Every single police union in the United States should boycott all protection details for professional sporting events. For that matter, police should simply step back from putting down unruly protests and riots. You wan liberation from the police? Great. They want liberation from you, too. Good luck! On tonight’s episode of “The World According to Ben Stein.
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and not a braggart at all um but welcome to the world according to that man benjamin jeremy stein
and i gotta tell you guys i right off the bat right off the bat and i know ken and i was talking
with ben about this before the show we're two jews so we feel free to say whatever sometimes we want
we're not scared of the uh racist tag or the the you know with those things because we're jews
you know so wait wait wait wait what you guys were struggling
i think you're missing a why you're missing a beat here in this argument why why does the fact that
we're jews make us not afraid of being called racist i mean well because i feel as a minority
that's been shat on for many for many a few centuries i don't give a i don't give a crap
what people say back to me but i i really want to get to the gym so there you are i would what
i i really do might give a crap when people say about me but you don't but ben you you write stuff
all the time that it talks about race you're willing all the time it cannot be part of that
i only write it if i think it's true and i think if i think it's important and helpful to everyone
involved but i want to get right to this uh lebron james thing because it really ate me at my core it
what he he for people that are unaware of this he sent out a tweet um to the police officer
from columbus ohio to his 50 million um twitter followers saying you're next and then please tell
us who the guy in columbus ohio is please there was the police officer that came upon the scene
saw a black female trying to stab another black female and he shot her four times and um
you know people are like why are you using a taser but that's not the point the point is you
have this guy lebron james who who obviously he's one of the greatest basketball players of all time
but edible player but but just a stone cold what a i mean i hate to say what if we said that but
the the call for violence or the call for terror on these police officers right now ben stein is
absolutely frightening it is terrifying and to think that lebron james a person who is not only
an incredible athlete but whom many people look up as an example of good sportsmanship
and of moral decency is being a bully a thug and a nasty awful guy in this case is shocking
i mean he saved apparently another young black girl for being stabbed to death the policeman did
why is he being threatened why is anybody mad at him at all a crazed person was going after a young
black girl with a giant knife why would anyone be mad at a police officer who saves the potential
victim's life it just doesn't make any sense at all and why lebron james would say that doesn't
make any sense at all i mean he's a terribly rich guy he's a terribly successful guy i'm sure he
has a magnificent home many magnificent homes i'm sure he has all the women that he could ever want
in his life so he has many fabulous cars he lives in the best country there ever was on this planet
what is he talking about what's he talking about what is he doing well ken lacorde i want to say
this to you so we all know what intersectionality is so they have to choose no we don't know sir so
you see you assume that we're we we all know everything i i don't know intersectionality is
except i know it's an excuse for anti-semitism it's a level it's your grievance level in life
so if you're let's say you're a lesbian you're higher on the scale than if you're a straight
woman if you're a black lesbian you're even higher on the intersectionality scale if you're a
disabled black lesbian you're like the trifecta of intersectionality see i don't think that's what it
is i think intersectionality is when you take a number of different agree grievances supposed
grievances and even if there is no outward appearance of harm you still say there's harm
um i have a different point of view
that ken is making a gesture again i got no i just thought it was some gay thing i didn't know
but that's it that's all you got for us ken yeah yeah now you guys are defining the word great go
ahead no go oh well going back to lebron james i mean look obviously he's kind of
a dope obviously he's uh uh you know he's big and strong and i guess a great basketball player uh um
you know it is it is reflex by everyone
on in a certain political side and certainly the left and certainly the black left to
be eagerly anticipating every time a a black person is shot by a cop and and and trying to
build up their false narrative that blacks are being hunted down in america and it's just not
that way at all and and they get political power out of that and political strength out of that and
it's all a bunch of it's all a bunch of hui it's it's used by the political types there i mean look
lebron james if he cared about people well anyway i i don't get too personally i rate overlook what
what any dopey basketball player says but uh uh it was bad it was a threat he is a bad
thinker and the problem with all of this is it's all hurting the people they profess to be wanting
to help exactly right because you look if i'm a if i'm a cop and i'm white i am i'm one of
those two things man what next time i hear oh hey there's a you know there's a a a woman they got
the 911 call who said you know there's there's somebody who's stabbing people here it's like
you know i think i'm going to finish my doughnut they're going to start i was going to bring that
criminals are being empowered and cops are being disempowered
and you're seeing the crime rates in mainstream cities start to skyrocket
it's more than starting to skyrocket it has skyrocketed especially where blm protests are
they're up 10 in all those places but basically what i was saying was first of all you're
talking about i never took notes on that that the police are going to start screening phone calls
okay the police are going to start screening phone calls going uh we're you know we're we're about 20
minutes away but what i brought up the point with ben was to the people that hate the police so much
here's the thing you know like how on passover the jews put blood on the door and they were passed
over that was many thousands of years ago put it put a put up put up a thing on your door saying
we don't want the police's help to be honest they actually do put up the exact equivalent
why do you think people put up black lives matter signs on their businesses
i think it's because they don't want rioters to destroy their businesses
that's a lot like lamb's blood of 2020 except there's a difference here here with
the difference is that the victims are also the perpetrators it is the rioters who are doing the
the harming killing the arson the beating and now we're politically empowering those people
to go after the law law abiding people who protect the society
there is no society without following the law there isn't a society without order my wifey and i
last night and the night before we were watching a fabulously good documentary from pbs about
reconstruction after the civil war and there was an island off the coast of georgia i think it
was called saint simon's island but i may have that totally wrong and uh it was governed by a
very very very well educated black man who said the first rule of civilization is order and
order is what the police bring about law and order and without that there's no free society
and i am very very much afraid that we are working against the very people who guard our free society
it's it's more than it can also it's frightening that this guy to 50 million twitter followers
said something that could be construed as a threat on a man's life
at worst and or if he wants to say he was you know saying
comparing him to chauvin one way or the other that twitter allows this stuff up is an other ex
it's it's it's absolutely i mean we could say there's no words for it anymore ken
yeah you're 100 right i mean i mean if if yeah how many times do we have to play this game it's
like if a conservative said that he would have been gone look can you talk about the fact that
that youtube censored and banned multiple ben stein the world according to ben stein episodes
i thought it was two it was it was election or it was one or two anyhow talk about that because you
know more about that yes but don't talk about why they mentioned that you you told me no
no let's not talk about it yeah okay we can't talk about it okay because if i say the words
i can't talk exactly well wait if this isn't america anymore if we cannot if we cannot have
a discussion about politics and media this isn't america anymore then it's it's soviet russia or
nazi germany this isn't a business we're getting we're a hop skip and a jump away from that ben you
know that's really scary i'm glad that i'm glad i spent all my money on really really good meat and
salmon and so forth but ken you were in the middle of a sense saying something
do you guys ever want to just turn off the internet for a month
i don't know i don't use it mostly except just to connect with old friends from school
right okay you know and here's the thing by the way ken i haven't watched the news
since election night right i haven't i i go to your site i go to breitbart i go to a few
other sites but i have not watched i cannot stomach watching any news channel right now
and i cannot stomach watching i mean here's the funny here's not the funny thing the sad thing is
every channel now is now the news channel you had espn which promised to report cannot report
on on news reporting on this on on the chauvin thing this is absolute insanity and um not really
insanity it's i mean as you say this to me it reminds me of a conversation i had many years
ago with richard helms who used to be the head of the central intelligence agency and he was a
classmate and very close friend of my father's at williams college the best small college in america
and my father was kind enough to take me to lunch with him at the metropolitan club in washington
and i and he told me that his first job out of college in 1935 i think or 36 was to be a
correspondent for time magazine and they sent him to interview hitler and i said did hitler
appear to you to be crazy right off the bat and mr helms said no he wasn't crazy at all and i said
what do you mean he killed six million innocent jewish men women and children and millions of
others of every other kind of ethnicity and that's not crazy and uh richard helms ambassador helms a
very intelligent well-educated guy said no that he was just a clever politician well i mean
i say the same thing about the people who are running the countries on the left now i don't
think they're crazy i think they're just very cunning evil politicians you're completely right
and i just want to read the definition of intersectionality for people now is this
intersectionality or intersection i thought it was intersexuality that's why i thought it was a gay
thing i'm sorry 601 is an analytical framework for understanding how a person how aspects of a
person's social and political identities combined to create different modes of discrimination and
privilege examples of these aspects include gender cast sex race class sexuality religion disability
physical appearance and height so that's what i was hiding that's what i was saying
the more you the more you the more you have on your plate the more your grievances uh
you're allowed to have grievances so i i humbly think i was right on the definition
i i i apologize so you and i follow you guys i want to see who's got the height privilege here
i think we're about the same height actually a little bit taller but i'm a lot older or with more
well so you get the age thing that's kind of the only uh the only protected class that you have i
know religion he's jewish i'm a conservative yeah no no conservatives on the other end that doesn't
count he's sober sober sober okay well i'm only fairly sober and i'm 511 and if you just tuned in
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reading your site ken i love the stories you post um and i want to get banned i want to
welcome everybody back to the world according to bad stuff but i really want to get back to this
because we are coming to the point where cops are not going to go into certain neighborhoods
i just want to give this as an example ben was not familiar with this canon a lot of people aren't
in brooklyn new york there's a jewish ambulance service called hatzala right and it was started
sadly my mother might correct me on this because a father lost his child
and the response time by the fdny was terrible so he wanted to set up for the community their own
their own ambulance service so they partially screen and they have a number that
most if you're jewish you have the number um and i think we're coming to that point where i'm i i
could see a privatization and maybe i'm crazy of the police force i'm scared i i i am scared and
i'm scared on a personal level and on a moral level i'm scared on the personal level because
i want the police around to protect me if there's any kind of danger to me or to my family or to the
people i love uh that's one and i'm scared on a moral level because we are character assassinating
and sometimes in person assassinating the people who protect our lives at the risk of their own
every hour of every day they still come to our neighborhood though i mean i'm sorry the
and in my neighborhood you know i live in sausalito you know they come when we call
them and they respond but let me let me let me juxtapose that i live in north hollywood
and i'm not joking i live 20 i look i used to live a block and a half away now i live like
four blocks from a police station it took him 20 minutes to come to my apartment one night
20 minutes and they were down the block so yes it all has to do with what neighborhoods
yeah right domestic dispute or something or what happened all right
i'll tell you a good a good story of that bane a number of years ago when i first started doing
wynn benson's money uh somebody followed me home from the studio i don't know who it was
and they uh our our garage was under construction the door wasn't closed and the two gentlemen
followed me into the uh garage really i i thought there were fans and they were on
an autograph i turned and smiled and they pulled guns and one my wallet and my watch and so forth
and uh so anyway so and they look they didn't kill me thank god and they left and i called the
police and the police were there in way under a minute but they started looking around the kitchen
and i said to them gentlemen thank you really around the kitchen but these guys
weren't in the kitchen the only place they were was in the garage they were only in
the garage they weren't in the kitchen at all why why are you looking so carefully at the kitchen
and one of them said because your tile work is fantastically good it did instead my wife designed
it herself and he said it's beautiful it's giving me ideas for redecorating my place but anyway i
love the health police i i just said i was i'm laughing also because i'm reading in the comment
sections everybody's having a now a race of who's of who's the higher level of intersectionality
in the youtube chat and it it's really funny but here's the thing for the most part most of you are
probably caucasian so you don't get into the uh you are the lowest level on the intersectionality
chart no matter how unless you decide to you know cross sides and and get uh gender reassignment
then you you've skyrocketed up but ken it's you guys both live in good neighborhoods so you but
ken there are parts of san francisco where i'm sure police are very hesitant to go to now
well san francisco police i mean when's the last time we've heard san francisco police
being accused of anything by a criminal they are the most gentle kindest and gentlest uh
police force i think in the planet which is of course why parts of it are over run by criminals
um um they are very very polite they've been they were taught about who to call a miss and
a miz and a miz and her and him and all that years and years ago and uh and they soft soap everything
um so yeah but there's just a lot of places i wouldn't go but look i'm usually you know
i believe in the second amendment on a personal level so so i've always believed
even on the best of days that with the with the true exception of beverly hills i mean
if if cops are five minutes ten minutes away that kind of doesn't do you any good
in an emergency situation the cops cops were less than one minute away yeah and
in that instance what did it do you except get you some nice kudos on your tile
that could be taken in so many different ways um nice style man and um but uh you know we uh you
you're completely right but i want to get back to this point of police you know go to stadiums
whether it's undercover you know not undercover but you know after you know off-duty policemen
work events policemen are constantly working obviously hollywood events the police unions
really need to stick together and say you know what we're no longer going to protect you guys
if you guys want to have your own security forces great but the the lapd the nypd out of stadiums
out of professional sports you've lost the privilege of protection my humble opinion
it's a good opinion and but i'd like to just go back to something basic which is
that's something we have just ignored i think so far we have a new president joseph biden
from delaware a state that i'm very very familiar with why isn't he weighing in on this on his whole
issue and the subject ferrara of issues and saying i back the police of course
i'm opposed to criminals i backed the police they actually said the same the exact opposite
yesterday yeah where he came out and said we back the victim that's exactly what he said
and and i'm trying to react to being ironic in this case that the victim was in the process of
stabbing somebody i won't have another black is it stabbing another black woman what are they
supposed she had a night and i love how everybody now likes to play monday morning quarterback and
says shoot with a taser yes because taser shooting i we everybody goes you know the taser range
it's it's uh it's it's a very common practice i mean i can't imagine from 30 feet away a taser
being the most as somebody's going for a knife and going to stab somebody ben
that being the most accurate of weapons but i could be wrong i i said well i i question
you're not wrong of course you're right about this but i i again i go to the question why
are we attacking the police so much i mean we know we've we've discussed this many many times
that of the total number of killings of african-american freedom fighters in this
country the overwhelming majority overwhelming are by other african-american freedom fighters
why is it that the police are the ones in the news all the time for doing the killing and the
shooting why why why aren't the main perpetrators in the news what what bring up a great point
then it's something i was thinking about yesterday ben as lebron james is so angry and
floyd's lawyer ben crump who looks like he always whatever his something his name rhymes with
um we're so angry yet they have they every monday after chicago's shooting sprees
there's no anger there's absolutely no anger lebron james is no problem we've spoken
about this with the nba doing business with china and with the concentration camps none
but when it comes to a case of of what is it eight last year unarmed black men being shot
by the police that's his that's his that's his where he draws his anger not a block
it's like it's like fat people getting mad at frito-lay that's very miserable it is
i always ask how much of it is evil versus how much of it is stupid when somebody's
saying something that's patently untrue and and and that's an overstatement but what i mean is
how much of it is people who have an agenda and know that that's the best way to get it
you know look jesse jackson made a an entire i know he's your friend ben made an entire i
haven't seen him in years and years and years and made an entire career out of being a race baiter
um and and certainly you know look when the black lives matter gal is now on her fourth house
i mean she can't be too too upset about the american economy and how it treats
black people in america uh one of them in a very nice neighborhood in tapanga
canyon i love to pancake candy and where it's a pancake canyon i think she's one of
three black people now in topanga canyon so but that's fine whatever it's america
uh but i i think so you have to talk about the different groups are the politicians
using using these shootings and floyd and all this stuff to get ahead 100 absolutely they're doing it
with cold and crafts determination do i think that most of the black people who are living in
the neighborhoods who a always had kind of a bad relationship with cops because that's kind of an
in many black neighborhoods it's just an unhealthy relationship the cops are often jerks to them
and they're often jerks to the other and it's kind of like they're like like living
with your ex-wife in the same neighborhood and one has a gun i mean so it's a bad relationship
and and that's a very very clever analogy yeah that's a very clever truck a little too close
to home actually but anyhow but the you know the the the sad thing about the black community
is they don't know how to fix their own problem and and so they look they look around they have
cars they they drive into beverly hills they drive into just any white middle class neighborhood
and there aren't bars on the windows and there aren't drugs being sold openly on the corners
and there aren't cops shooting people in there and then they go back to most black neighborhoods
and to be honest you know from from an outsider's perspective it's kind of most black neighborhoods
have a lot of problems i mean when's the last time you drove on to martin luther king boulevard
and didn't make sure your doors were locked i mean that's i don't even know where martin luther king
there's one in every city and in every city i guarantee every major city there's one
in in los angeles you don't go down there it's by the airport um uh where is it well
it's it's in the area where you don't go let's put it down and in every city when you get to a martin
luther king boulevard you're like oh make sure the doors are locked i i don't like doing it but but
most people do if they notice where they are and and as and and somebody been you know you've
you've seen this come and go and you understand economics and you understand how how how
how groups change and and and perpetuate through through cultures and it is very very sad that a
kid who's born in a black neighborhood is born into a neighborhood eight times out of ten
that's got high crime it's got high drug abuse he doesn't know uh odds are that he's not gonna know
his parent poverty throughout and the easiest thing for them to point out is race because
then the solution is if you guys just stop being racist we'll have a good life and the sad part
is that that it's that's not the problems that that's not you know if everybody in america just
if racism disappeared tomorrow let's just say some some some somebody came from another planet and
and beamed the racism bone out of everybody and every american black communities would still
suck and black communities would still have the same problems that they have now because
it's not racism that it's at the root of that it's a lot of other things that are endemic
to the culture that's been passed on might have been created in large part by racism and
you know years back i mean you know you know that we are still living with the remnants of
slavery and and not being allowed to have an education and a breakdown of the family
all the way up to all sorts of things so the perpetuation of the problems in there is
something that no black leaders really are clearly right i'm touching on and it's well wait a second
the last thing that ken said was the most important which is the black layers won't
touch it the black layers won't touch the fact that black kids drop out of
school way way way way earlier at a way higher rate than kids of any other ethnicity and that has
a lot to do with the fact that they're poor it's a lot of their own behavior it's heart rendering as
my wife would say that this is so but that is so and but i've never heard of a racial group
which got ahead in the long run by blaming their problems on someone else i mean that's
another year right after the civil war there were black communities of former slaves slaves
very little if any education who managed to put together working communities where are
they what happened to them where'd they go where did they raise a great point and if you just i i
just want to say something people in the chat ken wasn't stealing chris rock's joke chris rock just
was very famous and said it out loud but everybody you know there's a martin luther king jr boulevard
is always in a bad neighborhood it was it was a christmas i mean he stole that from me
he stole that from anybody that's ever driven down and martin luther king boulevard in any city
in america except then you know because ben when you're in the back seat and you've got your
you've got your your driver up front sometimes you don't notice what streets you're on i i actually
uh drive myself usually in my own little car and i love it a lot and i but i i knew respectfully
respectfully especially to tell you i don't know where martin luther king boulevard is and i'm sure
i'm sure nobody else in my neighborhood here does either but let's let's let let's just say
is there any solution to a situation in which the african-americans will not take responsibility
for their own problems i i don't know if there is now i mean why can i say there's something
going on here that's very deep and untouchable and can't be said it cannot be said it's is so
i just want to give my point on this because we've allowed the excuse to be perpetra to be
to continue we've allowed them you know ben we're both jewish our family my family came here most of
them were slaughtered in the holocaust they came here with nothing they worked their butts off
it wasn't easy to be a jew in america for a long long time and and they worked their asses off
they didn't use it as an excuse the same could be said for the koreans the same could be said for
the italians the same could be said for the irish everybody that came to this country got [ __ ] on
did they get [ __ ] on in this country a little bit longer a hundred percent but if you keep on
allowing people to use it then we're both sober right we both know you have to own your [ __ ]
even as painful as as stinky as that smells the only way to recover is by totally demonetized now
why because i said [ __ ] four times um yeah we demonetize anyways but um i don't know what team
that i'm afraid we don't we don't we don't put commercials up we we we're not soliciting uh
people with commercials but that's i think the biggest thing for me is that we've allowed them
to continually you continually to use this as an excuse well there have been people who
have not let them use it as an excuse and i will tell you again for the millionth time
i had the great privilege many years ago of working as a ghostwriter for reverend jesse
jackson and i heard him give many speeches and i will tell you again that i heard him say over and
over again to young black men and women complain about racism all you want i'll be right there
with you complain about discrimination all you want i'll be marching right next to you but get
an education and you'll have a great house get it again learn how to be an electrician or at a wire
house learn how to plumb a house and you will have a nice life and a happy life and a decent house
and nice cars and you can send your children to school but and some listen and some did not
so ben did you write the speeches where he would like threaten a corporation
and then like get his kid on the board then coined the term hymietown for new york city
i did not write that but i am aware i'm aware that he did that but i'm uh i'm not uh i'm not
sure about this part of your speech writing that wasn't part of your speech writing was
hey ford give my kid a free dealership or we're going to call you racist
i wasn't involved in that i was talking mostly about his childhood in lovely charming greenville
south carolina where my son now lives and if you just tuned in you are listening to the world
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a lot of fun tonight and they always are but i'm appreciating it greatly um no sympathy needed uh
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now here's the thing i i i i i i don't want to forget to do this so i want to remember
remember to do this now every show i want to take a moment in history that i spent with ben
is one of those moments ken that was a surreal experience and i've shared this on the show before
and i wanted to share this at the end but it's one of the coolest stories we were on a flight to
houston and um in front of us was like ben says to me he's and i swear to you he says he says to me
judah i think that guy's in a rock band and i look in front and it's i go it's billy gibbons from z
and billy gibbons from turns around to ben and goes i am a huge fan of yours and i'm just sitting
there like going this is like really surreal this is like zz top and ben stein and he's like i love
you on fox news i i should probably shouldn't say that out loud um but uh he loved and and and
then this just one of my experiences with ben but i want to get back to this um thank you it
was fun and we needed to have a little bit how did you tell the guys from zz top apart though
one of them had no idea of their names only judah knew their names i didn't even know they had names
one of them their orange beard is a lot longer and and ended up years later i bumped into him and i
see him at the local pavilions and and i tell him the story and he goes wow you have a great memory
i go i have a great memory who the heck would forget who the heck would forget that airplane
experience but i again i want to get back this and i want to share we have ben and myself have
a level of disdain not for for the bernie sanders i myself is not a subjective pronoun thank you mrs
lovin we have the same feelings ken for the adl we have the same feelings for the bernie sanders we
have the same feelings for for for people in our own community that we that we just cannot stand
so this is we're equal opportunity disdainers of of people propagating these things ben stein
you're like a minority i'm very equal opportunities of democracy and i i might add
uh with the greatest respect uh i used to be a tremendous admirer of the adl since they
started attacking my very here my hero tucker carlson uh who i don't think he even knows i'm
alive but i'm a great great fan of his uh i just lost all respect for adl for doing that i mean
tucker carlson was one of the great human beings of 2021 america he says the truth
he says it boldly says it wittily and incisively this country cannot live without people like him
we the fact that the adl said that about him a real hero of american liberty and decency
is shameful i love tucker we love tucker thank you thank you for that one more responses i'm trying
to go through the chat and people are thanking sharon for something i'm trying to figure out what
is karen she's in the chat i'm trying to i used to have a girlfriend in high school named sharon
um i'm sure a lot of people did it's a fairly common uh rolling up to see what sharon did and
i don't see anything i i don't see it either so wait wait oh she met dusty from zz top and his mom
at the black tie and boots ball in 2000 george w's first inauguration i was
i was the host of that ball oh my gosh the host of that ball it's it's not kidding
ben stein it's one degree of ben stein and you know people always say six degrees of kevin bacon
you could pretty much do two degrees of ben stein and you will uh and you will uh yes you will be
able to win that way we intersectionality out again he's an intersectionality now
i've been i've been sober for 20 minutes all right we're very we're very proud of years we're very
we're very proud of you ken but i want to get to but i want to get to this solution thing
because i don't see a solution i don't see i don't and i never thought in my wildest dreams
the same thing with ben steinken i never thought i would wake up in the morning and say i don't
see a solution to this because at this moment in time i do not see because here's the thing ben's
not bent we're you know the silent majority sadly isn't loud enough we're the ben's he's not silent
but he's part of that majority like i am and like you are the problem is the the the minor minority
is wrecking this country and it's it's so disturbing ken i'm not convinced that there is a
solution i think that i mean look how many years have honduras and costa rica lived next close
to each other and one of those countries sucks weenie and one of those countries is pretty great
and they're both hispanic it's not like there's racism at play but i mean what's the how did
honduras over over all of humanity end up being a [ __ ] and costa rica another small country same
region same same genetic population is pretty nice i mean i mean if you if somebody said
you got to go live in costa rica the rest of your life you'd be like yeah okay i can i could i can
do that maybe that maybe maybe our grandkids grandkids are still going to be having these
same conversations i mean i mean you want it to succeed you want all elements of american society
and of course the world to to succeed and have good lives and live and live in good societies and
and have rich fulfilling lives where they where they have happiness and and and and achieve things
and and and self-respect i'm not 100 sure it's going to happen though because but let me ask you
let me point out something after the civil war there were a lot of people
white people former planters and other white people in the south who said that black people
could not possibly conceivably succeed in america or govern themselves and they did they they formed
communities and did govern themselves for quite a while so something has happened it isn't i don't
think it is a genetic thing i mean people say oh there's so many data that say that the different
races have different iqs maybe so but there's no race in the world which when properly educated
cannot learn a trade or a craft so why is it that they're taught not to do it well we had a chart
i think it was i forget whether it was in uh whether it's in the american spectator or the
wall street journal where it was of how much the government pays people in this country to be idle
it seems to me one thing we could do to start helping this country get out of this rut is to
stop paying people to be idle i mean we used to have laws in this country against vagrancy which
was intentional idleness is that too harsh maybe it is i don't know i have a daughter-in-law i
mean sorry a niece who's very much an expert on things like that maybe she knows but uh i just
think maybe maybe the government pays people too much to be idle and to not learn and and maybe
we're doing that maybe we're subsidizing this kind of incompetence i i think you meant look
i i think that any rational analysis of the great society and of of the war on poverty would come to
the conclusion that it had the opposite effect you've been you've been and it's not just a it
was not just a conservative well you wasted money but then it actually made yesterday more people's
lives worse one example was it made it easier for women to be single moms right exactly right
exactly right if i've told this this analogy here it's not an analogy it's a story but it's it it it
before you start i just want to say something we repeat ourselves and ben said the greatest
thing to me one time about repeating myself i had written you know a story in it and then he
and i wanted to write another one and it was very similar and he said george will's been writing
the same thing for 75 years and it is so please george will away i was in i was in alaska and
i was i was at in the wilds of alaska where there was a stream that came up uh going up uh you know
somewhere between a stream and a river and then it was going up into some tough areas and rocks
and i saw a concrete sluice that had been broken apart you know a sluice is kind of like a uh um
gutter it's like a large gum yeah it's kind of like a large gutter that's it's kind of like a
it was kind of like a handicap ramp for fish and what happened was that 50 years ago the government
people who ran this part of alaska said so many of the fish swimming upstream are dying
and we want more of these salmon so we're going to make it easier for the for the fish to get
around the the this waterfall you know you've seen the waterfall going there and then it
was exactly like that crazy stuff well they built this and it made it much easier for all those fish
to get upstream and it almost completely decimated the fish population there the salmon population
because what was happening was all the fish were making it up and and producing and that
wasn't what was supposed to happen it was just supposed to be the strongest
and and most athletic fish that made it past this thing that then created the genetics of fish that
made them repopulate more and and let's not take the analogy too too closely but it was it was the
government trying to help people out or in this case fish out and and what it turned out was that
help weakened the entire tribe of fish trying to get upstream and and certainly the great society
and and and lyndon johnson's did linda johnson's you know war on poverty did that and i think one
of the huge huge things that nobody nobody looks at enough was it allowed the the the nuclear
family and black communities to be destroyed you looked at it and you were like wow these these
single women who's who got got knocked up and abandoned they're living horrific lives and you
want to help them out just like you want to help people out with with unemployment or or so many
things but the process of helping them out made it rewarding enough for gals to say you know what all
i have to do is have a baby and i can move out of my house and i don't like my mom and do this
and it ruined largely a generation two generations three generations of of americans who were allowed
to it changed their lives in in the way that it changed those those fish lives and it's magic
moynihan wrote a very very famous book and many many essays on the same subject and others had
written about it before that and if i may say so uh milton friedman probably the greatest american
economist except for paul samuelson uh wrote about it i think uh right after world war ii when
the welfare state of america was really getting rolling uh way more than it did under fdr and uh
it it it is true if you take away people's incentive to work they won't work i have i'm
sorry to say i have an extremely close relative who he was subsidized by his family and it has
destroyed his uh his necessity of working and has been extremely harmful to him we love him like
crazy but it has been harmful and i i i think this is being done to a whole generation of americans
it's sad it's that work is incredibly important to people i mean work is
amazingly important to people and where i seem to work is that the keystone is the keystone
or maybe i should say the artstone of american blackness i mean when black people had to work
uh they were incredibly better than when they they were the need to work was eliminated and uh
i think the same is true of jews of irish of chinese i've been a hardest-working person i know
uh hard-working people i know are immigrants who do not have not accustomed themselves to a welfare
system and they are incredibly hard working they are going to take over this country and they
should and somebody brought up uh moynihan was one of the last great senators ben great points
and ken gray points that's what everybody's sharing in the chat they're wondering about
something else with me but um nothing to do with my brains but have one cops coming over my one of
my favorite responses was somebody said it was a sexual assault and he was home alone good thanks
again that was good you asked something that was a commenter that was that wasn't me you
had something i'm not allowed to speak about but that's actually hysterical um but i want to get to
more of this so so i have a hat on right now you know i have i have a hat here that i'm wearing as
the american flag and fishes and we talk about the silent majority and can you have this um media
action network and i think it's really important that we get into the solution because you put out
these things and i really think if if more people all it takes is one or two people to start wearing
refund the police you know you know different sorts of you know supporting our police i'm saying
you know so much or else we're going to have to defund you thank you mrs levin um but it's really
important ken that that we get this campaign out in my humble opinion that people because it starts
with one it starts with one person in a community standing up for the police it starts with one
person in a community walking up to a police officer and saying thank you for your service
and it that could create a chain a chain reaction because they have to know that they're not alone
and i think police officers i think police officers in this country right now feel alone
they don't feel like they have support especially because we the silent majority isn't loud enough
everyone should go up to cops and i've done it multiple times and just been like you know i know
you get a bunch of crap but thank you because i do that all the time i love it and it's good
thing to do and i i'm great let you know there's a wonderful a christian hymn uh let
let dear god let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me and i would say let let there be
appreciation of the police and let it begin with me i'm looking at the man in the mirror anyhow
but yes absolutely and and because you know and i tell him i had
he's a very funny guy i mean i'm just trying to find my role here smart one judas is the
master of ceremonies and i guess i get to be the clown you're the check shacky get the jet
so get back to it ken what solution are you offering us because we need a solution
gosh we have we have a we have a lot of solutions that i think we need to we need to pursue one is
is is we as conservatives need to look upstream and and fight the upstream battles we can beat up
we can beat up idiot lebron james or the the hispanic you know the puerto rican chick who's
i still think it's kind of cute but it's kind of crazy and got big eyes and uh who's that who are
you talking about aoc oh my god you think she's nice looking wow okay yeah i do i do well you're
in san francisco he's lucky then if he thinks if he thinks aoc is attractive he's a blessed man
okay good good for you ken if you find her hot you're the luckiest guy in the world but go on
i'll tell you like 20 years ago i had a dream a sex dream this you cannot about hillary clinton
i woke up and i woke up and and like this wasn't like you know she was here and i'm like
i have to kill myself now there's no there's no other way out of this except
self-immolation like one of those monks or something but can you share that with roger ailes
um i don't know whether i told him that or not that's really really funny it was weird it was
very very weird very funny um wow we need to fight the upstream battles we need to we need to
stop worrying about too much about what the senate's doing today and this and
that those are important things but but that's transient what's important are those upstream
battles and that that is means we need to encourage conservatives in the education
world and we need to start taking back some colleges and we need to explain to parents
that they can they can divert with their money away from the craziest colleges to temper some of
that we need to take back the media and we need to not just we hate you we hate you we need to
get into it we need to own it that's that's both traditional media and conservatives need to get
it they need to go to work for cnn and be quiet they're conservative and just write little things
that they can do it also means us reinventing and and building up a parallel uh uh uh
universe in in the internet and we need to have a conservative silicon valley now there's there's
some rich smart aggressive people out there who are trying this there's the parlors of the world
there's the gab and there's the there there's there's there's you know
i don't call telegram conservative and some others i mean there that's the way that we
win this fight in the long term is by going upstream and and and fighting on those grounds
secondarily is is is we just need to get into the fight it's like liberals have been
you know it's like i hate their tactics i hate thee well you got to shut up but
you know i mean i mean they have done great at at silencing and and making
conservatives fearful let me give you one exam one example a loot i think it was a police lieutenant
donated 20 and and we'll do this is insane next week donating 25 to carl uh kyle rittenhouse's
campaign that is great that's really good that's right and then he got fired and he got fired fired
because he said we're with you cops are with you you know this young man who shot three people
every one of them who was attacking him one was a was a child molester the other one was
a multiple convicted felon all three of and one was had a gun in his hand as he was attacking him
and this kid pulled it off pretty well he's still sitting in jail right now
you know he's out of jail he knows he's on the jail he got bail though really yeah you sure yes
okay ricky from silver spoons and some and the my pillow guy were huge donors and getting him out of
jail i did not know that yeah you know what i must have been on vacation that week and i'm
gonna look it up anyhow this cop two days ago got fired because of that so so we have well we
have you know billionaire multi-millionaires uh i'm saying it's it's you know threatening cops
uh so so we need to we need to create some pain for the companies and and the politicians and the
celebrities who do these things and and and you know whether it's whether it's encouraging cops
to not go to any any game and work as a as a as a private contractor or just lebron james games
or whatever whether it's getting some of them and and making them be beholden to their own standards
we've got a lot on our plate and we need to to stop thinking and start acting more
you see i think it also starts more ground level up okay i believe in certain places
you walk around with a shirt that says i love america i'm proud to be an american
walk through west hollywood wearing those things walk through any neighborhood that you think is
a leftist neighborhood and start so that way the silent majority isn't terrified into into
their silence if if one two i think there could be a domino effect that's the the quickest thing
for me that i see ben stein you know you are you're a walking poster child for conservatism
in in west hollywood now we need more people to do that type of thing it's it's it's it's on the
ground well i i'm jude and i often go shopping my wife doesn't shop and uh but i do the shopping
for our family and uh i my wife's a saint but she doesn't shop and uh i uh when i check out
where i leave the meat counter the salmon counter the druggest counter bless you you have a salmon
counter in beverly hills yes we do oh my god i have to move god i say god bless you and god
bless america and you know what very few say god bless america back but some do and i've noticed
i think if i keep saying it year after year more say and i think that's a good way to begin
is whenever you say goodbye to somebody say goodbye and god bless you and god bless america
you know so yeah i i agree with you completely i think ken we need this i mean i don't understand
how any police officer right now i truly don't could go brave people they're brave men and women
no they're extremely brave but i don't know how any of them could if you have to think in that job
you could be dead right we're we're setting these people up right for death right you
know if you're walking up to a traffic stop scared to death that if you do something wrong
not the driver of the car with a warrant does something wrong and you flinch that policeman's
dead and nobody talks about the the the uh all the policemen that have been killed in the line
of duty and probably a lot of them flinched in some ways they didn't do what they they could
have done and i i don't believe police officers we need to we need to do whatever we can to support
these people from the fdmy to the lapd to any s to local municipalities when we need to like stay
we need to become in front of those stations with shirts saying we support the police so ken i would
love if you could do something like that because i will gladly stand outside a police station
your police station's only a block and a half from our house so we'll we go over there as soon as i
get back from south carolina you set up something in beverly hills where ben stein uh celebrates
police and we will be at that police station in beverly hills it's it's a we know it's rough in
that area and we're taking a lot of risks by being there but can i would love to do that because
that's a great idea because they need to start every once in a while uh i have one they need to
start hearing how much we support them ken you could even come down here called the ben stein
whatever and we will be there raw rying and i can tell you in this area of beverly hills
quite a few people will be at that police station doing the same thing
they'll be speaking farsi but that's okay six of one doesn't really matter it doesn't matter
where with them i'm still kind of blown away so how big is this salmon counter can you explain
with all due respect as you know very well judah meyer friedman there is on the right a the meats
counter and then just the left is the fish counter yeah okay wow but but all together it's surf and
terp it's everything all the whole effort a grocery shop would be called surf and turf
so ben lives ben goes to a restaurant or to a supermarket where there's a salmon counter yet
is still nervous for his safety not at all not at all well i think you said you were nervous
for your safety no i didn't oh at all maybe you have brought that up though that you're
scared when you hear the police sirens behind you that's going to be for something you said
i'm scared when i see the police sirens behind me since the election that's going to be should be
for something politically indirect that i've said yes i am and listen like i need so i'm not worried
about that i don't drink or take drugs so not i'm not worried about that but i i am worried that
that somebody's going to arrest me for saying something politically incorrect and that is a very
bad state to be in hey listen we're we're doing this thing we're we're doing our thing here and
i'm not scared of losing it yeah we look there are tons of platforms that we could do the show from
but it is a frightening thought that everything you say can and will be used against you
in the court of public opinion it is we have lost our our ability for grace for dignity for respect
for forgiveness people stay say and do stupid things all the time i remember when it used to
be okay that you forgave those people and we are we are living in such unforgiving times ben can
i've never witnessed anything like this it's that first mistake people just are ready to
pounce on you well but let's then let then let's let's then let's let forgive them start with us
the man who can forgive and it should be women too is walking in the footsteps of
god and i think that's a good way for us to begin tonight and tomorrow do we agree with
you joe biden for stealing the election and we're not allowed to talk about that
sorry that didn't happen youtube he's ken mccord he's sorry eric eric eric in the
uh in the comments gave me the idea sorry i i have uh i have no idea what he's talking about
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we are soldiers in the army we have to fight although we have to die yes we have to fight on
children till the day that we die well my mother was a soldier she had her hand on the gospel plow
and then one day she got weary she couldn't fight anymore she said i'll just stand here
and fight on anyhow did you just make that up are you kidding that's an incredibly famous song
now i i've never heard of it uh because i loved it don't get me wrong i'm not south and so you did
not learn what were then called what were then called negro spirituals i'm sure that would be
called something else now hate crime hate crime well that's what they were called and there was
not no disrespect was intended and by the way i would like to add i have been a contributor to
the uncf for at least 40 years at least and i will i challenge you to guess what the ann stands for
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