Ep. 626 - Political Hacks
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Summary
Steve Scully, the political editor of C-SPAN and the man who was supposed to moderate the second presidential debate, was caught chatting with a very anti-Trump voice over the weekend on Twitter. He sent out a tweet that was clearly intended to be private, and yet it went out publicly.
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Steve Scully, the political editor of C-SPAN and the man who was supposed to moderate the
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second presidential debate, was caught chatting with a very anti-Trump voice over the weekend
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on Twitter. He was tweeting with Anthony Scaramucci. He thought this was supposed to be
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private. He sent out this tweet. He said, Scaramucci, should I respond to Trump? Now,
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this was clearly intended to be a private message, and yet it went out publicly. The
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way that Twitter used to work, it was a little confusing how to do each of those things.
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Now, obviously, they're much different. So what does Scully say? He says he was hacked.
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This is the line. Steve Scully notified us that his Twitter account was hacked, according to
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the Commission on Presidential Debates. CPD, the Commission on Presidential Debates, reported the
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apparent hack to the FBI and Twitter, and we understand the federal authorities are looking
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into the issue. There is a hack here, all right. There are hacks all around us, as a matter of fact.
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And one thing they have in common is all these hacks are trying to take down Donald Trump.
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I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment from last Thursday was Brandon. Brandon, who said,
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I suppose this is with regard to that video of Chris Rock and Mark Ruffalo and all of these other
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celebrities getting naked and telling you to vote for Biden. He says, this is not what I meant when
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I said to expose the liberals. Fair enough. Absolutely fair enough. Scaramucci himself tried
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to bail out Mr. Scully. He said, I accept Steve Scully at his word. Let's not cancel any more people from
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our culture for absolutely something like this. It's insignificant. He's an objective journalist,
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but he's not an objective journalist. He is actually a former Joe Biden employee. Steve Scully worked for
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Joe Biden as an intern. He then worked for Ted Kennedy. He's a liberal. He's a left winger. And now he,
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I guess he's been a journalist for some time, but so many of these journalists are very far on the left.
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And that's just the way it is. The committee on debates wants a virtual debate now because President
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Trump had coronavirus, however, long ago. And President Trump is saying no way to this. He cannot do a
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virtual debate. A virtual debate gives the left all of the power, gives them everything, allows them to mute
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him, allows them to cut his feet. And so he absolutely cannot do that. Bob Dole, Bob Dole, who was the
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Republican presidential nominee in 1996. He was the first candidate that I ever supported. In my first
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grade classroom, I was campaigning for Bob Dole. All I knew about the race was that Bob Dole was a war
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hero and Bill Clinton was a draft dodger. I begged my mother, who wanted to vote for Clinton, I begged
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her to vote for Bob Dole. And she finally relented. She thought it was so funny that this six-year-old
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young Republican was begging her to vote for Bob Dole. She let me into the voting booth. I pulled the lever
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for Bob Dole, I guess. That might have violated some kind of rule, wasn't it? I was six years old
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and pulling the lever. In any case, lots of hacks trying to rig up this election, including the
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commission on presidential debates. Bob Dole said he knows all the Republicans on the committee
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and none of them support Trump. Even the Republicans don't support Trump, right? This is not really a
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bipartisan commission. There are squishy liberal Republicans and there are liberal Democrats, but there's
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nobody on the Trump side of things. And this is why whatever you think of Trump, I'm not trying to
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say that Trump is the greatest politician ever to live and he's the most conservative guy. That's not
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quite what I'm saying. I'm just pointing out that it's, at this point, basically Trump against the
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world. Whatever you think of Trump, Trump is not a hack. Trump is saying something that is different, that
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is breaking the two-party consensus that makes it seem like there are two parties, but really they both
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support open borders. They both support widespread immigration. They both support free trade regimes
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that give away a lot of our national sovereignty, right? They both support those. They both support
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the rise of China. And Trump has come in and changed that up a little bit. So whatever you think of the
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guy, he's not a hack. He's, in some ways, he's an agent of chaos. Whereas there are plenty of squishy
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Republicans and then the entire Democratic establishment, those are hacks. I mean, those are people who are going
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to tell you things that are brazen lies and they're going to tell it to you with just absolute cynicism
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because they don't respect you, the voter. They don't, voters of any stripes. A great example of
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this is this court packing issue. Joe Biden has been dodging this issue and a lot of left-wingers have
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openly said, we are going to pack the Supreme Court. We're going to add justices to the Supreme Court
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and stack it with Democrats so we can get our way. And Joe Biden hasn't answered on that question.
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So the other day he was asked it again and he said, not only is he not going to answer,
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but the voters don't deserve an answer. Sir, I've got to ask you about packing the courts.
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And I know that you said yesterday, you aren't going to answer the question until after the
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election. But this is the number one thing that I've been asked about from viewers in the past
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couple of days. Well, you've been asked by the viewers who are probably Republicans who don't want
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me continuing to talk about what they're doing to the court right now. Well, sir, don't the voters
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deserve to know? No, they don't. I'm not going to play his game. They don't deserve to know. Shoot,
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I wasn't supposed to say that part out loud. I mean, I'm not, yeah, I'm not going to play Trump's
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game. What is Trump's game? Trump's game is when even some of the mainstream media are asking you
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what you're going to do about an extraordinarily consequential issue, something that hasn't been
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tried in a hundred years, a little under a hundred years since FDR tried to pack the court and that
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was shot down by public opinion. It was shot down by Congress. No, I'm not going to play Trump's
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game. It's not Trump's game. Are you going to pack the court? Are you going to try to grab an
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incredible amount of power from the other branch of government by stacking your partisans into that
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branch of government so that they more easily acquiesce to what you want to do? It's an important
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question. Biden won't give an answer. He's been, he's been refusing to give an answer on this
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now for a month. So because Biden's answer is insufficient, because even some of the mainstream
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media are trying to get an answer out of this, the Democrats have a new plan, which is something
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that they have done for decades now. This is how they have used political correctness as one of
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their most effective political tools. They're just redefining the term court packing. They're,
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they're, they're looking at this situation and realizing that it's not advantageous to them.
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Rockauto.com. Democrats are now attempting with a straight face to redefine the phrase court packing.
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So court packing is when you've got the judiciary and then you add judges. You add seats to the
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judiciary. So right now, for instance, we have nine judges on the Supreme Court. Now, if Amy Barrett
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actually makes it to the court, then you've got a 6-3 conservative majority. Really, it's a 5-4 though
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because John Roberts is a squish. But fine, call it 5-4, 6-3. It's a conservative court.
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Well, if you add three Democrats to the court, now it's a 6-6 court, right? Because those three
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Democrats are going to be added under a Democratic administration. The Democrat judges tend to be
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much more partisan anyway. So you've got 6-6. What if you had five judges to the court?
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Gosh, that's pretty good. Now you've got a left-wing court. That's what court packing is. FDR tried to
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do it in 1937 because the Supreme Court kept striking down the unconstitutional parts of his New Deal
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program and he tried to pack it and the public opinion was never for it. He could never convince
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the American people to do it. Congress never even took it up and it fizzled out and died. Well, now
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the left is trying to revive it. Dick Durbin, second most powerful Democrat in the Senate,
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goes on Chuck Todd's show on NBC and insists that actually it's Republicans who have been packing the
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court. I can tell you that we're getting this question. It's a common question being asked because
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American people have watched the Republicans packing the court over the last three and a half
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years and they brag about it. They've taken every vacancy and filled it. Did you know that they've
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sent us and we have approved only with their votes, I might add, 10 people who have been judged
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unanimously unqualified by the American Bar Association? Do you know how many judicial nominees
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came from Obama who were judged unanimously unqualified? None. So we are dealing with people on the
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court, packed into the court with little or no qualification who are going to be there for a long
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time. So it's understandable. The Republicans raised the issue of court packing. Did I mention, Chuck,
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it's Republicans who are court packing? No, it isn't. Of course it isn't. There is obviously a difference
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between adding judges to a court so that increasing the number of the judges so that you can stack it
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with your partisans and filling the open judge seats as is not only your constitutional right,
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but the constitutional requirement. When there are nine seats on a court and a judge dies and then you
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fill it as the constitution tells you to, that's obviously very different than completely rewriting
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the judiciary, adding seats so that you can cram through your legislation that otherwise wouldn't get
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through. Obviously very different things, but obviously the talking point went out and Democrats are
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pursuing this. Hakeem Jeffries, who's the house Democrat caucus chairman tweets out, stop asking
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Dems about packing the court. We aren't doing it. They are meaning Republicans in order to take away
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our healthcare. They're packing the court. Governor Steve Bullock of Montana. I think he's of Montana,
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isn't he? Do you remember he ran for president for about five seconds? He said four years ago,
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you said, no, we should never confirm a justice when people are voting. Let the people decide. And now
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that's the most important thing to you. You are packing the court right now. Okay. Sheldon Whitehouse,
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a Senator from Rhode Island. He tweets out it's time. Democrats started looking behind the curtain
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of the Republican special interest court packing scheme. They've been at it for years. We've been
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asleep at the wheel. All of this reeks of a particularly sad kind of hackery is they're,
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they're, they clearly got together in a room and they said, gosh, guys, we can't keep evading the
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court packing question forever. We've been evading it now for over a month, at least what do we do? And one
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of them said, I know what we'll do. You know what we'll do? We'll, we'll say that it's them who's
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court packing. Like, nah, you, you know, like when you're in third grade and someone calls you,
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you say, nah, you, I am rubber and you are glue or something like that. That's what we're going to
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say about court packing. And their basis for this, here's their dastardly evidence that they dug up
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from one of Sean Hannity's shows they put out there is when Mitch McConnell bragged about how
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he, as the Senate majority leader was holding up some of Obama's judicial nominees.
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So I was shocked that, uh, former president Obama left so many vacancies and didn't try to fill those
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positions. I'll tell you why, I'll tell you why I was in charge of the, uh, of what we did the last
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two years of the Obama administration. I give, I, and I will give you full credit for that. And by the way,
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take a bow. All right. That was a good life. I'll tell you why, because I said to, uh, say hello to
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my little friend. And then he leans down and just takes a big, big face full of that cocaine
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constitutionality, constitutional cocaine. Mitch said that as Senate majority leader, Barack Obama
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has the right to nominate the judges. And then I, a Senate majority leader can take them up to advise
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and consent. And then either I consent or we reject, and then they go through. So this is a,
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the perfectly ordinary operation of government, especially when there's divided power, right?
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The voters sent Obama and the Democrats to the white house. They sent Mitch McConnell and the
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Republicans to run the Senate. And so there's going to be friction. That's the way the system
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is supposed to operate. Operating within that constitutional system and within the traditional
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norms of our Republic is a very different thing than trying to subvert the judiciary itself by adding
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seats to the court. But Michael, there, the, the constitution doesn't say how many judges need to
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be on the court. That's true. But the judges have been set for a very long time, well over a hundred
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years. Nobody has tried to change the number of judges since FDR who failed at it because people
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didn't want it because they found it to be subversive of the constitution. We've got a number here. And
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what Democrats are trying to do is throw a grenade in there because they can't win. This is what the
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left always does. The left is a stickler for the rules until the rules don't work for them. And then
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the rules don't matter. They completely undermine them. And Republicans and conservatives often get
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stuck in this bad position where we think that if we just play by the rules, if we try to use their own
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logic against them, then they'll come around and they'll see the light. They won't, they won't.
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And we, we just keep, we keep thinking, no guys, you were, we're reasonable. We're willing to work
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for you. You said you were, for instance, this is a great example of this from the sixties and seventies.
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You said you were the free speech supporters. Remember you liberals, you led the free speech
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movement at Berkeley, but now you're opposing free speech. Isn't that hypocritical? They don't care.
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They don't care. The whole point of this was just to subvert the traditional standards.
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Wait a second, guys. You said that you support feminism, but now you support gender ideology,
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which undermines feminism. Isn't that hypocritical? They don't care. They don't care.
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They are just trying to subvert the traditional American standards, whatever way they want to do
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that, whatever way is effective, they will do that. Wait a second, guys, you've been accusing Trump of
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exceeding the bounds of the constitution, but now you're trying to do that on the, they,
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they don't care. Stop, stop trying to make the argument from hypocrisy. It, it doesn't bother
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them. There are a handful of liberals left who want to maintain the veneer at least of consistency
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and constitutionality. One of them is a guy who falls into political hackery a whole lot.
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Jake Tapper on CNN. We were, we were pointing out some of his hackery last week, but sometimes I
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think he still wants to view himself as the last honest man in the room, the journalist. He's a
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liberal maybe, but he's a straight shooting liberal. And, and so Jake Tapper called out this hackery
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about court packing at a Biden spokesman on CNN. She had no answer, but she didn't care.
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He said, it's not constitutional what they're doing. How is it not constitutional what they're
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doing? His point is that the people have an opportunity to weigh in on this constitutional
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process through their vote. And we are now in the midst of the election. Millions of people have
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already cast their votes. And you see that the vast majority of people say that they want the person
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who wins the election on November 3rd to nominate the justice. That's a poll. That's not the
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constitution. So by, by trying to, by trying to, that's, that is their con there. There's the
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constitutional process of advising consent. The American people get to have their say by voting
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for president, by voting for senators. We are now 23 days from the election. But it's not
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unconstitutional. Millions of, millions of votes, millions of votes. They're being, voters are being
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denied their constitutional right to have a say in this process. They elected the Senate.
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They're trying to ram through, are trying to ram through a, a nominee who, by the way,
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is going to change the makeup of the court. And we see time and time again, poll after poll shows
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that most Americans vehemently disagree with this. They believe that the vote should happen on
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November 3rd. That's not what the word constitutional means. So Jake Dapper, good on him because he's
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calling out this crazy BS, but this Biden spokesman, this woman doesn't care. You see, she's, she's
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fairly unflappable. She just keeps talking. He goes, it's the court and the railroading and the
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change, the makeup of the court. And she's just saying words. The words are not responding to the
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points that Jake Dapper is making. The words are not even making an argument. What the words amount to
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is it is our interest to have a leftist judiciary. And so we're going to do that. And between these
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two styles here, Jake Tapper's sort of, at least his pretense that the argument has to make sense,
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at least at a superficial level. And this Biden spokesman who says, it doesn't matter. We don't
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need to make any arguments. It's all about interest. Between those two visions of American politics,
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I think it's the latter that's winning right now. I don't think we're making particularly strong
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arguments or having particularly robust debate. Just look at the debate between president Trump
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and Joe Biden two weeks ago to see that it's just people talking over one another.
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This is a consequence. If you want to trace it back all the way to the very, very beginning,
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this is a consequence of the left essentially denying objective reality. When, when the left says,
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for instance, a man can be a woman or there's no such thing as the truth. There's just your truth
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and my truth. And you can't use your faculties of reason to have an opinion because you're a
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straight white male. You can't deny my lived experience. The left constantly pushing all of
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these hoaxes and division. The effect of that downstream is you can't have a debate. One side
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is going to say, but the constitution. And then the other side is going to say, okay, hey, I got your
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constitution right here. And that's what the election is coming down to. Now, perhaps we're still at a
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point in this country where there's a sliver, sliver of people in the middle for whom coherent
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arguments matter, but I'm, I'm not convinced that we're there. Joe Biden certainly doesn't think
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that we're there. This is what I don't like about hackery. And look, we can go, we can go and
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criticize any one thing that Trump has done any particular day or one policy that he's pushing.
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I'm happy to do it. And I've done it plenty of times, but on this issue of hackery, Trump ain't it.
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He, he, he is like the opposite of a hack. He is saying things that are, that seem deeply
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unpopular, that require a fair amount of courage that could have, and by all accounts should have
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destroyed his political career many times. And he hasn't done it. You can't say the same for Joe
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Biden. Joe Biden now, now that the Democrats have tested out this court packing line, he himself has
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decided to adopt it. That following the constitution and undermining the constitution are actually the
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same thing. The only court packing is going on right now. It's going on with Republicans packing
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the court now. It's not constitutional what they're doing. We should be focused on what's
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happening right now. And the fact is that the only packing going on is this court is being packed now
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by the Republicans after the vote is already begun. I'm going to stay focused on it. So we don't take
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the eyes off the ball here. What they're doing is not constitutional. What do you mean? It's not
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constitutional. They, this, the constitution says the presidential nominated judge and the Senate will
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advise and consent. That's exactly what they're doing. It's not, that's not even an op. It's not
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like, well, you have this option constitutionally. There's a requirement that the president nominated
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judge and the judge is going through, but he's just saying words, right? That's not,
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it's not constitutional. It's just like during the debate when president Trump said law enforcement
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doesn't support Biden. He goes, that's not true, man. That's a lie. And, and Trump gets it. Okay.
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Name one organization in law enforcement that supports you. Biden said, uh, uh, he didn't have an answer.
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He just said, he just goes, it's not constitutional. It's, it's wrong. It's come on, man. Come on,
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man. So now he's saying we're, we, the Democrats are going to add these judges to the court. Now,
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did you hear there was a cough in there? He goes, yeah, we meant there was a physical hacking up.
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There was a hacking up that happened. And it wasn't just when he was talking about the judges,
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he was giving another campaign event in Nevada and Biden had his mask on. He had the mask on for
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some reason, but it was below his nose. So it was not doing any, there was no scientific or medical
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argument for the way he was wearing the mask, but he had it on just as a, just as a political
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symbol. Cause that's all it is. The mask is the political yard sign of 2020. The way Joe Biden
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is wearing that mask offers absolutely no protection against the virus, either for himself
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or for other people. It's just there as a symbol of his view of politics that basically we shouldn't
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be led by bureaucrats and experts, but then it gets even better because not only is the mask down
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below his nose, but he has to cough. So what does he do when he has to cough? He pulls down the mask,
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coughs into his hand, pulls it right into his right hand. Then he puts the mask back up. He
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actually puts the mask up over his nose after he coughs all over his hand. It's probably going to
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go shake a lot of hands after that. More evidence, more evidence that the way that this virus is being
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treated is not primarily focused on science or medicine. It's focused on politics. Actually,
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now we can defer to the world health organization, which is don't forget a public health organization,
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meaning politics and health public means politics. So it's got a political aspect too. And obviously
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they've been infiltrated largely by China and they were carrying water for China and helping China
00:22:43.020
cover up the, the illness early on world health organization though, now is coming up pretty
00:22:48.060
strongly against the primary method of combating this virus. Namely the lockdowns. You, you have
00:22:55.320
people at the world health organization coming out and saying, we need to not only focus on other
00:23:02.240
treatments. We actively need to stop the lockdowns. The lockdowns are hurting everybody.
00:23:08.280
We in the world health organization do not advocate lockdowns as a primary means of control of this
00:23:16.260
virus. The only time we believe a lockdown is justified is to buy you time to reorganize,
00:23:22.720
regroup, rebalance your resources, protect your health workers who are exhausted. But by and large,
00:23:28.960
we'd rather not do it. Just look at what's happened to the tourism industry, for example,
00:23:32.960
in the Caribbean or in the Pacific because people aren't taking their holidays. Looks what's happened
00:23:38.960
to smallholder farmers all over the world because their markets have got dented. Look what's happening
00:23:44.860
to poverty levels. It seems that we may well have a doubling of world poverty by next year. We may well
00:23:51.400
have at least a doubling of child malnutrition because children are not getting meals at school and
00:23:56.500
their parents in poor families are not able to afford it. This is a terrible, ghastly global
00:24:02.340
catastrophe, actually. And so we really do appeal to all world leaders. Stop using lockdown as your
00:24:09.840
primary control method. Develop better systems for doing it. Work together and learn from each other.
00:24:16.600
But remember, lockdowns just have one consequence that you must never, ever belittle, and that is
00:24:23.660
making poor people an awful lot poorer. That is Dr. David Navarro from the World Health
00:24:29.740
Organization. You probably won't see that video or hear that statement very much around social media
00:24:36.440
because now the social media are clamping down on what they say is misinformation. But it has nothing
00:24:41.720
to do with the misinformation or the accurate information about the virus. It has everything
00:24:46.940
to do with politics. And this is only going to get worse through the election. The reason that we still
00:24:51.620
have lockdowns today is because of politics. You can look at where the lockdowns are. It always tracks
00:24:57.420
with people's politics. The places that the lockdowns exist aren't doing particularly well
00:25:02.500
on the coronavirus. You look at the, one of the toughest lockdowns in the entire country was in
00:25:07.320
New York. New York got hit worse than anybody. And the lockdowns didn't seem to help. Actually,
00:25:12.380
in some cases, the lockdowns hurt. There were studies that show that by, this happened in Italy and in
00:25:17.220
New York, by the way, that by locking people inside, particularly with elderly family members,
00:25:22.120
you actually were putting them in a more dangerous position than you otherwise would have seen.
00:25:25.880
We saw this with the nursing homes in New York. In New York, Governor Cuomo's policies forced people
00:25:30.480
who, and sent people who were sick with the virus into nursing homes. And guess what happened there?
00:25:36.160
Thousands and thousands of senior citizens died. We won't be able, by the way, to have a full picture
00:25:40.960
of what happened because Cuomo is using his political apparatus to shut down any additional studies
00:25:46.960
of what happened. That's what we're seeing. I mean, if you, if you log onto social media now,
00:25:51.840
it is unbearable because first of all, every time you log on, they say, did you vote?
00:25:55.880
If I'm on Instagram, I'm here to see like funny pictures. If I'm on Twitter, I'm here to see
00:26:02.220
mean little sardonic comments. I'm not there because I need a civic education. If you're
00:26:08.240
getting your civics education from Instagram, probably something has gone deeply wrong in our
00:26:13.140
society. But they want to do that because they know that those users are more likely to vote for
00:26:19.120
Democrats. And so they're trying to get you to go out there and support their candidates. And
00:26:22.440
they're trying to suppress information that counters the democratic narrative, whether it be on widespread
00:26:26.780
unsolicited mail-in voting, which is unprecedented in our country and obviously shows signs of being
00:26:33.000
open to fraud. We've seen this recently in New Jersey. We've seen this in New York. We've seen
00:26:38.540
this in Texas. So you've got, uh, you've got those issues and then you've obviously got coronavirus.
00:26:44.780
Any, any comments that are contrary to the democratic narrative, even if it comes from the
00:26:49.200
World Health Organization, even if it comes from the CDC's website, will be suppressed,
00:26:55.820
which is what's happening right now. There was a funny bit of suppression that just went on
00:26:59.960
with President Trump. He's being censored again, explicitly censored by Twitter because he was
00:27:05.620
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00:27:11.580
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00:27:18.700
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You know, I'm pretty tough on the experts. I don't think that we should just be governed by a bunch
00:29:45.060
of experts in white lab coats who aren't particularly educated, aren't particularly
00:29:51.140
wise, and don't govern our country particularly well. However, I might make an exception to my
00:29:56.640
expert rule when it coincides with constitutional government, because our duly elected president,
00:30:02.260
Donald Trump, now happens to be one of the nation's foremost experts on coronavirus.
00:30:06.780
Just by definition, he had coronavirus. He knows more about coronavirus than most scientists in
00:30:13.400
the country. And President Trump is flaunting his expertise. He tweeted out over the weekend,
00:30:18.660
quote, a total and complete sign off from White House doctors yesterday. That means I can't get it
00:30:23.160
immune and can't give it. Very nice to know. Three exclamations points. That is very nice to know.
00:30:28.920
Twitter censored that. He said, so you see just a big warning over the tweet. Then you've got to click
00:30:33.400
through if you want to try to read it. They say, this tweet violated the Twitter rules about spreading
00:30:37.740
misleading and potentially harmful information related to COVID-19. However, Twitter has determined
00:30:42.360
that it may be in the public's interest for the tweet to remain accessible. Is that so, Twitter? Is
00:30:48.580
that so? So now the misleading information, you're going to put that censorship on. By the way,
00:30:52.740
the information about COVID is changing, it seems, every single day. I'll give you an example of that.
00:30:56.940
I'll give you a great example. The Surgeon General of the United States tweeted out a number of months
00:31:02.500
ago, stop buying masks, people. Do not buy the masks. The masks don't work against coronavirus.
00:31:09.920
Stop buying the masks. That tweet's still up. Why is that tweet up? Why is that tweet not being
00:31:15.300
censored? That was misleading information, wasn't it? Or no, maybe it was just useful and convenient
00:31:20.560
information that worked for your narrative at the time. But now it doesn't really matter because
00:31:24.140
we've moved on. Eric Swalwell, the former future president, he is me and I am him. And we are all
00:31:29.520
him. Eric Swalwell. That was his campaign motto. He said, stop buying the masks. The masks don't
00:31:34.660
work. Why is that tweet? Isn't that misleading information? Well, I don't know. Maybe that'll
00:31:38.100
be correct information again when they change their mind on it. I don't know. Dr. Fauci said,
00:31:41.980
don't wear the masks. So that was misleading information, right? Because we're now told you have
00:31:45.560
to wear the masks. The masks are going to protect us. So why isn't that all being, why is it,
00:31:49.900
why is it that it's just conservatives who get censored almost exclusively? Why is it that it's
00:31:57.500
this president in particular, just days away from a presidential election who gets censored for saying,
00:32:03.700
sure, I guess he said, I can't get it anymore. I wonder, I suspect that if I were a gambling man,
00:32:08.040
I'd say president Trump probably isn't going to get coronavirus again in the near future. Just my,
00:32:12.520
just my hunch. And he can't give it. The doctors are saying he's, he's not giving out the virus,
00:32:18.580
right? The doctors are saying that right now. They've okayed him to go to a debate. So that
00:32:21.840
part is true. At least according to his doctors, maybe Twitter is disputing the doctors. So Twitter
00:32:26.020
is a better expert now in coronavirus than the white house doctors. Twitter is a better expert
00:32:29.880
than Trump himself who had the virus. I don't think so, Buster. I think this is just political
00:32:34.900
censorship. That's what I think it is. I think this is just the left establishing its own set of
00:32:40.960
standards and then enforcing it as it wills to benefit the left. And conservatives are still
00:32:47.100
playing this game where we're trying to point out hypocrisy. We're trying to, trying to play by
00:32:50.660
universal standard. The left's not playing that game. That's not the game they're playing. They're
00:32:54.200
playing a game of interest. I'll give you a great example of censorship. A true, this is Orwellian.
00:33:00.240
I know that word gets overused, but this is Orwellian. Right now, if you go to Yelp.com,
00:33:05.780
what do you use it for? You're in a new area. You say, I want, I don't know, I want Chinese food
00:33:10.660
tonight. Let's look up Chinese food. Then you look on Yelp and you have different reviews and you can see
00:33:14.740
which has the best Chinese food. Now there's a new feature on Yelp, which is you'll see, you know,
00:33:21.720
sometimes it'll say four stars. It'll maybe say $3 signs, you know how expensive it is. Now you
00:33:26.060
can see a little exclamation point in red. That is to let you know that the business has been accused
00:33:31.760
of racist behavior. Racist behavior. What, what does that mean? What, what you will see is a little
00:33:42.040
pop-up and it says recently someone associated with this business was accused of racist behavior
00:33:46.440
resulting in an influx of people posting views to this page. Racism is reprehensible and has no
00:33:51.700
place on Yelp. And we unequivocally reject racism in any form. Wow. How brave. Unlike all those people
00:33:57.940
who totally support racism, right? You know, racism, that, that pervasive thing that's totally real,
00:34:03.180
not just a boogeyman and a straw man that the left uses, that the demagogues on the left use
00:34:10.440
to shut down anybody who disagrees with them. It's like that whole thing. Do you condemn white
00:34:14.880
supremacy? Who support, who, who embraces white supremacy? Do you know anybody who says, yeah,
00:34:19.340
I love white supremacy. I'm a huge white supremacist. No, it's a phantom issue. When people
00:34:26.060
say black lives matter, I'm bravely courageously saying black lives matter. How many people do you know
00:34:30.820
who say, yeah, black lives, man, they don't matter. I hate those lives. None, nobody, everybody thinks
00:34:36.520
black lives matter. Nobody disagrees with the statement black lives matter. But a lot of people
00:34:42.460
believe that a lot of other people who are not as virtuous and wonderful as themselves, that a lot of
00:34:47.100
other nefarious people, they, they all say black lives don't matter. Same thing with racism. Nobody in
00:34:52.760
this country, maybe a handful of people would call themselves racists, but they think a whole lot of
00:35:00.220
other people are racist. While we understand the desire to warn others about racist behavior,
00:35:04.020
about a business, all reviews on Yelp must reflect an actual first-hand customer experience. So we've
00:35:08.260
temporarily disabled the ability to post here as we work to investigate the content. If you, you're
00:35:13.940
here to leave a review based on a first-hand experience, please check back at a later date. So
00:35:16.840
what they're saying here is they're trying to, I guess, be helpful. If we're to give them the
00:35:22.740
benefit of the doubt, it's to be helpful, right? Because they're saying basically there's some incident
00:35:26.040
at a place and they say it's racism. Often, by the way, these are hoaxes. This happened very famously
00:35:31.180
outside of Oberlin University. There was a restaurant that was accused of racism and they
00:35:36.160
had to shut down, but it was a total hoax. So that happens and then people flood it who don't know
00:35:42.000
and they say, you're a racist, you're a racist, whatever. So they're saying, okay, we're going to
00:35:44.940
stop that. You're not allowed to do that. But the way they're going to stop it is by putting a big
00:35:48.320
sign that says accused of racist behavior. Define racist behavior for me. I'll give you an example.
00:35:52.900
Uber Eats during the George Floyd riots. Uber Eats decided that they were going to
00:36:00.060
waive the delivery fee for black-owned businesses, whatever that means. Define a black-owned
00:36:06.360
business for me. What if a black guy owns a quarter of the business? But is that a black-owned
00:36:09.840
business? Or do you only get to waive a quarter of the delivery fee? Whatever. So they say, we're
00:36:13.420
going to waive delivery fees for black-owned businesses. We're going to charge delivery fees
00:36:16.780
for white-owned businesses. So you're penalizing people on the basis of their race, right?
00:36:22.400
You're saying, we're going to charge more money. We're going to make it harder for your business
00:36:26.180
to operate if you're, if you have one race, but not if you're of another race, which is the
00:36:30.580
definition of racism. So is Uber Eats going to get a racism warning on Yelp? Probably not. Probably
00:36:37.820
not. What about businesses who buy into the BLM lie that all white people are racist because we live
00:36:46.880
in a white supremacist country. That's a racist statement. Are those people with the big BLM
00:36:52.200
sign, are they going to get the, no, they're not. They're not. It's just, it's just a way of signaling
00:36:57.960
which are the officially approved businesses by the liberal establishment and which are not,
00:37:03.800
which are verboten and you're not allowed to go there. There are, there are parallels to other
00:37:09.740
tyrannical sort of political regimes here and you see it creeping slowly and you kind of see
00:37:15.440
how, how this kind of mad, cultural madness can take over. But that is where we're headed.
00:37:23.260
There's a, there's a great irony. There's a real talk about an irony.
00:37:27.660
Maybe the most racist, anti-black racist business in the history of the United States
00:37:33.760
is, do you know, Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood, which exists in no small part to
00:37:39.760
kill black babies and to shrink the black population, or at least keep it from expanding
00:37:44.900
too much. The founder of Planned Parenthood wrote in these terms explicitly, Margaret Sanger.
00:37:50.240
She even, at one point, she says, she sort of plays this off as a bit of a joke or a bit of irony,
00:37:54.680
but I think there's a lot of truth to this irony. She says, we don't want word to go out that we
00:37:58.260
want to exterminate the Negro population. But even if you say, oh, she was just,
00:38:02.680
she was being ironic in that statement. Read woman in the new race, read her writings on eugenics.
00:38:07.980
She clearly thought there were undesirable populations and through abortion and through
00:38:12.040
family planning, she wanted to shrink those populations. It's a lot worse than any business
00:38:18.100
or bakery or whatever ever did, right? If you actually go out and you say, my plan is to go
00:38:21.820
into black neighborhoods, set up shop here and kill all the black babies. That's my business model.
00:38:26.440
That's my actual pitch. Planned Parenthood is being accused of racism by, through an internal audit here.
00:38:32.680
BuzzFeed News obtained this. They show that they're accused of internal racism,
00:38:39.240
race-based discrimination, acts of anti-blackness, whatever that, I have no idea what that means,
00:38:43.160
but if it's going to hit Planned Parenthood, fine by me. Fine by, I'm not going to defend Planned
00:38:47.240
Parenthood. I'm not going to stand in the way. There are, there was this study which was commissioned
00:38:52.020
by Planned Parenthood, involves a dozen social justice oriented organizations. This interviewed 80
00:38:58.480
current and former black Planned Parenthood employees and say that the organization's black
00:39:02.440
employees feel that Planned Parenthood's treatment of them internally does not line up with its social
00:39:06.680
justice driven mission. Of course, if, if Planned Parenthood is mistreating black people, it lines
00:39:10.900
up perfectly with their social justice, which actually means injustice driven organization because
00:39:16.360
the organization exists in no small part to kill black people. Do you think Planned Parenthood is going
00:39:24.060
to get the racism warning on Yelp? I don't think it is. I don't think it is. This is pure hackery.
00:39:32.860
This is pure cynicism. I'm not saying that people can't be partisan and give more leniency to their
00:39:40.680
own side. I think that's not only to be expected in politics, but I think it's actually a positively good
00:39:46.340
thing. We ought to have some loyalty. We are fighting for real things. We are not merely umpires who care
00:39:52.800
merely about procedure. We want to affect our vision of the good in society. But you have to
00:40:00.660
acknowledge the truth. You have to be willing to say, I'll give you an example of this. Donald Trump
00:40:08.100
passed that get out of jail free bill, you know, the first step act, the one that goes light on crime.
00:40:14.040
I thought that was a bad idea and I said it was a bad idea. I still support Trump. I'm still going to
00:40:17.840
vote for him, but I think it's a dumb idea and I don't think we should support it. Same thing with
00:40:21.200
uh, now that now Trump is going after Biden as a racist because Biden was tough on crime in the
00:40:27.080
nineties for a little bit. I think that's a bad idea. I'm not, I'm not willing to go on board with
00:40:31.240
that. There's a difference between being a partisan and being an outright hack. Now on the left, we're
00:40:37.200
seeing outright hacks and we're seeing them at the highest levels of the New York times and the
00:40:41.660
Washington post and the, obviously the Biden campaign. Sure. The campaigns are like that.
00:40:44.900
We're seeing it at the elected level. We're seeing that now in big tech, outright hacks.
00:40:51.980
This is not a good situation. The Washington post has nothing on judge Amy Coney Barrett. We're
00:40:58.500
getting the Barrett confirmation hearings this week. So stay tuned for that. That's going to be
00:41:02.080
quite a ride. The Washington post now has no, no way to go after her, not on her record, not on her
00:41:08.040
career, not on her. They're trying to go after her faith. That's not working very well. So what are
00:41:12.720
they doing? They're going after her kids. Beth Reinhard at the Washington post says two students
00:41:17.880
and a teacher at a school attended by SCOTUS nominee, Amy Coney Barrett's kids test positive
00:41:23.260
for coronavirus two weeks after a super spreader white house event for ACB. Parents are freaked out
00:41:28.900
though. No proven link. That's what passes for journalism. Now I love at the end to go, no,
00:41:35.200
no proven link. Oh, so you're just spreading baseless rumors because a couple students and a
00:41:42.980
teacher at a school that the judicial nominees kids go to got the virus that has already infected
00:41:51.100
10% of the world population, according to the WHO. It's so contagious that we shut down the global
00:41:57.100
economy. It's affected 10% of earth already in just nine months of existence. But you're saying,
00:42:03.500
yeah, but I don't know, maybe it was her kids or something. And I don't know what that means,
00:42:06.220
but she's bad, huh? She's really bad. Why are they doing this? Because there is no popular
00:42:14.160
support for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. There's no popular support. Some people might vote for them
00:42:19.400
because I guess we have to, you know, it's there. We're Democrats and he's the Democrats that we have
00:42:24.680
to, but no one is saying that they're enthusiastic about this. Biden and Kamala Harris came to campaign
00:42:30.080
together for the first time on the campaign trail. Isn't that amazing? It's already October and it's
00:42:33.940
the first time they're campaigning together. And there was a local news affiliate, a local reporter
00:42:39.440
there in Arizona who said, okay, I'm here with Biden and Harris. Nobody showed up to the campaign
00:42:46.320
event. There's really not much to see. I'll step out of the way, but it's kind of boring out here.
00:42:52.500
So it's not your typical presidential campaign event. We don't see people rallying outside. We
00:42:59.180
don't see signs or really much of what's going on. And I'm told by one of the Biden staffers,
00:43:05.460
local staffers, is that they kind of kept the details about the visits as far as the timing and
00:43:12.460
the exact locations. And pretty much all the people that we saw enter into the parking lot about 45 minutes
00:43:20.640
ago were with the Biden-Harris campaign and the pool reporter. So you would expect to see, I mean,
00:43:29.600
this is a pretty big event for the two of them to be campaigning together for the first time
00:43:35.080
since the Democratic National Convention. Here in Arizona, we've established, our state has
00:43:40.680
established itself as a battleground state. And so this is technically a big event, but not a lot of
00:43:46.600
fanfare. Not a lot of fanfare because nobody cares about these people. And so what has to happen?
00:43:52.800
The liberal establishment, which controls every institution just about, is going to have to do
00:43:57.840
everything they can to put the thumb on the scale for Biden and Harris. They're going to do that in
00:44:01.700
big tech with bogus censorship. They're going to do that in the mainstream media. Obviously, they were
00:44:08.440
doing it already, but they've turned it up to 11. They're going to try to do that as a matter of the
00:44:13.320
bureaucracy and how our political process plays out. They're going to do this in the presidential
00:44:19.300
debates. We have a bipartisan commission. BS. We only have left-wing moderators. We've only ever had
00:44:24.960
left-wing moderators at these presidential debates. And now the moderator for this next debate, which is
00:44:30.540
mercifully canceled, is a former Biden employee who was seen talking to this anti-Trump person,
00:44:38.940
Scaramucci, who got fired by Trump. And now he's really upset. So, and by the way, he could have
00:44:46.200
just said, yeah, I was talking to anti-Trump people. I was talking to pro-Trump people too, to get a
00:44:49.440
sense of the debate, but he couldn't do that because he's not talking to pro-Trump people. He's only
00:44:52.800
talking to anti-Trump people. What does he say? He uses that age old excuse. I was hacked. I was
00:44:57.860
hacked. We've all been hacked. There are a lot of hacks going around. The hackery is only going to keep
00:45:01.840
up through November. And what I would, what I would suggest in the meantime is regardless of the
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partisanship. If you can find a somewhat straight shooter on the left, good luck. But if you can
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find it, fine, listen to that. If you find them on the right, listen, listen to the ones on the right,
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but don't listen to the hacks. I mean, the hacks of both sides are going to wreck this political
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process because we're not even talking about logic then. We're not even talking about having a real
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conversation, a real robust debate over serious issues. And there are serious issues at stake.
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All they're going to be saying is words, words, words, hot air coming out of their mouths,
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words, redefining words into nothingness. Hacks all around. Let's hope that they don't end up
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hacking this election and, and taking that, that, a bad political situation and totally
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turning it into rubble. We've still, we've still got a fighting chance, but the, the,
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