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Feb. 3, 2016 - The Ben Shapiro Show

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Ep. 66 - Trump Finally Goes Nuclear

Trump goes ballistic over his Iowa loss, Hillary struggles against Bernie, children push Black History Month, and Ben's favorite story ever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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	We're here.
	It is a Wednesday, and Donald Trump is in full-scale meltdown.
	Plus, two candidates have dropped out of the race.
	We'll tell you who.
	I'm Ben Shapiro.
	This is The Ben Shapiro Show.
	Well, we begin with a fond farewell to two Republicans who have now dropped out of the race.
	Senator Rand Paul dropped out of the race earlier this morning.
	Apparently, the conference call was somewhat awkward.
	Apparently, he called up all of his campaign operatives And he told them that he was dropping out.
	He sort of just announced it and dropped the bombshell on them.
	And then when none of them said anything, he said, well, okay then, bye.
	And then he hung up.
	This according to people who are inside the Rand Paul campaign.
	The other candidate who dropped out was Rick Santorum, which begs the question, was Rick Santorum even running?
	I mean, that's amazing.
	But Governor Jim Gilmore's campaign is going swimmingly.
	He's just sitting in the background waiting for every other candidate to drop out.
	And Jim Gilmore will be the only one left Twelve men enter, one man leaves.
	The Republican nomination process.
	So, this is all very exciting stuff.
	Well, moving on to New Hampshire, the big question was going to be, Donald Trump loses Iowa.
	How glass is his jaw?
	Does he see a major drop off in New Hampshire?
	And right now the polls say no.
	The polls say that Trump maintains a 24 point lead in the latest poll.
	There was another poll this morning, had him up 24, 21 maybe.
	So in all the polls, he's basically maintaining his lead in New Hampshire.
	New Hampshire is a very different state than Iowa.
	Ted Cruz is not going to clean up in New Hampshire.
	It's not a particularly religious state.
	It tends to be more of a Rockefeller Republican state, all of which plays to Trump's strength.
	But Trump, instead of turning from Iowa and then moving forward, Trump is George Costanza in the Jerk Store episode.
	He keeps going back to the site of his defeat and then yelling about how he was defeated, but he wasn't really defeated, he really won, but he was cheated and they took it away from him, and the Jerk Store called and they said that they want more of you, and it's really that It's that feel from Donald Trump.
	So, you can watch Donald Trump's evolution in real time.
	We talked yesterday about how he did this on Twitter, how he announced that he was so grateful for the result in Iowa, and then within 30 minutes he had swiveled to, I'm self-funding but I'm not even sure it's worth self-funding, you people don't even appreciate it.
	And he sort of did the same thing over the past 24 hours, generally.
	So he started off with, I'm really honored by how he performed in Iowa.
	We'll start off with Donald Trump explaining that Iowa was really a tremendous victory for him, and then you're gonna see him, over the course of today, basically move to, I was cheated, everyone's cheating me, I was screwed, Ted Cruz is Satan, etc.
	I mean, it's amazing to watch the guy in real time, because all that matters is just the damage done to his ego by all of this.
	Here's Donald Trump, Starting off on a positive note and then it starts to go kind of downhill.
	What's your post-mortem on Iowa?
	What do you think happened there?
	Well, I think that I did well there.
	I think that I came in second place, a strong second place.
	That probably if I would have.
	I was told always that I could not do well in Iowa.
	I was told don't go to Iowa.
	And I said, what are you talking about?
	And they said, it's not your place.
	Don't go there.
	I said, but I know people there.
	I think I'll do well.
	And I went there, you know, I started in 10th place and went there, I came in, I ended up in 2nd place.
	I guess there was a poll that came out that had me winning it by 4 or 5 points, a pretty close poll.
	But I came in 2nd place and, you know, I'm happy with that.
	It's interesting that Marco came in 3rd place and they said it's one of the great victories in the history of politics.
	And I said, well, how come if he came in third place and I came in substantially better at second place, why isn't mine one of the great victories in the history of politics?
	And they said, no, no, his is, but yours isn't.
	I said, oh, that's wonderful.
	I didn't understand that.
	But, you know, I came in second place.
	I was, you know, I was satisfied.
	I think probably it's a place I could have won if I really went there more and did a little more work there.
	But, you know, I was, I was satisfied with it.
	He's a happy camper.
	He was satisfied with it.
	Everything was fine.
	And it was a historic victory.
	I mean, if Rubio was a historic third, he was a historic second.
	Of course, Trump was expected to win, and Rubio was expected to get 17% of the vote, and he got 23.
	But nonetheless, Trump says he's happy with the result.
	And then he says, well, you know, there are really some reasons why I didn't win.
	So, for example, I could have won if I hadn't skipped the debates.
	Maybe that was a mistake, that I didn't skip the debates.
	Here's Trump explaining that.
	I think some people were disappointed that I didn't go in the debate.
	If I had it to do again, I would have done the exact same thing.
	And the reason is, you know why?
	Because I raised $6 million for the vets in one hour.
	So if I took a second place instead of a first place and could give the vets $6 million, I'll do that all day long.
	It's not a question of learning.
	I mean, I just want to continue to do well.
	Our theme, the theme is so important.
	It's just make America great again.
	That's what we're going to do.
	That's what we're going to do.
	Not really a question of learning.
	Well, if you look at the second place, people didn't talk about my second place.
	They didn't talk about it as positively as they should have.
	And yet, with Marco, who was more than 2,000 votes behind me, that's a lot of votes, by the way, they said, oh, he's surging, he's surging.
	So, I don't know, why is the third place person doing well and the second place person, who, by the way, has never run?
	Scott was mentioning before, he said, one of the amazing things about you, you've never run for office before.
	It's incredible how you're doing, because you've never done.
	Your brand is the winner.
	I think my brand is doing great, yeah.
	And so he's happy, right?
	His brand is doing great.
	He's a winner.
	He's finished second.
	2,000 votes is a lot of votes to beat somebody by.
	Ted Cruz, by the way, beat Trump by 6,000 votes in Iowa.
	So Trump's a happy camper.
	And then the worm begins to turn.
	Because Trump realizes that people are thinking that maybe he's going to lose some momentum.
	People are starting to think that maybe he's not the all-powerful, godlike winner.
	And so he begins to lose his mind publicly.
	And his followers are following him right down this path, and so are the media.
	The media have decided that Trump is not, he's not just egomaniacal.
	He's not just paving the path for a possible third-party run.
	No, Trump is really sincere about this.
	Maybe he's got a point.
	Because the media have an interest in chaos inside the Republican field.
	So Donald Trump, the next day, you know, this is all within 24 hours, pretty soon he starts to feel that tickle at the back of his neck that means that he must hit someone and hit them soon.
	I mean, he has like it's like a cocaine addiction for Trump, but the cocaine for him is pummeling someone.
	And so he looks around and the person who he hates most in the universe right now is Ted Cruz, the guy who just beat him in Iowa.
	And so that's the guy to whom he turns.
	So he starts off by by draw.
	He's going to go full Trump.
	So now we're going to get the full Trump.
	The full Trump is if you thought he was turned up to 11 already on the spinal tap scale, he's now going to go to 20.
	So he starts off by saying that you should trust him because he's the biggest, baddest, most masculine testosterone-y guy you've ever seen, you've ever heard of.
	Here's Donald Trump saying he's gonna beat the bleep out of people.
	If we are attacked, somebody attacks us, wouldn't you rather have Trump as president if we're attacked?
	Oh, we'll beat the bleep out of them.
	Anybody attacks us.
	You know, interestingly, speaking of potential, because he hates Obama so much, Putin.
	He said, "Donald Trump is a genius, and he's the real leader over in that country." And these people that I'm negotiating with all the time, these people on the stage with me, they said, you should disavow what Putin of Russia said.
	I said, I'm not disavowing that he called me a genius.
	Are you crazy?
	Don't worry, I can't be seduced.
	But wouldn't it be nice, if you think about it, wouldn't it be nice if we actually got along with Russia and others and we can use them to knock out ISIS with us so that maybe we don't always have to pay for it, knock the hell out of them, but let them drop some of their bombs that cost a million dollars a piece.
	Let them use some of their weapons that cost billions and billions of dollars.
	Let them beat the shit out of ISIS also.
	Right?
	Right?
	Now this is an idea, man, right here.
	We're gonna build a wall with Mexico, Mexico's gonna pay for it, we're gonna bomb ISIS, and we're gonna make the Russians pay for it.
	Also, if someone bombs us, if the Russians do something we don't like, we'll bomb the bleep out of them.
	If you're mildly confused by all of this, all you have to just keep repeating in your head, gang, is Trump.
	If you just keep repeating that word, all will be okay.
	It's like Peter Pan.
	If you think Tinkerbell's dead, all you have to do is clap and Tinkerbell comes back to life.
	If you think Trump's candidacy is in shambles or that he's falling apart as a human being, just keep repeating, Make America Great Again, until you come back.
	Now, in a little while I want to talk about why I think that Trump is still a viable candidate.
	But, first we have to get to the main thrust of the news today, and that has been Trump's absurd contention.
	His absurd contention.
	We saw him before saying Iowa went fine for him, didn't go as well as he wanted, his ground game wasn't as good as he wanted it to be, and now he's decided, no, no, I did the best that I could.
	I was just cheated.
	I was cheated out of this.
	I have never yet won, I've never yet lost in my life.
	I must have been cheated by someone.
	No, I think it's worth noting here that Donald Trump is sort of a fabled cheater in his own right, in his personal life, not just with regard to his wives, although he is, but even down to things like playing golf.
	The Weekly Standard had an article with kind of the Trumpiest stories, and one of them was Donald Trump Sheets of golf all the time, including one time when there was a short rain delay and everybody sort of went into the clubhouse.
	When they came back out, Trump's ball was about a foot from the cup.
	And somebody said to him, you didn't hit that.
	No one saw you even swing a club.
	And Trump kind of shrugged and smiled and said, well, it's golf.
	Everybody does that.
	But Trump said, in any case, when it comes to elections, then Trump says everybody else is a cheater, he is pure as the driven snow.
	And Ted Cruz is the one in his crosshairs, so here is Donald Trump at the same rally, same rally in New Hampshire, you can see.
	Right after saying that he's pretty excited about his finish in New Hampshire, he says, Ted Cruz is a terrible, terrible cheat, he's a liar, he's a cheater, he's a terrible person.
	Here we go.
	He spoke personally that one day you were his friend and the next day you were insulting him.
	What do you say about that?
	Well he insulted me.
	I mean he started with the insults and as you know and he insulted Ben Carson by doing what he did to Ben Carson that was a disgrace.
	And he insulted the people of Iowa by doing a voter violation form that nobody's even seen before, which was disgraceful.
	So no, no, he's he's a man of insult.
	He's a man of insult.
	OK.
	Cruz originally said at a rally that people would start.
	He said this at a private donor meeting, actually.
	He said people would start to see Donald Trump for who he is.
	That's not an insult, that's a fact.
	Donald Trump then said that Ted Cruz was a Canadian who couldn't be trusted and everybody hated him and he was ugly.
	So you tell me who was the person who initiated this particular conflict.
	Cruz was very careful not to attack Trump because he didn't want to initiate that conflict precipitously.
	So Trump is making a couple of accusations, and to back up one of them, the idea that Cruz had targeted Ben Carson, Ben Carson sort of said the same thing.
	Ben Carson said the Cruz campaign was corrupt, just like the Obama White House.
	Here's Ben Carson, then I'll give you the backstory.
	Yeah, but Bill, here's the issue.
	A culture exists within the Cruz camp that would allow people to take advantage of a situation like this in a very dishonest way.
	Isn't this the same thing we see with the Obama administration?
	The IRS scandal?
	No responsibility?
	Let's see what, in fact, the Cruz campaign will do about those individuals who inappropriately disseminated this information, knowing that the caucuses were not over.
	They were awfully anxious to get it out there, weren't they?
	Okay, so here's what actually happened here.
	And first of all, let it be noted.
	You have Donald Trump saying that what Ted Cruz did to Ben Carson was terrible.
	We'll talk about that in a second.
	Donald Trump once suggested that Ben Carson was pathological like a pedophile.
	Okay, if you remember just a few weeks ago, Donald Trump was doing rallies when Ben Carson was surging.
	Donald Trump was doing rallies in which he reenacted being stabbed in the belt buckle and called Ben Carson a pathological liar.
	Right, he said that Ben Carson had said that he was pathologically violent, and pathological means like a child molester.
	This is what Donald Trump said about Ben Carson, but he's very insulted on Ben Carson's behalf.
	Okay, so, today, today, first of all, Trump also added, by the way, that he said that Cruz is really, really dishonest.
	I think I know why.
	You know why?
	Because he was born in Canada.
	Can't trust those Canadians!
	The Canadians, they're canucks, they're liars!
	Everybody from Ottawa, Oh, he's lying with their bacon, and their leaves, and their syrup?
	Lying asses from north of the border, no one can stand the Canadians, eh?
	Terrible people.
	So Cruz is a pathological liar, Cruz is a terrible person, because he was born north of the border.
	Which begs the question, is to Donald Trump's own wives, or his current wife wasn't even born in the country either, so are all foreigners worthy of this accolade, or just Canadians?
	I mean, I've been up to Canada, the people there seem relatively nice.
	I mean, I've been to worse countries than Canada.
	I think most of us have been to worse countries than Canada, goodness.
	But okay, so Donald Trump, he, as you see, he has swung from, Iowa went great for me, and I'm gonna win New Hampshire, to, Iowa was stolen from me, and I was cheated, and they're all liars!
	Okay, so let's go through the various accusations against Ted Cruz.
	So, here's what happened.
	This morning, at about 5.40 a.m., Donald Trump started tweeting out all of this stuff about Cruz.
	He tweeted out, Ted Cruz didn't win Iowa, he stole it.
	This is why all of the polls were so wrong, and why he got far more votes than anticipated.
	Bad!
	Exclamation point.
	Because that's how Trump tweets.
	Everything is sad!
	Exclamation point.
	Or bad!
	Exclamation point.
	You know, frankly, frankly, bad.
	Sad.
	Glad.
	Mad.
	Dad?
	So he tweets that out.
	He doesn't explain why it is that Ted Cruz jumped like 4% in the polls.
	Did Marco Rubio also cheat?
	He jumped 6% in the polls.
	Actually, did Ben Carson cheat?
	He jumped 2% in the polls.
	And conversely, was Jeb Bush victimized by cheating since he lost 2% in the polls?
	Just a weird thing to say.
	Then he says, during primetime of the Iowa caucus, Cruz put out a release that real Ben Carson was quitting the race and to caucus or vote for Cruz.
	And continued, many people voted for Cruz over Carson because of this Cruz fraud.
	Also, Cruz sent out a voter violation certificate to thousands of voters.
	The voter violation certificate gave poor marks to the unsuspecting voter, grade of F, and told them to clear it up by voting for Cruz.
	Fraud!
	And finally, Cruz strongly told thousands of caucus goers, voters, that Trump was strongly in favor of Obamacare and choice.
	A total lie!
	Exclamation point.
	In other words, I'm the real winner of the Iowa caucuses.
	Uncommitted by Senator Ted Cruz during the Iowa caucus, either a new election should take place or Cruz's results should be nullified.
	In other words, I'm the real winner of the Iowa caucuses.
	Okay, let's go through some of these nonsense attributions one by one.
	By the way, Cruz's campaign responded by saying that Trump should see a shrink for Twitter addiction.
	So here's what, let's go through these.
	First of all, as I mentioned, the idea that the reason that Cruz outperformed the polls was because of fraud is absurd.
	If you were going to defraud somebody, you wouldn't go up by 4%, you'd go up by 10.
	And the fact is that, again, he didn't even have the biggest move of the night.
	That was Marco Rubio's move from 16.9% to 23.4%.
	And then he says, the Cruz press release stole votes from Ben Carson.
	This is what Carson is mad about also.
	So here's what happened.
	This happened right before the caucuses on Tuesday.
	On Tuesday, a report came from the Carson camp to CNN that after the Iowa caucuses, Ben Carson would be going home to Florida, he would not be visiting South Carolina, and he would not be visiting New Hampshire.
	Those are the two next caucus and primary states.
	And everybody on the internet, everybody, including me, went, oh, well, that means he's done, right?
	I mean, it means if he's not leaving the race, he is clearly about to make up his mind to leave the race.
	Because why is he announcing this week that he is going to just quit the campaign trail and go to someplace completely irrelevant?
	He's going to go to Florida, and then he's going to go up to D.C., neither of which is in either of these primary states.
	So why is he doing that?
	The only reason is his campaign must be coming to some sort of ignominious finish.
	And a lot of people thought this.
	CNN reported, they tweeted out, CNN reported specifically, quote, After the Iowa caucus, Rio Ben Carson plans to take a break from campaigning.
	Usually when you say take a break from campaigning, what that means is you suspend your campaign.
	Especially in the middle of the caucuses, in the middle of the primary season.
	Anybody with half a brain understood that this is not a great sign for the Carson campaign.
	Everybody got this.
	Representative Steve King, who's a Cruz supporter, he tweeted, quote, Carson looks like he's out.
	Iowans need to know before they vote.
	Most will go to Cruz, I hope.
	And then a Cruz staffer told precinct captains, quote, breaking news.
	The press is reporting that Dr. Carson is taking time off from the campaign trail after Iowa and making a big announcement next week.
	Please inform any Carson caucus goers of this news and urge them to caucus for Ted Cruz.
	First of all, there's nothing that's actually not true in that statement.
	I don't know that he said about the big announcement next week that I didn't see from CNN, but the part where he's taking time off from the campaign trail, that's true.
	That's true.
	So apparently this is what Trump is so mad about in Carson.
	Oh, they said they went around and they sent an email and they told people that I was out and I was really still in.
	Hey, Carson's campaign has been run pretty terribly from the very outset.
	He spent more money than I think anybody else in the race.
	He's run through more money.
	He's run through more advertising.
	He's, you know, run through more staff.
	A lot of his staff has left.
	And this comes from somebody who actually likes Ben Carson.
	I was a big Ben Carson defender when it came to several of the ridiculous scandals the media tried to put on him.
	I was the one who debunked The ridiculous Ben Carson never went to West Point routine that the Washington Post tried to slap him with.
	But this idea that something terribly wrong happened here is ridiculous.
	He told CNN, I'm taking a break from campaigning.
	They reported he's taking a break from campaigning.
	The Cruz campaign read into that.
	He's probably gonna quit soon.
	Go tell people he's gonna quit soon.
	Vote for Cruz.
	Okay, this is a big deal.
	Apparently, by the way, Rubio also pushed that same narrative.
	Cruz apologized for the screw-up.
	He said, quote, last night when our political team saw the CNN post saying that Dr. Carson was not carrying on to New Hampshire and South Carolina, our campaign updated grassroots leaders just as we would with any breaking news story.
	That's fair game.
	What the team then should have done was send around a follow up statement from the Carson campaign clarifying that he was indeed staying in the race when that came out.
	Okay.
	I mean, I suppose they should have sent an update, although I'm not sure why that update is necessary.
	I mean, the fact is that if I still look at this race, and I think Carson's out after New Hampshire.
	So, you know, that's actually a viable reason to tell people, by the way, Carson's not sticking around for the entirety of this situation, so why don't you shift to somebody who can win?
	And again, Ben Carson outperformed the polling average by 1.6%.
	So, if Trump is contending, That all of these Carson voters shifted over to Cruz and gave him the victory.
	Let's do the math a little bit here.
	Okay, Ted Cruz beat Donald Trump by over 6,000 votes.
	6,000 votes.
	Okay, Ben Carson overall went up in the polls.
	He actually beat his poll average by 1.6%.
	He won about 17,000 votes.
	So in order for Trump to make the claim that Cruz stole all of this support from Ben Carson, you would have to claim, actually, that Ben Carson probably had double the number of votes that he actually had.
	Because here's what you figure.
	Not every Carson supporter was going to go to Cruz.
	You figure maybe half of all the Carson supporters go to Cruz if they shift over.
	Let's assume 100% do.
	That means he still would have had to win another 30% on top of his vote, and all of that would have gone to Cruz.
	Okay, the statistics just don't match up.
	It's silly.
	This is suggesting that Ben Carson was polling at 7.7%, and if it hadn't been for that nefarious Cruz activity, then he would have been polling not at 7.7%, but he would have been polling at like 13%.
	He would have been polling twice where he was.
	Which is ridiculous.
	And not true.
	And there's no poll to support.
	Okay, the next accusation made by the Trump campaign is this voter violation certificate that people got all hot and bothered over over the weekend.
	And do we have a picture of the voter violation certificate?
	We may not.
	There's a voter violation certificate and what it looks like, I don't think we do, but in any case you can look it up at Daily Wire, we put it up.
	It looks like a piece of, it's a manila envelope.
	And it looks like a piece of junk mail.
	And it says on the front, election alert, voter violation.
	And then it says public record right below that.
	Right?
	So you get these things all the time from mortgage companies and it's junk mail.
	You get it from telemarketer.
	You get this kind of stuff in the mail all the time.
	I get at least one of these a day in the mail, not based on elections, but based on some company trying to get me to pay for them to do my property taxes or some company that's trying to get me to pay to do my own IRS filings or whatever it is.
	And then if you open it up, it says voting violation.
	And then it says in the mailer, quote, you are receiving this election notice because of low expected voter turnout in your area.
	Your individual voting history as well as your neighbors are public record.
	Their scores are published below.
	Many of them will see your score as well.
	Caucus on Monday to improve your score and please encourage your neighbors to caucus as well.
	A follow up notice may be issued following Monday's caucuses.
	And so they were saying, then the Iowa Secretary of State tried to suggest that this scared people into voting for Cruz.
	They thought that if they didn't show up and vote for Cruz, they'd go to jail or some such.
	What utter nonsense?
	Can they find one voter in the state of Iowa who showed up at their caucus place and said, oh boy, I better vote for Ted Cruz, because if I don't, they're going to put me in jail.
	Is there anyone in Iowa who did this?
	Anyone?
	It's not a violation.
	It doesn't look like a public record.
	If anyone has ever seen a notice from the government, it doesn't look like a notice from the government.
	It's clearly not a violation of law.
	In fact, the Marco Rubio campaign sent out its own version of the voter violation notice.
	And it says on a caucus report card, did you vote?
	And then there's big red X where people didn't vote.
	And then it says improve your score by caucusing on Monday.
	Right?
	So it's the same thing, it just doesn't say voter violation, which is just a way to scare people.
	And by the way, the backlash from it probably caused some people not to vote for Cruz because they were annoyed by it.
	Democrats have been using similar tactics for years.
	Even the Washington Post reported this.
	But now Trump is trying to spin it into the case that Cruz tried to say that it would be illegal not to vote for him.
	There's not a person in the United States who believes that it's illegal not to vote for a particular candidate.
	Well, maybe there are Democrats who believe that it's illegal not to vote for Hillary Clinton.
	That would be the only thing that would explain this, but this is a ridiculous charge.
	Finally, Trump says that Ted Cruz is mean to him because he said that Trump backs Obamacare and that he's pro-choice.
	Okay, Trump says openly that abortion is not murder and says he is for caveats.
	He also said the only reason that he switched from pro-choice to pro-life is because he had a friend who didn't have an abortion and her child was a quote-unquote total superstar.
	He was asked if the kid had been a loser, would you still be pro-abortion?
	He said yeah.
	That's not a pro-life position, gang.
	As far as Obamacare, Trump says he's going to repeal and replace Obamacare, and then he says in the same breath, quote, I am going to take care of everybody.
	I don't care if it costs me votes or not.
	Everybody's going to be taken care of much better than they're taken care of now.
	And then he said, Republicans have no heart when it comes to healthcare.
	The government has to do something to take care of poor people with no healthcare.
	Okay, how is that not Obamacare?
	It's actually worse than Obamacare.
	It's single-payer.
	He says he's not for single-payer either.
	So, the question here is, what is Trump thinking?
	So, the easy answer is he's not.
	The easy answer is he's reacting, he's saying wild things that the media will cover him, because that's what he does.
	This is who Trump is.
	That's the easy answer.
	Then there's the answer that he's trying to put Cruz on the defensive, he's trying to make Cruz defend all this stuff, and the media will do his dirty work for him.
	Which is not a strategic, terrible idea.
	Although, it makes him look weak.
	You can't puff yourself up and then whine.
	My favorite part of John Wayne movies is always the part right after the bar fight where he sits around and whines about how he would have won if it hadn't been for that guy who hit him with the chair.
	If you're going to campaign on your masculinity and your testosterone level and I'm big and I'm bad and I'm gonna bomb the bleep out of everybody, this is not a good look.
	It's also possible, and this is starting to reenter my mind, that Donald Trump may be prepping for a third-party run.
	That if Donald Trump, let's say that he collapses in New Hampshire completely, just falls apart in New Hampshire.
	I don't think that'll happen, by the way.
	I think he'll win New Hampshire.
	Let's say he falls apart in New Hampshire.
	He's been saying for months that he was going to run as a Republican if he was treated fairly, right?
	He was always with this caveat, if he was treated fairly.
	In Donald Trump's world, no one has ever treated him fairly.
	He has never been treated fairly, and now he's saying openly, I wasn't treated fairly, and therefore, I should basically have these, we should have a redo in Iowa.
	By the way, if there were a redo in Iowa today, he would lose dramatically.
	If we did the election again after all of this happens, Donald Trump goes down in flaming defeat in Iowa.
	Like, really, really bad.
	Ted Cruz probably comes out the same place, and Marco Rubio probably boosts even more.
	So Trump, you know, it hurts him more in Iowa, but...
	None of this is good for Donald Trump.
	None of it is good for the Republican Party.
	That is certainly the case.
	And I'm getting all sorts of people who are saying, oh, you're such a Cruz defender.
	You just keep coming out and defending Cruz.
	Listen, I've defended Marco Rubio from false allegations.
	I've defended Trump from false allegations.
	I've defended Trump many times from false allegations and from slander.
	I've done the same thing for Ben Carson.
	Trump is off his meds on this one.
	He's just off his meds on this one.
	Now, I said earlier I would make a case for Trump.
	The case for Trump is the same as it's always been.
	The case for Trump is that Trump is the most electable Republican.
	He wins blue-collar voters.
	He appeals to people who watch politics in five-second increments.
	And there's a real possibility that he does damage in a lot of blue-collar states, like Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan.
	That's the case for Trump.
	But don't pretend that he's principled.
	Don't pretend he's suddenly a beacon of honesty in the political process.
	The people who are selectively choosing to be outraged by Ted Cruz's campaign tactics, it seems to me they weren't quite as outraged when Donald Trump was slandering Ted Cruz as a Canadian citizen who was not capable of running for President of the United States.
	Okay.
	Meanwhile, on the other side of the aisle, Bernie Sanders is now starting to put Hillary Clinton's feet to the fire.
	And I've been saying now for weeks, if Bernie Sanders actually wants the nomination, all he has to do is one thing.
	All he has to do is one thing.
	Endorse slavery reparations.
	That's it.
	If he endorses slavery reparations, Hillary is toast, she sticks her head in the oven, and Bill is a jolly widower.
	That's how this goes.
	Okay, Hillary Clinton is only hanging on thanks to support in the black community, and South Carolina is 50% black in terms of the Democratic primary voting base.
	Bernie Sanders has now pressured Hillary Clinton into debating him tomorrow night.
	They have a town hall tonight.
	They have a debate tomorrow night, which I'll have to watch.
	Ugh.
	Republicans, by the way, have a debate on Saturday night.
	Which I'll also have to watch.
	So all of this, I make these sacrifices for you, my loyal listeners and watchers.
	Bernie Sanders says Hillary Clinton is worried.
	She's spinning and she's spinning.
	Here is Larry David as Bernie Sanders on MSNBC.
	You mentioned the word debate.
	People need to be debating the issues.
	Are you going to be participating in a debate with Hillary Clinton tomorrow night?
	The answer is yes.
	And you know that I have always wanted more debates and Secretary Clinton in the beginning was not so interested in more debates.
	Now suddenly they're very interested in more debates.
	What I wanted to see is on top of New Hampshire three more debates.
	We were talking about California and Michigan and I wanted New York City.
	Secretary Clinton represented New York seven years in the Senate.
	I thought it'd be a good idea for some reason she's not interested in debating in New York.
	So why are they suddenly interested in more debates?
	You said that with a little sly smile.
	Well, golly gee, I don't know.
	It may have...
	It may have something to do with the fact that the nature of this campaign has changed a little bit, and now they're getting a little bit nervous.
	But it was interesting, as you'll recall, way back when DNC said six debates, we had no input into that.
	Secretary Clinton said, hey, that's great, that's fine.
	Now they want more debates, that's fine.
	I love debates.
	Okay, it's funny that Clinton wants more debates with him.
	That's because she's hoping that he lays off of her.
	Bernie Sanders has laid off of her really heavily so far.
	If Bernie Sanders ever decided to lay a glove on her, he could actually do her some damage.
	If Bernie Sanders ever said to her, you know, Secretary Clinton, you know I have nothing but respect for you, but I have to ask you, in terms of government corruption, you know, the fact that you set up a private email server and you're passing classified information on it, I don't think this is just a Republican scandal.
	It's President Obama's Inspector General for the intelligence community.
	You can brush it off as a non-issue as much as you want, but there are people's lives who are put at risk.
	It's a risky move for Sanders, but at this point, what does he have to lose?
	He's winning by 33 in New Hampshire, and he's got to make a move sometime here.
	So Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders continue to go at it.
	Chris Matthews over on MSNBC!
	No episode of The Ben Shapiro Show is complete without a Chris Matthews quote.
	Chris Matthews over on MSNBC.
	He specifically asked Hillary Clinton.
	You know, Bernie Sanders, he's a revolutionary.
	He's a socialist revolutionary.
	He has like a Lenin beard.
	I think that he would probably want to farm in the gulags.
	What do you do with him?
	He's a revolutionary and you're just... What do you do?
	How do you compete with a revolution of promises, really?
	Well, first let me say I am thrilled, too, that we've got young people getting active in the campaign on the Democratic side.
	I was very proud of the many, many young people working for me, volunteering for me, voting, caucusing for me in Iowa, and the ones I have here in New Hampshire, I'm just so impressed with.
	So that's a net good no matter what.
	I do think that we have an obligation to keep people focused on what's at stake in this election.
	And you got close to saying it, Chris.
	We can't let the Republicans rip away the progress we've made.
	We can't let them go back to trickle-down economics, repeal the Affordable Care Act.
	We can't let them stack the Supreme Court for another generation.
	First of all, I think it's important to point out what's right behind Hillary.
	You want to know why she's running, gang?
	You want to know why the media is pretending she's a viable candidate?
	Behind Hillary Clinton, for those who can't see, are two posters.
	One says, Girls!
	And the other says, Madam President 2016.
	In this kind of childish handwriting.
	Again, this is so frustrating to me.
	We were pointing this out yesterday.
	Beyoncé does this song.
	Isn't it Beyoncé who does the Girls We Rule The World song?
	Is that Beyoncé or is it somebody else?
	I think it's Beyoncé.
	She sings Girls We Rule The World and then she does a music video where she's going down on her husband.
	I mean, Beyoncé, clearly, when we do this Hillary Clinton Girls We Rule The World nonsense, remember something.
	The crazy old loon bag who was standing behind Hillary yesterday, drooling as he ran lesbian porno through his mind?
	That guy is the only reason that Hillary Clinton is even mildly prominent.
	Before we do the whole girls-we-rule-the-world thing.
	Turns out, girls don't rule the world.
	Guys don't really rule the world.
	People of power rule the world.
	Some of those are guys and some of those are girls.
	And the nature of their genitalia are of no consequence, but this is the only reason people are taking Hillary seriously.
	And if you're talking about the female revolution, Versus the socialist revolution.
	The socialist revolution definitely has the sort of fire behind it.
	Ezra Klein over at Vox.com, which is a wild left-wing website.
	He reports a poll today.
	54% of voters say they are open to a political revolution to redistribute wealth.
	Oh, happy day.
	I look forward to the heads on the pikes.
	That'll be very exciting.
	I'm looking forward to Bernie Sanders leading that charge.
	We'll take the rich and we will cut off their heads and we will stick them on pikes and we will use their money to fund your education by other rich people whose head we will cut off and put on pikes and then we will march around in circles with spaghetti on our heads singing Reading Rainbow.
	That is our plan.
	That's the political revolution of Bernie Sanders and Hillary's trying to fight that.
	Good luck, gang.
	Okay, on to some things that I like and some things that I hate.
	So, first, an actual thing that I like.
	I like jazz.
	I tend to like old jazz, kind of swing music, and there are a lot of singers from the Frank Sinatra era who are well-known.
	Obviously, Sinatra's well-known.
	Tony Bennett is well-known.
	One who's slightly less well-known, but who has a really kind of interesting voice.
	They used to call him the Velvet Fog.
	It was Mel Torme.
	If you've never heard Mel Torme sing, he's really a very talented musician.
	Here's just a brief clip of Mel Torme with George Shearing.
	George Shearing was a really terrific pianist.
	Never got credit for being as good a pianist as he was.
	He's also blind, like Ray Charles, he's blind.
	And so George Shearing and Mel Torme will play a little clip of this and then we'll get on to other things.
	So here's what it sounds like.
	When true lovers meet in Mayfair, so the legends tell.
	Songbirds sing, winter turns to spring.
	This album particularly, by the way, we need to stop it there, but this album particularly is very, very good.
	An Evening with George Shearing and Mel Tormé.
	Great album.
	You can pick it up for pretty cheap.
	It's really good stuff.
	Okay, here's another thing that I like.
	So...
	Hamas, the terrorist Palestinians, were digging a tunnel, trying to dig a tunnel into Israel.
	This is how they spend their off hours and their free time.
	And actually, this is what their job is.
	They get paid to do this.
	They were digging a tunnel into Israel to try and kidnap and kill Jews, because this is what Israel's Palestinian peace partners do for fun.
	And in a minute I'll talk about something that I hate on this particular score.
	And they were digging a tunnel into Israel and the roof collapsed.
	The roof fell in.
	So well done, God.
	Well played, God.
	And they did a funeral for the Hamas guys.
	250,000 people apparently showed up for this funeral.
	So a quarter of a million people showed up to do a funeral for these poor victims who buried themselves in rubble trying to build a tunnel so they could kidnap Jewish children.
	I mean, these are literally the most evil people on earth.
	I mean, these are ISIS.
	The only difference between Hamas and ISIS is the name.
	But, here's the thing that I love.
	So, they had a funeral for the Hamas guys, and we have a clip from that funeral.
	And here's what it looked like.
	I think that is a roof collapsing and Hamas guys falling.
	So first, God collapsed the tunnel.
	And then at the funeral, God collapsed the roof.
	So well played, God, well played.
	Apparently, these people don't know how to build a working toilet, but they know how to build tunnels, but not that well since they cave in.
	They also don't know you don't stand on roofs in large groups, you stupid asses.
	So, sadly, not enough of them were killed.
	Um, that's- that's too bad.
	I was hoping for- I was hoping this would become a recurring cycle until you ran out of Hamas guys.
	Basically, you'd have a Hamas guy who would die in a cave-in, you'd have a funeral for him, all the Hamas guys would climb on a roof, that would cave-in, you'd have a funeral for those guys, too many guys would climb on the roof, that would cave-in, and then eventually you'd end up with no Hamas guys.
	That was- that was- I think that would be a great plan.
	It hasn't happened that way.
	Okay.
	On the other side of that, here's some- here are some things that- that I hate.
	And I'm gonna save the best for last.
	So, we'll start with, there was another terrorist attack in Israel today, another Palestinian terrorist attack in Israel.
	There have been a multiplicity of stabbing attacks nearly every day by the Palestinian, the glorious peace-loving Palestinian peace partners.
	It's just disgusting that the West continues to maintain this ridiculous fiction.
	You wouldn't ask anybody to make peace with ISIS, but Israel is expected to make peace with Hamas and with the Palestinian Authority, both of them terrorist groups, because of course they're Jews and whatever, the Jews.
	So here is the headline that CBS ran.
	So there were two Jews who were stabbed.
	One was a 19-year-old female police officer who was stabbed to death.
	She died today.
	Here is the headline.
	And then the three Palestinians engaged in the attack were shot and killed.
	The headline from CBS News, in case you can't see it, quote, three Palestinians killed as daily violence grinds on.
	That is their headline.
	So three terrorists stab two female soldiers and kill one.
	The headline is that the Palestinians were killed as the daily violence grinds.
	It's just violence.
	We don't know who did it.
	We don't know why it happened.
	It just magically happens that way.
	Those poor, poor Palestinians.
	The media are complicit.
	They are complicit in the worst form of Jew hatred and anti-semitism, and this sort of headline is proof.
	I said it on CNN well over, I guess almost two years ago now, during the Gaza War.
	I said that if Hamas could have designed a news network, it would look like CNN.
	Coming in a close second, CBS News.
	I mean, that's just outrageous and disgusting.
	Okay, something else that I hate.
	So we talked about Bernie Sanders earlier.
	Bernie Sanders, apparently, There was a romantic comedy with Susan Sarandon in it.
	We were wondering why Susan Sarandon was so fond of Bernie Sanders.
	Apparently, there was a low-budget 1999 romantic comedy called My Ex-Girlfriend's Wedding Reception, which sounds quite terrible.
	He also did, I guess Sarandon wasn't in this one, but he was a stingy candy dispenser in 1988's Sweetheart's Dance, according to his IMDb page.
	Here is Bernie Sanders in the trailer for, well I guess in, My Ex-Girlfriend's Wedding Reception, and he's playing a rabbi.
	Okay, Bernie Sanders knows less about Judaism than my daughter, and my daughter can speak eight word sentences, you know, like this is, come on, here we go.
	Testing, testing, one, two, three, can you all hear me?
	My name is Rabbi Manny Shevitz, and I am very pleased that you invited me to be with you today, and I've prepared a few words for this important occasion.
	Today we celebrate life, a very sacred part of life.
	I remember when I used to walk down my old neighborhood in Brooklyn.
	That was before the Dodgers went to Los Angeles, which was the worst thing.
	The worst thing that ever happened, and I don't know why we let them do that.
	I mean, nowadays, there is no pride.
	You don't know who owns what team, you don't know who's playing for what.
	Today they're here one day and they're gone the next day.
	It's a terrible thing.
	I remember when the Dodgers played the Yankees, and you bought a ticket, and that ticket was good for 10 years.
	Now we go to the stadium, and you look out on the field, and you see the Red Sox, you see the Orioles, you see the Cleveland Indians.
	You see everything, but you don't see the Yankees versus the Red Sox.
	Okay, I'm getting a little bit off the track here, but let me not take any more of your time.
	Just one quick thought.
	Oh, by the way, that free agency, free agency crap, that really gets me.
	There's $2 million here, they spend $12 million there.
	What's so free about that free agency?
	I can't take that anymore.
	Okay, let me just make my point here, and that is, all in all, It's not so bad.
	When it's good, it's good.
	If it doesn't feel right, just say no.
	There's always tomorrow.
	There's always tomorrow.
	It could be worse.
	Now, let's just thank God.
	You have your arms.
	You have your legs.
	Let's eat!
	Okay, so, I didn't know whether to put this in Things I Love or Things I Hate.
	I hate that I have a 90- I mean, he looks like he's 73 then!
	When was this, 1999?
	So this is 17 years ago?
	He looks like he was 73 then, so he's beyond the grave now.
	But Bernie Sanders playing a rabbi is insulting.
	His name is Rabbi Manischewitz, get it?
	Like Manischewitz, get it?
	I can't actually distinguish what he just said from anything he ever says in his speeches.
	You could legitimately put in his normal speeches with the reaction shots, and it would be exactly the same.
	So I like that the media have ignored this, by the way.
	This has never come up.
	Everything that Donald Trump has ever done has come up.
	They've dug up Ted Cruz's old clips from when he was in high school theater.
	I mean, like, everything that these people ever do has come up.
	This somehow didn't come up, and it's on his... He has an IMDB page, and this has never come up.
	How many times have you heard people on MSNBC ask Bernie Sanders about the essays he wrote back in the 70s where he said that women enjoyed being gang-raped?
	He actually wrote essays in the 70s saying this.
	Never, ever, ever.
	I mean, how can you watch?
	Yeah, this guy should be president.
	Okay, alright.
	Okay, a couple of final things that I hate here.
	Michael Nutter, who is the mayor of Philadelphia, he came out and he says that we have to be very careful about Hillary Clinton.
	Let's hear him explain why we have to be so careful about Hillary Clinton.
	You re-ran some of Senator Clinton's, Secretary Clinton's speech tonight.
	You've been in big crowds.
	You have a tendency to talk a little louder.
	No one shouts louder.
	Oh, give me a break.
	all night long he is shouting he is literally almost a howard deal of this campaign but but hillary was so angry compared to sanders that i don't know if she was angry but but again let us not slip into some gender bias here a man raises his voice he's enthusiastic woman raises her voice she's angry let's be very careful about how we characterize give me a break okay so so now if you ever call a woman angry then you're a sexist so my wife has never been never been angry.
	Lindsay, you're a woman.
	Have you ever been angry?
	Ever?
	I'm angry right now.
	She's so angry right now.
	Women are never angry.
	And if you call a woman angry, that means that you're a sexist.
	If you ever say that Hillary, I guess we're really sexist, because yesterday we spent half the show laughing at Hillary Clinton being angry, and then a guy behind her eating stickers off his face.
	So, you know, it's, yes.
	But this is how the left thinks.
	They're words that cannot be said.
	Words that cannot be said.
	Which brings me to President Obama today.
	We'll get to this more tomorrow, but President Obama today gave a long speech.
	A very long speech, apparently, over at the Islamic Center of Baltimore, which its former imam is a guy who's justified suicide bombings.
	And he actually said that Muslim Americans should be able to practice their religion.
	They have a right to practice their religion without, quote, divisive rhetoric from the campaign trail.
	This is what President Obama said.
	That right does not exist.
	There is no right to practice your religion without divisive rhetoric.
	Divisive rhetoric is called free speech.
	What you're talking about, President Obama, is called a blasphemy law.
	Those are against the law in the United States.
	But President Obama does this routine all the time.
	Remember, this is the same guy who said that the future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam.
	He said that the United Nations is the same guy whose administration embraced a UN resolution specifically calling for quote measures to criminalize incitement to imminent violence based on religion or belief.
	And this is He hates free speech, so long as that free speech targets the practice of Islam.
	But, by the way, the media is free to target Christianity and Republicans.
	So, Jimmy Kimmel, who is just awful, and the beer doesn't make him appear any smarter, it just makes him appear lazier.
	Jimmy Kimmel, He did a routine yesterday on his show where he tried to claim that Republicans aren't good Christians.
	And even as a Jew, I know this is crap.
	So here's Jimmy Kimmel trying to claim another thing that I hate, that Republicans are bad Christians.
	Why?
	Because he brings Jesus to talk about it.
	The words of the candidates, as read by Jesus himself.
	You don't lock your doors because you hate the people on the outside.
	You lock your doors because you love the people on the inside.
	The fact is that we need appropriate vetting, and I don't think that orphans under five should be admitted into the United States at this point.
	You don't stop bad guys by taking away our guns.
	You stop bad guys by using our guns.
	Look at that face.
	I mean, would anybody vote for that?
	I would bomb the shit out of them.
	I would just bomb those suckers.
	The other thing is, with the terrorists, you have to take out their families.
	I'll take the votes of everyone who likes machine guns and bacon.
	I will build a wall.
	It will be a great wall.
	Okay, so the idea here is that if you take the most extreme quotes of the Republicans and put them in the mouths of Jesus Christ, then it's clear that Jesus is not a Republican.
	And there's this hippie perception that Jesus was like this bearded hippie walking around.
	First of all, he didn't look anything like this.
	Jesus looked like my Sephardic in-laws, okay?
	It was a short Jewish swarthy guy from the Middle East at the time.
	The Jews had not yet gone to Europe, so they weren't white.
	In any case, forget what Jesus looked like, okay?
	Jesus was not a huge pacifist pansy.
	If you even do a cursory read of the New Testament, it is clear that Jesus, he said at one point, right?
	I come to bring a sword, right?
	There's a point where he says he comes to bring the sword.
	There's a point where Jesus talks.
	He was going through the temple and overturning the tables of the moneylenders, right?
	And he was doing that because they were corrupt.
	Okay, so this whole Jesus was a pacifist, Jesus was just meek and mild to everyone, he was the Lamb of the Lord.
	Okay, Christians believe that.
	They also believe that Jesus was a tough hombre.
	Which is what made him sacrificing himself worthwhile.
	If Jesus was just a pansy, then he was like every other flower child at Kent State.
	It wasn't who Jesus was, and anybody who reads the... But it's particularly galling.
	Jimmy Kimmel's an atheist, by the way.
	It's particularly galling to have atheists using Jesus as a... Oh, well, you guys, you know, you say you believe in Jesus, but then you say stuff like this.
	You say stuff like this.
	I can tell you one thing that Jesus wasn't that fond of, and I can tell you this from the history of Christianity.
	Other proselytizing religions killing people in the name of their religions.
	Jesus, not so hot on that one.
	If you put Jesus against Muhammad, they actually were sort of in conflict.
	The Quran and the New Testament have a mild conflict there.
	So it's insulting all the way through.
	Okay, I know we're long, but come on.
	We've been doing this for weeks now.
	Alright, so, we'll finish up by critiquing the final thing that I hate.
	There are all of these, we've talked about this tendency of the left, and it really is a gross, yucky tendency of the left, to use children in all of their videos and advertising now.
	So they've decided to cut a new video.
	I'm trying to remember which group this is that cut this ridiculous video.
	But this group has now cut a video trying to rip on Stacey Dash.
	Stacey Dash is a commentator for Fox News, she's black, And she talked about how there shouldn't be Black History Month because that's divisive and stupid and racist.
	And so there's a group of people called Because of Them We Can.
	And what do they do?
	They get a bunch of kids, of course, because all of the wisdom is in the mouth of babes, right?
	This is the silly leftist notion that children are so smart that we should follow them all, which, if you've ever met a two-year-old, is presumably, it is definitely the worst idea you could possibly have.
	If two-year-olds were around the world, nuclear Armageddon would have happened a thousand times over by now.
	But they got a bunch of kids out there to stand in front of the camera and rip into Stacey Dash because if even these children understand, if even these children understand, then shouldn't Stacey Dash understand?
	Here we go.
	Let's listen to a bunch of idiot kids talk about Stacey Dash.
	I don't think so.
	No.
	Just like there shouldn't be a Black History Month.
	You know, we're Americans.
	Period.
	That's it.
	What?
	Excuse me?
	What did she just say?
	Oh my gosh.
	Is that even legal?
	Uh, that don't make any sense.
	Does Cardi want to know about this?
	Black History Month is our turn.
	Okay, boom.
	To acknowledge our...
	Pause for one second.
	First of all, a couple things get said right there that automatically you should never watch the rest of this video.
	Is that even legal?
	Yes.
	Yes it is.
	Welcome to the United States, where we can say things that offend you.
	But there's a whole generation of people who don't believe that's legal.
	Also, if you're going to do a video about intelligence and intelligent political conversation, and you're trying to use children, why don't you make sure those kids use proper grammar?
	I know this is old-fashioned, but you're allowed.
	It's okay.
	You can use proper grammar.
	No one's gonna hurt you.
	It's okay.
	And it's not a white thing.
	There are black people who use proper grammar, President Obama uses proper grammar.
	It's totally fine.
	Okay, we'll continue and we'll hear why Black History Month is the greatest thing since sliced bread and has helped millions of black people descend into poverty and single motherhood.
	Our strength.
	Our accomplishments.
	And our contributions.
	And our beauty.
	It forces us to talk about our amazing history.
	And it didn't begin with slavery.
	No negativity.
	No stereotypes.
	All excellence.
	Because that's who and what we are.
	We're not canceling anything.
	So you have to rock with us for 29 days.
	It's a celebration.
	It's Black History Month.
	Now there is a well stated case.
	No stereotypes, no negative information.
	Yeah, that's a great teaching of history.
	What a great teaching of history.
	If I'm learning about history, what I want to make sure of is that one group is cast as saints, complete saints, nothing has ever happened that is bad from this particular group.
	Okay, the fact is, I don't believe in Black History Month, I don't believe in Jewish History Month, I don't believe in Hispanic History Month.
	There's something called history.
	Either you were important enough to cut it, or you weren't.
	And if you didn't make the list of all of the important historical figures, I'm sorry, there are no affirmative action points.
	There's no Eskimo History Month because it's very difficult to name all of the very, very important Eskimo historical figures that we should all know about.
	And I don't think that it's important that lots of people know about people because of their ethnicity.
	I think it's important that we know about them because of what they did.
	So, you wanted to vote a day to Frederick Douglass?
	I'm all for ya.
	You wanted to vote a day to Martin Luther King?
	I'm all for ya.
	You wanted to vote an entire month so that we can learn about random stuff that didn't make the history books because it wasn't as important as other stuff that happened?
	Well, tough.
	I mean, this whole thing is silly, but the idea, first of all, that kids have to- we have to have Black History Month so you have pride in your race.
	I am not a person who believes in racial pride.
	I don't like racial pride.
	I believe in religious pride, that's why I wear a yarmulke.
	But I've never understood why Jews are so all-fired, excited that Sandy Koufax was Jewish in a great picture.
	Like, so what?
	He didn't do anything Jewish.
	He did one thing that was Jewish his entire life, right?
	He took off Yom Kippur during the World Series.
	Okay, that was not that big a deal.
	I don't like racial pride.
	I don't like white racial pride.
	I don't like black racial pride.
	I think that if you're proud of the level of melanin in your skin, you should also be proud of your height and your hair color.
	You have no control over it.
	It says nothing about your accomplishments.
	And just because there were black people in history who did something has nothing to do with you.
	There is not a black guy who abandoned his girlfriend in the inner city with a kid who should feel better about himself because there were black people in history who did good things.
	That's stupid.
	Just like white people, white supremacy is idiotic.
	It's the same principle.
	You shouldn't feel better about yourself as a loser white person because there were people historically who were winners who were white people.
	That's idiotic.
	But I guess that we're supposed to, it's all fine to try it on a bunch of black kids to say this kind of stuff.
	No stereotypes, no negativity.
	Let me tell you something.
	Stereotypes are bad, but actual information is useful.
	I promise you, you want to help the black community?
	Spend a month teaching all Americans to marry the mothers of their children.
	Spend a full month doing it.
	Why it's good to teach the mother to marry the mother of your children?
	That will do lots more for the black community and black history than learning about George Washington Carver ever would.
	This is, it's just, it's a misprioritization.
	And if George Washington Carver is important enough to make the history books, he should do it on his merit, not on the basis of his race.
	Obviously, he wasn't inventing things as a black inventor.
	He was doing it as an inventor who happened to be black.
	It's just, it's insulting all the way around.
	By the way, Barack Obama said the same thing about Muslims today.
	I mean, it's amazing.
	Barack Obama today said that we should make sure there are Muslim TV characters who are not in national security situations.
	I totally agree.
	I think that we should have Muslim TV characters, a plethora of Muslim TV characters, who draw Muhammad on television.
	Let's start with that.
	Once we do that, then we can talk about having lots of Muslim TV characters who do other things that the Muslim community deems un-Islamic.
	So this whole kind of affirmative action that accrues to particular cultures or particular races is silly.
	Merit before diversity every time.
	It's as simple as that.
	And merit before Trump-versity.
	Just because Donald Trump lost doesn't mean that he was cheated, gang.
	Well, we'll find out if he carries this forward through New Hampshire.
	If so, things are going to get really, really interesting.
	I'm Ben Shapiro.

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