The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 10 - American Taliban Blow Up Biloxi Buddhas

00:00:00.000 On Monday, a mob of college town commies in North Carolina toppled a 93-year-old Confederate

00:00:06.480 soldier statue at the Durham County Courthouse and proceeded to kick the hunk of metal while

00:00:11.540 shouting obscenities. We'll analyze. Plus, Amanda Prestigiacomo, Jacob Airy, and Paul Bois joined

00:00:17.580 the panel of deplorables to discuss the Trump train smushing CNN, Kumbaya nonsense, and the

00:00:23.840 bubonic plague. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:30.000 So we're going to get to this, the toppling of the statues. But first, there is a little

00:00:38.780 bit of business to cover. I just got some bad news this morning. My father called me. He

00:00:45.020 texted me first. He said, call me and you get a chance. I called. And we found out that

00:00:49.700 we are distant relatives of Hillary Clinton. I'm somewhat tickled by it. We already know

00:00:56.140 that I am a cousin of Beyonce. We haven't proved it yet, but I think it's obvious. But we are. I

00:01:01.320 have a first cousin, once removed, I think, who married a Rodham, which makes me and Hillary

00:01:07.280 cousins. So, Madam Secretary, whenever you get the opportunity, would love to have you on the show

00:01:11.700 and have a little family reunion. Now we have to move to smashing statues. So the left, this has

00:01:18.280 been brewing for a long time. The left has wanted to topple these old Confederate statues,

00:01:22.320 any remnant of Antebellum South they want to get rid of. And luckily, we were, you know, 0.98

00:01:27.380 I guess because people have smartphones now, they're always recording these things as they

00:01:30.460 happen. We have video footage of these social justice warriors toppling the statue last night

00:01:36.280 in Durham. Can we play it? You know, actually, Marshall, I think that wasn't the college kids

00:01:52.000 last night. That was the Taliban destroying a 1,500-year-old statue of Buddha. And yeah,

00:01:56.420 the way you can tell is the accent on the Allahu Akbar. It's not a southern accent. It was more

00:02:00.680 an Afghanistan accent. Do we have the actual clip that we can play?

00:02:07.640 They are just charming, aren't they? Just screaming like hyenas.

00:02:37.260 Those little animals. Do you see that one guy, that kind of doughy guy at the end,

00:02:41.560 flipping it off and yelling obscenities? So the issue here is, if you didn't hear what they were

00:02:47.260 chanting, they chanted, no cops, no KKK, no fascist USA. Later, they chanted, we are the revolution.

00:02:54.360 Now I can get on board, I guess, with no KKK or no fascists or no Nazis or whatever. But the first

00:02:59.760 one was no cops, which they may have just been describing the event in Charlottesville on Saturday.

00:03:04.880 That might've been a recap of how little the police did to stop the violence there.

00:03:09.860 But I think what they're, they're, they're obviously far left radicals. And we do know

00:03:14.600 that the people who came and pulled down this statue were members of the IWW, the Democratic

00:03:20.900 Socialists of America, the Workers' World Party, far, I mean, actual communists, right?

00:03:25.900 How did they pull it down, Michael?

00:03:27.300 So they put, they tied a little noose around its neck and ripped it down. And there is,

00:03:31.000 it's pretty funny that they chose this one because it wasn't a statue of Robert E. Lee.

00:03:35.920 It wasn't a statue of Jefferson Davis. It was just a Confederate statue, a generic statue

00:03:40.400 dedicated to the boys who wore the gray. And it was built a century ago. It was built a hundred years

00:03:45.920 ago. And this, uh, there, a lot of cities are following suit. Five cities around the country

00:03:50.260 after the events in Charlottesville have said they're going to pull down all of their Confederate

00:03:53.320 monuments. Officials in Kentucky, Maryland, same thing. At the time has come after decades,

00:03:58.340 we have to pull these things down. And, uh, so are the Donald a wonderful source for news.

00:04:04.000 I check it every day. It's the Reddit page for Donald Trump supporters. They pulled out a few

00:04:10.420 other examples of monuments that obviously now we have to take down. For instance, the Taj Mahal

00:04:15.900 quote, whoops, built by Hindu slaves. Time to tear it down. I don't know how it's been allowed 1.00

00:04:21.520 to stay up for so long. Uh, the, uh, Bill Clinton, of course, we quote, cannot glorify rapists,

00:04:27.500 tear down this symbol. Uh, I couldn't possibly agree more. Uh, then FDR, we have to remove this

00:04:34.480 one quote internment camps for Asians, stole their property. Also a communist, all true. And finally, 0.99

00:04:40.620 did you know that Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King, the great social justice activist,

00:04:45.760 he was against gay marriage. Got to pull that down. And an adulterer. And wait, come on now. No, 0.99

00:04:51.040 don't, don't get off topic. Martin Luther King was against gay marriage. So obviously we got to pull

00:04:57.060 that one down. Now I, uh, I have no sentimental feelings for the Confederacy. I, uh, George, uh,

00:05:04.680 Cobb Knowles, an ancestor of mine was killed as a Yankee at Boynton Plank Road. I'm a Yankee through

00:05:10.660 and through, but I really, really don't like this move to take down the Confederates, uh, statues and

00:05:16.380 statues of any kind for that matter. So why not take down the monuments? All of the argument,

00:05:21.660 it seems is on one side that we have to take them down, but why not? There are at least 1500

00:05:26.300 Confederate monuments around this country. So I guess this little gang of roving communists is

00:05:31.280 going to have to go to each and every one of them all around the country. And there is a lie

00:05:35.080 that's going around the internet that these Confederate monuments, they were really,

00:05:37.960 a lot of them were built in the sixties as a response to civil rights. It's not

00:05:41.580 really about Southern culture at all. That isn't true. The vast, vast majority of these monuments

00:05:46.020 were built before 1925. They were built as the nation was finally healing from its civil war.

00:05:53.100 So the, you know, for the first time you had Confederate soldiers who were receiving,

00:05:56.720 uh, federal benefits for being American veterans. You had that generation sort of dying off 1.00

00:06:03.600 and, uh, and even Rich Lowry from national review, which was formerly the definitive conservative

00:06:11.360 publication. He says, it's time to take them down. He wrote, quote, the monuments should go.

00:06:15.740 Some of them simply should be trashed. Others transmitted to museums, battlefields, and cemeteries.

00:06:22.580 And Rich Lowry, I couldn't, I couldn't disagree more, but Rich Lowry is invoking Robert E. Lee himself in

00:06:29.120 this. He, he points out that Robert E. Lee noted, quote, I think it's wiser not to keep open the

00:06:34.780 sores of war, but to follow the examples of those nations who endeavored to obliterate the marks of

00:06:39.820 civil strife and to commit to oblivion the feelings it engendered. Now, I don't know if Rich is aware

00:06:46.940 of this, but Robert E. Lee was wrong about a number of things, particularly with regard to the civil war,

00:06:52.780 in particular, the civil war. He was completely wrong about the civil war. Why would we defer to him on

00:06:57.120 how to recover from the civil war? I'm not so sure. One of the responses that they very often make,

00:07:03.620 the social justice warriors who want to take down the statues, are that, you know, we took down Nazi

00:07:07.980 statues after World War II. When the, in 1946, the allies ordered the destruction of Nazi monuments and

00:07:14.600 Nazi statues. I think this is a stretch. I think it's a stretch to compare World War II and the way

00:07:20.640 that we treated our enemies with the way that we as a nation decided to heal from our civil war to deal

00:07:26.180 with our original sin of slavery, an issue that we'd been trying to grapple with since the

00:07:30.840 Constitutional Convention, since the Declaration of Independence. You know, President Lincoln summed up

00:07:37.680 how we were going to treat the South. He said, with malice toward none, with charity for all. We

00:07:42.620 reunited as a country. We've treated those soldiers as veterans. We treated those rebels as our fellow

00:07:48.980 countrymen. Another little point to notice is the Nazi regime lasted for 12 years. The South is a 0.58

00:07:54.380 political and cultural entity. Lasted, by the time of the Civil War, it had already lasted for 250

00:08:00.040 years. And it's lasted 150 years since then as well. Now, if both people on the left and the right

00:08:07.660 are getting this issue wrong, the mayor of Richmond, who's had plenty of calls to remove monuments from

00:08:12.380 Monument Avenue there, the mayor of Richmond, LeVar Stoney, sums it up pretty well.

00:08:18.040 We have a chance to advance the truth, the complete truth, by using these symbols not for

00:08:23.700 celebration, but as tools to educate. I wish these monuments had never been built. But whether

00:08:31.040 we like it or not, they are part of our history of the city. And removal would never wash away

00:08:37.700 that stain. The hate that built them will not go away just because terrorism doesn't start nor will

00:08:44.320 it end because of some statues on a tree-lined street. It resides in hearts and minds. And the

00:08:51.360 way to change hearts is to educate minds. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor Stoney, for being the only voice

00:08:59.480 of reason, it seems, in this debate. He went on to say, perhaps it was in another place, quote,

00:09:05.880 at the end of the day, those statues are offensive to me, very offensive to me. I imagine they would

00:09:09.940 be. They're offensive to me, too, since they killed old great-great-grandpappy Knowles.

00:09:15.060 But you know what I'm going to focus my time on? Destroying vestiges of Jim Crow, where they live 0.96

00:09:19.960 in our city. Public education, you name it. So he makes this great point. Toppling these statues will

00:09:25.760 do absolutely nothing for the people who are living other than obscure their own understanding of

00:09:30.600 history, their own understanding of their communities. But it won't have any tangible benefits to

00:09:34.960 improve the lives of these people, which he could do. He could focus his attention as the mayor on

00:09:40.960 actually improving the lives of his constituents. This same thing has been happening at my dear

00:09:46.000 alma mater, Yale. It's been going on for years. They wanted to rename the residential college. It's

00:09:52.240 sort of like a dorm there from John C. Calhoun because Calhoun was a proponent of slavery. So Calhoun

00:09:58.360 College has been in the center of this debate for years. They finally decided they weren't going to

00:10:01.860 rename it. Then they decided they were going to rename it because that administration these days

00:10:06.980 has absolutely no backbone. But last year, it got even worse. A Yale employee took it upon himself

00:10:13.720 to use a broom handle to smash an old stained glass piece because John Calhoun was on it. He destroyed

00:10:22.140 this property, this piece of art. And not only did Yale force this guy to lose his job,

00:10:28.800 and not only did they not press charges, they rehired him. They gave him his job back. They

00:10:35.180 didn't press any charges. And then they suggested that they form a committee to decide which other

00:10:40.280 pieces of art should go into hiding because they weren't politically correct or they refer to some

00:10:44.700 aspect of our history that we don't like to acknowledge anymore, that it's not fashionable

00:10:49.060 to acknowledge. Absolutely pathetic. It's evidence that not only at Yale is a microcosm of this, 0.99

00:10:54.940 but now around the country, the inmates are running the asylum. And I can think of no better example

00:11:00.660 of the inmates running the asylum than bringing on our panel of deplorables. We have them in studio

00:11:06.420 today. We have all three in studio. First, of course, first and best, Amanda Presta Giacomo. And then

00:11:11.340 we're also joined by Paul Bois and Jacob Era. This is an all Daily Wire panel today. So let's just go

00:11:17.380 really quickly down the line. We'll start with Paul. What do you think of this? Should we take down

00:11:20.900 the monuments? Should we not take down the monuments? I think it should be left up to the

00:11:24.400 municipalities and the people of the town. I think they should have an honest, healthy discussion,

00:11:29.320 not somebody at Huffington Post writes an article and then you get a bunch of SJWs down there that

00:11:34.080 tear down the statues. An honest, healthy discussion if the statue should stay up. Sure.

00:11:39.060 Absolutely not. No way. This is step one. I mean, they're going to keep coming. What else is next?

00:11:44.440 What are we going to take down next? Why are we erasing our history? It's important to remember

00:11:48.260 the stuff. Remember the racism. Remember what we overcame and how we did overcome that and we

00:11:53.080 united and came back from slavery. So absolutely 100 percent. No, don't give them an inch. I'll

00:11:57.720 take a mile. They're taking them down on their own. Stop them. Jacob? I think I'm the only

00:12:03.080 southerner actually on this panel. Thank God. No, I'm kidding. I like this. But I actually, I agree

00:12:08.840 with Paul. I think it should be left up to the local municipalities. As a person of the south,

00:12:13.520 I've seen how hurtful kind of the loss caused, which is such a ridiculous thing to talk about

00:12:20.260 the Civil War in that perspective. In New Orleans, there was actually a statue that was dedicated

00:12:25.480 to racism. We were like, it was a statue. We're proud of our white heritage. That one deserved to 0.54

00:12:31.880 be taken down. Obviously. I would have given money for the bulldozer to knock it down even. But as far

00:12:39.060 as the historical statues, I don't think we should pretend the Civil War didn't happen. We need to

00:12:44.940 remember that it was a hard time and we healed from it and it should be left up to the locals 0.95

00:12:51.300 whether they want to take them down or not. So Amanda, you seem to have the strongest opinion

00:12:54.980 on this and I tend to agree with you. What do you think about this argument? They say, well,

00:12:59.000 we won't destroy them. We'll just put them in museums. We'll put them in cemeteries, put them out of

00:13:04.840 the public square. Yeah. I think, again, that's kind of erasing our history. I mean, that's better

00:13:12.520 than this nonsense where they're toppling them themselves. That's disgusting. But again, I mean, 0.97

00:13:18.000 I think it just shows, I mean, and it's a slippery slope too, as always. So who else are we taking

00:13:23.580 down next? Right. Are we going to go, you know, in colleges? They're already going after, you know,

00:13:29.260 they're like just not covering people because they were slaveholders. They're like burning books

00:13:34.720 in colleges right now. Oxford wanted to get rid of Cecil Rhodes out of Oxford College. Right.

00:13:39.620 Right. So we see this everywhere and I think it's just really dangerous to set this precedent when

00:13:43.740 we do this. I mean, yeah, local municipalities, sure. But where does it stop? Why do we set this

00:13:49.060 precedent? I think it's a bad move to do it. There might be some good intentions, but it could lead to

00:13:53.480 some really bad things. We're just, you know, censoring history. Absolutely. Roger Kimball wrote a great

00:13:58.520 piece when all the nonsense was happening at Yale. I suppose that isn't a particular time. It's been

00:14:02.760 going on for years now, but he wrote a piece about how we need to rename Yale itself because

00:14:08.460 obviously Elihu Yale was a slave trader and he was a British imperialist and it's unthinkable that we

00:14:15.180 would name. George Washington had a stance on, you know, he wasn't for gay marriage. We'll find that

00:14:19.360 up next. Then we'll have to erase him from history. Are you telling me George Washington wasn't in favor of

00:14:23.740 gay marriage? This is outraged. Let's start the petition. Now you raise a great point, which is 1.00

00:14:28.760 that it seems that we're a little less educated about our history right now. It seems that the

00:14:34.920 less educated we get about our history, the more we want to tear down monuments that refer to our

00:14:40.440 history. Why is that? One, I guess, why don't Americans study history anymore? And why does it

00:14:47.020 make us so upset at historical reminders? Paul? Well, I think it was, we get the talking points

00:14:54.100 about what the history is. We just say confederacy, racism, and slavery, and oh, there's a statue over

00:15:01.240 there that represents that. So we got to tear it down. We don't get the full historical context and

00:15:05.620 understanding of why they exist. And so that's why we just have that initial reaction. We just get the

00:15:10.780 base. We don't get the full history. There has been a movement in education to not read primary

00:15:15.920 texts anymore, to only read synopses of primary texts or secondary or third.

00:15:22.100 Yeah. And we just, you know, we all operate off of emotion. So it's not necessarily about the facts

00:15:27.520 or the context or any of that. It's just whatever you feel like racism, bad, tear everything down,

00:15:32.920 censorship. No, like you need to understand the full context, you know, and work from there. But

00:15:38.920 just this immediate gut reaction, just go off of feelings and condemn people as racists or sexists

00:15:43.720 or bigots. That's everywhere in our culture when we see it here.

00:15:46.660 But I think this is important why I do think a healthy debate needs to be happening in these

00:15:50.780 towns and in these cities where these monuments exist. And where that speaks to the whole idea

00:15:55.860 of them putting them in museums is that are we having an honest, healthy debate where people

00:16:00.780 are saying what they feel about these things? And do we have a healthy view of the confederacy?

00:16:06.540 Because sometimes we necessarily don't. And I think that will naturally resolve itself by having

00:16:12.180 those kinds of healthy debates rather than the dictatorial tear them down right now.

00:16:17.040 And the left, the left has pounced on this. You know, they do this every time they never let a

00:16:22.860 crisis go to waste. And of course, you make a great point. If these towns and these local

00:16:27.880 communities want to take down their statues, that's totally up to them, I suppose. But something

00:16:33.120 tells me those democratic socialists of America that we saw in that video were not living in the

00:16:38.180 local areas. There's got the IWW getting bussed in. There's obviously a well-funded effort.

00:16:43.720 Sorrel splints.

00:16:45.340 Almost certainly.

00:16:46.820 And that's another thing, too, is what they don't realize is these democrat socialists Antifa people

00:16:51.680 who come into these towns, that shores up the other person's opinion. So you might have had a

00:16:58.040 town having a debate whether to take down a statue. But then when these outsiders come in and just

00:17:02.860 rip up your public property, well, of course, you're going to go, no, that's my statue. You don't have

00:17:07.320 the authority to do that. And so they're actually causing, they are causing the fight. And when

00:17:13.300 they could have easily just come in and say, hey, listen, why don't you have a debate about this?

00:17:16.980 This is important.

00:17:18.020 But can it be a rallying point? That is the one counter argument, as they say, if we leave up a

00:17:22.660 statue of Hitler, the Nazis are going to use that as a congregation point. Or if we leave up a statue 0.87

00:17:28.220 of Jefferson Davis, Richard Spencer is going to show up there. Is that any sort of legitimate argument?

00:17:32.800 Is there a real threat of that? If there is, should we even care?

00:17:35.480 No, I don't think so. I think the rallying point is happening because the left is just

00:17:39.460 going into these cities and saying, tear them down without allowing any kind of debate. And

00:17:42.720 that's creating a vacuum that makes the Richard Spencers and the neo-Nazis go up and rally too.

00:17:47.160 Have you noticed that you've never seen Paul Bois and Richard Spencer in the same room together

00:17:50.220 the same time? I'm just going to leave that out there.

00:17:53.180 Yeah, yeah. And I hope that never happens.

00:17:57.040 Fair enough.

00:17:57.800 Good point. Good point.

00:17:59.240 I suppose that's right. Is there any, there is no real threat here?

00:18:02.020 Well, it doesn't like, it just doesn't solve any problems of racism by moving a statue or

00:18:08.000 ripping down a statue. What does that solve? There is no debate, as Paul was saying. If

00:18:12.180 there's, if you're, you're deemed a racist, if you even have a counter argument to this,

00:18:17.100 there is no debate. I mean, that's, that's the biggest issue. It doesn't, it doesn't solve

00:18:21.380 anything otherwise.

00:18:22.180 If a bunch of, if a bunch of conservatives rallied around a Joseph Stalin statue, of which

00:18:26.540 there are several in the United States, what are the, we're going to say, Hey, you know,

00:18:31.220 Joseph Stalin tried, tried to purge the Jews out of Russia, you know, just the same way 0.95

00:18:35.140 that Hitler did out of Germany. They would be defending, Oh, you don't know what you're 0.82

00:18:38.820 talking about. Soviet Russia was all about equality. And, you know, it would be all of a 0.87

00:18:43.320 sudden they would want to have a debate.

00:18:44.740 Do we have a Stalinist on the pen? It's just unbelievable. Why do we let it be a Richard

00:18:48.700 sponsor and we have a Stalinist on the pen? Amanda, you make a great point too, though.

00:18:53.400 There isn't the, I think part of the reason why these views gain currency online is because

00:18:58.100 there's such an oppressive culture where if you bring up any sort of idea, I mean, I get,

00:19:04.260 I did an entire episode yesterday about how awful the Nazis are. There will be people online

00:19:09.520 today who call me a racist and a sexist and all that sort of, it happens to every single

00:19:13.240 person who's ever voted Republican. And so it allows these views to, they're, they're

00:19:17.620 almost subversive. They seem cool. When in reality, they're stupid ideas. They don't have

00:19:22.440 any serious philosophic or logical backing. And maybe if you would allow them out into

00:19:27.420 the open, they, they would die as they, as they ought to. 0.98

00:19:30.140 Yeah. And that's why, that's why this is so dangerous. Cause there is, there is no dialogue

00:19:33.880 right now. If you, you know, say anything remotely on the other side, you are a racist.

00:19:38.800 You're, there was, um, you know, this whole, all the Confederate stuff. Um, who

00:19:43.060 was that there was an actor who was calling everybody a Nazi if they didn't want to ban

00:19:46.600 free speech for people with certain ideologies. I mean, that's insane.

00:19:50.020 If you don't want to kill the Jews, you're a Nazi. 0.97

00:19:51.760 I mean, it was just, you know, there's, there's just no dialogue around this. This is not 0.97

00:19:57.900 some healthy debate at a municipality where they decide, oh, he will move this into a museum.

00:20:02.300 That's not what's happening.

00:20:03.440 What do you think about Robert E. Lee's argument that it would be picking at old sores and

00:20:08.140 it'll keep the scabs alive.

00:20:10.260 I think it reminds us of the evil that, our sin. I think it reminds us, it's actually

00:20:16.020 reality. I mean, trying to just hide that.

00:20:18.020 It's so Catholic of you to want to think about your sins. I agree. 1.00

00:20:20.400 It's okay that we live with a little guilt. I mean, it's okay to remember.

00:20:23.380 A little guilt never hurt anybody. Built Europe, for goodness sake.

00:20:25.700 Yeah. And like, and you know, maybe we should retreat from all these identity politics that

00:20:29.240 we have right now. Cause you know, we don't want that, that, that, that evil, that racism

00:20:33.060 that we overcame. I mean, it's important to remember it. We're not glorifying it. It's, it's our

00:20:38.100 history and it's actually what happened.

00:20:39.100 You're acknowledging it. You're confronting it.

00:20:40.100 Yeah. Right.

00:20:41.100 And here's where I would maybe disagree with that is cause I think something in the public

00:20:44.760 square is not necessarily acknowledgement that's reverence. Um, and that's where the, the debate

00:20:49.940 needs to come into play. You know, are we revering these or are we just acknowledging our history?

00:20:56.340 Uh, that's why a museum takes place. That's why maybe keeping on battlefields. I mean, that's

00:21:00.760 an honest discussion to have. I don't think that's necessarily a bad, uh, thing that people

00:21:05.820 are talking about. Sure. But you know, if you, if you throw them into those museums,

00:21:09.240 you might as well throw them into drawers and lock them up. Right. I think that's the,

00:21:12.700 yeah, it's true. You know, the old cliche, those who don't remember their history are

00:21:16.580 doomed to repeat it. Right. You know, so I think it is important that, uh, in that context,

00:21:21.740 you know, some of these statues maybe do need to stay up. So we, so we don't repeat that history.

00:21:26.380 Sure. Well, you know, we have so much more to talk about, including bubonic plague, but you cannot

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00:22:27.100 Trump train. Amanda, first questions to you. How much better is Donald Trump than all of the

00:22:32.940 other presidents combined? How many orders of magnitude? He's one of a kind. That's for sure.

00:22:37.980 There's nobody like him. I mean, the, the, okay. So I'm not a fan of the memes of the WWE stuff.

00:22:44.940 I'm just not a fan. Have you seen them? Have you actually seen them? No, I don't know. I like them.

00:22:49.580 I don't like when my president retweets them. Um, I'm not the biggest fan, but it doesn't matter

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00:22:59.180 their overreaction, he's calling for the murder of journalists. By the way, I don't think it's a

00:23:02.940 meme. I think it's a documentary. Yeah. So, I mean, anytime they react to something president

00:23:10.380 Trump does that I'm not a fan of, I'm like, Oh, okay. I love it because they're just so hysterical.

00:23:15.500 You know, he's not advocating for the murder of journalists. Everybody calm down.

00:23:18.300 He does. He's not, he's not actually conducting a train. He's not actually, but Jacob, is it too

00:23:24.060 soon? I mean, this poor woman got mowed down by a Nazi on Saturday. Is it a little soon to be posting

00:23:29.420 these images? Yeah. I think maybe just a little bit too soon, but in all fairness to the president,

00:23:34.220 Jim Acosta was kind of acting like a shrieking harpy. I'm shocked. I'm shocked to hear that.

00:23:40.540 It's kind of funny. I think that meme in particular was too soon, but had Trump tweeted out another one,

00:23:46.380 I probably would have been okay with it because Jim Acosta has just ruined CNN for me completely.

00:23:51.260 I actually love him because he is Will Ferrell in Anchorman.

00:23:55.580 I really enjoy his presence. He does a lot for the right.

00:23:58.860 He does a lot for the right.

00:24:00.940 I hope that there's rumors he might get his own show. I hope that's true.

00:24:04.220 Oh, we'll give him one on the Daily Wire.

00:24:09.260 He deleted the tweet. Yes.

00:24:11.180 Was he right to delete the tweet or should he have left it up?

00:24:13.820 It certainly doesn't help him. If there's one thing about Trump that's always been

00:24:17.820 beneficial to Trump is that he's unapologetic.

00:24:19.660 So you think you think deleting it doesn't help him?

00:24:22.300 Yeah, I think yeah. Deleting it doesn't help him.

00:24:24.380 The one thing about Trump is that he's unapologetic and that this makes him look apologetic.

00:24:28.700 And to speak to Amanda's point, the media always overreact to this.

00:24:32.220 I mean, the last time he did that WWE tweet, they ended up finding some 15 year old Redditor online.

00:24:37.740 It docks the guy. 0.99

00:24:41.020 So leave it up and probably troll them to the point that they're going to do something else stupid. 0.99

00:24:45.260 I actually agree with you. Yeah, I think you should, even though I hate this stuff, 0.99

00:24:49.500 I think it just, whatever, just leave it up.

00:24:52.060 But is the meme correct? True or false? Fake news can't stop the Trump train.

00:24:57.420 Fake news propels the Trump train.

00:25:00.060 I mean, it runs on it.

00:25:01.820 It does. It's a well-oiled machine because of people like Jim Acosta.

00:25:05.420 I mean, they fuel his base so much, they don't get it.

00:25:08.380 And they just, they don't understand. They've learned nothing.

00:25:10.940 And they keep fueling him. I mean, every time they have an overreaction,

00:25:14.060 every time they call him a Nazi sympathizer or whatever, it just fuels his base.

00:25:18.380 And when they lie and they have to retract, that fuels his base.

00:25:21.260 So their fake news only helps him.

00:25:22.780 They are fake news, by the way. They have been pulling,

00:25:25.660 New York Times, Washington Post, CNN have had to retract major stories, fire reporters.

00:25:30.300 We're not talking about just getting a couple of facts wrong.

00:25:32.860 They have been terrible at their jobs.

00:25:34.940 All their anonymous sourcing that turned out to be bunk.

00:25:38.220 Why is that? Is it just something about Trump that irks them?

00:25:41.580 Or have their standards fallen for some other reason?

00:25:43.900 I honestly think it's they see Trump as a traitor, right?

00:25:46.620 Because he used to be a Democrat. He was one of them.

00:25:48.540 He was one of them. And now all of a sudden he's not.

00:25:50.700 And they are trying to punish him for it. But exactly what you said earlier,

00:25:55.020 they're just shoring up his base. That's all there is to it. They are oiling that machine

00:26:00.380 and it's going to keep on going.

00:26:01.500 And because Trump is so brash and unapologetic, typically, they really hate that.

00:26:06.540 And they hate that he'll smack them back. That was one of the things that I really liked about

00:26:10.540 Trump. They'll smack the media and they just can't stand it. They can't stand being called

00:26:15.100 fake news in the middle of a press conference.

00:26:16.780 And he talks like a New Yorker, which is, I mean, Amanda, you know this,

00:26:20.540 the way New Yorkers, sometimes when people who aren't from that wonderful place hear New Yorkers

00:26:26.700 talk, they say, why are you so mean to each other? You're not mean, it's just the way.

00:26:30.700 That's my best friend.

00:26:31.340 Yeah, it's just, it's kind of fun. It's funny. It's just the way you talk.

00:26:34.860 And we haven't seen that in a very long time since FDR, I guess, was the last New Yorker

00:26:39.900 president. And he did not, he did not talk like the Donald. Okay, we have to move on.

00:26:45.100 Speaking of the mainstream media continuing to harp on President Trump, they're harping on his

00:26:51.020 condemnation of the Nazis, not being emphatic enough. And the Nazis seem to agree, actually. 0.95

00:26:56.460 So Richard Spencer called it, quote, kumbaya nonsense. He said he doesn't take it very seriously.

00:27:02.220 Others echoed those sentiments. Jacob, are Spencer and the mainstream media correct?

00:27:08.860 No. Spencer is just doing this to get attention. We didn't even know who Spencer was until the

00:27:16.060 media started reporting on him. Of course. He would have no platform right now. But because

00:27:21.260 the mainstream media want to somehow tie this guy to Trump, this horrible racist, they want to tie 0.98

00:27:27.420 him to Trump. They're just going to report every single little thing he says. And especially if he 0.94

00:27:32.700 says Trump by name. But he does, I mean, these guys, I'm all for admitting that the Nazis are, 0.97

00:27:40.300 they have leftist premises. I'm all for saying that. I think these are fundamentally left-wing

00:27:44.940 movements, but they're also a little bit right-wing movements too, right? These guys did vote for

00:27:49.500 President Trump. So there is some association there. Yeah. I think he got, so the media are going

00:27:55.500 to overreact. They're going to say things that aren't true no matter what. They're going to go on

00:27:58.780 Trump no matter what. But I think Trump got himself in trouble. He should have named,

00:28:03.020 right off the bat, he should have named both groups, Antifa and neo-Nazis because that's,

00:28:08.780 I mean, you know, that's exactly what- They were both violent.

00:28:10.860 Yeah, they were both very violent. The one example, I mean,

00:28:13.260 obviously the Nazi plowed his car, but all of those little attacks, you saw the canister with a 0.76

00:28:19.100 homemade flamethrower and the rocks and all that, that seemed to all be Antifa or largely Antifa.

00:28:23.740 Right. So when this was coming out, I mean, he should have condemned both sides,

00:28:26.460 specifically called out the man with white supremacist ties who murdered. I mean, that's

00:28:32.300 awful, absolutely disgusting to announce it all. But because he didn't, and it was kind of, it almost

00:28:37.100 sounded like he was going off script when he was reading that, you know, many sides, many sides

00:28:41.180 trying to not take, I think Trump is annoyed that they're being tied to him because he hasn't,

00:28:46.940 he hasn't announced. Because they would do it anyway. I mean, they do it to every Republican,

00:28:51.020 they say, when did you stop beating your wife? And you might think it's that sort of moment.

00:28:54.860 So I didn't, I don't think it was necessarily nefarious of Trump. I might be naive to, to not

00:28:58.780 name them specifically. I think he's just annoyed that they're being tied to him anyway. So we're

00:29:01.980 saying everyone, everyone there doesn't want to name them by name because then it's tied to him

00:29:05.980 because that's what the media is trying to do. Um, but because of that, when he, when Trump comes

00:29:10.860 out a second time and then names them, you have these voids of promises who are saying, oh,

00:29:15.340 he didn't really mean it. It took him. They made him do it a day. Yeah. And that's,

00:29:18.700 and that's the problem that Trump steps into by doing that. Created it for himself. Yeah. Right.

00:29:22.700 Paul, did he, is he just playing footsie with fascists here or is he damned if he does and 0.99

00:29:27.260 damned if he doesn't? I think he's damned if he does, damned if he doesn't. So you don't, 0.99

00:29:31.820 you don't think he's winking at these guys at all. He wants to keep their support. No,

00:29:34.700 my, my, my honest opinion is it is. I think it's just Trump being Trump. I think he just wanted

00:29:38.780 to say what he wanted to say. And that is say on many sides, and he's not necessarily thinking

00:29:42.700 clearly that people are going to want him to tailor his rhetoric towards, uh, specifically condemning

00:29:48.140 white supremacist. So he just comes out, he says it, and then huge blowback and everybody's like

00:29:54.060 saying, well, yeah, you gotta condemn specifically. And he's like, well, I said what I wanted to say.

00:29:59.420 And so, okay. And now he goes out and says it and it looks like he's just, you know, caving to press

00:30:03.420 demands. It's yeah, it's, that's my opinion. Oh, I was just going to add, you know, I think we also have

00:30:08.940 to be careful on the rights criticism of, of Trump on this, because when Obama would come out and say

00:30:14.220 anything that had to do, you know, with the Dallas, uh, anytime a police officer shot an

00:30:19.740 an unarmed suspect, Obama would go out immediately reactionary. And then we on the right would always

00:30:24.620 go, oh, wait, wait, let's, let's measure. Let's, let's get all the facts. And then I think Trump

00:30:29.500 did that as well. He's like, well, I, he gave a statement about the fact that I was an active

00:30:33.180 situation. Yeah. So, and then when he got all the facts, he came out and condemned them. I do think in

00:30:38.460 this case, since we know it was Antifa and neo-Nazis, he should have done it. But I also think

00:30:43.500 some of the criticism is being a little harsh on him. Well, they're also just totally in the media

00:30:47.740 and everyone in America, it feels like it's just totally ignoring, um, you know, when,

00:30:52.860 oh, president Obama would never name black lives matter. We're never named.

00:30:56.300 He would throw fuel on the fire. My child would look like Trayvon Martin.

00:31:00.220 Yeah, exactly. And for some reason we forgot all this. I mean, uh, you know,

00:31:04.460 black lives matter sympathizer murdered five cops in Dallas. He didn't condemn black lives matter.

00:31:09.580 Of course not. Of course not. And it's in the top. The Democratic Party embraced them.

00:31:12.220 You know, memory hole, like nobody remembers that. And it's, it's, it's, it's still on their graves

00:31:15.900 at their funeral. Right. But, but president Trump, I mean,

00:31:18.220 president Obama was wrong to do that. And it's, I also think president Trump should have named

00:31:22.620 both, uh, Antifa and the neo-Nazis. And he should name president Obama. I love,

00:31:26.860 we got eight years of blame Bush. I want a little bit more blame Obama. I think it's delicious.

00:31:31.500 Well, now those answers were not hysterical enough. So we need to ratchet it up a little

00:31:36.300 bit and talk about bubonic plague. In other signs of the apocalypse, the black death appears to have

00:31:41.820 made a return to the United States fleas carrying bubonic plague, which killed 50 million people

00:31:47.740 in the 14th century and took out between 25 and 60% of the European population have infected three

00:31:54.860 victims in Arizona. Paul Bois, is our Lord's return to judge the living and the dead imminent?

00:32:01.900 Well, as our Lord said, Michael, it is not up to us to know the season. So I'd be a bit more

00:32:05.980 concerned. Not even you? Not even his evidence of Paul Bois?

00:32:08.540 So I'd be a bit more concerned of Antifa barging in your show one day and disrupting.

00:32:12.780 Than the black day and the rapture. Exactly.

00:32:15.820 Amanda, we always talk about our news cycle as if it is the end of the world. You know,

00:32:20.460 every election is the most important election of my lifetime and everything. This is the end.

00:32:24.620 The conservative movement's over. The right wing is over. The country's over. Is it,

00:32:28.620 is there anything right now? Is our time especially dire or is this just typical hysteria?

00:32:36.780 I think it's, I think it's typical hysteria. Um, I kind of fall into this too, a little bit,

00:32:41.020 because I thought we were going to all die of Ebola and Zika. I thought we were gone. I really

00:32:45.020 was like terrified. Yeah. My dad had to like calm me down and say that we're going to be fine. But,

00:32:50.060 um, yeah, it's the, you know, hysterical stuff. I mean, if you look at, you know,

00:32:54.060 everything in context, then this kind of stuff happens and we'll, we'll be all right.

00:32:58.780 But our, our culture is rotting though. I won't say that.

00:33:01.740 That is the plague. Yeah, that is the plague.

00:33:03.340 That is the plague. The world plague.

00:33:04.940 It's been a hundred, five hundred years.

00:33:07.740 Jacob, we, but you, you make a fair point that the culture might be decaying, but we are living

00:33:12.620 through basically the greatest time of peace and prosperity in the history of the world. And yet,

00:33:18.220 rates of anxiety are on the rise. Depression are on the rise. Why are people not happy?

00:33:23.660 I think it's the media. The mainstream media always churns out anything. If it bleeds, it leads,

00:33:29.580 right? So they're always churning out everything that could possibly go wrong. I mean, if you remember

00:33:34.540 when the Malaysian airline plane vanished, how could I forget? Yes. CNN harped on that for six

00:33:42.060 fricking months. Okay. It's not, we don't know what happened to it. It's either send someone to 0.71

00:33:46.220 Malaysia and investigate or shut up. You know, it doesn't, um, they, they run these stories 0.99

00:33:50.940 over and over again. And it's, it's basically, uh, it's, it's basically pornography for the,

00:33:56.540 for people who have anxiety. So there, I'm all for blaming the news. I blame the mainstream media

00:34:00.380 all day long, but there is, you got to this point of the culture decaying. Do you think that might be

00:34:05.180 part of it? There is a, we have all the money in the world now. We are richer than anyone has ever

00:34:10.060 been. Yeah. Is there some sense that that's not quite gratifying? We've turned away from.

00:34:15.500 Yeah. Take a look at any feminist over 40 alone. I mean, I think, you know, I'm serious though. 1.00

00:34:23.100 I mean, that's not, that's not happiness. They're like, oh yeah, you know, I have a career and

00:34:28.060 nobody and I'm alone. That's not, that's not happiness. So sure. I'll, I'll blame feminism. 1.00

00:34:32.460 Yeah. We'll throw that in there at the mainstream media. Definitely one of the, feminism ruins everything. 1.00

00:34:37.020 Yeah. Uh, but, uh, Dr. Peter Kreeft of Boston College really kind of said it best. Uh, all of

00:34:42.380 our technological advances is all a great how, but we've made a greater how and, uh, for a lesser why.

00:34:48.940 We don't necessarily know why, why we're, we have all these technologies, why we have, uh, our houses

00:34:54.700 and which it's always about what we're doing. Yeah. What we're doing. It's always about proclaiming

00:34:59.900 the glory of God. And that is, uh, that collapsed in the 1960s. That is a pretty dire way to end,

00:35:07.020 but we have to. So thank you. The panel of deplorables, Paul Bois, Amanda Presto Giacomo,

00:35:11.660 and Jacob Airy. Now it is time for the final thought.

00:35:20.220 Inside every social justice warrior is a tyrant yearning to spring out. The left famously never

00:35:26.700 lets a crisis go to waste and our American Taliban has seized on the crimes of a handful of idiots 1.00

00:35:32.620 and criminals in Charlottesville to finally topple our Biloxi Buddhas. That impulse is revisionist, 1.00

00:35:38.780 anti-historic and un-American. The truth above all things, toppling statues achieves nothing other

00:35:44.060 than obscuring our history. It's an attack on our ability to understand our country and ourselves.

00:35:49.820 And Robert Ely is only the beginning. The left's rapacious appetite to whitewash our history

00:35:54.940 will grow only more ravenous. Who's to say where it will turn its fangs next?

00:36:00.300 Who's to say? I don't know. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:36:03.420 Thanks for being here. Come back tomorrow. We'll do it again.

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The Michael Knowles Show - August 15, 2017

Ep. 10 - American Taliban Blow Up Biloxi Buddhas

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