Ben Shapiro dissects how media shielded Barack Obama from scandals—Benghazi, IRS targeting, and the Iran deal—while enabling his "fundamental transformation" agenda, including open borders, despite Europe’s economic collapse (e.g., Italy’s 30% youth unemployment). He ties this to FBI bias against Trump, citing redacted Strzok/Page texts and Gowdy’s demands for unredacted documents, then contrasts Obama-era border policies with Trump’s crackdown, accusing the press of hypocrisy. The episode also mocks soccer’s global push as propaganda, blaming its lack of U.S. popularity on "diving" and ties, while framing media downplaying of the Trenton Festival shooting as evidence of ideological bias over truth. Ultimately, it argues left-wing outlets prioritize narratives—like systemic oppression—over accountability, even silencing critics of Islamic extremism or gang culture to maintain power. [Automatically generated summary]
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Personally, Father's Day led me to some serious reflections on what a sacred and complex role fatherhood is.
And I wanted to bring in an expert and get an expert's perspective on the subject.
And who better to talk to than America's dad, Bill Cosby?
Kaz, it's great to see you still out on bail.
It's great to be here.
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So you're a father?
I never touched her, Theo.
What I mean, what I mean.
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How would she even know who it was with the touching and the kissing and the licking and the raping?
All right.
You know, what I'm trying to get here, the subject I'm trying to talk about is what is the secret to fatherhood?
Drugs, Theo.
It's the drugs.
Otherwise, they get away with the running and the long legs and the pepper spray.
Yeah, they're fast, those women.
You famously played a father on television, right?
Yes, I remember that, Theo.
They called me America's Dad, you see, because I was such a great husband and a father, you see.
You were a great husband and a father on TV.
A good script is the key, boy.
Right, right.
See, what I'm trying to get at here is, for those of us who don't have a script, what is the trick to fatherhood?
Yeah, just take your time.
Take it down.
I did not know that you were going to be asking that question, you see.
But just, you can just add live.
Just tell us what you think off the top of your head.
Well, first thing is you've got to be there, boy.
You must be in the house.
That's what the judge told me.
Anyway, Theo.
The judge, right?
I do love comedy.
I am a comedian.
I do stand-up comedy.
But the point is that being a father takes commitment.
You don't just become America's dad, boy, by pretending to dispense canned wisdom while actually going out and drugging and raping any woman who comes near you, Theo.
Wait, isn't that exactly how you became America's dad?
Forget everything I just said there, boy.
That is actually how you become America's dad.
As long as you are surrounded by the journalists who are determined to ignore everything you do in real life and just focus on your image, you see.
So essentially, you became a great dad the same way Barack Obama became a great president.
Plus the sweaters, plus the drugs.
Great.
That's great.
Oh, my ankle bracelet is beeping, Theo.
I've got to go, you see.
Ladies and gentlemen, America's dad, Trigger White.
I'm Andrew Clavin, and this is the Andrew Clavin Show.
I'm a hunky-dunky.
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I like some of the soft rock.
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All right.
I got to say, I'm watching the news, and I am now convinced that all news stories are essentially one news story.
All news stories are one news story.
What is the story?
The story is that for eight years, the media dedicated itself to promoting and protecting Barack Obama.
And that changed Obama and that changed the news media, right?
Remember, the media was willing to investigate private citizens who questioned Obama and brought out his socialist instincts.
They supported him when he lied about his radical agenda and his deep relationships with the terrorist Bill Ayers and with the anti-America preacher Jeremiah Wright.
They supported all this stuff.
They played down scandal after scandal, fast and furious, Benghazi, the IRS, the persecution of reporters, and they supported unworkable policies like Obamacare and the Iran deal.
And Obama, this is the thing.
This is the true narrative, is if you go back and look at it, Obama didn't realize that the press would be that supine.
He knew they supported him.
He knew they'd be with him, but he did not realize they would utterly corrupt the institution of journalism to support him.
And at first, he made noises about being a moderate, right?
He didn't support gay marriage, and he would talk about illegal aliens and say, I can't do anything about this because it's against the Constitution.
But slowly, he realized that he could actually have axe-murdered Michelle Obama and the kids, and the New York Times would have run a feature saying this was a fun new way to treat your family.
So once he realized that, he got bolder and bolder and bolder.
He dismissed the, you know, he just would lie, like he would dismiss the IRS corruption.
It's not a smidgen of corruption.
He lied about Benghazi on TV.
Remember, Candy Crowley, I mean, let's show that clip.
Candy Crowley defended him, helped him lie when Mitt Romney called him out.
Can you play that cut?
It took the president 14 days before he called the attack in Benghazi an act of terror.
Get the transcript.
He did, in fact, sir.
So let me call it an act of terror.
Can you say that a little louder, Candy?
He did call it an act of terror.
It did as well take, it did as well take two weeks or so for the whole idea of there being a riot out there about this tape to come out.
You're correct about that.
Candy Crowley in a debate, debating for Barack Obama.
An amazing moment, but only really what had been going on the entire time.
They were protecting him and they were protecting his plan to fundamentally transform America.
Basically, not into like a communist slave state, but into the European socialist state, which we see crumbling.
I mean, if you're paying attention now, our economy has taken off like a rocket under Donald Trump, while the European economy is continuing to be mired.
In Italy, they have 30% youth unemployment.
In Greece and Spain, they have the same thing.
There's these rumblings of communism, of fascism, all these things happening as England descends into kind of Islamic rule on the side.
Germany, the same thing.
So Europe is dying.
And that's what the press, Obama, and the left want for us.
So every story is about this.
Every story is about the fact that the press lied for eight years, that the press abandoned their post for eight years, that they demonized Mitt Romney, they demonized John McCain, they demonized Joe the Plumber.
They demonized you, Sarah Palin, everybody.
They demonized, keep this thing in place.
And as Obama realized what he could do, he just got more and more corrupt.
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He corrupted the government more and more because he knew the press would turn a blind eye.
We can also talk on another day about the fact that as his policies didn't work, rather than admit it, he turned to race baiting.
But that's another day.
Let's just talk about what happened to the press.
So now every story is about covering up what they did.
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All right.
So let's take a look at the IG report, right?
This is, despite the misleading headlines, right, the Inspector General's report shows intense bias.
It was in the Inspector General's investigation into the FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails.
Was the subject.
And you have to remember, the IG works for justice.
This is not a report for the people.
This is a report for justice.
It's basically an in-house thing telling them what to do.
He said, we did not find documentary or testimonial evidence that improper considerations, including political bias, directly affected the specific investigative decisions we reviewed about the FBI's investigation into Hillary Clinton's email.
But all that means is that no one confessed and no one left a paper trail.
The bias was everywhere.
But just look at how the press seized on this, right?
Because every news story is one news story.
Every news story is to cover up who the journalists have become.
Listen to David Brooks selling this thing.
The headline to me is that the institution basically worked, that the actual investigations were basically done without any political bias.
And that's worth reminding people that there is such a thing as a professional civil service these days when everyone thinks it's all political and it's all a swamp.
It's not a swamp.
Those are hardworking people and they seem to have been basically doing their job.
There have been a couple demerits on that.
One, the few emails where people within the FBI were clearly were motivated by a Trump bias.
That is utter crap.
I mean, that is like crap of the purest Ray Serene.
It really is.
I mean, I don't understand how David Brooks can sit there and look at a camera and use his position to sell that garbage.
But that is essentially what they all did on the left, on the entire mainstream media.
Several agents in top positions on both the Hillary Clinton investigation and the Russian collusion investigation had expressed toxic hatred of Donald Trump, saying they couldn't understand why anybody did.
They said all Trump supporters were, quote, poor to middle class, uneducated, lazy POS.
We all know what that means.
The entire investigation took place under the assumption that Hillary would not be prosecuted and that investigators were just going through the motions.
They all said this.
James, you know, remember James Comey, who got like, they cleaned his clock in this report.
They called him insubordinate, but they were talking about his decision to announce the conclusions of the report without going to the DOJ.
Well, why did he do that?
He told them, I did that to create a sense of justice more broadly in the country, that things are fair, not fixed.
Why would he have to do that?
Why would he have to reassure the country that things were fair, not fixed, if it weren't for the fact that he knew the DOJ was in fact, it was fixed.
They weren't going to prosecute.
And the agents were saying things like, this is a lot of work and BS for a political exercise.
No one at DOJ is going to prosecute.
These are quotes from the Inspector General's report.
And at one point, Lisa Page, we all know the paramour of Peter Strzok at this point.
She's a top FBI official, and she said she told people when they were going in to question Hillary Clinton, right?
She might be our next president.
So the last thing you need is us going in there loaded for bear.
In other words, take it easy because no one's going to convict this woman.
So here's the thing about this.
What gets me about this is not what it says about the investigation.
It's what it says about the people right this minute at the DOJ, the leadership at the DOJ.
When they sent, you know, there's this amazing text, the most mind-boggling text is Lisa Page texts to her adulterous lover.
And I said, I like the fact they said we used work phones to send these texts because we didn't want our wives and our spouses to catch us cheating.
So in other words, they're cheating on the investigation, but they're also cheating from their spouses, so they have to hide all their cheating from everybody.
So Page texts Strzzok, Trump's never going to become president, right?
Right?
And Strzok responds, this is, remember, top investigator in the Hillary email thing and the Russian collusion thing.
Strzzok says, no, no, he won't become president.
We will stop it.
And the Inspector General says this is not only indicative of a biased state of mind, but even more seriously implies a willingness to take official action to impact the presidential candidate's electoral prospects.
What's important about this, what's important about this is not the high state of corruption in Obama's DOJ and FBI.
What's important is when they sent these texts to Congress, when Congress finally tore these texts out of the clenched fist of the DOJ, they redacted Strzok's response.
And that tells you that right this minute, right now, as we are sitting here, the FBI is protecting itself.
Christopher Wray, the new director of the FBI, came out and he said nothing in this report impugns the integrity of our workforce as a whole or the FBI as an institution like hell it doesn't.
It really does.
And you know, Trey Gowdy, who has been all about like, let Mueller do his work and let Mueller, you know, we're going to trust Mueller and all this, he is livid.
And they are saying that we will impeach Rod Rosenstein if he does not hand over these documents.
They had a meeting Friday night.
Congress never works on Friday night where they went in and said, listen, buddy, this is it.
Send us these documents.
And Trey Gowdy talks about the fact.
The other important thing about the IG is that it impugns the Mueller report through no fault of Mueller's.
It just means all his witnesses are now no good.
Here's Trey Gowdy talking about that.
Trey Gowdy, former prosecutor, cut number 10.
I don't know what Mueller has.
I do know this, that bias is so pervasive and everyone who's ever stood in front of a jury and had to explain it away will tell you it is the most miserable feeling in the world.
And I have never seen this level of bias.
So you have Peter Strzok, who can't think of a single American who can vote for Donald Trump, and you got Peter Strzok who says, we'll stop it.
The campaign and the presidency will stop the campaign.
And then if that doesn't work, the day after the election, he's talking about impeachment.
So how would you like that to be your lead investigator?
Two weeks after you're assigned to look into what a foreign country did to us, the only thing he can think to talk about is an insurance policy to keep Donald Trump from winning.
And then he says, we'll stop it.
I assume the we is the FBI.
So how would you like, if you're Bob Mueller, to present that case to a jury?
So when I say every news story is one news story, and it's all about the press covering up its abandonment of its duties in order to sell the fundamental transformation of America to us in the person of Barack Obama, when we're talking about the border now and there's this sudden hysteria about children being separated from their parents at the border, we are simply talking about covering up this, covering up the good economy,
covering up the fact that Donald Trump has made some leeway, you know, some headway with Kim Jong-un in North Korea.
We don't know how that's going to work out, but he made some headway with him.
It is all about covering that up and covering up the fact that the IRS, the State Department, and now we know the Justice Department were all corrupted and turned into an urban Democrat machine by the Chicago politician Obama.
And every story is about that.
Listen to the way the press talked to Sarah Sanders.
I'll explain what's going on at the border.
Let me explain this from the top.
The Trump administration has not changed any policies or any rules about the border in terms of separating children from imprisoned parents.
There is a rule that went into effect in the 90s, I believe it was, that said you cannot incarcerate children with their parents.
The only difference is, is at first, a lot of the people coming over the border were all men.
But recently, they have become last 10 years or so, this is before Trump, they've become families.
And so as the families are coming over and people are being arrested for breaking our laws, the law says you cannot put the children in prison with their arrested family.
So the only way to do this would be to let the family and the let the whole family walk free.
And if you do that, you'll never see them again.
So in other words, what the press is now mobilizing for in part of the fundamental transformation of America that they want to continue is letting everybody in free.
They are not. concerned about these children who were, in fact, the same policy was in place during the Obama administration.
And Hillary Clinton herself said that this is what you have to do.
Here is, what's her name, Christiane Aminpour journalist, talking to Hillary Clinton about this and trying to get her to say, what do we do with these immigrant kids?
This CUP 13.
Should they be able to stay here?
It's safer.
It may be safer, but that's not the answer.
I do not.
Should they be sent back?
Well, first of all, we have to provide the best emergency care we can provide.
We have children five and six years old who have come up from Central America.
We need to do more to provide border security in southern Mexico.
They should be sent back now.
Well, they should be sent back as soon as it can be determined who responsible adults and their families are, because there are concerns about whether all of them can be sent back, but I think all of them who can be should be reunited with their families.
And just as Vice President Biden is arguing today in Central America, we've got to do more.
I started this when I was secretary to deal with the violence in this region, to deal with border security.
But we have to send a clear message.
Just because your child gets across the border, that doesn't mean the child gets to stay.
So we don't want to send a message that is contrary to our laws or will encourage more children to make that dangerous journey.
This is Hillary Clinton who hasn't figured out that what the press wants or else should give it to them, which is they want an open border so that they can transform our country like Germany has been transformed, like England has been transformed.
That's what they want.
That is what they're doing.
Every story is the same story.
It's all about how can the press get to the place that they wanted Obama to get to, but Obama didn't figure out soon enough that he could do anything he wanted and the press wouldn't stop him.
Here is Henry Quear, a Texas congressman, a Democrat, talking about the fact that the same thing was going on, the same policy was in place during the Obama administration.
We know this because when the left was first tweeting out pictures of children in cages, they were actually pictures from 2014.
So we know that this whole thing is a scam.
I'm not saying, listen, I'm not saying they shouldn't fix the policy.
Of course they should fix the policy.
That's a legislative matter, not a Trump matter.
But here is Henry Queyar talking about the fact that this was covered up, a Democrat, talking about the fact that this was covered up under Obama.
There was, according to the Washington Post reporting, a surging number of unaccompanied minors being apprehended at the border in 2014.
There were nearly 70,000, according to the Post reporting.
And that same year, there was this viral image of children being kept in a cage at a detention center.
Do you see any parallels here?
How different is what we're seeing today from these images?
In many ways, and I think I was, I don't know what image you're using, but I released some of those photos because it was kept very quiet under the Obama administration.
There were large numbers of people coming in.
The Obama administration was trying to keep this quiet.
And I don't know which image you're using, but I released some photos that I had gone about those young kids who were kept there.
And we're still seeing a number.
So let's just compare the way the media has questioned the presidential spokesman on this as opposed to the way they did under the Obama administration.
Here's cut number 16 of Sarah Sanders being abused by our completely dishonest press.
You're a parent.
Don't you have any empathy for what these people are going through?
They have less trying to settle down.
I'm trying to be serious, but I'm not going to have you yell out of terms.
Jill, please, it's a law, and they have, these people have nothing.
Hey, Brad, I know you want to get some more TV.
I want to recognize you.
Go ahead, Jill.
Honestly, answer the question.
It's a serious question.
These people have nothing.
They come to the border with nothing.
And they throw children in cages.
You're a parent.
You're a town of young children.
Don't you have any empathy for what they go through?
That is shameful.
I mean, if we don't have a country that is run by the law, then the country is simply run by men.
It's run by what people think is good at that moment.
And who would be in charge of that?
Oh, it would be Donald Trump.
Do they want that?
No, of course they don't.
Let's just compare that to the way the press treated Obama, who was doing exactly the same thing, exactly the same policies.
Just take a look at cut number two here.
People in the mainstream media have been accused of being afraid to speak truth to power.
And I've got some truth to power for you right now.
I've been observing.
Your dog looks like he's out of control.
Yeah, so that's what Obama is thinking right now as he watches the media covering up for him.
He's thinking this.
You know, I just want to remind you before we go to Michael Knowles and talk about the World Cup.
I'm sorry, I dozed off.
Before we go to Knowles and talk about whatever it was, I've forgotten now what I was even talking about.
I just want to remind you, it is three years, I think it's three years today or yesterday, that Trump announced his candidacy.
I want to play this montage of the press reaction to this.
I am officially running for President of the United States.
There are no words.
How do you even have a straight face right now?
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There are no words to describe what just happened.
Ed Randell, do you have any doubt that this is anything more than a carnival show?
And you watched that speech today.
We all laugh about it.
And I'm sitting here laughing out loud, you know, for the entire front part of the show here as we're talking about it.
I mean, it was a rambling, a rambling mess of a speech.
That said, it was very entertaining.
I was howling, howling.
He's got gumudgeons of money.
He's got a lot of recognition.
And he just became the 12th presidential candidate for the Republican Party.
Is it typical Donald Trump fashion or is it hilarity run amok?
This morning, some Republicans say they're worried Trump will turn the campaign into a circus.
Party leaders worry Trump's presence will turn the primary into a joke.
America's largest Latino civil rights organization called Trump an exceedingly silly man.
Donald Trump is a fool.
Hell froze over, and now we're stuck in the ice with Donald Trump.
Chuck, you and I have seen this public dance from Trump before.
I guess the question is: is this candidacy for real?
Will it be significant?
It's like, I can't tell if this is politics or if this is just PR from a celebrity.
For the National Press Corps and other elites, Donald Trump's campaign is a pure vanity exercise and a target ripe for outright mockery or low-level derision.
On the one hand, he's a late-night joke.
On the other, he's the proverbial skunk at the garden party.
All right, I just wanted you to hear that last line, especially.
He is the skunk at the garden party.
Whose garden party do you think that is?
Whose garden party?
It's the elites.
It's the press.
He's the skunk at the garden party.
It happens to be a garden party full of skunks, but they didn't mention that.
When I say every news story is one story, that's the story.
Somebody broke up the garden party that was moving so smoothly toward a European vision of a dead West.
All right, we got Michael Knowles coming up.
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Michael Knowles, coming up.
All right, Knowles, you there?
I'm here.
I'm back.
I am back.
How are you doing?
I have to thank you for this assignment because usually when I have to cover something terrible, such as, say, the World Cup, you make me watch it.
But this assignment explicitly focuses on why nobody is watching the World Cup, including myself.
No one can watch the World.
I mean, I have to say, I lived in England for seven years and I missed sports terribly.
So I would try to watch what they hilariously call football.
And wait, I'm sorry.
I forgot what I was talking about.
Oh, yeah, I was talking about.
And I even one year dedicated myself to watching World Cup.
Drew, Drew, get up, get up.
Sorry, sorry.
You've got to show up.
What were we talking about?
You know, you just can't.
You can't watch it.
First of all, nobody uses his hands.
God gave you hands.
You know why God gave you hands?
To throw balls with.
That's the whole point.
God made balls.
He made hands.
And this is the whole point of it.
At least in hockey, you know, like you're using your feet a lot.
You're kind of, you know, skating and everything.
But at least then you can rip the gloves off and start punching people in the face.
That requires hand-eye coordination.
The soccer thing is just one of those experiences we have in our virtue signaling culture where everyone has to talk about it to prove they're a good person, but not a soul is watching it.
Nobody's watching it, right?
Tell me, nobody is.
I got to tell you the good news, because I was a little nervous when I dug into these numbers.
I thought maybe it really is getting popular.
All I do is watch CNN.
What do I know?
Turns out, nobody is watching the World Cup.
World Cup ratings are down a full 50% in early metrics over 2014.
But that's only because it's so boring, right?
That's only, yeah.
But what you would expect, by the way, is that people would turn it on to prove that they're a good person who likes Europe and, you know, wah, wah, wah, and then just fall asleep and sleep for an hour or two and then wake up, but they would still get the ratings.
Even that is not happening.
So that year, you know, in 2014, that was the big highlight year.
It happened in Brazil.
People were finally pretending to watch.
What's important to notice here is that the ratings on ESPN were significantly lower than the ratings on Univision.
That tells you a lot of the story.
This is obviously just a looking toward Latin America and toward Europe, trying to pretend like we would rather be like the rest of the world instead of like America.
By the way, Fox News is posting a 61% drop over what ESPN had in 2014.
So you've got Fox, a network, posting a 61% drop over that big year.
There was some rebound on the second day of the World Cup this year.
So what the fake news media are trying to tell you is, oh, that was just a weird glitch, but now it's all coming back.
Not true.
If your ratings drop 60% over its high, and then they rebound 50%, that is a very modest rebound for the second day.
Now, part of the reason, by the way, why the U.S. isn't watching is because we're not in this tournament.
So, you know, the reason we're not in the World Cup this year is that the United States, I don't even know if I can say this.
We lost to Trinidad and Tobago.
Well, that just means our best athletes are going into other sports, right?
Yeah, because that is true, yeah.
And the grade schoolers who are playing a major league soccer or they lost to Trinidad and Tobago.
I mean, no, this is true, though.
When you have in the arts, when poetry was the big thing, all the great writers became poets.
When novels were the big thing, they became novelists.
Now TV, all the good writers are going into TV.
Nobody is going to go into the sport of soccer because nobody watches it.
No American athlete is going to go into the sport of soccer unless he can't get into anything else because nobody watches it.
I'm not the most athletic guy in the world, but if I were going to go into a sport, I would be more likely to put on my Rachel Maddow glasses and play in the WNBA before I would play in Major League Soccer.
And you have been having the God King.
I don't know why the God King should grace your show.
Maybe it's just one of those things like he feels sad for the, like Jesus feels sad for the poor.
He condescends to come on.
But Jeremy Boring has been coming on your show and talking about this.
And the fact that we, who do we get beaten by?
Tobago, Tobago?
Trinidad and Tobago.
But that actually tells you something about the sport, doesn't it?
It tells you that it is not a reflection of national skill or national talent or anything.
Of course it does.
What it really is, is a large propaganda effort that has been going on for years.
It is, isn't it?
They're begging Americans to watch soccer.
And it's interesting.
I looked at all of these articles about it.
Bleacher Report put up one, five reasons why Americans should like soccer.
Fatherly.com, sports dads should be watching soccer with their soccer-playing kids.
Real Clear Sports, top 10 reasons to watch soccer instead of football.
The Alabama newspaper, AL.com, here are five reasons why you should be watching World Cup soccer.
Fox 5, four reasons why Americans should care about the 2018 World Cup.
If you need to convince somebody, it's probably not the most engaging sport.
And they're making a moral argument, aren't they?
They're not making the argument that this thing is so great that because, come on.
They're making the argument there's something wrong with us for not liking this.
That's right.
And I don't see articles popping up on ESPN.
You have to watch Major League Baseball.
Top 10 Reasons Why You Should Tune Into Football because people like those sports, so they're going to watch it unless Colin Kaepernick starts spitting on the American flag.
But people, even then, some people will still watch.
They're making these moral arguments.
And breakingmuscle.com, a website that I have just discovered, you imagine, not in my bookmarks queue.
Breakingmuscle.com actually is pretty honest about this.
They say that here are the three reasons Americans should love soccer and the three reasons they don't.
The three reasons they should love soccer, I kid you not, they list athleticism, strategy, and fan enthusiasm.
The three hallmarks of any sport, right?
That is the definition of a professional sport.
That is a sport.
And of course, it isn't terribly athletic.
You know, they fall on the ground and pretend it hurts.
There isn't much strategy.
A ball bounces back and forth and they just run around randomly.
And fan enthusiasm, you're admitting there's no fan enthusiasm.
So clearly, you know, you're undercutting your own argument.
But they're very honest in the reasons why they don't.
And the three reasons speak to the anti-Americanism of soccer.
The first is how they take dives.
So, you know, what soccer people do, when people play soccer at the age of three and they skin their knee, they're genuinely crying.
They really hurt because they're little toddlers.
When they do it at the age of 30, they're pretending, right?
So they fall and they say, oh my gosh, that's the word.
They bring out all the paramedics because they, you know, stubbed their dirty.
They do this in basketball a little bit, and I hate it.
I just like, you know, take the hit and keep going.
Well, the reason they do it is it's cheating.
It really is.
It's cheating.
They want penalties to be incurred by the other side because the ability to win this game is basically non-existent.
It's mostly random.
There's a ton of power in the referees here.
So you have penalty goals, right?
Penalty goals, 85% of the time, penalty kicks just means a goal.
when you kick a penalty, you're almost certainly going to score that goal.
And games can be decided one to zero.
So, you know, like Europe, but unlike America, there is so much power in the hands of unelected, unaccountable referees who have nothing to do with the people playing the sport.
And finally, soccer, and breakingmuscle.com admits this, ends in ties a lot of the time.
And America doesn't like ties.
Who likes ties?
We have been so upset about that tie on the Korean Peninsula 70 years ago that Donald Trump is staking his presidency on breaking it.
I mean, who really goes to a game to see people not win or lose?
I mean, that is not why you go to the game.
Well, you know, what you would expect, right, is what you have is the soccer players, they come out, and I don't know, they usually sit down and have a nice little tea set before, and they say, oh, good show, chap.
Yes, yes.
Well, we can all, we're all winners.
Here's your participation trophy.
But when we play sports, the reason we play sports is to vent some aggression, have a little bit of tribalism.
The show who's the best.
Exactly.
And when you don't have that tie, then what happens, or when you have a tie or when you have a boring game that doesn't involve a lot of aggression or a lot of tribalism, is you have fans creating all of the aggression.
So you have the soccer hooligans in the UK, and you have Mexico soccer fans creating man-made earthquakes over the weekend because of the soccer game.
Is that true?
That is true.
There was, you couldn't really feel it, but seismologists measured a two-level earthquake after the soccer game because the fans were stampeding because they needed a little athleticism.
They were sleeping for so many hours they needed to get up and stretch their legs.
But it is true that if teams are not going to beat each other, if they're not going to win, it makes incredible frustration.
And the fact that the ball moves back and forth across that field for, it's like an hour, I guess.
It moves back and forth across that field and never goes in the damn goal.
I mean, that would drive anybody insane.
Until the referee decides, until the unelected EU bureaucrat, I assume, decides that someone is going to score a goal or not.
It makes you go cross-eyed.
You go there, You know, the other thing about this underneath all this is an attack on American exceptionalism.
It's an attack on the idea that Americans should be different.
America should be different from the history of the world, the rest of the world, which leads me to ask the question, have any of these journalists read the history of the world?
Do they know how bad it has been until we got here?
I mean, really, this last few years of America has been the best the history of the world has ever been because of us.
Because of us, you know, it's like all we get from Europe for 2,000 years was murder and mayhem and bloodshed, and we finally crushed them.
We finally managed to destroy them.
And now it's been peaceful, pretty peaceful.
Occasional Muslim blowing something up aside from that.
I just think they're completely out of their mind.
By the way, Iran has a soccer team in the World Cup, but that's neither here nor there.
That's a cheap shot, as are all shots in soccer.
The problem here is that it's all about this reflexive anti-Americanism.
There's not much logic to it.
Even the people promoting soccer admit that the logic of the sport is a little weak and not quite American.
But there's no logic.
They just say, well, the world is doing it.
Everyone else is doing it.
So we should, because we're bad and we're the baddies and they're the good ones.
Yeah, they should leave their offices and visit the rest of the world.
They'll know why we want to be exceptional.
What's on your show today?
So today, today we've actually got, because we haven't covered this enough, we have the God King of the Daily Wire.
We do have the Daily Wire 2 sports correspondent Jeremy Boring coming on the show to discuss soccer.
We're also going to be talking about zero tolerance.
This is going to be my new zero tolerance policy.
We're going to be separating fake Republicans from their party, and we're going to be analyzing that through the ages.
So it should be fun.
That's more fun than the World Cup.
Well, that's not saying much, but all right.
Thanks a lot, Noels.
I'll see you later.
See, Drew.
All right.
Our crappy culture.
So I'm sure that you've probably noticed the marches taking place today in your homes for gun control after the mass shooting that took place over the weekend.
Oh, wait.
There are none.
There are none.
And yet, and if you watch TV, unless you're watching Fox, which did play something about it today, they are not covering one of the worst mass shootings of 2018, of this year, right?
I'm reading this from Jazz Shaw at Hot Air.
In the pre-dawn hours yesterday, the nation experienced yet another mass shooting, one dead, 22 injured, including a 13-year-old boy.
It took place at the crowded Art All-Night Trenton Festival in New Jersey.
A couple of cable news outlets mentioned the shooting in their coverage yesterday and this morning.
The New York Times wrote a lengthy article but buried it on page A17.
The Associated Press took a fairly deep dive on it, but you need to search around a bit on the website to find it.
Obviously, what is the problem?
There can only be two things, right?
Either it was committed by a Muslim, which I think would make the news.
They wouldn't be able to cover that up.
It's because it was a black gang.
Gunmen opened fire at an all-night arts and music festival early Sunday morning, sending people running over each other in the scramble to safety.
Authorities said one suspect was killed, 22 people, 22 people injured.
It's a miracle more people weren't killed the way from the films that I watch.
The gunplay, the bullets are flying everywhere around.
This is being censored because of the narrative, right?
It makes, I don't know what they're going to say.
It makes black gangsters look bad because we know that gangsters have the spark of deity or whatever the hell Nancy Pelosi says they have.
So they're just not going to report it.
It's not a problem.
If black people are being shot and wounded, it is not a problem that you need to take to the streets.
It's only when they can get some kind of, they can get at your Second Amendment rights, because all news stories are one story.
Let's transform America into the rest of the world so it can be just as crappy as the rest of the world is.
This censorship is being mirrored on YouTube when it comes to Islam.
You know, there are so many voices of Islamic moderation that are attacking Islamism, and they are being censored on YouTube.
Those voices, moderate Islamic voices are being censored.
Ayan Hirsi Ali, who's no longer a Muslim, but she is an anti-Islamist campaigner who was a Muslim and she's a woman's rights activist.
She's being censored.
Kuram Dara, a prominent American Muslim author, obviously Prager U, which is not a Muslim but has attacked radical Islam.
By censoring these people, YouTube and the rest of our friends in Silicon Valley are essentially giving quarter to the worst of Islamic culture.
They are giving quarter to those Islamic people who feel that this has got to violently take over the world, that it's got to be a violent attack on America and on the West, that in order to worship Allah, they've got to kill people, they've got to destroy any culture that doesn't support them.
Those voices are the only voices left if you silence the other.
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So in other words, the left is doing what it always does.
It's getting the opposite results of what it is supposed to want.
By silencing the voices that say, hey, there is a problem in black culture in black neighborhoods, by silencing the voices that say there is a problem in Islamic culture.
They're giving a free reign to the worst people in those cultures, the worst people in those neighborhoods.
And the reason is they won't abandon the narrative.
The minority communities and the Islamic community are abandoned by the left because otherwise they would have to change their narrative that all evil is due to white oppression instead of arising out of philosophies that are native to the culture.
Philosophies that are native to Islamic culture that are destroying their culture and attacking ours.
Philosophies and practices and ideas that are prevalent in poor black neighborhoods that have been supported by liberal democratic policies.
They've been supported by those policies, but they are endemic to those cultures and those neighborhoods.
And they don't want to change that narrative.
They would rather that black people get shot.
They would rather Islamics blow things up, including themselves, than change their minds and change their narrative.
I got to say goodbye, but that's it.
We will be back tomorrow with more stuff.
Until then, I'm Andrew Clavin.
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