The Ben Shapiro Show - When Ladies Play Football | Ep. 1147

00:00:00.000 The media continue to play offense for Joe Biden.

00:00:02.000 The world goes nuts after a woman kicks off in a men's football game. 1.00

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00:01:36.000 Okay, so the media's mission to protect Joe Biden continues apace no matter what he does.

00:01:41.000 It is the most wondrous thing that has ever been done.

00:01:44.000 And again, one of the most irritating aspects of the last 12 years in American life was the media's decision to make itself the lapdog for the Obama administration, then turn around and decide to be extremely aggressive in every possible way up to and including propagating false information about President Trump.

00:02:02.000 And now they're gonna go right back to being lapdogs for Joe Biden if Joe Biden is inaugurated on January 20th.

00:02:09.000 Well, Cliff Levy is the Associate Managing Editor and Metro Editor of the New York Times.

00:02:13.000 How many stories did you run on Hunter Biden, was it, in the weeks leading up to the election?

00:02:17.000 Don't remember a lot of that.

00:02:18.000 just as thoroughly as we did the outgoing one.

00:02:21.000 Oh, will you now?

00:02:22.000 How many stories did you run on Hunter Biden?

00:02:24.000 Was it in the weeks leading up to the election?

00:02:27.000 Don't remember a lot of that.

00:02:28.000 And I just, I don't trust you.

00:02:31.000 Here's the thing, I don't trust you.

00:02:32.000 When you say that you are going to be on top of the Biden team, I don't trust you.

00:02:37.000 And one of the reasons I don't trust you is because every few days, the New York Times runs some piece talking about how evil capitalism is and like its style section.

00:02:44.000 It turns out the entire generalized worldview of the New York Times is that the left is right and that the right is wrong.

00:02:51.000 And then they pretend to be objective.

00:02:52.000 And I was thinking about this a lot last night.

00:02:54.000 Why do you even pretend at this point?

00:02:55.000 We all know that if you subscribe to the New York Times, I would guarantee you the number of Republicans that subscribe to the New York Times, it's got to be less than 10% of their total actual subscription base is Republicans.

00:03:07.000 It can't be 50%.

00:03:08.000 It's probably not 40%.

00:03:10.000 My guess is it's under 10% of the New York Times subscription base.

00:03:12.000 And again, that's speculation, but I would think that it's pretty well Well, verified at this point.

00:03:17.000 Or verifiable.

00:03:18.000 Very small percentage of the New York Times subscription base is actually Republicans or people who vote Republican or think about voting Republican.

00:03:24.000 So why is it that the New York Times insists on its label of objective journalist?

00:03:28.000 Why do they care?

00:03:29.000 Right?

00:03:29.000 We're openly conservative because we understand most of the people who subscribe to Daily Wire are going to be conservative.

00:03:34.000 And also, we'd like to be honest with you so you know what you are getting when you subscribe here at Daily Wire.

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00:03:42.000 In opposition to places like the New York Times.

00:03:43.000 So why do the media cling, cling to this idea that they are objective news sources?

00:03:48.000 And I think the answer is twofold.

00:03:49.000 One is the self-flattering notion for members of the media that they are doing something of deep and meaningful importance.

00:03:55.000 They are not just political activists, you see.

00:03:57.000 They are of a higher echelon.

00:03:59.000 They stand for capital T truth.

00:04:01.000 And sure, their opinions and the capital T truth are exactly the same in their own viewpoint, but that's just the charm of the situation, is that you get to pretend that your opinions are actual capital T truth and not just opinions.

00:04:10.000 I think there's a second thing here, and that is that that opinion as truth routine is not just flattering to the journalists and pseudo-journalists who pretend to engage in it, it's flattering to the audience.

00:04:19.000 All the Democrats who subscribe to the New York Times like to be able to say to their friends that they are speaking absolute truth, that they are not expressing an opinion, that they are simply saying the facts.

00:04:28.000 And how do they know?

00:04:29.000 Because they're quoting the very well-respected and very objective New York Times.

00:04:33.000 Now, here's the thing. 0.99

00:04:34.000 It's all crap. 1.00

00:04:34.000 We all know it's all crap. 1.00

00:04:35.000 We know the New York Times is not objective. 0.99

00:04:37.000 We know that their journalists are not objective.

00:04:39.000 They all have a political point of view.

00:04:40.000 If you can find me, one Trump voter, one, in the entire byline staff of the New York Times, I will give you $100.

00:04:48.000 I am not aware of any.

00:04:50.000 Certainly none who have publicly said so, right?

00:04:50.000 Not aware of any.

00:04:52.000 If they are Trump voters, they certainly have not publicly said so.

00:04:55.000 That's kind of incredible for the nation's leading newspaper in terms of prominence.

00:05:02.000 It's pretty incredible.

00:05:03.000 Here's an indicator of where the New York Times general mentality is.

00:05:06.000 So over the weekend, over Thanksgiving weekend, they ran a piece by Zoe Beery in the style section And it is titled, The Rich Kids Who Want to Tear Down Capitalism.

00:05:16.000 Socialist-minded millennial heirs are trying to live their values by getting rid of their money.

00:05:21.000 Slow clap for the spoiled brats who inherit a bunch of money from mommy and daddy and then talk about overturning the system that has made not just America, but most of the world, not poor. 1.00

00:05:32.000 Well done, New York Times.

00:05:33.000 It's this long puff piece about all these kids who never generated one iota of wealth.

00:05:38.000 Now I'm going to give away their family wealth and pretend that they are in favor of socialism.

00:05:41.000 By the way, if my kids ever come home and they say, Mommy, Daddy, I'm a socialist now, and I think that all this money is ill-gotten gains.

00:05:48.000 OK, easy solution, man.

00:05:49.000 You are out of the will.

00:05:50.000 I hope that you enjoy your life without the trust fund.

00:05:52.000 I hope that you enjoy your life living in an Occupy tent while trying to pursue a career in lesbian dance theory. 0.89

00:05:58.000 Like really good on you.

00:05:59.000 Enjoy.

00:06:00.000 But the New York Times touts these kids as the height of virtue.

00:06:03.000 Because the height of virtue is, of course, never doing any work and then taking all the wealth that your family worked to create through voluntary transactions.

00:06:11.000 We're not talking about Bernie Madoff here.

00:06:12.000 We're talking about voluntary transactions.

00:06:15.000 Taking all that wealth and then proclaiming that you are virtuous by dint of the fact that you're against the system that created all of that wealth.

00:06:21.000 So here's the article.

00:06:22.000 Lately, Sam Jacobs has been having a lot of conversations with his family's lawyers.

00:06:26.000 He's trying to gain access to more of his $30 million trust fund.

00:06:30.000 At 25, he's hit the age when many heirs can blow their money on harebrained businesses or a stable of sports cars.

00:06:35.000 He doesn't want to do that, but by wealth management standards, his plan is just as bad.

00:06:38.000 He wants to give it all away.

00:06:39.000 I want to build a world where someone like me, a young person who controls tens of millions of dollars, is impossible.

00:06:44.000 Well, actually, if you want that world...

00:06:46.000 There are still large swaths of the world where there are young people who can't control any wealth, in fact.

00:06:52.000 If you would like to jet set down to Sudan, things are going great for young people who can't create any wealth there. 0.99

00:06:56.000 If you would like to head over to China, young people not doing so well in the wealth department, right?

00:07:01.000 There are plenty of places on earth you can go and be poor, really.

00:07:05.000 And most of them are characterized either by complete anarchy at the top levels of government, Or by complete dictatorship at the top levels of government.

00:07:11.000 So go ahead, really.

00:07:13.000 You are free to leave at any time.

00:07:14.000 You don't have to access that wealth.

00:07:15.000 You can leave that wealth in the trust fund at any time.

00:07:17.000 You're free to pick up and take a commercial flight to any one of the places on earth where young people are unable to generate any level of wealth, let alone tens of millions of dollars of wealth.

00:07:27.000 A socialist since college, Mr. Jacobs sees his family's extreme plutocratic wealth as both a moral and economic failure.

00:07:33.000 Nothing quite as charming as kids looking at their parents and deciding that they are better than their parents.

00:07:38.000 Really a charming, charming thing.

00:07:40.000 He wants to put his inheritance toward ending capitalism, and by that he means using his money to undo systems that accumulate money for those at the top and that have played a large role in widening economic and racial inequality.

00:07:50.000 Millennials will be the recipients of the largest generational shift of assets in American history, the Great Wealth Transfer, as Finance Types put it.

00:07:57.000 Tens of trillions of dollars are expected to pass between generations in just the next decade.

00:08:01.000 And that money, like all wealth in the United States, says the New York Times, is extremely concentrated in the upper brackets.

00:08:06.000 Mr. Jacobs, whose grandfather was a founder of Qualcomm, expects to receive up to $100 million over the course of his lifetime.

00:08:12.000 Most of his fellow millennials, however, are receiving a rotten inheritance.

00:08:16.000 Class and inequality have been part of the political conversation for most of their adult lives.

00:08:20.000 In their time, the ever-widening gulf between rich and poor has pushed left-wing politics back into the American political mainstream.

00:08:27.000 Mr. Jacobs, as both a trust fund kid and an anti-capitalist, is in a rare position among leftists fighting against economic inequality.

00:08:32.000 But he isn't alone in trying to figure out, as he puts it, what it means to be with the 99% when you are the 1%. 0.61

00:08:39.000 And this article goes on to profile a bunch of these dunder-headed youths.

00:08:42.000 They're not that young, right, but they act like children.

00:08:44.000 Rachel Gelman, a 30-year-old in Oakland, California, who describes her politics as anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, and abolitionist.

00:08:51.000 Her family always gave generously to liberal causes and civil society groups.

00:08:55.000 She supports groups devoted to ending inequality like Movement for Black Lives, the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, and Critical Resistance, a leading prison abolition group.

00:09:03.000 Yeah, good luck with the prison abolition thing.

00:09:05.000 And when it comes time to protect your house, good luck for that.

00:09:08.000 She says, my money is mostly stocks, which means it comes from underpaying and undervaluing working class people. 0.99

00:09:13.000 And that's impossible to disconnect from the economic legacies of indigenous genocide and slavery.

00:09:17.000 Okay, our country, you know what?

00:09:19.000 You're making the case.

00:09:20.000 You've now made the case against capitalism.

00:09:20.000 Fine.

00:09:21.000 Maybe capitalism generates too much wealth that goes to too many stupid people, and then those people undermine the system. 1.00

00:09:27.000 Maybe we're just too wealthy to understand how good we have it. 0.99

00:09:30.000 But the New York Times is pushing that stuff, so spare me all the hysterics of the New York Times about how you guys are objective journalists.

00:09:37.000 When it comes to the objective journalistic set, there's a very clear point of view as to what they believe is right and what they believe is wrong.

00:09:43.000 Traditional American systems of free markets and individual rights, those are not among them.

00:09:47.000 These are not things that they believe are right.

00:09:49.000 We'll get to more of this in just a second and how it applies to Team Biden, which is now being granted Every sort of grace from your establishment media.

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00:11:24.000 Okay, so the worldview of the establishment media extends into their coverage, obviously, of presidential candidates and their teams.

00:11:32.000 So, for example, Neera Tanden, we discussed yesterday here on the program.

00:11:36.000 Neera Tanden is the head of the Center for American Progress.

00:11:38.000 She is not well-liked in Washington, D.C.

00:11:40.000 She has always been known as a rather contentious sort.

00:11:42.000 On Twitter, she has spent her time being really, really nasty to people.

00:11:46.000 And not just nasty to people, she's propagated a bunch of nonsense about the Russian collusion hoax. 0.99

00:11:51.000 She's gone after senators. 1.00

00:11:53.000 She's done all this stuff.

00:11:54.000 Now, Biden wants to make her the head of the Office of Management and Budget after running the Organization Center for American Progress in such a way that she was actually the subject of a scandal when she went into a large company meeting and proceeded to name an anonymous sexual harassment alleger.

00:12:11.000 She just went into the meeting and just spilled the person's name. 0.95

00:12:13.000 This person wants to be head of the OMB, and Republicans are kicking back against that.

00:12:17.000 Here is the headline from the Washington Post.

00:12:19.000 It is not that Joe Biden has nominated a highly controversial pick.

00:12:23.000 No, here's the headline, right?

00:12:28.000 It's always Republicans pounce.

00:12:29.000 When Democrats do a bad thing, the headline is always Republicans pounce.

00:12:32.000 When Republicans do a bad thing, the headline from your establishment media is Republicans do worst thing that has ever happened, mostly targeting women, minorities, children, and cute household pets.

00:12:42.000 And then, if it's Democrats did a bad thing, the actual headline is Republicans Pound.

00:12:46.000 So here's the Republicans Pound's headline from Democracy Dies in Darkness, The Washington Post.

00:12:50.000 Biden's pick to lead White House Budget Office emerges as lightning rod for GOP.

00:12:56.000 It's just emerged as a lightning rod for the GOP, you see.

00:12:59.000 And it's the GOP!

00:13:01.000 Now, that is not newsworthy, that the GOP opposes some of Biden's picks.

00:13:05.000 They're the GOP.

00:13:06.000 He's a Democrat.

00:13:07.000 That's not exactly newsworthy.

00:13:08.000 What's newsworthy is, you know, the stuff that she has said that makes her controversial.

00:13:13.000 Does any of that make the headline?

00:13:14.000 Nope!

00:13:15.000 Instead, the sub-headline is Neera Tanden, who served in the Clinton and Obama administrations, would face Senate confirmation early next year.

00:13:21.000 Jeff Stein, Annie Linsky, and Seung Min Kim writing for the Washington Post, President-elect Joe Biden's pick to lead the powerful White House Budget Office generated early controversy Monday, with Neera Tanden emerging as an immediate target for conservatives and Republican lawmakers.

00:13:34.000 Tanden, 50, has regularly clashed with the GOP in a manner Republicans say will complicate her Senate confirmation process.

00:13:40.000 Several GOP senators said Monday she could run into trouble during confirmation hearings, warning that her partisan background could make it hard for her to win Republican support.

00:13:48.000 Okay, how far do we get into this article before we actually find out what exactly she has said?

00:13:55.000 Okay, the answer is I am still scrolling.

00:13:58.000 Not kidding.

00:14:00.000 Okay, she has not gone, like, okay, we have to get all the way down to about paragraph maybe 25 here before we get to, Tanzan has a history of more pointed and partisan critiques of opponents than does Janet Yellen or any of the other picks.

00:14:13.000 Her supporters praise her passion and willingness to fight aggressively across a range of policy issues.

00:14:19.000 Tandon's sometimes adversarial approach appears to strike a different tone than what Biden had promised during the campaign.

00:14:24.000 Tandon's comments may not be out of bounds within the climate of her party, however.

00:14:29.000 Okay, so they literally don't quote any of the things that she has said about people on Twitter, including backing the Steele dossier, Hey, they do not quote her going after individual Republican senators, not anywhere in the article.

00:14:40.000 So you can read the entire article and still not know what is controversial about Neera Tanden.

00:14:46.000 Like, nowhere in here are you gonna find out what is controversial about Neera Tanden.

00:14:50.000 Like, nowhere in here is there any mention of the sexual harassment allegation situation over at Center for American Progress.

00:14:56.000 Nowhere in here is there any mention of the nasty things that she says on Twitter that have made her rather unpalatable for senators. 1.00

00:15:01.000 Because the Washington Post, democracy dies in darkness, guys.

00:15:04.000 But, the good news is, the Washington Post style section has really focused in on what is the key issue these days.

00:15:12.000 And that key issue is how Melania Trump is decorating the White House for Christmas. 1.00

00:15:17.000 Every Christmas, we get a story about how Melania Trump is basically the evil queen from the Chronicles of Narnia, and she decorates the White House in malevolent fashion. 0.68

00:15:27.000 So here is the article from the Washington Post, right?

00:15:30.000 We still don't know anything about Neera Tanden from the Washington Post, but we are going to find out everything you need to know about Melania Trump from her White House decorations.

00:15:37.000 That's literally the title of the piece.

00:15:38.000 From the style section, everything we needed to know about Melania Trump is in those bewildering Christmas decorations. 0.99

00:15:44.000 Monica Hess writing, somebody gets paid to do this.

00:15:46.000 That's pretty incredible.

00:15:47.000 What a great country.

00:15:48.000 It's our final Christmas with Melania Trump and we shall celebrate in the usual way by accompanying the first lady of the United States on an annual tour of her White House decor.

00:15:56.000 A one minute video that also appears to serve as trailer for a movie about a woman who wakes up in a castle one holiday season and goes searching for the person who spiked her eggnog with mushrooms.

00:16:04.000 And so here we are, following the First Lady down colonnades and breezeways as she encounters rows of looming, florally festooned evergreens in the manner of someone who has never seen a tree.

00:16:13.000 The decor contains many roses, white lights, and hanging ornaments, airplanes, speedboats, which Melania looks up at and beholds in wonder.

00:16:19.000 There's a painting of a reindeer, another one of a fox.

00:16:21.000 There's an ornament of an American flag, and another one reading, Be Best, referencing the First Lady's launch failure of a signature initiative.

00:16:27.000 There's a banner celebrating the 19th Amendment, which now comes across as fourth-dimensional trolling Given that the majority of American women voters use their ballots to eject Melania's husband from the White House.

00:16:38.000 Stellar, stellar stuff here.

00:16:39.000 Just really, really well done, guys.

00:16:41.000 Covering in-depth all this.

00:16:43.000 You know what I needed more of, though?

00:16:45.000 I needed more coverage, personally.

00:16:46.000 Me, in the media, and somebody who follows this stuff closely.

00:16:50.000 I needed more coverage of Joe Biden's pets.

00:16:52.000 How about you?

00:16:53.000 I needed lots of coverage of that.

00:16:54.000 And the Daily Beast is here for you because not only are they covering Joe Biden's pets, they went and they interviewed a pet psychic, a pet psychic, a person who's going to read Joe Biden's pet's mind from afar.

00:17:08.000 This is the party of science, guys.

00:17:10.000 Super science-y. 0.99

00:17:11.000 We're gonna go talk to a crazy lady who talks to dogs. 1.00

00:17:14.000 We'll get to that in just one moment. 0.60

00:17:14.000 Sounds awesome. 0.60

00:17:16.000 I don't understand why you don't trust this objective media.

00:17:18.000 They say they're objective and they're gonna cover this administration, guys.

00:17:22.000 They're gonna cover it in their own slobber. 0.99

00:17:25.000 That's what they're gonna cover.

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00:18:31.000 So that democracy dies in darkness media?

00:18:33.000 They're not just covering nothing about Neera Tanden and everything about Melania Trump's Christmas decorations.

00:18:38.000 They're definitely, definitely covering Joe Biden's dogs.

00:18:42.000 So, the Daily Beast, over the weekend, put out a long piece from Tim Teeman, senior editor and writer.

00:18:49.000 It is titled, My God, without this sort of journalism, I don't know how we can move forward as a republic without this sort of journalism.

00:19:01.000 I mean, I definitely remember this kind of sycophantic coverage for President Trump never happening ever in ever.

00:19:08.000 But now we have like this is a very long story, a very, very long story about a pet psychic.

00:19:13.000 Champ says he needs memory foam bedding to ease problems with his joints.

00:19:17.000 Major thinks he may have dental problems.

00:19:18.000 Both dogs say Joe Biden's troubles with Donald Trump are far from over, but that their master is calm and focused enough to steer America forward.

00:19:25.000 This is The Daily Beast.

00:19:26.000 The Biden White House has sprung its first leaks, but what can be done when the leakers are the president-elect's beloved dogs, and they are communicating telepathically with a pet psychic in the English Midlands?

00:19:36.000 It began when British daytime TV show This Morning provided Beth Lee Crowther with pictures of Biden's two German shepherds, Champ and Major.

00:19:43.000 As a pet psychic who performs animal communication using telepathy and mind-to-mind communication, Crowther, from the county of Worcestershire, uses photographs or can just be in the same room as an animal in order to begin, she claims, speaking with it.

00:19:56.000 With their pictures, she says she forged closer relationships with Biden's dog, and wow, did they ever dish about their owner, as well as ramping up his troubles with the non-conceding President Trump, moving into the White House, their master's calmness, and even Biden's plans to govern.

00:20:09.000 Crowther told the Daily Beast, the very first thing I got was they were both very excited about moving to the White House.

00:20:09.000 Aww.

00:20:13.000 I had a real connection.

00:20:15.000 I felt that excitement of theirs.

00:20:16.000 They showed me that Joe Biden is very bonded to his dogs and has a real connection to them.

00:20:21.000 They kept showing me that although he has rescued one of the dogs, the dogs feel in many way they have rescued him.

00:20:27.000 Aww.

00:20:28.000 Aww.

00:20:29.000 And then the entire piece is about how wonderful it is that Joe Biden has dogs. 0.92

00:20:34.000 And this thing goes on for, I'm not kidding you, like thousands of words, thousands of words with like wonderful photos of this crazy lady who talks to dogs. 1.00

00:20:44.000 It's incredible. 0.98

00:20:45.000 It's like a full expose of crazy dog talking lady talking about Joe Biden's dogs.

00:20:53.000 So will she link up with Major and Champ pre or post moving into the White House? 0.97

00:20:56.000 Lee Crowther laughed. I'm not sure.

00:20:58.000 If Joe Biden wanted me to, I'm sure I would oblige.

00:21:00.000 We will see.

00:21:01.000 I know and believe in their love and devotion to him and Jill, which is absolutely marvelous.

00:21:04.000 I have every faith Joe Biden will do a good job as president because I believe what these dogs tell me.

00:21:08.000 I mean, I hesitate to say typical Biden voter, but.

00:21:11.000 Also, I'm just going to point something out here.

00:21:15.000 If this dog psychic lady were really that good, shouldn't she have, like, spilled to the Daily Beast beforehand the dog's assassination attempt on Joe Biden? 0.78

00:21:23.000 Because he broke his foot playing with the dogs, like, the day after this interview.

00:21:28.000 She's not a very good dog psychic.

00:21:30.000 Or maybe she's not the kind of psychic who sees the future.

00:21:31.000 She's only the kind who talks to dogs. 1.00

00:21:33.000 Or maybe our media are just complete and utter thoroughgoing garbage. 1.00

00:21:37.000 Maybe all of those things, actually. 0.97

00:21:39.000 I'm gonna go with all those things.

00:21:39.000 You know what?

00:21:41.000 Okay, meanwhile, One of the key elements of the Biden agenda is that he is going to appoint people solely based on exterior characteristics, which is really exciting stuff.

00:21:51.000 He is going to appoint a vice presidential candidate who's black and a woman. 1.00

00:21:53.000 Those are actual qualifications, not just a description of the person who's good at the job.

00:21:57.000 He's going to pick Kamala Harris because he was looking for a black woman. 1.00

00:22:00.000 He's going to look for certain members of the Latino community to be in his cabinet.

00:22:03.000 There are people who are literally lobbying him, saying you need to have like five Latinos in your cabinet, or this is not a representative administration.

00:22:11.000 Remember that time that Martin Luther King had this whole weird thing about, like, judging people by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin?

00:22:17.000 Yeah, screw that stuff. 0.98

00:22:17.000 That's ridiculous stuff. 0.98

00:22:18.000 Well, now there's a real push for Michelle Flournoy for Secretary of Defense. 1.00

00:22:23.000 Not because presumably she'll be good at the job, but because she is a lady. 0.95

00:22:27.000 She's a woman. 0.82

00:22:28.000 Right now, I hesitate to mention, but not very much, that Democrats don't actually believe in the concept of a woman, right?

00:22:34.000 That is not a thing, right?

00:22:35.000 A man can be a woman. 0.99

00:22:36.000 A woman can be a man. 1.00

00:22:37.000 Some women have penises. 1.00

00:22:39.000 Some men have vaginas, right? 1.00

00:22:40.000 We have been reliably informed by this, of this. 0.99

00:22:42.000 And in fact, Kamala Harris believes in all of this gender ideology nonsense because she actually puts her preferred pronouns in her queer profile. 0.73

00:22:48.000 We saw Joe Biden in an open town hall say to a mother of a nine-year-old that an eight or a nine-year-old should be able to decide their own gender.

00:22:57.000 Which means that he doesn't believe that male and female are actual stagnant categories.

00:23:00.000 They are social constructs.

00:23:02.000 So what does it matter?

00:23:03.000 Anyone on the left.

00:23:04.000 Serious question.

00:23:05.000 If you can't define woman, why does it matter if a woman is Secretary of Defense?

00:23:09.000 Well, it matters because, again, you have this moral hierarchy in which the most wise and most just among us on the left, they get to randomly shift categories.

00:23:19.000 They get to randomly shift the way all of this works.

00:23:22.000 on a seemingly fluid basis.

00:23:25.000 And if you don't follow them around, then you are cast out into the outer darkness, right?

00:23:28.000 Because they are your moral betters.

00:23:29.000 They are a priesthood.

00:23:31.000 And you don't follow the priesthood of the woke, then obviously you are very bad.

00:23:34.000 So everybody's very excited because Joe Biden is considering a woman for secretary of defense, Rosa Brooks.

00:23:40.000 Oh, good.

00:23:41.000 I'm excited that Nikki Haley is going to be the new Secretary of Defense.

00:23:50.000 Oh, you don't mean a woman.

00:23:51.000 You just mean like a Democrat who happens to be a woman. 0.95

00:23:55.000 Oh, you mean a certain kind of woman.

00:23:56.000 Or maybe it's Caitlyn Jenner.

00:23:57.000 Who knows?

00:23:58.000 It could be anybody.

00:23:59.000 Right?

00:24:00.000 Why not?

00:24:00.000 Like, really?

00:24:01.000 It's just a woman, right? 1.00

00:24:02.000 And a woman could be anything. 1.00

00:24:04.000 The reason I focus in on this, guys, is because logical consistency is an actual thing that matters.

00:24:08.000 So this piece in the New York Times talks about how Biden needs to pick a woman, Michelle Flournoy.

00:24:14.000 Although she is reported to still be a leading contender, there's speculation that Biden may instead choose one of several men.

00:24:19.000 That would be short-sighted, says this columnist.

00:24:21.000 If Biden nominates a respected and highly qualified woman as his Secretary of Defense, he would send an important and long-overdue message that the Defense Department's old norms and biases were a disservice, not only to women working in national security, but to the country.

00:24:34.000 Uh, because that will show that women are welcome in national security, even though they are already welcome in national security and everything. 1.00

00:24:40.000 Really, really important stuff there.

00:24:41.000 Really good stuff.

00:24:42.000 Okay, in a second, I want to get deeper into the Democrats' gender ideology. 0.99

00:24:45.000 Because, again, there are no standards.

00:24:48.000 The standards are nearly randomized.

00:24:50.000 They get to talk about women's empowerment when it suits them, and then they get to say women don't exist when it suits them.

00:24:55.000 Alright, so, on that note, I have what may be the single greatest tweet of all time.

00:25:01.000 Here is the single greatest tweet of all time.

00:25:03.000 It is from Charles Blow of the New York Times.

00:25:05.000 The aptly named Charles Blow of the New York Times.

00:25:07.000 Okay, so, he tweeted this out yesterday, and it is just glorious.

00:25:07.000 The worst columnist there.

00:25:11.000 It is a glorious indicator of how little sense gender ideology of the left makes. 0.74

00:25:17.000 Because the same people who insist that you have to have a female Secretary of Defense will also insist that female is an arbitrary category that doesn't apply unless you want it to apply to you, which is bizarre and makes no sense and is completely disconnected from science and biology and evolution and everything else that is materially, objectively verifiable.

00:25:36.000 Okay, so here is Charles Blow's glorious tweet.

00:25:39.000 This came on November 22nd.

00:25:40.000 You ready?

00:25:41.000 Stop doing gender reveals. 0.98

00:25:43.000 Gender reveals are these parties where a vagina owner knows that she's having a baby, and a vagina owner knows that it, he, she may be Stop doing gender reveals. 1.00

00:25:59.000 They're not cute. 0.95

00:26:01.000 There's a biological sex that can be discerned from the biological ball of cells. 0.96

00:26:07.000 And then they celebrate that there's a boy or a girl.

00:26:09.000 So we don't want gender reveal parties, says Charles Blow.

00:26:11.000 Stop doing gender reveals. 0.96

00:26:13.000 They're not cute.

00:26:14.000 They're violent. 0.98

00:26:14.000 Violent guys. 0.98

00:26:17.000 All we know before a child is born is their anatomy.

00:26:19.000 They will reveal their gender.

00:26:21.000 It may match your expectations of that anatomy, and it may not.

00:26:23.000 If you love your child, you will be patient, attentive, and open.

00:26:27.000 Okay, so a couple notes here.

00:26:31.000 One, gender reveal parties, he says they're not cute, they're violent.

00:26:36.000 So just to get this straight, according to Charles Blow, it is violent to have a party for your unborn baby, Based on biological sex, right?

00:26:45.000 You see that your baby is a boy and you celebrate by having a reveal party to all your friends and family, letting them know that you're about to have a boy.

00:26:50.000 That's violent! 0.91

00:26:52.000 Taking a curette and carving out the brains of the baby in the womb and then sucking it into a sink. 0.97

00:26:59.000 That's not violent. 0.91

00:27:00.000 That's choice.

00:27:02.000 Okay?

00:27:04.000 Again, just to clarify, For people on the left like Carlos Blow, you are doing violence to an unborn baby by labeling it based on its sex, saying that its gender and its sex are identical.

00:27:17.000 That's violence to the unborn baby. 1.00

00:27:19.000 But actually physically murdering the baby in the womb, that is not violent.

00:27:25.000 That's choice.

00:27:27.000 Hmm.

00:27:28.000 OK, that's just the beginning of the crazy.

00:27:30.000 Then he gets to, all we know before a child is born is their anatomy.

00:27:35.000 Yes, they will reveal their gender.

00:27:38.000 No.

00:27:39.000 Gender and biological sex are deeply interconnected. 0.99

00:27:41.000 To pretend that these two things have no relation to one another is complete idiocy that is anti-all evidence. 0.99

00:27:47.000 All evidence. 0.99

00:27:48.000 Gender and biology are deeply connected.

00:27:50.000 And to pretend that gender is some sort of free-floating social construct that is made up by human beings...

00:27:56.000 It is so anti-biological that it boggles the mind that people are allowed to get away with this in the name of science.

00:28:01.000 He says it may match your expectations of that anatomy.

00:28:03.000 It may not.

00:28:04.000 If you love the child, you will be patient, attentive, and open.

00:28:06.000 So I have a feeling also that this patient, attentive, open standard immediately dies as soon as a four-year-old declares that they are a member of the opposite sex. 0.96

00:28:13.000 At that point, you're not supposed to engage in watchful waiting where you say, okay, we're gonna wait and see if you grow out of this.

00:28:18.000 At that point, you're supposed to start calling the kid by the opposite sex name, you're supposed to start dressing a boy in dresses, and you're supposed to subject them to all sorts of ritualistic psychotherapy designed to gender-confirm them at the age of five in the opposite sex. 0.95

00:28:32.000 Okay, so none of this makes any sense.

00:28:34.000 The reason I bring this up that it makes no sense is because, again, this sort of gender theory has reached the highest levels of left-wing thinking. 0.56

00:28:43.000 This is not a fringe thing.

00:28:45.000 It really is not.

00:28:46.000 Again, Elizabeth Warren, who for a time was considered the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination, literally said she would have a transgender child approved for Secretary of Education.

00:28:55.000 Joe Biden said that children should be able to transition.

00:28:58.000 They should be able to pick their gender. 0.88

00:29:01.000 This is well accepted inside the halls of Democratic power, the party of science.

00:29:08.000 And it's being accepted on health websites.

00:29:11.000 Hey, Healthline.

00:29:12.000 Healthline, which is a kind of WebMD kind of site. 0.95

00:29:16.000 Healthline had a piece just the other day called, Do vulva owners like sex? 0.91

00:29:20.000 Is the wrong question.

00:29:22.000 Here's what you should ask instead.

00:29:24.000 So I agree that that is the wrong question.

00:29:27.000 The first question should be, what the hell is a vulva owner?

00:29:29.000 Not a Volvo owner.

00:29:31.000 A vulva owner. 0.96

00:29:33.000 As opposed to a renter or a leaser.

00:29:36.000 And where do you go to obtain such a thing?

00:29:38.000 Do you go down to your local Walmart?

00:29:40.000 What happens if you wish to return it? 0.93

00:29:42.000 But again, to disparage being a woman down to the level of just the genitalia, right? 0.98

00:29:48.000 That's all femalehood is, is the genitalia. 1.00

00:29:49.000 And it's not even that, because you don't have to change your genitalia in order for you to be considered a woman. 0.74

00:29:53.000 So basically, woman means nothing. 1.00

00:29:54.000 Okay, that is in and of itself insane.

00:29:58.000 But then, the same people who say that being a woman is a completely malleable term and there is no definition of the word woman will say that we need a female secretary of defense and also that is a historic moment when a woman competes in a male football game.

00:30:11.000 Which brings us to this story at Vanderbilt University.

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00:33:13.000 So as I keep saying, there's this bizarre idea on the left that both gender does not exist, it's a social construct, and also that it is deeply, deeply important in every possible way.

00:33:28.000 They have the same feeling about race.

00:33:30.000 Race is a social construct that doesn't really exist.

00:33:32.000 Which, again, I think there's more content to that than there is to the gender idea, because the lines between races are are actually somewhat malleable.

00:33:41.000 There is actual crossover between races.

00:33:44.000 The vast majority of differences between races can be chalked up to cultural differences rather than innate genetic differences.

00:33:50.000 Skin color is mostly just skin deep, almost entirely just skin deep. 0.84

00:33:53.000 That is not the case with men and women.

00:33:55.000 There are obvious biological differences and that has impact in a wide variety and ranges of life.

00:34:00.000 It exists in every culture across humankind and male and female are the biological predicates for all of mammalian species, right?

00:34:06.000 For all of procreation, Males and females different in every mammalian species.

00:34:10.000 OK, so.

00:34:12.000 At the same time that they are claiming that gender is a free floating social construct, they will suggest it is very, very important for women to break barriers by, for example, competing with men.

00:34:23.000 So men can compete with women if they say they are women, is the idea. 0.95

00:34:26.000 But also, if a woman competes with the men, it is important that you maintain the fact that she is a woman so that we know that she can break the barriers.

00:34:32.000 None of this makes any sense.

00:34:33.000 Which brings us to the heroism of Sarah Fuller.

00:34:36.000 Now Sarah Fuller seems like an amazing athlete. 0.99

00:34:37.000 She's a way better athlete than I will ever be, obviously.

00:34:40.000 She was the soccer goalkeeper for Vanderbilt University.

00:34:43.000 And she played in the Power 5 over the weekend.

00:34:48.000 And she was named the Special Teams Player of the Week.

00:34:52.000 And she kicked a squib kick to start off the second half of Saturday's game against Missouri. 0.99

00:34:56.000 Vanderbilt lost the game 41-0.

00:34:58.000 So I'm not sure, like, that's nice.

00:35:04.000 Okay.

00:35:05.000 I'm not sure why that is like a major achievement for women. 0.71

00:35:08.000 It seems like major achievements for women would generally be like a major achievement for a man, but a woman did it. 1.00

00:35:12.000 It wouldn't be like she did a thing that a man did, but not as well as a man, and therefore it's a major achievement for a woman to do a thing that a man could do, but not nearly as well as a man would do it. 0.51

00:35:20.000 Like that's not a major achievement.

00:35:23.000 She's an amazing athlete. 0.86

00:35:24.000 She's an amazing women's soccer star. 1.00

00:35:27.000 Kay, that is not the same as being, like, amazing on the men's team in football.

00:35:31.000 That's not the same thing.

00:35:32.000 And it's not a major achievement for a woman to do something that a man could do in a men's game and not do it, like, amazingly well. 0.78

00:35:39.000 But affirmative action applies when it comes to the way the media cover these things.

00:35:46.000 Fuller made history.

00:35:47.000 She became the first woman ever to officially take the field during a football game in a major conference football game.

00:35:51.000 Now, she didn't actually, like, take a tackle.

00:35:53.000 Watt, like, went right at her, right, and tackled her, because that would be incredibly dangerous.

00:35:53.000 It wasn't like J.J.

00:35:58.000 But the announcement says, she took the opening kickoff of the second half against the Tigers as her perfectly executed kick sailed 30 yards and was down at the Missouri 35-yard line.

00:36:06.000 Okay, um, so, I, um, so, 30 yards?

00:36:17.000 I mean, better than I could do.

00:36:19.000 I mean, I'm just going to keep saying that because that's where Twitter goes.

00:36:21.000 Like, well, she's better.

00:36:22.000 Yes.

00:36:22.000 Granted, she can kick the ball further than I can.

00:36:25.000 I also did not aspire to play on the Vanderbilt football team, nor do I have the physical capacity to do so.

00:36:31.000 Let's just show film of this kick.

00:36:33.000 The greatest kick apparently of all time, like in all of history.

00:36:35.000 Here she was kicking off the second half for Vanderbilt University.

00:36:39.000 And this was the great historic moment for which she won the special teams player of the week award Um, kicked down at the top of the third basket.

00:36:50.000 Um, get down at the That did not sail.

00:36:55.000 That was not.

00:36:56.000 Um.

00:36:57.000 So it was a squib kick.

00:36:58.000 Right, it was a squib kick.

00:37:02.000 What a day?

00:37:04.000 She kicked a ball.

00:37:06.000 No one is anywhere within a thousand yards of her.

00:37:09.000 She kicked it maybe twenty-five yards and then it bounced like another five.

00:37:14.000 And what a day.

00:37:16.000 Huge, huge step for women. 1.00

00:37:18.000 No, see, I think big steps for women are like, you know, I'm just going to say this.

00:37:21.000 My wife does more for women and for women's empowerment than Sarah Fuller kicking a ball on a men's football team with no chance of actually playing. 0.85

00:37:28.000 I mean, I'm sorry, but like kicking a ball 20 yards and having no chance of being tackled is not exactly like what we mean when we think of people playing football so much.

00:37:36.000 I mean, like, that's that's nice.

00:37:37.000 She's a soccer player. 1.00

00:37:38.000 She's a great.

00:37:39.000 Why is it not enough for her to just be a great soccer player? 1.00

00:37:40.000 I don't understand.

00:37:42.000 And my wife, who's a doctor and has three children.

00:37:45.000 That seems like more of a groundbreaking thing for women to do is to be a doctor, right? 1.00

00:37:49.000 Because women can be just as great as men at being a doctor.

00:37:52.000 But to treat this like this was like an amazing performance is kind of incredible.

00:37:58.000 Okay, the other person who won the Special Teams Player of the Week was Kadarius Tony.

00:38:06.000 And I just want to look up what he actually did last week.

00:38:11.000 Okay, so he actually scored on a punt return.

00:38:15.000 Okay, so that seems like more important than not kicking a football all that well in a game that you lose 41-0.

00:38:21.000 So he earned Special Teams Player of the Week, co-Special Teams Player of the Week for the SEC.

00:38:27.000 He returned to punt 50 yards, which ended up being the touchdown that gave the Gators a 14-10 edge at halftime.

00:38:34.000 He also scored a passing, rushing, receiving, and punt return touchdown in a career.

00:38:38.000 That was the first punt return touchdown since an 85-yarder in 2018 for the Florida Gators.

00:38:47.000 On the year, he has 45 receptions for 541 yards and 7 touchdowns.

00:38:51.000 That's slightly more impressive, I think, than kicking a ball like 20 yards and having no chance of being tackled.

00:38:56.000 But again, people are like, well, yes, but it's groundbreaking for a woman. 1.00

00:38:58.000 Okay, if you have to add for a woman, it's not groundbreaking.

00:39:01.000 Seriously, because you're demonstrating that the woman is not playing on the same level as the men. 0.97

00:39:06.000 If you have to add, that was a great performance for a woman, it would have to be a great performance for a man in a man's sport for it to be truly groundbreaking.

00:39:13.000 Okay, but that's not where the absurdity stops.

00:39:15.000 So apparently, Sarah Fuller, I'm not kidding you, gave a halftime speech to the team. 0.98

00:39:21.000 It was according to Joe Kinsey at OutKick.

00:39:24.000 ESPN reporter Courtney Cronin jumped on a Zoom call to chat with Fuller about her time on the Vandy football team.

00:39:29.000 And that's when we learned that Fuller was given the floor to address her fellow football players.

00:39:32.000 If I'm going to be honest, I was a little pissed off at how quiet everybody was on the sideline, Fuller told Cronin.

00:39:37.000 We made it first down and I was the only one cheering.

00:39:39.000 I was like, what the heck?

00:39:40.000 What's going on?

00:39:41.000 And I tried to get them pumped up and I was like, you guys need to start cheering your team on.

00:39:45.000 My main thing was during the SEC tournament, my entire team was cheering the entire time.

00:39:48.000 It didn't matter if we were in the locker room or if they were on the sidelines.

00:39:51.000 I think that's what won it for us.

00:39:52.000 Everyone was cheering nonstop.

00:39:54.000 I just went in there and I said exactly what I was thinking.

00:39:55.000 I was like, we need to be cheering each other on.

00:39:57.000 This is how you win games.

00:39:58.000 This is how you get better by calling each other out for stuff.

00:40:00.000 And I'm going to call you guys out.

00:40:02.000 We need to be supporting one another.

00:40:03.000 If we get a first down, if an interception happens, it's our fault.

00:40:06.000 We need to be lifting each other up.

00:40:07.000 That's what a team is about.

00:40:08.000 I think this team has struggled and that's been part of it.

00:40:10.000 OK, she's been part of the team for 32 seconds and she kicked a squib kick. 1.00

00:40:14.000 OK, first of all, It is not a perfectly executed squib kick, okay?

00:40:17.000 You don't have to be a football expert to understand when a squib kick is used.

00:40:21.000 A squib kick is used at the end, usually of the first half, when you are just trying to run out the clock and you don't want to see somebody run it back.

00:40:27.000 You never use a squib kick when you are down 1 million points at the beginning of the second half and give field position to the other team 35 yard line.

00:40:34.000 Anyway.

00:40:35.000 Okay, but she's been on the team for like half a second and she's lecturing all the male players about what a winner she is in a completely different sport with women. 0.99

00:40:44.000 That is not effective!

00:40:45.000 I mean, can you imagine the temerity of that?

00:40:49.000 Seriously, like just the absolute gall of that to walk into the men's football team.

00:40:53.000 These guys, by the way, are getting crushed out there, right?

00:40:55.000 Not just like they're losing, they're getting physically mauled out there because that's what football is.

00:41:00.000 These guys are going out there and getting stomped on.

00:41:02.000 You got linebackers who are getting bruised up and you get this woman walking in the front door. 0.99

00:41:07.000 She squib kicks it 20 yards and she's like, I think that you guys are losers. 0.98

00:41:10.000 And you know what? 0.87

00:41:11.000 I'm going to lecture you about how to be winners and the way that we can be winners Is by cheering each other on, guys.

00:41:17.000 We're gonna cheer like there's no tomorrow.

00:41:19.000 We're gonna cheer.

00:41:20.000 And that's gonna bring the entire team together.

00:41:23.000 Female empowerment.

00:41:25.000 She says, I hope I gained their respect.

00:41:27.000 It wasn't ill-intentioned at all.

00:41:28.000 I just want this team to succeed and do well.

00:41:30.000 So, uh, do you, uh, okay.

00:41:33.000 So again, a few notes.

00:41:35.000 One, Jason Whitlock has noted that, um, that she was practicing all week long.

00:41:40.000 She didn't try a field goal because the team didn't score the entire game, but her longest field goal, I believe she says is 38 yards, which is great for any person who is not a male football player in an SEC team, right?

00:41:54.000 If you're in the Power Five, you got to be able to kick more than a 38-yard field goal.

00:41:57.000 In any case, the Vanderbilt coach came out and said that the kick went exactly where it was supposed to. And also, I didn't want to overcoach her. I don't think there was a chance of that.

00:42:06.000 I don't think it was like if you overcoached her, she was going to squib kick at 15 yards. 0.83

00:42:09.000 Here's the coach, who by the way, now has no job. He was fired because his team stinks.

00:42:13.000 We tried to go with the most natural kicks in her arsenal. 1.00

00:42:20.000 We tried not to overcoach her, but let her do and understand what felt comfortable to her.

00:42:30.000 And that's really what we went with.

00:42:32.000 Um, and then I thought she punched it exactly where she needed to punch it. 0.99

00:42:35.000 Um, Ball's down 35 yard line, let's go.

00:42:38.000 So that was, normally you don't actually build like an entire play calling situation around a kicker who only kicks the ball about 25 yards.

00:42:47.000 Like that's normally not what you do.

00:42:49.000 So can we stop pretending that this is like some great historic breakthrough for women? 0.83

00:42:53.000 Women are not going to be populating the power five anytime soon. 1.00

00:42:56.000 Wake me when a woman is playing quarterback for a power five team or linebacker or wide receiver or cornerback or anything that is not a kicker who if they were a dude would not be on the team. 1.00

00:43:07.000 Obviously.

00:43:08.000 Also, I just gotta point this out again, the differences between men and women are very real, and this actually underscores that there are differences between men and women, because if there were no differences, then she would not be on the team, obviously, nor would she win SEC Co-Player of the Week with a guy who ran back a 50-yard punt return.

00:43:22.000 For University of Florida.

00:43:24.000 Anyway, the halftime speech really gets me.

00:43:26.000 It really does.

00:43:27.000 Because again, it again betrays the difference between men and women.

00:43:30.000 Differences that are very real.

00:43:33.000 Okay, one of those differences is how men talk in the locker room versus how women talk in the locker room. 0.94

00:43:38.000 So women, when it comes to halftime speeches, apparently, according to the book Top Dog, which is an excellent book by Poe Bronson and Ashley Merriman about the science of competition, talks about how men and women are motivated by different things, right?

00:43:50.000 Because men and women are not exactly the same. 0.81

00:43:52.000 I know this is very controversial stuff because Again, we're supposed to simultaneously believe that men and women are exactly the same, but also they are not exactly the same, so it's historic when a woman plays in a man's game.

00:44:00.000 So, in any case, they are not motivated by the same thing.

00:44:03.000 So she's on the sideline like, why aren't you guys cheering for each other?

00:44:05.000 I want more solidarity!

00:44:06.000 I want more team spirit!

00:44:08.000 None of that motivates dudes.

00:44:10.000 None of that motivates dudes.

00:44:11.000 That is not how dudes get motivated.

00:44:12.000 Dudes get motivated by Al Pacino in any given Sunday screaming in people's faces and telling them that they're acting like pansies, so get out there and prove that you're not a pansy.

00:44:22.000 Women are motivated by solidarity. 0.91

00:44:24.000 They're motivated by compassion.

00:44:25.000 These are things, okay.

00:44:26.000 So, you know who says this?

00:44:28.000 Not me, because if I say it, then it's very bad.

00:44:30.000 Anson Dorant, who is the UNC women's soccer coach, right?

00:44:34.000 One of the great women's soccer coaches of all time.

00:44:36.000 He coached the men's team at UNC, University of North Carolina, and then he coached the women's team.

00:44:40.000 And here's what he said.

00:44:41.000 Quote, the single best, this is from Top Dog, the single best example of how Dorrance coaches women is in his halftime speech.

00:44:47.000 When he coached men, Dorrance's best ever halftime speech was when he got so mad, he kicked a trash can through a window.

00:44:52.000 I drove that sucker through a window and I stormed out, he recalled, in the man watching.

00:44:56.000 Let me tell you something about human evolution. 0.96

00:44:58.000 That spoke volumes to the men in the room.

00:44:59.000 In the second half, everything changed.

00:45:01.000 All of a sudden, we had great energy, tactics, shape, and the game totally turned around.

00:45:05.000 Some men, he feels, need shock to wake them up.

00:45:07.000 Top men are so used to competition that even being on the losing end at halftime is not shock enough, but he would never treat women that way.

00:45:14.000 As Dorant said, quote, if they've played poorly, you still come storming in like a caged tiger, but because these are women, they can sense immediately that you're upset. 0.93

00:45:21.000 The critical thing is tone.

00:45:22.000 You turn to face them and you calmly say, well, what do you think?

00:45:25.000 Now you can hear a chorus of self-flagellation as every woman in the room is taking full responsibility for the disaster taking place. 1.00

00:45:31.000 I haven't criticized anyone.

00:45:32.000 I don't need to because they're their own worst critics.

00:45:34.000 Okay, so again, I love that she comes in and she's like, I'm gonna turn this male team around by lecturing them about togetherness!

00:45:47.000 And all the guys are like, what is this now?

00:45:49.000 What is it?

00:45:50.000 But men and women, exactly the same in every possible way.

00:45:54.000 Proof that they're exactly the same is that we put a woman on the field and celebrated her and had Today Show interviews with her and talked about how historic it was when she kicked a ball not all that far in a game that her team lost by 41 points.

00:46:07.000 So, well done everybody.

00:46:08.000 Gender ideology making zero sense every single day.

00:46:11.000 Every single day.

00:46:12.000 Okay, meanwhile, It is time for the election update.

00:46:17.000 So quick election update for you.

00:46:18.000 So last night, Arizona certified its votes.

00:46:21.000 Doug Ducey, the governor of Arizona, he announced that the vote had been certified.

00:46:26.000 And here is what that sounded like.

00:46:29.000 The votes have been tabulated.

00:46:32.000 All 15 counties have certified their results.

00:46:36.000 In addition to certification, with Senator-elect Mark Kelly winning the general election.

00:46:43.000 I will be signing official documentation today that will be hand-delivered to the Secretary of the United States Senate so that Arizona's newest senator can be sworn into office as swiftly as possible.

00:46:58.000 So naturally, Doug Ducey received inordinate crap from a lot of people, including President Trump, who tweeted out, why is he rushing to put a Democrat in office, especially when so many horrible things concerning voter fraud are being revealed at the hearing going on right now?

00:47:10.000 And then he hashtagged OANN, what is going on with Doug Ducey? 0.91

00:47:13.000 Republicans will long remember.

00:47:15.000 And then last night, he also retweeted, why bother voting Republican?

00:47:17.000 From another account, this guy had tweeted out, watching the Arizona hearings and then watching Governor Ducey sign those papers, why bother voting for Republicans if what you get is Ducey and Kemp? Trump retweeted that. Well, I mean, the pretty obvious answer is that the socialists don't win.

00:47:31.000 John Ossoff, who's running in Georgia, has stated openly that he is embracing Bernie Sanders.

00:47:38.000 According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Ossoff's embrace of Bernie Sanders highlights shift for Georgia Democrats.

00:47:45.000 Three years ago, when Ossoff was running to flip a Republican-controlled suburban Atlanta House district, the Democrat likely would have sidestepped the question about Bernie Sanders.

00:47:52.000 Now, he says, I welcome his support, his advocacy for ensuring that healthcare is a human right in this country, putting the interests of working families over corporate interests is welcome, is necessary, is appreciated, and so is his support.

00:48:04.000 Both Ossoff and Raphael Warnock are wild leftists, both of them running for the Senate.

00:48:08.000 The reason that you vote in those races is because those races are not fixed, okay?

00:48:11.000 They are not fixed.

00:48:13.000 If they were fixed, John Ossoff would not have trailed David Perdue by about 100,000 votes in the account that happened in Georgia.

00:48:21.000 Doug Ducey put out a thread about the situation in Arizona.

00:48:23.000 He says, I've been pretty outspoken about Arizona's election system and bragged about it quite a bit, including in the Oval Office and for good reason.

00:48:28.000 We've been doing early voting since 1992.

00:48:31.000 Arizona didn't explore or experiment this year.

00:48:33.000 We didn't cancel election day voting as some pushed for.

00:48:35.000 We weren't going to disenfranchise any voter.

00:48:37.000 In Arizona, we have some of the strongest election laws in the country, laws that prioritize accountability and clearly lay out procedures for conducting canvassing, even contesting the results of an election.

00:48:46.000 We've got ID at the polls.

00:48:47.000 We review every signature, every single one on early ballots by hand, unlike other states that use computers.

00:48:52.000 Prohibitions on ballot harvesting, bipartisan poll observers, clear deadlines, including no ballots allowed after election day, the problems that exist in other states simply don't apply here.

00:49:00.000 I've said all along I'm going to follow the law.

00:49:01.000 The law says that the Secretary of State, in the presence of the governor and the AG, has to canvass the election on the fourth Monday following the general.

00:49:08.000 That was yesterday.

00:49:09.000 It says that can only be delayed if counties decline to certify.

00:49:12.000 All 15 counties, Republican and Democrat, certified their results.

00:49:15.000 The canvas triggers a five day window for electors to bring a credible challenge.

00:49:19.000 He says, now's the time to do it.

00:49:20.000 If you want to contest the results, now is the time bring the challenge.

00:49:22.000 That's the law.

00:49:23.000 And so I've had to follow the law.

00:49:25.000 Ducey is not wrong about that.

00:49:26.000 Now is the time to bring forward the evidence, not speculation, actual evidence, or nothing is going to change.

00:49:31.000 The bottom line is either something's going to change or nothing is going to change.

00:49:34.000 And right now, unless evidence is brought forth in places like Arizona, nothing is going to change.

00:49:39.000 Remember, Trump would need to win Georgia, Arizona, and Pennsylvania, all states in which he's been certified as the not winner right now, as it stands, in order to take the election.

00:49:48.000 Okay, meanwhile, time for your quick COVID updates.

00:49:51.000 Okay, it's COVID time.

00:49:52.000 So, apparently, there are now two vaccines that are heading to the FDA for review, setting scientific speed records.

00:49:58.000 According to the Washington Post, the federal government could begin distributing two coronavirus vaccines in the next few weeks.

00:50:03.000 Moderna filed Monday for emergency authorization of its COVID vaccine, capping a scientific sprint that began in January.

00:50:09.000 Moderna's two-dose regimen is about a week behind a similar vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech.

00:50:15.000 So, apparently that means that millions of doses are going to go out in the next couple of weeks.

00:50:19.000 Approximately 40 million doses of two remarkably effective vaccines could be available by the end of the year, enough for 20 million people to receive full protection.

00:50:26.000 The Moderna vaccine actually didn't just show 94.1% effectiveness.

00:50:29.000 Apparently, in lowering the severity of the disease, it showed 100% effectiveness, which is just amazing, amazing news.

00:50:36.000 Anthony Fauci, director of the NIAID, he said, you don't want to get ahead of yourself and claim victory.

00:50:41.000 This has the makings of a very, very important positive impact on ending this outbreak.

00:50:44.000 By the way, it is true that this thing could have been out weeks earlier if it were not for the FDA.

00:50:47.000 If it were not for the FDA holding up the process, this thing could have been up, it could have been out a couple of weeks earlier, which would presumably have saved some tens of thousands of lives given the trajectory of the virus right now.

00:51:00.000 So, this is obviously very, very good news as it currently stands.

00:51:04.000 The Secretary of Health and Human Services, Alex Azar, he announced that the vaccines are going to be shipping within 24 hours.

00:51:10.000 It'll ship within 24 hours after FDA approval, and then really it's going to be up to our nursing homes, our hospitals, our pharmacies to get that dispensed.

00:51:19.000 So it really could be within days of FDA approval, we'll start seeing vaccines in people's arms, which is frankly incredible.

00:51:27.000 Think about this, 10 months into this pandemic hitting our shores, thanks to what President Trump has done here.

00:51:33.000 We believe we're going to have people getting vaccinated, millions of people, before Christmas this year.

00:51:38.000 It's just unheard of in the history of public health, this accomplishment.

00:51:42.000 I mean, it is an amazing, amazing accomplishment.

00:51:44.000 Meanwhile, Anthony Fauci announced yesterday that he thinks it's a good idea for kids to go back to school. 0.88

00:51:48.000 I just want to point out here that the Follow the Science crowd, if they'd been following Anthony Fauci when it comes to schools reopening, he's been all over the damn place.

00:51:56.000 I mean, all over the place.

00:51:58.000 Seriously, some of us have been saying there's no evidence that schools should be closed as early as like April or May.

00:52:02.000 I was an early adopter of the schools should be open.

00:52:05.000 Kids are not transmitting this thing in mass numbers and schools are not major vectors of transmission.

00:52:09.000 Kids are safe from the virus, particularly elementary school kids.

00:52:12.000 But here is just a brief montage of Anthony Fauci flip-flopping all over the place about whether schools should be open or closed.

00:52:17.000 This is why you place your faith in any one public figure and it is likely to be disappointed.

00:52:22.000 I know that we've decided to make Anthony Fauci the saint of COVID because he opposed Donald Trump from time to time.

00:52:27.000 But the idea that if you followed Fauci, you would have been taking a consistent line is just not true.

00:52:32.000 Here is Anthony Fauci since March talking about various positions on school reopenings.

00:52:38.000 We have to start implementing both containment and mitigation.

00:52:43.000 And what was done when you do closing the school is mitigation.

00:52:46.000 If you have a situation in which you don't have a real good control over an outbreak and you allow children to gather together, they likely will get infected.

00:52:54.000 We don't know everything about this virus.

00:52:56.000 And we really better be very careful, particularly when it comes to children.

00:53:00.000 I think we better be careful if we are not cavalier in thinking that children are completely immune to the deleterious effects There may be some areas that the level of virus is so high that it would not be prudent to bring the children back to school.

00:53:15.000 The default position should be to try as best as you possibly can To open up the schools for in-person learning.

00:53:26.000 If you're in a situation, in a green zone, where you have a very low level of infection and test positivity, that in general you can open the schools with impunity.

00:53:36.000 Close the bars and keep the schools open is what we really say.

00:53:40.000 Okay, that was him.

00:53:41.000 Like, March, April, May.

00:53:43.000 Again, the point here is that if you followed the quote-unquote science, then you would have had a consistent position since April.

00:53:48.000 There have been no major outbreaks from schools anywhere on earth for elementary school kids.

00:53:53.000 Anywhere on earth.

00:53:53.000 And they were open throughout Europe.

00:53:55.000 And yet Fauci was all over the place on this thing.

00:53:57.000 Never put your trust in one single public official.

00:53:59.000 It is always, always, always a mistake.

00:54:01.000 That is particularly true when you're talking about elected officials who who create rules, the incentive structure on COVID is completely screwed up at this point.

00:54:07.000 I mean, utterly and completely screwed from beginning to end.

00:54:10.000 Because if you're a public official and you've created this panic about COVID that millions are going to die from COVID, that your chances of death are incredibly high, basically no matter which sort of preexisting conditions you have, no matter your age.

00:54:24.000 If you've created that level of panic, then the incentive structure is that you're supposed to lock things down.

00:54:28.000 What happens if you've already locked everything down?

00:54:30.000 What if you're L.A.?

00:54:31.000 L.A.

00:54:31.000 County, and you already locked down all the indoor dining, and you did it like two weeks ago, and the spike is continuing because nobody can control this thing.

00:54:38.000 And you've created this outsized panic about how millions of people are going to die, the health system is going to be swamped.

00:54:42.000 Right now, by the way, there's still health care capacity.

00:54:45.000 Millions of people are not going to die in the United States from COVID-19.

00:54:48.000 A lot of people have died from COVID-19 in the United States.

00:54:51.000 They're almost entirely people who have had fairly significant pre-existing conditions.

00:54:55.000 Johns Hopkins University did a study.

00:54:57.000 They found that of the people who have died of COVID-19 who are on Medicare, which means everybody above the age of 65 essentially in the country, Of all the people above 65, that's the bulk of people who have died from COVID-19, of all those people above the age of 65, the number of people who are otherwise healthy, who didn't have other pre-existing conditions, who died of COVID, is 2,500, according to Dr. Marty McHarris, out of 267,000.

00:55:18.000 Doesn't mean the virus isn't more dangerous than the flu.

00:55:20.000 It is more dangerous than the flu.

00:55:22.000 And it's particularly more dangerous than the flu if you have pre-existing conditions.

00:55:25.000 It's not really even if you're elderly, it's more if you have any sort of serious pre-existing condition, like obesity, not just you're overweight, obesity, or if you have renal failure, or if you have heart disease, and not just hypertension, but like serious heart disease.

00:55:37.000 These are things that are going to complicate Obviously, but the media have done an extraordinarily poor job of bringing you the information.

00:55:43.000 So this sets up a system where politicians are basically benefited by shutting things down.

00:55:48.000 So Gavin Newsom was again warning that it was time to shut down more of the California.

00:55:53.000 I can't.

00:55:54.000 I'm so happy I'm not in that that horror stricken state.

00:55:57.000 This Ken doll of a human talking about shutting down more of the state.

00:56:00.000 LA County shut down outdoor dining.

00:56:03.000 There is no evidence outdoor dining is a vector of transmission.

00:56:05.000 Here is Gavin Newsom threatening this stuff.

00:56:07.000 I mean, at least when he's not at the French Laundry eating indoors with California Medical Association officials.

00:56:13.000 If these trends continue, we're going to have to take much more dramatic, arguably drastic action, including taking a look at those purple-tiered counties, the potential for a stay-at-home order for those regions in purple.

00:56:28.000 because of hospitalizations and ICUs to make determinations of deep purple moves in those purple-tiered status that is more equivalent, more in line with the stay-at-home order that folks were familiar with in the beginning of this year.

00:56:47.000 So we're gonna lock you in your house.

00:56:49.000 Really exciting stuff out there in California.

00:56:51.000 Unless you're one of the elite, right?

00:56:53.000 Then if you're Gavin Newsom, again, go to the French Laundry.

00:56:56.000 Best thing I saw yesterday was some local restaurant had put up a sign in L.A.

00:56:59.000 County that said the French Laundry Outdoor Patio just over its normal sign.

00:57:03.000 Because, of course, Gavin Newsom had eaten at this very expensive $400-a-plate dinner at the French Laundry.

00:57:10.000 By the way, it's not just Gavin Newsom.

00:57:11.000 According to NBC Bay Area, San Jose mayor ignored health protocols during holiday celebration.

00:57:16.000 Why, there's a shocker.

00:57:17.000 Turns out the Denver mayor did the same thing, by the way.

00:57:20.000 Denver Mayor was like, we got to shut this thing down.

00:57:21.000 No traveling for Thanksgiving.

00:57:23.000 I, however, will be visiting my parents.

00:57:24.000 Andrew Cuomo tried to do the same thing.

00:57:26.000 He was like, nobody visit your parents over Thanksgiving.

00:57:28.000 Also, also, my mother is coming.

00:57:30.000 She's coming out here.

00:57:31.000 I got mom out there and I got my kids.

00:57:33.000 They're all coming in.

00:57:34.000 We're going to hang out together.

00:57:35.000 We're going to swap spit.

00:57:36.000 It's going to be great.

00:57:37.000 And then he's like, maybe I shouldn't have said that.

00:57:39.000 So now San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo appears to have broken health protocols in celebrating Thanksgiving with family members outside of his own household.

00:57:46.000 The NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit has learned Liccardo celebrated with his elderly parents at their Saratoga home with an unknown number of other guests.

00:57:54.000 While the mayor's staff did confirm the dinners took place, they haven't disclosed how many other people attended, how many different households were present, and whether any of those in attendance wore masks while not eating.

00:58:03.000 This is a private event, not public, said Jim Reed, Lakardo's chief of staff.

00:58:07.000 Oh, is it now?

00:58:09.000 So the same public health officials who are like, rat on your neighbor if you see they're having dinner with their parents.

00:58:14.000 They're like, this is a public, this isn't a public event, it's private.

00:58:18.000 Jim Reed, Lakardo's chief of staff said, we are going to redraw the line between what is personal and what is public because that line has become blurred.

00:58:25.000 So good times there with Sam Liccardo.

00:58:27.000 Meanwhile, how is L.A.

00:58:28.000 County using its federal COVID relief funds?

00:58:31.000 Get ready for this one.

00:58:32.000 This is great.

00:58:32.000 Emily Zanotti at Daily Wire reporting.

00:58:34.000 County used millions in federal coronavirus relief dollars meant to help struggling Californians stay afloat during extended pandemic-related economic lockdowns to fund no-bid contracts with two PR agencies who recruited celebrity influencers to help spread coronavirus messaging on social media.

00:58:34.000 L.A.

00:58:51.000 A local media investigation revealed L.A.

00:58:53.000 County has extended agreements with two PR firms hired to guide the county's COVID-19 messaging and is using federal CARES Act money to offset part of the cost of their contract, which now total $2.9 million.

00:59:06.000 The contracts were no bid.

00:59:07.000 They were first inked back in early 2020.

00:59:09.000 The county has now extended those contracts.

00:59:13.000 Apparently, the PR firms can hire celebrities to convince the public of the importance of COVID abatement measures.

00:59:19.000 Apparently the county defended the expense.

00:59:21.000 They said expanded activities including response to hundreds of requests each week from media partners, creating and disseminating new culturally and linguistically appropriate educational materials daily through various communications channels and participating in dozens of briefings each week to provide information and respond to concerns.

00:59:38.000 So yes, they hired like Instagram influencers to tell you to put on a mask.

00:59:42.000 And they did that with taxpayer funding.

00:59:45.000 Solid, solid stuff.

00:59:45.000 By the way, the LA County Supervisors, you know, they're the ones who voted to shut down the outdoor restaurants.

00:59:53.000 This is Fox LA reporting.

00:59:54.000 No!

00:59:54.000 No.

00:59:54.000 Just hours after LA County Supervisor Sheila Kuhl voted to ban outdoor dining at LA County's 31,000 restaurants over COVID safety concerns, she visited a restaurant in Santa Monica where she dined outdoors. No, no, that'd be impossible. Kuhl was seen dining outside at Il Forno Trattoria in Santa Monica, an Italian restaurant near her house.

01:00:16.000 When Fox 11 investigative reporter Bill Malugan stopped by the restaurant to ask about it, managers said they didn't want to get involved but had no comment.

01:00:22.000 A spokesperson said she did dine al fresco at Il Forno on the very last day it was permissible.

01:00:26.000 She loves Il Forno, has been saddened to see it, like so many restaurants, suffer from a decline in revenue.

01:00:30.000 She ate there, taking appropriate precautions, and sadly will not dine there again until our public health orders permit.

01:00:35.000 So she's just sneaking it in right under the wire because, as we all know, COVID obeys public health rules.

01:00:41.000 So really, really solid stuff.

01:00:43.000 Speaking of hypocrisy, so the greatest governor in America, Andrew Cuomo, that guy, he said yesterday that it was a nightmare, that COVID was spiking again, and that they were facing a nightmare scenario in New York State.

01:00:56.000 Here was Andrew Cuomo talking about it yesterday.

01:01:00.000 We lived this nightmare.

01:01:02.000 We learned from this nightmare.

01:01:05.000 And we're going to correct for the lessons we learned during this nightmare.

01:01:10.000 If we hit a real hospitalization crisis, we could potentially do a New York pause.

01:01:17.000 California just did a California pause, which is basically a stop or move one zone to another if we have a critical hospital situation.

01:01:26.000 Okay, meanwhile, you know that briefing that he's doing right there?

01:01:30.000 Cuomo and his aides?

01:01:31.000 I have a picture of it.

01:01:33.000 He's in a closed room with nobody wearing a mask.

01:01:37.000 Yep, solid stuff.

01:01:38.000 According to the New York Post, Governor Andrew Cuomo crowed reporters that his push for mask-wearing helped curb New York's COVID-19 cases, while his tone-deaf panel of aides sat in the closed room without ever putting their masks on.

01:01:50.000 What worked in the spring and the reason you're wearing a mask today is because we told the truth and New Yorkers responded, said the governor.

01:01:55.000 Cuomo was not wearing a mask at the time, nor were his five top aides on the dais, including State Health Commissioner Howard Zucker and SUNY Chancellor Jim Malatras.

01:01:55.000 Mm-hmm.

01:02:04.000 The governor's spokespeople, photographer, and state trooper detail had masks on, so did all the reporters.

01:02:09.000 His panel's flaunting what would seem to be no-brainer precautions comes after CDC has warned on its website there's evidence under certain conditions people with COVID-19 seem to have infected others who are more than six feet away.

01:02:20.000 He was speaking most of the time at Monday's presser.

01:02:22.000 He and his people were six feet apart, but the room is so tight journalists have been limited because there's not enough space.

01:02:28.000 I mean, just amazing, amazing stuff.

01:02:30.000 Again, the rules don't apply to the specials.

01:02:32.000 They don't apply to the special people.

01:02:34.000 Also, in breaking COVID news, remember that time that it was very bad to label the Wuhan virus the Wuhan virus?

01:02:40.000 You weren't allowed to talk about it?

01:02:41.000 Well now, CNN, which suggested that it was xenophobic for you to talk about the fact that this virus started in China, made a large-scale report from Nick Patton Walsh titled, The Wuhan Files.

01:02:51.000 Leaked documents revealed China's mishandling of the early stages of COVID-19.

01:02:56.000 Quote, a group of frontline medical workers, likely exhausted, stand huddled together on a video conference call as China's most powerful man raises his hand in greeting.

01:03:05.000 It is February 10th in Beijing and President Xi Jinping, who for weeks has been absent from public view, is addressing hospital staff in the city of Wuhan as they battle to contain the spread of a still officially unnamed novel coronavirus.

01:03:16.000 From a secure room about 1,200 kilometers from the epicenter, Xi expressed his condolences to people who had died, here's greater public communication.

01:03:23.000 That same day, Chinese authorities reported 2,400 new confirmed cases, raising the total global number to more than 40,000, with fewer than 400 cases occurring outside of mainland China.

01:03:35.000 Yet, CNN can now reveal how official documents circulated internally show this was only part of the picture.

01:03:41.000 In a report marked Internal Document, Please Keep Confidential, local health authorities in the province of Hubei, where the virus was first detected, listed a total of nearly 6,000 newly detected cases on February 10th, more than double the official public number of confirmed cases.

01:03:54.000 The larger figure was never fully revealed at the time.

01:03:58.000 It seems you downplay the severity of the outbreak.

01:04:00.000 The previously undisclosed figure is among a string of revelations contained within 117 pages of leaked documents from the Hubei Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, shared with and verified by CNN.

01:04:11.000 Taken together, the documents amount to the most significant leak from inside China since the beginning of the pandemic and provide the clear first window into what local authorities knew internally and when.

01:04:23.000 You ready?

01:04:23.000 This is my favorite sentence.

01:04:24.000 I think that's called a deliberate attempt to obfuscate findings.

01:04:27.000 But they do reveal numerous inconsistencies in what authorities believe to be happening and what was revealed to the public.

01:04:32.000 I think that's called a deliberate attempt to obfuscate findings.

01:04:36.000 But if you actually know something is going on and then you don't want to reveal it to the public, that would be obfuscating your findings by definition, would it not?

01:04:42.000 The documents reveal what appears to be an inflexible healthcare system constrained by top-down bureaucracy and rigid procedures that were ill-equipped to deal with the emerging crisis.

01:04:51.000 The documents show evidence of clear missteps, point to a pattern of institutional failings.

01:04:54.000 One of the most striking data points concerns the slowness with which COVID-19 patients were diagnosed.

01:04:59.000 Even as authorities in Hubei presented their handling of the initial outbreak to the public as efficient and transparent, says CNN, the documents show that local health officials were reliant on flawed testing and reporting mechanisms.

01:05:09.000 A report in the document from early March says the average time between onset of symptoms to confirm diagnosis was 23.3 days.

01:05:16.000 Nearly a month.

01:05:19.000 China has defended its handling of the outbreak.

01:05:22.000 But of course, they would, right?

01:05:24.000 I mean, they're a communist tyranny.

01:05:27.000 They didn't just make mistakes.

01:05:30.000 They covered everything up because, again, this is a communist tyranny.

01:05:34.000 We now have evidence, by the way, that the Wuhan virus was present in the United States as early as December.

01:05:38.000 That is some new evidence that is emerging today.

01:05:42.000 And the world got more optimistic data than reality.

01:05:44.000 China kept telling people that there weren't that many cases, but there were a lot more cases than that.

01:05:50.000 And they kept saying that fewer people were dead than the number of people who were dead.

01:05:54.000 They wildly reported the number of daily dead.

01:05:58.000 So just really solid stuff there from China.

01:06:01.000 But don't worry, the WHO is on top of it.

01:06:04.000 And it's very bad to mention that this was a China-based virus.

01:06:07.000 Just terrible.

01:06:09.000 China and CNN were busy blaming Trump for all of this.

01:06:11.000 And so it's only now, you know, after the election that we hear about the China flu again, when, as it turns out, it was, in fact, the Wuhan flu all along.

01:06:20.000 Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with two additional hours of content.

01:06:23.000 Otherwise, we'll see you here tomorrow.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - December 01, 2020

When Ladies Play Football | Ep. 1147

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