you find out this is some guy told ben shapiro and he ran with it. there is no accountability. >> cenk: so now ben shapiro totally unapologetic. he calls the daily news reporter a hack, and saying, hey i stand by my source. story. i had a source. i had a source who told me there was friends of hamas. is that good enough? i have one source, it is what it is, and my job is to report what the source said. >> you look at his first article he said he's citing senate sources. plural sources. then he said today that he only had one source. so he's lying it's not journalistically appropriate to say that you have more sources when you only have one. i work with a gossip outlet. sometimes we run rumors, too. when you have an unnamed sources you need two to go with it. then you can say i have two sources this is why chuck hagel is not releasing his documents because he has received donations from friends of hamas. come on, this is not real. that's not even gossip-news level accountability. that's a complete lie. >> cenk: does it go to the culpability of the ove

. >> let me bring up one piece of information that ben shapiro at breitbart put out today, which is one of the foreign funders behind senator hagel that he has not yet disclosed formally is something called friends of hamas. >> you know i saw that information today, also, and that is more and more concerning. >> there was a report that came out last week, not confirmed yet. but we-- also not denying it very vigorously that one of the groups behind the speeches may have been an outfit called friends of hamas. >> that has a ring to it. zint? >> stephen: oh, it has a ring to it. a ring that goes something like this: and folks -- [cheers and applause] friends of hamas is even worse than it sounds because this organization is so sinister that it doesn't even exist. [ laughter ] turns out, hagel's link with "friends of hamas" goes back to daily news reporter dan friedman who asked a republican senate aide looking for dirt in hagel's past if hagel had given a speech to the junior league of hezbollah or the friends of hamas. assuming that no one could take seriously the idea that organizations

. >> let me bring up one piece of information that ben shapiro at breitbart put out today which is oneforeign funders behind senator hagel that he has not disclosed formally is something called friends of hamas. if that is in fact true, senator, would that lead you to vote against mr. hagel? >> you know, i saw that information today also and that is more and more concerning. with each day there are new things coming out. >> they call it information not yet confirmed. all the while acting on it as if it's real, making it real. well, a small sample of friends of hamas were in an uproar, bogus on bogus, that's what i have to say. friedman, the columnist, south dakota ben shapiro about where his friends of hamas information came from. he got this response. the story as reported is correct. whether the information i was given by the source is correct, i am not sure. so now we've come full circle. the breitbart reporter who started the brouhaha acknowledges that his story was a true report of something false. got it? friends of hamas has no basis in reality. the whole thing was an example of

and it comes from breitbart news editor at large ben shapiro. now shapiro knows the scoop when he sees one. last year he told america about -- all about a nefarious hug that president barack obama gave a professor some 20 years ago. now citing unnamed sources, shapiro alleges that defense secretary nominee chuck hagel have made financial ties to a group called friends of hamas. pretty explosive stuff. the story published on february 7th, got picked up by some right-wing blogs, including the national review online. senator rand paul weighed in on it. >> let me bring up one piece of information that ben shapiro at breitbart put out today, which is one of the foreign funders behind senator hagel that he has not yet disclosed formally is something called friends of hamas. if that is in fact true, senator, would that lead you to vote against mr. hagel? >> you know, i saw that information today also, and that is more and more concerning. with each day there are new things coming out. >> well, we got a problem, houston. friends of hamas does not exist.

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. >> let me bring up one piece of information that ben shapiro at breitbart put out today. is one of the foreign funders behind senator hagel that he has not yet disclosed formally is something called friends of hamas. if that is, in fact, true would that lead you to vote against mr. hagel? >> you know, i saw that information today also. and that is more and more concerning with each day there are new things coming out. >> and then just a few days later senator ted cruz of texas questioned whether hagel had been financed by north korea. or saudi arabia. >> we saw with his nomination something truly extraordinary. which is the government of iran formerly and publicly praising the nomination of a defense secretary. i would suggest to you that to my knowledge, that is unprecedented to see a foreign nation like iran publicly celebrating a nomination. it may be that he spoke at radical or extreme groups or anti-israel groups and accepted financial compensation. we don't know. but it is a minimum relevant to know if that $200,000 that he deposited in his bank account came directl

. >> let me bring up one piece of information that ben shapiro at bright bart put out today which is

and now on book tv, ben shapiro contends that liberals are guilty of bullying their opposition and creating an environment that discourages political debate. this heritage foundation event is a little under our. [applause] >> a pleasure to be here. i am a huge fan of heritage foundation. when town hall was part of heritage foundation never the first of the to pick up my syndicated column. i have a fourth book. primetime propaganda. the left. the heritage. for that too. also the editor at large of breitbart news. and that has the video locally and los angeles after border if you have an eye upon you can tune in. pacific time. start off by talking a little bit about andrew breitbart. and the editor at large. a mentor of mine. i met andrew and i was 17 years old. he had just seen a column that i wrote. as he was wanting to do, he was sitting in a greasy talk of joint. saw the column and probably e-mail me at the time. it was just the secret other half of the report. and we got together, became aspirins, and one of the things that we used to talk about a lot because we knew each other for over

. >> let me bring up one piece of information that ben shapiro at bright bart put out today which ishind senator haggle that has not yet disclosed formally is something called friends of hamas, if that is, in fact, true, senator, would that lead you to vote against mr. haggel? >> i saw that information too. that is more and more concerning. >> you can't take money from a terrorist-supporting organization and come before the united states senate and ask for a vote, can you? >> i'm very troubled by it. >> i'm very troubled by it, it being chuck hagel's imaginary connection to an imaginary organization that only exists on the bright bart server and in rand paul's mind. that's who gets to vote. very troubled about this terrorist organization he heard about in a chat room somewhere. don't feel bad, russia every country has got them. we just give them more power than most countries do. >>> republicans ha s have block nomination yesterday. that has never happened in this country yesterday. we have been hit by meteors, but this we have never done. now the senate is in recess. the second conf

. >> now on booktv ben shapiro contends liberals are guilty of bullying their opposition and creating an environment that discourages political debate. this heritage foundation event is a little under an hour. [applause] >> pleasure to be here. i am a huge fan of heritage foundation, everything they do. one townauld.com was part of heritage foundation it occurs to become a syndicated column. i have a fourth book before "bullies" that is prime-time propaganda, fear and intimidation, i spoke here at heritage for that too. i am also the editor at large of bright barred news and hosted radio locally in los angeles and if you have and ipad and continue, 69 in the morning pacific time. let's talk about andrew bright bart, and mentor of mine. he had just seen a column that i wrote for the ucla daily bruin and as he was wanted is sitting in a greek taco joint in westwood, saw the column and e-mail me and at the time just to seek another half, we got together and became fast friends and one thing we talked about a lot is we knew each other, used to talk a lot about how the left were a bunch of

. >>> and now on booktv, ben shapiro contends that liberals are guilty of bullying their opposition and creating an environment that discourages political debate. this heritage foundation event is a little under an hour. [applause] >> it's always a pleasure to be here: i'm a huge fan of heritage foundation, everything that they do, actually. they were the first outlet to pick up my syndicated column. i do have a fourth book before "bullies," i spoke here at heritage for that too. i'm also the editor at large of breitbart news, so if you're bored or have an ipad, you can tune in at 870.com. i want to start by talking about andrew breitbart. andrew was a mentor of mine. i met andrew when i was 17 years old. he had just seen a column i wrote for the ucla daily bruin, and he was sitting in a greasy taco joint, saw the column and then promptly e-mailed me. at the time, andrew was just the secret other half of the drudge report. we got together, we became fast friends. and one of the things that andrew and i used to talk about a lot because we knew each other for over a decade before his unti

joining me now for a fair and balanced debate, ben shapiro, breitbart news and author of the book "bullieseft culture of intim nation and fear silences america" and julie, former advisor to senator lautenberg. all right. this is getting -- this is getting a little uncomfortable. they're fighting with somebody they love so much they gave him all of this access to the white house, but they only love him, apparently, ben, when he's saying what they want him to say because they're taking direct shots at him now, and he is -- he doesn't care,'s not going away quietly, saying i'm telling you, they're not being honest. >> i would imagine this is the last time bob woodward is going to have intimate access to the white house. we've seen by this white house, the media outlets that are treating the white house, they're sloan scooby treats, they're lap dogs. and we saw this past week, politico had a piece, questioning obama's transparency and they were uninvited to the politico that was included in that and not surprising they're going after reporter. they have a tight list, not fond of taking questio

. >> megyn: joining me now ben shapiro, editor at large for breitbart news and bullies, intimidationrie, this came out because of judicial watch keeps an eye on these things, got a tip from someone in attendance from the training session found it offensive and we're not sure accord to go judicial watch was spent on this they say at least $200,000 was spent by the usda over the last two years on this particular training company. ben, is this appropriate? >> well, you know, we have democrats out there saying we don't have a spending problem at the he same time that you're watching this stupidity and it's sort of pressing and makes you wish the asteroid isn't missed a couple of minutes ago. >> megyn: i wouldn't go that far. we h'd be on that, i don't know about that. >> when you look at what they're actually teaching, what's disturbing about it obviously is the mentality, repeat after me, chant after me orwellion group thing before the organic paint ball fighting. you have to push the idea that certain races are moresist than others. the pilgrims were illegal aliens, last i checked ther

. >> let me bring up one piece of information that ben shapiro put out was something called friends ofphanie: can i say rand paul is kind of a -- >> hillary clinton: turkey? >> stephanie: wow. if you have just tuned in a report inadvertently created -- there is no such group as friends of hamas. and it started as a joke. and this is exactly hot it happens, karl it goes to a senator of the united states and then you have these parallel universe hearings where you have the secretary of state having to answer questions about fake stories. >> yes, and the writer of the article says i still stand by my original story. >> right. you heard what he said there. he said literally, with every mounting day there is another story. >> stephanie: yes. >> if you weren't creating them out of [ inaudible ] there wouldn't be a new story every day. >> stephanie: these hearings are just going to become a complete waste of time. go gitmo prisoners are not getting dental benefits. >> and yeah and what website got all over the "washington post" for doing that? breitbart.com. so if they want to continue to do

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