.000 The real impact of systemic racism on crime in the black community is a reporter from the Los Angeles Times named Jane Levy.

00:29:03.000 She wrote about this at length.

00:29:04.000 She wrote an entire book about crime in Los Angeles.

00:29:07.000 And one of the things she talked about was the fact that in the aftermath of the end of the Civil War, one of the things that was white supremacy was the refusal to put police officers in black communities because a lot of white communities were like, ah, who cares? 0.96

00:29:19.000 They're just black people killing each other. 1.00

00:29:20.000 That was actual white supremacy, actual racism, saying we should not have police officers in these communities. 0.97

00:29:24.000 Now when you have these communities begging for more police, and the police are put in there, and then the police do something wrong, that too is white supremacy.

00:29:31.000 Everything is white supremacy.

00:29:33.000 Which is why you have a piece in the Washington Post titled, Black Memphis Police Spark Dialogue on Systemic Racism in the United States.

00:29:39.000 I'm sorry, no.

00:29:41.000 You are sparking the dialogue.

00:29:42.000 One of my favorite brands of journalism is where you create a headline and then you say, well, people are saying.

00:29:47.000 People are saying.

00:29:48.000 Like, well, systemic racism, it's not me who's saying it.

00:29:51.000 A conversation has been sparked by me.

00:29:54.000 I'm just saying it's out there.

00:29:56.000 Quote, for the mother of Tyree Nichols, the fact that five Memphis police officers charged with beating her son are also black has compounded her sorrow as she tries to cope with this violence at age 29.

00:30:04.000 It makes it even harder to swallow.

00:30:05.000 Roe Vaughn-Wells said in an interview last week because they are black and they know what we have to go through.

00:30:09.000 By the way, that seems like a very it's an odd argument.

00:30:14.000 Obviously the grieving mother, so you take everything that the grieving mother says with the sympathy that it ought to be taken, but it seems weird that you've, like it's worse if it's black police officers who end up being responsible for the death of your son than if it's white police officers who are responsible for the death of your son.

00:30:30.000 Very, very odd rationale right there.

00:30:33.000 This is the fun of the term institutional racism.

00:30:34.000 Institutional racism suggests that the entire institution is racist.

00:30:37.000 Now, you don't have to point to any policies of the department that are racist.

00:30:39.000 police reform about the for raciveness of institutional racism in policing.

00:30:43.000 This is the fun of the term institutional racism.

00:30:45.000 Institutional racism suggests that the entire institution is racist.

00:30:48.000 Now you don't have to point to any policies of the department that are racist.

00:30:51.000 You don't have to point to any sort of actual law that's racist. 0.98

00:30:56.000 You just say the institution is racist and therefore a person who is of the same race as the suspect is also a member of the white supremacist Ku Klux Klan that's out there killing black people. 0.94

00:31:07.000 The widely viewed videos of Nichols beating provided fodder for right-wing media ecosystems that routinely blame Black America's maladies on Black America. 0.96

00:31:13.000 Ah, it's fodder, you see.

00:31:15.000 It's fodder.

00:31:15.000 See, when the narrative does not meet with what the left wants it to meet with, then it's the fault.

00:31:19.000 The right is pouncing again.

00:31:20.000 So much pouncing.

00:31:21.000 So when the right says, uh, it doesn't look like white supremacy to me, the left goes, ah, that's pouncing on the white supremacy narrative.

00:31:26.000 How could you?

00:31:27.000 Provided fodder.

00:31:28.000 Well, maybe the problem is, for you, that this particular incident did not provide fodder for your narrative, and so you still have to keep cramming, cramming, that elephant-sized issue into a thimble.

00:31:40.000 It doesn't fit.

00:31:41.000 It doesn't work.

00:31:42.000 But they're not gonna stop.

00:31:45.000 The Memphis Police Department, which has nearly 2,000 officers, is 58% black, the result of a decades-long effort to field a police force that resembles the city's 64% black population.

00:31:55.000 Unlike in several recent high-profile police brutality cases, Memphis Police Chief Sarah Lynn Davis, who is black, and other officials acted swiftly in firing, arresting, and charging the Memphis police officers.

00:32:03.000 In other words, the system failed when it came to Tyree Nichols, but the system actually worked when it came to prosecuting the police officers who violated the law.

00:32:13.000 Diversifying law enforcement is certainly not going to solve this problem, said Samuel Sinyangwe, the president of Mapping Police Violence.

00:32:20.000 And then this entire article is talking about how terrible it is that the right is pointing out that this actually has nothing to do with race.

00:32:27.000 But of course, it is a racial issue, according to the left, because everything is a racial issue, according to the left.

00:32:32.000 Janelle Austin, who runs the George Floyd Global Memorial in Minnesota, She said, this is what I fear.

00:32:38.000 What's going to happen in Memphis is what happened in Minneapolis.

00:32:40.000 When Derek Chauvin and other officers were charged, the narrative turned from an issue of the police department to an individual issue.

00:32:45.000 That was a PR strategy.

00:32:47.000 What we've been screaming from our lungs for years is that the system and the culture of policing trains people's minds, regardless of the color of their skin, to behave in a certain way.

00:32:56.000 Systemic racism can be more difficult for the general public to grasp than explicitly visible white-on-black crimes, said Craig Futterman, clinical professor of law at University of Chicago Law School.

00:33:04.000 We'd like to think in the binary, the good guys and the bad guys.

00:33:06.000 It's far easier to consume the story in an uncomplicated way, seeing a white officer shoot 14 shots at a young black boy laying on the ground.

00:33:12.000 That's a reference to the 2014 murder of Laquan McDonald over in Chicago. 0.70

00:33:17.000 But again, you just have to keep saying that it is, of course, white supremacy that is responsible for all this, Van Jones.

00:33:24.000 Nice guy wrong on this.

00:33:26.000 He says over at CNN the same thing.

00:33:28.000 An entire opinion piece titled the police who killed Tyree Nichols were black, but they still might have been driven by racism.

00:33:35.000 It's I'm sorry, no, maybe they're driven by the fact that.

00:33:40.000 Police tend to get over violent with criminals or people who they suspect in this.

00:33:45.000 It wasn't clear that Tyree Nichols was a criminal.

00:33:45.000 No clear.

00:33:47.000 People they suspect are criminals or people who run from them or people who resist arrest or whatever it is. 0.93

00:33:52.000 So Van Jones claims that it's about black people now being indoctrinated with white supremacy.

00:33:57.000 One of the sad facts about anti-black racism is that black people ourselves are not immune to its pernicious effects, says Van. Society's message that black people are inferior, unworthy, and dangerous is pervasive. Over many decades, numerous experiments have shown these ideas can infiltrate black minds as well as white. Self-hatred is a real thing. That's why a black store owner might regard customers of his same race with suspicion while treating his white patrons with deference. 0.98

00:34:17.000 Black people can harbor anti-black sentiments and can act on those feelings in harmful ways. 0.82

00:34:21.000 Why does this have to be about the race of the suspect? 0.92

00:34:23.000 Why can't it just be about police officers violating the law and doing something wrong to a suspect?

00:34:30.000 But again, it has to be about race.

00:34:32.000 It has to be, because if it's not about race, what exactly are these folks going to talk about?

00:34:37.000 Meanwhile, I had Jemele Hill, who again, everything has to be about race for Jemele Hill, tweeting out in a very, very similar way, claiming it was white supremacy, quote, just as women sometimes carry water for the misogyny and the patriarchy, black people have definitely done the same for white supremacy. 0.99

00:34:51.000 You're stuck on the faces.

00:34:52.000 I'm looking at the system and why it was created.

00:34:55.000 Absurd.

00:34:56.000 Absurd. 0.99

00:34:57.000 By the way, created by the chief of police who is black in Memphis to stop crime against black people in Memphis. 0.99

00:35:03.000 But apparently it's white supremacist violence. 0.99

00:35:06.000 Always and forever, white supremacist violence.

00:35:08.000 Again, this is part of a broader narrative that the left likes to draw, which is how you end up with, on ABC this week, panelist Karen Finney comparing banning critical race theory to police brutality.

00:35:16.000 It's all part of that.

00:35:18.000 Everything's the same.

00:35:18.000 It's all part of that, that big ball of left-wing narrative.

00:35:22.000 And if it doesn't fit, doesn't matter.

00:35:25.000 You just go for it anyway.

00:35:27.000 We know from the civil rights movement, you can't just change law.

00:35:31.000 You have to change hearts and minds.

00:35:33.000 And anti-black racism is everywhere.

00:35:36.000 We know that. 0.99

00:35:37.000 That is part of the training that these officers receive, that black and brown equals danger. 1.00

00:35:43.000 We see it.

00:35:43.000 We have to acknowledge this comes at a time when the governor of Florida says no African-American AP classes, when we have demagoguery around critical race theory, when the truth is we have to be willing to have Hard, truthful conversations in this country.

00:36:00.000 These people are ridiculous. 0.99

00:36:01.000 I'm sorry, they're ridiculous. 0.99

00:36:02.000 It's Rhonda Sanchez's fault for banning critical race theory, which is just lies about American history and about how American systems work. 0.97

00:36:08.000 It's the white governor of Florida's fault that five black police officers in a majority black police force with a black police chief in a majority black city In a different state. 0.79

00:36:21.000 It's Ron DeSantis' fault. 0.96

00:36:23.000 Slow clap for these guys.

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00:37:36.000 Also, Folks, if you're a parent, you know the radical left has infiltrated pretty much every aspect of your kids' lives, from academia to medicine to kids' programming.

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00:38:43.000 Okay, meanwhile, speaking of media hoaxes, we've seen the media hoax that five black police officers allegedly killing a black man is all that white supremacy.

00:38:51.000 Another amazing media hoax uncovered by Matt Taibbi, who has now become a sort of bugaboo of the left.

00:38:57.000 He is a person of the left, but because he actually tells the truth on occasion, this makes him a bugaboo of many people on the left.

00:39:02.000 He has an amazing story about an account called Hamilton68.

00:39:08.000 Hamilton 68 is an oft-cited neoliberal think tank.

00:39:12.000 He said that it spawned hundreds of fraudulent headlines and TV news segments, and it might go down as the single greatest case of media fabulism in American history.

00:39:20.000 Virtually every major news organization in America is implicated, including NBC, CBS, ABC, PBS, CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times, and The Washington Post.

00:39:27.000 Mother Jones alone did at least 14 stories pegged to the group's quote-unquote research.

00:39:31.000 Even fact-checking sites like PolitiFact and Snopes cited Hamilton 68 as a source.

00:39:35.000 So what exactly is Hamilton 68?

00:39:37.000 Hamilton-68 was and is a computerized dashboard designed to be used by reporters and academics to measure Russian disinformation.

00:39:44.000 It was the brainchild of a former FBI agent, Clint Watts, who appears on MSNBC all the time.

00:39:48.000 It was backed by the German Marshall Fund and the Alliance for Securing Democracy, a bipartisan think tank.

00:39:53.000 The latter's advisory panel includes former acting CIA chief Mike Morrell, former ambassador to Russia Mike McFaul, former Hillary for America chair John Podesta, and one-time Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol.

00:40:02.000 Well, it turns out Hamilton-68 was a complete sham.

00:40:06.000 The way that Hamilton 68 tried to determine whether something was Russian disinformation or not is they had a list of 644 accounts supposedly linked to Russian influence activities online.

00:40:15.000 That list was hidden from the public, but Twitter was able to recreate Hamilton's sample by analyzing its application program interface requests.

00:40:21.000 That's how they first reverse engineered Hamilton's list in late 2017.

00:40:26.000 They ordered forensic analysis because Hamilton 68 kept being used over and over and over again.

00:40:31.000 As it turns out, out of the 644 accounts that Hamilton 68 was using in order to determine whether a piece of information was Russian disinformation, only 36% were registered in Russia.

00:40:40.000 Many of those were associated with RT.

00:40:42.000 Twitter execs were shocked.

00:40:44.000 The accounts Hamilton 68 claimed were linked to Russian-influenced activities online were not only overwhelmingly English-language, 86%, but mostly legitimate people in the United States, Canada, and Britain.

00:40:55.000 Trust and Safety Chief Yoel Roth, he said, quote, I think we just need to call this out on the BS it is.

00:41:01.000 And it is unbelievable.

00:41:03.000 So basically there was this account and it created a fake list of Russian influence actors, and then it propagated the myth that these people were promoting Russian disinformation.

00:41:14.000 The names on that list included people like David Horowitz of the right.

00:41:18.000 To Dennis Michael Lynch and progressives like consortium editor Joe Lauria.

00:41:24.000 It's just, it's an absurdity, and it was cited over and over and over again.

00:41:29.000 Because Harvard, Princeton, Temple, NYU, George Washington University, other universities promoted Hamilton 68 as a source.

00:41:35.000 And many elected officials promoted that site as well.

00:41:38.000 And the institutions in our society have lost all credibility, and there is a reason for that, and it is because they are willing to be as gullible as anyone else. 0.98

00:41:46.000 They are so damned gullible.

00:41:49.000 Which I presume is why the media also are not reporting. 0.95

00:41:51.000 I mean, the same media that were reporting endlessly on Hamilton 68, I assume this is why they are not reporting on James O'Keefe's latest video.

00:41:58.000 It shows Jordan Tristan Walker, who's allegedly Pfizer's director of research and development, strategic operations, and mRNA scientific planning.

00:42:06.000 Apparently, he was caught on an undercover recording admitting that he and other Pfizer executives have discussed mutating COVID viruses in order to develop tailored vaccines to treat them, which we would call gain-of-function research.

00:42:17.000 Which, again, is something that has become quite controversial because it is most likely gain-of-function research that may, well, most likely, at least very, very possible that that is the reason why we had the COVID-19 pandemic in the first place.

00:42:27.000 So here's a Project Veritas journalist talking To the alleged Pfizer Director of Research and Development, Strategic Ops and mRNA Scientific Planning talking about the possibility of Pfizer itself doing gain-of-function research in order to create new vaccines.

00:42:41.000 Pfizer ultimately is thinking about mutating COVID?

00:42:45.000 Well, that is not what we say to the public.

00:42:47.000 The virus keeps mutating?

00:42:49.000 Yeah.

00:42:49.000 Well, one of the things we're exploring is like, why don't we just mutate it ourselves so we can preemptively develop new vaccines, right?

00:42:56.000 So we have to do that. 0.99

00:42:56.000 If we're going to do that, though, there's a risk of like, as you could imagine, no one wants to be having a pharma company mutating fucking viruses. 0.99

00:43:03.000 You have to be, like, very controlled to make sure that this virus that you mutate doesn't create something that, like, you know, goes everywhere. 0.80

00:43:09.000 You're not supposed to do gain-of-function research with the viruses.

00:43:12.000 Like, they recommend not.

00:43:14.000 But you do, like, these, like, selected structural mutations to try to see if you can make it more potent.

00:43:18.000 Yeah.

00:43:19.000 So there is research underway about that.

00:43:22.000 I don't know how that's going to work.

00:43:23.000 It's pretty good for the industry, to be honest.

00:43:25.000 Yeah.

00:43:26.000 It's bad for everyone else in America.

00:43:29.000 So, why isn't this widely reported?

00:43:30.000 I assume this has not been widely reported because, again, it makes Pfizer look really, really, really bad.

00:43:35.000 And Pfizer has already been proposed as the great savior of Western civilization thanks to the COVID vaccines.

00:43:40.000 Again, when it came to the COVID vaccines, I encouraged people who were elderly and people who were obese and had pre-existing conditions to take the vaccines.

00:43:47.000 I took it myself under the false pretense That was promoted by Pfizer and our public officials that it prevented transmission, and that it was necessary for people who were, you know, my age, 37, 38.

00:43:58.000 So I took it.

00:43:58.000 If I knew then what I know now, would I have taken the vaccine?

00:44:01.000 Probably not.

00:44:01.000 There was no purpose to it.

00:44:02.000 It doesn't prevent transmission.

00:44:04.000 In people my age, COVID presented very little risk.

00:44:07.000 By the way, I never encourage people who are under the age of, say, 35, 30, or 20 to get the vaccine.

00:44:13.000 My kids are not vaxxed, for example.

00:44:15.000 The fact is that the media have decided Pfizer are the good guys, and people who oppose Pfizer are the bad guys, so they're just not reporting any of this sort of stuff.

00:44:20.000 Another story from this weekend that mirrors this exact issue.

00:44:25.000 A shadowy army unit secretly spied on British citizens who criticized the government's COVID lockdown policies in Britain, according to the Daily Mail.

00:44:32.000 Military operatives in the UK's Information Warfare Brigade were part of a sinister operation that targeted politicians and high-profile journalists who raised doubts about the official pandemic response.

00:44:40.000 They compiled dossiers on public figures such as ex-minister David Davis, who questioned the modelling behind alarming death toll predictions, as well as journalists like Peter Hitchens and Toby Young.

00:44:48.000 Their dissenting views were then reported back to Number 10.

00:44:52.000 Documents obtained by the Civil Liberties Group Big Brother Watch and shared exclusively with the Daily Mail expose the work of government cells such as the Counter Disinformation Unit based in the Department for Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport and the Rapid Response Unit in the Cabinet Office.

00:45:04.000 I mean, this stuff is terrifying.

00:45:07.000 Look, we at the Daily Wire were so opposed to these mandates that we literally spent seven figures suing the Biden administration.

00:45:12.000 We're the only major company in America in the media sphere to sue the federal government in order to stop the VAX mandates for American citizens.

00:45:19.000 But the institutional trust here is totally gone, and it should be totally gone.

00:45:23.000 By the way, side note here, I'd like to congratulate Novak Djokovic, who would undoubtedly be the world leader when it comes to Grand Slam tennis events, had he not been banned from tennis for about a year because he refused to get the COVID vax.

00:45:34.000 There's no reason he should have had the COVID vax.

00:45:36.000 He said he'd already had COVID, number one.

00:45:37.000 Number two, he's one of the healthiest people on planet Earth.

00:45:40.000 He won the Australian Open at the age of 35, and he won it in convincing fashion.

00:45:46.000 He's now tied for the career lead in Grand Slam trophies.

00:45:49.000 He has 22 of them.

00:45:50.000 He undoubtedly would have 23, 24, maybe 25 if he had not been banned from the sport.

00:45:54.000 He still can't come to the United States, by the way, and participate in like the U.S.

00:45:57.000 Open.

00:45:57.000 That's how insane all of this is.

00:45:59.000 And then people wonder why the institutional trust is absolutely gone.

00:46:02.000 That would be the reason why the institutional trust is absolutely gone all over the world.

00:46:07.000 And particularly trust in the media, who have been lying to you all along and are willing to propagate narratives even beyond the point where it is very clear that these narratives are no longer true.

00:46:15.000 They just hide things they don't like, and then they reveal things that are not true in the first place.

00:46:20.000 Okay, meanwhile, the Democrats are very, very upset over the fact that the Republicans are moving to boot Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell and Ilhan Omar from their particular committees.

00:46:31.000 This is in direct response to the fact that Nancy Pelosi kicked a bunch of Republicans off of committees. 1.00

00:46:35.000 Now, again, some of the Republicans she was targeting aren't my favorite Republicans.

00:46:39.000 Doesn't matter.

00:46:39.000 You don't get to do that.

00:46:40.000 You don't get to kick the opposing party's people off committees.

00:46:43.000 The opposing party gets to choose who staffs their committees and who does not.

00:46:46.000 Nancy Pelosi broke the rules, therefore Republicans are responding in kind.

00:46:50.000 So, over the weekend you had Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell and Ilhan Omar pretending to be very, very offended that they are being booted from their various committees by the Republicans.

00:46:57.000 Here they were over the weekend on CNN.

00:47:00.000 Do you believe that the pattern that your colleague here has put out there is, as Republicans are saying and some Democrats say, rise to the level of anti-Semitism?

00:47:12.000 Dana, I believe that this is all a pretext.

00:47:16.000 And if you look at the leader of the Republican Party, Donald Trump, he is dining with white nationalists and anti-Semites.

00:47:25.000 This is merely the weakness of Kevin McCarthy's speakership, that he's so reliant on these extreme members.

00:47:32.000 I mean, how can you, on the one hand, suggest that These are some kind of legitimate basis for unseating Democrats from committees and put someone like George Santos on any committee.

00:47:45.000 The hypocrisy just grabs you by the throat.

00:47:48.000 Look how Adam Schiff refuses to answer the question as to whether Ilhan Omar is an anti-Semite. 0.98

00:47:51.000 Of course she's an anti-Semite! 1.00

00:47:52.000 Everybody knows she's an anti-Semite. 1.00

00:47:54.000 What a pathetic human being Adam Schiff is on every particular level. 1.00

00:47:57.000 He happens to be a Jewish guy, so this is particularly ridiculous for Adam Schiff. 1.00

00:48:01.000 He sat next to her on CNN pretending she's not an anti-Semite. 0.97

00:48:04.000 She is a ridiculously overt anti-Semite, Ilhan Omar, the Congresswoman from Minnesota. 0.70

00:48:10.000 My favorite part of this particular interview, where Adam Schiff is trying to explain why he and Ilhan Omar and Eric Swall shouldn't be kicked off of their various committees, is Ilhan Omar explaining she didn't know it was anti-Semitic to say that Jews are very into money. 0.94

00:48:21.000 It's a giant mystery to her.

00:48:22.000 Yeah, I'm sure.

00:48:23.000 I'm sure it was a giant mystery to Ilhan Omar. 1.00

00:48:25.000 She was just ignorant. 0.99

00:48:25.000 That's all it was. 0.99

00:48:26.000 It was just ignorance, which is why she keeps saying anti-Semitic things over and over and over by calling the state of Israel an apartheid state and essentially rooting pretty openly for Hamas.

00:48:36.000 She loves Jews, guys.

00:48:37.000 She just doesn't understand any of the tropes.

00:48:38.000 That's the real issue here.

00:48:41.000 When you apologized for the all about the Benjamins comment you said anti-semitism is real and I'm grateful for Jewish allies and colleagues who are educating me on the painful history of anti-semitic tropes.

00:48:53.000 What did you learn?

00:48:55.000 A lot.

00:48:56.000 I certainly did not or was not aware that the word hypnotize was a trope.

00:49:03.000 I wasn't aware of the fact that there are tropes about Jews and money.

00:49:10.000 That has been a very enlightening part of this journey.

00:49:17.000 Shiv's just sitting there.

00:49:18.000 He's like stone-faced.

00:49:19.000 He's like, yeah.

00:49:19.000 Oh man, this is awkward.

00:49:21.000 Oh, this is just terrible.

00:49:22.000 I can't believe how awkward this is.

00:49:25.000 It's so terrible.

00:49:26.000 Honest to God.

00:49:28.000 You people.

00:49:29.000 And when I say you people, I mean Democratic Congress people sitting there pretending that Eric Swalwell should be on the Intel Committee after banging a Chinese spy.

00:49:35.000 Or Ilhan Omar should be on the Foreign Affairs Committee being a ridiculously open anti-Semite.

00:49:39.000 Or Adam Schiff should be on the House Intel Committee after spewing for years Russian propaganda nonsense. 0.95

00:49:45.000 What a joke. 1.00

00:49:46.000 What an absolute pathetic joke these folks are. 1.00

00:49:49.000 Alrighty guys, the rest of the show is continuing right now. 0.99

00:49:51.000 You're not going to want to miss it.

00:49:52.000 We'll be getting into Ronna Romney McDaniel winning re-election as head of the RNC for some unspecified reason.

00:49:56.000 Plus, the media declaring that if you are a Jew and you go to synagogue in Jerusalem and you get shot, that's a cycle of violence.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - January 30, 2023

When Black Cops Brutalize A Black Man, That’s White Privilege | Ep. 1657

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