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The Ben Shapiro Show

Ep. 1248 - The Establishment Media Are Driving Us Toward Civil War

The Ben Shapiro Show

The Daily Wire

News, News Commentary

4.4152.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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CNN suggests that misinformation from the right will cause a civil war...but it's the establishment media's embrace of radical critical race theory that will split the country.  Check out Ben's brand new weekly series, Debunked. Leftist theories debunked in 15 minutes or less. Only on The Daily Wire: https://utm.io/uc9er  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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CNN suggests that misinformation from the right will cause a civil war, but it's the establishment media embrace of radical critical race theory that will split the country.

0:08.8

I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

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right. All righty. So in the absence of Donald Trump, our establishment media, have decided

1:33.0

that now is the moment they can destroy all opposition. It wasn't just that they were out to get Trump.

1:37.4

It was that Trump was a stand-in for everybody who didn't think like dated. And now that Trump is

1:42.1

out of the picture, essentially, the Democrats in the establishment media have decided it's time to go full out against not just conservatives, but specifically Fox News. And so all of the coverage time that they used to spend on CNN on Donald Trump has been shifted. And now they just cover Tucker Carlson as though Tucker Carlson's an elected official. They just cover Fox News the same way the media matters would. They just assign staffers to watch Fox News and if actually want to watch

2:04.5

Fox News, all you have to do these days is tune in to CNN because they spend more time covering

2:09.2

what's going on on Fox News on CNN than they do actually covering what's going on with the Biden

2:13.9

administration, which is pursuing extraordinarily radical plans. And all of their reporters are cheered for this sort of stuff. So Jim Acosta, who is just a terrible reporter. He was a terrible White House reporter. All he wanted to do was get on TV. It's all he cared about was those viral clips of Jim Acosta shouting at President Trump. Well, now he has nothing to do. Like his job is basically over because Trump isn't there. So he has to pick new enemies.

2:35.1

And the way that Jim Acosta is going to keep his numbers up is by cursing at Fox News, which, of course, if you're watching CNN, presumably you like.

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So Jim Acosta went viral over the weekend because he started dropping curse words on CNN to show how passionate he was.

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He started dropping curse words on cable news.

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And so here he was talking about Fox News and Fox News being a promulgator of lies and all the

2:55.5

rest of Jim Acosta's usual schick. As the old saying goes, a lie can travel around the world

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and back again while the truth is still lacing up its boots. But the lies these days are

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moving at the speed of light while spreading so much darkness.

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