Ep. 241 - Worst Bomber Ever
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Summary
A Florida man has been arrested in connection with a slew of bomb threats sent out over the past few days, and the media is quick to point the finger at Donald Trump. Is this guy a racist? Is he a narcissist? Is this a weirdo?
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A Florida man has been arrested in connection with a slew of bomb packages mailed over the past few days.
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As the mainstream media jump to blame Donald Trump,
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the New York Times buries one very important detail about the bomber.
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We will discuss, then, all of the polls that matter 12 days out from the midterm elections,
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why only leftists are allowed to dress in blackface,
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I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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He seems like a total weirdo, as you might imagine.
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Honestly, there are more questions than answers at this point.
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But good job on law enforcement for tracking him down.
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It was reported at first that he was a white man.
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Now it is being reported that he is Native American.
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Although, as Senatrix Elizabeth Liawatha Warren taught us last week, even if you're entirely
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So we haven't figured out exactly which it is yet.
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But if it's him, he's made bomb threats before.
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In 2002, he threatened to blow up the Florida Power and Light Corporation and said that it
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He's been arrested many times before for theft and burglary.
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I mean, this guy, I'm glad to say, Mirabile Dictu, is the worst bomb maker ever.
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He's the worst bomb maker for a few reasons, actually.
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One, because he might be screwing up all of the momentum going to Republicans in the midterms.
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And he's screwing up our jobs, not mobs narrative.
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We were told by law enforcement that they were all sent through the mail.
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But the images that we've seen of some of the packages don't have any mail markings on them.
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But it doesn't look as though they were processed by the post office.
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I felt there were four theories about who was doing this.
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We still don't really know much about this guy.
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The most generous theory for the left is that it's a wacky right winger who doesn't want to cause actual harm.
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So when he was found, he was found in like the creepiest van you could ever imagine.
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All of these right wing pro-Trump stickers on it.
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And it seemed a little on the nose, not to be a conspiracy theorist or anything, but you just think, all right, if you want a guy to seem like a right winger, you know, you'd put all of these brand new stickers like, I voted for Trump on it.
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So I felt that was the most generous to the left.
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And probably, though, that's unlikely that he doesn't want to cause actual harm.
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I think the much more likely scenario, which is also pretty generous to the left in this, is that he's some wacky populist type on the right or the left, kind of like the Bernie bro who shot up the congressional baseball game.
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And because all of the people that were targeted are establishment people, the Clintons, Soros, Eric Holder, John Brennan, you know, they weren't going after the Bernie Sanders side of the Democratic Party.
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They weren't going after Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
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So I could see it, you know, as a populist type.
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And that's what the evidence seems to suggest now.
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Then the less generous idea for the left is that it was some lefty who wanted to make conservatives look bad.
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Again, we don't really know anything about this guy.
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And then the most conspiratorial tinfoil hat theory, the most, you know, they're turning the frickin' frogs gay theory, is that it's some plot, you know, by bureaucrats to undermine President Trump.
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And the reason it doesn't seem likely to put a damper on some of my more conspiratorial right-wing friends is that there were so many states involved.
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There were so many law enforcement agencies involved that if it were some grand conspiracy, I think somebody would have leaked it.
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It seemed to me number two or number three were the most likely, some wacky lefty, or that it's some wacky Trump populist or left-wing populist.
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But we did forget the great possibility, the most obvious answer.
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Somehow we forgot about it, which is that it's a Florida man.
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Florida man just flits about doing the craziest things, including sending horribly constructed bombs to politicians.
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And what's weird, too, about the bombs is that they had a digital clock on a number of them.
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Some of them, apparently, weren't even able to explode.
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So, we'll get to this in a second, because the New York Times even admits this and buried the lead.
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But just to wrap it up on Florida man, there was a story that came out last week about these two girls in Florida, an 11-year-old and a 12-year-old, who were Satanists planning to murder their classmates and eat them.
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When asked about motivation, the girls reportedly told police that they were Satan worshipers.
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According to police, the girls planned to drink their victims' blood out of the goblet they were found with.
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They also discussed eating their victims' flesh and leaving body parts at the school's entrance before killing themselves.
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By the way, for anybody out there who doubts the existence of personified evil, who laughs at people for believing in the devil or believing in personified evil, how do you explain that?
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How do you explain 12-year-old girls who want to participate in a satanic ritual like that?
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I do get a kick out of the fact that after these multiple weeks of Liz Warren, the whitest woman in America, pretending to be a Native American, this suspect may actually be a Native American, like a real Native American.
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He apparently lists tribal affiliation in certain documents.
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But the one thing I think that we can all conclude, we know it for sure, is that this is Donald Trump's fault.
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Because, look, I've been watching a lot of CNN.
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And when you're at airports, the only place that CNN has played in the entire world is on airport televisions.
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Because apparently, I don't know if you know this, Trump has had a lot of violent rhetoric.
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Here is all the violent rhetoric from President Trump recently.
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And if you see anybody in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station,
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I just don't even know why there aren't uprisings all over the country.
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You cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for, what you care about.
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Get up and please get up in the face of some congresspeople.
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Donald Trump sounds a lot like Spartacus, doesn't he?
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I've never heard President Trump sound so much like tears of rage.
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Spartacus, oh no, wait a minute, that wasn't Donald Trump.
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That was all major Democrat officials, including their most recent presidential nominee, calling for violence.
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Nevertheless, all we're hearing from the mainstream media is that President Trump has created a culture of violence.
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We'll get in a minute to why that is so insidious.
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But here is what Donald Trump is actually saying.
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More broadly, there's much we can do to bring our nation together.
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For example, those engaged in the political arena must stop treating political opponents as being morally defective.
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The language of moral condemnation and destructive routine, these are arguments and disagreements that have to stop.
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No one should carelessly compare political opponents to historical villains, which is done often.
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We should not mob people in public spaces or destroy public property.
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The media have been egregious about all of this.
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First of all, he's right that we should all come together.
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He recently just gave a statement, too, just within the last few moments on how we have
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to prosecute this guy to the fullest extent of the law.
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We cannot have political violence take hold in the United States.
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Obviously, political violence takes place on the right and the left.
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It's taken place a lot more on the left these days.
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But, you know, maybe this guy is a right winger.
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I haven't decided how far down the conspiratorial rabbit hole I want to go.
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Let's say he's a registered conservative Republican.
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When the left was being violent, going to Republicans' houses, going to assault them
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in public, at restaurants where they eat, where they sleep, how did the Democrat Party
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Maxine Waters, Hillary Clinton, Eric Holder, Cory Booker.
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When there's some wacko Republican who sends poorly made bombs that fortunately didn't hurt
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anybody, when that happens, how did the Republican leader respond to that?
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He said, we've got to prosecute this guy to the fullest extent of the law.
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We can't have any political violence in America.
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Let's say this guy is a registered, hardline, conservative Republican.
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If he is, it seems more like he's a wacky criminal Florida man.
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What really matters is how the parties are responding to it.
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The left, the mainstream media, which is just the talking, the microphone, the loudspeaker
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of the Democratic Party, they're encouraging the violence.
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The conservatives and Republicans are discouraging the violence and encouraging prosecuting people
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CNN today, before they caught the guy, they ran a headline.
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This is maybe the most egregious one I've seen in the last week.
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Take a look at this clip and just look at that chyron.
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We definitely see a pipe-shaped figure in the x-rays.
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We definitely see wires surrounding and within the devices themselves.
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That clock could have been used to actually activate the device.
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One thing I'm not seeing in the x-rays, and I'm just seeing my x-rays on...
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So you see that there, quote, 10 packages sent to Trump targets.
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There were 10 packages sent to Democrats, but they say Trump targets as if Trump is there
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That's what they want their viewers to take away.
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Trump has targeted these people, and now this guy is sending poorly constructed bombs to
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And the New York Times complains when we call them fake news.
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I mean, that is true calumny against the president.
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Their headline was just as egregious, but you got to watch how the New York Times writes.
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So the New York Times headline on this was, quote, pipe bombs sent to Democrats and Trump
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They could have just said pipe bombs sent to Democrats because all the Democrats are
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Can you name a Democrat who isn't a Trump critic?
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But they wanted to get that in there to link Trump to it.
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But the way the New York Times writes is they bury the lead.
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They always have the most sensational propaganda on page one.
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And then they have all of their corrections on page 1075.
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But what they do in the articles, too, is they bury the lead.
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And then 25 paragraphs down, they give you the information.
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And then 25 paragraphs down, or wherever it was, I read this, quote,
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None of the devices have detonated, leading some officials to question whether they were
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designed not to explode or if they were even capable of doing so.
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Some bomb technicians who reviewed photos of the device that circulated on social media
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on Wednesday suggested that it resembled the kind of fake device often portrayed on television
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That's from the New York Times admitting as much.
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Then they go on and they say law enforcement officials determined all of the devices were
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This does raise questions about why we didn't see processing on those packages.
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But even the New York Times admits this may have been some sort of a hoax.
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Was it a hoax to have some political effect on the midterm elections?
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But I'm very pleased that in the reactions to it, broadly speaking, conservatives have been
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I said the other day on the show, you've got to remain calm and remain clear, especially
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when things get really heated, because when people get emotional, when they get angry,
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when they start jumping to conclusions, they go mad and they make mistakes.
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We're 12 days out from an important election, so you've got to stay clear-headed.
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And I'm glad that the president has refrained from being sensationalist about this.
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And let's hope that conservatives continue to do that.
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I go away for one day and the news media falls apart.
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Megyn Kelly, former darling of Fox News, got into a spat with Donald Trump, actually, during
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the 2016 election, goes over to NBC for a record contract over there.
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She's out because during a program, she asked the question of whether or not it's okay to
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darken your skin in a Halloween costume to pay tribute to somebody.
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So somebody on The Real Housewives dressed up like Diana Ross, you know, and she darkened
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And Megyn Kelly said, well, is it really blackface if you admire the person?
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She said, oh, I didn't realize it would cause that stir, but I see that I was wrong.
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For reaction, we now turn to NBA Hall of Famer Carl Malone.
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Sometime at night, Carl Malone will look up in the sky and say, what the hell going on
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Do UFO live on another planet, phoning home like E.T.?
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Carl Malone will read on TV about white people getting deducted by aliens, sticking all kind
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Now, Carl Malone never seen no flying saucer himself.
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But if he do, that's going to be a spooky time.
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That's why Carl Malone say government got to step up and give 102% to keeping them little
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Because the day them dudes stick something up, Carl Malone, butt, that's going to, well,
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that ain't going to be no good time for nobody, especially Carl Malone, butt.
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That was Jimmy Kimmel wearing blackface specifically to put on a minstrel show.
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Because this is not him putting on Carl Malone's skin tone because he's admiring Carl Malone
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or talking about what a great guy Carl Malone is.
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He does it here to make fun of Carl Malone for being stupid and to make fun of him for
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speaking in Ebonics and for speaking inarticulately.
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If anything, is a minstrel show, a modern day minstrel show, that is it.
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So he goes, he wears blackface, no reaction whatsoever, including now, no reaction.
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It was on a comedy channel that was always provocative and it was a cable network.
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For reaction, for real reaction, we turn now to comedian Chris Rock.
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Like, in 1981, how many guys have cracked in Rick James smoke when he recorded Super
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Regis, you think the only way to get a brother on the show is to name it, who wants $50 cash
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Jimmy Fallon on NBC, on the network that just fired Megyn Kelly for asking if it's okay to
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darken your skin for a Halloween costume if you admire a person.
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That is Jimmy Fallon wearing blackface, putting on a show, doing actually a pretty good Chris
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He hosts, I believe, the longest running program in television history, The Tonight Show, on
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No issue, no problem, doesn't get fired, it's okay.
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She's being paid record amounts of money over there at NBC.
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I think they still owe her $69 million on her contract.
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I think she's being fired because of her politics.
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She's certainly more conservative than people at NBC.
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But she's gone pretty hard after NBC during the Me Too movement.
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NBC has had a lot of Me Too experiences, and certainly Matt Lauer.
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Matt Lauer was the biggest example of this, would lock women in his office and harass them.
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She went pretty hard after them, while other people on that network went very soft on Matt
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I think it poisoned the relationship between her and NBC, because she wasn't going to go
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She left Fox after a very tense relationship with Donald Trump.
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I didn't think she was a good fit over there anyway.
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I think she's better doing this hard-hitting journalism and being a prosecutor and going
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She's a lot more interesting than Katie Couric.
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She asked a question about blackface and was fired for it.
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Jimmy Fallon, whom I like, who I don't think he should be fired for doing that sketch, but
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And Jimmy Kimmel, who's on a different network, but he's still a late-night star and he's still
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the toast of Hollywood, actually put on a minstrel show, actually did blackface in the
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way that blackface is described historically, actually did all of that.
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He thinks politics has something to do with this.
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So honing in on NBC, over on MSNBC, Lawrence O'Donnell listened to President Trump's speech
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We talked about it on the show where President Trump said, I am a nationalist.
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I know you're not supposed to say that anymore.
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And he says, I'm going to protect the rights of Americans to govern themselves, American
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When I say nationalist, it means I'm not a globalist.
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But Lawrence O'Donnell on MSNBC, he has the real end.
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Donald Trump knows exactly why you're not supposed to use that word.
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And that is why, exactly why he is using that word.
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And by telling his audiences that he knows he's not supposed to be using that word, he
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is telling them that he is brave enough and bold enough to use the word.
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He is brave enough and bold enough to use a 21st century variation of the word racist
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because he wants Trump voters to know that he hates the people they hate.
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A majority of Americans reject all of this vile Trumpism.
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Nationalist apparently means racist to Lawrence O'Donnell because to the left, anything they
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Racist is just the word that they substitute for evil.
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We talked to Yoram Hazoni, who wrote that great book, The Virtues of Nationalism.
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They're saying it's racism, it's racism, it's racism.
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One, the Democrat Party is losing its hold on racial minorities.
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And two, we're seeing the failure of globalism hurtling toward us in this migrant caravan
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This is a big winning issue for the GOP and for conservatives.
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If we can, can we check in right now on the migrant caravan?
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The juxtaposition between that, oh, it's just the caravan.
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It's painted possibly with people who want to do harm to this country.
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It's painted with cynical leftists who are going to exploit our extremely generous immigration policy.
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Whenever I hear this caravan, I just think like, la, la, la, la.
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It's a horde of thousands of people invading this country, and we can't deal with it.
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We don't want them to invade our country and have their first act in the country be to violate an important and essential law.
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I mean, I think, you know, when people start calling you names, when people like Lawrence O'Donnell say,
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that's racism, that's just racism, that's how you know you're on to something.
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Unless it's actually racial bigotry, but obviously this is not.
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That's how you know you're on to something, because they're saying, that's evil, that's evil, don't do it, don't do it, don't do it.
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He knows that this is a winning issue for conservatives.
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He knows that this will get a lot of Americans.
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This would have been a winning issue for Democrats 10 years ago.
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Barack Obama was talking about this 12, 13 years ago.
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He was saying we cannot have people come over illegally.
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This is why, by the way, a lot of people, I think, are skeptical or were skeptical about this bombing campaign of all the fake bombs that didn't explode or harm anybody.
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Because there are so many issues going so well for conservatives right now, right before the midterm elections,
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that this really throws a bizarre wrench into it for apparently no purpose at all, other than some lunatic criminal Florida man.
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Now the Democrats are going to turn that into mobs, not bombs.
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I guess mobs are better than bombs, but mobs are not better than bombs if the bombs don't work.
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They also were running on the Kavanaugh effect, and they can also run on this migrant caravan coming.
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The momentum won't be slowed down by this failed bombing attempt.
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We don't have any new polls, obviously, from after the arrest that just happened a couple hours ago.
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But even in New Jersey, Bob Menendez, who had a safe seat, is now being seriously challenged by his GOP opponent, Bob Hugen.
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Hugen is now within five points, within striking distance of Menendez.
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And the Kavanaugh effect is really hurting Bob Menendez, because the whole Kavanaugh premise was, we don't need to know if they're innocent or guilty.
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We just need to know if enough questions are asked about somebody's sexual history.
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And I don't know if you follow the news, it's been blacked out from a lot of mainstream media, but there's an allegation that Bob Menendez paid underage hookers to have sex with him.
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He wasn't, they weren't able to convict him of this.
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But I'm sure that when they were saying, all that matters are the questions being asked, you saw Bob Menendez sitting in the Senate like, well, yeah, well, yeah, okay.
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I'm going to, hey guys, I'm going to be over here at the, I'm going to be at the coffee pot for until you stop talking about this.
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Here's one of the, one of the greatest ads of the season against Bob Menendez.
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Let the American people make their judgment, not whether the person's guilty or innocent, but whether the person deserves to have the office.
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What about the underage girls who accused Bob Menendez, according to the FBI?
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This is not a trial, but ultimately has enough questions be raised.
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New Jersey's Bob Menendez is being forced to deny allegations of an engaging with prostitutes, sex with underage prostitutes in the Dominican Republic.
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We're not going to have good numbers on this for a few days.
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One, the arrest of the bomb guy was on a Friday, so you're hitting the end of the news cycle.
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I'm sure more is going to come out over the next few days.
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People are going to be out of the news over the weekend.
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People probably aren't going to be processing this until Monday,
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so you're probably not going to get reliable polling information on how this is going to affect the midterms until, I don't know, Tuesday or Wednesday at the earliest.
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All that matters are the trend lines when you're looking at polling.
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It doesn't matter what the numbers are when you're two weeks out from the election.
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It's all about the trend lines because unless somebody starts sending bombs to people,
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and unless that really matters to voters, the trend lines aren't going to reverse.
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The trend lines were all going in the GOP direction.
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If you'd asked me before they caught this bomb guy, and it looks like he's a populist right-winger, whatever that means,
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and he's obviously deranged too and probably living in a van,
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but before that happened, I would have said everything.
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It's unstoppable for the Republicans to stop this blue wave.
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If the trend lines reverse because of this bomb thing, I can't see them reversing again.
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It's hard to outdo a dozen fake bombs being sent around.
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So we're just going to have to see what happens with that.
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We've got to get to the mailbag, but first, don't miss our next chapter of Another Kingdom performed by little old me.
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Today, it will be live streamed for the first 15 minutes of Episode 4, which is titled Worst Homecoming Ever.
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Then you can listen to the audio, but subscribers to The Daily Wire can get Another Kingdom on Monday.
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There's super cool art this year and cool sets, so go on over there.
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You need to subscribe too because you'll get me.
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You'll get to ask questions in the mailbag, which we're just getting to.
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You'll get to ask questions in the conversation.
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You'll get a ton of stuff, but you also get the Leftist Tears Tumblr.
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I left my Leftist Tears Tumblr in Los Angeles, and I'm almost drowning.
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It can't sustain the high levels of salt, the high acidity of those Leftist Tears, and even
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It's like, I don't know, what is that type of corn, that popcorn where it's both sweet
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That's what Leftist Tears are like, like kettle corn.
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I've been dating this girl for coming up on a year now, and I have to say that objectively
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she seems like the kind of girl I should be proposing to.
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Um, but I find myself constantly with the urge to look elsewhere for female attention
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because I feel less and less attracted to her physically.
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I don't want to be the kind of guy that breaks up with a girl because she's not the body type
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Permission to break up with her is what you're saying.
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This is what you, I know you tried to put it in this nice language.
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What you just said to me is, in theory, I'm in love with this girl, but in reality, I'm not.
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You're going to be married in real life to your wife, and you should be physically attracted to her.
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I don't want to tell any tales out of school, you know.
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I don't want to, you know, I invite you into my boudoir enough when I'm selling you purple mattresses.
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You have to be attracted to your future wife or fiance or girlfriend.
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That doesn't mean, by the way, that she's got to be a supermodel or she's got to have one particular body type or this or that.
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You can find yourself extraordinarily attracted to some aspect of her personality that maybe overwhelms physical attributes that you're not as physically attracted to.
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You know, there's one part of marriage where physical attraction really matters.
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So you've got to be physically attracted to her.
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You'll be physically attracted to someone else.
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But if you really find that you're unattracted to her, then you shouldn't marry her.
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Now, maybe, I don't know, maybe you're exaggerating it.
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Don't try to plan out your marriage on paper like you're writing a doctrine.
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This is what my marriage is going to look like.
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Let's be in a relationship where you have all of these attributes that I think will go well in a wife.
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If you haven't fallen in love, find somebody else.
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I watched both your panels and you did an amazing job of staying composed when antagonized.
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I occasionally have discussions with those on the left and I have a hard time staying composed
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My question is, was that always part of your demeanor or did you have to learn it?
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I've always been able to keep my cool, just about.
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But for the vast majority of my life, I'm able to keep my cool.
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And this is a very important trait and it requires practice and you should do it
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because being a man requires being a gentleman and living in civilized society.
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The other question, when you're talking to somebody about politics or philosophy or theology
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or whatever is, what's the purpose of the conversation?
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If I'm on a panel where people are being antagonistic and it's really sort of a debate,
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I'll try to score points because I'm trying to demonstrate for an audience
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why their view is incorrect and why my view is correct.
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If I'm sitting down having coffee and I'm just trying to talk to my friend and hear his point of view
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and give him my point of view, then I won't slam him.
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In all of those cases, though, I am emotionally detaching myself.
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And you behave stupidly and you make stupid arguments.
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Part of the other reason why I keep my cool is that, as John Height showed a few years ago,
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the right understands the left much better than the left understands the right.
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So I'm not usually surprised by arguments that people on the left are making.
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I think I could probably tell them their arguments before they could tell me them themselves.
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The left is surprised by what the right says because they don't understand the right.
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So when you tell arguments to them, they don't really understand them
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or they haven't thought about them before, and they get very irate.
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They get very angry about what they don't understand.
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If you find yourself getting angry all the time,
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it might be because you don't understand their point of view.
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I assure you it's wrong, but you should read up on it at least
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so that you can tell that yourself and remain civil.
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You know, other people yelling idiocy at you cannot degrade you.
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Only you can make yourself look foolish and humiliate yourself.
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This is a very good question and hotly debated by theologians.
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St. Augustine, the guy who wrote City of God, Confessions, broadly he rejected the existence
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St. Thomas Aquinas, who wrote the Summa Theologicae, believed that ghosts exist.
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And that they come, you know, a ghost is a disembodied spirit, a disembodied soul.
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When you die, you lose your flesh, and the soul is separated.
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At the end of time, at the end of the ages, at the second coming, Christian theology states
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that we will be united, our souls and our bodies, and the redeemed will have glorified
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bodies, and things don't go as well for the people who are damned.
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But, before the end of time, can a disembodied spirit or soul come back and show itself?
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From Scripture, certainly that seems to be the case.
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We know at the transfiguration of Christ, he's standing up there with Moses.
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Moses wasn't standing there in his flesh, was he?
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We know that angels can manifest themselves, demons can manifest themselves.
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So, I tend to side with Thomas Aquinas, but I don't go looking for ghosts.
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I know it's very unfashionable to say that in our materialist times, but there are spirits.
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There is personified evil, and there is personified good.
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And don't go trying to talk to demons, you know.
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I mean, that story about Satanism in Florida, where the 11 and 12-year-old girls are going to murder and eat their classmates as a sacrifice to Satan.
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That should remind you that there is personified evil in the world.
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So, just keep your eyes up, looking at God, and do the right thing, and don't be worried about where you're going afterward.
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Michael, knower of all the reasons to vote blue.
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Will you be dressing as Rachel Maddow for Halloween this year?
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No, I will be wearing a costume for Halloween this year.
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Dear Marginalized Knowles, do you believe that humans are created to need God?
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If so, do you think this is why doing the wrong thing without God seems easier?
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This is why libertarians sometimes go a little wrong in their ideology.
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You are not responsible for the creation of your life.
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Your life is a gift given to you by your creator, who is God.
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So you do need God, and humans have a longing for God, a natural longing.
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At all times, in all cultures, throughout all of history, we have a longing for God.
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We have a longing for food, and there's food to eat.
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We have a longing for water, which is called thirst, and there's water to drink.
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We have a longing for sex, and there are beautiful women walking down the street, everywhere you look.
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So it seems unlikely to me that we have a longing that doesn't find satisfaction in something,
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This is also why doing the wrong thing is a little bit easier.
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Part of that is because of the fall, because we're not perfect creatures,
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because we have free will, and we've used our free will to reject God.
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It's always very tempting, but it doesn't work out well.
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You want to, and what we strive to do is to align our wills to the will of God.
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The things that I don't want to do, I do constantly.
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I do frequently, and this is why mankind needs redemption.
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Even if you're skeptical or doubtful of Christian orthodoxy or Judaism or any other religious tradition,
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Mr. Knowles, no matter what Shapiro says, I enjoy your show.
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I need advice on running for local office in a difficult area.
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I want to run in local elections, but being under 25, Christian and Republican, basically means I'm ineligible.
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How do I run for office in a hostile territory?
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Why on earth do you want to subject yourself, not just to politics, not just to running for office, which is miserable,
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and not just being in office, which is miserable, but to local politics, which is the most vicious of all,
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in an extraordinarily left-wing place that Antifa is currently running?
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I believe Antifa is the occupying martial force now in Portland.
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And why would you want to do that when you're under 25?
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I'll give you some advice that I got from a prominent politician and a member of the current administration,
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I was driving around with him in New Hampshire one time on a campaign, and he turned to me and said,
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you know, Michael, do you want to go into politics?
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And I said, well, you know, I'm in a car with you in New Hampshire, so what do you think?
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You won't accomplish anything there, and you'll lose money.
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You have to ask yourself, why are you running for office?
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Is there one particular issue you want to solve in Portland, Oregon?
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Is there one, is there this or is that, or is it just because you have some political ambition
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and you want to get up to a higher office and that seems like the thing to do?
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There are better ways to make an impact, and there are better ways to have a life,
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and there are better ways than to run for office right away.
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And if you do want to run for office, which can be a noble calling,
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you should do it when you've got some experience and when you can do it yourself
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and you don't have to dial for dollars and you don't have to make yourself beholden to a lot of other interests.
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Knowles, I heard some person arguing the other day that people who are pro-life
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and are also for the death penalty are hypocrites.
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I say, okay, yeah, that has no semantic value what you've just conveyed.
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I think the confusion among people is from the slogan, pro-life.
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It's a good slogan, and it says broadly what we mean.
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But what we really mean is that we object to the killing in the womb of unborn babies without due process who are utterly innocent.
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It's an evil, awful thing that is indefensible.
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They say, well, but so you support punishing criminals?
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You think that the state has the ability, has the right to punish criminals?
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Well, okay, you can punish them, but they shouldn't be able to kill them, should they?
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Why is it okay for the state to take someone's entire life away, keep them in prison for 60 years behind bars in solitary confinement, but it's not okay to kill them?
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If anything, death is a far more just and merciful punishment than life imprisonment or life in solitary confinement or something like that.
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At the time of the ratification of our Constitution, the punishment for a felony was hanging, was death.
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Keeping somebody in prison for 50 years, 30 years, whatever the sentence is, that is unusual and I do find it cruel.
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I think it's much harder to make the case for that than to make the case for the death penalty.
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Punitive punishment, rehabilitative punishment, therapeutic, trying to reintegrate them into society, and deterrent punishment to try to deter other people in society from committing that crime.
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We say we're going to rehabilitate these criminals.
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Okay, that's fine, but also justice demands punitive punishment and it demands deterrent punishment to protect the rest of society, all of which are accomplished with capital punishment, including rehabilitation, because it focuses the mind precisely when you know you're to hang.
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It probably changes your point of view and where you're looking and what you're prioritizing in your life.
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So there's no contradiction whatsoever and I think the confusion comes from that slogan, which is 98% correct, but you can clear it up by explaining precisely why you object to killing unborn babies in the womb, innocent of any crime, without due process.
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I'm going to Alabama on Monday and we're going to have a very cool speech.
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I haven't spoken about this topic publicly until this tour and it is how to write nothing and sell 100,000 copies.
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It should be a very fun speech, so check it out on Monday, but we'll have a show before then.
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