The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1143 - The Woke Mind Virus

00:00:00.000 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago has just announced that it will rescind

00:00:04.640 Kanye West's honorary degree in light of the offensive comments that Kanye has been making

00:00:10.360 about Jews. Now, I'm obviously not defending any of the things that Kanye has said about the Nazis

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00:00:35.460 goal. But people don't study history. And Karl Marx, wrong as he was, got at least one thing right.

00:00:40.720 All great world historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. The first time as tragedy,

00:00:47.980 the second as farce. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

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00:02:51.920 Michael sent you. Speaking of history repeating itself and also speaking of people taking things

00:02:58.940 away from others. You remember Sam Brinton? Sam Brinton is a controversial Joe Biden appointee.

00:03:05.560 He's in charge of nuclear waste at the Department of Energy. And he's the bald guy with the mustache who

00:03:10.900 is not only a sexually deviant sort of person, which I don't want to spread rumors or tell tales at a 0.94

00:03:20.940 school or gossip about anybody. But this is not some secret with Sam Brinton. He's made it a big part of

00:03:25.140 his public persona. He photographs himself wearing all sorts of weird costumes, leading grown men around

00:03:31.240 on leashes. And the men are dressed up like little puppies. He gives lectures and conferences on all

00:03:37.120 this kind of weird sexually deviant stuff. He wears dresses and high heels and lipstick. And he's just,

00:03:42.680 he's pretty out there. Well, he was accused a couple of weeks ago of stealing a woman's luggage at an

00:03:50.380 airport. And he initially denied it, but then he kind of came out and he said he did it, but he was

00:03:56.000 just tired and he didn't mean to. And well, now another arrest warrant has been issued for Sam

00:04:02.860 Brinton for a second alleged theft at an airport. A felony arrest warrant has been issued for Brinton

00:04:10.620 for grand larceny with a value between $1,200 and $5,000 for allegedly stealing luggage from Harry

00:04:17.240 Reid International Airport. So the first time it didn't take place in Nevada, it took place in

00:04:22.320 Minnesota. He flew into Minneapolis with American Airlines and he traveled without a checked bag.

00:04:30.260 So it shows you he had no reason to be at the baggage claim after the flight. And then authorities

00:04:36.440 called him that same day and asked him if he took anything that didn't belong to him. And he said,

00:04:40.020 no, not that I know of. And later he said, okay, yeah, maybe, you know, look, if I took the wrong bag,

00:04:43.560 I'm happy to return it. But this was really weird. He said that the other person's clothes whose bag

00:04:49.420 it was were not in the bag. He said, I don't have any clothes for another individual. That was my

00:04:57.360 clothes when I opened the bag. But obviously it wasn't. It was this other woman's bag. And apparently 0.53

00:05:03.300 on the security footage, you can tell he took her tag off of the bag and put it into his pocket.

00:05:10.200 And so then he said, no, maybe it's this other woman's bag, but my clothes were in. So it's

00:05:15.140 really, you got to ask yourself, what is this guy? Did he steal her clothing? Did he, why did he,

00:05:20.860 did he want her clothing? Did he, did he just want to steal the bag? Then he took this other bag here.

00:05:25.880 And again, according to the footage, they didn't initially couldn't identify him, even though he

00:05:30.860 was wearing this gay pride nuclear shirt. So it was apparently like a rainbow nuclear reactor or

00:05:37.660 something like that on the shirt. They couldn't make him out who he was until the first news story

00:05:42.420 came up. And then they said, wait a second, I think that's the same guy there. And apparently

00:05:45.480 he was exhibiting all this kind of odd behavior. He, let's see, here we are. He, he was, he went to

00:05:52.240 the carousel and took a bag off and then kind of looked around suspiciously and then put the bag back

00:05:56.680 on. And then, you know, a little bit later, he took the bag off again, looked around suspiciously.

00:06:00.680 So we have an article here at Daily Wire. It says police disclose how they caught alleged Biden

00:06:08.200 administration, luggage thief, Sam Brinton. And this is a quote from investigators in Las Vegas.

00:06:19.200 They say, Brinton demonstrated several signs of abnormal behavior. And it goes on to say,

00:06:26.120 while taking the victim's luggage, which are cues suspects typically give off.

00:06:29.140 I think you could have stopped at the first part of that sentence.

00:06:34.360 Brinton demonstrated several signs of abnormal behavior. Gee, you don't say. The man with the

00:06:39.760 mustache who wears lipstick, he's got totally shaved head, wears stiletto heels, mini skirts,

00:06:44.200 leads grown men around in leather costumes on a leash. He was behaving in a bit of an eccentric and

00:06:49.620 abnormal way. Gosh, you don't say. You know, it's always the ones you most expect.

00:06:54.600 People like to think it's always the ones you least expect. No, no. Often it's the ones you most expect

00:07:00.580 because our perception and our faculties of reason are actually pretty good guides to things.

00:07:07.980 And in fact, prejudice, prejudgment, looking at a situation and just quickly having a gut reaction

00:07:13.600 is not all the time, but a lot of the time, a pretty good guide to things. This is why Edmund Burke,

00:07:18.460 the conservative philosopher, great conservative philosopher, so valued prejudice because we don't

00:07:26.060 have a time to, in every single situation in our lives, come up with a perfectly rationalist kind

00:07:32.780 of explanation and treaty and argument for what we're about to do. We just kind of go on our gut

00:07:37.460 and we go on hunches and we refer to the wisdom of the ages and we defer to tradition and to the past

00:07:43.940 and we can trust our gut. All right. And that obviously would be the case with this guy and

00:07:48.300 this guy, Sam Brinton is obviously deeply troubled and should not be handling anything involving

00:07:55.720 the America's nuclear program and should seek a lot of counseling and maybe should be in a padded

00:08:02.460 cell. I don't know, but he certainly should not be in a position of authority. And I have a great

00:08:06.800 deal of sympathy for him because I look at a guy like Sam Brinton who is so troubled and I think

00:08:13.420 what if earlier on in his life, someone, anyone had just told him no. Now we live in a culture where

00:08:24.840 if a five-year-old comes to school and says, hey, I'm a girl today. They say, well, Johnny,

00:08:32.340 I guess we're going to have to get you on hormone therapy. Yeah, you do that. Or what if earlier on in 0.81

00:08:37.600 this guy was exhibiting abnormal deviant behavior, any adult just said, hey, don't do that. That's

00:08:45.500 wrong. If you do that kind of deviant behavior, that's going to lead you to more deviant behavior

00:08:49.900 and then you're going to have a bad life and you're going to have all sorts of problems. So

00:08:52.660 don't do that. Actually, you should, look, it's a crazy world. It's very diverse. We're very eccentric,

00:08:58.480 but best as you can, be normal. Just be normal. I keep coming back to this theme on the show because

00:09:05.000 I think it's a pretty good guide for politics and I think that a lot of the conservative

00:09:08.720 political program should come down to these two words. Be normal. It's okay to be normal. The left

00:09:15.100 likes to suppress normality and disparage normality and likes to subvert everything and likes to

00:09:21.800 elevate the abnormal and the transgressive above all the good normal stuff. But it's okay. Just be

00:09:27.160 normal, guys. It's okay. And if people had done that earlier on in this guy's life,

00:09:30.620 maybe he wouldn't end up as a cross-dressing, puppy fetishist, baggage thief, stealing women's 1.00

00:09:37.080 jewelry and clothing at the airport. Maybe he would have taken the off-ramp at some point

00:09:42.720 down that highway to bizarre transgressive behavior. You look at the Biden administration. I mean,

00:09:49.500 it's filled with all this kind of bizarre imagery and often occult symbolism. There's that other guy

00:09:56.120 who is the deputy monkeypox czar for Biden who wears overt satanic symbols, wears the leather

00:10:03.280 harness in the pentagram and takes, and he too, this isn't secret. I'm not divulging his private

00:10:09.140 sins. The guy takes glossy photos of it and puts it out there into the world. And this stuff is on 0.96

00:10:15.300 the rise. Satanism, overt Satanism is on the rise. If you go to the Illinois state capitol right now,

00:10:20.040 you know, it's Advent. We're preparing for Christmastime. We look around, we see Christmas

00:10:26.980 trees in the public square. Well, if you go to the Illinois state capitol, you will see a creche, 0.75

00:10:34.080 the nativity scene. You will see a menorah, which, you know, Hanukkah is a minor feast day. It's not

00:10:43.200 a major Jewish holiday. And so to equate Hanukkah with Christmas as a matter of importance for the

00:10:53.240 respective religions, I think is a little silly anyway. But okay, you see the menorah. Most people 1.00

00:10:57.400 don't have a problem with the menorah. And then the third thing you will see is a Satanist display.

00:11:04.320 It's a serpent with little apples on top of a leather-bound copy of Nicholas Copernicus's

00:11:13.040 on the revolution of the celestial spheres, which is especially strange because Copernicus

00:11:19.180 was a Catholic canon and possibly a Catholic priest. So the Satanists, as you might expect,

00:11:25.620 are kind of confused with what they're doing. But at the center of it, you've got this serpent,

00:11:31.580 and it's there because the Satanists are claiming that if the Christians get their nativity scene

00:11:37.560 and the Jews get their menorah, then the Satanists have the right as a matter of religious freedom 0.87

00:11:45.540 to put up a serpent at Christmas time. And the thing is, most people know that this is wrong and

00:11:53.680 we should not be expected to tolerate this. But very few people, including conservatives,

00:11:59.460 very few people, can explain exactly why the Satanists have no right to a serpent

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00:12:39.320 The Satanists have no right as a matter of religious freedom to put up a serpent display

00:12:47.020 at the Illinois State Capitol. They have no right to engage in their public antics anywhere,

00:12:51.780 as a matter of fact. I made this point over the weekend on social media.

00:12:55.620 And the libs went crazy, and the squishes went crazy, and even a number of conservatives asked,

00:13:00.840 Michael, aren't you abandoning the First Amendment? Doesn't the First Amendment

00:13:06.040 and the right to religious freedom protect the Satanists from there? No, it doesn't.

00:13:12.020 Of course it doesn't. As a matter of history, it obviously doesn't.

00:13:16.140 We had established churches throughout this country. The First Amendment did not prohibit

00:13:19.700 established churches at the state level until well into American history because of

00:13:24.080 certain legal and judicial errors in interpretation and implementation of certain laws.

00:13:34.780 But furthermore, we had blasphemy laws on the books for a lot of American history.

00:13:41.800 You could be punished by the state if you blasphemed God. So obviously, it was not the view of the

00:13:48.980 founding fathers or the framers of the Constitution or most of the great men who built our country

00:13:52.620 that the First Amendment or the Constitution protects the sacred right of Satanists or anything 0.88

00:13:58.600 like that. In fact, the very notion of religious freedom precludes protections for Satanists. 0.67

00:14:06.260 The reason is that religion is not just anything you believe about anything. I know colloquially,

00:14:11.600 that's how we refer to religion. That's not what religion is. Religion has a real definition,

00:14:16.760 okay? The religion is the moral virtue by which a person is disposed to render to God the service

00:14:25.960 and worship that God deserves. That's what religion is, okay? Religion is a kind of a justice

00:14:34.180 through which and by which we give God what God deserves. So it's not just any belief you have about

00:14:43.080 anything. And so in this country, we have a tradition of religious freedom, which means that we are

00:14:50.500 relatively quite tolerant about how people worship and serve God. We might think that one religious

00:14:57.060 group is not worshiping God in quite the right way. You know, the Episcopalians might say those

00:15:03.420 Methodists, they are not rendering service and worship to God as they ought. But we have a broad kind

00:15:09.100 of toleration for the different groups who sincerely think that they're worshiping God in the way that

00:15:16.040 he deserves, even if they're a little bit wrong about it. The Satanists do not do that. They

00:15:21.480 singularly do not do that. They hate God or they deny God's existence. And there's not, it's a little bit

00:15:30.400 of a blurry line between those two things. But whatever Satanists believe, they certainly do not believe

00:15:35.920 that they are worshiping God and serving God. Whatever Satanists believe, either they're edgy

00:15:42.360 online atheists or they are explicitly worshiping the Prince of Lies, the chief rebel and first rebel

00:15:49.500 against God's plan. Either way, they can't have religious freedom because they're not religious, 0.99

00:15:53.680 they're irreligious. And religion and irreligion are not the same thing. We have become, even the 0.98

00:15:59.860 conservatives have become so relativistic in recent years. Well, this actually is at the heart of that

00:16:05.420 argument over drag queen story hour. When David French, who was a sort of conservative writer,

00:16:10.820 now he's a liberal writer for the Atlantic. David French came out and he said, drag queen story hour

00:16:14.580 is a blessing of liberty. And if we ban drag queen story hour from public spaces, well, by golly, 0.88

00:16:20.640 the libs might ban church services. I don't know, Christian services from public spaces. So who's to say

00:16:28.660 one man's drag queen story hour is another man's preaching of the gospel? No, of course not. 0.84

00:16:33.700 They're not the same thing. They're different things. And if you can't discern between those

00:16:36.820 two things, then you don't have any faculties of reason. You can't govern yourself.

00:16:40.560 No, religion and irreligion are not the same thing. And this is not just some crazy far-right

00:16:45.440 theocratic view. This was commonly understood by everybody in the country, certainly by the people

00:16:50.280 who framed the Constitution, certainly by the people who built our country until like five minutes ago.

00:16:55.080 Okay. It's not a fringe view to say, no, the Satanists don't have a right to put up serpents

00:17:01.520 and statues of demons in public spaces. There is a reason that that hasn't happened in American history

00:17:06.260 until very recently. And it's because the liberals have become more radical and the conservatives have

00:17:14.100 failed to conserve a damn thing. Okay. And now we can't even articulate what the Constitution actually 0.98

00:17:19.440 says. We don't even know. We ourselves, even we the conservatives, don't really know what religious

00:17:24.240 freedom means anymore. I promise you guys, it does not mean putting up statues of demons and serpents

00:17:31.260 in state capitals. Okay. That is not it. When you are doing that, and when you are pretending that that

00:17:38.240 is some sacred right enshrined in our political order, you have lost the plot. Speaking of things

00:17:48.340 that are not very religious, lying, that's not very religious. And that's exactly what Twitter has been

00:17:52.920 doing. We've been reporting on the Twitter files releases that have come out. Elon Musk and the

00:18:00.560 journalists, Matt Taibbi and Barry Weiss have been sort of slowly dripping out the Twitter file story,

00:18:05.680 in part because there's so many documents to go through, they can't do it all at once.

00:18:09.080 So the update here is that Twitter lied. Twitter lied a lot. And Twitter lied about shadow banning,

00:18:17.300 and Twitter lied about the way that it was treating conservatives. So what did we just find out in the

00:18:21.220 new Twitter release? After banning Trump, after taking this unprecedented step to ban a sitting head

00:18:28.140 of state, sitting dual elected president of the United States, Twitter then immediately starts talking

00:18:33.300 about how it can use its newly taken power to ban other presidents in the future. So they start

00:18:41.720 talking about how the new administration could be suspended by Twitter, but they will not be unless

00:18:48.160 it's absolutely necessary. But you see this from company messages and memos and Slack channels.

00:18:53.640 Then the executives admit that they didn't ban Trump over any particular tweet.

00:19:01.100 So this was something that was so clear when they banned the duly elected sitting president is

00:19:05.700 what did he, one, even if he had violated some rule, it shouldn't be. I don't think that a handful

00:19:11.620 of woke people in Silicon Valley ought to be able to control the public square such that they can kick 0.80

00:19:16.120 out the president of the United States. Clearly something's gone wrong then. But they admit, no,

00:19:20.440 no, it wasn't that he did anything in particular. They said they removed him over the, quote,

00:19:25.520 context surrounding actions by Trump and his supporters, quote, over the course of the election

00:19:33.280 and frankly, the last four plus years. So what did they do? They wanted to ban him and then they

00:19:39.580 just made up an excuse. But it was about the four years. Then they have to come up with some scheme

00:19:49.060 as to how they ban people. Otherwise, it's just total caprice. So we see before January 6th,

00:19:55.920 Twitter was a unique mix of automated rules-based enforcement and more subjective moderation by

00:20:00.520 senior executives. This according to Matt Taibbi. As Barry Weiss reported, the firm had a vast array

00:20:05.700 of tools for manipulating visibility, most, all of which were thrown at Trump and others before

00:20:11.840 January 6th. So they were already suppressing not only the conservatives, they were already suppressing

00:20:16.840 the duly elected sitting president before January 6th. So when they banned Trump, that represents a

00:20:22.680 major transformation of the political order. I write about this actually in my book,

00:20:27.180 Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, which makes a fabulous Christmas present.

00:20:30.940 Hello, thank you very much. Thank you for my bell. But I don't think anything that happened on

00:20:36.880 January 6th would justify these Silicon Valley oligarchs kicking the president out. 1.00

00:20:42.660 But even if you are inclined to think that it would, it was happening before January 6th.

00:20:50.680 It was happening just because they did not like the cut of the man's jib. Okay, they were already

00:20:56.240 taking this power. Any piffle you hear about, January 6th, it was just an excuse made up after

00:21:02.060 the fact to justify behavior that they were already engaging in. Then, as the election approached,

00:21:07.560 senior Twitter execs, under pressure possibly from federal agencies, tried to figure out what these

00:21:13.940 rules are. And they started speaking of violations as pretexts to do what they already wanted to do.

00:21:18.740 So they were openly talking about this, and they were coordinating with federal agencies,

00:21:22.680 which was not totally clear in the first part of the Twitter file release. And the reason for that is,

00:21:27.780 the former top lawyer for the FBI was the one who was vetting the documents for Twitter,

00:21:32.380 because he was working at Twitter without Elon Musk even knowing about it.

00:21:34.860 We know that Twitter met regularly with those agencies. We know that they were meeting with

00:21:41.720 the agencies about Donald Trump. So this is during the Trump administration. A lot of people have

00:21:46.480 said, well, if you're upset with how the government was interacting with Twitter before the 2020

00:21:52.040 election, who controlled the government? That's Trump's fault. No, that's the whole point. That's

00:21:56.500 the whole point of the Trump election. Even after Trump won, he wasn't really controlling the

00:22:00.760 government because there's something called the deep state, the permanent government,

00:22:03.980 the bureaucracy that was undermining Trump at every single turn, that illegally, certainly

00:22:09.660 illegitimately spied on him. But I think it's fair to say illegally. They had a false pretext that

00:22:15.260 they knew was false to spy on Trump when he was a candidate. And then they continued that operation

00:22:20.780 while he was president to undermine his whole administration. They were making up election

00:22:24.940 rules and content rules and decisions on the fly. Yoel Roth, the head of Twitter safety,

00:22:30.780 met weekly with the FBI and the DHS. He also met with the office of the director of national

00:22:37.680 intelligence, absolute top of the spy pyramid. And even these sorts of warnings, and one example,

00:22:45.780 Twitter employees prepared to slap a mail-in voting is safe warning to label a Trump tweet

00:22:52.240 about a postal screw up in Ohio. Trump said, hey, there's this crazy thing going on with the mail-in

00:22:56.400 voting. And they were about to say, fact check, 10,000 Pinocchios, false. Mail-in elections are

00:23:03.480 totally safe, except they ran into this problem, which is that they found out that what Trump was

00:23:09.060 talking about actually did occur. And the tweet was factually accurate. They said, ah, darn,

00:23:14.460 we've got definitive proof that what Trump is saying is right. I guess we can't slap the fake 0.99

00:23:20.200 news label on this one next time. We'll get them next time when the evidence is less clear. And so

00:23:24.500 Twitter was lying. Government was lying. That we kind of come to expect. But to me, the most

00:23:32.000 frustrating part of this is that the preening, holier-than-thou, sanctimonious liberal media

00:23:40.760 was lying through their teeth too. I've got some outlets here. I've got some news articles from some

00:23:51.340 outlets who seem to have been proven wrong about shadow banning and Twitter's attitude toward

00:24:00.660 Republicans by the Twitter file releases. We have got the New York Times. Here we go. New York Times.

00:24:10.500 What is a shadow ban? And is Twitter doing it to Republican accounts? Is Twitter shadow banning

00:24:15.680 Republicans? No, it is not, says correspondent Liam Stack. They mocked the Republicans. But no,

00:24:24.900 it is not. That's great. Turns out New York Times, totally wrong about that. What else do we have?

00:24:28.840 We've got ABC. Twitter denies conservative shadow banning claims, but alters search function.

00:24:34.000 So you've got to give ABC some credit here. They are still amplifying Twitter's denial of this,

00:24:40.060 but they're at least saying, well, look, there were clearly some changes. So they were downplaying it,

00:24:44.220 still very, very dishonest. But even ABC basically admitted, okay, we can't say that there's nothing

00:24:50.340 going on here. There's obviously something going on. Then we've got The Verge. Why Twitter should

00:24:55.840 ignore the phony outrage over shadow banning. Twitter's effort to clean up search results is a

00:25:02.500 good thing. And so The Verge, I like how they have that in the subheader there. They're making kind of a

00:25:08.060 different argument. They're not saying Twitter isn't shadow banning Republicans exactly. They're

00:25:11.640 just saying it's really good when Twitter does shadow ban Republicans. And they say, let's be

00:25:15.040 clear. The argument that Twitter is systematically disadvantaged conservative voices can only be made

00:25:18.640 in bad faith. Just as the argument that Facebook systematically disadvantages conservative voices

00:25:25.020 can only be made in bad faith. That is not true. Twitter and Facebook were both systematically

00:25:30.360 doing that. Those arguments were made in good faith. We've got absolute proof positive at both

00:25:34.680 places. The Verge, big fat liars. Then we've got CNN. Here's CNN, how Twitter's algorithm is 0.99

00:25:40.520 amplifying extreme political rhetoric. And Oliver Darcy writing for CNN says, there is some irony to

00:25:45.880 the amplification of these right-wing voices. Trump and other prominent Republicans have long accused

00:25:49.440 Twitter of shadow banning users with conservative viewpoints. An accusation Twitter is strongly denied.

00:25:54.280 In reality, not only is Twitter not shadow banning these right-wing personalities for their

00:25:58.800 political viewpoints, the platform's algorithm is actually amplifying some of their tweets

00:26:02.480 to audiences who do not even follow their accounts. That reporting from CNN, Oliver Darcy,

00:26:06.940 total lie, complete fake news made up. And then we've got my favorite. This is my favorite one.

00:26:14.180 It's Brian Feldman at New York Magazine. Headline, Twitter is not shadow banning Republicans. What does

00:26:23.060 he say? What does this journo say? Twitter's technology for minimizing accounts instead of banning them just

00:26:29.740 isn't very good. And he was quoting one of the explanations of this. And he says, that's a more

00:26:35.460 likely scenario than a cabal of secretive Twitter employees trying to suppress the speech of Donald

00:26:43.460 Trump Jr.'s spokesperson. Is it bad? Sure, the way a hangnail is bad. But it's not censorship and it's

00:26:50.480 certainly not shadow banning. Yes, it is. Yes, it is. And so I called this guy out, Brian Feldman.

00:26:59.240 I said, hey, Brian Feldman, are you going to update your report now that Elon Musk and the Twitter

00:27:04.120 files release has proven that your reporting was just completely wrong? And you could tell that other

00:27:09.960 people were sending this to him because he was getting very angry. He changed his Twitter bio to,

00:27:13.960 thanks for sending me a screenshot of that article that remains, that still remains correct.

00:27:18.560 Yeah, maybe there was a headline that was a little sensationalist, but the reporting remains correct.

00:27:23.500 No, you just heard it. The reporting was wrong. The reporting says Twitter's not censoring. It's

00:27:28.560 not shadow banning. There's no cabal of secretive Twitter employees trying to suppress the speech of

00:27:33.720 these conservatives. There was. We know that now. We know that that small cabal involved Vijaya Gaddy,

00:27:39.760 involved Yoel Roth, involved Jack Dorsey in some cases. We know that there was actually a structure

00:27:46.260 at Twitter in place to create a small secretive cabal of employees who were censoring and shadow

00:27:53.680 banning conservatives and who were lying about doing that in public. So it's not just that the

00:27:58.260 headline was a little hyperbolic. This guy's reporting was just totally wrong. New York Magazine,

00:28:05.820 Brian Feldman. And so I tweeted that at him. And you know what his response was?

00:28:08.940 His response was, quote, yeah, I'm going to do it right after I change your diaper.

00:28:18.820 That's what he said. This is what the New York Magazine journo said in response to,

00:28:22.920 hey, are you going to update your reporting now that this new information came to light? Yeah,

00:28:26.420 I'm going to do it right after I change your diaper. That's what this grown man writing for New

00:28:32.780 York Magazine told me. And I'm not surprised. I'm not surprised by that. I'm amused by that.

00:28:42.200 But I'm not, but I think other people might be surprised. Say, wait, you're a very serious

00:28:48.580 journalist. You write for New York Magazine. You probably wear some neckties. You're the intrepid

00:28:54.500 fourth estate. You're the great defender of democracy which dies in darkness. And you're talking

00:29:01.600 like a four-year-old. I'm going to do that right after I change your diaper. I am rubber. You are

00:29:07.140 glue. Your mama is going to change the article. What? I thought that you, no. This is who they are. 0.50

00:29:18.900 This is, yeah, I'm going to do it right after I change your diaper is exactly who not only Brian

00:29:25.460 Feldman, not only New York Magazine, but all of these guys in the media are. They just pretend to

00:29:34.960 be dignified. They just pretend to be fearless pursuers of the truth. They are childish hacks.

00:29:44.360 They do not care about the objective truth or speaking truth to power or anything like that.

00:29:48.960 These guys are the tools of power. They are the megaphones and the propagandists for the powerful

00:29:58.020 entrenched interests. That is not only what the corporate media are today. That's what they have

00:30:04.440 always been. And the libs have fooled themselves into believing that these journalists, they're so

00:30:12.780 courageous. They're so independent. They're not. But many conservatives believe that too.

00:30:18.960 Many conservatives believe in the myth of the objective, neutral, speak truth to power news media.

00:30:27.180 That's not real. That's not real at all. And so we in the conservative media, I won't speak for the

00:30:33.940 whole conservative media, but I'll speak for myself at least. I make no pretense about being neutral

00:30:40.540 on political questions. No one can be neutral on these sorts of political. No one in public life

00:30:46.540 is actually neutral on these questions. And so given that that's where I'm coming from,

00:30:53.140 I actually, frankly, spend more time on this show criticizing conservatives than I criticize

00:30:57.180 the libs for most of the time. Because yeah, we take it for granted. The libs are crazy. 1.00

00:31:02.320 Yeah, they dress up like girls and that's weird. Yeah, sure. But what can we do about it? Let's take 0.99

00:31:08.340 it a little further than that. Instead of just saying, oh, did you see that crazy AOC tweet or

00:31:11.780 something like that? We take it a little bit further because we know where we're coming from,

00:31:15.060 okay? If you're tuning into this show, you know my perspective. You know that I'm not right down

00:31:21.180 the middle or anything like that. But nobody is right down the middle. People have opinions,

00:31:25.160 okay? We're rational creatures. Even Brian Feldman is at least somewhat rational creature.

00:31:29.560 What the libs do is they just lie. They just lie. They lie about Twitter and they lie about their

00:31:36.200 power and they lie about COVID and they lie about the election and they lie about everything. They

00:31:41.320 lie about everything. But the biggest lie that they tell is about their own neutrality and their

00:31:46.400 own courage. They have neither of those things. They're just whiny little school boys when they

00:31:51.900 get caught. And they're not going to update any of these articles and they're just going to move on

00:31:56.020 to the next big lie. That's what they're going to do. In a way, I'm sort of sorry that we're all

00:32:03.060 talking about this right now. Because, you know, they're just lying about something else right now.

00:32:07.580 And so we're going to be vindicated on the lie they told two years ago. And then we're going to

00:32:11.840 miss the lies they're telling right now. Well, here's one great example of this. NBC News

00:32:16.960 covering the trade between Russia and the United States.

00:32:22.460 Russia gives up Brittany Griner, a basketball lady who has elicited a lot of sympathy from the

00:32:31.640 elites in this country solely on the basis of her skin color and her sexual desires because she's a 1.00

00:32:38.140 black lesbian. The other prisoners, Americans being held by Russia, they have not elicited any 0.90

00:32:44.220 sympathy from our elite ruling class. The Marine, the history teacher, those guys can rot according to

00:32:49.520 the media. But Brittany Griner, she's a lesbian basketball player, allegedly. No one's ever 1.00

00:32:53.200 watched a game. But she deserves the special treatment. And so what happened? The United States

00:32:57.980 gave up the most notorious arms dealer in the world, Victor Boot, known as the Merchant of Death,

00:33:02.320 to get her. And initially, NBC News had a report on this. NBC News covered the story and said

00:33:18.060 that a senior US official told NBC News the US government had sought to have both Griner and

00:33:26.880 Whelan. He's the Marine, released as part of a swap with the Kremlin. But the official said Russia

00:33:32.340 has treated Whelan differently because he's an accused spy and that the Kremlin gave the White

00:33:35.840 House the choice of either, not both, but either Griner or Whelan or none. That was the first report.

00:33:42.400 So the report from NBC was Biden could pick. Do you want the US Marine or do you want the basketball

00:33:49.020 lady who brought the drugs into the country? Which one do you want? Because we're only going to give 1.00

00:33:54.720 you one of these for Victor Boot. And then the Biden White House chose the basketball lady because 1.00

00:33:59.360 it would win them more points with their base and with the social justice left, and they'll leave 0.78

00:34:04.120 the Marine to rot. But then NBC News updated the report. So the official said that Russia's treated

00:34:11.860 Whelan differently because he's accused of spying and that the Kremlin ultimately gave the White House

00:34:14.820 the choice of Griner or no one after different options were proposed.

00:34:19.140 Now, I love how they cover themselves here. They say after different options were proposed. So

00:34:26.320 presumably one of those options is what was in NBC's first report, which is you could get

00:34:30.540 either of these people in exchange for Victor Boot, but then they update it. And why did they update

00:34:35.160 the story? Because the Biden administration came out and said, no, no, no, we didn't have a choice.

00:34:38.760 It's very important for the Biden administration to say we didn't have a choice because then they

00:34:41.640 won't be blamed for abandoning this Marine in favor of the pothead basketball lady. 1.00

00:34:45.300 So what does NBC do? Does NBC speak truth to power pushback? No, Mr. President, our sources tell us

00:34:52.680 that you actually did have a choice. And I know it's not going to help your political position,

00:34:56.660 but we're going to speak. No, of course not. They just, okay, nevermind. We'll update the report.

00:35:00.320 They did the same thing over the Paul Pelosi attack. Remember that story? Isn't that kind of weird how

00:35:05.620 we were told just, what, a month ago that a man broke into the Speaker of the House's home

00:35:13.380 and tried to murder her. And then the president of the United States gave a whole speech about this,

00:35:17.820 but then details emerged that didn't quite make sense. And then the story just completely

00:35:21.860 disappeared and we're not hearing anything more about it. Isn't that kind of weird?

00:35:26.320 You know, like you'd think if someone tried to assassinate the Speaker of the House,

00:35:31.260 that you might hear about that for more than just a few days before some details came out that

00:35:35.320 were weird and then it completely disappeared. Well, in that story, NBC News ran a great report.

00:35:40.060 Well, researched, put on TV, lots of quotes, lots of evidence where they said, you know,

00:35:46.280 the story was weird because the cops were called to the house and Paul Pelosi wasn't tied up in some

00:35:51.520 room, you know, begging to be released. Actually, Paul Pelosi answered the door and then he welcomed

00:35:56.960 the cops in and then he walked back toward his alleged attacker. And there were reports that they

00:36:03.080 were in various states of undress. And then, and Paul Pelosi didn't, didn't say that he was being

00:36:09.800 kidnapped. He didn't run into the arms of the cops, the whole thing didn't. And then what happened?

00:36:14.120 After that report, which was detailed, meticulous, NBC News ditched the report, buried it online,

00:36:24.300 suspended the reporter because it didn't, it didn't go along with the narrative that the media were

00:36:31.680 supposed to be pushing. And so the powerful interests called them, presumably, some, someone

00:36:37.680 picked up the phone and NBC News ditched the journalism. As we see here with Brittany Griner,

00:36:45.740 same outlet, as we see all the time. This is who these people are. You know, 2022 was a great year.

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00:37:48.380 dailywire.com slash Knowles today. You remember when the liberal media built up Michael Avenatti?

00:37:58.420 You remember Michael Avenatti? He was the lawyer for Stormy Daniels, who was the porn star who said

00:38:04.480 that she slept with Trump. And then Avenatti just appeared on left-wing cable news ceaselessly

00:38:11.600 for months and months and months. The Democrats and the news media even talked about this guy as a

00:38:16.900 potential presidential candidate.

00:38:19.640 He's Donald Trump's worst nightmare, Michael Avenatti.

00:38:23.060 Joining us once again is Michael Avenatti.

00:38:24.680 Let's bring in Michael Avenatti.

00:38:25.880 Michael Avenatti. Michael Avenatti.

00:38:27.300 Michael Avenatti, thank you very much.

00:38:29.000 He's out there saving the country.

00:38:30.560 Don Meacham says he may be the savior of the republic.

00:38:32.860 You are something of a folk hero now.

00:38:35.060 I owe Michael Avenatti an apology.

00:38:37.280 I've been saying enough already, Michael. I've seen you everywhere. What do you have left to say?

00:38:41.380 I was wrong, brother. You have a lot to say.

00:38:43.840 I am just dying to hear what you think.

00:38:47.360 These people all like you.

00:38:48.480 I'm the only person right here Donald Trump fears more than Robert Miller.

00:38:52.640 We think you guys are the tip of the spear that's going to take down Donald Trump. 0.79

00:38:57.180 Michael Avenatti's a beast.

00:38:58.800 Okay, that's true. 0.99

00:38:59.840 And he's a beast. 0.99

00:39:00.960 He's a beast. 0.99

00:39:01.580 I hand it to her and I hand it to Michael Avenatti.

00:39:04.540 But he has a bigger calling here that being a lawyer is minimal compared to what he's doing.

00:39:09.760 Compared to what he's doing, this man, this man walks on water, doesn't he, practically?

00:39:13.440 This man, he's a saint.

00:39:15.200 This man, he's the great hope for America.

00:39:17.800 In the minds of the liberal journalists and many prominent Democrats, Michael Avenatti was a paragon of virtue.

00:39:25.600 So he was just sentenced to 14 years in prison.

00:39:28.800 And Michael Avenatti was sentenced to 14 years in prison for defrauding many of his clients,

00:39:34.140 for stealing a lot of money from vulnerable, desperate people,

00:39:37.120 for being just a complete professional dirtbag, for being a con artist, a scammer. 0.77

00:39:46.720 U.S. District Judge James V. Selma just sentenced to Avenatti,

00:39:51.940 ordered him to pay $8 million in restitution to his victims,

00:39:55.400 $3.2 million to the government for taxes that he owes.

00:39:58.480 Just to give you a little smattering of Avenatti, he obviously defrauded Stormy Daniels.

00:40:07.440 That's where we first heard about his crimes.

00:40:09.500 He stole money from Jeffrey Ernest Johnson. 0.90

00:40:12.980 Jeffrey Ernest Johnson is mentally disabled and a paraplegic. 0.69

00:40:16.880 He said, quote,

00:40:18.700 To this day, I do not know why Michael lied and deceived me,

00:40:22.280 why he broke my trust, why he broke my heart.

00:40:25.360 I trusted him implicitly.

00:40:26.780 I believed the things he told me.

00:40:28.420 But it was all part of his plan to defraud me of my settlement.

00:40:32.440 To this day, I have a hard time trusting people because of what Michael did.

00:40:36.360 And I live in constant fear of being taken advantage of again,

00:40:39.260 particularly given my physical disability.

00:40:41.200 Dante puts in the pit of hell fraudsters, traitors, people who betray those near to them

00:40:55.480 and who betray their benefactors and who, it's at the very lowest echelons of hell,

00:41:01.280 much more so than sins of the flesh or wrath or anything like that.

00:41:06.860 But what this guy did, can you imagine?

00:41:10.380 You defraud a guy who's mentally handicapped and paraplegic. 0.96

00:41:15.060 And you say, oh, there's an easy mark.

00:41:17.040 And then you steal a ton of money from him and many other people.

00:41:20.080 That's just one example.

00:41:22.300 Why do I mention this?

00:41:24.200 Not just to pile on Michael Avenatti.

00:41:26.000 I don't really know Michael Avenatti.

00:41:27.380 I met him one time.

00:41:28.840 We were both coincidentally at a restaurant in Beverly Hills.

00:41:32.800 And I met him.

00:41:34.640 And we were sort of standing at the bar.

00:41:36.860 And it was just sort of generally unpleasant.

00:41:40.300 He wasn't the most pleasant guy in the world.

00:41:42.320 So I'm not surprised that it turned out this way.

00:41:44.800 But I mention this because you should remember Michael Avenatti

00:41:48.600 the next time the establishment media makes some judgment of character.

00:41:54.880 Okay?

00:41:56.120 When the media come out and say, oh, this Republican, this conservative, 0.94

00:42:01.200 he's the worst man ever. 0.81

00:42:03.260 We're good judges of character.

00:42:04.680 And oh, and this Democrat, he's the greatest man that ever walked the earth.

00:42:07.820 These people are terrible judges of character.

00:42:10.900 Okay?

00:42:11.140 These are people who have consistently built up some of the worst, sleaziest people on earth.

00:42:19.820 And we should remember that.

00:42:21.700 I know they're supposed to be the intrepid fourth estate,

00:42:23.980 speak truth at power, pursue truth at all costs.

00:42:26.180 They're not.

00:42:26.520 It's the opposite.

00:42:27.800 Democrats not looking great right now.

00:42:29.520 An amazing turn of events just took place.

00:42:33.000 A Democrat senator has left the Democrat party.

00:42:36.340 And it's not Joe Manchin.

00:42:37.340 A lot of people thought it might be Joe Manchin because he's often the more moderate vote who

00:42:41.080 stymies Chuck Schumer's and Joe Biden's plans.

00:42:43.720 But it wasn't him.

00:42:44.540 It was Kyrsten Sinema, who's the other kind of moderate vote who sometimes stymies the Democrats'

00:42:50.060 plans.

00:42:50.400 She left.

00:42:50.820 She hasn't become a Republican.

00:42:51.980 She's become an independent.

00:42:53.120 This is great news, and it definitely weakens the Democrat majority.

00:42:58.480 But it's not as big a deal as some people are making it out to be.

00:43:03.960 And it's clearly more calculated than some people are making it out to be because

00:43:07.920 Kyrsten Sinema waited to make this announcement until just after the Democrats know they won

00:43:13.420 the Georgia Senate seat.

00:43:14.780 So almost immediately after Raphael Warnock beats Herschel Walker in Georgia, and the Democrats

00:43:20.560 know they've got a little bit of a buffer in the Senate.

00:43:22.600 That's when Kyrsten Sinema leaves the party.

00:43:25.040 Had she announced that she was going to leave the party back when her leaving the party looked

00:43:29.380 like it could throw control of the Senate potentially to Republicans, that would have

00:43:33.880 been huge.

00:43:36.120 So it's not that significant, but it's still somewhat significant, okay?

00:43:39.960 Kyrsten Sinema, looking at her state of Arizona, which is a purple state, is saying,

00:43:44.600 I can't really be associated with the Democrat party.

00:43:48.240 It's not going to serve me very well to be associated with them. 0.99

00:43:53.080 And they're obviously crazy. 0.92

00:43:55.960 And they've been crazy to Kyrsten Sinema. 0.75

00:43:58.100 Do you remember when they chased Kyrsten Sinema through an airport and started screaming at

00:44:02.040 her while she was hiding in a bathroom stall? 0.60

00:44:05.100 She's trying to use the jaw as she's traveling. 1.00

00:44:07.760 And these maniacs are screaming at her and filming it in a bathroom. 1.00

00:44:11.020 So she says, I don't want any part of this.

00:44:12.920 And there are a lot of people like that.

00:44:14.820 You think of a lot of people who were liberals, Elon Musk, Joe Rogan, Bill Maher, a number of

00:44:22.600 other people who were and still sort of are libs who can't be associated with that anymore.

00:44:29.280 It's easy to get discouraged as Republicans, and that's what the Dems want.

00:44:35.440 But, and they do kind of monkey around with the elections a fair bit, especially in certain

00:44:41.000 states.

00:44:41.840 But the Democrats do not have a total lock on power, okay?

00:44:47.320 The people are still largely opposed to what they want to do, especially when you look at

00:44:51.040 specific issues like transgenderism, immigration, foreign policy.

00:44:55.500 The people are largely against what the libs are doing.

00:44:59.700 And another little cause for hope, there was an Iowa State House race that was just decided

00:45:05.920 by 11 votes.

00:45:09.040 The Republican beat the Democrat by 11 votes.

00:45:13.560 This would be Luana Stoltenberg beat out Democrat Craig Cooper. 0.98

00:45:18.020 This was not a huge race.

00:45:20.500 5,062 votes cast for Cooper.

00:45:23.180 Stoltenberg got 11 more votes.

00:45:25.180 So 5,073 votes.

00:45:27.800 I mention it because the libs run on discouragement, okay?

00:45:32.760 The liberals have a lot of power.

00:45:34.080 I don't want to downplay that.

00:45:35.100 They control the media.

00:45:36.020 They control the education institutions.

00:45:37.640 They control big tech.

00:45:39.180 Until now, at least we have Twitter, which is the smallest of the big tech platforms,

00:45:42.740 of the major ones.

00:45:43.860 They control the big corporations.

00:45:46.420 They control the asset managers, though that might sort of be changing a little bit too.

00:45:51.160 They control a lot.

00:45:52.800 They control a lot.

00:45:53.880 And now they control the government.

00:45:56.280 But they're not omnipotent.

00:46:00.280 And so the libs who have a real advantage in power, the way they augment that advantage

00:46:04.800 is by discouraging you and convincing you that they are totally omnipotent.

00:46:08.700 No reason to vote.

00:46:10.640 No reason to vote.

00:46:11.620 No reason to show up.

00:46:12.480 No reason to try to fight back.

00:46:13.740 Look, they're omnipotent. 0.93

00:46:14.960 And a lot of people in politics will, by rightly observing the secret power that their opponents

00:46:23.980 have, they will take it way too far and use it as a kind of cope to justify their lack of action

00:46:32.060 and their lack of courage.

00:46:33.180 And they'll say, well, there's nothing I can do.

00:46:35.780 The omnipotence of one's opponent fallacy.

00:46:39.360 And we shouldn't do that.

00:46:41.080 11 seats here.

00:46:42.660 11 votes, rather, to win a seat.

00:46:44.840 There was another race that seems to have been won by just one vote.

00:46:49.260 It went to the Democrats.

00:46:50.140 I'm sure that's going to be legally challenged.

00:46:52.020 One vote.

00:46:52.840 I mean, that's absolutely amazing.

00:46:54.600 Do not be discouraged.

00:46:56.520 The libs might beat us. 1.00

00:46:58.900 I hope they don't.

00:46:59.360 They might beat us.

00:47:00.340 But we should not surrender, okay?

00:47:02.640 I do not want to surrender.

00:47:03.840 I do not want to go down without a fight.

00:47:06.820 And frankly, if we actually do stand up and we actually do fight, and we actually just

00:47:12.880 engage in the long, hard work of decades and decades of taking back power from them

00:47:17.560 and then wielding power against them as well, in a just and moral way, of course, I don't

00:47:23.180 think that they will win.

00:47:24.740 I don't think that they will permanently win.

00:47:26.980 Let's say that.

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The Michael Knowles Show - December 12, 2022

Ep. 1143 - The Woke Mind Virus

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