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

All right. You got a lot to get to today. A lot happening in the news.

So we're just going to jump right in. The big controversy in the

aftermath of the mass shootings that happened over the weekend, one of course happening in

Dayton, Ohio, the other happening in El Paso, Texas. The big controversy has broken out over

El Paso and Dayton and politics, obviously, because it would be too much to ask that we all

be on the same page. White supremacy, evil,

white supremacist terrorism, evil and should be fought like terrorism, mass shootings, horrific,

and we should discuss possible solutions. Like that would all be too reasonable and too rational. Instead,

there's a narrative. And the narrative that's being developed by the media and by a lot of folks on

the left is that President Trump is solely responsible for what happened in El Paso and that the right is complicit in this and that all conservatives are secretly white supremacists. Now, I think there are some folks on the left. I don't want to lump the entire left together here. I think there's some folks on the left who are being a little bit more careful about all this. I think there are certain folks on the left who are intellectually honest enough to acknowledge that mainstream conservatives

are extraordinarily upset about white supremacist terrorism, that some of us have spent our careers

fighting white supremacism, that some of us have incurred hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments

that we have to make to security because of our fight against white supremacism.

Some people are careful about this.

Other people, however, and this includes many in the mainstream media, are attempting to develop a narrative.

And when you're attempting to develop a narrative, any fact that doesn't fit the narrative

can be dealt with in one of two ways.

Either you can incorporate it into a new narrative that is more nuanced and more interesting

and more interesting and more

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