{"id":247186,"date":"2017-09-15T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=247186"},"modified":"2017-09-18T17:21:34","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T21:21:34","slug":"ben-shapiro-ventures-into-the-belly-of-the-beast-at-berkeley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/09\/15\/ben-shapiro-ventures-into-the-belly-of-the-beast-at-berkeley\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Shapiro Ventures Into the Belly of the Beast at Berkeley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Today we\u2019re gonna start in Raleigh, North Carolina. This is George, and I am glad you called. Thank you, sir. How are you doing?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I\u2019m doing great, Rush. It\u2019s great to talk to you once again.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I think it\u2019s really disingenuous for everyone in the media to keep saying that Ben Shapiro &#8220;cost the University of Berkeley $600,000&#8221; in keeper costs.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Wait, wait, wait. Whoa. It was $1.5 million total expenditure for security for his speech.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yeah, but see, but Ben Shapiro didn\u2019t cost them a nickel. Antifa cost them that money.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/elqhp99Fz0I\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>CALLER: The security wasn\u2019t there to protect the people from Ben Shapiro hurting anyone. The security was there because <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/national-security\/350524-antifa-activists-say-violence-is-necessary\">Antifa was gonna cause violence<\/a>. So why don\u2019t they put the blame where it goes? Like, why can\u2019t they put the blame on the people that are causing trouble instead of on an honest guy trying to give an honest speech about his position?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Because they think Antifa is justified. They think a conservative showing up at Berkeley needs to be shown his place. &#8220;We don\u2019t want you here!&#8221; they say. I mean, Antifa, doesn\u2019t matter where you go, there was a rally in San Francisco, there has been a rally in Boston. The Antifa people are saying, &#8220;We don\u2019t care what your opinion is. We don\u2019t want to talk to you. You are not real to us. We don\u2019t care.&#8221; So the media is always gonna be on the side of Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, Antifa, whatever, and that\u2019s why.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re not up to speed on this (most of you probably are) Ben Shapiro, 33 years old, is a brilliant young man, brilliant conservative. He is a Harvard graduate. But he is a thoroughbred conservative and can explain it. He runs and edits a website called The Daily Wire. And he tries to take his message to the belly of the beast. He goes to liberal enclaves to make speeches. So he was scheduled to go to the University of California, Berkeley &#8212; interestingly enough, the home of the free speech movement back in the 1960s.<\/p>\n<p>It was a multiple-week brouhaha to determine whether or not the cops would go into gear to protect him, whether or not the university would. None of those were givens. He decided to go anyway. The media is portraying him as the problem for daring to go where he\u2019s not wanted and where he won\u2019t be listened to, and it\u2019s just seen as Shapiro showing up to unnecessarily provoke a bunch of college snowflakes who don\u2019t want to be hurt or damaged or injured by a message that they\u2019ve never heard before, which is conservatism. I think Shapiro needs to be applauded for this. They\u2019re treating the guy, as he said, like Godzilla. He\u2019s about five seven, and he doesn\u2019t weigh as much as one of Godzilla\u2019s fingers.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>Ben Shapiro got out of Berkeley alive and unharmed. And he\u2019s written a piece about it. He said there\u2019s five things that he learned. And the number one thing that he wrote in his column, number one thing he learned is that when the cops do their job, the Antifa people don\u2019t matter. When the cops do their job, Antifa\u2019s not a problem. Bingo! Bingo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH:  Ben Shapiro, 33 years old, is a brilliant young man, brilliant conservative. He is a Harvard graduate. 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