Ben Shapiro explains why Hamas is paying for the violence in the Gaza Strip, and why the media should have been paying attention to the facts on the ground, not the lies they tell us about the events in Gaza. He also explains why we should care about the fact that the media don t give a damn about what's going on in the streets of Gaza, and how they use it to smear and delegitimize the very people they're supposed to be trying to help, and the people they should be fighting for. And finally, he explains why you shouldn't care about what the media are saying about the situation in Gaza, because it's not even close to what's actually going on there, and that's why you're not going to get much of a sense of peace in the Middle East from the mainstream media, or any other media outlet covering the events taking place in the region. Ben Shapiro Show is coming to Dallas and Phoenix, AZ on August 8th, 2019. Tickets are going fast, so get your pre-sale tickets before they sell out! Subscribe to Dailywire to get your tickets today! Use promo code Ben Shapiro to get 25% off your first massage, and get 20% off of your first one-on-one appointment with me, too! You won't want to miss this! Links From This Episode: All Previous Podcast Episodes Free Training From Ben Shapiro Podcasts Leave Us a Review On Apple Podcasts And Subscribe To Our YouTube Channel Thanks for Listening To Our Podcasts! Subscribe On iTunes Learn more about our Sponsorships and Support Us On Podcharts Become a Friend Us on Podcoin Watch Us On Social Media! Learn More About Us On VaynerSpeaker - Rate Us On The Same Day Shipping? Connect With Us On Spotships & Subscribe On A Podcasts On A Plant Download Us On Shipwrecked Shipping On Ship On Shipyard We'll Be Shipping Them On Shipmates On Shipments Get Exclusive Discounts On Prime Video On Shiproom On Ship Yard And More! Thank Us On A Ship On Prime Ticket On Ship And More Than $5/ Ships On Shiprooms On Ship Is This Is My First Ship On On Ship & More Also Shout Out To Our First Ship Is Coming To Ship Themals On Ship Ship On My First Day
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00:02:38.000Yesterday, the media continued their policy.
00:02:41.000Their policy is to repeat whatever Hamas tells them, the terrorist group Hamas.
00:02:44.000The media coverage on this has just been extraordinary and demonstrative of the fact the media do not care about the actual facts on the ground in the slightest.
00:02:53.000They legitimately do not care about the facts on the ground, because I can show you some of the facts on the ground.
00:02:58.000We showed you some of the facts on the ground yesterday.
00:02:59.000Here are some more facts on the ground.
00:03:05.000So these protests, supposed protests, you know, peaceful protests that are actually violent riots, these have been going on for two months.
00:03:11.000These are actual pictures from the Gaza Strip from Raf Sanchez, who is not a pro-Israel reporter, and he tweeted out, So Hamas is paying people to go out there and attempt to get shot by Israeli forces so they can have those pictures on the front pages.
00:03:35.000The Israelis know that people are flying kites with swastikas.
00:05:31.000The terrorists in the Gaza Strip are making kites, and then they are putting Molotov cocktails, which essentially is alcohol or gasoline with fire attached or little bombs, and they are flying them over the border.
00:05:42.000And then they are hoping that those kites land in Israeli fields and start significant fires.
00:05:47.000And so you can see all of the pictures online.
00:06:02.000Like just going out there and mowing down Palestinians.
00:06:04.000Sure, there were 40,000 Palestinians who were protesting, who were rioting on the border on Sunday and Monday.
00:06:11.000Sure, only about 60 of them were killed.
00:06:15.000And sure, it turns out that Hamas is admitting the vast majority of those people were Hamas members.
00:06:19.000Here is a senior official with Hamas named Salah al-Bardawil, and he's on a Palestinian TV network, and he's explaining full out that the vast majority of people who were killed were Hamas members, members of terrorist groups.
00:06:32.000It says, in the last round of confrontations, if 62 people were martyred, 50 of them were Hamas.
00:07:20.000Because once they get into Israel, you know what they're going to do?
00:07:22.000They're going to go to any Israeli settlement they can find, any place that Israelis live, any place that Jews live, and they're going to murder them in their beds.
00:08:28.000We're fueling an Orwellian war between Shia and Sunni?
00:08:31.000Dude, the Shia-Sunni war has been going on for legitimately a thousand years.
00:08:35.000And as for the notion that Shia-Sunni war now is being promulgated by President Trump, no, it was promulgated by President Obama, who decided to strengthen Iran.
00:08:43.000And it's Iranian money that's being put in the pockets of Hamas terrorists today.
00:08:48.000That is being used to pay people to get shot by Israelis.
00:08:51.000This is uncontroversial, but Democrats have a particular perspective on the world that is completely afactual, and they continue to push that perspective as well.
00:08:58.000Whoopi Goldberg doing this routine too.
00:09:37.000The idea that the United States was ever supposed to be an honest broker between a liberal democracy in the Middle East and a terror state in the Gaza Strip and the Palestinian Authority is patently insane.
00:09:47.000Well, good for the Trump administration.
00:09:48.000The Trump administration has stood tall here.
00:10:01.000The UN itself should be torn down and we should salt the ruins.
00:10:05.000The United Nations is just a horrific institution, a horrible institution filled with evil nations who get an equal say in the supposed rules of international law.
00:11:19.000No, because it wasn't Jews who were doing the shooting.
00:11:21.000As long as it is Jews who are defending themselves, then suddenly the world media is up in arms.
00:11:25.000I'm going to explain in a little while why the media react this way with regard to Israel, as opposed to reacting when other nations kill people wholesale, as opposed to Israel, which engaged in extraordinarily targeted killings.
00:12:31.000Because they knew that if Israel were to bomb the schools, then the international community would blame Israel for the hiding behind civilians.
00:12:39.000And again, they are not hiding the ball here.
00:12:41.000I'm going to show you some of the things that people in the media have been saying about this.
00:12:44.000It's just astonishing in just a second.
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00:14:17.000Speaking of the insanity of the media, there are legitimately members of the media today who are saying that because Israel did not lose any soldiers, because there were no Jews who were killed in this confrontation with terrorists and rioters at the border, which is the whole purpose of having a border, the whole purpose of having a barbed wire border is so that you do not have to have your own soldiers killed attempting to kill terrorists.
00:14:38.000Because Israel killed 62 people and no Israelis were killed, there are legitimately people saying today that this is a massacre and Israel has lost the moral high ground.
00:14:46.000They're saying that more Jews should have died.
00:14:48.000If Israel wanted to show parody, they should have apparently just dropped a bunch of Jews naked into the middle of the Gaza Strip and have a few of them torn apart limb from limb, as has actually happened to an Israeli soldier in Ramallah about 15 years ago.
00:15:00.000They should just go ahead and do that.
00:16:30.000Because they actually built a state with an active military that is capable of protecting its citizens, as opposed to Hamas, which is a tyrannical military dictatorship.
00:16:40.000But we're supposed to believe that Israel lost moral legitimacy because it didn't kill more of its own Jews?
00:16:44.000The whole reason Israel was established in the first place is to protect Jews from having to be killed.
00:16:49.000Jews were sick after 2,000 years of being killed en masse.
00:16:52.000It turns out they were sick of earning the moral high ground through their corpses being spread on fields everywhere.
00:16:58.000And so they decided, hey, you know what might be good?
00:16:59.000Let's pick up some guns and create a state.
00:17:01.000They did, and now when the Jews defend themselves and, well, you know, if more Jews were to die, then that would definitely be more even-handed.
00:17:41.000To pretend that this is not happening is to be willfully blind.
00:17:44.000And yet, members of the media are being willfully blind.
00:17:47.000You've got idiots like Michelle Goldberg over at the New York Times, who legitimately is a dumb human being.
00:17:52.000And she wrote, quote, First of all, if the Palestinians wanted to cut a deal and make East Jerusalem their future capital, guess where the United States would put their Palestinian embassy?
00:18:13.000And then she says, the event was grotesque.
00:18:15.000It was a consummation of the cynical alliance between hawkish Jews and Zionist evangelicals who believe the return of Jews to Israel will usher in the apocalypse and the return of Christ, after which Jews who don't convert will burn forever.
00:18:28.000Like Michelle Gilbert, she's writing this in the pages of the most prestigious newspaper in America.
00:18:32.000Has she ever met a person who believes in the Jesus?
00:18:35.000Has she ever met a person who goes to church?
00:18:38.000Michelle Goldberg, I'm not sure, has ever met an evangelical Christian.
00:18:41.000If she believes that all evangelical Christians are just trying to reestablish Jerusalem as the Israeli capital so that Jesus will make his grand reappearance and then they'll all forcibly convert the Jews or the Jews won't be raptured or some such.
00:19:14.000Millennialist view of Christian support of Israel.
00:19:17.000This is a straw man that is put up by folks on the left because the vast majority of evangelicals do not believe that this is why they are supporting Israel.
00:19:23.000They believe they're supporting Israel because Israel is a moral power in the region, because Israel has a historical and religious right to be there, and because Israel is the root of the Western civilized tree.
00:19:52.000So they have this weird, bizarre perspective that everyone secretly, deep down in the cockles of their heart, wants to live in San Francisco.
00:19:59.000That that's the kind of life they want to live.
00:20:01.000That if you are a Palestinian, a Muslim Palestinian, who believes that the Al-Aqsa Mosque is a holy place and that the Jews are occupiers from the river to the sea, that if you believe that, really you don't believe that.
00:20:11.000Really, what you really believe is that there should be gay rights, and everybody shouldn't have kids, they should have puppies, and that the sexual revolution was awesome.
00:20:19.000That's what everyone seriously believes, like, deep down.
00:20:21.000But these Palestinians don't believe it because of the system, because of the hierarchy, because of oppression and repression.
00:20:27.000And when they sacrifice children by putting them out at the front lines, and when they hide behind those children as terrorists, the reason they're doing this is out of desperation.
00:20:34.000So assumption number one is that Palestinians actually want the same thing so that Westerners do, en masse.
00:20:40.000There are some Palestinians who certainly want those things.
00:20:42.000But the vast majority of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip voted for Hamas in 2006, and polls show the vast majority of them are supportive of Hamas now.
00:20:49.000Okay, so that's paternalistic view number one.
00:20:53.000is that Palestinians are not actively pursuing Western definitions of freedom.
00:20:58.000But that's not because they don't believe in Western definitions of freedom.
00:21:00.000No, because everyone believes in Western definitions of freedom.
00:21:03.000They don't believe in Western definitions of freedom and they don't pursue Western definitions of freedom because they are so oppressed and because they are angry and humiliated.
00:21:12.000If we just got rid of the anger and humiliation, then the Palestinian Authority, Hamas, all these people would be thrown out in favor of the Labour Party in Britain.
00:21:20.000This is so paternalistic, it is so ignorant of realities on the ground, it is almost beyond words.
00:21:25.000Sarab Amari writes a commentary, he's exactly right.
00:21:42.000There are desperate people all over the world who never translate their frustration into suicide bombing, stone-throwing, border-rushing, and days of rage.
00:21:48.000It does the Palestinians no good to treat them as children entitled to tantrums, as permanent wards of the international community, or worse, as wild men bereft of reason.
00:21:56.000Then again, such high-handed pity isn't really about helping the Palestinians so much as it is about flattering their Western friends.
00:22:02.000Okay, so in just a second, I want to explain why it seems the press has such antipathy to Israel.
00:22:06.000It is connected with the press's antipathy for President Trump, their antipathy for Brexit, their antipathy for nationalism more generally.
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00:23:43.000So, the easy answer is because they're not fond of the Juden.
00:23:46.000Okay, and maybe there's some truth to that, but I would venture to say that most of the people who are anti-Israel don't consider themselves anti-Semitic.
00:23:53.000They'll tell you they have Jewish friends.
00:24:05.000There's been a lot of talk lately about the differences between nationalism and patriotism.
00:24:09.000Well, I believe that I'm a more patriotic guy than a nationalistic guy, meaning I'm not a blood and soil nationalist who believes that just because I was born here, America is great.
00:24:16.000No, I think America is great because we share a common heritage, a common culture, a common set of values.
00:24:32.000I think an attempt to spread empire has usually failed.
00:24:35.000The nation-state is a better solution to people's aspirations so long as the nation-state is promulgating good values.
00:24:42.000Having a group of people who share a certain tribal affinity thanks to culture and values and also share a value system that is worth upholding.
00:24:50.000This has been the basis of Western civilization for a very long time, particularly since the Protestant Reformation, the Peace of Westphalia, in which the idea of sort of a Catholic hegemony over the Western world was shattered in favor of this idea that if you're a nation, you deserve self-determination so long as you fulfilled certain basic moral precepts.
00:25:06.000Yoram Hazony of the Herzl Institute has written about this.
00:25:09.000He has a great new book that is out, I believe, in September.
00:25:12.000It's called The Virtue of Nationalism, totally worth the read, and really interesting.
00:25:16.000As he points out, nationalism was responsible for the rise of France, and the rise of Britain, as well as the rise of Germany.
00:25:23.000Now, after World War II, there's a real push against nationalism.
00:25:26.000After World War I, there was a push in favor of nationalism.
00:25:28.000There was a push in favor of the idea of self-determination of peoples, so that they wouldn't be under the thumb of, for example, a German Empire or a Russian Empire.
00:25:35.000But after World War II, after the Nazis, there was a push against nationalism.
00:25:39.000The idea was that German nationalism had led to World War II.
00:25:42.000In reality, it was German imperialism that led to World War II.
00:25:45.000It was Germany attempting to expand its borders outward, not Germany saying, hey, we just want to sit here within our own borders and not bother anybody.
00:25:52.000But imperialism is the idea that you're going to take your nation and spread it out globally.
00:25:57.000Not that you're going to spread your values where possible among allied nations, but that you are legitimately going to take over other nations and make them Germany.
00:26:04.000And that was the German ideal during World War II under the Nazis.
00:27:06.000Human beings do look for a collective that shares their values to be a part of.
00:27:09.000And that collective is not going to be global.
00:27:11.000It isn't, because people do not share enough values for those collectives to be global.
00:27:15.000The entire globe does not think like the editorial board of the New York Times.
00:27:19.000Israel has to exist because the rest of the world doesn't think like the editorial board of the New York Times.
00:27:23.000And by the way, if the rest of the world did think like the editorial board of the New York Times, Israel would still have to exist because the New York Times is very much in favor, apparently, of Palestinian terrorism via Hamas.
00:27:33.000Israel has a right to exist and to defend itself.
00:27:35.000The same people who oppose Israel opposed Brexit, and they think that President Trump saying things like, make America great again, is inherently evil.
00:27:41.000Because they think nationalism is the problem, you know, moving in the aftermath of the Hannah Arendt ideology about how nationalism was the great curse on humanity, which really is not true.
00:27:50.000Tremendous, tremendous violence has happened between nation-states, no doubt, but usually that violence happening between nation-states is because of imperial ambitions that extend beyond the nation-state.
00:28:00.000In any case, the media continue to mirror Hamas's preferred line, and that is going to get more Palestinians killed.
00:28:05.000Mark Levin said yesterday that the Palestinians are going to die because of what the media is doing.
00:28:15.000When the media say that Hamas wins every time a Palestinian is killed, what do you think Hamas is going to do?
00:28:20.000They're going to put babies on the front lines.
00:28:22.000They're going to put women on the front lines.
00:28:23.000They're going to put children on the front lines.
00:28:24.000And then they're going to claim that Israel is evil and Israel is terrible.
00:28:28.000It's the same thing terrorist groups try to do with the United States.
00:28:30.000Terrorist groups have been doing this for legitimately decades.
00:28:33.000It's the reason why the Geneva Conventions were written in the first place.
00:28:37.000The reason that the Geneva Conventions were created in the first place was specifically to convince people to stop acting as terrorists hiding among civilian populations.
00:28:44.000The idea was if you dressed in a uniform and you went out away from the civilian population, then you were accorded certain additional rights.
00:28:52.000Whereas if you hid among civilians, then those rights went away.
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00:31:19.000Okay, so now the latest with regard to North Korea.
00:31:21.000So North Korea is threatening to pull out of this big, this big summit that they were going to have with President Trump.
00:31:27.000This is always the danger of President Trump accepting the idea of going to a summit in the first place and doing so very publicly, as opposed to sort of just keeping it on the down low and then springing it on everyone.
00:31:37.000By the way, next week I'm meeting with the North Koreans.
00:31:39.000The North Koreans are now trying to convince the United States to stop military drills by withdrawing the possibility of the meeting.
00:31:47.000I was always very skeptical of this meeting.
00:31:48.000You can go back and listen to the show.
00:31:50.000I was very skeptical of the idea anything good was going to come from this meeting.
00:31:52.000I was very skeptical of the idea that North Korea was going to give up its nuclear weapons, particularly because North Korea, knowing that the United States would topple them if they didn't have nuclear weapons, has an interest in pursuing nuclear weapons full scale at this point.
00:32:45.000First, the North Koreans are trying to pull back, obviously from the summit, in an attempt to get concessions from the Trump administration.
00:33:04.000Once Obama was invested in the idea of a rapprochement with Iran, then he was invested in pretending that Iran was actually doing the right thing.
00:33:11.000Well, now the Trump administration is sort of getting sucked into this cycle
00:33:15.000As well, because now President Trump, apparently the White House, has said that they are going to scale down this particular exercise.
00:33:21.000So according to UPI, joint exercises between the United States and South Korea will move forward, but the B-52 strategic bomber and eight F-22 Raptors will not be deployed during drills.
00:33:31.000So, the criticism of the United States and South Korea came as a surprise to the South Korean military.
00:33:35.000The United States should not have done this.
00:33:36.000We should not have scaled back the military exercise.
00:33:38.000We should have told the South Koreans we're not willing to scale back the military exercise.
00:33:41.000No concessions to a nuclear-armed North Korea.
00:34:10.000As good as the Trump administration has been on Middle Eastern policy, when it comes to North Korean policy, making concessions to the North Koreans or making concessions to the Chinese, as Trump did over the weekend, none of that is useful stuff.
00:34:21.000You can't get invested in trying to uphold the credibility of a regime that should have no credibility in the first place.
00:34:27.000Okay, in other breaking news, apparently there's a bunch of documents that have now come out from the interviews by Congress with Donald Trump Jr., and it turns out that Donald Trump Jr.
00:34:36.000may or may not have spoken to Donald Trump Sr.
00:34:39.000after meeting with Russian lawyers at Trump Tower in June 2016.
00:34:43.000met with a Russian lawyer named Veselnitskaya,
00:34:46.000Who he had been told was going to give him material on Hillary Clinton, and that material never materialized, but the question was whether he had told President Trump about it.
00:34:55.000Well, now what the call logs show is that in the middle of that meeting, he talked with Veselnitskaya apparently, and then there was a call to an unnamed number, an untraceable number, and then it was like four minutes long, and Trump Jr.
00:35:06.000says that he does not know exactly who was on the other end of that phone, he doesn't remember.
00:35:13.000I would not be surprised at all if President Trump knew about the Trump Tower meeting.
00:35:16.000This, however, does not prove collusion.
00:35:18.000In order to prove collusion, you have to prove not only that the Trump administration was willing to collude, and that they were willing to talk with the Russian government about going after Hillary Clinton, but that they did, in fact, collude.
00:35:26.000The material transferred hands, that there was actual
00:35:31.000There is actual coordination between the Russian government and the Trump campaign.
00:35:35.000None of that has been proved to any significant extent.
00:36:29.000They're up by, on average, 5.2 percent.
00:36:32.000Okay, that is significantly down from the 8 to 10 percent that it was just a couple of months ago.
00:36:36.000Part of the reason for that is because Democrats have been proclaiming from the tops of hills for literally two years now that there was going to be some deus ex machina, that somebody was going to come in from the outside and depose Trump.
00:36:47.000Robert Mueller was going to come in and save America from the scourge of Trump.
00:37:14.000Their pro-gun policies have resulted in dead children, dead mothers, and dead fathers.
00:37:42.000I'm Pat Davis, and I approve this message.
00:37:45.000Because if Congress won't change our gun laws, we're changing Congress.
00:37:49.000So Pat Davis is running for the Democratic nomination in New Mexico's 1st District, and he says, F the NRA, and that's his actual ad.
00:37:55.000That guy's probably more popular than the mainstream members of the Democratic coalition.
00:37:59.000Which is not supremely surprising, because the Democratic coalition doesn't have a lot to say on a lot of major issues.
00:38:05.000There's an article in the Washington Post specifically today about the fact that the Democratic coalition seems to be nominating the most extreme possible human beings.
00:38:32.000In the same way that there's a case to be made that the right started nominating bad candidates because they were so driven nuts by President Obama and the dominance of the left.
00:38:40.000Well, now the left is seeing that in reverse.
00:38:42.000There's an article by James Homan over at the Washington Post today called, The Far Left is Winning the Democratic Civil War.
00:38:48.000The success of very liberal candidates in primaries across four states is causing a new bout of heartburn among party strategists in Washington who worry about unelectable activists thwarting their drive for the House majority.
00:38:59.000I remember when these articles were being written about folks from the right, like five minutes ago.
00:39:02.000Now it's being written about folks from the left, and that's because folks from the left
00:39:20.000So meanwhile, it turns out that the TV industry has decided that it is deeply imperative to revive every show that has ever been on TV for any amount of time.
00:39:28.000So they've already revived Roseanne, and now they're apparently reviving Murphy Brown.
00:39:32.000So CBS executives revealed to reporters on Wednesday morning the return of the politically-minded 1990s-era comedy series, but it will have a new setting.
00:39:39.000So in the original, Candace Bergen's Murphy Brown anchored a primetime news magazine.
00:39:43.000You recall that Candace Brown made a lot of headlines at the time because Candace Brown got, she, her character, Murphy Brown, rather, got pregnant out of wedlock and then had the baby.
00:39:54.000And when Dan Quayle suggested that this might not be a good influence on people, the entire left went insane.
00:39:58.000How dare he suggest that culture is in any way connected to politics?
00:40:03.000Then when Joe Biden said without will and grace, there wouldn't be gay marriage, everybody went, yeah, that's true.
00:40:07.000So it turns out that culture does have an impact.
00:40:19.000We need a really politicized show, I think.
00:40:20.000I think we need more pop culture that demonstrates full-scale the gap between left and right.
00:40:25.000I think that's really gonna be good for the country.
00:40:27.000When executives were asked if the setup was supposed to mirror Morning Joe vs. Fox & Friends, they said yes.
00:40:32.000So CBS Entertainment President Kelly Kahl said, So apparently they have a combination of new and old cast members.
00:40:35.000It's going to go into CBS' comedy block on Thursdays at 9.30 p.m.
00:40:50.000Moving political is only smart if you're actually moving along with the times.
00:40:54.000I highly doubt, I really doubt that Murphy Brown is suddenly going to be the big hit the way that Roseanne was when it first broke in because we've seen shows from Hollywood before in which the right is castigated as terrible and evil and ignorant and bigoted.
00:41:09.000And in fact, I think Roseanne has moved in that direction.
00:41:11.000I mean, this has been one of the problems with Roseanne's ratings.
00:41:13.000It started off like a house of fire because there were a lot of Trump supporters said, wow, people who aren't openly disrespecting me.
00:41:18.000And then it turns out that Roseanne is what Roseanne always was, which is a socially left show, which is promulgating particular messages that a lot of Trump supporters don't believe in, and so people stopped watching the show.
00:41:27.000Once it turned into another leftist soap opera with a few laughs thrown in, people weren't as interested in it.
00:41:33.000But this is the way that Hollywood works, right?
00:41:35.000Hollywood can never grant a fully formed conservative character unless they are cast as a sort of mentorship character who's fuddy-duddy and old and kind of out of it, like Ron Swanson, or like Alec Baldwin's character Jack Donaghy in 30 Rock.
00:41:51.000If you're that sort of character, they'll cast you.
00:41:53.000But what's hilarious about that is that as soon as those characters appear on TV, they immediately become the most popular characters on the show.
00:41:58.000Conservative characters are actually deeply popular on television because conservative characters make for good comedy.
00:42:03.000When you put a bunch of lefties with their hoity-toity notions about the world in front of conservatives who are sitting there doing the facts-don't-care-about-your-feelings routine, which really was Ron Swanson's routine in Parks and Rec and Jack Donaghy's routine in 30 Rock,
00:42:16.000When you do that, people resonate to him.
00:42:19.000They're not going to resonate nearly as much to, why don't you come here and we'll lecture you?
00:42:22.000Come here and we will lecture you about the right thing to do.
00:42:25.000Now, speaking of bias in the media, John Oliver did a full-on defense of Venezuelan socialism.
00:42:32.000He didn't defend Venezuelan socialism so much as he defended socialism from Venezuela's failures.
00:42:38.000So here is John Oliver on his show the other night trying to say that Venezuela is not real socialism.
00:42:42.000Real socialism is the countries that I like and that aren't really socialist.
00:42:45.000Venezuela's not socialist because, you see, Venezuela lost because it was mismanaged, not because it's socialist.
00:42:50.000Here's John Oliver making that idiotic case.
00:42:52.000But what is happening in Venezuela is not just extremely important, it is absolutely worth paying attention to, because this is not just a story about socialism.
00:43:00.000There are plenty of socialist countries that look nothing like Venezuela.
00:43:04.000It's a story about epic mismanagement.
00:43:06.000So epic that a nation of 31 million people with the largest oil reserves in the world have been forced to resort to some pretty creative forms of protest.
00:43:15.000Well, according to John Oliver, there's apparently no connection between a giant centralized government, including nationalization of resources and government mismanagement.
00:43:29.000And when they own large pieces of stock in companies, they allow those companies to function like private entities in the market.
00:43:34.000In fact, if they don't meet certain profit margins, then they change the staff at those particular companies.
00:43:41.000So, it's always funny how Democrats, people on the left, people like John Oliver, like to pick and choose among the socialist countries they like.
00:43:47.000The ones they like happen not to be particularly socialist.
00:43:49.000The ones that are most socialist, including centralization of resources and top-down government centralization of management power, those are the ones that, they're just failing because of mismanagement.
00:43:58.000No one understands why they were mismanaged.
00:44:35.000He had a bunch of kids with his wife, Clara Schumann, who was a concert pianist in her own right, and she toured around Europe, and they were very close with Brahms.
00:44:41.000He actually called Brahms the next coming of Beethoven, basically.
00:44:44.000Which is a pretty heavy burden to put on Brahms.
00:44:46.000Brahms became very close to the family, and then Schumann became severely mentally ill.
00:44:50.000He actually died in a sanatorium because he was deeply mentally ill.
00:44:53.000And Brahms fell in love, sort of, with Clara as all of this was happening.
00:46:37.000Leonard Bernstein, who is the conductor and head of the New York Philharmonic, and who is a far left guy, like really far left, and his wife, Felicia, who decided they were going to have the Black Panthers to their apartment in the piece called Radical Chic.
00:46:51.000And I want to read you a little section of it just to show you how amazing these, like legitimately how amazing Tom Wolfe's writing was.
00:46:58.000Tom Wolfe was able to go into places that no one would have allowed him in because he was considered a Hunter S. Thompson type, who had this weird style of writing, and he was kind of kooky, right?
00:47:07.000So he couldn't have really been conservative.
00:47:08.000It turns out Tom Wolfe was a deeply conservative dude, and Tom Wolfe's writing is deeply conservative.
00:47:13.000If you've never read Bonfire of the Vanities, the first half of Bonfire of the Vanities is some of the best novel writing ever, and some of the best political commentary ever.
00:47:20.000Second half falls apart a little bit, but the first half of Bonfire of the Vanities is just great.
00:47:22.000I think I've read every novel he ever wrote and most of his nonfiction.
00:47:26.000And I'm very sad that I never got to meet him because I was a big admirer.
00:47:31.000This is Tom Wolfe writing about all of these far leftists having the Black Panthers over.
00:47:35.000The Black Panthers who are acknowledging openly that they want to kill pigs and murder white people.
00:47:40.000And all of these radical left people sitting there in their swanky penthouse apartment in New York City, nodding at them and thinking that they've done something magical by having the Black Panthers over.
00:47:49.000And now in the season of Radical Chic, The Black Panthers.
00:47:51.000That huge panther there, the one Felicia, this would be Leonard Bernstein's wife, is smiling her tango smile at, is Robert Bay, who just 41 hours ago was arrested in an altercation with the police, supposedly over a .38 caliber revolver that someone had in a parked car in Queens at Northern Boulevard and 104th Street or some such unbelievable place, and taken to jail on the most unusual charge called criminal facilitation.
00:48:12.000And now he is out on bail and walking into Leonard and Felicia Bernstein's 13-room penthouse duplex on Park Avenue.
00:48:18.000Harassment and hassles, guns and pigs, jail and bail.
00:48:23.000These real revolutionaries who put their lives on the line, run through Lenny's duplex like a rogue hormone.
00:48:28.000Everyone casts a glance, or stares, or tries to smile, and then sizes up the house with a somewhat delicious counterpoint.
00:48:33.000Deny it if you want to, but one does end up making such sweet, furtive comparisons in this season of Radical Chic.
00:48:38.000There's Otto Preminger in the library, and Gene Vanden Heuvel in the hall, and Peter and Sheree Duchene in the living room, and Frank and Domna Stanton, Gail Lumet, Sheldon Harnick, Cynthia Phipps, Burton Lane, Mrs. August Heckscher, and scores more, including Charlotte Curtis, women's news editor of the New York Times, America's foremost chronicler of society, a lean woman in black, her notebook out, standing near Felicia and Big Robert Bay, and talking to Sheree Duchene.
00:49:00.000Sharae tells her, I've never met a panther.
00:49:09.000As the Black Panthers come trucking in for Indalini's house, Robert Bay, Don Cox, the Panthers field marshal from Oakland, Henry Miller, the Harlem Panther defense captain, the Panther woman, Christ.
00:49:18.000If the Panthers don't know how to get it all together, as they say, the tight pants, the tight black turtlenecks, the leather coats, Cuban shades, afros, but real afros.
00:49:25.000Not the ones that have been shaped and trimmed like a topiary hedge and sprayed until they have a sheen like acrylic wall-to-wall, but funky, natural, scraggly, wild.
00:49:32.000These are no civil rights negroes wearing gray suits three sizes too big.
00:49:35.000No more interminable Urban League banquets in hotel rooms where they try to alternate blacks and whites around the table as if they were stringing Arapaho beads.