Yesterday we reported on President
Biden's new plan to get more
people vaccinated and in effect for
about one out of three Americans.
If they work for a corporation
that's large enough, they will
sort of have to get vaccinated.
It's been called a mandate.
But please bear in mind that you
don't have to get vaccinated.
You can alternatively simply get
tested for COVID every week, but
everybody's forgetting about that
part while pretending that it's
a mandate.
So, let's go forward with that
understanding.
Now we have the reaction and
virtually everyone on the right
hates this, regardless of what
they've said personally in
the past about vaccine mandates,
and we'll be doing
a bit of fact checking for that.
But why don't we start with
Mike Pence, who was in a position
of authority a response to
the pandemic not long ago.
Here's what he had to say
about the new plan.
>> I have to tell you
the President's speech yesterday
was unlike anything I'd ever heard
from an American president.
I mean to have the President of
the United States say that, that
he's been patient but his patience
is wearing thin, that's not how
the American people expect to be
spoken to by our elected leaders.
But to say that it's not
about freedom,
it's exactly about freedom.
America is about freedom and
the ability to make the best
decision for your family.
For your business.
>> Sure.
>> And now to have a president not
just scolding the American
people but scolding governors
around the country.
It's just not the American way.
And I expect the response they're
going to get from across
the country will prove that.
>> Yeah. What Mike Pence gets is
that the American public has
become used to the president always
being very polite.
And speaking in a respectful
fashion, never saying anything
harsh, attacking any groups inside
of America, anything like that.
But he wasn't just angry
at President Biden's tone or
his word choice.
He said this is about freedom.
American families should be able
to choose, they should really
choose for their families.
They should not be required to do
anything and
again they don't have to,
they don't have to get vaccinated.
But even if we pretend that they
will be required to,
what's interesting,
is it back in February 2015.
Former Governor Mike Pence had this
to say about vaccine mandates
saying, Indian law requires all
children be protected from vaccine
preventable diseases like
the measles by getting vaccinated.
Vaccines protect all our
children from illnesses and
our administration strongly urges
who's your families to have their
children vaccinated.
So when he was in charge of a state
he was perfectly happy with in fact
proud of their vaccine mandate
because it protected children and
in so doing protected their
families from diseases that might
be transmitted through their
children.
Now we're in the exact
same situation,
lots of people dying from a disease
that could be prevented.
But it's not politically
convenient to be on the side of
vaccine mandates.
And so the former vice president
has changed his position.
There will be others doing
likewise.
But what do you all
think about this?
>> Okay, so, I'm going to get to
a little bit later what the actual
patriotic and American thing to do
is and obviously John's points very
good when we all know this.
I mean, this is all lunacy.
We've all been taking vaccines our
whole lives.
And it's been mandated in
a thousand different circumstances
for polio, and many other diseases.
This is just a cultural war issue
that has nothing to do with logic
facts, reason, science.
Or medicine at all it has to do
with a certain group of
Neanderthals in the country who
decide, me know like science,
me like Trump better,
because it's just that's reality.
You can cry about it and
I encourage you to cry about it.
Get out your emotions because
I know republicans are all about
emotions now.
[INAUDIBLE].
Feelings, I mean literally a guy we
covered yesterday in
Tennessee I believe it all and
I don't like to take vaccine,
we got I'm not kidding.
He actually did talk like that.
I'm doing a mild version of it.
Because, it hurt Trump feeling
okay, I don't want that, and
then he got COVID and
then he luckily he survived by
taking all sorts of other medicines
by the same companies that hurt
Trump's feelings, okay, anyways,
but the main thing I wanted to say
about Pence is no, shh, shh.
Nobody who supported Donald Trump
gets talked about, they don't like
the president talking to
the American people that way.
You know, that says scolding.
[LAUGH] I mean, imagine a president
scolding anyone.
[LAUGH] >> Hey, Mike,
they were chanting hang Mike Pence
as they broke into the capital.
I will put that under the wide
category of scolding.
[LAUGH] When they want to execute
you, that's scolding in an extreme
way.
Do you guys know the Donald Trump
after finding out that his fans
wanted to murder his own vice
president?
Never apologize to Pence.
He never apologize to him.
>> Or ask him not to.
>> And this little, this this sad
little man Mike Pence thinks he's
going to run for president do they
want to execute you.
You have a 0% chance of winning,
now republican voters hate you more
than democratic voters because he
wouldn't rig an election
in a way you couldn't do anyway.
And now you're going to go out here
and try to can you imagine
the American president talking
roughly what the American people
have never seen any such thing.
That's why any media that
entertains this is trash and
turn them off.
If you're an actual journalists,
you don't have to yell at me,
don't do anything.
You just have to say, Mr.
Vice President.
Are you being serious?
You were the vice president for
Donald Trump, who often spoke far
worse to the American people.
So there's a genuine question out
of intellectual curiosity.
Did you miss those four years?
Did you miss the chant?
Like what, I'm trying to understand
what you're saying,
because if we're all honest actors,
you couldn't possibly mean what you
just said.
That's the most absurd thing that
anybody's ever seen.
>> You know, want to know, I would
love for someone to ask Mike Pence
if he's been vaccinated because
a lot of times these people who are
Instigating and playing these games
with the American people were first
in line to get the vaccination,
because they stand and
they sit in a privileged place and
had access to it long before.
You know many people had to go
stand at stadiums and have.
Have specific jobs or
illnesses to stand in line first.
The other thing is I'm so tired of
this elitist, you know like whether
we're talking about republicans or
democrats, this is an elite elitist
problem in this country.
Where people who stand in a place
of privilege who have opportunities
and access to everything,
always speaking about
the people who don't.
And you know, Mike Pence is even as
dangerous as Donald Trump because,
you know, he played that game.
He really played the game.
He just jumps back and forth,
wherever it's convenient for
him he's been very dangerous for
his state and
the people of his state.
But I just I'm so
tired of hearing this cop this
these talking points because at
the end of the day point blank.
All it is is an assault on
the intelligence of the average
American because our
education system is so failed.
And people lack information and
don't have access to quality
education in this country that now
you can just move them emotionally
because they don't know what is
what, at the end of the day.
That's all this is.
It's just an attack on American
people, because our education
system is so lacking and
these people don't know science,
they don't know geography.
They don't have information and
what these elites are doing that's
what I'm going to start
calling them is playing with these
people's emotions.
>> Yeah, and playing with their
lives too because as you point out,
they're all vaccinated,
Pence's vaccinated,
I believe he's actually said it.
The next person we're going to
talk about Ben Shapiro is as well.
>> No, Mike Pence is actually one
of the first people to get
vaccinated.
And, and on that front,
I have no criticism of him.
He should have gotten vaccinated
as he did.
And they say it publicly so
encourage others, hey, vaccine,
which he does, actually.
So let's be fair about it.
So, and he said, Karen and I were
vaccinated, I thought which one and
then I realized
no his wife his name Karen.
Okay.
She's a literal Karen,
okay, got it.
Got it.
So [LAUGH] but, but you see we're
fair, Pence said hey listen, with
Trump is that was done was maniacal
and and you know and of course
talked like this all the time.
To the American people,
but I didn't like it back then.
Yeah, I agree with the philosophy
and the principles and
the legislation, but I don't agree
with that manner and hence I don't
agree with it when when Joe Biden
does it I should know best, because
they were looking to execute me.
And we would say, okay,
fine that's his opinion.
It's the hypocrisy and
the disingenuous nonsense that I
can't stand.
>> Yeah. >> But a,
you got more than.
>> We do. Yes.
So, one part of this announcement
by Biden is that corporations that
do not comply with this can be
fined up to $14,000 for
each case of non compliance.
And now we have the right wing
corporations saying whether they
actually plan to challenge it or
not whether they even have the 100
employees necessary to trigger
it or not.
Saying that they're not
going to comply.
And Ben Shapiro's company
is one of those.
So here he is talking about
their legal path forward.
>> Ben, your company has
got over a hundred employees.
So what are you going to do?
Are you going to listen to
the president and everybody
going to roll up their sleeves?
Are you going to take a different
approach?
>> Of course now we're going to use
every method and resource at our
disposal to defy the President's
unconstitutional order.
And this is coming from somebody
who's a very pro-vaccine and I was
vaccinated as soon as possible.
I've encouraged everybody to get
the vaccine or pretty much
everybody to get the vaccine.
And the notion that the federal
government has the ability to force
every business in America with over
100 employees, by the way,
I'm not sure why it's over 100
employees theoretically it should
be every business in America.
Infected anywhere.
He said he he came into office
saying I'm not going to shut down
the economy.
I'm not going to shut
down the country.
I'm going to shut down the virus.
He failed to shut down the virus
and now he's going to shut down
the economy in the country.
Apparently.
The provisions that Joe Biden is
going to be citing under OSHA
are wildly over broad, and frankly,
I think that he's made a huge
tactical legal blunder here.
I think there's every possibility
that something like this goes to
the supreme court level.
And suddenly we see a complete
rewriting of the administrative
state because Joe Biden
couldn't get his act in order.
And so, he decided to issue
in a tyrannical and
authoritarian order here.
>> It's just so like,
he's not shutting down the virus
he's shutting down the economy.
No, he like if people if you
encourage people not to work, not
to comply that is very much on you.
The economy is suffering right now
because the the the pandemic is
going as poorly as it is.
So he is taking that seriously at
the very least.
Let's also know the irony of
the fact that he's having
a conversation with the cast of Fox
and friends who worked for
a corporation that is doing these
policies.
But anyway,
I also want to point out
the personal hypocrisy because he
says, I'm not being hypocritical.
I'm against the mandates,
which again,
it's not event mandate.
You don't have to get vaccinated.
You can just get tested but
they pretend that's not true.
But I am pro-vaccine but the thing
is, he's also pro mandate or
at least he was when he wrote in
town hall back in 2015 this.
The point of mandatory vaccinations
is not merely to protect those who
are vaccinated.
When it comes to measles, mumps and
rubella for example,
children cannot be vaccinated until
1 year of age.
The only way to prevent them from
getting diseases is to ensure that
those who surround them do not have
those diseases.
The same is true for
children with diseases like
leukemia as well as pregnant women.
Herd immunity is designed to
protect third parties.
But Americans have short
memories and enormous confidence in
junk science.
That doesn't mean that all
vaccinations should be
compulsory of course.
There are certain diseases that can
only be transmitted by
behavior like HPV.
There are others that are too
varied for effective herd
vaccination, like the flu shot.
But when it comes to measles and
mumps and rubella and polio, your
right to be free of vaccination and
your right to be a dope with
the health of your child because
you believe Jenny McCarthy's idiocy
ends where my child's right to live
begins.
>> Oops.
>> So he not only supported
mandatory vaccinations,
he specifically did so
that philosophically,
you don't have the freedom to risk
other people's lives.
But oops,
now it's not just Jenny McCarthy.
It's the entire right that's
against this.
So I guess my values what
they're whatever they have to be.
I want you to keep listening to me.
I want you to give me money.
So I'll say whatever you
need me to say.
That's Ben Shapiro's position.
>> Yeah. So, first of all,
why the hypocrisy?
Why bother?
Because conservatives like
Ben Shapiro always trying to seem
like they're the reasonable ones.
So they'll set a bottom of
the barrel that's really, low and
say, well, they're not going to
cross this bottom right.
So it's okay.
I can say, hey, look,
we shouldn't murder each other with
contagious diseases.
That's an easy bottom.
And then I'll get to say to the,
the people in the suckers in
the media and other folks,
I'm the reasonable conservative hey
look, I'm in favor of vaccines.
But then, republicans always go
past the bottom of the barrel,
remember he was against Trump in
the beginning.
I think the way he's talking,
he's really cruel,
I bet he's in favor of porn.
Yeah, remember Ben Shapiro wrote
a whole book against porn.
Donald Trump had sex with porn
actresses without a condom.
Okay, let's just understand level
set here, right?
So he's like,
I don't like American,
he likes Barney.
[INAUDIBLE]. I don't like
him, right?
And then they're like, hey,
shut up and like Trump.
His audience says, okay,
I love Trump.
And Never mind.
I'm sorry. I like I love Trump.
I hate vaccines.
I mean [INAUDIBLE] saying my
wife's a doctor.
You know, my wife's a doctor I
mentioned in every show, okay,
and then but
you you don't get vaccinated.
[LAUGH].
Okay, by the way,
who likes this guy?
I don't get it,
who looks at Ben Shapiro?
Maybe it's a different country
looks at Ben Shapiro and
thinks like, I love fast talking
dudes who looked down at me and say
things that don't make any sense.
And that then contradicted
themselves all the time is well,
yeah republicans like yeah,
I got it.
[LAUGH] Okay.
And then he says, buying failed to
shut down the virus.
That's because your
moron fans won't get vaccinated.
But he's so, okay.
Yeah, let's show Bidden man.
He's not going to beat the vaccine.
I mean he's not going to be doing
Coronavirus.
Why we're
going to get to Coronavirus you
with the smear in our ears.
[LAUGH] And maybe we die, and
now we show Joe Biden.
You good Ben.
Ben's been vaccinated
the whole time.
So is Pence, so their doctor's
wives and their Karen wives they're
all vaccine a laughing their ass
off at their stupid
stupid followers who are dying to
help them politically so they can
get Joe Biden and John's right.
This whole segment was about
the daily wire will not comply with
the laws of Joe Biden.
We hate rule of law and order.
Hell on law and order.
We hate the cops, right?
Okay, that's fine.
But you're on Fox News.
They certainly have more than 100
employees, Fox hasn't said a word
because we showed you the memos
earlier, internal memos show
Fox News is mandating vaccines,
mass, you name it, they mandate it.
They're like, remember guys,
we're not stupid.
Our audience is stupid.
We all keep safe, and we make sure
they die for our political benefit.
Is that hilarious?
And that's the scum that the is
conservative media today.
>> So I stand corrected about
Pence.
In all transparency.
I've been staying away from these
people as I was preparing for
my special because.
They depress me, because I actually
know quite a few people who have
passed away from Coronavirus.
And to watch this virus being
politicized in a manner in which
it has, has caused a lot of people
from my community and
many communities to fall and
it's just gross to see them
playing this game.
But I stand by what I said about
this elite, you know, attitude and
this elite air that they have like
they he said it probably my wife
and I both have been vaccinated.
But it's the game that they're
playing with these people who like
I said, don't have the information,
the benefit of an education they
don't have.
They don't know the science
behind it, that all of
the conspiracy theories,
like I've had people hit me with,
they're trying to slip something in
me and I'm like, I see you.
If they were trying to slip
something in you, all they had to
do was put it in a Big Mac.
[LAUGH] >> They're trying to track
me, no, where 711?
They want my DNA.
No, they want LeBron's DNA.
They don't want your DNA.
[LAUGH] >> I stand by it.
I feel like they're just
running game.
Like Jake just said it's all for
political gain.
In the middle on it, all of those
people who follow blindly and
perish, don't matter, because they
don't care about you anyway.
And as much as we go at it with
those people that way,
nobody insults those people more
than they're all the people
that they're following.
Nobody insults their
intelligence more.
They are like, you know what?
Look the let's tell them what
they want to hear,
because they're going to do it.
They're going to follow.
If we just do this a little bit,
they're going to fall for
it because they don't have good
education's.
They're too busy working.
They don't have healthcare,
they have no money.
They don't have time to go find out
the real stuff.
So just tell them,
tell them to drink Clorox,
tell them to drink, horse medic,
whatever the horse medication is,
they're going to do it.
Just do it.
And if you don't think this that
evil, then you really need to
pick up something in read.
>> Yeah, I'm just going to say last
couple things.
First of all,
if they slip it into the Big Mac,
I'm a gunner and
every time I drive by 711, I think,
I liked your hot dogs.
>> I do too.
>> My line of the week though, is.
They don't want your DNA [LAUGH]
Trust me they don't want your DNA
they don't want any part of that.
Okay, I'm going to show you
guys something.
I just want to show them number of
deaths in America from Coronavirus
because they all know that this is
all they are they're slipping it in
because that could could kill
you later they don't know
what kills you Coronavirus,
656,000 dead in America.
656,000 dead in America and all
the top republicans are vaccinated,
but they're getting you guys to die
for them.
If you think that's owning the libs
have added hos.