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Oct. 9, 2024 - The Ben Shapiro Show
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Kamala’s Blue Wall Is Collapsing!
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Well, folks, we're in the middle of the closest presidential race in the United States since 1960.
We have seven swing states that are all essentially tied, but Donald Trump does have the momentum.
We're going to talk about all of that, plus Kamala Harris's magical mystery tour of irrelevant left-wing shows in a moment.
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Brand new polling out of the three blue wall states.
The blue wall is Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania.
Kamala Harris needs to hold all three of those.
Assuming that Donald Trump wins North Carolina, which I think he will.
Assuming he wins Georgia, which I believe he will.
Assuming that he wins Arizona, which it looks like he is on track to do.
If he does that, then he still needs to crack the so-called blue wall.
Those are those same three states.
It always seems to come down to those three states in these elections.
Well, that problem still exists.
The latest polling data from Pennsylvania.
Of the last five polls, Donald Trump is tied in two and ahead in three.
Fox News has Donald Trump tied at 49%.
Atlas Intel has Trump plus three.
Trafalgar has Trump plus three.
Emerson has a tie. Insider Advantage has Trump plus two in Pennsylvania.
Meanwhile, in Wisconsin, this race has gotten a lot closer over the course of the last few weeks.
The last three polls.
From Atlas, Trump plus two.
New York Times-Siena, Harris plus two.
Trafalgar, Trump plus one.
It's a lot narrower than it was just a few weeks ago.
And, by the way, Cook Political has now shifted Eric Hovde's race against Tammy Baldwin in the Senate into a toss-up, into a dead heat, which is great.
We campaigned with Eric just last week in Wisconsin's terrific candidate.
He'll make a great senator from the state of Wisconsin.
Meanwhile, over in Michigan, Kamala's having some real struggles.
There's a lot of news about internal polling from Michigan showing that she is having serious problems, particularly in getting out the Arab American vote, which is why so-called undeclared, which are Arab Americans who are pro-Hamas and very angry that Kamala Harris isn't quite pro-Hamas enough, despite all of her best attempts to appease them, Because of that, they are now considering endorsing Kamala Harris.
But in the last four polls, Atlas Intel has Trump up plus four in Michigan.
New York Times-Siena has Harris plus one.
Again, that's margin of error. Trafalgar has Trump plus two.
And Mears, Michigan news source, has Trump plus one.
In other words, these are very close states, but Trump seems to be picking up some momentum.
Not only that... The union men who really are prevalent in these states, in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania, are turning against Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.
I mentioned this a couple of weeks ago, that the Teamsters Union poll, which showed that Joe Biden was beating Donald Trump when he was in the race among Teamsters Union members.
As soon as Kamala Harris got in, it flipped, and suddenly Trump was winning those union members 60 to 40.
Which leads me to my theory that there is a very large and very quiet male pro-Trump vote.
That men, particularly blue-collar white men, look at Kamala Harris and they see someone who disdains traditional masculinity.
And the attempts to turn, say, Doug Emhoff into an icon of the new masculinity or Tim Walz, the weirdo, into some sort of icon of what it's like to be a true man in America in 2024, not only is that not having its desired impact, it is actually exacerbating male feelings that the Democratic ticket is no longer interested in them.
Politico has an entire piece today titled, The Latest Union Snub for Harris and Walls Underscores a Bigger Problem for Their Campaign.
They point out that Democrats' waning influence with unions, especially industrial, male-heavy groups like the firefighters and the Teamsters, has been a major point of concern for Democrats since Harris took over the ticket from Joe Biden, who is widely hailed by union leaders as a staunch ally of organized labor.
To fill that void, Harris, who has a strong pro-labor record but few personal ties to the country's unions, has leaned heavily on Tim Walls to help bolster the ticket's labor appeal.
On the campaign trail, the governor frequently talks up Harris' role in the most pro-union U.S. administration in history under Joe Biden.
So the UAW is backing Harris and Walls.
So is the International Brotherhood of Electric Workers.
But that does not mean that the members of those unions are going to vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walls.
And that's not because Harris and Walls are not pro-union.
They are, in fact, pro-union.
Essentially sycophants to the labor unions.
That is because the people who actually work and are members of unions don't necessarily vote just because they're members of unions.
They may have a bunch of cross-cutting concerns, including concerns about what Kamala Harris is going to do on the economy, including concerns about the attack on traditional masculinity, including concerns that Kamala Harris just does not have them in her heart.
And there is, you know, a lot of good evidence to that effect, which is why Kamala Harris right now has some serious problem in these blue wall states.
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The Wall Street Journal reporting just yesterday.
Harris struggling to break through with working class Democrats fear.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Democrats have privately grown worried about Kamala Harris' standing among working class voters in the crucial blue wall states, particularly in Michigan.
Donald Trump has assiduously courted union members and non-college educated white voters with a message focused on high cost manufacturing and the threat of China to the United States economy.
Senior Democrats, including Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, want a sharper economic appeal from Harris and have conveyed those concerns to her campaign, according to people familiar with the conversations.
But that's not the problem.
The problem is not overt appeals to auto workers and blue-collar workers.
That is not what is going to change the complexion of this campaign.
There is a culture war that has been going on in this country, and that culture war is clearly evident and obvious.
Okay, that culture war can be summed up in, for example, what Donald Trump has been doing over the course of the last week.
First of all, Kamala Harris has been doing over the course of the last week.
So Donald Trump has been going and doing rallies in the blue wall states.
He's then been going on shows like this one, a conservative podcast, for example, or he's been going on Fox News, or he's been going out and he's been talking with people in blue states that are blue wall states, but with actual normal voters.
Meanwhile, Kamala Harris has basically picked up and jet-setted to every single left-wing, cultural glitterati elite show she can find.
There's a vast culture gap between the kinds of people that Donald Trump is appealing to and the kinds of people that Kamala Harris is appealing to.
And when you add on top of that the fact that she seems to be a self-glorifying, absolute empty suit, that is not a good look.
By the way, I will point out at this point that the person who wants Kamala Harris to lose worse than anybody in America, apparently, is Joe Biden.
Joe Biden wants her to lose. Joe Biden is angry he got pushed out of the race.
He believes he'd be running stronger against Donald Trump than she would.
And there is some evidence to that effect.
That's the only reason I can imagine Joe Biden doing what he did yesterday.
So Kamala Harris, she had suggested that Governor Ron DeSantis had done something deeply wrong.
He's busy handling one of the worst hurricanes headed for Florida in modern history.
And she's pissed because apparently he didn't pick up the phone when she called.
And then DeSantis said, well, I didn't even know she called, but why exactly would I be dealing with her right now?
She literally has never called about any hurricane ever.
Literally ever. Why is she the center of this story?
And then she said, well, DeSantis is obviously selfish and not doing what he needs to do for the people of Florida.
Here is Joe Biden absolutely undercutting her, just taking her legs out right from under her yesterday.
The governor of Florida has been cooperative.
He said he's gotten all that he needs.
I talked to him again yesterday.
And I said, no, you're doing a great job.
It's all being done well.
We thank you for it.
And I literally gave my personal phone number to call.
So I don't know.
There was a rough start in some places, but every governor, every governor from Florida to North Carolina has been fully cooperative and supportive and acknowledged what this team is doing.
And they're doing an incredible job.
Okay, so he says the Sands is doing a fine job, which is the opposite of what Harris is saying.
So let's just say this.
Kamala Harris is out of touch. She's always out of touch.
She's always been out of touch.
She's an elite West Coast left winger from San Francisco and then Montreal and then back to California where she lived in coastal enclaves, living the high life and drinking Chardonnay at 2 p.m.
until she was made Vice President of the United States.
That appears to be the image that she is cultivating.
And I'm not sure why she thinks that is good for her.
I assume that she believes that if she just runs up the vote with suburban white women by talking about abortion on podcasts that only women listen to, that this will magically...
Spur her to victory. But here's the problem.
She's digging where she already has the gold.
There's nothing else to be found there.
She's mining where there is no one else.
So, yesterday, for example, over the last few days, she has done the following shows.
Call Her Daddy, The View, Howard Stern, and Stephen Colbert.
Please, number me, the swing voters who watch those shows.
Number me the swing voters who watch those shows.
She only did one show in which swing voters actually watch.
That would be 60 Minutes. And on 60 Minutes, she made a buffoon of herself, as we discussed yesterday on the show.
In fact, it was so bad on 60 Minutes that 60 Minutes went out of its way to try and cover for her.
So, 60 Minutes released a clip of an answer that she gave about Israel online before the actual show aired.
And then when it came to the actual answer that was aired on TV, they edited it.
So here are these two clips back to back to show you how 60 Minutes is trying to cover for her.
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But it seems that Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening.
We're not going to stop pursuing what is necessary for the United States to be clear about where we stand on the need for this war to end.
Okay, those are those two clips back-to-back.
So you can hear. The unedited version is a minute of nonsense.
In the edited version, they took one sentence out of context and then placed it next to the question.
This is how hard the media are trying to cover for her.
And don't worry, we'll get to CBS News a little later in the show because CBS News is a disgrace to journalism, truly.
But, this is the thing.
She cannot hold her own on any show where she is asked even a simple question.
She cannot. And so she has to go among allies and then just answer those questions from her allies.
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Okay, well, here's the thing. If she's running behind right now, if the people she needs to win over are white, blue-collar men, for example, or a heavier share of seniors, She ain't gonna do that by going on the Call Her Daddy podcast.
And you can tell who she's trying to appeal to.
Single white women.
That's it. It's single white women.
All the way down. Single white women.
That's all. That's her entire campaign.
Hillary Clinton tried to run this campaign in 2016.
It did not go well for her.
I know that people on the left are celebrating the fact that Call Her Daddy has big numbers.
Yes, among a certain constituency.
Among a certain constituency, they are hiding her, for good reason, from any show where she has to answer questions like she did with Bill Whitaker.
And instead, they're putting her on with Alex Cooper.
Alex Cooper, who is famous for making episodes like Wiz Khalifa, It's Not Cute to Cry, and of course, Hannah Berner, Al Dente, and Faking Dirty Talk, or My Mom Found My Nudes.
So that is who Kamala Harris sits with to discuss serious policy issues, is Alex Cooper, who's basically famous for being a very good-looking woman who talks about extreme details of sexual activity.
Like, slow clap for Kamala Harris's team here.
This is a big win. It's a big win.
Here she was, trying to campaign for all the single ladies.
I saw the governor of Arkansas said, my kids keep me humble.
Unfortunately, Kamala Harris doesn't have anything keeping her humble.
How did that make you feel?
I don't think she understands that there are a whole lot of women out here who, one, are not aspiring to be humble.
Two, a whole lot of women out here who have a lot of love in their life, family in their life, and children in their life.
And I think it's really important for women to lift each other up.
Family comes in many forms, and I think that increasingly You know, all of us understand that this is not the 1950s anymore.
Families come in all kinds of shapes and forms, and they're family nonetheless.
Kamala Harris on the Call Her Daddy podcast doing monologues from Robin Williams' Mrs.
Doubtfire. Right there.
Also, by the way, if we're not in the 1950s anymore, someone should ask her why her husband beats the s*** out of ladies, apparently.
I mean, it is absolutely incredible that there has been widely substantiated allegations that he beat up an ex-girlfriend.
And that he also was sexist toward his employees, and we already know that he knocked up the nanny, and somehow Doug Emhoff and Kamala Harris are still being trotted out as a model couple.
It's insane to me. You know this would not be the case if the parties were reversed.
If this were, say, Sarah Huckabee Sanders running for president, and it turned out her husband had hit an ex-girlfriend.
By multiple testimony and knocked up the nanny, that'd be the end of Sarah Huckabee Sanders' campaign.
You know it would be. The media are completely ignoring it.
It's absolutely astonishing.
According to the UK Daily Mail, Kamala Harris' husband was inappropriate and misogynistic at work, according to his former colleagues.
Attorneys who worked with Doug Emhoff at the former firm Venable say he yelled expletives, held a men-only cocktail hour in the office, revoked work perks from women who didn't flirt with him, and took only young, attractive associates in a limousine to a ball.
A 2019 lawsuit claimed sex discrimination by other partners in the LA office Emhoff ran, and that while engaged to Harris, he hired an unqualified part-time model as a legal secretary because she was young, attractive, and friendly with the powerful men in the office.
Again, this is supposedly the wife guy.
Again, there are claims that he struck his ex-girlfriend in 2012 in a booze-fueled assault after a date to a star-studded gala, according to the UK Daily Mail.
I noticed Alex Cooper had no questions for Kamala Harris about that, of course.
And meanwhile, she decided to jet set on from Call Her Daddy,
the eminent intellect of the Call Her Daddy podcast, to the geniuses over at The View,
where she proceeded to drop the worst line of her campaign thus far,
which is saying an awful lot.
This has not been a very good campaign.
The first few weeks went well, because basically she just went around and did a little
dance, sang a little song, got Tim Walz out there,
clapping like an idiot, like a seal.
And that was great for like a few weeks.
And then the vibe machine ran low.
And ever since, it's been kind of a rough ride for Kamala Harris,
to be honest with you.
Well, she accidentally got pantsed by the ladies at The View yesterday.
It's truly amazing. Like, they were there just to massage her, and somehow she managed to turn this massage into one of the worst moments of her campaign.
She was asked if there's anything she would have done differently than Joe Biden.
Now, that is a very easy question for her to answer.
Really quite easy. There are many things she could say here.
She could say, listen, I have nothing but respect for the man who made me vice president of the United States, and I'm proud of our record together.
But, of course, there are things where, if we had known, we would have done it differently.
We would have handled the Afghanistan pullout differently, because how can you say you don't have regrets when 13 American service people die at Abbey Gate?
We would have done our immigration policy differently from the beginning.
Because, frankly, we had no idea of the levels of illegal immigration that were going to swamp the country, and we've worked on fixing that, and I'm going to fix it going forward.
Those are things she could say, but she won't do it.
So instead, she gives just a gift to the Trump campaign.
Here she is being asked by Sonny Hostin, what would she have done differently?
She can't name a single thing, not one, which means she owns every single thing that people hate about the Biden administration.
She owns every single bit of it.
Would you have done something differently than President Biden during the past four years?
There is not a thing that comes to mind in terms of, and I've been a part of most of the decisions that have had impact.
Okay, just cut that, stamp it, put it on every film reel across the country, every single ad across the country.
She can't think of a single...
And not only that, she was part of every decision.
So every bad thing that's happening in the country is her.
Her entire campaign has been an attempt to pretend that she's a change candidate.
She wants it both ways.
She was in the room and very important, but also she's the candidate of change.
You can't argue you're the change candidate while openly admitting you are in the room for every major decision and you like all those decisions.
Even the folks on CNN, who are basically wearing their Kamala pins on air at this point, even they were like, uh, that was a, what?
Whoops! Whoops!
What do you make of that? I'm surprised, frankly, that she doesn't have more to say about this, given that she and her campaign know that this is one of the main questions that voters have about her.
And one of the main things she's been trying to establish as part of her candidacy is the idea that she would represent a break from the past four years and to not be able to come up with something to say in that moment.
She continues to not be particularly...
nimble on her feet in a lot of these interviews. And this is a very obvious question that gave
her an opportunity, frankly.
Whoopsie whoopsie whoopsie whoopsie. Even Xi'an's like, oh, she's not good at this.
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Then she tried to explain how she's different from Joe Biden.
And what she came up with is, we have different physical bodies.
Yeah, we noticed. Like, yeah, great.
Like, congratulations to you, lady.
What do you think would be the biggest specific difference between your presidency and a Biden presidency?
Well, we're obviously two different people, and we have a lot of shared life experiences.
For example, the way we feel about our family and our parents and so on.
But we're also different people, and I will bring those sensibilities to how I lead.
That's revelatory.
That's extremely revelatory.
You're different people. Wow.
I feel sanguine about that now.
Seems better. She then tried to pretend that she is an empathetic person.
Now, one of the great lies of American politics is that Kamala Harris is some sort of queen of empathy.
They tried to trot this out at the DNC. They brought out various Congress people to testify that one time Kamala Harris was super nice to them.
Oh, my God. Well, here she was being super empathetic about the most recent hurricane.
She's asked, you know, you say that Ron DeSantis didn't pick up the phone for you.
And, you know, have you made a habit of, like, being involved in hurricane relief efforts?
When's the last time that you were regularly involved in that?
She's like, well, in the last five minutes or so.
Now, he said this morning, you've never called regarding any of the storms Florida has had since you've been vice president until apparently now and called it political.
What's your response to that?
Well, first of all, I have called and talked with, in the course of this crisis, this most recent crisis, Democrat and Republican governors.
Called, taken the call, answered the call, had a conversation.
So, obviously, this is not an issue that is about partisanship or politics for certain leaders, but maybe is for others.
That's the most absurd.
So, he says, we've had a bunch of hurricanes, a bunch of natural disasters over the course of the last few years in Florida, and you are nowhere.
And she's like, but I did call this time.
This attempt to spin her into the captain of empathy, it's an amazing thing.
And speaking of lack of empathy...
She then went on Stephen Colbert.
So again, she's doing this big tour.
Her big media tour consists of only people who already worship at the altar of Kamawa.
So last night, she's on Stephen Colbert.
And when I think empathy, what I think is Florida is about to get clocked with a Cat 5 hurricane.
And she is on Stephen Colbert drinking beer.
This is how she makes hay with the common folks.
By the way, nothing appeals to blue-collar white men like watching this upper-crust elitist who clearly has never had a Miller High Life in her life pretend to be something she's not.
Going to climb on a John Deere tractor next and drive around with a shotgun.
Probably going to adopt the accent.
She's going to code switch here. So here she is with Stephen Colbert, the two most defeat people in America, drinking Miller High Life.
I mean, we all know what she actually is doing, drinking rosé at 2 p.m.
But, okay, let's pretend with Kamala Harris here.
This is what empathy looks like.
Hurricane about to slam the coast, she's drinking beer with Colbert.
But elections, I think, are won on vibes because one of the old saws is, they just want somebody they can have a beer with.
So, would you like to have a beer with me so I can tell people what that's like?
Okay. This was...
Now, we asked ahead of time, because I can't just be giving a drink to the Vice President of the United States, but I'd ask...
You asked for Miller High Life.
You asked for Miller High Life.
I'm just curious.
Okay, the last time I had beer was at a baseball game with Doug.
Okay, so cheers. Okay, cheers.
There you go. Ooh.
Wow, she's really chugging it there.
It's like the beautiful city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
The champagne of beers. There you go.
Wow, she can even read the label.
Absolutely and probably should have asked her when's the last time she finished off a bottle of wine herself.
In any case, that seems like empathy right now.
People are suffering in the country.
North Carolina is still underwater.
Florida is about to get clocked. She is with Stephen Colbert, appealing to all those wine moms by drinking Miller High Life with Stephen Colbert and lecturing us on how the American dream is elusive right now.
Again, she is just a factory of gas.
If the American dream is elusive right now, perhaps you might want to look at who is the vice president of the United States.
It's unbelievable. She's literally campaigning against herself at this point.
Frankly, Stephen, the American dream right now is really elusive for far too many people in terms of even aspiring to own a home.
It's too expensive. We don't have enough housing.
We have a housing shortage. So part of my plan is to work with the private sector, with builders and developers, To build 3 million more homes by the end of my first term and to give first-time homebuyers a $25,000 down payment assistance so they can just get their foot in the door to home ownership, which is the fastest and the most efficient way for people to build intergenerational wealth.
These are the ways that I think about how we build up our country in a way that is about supporting the middle class.
I come from the middle class.
I'm never going to forget where I come from.
Oh, God. Oh, my God.
You know where she never talks about where she came from?
Montreal! It's where she grew up.
Go to Canada, lady.
I mean, seriously, this is, the American dream is elusive right now.
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Kamala Harris keeps talking about how the American dream is elusive.
She's the current vice president of the United States.
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But the important thing is that the Colbert audience knows how to pronounce Kamala's name.
Again, it's all vibes, and there's nothing there.
There is nothing there.
And the American people increasingly are not happy with there being nothing there.
They already have nothing there. Joe Biden's been dead for months.
And meanwhile, their stand-in is an empty hot air balloon of a human.
Here we go. That's a campaign rally.
at her campaign rally at Colbert.
Thank you all, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank
you, I'm very excited, thank you.
She's winning newcomers over there at her campaign rally on Stephen Colbert.
I noticed that a whole lot of people know how to pronounce my name.
name.
Ha ha ha.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
She is hilarious. My goodness.
It's like watching Louis C.K. up there.
Just, just, wow. She kind of capped her tour with yet another Call Her Daddy, but this one is supposed to be for males.
The problem is that Howard Stern is no longer relevant to the American political conversation.
He's no longer relevant at all.
Howard Stern, how old is Howard Stern right now?
127 years old?
Howard Stern is currently 70 years old.
That old f***ing perv. He's 70 years old.
And he's still talking about bodily orifices.
At a certain point, gentlemen, it's time to grow up.
Howard Stern was always a fake transgressive.
By a fake transgressive, I mean he never really said anything transgressive.
He just talked about sex a lot.
Which is not all that transgressive.
It's actually quite boring. It turns out that if your entire job, day in and day out, is just to say unbelievably horrible things to women on the air, which is Howard Stern.
It's incredible how this has shifted.
It used to be that Democrats looked at Howard Stern, and they're like, that guy's gross.
This is yucky. The person who says this kind of stuff to women is despicable.
And Republicans, being more religious, were like, yeah, that's true.
And now, Howard Stern is basically your typical Democratic apparatchik, and the entire Democratic Party believes that his discussions of bodily orifices probably should be on stage at the DNC. So Howard Stern announced yesterday that he'd be voting for Kamala Harris.
A shocking development from a devout New York City liberal.
What an unbelievable douchebag Howard Stern is and always has been.
I don't even understand how this election is close.
And yes, I'm voting for you, but I would also vote for that wall over there rather than a guy who says, you know, where do I begin?
I mean, maybe she might want to ask him about his treatment of women over the years.
Or maybe he might want to ask her about her husband's treatment of women over the years.
That might be, nope, nope, nope, nothing there.
Okay, then they just lie a lot.
So Howard Stern, they continue to retell this lie that the Supreme Court of the United States says
that Donald Trump can do literally anything he wants as president of the United States,
including drone his political opponents. Which if it were true, it would be weird,
because that means that Joe Biden could theoretically just order the droning or
seal Team Six to kill Donald Trump. It's not true. It's never been true. It's a deliberate misread of
Supreme Court jurisprudence. But Kamala Harris is big into the lying, so not a big shock that
she and genius Howard Stern over there. Who are they appealing to? Who are they appealing to?
It's the same seven people. It's incredible. And you look at it, it's not only that.
He says he's going to be a dictator on day one.
Understand what dictators do.
They jail journalists.
They put people who are protesting in the street in jail.
Unreal. She's talking about being a dictator on day one.
They literally activated the DOJ to go after their political opponents.
Meanwhile, using the implements of federal law to stand up for, say, the UNRWA, an actual terror front group, Howard Stern did ask her if she would leave the country if she lost.
If he wins, God forbid, would you feel safe in this country?
Would you stay in this country?
Howard, I'm doing everything I can to make sure he does not win.
Well, you know, Howard, if he wins, I'm not saying we're all going to die.
But if he wins, I'm doing everything I can.
Because if I do not, if I do not, then I will not have grown up a middle class child.
And, you know, and that.
Why is she lagging? Why is she lagging?
Well, the good news is they have Tim Walz to deploy out there.
That freak show to try and explain why white men should vote for the Harris-Walls submissive ticket.
Here is Tim Walls joining Jimmy Kimmel, another one of our stellar comedic lights who hasn't told a joke in, what, 10 years?
Trying to explain that what is his first aspiration as vice president of the United States other than just being a who trots around after Kamala Harris so she can pet him every so often for emotional comfort.
Here is Tim Walls.
This idea that, look, we get to turn the page on that, and I plan on waking up on November 6th with Madam President, and that's...
Well, I hope you don't like that being the same.
That'd be weird. I want to be clear, you won't be waking up together.
No. Unless you guys have gotten closer than we thought.
I have a problem about not being specific with my language, so thank you for that.
Specifically right. Yes.
What a ticket.
What a stellar conglomeration of high IQ, policy excellence, and verbal eloquence.
They're doing amazing.
This is their media tour. Their media tour is with all friendlies on the late nights.
Let's see if it works out for them.
Folks, it's a strategy. Is it a good strategy?
Doesn't feel like it. They do, of course, have the love of the media, and the media are proving themselves each and every day to just be some of the worst people on Earth.
President Trump yesterday on this show, suggested that it was time to shelve the term fake news
and instead start using the term corrupt news.
Hard to think of a better descriptor when it comes to CBS News.
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Well, you may be watching Kamala Harris's magical mystery tour of terrible left-wing shows and thinking to yourself, how could she possibly win?
I understand. I have that tendency too.
You watch her and she is awful at this.
Truly awful. It's not just that she has no good policy positions that she can defend.
It's not just that she says dumb things politically, like that she owns every Joe Biden policy.
It's not just that she's radically inauthentic with regard to her politics.
She's radically inauthentic all the way through.
She is just a vinyl human.
She's totally inauthentic in every possible way.
And so you say to yourself, how could she possibly win?
How could she win?
No matter how much you hate Donald Trump, you know what his administration was like,
And you know what her administration is like, and it's trash.
So how?
The answer, of course, is that she always has her Praetorian Guard in the media.
There to defend her.
There to protect her.
The journalismers of our age are worth five to ten points in the polls for Kamala Harris
and for any Democrat.
And when they mobilize on behalf of one of their idolatrous icons,
it is very difficult to crack that perception.
The best example of this actually is not Kamala Harris this week.
The best example is the execrable Ta-Nehisi Coates.
Now, Ta-Nehisi Coates is an icon of the left.
He has been since Black Lives Matter days.
He's basically becoming untouchable.
His positions are morally idiotic.
His analysis is literally skin deep, meaning the only thing he seems to care about is skin color.
He has no thorough knowledge of history.
He has no thorough knowledge of politics.
He has no interest in factual discussions.
He's a terrible writer, by the way.
The attempt to turn Ta-Nehisi Coates into some sort of James Baldwin knockoff is absurd.
Ta-Nehisi Coates is basically racialist Greta Thunberg.
He's an idiot wandering the landscape in search of some sort of deep thought, spouting platitudinous nonsense in the most purple language while everybody is supposed to genuflect at the altar of Ta-Nehisi Coates.
So he wrote a terrible book called Between the World and Me, That book basically is predicated on the notion that he got in an elevator with his son and there was a white dude in the elevator and he read 400 years of racism in the white man's eyes.
The guy didn't say anything to him. That's who Ta-Nehisi Coates is.
A person who has benefited from every privilege that Western civilization has to offer but hates Western civilization because he has in his prophetic being an understanding of the division between victim and victimizer.
And his philosophy is incredibly cheap.
You can do it in one sentence.
If you are a failure in life, it is because you are a victim of the system.
He's Ibram X. Kendi, but sort of an upgrade.
That's essentially who Ta-Nehisi Coates is, and he's been treated as though he is some sort of great intellectual.
They give him every prize they can find, millions of dollars to write terrible books.
They give him a comic book contract who's writing terrible comic books that no one read for years.
So he wrote his book Between the World and Me.
Then he went away and he wrote comic books for a while and some pretty bad fiction.
And now he is back with a brand new book called The Message.
The Message. Because he's brought it from on high, you see.
He has descended from Sinai.
I shouldn't say Sinai because he didn't like Jews very much.
He has descended from, well, somewhere.
He's descended from some holy place to bring you the word of Ta-Nehisi.
And you must not question Ta-Nehisi, despite the fact that he is, in fact, a moral cretin and an afactual dumbass.
You must never question Ta-Nehisi Coates.
He is a person who is to be treated with only respect.
He is to be treated as a great intellectual of our age, despite the fact that he is a liar.
So what is the message? The message is he went to Israel and then the West Bank for two weeks
and guess what? He knows everything there is to know about it. Like everything there is to know about it.
And you know what there is to know? What there is to know is that Palestinians are brown and victimized
and Israelis are white and evil and supremacist. That's the whole book.
It's an anti-Semitic screed that is completely fact-free.
The number of basic factual...
He doesn't mention in the entire book Hamas.
He doesn't mention in the entire book the Palestinian Authority.
He doesn't mention Yasser Arafat.
He doesn't mention terrorism. He doesn't mention Hezbollah.
He doesn't mention anything of relevance.
He doesn't mention peace deals turned down by the Palestinians.
Literally nothing. Because again, in Ta-Nehisi Coates' Holy fool, moral vision.
The basic idea is that if he can identify who is the victim in any scenario, and he can always identify the victim, not by their activity, but by their outcome, then he can tell you who's the bad guy.
And he says, this is a very clear conflict.
There's a good guy and a bad guy. The good guy, those are the people who celebrate the murders of October 7th.
The bad guys are the people who are attempting to stop that.
That's essentially the message of The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates.
And again, there's a bunch of factual errors in here.
There's an excellent thread on Twitter by an account called Eisenberg, which is a board member for Honest Reporting, and he's written for Tablet and Fathom Journal, among others, pointing out a wide variety of basic errors.
For example, Ta-Nehisi Coates suggests that Israelis regularly tour the Al-Aqsa Mosque while Palestinians are barred from the Western Wall, all of which is a lie.
That is not true. Non-Muslims, I know, because I've been up there.
You can watch me do it on tape with Jordan Peterson.
When you go up to the Temple Mount, you have to be screened by security.
You are not allowed to pray openly on the Temple Mount.
I can't go into the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
I'm not allowed. As a Jew, I'm not allowed.
Because the Jordanian Waqf controls the Temple Mount.
But Muslims and Christians, including the 2 million Israeli-Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel, can visit the Western Wall.
And those sorts of basic factual errors that a simple Google search would have solved are replete throughout his trash book.
So anyway, he appears on CBS News.
Here's why this is his story. He appears on CBS News the other day.
And there is a reporter for CBS Morning News named Tony Dacapil.
And Tony Docapil, who has a couple of kids who live in Israel, has the temerity to point out that this is an extremist anti-Semitic book, and then asks some actual tough questions of Ta-Nehisi Coates.
Here, for example, is him asking basic questions to Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Coates has no answers, because Coates is used to just saying cryptic nostrums about black and brown bodies, like a pagan incantation, and then everybody bowing before the altar of Ta-Nehisi.
And so he starts to get upset.
Here is Tony Docapil actually asking a question.
He accidentally did a journalism.
If Israel has a right to exist, and if your answer is no, then I guess the question becomes, why do the Palestinians have a right to exist?
Why do 20 different Muslim countries have a right to exist?
My answer is that no country in this world establishes its ability to exist through rights.
Countries establish their ability to exist through force.
But you write a book that delegitimizes the pillars of Israel.
It seems like an effort to topple the whole building of it.
So I come back to the question, and it's what I struggle with throughout this book.
What is it that so particularly offends you about the existence of a Jewish state that is a Jewish safe place and not any of the other states out there?
There's nothing that offends me about a Jewish state.
I am offended by the idea of states built on ethnocracy, no matter where they are.
Muslim included. I would not want a state where any group of people laid down their citizenship rights based on ethnicity.
Why is there no agency in this book for the Palestinians?
They exist in your narrative merely as victims of the Israelis, as though they were not offered peace at any juncture, as though they don't have a stake in this as well.
What is their role in the lack of a Palestinian state?
I have a very, very, very, very moral compass about this.
And again, perhaps it's because of my ancestry.
A very moral compass.
Either apartheid is right or it's wrong.
It's really, really simple.
Either what I saw was right or it's wrong.
Okay, that is, those are the words of a simpleton, because Ta-Nehisi Coates is a simpleton,
and he's never had to answer a basic question like, do the Palestinians have any basic responsibilities?
By the way, the entire lie that he's telling, that Israel's an apartheid state, ignores the fact that there are 2 million Arab citizens of Israel.
So, okay, this is a big lie, and Tony Dacopol asks him some very simple questions, and Tana Hasikot has no answers.
He goes, by the way, he's very much in favor of a Palestinian state that would be completely Jew-free.
So when he says he's against an ethnostate or ethnocracy or whatever, that's just a lie.
It's not true. He doesn't care about Japan. It's an anti-Semitic trope.
The whole thing is an anti-Semitic book.
It just is. Because Ta-Nehisi Coates is, in fact, a member of a left-wing cadre that believes in this very simple and very stupid narrative.
That if you are unsuccessful in life, it's because of the white superstructure or whatever.
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Why is this a scandal? Well, Tony Docapul does accidentally that journalism.
And what happens? CBS insiders then get angry and force him to apologize.
They hold a full-scale conference call in which they complain about Tony Docapul.
They say that it's really terrible, very, very terrible that he did his job.
The Free Press got a hold of the audio of an editorial meeting on Monday at 9 a.m., the morning of October 7th, by the way.
Where the network's top brass got on the line and basically apologized for Tony Dockable asking Ta-Nehisi Coates questions.
You're not allowed to do that. When the great oracle comes from on high to discuss his total trash piece of crap book, then you either genuflect or get out Tony Dockable.
Because he's an idol. He's an untouchable.
You must know. You must know.
You cannot. After being introduced by Wendy McMahon, the head of CBS News, Adrienne Rourke, in charge of news gathering at the network, began her remarks by saying covering a story like October 7th requires empathy, respect, and a commitment to truth.
And then she says, we'll still ask tough questions.
We'll still hold people accountable, but we'll do so objectively.
And then she says that they failed their audience.
That they failed their audience.
It's amazing. Here is some of the audio of the conference call.
There are times we fail our audiences and we fail each other.
We're in one of those times right now.
And it's been growing.
And now we are at a tipping point.
Many of you have reached out to express concerns over recent reporting.
Specifically about the CBS Mornings Coates interview from last week, as well as comments made coming out of some of our correspondence reporting.
I want to thank every single one who reached out for your honesty, your transparency, and your commitment.
So I want to address three things.
Number one, after a review of our coverage, including the interview, it's clear there are times we have not met our editorial standards.
Number two, this has been addressed, and it will continue to be in the future.
And number three, I want to acknowledge and I want to say, I want to apologize that it's taken this long to have this conversation.
Pathetic. That's CBS News, which is why you should never trust CBS News with anything.
By the way, kudos to CBS reporter Jan Crawford, who's been CBS's chief legal correspondent since 2009.
She defended Dakapal on the call.
She said, Again, there was nothing wrong with the Coats interview.
Nothing. But CBS basically apologized for it.
They then called in a DEI expert, a doctor named Donald Grant, to moderate a conversation over mental health, DEI, and trauma based on this interview.
By the way, that particular DEI expert Has posted on public media about Magicide, what he calls Magicide, death of a nation caused by injuring said nation with the intent to destroy through adoption of insidious policies.
Posted a meme of Tim Scott as Uncle Tim's Cabin.
And put up a graphic of a person holding a sign that says, Dear white people, stop using Dr.
King as an example of peaceful protest.
You shot him too. That is the person they brought in.
To calm the waters at CBS News.
Sherry Redstone. Who is, of course, the controlling shareholder of Paramount Global, which owns CBS, conveyed to CBS executives she disagreed with how the situation was handled.
She's right about that. But again, this is how it works in the halls of the legacy media.
And it's an important thing.
This is how it works. I remember just a couple of years ago, I was asked to write the beloved, sanctified Politico playbook.
So I wrote a piece about Donald Trump's appeal.
And the blowback was so great they had to have full-scale struggle sessions with hundreds of employees on the line to apologize for the grave sin of allowing the political playbook to be sullied by my presence.
This is who your journalismers are.
This is who they are.
They're not there to ask questions.
They're not there to tell hard truths.
They are there to massage.
So when you wonder why it is that Kamala Harris is still competitive despite being an awful, terrible candidate, the answer is the same people at CBS News who are apologizing for asking the beloved icon of stupidity Ta-Nehisi Coates some actual questions.
Those same people are in the back room manipulating the news coverage of Kamala Harris, including on shows like 60 Minutes.
All right, coming up, we'll jump into the shocking reality of Joe Biden's hatred, hatred for Israel defending itself.
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