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March 31, 2017 - The Ben Shapiro Show
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Ep. 278 - Leftists Crack Down On Free Speech
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On Tuesday, singer Alicia Keys, who performed at the 2016 Democratic National Convention of course, posted this tweet.
It says, that's not the right one, that's the right one, there we go.
It says, our strength is in our differences, our power is in our diversity, we are so beautiful, all of us, when we see each other, we see ourselves.
And then it's a picture Of her or another woman in the niqab.
The niqab is the giant covering that covers your entire face except for your eyes.
And then she's wearing what appears to be a black form-fitting dress with her legs sticking out of it.
So, you know, the niqab is now a great thing.
This is just the sort of empty-headed virtue signaling you'd expect from a member of the political far left who obviously knows nothing about the way radical Islam treats women.
It's the idiocy of modern feminism in action.
It would be one thing to defend the hijab, which is the Islamic head covering that virtually all religious Muslim women wear.
It's another to defend the niqab, which is that face covering into which many religious Muslim countries force women.
Here is the fact.
In the countries in which women typically wear the niqab, like Saudi Arabia or Afghanistan or Iran, a woman who exposed her leg, the way the woman does in this photo, would be criminally prosecuted.
In Sudan in 2015, nine women were flogged for wearing pants.
In Indonesia last year, a Muslim woman was flogged for standing in close proximity to her boyfriend.
A few months ago, Saudi Arabia arrested a woman for taking a photograph without her abaya.
That's the head covering that kind of swishes around the neck.
Here is what that brazen hussy was wearing when the Saudis thought she was immodest.
Yes, this.
Okay?
The woman received death threats even before her arrest.
For people who can't actually see the picture and are listening to this later, she's wearing a long dress and a long black coat.
Nothing is uncovered, essentially.
It is easy to fetishize foreign cultures, but to glamorize a symbol of oppression for millions of women across the Muslim world to pretend that the great threat to freedom comes from the West Which is willing to tolerate women wearing pretty much anything rather than a radical Muslim world that uses the criminal law to penalize women who violate their standards of modesty is asinine virtue signaling that forwards the oppression of women.
So much for feminism.
I'm Ben Shapiro.
This is The Ben Shapiro Show.
All right, so today I actually want to talk a fair bit about this Planned Parenthood move by the state of California.
The state of California is now charging the undercover filmmakers who went undercover with Planned Parenthood and showed that Planned Parenthood was selling baby body parts, that they were performing abortions in ways in order to preserve the body parts of the babies.
The filmmakers are the ones in trouble.
In California, fine to kill babies, fine to sell their body parts.
Not okay to go undercover to film people doing this in news reporting.
But even that is a misread of the law and we'll go through all the law in just a second.
Plus we'll get to the latest from Trump land and Bernie Sanders land and all the rest of the crazy lands that exist in this bizarre Game of Thrones world we now inhabit.
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Okay, so, lots to get to today.
So let's begin with this controversy over Planned Parenthood.
So, last night it is announced by the state of California that they have charged David Dalladin and Sandra Merritt of the Center for Medical Progress on 15 felony counts over their undercover reporting regarding Planned Parenthood.
So in 2015, if you recall, Dalladin and Merritt released video showing that high-ranking Planned Parenthood members were joking about selling baby body parts for market rates and picking through actual baby body parts in order to demonstrate which sorts of body parts were available for the sale of medical research and talking about the best methods of abortion for procuring those baby body parts.
I want to remind you of what's on those tapes because this is the stuff that's not criminal.
It's the taping that's supposedly criminal.
So here is one of the heads of Planned Parenthood saying that she wants to buy a Lamborghini with the money that she makes from selling baby body parts.
... hemisphere and all that.
So that protects us so that we're not paying for what we can't use.
And I think it also maybe illustrates things.
It's been years since I've talked about the conversation.
So let me just figure out what others are getting.
If this is in the ballpark, and that's fine, if it's still low, then we can talk about that.
- You would.
- What would you do?
- I want a Lamborghini.
- What? - I said I want a Lamborghini.
- Don't we all, right?
- Yeah, exactly.
- Okay, so there's the lady saying she wants a Lamborghini from the sale of the baby body parts.
And that's not all they uncovered.
Here's a little bit of the sort of quick and easy guide to the Planned Parenthood videos.
- I'm Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
I want to be really clear.
The allegation that Planned Parenthood profits in any way from tissue donation is not true.
A company like this that wants to, that wants to give our organization money for the tissue, like, I think that that's a valid claim, you know?
That's okay.
We have independent colleagues who generate a fair amount of income, right?
We have to procure certain tissues, like, Brain, liver, thymus, pancreas, heart, lungs, and pretty much anything on the fetus.
It's basically a huge trafficking of fetal tissues.
The harder and the more valuable the tissue, the more money you get.
So if you can somehow procure a brain or a heart, you're going to get more money than just like chorionic villi or umbilical cord.
If we alter our process and we are able to obtain intact fetal cadavers, It's all just a matter of line items.
That would be $100 per specimen.
50 specimens per day would be $5,000 per day that Planned Parenthood was collecting from fetal tissue.
Extrapolate that $120,000 per month.
That is certainly not recouping cost.
For example, so I had eight cases yesterday.
And I knew exactly what we needed, and I kind of looked at the list, and I said, alright, this 17-linker has 8 grams, and this we have... So I knew which were the cases that were probably more likely to yield what we needed, and I made my decisions according to that, too.
So it's worth having a huddle at the beginning of the day.
And that's what I do.
There are guidelines on research, but there are not guidelines on tissue procurement.
And there will never be guidelines.
Just to keep everyone, to keep it... If they're gonna, you know, participate in something like this, you know, there are mechanisms by which contracts can be reviewed and things like that, but there are no guidelines.
Sometimes the procedures are longer, so then anything that we piggyback onto that for collection purposes, obviously, you know, would have to reflect that additional time, cost, administrative burden.
We're working with almost like triple-digit number clinics.
So it's a lot on volume.
It's ghoulish, ghoulish stuff.
I mean, they're talking about the killing of the unborn and then the sale of the body parts.
So this obviously created a major firestorm.
There was talk about defunding Planned Parenthood.
Hopefully, they will still defund Planned Parenthood.
That doesn't have anything to do with the health care bill.
It should just be done on its own.
There's no need to provide federal funding for Planned Parenthood or state funding for Planned Parenthood, which is, as I've said before, a baby genocide clinic.
That's what Planned Parenthood does.
Now, what does California do?
So, important to recognize, the person who initiated the crusade against David DeLayden and Sandra Merritt, the person who actually initiated that was Kamala Harris, who's now the senator from California.
She was then the attorney general of the state of California.
She's the one who ordered a raid into Layden's home to try and get hold of all of the tapes.
And now they've charged 15 felony counts.
So here's what you need to know legally.
California is what we call a two-party consent state.
That means that if you and I are on the phone together and I tape it, I can't release that tape.
It is actually illegal for me to do the taping itself.
That is actually wiretapping in the formal sense of the term.
I can't do that without your permission.
However, if you and I are in a public place and there is no reasonable expectation of privacy, that's the way the law is written, if there's no reasonable expectation of privacy, then me taping you is not a problem.
So if we're at Disneyland, we're talking out loud about baby tissue, then there is no reasonable expectation of privacy.
But it actually goes even further than that.
So 14 of the 15 charges come from the California Penal Code, Section 632A.
That states in relevant part, quote, every person who intentionally and without the consent of all parties to a confidential communication By means of any electronic amplifying or recording device eavesdrops shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $2,500 or imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year or in the state prison or by both that fine and imprisonment.
Now note the language there.
Confidential, right?
It's not just any confidential.
All parties to a confidential communication.
So what does that mean?
What is a confidential communication?
First off, you can see from these tapes clearly that some of this is obviously not confidential.
They're doing it in the middle of a crowded restaurant.
They're talking openly and loudly.
It's obviously not meant to be secretive.
Planned Parenthood.
Cecile Richards said that people were saying this publicly in restaurants and that this wasn't a privacy issue.
What they're saying is that some of the other conversations, like there's a point where they went into some of the medical labs, there's a point where they went into, you can see, a private office with some of the heads of Planned Parenthood.
They're saying those were private conversations.
So, that would be plausible except for this 2002 case from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
In 2002, The Ninth Circuit was asked to rule on a case that sprang from Arizona.
So ABC News, ABC News did a segment for Primetime Live in 1994.
And this segment actually ended up winning a Peabody Award for great journalism.
And what they did is they went into a place called Medical Laboratory Management Consultants and they were talking about mammograms and whether they were effective or not and whether they were overprescribed.
They went in undercover.
And here is what the courts found.
This is a direct quote.
Devaraj is the person who is the representative for medical laboratory management consultants.
They said, Devaraj's willingness to invite these strangers into the administrative offices for a meeting and then on a tour of the premises indicated that Devaraj should not have an objectively reasonable expectation of solitude or seclusion in the parts of medical lab that he showed the ABC representatives.
And then the court also found no reasonable expectation of privacy regarding the conversations between the ABC undercover reporters and the medical technicians.
This is a direct quote from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the most liberal court in the country.
Devarage did not reveal any information about his personal life or affairs, but only generally discussed medical labs, business operations, the pap smear testing industries about pap smears, not mammograms, and Gordon's supposed plans to open her own laboratories.
So the ABC pretended to be something they weren't, which is exactly what this case was, and then they went and talked to people in a private setting, which is exactly what this case was, and the court found no problem.
In fact, the Ninth Circuit said, Arizona law is not like California law.
Maybe it would be different if this were in California, but then they add this, quote, Namely, the expectation that a communication shared with or possibly overheard by a limited group of persons will nonetheless remain relatively private and secluded from the public at large is reasonable only to the extent the communication conveys information private and personal to the declarant.
To the declarant, meaning that if none of the Planned Parenthood members are talking about the stuff they do in their personal life specifically, there's no problem here.
That's the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
This case is directly on point.
This is what we call good precedent from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
So, here's the question.
Where are the media today?
The media, you know, the people who we've been hearing for months and months and months, tyrannical Donald Trump, tyrannical he's going to destroy everything, tyrannical, awful, evil Donald Trump, he's going to crack down on press freedoms, and he's going to ensure that no one is free, he's going to throw people in jail.
Where are they today?
When the state of California is taking undercover journalists, which is what DeLayton and Merritt are, taking them and threatening to throw them in jail for at least 15 years apiece.
Right?
That's what they're talking about.
Because the penalty for each one of these violations is at least a year.
Or no more than a year.
So 15 years they're talking about in prison for people taping conversations that obviously are undercover journalism.
And in which there is no reasonable expectation of privacy according to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Where is the Washington Post today?
Where is CNN?
Where is Fox News?
Imagine for a second.
Imagine for a second that Back in 2012, Mitt Romney, he gets taped by Jimmy Carter's grandson, and Jimmy Carter's grandson gets this tape at a private event where Mitt Romney is speaking, okay?
And Mitt Romney is not speaking even to him.
He's just speaking to a private group of people, and this guy tapes Romney talking about the 47%.
Imagine if Romney sued the guy, or more importantly, imagine if the state in which this took place decided to prosecute Jimmy Carter Jr., or Jimmy Carter III, and what do you think the media would do?
You think the media would stand up for that?
You think they would say, oh, no problem, you know, that was a violation of privacy expectations?
What do you think would happen if an undercover journalist, let's say, for example, that there is an undercover, somebody released, without the permission of Donald Trump, tape from, let's say, an Access Hollywood bus in California, right?
And there was an Access Hollywood bus, and there was tape that Donald Trump knew the microphone was on him, but he didn't know the microphone was on, obviously.
Let's say that somebody took that tape, in which Trump had a pretty reasonable expectation of privacy, and then released it publicly.
And the state of California decided to go after and prosecute the people over at NBC, or wherever this was taking place, I think it was NBC.
Imagine that happened.
Do you think that the press would stand up for the person who leaked all of this?
And this is the point.
When it comes to principle, the left is completely missing it.
It doesn't exist.
If David DeLayton had been a member of Planned Parenthood, and they went into an undercover investigation of people targeting Planned Parenthood, if they had done an undercover investigation of live action, Lila Rose's organization, and found some sort of corruption, or something damning, And then they'd release that publicly.
Do you think the media would be okay with the prosecution of the people who actually did that work?
Of course not.
And this just demonstrates that when it comes to principle, people are almost always willing to put their own political preferences above the importance of principle, and this is just another case of that.
This is just another case of that.
And it really is quite horrifying.
If you are in favor of press freedom, there is no way in hell you should be standing still for any of this.
And where's Brian Stelter at CNN?
Where are those wonders of freedom over at the ACLU?
Where are all the people on the left on this?
They're missing in action because they think it's more important to kill babies, and this guy was a bad guy because he exposed the fact that killing babies was a bad thing.
And that Planned Parenthood was in the business of killing babies.
I mean, there's video of them actually picking through baby body parts on a tray.
And they don't like that.
Anything that makes Planned Parenthood look bad is inherently evil and must be prosecuted.
That sort of selective prosecution on the basis of political preference is the definition of political evil.
Okay, well, I want to talk more about what's going on, you know, as far as the media going nuts on Trump.
This is actually the big story of the day.
Is the media losing their mind?
Hillary is back out there.
Hillary is back.
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So the media have lost their minds.
And the way you can tell the media have lost their minds is not just because every day I keep telling you the media have lost their minds, not just because the media are wildly inconsistent when it comes to things like the Planned Parenthood tapes, but I'm going to give you two examples of the media just going nuts and losing their freaking gourds.
First example.
Yesterday at the White House press briefing, Sean Spicer is doing a press briefing, and April Ryan, who's from Urban Radio Networks, I believe, American Urban Radio Networks, she starts questioning Spicer in the most obnoxious possible way.
And I'm not a Sean Spicer fan.
I think that Sean Spicer is far too close to Melissa McCarthy's impression of Sean Spicer for comfort, but Sean Spicer is dealing with April Ryan's questions, and everybody, I saw this clip tweeted out yesterday, and people were going crazy over it, and I watched it, and I was like, I don't understand what the big problem is.
Here's the clip, and you decide for yourself.
No, no, I get it, but you keep... I've said it from the day that I got here until whatever, that there is no connection.
You've got Russia.
If the president puts Russian salad dressing on his salad tonight, somehow that's a Russian connection.
But every single person... No, I... Well, no, that's... I appreciate your agenda here, but the reality is... Oh, no, no, hold on.
No, at some point, report the facts.
The facts are that every single person who has been briefed on this subject has come away with the same conclusion.
Republican, Democrat, so, I'm sorry that that disgusts you.
You're shaking your head.
I appreciate it, but, but... Okay, but understand this.
That at some point, the facts are what they are.
And every single person who has been briefed on this situation, with respect to the situation with Russia, Republican, Democrat, Obama appointee, career, have all come to the same conclusion.
At some point, April, you're going to have to take no for an answer with respect to whether or not there was collusion.
Hold on.
April, hold on.
It seems like you're hellbent on trying to make sure that whatever image you want to tell about this White House stays.
Because at the end of the day, let me answer... You know what, you're asking me a question and I'm going to answer it.
Which is, the President... I'm sorry, please stop shaking your head again.
Okay, and that was the thing that he got, oh, stop shaking your head again.
Ooh, he's a sexist.
Ooh, he's a racist.
You never would have said anything like this.
Okay, Melissa McCarthy, again, is getting re-famous off of being Sean Spicer, taking his podium and bulldozing it into the crowd, right?
The idea that Sean Spicer said, or said this to April Ryan because April Ryan is particular because she's black or because she's a woman.
Absolutely asinine, absolutely asinine.
And then April Ryan is playing this thing up like she was battered or something.
Here she is on CNN acting as though this is one of the worst moments of her life.
Honestly, if Sean Spicer telling you to stop shaking your head is the worst moment of your life, you lived a pretty fantastic life.
Here's April Ryan playing it up. - It's two and a half months in.
There's a frustration.
There is something we've never seen before here at this White House.
And Sean has to do what he has to do.
He is the spokesperson for this White House, but I'm a reporter, and I cover all things presidential, to include what is presidential, those investigations on the Hill.
It pertains to what's happening here.
With everything that's going on, with everything that's going on, that was the question.
How do you revamp the image of this White House?
This administration has come into a new world.
Donald Trump is this mogul, this real estate mogul.
He's a businessman.
But he is now president, a president who's never had governance, and he's finding his way.
And he's finding his way in ways that are hurtful to him and hopefully not hurtful to the country.
Okay, so she's playing this whole thing up, and everybody on the left is playing this up this morning.
Ooh, Sean Spicer was so mean to April Ryan.
Now, first of all, I've defended April Ryan before.
I defended April Ryan, there was that situation in the White House press briefing room during, I think Trump himself was doing a press conference, and at one point he said to April Ryan, can you fix up a meeting between me and the Congressional Black Caucus?
And I was like, wait a second, that's not her job, that's weird.
But this one is just absurd on its face.
But this wasn't the only example of the media losing their mind over something that was almost meaningless, or at least was wildly overblown, would be more accurate.
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