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Feb. 14, 2017 - The Ben Shapiro Show

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Ep. 252 - 'Saturday Night Live' Goes Totally Nuts On Trump

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	Sweden's government has declared itself the first feminist government in the world.
	Yes, really.
	According to the government website, a feminist government ensures that a gender equality perspective is brought into policymaking on a broad front, both nationally and internationally.
	Women and men must have the same power to shape society and their own lives, unquote.
	So, when that feminist government visited Iran, one might expect that the empowered women in this empowered government would be empowered enough to avoid donning the hijab, the Islamic female head covering.
	Nope.
	The meeting with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani.
	The women universally put on headscarves.
	Apparently feminism only demonstrates its strength when dealing with Western men who are basically willing to work with feminists, not when dealing with patriarchal societies intent on the subjugation and repression of women.
	As UN Watch reports, quote, trade minister Anne Lind and other female members walked before Iranian President Rouhani on Saturday wearing hijabs, chadors, and long coats in deference to Iran's oppressive and unjust modesty laws which make the hijab compulsory.
	This is kind of indicative of the focus of Western feminists.
	With the vast majority of sexism wiped off the map in the West, women in the United States comprise a majority of college students and graduate students, and earn more than men in 147 out of 150 highly populated cities if they have no kids.
	Instead of turning internationally, the feminists left has found new windmills to pursue, forcing other people to pay for women's childrearing, fighting for the ability to kill babies in the womb at any stage of pregnancy.
	That means abandoning women living in actual patriarchal autocracies.
	So, why won't Western feminists fight for women living under tyranny?
	Because that would mean empowering men in their own countries to fight radical Islam.
	And that would undermine the pacifistic view of Western civilization that too many feminists think is a prereq for female equality.
	A muscular defense of Western civilization makes feminists uncomfortable.
	They see that as merely the flip side of the Islamist coin, which is why the only time they bother ripping radical Islam is when they're saying Donald Trump is a member of the Taliban.
	The result is that women who are actually oppressed have no feminist allies in the West.
	And that means they're on their own, as those same feminists kowtow to their would-be oppressors.
	I'm Ben Shapiro.
	This is The Ben Shapiro Show.
	Alrighty, so, we are going to get to SNL.
	We're going to save the Grammys for tomorrow, I think.
	There's a lot going on at the Grammys, and I want to do Deconstructing Culture.
	We'll do a full-scale deconstruction of the Grammys tomorrow on the show, but we're going to focus on SNL.
	We're going to talk about Stephen Miller's bombshell debut on the Sunday shows and what that means for the Trump administration.
	We're going to talk about the left going nuts.
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	Okay, so lots to get to today, but we want to start with SNL.
	So this is the first week in like five, six, eight, a thousand weeks Donald Trump has not tweeted about Saturday Night Live on Saturday night.
	And there's a reason for that, and that's because Saturday Night Live has basically turned into the Annoy Donald Trump show.
	Instead of them actually doing funny things, they've decided it's more important to do things that irritate Donald Trump.
	And there's always been this aspect to SNL.
	I mean, going all the way back to the 1970s when they did Chevy Chase's Gerald Ford, and he'd bump his head on things, and he was like a clumsy oaf, even though Gerald Ford was actually the most athletic president we ever had.
	He was an All-American linebacker at University of Michigan in football, Gerald Ford.
	But they portrayed him as a bumbling oaf, and it worked.
	The SNL has always been sort of gadflyish against Republican presidents.
	They don't care about Democrat presidents.
	They never made fun of Bill Clinton particularly much.
	They had Daryl Hammond, but it was kind of weak.
	Obama, they never even touched.
	I mean, Obama was just a worship choir for eight years.
	Well, now Trump is president, and that means that they are going to dedicate all of their strength and all of their minimal skill toward targeting President Trump.
	And here's the thing.
	There's so much about the fact that Donald Trump is president that is actually funny.
	There's a lot that's funny about this.
	Donald Trump is a funny, funny human.
	Everybody is sort of funny, but Trump takes it to a new level.
	His tweets are crazy sometimes, and whenever he talks, he talks with this rich self-assurance, even if he doesn't know what he's talking about, and he says things that are outrageous, and he has a sense of humor.
	There's a lot about Donald Trump that you can make fun of.
	And a lot of the people who surround him are funny.
	So, Sean Spicer, his press secretary, is a funny guy inherently because he's sort of this insecure guy who's playing macho on TV.
	And that's why when Melissa McCarthy last week did her impression of Sean Spicer, it was actually really funny.
	But now SNL has decided that they are going to go full scale, annoy Trump.
	So we're not going to try to be funny so much as just annoy Donald Trump a lot.
	So, it begins, SNL, on Saturday night with Leslie Jones.
	So Leslie Jones has become sort of this bugaboo of the right ever since Milo went to war with her on Twitter over her role in Ghostbusters, which is a terrible film.
	And so there are a lot of people saying, wouldn't it be funny to tweak Donald Trump by having Leslie Jones play Donald Trump on TV?
	This black woman who's very much to the left, wouldn't it be really funny?
	So they constructed a skit just for Leslie Jones to play Donald Trump.
	And again, I guess the idea here was just to take off Trump so that he'd tweet about it.
	And it doesn't really work very well.
	This whole skit, this one's actually not one of the worst ones.
	This one's actually okay, but it's, again, designed to tick off Trump, right?
	And people were saying this beforehand, the whole reason for casting Leslie Jones to tick off Trump.
	And then they brought Melissa McCarthy back.
	I guess under the theory that once you beat a dead horse to death, you can continue beating it until it actually decays into just bone.
	So they brought Melissa McCarthy back to do Sean Spicer again.
	And again, it's okay, but, like, really?
	Aren't you bored with this already?
	Like, why don't you bring this back three weeks from now?
	You gotta bring it back every single week.
	They're beating the dead horse and it's not, again, are these the end of the world?
	No, but the entire show is dedicated to Trump.
	This is only the second of four sketches that are dedicated to Donald Trump.
	Here's Alec Baldwin doing a People's Court parody of Donald Trump.
	Again, it's like all they have to do and they don't really care whether people think it's funny or not.
	They really only care whether Donald Trump gets annoyed enough to tweet about it.
	So I guess in that they failed because he didn't tweet about it.
	This is, I really am not, I'm not a fan of Alec Baldwin's Donald Trump, and I think the writing for it is really weak, so this was only the third of four, and finally we get to the one that's actually really bad.
	The one that was actually really, really bad was Kellyanne Conway.
	So they've been ripping on Kellyanne Conway for a while, which is fine with me, I'm not a big Kellyanne Conway fan, but the way that they ripped on her on Saturday night really was truly egregious.
	What they did is, they suggested that CNN wouldn't have her on because she was dishonest, because there was that story last week about this, and When they did the skit, instead of just doing it like a horror sketch, like she's haunting the, like she's haunting Jake Tapper at CNN, they tried to sexualize it, and it really is kind of insulting and gross.
	Here's what it looked like.
	Again, this is actually, this is the worst of it.
	So they've gone so far off the rails, and now that Kellyanne Conway, who's married and has four children, they're trying to play her as though the reason that she's trying to get on TV is because of sex or something, and now she's trying to hit up Jake Tapper, by the way, also married, with two children.
	If they did this to somebody on the left, everybody would rightly cry sexism.
	Right?
	It is.
	I mean, I'm sorry, this is sexist.
	It's sexist to take a woman who is on TV.
	You may not agree with her, you may think she's terrible, you may think she lies a lot, but the idea that she is some sort of sex fiend who's going over to people's apartments and sexing it up with random dudes on the news is really Pretty gross.
	And this just demonstrates how far the left is willing to go in order to pillory the right.
	And what they're doing is they're actually undermining their own credibility.
	There are plenty of credibility issues with the Trump team, and we're going to get to some of those in a little bit.
	But the left's deep desire to override anything remotely resembling truth in favor of just the most absurd material possible, all it's really doing is it's off-putting half the United States.
	And yeah, SNL's ratings are good right now, but they're not doing themselves any favors.
	When they go so far over the top that they're actually insulting to the members of the Trump administration, not just kind of gentle mockery, or even harsh mockery, or even kind of cutting mockery, but turning Kellyanne Conway into a sex fiend, or suggesting that Donald Trump is legitimately too stupid to do anything.
	There are certain lines that you cross at a certain point that are not, you know, I'm not saying anybody should be shut down, but I am saying that it's counterproductive to what they're trying to do, and it's not funny.
	So that Kellyanne Conway thing is actually so far past the line it's not even funny.
	Like, you watch that, and I can see the humor in the Leslie Jones thing because half of it is about how she's an incompetent actress, but the Kellyanne Conway thing is so far over the top that it really is Is insulting to, I think, women generally, actually.
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	Okay, final note on this.
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	Okay, final note on this.
	It's not just restricted to SNL, of course.
	The left has lost its mind over Trump.
	And what they're doing, again, is undermining their own credibility.
	So Andrew Sullivan, who has been irrelevant for at least five years here— He used to be over at the Atlantic.
	He used to be considered somewhat of a conservative.
	He was sort of a pro-Iraq war conservative.
	Andrew Sullivan, in 2008, he lost his mind.
	And he started talking about how Trig Palin, Sarah Palin's son, was actually Bristol Palin's son.
	He had this Trig Birther conspiracy.
	And then Obama invited him to the White House as some sort of brilliant commentator.
	And now he is saying that Donald Trump is crazy.
	Now some politicians fear Ben Lai, in fact almost all of them do to some extent, but they always do it in a way that pays some sort of deference to reality.
	And what we've discovered is that in the last three weeks, this president, rather like he did on the campaign trail, Simply insists that black is white.
	The things that we can see with our own eyes, like the size of his inauguration crowd, are not exactly what we're seeing.
	And is able to command his underlings to actually go out there and also say things that are empirically untrue.
	Is the guy critiquing Donald Trump now?
	I mean, they're really dragging these corpses out of the woodwork to criticize Donald Trump.
	The guy who thinks that Trig Palin was not actually Sarah Palin's kid, is actually Bristol Palin's kid.
	Rob Reiner.
	Like, now they're dragging a director who hasn't done anything good since Princess Bride out of the walls in order to criticize Trump.
	He calls Trump a cancer.
	You're seeing all over the country with protests, and I've been at many of them, is nothing like what I went through in the 60s when I protested against the Vietnam War.
	This is everyone.
	It's not just people worried about being killed in Vietnam.
	This is everyone.
	And so we're looking at a A cancerous presidency that we cannot allow to spread.
	And so, so many things come at us.
	Okay, so that's pretty radical rhetoric.
	Again, cancerous presidency we cannot allow to spread, so what are you supposed to do, kill it?
	Are you calling for assassination?
	What's the implication here?
	Again, all of this does is really help Donald Trump.
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