The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1098 - Lizzo Degrades And Twerks On American History

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00:00:37.760 Last night, Lizzo made history.

00:00:56.980 I just twerked and played James Madison, Crystal Stephen, and it's invasion.

00:01:12.360 We just made history tonight.

00:01:16.260 Thank you to the Library of Congress for preserving our history and making history freaking cool.

00:01:22.420 History is freaking cool, you guys.

00:01:24.620 Lizzo twerked and played James Madison's Crystal Flute from the 1800s.

00:01:30.160 It was historic.

00:01:32.640 So was the Hindenburg.

00:01:34.440 So was the conquest of Constantinople.

00:01:37.100 Not all historic events are good or praiseworthy.

00:01:42.000 I actually kind of like Lizzo.

00:01:44.680 I do.

00:01:45.360 I know, I know it's not popular on the right.

00:01:47.180 I like Lizzo.

00:01:47.940 I think her music is somewhat catchy.

00:01:50.540 The outfits, not my thing, but the music, somewhat catchy.

00:01:53.980 And as far as modern musical artists go, I stan her, okay?

00:02:00.200 She is a surprisingly skilled flautist.

00:02:02.720 All of that is true.

00:02:04.320 But Lizzo should not have been given special permission to play James Madison's flute for two reasons.

00:02:10.560 First one, because Lizzo is not dignified.

00:02:14.940 She could be dignified if she wanted to be, but she is not. 0.99

00:02:17.880 And it is degrading to our nation for a lady simultaneously to twerk and jiggle and degrade herself and to play an historical artifact that belonged to the father of the Constitution. 0.99

00:02:29.620 Second, Lizzo should not have been given special permission to play the flute because the entire performance was intended as an act of hostility toward James Madison, toward the founding fathers, and toward the historical American nation.

00:02:46.000 I don't think Lizzo intended it as a hostile act, but the libs generally did.

00:02:52.480 Instead, the New York Times reported, quote, it was a symbolic moment as Lizzo, a hugely popular black singer, rapper, and songwriter, played a priceless instrument that once belonged to a founder whose Virginia plantation was built by enslaved black workers.

00:03:11.780 And the flute had been lent to her by Carla D. Hayden, the first African American and woman to lead the Library of Congress.

00:03:20.640 In other words, the performance was not to be an honor.

00:03:26.540 It was set up and seen as an act of revenge against a no-good, long-dead racist and the nation that he represents.

00:03:37.100 It was set up and reported as an act of liberation by a self-described victim of oppression.

00:03:44.320 I don't know what a music video for good means, but I do know what your vote means. 0.85

00:03:50.640 And that's a f***ing lot.

00:03:52.700 Your vote means everything to me. 0.70

00:03:56.920 It means everything to making a change in this country.

00:03:59.860 So remember, when you're voting for your favorite artists, vote to change some of these laws that are oppressing us.

00:04:10.240 Now, Lizzo, of course, is not oppressed.

00:04:13.520 And our founding fathers were not oppressors.

00:04:16.540 The country they established is not evil.

00:04:19.060 And both the men and the country deserve better than to be mocked with a twerk.

00:04:24.580 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:04:25.680 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:04:33.500 Welcome back to the show.

00:04:34.800 My favorite comment yesterday is from Gerardo Leon, who says,

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00:04:43.480 I know, this is going to be the commercials in 10 years, 20 years.

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00:05:00.280 the totally safe and totally effective vaccines.

00:05:02.340 They got so many legal protections, they actually probably won't be held liable.

00:05:05.540 But maybe that should have been the first warning.

00:05:07.220 Hey, why is Big Pharma getting all of these special protections if people get injured by the vaccine when they tell us it's totally safe and effective?

00:05:14.640 I don't know.

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00:06:27.680 Speaking of women with is in their names, how's that? 1.00

00:06:33.320 I think that might be my greatest transition ever.

00:06:35.700 Speaking of women with is in their names, the climate change activist, Izzy Cook, has just accidentally on television exemplified the hypocrisy at the heart, not just of the environmentalist movement on the left, but of the left broadly.

00:06:53.540 So, we would have to apply to have, like, approved events to be able to fly for?

00:06:59.380 Well, that's one thing that you could look at doing.

00:07:02.340 Am I allowed to go to Fiji? Is that necessary?

00:07:05.740 In the current climate crisis, I don't think that that's necessary.

00:07:08.900 When was the last time you were on a plane?

00:07:13.280 I'm not sure. Maybe a few months ago, to be honest.

00:07:16.800 Where'd you go?

00:07:19.340 Fiji.

00:07:20.980 Izzy! 0.99

00:07:21.340 Izzy, don't you care about the climate, Izzy?

00:07:27.740 Of course I care about the climate.

00:07:29.100 Not enough.

00:07:29.940 You went to-

00:07:30.600 You went to Fiji.

00:07:35.000 Izzy, come on, mate. 1.00

00:07:37.020 Are you serious?

00:07:38.340 Are you serious?

00:07:43.660 Are you serious, Izzy?

00:07:45.260 This is, of course, the way to respond to all of the alarmism, all of the hysterics about how the world is going to end.

00:07:53.900 You just sort of laugh at it.

00:07:55.620 Because you can say, obviously, the libs don't believe this. 0.94

00:07:59.080 If the libs believed that getting on an airplane was going to destroy the entire world, then they wouldn't do it, or they're just stone-cold psychopaths. 0.96

00:08:08.080 But they do it.

00:08:09.500 They do it all the time, and so we don't need to take it seriously.

00:08:12.280 The whole Davos crew that tells us that we need to go eat bugs, and we have to stop living, and we have to live in tiny little pods, and we can't have meat, and we can't go work, and we can't travel, and we can't drive a car, and we can't do anything anymore.

00:08:25.200 That same crew, they all fly private jets halfway across the world to go on a fun ski vacation with a bunch of other elites around the world, okay?

00:08:34.640 And so we don't need to take that seriously as a matter of life or death for the world.

00:08:41.500 We do have to take it seriously as a political movement, but we need to start examining the real motivations here.

00:08:48.640 Why is it that these very wealthy, powerful, influential people want to peddle the climate change stuff?

00:08:56.700 Is it because they really believe in it?

00:08:58.060 Most of the time, I don't think it is.

00:09:00.440 Most of the time, I think it's a power play.

00:09:02.560 It gives them more power, the technocracy more power, the international institutions more power, the handful of corporations that are wielding a lot of influence on those other institutions.

00:09:11.880 It gives them a lot more power.

00:09:13.400 Think about it with COVID.

00:09:14.600 Why did the most powerful interests in the country push to shut down the country during COVID?

00:09:20.020 Is it really because they thought that everyone was going to die if we were closer than six feet away from one another and we took that little hanky off our face?

00:09:28.140 No, of course not.

00:09:29.080 Because all of those people regularly would take the little hanky off and they would violate all the rules and Gavin Newsom would show up to the French laundry and these CEOs and the oligarchs and the masters of the universe would routinely, regularly violate their own COVID rules when they thought that the cameras weren't rolling.

00:09:46.280 So what is it?

00:09:47.280 Is it just hypocrisy or is it just a failure to live up to their standards?

00:09:51.600 No, I think there's a little bit more than that.

00:09:52.960 Think about COVID.

00:09:53.980 COVID represented the largest transfer of wealth from the lower classes to the upper classes ever in the entire history of the world.

00:10:00.820 Very often there are financial motivations and power politics motivations.

00:10:07.320 I was just in the Bronx yesterday.

00:10:09.060 I was in this old, wonderful neighborhood I've been going to and since I was a very little kid, we would do our grocery shopping there.

00:10:15.020 And I don't know, maybe being around those Italian Americans, it gives you a little bit more of an edge and it gives you a little bit of that sense of, hold on, what's really at play here?

00:10:23.400 Is someone really trying to pull one over on us?

00:10:25.820 And so I think you've got to just laugh at it, okay?

00:10:28.060 You've got to laugh at it.

00:10:29.100 Then you've got to examine where the real motivations are.

00:10:33.000 And then you've got to be much better armed to fight back against them.

00:10:39.500 I mean, especially with COVID, they were pushing this thing so preposterously with such determination.

00:10:47.800 Joe Biden now, as Floridians were preparing for the arrival of Hurricane Ian, Joe Biden was saying the best way to prepare for a hurricane is to go get vaccinated.

00:10:56.760 Let me be clear. If you're in a state where hurricanes often strike, like Florida or the Gulf Coast or into Texas, a vital part of preparing for hurricane season is to get vaccinated now.

00:11:12.180 Everything is more complicated if you're not vaccinated in a hurricane or a natural disaster hits.

00:11:18.160 It's much more complicated, you know, when the twister is coming and it sucks you up and it throws you into the sky and you're spinning around with cows and automobiles, you've got to make sure that you don't catch COVID.

00:11:30.200 Now, that warning from Biden was not, it's been going viral now because of the hurricane that's landing in Florida.

00:11:36.200 It was not specifically for Hurricane Ian.

00:11:39.240 It was for hurricanes broadly, but it's the same broad brush that you're seeing with the whole climate change agenda.

00:11:44.100 Oh, yeah, you know, the world is going to end.

00:11:46.900 How's the world going to end?

00:11:47.580 Well, it's going to be really hot or it's going to be really cold or it's going to be really rainy or it's going to be really dry or it's going to be really whatever.

00:11:54.940 Do what we if you want to stop climate change.

00:11:56.760 What do you got to do?

00:11:57.880 Well, you've got to give up some of your political rights.

00:11:59.840 If you want to stop climate change, what do you got to do?

00:12:01.800 You got to give up some of your national sovereignty.

00:12:03.660 You got to stop climate change.

00:12:04.820 What do you got to do?

00:12:05.280 You got to give up your wealth.

00:12:06.860 You got to shut down a bunch of small businesses.

00:12:08.420 You got to give special nice handouts and privileges to coincidentally all the people in industries that happen to be buddies with the political ruling class.

00:12:16.360 I don't think so. I think that's the sort of thing that we can just laugh at, okay?

00:12:24.020 It's the sort of grandiose pie in the sky, fear-mongering and promises that we can just

00:12:29.960 sort of mock. And you're not just seeing it from Joe Biden. You're seeing it even from the

00:12:35.800 apparently, ostensibly more lucid Democrats. You're seeing it from one of the most normal

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00:13:14.220 Senator Amy Klobuchar, the sometime presidential candidate for the Democrats. She didn't go very 0.52

00:13:21.380 far. She's probably gonna try to run again. It probably won't go anywhere this time either. 1.00

00:13:25.740 Amy Klobuchar, who I had some respect for because I feel she's one of the more reasonable of the Dems,

00:13:31.140 damning with faint praise perhaps. She just said that if you're concerned about hurricanes,

00:13:36.400 that is why you've got to go out and vote for Democrats.

00:13:41.180 We just did something about climate change for the first time in decades. That's why we've got

00:13:46.200 to win this as that hurricane bears down on Florida. We got to win in the midterms. We understand that.

00:13:53.720 Really distasteful stuff, by the way. People's not only property, but lives are seriously in

00:13:58.680 danger in Florida now. And they're saying, well, if you want to avoid hurricanes,

00:14:01.640 you've got to vote for Democrats. There is one man in the history of the world who can command

00:14:07.200 the weather and the weather listens. Okay, one man, and it ain't Joe Biden. It's not even Barack

00:14:13.340 Obama, even though Obama said that when he was elected, the seas would stop rising. The planet

00:14:20.420 would heal. But no, it's not Obama. There's one guy walked around the earth about 2000 years ago.

00:14:25.700 The rest of them are just pretending. But that's what they will say. It is, for the ones who are

00:14:33.440 sincere about it, it shows the level of hubris on the left. They really do believe that they can

00:14:39.240 control every single thing under the sun. And for those who are just being cynical and opportunistic,

00:14:45.680 they're making promises that they know they can never keep. They cannot control the weather.

00:14:51.400 Their predictions almost always are wrong. These are people who have demonstrated extreme

00:14:56.660 incompetence and deceit. And it's, in many ways, the silver lining of COVID is COVID was just this

00:15:04.740 very intense distillation of all the pie in the sky utopian promises that we get from the libs.

00:15:10.080 And it all turned out to be wrong or a lie. It was either accidentally wrong or intentionally wrong.

00:15:16.720 And it was a little bit of both from the libs. Either way, I think it woke a whole lot of people up.

00:15:21.400 To say, man, something is seriously, seriously wrong here. Speaking of a lack of control,

00:15:29.300 Vice Magazine just tried to air a really sort of sympathetic puff piece about the reintegration

00:15:35.540 of sex offenders back into society. And the way that this documentary ended, I think,

00:15:43.360 tells you the entire story.

00:15:45.140 We all out here in this world. And we all got to make it happen. It ain't nothing stopping me. So,

00:15:51.600 like, I'm very hopeful and confident. 0.99

00:15:57.140 After this interview, Ashif sent a picture of his penis to our producer. 1.00

00:16:00.820 Oh, man. I love you've got the platitude. I bet, knowing Vice, I bet they really did try to make 0.99

00:16:12.820 a puff piece about these poor put upon sex offenders. You know, these guys, society failed

00:16:19.160 them. If only society, if only this racist, bigoted, oppressive country, society hadn't failed

00:16:26.460 them. Then they wouldn't be rapists or whatever. And I do think they probably sincerely tried to 0.91

00:16:31.660 make that documentary. And then they film it. And it is broadly sympathetic. And then you just get

00:16:35.260 that punchline at the end. Moments after that interview. Moments after this man recited those

00:16:41.280 platitudes. We're all here, man. We've got to get together, you know, and just keep on doing it,

00:16:45.860 man, whatever. He sent a photo of his genitals to our producer. 0.99

00:16:50.340 Which reminds us that we need prudence, okay? Prudence is a virtue that I keep coming back to 0.98

00:16:58.820 again and again and again. Because the left has absolutely no respect for the virtue of prudence.

00:17:04.140 And many people on the right do not either. Sometimes, especially when I'm discussing a 0.54

00:17:10.000 political issue with the more ideological people on the right, the more dogmatic, doctrinal,

00:17:16.440 five bullet points on the back of a napkin manifesto type of people on the right, they'll 0.95

00:17:20.840 say, Michael, I want to hear the principled ideological argument for why we should ban

00:17:28.520 marijuana, but not tobacco. I'm just using an example. Or I want to hear the ideological

00:17:33.660 principled rationalist argument for why we shouldn't have gay marriage. Or Michael, I want to hear whatever. 0.99

00:17:40.160 And I say, you know, I don't need to give you, I think I could in many cases, but I don't think

00:17:48.380 that I need to be able to give you this perfect, modern, rationalistic kind of argument for my entire

00:17:57.680 political program in society. I think we can use some prudence. I remember when I was a student,

00:18:05.600 I got to meet Antonin Scalia. Someone asked him about gun control.

00:18:08.660 Is they said, you know, Justice Scalia, you support the Second Amendment, but you think there are some

00:18:13.800 limits here. And I'm not sure that the limits totally jive with the original understanding

00:18:17.880 of the Second Amendment and the Constitution. And I don't understand why some guns can be banned

00:18:21.940 and other guns are not banned. And how would you determine exactly where that line is on the limits

00:18:29.380 of the Second Amendment? And Scalia's answer has stuck with me. And I apply it to so many other issues.

00:18:35.320 He said, how would I determine where the line is on the Second Amendment? Very carefully.

00:18:44.240 And this answer infuriated the ideologues, and certainly on the left, but on the right as well.

00:18:51.780 But that's obviously the right answer. How do we determine these sorts of limits in society?

00:18:57.000 How do we determine when to show mercy to prisoners and when to insist upon a little bit more justice?

00:19:03.240 When to go lighter and let them out of prison and reintegrate them into society and say, forget the 0.81

00:19:07.380 past, and when to put some guardrails around these people? How do you do that?

00:19:11.920 Very carefully. You do it. How do we determine? Why can't Lizzo play the flute? Lizzo, if you oppose

00:19:18.260 Lizzo playing the flute, you're a racist, sexist. You would allow some other concert flautist to play 0.95

00:19:25.300 that flute? Yes, I probably would. But you won't allow Lizzo. Correct. I don't think Lizzo should play

00:19:30.320 the flute. Well, well, why? Because I look at Lizzo and she's wearing a weird little leotard thing and

00:19:38.480 she's jiggling around half naked and she's just behaving in a way that's not dignified. It's 0.99

00:19:44.500 actually obscene. Whereas the concert flautist wearing the white tie and tails is behaving in a

00:19:49.580 way that is dignified. And so if I'm talking about a national artifact from the father of the

00:19:54.300 constitution, I don't want that to be degraded by being played while a woman jiggles around on stage. 1.00

00:20:02.140 Well, but how? Define dignity, Michael. Define obscenity, Michael. No, I don't have to do that.

00:20:08.400 I don't have to do it because Justice Potter Stewart actually was correct when he said, yes,

00:20:14.140 it is a little tricky to define obscenity, but you know it when you see it.

00:20:19.840 You do. We can do that. We have the right to do that in this country, okay? Whether the libs

00:20:24.660 want to admit it or not. We have the right to use our prudence, use our wisdom of repugnance,

00:20:32.520 to use a phrase from the bioethicist Leon Kass, and just say, you know, look, I can't totally,

00:20:37.740 there was an article that came out last week. It said, why are gay same-sex,

00:20:44.080 well, I guess those are the same thing. Why are same-sex incestuous relationships wrong?

00:20:51.980 There's no possibility of procreation there, so that bioethical consideration is off the table.

00:20:58.420 So why is it wrong? You know, I could give you a pithy enough explanation, but before I even

00:21:06.940 would be tempted to do that, because it just is. Because it just is. Because we all know

00:21:13.760 deep down in our stomachs that that is repugnant. We have a prejudice against that, and that prejudice

00:21:20.340 is good. Prejudice is not always bad. Prejudice is how we all survive. You don't want to be

00:21:27.360 mean or unjust or unfair, but you certainly, we have to rely on prejudices and instinct and received

00:21:35.140 wisdom, or we wouldn't be able to do a damn thing in the world. If we had to write a fleshed out

00:21:40.820 rationalist post-enlightenment treatise for everything that we do all day long, we would

00:21:45.820 never be able to do anything at all. How do we, why do we put a lot of safeguards around sex offenders

00:21:54.040 even after they leave prison? Well, because we know that there's a real risk that they will re-offend.

00:21:59.440 Speaking of crime and punishment, you've heard about the extremist pro-lifers, the domestic 0.99

00:22:07.800 terrorists, the threats to our country that the DOJ and the FBI and the Biden administration are

00:22:13.340 warning about. Here's a story you probably haven't heard about. There's a man, a 74-year-old man,

00:22:19.500 who shot an 84-year-old pro-life woman as she was canvassing to end abortion. The pro-life lady

00:22:29.060 was not violent. She was not creating a public disturbance. She was just a sweet little old 0.89

00:22:36.520 lady trying to convince people not to kill their babies. 74-year-old lunatic pro-abortion leftist 0.97

00:22:43.180 shoots the woman. Not only is he not in prison right now, not only is he not facing, one would 0.95

00:22:51.900 imagine a serious punishment. Life in prison, capital punishment even. He hasn't even been

00:22:58.420 arrested. You remember Mark Houck? We've been talking about him on the show recently. He's the

00:23:04.760 pro-life guy who was peacefully protesting in front of an abortion clinic and some lunatic leftist comes 0.91

00:23:11.940 upstairs screaming his 12-year-old son. The worst thing Mark Houck did was, I guess, sort of push the

00:23:16.260 guy away from his 12-year-old son. For that, the FBI shows up with 25, 30 agents, rifles drawn,

00:23:22.660 pointed at Mark, pointed at Mark's wife, busts in on the home. Seven kids there absolutely traumatized

00:23:28.640 from this because of Joe Biden's jack-booted Gestapo thugs. But a 74-year-old pro-abortion guy

00:23:34.860 shoots an 84-year-old pro-life lady because she's pro-life. The FBI's got more important things to do.

00:23:41.800 The FBI's got to go raid the former president's house. The FBI's got to go point guns around the

00:23:46.240 homes of seven poor little kids. They won't even take a look at that story. Why? Because

00:23:54.360 there are two justice systems. And meanwhile, you have privileged, famous, rich, elite, get away with

00:24:02.520 whatever they want, libs, claiming to be oppressed in this country. And then you've got pro-lifers.

00:24:10.480 There was an 18-year-old conservative who was just murdered, was just run over with a car by a 40- 0.93

00:24:15.580 something-year-old insane Democrat. And then what is that? Democrat gets $50,000 bond. He can then go 0.85

00:24:21.920 free. That's it. That's the way that criminal justice actually works in America. 0.98

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00:24:45.760 Speaking of the FBI intimidating pro-lifers, there's another one. I promise you, most of you

00:24:52.160 out there have not heard about this story. The FBI is harassing another pro-life group. This from

00:24:57.480 Mary Margaret Olihan, reporting it in Daily Signal. Pro-life sidewalk group, Pro-life Action Ministries

00:25:04.740 was just intimidated by more FBI thugs. Two FBI agents showed up to question a pro-life activist

00:25:11.680 who was praying outside of Planned Parenthood in St. Paul. So the FBI shows up and they're talking about

00:25:20.500 that guy Mark Houck. They're talking about the way that pro-lifers are being

00:25:27.860 targeted in this country. And then the FBI shows up there again. You've got genuine threats to the

00:25:35.040 country. BLM burning the country down for eight months. Antifa showing up all the time. Democrats

00:25:41.260 murdering 18-year-old Republicans for being Republican. You've got assassination attempts on 0.92

00:25:46.800 conservative justices on the Supreme Court. You've got Republicans being harassed everywhere they go.

00:25:52.140 You've got this, that, and the other thing. The FBI is only focused on the pro-lifers.

00:25:58.920 Harassing the pro-lifers. Which makes me blame the agents. I say this just like I said it yesterday.

00:26:06.660 Yes, they're good people who work for the FBI and they do good work. Certainly they did in the past.

00:26:10.820 These days, who knows what the FBI is up to other than this kind of targeting. At this point though,

00:26:17.340 I blame the agents. These two agents should not have gone out there. They should refuse

00:26:21.660 these orders. Very often at schools, people will come up to me or any speeches I give. People come

00:26:27.800 up and say, it's the same question. Every speech without fail. Michael, how do I know when to stand up

00:26:35.340 for my beliefs and how to just sort of go along to get along, get another paycheck, make it through

00:26:40.300 another day, get my degree, get my promotion, and then I can be conservative. And it goes back to

00:26:45.340 that issue I was talking about earlier. It goes back to prudence. It's not just that you show up

00:26:50.080 freshman year of high school and your teacher is a little bit liberal and you walk into class with 0.89

00:26:54.060 a MAGA hat on, blowing a trumpet, and you say, we will destroy all of you libs. Like Khrushchev 0.86

00:27:00.560 banging your shoe on the lectern at the UN. We will destroy you. We will bury you. No, you don't need 0.99

00:27:06.600 to do that. You don't need to be totally flamboyant with your views all of the time.

00:27:10.460 But you can't just roll over. You can't just give up because then there won't, if you just

00:27:17.420 constantly cave on your beliefs or refuse to stand up for them, then okay, you get through

00:27:23.440 freshman year, but then you'll stand up for it when you're an upperclassman. Except you got to get

00:27:26.800 into a good college. Okay. Well, you'll, but then when you're in college, you'll, you'll stand up for

00:27:30.640 your beliefs. Oh, except you got to get that good job, don't you? Okay. So once you get the job

00:27:34.720 though, then you'll say, well, except now you're a first year at this job, you should probably keep

00:27:38.700 your head down. Once you get that promotion though, that's okay. Until you're in middle

00:27:41.860 management. Wow. But now, you know, look, you got a family to feed. You probably can't rock the boat

00:27:45.420 too much. All right. Well, once you're the CEO and then, well, okay, you became a CEO. That's great.

00:27:49.260 But you're responsible to your shareholders or to your investors. Okay. And then eventually you die

00:27:53.780 and you've never done anything and you've never stood up for any of your beliefs and you've gone

00:27:56.780 along to get along. Prudence is a good way to, to measure when things have gone

00:28:04.560 too far. When the president is using his political appointees to send federal law enforcement out

00:28:12.460 almost exclusively to harass good, peaceful people doing good, peaceful things, standing up

00:28:21.980 for the most vulnerable people in society, little tiny babies who are being murdered en masse by the

00:28:30.380 libs with the encouragement and the funding of the Biden administration. When you, when you see

00:28:34.980 something that is so clearly good versus evil, you've got to stand up and you cannot say, well,

00:28:44.760 I was just following orders. Well, I was going to, no, this is it. This is the time. This is the time

00:28:49.540 FBI agents. For those FBI agents listening to this show, this is the time. Refuse the orders.

00:28:56.580 Have integrity. I, I pro, you might lose your pension. I don't know. You might lose some money,

00:29:03.460 but I promise you, you're going to feel a lot better than in 10 years, 20 years. Hey, daddy.

00:29:08.140 Hey, grandpa. What did, gosh, golly, what did you do in the FBI? Oh, I pointed guns at the children

00:29:13.040 of pro-life advocates because my boss, the president was just maniacally focused on killing babies. 0.98

00:29:20.340 So that's what I did, Sonny. I served my country. That's right. I harassed little grannies in the 1.00

00:29:26.460 street and I ignored it when the pro-life grannies got shot by the lunatic pro-abortion people. I just, 0.98

00:29:31.640 I just spent all my time defending the right, the right, quote unquote, of the pro-abortion people 0.99

00:29:35.400 to kill more babies. That's what I did. Aren't you proud of me, Sonny? No, no, they won't be proud of 0.99

00:29:40.760 you. They won't be proud of you at all. Speaking of the Biden administration and death,

00:29:45.360 Joe Biden just stepped in it again, as he often does. Joe Biden, and by it, I mean his mouth. He

00:29:54.140 put his foot right in his mouth. He was at an event, the White House Conference on Hunger,

00:29:58.120 Nutrition, and Health. And as he was doing his slappy on the back, simpering, hey there, buddy,

00:30:03.300 kind of politician routine, he asked where one member of Congress is, a woman named Jackie, 0.98

00:30:09.160 and bizarrely and unfortunately, Jackie is dead. And so many of you know so much about this as well,

00:30:19.340 and you're committed. And I want to thank all of you here for including bipartisan elected officials

00:30:25.040 like Representative Gover, Senator Braun, Senator Booker, Representative Jackie, are you here?

00:30:31.880 Where's Jackie? I didn't think she was going to be here. Where's Jackie? So if you look at the

00:30:37.860 people who were involved in this issue, the only person named Jackie would be Jackie Walorsky,

00:30:42.380 a Republican member of Congress from Indiana who died a month ago in a car accident.

00:30:50.740 If Joe Biden were your grandpa, or Joe Biden were some aged member of your family,

00:30:58.120 and he said this sort of thing, you would not be surprised. You know, sometimes people who are

00:31:04.080 senile and in decline, they forget these things, they forget who's died, and they don't keep up on

00:31:09.620 the news. But Joe Biden is the President of the United States. Joe Biden should be following the

00:31:18.760 news, at least. Joe Biden should know when a member of Congress dies. These are the people that he's got

00:31:25.260 to work with or fight against to get legislation passed. This is not just, oh, well, you know, look,

00:31:31.480 there's a lot of members of Congress. Well, the President's got a lot on his plate. Yeah,

00:31:34.760 that was a pretty big news story when she died. And members of Congress are pretty important to

00:31:41.860 the President in both parties. He should know this. And the fact that he doesn't, again,

00:31:49.720 I think buttresses my thesis, that Joe Biden is not running the show. There's a big debate,

00:31:54.500 even on the right. Is Joe Biden really in charge? And people whose opinions I respect came out and they

00:32:00.640 said, no, I think Joe Biden is in charge. You know, the buck stops with the President.

00:32:04.340 Okay, we can't just blame it on some shadowy cabal. I think he really is giving the calls.

00:32:09.240 No, I think everything that we've seen in the last year and a half, or more than a year and a half now,

00:32:15.640 shows that Joe Biden is not really the one making these calls. Actually, the evidence of this,

00:32:19.200 by the way, is that when Joe Biden makes a statement on policy himself that contradicts what

00:32:27.680 the powers that be want, then the White House comes out and clarifies and changes the policy.

00:32:37.840 You saw this, especially when Joe Biden said, yeah, we're going to defend Taiwan. We're going to

00:32:40.820 defend Taiwan. And then the White House came out and said, no, no, we support the one child policy,

00:32:45.020 one child policy, the one China policy, not the one child policy, which not even China supports

00:32:49.720 anymore. Well, what is the White House? You see this report, the White House said, right,

00:32:55.020 it's using a literary tool to say that, referring to this building as the power that is making these

00:33:04.460 decisions. But Joe Biden is supposed to be the executive who represents that power.

00:33:08.380 So how is Joe Biden at odds ever with the White House? Well, they're right. They're both they're

00:33:15.760 both metonyms and they're supposed to be the same metonym, but they're not. Why? Because Joe Biden

00:33:19.640 is obviously not calling the shots. Now, the White House had to come out and clarify. And in this case,

00:33:25.780 Karine Jean-Pierre, the president's spokesman, once again, gaslit the press and the American people

00:33:30.880 and said, I don't think there's anything weird about the president asking where the dead member of

00:33:34.300 Congress was at the event. Does the president think that she's living and in the room? I don't find

00:33:39.600 that confusing. I mean, I think many people can speak to sometimes when you have someone top of

00:33:44.260 mind, they're a top of mind. Exactly that. And it is also if you put it into the context, it's not like

00:33:51.560 it happened without outside of context, right? It happened at an event where we were

00:33:58.220 we were calling out the champions, congressional champions in particular of this issue, this

00:34:05.300 important issue when it comes to food and security. He was at an event, you all saw, you all watched,

00:34:11.020 which is why you're asking the question, right? Where he was calling out, again, congressional leaders,

00:34:17.340 a bipartisan leadership that we have seen on this particular issue. And again, he's going to see

00:34:25.440 her family in just two days. And she was on top of mind. I mean, I don't, that is, I mean, that is,

00:34:33.060 that is not an unusual, unusual scenario there. It's not unusual when senile people get confused

00:34:42.640 and think that dead people are still alive. That is not unusual. If you've ever had a parent or a

00:34:47.640 grandparent who's fallen into senility, you want to say, hey, where's Aunt, Aunt Josephine? It's like,

00:34:53.240 grandma, Aunt Josephine died 20 years ago. That's not unusual. It's unusual when the president of

00:34:58.560 the United States does that. It's unusual when we've got a completely senile president. And it's 0.50

00:35:02.440 just this gaslighting that drives me so crazy. It's actually somewhat similar to what we're seeing

00:35:09.500 from the media with the Lizzo James Madison flute saga, where Lizzo is allowed to play this flute and

00:35:18.380 jiggles on stage in this sort of pornographic costume, this obscene, grotesque sort of

00:35:23.220 performance. He goes, I'm playing James Madison's flute, the father of reconstruction. Look at my 0.62

00:35:28.940 little jiggling, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle. And then, and then you say, oh, that's not,

00:35:33.300 that doesn't seem right. And you say, why? What's wrong with that? What's wrong? Why are you so offended

00:35:37.740 by that? You're obviously trying to offend me. The whole performance is offensive and gross and

00:35:44.500 grotesque as a historical matter. And just as an aesthetic matter, it's just gross. 0.84

00:35:50.560 And, and you're doing it intentionally to get a rise out of me. And then when you do get a rise

00:35:54.840 out of me, you gaslight me. You say, what, what, why is that so offensive? What's, what's so wrong?

00:35:58.640 It's like, they're just standing there like, Hey, Hey, not touching, not touching. They're moving

00:36:02.880 their hands, right? One inch from your face, not touching, not touching. Then you smack their hand

00:36:06.300 away. They say, why'd you hit me? Why? Come on. Why are you so triggered? No, you're obviously

00:36:10.660 trying to provoke me and get, get a rise out of me. Now you're, you're gaslighting me about it

00:36:16.920 the whole time. That's what I find. I find it even more offensive than, than Joe Biden calling out a

00:36:25.360 dead Congress, Congress lady's name. Yeah. He's senile. Okay. I don't, I, it's, it's weird. It's

00:36:30.160 sad, but I don't, I find it much more offensive when you gaslight me about it. I find it much more

00:36:34.960 offensive even than when Lizzo does this grotesque display with James Madison's flute. I find it much

00:36:39.360 more offensive when you then gaslight me and say, why? Oh, what's so wrong? What's wrong with that?

00:36:43.100 Are you just a big racist, sexist, thisist, thatist? No, not, I'm not any of those things. 0.97

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00:37:36.300 to apply. Speaking of Democrats downplaying unpleasant things, John Fetterman, who is in a neck and neck race

00:37:49.920 with Dr. Oz down over in Pennsylvania. John Fetterman is a radical left Democrat. He said infamously that if he

00:38:00.800 had a magic wand, he could change whatever he wanted to change about society, the thing that

00:38:04.460 he would do is he would let murderers out of prison. That's not out of context. I'm not speaking

00:38:09.420 hyperbolically. That's actually what he said. John Fetterman, who never held a real job in his whole

00:38:15.940 life, who presents himself as a working class hero in his hoodie and he's a tough looking guy. He was

00:38:21.320 actually just on his parents' allowance. And when I say allowance, I'm not talking about the $2 a week you

00:38:27.000 got as a kid. I'm talking about 50 grand plus per year to support his sort of vagabond, derelict

00:38:32.680 lifestyle. John Fetterman just removed a certain section of his website. But because the internet

00:38:40.120 is forever, we got to see it. John Fetterman has just removed the Black Lives Matter section of the

00:38:47.360 website, which is really, really weird. Does John Fetterman no longer believe that Black Lives Matter?

00:38:53.480 Is John Fetterman admitting that Black Lives Matter is a sort of distasteful organization

00:39:00.040 that's obviously just a criminal enterprise anyway and not one to tout your support of when

00:39:07.320 you're running for Senate? Or, and this is most important, does John Fetterman still support the

00:39:13.340 BLM organization? But does John Fetterman realize that BLM is not a popular organization among actual

00:39:21.700 voters? Because what we've been told by the press, by the ruling class is, oh, BLM is wonderful. It's

00:39:29.980 the voice of the people. Oh, we all the good people support BLM. And I think, I don't know. I know a lot

00:39:36.280 of people. I know a lot of people of all races, all around the country, both political parties. I know

00:39:42.360 very few people, some, but few people who actively support BLM. Because BLM is a criminal organization

00:39:48.700 that burned the country down and killed dozens of people and embezzled tens of millions of dollars.

00:39:53.200 And it's just a total shakedown racket that would make the five families in New York blush,

00:39:57.600 okay? During their heyday, the mafia in New York was not as brazen as the BLM organization 0.99

00:40:04.800 over the past several years. And what the Democrats are admitting, they're implicitly admitting this.

00:40:10.540 They don't want to actually say it out loud in these words. But what John Fetterman is admitting

00:40:14.000 by taking that off his website is, yeah, people don't really like this.

00:40:19.160 And it's just like the mob, actually, which is, you know, when the enforcers come to your door,

00:40:24.100 they say, hey, do you have a problem with Don Luigi over there? You say, no, no, I love Don Luigi.

00:40:29.060 Oh, he's great. Oh, you guys do wonderful work. Please, here, have a little bit more money, please.

00:40:34.620 It's just like when the TV cameras show up. They say, hey, knock, knock. You love BLM, right? 0.99

00:40:38.240 Oh, yeah, I love BLM. Oh, BLM's great. It's my favorite organization. I changed my social media

00:40:43.680 picture to a black square. Please, take more money. Here, you can have some more money.

00:40:48.280 During the riots in LA, businesses were posting signs on their door. And they'd say,

00:40:54.580 we're black people. Please pass over us, agents of death. Go get whitey. We don't want to. 1.00

00:41:00.260 But you know what else they would post? The receipts from their donations to BLM.

00:41:07.060 Just like the mafia, worse than the mafia. And as in the case of that mafia, when you get people

00:41:13.340 actually in a private conversation, you say, you really support BLM? I'd say, well,

00:41:17.300 you know, they have killed people. You know, well, they do say, it does seem kind of like a shakedown.

00:41:22.280 Well, that lady who founded it, why does she have so many multi-million dollar mansions and some of 1.00

00:41:26.520 the nicest property in America? No, the Democrats know that that doesn't play in public. And so,

00:41:34.800 as they head into the midterms, makes me feel as though there is at least some integrity left to

00:41:40.140 our electoral system. The Democrats don't want to completely alienate the voters,

00:41:45.960 but they're trying to downplay all of this. Do not be fooled. Do not be fooled. The fact that it took

00:41:51.400 him this long to take BLM off his campaign website. Now we're, what are we, 40 days outside of the

00:41:56.820 election? She tells you everything that you need to know. Speaking of the libs trying to control the 1.00

00:42:04.660 internet, YouTube removed that viral speech of Georgia Maloney. You know, that great Georgia Maloney 1.00

00:42:16.640 clip where she comes out. We played it on the show a couple of days ago. This is the new prime

00:42:22.140 minister of Italy. And she says, why is it that you're not allowed to have a family anymore? Why is

00:42:28.700 the family the enemy? Why is the nation the enemy? Why do the liberals want to take away all of our

00:42:32.860 identities as a woman, as a mother, as a Christian, as an Italian? They want to do it because they want us

00:42:37.720 all to be just kind of globalist consumers. Parent number one, parent number two. They want us to be

00:42:44.260 birthing person. They want us to flood our countries with foreign nationals, with no limit 1.00

00:42:50.000 whatsoever. Get rid of all our traditions, all of our culture. It was a beautiful, beautiful speech,

00:42:55.120 articulate, serious, addressing the real problem. So of course, YouTube took it down.

00:43:00.420 Why did they take it down? Well, they said it violated community guidelines.

00:43:05.940 Lizzo, jiggling around more than half naked, that doesn't violate community guidelines.

00:43:12.340 It's BLM threatening people. Forget BLM. Elected Democrats threatening Republicans. That doesn't

00:43:17.700 violate community guidelines. Doctors, quacks encouraging little kids to chop off their 1.00

00:43:23.880 genitals. That doesn't violate community guidelines. But a modest defense of the family and the nation, 0.99

00:43:28.900 that does. Now, YouTube had to reverse course. They had to put it back up.

00:43:33.320 This is censorship, again, not just of a basic idea, not just of total common sense,

00:43:41.440 but of an elected head of state. This is the second time we've seen this, and I haven't seen

00:43:46.320 this part of it discussed. When YouTube and Google and Facebook and Twitter kicked Donald Trump off the

00:43:52.060 internet, that was a major political attack. That was a restructuring of our political order,

00:43:58.580 because you had a handful of oligarchs, globalist oligarchs, saying, hey, we're going to determine

00:44:05.920 who gets to be in the public square, including whether or not the duly elected sitting president

00:44:14.700 of the United States gets to be in the public square. What that means is, screw your democracy.

00:44:19.780 Oh, you think you have a democracy? You think you have a republic? No, because in a republic,

00:44:24.140 the public square is how you govern yourself. You debate things, you deliberate, you persuade

00:44:30.480 your fellow citizens. Not only are we not going to let you, regular private citizen,

00:44:34.300 into the public square, that guy that you elected through your democratic processes,

00:44:39.140 yeah, he's not going to be allowed in either, because we rule you. It was a shocking power grab

00:44:45.040 by the globalist oligarchy against the American people in our Republican form of government.

00:44:50.080 And now they just did it again with Georgia Maloney, right after she got elected.

00:44:56.260 They reversed course for now. The blowback was too intense. They are going to keep

00:45:00.040 doing this. This is how I know this woman is great. It's why I like this woman.

00:45:07.420 Then I went on and I listened to what she said, and I listened to the people that she was quoting,

00:45:12.020 G.K. Chesterton, Roger Scruton, all of these wonderful, and I thought, wow, this is a serious

00:45:16.060 woman. She really knows what she believes. She's really gotten things done.

00:45:18.780 But forget all of that. The fact that YouTube and the sort of globalist oligarchs hate her,

00:45:26.460 it takes me 80% of the way to say, I bet she's terrific. This is how I feel about Republican

00:45:31.760 politicians too. Someone like Marjorie Taylor Greene, for example. She gets pilloried. People 1.00

00:45:37.780 call her all sorts of names. They attack her. She's not couth. She's not this. She didn't go to some

00:45:43.540 fancy schools. She doesn't speak in the most eloquent way a lot of the time. Oh, please. 0.99

00:45:49.140 Even this is from the conservatives. Forget about the liberals who hate her guts. But even the

00:45:52.860 conservatives, oh, we don't need to associate with her. I don't know. She wasn't precise in how 0.99

00:45:56.520 she described. Okay, sure. I'll take all of those criticisms. I still like her. Why do I like her?

00:46:03.020 Because the libs despise her. And they seem to despise her for all the right reasons. 1.00

00:46:12.940 I can't, it's very easy to say Marjorie Taylor Greene, she's so awful. She's so terrible. 0.97

00:46:18.960 It's very hard to point to the thing that she did that's so singularly bad. What is it? What is the

00:46:25.740 thing that she said or did that's so singularly awful that conservatives should dump her?

00:46:30.040 Can you, I don't know. I can't, I haven't found it. If you find it, let me know. I haven't,

00:46:34.960 with Maloney. Oh, no, she's, she's a fascist. Is she? Okay. What did she say or do that's so bad? 0.99

00:46:42.040 Oh, she, you don't, no, you don't. Look, it's Italy. You don't understand. No, I said, look,

00:46:46.460 I speak Italian. I'm Italian. Show me. I'll translate for you. Show me the line that she said that's so bad.

00:46:52.140 Well, no, and it's just all this insinuation. And it's all this implication.

00:47:00.040 But I don't, I can't find what it is. As far as I'm concerned, this is my rule of thumb.

00:47:05.180 If the libs hate you and are out to get you and try to silence you and do their best to kill your

00:47:10.860 career, I'm going to start at least from the position of assuming you're a pretty, pretty great

00:47:17.880 person. And before we go with Maloney, I've got to get to one little clip. I know we'll run a little

00:47:24.360 over, but I don't care. I'm going to get to one clip with Maloney. Maloney comes out,

00:47:28.420 Emmanuel Macron attacked Maloney. So the head of France attacks the new head of Italy and says

00:47:34.580 she's irresponsible and she's this and she's that. And instead of just sitting back and taking it,

00:47:38.820 here's what Maloney said. Emmanuel Macron described us as cynics, irresponsible, disgusting. 0.99

00:47:50.440 And the Italian press said, did you hear what Macron said? He said, we're irresponsible. 0.92

00:47:58.460 What a shame. The irresponsible, Emmanuel Macron, are those who bombed Libya because they were

00:48:05.680 concerned that Italy would get good energy concessions from Gaddafi and left us with the

00:48:12.840 chaos of illegal immigration that we are now confronting. The cynics, Emmanuel Macron, are the

00:48:19.580 French who sent the gendarmerie to return the immigrants back to Italy when those same illegal

00:48:29.220 immigrants crossed from Italy into France. And most of all, and because things have to be said right, 0.88

00:48:37.360 and she goes on about the disgusting. Okay. I love this. This is like when you go to prison

00:48:44.100 and they say on the first day of prison, you gotta go punch the biggest, scariest looking guy you can 0.98

00:48:48.740 see there. You gotta go in, sort of guns blazing, swinging. You're ready to go and establish who you 0.97

00:48:55.000 are. That's what she's doing. This woman was elected two or three days ago. And she goes in, 0.99

00:48:59.140 she says, I'm not going to take any of this crap from anybody. And she's setting the tone 0.99

00:49:03.160 and she's not backing down. And I say, thank goodness. Thank goodness. In this moment where

00:49:09.820 people are on the fence and they're squishing and they say, oh, I don't know. It's now the moment.

00:49:13.400 Maybe I'll just follow orders. Maybe I'll just go get by. No, now is the time, folks. Okay. Now is the

00:49:19.440 time. The attacks on our traditional way of life have become so unbelievably intense. So many of us never

00:49:25.400 thought we'd get this far down the slippery slope. Transing the kids, desecrating all of our revered 1.00

00:49:30.620 national figures, pornography everywhere, radical redefinitions of the most basic institutions.

00:49:37.520 Now it's, now is the time. Now is the time for the member block. Okay. The rest of the show is

00:49:43.400 continuing now. We moved Woke Wednesday to Thursday because I was on the road. So we've got a video from

00:49:49.880 the New York Times. I have not seen it yet. I have been told this, even by New York Times standards,

00:49:55.340 is really, really horrific. So I can't wait. That'll be great. If you don't want to miss it,

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The Michael Knowles Show - September 29, 2022

Ep. 1098 - Lizzo Degrades And Twerks On American History

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