Ben Shapiro critiques the chaotic Republican debate, mocking candidates like Marco Rubio and Chris Christie while praising Donald Trump's populist appeal. He condemns Hillary Clinton's refusal to release speech transcripts and Bill Clinton's sexist attacks on Bernie Sanders. Shapiro also denounces Beyoncé's Super Bowl halftime show for promoting racial stereotypes and Black Panther imagery, alongside vulgar commercials from Axe and Doritos that he argues engage in misleading virtue signaling and anti-white sentiment. Ultimately, the episode frames these cultural and political moments as evidence of a declining standard of discourse and morality in American society. [Automatically generated summary]
- Tend to demonize people who don't care about your feelings. - Well, this is gonna be a slam packed, jam packed show.
You know, Mathis over here who had to spend the last nine hours cutting audio just so that we could do this show.
I know that he's going to be eager for us to get to each and every clip that he cut to justify the amount of sweat equity that he put into this particular episode.
And so we will jump right in.
We'll start with the Republican debate that happened last Saturday night.
First of all, please, all of you people, stop holding debates on Saturday night.
You're ruining my weekend.
I'm one of the people who has to watch this stuff.
I figured it started like 530 or five o'clock Pacific time.
I thought it started at 6 Pacific Time, so Sabbath didn't end until about 6.15, so I couldn't watch TV until then.
I flip on the TV, I figure, okay, I've got two hours in front of me.
Then, the pleasant shock that I'd already missed the first hour, and then it still went on for two hours.
So there was just no escape.
Well, the debate had some real ramifications, but first we'll start off with... I've said that this entire Republican race is becoming a circus.
It's a complete crap show.
It's turned into a bunch of monkeys hitting each other with sticks.
And ABC News got into the routine at the very beginning.
Here is what the beginning of this debate looked like, and it's actually kind of funny.
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So let's welcome the candidates for the Republican nomination for president.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.
Dr. Ben Carson.
And with Ben Carson looking confused, why aren't you going out on stage, doctor?
Every morning when a United States Senator wakes up, they think about what kind of speech can I give or what kind of bill can I drop.
Every morning when I wake up, I think about what kind of problem do I need to solve for the people who actually elected me.
It's a different experience.
It's a much different experience.
And the fact is, Marco, you shouldn't compare yourself to Joe Biden.
And you shouldn't say that that's what we're doing.
Here's exactly what we're doing.
You have not been involved in a consequential decision where you had to be held accountable.
You just simply haven't.
And the fact is... The fact is, when you talk about the Hezbollah Sanctions Act that you list as one of your accomplishments and just did, you weren't even there to vote for it.
That's not leadership, that's truancy.
The fact is that what we need to have in this country is not to make the same mistake we made eight years ago.
The fact is it does matter when you have to make decisions to be held accountable for them.
It does matter when the challenges don't come on a list of a piece of paper of what to vote yes or no every day, but when the problems come in from the people that you serve.
I like Marco Rubio.
And he's a smart person and a good guy.
But he simply does not have the experience to be President of the United States and make these decisions.
We've watched it happen, everybody.
For the last seven years, the people of New Hampshire are smart.
If you'd like to respond to the economic... I didn't get a chance to respond.
You see, everybody, I want the people at home to think about this.
That's what Washington, D.C.
does.
The drive-by shot at the beginning with incorrect and incomplete information and then the memorized 25-second speech that is exactly what his advisors gave him.
See, Marco, the thing is this.
When you're president of the United States, when you're governor of a state, the memorized 30-second speech where you talk about how great America is at the end of it doesn't solve one problem for one person.
They expect you to plow the snow.
They expect you to get the schools open.
And when the worst natural disaster in your state hits, they expect you to rebuild their state, which is what I've done.
None of that stuff happens on the floor of the United States Senate.
It's a fine job.
I'm glad you ran for it.
But it does not prepare you for president of the United States.
And that's when, you know, Christie has him on the ropes.
And the problem is that Christie's using a tactic on him that I've used in debate too, which is he's calling out Rubio's tactic before Rubio actually uses it, so it looks like he's been programmed.
And it's true, this has always been the rap on Rubio, is that Rubio is shallow, Rubio doesn't have a lot to say, Rubio doesn't have a real fundamental philosophy, and so he goes to his talking points a lot.
There's also something deeper here, which is if you're a conservative, and you're thinking, there's somebody I don't want pushed around, meaning not just pushed around like somebody's gonna make fun of you, But somebody who is not going to feel weak when he's hit.
This isn't that.
Right?
The rap on Rubio has always been that in 2012 he went the wrong way on the Gang of Eight amnesty bill.
He's elected in 2010, in 2012 he goes the wrong way on the Gang of Eight because he's pressured.
And then there's pressure from the other side and he reverses himself and gets off the Gang of Eight immigration bill.
And so the idea has always been with Rubio that if you pressure him too hard one way, that he'll tend to collapse.
And Christy sort of proved it there.
Now if I push him too hard here, he just goes back to his talking points.
He's got nothing.
He's got nothing.
So I think there's a gaffe that's actually going to hurt Rubio because it goes to his central flaw, which is that he's too rehearsed.
And I actually agree that he's too rehearsed.
Does that mean that he's the worst candidate in the field?
But it does go to the fact that Rubio, and I've always felt this about Senator Rubio, he is a beta.
He's not an alpha male.
Christy's an alpha male, for all the flaws of Christy, which we'll get into in a second.
Christy's an alpha male.
Rubio's a beta.
And going up against Hillary Clinton, I'm not sure that a beta does well.
I know people keep saying that Rubio's the most electable.
I'm not sure I see it.
I'm not sure I see it.
He seems like a less edgy version of Mitt Romney to me when I watch him in debate.
A smoother, kinder, less edgy version of Mitt Romney?
I'm not sure that's gonna cut it against the most vicious politician of my lifetime other than Barack Obama.
Okay, so here's the other problem that I have with these debate formats.
They tend to feature moments like the one you just saw, Christie vs. Rubio, over the content.
So there's one point at which Chris Christie, who is widely considered to have done very well in the debate because he face-planted Rubio, he said something that is so egregiously wrong and nasty.
And it makes your head kind of swim.
So, he goes after Rubio on abortion.
He says Rubio is too pro-life.
Rubio is not in favor of abortion exceptions for rape and incest.
Which is a perfectly legitimate position.
It's a position that makes logical sense, because you can think that rapists ought to be castrated or killed, but that babies are babies, and they ought not be killed, no matter what the circumstance.
That's my opinion on this.
And Rubio basically says that, and Christie comes back at him, and what Christie says about abortion is so He's been claiming he's pro-life.
I've been pretty helpful to the pro-life cause in one of the most pro-choice states in the union.
I stood up for the first time, and now for the last six years we've defunded Planned Parenthood.
Not talked about it like they do in Washington, D.C., but for six years as governor, Planned Parenthood does not receive that funding from the state budget anymore.
Over $50 million worth of money that's been saved now that is not going to do exactly what Hillary Clinton wants to have done, has advocated for.
She believes that that organization, which engages in the systematic murder of children in the womb, In order to maximize the value of their body parts for sale on the open market is an acceptable position.
Let me tell you something.
I don't care whether you're a millennial or whether you're in your 90s.
No one, no one is for that type of activity unless you are the most radical type of extremist on this issue like Senator Clinton and her party is on this issue.
I'll say one other thing.
The fact is that I believe that if a woman has been raped, That is a birth and a pregnancy that she should be able to terminate.
If she is a victim of incest, this is not a woman's choice.
This is a woman being violated.
And the fact is that we have always believed, as has Ronald Reagan, that we have self-defense for women who have been raped and impregnated because of it, or the subject of incest and been impregnated for it.
That woman should not have to deliver that child if they believe that violation is now an act of self-defense by terminating that pregnancy.
The idea that you have self-defense rights against a fetus.
No, that only applies if the fetus is killing you.
That's why I'm for exceptions in case the life of the mother is endangered.
Legitimately endangered.
Not a health problem, a life problem.
But to say that you have self-defense rights against a baby is beyond ridiculous.
Okay, so, one of the things that's happened, you may have noticed, is that as these debates go forward, I become more and more disgusted with everyone.
Like, all of the people.
I'm not sure who I'm most disgusted with.
So, you got Rubio, who gaffes.
You got Christie, who is just a scuzzbucket.
I mean, Chris Christie on Sunday, there's now a picture of him hugging Hillary Clinton.
They were both on ABC, and I guess they saw each other in the green room, and they were hugging it out.
He's a hugger.
And then you got Donald Trump, and Trump is gonna win New Hampshire tomorrow.
He's up by 20 points in the polls, dominating everybody.
Here is Donald Trump at the debate.
So here's the good of Donald Trump, and then we'll get to the bad of Donald Trump.
So the good of Donald Trump, here's Donald Trump on waterboarding.
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Senator Cruz, thank you.
Mr. Trump, you said not only does it work, but that you'd bring it back.
I do have to say, when he says we learned from medieval times, I have a feeling that Donald Trump actually went to the restaurant Medieval Times and watched the jousting, and that's how he learned about medieval history.
But, what he says there is basically right.
No one in America cares whether we waterboard terrorists.
You gotta be kidding me.
This is a left talking point that no one cares about.
Do whatever you have to do to get the information.
And then, Trump slams the audience at one point during the debate, and this is also vintage Trump, it's why people like Trump.
So here's Trump going after the audience when they boo him.
And by the way, let me just tell you, we needed tickets.
You can't get them.
You know who has the tickets?
I'm talking about to the television audience.
Donors, special interests, the people that are putting up the money.
The RNC told us we have all donors in the audience and the reason they're not loving me The reason they're not, excuse me, the reason they're not loving me is I don't want their money.
I'm gonna do the right thing for the American public.
I don't want their money, I don't need their money, and I'm the only one up here that can say that.
Okay, that's actually Donald Trump's best line of the debate, and it's very effective because he is very wealthy.
Now, Donald Trump also has spent the weekend saying he agrees with Bernie Sanders on trade, that he doesn't want to increase the defense budget, that he wants to move left on a variety of issues.
He's moving pretty significantly to the left now, and there's a good shot that if he wins New Hampshire, the establishment moves behind him just because they have no other options.
So, what you just saw is the good side of Trump.
Here is the bad side of Trump.
Here is Donald Trump on making deals.
Why we're supposed to trust him that he can make good deals.
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What would you say to those conservatives who are concerned that a dealmaker will just perpetuate the same deals in Washington Oh.
So Donald Trump, again, highly specific in his prescriptions as to how he's going to do good deals.
Hugging, kissing, touching of appropriate or inappropriate nature, all included in that.
Folks, Donald Trump is—but here's the thing.
Donald Trump is a loudmouth.
He's a bloviating blowhard.
All these things, right?
He's not even a conservative.
But Donald Trump is who Donald Trump is.
And what's happening over the course of these debates is that Trump is actually getting stronger because Trump is who Trump is.
Rubio is being unmasked as a guy who's on the talking points all the time.
Jeb was unmasked very early as a weakling.
Chris Christie's being unmasked as a liar on his own policies.
And then the thing that I think has been most damaging is the guy who I like the best in this race, Ted Cruz.
Ben Carson has done something to Ted Cruz that is really quite disreputable.
So, we talked about it last week, okay?
Ben Carson told CNN he was going on break, that he was going to go back to Florida to pick up shirts or something, and he was not going to go to South Carolina or New Hampshire before South Carolina and New Hampshire, he was just going to go back to Washington, D.C.
CNN played the tape and they said that, on the tape of CNN, they talk about this is very important, it obviously signifies that something big is happening, You know, if you want to win, you don't do this.
In other words, the campaign is basically over.
The Cruz campaign let all of their precinct captains know that Carson was taking a break from campaigning and to let people know that Carson was basically out.
Shift your votes to Cruz.
Carson then came back and he said, no, no, no, I'm not out.
I'm not out.
And CNN tweeted that, but they didn't say it on the air until past nine o'clock Eastern time.
In any case, Carson effectively is out of the race and he has been out of the race for since before Iowa.
He fired half his staff the week after Iowa.
But Carson won't let this go.
And this is the part that I don't like.
So Ben Carson, I think, has gone this far in the Republican race because people believe that he's a good man, an honest man.
They believe he's a religious, honest, good man.
And so, when he uses the power of his character and he puts it up against somebody else's character, People tend to believe Ben Carson, even though I think that what Carson's doing here is actually pretty cynical.
And this is just because I'm a political insider in the sense that I know what people in politics do.
I know how campaigns work.
Ben Carson has raised more money than virtually every other candidate on the grassroots level.
He's raised a lot of money from the grassroots.
He has a massive, incredibly large email list.
He's cutting down his staff so that he can use that email list to draw money to his campaign, to continue growing the email list, to continue drawing money to his campaign, to continue growing the email list.
When this campaign is all over, he owns the email list.
Whoever he's working with, they own the email list.
And he can use that email list to push his policies or to advertise.
And so he's staying in the race beyond when his campaign is viable.
His campaign is no longer viable.
But he's using this Cruz controversy in order to propel himself forward in the campaign, even though he has no shot at victory.
But he can do Cruz heavy damage, because the rip on Cruz has always been that Cruz is manipulative, he'll do anything to get ahead.
And Carson basically face-planted him on this.
On Saturday night made Cruz look very bad, even though Cruz actually says only things that are true here.
CNN protested, but Cruz is saying only things that are true.
Well, you know, when I wasn't introduced number two, as was the plan, I thought maybe he thought I already had dropped out.
But, you know, today is the 105th anniversary or 105th birthday of Ronald Reagan.
His 11th commandment was not to speak ill of another Republican.
So I'm not going to use this opportunity to savage the reputation of Senator Cruz.
But I will say, I will say, I will say that I was very disappointed that members of his team thought so little of me that they thought that after having hundreds if not thousands of volunteers and college
students who sacrificed their time and were dedicated to the cause, one even died, to think that I would just walk away 10 minutes before the caucus and say, forget about you guys.
I mean, who would do something like that?
No, I don't think anyone on this stage would do something like that.
And to assume that someone would, what does that tell you?
Unfortunately, it did happen.
It gives us a very good example of certain types of Washington ethics.
Washington ethics basically says, if it's legal, you do what you need to do in order to win.
That's not my ethics.
My ethics is you do what's right.
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Okay, so he cites Ronald Reagan's 11th commandment.
I don't know the status, but I will certainly look into it.
But I can only repeat what is the fact, that I spoke to a lot of different groups with a lot of different constituents, a lot of different kinds of members, about issues that had to do with world affairs.
I probably described more times than I can remember.
How stressful it was advising the president about going after Bin Laden.
So everybody's a sexist who says that she should Stop screaming during her speeches because it's shrill and annoying, which it is, and everybody's only attacking her because she's a woman.
So what does she do to push this meme forward?
You remember back in 2008, she did the same thing.
In New Hampshire, she cried.
She brought up the tears in 2008 so that she could stay competitive because it looked like Obama might beat her in New Hampshire.
So Hillary Clinton now, she's saying that the only reason people are targeting her is not because she's deeply corrupt, not because she's secretive, not because she's shrill, not because she's grating, not because she's annoying, but because she's just the same as everybody else, but she's a woman.
It's funny, you know, when we say shrill, there's certain female candidates we've never called shrill.
Dianne Feinstein, for example, is not shrill.
Dianne Feinstein's terrible.
She's a senator from California.
She's my senator.
Dianne Feinstein's awful.
She's not shrill.
Hillary Clinton is shrill.
Shrill has a meaning.
And in the dictionary, under that word, is a picture of Hillary Clinton.
And we're supposed to pretend that it's all because she's a woman.
It's getting so bad.
How bad is her campaign?
Her campaign is so bad that she's now trotting out 97-year-old Bill Clinton.
Who looks more and more like Hugh Hefner every day.
Just in terms of like, doddering around in her bathrobe, mumbling to himself and grabbing his genitals.
Bill, she's trotting him out on the campaign trail to call Bernie Sanders a sexist.
So here's Bill Clinton saying that Bernie Sanders is a sexist.
And I mean, Bill looks two steps away from death.
I mean, he really looks terrible.
Really awful.
For people who can't see this, he looks like Bill Murray when Bill Murray makes himself up like a zombie in Zombieland.
Here's Bill Clinton.
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Former President Bill Clinton unleashing a blistering, no-holds-barred attack on his wife's rival, Bernie Sanders, going after Sanders' health care plan.
Is it good for America?
I don't think so.
Is it good for New Hampshire?
I don't think so.
Labeling Sanders as dishonest and hypocritical in his criticism of the financial sector he so often rails against.
Anybody who takes money from Goldman Sachs couldn't possibly be president.
He may have to tweak that answer a little bit.
Either that or we're going to have to get us a write-in candidate.
The former president's words were stinging, blasting the Vermont senator and his supporters for what he called inaccurate and sexist attacks, including Bernie Bros, the mobs of Sanders supporters who use crude language to attack Hillary Clinton backers online.
People who have gone online to defend Hillary and explain, just explain why they supported her, have been subject to attacks that are literally too profane often Not to mention sexist.
To repeat.
Sanders disavowing such tactics.
Anybody who is supporting me is doing sexist things is... We don't want them.
Somebody should ask Bill Clinton if those tactics include holding a woman down on a bed and raping her.
Okay, or if those tactics include sequestering a woman off the side of the Oval Office and sexually abusing her, as he did to Kathleen Willey.
Or whether those tactics include having your wife intimidate your rape victims, like Juanita Broderick.
My goodness, what a terrible candidate Hillary is, and anybody with a- I mean, if Bernie Sanders had a set on him, he would actually say this.
Bernie Sanders is trying to run the all-positive campaign, but it would behoove him at some point to mention the fact that Bill Clinton is not exactly a warrior for women.
He's a warrior against women.
So this is what's frustrating to me about the whole Republican primary process.
With every debate, all of the Republicans tear away at each other like vultures, tearing away flesh.
And the Democrats keep building each other up, even though they're all incredibly weak.
Okay.
Time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.
The things I hate will be the Super Bowl edition things I hate, with all that that implies.
Things I like, I'm in the middle of a movie called Black Mass with Johnny Depp, haven't seen the rest of it yet, about halfway through, so far so good.
Alright, things I hate.
Alright, so, I watched the Super Bowl yesterday.
My dad and I usually get together every year and watch the Super Bowl.
And so, all I want when I watch the Super Bowl is to watch the football.
I watch the commercials because this has become sort of a cultural totem, it's become a cultural hallmark, everybody wants to watch the commercials, and that's fine, that's great, except I have to say the commercials have been steadily, in my lifetime, getting worse and worse.
I mean, the commercials are basically all just sex jokes, and monkeys, and pets, like, ooh, people like monkeys, let's put that in a commercial!
Well, what about, what about babies?
People like babies too, let's put that in- how about we'll have a monkey baby dog?
Which they actually did, in a commercial yesterday.
The commercials were really quite terrible, but what I really, really hate, what I really hate is that the left has decided that every cultural event has to now be dominated by leftism.
All of them.
They have to be dominated by leftism.
So imagine, for example, that you had a Super Bowl, and it took place in Texas, and there was a country singer, and the country singer surrounded himself, during the Super Bowl halftime show, with a bunch of kids who were holding Bibles, and a bunch of women who were holding crosses.
Imagine if we did that.
And let's say that, you know, for example, there's a bunch of white people, and they're also twirling rifles.
Wouldn't—do you think that the media would have a field day with that?
Oh, you bet the media would have a field day.
It's so alienating, so terrible, so non-inclusive.
Beyonce, who is now married to Jay-Z and can do no wrong, she farts social justice rainbows, but Beyonce is considered this wildly talented, massive talent, just a joy to behold, a real addition to God's Earth.
Okay, Beyonce actually has a really good voice, or used to.
I don't know if it's good anymore because she hasn't sung in five years.
So, Beyonce now has been relegated to shaking her boobs, shaking her ass, and racial commentary.
That's basically what her stunt is now.
Ever since she married Jay-Z, who by the way is a jerk also.
Jay-Z wears a medallion for what is called the 5% Nation.
The 5% Nation believes that black people are superior to white people.
That's their actual, literal belief.
Um, and so, Beyonce does her halftime show.
Now, I'm gonna watch a little bit of the Beyonce halftime show.
First of all, I wanna point out, everybody who says Beyonce's a magnificent dancer, no, she just looks like her ass is having a seizure.
But, she says that, yeah, everybody who acts like, this is not a stare, okay?
It is not Gene Kelly.
Let's stop, she's not...
She's not, you know, a Russian ballet dancer.
She's a lady who's twerking.
She's like one step above Miley Cyrus.
But, putting aside the artistic commentary here, because her music, like, lately her music is garbage also.
So her dancing is basically just, how much can she jiggle?
And her music is, how much can she get away with?
Here was what happened at the Beyonce halftime show.
Let's play it.
First of all, I don't know why Joe Pesci is there.
Also, there's nothing I like better than a bunch of anti-black stereotypes being put out there by black people.
That's always great.
I'm sorry, but if a white person said about a bunch of black people that what makes you black is that when you get screwed good, you take your ass to Red Lobster, everybody would realize just how racist and terrible that is.
But Beyonce gets to say it because the rules don't apply.
And again, The Black Panthers were a terrorist group, okay?
If you had a white terrorist group that were being honored, a bunch of people in white sheets out there in the middle of the Super Bowl, everybody would realize how disgusting this is.
By the way, Cosmopolitan calls this garbage piece of non-music the most perfect song since the Paleozoic era.
Somebody should note to them the Paleozoic era was not really remnant.
It's not respected for its tunefulness, the Paleozoic era.
But the music video for this is even worse.
I mean, if you actually look at the music video that this is based on, in the music video, there's a line of white cops standing by as a black teenager walks up to them, then there's a wall with graffiti that says, stop shooting us.
Let me ask you, if she really thinks that this is gonna make any black kid in America better off, What black kid in America is better off because of this?
What black kid isn't going to get shot in the inner city because of this?
What black kid is going to get an education because of this?
She's just making millions off of a stereotypical depiction of a really negative and nasty culture.
Malcolm X was a pig, okay?
Malcolm X, until he had his Islamic His Islamic revelation at the end of his life and realized basically everything he'd been saying was wrong?
Malcolm X was a garbage heap of humanity.
He was a bad guy, Malcolm X. Martin Luther King at least promoted good things.
He had his own personal foibles, but he promoted good things.
Malcolm X is the guy who used to call white people white devils.
And so, paying homage to him during the Super Bowl?
Right, this is the most watched event in America every year.
This is where we have come racially.
The post-racial era isn't the post-racial era, it's the post-decency era, and Beyoncé leads the way.
But it wasn't just that, it wasn't just that.
There were some Super Bowl commercials.
This took place in San Francisco, so Coldplay showed up, for no reason, no one likes Coldplay, but Coldplay showed up and sang about same-sex marriage, and then they handed people rainbow placards to hold up in the stands, and then it said, Believe in love.
Believe in love.
Like that means anything.
They don't believe in love for the Christian people who don't feel like participating in their gay weddings.
They don't feel like love for all of the children who will grow up without a mother or without a father.
They don't believe in that.
All of this is just the cultural rot that has set upon us.
The Super Bowl commercials were another reflection of that.
So let's take a look at the Axe commercial.
And edgy is what makes people remember you apparently in the advertising business.
Here's the Axe commercial that ran.
And you will see how ridiculous this is.
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Here we go.
Who needs a six-pack when you got the nose?
Or a nose when you got the suit?
Now you don't need a suit when you got the fire.
Or fire when you rock those heels.
Or when you got the brains.
The HAW.
Who needs some other thing when you got your thing?
Okay, and they cut out one frame for the Super Bowl that was online where there's a woman leaning back in bed because she's having sex.
Presumably at the hands of one of these guys.
Not the guy wearing the high heels, I would assume.
So the idea here is that individuality trumps all.
Individuality trumps all.
Find your magic.
Well, I mean, there are standards of behavior, also, and I'm not sure why it's appropriate on national television to show someone grooming their genitals, which I assume is when they say, find your thing, and then they have a shot of a sink low down at, like, waist level.
Kinda weird.
Kinda gross.
But this is how we dumb down the culture and this is how we mainstream the ridiculous.
Okay?
The idea that... How many millions... There are probably 250 million people who watch this thing.
How many millions of those people are men who prance around wearing high heels?
How many?
But all this is so Axe can pat itself on the back.
This is a chick car.
It's virtually justice oriented.
The idea is, it's virtue signaling, we're better people, we're great people.
How do you know we're great people?
'Cause we put a dude in high heels.
That's how you know that we're great people.
So that wasn't even the worst commercial.
There were a bunch of them that were truly terrible.
The Mini Cooper commercial was ridiculous, so let's try that one. - This is a chick car.
But the idea is that we're supposed to feel good about them because of the social justice signaling.
And this is what the advertising business does.
They push this idea that if you look at that, and you have a negative feeling about that commercial, if you feel like, this is ridiculous, I just want to buy a car, show me what the car does, that must be because you're a bad person.
You're not tolerant of everybody.
The idea is to morally shame you into liking this car.
Right, that car, that told me nothing about the car.
I may still think that that car is a ridiculous feminine little junk car, right?
I mean, I can still think all those things, but now if I think that, I'm a sexist.
It means that I'm anti-gay if I don't like the Mini Cooper.
And if I don't use the ax, it means that I'm transphobic.
That's the idea behind these commercials.
All this is subtle, emotional button-pushing that the left does in order to push a particular agenda.
They're trying to morally shame you.
They think America has reached the point where if you don't really like watching guys prancing around in heels and their underwear on national television, they think America has reached the point where they can be shamed about that.
I don't think that's the case.
The other commercial that got a lot of attention was Amy Schumer and Seth Rogen were in a commercial together.
Two unfunny, supposed funny people of the left doing a commercial that is unfunny.
The left is all mad today about what an ultrasound actually looks like, and the right is upset today because the biggest game in America, the most watched TV event...
In the United States, maybe in history, is replete with leftist imagery.
And just to top it off, President Obama and wife did their Super Bowl interview.
They do it every year.
This year it was Gayle King, who's only famous for being Oprah's significant other.
And here's the Obama's being interviewed by Gayle King on ABC beforehand.
I hate this so much I can't even tell you.
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So when you're at a Super Bowl party at the Obama House, do you watch the commercials?
I mean, this is, you know, This is Kate and William, right?
I mean, this is the American royalty.
You got the media interviewing American royalty.
I've said this a thousand times.
I hate it so much.
They are not royalty.
This is a bureaucrat.
This is a bureaucrat that we pay so that he does a job.
And he and his wife are treated like royalty.
Well, we got the champagne room.
We got the one for the kids.
And then we got the treaty room where we all sit around watching football on the taxpayer dime.
And then I do an interview with you right here in the Oval Office.
And it's just really nice, you know?
That's what we like to do.
The combination of celebrity with, honest to God, Jay-Z and Beyonce could be president and first lady within 15 years.
And Obama and Michelle could be performing at the Super Bowl.
Like, we could have that reversal.
That's how far we've gone in terms of celebrity politicians and politician celebrities, and it's gross all the way around.
And that's why we're never gonna, we may never have a substantive president of the United States again.
We may have hit that point, right?
The Super Bowl says a lot about our politics, because this is how people actually engage with politics.
It's in this sort of fashion with their emotions being manipulated by the media, by advertisers, by the TV they watch, by halftime shows.
All of this has an impact on us.
And then when it comes time to vote, how many people are actually worried about Common Core when it comes time to vote?
How many people are actually concerned about Barack Obama's policy on ISIS versus how many people say, well, look at them.
They're such a charming couple.
They seem like such a nice people.
I mean look, they're sitting there talking about what normal people they are.
It's just like when you go to Us Weekly and you see Us Weekly on the stands at the supermarket and it says celebrities.
They're just like us.
So who's just like us?
Let's get those people.
It's not good for America.
It's not good for the country.
We should have our entertainment, for sure.
I love watching the Super Bowl.
It's fun.
I enjoy watching it with my pop.
But the idea that you're going to take that and combine it with politics, and then take politics and combine it with celebrity, this is how you end up with a horribly run country where everybody just abdicates duty to the powerful celebrity in charge.
And tomorrow we'll find out which powerful celebrity takes New Hampshire, because one of them will.