a new chapter in the growing feud
pitting two members of the so-called
squad congresswoman Rasheeda to leave
and ill Han Omar against Israel they're
planning to speak 90 minutes from now
about their recent travel trouble with
Israel but they're also likely to get
asked about a very controversial cartoon
that they shared on social media Ben
Shapiro is editor-in-chief of The Daily
wire syndicated columnist and host of
the Ben Shapiro show which is crowd
favorite everyone loves it then we want
to put up this cartoon and have could
you explain to people how offensive it
is so the cartoon is not merely
offensive because it basically paints
Benjamin Netanyahu's arms silencing was
shooted to Leoben Ilhan Omar as the
Israeli flag and invokes obviously the
idea that Israel is trying to silence
these Muslim congresswoman but it turns
out that the person who created this
cartoon came in second in the 2006 Iran
Holocaust denial contest there's
actually a cartoon contest in Iran
for this sort of thing so imagine that
somebody on the right had tweeted out a
cartoon by a virulent racist and had
done so knowing what that person was
there would be appropriate blowback
you're getting none of that from the
mainstream media today but again none of
this is surprising Omar and Talib were
going on a tour that was run by a group
that has significant terrorised that has
put up on its own website the blood
libel about Jews using Christian blood
for passover matzah that has posted
articles from open neo-nazi sources and
yet the media haven't covered that
either and when the media are in search
of a narrative about victimized Congress
people at the hands of the nefarious
Jewish state they're willing to overlook
all evidence to the contrary what do you
think that they'll try to say this
afternoon when they have their press
conference in just a couple of hours huh
I mean the same stuff they've been
saying before they're going to say that
Israel is an inherently discriminatory
state that boycott divestment sanctions
which is an idea
so anti-semitic that Nancy Pelosi called
it that two months ago while she was
speaking to AIPAC that that idea is
actually a good idea and that the State
of Israel ought to be denied foreign aid
based on the fact that they won't allow
in a couple of anti-semites to come and
talk about why Israel should be
overthrown which is the basis of the BDS
movement let me move on to the other one
you mentioned the media let's just
talked about about the New York Times
specifically there was this meeting last
week after the big hubbub about the
headline that a lot of people on the
left and people apparently in the
newsroom did not like and so Dean became
a
New York Times executive editor brought
everybody together and something leaked
from that meeting and it was basically a
transcript in which he talks about the
outlets coverage of Trump and he said it
went from being a story about whether
the Trump campaign had colluded with
Russia and obstruction of justice to
being a more head-on story about the
president's character we built our
newsroom to cover one story and we did
it truly well now we have to regroup and
shift resources and emphasis to take on
a different story and the story that
they want to cover is how America has
become so divided under President Trump
the president tweeting basically the New
York Times he thinks will be out of
office be after he leaves office
hopefully in six years and he says
because of that he's fairly certain that
they will endorse him in order to keep
it all going
what about whatever happened to just
reporting whatever the news is why do
you have to have a vision for what that
news will know that that would be that
would be a nice thing but the fact that
the New York Times is obviously deciding
what narratives it wishes to sell to its
own public right before the election I
mean this is an activist organization
this is no longer a news organization I
don't even know how they purport to be a
news organization when they're
explicitly stating that their narrative
for the next year or so is going to be
about the divisive nature of President
Trump and his racism as opposed to the
Trump Russia stuff I mean when you
design your entire newsroom around a
story to take someone down
that's Media Matters that's typically
not the New York Times but I guess the
New York Times and Media Matters are one
in the same now what we joked right in
the commercial break that there are days
when you wake up in Shapiro and you find
out that you yourself are trending on
Twitter and there was a little bit of
some backlash last week after you said
this if you had to work more than one
job to have a roof over your head or
food on the table you probably shouldn't
have taken the job that's not paying you
enough that be a you problem now
that's taken out of context in
congresswoman Alexandra Ocasio cortes
tweeted this to you one of the most
manipulative tactics plutocrats use is
convincing people that the systemic
issues we face are character flaws
instead of policy flaws working people
aren't dumb or inferior nor are they why
insulin cost three hundred dollars or
huge companies pay starvation wages
corruption is and I thought I'd give you
a chance to set the record straight on
this and what you were talking about
sure the only people who are scornful of
working people are the people who
believe that socialistic governments at
the top of the system is going to
provide working people with a path word
toward upward
ability ASU is responsible for the
losses 125 thousand jobs in New York
City talking about how she's standing up
for working people the reality is that
the jobs you choose to take in a free
society out of the jobs you choose to
take in a free society the point of my
statement was specifically directed at
Kamala Harris who is saying that we need
to drastically restructure all of
American economics so that you don't
have to work two jobs in order to put a
roof over your head my point is that we
all have to make decisions about our
jobs and thank God we have the ability
to do so
that's what allows us to get ahead I
haven't not only nothing but respect for
people who work two jobs I encourage
everybody to work as many jobs as they
possibly can to get ahead in the freest
most prosperous country in the history
of the world I think that your point was
that you can't expect then the
government to set the wage because that
has proven not to work it's also
irritating I mean the fact is that what
Kamala Harris and AOC suggest is that
they're gonna magically be able to make
a 750 dollar an hour job worth $25 an
hour it's a bunch of crap they're lying
to you they're lying to you because they
want power and they want your money and
then we got both of them if you choose
to believe that the system is keeping
you down rather than that most of the
decisions that affect your life are in
your own hands
all right Ben Shapiro we appreciate you
coming on today thank you