The Michael Knowles Show - April 12, 2024


Ep. 1467 - O.J. Simpson Deathbed Revelations


Episode Stats

Length

51 minutes

Words per Minute

173.36281

Word Count

8,886

Sentence Count

668

Misogynist Sentences

10

Hate Speech Sentences

25


Summary

The Juice is loose from his mortal coil. OJ Simpson has died at the age of 76. Many people in the audience are probably too young to remember when OJ was constantly in the news. So for those who don t remember, OJ, of course, was best known for being the only player to rush for 2,000 yards in a 14-game season. That is, until he murdered his wife and her friend, and was let off the hook in a criminal case but found liable for the murders in a civil case.


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00:00:30.000 The juice is loose from his mortal coil.
00:00:33.460 OJ Simpson has died at the age of 76.
00:00:37.300 Many people in the audience are probably too young
00:00:39.600 to remember when OJ was constantly in the news.
00:00:43.520 So for those who don't remember, OJ, of course,
00:00:46.380 was best known for being the only player to rush
00:00:49.540 for 2,000 yards in a 14-game season.
00:00:51.760 That is what he was best known for
00:00:53.300 until he murdered his wife and her friend
00:00:55.420 and then was let off the hook in a criminal case
00:00:58.860 but found liable for the murders in a civil case,
00:01:02.260 a discrepancy that only occurred
00:01:04.820 because racial tensions had been running high
00:01:07.480 after LAPD officers had been acquitted
00:01:09.900 after beating up a drunk-driving,
00:01:12.320 wife-beating career criminal named Rodney King
00:01:14.600 following a high-speed chase
00:01:16.060 that reached 117 miles per hour,
00:01:18.440 after which race riots broke out in L.A.,
00:01:21.760 killing 63 people and injuring nearly 2,400 other people
00:01:25.500 before the National Guard, the Army, and the Marines
00:01:29.040 had to be called in to restore order.
00:01:32.540 OJ's trial thrust his friend and sort of lawyer,
00:01:37.280 Robert Kardashian, into the spotlight,
00:01:39.680 which consequently foisted the rest of the Kardashian family
00:01:42.720 onto America.
00:01:43.560 Coverage of the trial got Norm MacDonald
00:01:45.880 and Jim Downey booted off of Saturday Night Live,
00:01:48.620 and the trial gave us the term N-word.
00:01:53.360 That term really was not popular before the trial.
00:01:56.820 It kind of invented the term, which is crazy.
00:01:59.640 In a decade that saw the first impeachment trial
00:02:03.080 of a U.S. president in 130 years,
00:02:06.220 OJ's murder trial was still somehow
00:02:09.020 the more significant and consequential trial.
00:02:12.440 And our nation is still, today,
00:02:15.120 grappling with its ultimate injustice.
00:02:17.800 I'm Michael Knowles.
00:02:18.500 This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:02:38.480 Welcome back to the show.
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00:03:17.720 The significance of the OJ trial pretty much cannot be overstated.
00:03:23.320 It is one of my first public memories.
00:03:26.580 It was just in the news all the time.
00:03:30.260 And the news was on in my house all the time.
00:03:31.860 And so I just remember OJ Simpson was everywhere.
00:03:36.860 And some people actually believed he was innocent, which is the craziest part.
00:03:42.700 They found his blood at the scene.
00:03:45.580 Okay?
00:03:46.540 He just did it.
00:03:48.540 Okay?
00:03:48.740 He had a record of beating his wife, and he just obviously did it.
00:03:52.200 And then he later kind of admitted that he did it in a book.
00:03:54.440 And then he lost the civil trial.
00:03:56.800 But there were still people who defended him.
00:03:58.500 I remember Norm MacDonald, the late, great Norm MacDonald, made a joke.
00:04:02.760 It was the best joke of all of the OJ jokes.
00:04:06.540 And Norm had made about a billion OJ jokes because he and SNL writer Jim Downey had just
00:04:10.860 pummeled OJ constantly in the 90s.
00:04:13.440 And Don Ohlmeyer, who was an NBC executive who was, I think, OJ's best friend, was so
00:04:18.380 angry about this that he fired the writer Jim Downey.
00:04:21.400 And then Norm said that if Downey was gone, Norm was going to quit too.
00:04:25.360 And so it lost Norm the main spot on Saturday Night Live.
00:04:28.200 But of all the jokes, the best one came at one of the, was it the ESPYs or I don't know,
00:04:34.520 one of the sports awards.
00:04:35.820 Norm was the emcee.
00:04:37.400 And here was his joke about the Heisman Trophy.
00:04:40.340 And there's Charles Woodson.
00:04:41.780 How about that?
00:04:42.400 I don't know what a season he had.
00:04:49.940 Great, and he became the first defensive player to win the Heisman Trophy.
00:04:54.480 And congratulations, Charles.
00:04:56.040 That is something that no one can ever take away from you.
00:04:59.220 Unless you kill your wife and a waiter, in which case.
00:05:04.680 All bets are off.
00:05:08.600 It's a word of advice.
00:05:09.940 So you see in that scene, and just to cut away to the audience reaction, it tells you
00:05:15.740 everything you need to know about the OJ trial and the aftermath.
00:05:18.320 There were five people pictured there.
00:05:19.900 Two white guys, three black guys.
00:05:22.200 All athletes, one would imagine.
00:05:24.440 And one black guy kind of puts his head in his hands.
00:05:26.960 He's trying to muffle a laugh.
00:05:28.880 Another black guy.
00:05:30.820 Is that Ken Griffey?
00:05:32.200 Ken Griffey Jr.?
00:05:32.980 I can't quite tell.
00:05:33.920 I don't want to commit a racism by mixing someone up.
00:05:36.080 But this is like 30 years ago.
00:05:37.720 Is there not laughing, shaking his head.
00:05:40.060 Then the third black guy is laughing.
00:05:41.820 Then you look right behind him.
00:05:42.900 The one white guy, he's laughing.
00:05:45.240 The second white guy to his left just doesn't know how to react.
00:05:49.300 He's not laughing.
00:05:50.440 This summed it up.
00:05:52.360 This summed it up.
00:05:53.180 Why was this a racial trial?
00:05:56.020 It was a racial trial because OJ obviously did it.
00:06:01.600 So the dream team of lawyers, which included Alan Dershowitz, which included Johnny Cochran,
00:06:07.500 if the glove don't fit, you must acquit, which I guess included Robert Kardashian.
00:06:12.720 Robert Kardashian was part of OJ's dream team of lawyers in large part because he was a friend of OJ.
00:06:17.520 He was going to let his law license lapse, actually.
00:06:20.080 But by joining his legal team, he wouldn't have had to testify against OJ.
00:06:24.660 And he hung around OJ and his murdered wife before she was gone a fair bit and was aware of the tensions in their marriage.
00:06:33.720 So he didn't want to testify against him.
00:06:34.980 So he ends up on the lawyer team.
00:06:36.740 Then they realized the guy was guilty of sin.
00:06:38.820 So the only way that they could possibly win was by making it a racial case and tying it to the Rodney King beating,
00:06:45.860 which was this career criminal who was beaten up by the LAPD.
00:06:48.480 And it worked.
00:06:51.180 It totally worked.
00:06:52.020 In fact, one of the jurors from that case admitted it years later.
00:06:55.300 Said, yeah, we knew basically all of us that he was guilty, but this was kind of our revenge.
00:07:01.080 Do you think that there are members of the jury that voted to acquit OJ because of Rodney King?
00:07:08.360 Yes.
00:07:09.160 You do?
00:07:10.000 Yes.
00:07:10.360 How many of you think felt that way?
00:07:13.300 Oh, probably 90 percent of us.
00:07:18.140 90 percent?
00:07:20.520 Did you feel that way?
00:07:22.060 Yes.
00:07:24.060 That was payback?
00:07:25.700 Uh-huh.
00:07:26.900 You think that's right?
00:07:27.980 Wow, even she won't say that it's right.
00:07:35.600 Just puts her hands in the air.
00:07:36.680 Because obviously it wasn't right.
00:07:37.620 It's a great injustice.
00:07:39.220 It was an injustice to this poor murdered woman.
00:07:41.280 It was an injustice to her friend, Ron Goldman.
00:07:43.460 It was any miscarriage of justice undermines the broader system of justice.
00:07:48.880 When the libs say, you know, justice, no one, I forget their stupid slogan, but it's something to the effect of no one will have justice until everyone has justice.
00:07:58.040 In a way, that's kind of true because justice is just giving to people what they deserve.
00:08:04.480 So, you know, if people are not getting what they deserve, it throws off the whole system in a body politic.
00:08:09.760 And that is what happened here.
00:08:11.140 And then the cynical playing of the race card set race relations way, way back.
00:08:16.780 It created a lot of anti-cop fervor.
00:08:20.540 And it gave us this term, the N-word.
00:08:23.500 It worsened race relations in as much as there was a rumor that one of the cops, one of the detectives, had said the N-word.
00:08:35.880 He didn't say the N-word.
00:08:36.900 He said the actual word, which you're no longer allowed to say because it's a term that's more taboo than, you know, the ancient Israelites considered the holy name.
00:08:43.520 And they were going to introduce this into evidence.
00:08:47.580 And the prosecutor, the assistant DA, and the judge both said, man, this is catastrophic potentially.
00:09:01.400 This is the nastiest word in the English language.
00:09:04.340 It's so loaded.
00:09:05.280 There's no way that the trial is going to be conducted fairly if that word is introduced.
00:09:09.960 And what's amazing is if you look at coverage of the case and the word before this testimony was introduced.
00:09:22.640 When the New York Times would write about the N-word, they would just write out the word.
00:09:28.660 N-I-G-G-E-R.
00:09:30.080 You truly, because of this case, you actually can't say this word even in a clinical reporting sense anymore in public.
00:09:38.340 But before it, you could.
00:09:39.600 The New York Times would write this word all the time.
00:09:41.860 After the case, they would never write it anymore.
00:09:43.860 They would only write the euphemism, the N-word.
00:09:47.920 Totally shifted taboos on, not just on race, but on cops, on justice, on criminals, on victims.
00:09:57.040 So what do we do?
00:09:57.660 We should pray for OJ.
00:09:58.540 You should pray for the soul of everyone who died.
00:10:01.360 I guess we pray for his victims too.
00:10:04.580 And pray for Norm, who never got to see the final, the final,
00:10:09.760 I guess he knew how it was going to turn out anyway.
00:10:12.800 And there's a little bit of justice, which is that OJ Simpson can rest peacefully knowing that his wife's killer is now dead as well.
00:10:19.980 Speaking of criminals, NBC News has decided to interview an expert on crime.
00:10:30.140 And that would be Michael Avenatti.
00:10:32.280 Michael Avenatti, remember, Tucker dubbed him the creepy porn lawyer.
00:10:36.040 He represented Stormy Daniels and defrauded her.
00:10:40.820 That's why he's in prison right now.
00:10:43.020 NBC News just days ago brought Michael Avenatti on for his very valuable expert analysis.
00:10:52.340 Avenatti is both central to next week's trial and hard to reach now,
00:10:59.020 even though he was, of course, a media fixture at the height of his work for Stormy Daniels.
00:11:03.900 As Avenatti is a very newsworthy and legally relevant guest,
00:11:07.920 he is speaking out for the first time from prison on the now historic case he helped ignite.
00:11:15.240 Michael, welcome.
00:11:17.060 Well, it's good to hear your voice, Ari.
00:11:18.660 It's good to have you.
00:11:19.780 We have a lot of news to get to.
00:11:21.400 But first, how are you holding up?
00:11:24.560 Well, as Elton John once wrote, I'm still standing, Ari.
00:11:28.480 Okay, enough of this.
00:11:29.760 I don't need to hear any more Michael Avenatti.
00:11:31.320 Okay, I don't need to hear any more Michael Avenatti.
00:11:34.720 And we're here.
00:11:36.120 It's Michael.
00:11:37.660 Good to have you.
00:11:38.500 It's good to hear your voice, Ari.
00:11:40.720 No, it's good.
00:11:41.160 It's good for you to be here.
00:11:42.260 How you doing, buddy?
00:11:43.660 How you doing, degenerate fraud lawyer who ripped off a hooker?
00:11:48.820 You psycho.
00:11:50.680 Yeah, you told, I'm holding up.
00:11:53.840 All right.
00:11:54.340 Well, we want to hear your expert legal analysis, you criminal.
00:11:57.260 Well, that is quite the contrast to what we saw out of NBC just a couple of weeks ago
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00:14:54.120 So if you are a degenerate criminal lawyer, I'm not saying like you defend criminals, I mean you're a criminal yourself.
00:15:00.580 If you rip off hookers, if you go on TV, whore yourself out to every single TV channel,
00:15:08.160 state a bunch of bogus nonsense for years about the president, none of which ever comes to fruition,
00:15:13.700 and then get pinched for being a fraud and end up wearing an orange jumpsuit,
00:15:18.280 you will be welcomed onto NBC News with open arms.
00:15:21.200 Please, sir, give us your legal analysis.
00:15:24.300 However, if you run one of the two major political parties in the United States,
00:15:28.640 but that party happens to be the Republican Party, this is how you will be greeted on NBC News.
00:15:34.800 The fact that Ms. McDaniel is on the payroll at NBC News, to me that is inexplicable.
00:15:42.180 I have some thoughts about Ronna McDaniel and the normalization of the dangerous damned lies from the Republican Party.
00:15:49.440 She is a co-conspirator and an enabler.
00:15:51.960 An anti-democracy election denier.
00:15:54.560 She lied to the American people to further the autocratic movement that is Trumpism.
00:15:58.820 She dropped the Romney from her name, apparently, because Donald Trump hates Mitt Romney.
00:16:02.200 How does that feel, to change your name to curry favor with a madman?
00:16:07.880 We weren't asked our opinion of the hiring, but if we were, we would have strongly objected to it.
00:16:12.380 And I hope they will reverse their decision.
00:16:14.360 We hope NBC will reconsider its decision.
00:16:17.640 Because if we have to interview the perfectly anodyne head of one of the two major political parties,
00:16:26.120 we won't be able to interview that degenerate criminal from prison anymore, Michael Avenatti.
00:16:31.700 You see Ronna McDaniel in her role articulating Republican policies and priorities.
00:16:39.200 She is a liar.
00:16:41.660 How is she a liar?
00:16:42.800 I don't know.
00:16:43.700 I'm not going to point to any examples of lies.
00:16:45.240 But we can't have liars on this network.
00:16:47.620 Turning now to Michael Avenatti.
00:16:49.680 Are you kidding me?
00:16:54.120 They're not kidding.
00:16:55.380 They obviously don't care about the distinction between lies and the truth.
00:17:00.320 They obviously don't care about credibility when it comes to their experts on the network.
00:17:06.160 They care about one thing.
00:17:07.620 Are you on the team or are you not on the team?
00:17:10.380 All this talk, put Ronna aside for a second.
00:17:13.060 All this talk about Donald Trump being a criminal.
00:17:15.820 He has 90 plus felonies.
00:17:17.940 He could go to prison for 700 years.
00:17:20.080 He's a criminal threat to our system.
00:17:21.740 They don't care.
00:17:22.540 They love their criminals.
00:17:23.740 They exalt all their criminals.
00:17:25.200 Bill Clinton perjured himself.
00:17:27.060 Lost his law license.
00:17:28.620 He wasn't convicted in his impeachment trial.
00:17:30.760 Going back to that aforementioned trial.
00:17:33.800 But all these sorts of criminals, up to and including Michael Avenatti, no big deal.
00:17:41.780 But those criminals are on their team.
00:17:44.900 And Donald Trump, who has not been convicted of any crimes, they're prosecuting him on four
00:17:49.460 different fronts.
00:17:50.060 And they're levying all sorts of ridiculous civil judgments against him to try to bankrupt
00:17:53.620 him so that he can't run for president again in 2024.
00:17:55.860 That guy and anyone even remotely associated with him, including a member of the Romney
00:18:01.580 family who was running the RNC, Ron and McDaniel, they're out.
00:18:06.920 They have to be totally ostracized.
00:18:09.560 Now, speaking of the law, curious little news story just came out of Ohio.
00:18:16.660 Joe Biden might not be on the ballot in Ohio.
00:18:19.180 Ohio has trended pretty Republican in recent years, though there was an expression for a
00:18:24.300 long time in American politics, as goes Ohio, so goes the nation, that Ohio actually was
00:18:29.740 up for grabs.
00:18:31.100 Joe Biden might not be on the ballot there.
00:18:33.620 According to Frank LaRose, Ohio Secretary of State, the DNC, the Democratic National Convention,
00:18:41.640 will occur after the Ohio state deadline to certify candidates.
00:18:45.720 Meaning, if they pick their nominee after that deadline, their nominee might not make
00:18:51.500 it to the ballot.
00:18:52.940 So LaRose, the Secretary of State, sends this letter to Democrats saying, hey guys, you got
00:18:57.040 to fix this because I'm just giving you a fair warning.
00:19:00.160 You obviously have your nominee.
00:19:01.380 I don't think it's going to be nominee Marianne Williamson.
00:19:03.520 Well, just to let you know, you got to follow the law.
00:19:07.100 And right now, your Democratic National Convention is out of compliance with Ohio state law.
00:19:11.000 It's not just Ohio, Alabama too, although Joe Biden will never win Alabama.
00:19:16.640 There's not even a chance of that happening, so it matters a little bit less.
00:19:19.200 But Biden could be off the ballot in Alabama too, according to the election chief in that
00:19:23.360 state, because the state certification deadline comes several days before the DNC.
00:19:29.620 So the Biden campaign has responded to this, and they've said, pish posh, no big deal.
00:19:33.780 They've dismissed it out of hand.
00:19:34.740 They say, state officials have the ability to grant provisional ballot access certification
00:19:38.600 prior to the conclusion of presidential nominating conventions.
00:19:42.080 In 2020 alone, states like Alabama, Illinois, Montana, and Washington all allowed provisional
00:19:46.800 certification for Democratic and Republican nominees.
00:19:51.480 Okay, so they're saying, look, whatever, the law is the law, but you guys can brush aside
00:19:55.920 the law in cases like this, so that's what you should do here.
00:19:58.980 Okay, but I think we got a Republican Secretary of State in Ohio, don't we?
00:20:02.920 Yeah, and I think, correct me if I'm wrong, I think the Democrats have been trying to kick
00:20:09.500 Donald Trump off the ballot for way more preposterous reasons in a number of different states.
00:20:18.000 Here, we have a perfectly justifiable legal reason why Biden might not make it to the ballot.
00:20:25.660 Why would we just give it to him?
00:20:27.840 Can you explain to me why we would just give it to him?
00:20:29.960 Well, the Democrats are doing every single thing they can to subvert this election.
00:20:34.260 They are prosecuting Donald Trump, the Republican nominee, the former president,
00:20:38.220 and leader of the party ever since he was the former president on four different fronts.
00:20:42.680 They're then levying civil judgments against him to bankrupt him so he can't run for president.
00:20:46.720 They're then trying to kick him off the ballot in multiple states all around the country
00:20:50.020 because they're so afraid that if he's on the ballot, people are going to vote for him.
00:20:52.860 They're so afraid that if he's got a dollar to his name and he's not wearing an orange jumpsuit,
00:20:55.960 people are going to elect this guy.
00:20:56.980 They're doing everything they can to subvert our constitutional order to keep the man off the ballot.
00:21:03.100 And then the Biden campaign says, hey, by the way, can we have a freebie in Ohio?
00:21:06.740 You'll let it.
00:21:07.320 You'll give us a freebie, right?
00:21:09.060 You'll put us on the ballot even though legally we don't meet the requirements, right?
00:21:14.000 Republicans are just supposed to say, oh, yes, of course.
00:21:16.000 Of course we'll do you that favor.
00:21:18.100 Oh, that's just, you know, that's in keeping with the norms and standards.
00:21:20.700 What norms and standards?
00:21:21.720 Democrats have blown up the norms and standards.
00:21:23.240 If you asked me two years ago, I guess I would have said, yeah, okay, that's fine.
00:21:27.400 Sure, why not?
00:21:28.340 Whatever.
00:21:28.700 So put them on the ballot.
00:21:30.800 When we had different norms and standards, the Democrats chose to blow that up.
00:21:33.900 You can't just allow that to occur without any consequences to them.
00:21:37.600 That creates a very perverse incentive for the Democrats to continue to undermine our electoral process.
00:21:43.200 All I'll say, and I'm not going to give any particular specific prescriptions, Democrats should squeeze this Ohio issue for all it's worth.
00:21:52.680 That's what, or rather the Republicans should squeeze the Democrats on this Ohio issue for all that it is worth.
00:21:58.060 Now, speaking of maximizing votes, President Trump has a view of the Jews in America who even today are voting for Joe Biden.
00:22:09.580 Biden has totally lost control of the Israel situation.
00:22:15.300 He has abandoned Israel.
00:22:16.840 He's totally abandoned Israel.
00:22:18.840 And frankly, you know, he's a low IQ individual.
00:22:22.120 He has no idea where he is and who he's supporting.
00:22:24.980 He doesn't know if he's supporting the Palestinians, but he knows one thing.
00:22:28.820 He is not supporting Israel.
00:22:30.280 He has abandoned Israel.
00:22:32.520 And any Jewish person that votes for a Democrat or votes for Biden should have their head examined.
00:22:37.860 Yeah, fair enough.
00:22:40.780 That's fine by me.
00:22:41.740 The comparison here will be with Joe Biden's quote, which is, if you're black and you're not voting for me, you ain't black.
00:22:50.360 But it's actually a little bit of a different statement.
00:22:53.060 Joe Biden is saying that black identity is contingent upon voting for Democrats.
00:22:58.920 That you lose your racial identity if you are black, but you vote for a Republican, which is much less true and much more offensive than what Trump said here about Jews.
00:23:13.380 Trump just said, hey, I'm good for the Jews.
00:23:16.700 Biden's bad for the Jews.
00:23:17.860 If you're a Jew and you're voting for Joe Biden, who hates the Jews and specifically hates the Jewish state, apparently, you're crazy.
00:23:27.320 You should have your head examined.
00:23:29.360 That is not quite as offensive.
00:23:33.000 And it's probably true.
00:23:36.000 Joe Biden is the guy who's leading the party where they're marching with the Palestinian flags in support of Hamas against the Jews.
00:23:44.120 River to the sea.
00:23:45.080 Wipe out all the Jews.
00:23:46.280 Palestine will be free.
00:23:47.960 That's Biden's party.
00:23:50.240 And so Trump's saying, look, they have a town named after me in Israel.
00:23:53.540 OK, I got the Abraham Accords.
00:23:55.300 I'm a great defender of the Jewish state.
00:23:57.200 And Bibi Netanyahu loves me.
00:23:58.540 If you're a Jew and you're still voting for that guy, you're out of your mind.
00:24:02.680 And that statement, it's not only semantically not the same thing as what Joe Biden said about black people, but it's also probably true.
00:24:10.920 There's so much more to say.
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00:26:56.020 My favorite comment yesterday is from David Winokur2131, who says,
00:27:01.600 the UK wants to ban smartphones for minors.
00:27:04.820 Even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while.
00:27:08.640 I didn't say that right.
00:27:09.740 Hold on.
00:27:10.000 Can you go back to that comment?
00:27:11.640 I didn't say that right.
00:27:12.920 Because I've never heard that aphorism before.
00:27:14.900 And I conclude that it must be a British idiom.
00:27:20.180 The UK wants to ban smartphones for minors there, governor.
00:27:24.020 Yeah, yeah.
00:27:24.860 Even a blind squirrel finds a nut every once in a while.
00:27:27.740 I don't know why I went straight to Michael Caine for that.
00:27:29.760 But I like that.
00:27:30.340 Even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while.
00:27:34.640 Okay.
00:27:35.060 Speaking of the Jews and US government policy, the US position, the Biden administration
00:27:42.140 position on Israel is becoming clearer and clearer.
00:27:47.980 It has to become clearer because the war is really coming to a head.
00:27:51.880 Is this war going to end?
00:27:53.000 Is it going to launch into a brand new wave of offensives?
00:27:56.640 What is the US going to do about it?
00:27:58.320 Since the US is the defender of the state of Israel and we fund a lot of the Israeli military
00:28:03.800 and we're the global hegemon.
00:28:05.760 What is the position?
00:28:06.860 Biden's caught between a rock and a hard place because Biden's establishment class,
00:28:11.340 his donor class, supports the state of Israel broadly.
00:28:15.280 The Democratic base hates the state of Israel and supports Palestine liberation and Hamas
00:28:20.340 broadly.
00:28:21.520 So what's he going to do?
00:28:24.200 Is he going to side with the establishment and the donors or is he going to side with
00:28:28.380 the wackos in the street?
00:28:30.840 According to John Kirby, the national security spokesman for the president,
00:28:34.440 they're going to take a little bit of a tougher line against the state of Israel.
00:28:40.280 Now, Kirby was asked if we're not applying a double standard here to the state of Israel.
00:28:46.040 Are we not blaming the state of Israel for doing things that we ourselves do in the United
00:28:51.960 States with impunity?
00:28:54.120 So there were seven children that were killed by that US Hellfire missile.
00:28:58.740 Yeah.
00:28:59.100 No accountability, you said, was part of the plan.
00:29:02.100 So why is this so different than what we did there?
00:29:05.420 Well, look, these are events that happened three years apart, two different geographic
00:29:10.200 locations, two different countries, two different sets of circumstances, two different types of
00:29:14.540 threat that were being evaluated, and completely two different militaries that were involved
00:29:18.300 with two different chains of command.
00:29:19.660 So I think we've got to be careful comparing both events too closely.
00:29:23.960 We, too, had an independent investigation, Martha, of that incident.
00:29:27.800 And that independent investigator found that there was no need for personal accountability
00:29:33.700 to be had, but did find that the US military needed to make some systemic changes, procedural
00:29:39.460 changes in how we looked at intelligence and acted on that intelligence.
00:29:43.340 The Israelis, similarly, have said the same thing about this event this week with the WCK
00:29:48.980 strike, that they're going to make some systemic changes.
00:29:51.400 Now, we're glad to hear that.
00:29:53.380 And we're going to be watching to see what those changes are and how they can put them into
00:29:57.000 effect.
00:29:58.060 But these are two different events.
00:29:59.800 They're not that different, though, John.
00:30:01.720 Love Martha McCallum here.
00:30:03.700 John, they're actually not that different.
00:30:05.140 The comparison she's making here, she says, okay, the US in a hellfire missile strike killed
00:30:12.380 seven kids.
00:30:13.120 It was a bad strike.
00:30:14.040 It was a dumb strike.
00:30:14.900 It killed innocent people, not even as collateral damage.
00:30:17.860 They just, I mean, it was technically collateral damage in that we killed civilians in a war
00:30:24.400 scenario, but it was just a bad strike.
00:30:29.080 And the Israelis killed a bunch of aid workers in a bad strike.
00:30:34.440 So why is it the worst thing in the world when they do it?
00:30:37.240 But it's really sort of fine when we do it.
00:30:39.460 And Kirby says, oh, it's totally different.
00:30:41.440 It's totally different here, you see, because it's different wars.
00:30:43.700 It's different countries.
00:30:44.460 It was different this.
00:30:45.040 It was different that.
00:30:45.440 And what he's trying to express, but trying to avoid saying explicitly, is it's different
00:30:52.800 because we're America and they're Israel.
00:30:55.140 It's different because they're this country in the Middle East that's a tiny little country
00:30:59.000 that is totally dependent on us for its very existence.
00:31:02.380 And so we get to call the shots and they're not playing ball with us anymore.
00:31:05.220 And we're America.
00:31:06.160 We're the global hegemon and we do whatever the hell we want.
00:31:09.000 That's basically what he's saying.
00:31:10.940 But it doesn't sound good when it comes out that way.
00:31:13.700 Okay, so that's his argument.
00:31:16.340 I make these observations, by the way, as someone who I think has been pretty fair on
00:31:22.060 the Israel-Palestine conflict.
00:31:23.560 I mean, there's some people on the left and even on the right who are basically growing
00:31:26.760 out long beards and marching with the pro-Hamas people in the street.
00:31:30.240 I'm certainly not that.
00:31:31.580 There are also some people who say that the state of Israel can do no wrong and they have
00:31:34.740 impunity to just level any neighborhoods they want.
00:31:38.840 I also do not agree with that.
00:31:40.740 I think that in war, one has to consider the principles that justify war, both in going
00:31:47.920 to war and in conducting a war.
00:31:50.240 And I think most people generally agree that Israel was justified in going to war in Gaza
00:31:54.140 after the attack on October 7th of last year.
00:31:56.880 But there is a perfectly open debate over whether or not the state of Israel is still justified
00:32:03.460 in the conduct of the war.
00:32:05.720 And in fact, I've raised some fairly pointed questions about that, given the decreasing
00:32:12.300 likelihood that Israel will be able to achieve its ultimate war aim, which is to oust Hamas
00:32:17.460 in Gaza, and also given that if there is no reasonable probability of success, then the
00:32:23.800 justification by proportionality disappears for the state of Israel.
00:32:27.920 So it's not like I'm saying the pro-Palestinian side has absolutely no gripes whatsoever.
00:32:36.360 It's not as I'm saying there shouldn't be some winding down of this war.
00:32:39.580 But it is simply an inescapable fact.
00:32:44.380 The Biden administration is against the state of Israel right now, and I think has become
00:32:49.380 unfairly against the state of Israel.
00:32:51.380 And I think the Biden administration is walking that tightrope.
00:32:54.900 Had this war taken place two years ago, I think the Biden administration would probably
00:32:59.320 be much more pro-Israel.
00:33:01.260 But they're afraid that their base right now is totally anti-Israel, and their base is totally
00:33:06.180 in favor of pro-Palestine liberation.
00:33:07.800 And Joe Biden doesn't want to lose those votes.
00:33:09.780 So he's more willing to irritate some of the donors in the establishment class than he is
00:33:15.360 to irritate the base.
00:33:18.140 And so Donald Trump comes out, and he says, look, I'm the pro-Israel candidate.
00:33:22.580 And there are going to be people on the right who are not pro-Israel, especially now as this
00:33:25.700 war drags on for six months, public opinion of the state of Israel and public support for
00:33:30.100 this war is diminishing.
00:33:31.640 That's just what happens in times of war.
00:33:33.120 Don't forget what happened during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, how quickly support
00:33:37.220 for the American position in that war diminished, even here in the United States.
00:33:41.480 So that's going to happen.
00:33:42.780 It's a little bit of a gamble for Trump, too.
00:33:44.700 But I think the two parties have made it clear.
00:33:47.800 If you're pro-Israel, you vote for Trump.
00:33:49.780 If you're anti-Israel, pro-Palestine liberation, whatever, you vote for Joe Biden.
00:33:55.360 Now, speaking of that war and foreign affairs and whether it's going to end or heat up,
00:33:59.640 I said on the show, I think it was last week, I said, look, the war basically has to wind
00:34:07.200 down.
00:34:07.600 It has to come to an end.
00:34:08.600 If the Israeli intelligence leaks are to be believed, if it is the case that they no longer
00:34:15.460 believe that they can oust Hamas in Gaza, and even if they predicate that on the loss
00:34:20.180 of U.S. support and the U.S. loss of U.S. support is real, then the war just has to end.
00:34:24.700 There's no way for it to continue.
00:34:28.300 Days later, Bibi Netanyahu calls my bluff or calls the bluff of a lot of analysts in
00:34:34.960 the state of Israel and in the United States and elsewhere in the world and says, no, we
00:34:38.280 are going into Rafah, this last stronghold of Hamas in southern Gaza.
00:34:42.800 We are going in.
00:34:43.820 We have set a date for the invasion.
00:34:45.580 It is happening over the objections of the Biden administration, over the objections
00:34:50.180 of the international community, over the objections of apparently even some of the Israeli intelligence
00:34:55.360 analysts who are saying that it's not actually going to do anything.
00:34:58.080 It's not going to work.
00:35:00.920 Does that mean it's really going to happen?
00:35:02.400 I don't know.
00:35:03.200 It certainly means that this is one of Bibi Netanyahu's only two choices.
00:35:09.860 This is coming to a head.
00:35:11.820 He either has to wind down the whole war, and he had started to move troops out of Gaza,
00:35:16.560 so it seemed to signal that he was just going to retreat and wind down the war, or he's
00:35:20.700 just got to go full bore very quickly and risk international and American condemnation.
00:35:26.480 But Bibi Netanyahu's caught between a rock and a hard place too, just as Joe Biden is.
00:35:31.860 There were thousands and thousands of people demonstrating in Tel Aviv against his government
00:35:36.620 just days ago, and his conduct of the war.
00:35:40.800 Plus, he's using support of his biggest state sponsor, the United States, which funds
00:35:43.980 six and a half percent of the Israeli military.
00:35:48.040 Will the invasion actually take place?
00:35:52.420 If I were in his shoes, I don't know what I would do.
00:35:54.640 He is in a virtually impossible position.
00:35:57.800 He can either end the war.
00:35:59.140 He can either go into Rafat.
00:36:00.520 The one thing that probably cannot continue is the status quo of this war, of just the
00:36:06.740 kind of constant, slow, dragging this out.
00:36:10.540 At a certain point, especially in an American election year, there's going to be a lot more
00:36:14.980 pressure, even than there currently is on Bibi Netanyahu, to pick a strategy and roll with it.
00:36:21.300 Now, speaking of a tough political environment for national leaders, on the domestic front,
00:36:27.000 all of this might be immaterial.
00:36:30.760 The war in the Middle East, the war in Ukraine, frankly, even the immigration crisis might become
00:36:36.300 less significant because inflation is back.
00:36:40.220 Inflation is really, really bad right now.
00:36:42.520 The price of rent and other shelter costs has jumped more than 5% since March of last year.
00:36:50.080 Rent of primary residence up over 5.5%.
00:36:52.600 Owners' equivalent rent up almost 6%.
00:36:56.780 Water and sewer maintenance up over 5%.
00:36:58.940 Garbage and trash collection, almost 6%.
00:37:00.940 Electricity over 5%.
00:37:02.660 Repair of household items up 18%.
00:37:05.200 Homeowners and renters insurance up over 4.5%.
00:37:08.340 It's so bad, even CNN is admitting that the inflation problem is brutal.
00:37:13.400 Poor inflation, which is a better indicator of sort of what's happening with underlying inflation,
00:37:18.760 that also picked up.
00:37:20.160 So, taking a look at some of the categories we saw in the month of March that continue to increase.
00:37:24.920 So, gas prices, that was a pretty big contributor here, right?
00:37:28.220 It was really gas and shelter, I should say, that contributed to more than half of the increase.
00:37:33.280 I mean, has shelter gone down at all?
00:37:34.720 I mean, I can't even remember a month where it's actually gone.
00:37:36.840 We've seen a decrease, right?
00:37:37.560 It's a really important point.
00:37:38.980 It hasn't.
00:37:39.800 And so, we had been hoping, actually, because if you think about shelter, if you think about rents,
00:37:43.640 for example, 12-month leases, we were hoping that this was a lagging indicator,
00:37:47.520 that we would actually start to get some progress with shelter, but that didn't happen.
00:37:53.140 But that didn't happen, did it, Joe Biden?
00:37:55.140 It didn't happen.
00:37:55.880 And so, all of these extraneous political issues probably are going to diminish in their importance
00:38:04.240 because everybody knows when they go to the grocery store how expensive milk is.
00:38:10.900 Everybody knows when they write that rent check or when they fill out their bills for household repairs
00:38:18.220 and maintenance and just all the ordinary stuff of life.
00:38:20.680 They can see if that's getting a little better or if that's getting a little worse.
00:38:24.640 And bad news for Biden, good news for the conservatives is it's getting a lot worse.
00:38:29.860 Now, it's going to be bad news for the conservatives if it doesn't lead to any kind of political change.
00:38:33.500 Then it's going to be especially bad for all of us.
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00:39:50.200 Hello, Michael.
00:39:51.940 Dorian from Portland, Oregon here.
00:39:54.640 50 years young and a card-carrying member of Generation X.
00:39:59.420 So if I ever hit you with any classic Generation X sarcasm, deal with it.
00:40:05.220 Anyway, I know your feelings on IVF and surrogacy, but where do you stand on adoption?
00:40:13.000 Given the fact that newborn babies outnumber childless couples by roughly 36 to 1,
00:40:19.200 I can see that as a viable alternative to IVF and also an alternative to abortion for unplanned
00:40:25.300 pregnancies.
00:40:26.780 Hope to hear from you.
00:40:27.820 Thanks much.
00:40:28.320 Great question.
00:40:29.920 Obviously, very in favor of adoption.
00:40:32.820 And you've raised an important aspect of why the surrogacy industry and IVF generally
00:40:37.220 are so disordered and have so many unfortunate consequences.
00:40:42.280 One of the consequences of the promotion of the surrogacy industry and IVF is that adoption
00:40:49.240 will go away.
00:40:50.640 And babies who are available to be adopted won't find homes because people are going to
00:40:58.300 go spend $100,000 and make their own kid in a test tube, or a couple of men are going to
00:41:02.000 go purchase an egg and rent out a womb and make their own designer baby rather than adopt
00:41:07.580 someone else's baby who is in need.
00:41:09.260 What is the difference here?
00:41:10.900 I've said that my opposition to the surrogacy industry and IVF comes from the fact that the
00:41:17.620 only person who can legitimately be said to have rights in the matter of procreation is
00:41:23.800 the child who has a right to be born of the specific conjugal act of his mother and father
00:41:28.880 who are together in holy matrimony.
00:41:32.400 What does that mean for something like adoption?
00:41:35.440 It means that adoption helps to rectify an injustice.
00:41:42.400 Adoption helps to rectify a social problem.
00:41:45.100 Children born out of wedlock in bad circumstances with parents who are not able to care for
00:41:50.120 them.
00:41:50.640 And even that, by the way, the mothers going through and having the baby and not killing
00:41:55.480 the baby, say, through abortion, that is a wonderful and laudable thing.
00:41:58.620 But some of those mothers are not able then to take care of the baby themselves.
00:42:01.740 And then adoption comes in and helps to rectify that problem.
00:42:04.240 And it results in an abundance of grace.
00:42:07.200 And it's just a wonderful and charitable way to help rectify social problems in this fallen
00:42:13.900 world.
00:42:15.220 IVF and the surrogacy industry totally gut that.
00:42:19.240 And they turn it.
00:42:20.400 They say, no, actually, the baby doesn't really have any rights.
00:42:22.480 Babies are just objects to be bought and sold on a market.
00:42:25.820 Go to the baby store.
00:42:26.860 You design your baby.
00:42:27.900 Then most of the babies you create, you just kind of leave in a freezer or you kill them
00:42:31.320 through abortion.
00:42:31.840 But you pick up one or two, and then you use those.
00:42:35.740 And then maybe I want one boy and one girl, and the others, you know, it's too bad.
00:42:39.740 And then you give birth to this baby.
00:42:41.440 Or you, you know, purchase a mother's egg, and you intentionally deprive that child of
00:42:45.720 his natural mother.
00:42:46.460 And you sell the baby to a couple of men or a couple of women or a single mother or whatever
00:42:49.780 it is, even a single father maybe.
00:42:51.660 It's totally inverted.
00:42:52.800 And it says that all the rights are on the side of the would-be parents.
00:42:57.440 It's the adults here of a right to a child.
00:43:00.340 The right to own a child, to possess a child, to do with a child as they please, according
00:43:04.520 to their own whims and fancies, rather than the right of a child, a right that comes from
00:43:09.860 nature to be the product of his mother's and father's specific conjugal act, a right that
00:43:17.280 comes from our very human nature.
00:43:20.500 Really, really ugly inversion.
00:43:23.080 And you've drawn a great deal of attention to one of the many unfortunate consequences.
00:43:28.220 Okay, next question.
00:43:28.940 Hey Michael, my name is Dylan Wagner.
00:43:32.280 I had something of a multi-part question, but first I want to thank you for everything
00:43:36.120 you do.
00:43:37.180 You are willing to address the principles at the heart of problems, which is often the
00:43:41.600 most controversial aspect.
00:43:43.560 Further, you are the most philosophically educated and consistent host on The Daily Wire.
00:43:48.900 And finally, you have greatly contributed to my conversion to Catholicism.
00:43:53.060 And you are certainly one of the people I must thank for getting me to confirmation on
00:43:56.700 Easter Vigil just a few weeks ago.
00:43:58.500 Put a pause there.
00:43:59.680 We put a pause in the question.
00:44:00.580 Now what's my actual questions?
00:44:01.600 I'm not that handsome.
00:44:02.720 Come on, get out of here.
00:44:03.880 Stop it.
00:44:04.340 Sorry.
00:44:04.620 I just, all those lovely compliments.
00:44:06.520 I had to jump in and stop it.
00:44:09.360 I'm not that, come on.
00:44:10.640 My jawline's not that chiseled.
00:44:12.080 Okay, sorry.
00:44:12.540 Go on.
00:44:12.820 I was wondering what your opinion of monarchy is.
00:44:15.800 I find myself increasingly seeing it as a viable or even ideal form of government.
00:44:20.460 Forgive me for that voice crack.
00:44:22.940 Do you hold either of these views?
00:44:25.480 If you see monarchy as a viable form of government, what kind of monarchy do you find to be the
00:44:29.680 best option?
00:44:31.360 Elective or appointed monarchies or hereditary monarchies?
00:44:35.600 Absolute governments and semi-absolute governments limited or something else?
00:44:38.860 Is there a monarchical government in history you find to be the closest to the ideal?
00:44:44.020 Finally, what political philosophers do you recommend?
00:44:47.220 Do you recommend Edmund Burke or Joseph de Maestra or Plato or Aristotle or Augustine
00:44:52.320 or Aquinas or someone else?
00:44:54.300 Again, thank you for everything you do and have a blessed day.
00:44:57.980 Marvelous question.
00:44:59.880 Recommend all of the above with those political philosophers.
00:45:02.660 They're all terrific.
00:45:03.520 And then one who I mention a fair bit and who is often not thought of as a political philosopher
00:45:08.840 but who has a lot to say specifically on the question of monarchy is Dante, who writes
00:45:14.840 a book called Monarchy, which is really great and worth reading.
00:45:19.360 You ask, is monarchy a viable form of government?
00:45:23.640 The answer to that is obviously yes.
00:45:26.660 Many, if not most, governments throughout history have been monarchies.
00:45:30.280 It's one of the three main forms of government that could be considered a good form of government.
00:45:37.900 The other two being aristocracy and democracy.
00:45:42.500 Now, as I've mentioned on the show before, in Polybius' view of these three types of regime,
00:45:48.820 they have their kind of dark version too.
00:45:52.280 So the dark version of monarchy is tyranny.
00:45:55.500 Dark version of aristocracy is oligarchy.
00:45:57.320 And the dark version of democracy is mob rule.
00:46:00.840 And the reason I bring up Polybius here, I mean, Dante has a lot to say about monarchy
00:46:05.300 and the specific advantages of monarchy.
00:46:07.920 And you ask for a good example of a monarch, probably a Christian would say the best example
00:46:13.740 of monarchy in history is under the reign of Caesar Augustus.
00:46:17.040 And the evidence of this is that that is the fullness of time in which our Lord chooses
00:46:20.640 to become incarnate.
00:46:21.720 And this gives us the broad piece of the Pax Romana, when for all intents and purposes,
00:46:27.520 the Romans had conquered the world.
00:46:29.840 So enough there about monarchy in particular.
00:46:34.180 Pulling back to Polybius, the importance for people who are really averse to monarchy or
00:46:40.220 really averse to aristocracy, or even people who are very averse to democracy.
00:46:43.620 In fact, our founding fathers had a lot of skepticism of democracy.
00:46:48.120 Something to remember about Polybius' view is that he understood there to be a cycle of
00:46:53.060 regimes.
00:46:53.580 So, you know, you might say, well, I prefer democracy to monarchy or to aristocracy.
00:47:00.920 Okay, well, what happens when your democracy decays?
00:47:04.680 What happens then?
00:47:05.820 I mean, don't forget to use the example of Caesar.
00:47:08.800 The Roman Republic had become so deeply corrupt that Julius Caesar was the hero.
00:47:15.780 The people loved Julius Caesar.
00:47:17.200 He was the virtuous figure compared to the extremely corrupt people who were running the
00:47:23.840 Roman Republic.
00:47:25.040 In modernity, we've kind of changed the story here.
00:47:28.400 And we pretend that, you know, Caesar was sort of a villain.
00:47:31.500 But he really wasn't.
00:47:32.760 You think Caesar was bad.
00:47:33.980 Just wait until you hear about who was running the Republic.
00:47:36.180 It was really, really nasty.
00:47:37.860 So this is the problem.
00:47:39.020 A lot of people are beginning to worry that this is set in a little bit in America.
00:47:42.820 America, that republics, democracies can be really beautiful and wonderful things.
00:47:48.040 But if they become corrupted and they turn away from the common good and only focus on
00:47:52.280 self-interest, then they just naturally can kind of decay into an oligarchy.
00:47:58.080 Many people describe the American form of government today as an oligarchy or into a kind of form
00:48:02.380 of tyranny and at the very least into a form of a self-interested factionalism, which means
00:48:09.360 that necessarily it's going to change into something else because no political regime
00:48:15.340 is eternal in this fallen world.
00:48:19.820 Next one.
00:48:21.360 Hey, Michael.
00:48:22.440 In listening to the show last week, I was intrigued when you spoke about the petty narcissism
00:48:26.400 of small differences.
00:48:27.640 As a conservative journalist who does not openly discuss his political leanings because it is
00:48:32.120 immaterial to my job as a sports reporter, I've not had to deal with any ladyballers yet.
00:48:36.600 I have recently run afoul of a fringe right-wing group who does police audits online.
00:48:42.620 I earned myself an attempted smear campaign on X by critiquing their disrespectful treatment
00:48:47.520 of police officers.
00:48:49.100 My question is, how do we offer honest critiques of those we share only small differences without
00:48:53.700 looking like we are a part of the other side of the debate?
00:48:56.480 Thank you for taking my question.
00:48:58.320 You just have to focus on the issue.
00:49:01.280 Don't focus on the people.
00:49:02.740 One of the most insidious temptations of the petty narcissism of small differences is that
00:49:09.540 you are really just focusing on the other person because the other person is a threat
00:49:15.100 to your position and to your influence.
00:49:17.500 So it becomes very, very personal.
00:49:21.100 You should try to avoid that.
00:49:22.220 I mean, our old friend Rene Girard would have a lot to say about this in the theory of mimesis
00:49:29.000 and how we imitate one another in our actions and our speech and our desires even, and that
00:49:33.920 this creates an emerging and building hostility until there's a war of all against all and
00:49:39.920 we need to find a scapegoat to cast that kind of tension out of the political community.
00:49:46.620 So one way to try to mitigate that is to focus not on the person, but on the issue.
00:49:51.280 If a person has a slightly different take on a policy than you do, focus on the difference.
00:50:00.400 You know, don't focus on the self, which is where the petty narcissism comes in, but focus
00:50:05.080 actually on the small difference and try to get precise about it.
00:50:07.720 It probably won't work and you'll probably just end up, you know, slugging it out with
00:50:10.660 one another, but that would be the best strategy to avoid it.
00:50:13.880 The rest of the show continues now.
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00:51:03.360 I'll say whether they want to update the Thomas really to approve them if they decide to
00:51:04.600 that they'll watch the final and see them on the screen.
00:51:08.260 So thank you for both of you.
00:51:10.000 Thanks for taking care of these questions, см Spontauts.
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