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The Ben Shapiro Show

Ep. 508 - The Media’s Self-Defeating War

The Ben Shapiro Show

The Daily Wire

News, News Commentary

4.4152.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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It’s a Hobbesian war of all against all as CNN and Fox News do battle, Trump fulminates over immigration, and Hamas makes its move. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's a Hobbesian war of all against all as CNN and Fox News do battle.

0:04.0

Trump fulminates over immigration and Hamas makes its move.

0:06.9

I'm Ben Shapiro and this is the Ben Shapiro show.

0:13.3

All right, so we have a lot to get to today.

0:15.8

Big show coming up.

0:16.7

We're going to talk about the continuing attempt to boycott Laura Ingram's show,

0:19.7

the blowback that is going to be unleashed on CNN and MSNBC. If this continues, we're going to talk about the continuing attempt to boycott Laura Ingrams show the blowback that is going to be unleashed on CNN and MSNBC if this continues. We're going to talk about Trump on DACA. We're going to talk about the media wars. Apparently Sinclair Broadcasting did something so horribly egregious. The entire media is a Twitter over it. We'll talk about all of those things. Plus, later in the show, I'm going to do an interview with the producer on the new fantastic film Chappaquittic, which I have a lot to say, talk about

0:41.8

a little bit later in the show. But first, I want to say thank you to our sponsors over at Upside.

0:46.3

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2:01.2

your mission control for travel. All right. So we begin today with the update on everything that

2:06.4

has been going on regarding Laura Ingram and the aftermath of the Parkland shooting,

2:11.1

which is now six weeks ago, but the media have been all over it since then pushing the gun

2:15.2

control agenda. I want to begin by pointing out that the media's agenda here is absolutely clear. The media is using the Parkland shooting as a crutch, as a lever, in order to push gun control and in order to attack their political opponents. And really, it's more of the latter than the former. It's not even about pushing gun control so much as castigating anyone they don't like, castigating anyone with whom they disagree as a bad human being. This is what the media are into. The media want to make it seem like if you disagree with them on gun control, this makes you a bad person. They're actually not that interested in gun control legislation actually getting passed. Because if they were, they would stop browbeating people like Marco Rubio, Senator from Florida,

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