It's a busy weekend as high school students march, stormy Daniels comes clean, and tariff talk

dominates the economy.

We'll get to all of it.

I'm Ben Shapiro.

This is the Ben Shapiro show.

Okay, folks, I promise.

Not everything I say today will be a sexual pun with regard to a scandal about a porn star.

I will attempt to make only 73% of all the things I say some sort of double entendre or pun because we have to be serious about the new cycle. Sorry, I can't even make it through that. We'll get to all this stuff. But first, I want to say thank you to our sponsors over at quib. So when it comes to your health, you got to know that your tooth health, actually, your mouth health actually makes a big difference to your generalized health. In fact, gum health has a lot to do with heart disease, believe it or not. And there's only one way to ensure that you are getting the cleanest possible mouth, and that is with quip. That is because quip is the new electric toothbrush that packs just the right amount of vibration into a slimmer design at a fraction of the cost of bulkier electronic truth brushes.

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with this big March for Our Lives that happened in Washington, D.C. Now, approximately 200,000

people showed up in the March for Our Lives. It's a good number. It's a solid number. Okay,

the March for Life in 2012 had 650,000 people who showed up to it. Was the media coverage

blanket the way that it was on Saturday?

Now, listen, I don't think that this is about the kids at Parkland. Kids are kids. Some of them say

smart things. Some of them say dumb things. And just because some tragedy fell upon them doesn't

mean that they suddenly have expertise on guns, for example. But the main issue here is why the

media have decided to highlight and spotlight these kids. And the reason is because the kids can say things that the media can hide behind. The high school kids who don't really know much about guns, don't know much about gun control, but can speak with passion and verb and are attractive on camera. They can say things that the media want to say, but know that they would be bashed about the ears for saying because they are supposed to be objective.

And so what the media do instead is they put all of these kids on camera for hours at a time and then claim that if you criticize what these kids are saying,

they're actually criticizing the experiences of these kids.

This is another form of identity politics.

So identity politics is this idiotic concept from the left that suggests that we can identify the quality of your politics. So identity politics is this idiotic concept from the left that suggests

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