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Dave Smith: Ben Shapiro’s Entire Career Is Built on Hypocrisy

The only act of liberation that's really
possible in this life is freeing
yourself from like the lies and the
number one lie is I'm God. Yeah. And
like I'm omnisient or the you know was
perfectly wise person. Whatever. It's
like you know you make mistakes. You're
you're ridiculous primate. It's a little
fur. Like just admit it. There's just
there look you got some things wrong.
Yeah. But there's a difference between
that and your entire
foundation being built on hypocrisy and
that hypocrisy being shown. You know,
look, I mean, you can't make this stuff
up, right? Ben Shapiro built a career
opposing identity politics as a proud
Zionist.
Yeah. Now, you listen, feel however you
feel about Zionism.
It's identity politics. Like, like that
is the definition of you could not find
a better example of a politics built on
an identity. And yet you're out here
saying facts don't care about your
feelings. Identity politics is wrong.
And then while you're saying that, your
number one priority, I know, is this
this manifestation of identity politics.
You can only keep that charade going for
so long. No, it's totally true. Before
someone sees through it. There's
something in people that the the lowest
part of people that instinctively
accuses others of doing what they're
doing. And I've never really I man I
don't that's the one thing I don't want
to be is a guy who does that. But I
remember Bill Crystal who I worked for
for years and really liked and was
grateful to and he was a great boss in
the ' 90s. Um and came out against me
and called me a Nazi and all this stuff
like without calling me. By the way, I
called him and asked him to lunch. He
refused. He wouldn't go to lunch with
me. Huh. end of our relationship. But
one of the criticisms against me, I'll
never forget it when I realized this
phenomenon was real, is when he accused
me of advocating, and I'm quoting for an
ethnostate. Now, I have a lot of flaws.
They're all on display. I've never
wanted an ethnostate. And I was like,
wait, one of us is for an ethnostate and
is not me. But you just said that like
of all the possible criticisms. It's
just too unbelievable. I mean,
unbelievable. Well, Crystal accusing me
of wanting an ethnost state, but you
like you just like you almost like don't
even you can't even respond. You just
have to go like it's like I I didn't say
anything. I was like, "Okay." Right.
Yes. You know, I people can't hear
themselves. I mean, you notice when
people get old, they you know, they tell
the same stories and you just, you know,
when you love them, you're indulgent.
But I I just hope that doesn't happen to
me. I hope I don't lose all
self-awareness to the point where I've
got like lunch on my chin and like
accuse other people of doing exactly
what I'm doing. Exactly what I'm doing.
Well, you're going you have lunch on
your chin like you, you know. Yeah,
that's you don't want to be there. I
don't want to be that guy. Um, and I
think that there's like look, obviously
like we're we're living through
something, you know, we're probably
living through several things that are
very profound, but one of the most
profound things has been this revolution
in in um information and the technology
and this it's led to this like kind of
mass decentralization of media and where
there's now like there's so many things
and shows and different voices. You
know, we I find people all the time who
I've never heard of before, you know,
and I'm sure you've had this experience,
too. You'll find someone you be like,
"Oh, that that guy's actually really
smart. People should know about this
guy." How many followers? 7 million. Oh,
he's got 7 million. Oh, he's huge. Like,
I just found some guy who is bigger than
anyone on cable news and I didn't even
know he existed, you know? And so now
it's just because of this dynamic there
aren't you know as you know the the
corporate media apparatus like big
newspapers and big cable news shows and
was very controlled very controlled the
range of allowable opinion was very
narrow. It's what uh my uh my good
friend and brilliant historian Tom Woods
uh always called the uh was it the the
3x6 card of allowable opinion. you know,
you get this little area of allowable
opinion and then that's where the
conversation takes place. That's been
shattered into a million pieces and now
there's voices from all over the place
and some good and some great and some
bad and really bad. But it's just much
harder for people to, you know, that
control existed so that you don't get
exposed. so that you don't get expos so
that you could go like look even the
right-winger John McCain agrees or even
the far-left activist Nancy Pelosi I
mean it's like dude I have to
hear Sean Hannity goes the farleft Nancy
Pelosi it's like how many leftists have
you actually talked to in your life how
many leftists have you ever read you
think Nancy Pelosi is a far-left like
really they got her vineyard in Napa all
these different you know these different
tools of corpor
are left and right. But so that's over
now. And now I think it's just much it's
much tougher to keep this charade going.
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collapsing so fast. Yes. Yes. And it's
not again, you
could you could be honest about it and
and kind of maintain some of your
respect, but the the truth is that like
look, even when they'll say these
things like if you if you accuse Ben
Shapiro of having dual loyalty, they go,
"Oh, that's an anti-semitic trope. That
means you hate the Jews." But then he'll
sit there in his own words and say, I
forget his exact quote, but it was
something like, "My favorite thing about
the United States of America is that it
protects Israel." And so, you're already
saying you have loyalty to both of these
countries. In fact, I'm not so sure
about the one of the loyalties, but I'm
very sure about the other one. And that
is not I'm sorry, that's not a statement
against Jewish people. I'm Jewish. I
love Jewish people. You know, it's like
I I get called a self-hating Jew on
Twitter or whatever. It could not be
further from the truth. I actually
really love Jewish people. There's many
things about Jewish culture that have,
you know, had a huge impact on me, made
me the person I am, made me a better
person uh for their their impact on me,
but this is a foreign government. Like,
I'm I'm sorry. That's we're we're
allowed to talk about that if you you
know, I saw Glenn Beck the other day had
uh Douglas Murray on and he wasn't like
Glenn Beck wasn't like mean to me
personally, but which I appreciated. Um,
but he was just going I mean it was just
so ridiculous. But it's like you were
sitting here. We're gonna we're having a
conversation about a foreign
government. You started crying on your
show talking about this foreign
government. That's weird. That's
weird. We We should not be doing that.
What the hell is going on here? Like I
don't even think you should cry about
our own government, you know? But if
you're going to cry about one, it should
be ours. And no but no one would even
think to cry about our own, right? I
mean like come on. like let let's have a
real conversation about this. And if you
don't especially, and by the way, this
is not my primary goal. My primary goal
is to tell the truth and to advocate for
what's good for our country. Um, but if
you're concerned about like the young
men getting a little bit too radical and
and you know, being too obsessed with
the Jews or too against the Jews, which
I do think is a legit concern. It
definitely is. You know, that's not good
for you. And it's it's not good for you.
It's not good for the conflict. It's not
good for the country. I just don't think
any of racial collectivism always leads
to bad places. Agree. You don't want to
you don't want to embrace that stuff.
But if you're concerned about that, well
then the first thing you have to do is
tell the truth. You can't keep lying to
people and you can't you can't keep
sitting here and going like, "Oh, no.
The neoconservative." You can't say
neoconservative, right? Isn't that Mark
uh Levin? Didn't he uh just say if it's
the New York Mark Levin who's a who I
also know I mean I've been in right-wing
world my whole life I know everybody I
work with Mark always gotten along with
Mark always been nice to me but yeah he
just accused Trump the Trump
administration of
anti-semitism for calling someone a
neocon well what he what he did was he
accused Steve Wickoff of anti-semitism
right and I just want to say I think
Steve Woff is if there's anyone who is
you know has the hand of odd on him. It
seems to me, I sort of overstate it, but
I feel that way. It's Wickoff who's like
a thoroughly decent man and who was
running around the world trying to bring
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