Ep. 106 - Do Americans Want A Dictator?
The Ben Shapiro Show
The Daily Wire
4.4 • 152.4K Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2016
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Left is coming for the First Amendment. So they claim that they're all for freedoms of speech and association and religion, and that's crap, because the Left believes equality of feelings trumps constitutional liberty. |
| 0:11.7 | They think their agenda justifies getting rid of free speech and crushing freedom of association and punishing freedom of religion. |
| 0:18.0 | So here are three of the latest indicators that the left wants |
| 0:21.8 | to destroy the First Amendment wholesale. So number one, stopping citizens from being politically |
| 0:26.4 | involved. On Sunday, noted political commentator, all-around overrated actor, terrible Batman, |
| 0:32.0 | George Clooney, appeared on Meet the Press to discuss a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton. |
| 0:36.9 | At that fundraiser, he charged |
| 0:38.2 | $353,000 to be an event co-chair, which just sounds like, that's totally worth the money. |
| 0:45.1 | He blasted the Citizens United decision, which unleashed the power of the First Amendment for those |
| 0:50.0 | who wish to give money to political causes. He said, quote, I think Citizens United is the worst, one of the worst laws passed since I have been around. And so our job is to try and counter that in some way. First of all, George, Citizens United is not a law. It's a court decision. But then Clooney added that the Bernie Sanders campaign, when they talk about it, is absolutely right. It's ridiculous. We should have this money in politics. |
| 1:13.0 | I agree completely. He said after finishing a dinner where he charged people 400 grand to be the co-sponsors of the dinner. |
| 1:20.2 | Overturning Citizens United, by the way, involves repealing the First Amendment because it turns out that you have a right to spend money on elections, and so does everybody else. |
| 1:27.0 | Okay, number two, prosecuting people for giving to causes. |
| 1:30.5 | So on March 29th, with Al Gore looking on, more than a dozen state attorneys general, almost all Democrats, |
| 1:37.3 | stated that they would look to prosecute the oil company Exxon for the crime of giving money |
| 1:42.1 | to the Competitive Enterprise Institute, which is an anti-anthropogenic |
| 1:46.1 | global warming thing tank. No man-made global warming. What was their crime? Why are they being |
| 1:49.8 | prosecuted? Supposedly, Exxon committed fraud because they supported a non-approved opinion |
| 1:55.2 | about global warming. They sent money to the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and this is fraud. |
| 1:59.5 | National Review's editorial board said, quote, what's at stake here is nothing less than the rule of Institute, and this is fraud. National Review's editorial board said, |
| 2:01.4 | quote, what's at stake here is nothing less than the rule of law and the maintenance of a free |
| 2:05.6 | society, one in which people, think tanks, and businesses are not subject to prosecution for |
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