The NFL may be on the ropes and President Trump may have put them there.

The left demonstrates its definite scorn for the middle of the country.

And we'll talk about one of the worst movies ever made.

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

So the vortex of stupidity continues to whirl and you are a part of it, my friends, as am I.

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Okay, so the football controversy, the NFL controversy will not die. The ratings were

apparently slightly up on Sunday over the previous year, but that's because

people were tuning in to see the controversy. Next week, watch for the ratings to plummet as people

simply tune out and demonstrate that they're not interested in watching a bunch of players who

they feel are ungrateful for being in the United States of America and who are kneeling

about the anthem and the flag. So one of the things that I've been talking about

for years on this program now is the idea that two bubbles have formed in the United States. It's not just one bubble. You know, we on the right like to say, well, Hollywood's it's bubble. Media, that's their bubble. There are two bubbles. There's the bubble of those of us on the right and the bubble of those of the people on the left. In the right bubble, we look at the people kneeling, and we say,

everyone who is kneeling is doing so because they hate the anthem and the flag. The reason that you kneel during the anthem is because you don't like the anthem, and you think that America is a problematic place imbued inherently with racism, sexism, bigotry and homophobia. And that's why you're kneeling. It's because you don't like the flag. And there's some evidence to this. Colin Kaepernick, when he first knelt, said, I'm doing this because the flag doesn't stand for black Americans, which is just absurd, it's just asinine. It was the flag of the United States that was carried into battle by the black regiment during the Civil War that you can see it in the movie Glory. You know, the flag has

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