How Democrats Chose The Radicals | Ep. 843

Ilhan Omar and Rashid a Talib propagandize on behalf of anti-israel and anti-semitic BDS the media ignore all of their priorities as per our usual arrangement and president from tries to take control on the economy I'm Ben Shapiro this is the Ben Shapiro show a lot of news to get to today including an actual good development from Facebook yes really an actual good development from Facebook we'll get to all of that in just one second first geopolitical tensions are rising you just read the news or listen to this show obviously there's a lot of uncertainty at best about the economy gold prices are moving up again as people attempt to find shelter from the economic vicissitudes inherent in the economy either in gold or in places like bonds that's why I see the bond curve in the yield curve in Beart because people are so worried about the future of the economy it's also why the price of gold has been going up well you should at least be diversified some of your savings should in fact be in 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text Ben - 47 47 47 again text Ben my name - 47 47 47 that has been - 47 47 47 okay so the Democratic Party is deciding right now rat whether they are going to move in the radical direction or whether they are going to move in the moderate direction if they wish to win elections they should obviously move in a moderate direction because all they had to do was not be crazy that's all they had to do they're running against a president who did not win a majority of the popular vote and whose approval ratings are extraordinarily low on average all they have to do is not be crazy and they simply cannot do it apparently instead the Democrats have decided that the best available policy is to center all of their attention and focus on defending the most radical of their members that's because that's where they think the passion is Democrats now believe that they're going to win over the moderates because President Trump is so off-putting the biggest threat to them is that a bunch of people on the woke left will not show up to vote the same way they didn't show up to vote in 2016 in the Democratic view the reason that Hillary Clinton lost is because moderates showed up to vote for her and base did not show up to vote for her and there's truth to that they look forward to 2020 and they say okay well moderates will probably show up to vote for us we got to get that base out that means that we are going to censor all of our attention on defending the most radical among us well that's making an assumption that may not be in evidence which is that moderates will certainly swing to the Democratic Party because remember moderates voted for Hillary Clinton because they believed I think wrongly that Hillary Clinton was a moderate but if Democrats were denominated on a presidential level somebody who is radical well that changes the ballgame radically and the same thing is true in Congress if it turns out that the Democratic Congress cannot be trusted with power if it looks to the American people like that Congress is going to perform in radical polarized partisan fashion they will not vote for the Democrats this is why what you saw at the end of 2018 is pretty important right before the election about a month and a half out from the election the Republicans had a significant generic ballot deficit against the Democrats they were down eight to ten points in the generic ballot then the Cavanaugh hearings happened about three weeks out from the election and those Cavanagh hearings closed up that gap tighter than a tech I mean it was extremely tight all of a sudden and that's because the more the American people saw of Democrats acting radical the more they saw of Democrats acting foolishly and badly the less they wanted to vote for them and then of course a couple weeks before the election President Trump was sick of being out of the headlines and he decided he was going to go out in campaign and that immediately drove the gap wide again well the Democrats have decided that they are going to ignore the possibility that they are alienating people and instead they are going to focus in on Trump Trump is the be-all end-all it's a risky strategy for sure and so what you're seeing right now is this divide inside the Democratic Party now when I say the Democrats are doing this I don't mean all Democrats there is this fight going on inside the Democratic Party and you can see it reflected in the polling in the Democratic primaries so Joe Biden for all of the crap that has been tossed his way for all of the talk about Joe Biden fading and Elizabeth Warren rising Joe Biden is basic was a month ago in the polls in the overall national polls he still has an extraordinarily wide lead he still has a narrow lead in places like New Hampshire in Iowa he still has a narrow lead has a very wide lead in places like South Carolina as soon as he gets to the South where there's a heavy share of black voting then Joe Biden suddenly jumps into this massive lead because Kamala Harris has no support in the black community and Elizabeth Warren has no support among black voters there's a brand new pull out from CNN today and it shows that Joe Biden has actually expanded his edge over the Democratic field in a new CNN poll 29% of Democrats and democratic-leaning registered voters say they back former Vice President Biden that is up 7% compared with the late June CNN survey no other candidate has made meaningful gains over that time Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are still stuck in this internecine fight for the Socialist Left Bernie Sanders is at 15% Elizabeth Warren is at 14% according to the CNN poll the only statistically meaningful change in the candidates standings is a 12-point decline in support for Kamala Harris who right after the first debate in June was up at 17% and now has dropped all the way back down to 5% ouch ouch Tulsi Gabbard Wow turns out that Tulsi Gabbard clocking Kamala Harris into the next county basically may have destroyed Kamala Harris as a candidate the original June CNN poll was conducted in the days immediately following the first round of the DNC debates Biden's performance was panned and Harris's was praised well now she has dropped all the way back down to Pete Budaj edge levels Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are exactly where they were before they may have flip-flopped for one point and Joe Biden is all the way back up at 29 Biden's advantage in this poll is boosted by stronger support from self-identified Democrats 31% than from Independence 23% older voters 34% than younger ones 23% among those aged 44 under age 45 and from moderate and conservative voters so he's getting a lot of support among Democrats older voters and moderate and conservative voters so that is the fight inside the Democratic Party is the newly woke plurality of the Democratic Party in control or is it the large segment that supported Hillary Clinton in 2016 that supported Hillary probably in 2008 against Barack Obama those folks combined with a serious share of the black vote could propel Joe Biden to victory so this is a serious in fight inside the Democratic Party and you're starting to see this have ramifications in terms of how the candidates approach policy so for example the Washington Post reports today that Democrats are now backing off their once fervent embrace of Medicare for all so Kamala Harris among other Democrats is starting to recognize that running hard to the left there's no room over there now I've been saying this since the beginning of the primaries I've been saying that any candidate who found the spine to run in the face of the progressive woke left in their own party would actually do pretty well given that they got some sort of media attention so it wasn't gonna help somebody like Michael Bennett who nobody knew who he was but when people judge first announced and was acting like a moderate he started climbing in the polls then he started acting like a radical and he declined again in the polls and he's been stagnant ever since well Kamala Harris is starting to recognize that playing a sort of mini version of Elizabeth Warren isn't gonna work anymore and she is moving again so she's moving her positions up down and all around according to the Washington Post leaning back on AB leather black leather sofa as her campaign bus rumbled toward Fort Dodge Kamala Harris tried to explain why she spent months defending a plan to replace private health insurance with Medicare for all only to switch to a more modest proposal that would allow private insurance to continue after all Harris said I don't think it was any secret I was not entirely comfortable that's an understatement I was finally like I can't make this circle fit into a square I said we're gonna take hits people are gonna say she's waffling it's gonna be awful but she said she decided it was worth it actually what happened is that she thought that all of the political gain was to be made in the Medicare for all space it turns out that space was crowded and now she's bumper carring it off of that particular crash and trying to move into Joe Biden's Lane according to the Washington Post the Democratic senator from California is hardly alone the idea of Medicare for all a unified government health program that would take over the basic function of private insurance became a liberal litmus test at the outset of the presidential campaign but in recent months several of the Democratic hopefuls have shifted their positions or their tone moderating full-throated endorsement of Medicare for all adopting ideas for allowing private insurance in some form worth noting Kamala Harris was a co-sponsor of Bernie Sanders Medicare for all bill Oh for all this oh I was well-known I was uncomfortable was it though was it really I mean about the time that you were signing right next to Bernie Sanders on the medicare-for-all bill was it well known that you were uncomfortable with Bernie Sanders's medicare-for-all bill don't think so near a tangent who's a former top aide to Hillary Clinton and president of the Center for American Progress she says what I think has happened in the Democratic primary is people recognize that some of the concerns about single-payer are not coming from special interests but the public former former Texas congressman mater O'Rourke is doing the same thing he originally embraced Medicare for all is the best way he now similarly supports a plan that would preserve the current employer based insurance system ok so the gap is beginning to open up wide between the progressive left and these so-called moderates in the Democratic Party and this is being led by Elizabeth Warren who's again trying to steal away support from Bernie Sanders and also trying to cut into the black level of support for Joe Biden she's doing this by attacking Joe Biden's crime policies and she's also attacking Kamala Harris's crime policies and Cory Booker's crime policies so Elizabeth Warren trying to outflank all of them on the left by basically calling Kamala Harris and Joe Biden cops The Washington Post reports that Elizabeth Warren said on Tuesday that his president should eliminate the death penalty and the use of private prisons curtailed the cash bail system and overhaul the use of presidential pardons the announcement was Warren's entry into the volatile debate over criminal justice reform an issue that is resonating especially in the african-american community now again I don't know where the Washington Post is getting these numbers that the issue is resonating especially in the black community if that were true you would expect that Donald Trump would have seen a significant uptick in support from the black community considering that the dude signed into law criminal justice reform you would also expect that the attacks on Joe Biden by Kamala Harris would have borne some sort of serious repercussions given her attacks on him over his 1994 crime bill they have not so I think that is an assumption that is being made that I'm not seeing a lot of statistical support for us that the black community is deeply entranced and entranced with the idea of criminal justice reform unlike earlier policy announcements Warren did not hesitate to take implicit but unmistakable aim at policies embraced in the past by her rivals especially former VP Joe Biden senators Kamala and Cory Booker Lauren said we will reduce incarceration and prove justice in our country by changing what we choose to criminalize reforming police behavior and improving police community relations and reining in a system that preferences prosecution over justice well actually the system preferences criminal justice pleas over prosecution to be real most people plead out their cases because they are guilty and they know it and they don't want to go to jail for longer by going through the actual the actual burden of a trial I love this sort of sloganeering will reduce incarceration so you'll without reducing the levels of crime you'll reduce incarceration how wouldn't that imply that there will be more criminals on the street I mean simply by dint of statistical analysis and when she says by choosing what we buy changing what we choose to criminalize well we've already decriminalized marijuana in the state of California and we solve a lot of people in prison in the state of California they've done it in Washington State they've done it in Colorado so a lot of people in prison because it turns out that the vast vast vast majority of people in prison in the United States are not in prison for a simple drug possession many of them are in prison for drug distribution and most of them are still in prison for other crimes we broke down those statistics in a podcast maybe two weeks ago three weeks ago but obviously this is political pandering and it's war and attempting to cut into the black base of support by moving radical and you're seeing the entire Democratic Party not playing this game and it's not just the presidential candidates it's the entire Democratic Party trying to have it both ways trying to capture these zeitgeist of the radical progressives while at the same time trying to appeal to moderates and that's a hard bridge to gap now Trump could make it a lot harder for them to gap by not being so off the wall all the time if Trump appeared to be a steady calming influence in American politics then that gap would open wide we saw this just a month ago when Nancy Pelosi and AOC looked like they were about to beat each other over the head with live claw hammers and then Trump jumped in it was like hold up a second Leroy Jenkins and decided that he was just going to Bigfoot that entire conversation and become the center of attention Trump right now is papering over a lot of the internal Democratic gaps but those gaps do exist and they are and they're going to widen in the near future I'll explain how this is happening 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an internally used term in progressive circles to denote people who have the right views on issues and then link them with racial views right that is the idea that woken is result of woke miss results from identifying race at the center of American life intersectional politics at the center of American life that's what I mean when I talk about the woke progressives versus sort of the moderate Democrat so-called moderate Democrats when you're seeing this play out in real time in Congress so if the Democratic Party were smart they would be featuring people like representative Abigail Spann Stan burger so you've never heard of representative Abigail Spann burger why because she's a moderate from Virginia and Democrats don't want to feature her which makes very little sense considering that representative Spann burger is exactly the sort of candidate the demo that's need in order to win a majority now Nancy Pelosi knows this which is why Nancy Pelosi has openly stated in the past that all of those purple districts are the ones she has to worry about not Ilhan Omar's district not receded to lieb's district those are pure blue districts not a o'seas district but span Berger is getting clocked on all sides for the crime of being a moderate in the Democratic Party according to the Washington Post at the end of another long week in Congress representative Abigail Spann burger poured herself a cup of coffee and waited in her DC apartment for her family to arrive from their home outside Richmond she felt satisfied with a job well done then she looked at Twitter the Democrats how liberals lashing out at moderates like herself for approving 4.6 billion dollars in emergency aid for migrants at the southern border a deal they said did little to rein in the Trump administration's immigration policies representative mark Pocan of Wisconsin accused lawmakers like Span Berger of being part of a child abuse caucus the chief of staff for AOC said their vote would enable a racist system on facebook spam Berger was labeled too late and clueless Twitter by the way is a massive bubble that has very little impact on real-world thinking which is why members of the media who spent an enormous time on Twitter seems to think that that's real life that is not how people actually think which lifespan burger is much more important to Democrats in real world time then our Ilhan omar and rashida to leave but that's not how the Democrats are treating them span Berger was stunned it was the first time the freshman congresswoman could not make sense of what was happening reflecting on the late June episode span Berger said she learned a hard lesson she did not anticipate in 2018 when she unseated Republican Dave brat and helps Democrats win the House Majority sometimes your biggest foes will be in your own party in the eight months span Berger has served in Congress she's been a lawmaker in the middle she comes from a historically Republican district that just five years ago replaced Eric Cantor with someone more conservative but she won last year in large part thanks to left-leaning groups like the liberal women of Chesterfield County she beat brat by just two points she's a district Democrats need to keep doesn't matter Democrats are attacking her she says that week showed me that for some people ideology matters more than putting food in the mouth of a child and that was stunning to me now if you are Donald Trump if you are a Republican looking forward to 2020 then maybe you celebrate the fact that span burger is being ousted by her own party but if you are just an American who cares less about partisan politics than you do about the future of a two-party system you want people like span burger to win not the sea but you want her to defeat her more left-leaning colleagues in Congress you want two viable parties that are censored around where the American people are not a party that is running wildly to the left far away from the American public and simply winning on the basis of Republican unpopularity right span burger is somebody that I would like to see in a leadership position in the Democratic Party and I think most reasonable people would not Ilhan omar initiated Talib and again i don't want us here in congress i want to see a Republican in Congress I like Dave brat I'd like to see if Dave rap back in Congress but if you are going to choose between Democrats that choice does have ramifications so there's a theory among Republicans that it's better for Democrats it's good for Democrats to polarize and centralize around the Elizabeth Warren's and around the ill Hannah Mars and the Rashida to leaves and the a OCS in the autumn the Ayanna Presley's and that's good because the American people look at that and in vote Republican that's a dangerous game I would much rather have a choice between the Republican Party and a more reasonable Democratic Party because that means that the backstop of Republicans losing isn't insanity I don't want a choice between Republican and insane that's a bad choice because well it may mean the Republicans win more often it also means that when they lose insane is in charge and that is a dangerous dangerous thing and that is what we are seeing with the Democratic Party rallying around Ilhan Omar and Rashid it to lead so ill head Omar mashita Talib are still being championed by the top members of the Democratic Party at this point and that is insane and members of the media by the way let's do a quick thought exercise you did a little bit yesterday on on the radio show but let's do a quick thought exercise imagine for a second that you had two white Republican Congress men and they planned a trip to Israel in conjunction with an organization that had run pieces quoting anti-semitic myths about Jews imbibing Christian blood for passover matzah then republished a neo-nazi article decrying the jew controlled entertainment media that suggested that terrorists who murder Israeli children should be honored imagine their white Republican Congress people for a second do you think that might be a story what if those two sitting white Republican congressman tweeted out a cartoon from a cartoon is so anti-semitic he won second prize that Holocaust denial cartoon contest imagine that these two white Republican Congress men had themselves engaged in open anti-semitic slurs ranging from a suggestion that Israel's supporters in America suffered from dual loyalty to the accusation that Israel hypnotizes the world to the suggestion that it's all about the Benjamins American support for Israel imagine these two white Republican congressman had expressed support for terrorists like razz me Oh Deb imagine that both Congress people had a long history of associations with open anti-semites who hate Jews and finally imagine that both white Republican members of Congress we're calling for a complete cut off of aid to Israel as well as boycott divestment and sanctions from Israel and demanded entry to Israel do you think the story might be the beliefs of the two white Republican congressman or would it be how mean Israel is to these people and not allowing them to come we all know the answer to this if we were talking about Steve King and Pat Buchanan you know as a representative then this would be the story the story would be they're evil terrible horrible no good very bad beliefs however make these members of Congress females of color who are Muslim and suddenly the math completely shifts and we are not allowed to talk about any of this there is no mainstream media coverage of any of these things and if there is mainstream media coverage it's about how audacious these women are how they are raising issues that haven't been thought of before you know issues like whether Jews drink Christian blood I mean that is literally what the group that was sponsoring their trip has put on their website this is this is where the Democrats are they will defend anything that these women do and they will do so if it means justifying full-on terrorism and anti-semitism this became fairly clear yesterday when rich Lowry of National Review is on CNN with Peter Beinart representative Hamas on CNN so Peter Beinart writes for a bunch of publications including the New Republic in the nation Peter Beinart has always been a representative of the pro Hamas position in the in the Israel Hamas israel-palestinian debate he has never seen in action by Israel that he finds appropriate he has always justified too and he justified terrorism yesterday on on CNN I mean on national television in order to defend Omar and Talib this is how far the left is willing to go to defend these women specifically because they're trying to again grab hold the passionate base in in full knowledge that they are alienating moderates in the process here's by not being insane Palestinians don't have to be Saints in order deserve the basic rights that all of us take for granted right miffed I had an anti-semitic statement they apologized for these are strong supporters of the BDS movement they are not honest brokers we wouldn't afford a white nationalist organization the the leeway that Peter is giving this organization oh they're not Saints this is an anti-semitic a group that supported terrorism supports blowing up innocent civilians and children and no matter what you think of the dispute between the Palestinians and Israel that is an illegitimate tactic that no one should associate with advocates of okay then this prompted bynarr to actually start justifying terrorism he loses it he starts justifying terrorism on national TV he's devoted her life as a nonviolent activist to opposing an oppression which none of us doesn't do it does not accord with the values that any of us believe in as a matter she doesn't control her own organization and what it publishes rich why don't you try spending a little bit of time focusing on the fact that almost four billion dollars of US aid is used to put children in the lanchette you're the one distracting from the issue I'm a no learner distraction a chiral review shouting in offended apart a and just do you defend it segregation you now defend Israel's oppression of Palestinian basic right is a tradition for you guys okay then bind r1 even further and he suggested that terrorism may be justified by the fact that Israel is oppressive and this is this is what this is what biner has been saying for years I mean I've been on CNN talking with Peter Beinart and I've said openly that this guy represents the Hamas position he's doing all of that because and increasingly so are members of the Democratic Party in order to try and make the case that Omar and Talib are not out of bounds by nerd then tried to defend himself and he said today I was asked if I support Palestinian suicide bombers god forbid a friend was killed by one but but how is there but at the end of that statement but Palestinians don't forfeit their rights because some in the midst in their midst pursue them in an immoral way Mandela and Malcolm X teen source violence didn't make their oppression okay so what now comparing Nelson Mandela to myth - and Palestinian terrorists and all of this to defend the evils and the horrible viewpoints and the anti-semitism of Rashidah Talib and ohon Omar in a second we'll get to receipted Talib and Ilhan Omar so Rashid to leave in ohon Omar hold the press conference yesterday and in this press conference they make a bunch of anti-semitic statements and the democratic party again backing them to the hilt because this is the game in the Democratic Party they will defend their radicals under nearly every circumstance without even asking as to whether their their viewpoints are radical here's refuted Talib comparing Israel to South Africa despite the fact that Arabs and Muslims in Israel can vote hold positions in the Knesset our members of the Israeli Supreme Court that Arabic is an official language in Israel despite the fact that Arab Muslims in Israel are treated better than they are anywhere in the Arab Muslim world does not matter we're sheeted totally ripping on Israel calling it an apartheid state history does have a habit of repeating itself I learned this week that a former member of Congress congressman Charles C Diggs jr. was denied entry into apartheid South Africa in 1972 he was also the representative for the 13th congressional district in Michigan I was born and raised in the beautiful Detroit where many of my african-american teachers taught me about the realities of oppression and justice and the need to speak up and take action calling Israel an apartheid state is obviously anti-semitic because it is not in a part I'd state and it is of course signaling singling out Israel in a way that Rashida - Lee would never single out anybody else and Ilhan Omar made this perfectly obvious and she actually called for an end to aid to Israel I can't imagine why Israel didn't let her in she's literally calling for an end to aid to Israel and a boycott of the State of Israel I can't imagine why they didn't allow her in to propagandize on behalf of Israel's destruction we give Israel more than three million dollars in aid every year this is predicated on there being an important ally in the region and the only democracy in the Middle East we must be asking as Israel's ally the Netanyahu government stopped the expansion of settlements on Palestinian land and ensure full rights for Palestinians if we are to give them aid okay like she wants to give Israel aid and like you like they're an ally okay let me be frank about this Benjamin Netanyahu put in unilateral settlement freeze in place two years ago and none of these people cared one iota about that this is all y el hen amar Rasheeda Talib they want Israel destroyed and they're obvious about this and they're so disingenuous about it as well again the idea that she's she is a secret ally of Israel is insane you have to be you have to be a nutty person to believe this sort of nonsense and she tried her intersectional appeal she tried to say you know people keep calling me an anti-semite I don't know why even though I just tried to campaign with a group that has pushed the blood libel sure I don't I don't know why people keep calling me an anti-semite you know what this is this all about Trump trying to separate Muslims from Jews I would go more with it is you being a radical Jew hater I got into a little bit of a spat with el Han Omar on Twitter yesterday because the folks at Media Matters doing their usual solid work took me out of context on something I tweeted about it Ohan Omar then tweeted that I was both a fool and hateful to which I tweeted back well you know I must have hypnotized the world using my Benjamin's but in any case Ilhan Omar tries this intersectional approach where she's not an anti-semite it's just the Trump administration trying to separate off the Jews and the Muslims this is this is insanity we know Donald Trump would love nothing more than to use this issue to pit Muslims and Jewish Americans against each other the Muslim community and the Jewish community are being other and made into the boogeyman by this administration but but as we will hear today people of all different faiths are coming together to speak up against the status quo in the region I'm grateful for the Solidarity shown by this is this is the myth that this is the myth that Ilhan Omar and the Democratic Party tell themselves the myth they tell themselves that there is such a thing as an intersectional coalition and they're all on each other side and they all oppose Trump and that's what hold them together in the end that that coalition will fall apart will break apart on the shoals of its own identity politics the fact is this Ilhan Omar she don't like the Jews very much and it is obvious from all of her behavior and everything that she says that this is the case and then she brings in token Jews from Jewish Voice for Peace which is a pathetic anti-israel anti-jewish organisation and then she talks about how pro-jewish it's insanity but the idea is that hatred of Trump will hold that coalition together it will until it doesn't and will until it doesn't and it's one of the reasons why it is incumbent on President Trump to actually as president trying embolden the decent people still left in there in the Democratic Party and there are many of them to stand up against the hatred inside their own party it's funny I hear from Democrats all the time why won't Republicans denounce people inside their own party who say bad things if you've ever listened to this show you know that I do it on a regular basis you know that I've denounced people up to an including President Trump repeatedly for things that they have said you know that I maxed out to Kevin Feenstra Steve King's opponent in Iowa right out of my own pocket I've encouraged come Feenstra has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars in large part because I have had Kevin Feenstra on my show because I think that Steve King needs to be ousted from Congress people in the Republican Party are doing a much better job of standing up to people inside their own party Democrats are rallying around ohan Omar and Rashida too late they're not even asking the question Oh weird that they would be rallying with groups that want the destruction of the State of Israel and openly celebrate terrorism very weird very odd we mustn't pay attention to it because after all the heart and soul the Shaitan Freud the zeitgeist signified the zeitgeist of the time suggest that that ill Hadamard receded to Libra in the ascendancy and I don't think it's in the long term or even medium term interest to the country for the Democrats to rally around their worst members any more than I think any more than I think Democrats should should root for Republicans to rally around their worst members that they can nut pick and then 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even as we like to clock them when they do the wrong things so good for facebook so Senator Jon Kyl the Republican from a Republican senator from Arizona he was brought in with Covington and Burling to do a full-scale investigation into this and here is what they found they says we cast a wide net using a broad definition of conservative in order to capture for this report the concerns raised by all types of conservatives conservative is an imprecise term for our purposes it includes political conservatives people of Orthodox religious views libertarians Pro lifers traditionalists Republicans and free speech advocates as an initial step we identified key conservative organizations individuals and lawmakers who either use study or have the potential to regulate Facebook since May 2018 we have interviewed approximately 133 of them we presents in our preliminary findings to Facebook in early August 2018 and then they conducted a follow-up interview so here is what they found here is what this internal study over at Facebook led by Senator John Kyle found and this is a good study that is attempting to do the right thing all of big tech should take note Twitter particularly should take note because that continues to run like a garbage heap okay but Facebook is actually trying to do the right thing here so here is what they found there were six categories of concerns all of these are legit take content distribution and algorithms in order to sort through the thousands of posts that Facebook users could potentially encounter on a given day Facebook deploys a variety of mechanisms to prioritize the content most relevant to each individual user conservatives feared that these mechanisms prioritize content in ways that suppress their viewpoints interviewees voice three general concerns on this front first the January 2018 news feed algorithm change I talked about this at the time in January 2018 Facebook changed its contents ranking algorithm to favor contents that a given users friends and family comments on and share as well as news from quote-unquote broadly trusted sources people on the right weren't very concerned at Facebook's definition of broadly trusted sources as well we should have been this is correct clickbait and spam also Facebook made a concerted effort to deprioritize clickbait and spam interviewees generally supported this goal but found Facebook's policies for doing so to a peg again that is a correct critique of Facebook that Facebook was prioritizing as spam headlines that didn't read like a boring headline from the New York Times finally fact-checking in false news interviewees expressed significant concerns about Facebook's efforts to combat what the company refers to as false news in particular interviewees pointed to examples of instances when some of the third-party fact checkers utilized by Facebook at various times snopes politifact faction or the AAP which are certified by the Pointer Institute an entity that owns PolitiFact's have skewed to the ideological left we note that Facebook has accepted fact checkers affiliated with conservative publishers including the daily callers fact-checking unit once it was approved by pointer now as I have said for a long time using left-wing Facebook fact-checking sites as a proxy for actual fact checks is nonsense PolitiFact's is wildly biased and left so nope tries to debunk the babylon' be every 5 minutes using them as a proxy for fact-checking sites is nonsense and there are no fact-checking sites on the right the Daily Caller has won the Weekly Standard used to have one but then it stopped being operational and so what Facebook needs to do is either form their own independent fact-checking group that includes Republicans and conservatives and libertarians or they need to work with conservative groups to come up with alternatives to PolitiFact and Snopes and fact-check because otherwise just by absence of right-wing fact-checking organizations left-wing fact-checking organizations become a club to wield against conservative media okay so those are three of the concerns other concerns or content policies hate speech designations for example interviews concerns stemmed both from the notion of having a hate speech policy in the first place and from unfair labeling of certain speech as hate speech interviewees pointed out the highly subjective nature of determining what constitutes hate an assessment that may be subject to the biases of content reviewers also Facebook prohibits the use of the platform by terrorists and hate organizations and is unclear exactly how the hate organization designation is made especially considering that Facebook had had been perceived to rely on the Southern Poverty Law Center which is a garbage left-wing hit group so same sort of issue as the fact checking group and then finally there are other content policies that that a lot of conservatives were worried about they believed that Facebook's community standards were disproportionately affecting conservative content particularly pro-life socially conservative religious content because Facebook would constantly flag conservative content so Facebook is now responding and they're changing some of their policies they're changing some of their policies so they are changing their their content enforcement policies again this is good for Facebook like again we should give them credit when they're moving in the right direction they're going to specifically try to fight back against badly flagged content right they're going to create the ability to appeal decisions they are going to change their political ad requirements so that this is good they're they're adding to transparency so let's talk about some of the things that Facebook is actually going to do so they're going to help users understand why they do or do not see certain contents in their news feeds is all you can ask from a big tech company is that they be more transparent about what they are doing Facebook introduced why am I seeing this post to help users understand why they see certain content they are going to provide explanations of the newsfeed rankings Facebook has really not clarified its community standards and newsfeed ranking but now the company says that they want to do so they also want to give people ways to control their newsfeed so that you are not going to be controlled by the great minds over at Facebook they want to make enforcement actions against pages more transparent so people know exactly why they are being flagged why they're why their posts are being treated as bad policy and they're going to share more details on exactly how they create their community standards so this is all transparency is a good thing they're creating an oversight board for content decisions they will issue kind of quasi judicial decisions on on how they are controlling content and they're going to include a conservative feedback in that process as well as a public comment period they're going to ensure that that oversight board has viewpoint diversity they're gonna create an appeals process if you get flagged then you can now appeal it and they're going to increase staffing so that publications can reach out to Facebook more directly they're also going to change their advertising policies one of the big complaints is that Facebook had banned any ad that had pictures of fetuses or born human babies premature that were pro-life and now they're changing those content policies Facebook has historically prohibited advertisements showing Medical tubes connected to the human body that policy resulted in the rejection of pro-life ads they are changing that now so again is this a final answer for all of Facebook's problems no but good for Facebook for taking this seriously really good for them for taking it seriously and conservatives should say that the Conservatives should come out and they should say when Facebook does something right when big tech does the right thing they should be praised this encourages them to do the right thing guys and I understand there is now sort of a cottage industry and beating up on Facebook particularly but beating up on all of big tech and I think that a lot of the time big tech deserves it I've beaten up big tech my share okay but it is because some of these companies are better than others at dealing with the criticism that they should be praised when they actually deal with it in the right way now we'll keep an eye on Facebook and make sure that they actually implement some of these solutions that they continue to evolve in their pursuit of solutions here but good for them and don't trust anybody on the left who's trying to make common cause with people on the right to regulate Facebook I do not think Elizabeth Warren has the same priorities on Facebook as Josh Holly I really don't think so so be very careful before he call for a government regulation of big tech when as it turns out a lot of the big tech companies are actually seeking to not a lot some of the big tech companies are seeking to fix some of their internal problems so again good for Facebook okay meanwhile meanwhile the big story yesterday out of New York is that the officer in the Eric garner case was fired that officer his name is Daniel Pantaleo he was fired after it has now been five years since the death of Eric garner and that was tragic I mean Eric garner was distributing Lucy's loose cigarettes on the streets in New York he resisted arrest he was put in a in home and then he didn't die because his windpipe was crushed or because he was choked enough he died because the physical stress of being put in that hold triggered his asthma he was 395 pounds had pre-existing conditions he had an enlarged heart that was twice normal size and he died effectively of asthma and a heart attack on the way to the hospital the officer in that case was targeted by the media as an example of race-based policing now if you wanna make the case that that law should have been on the books kind of with you if you want to make the case that the police have been empowered to aggressively pursue minor crimes that should not be in fact crimes that's not the police's fault that's the Legislature's fault that's the City Council's fault in New York City when you tax cigarettes at insane rates and then people start a black market for cigarettes and then you empower the police to go and force that the police are gonna do what they're supposed to do instead that turned into a whole racial narrative and this particular officer got caught up in it never mind the fact that he was ordered by his lieutenant to suppress this for a suppress Eric garner who was in fact resisting arrest never mind there were black officers on the scene never mind that Eric garner was in the suppression hold for a grand total of 15 seconds no he has to lose his job he has to be fired and then we all have to celebrate Mayor Bill DeBlasio who was knocked by the left for not having fired Pantaleo he said today we saw justice done the United States Department of Justice absent and unwilling to act even to come to any decision for five long years but today we have finally seen justice done today we saw the NYPD's own disciplinary process act fairly and impartially okay so that is not the process acting fairly and impartially in reality this was a a railroading of an officer again I don't know that the officer acted entirely appropriately but this is certainly not a fireable offense okay using a suppression hold on a person who is resisting arrest and then the person dies because the person happens to have pre-existing medical conditions not because you intended to kill them not because you acted in reckless and irresponsible fashion knowing it would kill him but firing the guy over this it's pretty clear that this was a political process even the why PD commissioner admitted he said listen if I was a police officer today I'd be very very angry at me I've been a cop a long time and if I was still a cop I'd probably be mad at me I would you're not looking out for us but I am it's my responsibility as police commissioner to look out for the city and certainly to look out for the New York City police officers they took this job to make a difference and you all know the city's been transformed I've had a lot of help but it's the cops out there right now and the thousands that have come before us that continue to make this city safe I know some NYPD officers I can guarantee you that they do not feel comfortable that if they do their jobs they're gonna be backed up by the political forces at work in New York City it's the same thing in Los Angeles it's the same thing in most of our major cities the political forces always have an interest in throwing officers under the bus I mean again there's this revisionist history that has set in around this particular case but it is important to recognize what exactly happened here Barry Lazar had a piece in City Journal back in September of 2017 talking about what exactly happened he said context is everything here the garner case became a cause celeb because garner was black and Pantaleo was white and the death fit a media narrative about interracial law-enforcement confrontations but the facts of the garner case demonstrate the incident bears little resemblance to such characterizations an NYPD lieutenant erected Pantaleo and his partner to arrest garner so charges that the officer singled him out because of his race are nonsense the arrest order was issued because that part of Staten Island near the ferry docks was the subject of repeated complaints about illegal street vendors diverting customers from shops and even selling drugs garner had had at least three previous encounters with police just that year he'd been arrested twice and given a warning at the time of the fatal incident he was free on bail for offenses including selling untaxed cigarettes driving without a license marijuana possession and impersonation the case against Pantaleo rests on the supposed chokehold he used to make the arrest he never sought to choke garner to death or even injure him he was doing his job taking the resisting man to the ground as NYPD regulations provide had garner been cooperative as the officers requested the confrontation never would have happened Carter resisted when the police tried to grab his flailing arms he says every time you see me you want to mess with me I'm tired of stops today pants Illya put his forearm around Garner's neck and twisted him to the ground probably the simplest way of subduing a man of Garner's girth Pantaleo then held Garner's head down to the sidewalk the neck hold characterized by the medical examiner's office as a chokehold lasted 15 seconds panto Leone's Garner was down on the sidewalk and that is when it became clear that garner was actually having a serious problem breathing he said I can't breathe because he was suffering from asthma apparently people didn't even think that he was being abused there was supervising officers at the scene including a black police sergeant didn't really believe even that he was in medical distress because they didn't see how he could be given the treatment that he'd just received here's the reality of Eric garner had not had pre-existing medical conditions not only is this not a national news story the NYPD dismisses all charges against penteli oh so again this is it's an example of how politics tends to infuse situations with import that they do not carry I don't mean that it's not important when a when a person dies after being put in a suppression hold by police for 15 seconds of course that's important to the family of course we should always try to keep a tight leash on how the police act with regard to civilians of course of course of course but the question is in this case did pant elio who is not prosecuted who the DOJ investigated for five years deserved to lose his job at NYPD over political posturing by Bill DeBlasio and the NYPD Commissioner I don't understand how you're not gonna get blowback from police officers and why you're not gonna get another Ferguson effect police officers saying I'm not gonna go and do these things you want me to do because every time I do you guys undercut us it's the we're playing a dangerous game here when we make the the police's ability to do their job subject to political whims I don't mean again the subject to common standards of decency I mean political whims meaning this again this case would not have been a national story if Pantaleo were not white or vera garner or white it was made a national story by the media for a particular racial narrative and now I'll cost Pantaleo his job and if you're a police officer in the NYPD I'm not sure how much trust you can have in the political processes above you and I'm not just saying that for me I think that it's pretty clear from the officers I talked to did they feel the same way okay time for some things I like and then some things that I hate so that I like today Matt best is a former member of the military and he is also his former Army Ranger he's also a one of the founders of our sponsors of her black rifle coffee which is by the way the best coffee on the market and he's also an awesome dude I mean just a really great dude he has a great book out called thank-you for my service obviously a play on thank you for your service thank you for my service because he says that it changed his life it made his life an estimable better he wants to prove every day he says that in the book he wants to prove that not all members of the military are sort of these Hollywood characters who are suffering from severe post post-traumatic stress disorder that not every member of the military's a broken man he's leading a successful rich life and his book thank-you for my service is well worth reading so you can go check that out ok time for a quick thing that I hate ok so you remember that time like a week and a half ago when Chris Cuomo got into an altercation with somebody in public I said at the time I blame Chris Cuomo for getting into an altercation with somebody in public the person was harassing him in public the online attitude has now spilled over into real life the online attitude which is that you dunk on people and you yell at people and you act like an ass to people has now spilled over into real life where people are confronting each other publicly just to show their disdain for one another and it's gross and as for whether it's the right or the left happened to me a couple of times in the last three weeks it's it's in front of my family it's really inappropriate and it's disgusting and I don't blame Cuomo for getting kicked I do blame Cuomo for suggesting idiotically that somebody calling him Fredo is the same thing as calling somebody the n-word or that Fredo is in fact a racial slur it is not it is a specific reference to a movie character who is seen as a weak younger brother well one of the ways that you don't actually get rid of that stereotype of you as a weak younger brother is to have your older brother come out and defend you so Andrew Cuomo Chris's brother came out yesterday on the radio and he said no no no this was a racial slur and I'm coming out in defense of my younger brother Fredo it fuels the hate Italian Americans are not mafia they're not mafia the Godfather movie don't you dare don't you dare like in my family to them Sam you saw on the Godfather or The Sopranos Mario Cuomo lived with those rumors of the Mafia they heard him they scarred him every Italian lives with it every time really I know a lot of Italians most of them I don't think walk around being like yeah everybody keeps seeing me as a character from the Godfather I can't stand it also my favorite part of this is don't you dare don't shoot hey or what or what like what I don't want to appear like a mafioso so I'm gonna defend my brother by threatening you well done Andrew Cuomo just really strong strong stuff don't you ever take sides against the family again hey there's a where we are every every day again that running gun battle for dumbest Cuomo brother continues apace and and it appears from that clip that Andrew who took the lead just for a brief moment in time okay we will be back here later today with two additional hours of content we will see you then I'm Ben Shapiro this is the Ben Shapiro show the Ben Shapiro show is produced by Robert Sterling directed by Mike joiner executive producer Jeremy boring senior producer Jonathan hey our supervising producer is Mathis Glover and our technical producer is Austin Stevens edited by Adam Stevens audio is mixed by Mike Caro Mina hair and makeup is by Jesuit alvera production assistant Nick Sheehan the Ben Shapiro show is a daily wire production copyright day Lee Weyer 2019 if you want to delve the depths of leftist 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Length: 53min 30sec (3210 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 20 2019