Ep. 507 - Pandemic Or Dem Panic？
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Is Wuhan Virus a Pandemic or a Dem Panic? Should we stock up on Purell to keep Kung Flu away? Or is the left-wing media blowing this out of proportion? We will examine the facts as well as many other funny names for the public health crisis.
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Should we lather ourselves in hand sanitizer to keep Kung Flu away?
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Or is the left-wing media blowing the Wuhan virus out of proportion?
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We will examine the facts as well as many other funny names for the public health crisis.
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Then Kamala Harris endorses a man she considers a vile racist.
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And MSNBC's Brian Williams teams up with New York Times editorial board member
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I'm Michael Knowles and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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This is the biggest, one of the biggest pop culture events of the year in the United States.
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It's wreaking havoc on all sorts of conferences, speeches, public events.
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And what's even tougher for Italy is they're quarantining people in their most economically
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So they're quarantining people in Lombardy, which is where Milan is.
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So they're quarantining Venice, some of the most famous cities in Italy.
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You have the heart of the Catholic Church in the most Catholic country in the world.
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People are going out and buying all sorts of Purell, which is selling for like $100 a bottle.
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They're, to buy paper towels and toilet paper is very difficult.
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The outbreak in Italy at this point is nearly the size of the outbreak in South Korea.
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And South Korea had a really pretty broad spread and epidemic.
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So even with the country grinding to a halt, we're talking about a relatively small number
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The outbreak in South Korea right now is tapering off.
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So around the world, you've got 110,000 infections so far.
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Three quarters of the cases have been in China, right?
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So even when we're thinking about this, I think the way the media is portraying it,
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it seems like, you know, every third person on earth is dropping like flies because of
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Really, we're talking about very, very few cases.
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I mean, if you think of just, just 110,000 people, that's, that's a small town.
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That's the size of South Bend, Indiana, where Mayor Pete Buttigieg runs the show, right?
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But one number that keeps popping up is 1.6% death rate.
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Right now, if you look at it by age, you get a much better picture.
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For people under 40, reports show that this is no worse than the flu.
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You get the flu, the flu comes around every year.
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For people 40 to 49, it's a little bit worse than the flu.
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For people 50 to 59, it's a little bit worse than that.
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For people 60 plus, now you're getting into a little more of a danger zone.
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Still, though, not, you know, going to wipe out a whole generation.
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When you get to 70 plus, that's when you get to a 1 in 10 chance of death.
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Now, the fact that when you get to 70 plus is when it really starts to take off is why the overall death rate has been skewed up to 1.6%.
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Some people are saying it's higher, but what do we know?
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Now, that's just the threat to personal health.
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The other part of this problem, if we're trying to figure out if the Dems and the media are just making everybody panic for nothing or if this is real,
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is the effect of the Wuhan virus on health systems.
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So if everybody gets chopped fluy all at once, then that's going to overwhelm the health systems.
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So that's going to cause the death rate to tick up.
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Not because the virus got any worse, but because there aren't enough beds in the hospital,
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because there aren't enough doctors to go around, because everybody's getting sick all at the same time.
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Whenever the media are trying to get you excited and agitated, you know the first thing you have to do.
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You are very unlikely to face serious harm from the sweet and sour sicken.
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So, you know, we've been hearing conveniently, you always would hear this from the left,
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that, that the Trump administration is botching this.
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They would have said that regardless of what the Trump administration had done.
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The Trump administration appointed the number two person in America, the vice president,
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And that's still not good enough for the left wingers.
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So the government is, is overreacting right now.
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The government needs to overreact to quell fears, public fears and economic fears.
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There is a far greater risk of problems if everybody freaks out and starts hoarding
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and overwhelming the healthcare system and tanking the economy.
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Then you could get into a troublesome situation.
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So I think it's good that the Trump administration is overreacting.
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The Democrats are obviously exploiting this for political purposes.
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The media are obviously exploiting this for their own political advantage.
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Yeah, they're obviously the media are exploiting this for political purposes.
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But even before we see all their reasons for it, just remember you can't trust the media.
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They will do anything they can to reduce Trump's chances at reelection.
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Look at how they have handled news coverage for just the last three and a half years.
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Do you remember ABC News when Trump was rearranging some forces in the Middle East and he was pulling
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They ran footage showing the Turks bombing our greatest ally ever, the Kurds.
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And this was devastating and was meant to make Trump look terrible.
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The video was from a gun show in Kentucky two years ago.
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It wasn't even from this year and it certainly wasn't from Syria.
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So please forgive me if I'm a little skeptical of their coverage.
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You should use common sense, which is something that the mainstream media certainly will not
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tell you, but it is the best advice in times like these.
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The way I know that this is, I'm not saying the Wuhan virus is nothing.
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I'm saying you should take a lot of precautions.
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But the way I know that this is at least in part a Dem panic is that the Dems are panicking
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Mostly the fact that their chances of winning the presidency in 2020 are dropping every single
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The establishment of the left has coalesced right now around Joe Biden, right?
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Cory Booker just when I woke up this morning, he sent out a tweet about how important it
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Cory, I forgot Cory Booker was even running in the race at one point.
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Every single day, however, Joe Biden seems less and less lucid and, and the left are, they're
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spinning up as many narratives about this as they can.
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Because now you say, by the way, are you going to stick with the president on the following
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president, the last guy on this issue and just start naming them, whatever it is.
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President, uh, uh, the last guy, president, last guy.
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They'll say, Oh, Joe, he just changed his train of thought.
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Look, he was just going, it makes it easier to relate to people.
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How do I know that Joe Biden forgot Barack Obama's name?
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Because they invaded another country and annexed a significant portion of it called Crimea.
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He's saying that it was president, my boss, it was his fault.
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You're going to tell me that that he just changed his mind.
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He was just actually changing the way he spoke.
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It was president, uh, my boss, president, my boss.
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Look, this would be bad if anybody in the country forgot the last president's name.
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It's especially embarrassing for Joe Biden, who, who worked for the guy for eight years
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So he's clearly forgetting names as happens to people as they get a little bit older.
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Usually they're not running for president at the time.
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But then he didn't just forget his former employer's name, former president.
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We're going to unite this party and unite this country.
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So folks, if you want to nominate a Democrat, a lifelong Democrat, a proud Democrat, an O'Biden
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If you want to nominate an O'Biden bomber Democrat, I think Joe Biden just made Barack Obama much
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And now we're going to notice all of those signs of decline much more.
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It's amazing the way that the left treats the legacy of Ronald Reagan.
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Ronald Reagan, throughout his presidency, he had maybe the quickest wit of any president
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He turned the economy around, gave us 25 years of prosperity.
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He won the Cold War, right, in the latter days of his presidency, held intense one-on-one
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He had Alzheimer's at the end of his presidency.
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Any left-wing documentary, biography of Ronald Reagan will talk about how he was showing
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signs of, of decline at the end of his presidency.
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Joe Biden is showing way clearer signs of decline at, before his presidency, before he even gets
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Obviously, total hypocrisy here, a complete double standard.
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He's also getting really basic facts completely wrong.
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You remember in one of the recent debates that Joe Biden was arguing with Bernie Sanders about
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gun control, and he made the claim that since 2007, guns have killed 150 million Americans.
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150 million people have been killed since 2007 when Bernie voted to exempt the gun manufacturers
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More than all the wars, including Vietnam, from that point on.
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You think that the media are trying to scare people with the Wuhan virus.
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Because Joe Biden's saying guns are going to kill half of the country.
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We wouldn't have a country anymore if half the people dropped dead over the course of
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Some leftists are trying to blame this on Joe Biden's childhood stutter.
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Because they realize the only thing they have, the only arrow in their quiver is identity
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And Joe Biden is many things, but he's not a victim, right?
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Even according to their own identity politics, pyramid of victimhood, he's like the least
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He's a straight white man who's old, who's had political power for 50 years, right?
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So what they're doing now is saying that if you make fun of Joe Biden, if you tell any jokes
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about him, if you suggest, let's say you're not even making fun of him.
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You're just saying, gosh, maybe this guy shouldn't be on the campaign trail since he can't remember
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If you say that, what you're really doing is making fun of him for his childhood stutter.
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So they're saying it's all because of this childhood stutter.
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It's not that he's, he's cognitively declining.
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Uh, where was this childhood stutter for the past 40 years?
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Remember, if this is a childhood stutter that just conveniently and suddenly reappeared,
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It doesn't like, they're speaking as though we don't know who Joe Biden is.
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They're speaking as though we've, we've never seen him before.
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Joe Biden has been in the public eye for a very long time and he wasn't talking like this
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five years ago or 10 years ago or 15 years ago.
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He's talking about this now because he's obviously declining.
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By the way, how does a childhood stutter cause you to get basic math wrong?
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How does a childhood stutter cause you to forget your boss's name?
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How does a childhood stutter cause you to forget your own name?
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By the way, I want to remind you, we are going to be taking listener questions during the show.
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If you're on the website or the app, write your questions in.
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From LL, do we all need to pray to the thing for Biden's health?
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Hopefully we, we can remember the thing's name, but yes, you actually reminded me.
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I would have completely forgotten that Joe Biden dropped the words of the Declaration of
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Independence, the most famous words in all of American history.
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He goes, we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men and women and you, you know the
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So my favorite one of these, I think, is Joe Biden apparently calling for the reelection
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Primary from a campaign that's about negative attacks and the one about what we're for,
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And right now, all things being equal, it's the only thing we will do.
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Was that a childhood stutter when you endorse your opponent?
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Is that, that's because of a childhood stutter?
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I think it's because you're forgetting where you are.
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You know, Joe is not going to be able to do this on his own.
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This actually ties in to the question of, is the Wuhan virus a pandemic or a Dem panic?
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The whole media apparatus is going to come and circle around Joe Biden.
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When that video came out of Joe Biden saying, look, the only thing we can do is reelect Donald
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Twitter put this new policy into effect last Thursday.
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Joe Biden defines manipulated posts as any photo, video, or audio that has been significantly
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And it said it could remove some of the video that causes serious harm.
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There's no, you know, fabricating what he said.
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There's no fabricating how he looked or where he was.
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So on the one hand, nobody thinks Joe Biden is really endorsing Donald Trump, right?
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We're all just having a little bit of fun because Joe Biden doesn't know how to say his
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But two, the video itself is not manipulated, right?
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I guess the manipulation would be that they, they cut it off because if you play the video
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for another five minutes, he says, we, we could elect Donald Trump if we don't, you know,
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if we, if we need to come together, we need to come together and then we won't elect Donald
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So now Twitter is saying that any video that has an end point that they don't like is manipulated
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Literally every video that has ever been made is manipulated in this way because videos don't
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If any video has a beginning and an end point, it is by this definition manipulated.
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So is Twitter going to start taking down all the left-wing videos?
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Something tells me they're going to use this completely vague new policy only to attack conservatives.
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This is maybe the most egregious expansion of their censorship policy I've seen yet.
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To say that if the left does this all the time, whenever we catch them on videotape being
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complete degenerates, they, you know, whenever we catch Planned Parenthood saying that they
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buy and sell body parts and they want to buy Lamborghinis, you know what they say?
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And then the right comes in and says, no, what do you mean it's selectively edited?
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We just click record and then it goes on to the end.
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I, you know, I can't film the whole time, but here it is on video.
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This is why, I mean, this is why we can't know whether big issues raised in the media,
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whether it's Wuhan virus or some political question, whether it's real or not, because
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none of these people are honest brokers of information.
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They all have an interest in and an ability to warp the news to push their own propaganda.
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Nowhere is this clearer than in the endorsements and lack of endorsements that are coming in
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So, the way that you know that the Democrat establishment is settling for Joe Biden, the
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way you know that they don't feel that good about it, is the lack of energy in their endorsements.
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Now, it seems inevitable, and they're still dragging their feet.
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Finally, yesterday, Kamala Harris, who we also forgot ran for president at one point,
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she endorsed Joe Biden in the lamest, most reluctant way I think I've ever heard.
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So, I just wanted you guys to know, because you've been supporting me for so long, and
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I just wanted you guys to know, I have decided that I am, with great enthusiasm, going to
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endorse Joe Biden for president of the United States.
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I really believe in him, and I have known him for a long time.
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One of the things that we need right now is we need a leader who really does care about
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the people, and who can therefore unify the people.
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I am supporting Joe because I believe that he is a man who has lived his life with great
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He is a public servant who has always worked for the best of who we are as a nation, and
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There is so much at stake in this election, guys.
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So, join me in supporting Joe, and let's get this done.
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She's up against this white brick wall, very stark lighting, cameras making weird sounds.
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Kamala Harris, if you will recall, all the way back to those early Democratic 2020 debates,
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started her campaign by saying that she wasn't accusing Joe Biden of racism, and then immediately
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In this campaign, we've also heard, and I'm going to now direct this at Vice President Biden,
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And I agree with you when you commit yourself to the importance of finding common ground.
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But I also believe, and it's personal, and I was actually very, it was hurtful, to hear you talk about the reputations of two United States senators who built their reputations and career on the segregation of race in this country.
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And it was not only that, but you also worked with them to oppose busing.
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And, you know, there was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools, and she was bused to school every day.
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Oh, Kamala, what a tangled web we weave when we hurl accusations of bigotry to deceive.
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So what she's talking about there is that Joe Biden had bragged about his ability to work with people he disagreed with.
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Specifically, he was talking about two Southern segregationist Democrats, Mississippi Senator James Eastland and Georgia Senator Herman Talmadge.
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And he said, look, we disagreed, but I was able to work with them on specific legislation and get things done.
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And then Kamala twisted this and said, Joe works with segregationists.
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What he was saying, which was actually the opposite, for a cheap political point.
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There is a political lesson in here, which is don't call people bigots unless you mean it.
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I mean, in America today, just in the pop culture, the worst thing you can possibly be called is a racist.
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I'm not calling you a racist, Joe, but you're definitely a big racist.
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The personal reason not to do it is you look very foolish.
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If you use the cheapest political trick you've got, call the other guy a racist,
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and then the race doesn't turn out your way and you end up having to endorse the racist.
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It's, I think, part of the reason why she looked so reluctant in that endorsement video.
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Now, Kamala Harris at least dragged herself and was able to go and endorse him.
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There's one very prominent member of the Democratic Party who just hasn't been able to do it yet.
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And this probably is the biggest threat we've seen so far to Joe Biden getting that Democratic nomination.
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Hey, Michael, how can the left even stand on its stance of abortion and at the same time scream that we can't have milk products?
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The reason that the left is advocating for the environment or animal rights or the milk thing, that's the new leftist political cause du jour, is that we can't drink milk anymore.
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It doesn't make sense if you think of this as a way to save a human baby or, less important, save a little cow or save a little pig or something.
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That doesn't make any sense if you look at it from the perspective of preserving life.
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But if you look at it from the perspective of hurting yourself, doing penance, atoning for your sins, then it makes a whole lot of sense.
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We're aware that we are broken, that we have a fallen nature, that we sin often, and we have fallen short of the glory of God.
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And we need to make some sort of atonement for that.
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You know, when you go to mass, when you go to not just Catholic, but other services too, you say, I've sinned through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault.
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You're just a little reminder that you've done something wrong and you're taking some penance for that.
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But they still have all the religious longings of people.
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They still know that they've fallen short of the glory of God.
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So for them, in this case, it would be animal rights.
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They institute policies that won't help anything, but it will hurt them.
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If they just abstained from eating meat, if they just did that alone, that would obviously do a lot more to help the animals than not drinking milk.
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But not drinking milk, not eating cheese, not having yogurt, not eating ice cream, right?
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That's a deeper punishment than just abstaining from certain meat products.
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It is a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a scintilla of an iota of a fraction of plastic pollution.
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But we feel it when we go to the coffee shop and they won't give us our straw and they give us that stupid paper thing that dissolves and then we start chewing on paper.
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We feel that and we feel sorrow for our own sin of pollution.
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If they got regular religion, they wouldn't have to do all this weird stuff.
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So Kamala Harris endorses Joe Biden reluctantly.
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One Democrat doesn't want to endorse Joe Biden.
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That would be our future, our former future president, Hillary Rodham Clinton, who was on Fareed Zakaria's show.
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She said Bernie wouldn't be the right choice for the party.
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I will support the nominee of the Democratic Party.
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I don't know if he would ask me to campaign for him, Fareed, because I have no idea what he is thinking about for a general election campaign.
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As I've said many times, I do not think he's our strongest nominee against Donald Trump.
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What this screams to me is that Democrats, most of all Hillary, are still holding out hope that there will be a different nominee.
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And probably in Hillary's mind, that nominee would most likely be Hillary.
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I'm not saying that they think that's going to happen.
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If Hillary Clinton did not think somewhere in the way, way back of her absolutely sociopathic, limitless ambition mind,
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if she didn't think there was some chance that she could get this nomination through some crazy series of events,
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She said Bernie Sanders would be the wrong choice, so she should endorse Joe Biden.
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This is different than Obama not endorsing Biden.
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For Obama, he doesn't want to irritate the Bernie bros.
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He doesn't want to be on the wrong side of history.
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He's totally concerned about his legacy and who will be the heir to his legacy.
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That's why he's refraining from commenting at all about this election.
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Hillary's already said Bernie would not be the best choice.
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Her antipathy to Bernie and the Bernie bros is clear as day.
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So there's no reason not to endorse Joe Biden, except that maybe she's hoping someone else will walk into that contested convention and walk out with the nomination.
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And, oh, gosh, wouldn't that be just wonderful?
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Because there's increasing evidence, by the way, that Bernie Sanders is not even going to put up the sort of fight that we expected him to.
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Two weeks ago, we thought Bernie Sanders was going to run away with this nomination.
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Remember, he was in the lead, in the delegate lead.
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And then he hit that Joe Biden firewall in South Carolina.
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And then he hit Super Tuesday and he started to drop.
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The main story we've been told is because he can't get minority voters.
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The other problem is that his base doesn't show up to the polls.
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His base, turns out, a bunch of, like, unemployed college kids who smoke pot all day, turns out not the most reliable voters.
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So Bernie Sanders has been relying on the youth vote coming out and supporting him in droves.
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But voters under the age of 30 made up just 11% of the electorate, according to exit polls.
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Then another 35% were between 45 and 64, and 30% were 65 and older.
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So Bernie even had to acknowledge that his young voter strategy is failing.
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Have we been as successful as I would hope in bringing young people in?
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North Carolina, another state that Sanders could have won.
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Joe Biden ended up winning it on Super Tuesday.
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So if Bernie's going to turn this campaign around, he's got to expand his base.
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He's probably not going to be able to do that, which means that Joe Biden, who has now proven the electability argument is still sound, is going to expand his base.
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The question then becomes, can Joe Biden get across the finish line, win this thing outright, or is there going to be wheeling and dealing at the convention?
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If there is wheeling and dealing, that's a whole new ballgame.
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Because while Joe Biden might be winning the votes in this very weak primary field, and this was a very weak primary field, a lot of Democratic Party elites don't believe that he's the guy to go up against Donald Trump in 2020.
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They're not going to tell you that on the news.
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But in their private studies, that's what they're thinking.
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And so there is a chance, however small, that another candidate emerges.
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Now, I've been a little harsh on the mainstream media today.
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I'm a little harsh on the mainstream media every single day.
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I've said the reason that you can't really believe them is because they're so hyper-partisan.
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Because they carry water for Democratic candidates.
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That's part of the reason why you can't believe them.
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When it comes to something even like maybe their hysteria over the coronavirus.
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The other reason you can't believe them is because they're not very smart.
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Now, we think that if you go into the media, you probably went to a fancy school.
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Brian Williams of MSNBC and a New York Times editorial board member, Mara Gay, put this
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myth, this canard of media intelligence to rest the other day when they described how Mike
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Bloomberg, who spent $500 million at least on his primary campaign, could have given at
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least $1 million to every one of the 300 million Americans with that money.
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Here they are trying to work it out in their minds.
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You see it as a possibility if he wants to spend a billion bucks beating this guy, he could do it.
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Somebody tweeted recently that actually with the money he spent, he could have given every
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When I read it tonight on social media, it kind of all became clear.
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Bloomberg spent $500 million on ads, U.S. population $327 million.
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Don't tell us if you're ahead of us on the math.
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He could have given each American $1 million and have had lunch money left over.
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It does suggest what we're talking about here, which is there's too much money in politics.
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I don't know if a producer, somebody wrote the segment and then Brian Williams and
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Maura Gay just derailed it because they couldn't understand it.
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Which is, here's this tweet, kind of a funny tweet.
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It says that Mike Bloomberg spent $500 million on his campaign and so there are over 300 million
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So he could have given each American, correct answer is like a little over a dollar, right?
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He goes, it could have given each and every American a million dollars.
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And so Brian Williams says, now, hold on a second if you're ahead of us on the math here.
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First of all, we're all ahead of you on the math now, Brian Williams.
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But it seemed as though he's going to say you're ahead of us on the math.
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These guys got their orders of magnitude a little bit off.
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Instead, Brian Williams, total straight face, he goes, what an amazing number.
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And now at this point, you would hope that Ron Burgundy over here would be corrected by
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his far more intelligent on-air colleague, this woman from the New York Times, right?
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Except no, because she can't do the math either.
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So she goes, yes, it's amazing because it's true.
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No, what is amazing is that you people can't do basic math.
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Brian Williams is the former anchor of NBC News.
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Mara Gay, New York Times editorial board, the gray lady, all the news that's fit to print.
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It just hits you with that second punchline at the end.
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She says, and it just goes to show you that there's too much money in politics.
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No, it shows that there's too much authority placed in the mainstream media.
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It shows you that we give these guys way too much credibility.
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It doesn't show you that there's too much money in politics.
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Please, for the last time, New York Times, I know you're watching this.
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The Mike Bloomberg campaign shows you definitively that there is not too much money in politics.
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If money in politics were a really, really big problem,
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then Mike Bloomberg would have been able to buy the presidency.
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Completely wrong conclusion from completely wrong math from very subpar journalists.
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I think there's a problem on the left generally.
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The left doesn't know the difference between a million and a billion and a trillion.
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They don't understand what zeros do to numbers.
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When Bernie Sanders comes out with a plan for healthcare or for education or whatever,
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AOC comes up with a plan that was almost $100 trillion called the Green New Deal.
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At no point does she ask herself, where am I going to get that money?
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Because in her mind, $93 trillion, $93 billion, $93 million, $93 bucks.
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Her plan for how to pay for it would be exactly the same if it were a trillion or if it were a million.
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Even though those numbers are vastly, vastly different.
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Mike Bloomberg, what they're seeing is Mike Bloomberg spent a lot of money.
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So Mike Bloomberg could give a lot of money to a lot of people.
00:44:34.360
We started off the show asking, is this a pandemic or a dem panic?
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However, I think most of the media hype is malicious.
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I think most of the media hype, not just on the coronavirus, but on everything in our politics,
00:44:51.460
is from a place of deep bias and a desire to screw this up for Donald Trump.
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However, we should never ascribe to malice that which can be equally explained by stupidity.
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And the mainstream media are showing that every single day.
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Read people who you think have a good grasp on things.
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And this is the part the media definitely don't want you to do.
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The Michael Knowles Show is produced by Ben Davies and directed by Mike Joyner.
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Supervising producers, Mathis Glover and Robert Sterling.
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The Michael Knowles Show is a Daily Wire production.
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You know, The Matt Walsh Show, it's not just another show about politics.
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I think there are enough of those already out there.
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