The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1198 - Tucker Destroys The January 6th Narrative

00:00:00.000 More than two years after January 6th, the worst day in the history of the world,

00:00:08.020 two years later, House Republicans have finally obtained security camera footage

00:00:12.260 of what actually happened in the Capitol that day. The Republicans got the footage,

00:00:17.560 they gave it to Tucker Carlson and his producers to investigate and release,

00:00:21.440 and congressional Democrats are not happy about it.

00:00:25.540 Last night, millions of Americans tuned in to one of the most shameful hours we have ever seen

00:00:33.340 on cable television. With contempt for the facts, disregard of the risks,

00:00:40.080 and knowing full well he was lying, lying to his audience, Fox News host Tucker Carlson

00:00:47.240 ran a lengthy segment last night arguing the January 6th Capitol attack was not a violent

00:00:55.380 insurrection. By diving deep into the waters of conspiracy and cherry-picking from thousands

00:01:02.820 of hours of security footage, Mr. Carlson told the bold-faced lie that the Capitol attack,

00:01:09.840 which we all saw with our own eyes, was somehow not an attack at all. And he's going to come back

00:01:16.220 tonight with another segment. Fox News should tell him not to. Fox News, Rupert Murdoch,

00:01:24.240 tell Carlson not to run a second segment of lies. You know it's a lie. You've admitted it's a lie.

00:01:32.380 Do not play the clips. The videos are a lie. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

00:01:39.920 Who are you going to believe, Chuck Schumer or your own lying eyes? I'm Michael Knowles. 0.76

00:01:44.900 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

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00:02:08.580 I did in fact identify as Batman. I know a lot of conservatives, they say that as a joke when

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00:03:50.780 The liberals are not very happy. They're having a very angry week. They're losing it. They're calling

00:03:56.040 everybody Nazis. They're saying this is the end of the world, the end of democracy, the end of the

00:04:00.880 republic, not just because some people think men and women are different, but also because some people

00:04:07.340 want to see the footage from January 6th. We were told that January 6th was the greatest insurrection,

00:04:14.120 the worst nearer coup d'etat in the history of the world, and we've only seen little clips of the

00:04:20.260 footage. Little clips that the establishment press are willing to let us see. The little clips that

00:04:25.920 the Democrats in Congress, when they had control of Congress, allowed us to look at. And I made this

00:04:30.820 point on the show just a few days ago. I said, when you read a news story, the first question that you

00:04:36.140 ask should not be about the details of the story itself. The first question you should ask is,

00:04:41.980 why is this story being presented to me? And why is it being presented to me right now?

00:04:47.380 That's the meta news, meta political question that you've got to ask. Chuck Schumer said in his remarks

00:04:54.380 begging Fox News, please don't let Tucker play the tape that proves us all to be liars. Chuck Schumer

00:04:59.860 said, we all saw the insurrection. No, we didn't all see the insurrection. All we saw was a handful of

00:05:07.760 clips that you Democrats curated very specifically to give the impression that January 6th was the worst

00:05:15.660 coup d'etat ever. Now, now that the Republicans took charge of the Congress, Kevin McCarthy has access

00:05:23.840 to that footage and he released 41,000 hours of it to Tucker Carlson. And Tucker Carlson's investigators

00:05:29.620 have gone through that footage and now they're presenting us with a fuller picture. And the fuller

00:05:34.060 picture shows that what we were told simply was not true. Up to and including the QAnon shaman,

00:05:41.920 you know, the guy with the horn hat, painted face, screaming, yelling. He was the king. He was the

00:05:49.380 one who was going to declare himself king, tear up the constitution, create a new government, right?

00:05:53.520 That was what was supposed to happen. Well, it turns out that guy was escorted through the Capitol

00:05:59.460 by Capitol police. Jacob Chansley became the face of January 6th, a dangerous conspiracy theorist

00:06:07.560 dressed in outlandish costume who led the violent insurrection to overthrow American democracy.

00:06:13.400 For these crimes, Chansley was sentenced to nearly four years in prison, far more time than many

00:06:18.720 violent criminals now receive. What did Jacob Chansley do to receive this punishment? To this day,

00:06:25.160 there is dispute over how Chansley got into the Capitol building. But according to our review of the

00:06:30.460 internal surveillance video, it is very clear what happened once he got inside. Virtually every moment of

00:06:37.080 his time inside the Capitol was caught on tape. The tapes show that Capitol police never stopped

00:06:43.140 Jacob Chansley. They helped him. They acted as his tour guides. Here's video of Chansley in the

00:06:49.560 Senate chamber. Capitol police officers take him to multiple entrances and even try to open locked

00:06:55.480 doors for him. We counted at least nine officers who were within touching distance of unarmed Jacob

00:07:02.100 Chansley. Not one of them even tried to slow him down. It doesn't look like an insurrection to me.

00:07:09.200 The images that you were presented with was of a guy leading a crusade, a violent mob that was

00:07:14.620 killing police officers. Remember they told you that? They told you they killed police officers. That was a

00:07:18.780 complete lie. Only one person died in political violence on January 6th. That was Ashley Babbitt.

00:07:24.160 That was one of the Trump supporters who was shot by a trigger happy cop. What about the rest of the

00:07:30.100 story? What about the story about the cops being murdered? Tucker's got tape on that too.

00:07:35.900 And killing several police officers in the meantime. But Brian Sicknick should not be reduced to a prop for

00:07:41.740 the political ambitions of the Democratic Party. He was a human being. The facts of his life matter,

00:07:47.180 including how he died. To this day, media accounts describe Sicknick as someone who was, quote,

00:07:53.120 slain on January 6th. The video we reviewed proves that is a lie. Here is surveillance footage of Sicknick

00:08:00.960 walking in the Capitol after he was supposedly murdered by the mob outside. By all appearances,

00:08:07.000 Sicknick is healthy and vigorous. He's wearing a helmet, so it's hard to imagine he was killed by a head

00:08:12.480 injury. Whatever happened to Brian Sicknick was very obviously not the result of violence he suffered

00:08:18.920 at the entrance to the Capitol. This tape overturns the single most powerful and politically useful lie

00:08:25.400 the Democrats have told us about January 6th. And it was indeed a lie. The January 6th committee

00:08:31.860 knew perfectly well that Brian Sicknick was walking normally through the Capitol after he was supposedly

00:08:37.460 murdered by Trump supporters. There it is. And the whole rest of the Tucker

00:08:42.400 report is terrific. Coincidentally, I actually happened to be on Tucker's show at the very end

00:08:48.440 of the show when this was going on. And they had asked me to come on the show to talk about all the

00:08:52.860 crazy defamation where the libs accused me of genocide. And they mentioned, they said, Michael,

00:08:57.360 we really want to get the story in, but we might be a little tight on time because we're doing a big

00:09:01.940 January 6th report. I said, I had just forgotten about the tapes. I said, huh? Why are you doing a

00:09:07.380 January 6th report on this March 6th and years later? And then because of this, because the same

00:09:16.100 footage can tell a completely different story depending on who is constructing that narrative.

00:09:25.260 And the great irony here is that the libs use this one phrase. They used a few phrases,

00:09:32.580 this insurrection. But the one phrase they kept using ever since the 2020 election was

00:09:37.640 the big lie. This was the propaganda line that all of the left-wing voices in the media,

00:09:44.300 in politics, they would all say, it was the big lie. Trump and his supporters were spreading the big lie.

00:09:50.500 And they used that phrase because that phrase is associated with Hitler and the Nazis. The irony

00:09:55.400 is they don't realize that that phrase was actually used by Hitler to accuse the Jews of telling a big

00:10:04.360 lie about a German general and World War I. So if you are using the phrase, the big lie,

00:10:11.600 if you are accusing someone of the big lie, you are putting yourself in the place of the Nazis, 0.65

00:10:16.420 the Democrats, not particularly historically literate. So that irony was lost on them.

00:10:21.200 And then, of course, they harp on lie, lie, lie, lie, lie. Who was putting forward such a lie?

00:10:29.480 Very often when people, when the Democrats in particular, accuse Republicans of something,

00:10:37.080 you can take it to the bank that the Democrats are probably doing that themselves. And you can see

00:10:43.860 this in the case of January 6th. There's more to come. I can see why Chuck Schumer is begging Tucker,

00:10:50.820 please don't air it, please Rupert Murdoch, stop Tucker, please Kevin McCarthy, stop them from exposing

00:10:55.920 what so many people knew from the very beginning. It was a show. It was a show. I don't know how else

00:11:04.980 to describe it. All the world is a stage. Politics is a really big stage. People were presented with

00:11:11.480 a fictional narrative. Now that narrative is being corrected and you will never see the libs push

00:11:18.840 back harder than when their narratives fall apart. That's why they call people Nazis. That's why they

00:11:22.880 accuse people of genocide. That's why they say they're threats to democracy. When you are getting

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00:12:36.040 The Democrats very often accuse the Republicans of doing the very same thing that they are doing.

00:12:41.420 This is nothing new, and we're seeing it particularly on the matter of domestic terrorism.

00:12:46.180 For years, the Democrats said the conservatives on January 6th committed domestic terrorism. No.

00:12:51.760 Now, from the footage we're seeing, actually, most of them just seem to be having a tour,

00:12:56.380 sometimes a guided tour, by Capitol Police officers through the Capitol. Meanwhile,

00:13:00.840 meanwhile, an attorney for the Southern Poverty Law Center, the SPLC, was arrested recently among

00:13:11.360 23 people for a coordinated attack, domestic terrorism, in which far left-wing agitators

00:13:19.360 allegedly threw Molotov cocktails and launched fireworks in an Atlanta police training facility

00:13:25.580 that has been under construction. One of those people arrested Thomas Juergens, 28 years old,

00:13:30.300 a staff attorney at the SPLC. So not some random contractor, not some guy who did some volunteer

00:13:36.320 work one time, a staff attorney for the Southern Poverty Law Center. What is the attack? Well,

00:13:41.780 according to Atlanta Police Chief Sharbaum, this was a very violent attack, very violent attack.

00:13:47.500 This wasn't about a public safety training center. This was about anarchy, and we are addressing that

00:13:53.160 quickly. According to the Georgia Department of Public Safety, some left-wing agitators even tried

00:13:58.660 blinding police officers by shining green lasers in their eyes. And when I say blind, I don't mean

00:14:04.480 temporarily blind. Those high-powered green lasers can permanently blind you. They were throwing

00:14:09.120 explosives at them, and one of them was a staff attorney for the SPLC, which is an organization

00:14:15.560 that works with Google, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon to censor conservatives. The SPLC is considered one of

00:14:23.960 the trusted groups to make sure that no violent extremists, far right-wing domestic terrorists are

00:14:31.520 allowed to spread their message online. If the SPLC employs this guy, the SPLC is a terror group.

00:14:42.020 They're trying to downplay it. They're like, oh, he was just in a bad crowd. He just kind of happened

00:14:47.400 to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Yeah. Okay. Okay. When you go to the SPLC and you look at

00:14:54.580 who they are, it says, what we do, the first link is fighting hate. Meanwhile, one of their staff

00:14:59.960 attorneys is palling around with guys as they're throwing Molotov cocktails at police facilities.

00:15:07.980 And this is how the blob works. This is how they censor us.

00:15:10.700 They get their domestic terrorists to accuse us, normal, peaceful guys who just want society to be

00:15:18.720 normal, of being terrorists. That's how they do it. And they probably won't have to answer for

00:15:25.300 this. I bet that SPLC will keep its partnerships with these big tech giants. And you have very little

00:15:30.600 recourse because if this were being done by the state, then you could vote the bums out, 0.99

00:15:35.480 at least in theory. You could call your congressman. You could call your senator.

00:15:38.980 But what the liberals have done is the liberals in government, because they know that they can't

00:15:43.200 quite violate the First Amendment brazenly yet, they outsource their censorship to big technology

00:15:49.000 companies. And big tech doesn't want to take the heat, so they outsource it to the left-wing

00:15:53.580 agitative groups. And so the liberals in government get all the censorship of conservatives they want,

00:15:58.960 but everyone's hands are relatively clean and there's no recourse. That's the brave new world. We talk a

00:16:04.160 lot about the Great Reset, how people like the World Economic Forum and other groups are pushing for

00:16:08.940 a great reset of our society so that you'll eat bugs, live in pods, you'll own nothing and be

00:16:14.400 happy. And a lot of people don't understand how this is going to work in practice. I mentioned this

00:16:18.300 at the very end of the show yesterday. Well, Ford just showed us a little bit. Ford Motor Company

00:16:23.120 filed a patent for new systems and methods to repossess a vehicle. And what would happen is that if you are

00:16:30.040 late on your car payment, Ford could go in remotely, disable functionality of a component of the

00:16:36.860 vehicle, maybe place the vehicle in a lockout condition, so you can't get into your own car

00:16:42.400 and then the repo man can come and take it. Maybe the car just drives itself away and repossesses

00:16:48.360 itself. The application describes multiple implementations of the system, disabling the

00:16:53.160 air conditioning system, a remote key fob, and an automated door lock unlock system. Using the stereo

00:16:59.320 to emit an incessant and unpleasant sound every time the owner is present in the vehicle.

00:17:04.100 And I wasn't just making it up using self-driving technology to cause the vehicle to go right back

00:17:11.460 to the creditor. That's what the Great Reset looks like in real life. The way it looks in real life

00:17:16.080 is not that everybody all of a sudden is going to vote for Klaus Schwab to be king of the world.

00:17:20.600 The way it looks in real life is not even that Klaus Schwab and Bill Gates and George Soros and all the

00:17:26.520 figures who are legitimately pretty bad hombres. It's not that they're going to just openly come in

00:17:32.600 and transparently take political power. It's just going to seep into your technology. I mentioned

00:17:39.540 this probably a month ago now with this little known story about the Australian e-safety commissioner

00:17:47.060 for the internet who is pushing something called safety by design. Safety by design is now being

00:17:53.020 peddled by the Australian government and by the World Economic Forum. And the plan here is not to push for

00:17:58.080 new censorship of speech through different governments or even international institutions.

00:18:02.820 It's to embed the censorship of conservative ideas straight into the tech platforms. And if

00:18:08.280 one or two governments calls for this, and if the World Economic Forum with this massive network calls

00:18:12.800 for this, then big tech is just going to implement it. It's not going to implement it just for one country

00:18:17.100 or another. It's going to be for everybody. So the censorship is going to happen from the very

00:18:22.720 moment of communication. And there's not going to be any recourse to it. If you have a car that can

00:18:31.420 drive itself away from you, if you have a car that can start blaring terrible noise when you get into it,

00:18:38.620 then you don't really have a car, do you? You don't really own a car. I had this thought with the

00:18:43.500 stupid seatbelt beeps. Even years ago, I'd get in my car. I'm kind of rushed. You know, 1.00

00:18:49.480 I'd start pulling out. I'm going to put my seatbelt on a little later. Or maybe I'm just going right

00:18:52.780 down the road. I don't need to put my seatbelt on. And what happens? You're driving away in here.

00:18:56.320 Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep. Put your seatbelt on, Michael. Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep.

00:19:01.240 And you say, hey, hold on. Who is in charge here? Am I in charge of my car or is my car in charge of me?

00:19:09.040 Do I tell my car what to do? I say, hey, car, go and drive and go forward. Or does my

00:19:13.360 car say, put that seatbelt on or I'm going to keep beeping in your ear? How much more so will

00:19:19.180 we see that when the car can drive itself away from you? For what purpose? Maybe it's because

00:19:23.080 you don't pay your creditor. Okay, well, that might be a fine reason. Maybe it's because you

00:19:26.280 tweeted something that was a little politically incorrect. Maybe it's because you were with that

00:19:31.080 terrible, violent insurrectionist mob at the Capitol on January 6th. I think you lose car privileges

00:19:36.840 if that happens. We talk so much about China having a social credit score and China punishing

00:19:42.840 political dissidents. It's a good old blues song. Before you accuse me, take a look at

00:19:48.560 yourself. Do we not have that in America? Sometimes I think we do. Increasingly, we do.

00:19:57.240 Speaking of owning nothing and being happy, speaking of redistributing money at the very least,

00:20:03.180 California is proposing a plan for reparations for slavery. You've heard these ideas floated on

00:20:10.600 the far left fringes in recent decades. Well, now it looks like it's pretty close to being implemented.

00:20:17.480 The irony is that it might first be implemented in a state that never had slavery. Not only a state

00:20:26.460 that never had slavery, but a state for which the decision not to have slavery was one of the

00:20:34.440 motivating factors for the civil war. But California is now looking into it. The amount of money that

00:20:44.280 this state committee is considering giving to each eligible recipient is 50% more than the amount that

00:20:53.900 was floated as the highest possibility last year. If you are fortunate enough to be a black person in the

00:21:02.080 state of California, you might soon find yourself the recipient of $360,000. All because one of your 0.96

00:21:14.040 ancestors maybe was a slave somewhere other than California. All paid for by the California taxpayers

00:21:24.360 today. People who came here or whose ancestors very likely came here long after slavery existed, people whose

00:21:31.220 ancestors did not practice slavery, even if they were some of the original Californians, they will pay you

00:21:36.300 $360,000. And by the way, the number could be a lot higher depending on what city you are in. So now we're all

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00:22:52.720 smarter wireless. If you live anywhere in the state of California and you're a black guy who can claim 0.99

00:22:59.500 any even tenuous connection to slavery, you could be the recipient of up to $360,000. If you live in

00:23:06.600 San Francisco, you might be eligible for $5 million. It's a good incentive to move over to San Francisco.

00:23:15.680 California, by the way, has a state budget deficit of about $25 billion this year.

00:23:23.500 Many cities also short of money in California. I'm really glad that these studies and committees

00:23:32.120 are out there now, because it proves something that many of us have known from the very beginning

00:23:36.800 of this reparations nonsense, but I think is quite clear now. There is no limiting principle on

00:23:43.340 reparations. If the proposal were, give every black person in America, even the Rachel Dolezals, 0.98

00:23:52.480 even the people who aren't really black, but they identify as black, anybody, just give anybody

00:23:56.960 who's really into racial grievance, give them $360,000, give them $5 million, and then that's

00:24:05.480 it. And then that's it. The deal is you get $5 million, but then you have to shut up about racial

00:24:11.640 grievance. You can't bring it up again. If that were the deal, everybody in the country would go for

00:24:17.260 it. I certainly would. Oh, if that were, I don't care if it's a trillion dollars that it costs.

00:24:23.000 If the deal were you get $5 million and then you need to shut your trap about racial grievance

00:24:28.880 every single day of the week, every part, you stub your toe, it's because of white supremacy or

00:24:33.700 whatever. Okay, great. 5 million, have $6 million. Okay, fine. But we all know that's not the case.

00:24:41.200 We all know that's not the case because one, money does not buy happiness. Money does not solve all

00:24:46.140 problems. Money does not even solve many problems. Money is a fine thing to have in its proper place. I

00:24:51.100 certainly enjoy having money rather than not having money when it can be put to good use,

00:24:55.820 but this is not merely a physical world. And the important things in life are much deeper than that.

00:25:05.240 Two, if a state that didn't even have slavery is now the epicenter of this debate, you know there's

00:25:15.360 no limiting principle. There is no limiting principle at all. And so I would recommend to

00:25:20.160 California that the reparations amount should be zero dollars and zero cents. But I'm no longer a

00:25:27.040 California resident, even though I happen to be in California right now on the road for a very fun and

00:25:31.920 special little project. I would not recommend that. And I would recommend, unless you are black and you 1.00

00:25:37.380 can really claim the 5 million, in which case, hey, good for you. Enjoy. But if you're going to 0.99

00:25:44.300 plan on a long-term strategy of raising a family somewhere, I would not recommend California.

00:25:50.080 Things are not looking very great there. Gavin Newsom, however, the governor of California who

00:25:55.900 wants to run for president, he claims California is the freedom state. He's in a big spat right now

00:26:02.220 with Governor Ron DeSantis over in Florida. Governor DeSantis says that he is a model of freedom in

00:26:07.300 America. Newsom says that's BS. That's not true. So DeSantis was just in California for a speech at the

00:26:12.480 Reagan Library. Ron DeSantis ran an ad. And the ad said, welcome to the real freedom state.

00:26:19.460 Feel free to read a book. Get health care. Say gay. What does that mean? Well, he says feel free 1.00

00:26:28.080 to read a book. He's talking about the bans that Florida has instituted in schools on gay pornography.

00:26:35.600 So Ron DeSantis, he has banned books. That's true. That's a real criticism that you can make of him.

00:26:39.540 I think, I don't think it's a criticism. I think that's something he deserves praise for.

00:26:44.080 These banned books, specifically gay porn in schools. And Gavin Newsom, rather, is saying,

00:26:52.160 well, here in California, you can read gay porn wherever you want. You can, boy, you can read it 1.00

00:26:56.420 at the library. You can read it in the elementary schools. You can get all sorts of gay porn you want. 0.93

00:26:59.700 Then he says the next example of freedom is you can get health care. The freedom to what? Maybe you get 0.99

00:27:09.540 when the state provides health care. In the places where this is practiced, the quality of the

00:27:14.640 health care plummets. Ask anybody from the United Kingdom. Ask anybody from Canada. Some people you

00:27:19.200 can't ask in Canada because they've died while they're waiting to get health care. And what's

00:27:23.100 the solution to that, by the way? When the supply of health care is much smaller than the demand for

00:27:30.020 health care in Canada, one, people die waiting to get surgeries. But two, the state encourages people

00:27:35.060 to kill themselves. That's why you're seeing a big push among Canadian politicians for MAID,

00:27:40.980 medical assistance in dying. It's just doctor-assisted suicide. We say, oh, you're poor.

00:27:46.460 You're a drain on society. You should probably kill yourself. And it's exploding in Canada. It's not 1.00

00:27:52.080 one or two people. It's a huge, huge problem. So that's the freedom to have the state tell you to

00:27:57.940 kill yourself. And then the third one, say gay. And of course, no state bans anybody from saying the 1.00

00:28:02.460 word gay. You can even sing the word gay. You can say, I'm pretty. Oh, so pretty. Pretty and witty

00:28:07.960 and gay. You can sing it anywhere you want, any of these 50 states. But when they say, say gay, 0.71

00:28:13.200 they mean have five-year-olds taught about weird gay stuff and transgender and all the rest of it. 0.95

00:28:18.600 California, oh, we'll trans your kids in preschool. You've got the freedom. You've got the freedom to

00:28:25.420 tell your kid to chop his genitals off when he's five years old. That's freedom, right? Okay, 1.00

00:28:29.200 that's a vision of freedom. That is a vision of freedom from the left, and Gavin Newsom is owning

00:28:36.200 it. Ron DeSantis has a different vision of freedom. He was just asked on television by Sean Hannity

00:28:42.020 about Gavin Newsom's claim to be the freedom state. And specifically, they took this in the

00:28:47.080 direction of the fight over illegal immigration. Here's what DeSantis had to say.

00:28:51.300 In Florida, we're not a sanctuary state. When I became governor, we were able to ban sanctuary cities.

00:28:56.540 The rule of law is important. And so, of course, we're not going to recognize lawless

00:29:02.280 identifications that are done by California. And California, they've abandoned the rule of law.

00:29:09.160 They are a sanctuary state. They don't follow federal immigration laws. And of course,

00:29:13.540 these Soros prosecutors, they pick and choose which laws to enforce. There'll be people in Los

00:29:19.360 Angeles who will get mugged, Sean, on the street, and the prosecutor won't bring charges against these

00:29:24.520 guys. And they end up going out and they victimize other people. So I think public safety is incredibly

00:29:30.160 important. And when you abandon the rule of law, you end up getting a lot of the results that they've

00:29:34.900 had in California. And people respond by fleeing the jurisdiction. I love this answer from DeSantis.

00:29:41.600 And I know he's speaking specifically here about immigration and then leading that into street crime 0.98

00:29:45.800 a little bit. But the answer, I think, suffices for his whole view of freedom,

00:29:49.780 which is that freedom comes within the bounds of law. Gavin Newsom's argument is that true freedom

00:29:58.940 comes from licentiousness. And that's the great debate of our age. There are some people who say

00:30:05.960 the great political debate of our age is between capitalism and socialism. Or the great political

00:30:13.260 debate of our age is between freedom and slavery. I don't know. No. The great political debate of our

00:30:21.940 age is between two polar opposite conceptions of freedom. Is freedom the ability to do whatever you

00:30:31.540 want according to your individual appetites and desires? That's what the left says. Or is freedom

00:30:37.900 the ability to repress some of your desires in favor of an exalted freedom? The freedom to walk down the

00:30:49.520 street without fear of being mugged because people are following the law. The freedom to control your

00:30:54.780 sexual passions or your desire for food or booze or anything else. The freedom to not have to be in a

00:31:01.020 culture infested with drugs. The freedom to say no to those drugs. That involves laws against drugs.

00:31:09.900 Not the freedom to just go into any country willy-nilly, whatever you want because borders

00:31:13.440 don't exist. No. The freedom to rely on your borders. To know that you have a distinct political community

00:31:18.920 with a citizenry that can govern itself. That higher political kind of freedom. That's the debate.

00:31:25.020 Okay. These two guys are right now running the shadow campaign for president. The two leading

00:31:32.560 candidates for president right now are Joe Biden on the Democrat side and Donald Trump on the Republican

00:31:37.620 side. Both of those candidates are relatively aged. Obviously, Biden seems much older than Trump,

00:31:43.360 but they're both there. If Biden does not run, Gavin Newsom is currently the leading candidate to

00:31:50.020 replace him. Kamala is going nowhere. Buttigieg is a joke. So Newsom is the top runner.

00:31:55.020 And DeSantis, as you can see, according to all of the polls, is the number two guy in the GOP field.

00:32:00.180 So the race will still probably be Trump versus Biden. At least that's what the polls show right

00:32:05.000 now. But if it's not, you could have a very honest debate between two young candidates,

00:32:13.380 both governors of their own states. You can look at the record in those states. You can look at which

00:32:19.100 way the moving vans are going. You can look at where people are flourishing. You can look

00:32:23.180 at where the economy is doing well, where social life is doing well, where families are growing.

00:32:30.960 Which conception of freedom do you want to live under? Do you want to just do whatever you want?

00:32:37.880 George Bernard Shaw, I think it was Shaw, described hell as the place where you have nothing to do but

00:32:42.320 amuse yourself. Well, that's California. Read whatever gay porn you want. Do whatever drugs 0.95

00:32:49.260 you want. Defecate on whatever sidewalk you want to. Or is freedom the ability to live a flourishing 0.98

00:32:57.940 life? The right to do what you ought to do, in the words of Lord Acton. It's a good debate. It's an

00:33:04.480 honest debate to have. I don't even blame Newsom. He's honest about his view. His view just happens

00:33:08.840 to be hideous. Jordan Peterson has completed the second half of his extraordinary 16-part seminar

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00:33:28.940 but who God is. Watch this, and you will see what I mean.

00:33:31.840 You have the God that is that spirit that you walk unselfconsciously with in a perfect garden,

00:33:40.020 right? Say, when you're abiding by yourself appropriately, and then you have the God in

00:33:47.500 the story of Cain and Abel that judges you when you make improper sacrifices, and you have the God that

00:33:54.260 calls you to protect your community when storms beckon. And it's metonymy, right? It's the juxtaposition

00:34:01.720 of these stories to flesh out the idea that all these spirits unite in some unified and transcendent

00:34:11.920 spirit. But then you have the problem is that unified and transcendent spirit can become so abstract

00:34:16.960 that it's incomprehensible. That's the deus abscondis problem that Murcia Elliot had talked about,

00:34:22.760 the potential for God to become just a spiritual abstraction and then to disappear into space.

00:34:28.900 And then you have the other problem is that if God, the spirit that guides us, is conceptualized as

00:34:35.360 the union of all possible virtues, then it also becomes a judge that's so harsh that no one can

00:34:40.100 bear its judgment. So that brings up the problem of differentiation. And that's, you say, said that's

00:34:45.800 partly what's being, and God has to descend onto the mountain too before he can talk to Moses. So he has to

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00:35:16.380 Exodus. The Libs are going to fight very hard to preserve their perverted vision of liberty.

00:35:23.620 You see this with the Congressman Jamal Bowman. Jamal Bowman is a Democrat Congressman from New York.

00:35:30.380 And Jamal Bowman had some choice words to say about yours truly, me, your beloved podcast host.

00:35:36.320 Congressman Bowman said, quote, Michael Knowles is a Nazi hell-bent on keeping only white men alive and 0.72

00:35:47.400 in power. We cannot allow him and others to push their evil agenda, and we must stand up for the

00:35:54.920 transgender rights. CPAC has made one thing clear this year. They support a future run by Nazis like 1.00

00:36:01.340 Knowles. This is kind of funny. I did laugh when I saw this. Doesn't make a whole lot of sense. He's

00:36:09.000 angry because I said that boys and girls are different, and we shouldn't tolerate the transgender 1.00

00:36:13.400 ideology in public. We should eradicate it from public life entirely because the ideology is false. 0.89

00:36:18.640 It's a false anthropology, and so we shouldn't tolerate it. Very simple. And that somehow this

00:36:24.800 means I want only the white men to live. I don't think race came up once in the speech, but this 0.95

00:36:31.560 is the trick. Anytime you say anything that the libs disagree with, they try to call you a white

00:36:38.080 supremacist. That doesn't always work. There's one great example of this was some left-wing activist

00:36:43.860 called into David Webb's show. David Webb, the conservative commentator. And David Webb was totally

00:36:50.280 owning this lib with facts and logic. And so the libs said, well, that's just your white privilege

00:36:54.400 talking. You're just a white privileged racist. And David starts laughing. I guess this woman didn't, 1.00

00:37:00.760 she couldn't see David. She had never Googled him. David, very much a black guy. But that's what they

00:37:04.760 do. They just say it all the time. It's kind of funny to do it to me because though I guess I am white,

00:37:08.980 the Sicilian people have always been racially somewhat liminal, ethnically a little bit ambiguous.

00:37:13.660 Then a Nazi, where does he get Nazi from? It is funny, but it's funny only because of the absurdity. 0.79

00:37:24.960 It's not really funny to think of the consequences of this. This is a sitting member of Congress who is

00:37:32.180 defaming a private citizen as a Nazi because that private citizen says the boys and girls are not the

00:37:40.960 same. Nazi is the worst thing you can be called. A racist is broadly the worst thing you can be

00:37:48.980 called. A Nazi is specifically the worst thing that you can be called. I'm accused of wanting only white 0.88

00:37:54.260 men alive and in power. Obviously, I have no idea where he gets that from. That's really bad. That's

00:37:58.960 really a major, enormous abuse of power by this congressman. And so I would strongly recommend that

00:38:08.120 Kevin McCarthy, the Speaker of the House and the House Republicans, move to censure Jamal Bowman

00:38:13.340 because he's doing this to me because I just happened to have a moment that really irritated

00:38:18.780 the liberals because I told them, no, we were not going to go along with their transgender agenda. 0.93

00:38:22.980 They thought they had already won on the transgender issue. They thought we were now just

00:38:26.300 fighting on the fringes. Okay, are we going to trans the eight-year-olds or are we going to wait 0.99

00:38:30.160 until they turn nine? But they thought on the issue of transgenderism, they were convinced they 0.87

00:38:33.980 already won. I said, no, you haven't already won. We're going to eradicate this ideology

00:38:37.460 from public life entirely, especially for the good of the people who have fallen prey to it.

00:38:44.000 And the liberals were very upset with that. So now they're calling me all sorts of names.

00:38:47.360 They would do this to anyone. I just happen to be the guy that said it, but they would obviously do

00:38:52.040 it to anyone. I would strongly recommend that the House Republicans move to censure Jamal Bowman.

00:38:58.440 This is completely unacceptable. To say nothing of the fact that it makes light of the Holocaust.

00:39:02.140 I mean, it's hideous, hideous remarks to say. I kind of have a light attitude about it because people

00:39:07.220 say all sorts of nasty things about me. You know, one of my probably problems in the field of

00:39:12.560 political commentaries, I don't get angry almost ever. But this is pretty serious stuff. A member

00:39:18.360 of Congress should not be making light of the Holocaust and baselessly calling private citizens

00:39:22.860 Nazis and white supremacists and whatever kind of manner of evil he can think of. Really, really

00:39:28.720 outrageous and defamatory. But I guess that's the week for that. What are they really fighting for

00:39:32.720 in practice? What is Jamal Bowman? What are the libs all fighting for? They're fighting for one of the

00:39:40.580 most perverse, evil ideologies I have ever seen crop up in political life. Take a listen.

00:39:50.640 Basically, at about 24 months here, here's where she started grabbing the, um, the tutus and the

00:39:58.860 dresses. By three and a half, Kieran had transitioned to a girl. Today, she's nine years old, a third

00:40:05.500 grader and an athlete. That's why the Clausens are celebrating Governor Holcomb's decision to veto a

00:40:11.440 bill that would have banned Kieran and other transgender girls from playing on girls' sports teams at school.

00:40:17.180 There were happy tears shed. There was dancing. And when I told Kieran, she squealed with glee.

00:40:27.600 There are people watching this right now who will say people who were born a boy and are living life

00:40:34.680 as a girl are biologically different. So it, it places, it places them at an unfair advantage.

00:40:41.680 My daughter will never go through male puberty. He says Kieran will undergo hormone therapy to make

00:40:52.080 her no different than any other girl. My kid's mental health is more important than your kid's trophy.

00:40:58.500 That is what it means to allow transgender ideology into public life. That is inevitably what it means.

00:41:09.180 It means that guy, I guess he's the father of this poor little boy. I don't know where the mother is.

00:41:18.940 That's kind of straight. You don't see the mother in any of these pictures. I don't know

00:41:22.060 anything about their family situation other than that when the child was three years old,

00:41:28.700 three years old, he reached for a skirt one day and this psycho started dressing him up as a girl

00:41:38.920 and planning to pump him full of hormones and planning to castrate him so that he would never

00:41:44.740 go through puberty, so that he'll never be able to have children, so that he'll never be able to lead

00:41:48.860 anything even remotely resembling a normal life. This is the inevitable result of indulging

00:41:56.140 transgender ideology at any level. The reason for that is it's either true or it's not true.

00:42:06.900 You can't ban it for kids without banning it for adults. It's not like R-rated movies. It's not

00:42:14.460 even like porn, which is much harder to ban because the internet is so wild. It's an anthropology.

00:42:23.200 It's not just a naughty little thing that some people do, but we tolerate it as a vice in society.

00:42:27.380 It's a statement about human nature. So if it's true, then that little boy actually is a little

00:42:34.540 girl and what that psycho father is doing is totally just. And it's good for the boy's mental health 0.62

00:42:41.740 now to call himself a girl. And it's good that he'll be castrated. That's really good for his 1.00

00:42:47.460 mental health. Or that anthropology is false, in which case what that father is doing is evil,

00:42:55.000 about as evil as it gets. But it's got to be true for everybody. That's what anthropology means.

00:43:02.020 That's what human nature means. It's got to be true for everyone. And it's obviously false.

00:43:09.660 false. And so some people, they have good intentions. They say, well, you know, my cousin's

00:43:15.140 friend is this really messed up dude, and he thinks he's a woman. And he says it makes him feel

00:43:21.480 better if he pretends to be a woman. And we think, well, oh, I just, I'm so compassionate. I just,

00:43:26.660 I really have the best intentions for that man, and I want to indulge it. Okay, the road to hell

00:43:31.720 is paved with good intentions. The road to that is paved with good intentions. It's making people

00:43:40.100 miserable. You think that little boy is going to be happier? You think he's not going to struggle

00:43:44.120 with anxiety, depression, suicidality, all of the conditions that are statistically associated

00:43:49.520 with this gender confusion? You think that? You really, no, nobody thinks that. There's a study out

00:43:57.260 now. We don't have time to totally get into it today. We'll get to it tomorrow. This is a really

00:44:01.840 shocking study. It turns out young liberals are way more depressed than young conservatives.

00:44:07.160 Can you imagine? It's so shocking. Young liberals, especially young liberal girls, 0.65

00:44:12.600 are way more depressed than conservatives. But young liberal boys are still more depressed than

00:44:19.520 young conservative girls. It completely breaks down by political ideology. So surprising, right? 1.00

00:44:30.100 Not quite. Not quite at all. This is the inevitable result. You know, I've been on the road

00:44:35.540 quite a lot recently. I was in Washington, D.C. I have been in Santa Barbara. You may have caught

00:44:42.440 last night. I was in a podcast called the Whatever Podcast because I'm hip and cool and young. I'm

00:44:47.240 basically a zoomer. So we will not be able to have a member block on today's show. But you know,

00:44:53.660 the member block is my absolute favorite part of the show. So I've insisted to Mr. Davies, I've said,

00:44:58.120 I'm going to quit if we are not able to do the member block for the rest of the week. I want a

00:45:03.700 fully packed member block. I want to see all my favorites. I want to see Cater Gator pop up. I want

00:45:08.240 to see Arun. I want Margo. I want all the people to pop up in the member. So we will be able to do that

00:45:13.780 when I'm back in town. And then I'll be going to Buffalo. There's a lot of hubbub. I'm giving a

00:45:19.160 speech in Buffalo. There are apparently some planned protests. Some local politicians are

00:45:23.560 trying to get it shut down. So if you're in the Buffalo area, I'll be able to see you Thursday

00:45:27.100 at night. And then I will be having a debate with Professor Deirdre McCloskey,

00:45:32.460 Warren Donald McCloskey. He identifies as transgender. But he's a very distinguished professor. He's got

00:45:38.680 three Harvard degrees. He's got six honorary doctorates. He's got all sorts of academic

00:45:44.160 publications. We will be debating gender, the nature of manhood and womanhood. That will be

00:45:49.980 at the University of Pittsburgh. The libs are also trying to shut that down. Some of the radical

00:45:53.980 trans activists are planning to disrupt the whole thing, scoop up all the tickets, and make a big 1.00

00:45:58.760 fuss about everything. So if you're in the Pittsburgh area, I'll be able to see you there as

00:46:01.960 well. And then I'll be able to see you on the member block again tomorrow. In the meantime,

00:46:05.800 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. See you then.

00:46:08.680 The Michael Knowles Show.

The Michael Knowles Show - March 08, 2023

Ep. 1198 - Tucker Destroys The January 6th Narrative

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