Hollywood mocks Trump, postures about sexual harassment, and generally annoys everybody who

doesn't live in Hollywood.

We'll talk about it.

I'm Ben Shapiro.

This is the Ben Shapiro show.

Okay, so this is the show that we do after the Oscars, where everybody on the left

gets super annoyed.

After all the virtue signaling and all the politics of last night and all the politics

that Hollywood routinely shoves in the faces of Americans, if you respond to that, it's considered bad taste. Mind that it was pretty stacked politically from the left. Never mind that was openly acknowledged by the people on the stage. If you respond to that, then you see you're being triggered. If you respond to that, if you point out that it's political, if you point out that Hollywood is pushing a particular political agenda, this makes you the bad guy. We'll talk about all of that in just a second. But first, I want to say thank you to our sponsors over at Birch Gold. So today, again, the stock market starts off and it is down. We have been down for a week. We've been down for the last month. The stock market always has some baked in volatility. It doesn't mean you shouldn't invest in the stock market, but it does mean that you should hedge some of your betting with investment in precious metals. And that's why I talk to my folks over at Birch Gold Group. They sell physical precious metal for your own possession, and they will ship metals right to your front door. Right now, thanks to a little-known IRS tax law, you can even move your IRA or eligible 401k into an IRA backed by physical gold and silver. It's perfect for people

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in the entertainment community where they make a bunch of content and they do it with politics

explicitly in mind.

And then if you respond to that, then it's you who are being oversensitive.

So if you say that the shape of water, aka grinding Nemo, a movie in which a woman has sex

with a fish, but only after she is helped by a communist, a gay guy, and a black woman, and she herself is mute, she helps a fish escape to her bathtub where she has sex with it.

If you say this may have some left leanings, if you say this may have some political messages, then you are saying, how dare you mention the shit?

It is a great piece of art. How dare you? Who do you think you are? Right? It doesn't matter that people who have worked on the movie say it's political. It doesn't matter that critics have said it's political. It doesn't matter that viewers know it's political because it's obviously political. If you point out that it's political, no. How dare you call it SJW Splash? You're oversensitive. You're ruining the art. Just terrible. If you mention, they call me by your name, which won Best Original Screenplay or Best Adapted Screenplay Last Night. If you mention that that's a story about a 24-year-old dude, seducing a 17-year-old dude, which means that the dude who he's seducing is underage and that if you made that movie about a man and a woman, this would now be part of the Me Too movement.

Or if you mentioned that if that guy who was 24 was named Kevin Spacey, he'd be banned from Hollywood for doing that in real life. No, how dare you? It's a beautiful love story that has no political agenda at all. None. No political agenda. If you mention that there are a slate of movies last night that were mediocre at best, but were praised to the skies because of the intersectionality of the people who made them. So, for example, Lady Bird, meh, just a me movie. As Sunny Bunch puts it correctly, it is a longish episode of Roseanne. If you say that, if you point out that Greta Gerwig's movie is like, eh, it's not the worst movie ever, but it's not the best movie ever. That's because you must hate women. If you don't pay attention to, if you think that Black Panther was like a good action movie, like a nice good action flick, but it wasn't the most important movie of all time. You are politicizing it. Not the New York Times, which ran a thousand pieces, a thousand thing pieces, about how it was the most important movie ever. If you say it may not be the most important movie ever, then you are the problem and you're triggered. You see, here's the deal, folks. I'm not angry about any of this. I'm not upset about any of this. I'm just pointing out the hypocrisy of people who overtly state that they are acting in political fashion, then the minute

you say, well, you know, I'm not really fond of politics being shoved in my face. They go, a clown nose on. No, we're just, we're just your jesters. We're just your entertainers. We're just here to entertain. So what really ripped the mask off last night is Jimmy Kimmel made a joke in the middle of the Oscars. First of all, of course, Jimmy Kimmel was asked back because now he is, as Guy Benson puts it, the Pope of Hollywood. He is the secular Pope and Jimmy Kimmel,

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