The Michael Knowles Show - November 18, 2020


Ep. 648 - The Permanent State


Episode Stats

Length

51 minutes

Words per Minute

185.99803

Word Count

9,636

Sentence Count

772

Misogynist Sentences

13

Hate Speech Sentences

18


Summary

Chris Cuomo admits that his network are just a bunch of left-wing hacks who cover Republicans very differently than Democrats. He calls Fox News "State TV," which means they support the Democratic Party, not the President, Joe Biden.


Transcript

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00:00:30.500 Something rare, shocking,
00:00:32.520 happened on CNN this week.
00:00:35.340 They told the truth.
00:00:37.340 Specifically, Chris Cuomo admitted
00:00:39.520 that his network are just a bunch of left-wing hacks
00:00:42.940 who cover Republicans very differently than Democrats.
00:00:46.980 The news continues right now.
00:00:47.960 I want to hand over Chris for Cuomo Primetime.
00:00:49.780 Chris?
00:00:50.140 State TV's got some new competition, Anderson.
00:00:52.520 It's going to be very interesting
00:00:54.080 to see how the narrative unfolds.
00:00:57.020 You know, for people like us,
00:00:57.980 we do the job based on who's in power.
00:01:00.900 But this is going to be very interesting.
00:01:02.760 You notice what Langford said there.
00:01:04.560 How the media, not this network,
00:01:07.440 is playing his words,
00:01:09.780 which were,
00:01:10.580 he would get involved.
00:01:12.040 And now he isn't,
00:01:12.940 and we know why.
00:01:13.820 He has no good reason.
00:01:15.260 They do the job based on who is in power.
00:01:18.480 That was a Freudian slip
00:01:19.460 where you say one thing but mean your mother.
00:01:21.360 I think he meant to say,
00:01:22.480 regardless of who's in power,
00:01:23.900 but that's not what came out,
00:01:24.940 and that's not what would be true.
00:01:26.200 He refers to Fox News as state TV,
00:01:29.360 meaning it supports the Trump administration.
00:01:31.680 Fox News was the first news outlet
00:01:33.560 to start calling this election
00:01:35.180 against Donald Trump for Joe Biden.
00:01:38.180 None of what Chris was saying is true,
00:01:40.640 other than his admission
00:01:42.220 that he covers people differently.
00:01:43.720 But it's not just CNN.
00:01:44.780 It's the entire establishment media.
00:01:48.140 They themselves are the state TV.
00:01:50.340 They themselves are the permanent state.
00:01:52.460 And breaking up those norms
00:01:53.980 is not necessarily the worst thing in the world.
00:01:56.940 I'm Michael Knowles.
00:01:57.540 This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:02:06.480 That is the dirty little secret
00:02:08.580 that for the past several generations,
00:02:11.500 the left has always been in power.
00:02:14.500 Not just for four years or eight years,
00:02:18.260 and then you win and then you lose.
00:02:19.240 No, the left has been in power
00:02:21.820 regardless of who wins elections
00:02:23.880 for the past several generations.
00:02:26.520 And one of the ways they take power
00:02:27.820 is pretending that the right is in power.
00:02:31.460 Chris Cuomo comes out and he says,
00:02:33.080 oh yeah, state TV,
00:02:35.040 you know, those are the conservative outlets.
00:02:37.660 They support the state, the power.
00:02:39.520 You're the power, Chris.
00:02:40.880 CNN is the power.
00:02:42.460 Donald Trump has no power
00:02:43.940 compared to that liberal establishment
00:02:45.760 that's been trying to snuff him out
00:02:47.620 since day one.
00:02:48.660 My favorite comment from yesterday,
00:02:50.680 from Tasmanian Devil.
00:02:51.920 They're not attacking femininity
00:02:53.500 as much, or they are attacking femininity rather,
00:02:57.880 as much if not more as masculinity.
00:03:01.100 It's so easy to be a woman,
00:03:02.440 just put on a dress.
00:03:03.420 That's what the left is saying.
00:03:05.120 You know, Candace Owens
00:03:06.660 got in a lot of trouble yesterday.
00:03:08.560 We covered it on the show
00:03:09.420 because Candace said
00:03:10.700 that men shouldn't wear dresses.
00:03:12.560 I know it's a very controversial thing
00:03:13.780 to say these days.
00:03:14.760 But it's not just that the left
00:03:16.260 is attacking masculinity in that way.
00:03:17.880 You're absolutely right.
00:03:19.540 The left is also attacking femininity.
00:03:21.300 When you attack sexual difference
00:03:22.980 or gender difference,
00:03:24.140 whatever term you want,
00:03:25.820 you're not just attacking one of the sexes,
00:03:27.680 you're attacking both of them.
00:03:29.540 And you're creating a caricature.
00:03:31.200 You create a caricature of men,
00:03:32.660 which the left has already been doing
00:03:34.160 for decades and decades.
00:03:35.620 Call it Homer Simpson syndrome
00:03:37.320 or Ray Romano syndrome,
00:03:38.540 the idea that men are just doofuses,
00:03:40.720 idiots, they can't do anything.
00:03:42.100 You know, they need to be led around
00:03:43.520 by the hand,
00:03:44.180 by their brilliant, flawless wives.
00:03:46.160 So you attack the men,
00:03:47.140 but you're also attacking the women
00:03:48.400 because you're saying,
00:03:49.120 yeah, if you put on a dress,
00:03:50.120 then you've become a slap on some lipstick
00:03:51.600 and then you've become a woman.
00:03:54.220 It's a caricature.
00:03:55.100 That's why we said yesterday,
00:03:56.040 the reason that drag is funny
00:03:58.560 or can be funny
00:03:59.580 is because it's so wrong.
00:04:02.180 It's so off.
00:04:03.080 We know that it's in Congress.
00:04:04.520 We know that someone isn't really a woman
00:04:06.560 if he's a man who puts on a dress.
00:04:08.420 The minute that you start to take that seriously,
00:04:10.660 all of a sudden,
00:04:11.360 it isn't funny at all.
00:04:13.600 But the left,
00:04:15.520 which is the ruling established apparatus,
00:04:18.320 they are the ones
00:04:19.460 who are determining these things.
00:04:22.080 They are the ones
00:04:22.660 who are setting the standards and the norms.
00:04:25.300 And the left accuses
00:04:26.380 the right of breaking norms.
00:04:28.200 They accuse Trump of breaking norms.
00:04:30.380 But those norms,
00:04:31.300 those liberal norms
00:04:32.080 that we've had for decade
00:04:33.180 after decade after decade
00:04:34.180 aren't serving us very well.
00:04:36.640 And they are the ruling power.
00:04:39.060 I'll give you an example.
00:04:39.900 So, the Daily Beast,
00:04:42.560 this guy from the Daily Beast, MSNBC,
00:04:45.000 he just pointed out
00:04:46.160 that the suppression
00:04:49.000 of the Hunter Biden story
00:04:50.320 on the New York Post
00:04:51.200 was critical to Joe Biden's success.
00:04:55.960 They think he won the election.
00:04:57.040 We'll see if he actually won the election.
00:04:58.360 But if he did,
00:04:59.360 crucial to his success.
00:05:01.080 According to Biden campaign metrics,
00:05:03.300 online chatter
00:05:04.180 about the Hunter Biden story
00:05:05.420 during the elections last week
00:05:06.820 was greater than it was
00:05:08.920 around Hillary Clinton's emails
00:05:10.280 during the last month of 2016.
00:05:12.400 But what's the difference?
00:05:13.640 If that was so much bigger,
00:05:14.700 then why did the media think
00:05:16.140 that Biden won the election?
00:05:18.820 Quote,
00:05:19.380 it never spilled over
00:05:20.640 into mainstream outlets.
00:05:22.800 He's bragging about this.
00:05:23.840 A journalist is bragging about this.
00:05:25.720 That the media,
00:05:26.780 who are supposed to report,
00:05:28.600 speak truth to power,
00:05:30.160 regardless of who's in power,
00:05:31.560 even though Chris Cuomo admitted
00:05:32.820 that's not what they do,
00:05:34.720 they ignored the story.
00:05:36.220 They suppressed the story
00:05:37.480 so that more people wouldn't see it.
00:05:39.160 I think if you ask people
00:05:40.400 who are very online,
00:05:41.560 like you and me,
00:05:42.180 if you ask people
00:05:42.780 who listen to a lot
00:05:43.360 of political podcasts,
00:05:44.700 read a lot of political writing,
00:05:46.360 then sure,
00:05:47.120 they all knew about
00:05:47.700 the Hunter Biden story.
00:05:50.120 Beyond that, though,
00:05:50.940 there are a lot of people
00:05:51.760 who don't spend a lot of time
00:05:53.240 on Twitter,
00:05:53.660 who don't listen to a lot
00:05:54.380 of political podcasts.
00:05:55.400 They probably never heard of it.
00:05:57.240 And the Biden campaign
00:05:58.440 apparently believes
00:05:59.660 that that was a huge issue.
00:06:03.480 Is Donald Trump really in power?
00:06:05.160 I mean, I guess,
00:06:06.000 you know,
00:06:06.200 he has the presidency.
00:06:07.860 He had the Congress
00:06:08.920 for a couple of years.
00:06:10.140 They still have the Senate.
00:06:11.840 Okay, that's good.
00:06:12.640 That's something
00:06:13.160 you can get some judges through.
00:06:15.100 But who's really
00:06:16.080 ruling the country?
00:06:18.820 The bureaucracy,
00:06:20.360 tech,
00:06:21.100 the media.
00:06:21.500 There was a tech hearing yesterday.
00:06:23.500 Gets my blood boiling.
00:06:25.540 The Hollywood,
00:06:26.600 the mainstream media,
00:06:27.900 the higher education system,
00:06:29.500 the lower education system,
00:06:30.400 all these different systems
00:06:31.680 totally dominated
00:06:33.040 by the left.
00:06:35.700 And so they can manipulate
00:06:37.080 whatever you,
00:06:37.700 they manipulate the election.
00:06:38.900 The Biden campaign
00:06:39.420 even is now apparently admitting
00:06:40.860 that they manipulated
00:06:41.820 the election to their benefit.
00:06:44.320 And then there's
00:06:44.980 no consequence from it.
00:06:46.620 Sure, they can pretend
00:06:47.600 they pay lip service to it.
00:06:48.780 Just yesterday,
00:06:49.440 Jack Dorsey goes to Capitol Hill.
00:06:51.240 He's testifying
00:06:51.920 on big tech suppression.
00:06:53.120 And he owns it.
00:06:54.040 He says,
00:06:54.380 I'm sorry,
00:06:55.140 I made a mistake.
00:06:56.860 Absolutely,
00:06:57.620 my bad.
00:06:58.300 We shouldn't have suppressed
00:06:59.740 the story.
00:07:01.020 Thank you to the members
00:07:02.100 of the Judiciary Committee
00:07:03.240 for the opportunity
00:07:04.220 to speak with the American people
00:07:05.660 about Twitter
00:07:06.740 and your concerns
00:07:07.640 around censorship
00:07:08.380 and suppression
00:07:09.360 of a specific news article
00:07:11.300 and generally what we saw
00:07:13.220 in the 2020 U.S. elections
00:07:14.720 conversation.
00:07:16.560 We were called here today
00:07:17.960 because of an enforcement decision
00:07:19.400 we made against
00:07:20.600 the New York Post
00:07:21.300 based on a policy
00:07:22.800 we created in 2018
00:07:24.140 to prevent Twitter
00:07:25.540 from being used
00:07:26.260 to spread hacked materials.
00:07:28.520 This resulted in us
00:07:29.960 blocking people
00:07:30.720 from sharing a New York Post article
00:07:32.380 publicly or privately.
00:07:35.280 We made a quick interpretation
00:07:36.980 using no other evidence
00:07:38.500 that the materials
00:07:39.520 in the article
00:07:40.080 were obtained through hacking
00:07:41.200 and according to our policy
00:07:43.080 we blocked them
00:07:44.240 from being spread.
00:07:45.900 Upon further consideration
00:07:47.120 we admitted this action
00:07:48.480 was wrong
00:07:48.960 and corrected it
00:07:50.180 within 24 hours.
00:07:52.000 We informed the New York Post
00:07:53.620 of our error
00:07:54.120 and policy update
00:07:55.240 and how to unlock
00:07:56.500 their account
00:07:57.060 by deleting
00:07:57.840 the original
00:07:58.580 violating tweet
00:07:59.580 which freed them
00:08:00.860 to tweet
00:08:01.220 the exact same content
00:08:02.440 and news article again.
00:08:04.760 They chose not to
00:08:05.540 instead insisting
00:08:07.000 we reverse
00:08:07.680 our enforcement action.
00:08:09.960 This sociopath.
00:08:12.720 I love it.
00:08:13.860 I'm noticing these guys
00:08:15.040 are really
00:08:15.400 they're letting
00:08:16.100 their guard down.
00:08:17.260 All these liberal elites
00:08:19.300 on their blatant sociopathy
00:08:21.420 recently.
00:08:22.400 Jack Dorsey comes
00:08:24.100 and he goes
00:08:24.280 I'm really sorry.
00:08:25.180 Yeah, that thing we did
00:08:26.580 where we suppressed
00:08:27.260 that really important news story.
00:08:28.400 Yes, sorry.
00:08:29.120 It swung the election.
00:08:30.160 Yeah.
00:08:30.460 Hey, guys.
00:08:32.140 My bad.
00:08:33.580 We good?
00:08:34.200 Are we good?
00:08:35.120 I know.
00:08:35.700 Yeah.
00:08:36.120 You think
00:08:36.620 we're saying now
00:08:37.760 that Joe Biden won
00:08:38.800 and yeah
00:08:40.240 we're probably responsible
00:08:41.620 for that
00:08:42.000 because we threw the election.
00:08:42.880 You know,
00:08:43.100 we shouldn't have done that.
00:08:43.940 We won't do it again.
00:08:46.960 Wink.
00:08:48.520 Where's the punishment?
00:08:49.700 Where's the consequence
00:08:51.480 for his actions?
00:08:52.840 And then he has the gall
00:08:54.180 the unmitigated gall
00:08:55.600 to blame the New York Post.
00:08:57.660 He says,
00:08:57.900 look,
00:08:58.640 you know that story
00:08:59.240 that was blowing up
00:08:59.920 that everyone was trying to retweet
00:09:00.920 and you couldn't do it
00:09:01.440 you couldn't send it anywhere
00:09:02.220 and then we took
00:09:03.400 the New York Post's account down
00:09:04.660 the oldest continually published
00:09:06.160 daily newspaper
00:09:06.820 in the country
00:09:07.800 founded by Alexander Hamilton.
00:09:09.060 You know,
00:09:09.160 we took the account down
00:09:10.080 and we admitted it was all wrong
00:09:12.120 so we just told them
00:09:12.940 just delete the tweet.
00:09:13.680 I know we said
00:09:14.460 the tweet's not wrong
00:09:15.220 but just delete it.
00:09:15.960 Just delete that tweet
00:09:17.060 and they didn't want to do it
00:09:18.600 so it's kind of their fault
00:09:20.080 but yeah,
00:09:20.600 we're sorry.
00:09:22.200 See you next time.
00:09:23.500 See you in four years.
00:09:24.600 Can't wait to suppress
00:09:25.260 all your stories again.
00:09:26.500 No consequences whatsoever.
00:09:28.240 That's an apology
00:09:28.980 and believe it or not
00:09:30.440 Jack Dorsey's apology
00:09:32.380 was positively sincere
00:09:36.100 compared to the apology
00:09:37.840 of Mussolini
00:09:39.500 of Gavin Newsom
00:09:40.560 in California.
00:09:42.100 You know,
00:09:42.360 I have to tell you
00:09:43.020 you can tell
00:09:43.520 my set is different
00:09:44.860 if you're watching
00:09:45.480 this show right now.
00:09:47.340 I am out of California.
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00:09:56.300 I miss my friends
00:09:57.380 and that's it.
00:09:59.120 Okay,
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00:11:40.480 You thought Dorsey was bad.
00:11:42.000 Wait until you hear
00:11:43.180 Gavin Newsom's apology.
00:11:46.140 So you remember Gavin Newsom.
00:11:47.460 We covered this on the show.
00:11:48.720 Maybe yesterday,
00:11:50.400 Gavin Newsom
00:11:51.340 broke his own mandates.
00:11:54.660 He broke his own lockdown rules.
00:11:56.220 He told everyone,
00:11:57.400 you can't go out,
00:11:58.240 you can't go to restaurants,
00:11:59.500 wear the mask all the time.
00:12:00.220 He shows up to his buddy's birthday party
00:12:02.660 at French Laundry,
00:12:04.060 which is an extraordinarily expensive
00:12:05.940 Michelin-rated restaurant.
00:12:07.360 Something like $350 or $400 a plate.
00:12:10.520 I looked,
00:12:10.900 if you want to add the ricotta gnocchi,
00:12:13.300 a little dish of ricotta gnocchi,
00:12:14.960 it's like $150 upcharge.
00:12:17.320 Okay?
00:12:18.040 It is,
00:12:19.020 it's a nice restaurant.
00:12:21.320 And Gavin Newsom
00:12:22.020 didn't want to miss out on this party,
00:12:23.220 so he goes,
00:12:23.840 and he thought the cameras were off,
00:12:24.940 and he got caught.
00:12:25.960 Just like so many leftists have,
00:12:27.640 Nancy Pelosi goes and gets her hair cut.
00:12:29.220 And all these other guys,
00:12:30.760 Chris Cuomo goes on a run
00:12:32.040 in the Hamptons
00:12:32.920 when he pretends that he's
00:12:33.840 holding up in his basement.
00:12:35.640 And he's going on a run,
00:12:36.520 he's going on a bike ride,
00:12:37.320 he gets into a fight with a guy.
00:12:38.320 They're all just lying to you,
00:12:39.840 all of these people.
00:12:40.520 And then he gets caught,
00:12:41.600 and he makes an apology
00:12:42.600 that I was listening very carefully.
00:12:46.480 And for the first,
00:12:47.580 almost minute of it,
00:12:48.760 I couldn't discern
00:12:50.160 any actual apology.
00:12:52.860 A few weeks ago,
00:12:54.240 I was asked to go
00:12:55.780 to a friend's 50th birthday.
00:12:57.400 My wife and I,
00:12:59.080 a friend that I've known
00:12:59.820 for almost 20 years,
00:13:01.960 and a friend that had,
00:13:04.060 well, put a lot of time
00:13:05.740 and energy into his 50th birthday.
00:13:07.900 It was in Napa,
00:13:08.860 which was in the orange status,
00:13:10.660 relatively loose
00:13:11.880 compared to some other counties.
00:13:14.040 It was to be an outdoor restaurant,
00:13:17.840 and we started the,
00:13:19.140 well, the program started at 4 o'clock.
00:13:21.320 It was one of those early reservations.
00:13:23.140 I got there a little bit late at 4.30,
00:13:25.660 and as soon as I sat down
00:13:27.220 at the larger table,
00:13:28.840 I realized it was a little larger group
00:13:30.640 than I had anticipated.
00:13:33.320 And I made a bad mistake.
00:13:35.800 Okay, hold on.
00:13:36.640 There it is.
00:13:36.980 What was the time?
00:13:37.700 What time did you have?
00:13:39.280 I had 44 seconds of excuses
00:13:43.360 before he even started to intimate
00:13:46.980 that he had done anything wrong.
00:13:49.720 Which, by the way,
00:13:50.460 he didn't ultimately say it.
00:13:51.820 He said, I made a mistake.
00:13:53.680 But he didn't make a mistake.
00:13:55.060 He chose to violate his own orders.
00:13:57.420 He chose to be a giant hypocrite.
00:13:59.100 He chose to go to his buddy's birthday party
00:14:01.520 at the really nice restaurant.
00:14:02.580 So it's not a mistake.
00:14:03.200 It's not an accident.
00:14:03.900 Like, whoopsie-daisy.
00:14:05.260 Oh, no.
00:14:05.880 The French laundry fell down in front of me.
00:14:07.580 I guess I'll eat the ricotta gnocchi.
00:14:09.560 Whoops.
00:14:10.040 Oh, no.
00:14:10.620 Oh, my mouth is open,
00:14:11.640 and the delicious ricotta gnocchi are falling in.
00:14:13.200 No, you chose to go.
00:14:15.120 And you then give 44 seconds.
00:14:16.420 Look, my friend,
00:14:17.300 we've been friends for a long time,
00:14:18.680 so that makes it okay.
00:14:20.480 And, look,
00:14:21.320 he put a lot of time and effort into his birthday.
00:14:23.200 Not like your idiot friends.
00:14:24.440 I mean, those,
00:14:25.040 your lazy, stupid friends.
00:14:26.420 They wouldn't,
00:14:26.680 and by the way,
00:14:27.080 your friends couldn't even afford the French laundry.
00:14:28.560 So you don't really,
00:14:29.340 it's just different.
00:14:30.120 You don't really get it.
00:14:30.960 So I got there.
00:14:31.480 I got there a little bit late.
00:14:32.360 You know, I'm pretty busy.
00:14:33.020 I'm the governor and everything.
00:14:34.040 And I saw, look,
00:14:35.020 there are a few more people,
00:14:36.100 but it's like,
00:14:36.860 come on.
00:14:37.260 It's my buddy's birthday,
00:14:38.180 and I want to do it,
00:14:39.280 and I'm,
00:14:40.080 I'm the ruler of California,
00:14:42.380 and I don't have to play by the same rules
00:14:43.720 that I make everybody else follow.
00:14:45.820 You know,
00:14:46.360 I made a mistake.
00:14:48.840 So then he explains his mistake.
00:14:51.940 Instead of sitting down,
00:14:54.240 I should have stood up
00:14:57.040 and walked back,
00:14:58.700 got in my car,
00:14:59.400 and drove back to my house.
00:15:02.140 Instead,
00:15:02.780 I chose to sit there with my wife
00:15:04.820 and a number of other couples
00:15:06.400 that were outside the household.
00:15:08.480 You can quibble about the guidelines,
00:15:10.780 et cetera, et cetera,
00:15:11.300 but the spirit
00:15:12.100 of what I'm preaching all the time
00:15:14.200 was contradicted,
00:15:15.800 and I got to own that,
00:15:16.800 and so I want to apologize to you.
00:15:18.640 Hold it.
00:15:18.940 Stop it.
00:15:19.400 No,
00:15:19.660 you're not apologizing at all
00:15:21.680 because even when you say,
00:15:23.220 I made a mistake,
00:15:23.880 which is not true.
00:15:24.400 It wasn't a mistake.
00:15:24.860 It was very intentional.
00:15:26.440 You say,
00:15:26.880 look,
00:15:27.120 and we get there,
00:15:27.820 and I was sitting there
00:15:28.260 with some people,
00:15:28.860 and look,
00:15:29.600 really,
00:15:29.980 I mean,
00:15:30.160 you could quibble about the guidelines
00:15:31.760 because, like,
00:15:32.660 see,
00:15:32.940 actually,
00:15:33.400 I didn't really violate them,
00:15:34.920 I think.
00:15:35.300 I mean,
00:15:35.660 but look,
00:15:36.000 we can quibble.
00:15:37.600 Okay,
00:15:38.140 you can have your view.
00:15:39.360 I can have my view.
00:15:39.880 You will agree to disagree.
00:15:40.800 No,
00:15:41.000 you can't quibble,
00:15:41.820 buddy.
00:15:42.060 You broke the rules.
00:15:43.280 You had the rules
00:15:44.240 that said you couldn't go
00:15:45.360 to that restaurant
00:15:45.860 with all those many people
00:15:46.740 all together
00:15:47.200 from different households.
00:15:48.280 You made those rules,
00:15:49.680 and then you broke them,
00:15:50.760 so I'm not going to quibble
00:15:51.520 about anything.
00:15:53.040 You just want to hold
00:15:54.620 your constituents
00:15:55.220 to a completely different standard
00:15:56.840 than you will hold yourself to
00:15:58.320 because you wanted
00:15:59.940 those delicious gnocchi
00:16:01.180 at French Laundry.
00:16:03.140 No quibbling whatsoever.
00:16:05.520 This is,
00:16:05.960 yeah,
00:16:06.320 I shouldn't look.
00:16:07.220 Okay,
00:16:07.400 and so I apologize.
00:16:08.740 Good,
00:16:08.980 apologize.
00:16:09.340 Please,
00:16:09.860 give me the apology.
00:16:10.500 Are we going to get an apology?
00:16:11.760 I need to preach
00:16:12.760 and practice,
00:16:14.120 not just preach
00:16:15.400 and not practice,
00:16:16.520 and I've done my best
00:16:17.640 to do that.
00:16:18.500 We're all human.
00:16:19.600 We all fall short sometimes.
00:16:22.080 We've been out,
00:16:22.980 and I think,
00:16:23.420 for three times since,
00:16:24.940 in fact,
00:16:25.260 I know it's been three times
00:16:26.760 because I remember
00:16:27.320 all of those dinners
00:16:28.920 very,
00:16:29.440 very vividly
00:16:30.060 since February,
00:16:31.300 just three times,
00:16:32.740 twice with my wife,
00:16:34.280 by myself,
00:16:35.060 outdoors,
00:16:35.740 and then this one occasion
00:16:37.020 with a larger group,
00:16:38.480 and there were just
00:16:39.120 a few extra people there
00:16:40.780 than the spirit
00:16:42.680 of what I am promoting.
00:16:45.040 Oh,
00:16:45.460 it's not even an apology.
00:16:47.320 You're just trying
00:16:48.200 to get ahead of the story
00:16:49.360 that's inevitably
00:16:49.920 going to come out
00:16:50.580 that you've broken
00:16:51.280 your own guidelines
00:16:52.120 other times as well.
00:16:54.040 That's what this is about.
00:16:54.900 He goes,
00:16:55.080 yeah,
00:16:55.340 and look,
00:16:55.700 okay,
00:16:56.000 I did it.
00:16:56.340 I made a mistake.
00:16:57.100 I have to,
00:16:57.460 I know,
00:16:57.700 probably,
00:16:57.940 I've done it
00:16:58.220 a couple other times too.
00:16:59.660 What was that,
00:17:00.360 Governor Newsom?
00:17:01.000 No,
00:17:01.220 yeah,
00:17:01.520 no,
00:17:01.720 it's really,
00:17:02.340 I'm going to keep smiling
00:17:03.480 and it's all,
00:17:04.160 look,
00:17:04.460 it's kind of a big
00:17:05.000 misunderstanding,
00:17:06.060 but yeah,
00:17:06.780 for a while now
00:17:07.880 I've been disregarding
00:17:09.200 the rules
00:17:09.660 that I'm making
00:17:10.220 you all follow
00:17:10.860 and I know
00:17:11.780 that maybe
00:17:12.480 there's a chance
00:17:13.300 some journalist
00:17:13.940 is going to cover this
00:17:14.920 because the Sacramento Bee
00:17:16.100 is really angry at me,
00:17:16.940 so yeah,
00:17:17.520 I've done it a few times,
00:17:18.680 but look,
00:17:19.060 hey,
00:17:19.240 you know,
00:17:19.500 everyone makes mistakes.
00:17:20.360 Okay,
00:17:20.540 can we move on?
00:17:21.140 Can we move past this,
00:17:21.860 please?
00:17:22.400 Ha ha ha.
00:17:23.520 And I think
00:17:24.080 I still am waiting
00:17:25.040 for the real apology
00:17:26.480 to come in
00:17:27.100 and he just closes
00:17:28.780 his message
00:17:29.400 to the people
00:17:30.040 smiling.
00:17:31.000 And so if we're
00:17:32.220 going to minimize mixing,
00:17:33.220 you got to own up to that,
00:17:35.180 so I just want folks
00:17:36.560 to know that,
00:17:37.360 paid for our dinner
00:17:38.060 and we,
00:17:39.680 you know,
00:17:40.660 we had an early dinner
00:17:41.800 but it didn't matter.
00:17:43.040 I shouldn't have been there.
00:17:44.120 I should have turned
00:17:44.760 back around
00:17:45.460 and so when that happens,
00:17:47.840 you got to,
00:17:48.560 you pay the price
00:17:49.520 but you also own the mistake
00:17:51.160 and you don't ever
00:17:51.640 make it again
00:17:52.420 and you have my word
00:17:53.680 on that.
00:17:54.500 And you have my word,
00:17:55.520 okay,
00:17:55.800 you got to pay the price.
00:17:57.080 Obviously,
00:17:57.560 I don't,
00:17:57.960 I'm not going to pay
00:17:58.420 any price
00:17:58.900 and I'm not even
00:17:59.500 really admitting
00:17:59.960 I did anything wrong.
00:18:00.720 It was an early dinner,
00:18:01.620 you know,
00:18:01.820 it wasn't a late dinner
00:18:02.580 and I paid my way
00:18:03.340 by the way.
00:18:03.980 Hey,
00:18:04.420 if any of you ethics
00:18:05.800 researchers
00:18:06.920 are looking into this,
00:18:07.740 I paid for my dinner
00:18:08.480 even though there were,
00:18:09.360 there were definitely
00:18:09.880 lobbyists there
00:18:10.620 but anyway,
00:18:11.760 it's all a big misunderstanding.
00:18:13.400 You got to take ownership
00:18:14.440 which I will never ever do.
00:18:16.320 I'm Governor Newsom.
00:18:18.200 Goodbye.
00:18:19.060 Does he look sorry?
00:18:19.780 Does he sound sorry to you?
00:18:21.020 No,
00:18:21.420 not at all.
00:18:21.940 Did Chris Cuomo sound sorry?
00:18:23.560 No,
00:18:23.820 he didn't sound sorry at all
00:18:24.820 when he lied
00:18:25.840 about quarantining
00:18:26.840 with coronavirus
00:18:27.580 and he didn't actually quarantine.
00:18:28.940 He went outside
00:18:29.980 and then he lied about it
00:18:30.900 and then he filmed
00:18:31.460 this whole ridiculous charade
00:18:33.320 of him coming out
00:18:34.260 of his basement
00:18:34.840 for the first time.
00:18:35.760 He wasn't coming out
00:18:36.400 for the first time
00:18:37.040 in weeks
00:18:37.680 and seeing his family.
00:18:38.880 He had been
00:18:39.520 out and about
00:18:40.940 on Long Island
00:18:41.660 so much so
00:18:42.240 that he got into a fight
00:18:43.420 with a guy on the street.
00:18:45.160 Nancy Pelosi.
00:18:46.120 Did Nancy Pelosi apologize
00:18:47.220 when she got caught
00:18:48.360 going to that hairdresser
00:18:49.280 without a mask
00:18:50.020 in violation
00:18:51.000 of the lockdown orders?
00:18:52.920 No.
00:18:53.640 She actually blamed
00:18:54.340 the hairdresser.
00:18:55.000 Do you remember that?
00:18:56.560 He said,
00:18:56.840 oh,
00:18:57.000 this was a setup.
00:18:57.860 I shouldn't have,
00:18:58.400 I can't believe
00:18:58.940 she did that to me.
00:19:00.020 No,
00:19:00.280 lady,
00:19:00.600 you broke your own rules.
00:19:01.840 What do you mean her fault?
00:19:03.040 Own up to your mistake.
00:19:04.420 Dr. Fauci,
00:19:05.160 same thing,
00:19:05.440 even Dr. Fauci,
00:19:06.140 a little less so.
00:19:07.180 It was a little less publicized.
00:19:08.480 How many times
00:19:09.100 did that guy get caught
00:19:09.760 without a mask on?
00:19:11.200 After he told all of us
00:19:12.120 that we have to have
00:19:12.720 our masks on.
00:19:13.600 After he told all of us
00:19:14.600 that none of us
00:19:15.060 can have our masks on.
00:19:16.460 None of these guys
00:19:17.600 pay a price
00:19:18.600 for any of it.
00:19:20.420 Why?
00:19:20.740 Because conservatives
00:19:22.260 are not ruling the country.
00:19:25.540 Even when it's Trump,
00:19:26.960 even when the Republicans
00:19:28.140 have both houses of Congress
00:19:30.160 and the presidency,
00:19:32.200 conservatives are not
00:19:32.940 ruling this country.
00:19:34.740 Ever.
00:19:35.900 The left rules this country.
00:19:38.140 You know,
00:19:38.760 just,
00:19:39.740 just the social media example alone.
00:19:41.880 I don't even want to talk
00:19:43.200 too much about this
00:19:43.940 social media issue
00:19:45.060 because I feel nothing
00:19:46.220 comes of these,
00:19:47.040 of these hearings.
00:19:48.940 But during this hearing,
00:19:50.740 the left Democrats,
00:19:52.660 Maisie Hirono in particular,
00:19:54.160 Democratic senator from Hawaii,
00:19:55.520 had the audacity to say,
00:19:57.000 social media,
00:19:58.360 they're not,
00:19:58.680 they're not biased
00:19:59.420 against conservatives.
00:20:01.340 Actually,
00:20:02.840 actually,
00:20:03.380 in many ways,
00:20:04.420 they're biased
00:20:04.980 in favor of conservatives.
00:20:07.580 Zuckerberg,
00:20:08.220 for the second time
00:20:09.020 in three weeks,
00:20:10.140 you've been called
00:20:11.160 before the Senate committee,
00:20:12.740 some of my Republican colleagues
00:20:14.060 take it and beat you up
00:20:15.820 over claims
00:20:16.440 that your platforms
00:20:17.280 are supposedly biased
00:20:19.160 against conservatives.
00:20:19.960 The fact of the matter
00:20:21.400 is that these allegations
00:20:22.480 are completely baseless.
00:20:25.060 Everyone who has
00:20:25.820 systematically looked
00:20:26.940 at the content
00:20:28.000 of social media,
00:20:30.020 from Media Matters
00:20:31.620 to the Cato Institute
00:20:32.700 to former Republican
00:20:33.880 Senator John Kyle,
00:20:35.760 has found absolutely
00:20:36.900 no evidence
00:20:37.760 of anti-conservative bias.
00:20:39.560 No evidence whatsoever
00:20:41.160 of anti-conservative bias.
00:20:42.740 And what's my source?
00:20:43.820 Oh,
00:20:45.000 Media Matters,
00:20:46.160 a far-left
00:20:48.200 radical activist organization
00:20:50.120 that is watching my show
00:20:52.120 right now.
00:20:53.960 There's a guy,
00:20:55.380 he's,
00:20:55.600 I actually,
00:20:56.460 I have great affection
00:20:57.100 for this guy.
00:20:58.220 He watches,
00:20:58.760 he's like the number one
00:20:59.600 fan of the show.
00:21:00.540 He watches my show
00:21:02.300 every single day,
00:21:03.700 my friend Jason Campbell,
00:21:04.840 and then whenever
00:21:06.140 he can get like
00:21:06.900 a good clip
00:21:07.520 and try to sort of
00:21:09.020 make it seem like
00:21:10.020 I said something wrong,
00:21:11.540 he will break it out,
00:21:12.320 they'll do it,
00:21:12.620 and they'll try to get
00:21:13.200 conservatives fired.
00:21:14.160 That's what the organization
00:21:15.240 exists to do.
00:21:16.180 It is a radical
00:21:16.920 left organization.
00:21:18.520 And Maisie Hirono
00:21:19.560 is citing this organization
00:21:22.280 as though they're
00:21:23.420 unbiased fact checkers.
00:21:24.500 That's what they all do.
00:21:26.080 You know,
00:21:26.300 some are a little subtler
00:21:27.200 about it than Media Matters.
00:21:28.940 You know,
00:21:29.360 Media Matters,
00:21:29.840 to their credit,
00:21:31.160 at least they generally
00:21:32.440 acknowledge that
00:21:33.300 they're very far left wing.
00:21:34.560 But other fact checking
00:21:36.320 websites that always,
00:21:37.700 almost all the time
00:21:38.840 seem to cut
00:21:39.420 against conservatives
00:21:40.580 and twist what
00:21:42.060 conservatives are saying
00:21:42.800 and defend what
00:21:43.600 liberals are saying
00:21:44.820 and bend over backwards
00:21:46.340 to try to rewrite
00:21:47.280 what the liberals
00:21:47.780 are saying to defend it.
00:21:49.700 PolitiFact,
00:21:50.360 I'm thinking of,
00:21:51.300 Snopes,
00:21:51.760 even other organizations
00:21:54.360 that fact check
00:21:55.180 for big tech.
00:21:58.580 Those groups
00:21:59.700 will suppress a story.
00:22:01.600 Those groups,
00:22:02.540 according,
00:22:03.700 reported later,
00:22:04.280 of the Biden campaign
00:22:05.060 can throw a presidential election.
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00:22:09.280 That's real power.
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00:22:14.760 and say that conservatives
00:22:15.900 don't care about the truth.
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00:22:19.640 the other day.
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00:23:44.320 Barack Obama
00:23:45.180 says that
00:23:47.180 there is a truth decay
00:23:49.460 in this country
00:23:50.620 that,
00:23:51.280 that Republicans
00:23:52.020 and conservatives
00:23:52.860 and Trump in particular
00:23:53.880 are overthrowing
00:23:55.400 all these wonderful norms
00:23:56.880 in our republic.
00:23:58.700 We have gone through
00:24:00.120 a presidency
00:24:00.840 that disregarded
00:24:03.340 a whole host
00:24:04.360 of basic
00:24:05.940 institutional norms,
00:24:08.440 expectations we have
00:24:11.540 for a president
00:24:12.580 that have been observed
00:24:15.900 by Republicans
00:24:16.700 and Democrats
00:24:17.960 previously.
00:24:20.740 And maybe most importantly
00:24:22.680 and most disconcertingly
00:24:25.520 what we've seen
00:24:26.420 is what some people
00:24:28.300 call truth decay.
00:24:29.900 Something that's been
00:24:31.020 accelerated by
00:24:32.120 outgoing President Trump.
00:24:34.060 The sense that
00:24:35.080 not only
00:24:36.800 do we not have to
00:24:39.160 tell the truth
00:24:39.940 but the truth
00:24:41.980 doesn't even matter.
00:24:43.540 Pause right there.
00:24:45.940 Obviously,
00:24:47.060 the hypocrisy
00:24:48.360 is manifest.
00:24:51.240 Talk about
00:24:51.880 overturning norms
00:24:53.320 and things like that.
00:24:54.180 Talk about truth
00:24:54.640 doesn't matter.
00:24:55.320 Barack Obama,
00:24:55.940 actually one time
00:24:56.500 when PolitiFact
00:24:57.100 did attack the left,
00:24:59.000 PolitiFact pointed out
00:24:59.720 that the lie of the year
00:25:00.540 was Barack Obama
00:25:01.220 who said if you like your doctor
00:25:02.100 you can keep your doctor.
00:25:02.900 And then when he got caught
00:25:04.020 in that lie,
00:25:04.540 he said what?
00:25:04.920 You didn't think
00:25:05.260 you were going to get
00:25:05.600 all that insurance for free,
00:25:06.540 did you?
00:25:07.300 Totally cynical view
00:25:08.380 as though the truth
00:25:09.000 didn't matter,
00:25:09.580 just like he says.
00:25:10.960 When he said
00:25:11.680 that if I pushed
00:25:12.540 executive amnesty
00:25:13.420 that would be
00:25:15.020 unconstitutional
00:25:15.760 and then what's he do?
00:25:16.420 He pushes executive amnesty,
00:25:17.580 shrugs his shoulders,
00:25:18.160 yep,
00:25:18.680 truth doesn't really matter.
00:25:20.280 Totally cynical.
00:25:21.060 So obviously there's
00:25:21.520 hypocrisy there.
00:25:22.440 And if we think of the norms
00:25:23.720 being constitutional government,
00:25:25.560 Barack Obama broke
00:25:26.260 a lot of those norms,
00:25:27.180 didn't he?
00:25:28.140 He was legislating
00:25:29.640 with a pen and a phone
00:25:30.600 as they say.
00:25:31.540 He was flagrantly
00:25:33.480 violating the law.
00:25:34.880 He was subverting
00:25:36.460 the executive agencies
00:25:37.560 for his political purposes,
00:25:39.120 attacking his political enemies
00:25:40.140 through the IRS
00:25:40.780 and the DOJ.
00:25:41.760 Okay.
00:25:42.400 Spying on the Trump campaign.
00:25:44.880 However,
00:25:45.380 I actually want to defend
00:25:47.240 what Barack Obama
00:25:48.020 is saying here.
00:25:48.760 I think he actually
00:25:49.340 is making a good point.
00:25:50.840 It's a scary point,
00:25:51.600 but it's a good point.
00:25:52.880 Donald Trump
00:25:53.360 has overturned norms,
00:25:54.760 not the constitutional norms.
00:25:56.180 Those were overturned
00:25:57.120 long ago.
00:25:59.220 Donald Trump
00:25:59.680 is overturning
00:26:00.280 the norms
00:26:00.740 of the liberal order,
00:26:01.960 the progressive
00:26:02.460 administrative state,
00:26:03.720 which grows exponentially,
00:26:07.720 which makes the laws
00:26:09.500 without any accountability
00:26:10.440 to the people,
00:26:11.800 which continues
00:26:12.480 to move leftward
00:26:13.360 without any real resistance
00:26:14.580 whatsoever.
00:26:15.920 Yeah,
00:26:16.240 but politicians
00:26:17.040 in both parties
00:26:17.800 allowed this to happen.
00:26:18.860 Democrats and Republicans.
00:26:20.500 Bushes and Clintons
00:26:21.420 and Obamas
00:26:22.040 allowed this to happen.
00:26:24.240 Sure,
00:26:24.620 you can tinker
00:26:25.200 around the edges
00:26:25.780 of policy,
00:26:26.740 but you better
00:26:27.180 keep expanding
00:26:28.020 globalized trade
00:26:29.240 and you better
00:26:30.040 keep outsourcing jobs
00:26:31.160 and you better
00:26:31.860 keep the borders open
00:26:32.900 and you better
00:26:33.500 keep flooding the country
00:26:34.400 with mass migration
00:26:35.260 and you better
00:26:35.980 keep lowering wages
00:26:37.060 and you better
00:26:38.140 keep moving to the left
00:26:39.100 and you better
00:26:39.440 not put up
00:26:39.860 any real resistance
00:26:40.720 against the flood
00:26:41.740 of social radicalism
00:26:42.800 that has redefined
00:26:43.860 the fundamental
00:26:44.420 political institutions
00:26:45.320 in the country.
00:26:46.240 Better not do any of that
00:26:47.380 and if you are
00:26:48.740 going to even intimate
00:26:49.480 that you'll do that,
00:26:50.320 you better roll over
00:26:51.080 and lose
00:26:51.520 like a good Republican,
00:26:52.560 like Mitt Romney.
00:26:53.820 You better not answer
00:26:54.840 the media
00:26:55.240 like George W. Bush.
00:26:57.780 Yeah,
00:26:58.260 that's true.
00:26:58.840 There was this norm.
00:27:00.380 There was this consensus
00:27:01.480 and it was a rotten norm
00:27:03.220 and it was a rotten consensus
00:27:04.540 and it was terrible
00:27:05.580 for the country
00:27:06.260 and Trump,
00:27:08.100 whatever flaws
00:27:08.940 you think he has,
00:27:10.460 cracked that a little bit
00:27:11.560 it's very good
00:27:12.280 to break up those norms.
00:27:14.080 If you've got
00:27:14.900 constitutional norms
00:27:15.980 and then progressive norms
00:27:17.380 and those are at odds,
00:27:18.400 it's good to break up
00:27:19.600 the progressive norms.
00:27:22.700 That's some truth
00:27:23.600 but for Barack Obama
00:27:24.520 he talks about
00:27:24.980 the truth decay.
00:27:26.440 Barack Obama's
00:27:26.820 one of the most cynical
00:27:27.520 presidents in American history,
00:27:29.080 one of the least concerned
00:27:30.000 about the truth
00:27:30.480 in American history
00:27:31.220 but when he's even
00:27:32.620 talking about the truth,
00:27:33.480 what is he talking about?
00:27:34.520 He's talking about
00:27:35.140 a progressive view of history
00:27:36.220 where we're hurtling
00:27:37.700 toward utopia,
00:27:38.440 where you're on
00:27:38.760 the right side of history.
00:27:39.860 That's his view of the truth,
00:27:40.780 it's not objective truth
00:27:41.800 the way that you and I
00:27:43.160 would talk about it
00:27:43.900 but ideological truth,
00:27:46.780 truth within the system,
00:27:47.680 political correctness,
00:27:48.740 political correctness
00:27:49.360 which is,
00:27:50.240 it sounds similar to truth
00:27:51.960 but it's not,
00:27:52.500 it's actually opposed
00:27:53.400 to truth.
00:27:55.240 Absolutely,
00:27:55.840 we need to break that.
00:27:57.560 According to
00:27:58.380 those liberal norms,
00:27:59.640 conservatives lose everything
00:28:00.880 in culture
00:28:01.440 and politics.
00:28:03.080 Great example of this,
00:28:04.260 great example of the rottenness
00:28:05.780 of the liberal consensus
00:28:07.040 just came to us.
00:28:07.880 has to do with
00:28:09.380 love,
00:28:10.680 marriage,
00:28:11.460 and divorce.
00:28:13.400 You know,
00:28:13.620 marriages do not stick around
00:28:15.020 forever necessarily.
00:28:16.140 One thing though
00:28:16.700 that will never
00:28:17.400 completely lose value
00:28:18.280 would be a physical gold.
00:28:19.920 It's a little bit
00:28:20.300 of a rough segue
00:28:20.880 but I think the point
00:28:21.680 is still valid.
00:28:22.620 Physical gold,
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00:28:34.580 gold is expensive.
00:28:35.760 Probably we don't have
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00:30:00.800 the problem,
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00:30:04.000 the problem of the real truth decay,
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00:30:45.140 You want the good news
00:30:58.560 or the bad news?
00:30:59.920 Let's start with the good news.
00:31:01.700 Good news is,
00:31:03.200 the divorce rate in America
00:31:05.160 is at a 50-year low.
00:31:07.640 Gosh,
00:31:08.140 isn't that great?
00:31:09.680 The divorce rate
00:31:10.960 is at a 50-year low.
00:31:11.880 I guess things are going pretty well.
00:31:13.120 I mean,
00:31:13.300 we're always worried
00:31:13.860 about family breakdowns
00:31:15.040 and social breakdown.
00:31:16.340 You know,
00:31:16.520 there were all those riots
00:31:17.200 and things in the streets.
00:31:18.400 It seems like a lot of kids
00:31:19.500 are growing up
00:31:20.020 in these broken homes
00:31:21.620 and a lot of kids
00:31:22.440 born out of wedlock.
00:31:23.420 I mean,
00:31:23.580 I have looked at all those statistics,
00:31:25.140 but I'm being told
00:31:26.640 that the divorce rate
00:31:27.600 is at a 50-year low.
00:31:28.460 That's great.
00:31:29.000 There are even some
00:31:29.760 kind of liberal conservatives,
00:31:31.280 you know,
00:31:31.400 the squishy conservative types
00:31:32.340 who said,
00:31:32.600 oh, this is so good.
00:31:33.900 I'm so glad
00:31:34.400 the divorce rate's low.
00:31:35.160 Okay.
00:31:35.700 You want to know the bad news?
00:31:37.900 Marriage rates
00:31:38.700 are at an all-time low.
00:31:41.960 They are as low
00:31:42.920 as they have ever been
00:31:44.080 since we've been recording
00:31:45.120 those numbers.
00:31:47.260 Oh, that's okay.
00:31:48.100 I'm glad the divorce rate's low,
00:31:50.060 but it's like that,
00:31:50.700 it's like that brilliant,
00:31:52.240 you know,
00:31:52.580 that brilliant guy meme
00:31:53.760 where you say,
00:31:54.300 well,
00:31:54.660 if you,
00:31:55.240 you kind of tap your forehead,
00:31:56.480 you say,
00:31:56.820 if you don't get married,
00:31:58.240 you can't get divorced.
00:31:59.560 I'm a very smart person.
00:32:00.960 There's the trick.
00:32:01.480 I don't care
00:32:03.500 if the divorce rate
00:32:04.500 is at a 50-year low.
00:32:05.540 If no one's getting married,
00:32:06.960 if the marriage rate
00:32:08.160 is lower somehow,
00:32:09.100 if it's falling
00:32:09.640 more precipitously,
00:32:10.940 then that's bad news.
00:32:13.340 You got to get married.
00:32:16.580 There are a lot
00:32:17.360 of these statistics
00:32:18.140 that we're told
00:32:18.760 are evidence
00:32:19.800 that the liberal consensus,
00:32:21.400 you know,
00:32:21.580 the kind of Obama,
00:32:22.740 Clinton,
00:32:23.400 Bush,
00:32:24.640 just neoliberalism,
00:32:26.340 the kind of left liberalism,
00:32:27.460 right liberalism,
00:32:28.220 you know,
00:32:28.340 it's all good.
00:32:29.040 The Uniparty,
00:32:30.540 some people call it,
00:32:31.340 that is so great,
00:32:32.400 you know,
00:32:32.720 and some examples of this
00:32:33.860 are people are living longer,
00:32:35.760 which is somewhat true,
00:32:37.940 though actually
00:32:38.480 the life expectancy
00:32:39.700 declined
00:32:40.700 in the United States
00:32:41.820 during the end
00:32:44.940 of the Obama administration,
00:32:46.340 kind of moving
00:32:46.840 into 2016,
00:32:48.340 that time.
00:32:49.460 It declined.
00:32:50.580 Why?
00:32:50.840 Because people were
00:32:51.400 killing themselves with,
00:32:52.360 well,
00:32:52.780 with guns
00:32:53.200 and other means of suicide
00:32:55.240 and also with drug overdoses.
00:32:58.040 Okay,
00:32:58.120 but generally,
00:32:58.780 okay,
00:32:58.860 people are living
00:32:59.380 a little bit longer.
00:33:00.080 It's relatively peaceful,
00:33:01.160 I guess.
00:33:01.820 I mean,
00:33:02.000 America's been at war
00:33:02.900 for,
00:33:03.780 oh yeah,
00:33:04.640 like my entire lifetime,
00:33:05.720 but I guess
00:33:06.120 it's relatively peaceful.
00:33:07.100 They're kind of
00:33:07.460 wars of empire
00:33:09.040 over in the Middle East
00:33:09.920 and in a lot of the wars,
00:33:11.700 you don't really know
00:33:12.160 why we're there.
00:33:12.760 Libya,
00:33:13.160 why did we go to Libya?
00:33:13.880 Why did Obama start
00:33:14.520 that war in Libya?
00:33:15.560 That's another norm
00:33:16.340 that Trump broke.
00:33:17.560 For my lifetime,
00:33:18.540 every president started a war
00:33:19.940 except for Trump.
00:33:22.100 Trump pulled us out of wars.
00:33:23.180 That's too bad.
00:33:24.400 It's awful
00:33:24.760 that he's breaking those norms.
00:33:26.780 This liberal consensus
00:33:27.720 that the system
00:33:29.280 sells to you
00:33:30.220 all the time,
00:33:31.480 the permissive state
00:33:32.480 doing whatever you want,
00:33:34.780 the administrative state,
00:33:37.480 the way that we are governed,
00:33:38.780 the empire wars abroad,
00:33:40.940 the outsourcing,
00:33:42.240 the mass migration.
00:33:43.240 We are in the midst
00:33:44.540 of a constant propaganda flood
00:33:46.820 telling us
00:33:47.580 why that's so great
00:33:48.480 and you've got to look past it
00:33:50.000 because all the headlines say
00:33:51.140 something to the effect of,
00:33:52.780 the equivalent of,
00:33:53.840 the divorce rate has fallen,
00:33:54.680 but what you've got to look at
00:33:55.600 and realize,
00:33:56.000 oh, marriage has fallen as well.
00:33:57.720 Even as people,
00:33:58.380 let's say people have
00:33:58.920 a little bit more money,
00:33:59.700 fine,
00:34:00.160 but if they're killing themselves
00:34:01.140 at higher rates,
00:34:01.980 if they're overdosing
00:34:02.900 on drugs at higher rates,
00:34:03.940 something's gone rotten.
00:34:06.120 The West has lost its soul.
00:34:07.420 You know,
00:34:07.520 I'm reading this book now
00:34:08.960 by Whitaker Chambers
00:34:09.920 who was an ex-communist
00:34:11.180 and he became a Christian.
00:34:12.580 This was one of the books
00:34:13.380 that changed Ronald Reagan's life.
00:34:15.060 It's a very important book
00:34:16.400 in American conservative politics
00:34:17.940 and he points out
00:34:19.340 that it did make sense.
00:34:21.100 There is a reason
00:34:21.820 that the intellectuals
00:34:23.080 were all communists
00:34:24.080 and especially
00:34:24.680 in the 30s and 40s.
00:34:27.080 Why were they all communists?
00:34:27.920 Because they recognized
00:34:28.760 that something really was rotten
00:34:30.020 in modernity
00:34:31.520 and they obviously came
00:34:32.800 to a much more rotten answer
00:34:34.180 which was communism,
00:34:34.960 but they were taking seriously
00:34:36.320 these problems of history,
00:34:38.080 these social problems
00:34:39.000 that had come out of modernity
00:34:40.180 and we're still,
00:34:42.960 communism obviously was failed
00:34:44.120 to use their terms.
00:34:44.920 It's now on the dustbin of history,
00:34:47.060 but on the ash heap of history,
00:34:49.100 but the problems remain.
00:34:50.320 Problems remain.
00:34:53.920 According to these norms,
00:34:56.440 this election was great.
00:34:57.760 You got to stay home, right?
00:34:58.800 There's no fraud.
00:34:59.460 There's no fraud whatsoever.
00:35:00.600 That's great.
00:35:00.960 You mail in your ballot.
00:35:02.540 We're getting evidence
00:35:03.540 of voter fraud every single day,
00:35:04.760 not just in Pennsylvania,
00:35:05.840 not just in Georgia,
00:35:06.680 not just in Michigan,
00:35:07.880 California even, California.
00:35:09.380 And this is some voter fraud
00:35:11.100 where I saw something like this.
00:35:15.220 I don't know if this instance
00:35:16.760 in particular was fraud,
00:35:17.920 but the mechanism
00:35:20.180 by which these democratic operatives
00:35:22.560 were working clearly
00:35:23.340 was the same mechanism
00:35:24.860 by which fraud could be committed.
00:35:26.800 Two individuals in California
00:35:28.160 have been charged
00:35:28.660 with multiple counts
00:35:29.400 of voter fraud
00:35:30.000 after submitting fraudulent
00:35:31.300 voter registration applications
00:35:32.760 on behalf of homeless people.
00:35:34.640 This is according
00:35:35.020 to the LA County
00:35:35.980 District Attorney's Office.
00:35:37.940 Carlos Antonio de Bourbon Montenegro,
00:35:40.020 what a name,
00:35:40.940 and Marcos Raul Aravalo
00:35:43.120 were charged
00:35:43.840 in a 41 count criminal complaint
00:35:45.580 filed last week.
00:35:46.340 These are not little kids, by the way.
00:35:47.780 These are not, you know,
00:35:49.220 some 18-year-old activist
00:35:50.460 hired by the Democratic Party.
00:35:52.280 This is a 53-year-old guy
00:35:53.420 and a 34-year-old guy.
00:35:55.640 These are older people,
00:35:57.000 more established people.
00:35:58.080 And what they would do
00:35:58.720 is they'd go around
00:35:59.340 to the homeless camps
00:36:00.200 that have proliferated
00:36:01.700 all around Los Angeles.
00:36:02.740 Even in the nice neighborhoods,
00:36:03.980 they're all over the place,
00:36:04.980 shanty towns and full parks
00:36:06.440 because of the failed governors
00:36:08.440 and the failed mayors there.
00:36:10.140 And they would go
00:36:10.940 and they would get all these guys
00:36:13.020 to register to vote.
00:36:13.880 Do you think these homeless guys
00:36:16.560 necessarily wanted
00:36:18.000 to go register to vote?
00:36:19.040 Do you think they were looking,
00:36:20.280 where can I exercise my right?
00:36:21.820 No, I think a lot of them
00:36:23.060 were extraordinarily
00:36:24.220 strung out on drugs.
00:36:26.140 A lot of them have
00:36:26.740 a lot of mental problems.
00:36:28.280 A lot of them are,
00:36:29.640 they're living on the street
00:36:30.600 because they're not capable
00:36:31.860 of living on their own.
00:36:33.020 And there's nothing compassionate,
00:36:34.640 therefore,
00:36:34.920 about letting them live on the street.
00:36:36.340 No one's trying to get them help.
00:36:37.860 These left-wing operatives
00:36:38.880 are not going out there
00:36:39.660 and saying,
00:36:40.040 hey, come into my house.
00:36:41.820 Hey, let's get you
00:36:42.700 to a psychiatric hospital.
00:36:44.120 Hey, no,
00:36:44.660 they're not doing any of that.
00:36:45.400 They're saying,
00:36:45.680 hey, you,
00:36:46.560 I can exploit you for a vote.
00:36:47.800 That's what we're going to do.
00:36:48.680 And they did that.
00:36:50.040 Montenegro,
00:36:51.180 what a name.
00:36:51.900 That guy,
00:36:52.560 what's his full name?
00:36:53.140 Carlos Antonio de Bourbon Montenegro.
00:36:54.720 It's like a movie villain.
00:36:57.160 Montenegro.
00:36:57.520 He submitted over 8,000
00:36:59.520 fraudulent voter registration applications
00:37:01.540 between July and October
00:37:02.840 of this year.
00:37:03.600 8,000.
00:37:05.980 When we talk about
00:37:06.800 the scale of election fraud
00:37:08.400 that's possible here
00:37:09.340 in the 2020 election,
00:37:11.140 people say,
00:37:12.080 oh, it's hard to invalidate ballots.
00:37:13.320 Fraud doesn't happen that much.
00:37:14.360 Yeah, we've never had
00:37:15.260 an election like this.
00:37:17.460 Ever.
00:37:18.520 We've never had widespread
00:37:19.320 unsolicited mail-in ballots
00:37:20.580 like this.
00:37:23.000 But those are the norms.
00:37:24.560 Democrats go out.
00:37:25.880 They harvest ballots.
00:37:26.960 We know that they do that.
00:37:28.140 We have motor voter laws.
00:37:29.820 People who are not eligible
00:37:30.960 to vote sneak in.
00:37:31.780 They vote anyway.
00:37:32.400 We know that.
00:37:33.840 They stuff the ballot boxes.
00:37:35.480 I don't know if they did
00:37:36.100 in this election.
00:37:37.320 Maybe they did.
00:37:37.920 We know they have
00:37:38.600 many years past.
00:37:41.180 Those are the norms.
00:37:42.180 And then they win.
00:37:43.920 And now with universal mail-ins,
00:37:45.140 they're going to keep
00:37:45.500 counting the votes
00:37:46.000 until they win
00:37:46.480 in just about every election.
00:37:49.840 Now, when you break
00:37:50.820 those liberal norms,
00:37:51.800 when you go back
00:37:52.300 to more of the constitutional norms,
00:37:53.740 turns out we win.
00:37:55.160 You can see this
00:37:55.900 in the House races from 2020.
00:37:58.360 According to
00:37:59.020 the Cook Political Report,
00:38:00.200 listed 27 House races
00:38:01.500 as toss-ups.
00:38:02.760 27.
00:38:03.900 They didn't know
00:38:04.400 which way it was going to go
00:38:05.120 on election night.
00:38:05.700 How many of those
00:38:07.060 do you think Republicans won?
00:38:09.800 What do you think?
00:38:10.400 10?
00:38:11.200 Maybe.
00:38:11.880 I don't know.
00:38:12.120 We were told it's blue waves.
00:38:13.000 They probably should have won zero, right?
00:38:14.340 No.
00:38:14.660 How many did they win?
00:38:15.240 10, 15, 18, 20?
00:38:17.800 27.
00:38:18.220 That's how many.
00:38:18.720 They won all of them.
00:38:20.800 The polling firms say,
00:38:21.920 oh, it's a toss-up.
00:38:22.720 It's not a toss-up.
00:38:23.720 Republicans won all of them.
00:38:25.400 They went in
00:38:26.040 and they fought.
00:38:27.800 Burgess Owens.
00:38:29.380 You all know Burgess Owens.
00:38:31.100 He just won
00:38:31.760 a hotly contested race
00:38:33.100 in Utah.
00:38:34.520 He was trailing the incumbent
00:38:35.940 by 11% in final polling
00:38:37.680 and the nonpartisan
00:38:39.900 Cook Political Report
00:38:41.140 called it a toss-up
00:38:43.440 and then he won.
00:38:45.760 The system that we were told
00:38:47.200 that's constantly pumping propaganda
00:38:49.020 to support itself
00:38:50.720 is separated from reality.
00:38:54.340 Talk about truth decay.
00:38:56.560 Okay?
00:38:56.880 It's,
00:38:57.320 we were talking yesterday
00:38:58.160 about alternate universes.
00:38:59.380 It is an alternate universe
00:39:00.320 and that is the permanent state.
00:39:02.100 And when a state such as that,
00:39:05.240 when elites such as that
00:39:06.360 become so self-serving,
00:39:08.860 you saw it in Newsom's apology,
00:39:11.060 you see it in Jack Dorsey's apology,
00:39:12.260 when they're just out
00:39:13.300 helping themselves,
00:39:14.240 disrearing the rules,
00:39:15.280 people start to distrust the system.
00:39:16.980 Actually,
00:39:17.400 regardless of your ideological view,
00:39:19.080 left or right or partisan,
00:39:20.400 you start to see that system cracking up.
00:39:22.480 That is what's happening right now.
00:39:23.900 That's not the people's fault.
00:39:24.980 That's the fault of the people
00:39:25.880 running the system.
00:39:27.140 You don't even need to look
00:39:29.740 in America for this.
00:39:30.760 Macron,
00:39:31.220 the leader of France,
00:39:32.580 pointed this out.
00:39:33.820 He said that the left in America
00:39:35.880 is burying American founding principles.
00:39:40.780 That the norms have been,
00:39:42.040 that the constitutional norms
00:39:42.960 have been broken.
00:39:43.520 The left has broken them.
00:39:46.000 Macron said that the US mainstream media
00:39:48.520 are legitimizing violence
00:39:50.980 and that this is a sign
00:39:53.220 that the nation's founding principles
00:39:54.880 have been lost.
00:39:55.980 And that is true.
00:39:57.100 Of course it's true.
00:39:58.660 The left,
00:39:59.420 the media,
00:39:59.940 and New York Times in particular,
00:40:02.480 legitimize the violence,
00:40:03.800 the riots,
00:40:04.560 mostly peaceful protests
00:40:05.680 over the summer,
00:40:06.440 legitimize the arson,
00:40:07.460 legitimize the looting,
00:40:08.400 and they're defending
00:40:09.180 Islamist terror attacks in France.
00:40:11.420 They're saying,
00:40:11.800 well,
00:40:11.900 we need to understand it.
00:40:12.820 Why is this happening?
00:40:13.860 Why?
00:40:14.360 They're not,
00:40:14.880 they're not defending
00:40:16.100 the founding principles
00:40:16.980 because they're not governed
00:40:18.020 under those founding principles.
00:40:19.220 Progressives have told us
00:40:19.920 for a hundred years.
00:40:20.940 They think the founding principles
00:40:21.900 are bunk.
00:40:22.440 They think the founding system
00:40:23.260 of government is bunk.
00:40:24.420 They want a new one
00:40:25.420 and they're going to create it.
00:40:28.220 They're kicking
00:40:28.920 great American books
00:40:30.020 out of schools.
00:40:31.780 I kid you not,
00:40:32.320 we were talking yesterday
00:40:33.020 about the book burning
00:40:33.780 at Target,
00:40:35.360 that you have UC Berkeley professors,
00:40:37.700 English professors,
00:40:38.800 saying that we need
00:40:39.320 to actually burn books
00:40:40.860 that suggest
00:40:41.920 that we shouldn't
00:40:42.460 castrate children
00:40:43.280 and trans the kids.
00:40:44.520 Well,
00:40:45.200 now a California school district
00:40:47.360 in LA County
00:40:48.100 is removing
00:40:49.600 Huckleberry Finn
00:40:51.220 to kill a mockingbird
00:40:53.160 and of mice and men
00:40:55.280 from their curriculum.
00:40:56.540 Why?
00:40:56.920 They're removing it
00:40:57.540 because they say
00:40:58.200 it's racist or something.
00:41:00.660 They say it's oppressive.
00:41:02.300 They say it's part
00:41:02.980 of an oppressive past.
00:41:04.220 These are some of the greatest works
00:41:05.300 of American literature.
00:41:07.400 Certainly the most important works
00:41:08.640 of American literature
00:41:09.340 for young adults to read
00:41:10.420 being removed
00:41:12.480 from the curriculum.
00:41:14.320 We've been predicting
00:41:14.960 this for years.
00:41:15.560 The left told us,
00:41:16.120 oh, you're crazy,
00:41:16.700 you're hysterical.
00:41:17.640 It's happening.
00:41:19.740 Why is it happening?
00:41:20.740 In part, it's happening
00:41:21.560 because the left,
00:41:22.940 because the right rather,
00:41:24.080 refuses to articulate
00:41:24.920 a standard.
00:41:26.540 When we hear the media
00:41:28.080 talking about the erosion
00:41:28.940 of norms and standards,
00:41:30.840 when we hear about
00:41:31.360 political correctness,
00:41:32.080 which poses a new standard,
00:41:33.900 the right gets backed
00:41:35.200 into a corner
00:41:35.840 where we say,
00:41:36.560 hey, I'm against censorship.
00:41:38.000 I'm for free speech.
00:41:39.060 We use bumper stickers
00:41:40.180 and slogans.
00:41:41.420 But we fail
00:41:42.040 to articulate
00:41:42.600 a standard ourselves.
00:41:44.640 We want to be inclusive.
00:41:46.200 So we say,
00:41:46.520 oh, you can add your books
00:41:47.540 to the curriculum.
00:41:48.140 You can wear
00:41:48.500 whatever you want to wear.
00:41:49.560 The men can wear dresses,
00:41:50.540 whatever.
00:41:52.420 But we just want
00:41:53.520 to have our books too.
00:41:54.380 The problem with this is,
00:41:56.120 it doesn't persuade anybody.
00:41:57.840 And in the case of education,
00:41:59.480 education is by definition
00:42:01.300 coercive and exclusive.
00:42:03.880 There's only so many weeks
00:42:05.020 in the semester.
00:42:05.900 There's only so many books
00:42:07.100 you can read.
00:42:08.960 And if you start adding in
00:42:10.380 some crazy gender theory book
00:42:12.120 or some crazy
00:42:12.860 Ibram Kendi book
00:42:14.280 about, you know,
00:42:14.920 how awful white people are
00:42:16.040 and we're a white supremacist
00:42:16.860 country or whatever,
00:42:18.300 you have to remove a book.
00:42:20.940 And the process you're seeing
00:42:22.320 playing out in these schools
00:42:23.120 is, okay,
00:42:23.860 we're going to remove
00:42:24.460 Huck Finn.
00:42:24.980 We're going to remove
00:42:25.480 To Kill a Mockingbird.
00:42:26.260 We're going to remove
00:42:26.840 Of Mice and Men.
00:42:28.720 It has nothing to do
00:42:29.460 with the intrinsic quality
00:42:30.400 of these books,
00:42:31.020 all of which are much better
00:42:32.180 than anything
00:42:32.860 Ibram Kendi
00:42:33.820 has ever thought
00:42:34.520 or said in his entire life.
00:42:35.820 But it's because
00:42:38.060 those books
00:42:39.560 uphold a certain standard
00:42:41.040 and a certain culture
00:42:41.920 and they come in a certain
00:42:42.980 Western tradition
00:42:43.800 and the left wants
00:42:45.640 to get rid of that.
00:42:46.220 We need to offer a standard.
00:42:47.240 We need to say,
00:42:47.760 no, you can't add
00:42:48.540 your stupid book.
00:42:50.140 Your book of lower quality
00:42:52.260 cannot come into the curriculum
00:42:53.500 because it will make
00:42:54.240 our kids dumber
00:42:54.940 and we need to have
00:42:56.080 good books in the curriculum
00:42:57.080 and we should only teach
00:42:58.360 good books
00:42:58.920 and not bad books
00:43:00.000 because there's only
00:43:00.540 so much time
00:43:01.200 and I want my kids
00:43:02.220 to be smart
00:43:02.700 and I want your kids
00:43:03.340 to be smart.
00:43:03.820 And so we got to read
00:43:05.500 the good books
00:43:06.180 that make you smart.
00:43:08.480 Getting back to that point
00:43:09.500 yesterday,
00:43:10.140 Candace's point
00:43:10.720 about men wearing dresses,
00:43:11.880 Harry Styles,
00:43:12.760 we need to be able to say,
00:43:13.700 no, men shouldn't wear dresses.
00:43:15.500 When men do wear dresses,
00:43:16.840 you know,
00:43:17.300 people kept posting
00:43:18.160 this image of Rudy Giuliani.
00:43:19.860 He went on Saturday Night Live
00:43:20.720 one time
00:43:21.080 and he wore drag
00:43:21.820 and Donald Trump
00:43:23.000 was actually in the sketch.
00:43:24.360 They say, what?
00:43:24.700 You didn't attack Rudy Giuliani.
00:43:26.160 No, Rudy Giuliani
00:43:27.040 was putting on
00:43:28.420 a comedic performance.
00:43:30.520 Rudy Giuliani was not saying
00:43:31.520 it is perfectly normal
00:43:32.460 for a man to wear a dress.
00:43:33.400 He was saying the opposite.
00:43:34.700 He was saying,
00:43:35.160 it's completely absurd
00:43:35.980 for a man to wear a dress.
00:43:37.120 That's why it's
00:43:37.620 a comedic performance.
00:43:39.660 That's why drag is funny.
00:43:41.700 It's funny because it's wrong.
00:43:43.680 Some people wrote in yesterday
00:43:44.560 and said,
00:43:44.800 Michael, drag's not funny at all.
00:43:46.400 It's wrong.
00:43:47.160 It's an abomination.
00:43:48.220 Sure, I guess.
00:43:49.040 Right.
00:43:49.680 But that's why it's funny.
00:43:52.040 There is such a thing
00:43:53.500 as dark humor.
00:43:55.060 There is such a thing.
00:43:56.520 Incongruity is necessarily wrong,
00:43:58.400 right?
00:43:59.220 But it's,
00:44:00.140 that's why it's funny.
00:44:01.180 It's because it doesn't balance.
00:44:02.140 It doesn't make sense.
00:44:03.000 It isn't quite right.
00:44:04.920 Conservatives need to be able to say,
00:44:05.860 no, hey men,
00:44:06.480 don't wear dresses.
00:44:08.140 But come on,
00:44:08.840 it doesn't bother you.
00:44:09.600 It doesn't affect your culture.
00:44:10.440 Yes, it does.
00:44:11.560 Don't wear dresses.
00:44:12.600 Conservatives,
00:44:13.000 frankly,
00:44:13.300 need to be able to say,
00:44:14.100 don't wear the mask.
00:44:16.480 Only in narrow,
00:44:17.740 narrow,
00:44:18.060 narrow circumstances
00:44:18.840 should you wear the mask
00:44:19.760 or maybe not even then.
00:44:21.760 Now,
00:44:22.040 but you could say,
00:44:22.880 well, Michael,
00:44:23.380 no,
00:44:23.680 look,
00:44:24.040 I'm a conservative.
00:44:24.740 I just want people to,
00:44:25.660 if you want to wear the mask,
00:44:26.580 you can.
00:44:26.940 And if you want to wear a dress,
00:44:27.900 you can.
00:44:28.160 And if you want to take
00:44:29.260 To Kill a Mockingbird
00:44:29.980 off your curriculum,
00:44:31.480 you can.
00:44:31.940 And we can all just do
00:44:32.920 whatever we want.
00:44:33.540 No,
00:44:33.840 we can't.
00:44:34.600 People ask me this all the time
00:44:35.820 since I've been on this hobby horse
00:44:37.660 about the virus
00:44:38.280 since the beginning.
00:44:39.600 They say,
00:44:40.040 ah,
00:44:40.280 you know,
00:44:40.560 Michael,
00:44:41.300 why do the masks
00:44:43.200 have to be political?
00:44:45.200 Or they'll say it about
00:44:46.020 the dresses with Candace.
00:44:47.160 Why does a man wearing a dress,
00:44:49.000 he's an actor or something,
00:44:50.160 he's a singer,
00:44:51.540 he's wearing a dress,
00:44:52.220 who cares?
00:44:52.860 Why does that have to be political?
00:44:54.320 The reason it has to be political
00:44:57.740 is because masks,
00:45:00.260 public masking,
00:45:01.060 everybody in America
00:45:01.900 just wearing masks
00:45:03.040 like banditos across their face,
00:45:05.020 that is a public matter.
00:45:07.580 And public matters
00:45:08.660 are by definition political.
00:45:10.800 That's just what political means.
00:45:12.180 It just means public.
00:45:13.160 What we all do
00:45:13.960 in public together.
00:45:15.820 Men wearing dresses,
00:45:16.680 why does that have to be political?
00:45:17.680 Because it's happening in public.
00:45:19.540 And that is therefore political.
00:45:21.100 And it affects the culture,
00:45:22.000 it affects the way
00:45:22.400 we view ourselves,
00:45:23.120 it affects the norms of society.
00:45:24.740 Every society
00:45:25.180 is going to have some norms.
00:45:26.480 And the left
00:45:26.960 has clobbered the norms.
00:45:28.320 They've transformed the norms.
00:45:29.640 And conservatives
00:45:30.120 don't have the spine
00:45:31.140 to go out and say,
00:45:32.080 no, actually,
00:45:32.800 we should,
00:45:33.820 I think we should have
00:45:34.480 other standards.
00:45:36.120 I think we should,
00:45:36.620 we should do,
00:45:37.000 I think we should have,
00:45:38.160 we should have a curriculum
00:45:39.080 in schools,
00:45:40.220 but it should have good books,
00:45:41.020 not bad books.
00:45:41.560 I do think men
00:45:42.080 should wear clothing,
00:45:42.840 but they should wear good clothing,
00:45:43.740 not bad clothing.
00:45:44.660 Appropriate clothing,
00:45:45.320 not inappropriate clothing.
00:45:47.020 We should use language.
00:45:48.340 We should use good,
00:45:49.420 respectful,
00:45:50.560 serious,
00:45:51.300 concise,
00:45:51.840 precise language,
00:45:52.480 not euphemistic,
00:45:54.040 dishonest language
00:45:54.720 like political correctness.
00:45:57.860 We should have
00:45:58.860 media platforms,
00:46:00.320 but they should tell the truth.
00:46:01.780 They shouldn't tell lies.
00:46:03.080 We should have
00:46:03.500 technology platforms
00:46:04.560 that allow you to communicate.
00:46:05.920 Don't suppress communication.
00:46:07.700 Have a standard.
00:46:10.020 Before we go,
00:46:10.640 I have to get to this one book.
00:46:11.820 We were talking about books.
00:46:12.680 I can't,
00:46:14.120 I read the book review
00:46:15.100 of Barack Obama's
00:46:16.780 new memoir.
00:46:17.520 This is called
00:46:19.180 A Promised Land.
00:46:21.340 Barack Obama,
00:46:22.260 A Promised Land.
00:46:23.520 This is his third memoir,
00:46:25.580 his third book
00:46:26.480 about his favorite subject.
00:46:28.560 He wrote his first memoir,
00:46:30.340 I think,
00:46:30.640 in his 20s.
00:46:32.000 He wrote his next memoir,
00:46:33.480 what,
00:46:33.600 in his 30s?
00:46:34.700 Now he's got
00:46:35.500 a third memoir,
00:46:37.260 third book
00:46:37.680 about his favorite subject.
00:46:38.580 Here's the book review
00:46:39.880 in the New York Times.
00:46:40.940 A Promised Land
00:46:41.720 by Barack Obama.
00:46:43.360 Barack Obama
00:46:44.180 is as fine a writer
00:46:45.400 as they come.
00:46:47.500 If I were Twitter right now,
00:46:49.060 I would say,
00:46:49.500 this claim is disputed.
00:46:51.260 Fact check.
00:46:52.340 Warning.
00:46:53.380 Do not,
00:46:54.040 Barack Obama's as fine
00:46:55.020 a writer as they come?
00:46:56.240 No.
00:46:57.340 His first book actually
00:46:58.240 was fairly well written.
00:47:00.340 But,
00:47:00.640 who knows,
00:47:01.200 did he write that book?
00:47:02.120 Who knows?
00:47:03.440 There are always rumors.
00:47:04.440 Did he hire a ghost writer?
00:47:05.360 I don't know.
00:47:05.700 Maybe he wrote the book.
00:47:06.400 Okay.
00:47:06.880 Even if he did write that book,
00:47:08.560 there are finer writers.
00:47:10.520 It is not merely
00:47:11.200 that this book avoids
00:47:12.120 being ponderous
00:47:13.040 as might be expected.
00:47:14.260 Even forgiven
00:47:15.840 of a hefty memoir.
00:47:17.600 But that it is nearly
00:47:18.260 always pleasurable to read.
00:47:20.640 Sentence by sentence.
00:47:22.180 The prose gorgeous in places.
00:47:24.200 The detail granular and vivid.
00:47:27.100 The book is like 750 pages.
00:47:30.320 And I imagine
00:47:30.920 the one true thing
00:47:31.640 in this sentence
00:47:32.140 is the book is probably
00:47:32.940 not as ponderous
00:47:33.700 as this pretentious
00:47:34.440 and ridiculous review.
00:47:36.380 From Southeast Asia
00:47:37.340 to a forgotten school
00:47:38.320 in South Carolina,
00:47:39.320 he evokes the sense of place
00:47:40.580 with a light
00:47:41.200 but sure hand.
00:47:42.740 This is the first
00:47:43.400 of two volumes.
00:47:44.580 Okay.
00:47:44.980 Well, that's going to be
00:47:45.340 a long one.
00:47:46.460 Starts early in his life
00:47:47.620 charting his initial
00:47:48.600 political campaigns.
00:47:50.380 Blah, blah, blah.
00:47:51.200 His focus is more political
00:47:52.720 than personal.
00:47:53.960 But when he does write
00:47:54.700 about his family,
00:47:56.120 it is with a beauty
00:47:58.120 close to nostalgia.
00:47:59.400 Okay.
00:47:59.560 I can't even read anymore.
00:48:01.460 This is a New York Times review
00:48:02.320 by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
00:48:04.240 who is the author
00:48:05.460 of We Should All Be Feminists
00:48:06.800 and a Feminist Manifesto
00:48:08.700 and 15 Suggestions.
00:48:12.100 I mean,
00:48:12.800 I haven't read the book yet
00:48:13.900 so I don't want to judge it.
00:48:14.740 Something tells me
00:48:15.260 it's not one of the great books.
00:48:17.580 But this is the standard, right?
00:48:19.260 This is the standard
00:48:20.060 that the media
00:48:21.600 are going to judge by.
00:48:23.300 This is what we are told
00:48:24.300 is good.
00:48:25.320 All cultures
00:48:26.140 have some sense
00:48:27.900 of the good.
00:48:28.620 They have something
00:48:29.020 that they are aiming toward.
00:48:30.460 They have things
00:48:30.900 that they exalt.
00:48:31.900 They have things
00:48:32.360 that they hold sacred.
00:48:33.260 You know,
00:48:34.600 we were told the other day
00:48:35.900 that America
00:48:36.840 worships whiteness
00:48:37.840 by that crazy Senate
00:48:38.800 candidate in Georgia.
00:48:39.980 And that of course
00:48:40.380 is not true.
00:48:42.000 Actually,
00:48:42.300 we only have one taboo word
00:48:43.600 in America
00:48:44.100 and the taboo word
00:48:44.980 is not cracker or honky, right?
00:48:46.360 It's not the C word
00:48:47.500 or the H word.
00:48:48.160 It's the N word.
00:48:49.400 We actually take these racial matters
00:48:50.500 very seriously in America
00:48:51.440 and we have a sort of
00:48:52.100 sacred taboo
00:48:52.960 in favor of,
00:48:55.520 you know,
00:48:56.200 being kind
00:48:56.940 and welcoming
00:48:57.400 and inclusive
00:48:57.900 toward historically oppressed groups
00:49:00.120 and racial minorities.
00:49:01.840 Okay.
00:49:02.080 There is a cultural taboo.
00:49:07.340 What are we pointing toward
00:49:08.480 as good?
00:49:08.960 What we're pointing toward
00:49:09.560 as good here
00:49:10.160 is liberalism,
00:49:12.600 progressivism,
00:49:14.180 leftism.
00:49:15.800 Those are the books
00:49:16.560 we have to read.
00:49:17.220 You got to kick out
00:49:17.720 the traditional books.
00:49:19.480 We're told it's good
00:49:20.420 to dress in a way
00:49:21.620 that is progressive
00:49:22.280 and transgressive,
00:49:23.460 not traditional
00:49:24.440 and conservative.
00:49:25.420 If conservatives
00:49:26.380 do not grow a spine
00:49:29.040 and articulate
00:49:30.080 their own standards,
00:49:31.520 we are going to
00:49:33.500 continue down this path
00:49:35.180 and we will have norms
00:49:36.080 and we will have normalcy
00:49:37.020 and the left
00:49:37.740 might even stop rioting
00:49:38.780 if they get their way
00:49:39.540 in elections,
00:49:40.120 however they get their way
00:49:41.080 and the media
00:49:41.760 will start being nice
00:49:42.680 because they change
00:49:43.420 their coverage
00:49:43.920 based on who they're covering
00:49:45.060 and we will continue
00:49:46.240 to have this permanent state,
00:49:48.660 this uniparty
00:49:49.620 that allows our country
00:49:51.020 to degrade
00:49:51.660 and degrade
00:49:52.260 and degrade
00:49:52.780 and decay
00:49:53.160 until we've lost it completely.
00:49:55.500 So we have to keep fighting.
00:49:56.740 I'm Michael Knowles.
00:49:57.320 This is the Michael Knowles Show.
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