The Michael Knowles Show

00:00:00.000 Republicans have been doing pretty great lately. Biden's approval numbers are in the trash.

00:00:05.420 The Trump indictments have been making him more popular with voters by the day.

00:00:09.200 And the Democrat Party is descending into civil war thanks to disagreement over the war in Gaza.

00:00:15.020 All Republicans had to do was keep their mouths shut, sit back, and watch their numbers go up.

00:00:23.600 But Republicans, you see, Republicans love nothing more than clutching defeat from the jaws of victory.

00:00:31.340 So instead of sitting back and letting their opponents destroy themselves,

00:00:35.500 they decided to pass a bill yesterday to censor the Bible.

00:00:41.300 I'm not joking. We'll get into it. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:52.640 Welcome back to the show. Before the Republicans shot themselves in the foot,

00:01:07.340 you had even establishment liberals starting to break ranks over this Israel-Gaza wedge issue

00:01:14.920 on the American left, up to and including Stephen Colbert. We will get to that in a moment first,

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00:01:57.320 delivered. The Israel-Gaza wedge issue on the American left is most clear on the college campuses.

00:02:05.700 You've seen these crazy protests, these encampments, the occupation of university buildings

00:02:12.820 cropping up all over the country, all over different kinds of schools, state schools,

00:02:18.840 Ivy League schools, West Coast schools, East Coast schools, schools in the middle.

00:02:23.920 I have mentioned before, the kids are communists. They're all really weird. Probably for public

00:02:31.040 order, they should all just be expelled and sent back to their parents' basements. But as a political

00:02:37.520 matter, I fully support these protests. I fully support them. I want these weirdo protesters,

00:02:46.480 these half-lesbian, gender-bending jihadis who are demanding more snacks and flavored seltzers

00:02:52.880 as humanitarian aid. I want them to be in front of microphones and cameras every single day from now

00:02:59.340 until the election. Okay? I will personally donate to their snack fund, assuming the protests can go

00:03:08.220 on. If that means that they become the face of the Democrat Party, they keep irking the Democrat

00:03:13.420 establishment, and they cause our opponents on the left to descend even further into chaos.

00:03:19.520 It's just so great. You could not ask for a better representative of the American left in 2024

00:03:26.060 than some gender studies major, sexually confused, keffia-wearing, lunatic socialist.

00:03:34.760 It's just so great. But the fun is over. The cops are shutting it down. A number of New York City

00:03:42.560 cops showed up to probably the most prominent one of these protests that is up at Columbia. You know,

00:03:50.500 what's funny is that these keffias, they're very confusing because some are wearing the Palestine

00:03:54.080 keffia. It's black and white. But then some are wearing the Saudi keffia, which is weird because

00:03:59.340 that's the red and white one. But the Saudi keffia, you know, the headscarf, the Saudis kind of support

00:04:05.980 the Israelis and the Saudis oppose Iran. And Iran backs the Palestinians in Gaza, you know, Hamas and

00:04:14.320 Hezbollah. So not that these people know any of that. They don't know anything. They probably don't know

00:04:18.240 how to read. They couldn't pick out Gaza or the state of Israel on a map. And now all of their

00:04:26.000 ignorant ranting is over because the cops arrested a bunch of them at Columbia, about 300 people

00:04:31.200 between Columbia and a city college of New York, not just in New York, also in Washington, rather.

00:04:38.960 I was just at UW-Madison. Well, cops showed up. They cleared out an anti-Israel encampment there

00:04:45.560 at UW-Madison. Also down in Florida, law enforcement officials showed up. They actually

00:04:51.240 used tear gas at the University of South Florida to clear out the campus intifada there.

00:04:59.640 Now, as a matter of justice and objective standards, I guess it's good. I mean, these people

00:05:06.960 are complete lunatics. They have no right to shut down universities. They have no right to occupy

00:05:10.900 halls. They have no right to sleep on the street. To quote Rudy Giuliani during the last

00:05:15.180 version of this, which was the Occupy Wall Street protests, sleeping on the street is a dysfunctional

00:05:19.740 act that harms the individual and society. These kids probably shouldn't have graduated the eighth

00:05:25.820 grade, much less be enrolled at a university. But politically, it does benefit us. And it exposes,

00:05:32.520 very honestly, it exposes some of the real problems on the American left. So happily for us, politically,

00:05:39.900 I don't think that these cops are going to stop the protests. And I think it's going to continue.

00:05:46.060 And I think that's good for conservatives. Some people have raised concern. They've said,

00:05:49.960 you know, Michael, we thought those BLM protests might be good for conservatives in 2020,

00:05:54.320 but they weren't good for conservatives. They just destroyed our businesses and killed people

00:05:58.420 and locked us all down. And then Biden won anyway. First of all, I never encouraged the BLM protests,

00:06:04.440 which were really riots and looting and murder. I never, I never encouraged them even as a matter

00:06:11.680 of political operation because the BLM riots and the pro-Palestine liberation protests politically

00:06:20.940 function totally different. The BLM riots united the left. The BLM riots targeted the left's enemies,

00:06:29.960 the enemies of the leftist base and the enemies of the establishment. The BLM riots advanced the

00:06:38.080 interests of the entire Democrat party, of the radical anarchist base by literally attacking white

00:06:45.540 people and capitalists and conservatives and Trump supporters. But politically, it also created

00:06:51.940 conditions to further lock people down, shut down the economy, which they were already trying to do

00:06:57.720 during COVID and advance new political measures to respond to systemic racism and to keep pushing

00:07:06.400 the DEI agenda, which the establishment favors. It was a total win across the board for the Democrats.

00:07:12.120 That is not the case with the pro-Palestine liberation protests. Because unlike BLM, the Israel-Gaza

00:07:21.380 war is a wedge issue for the Democrats. The base hates the state of Israel. The radical left

00:07:27.700 base wearing the keffi is at Columbia right now hates the state of Israel. The Democrat establishment

00:07:32.520 still broadly supports the state of Israel. Americans broadly support the state of Israel.

00:07:38.140 So this is an especially bad issue for the Democrats because they need their base, their base. That's the

00:07:43.960 foot soldiers. Those are the guys who need to go out there and vote. Those are the guys who at least

00:07:48.440 ostensibly are forming and expressing the ideology of the left. But they are totally out of touch with

00:07:55.500 the leadership, the establishment of the Democrat party and with most Americans. So it's just this

00:08:02.960 perfect wedge issue. The more that these people talk, the worse things are for Biden and the Democrats.

00:08:10.600 The worse things are for the American left, the better things are for the American right,

00:08:13.380 which ultimately means the better things are for the United States. It's not even just a battle

00:08:20.140 between the unwashed, dirty, hippie leftists who are the base and the leadership. Even among the

00:08:27.980 Democrat leadership, you're seeing people break ranks. Stephen Colbert came out on his late night show

00:08:34.000 that not all that many people watch, but it still holds a position of prominence and status in the

00:08:40.020 liberal establishment. He came out and defended the protesters. One of the biggest stories right now is

00:08:45.560 the nationwide pro-Palestinian student protests around college campuses in the United States

00:08:49.920 in what's being called perhaps the most significant student movement since the anti-Vietnam campus

00:08:56.820 protests of the late 1960s. They're even bigger than the protests when I was in college in the 80s

00:09:02.320 when students held rallies declaring, I want my MTV. And is this how you spell it, apartheid?

00:09:09.740 The protests ramped up a couple of weeks ago after students erected tents

00:09:13.380 on Columbia University's main lawn to show solidarity with Gaza.

00:09:18.440 And the university president took the controversial step of calling in the police

00:09:24.360 to arrest those involved. Now, even if you don't agree with the subjects of their protests,

00:09:29.700 as long as they are peaceful, students should be allowed to protest. It's their First Amendment right.

00:09:35.920 That is the kind of idealism you learn in college.

00:09:41.660 It's one of the few college lessons you can use your whole life.

00:09:45.560 Okay. So Colbert is generally wrong about this. Students don't have some right to take over,

00:09:52.840 even if they do it peacefully, even if they don't have rifles like the black student radicals of the

00:09:59.160 Willard Strait Hall, Columbia take over in the 60s. If they go in and they just ask for Pringles,

00:10:05.340 but they shut down a building, they don't have a right to do that. You don't have a right to sleep

00:10:09.160 on the street. You don't have a right to camp out in the quad. You don't have a right to harass Jewish

00:10:12.960 students who are just trying to go to class. You don't have a right to shut down classrooms.

00:10:17.220 You don't, this isn't, this isn't even an open public forum for debate. It's not like these

00:10:23.980 students are members of Congress. Not that Congress isn't all that open forum for debate. We'll get to

00:10:29.140 that in just a second. But it's a school. You're supposed to learn. You're students. There are professors

00:10:34.420 and there are students. The professors are the betters of the students. At least that's how it's

00:10:40.060 supposed to be. The students are supposed to obey the professors, listen to them, try to gain some

00:10:45.480 of their wisdom, follow the rules. Schools are acting as a kind of parent for the students. It's

00:10:51.440 not some free for all. And a university is not supposed to be a democracy, for goodness sakes.

00:10:56.800 It's a school. You're supposed, it's not supposed to be ordered toward just everyone doing whatever the

00:11:01.160 hell they want. It's supposed to be ordered toward the truth and toward wisdom. You saw this ideology

00:11:06.460 really break through in about 2015 at Yale when some young girl was shrieking about something. I

00:11:13.900 know it was probably BLM or something like that. And, oh no, I remember what it was. It was that

00:11:18.800 one of the masters of the residential colleges, so this is kind of like the social leader. He's a

00:11:24.580 professor of the life of the dorm. His wife sent out an email in response to one of these DEI

00:11:33.320 university administrative emails that warned Yale university students about how they could dress

00:11:40.080 and could not dress for Halloween. You'd like to think if a kid makes it to the age of 18,

00:11:45.000 he knows how to dress himself. You like to think if you're at any university, certainly an elite

00:11:48.940 university, you know how to dress yourself. But the administration came out and said, oh,

00:11:52.300 don't, you can't wear anything offensive. And don't, if you're a white guy, don't wear a sombrero,

00:11:56.260 that kind of stuff. And the master of this college, his wife responded to the email and said,

00:12:03.180 hey, you know, you guys are adults. You can dress yourselves. And that is what led to the student

00:12:07.580 radical saying, no, we can't. We can't dress ourselves and we need to ban offensive Halloween

00:12:12.580 costumes. And this one student ended up shrieking at her professor, who's a very prominent

00:12:16.960 scholar. She said, this is not about creating an intellectual space. This is about creating a

00:12:25.840 place of comfort and home for us here. Yale university is not about an intellectual space.

00:12:33.560 And maybe these days that's true. It's about making us all feel really comfortable and happy.

00:12:40.580 That's absurd, but that's the ideology that Stephen Colbert is advancing. He's taking their side and

00:12:45.640 there are going to be a lot of other people. This is why the whole campus protest issue

00:12:49.360 pretty much doesn't involve conservatives. It's just a fight between leftists and other leftists,

00:12:55.200 the leftists who run the schools and the leftists who attend the schools and the leftists in the

00:12:59.420 media who cover the schools and the leftist entertainers who are now having to talk about

00:13:03.540 the schools and who entertain. It's all just, it's left on left violence. So all we had to do was stand

00:13:08.800 back and let the contradictions within the American left and the tensions and the fissures just

00:13:14.800 deepen and deepen. That is good because it will help to destroy the American left, which is an

00:13:20.180 ideological cancer on American society. But Republicans can't do that. So what do we do?

00:13:26.360 We interrupt the leftists from destroying themselves to censor the Bible. There's so much

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00:14:41.220 The House of Representatives, controlled by Republicans, though there was an overwhelming

00:14:47.000 majority of members of Congress, so huge numbers of Republicans and Democrats, voted yesterday to pass

00:14:53.260 the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act. Okay, and you always got to be careful about these titles.

00:14:59.680 You know, the title of the bill, the nicer the title of the bill sounds, the worse the bill is,

00:15:04.660 usually. The Give People Candies and Puppies Act of 2024, you know that's going to be one of the

00:15:11.540 worst bills ever. So people say Anti-Semitism Awareness Act. Well, yeah, okay, we don't want

00:15:15.440 people to hate the Jews and stuff, and we want to call attention to unjust racial cruelty. Okay,

00:15:21.180 that's great. So what does the bill actually do? It censors the Bible. Oh, and it limits the

00:15:28.080 amount that Americans are allowed to criticize a foreign government. That's what it does. The bill

00:15:34.340 passed in the House, it hasn't quite made it to the Senate yet, would codify the International

00:15:41.700 Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's definition of anti-Semitism in Title VI of the Civil Rights Act

00:15:50.880 of 1964. What is the Civil Rights Act? It is federal anti-discrimination law that bars discrimination

00:15:57.760 based on shared ancestry, ethnic characteristics, and national origin. So there's already this law

00:16:05.000 in the books that says you can't discriminate based on these criteria. But the Republicans and

00:16:14.060 some Democrats in Congress want to go further, and they want to create a special protection for the

00:16:19.340 Jews. But look, we're at a time where their Jew hatred really is on the rise. So in principle,

00:16:23.520 I have no problem with trying to make sure that we have standards and norms and we don't become

00:16:27.720 barbarians. In principle, I don't have anything wrong with that. But the way they do it here

00:16:33.040 is obviously unconstitutional. And it's not even just me saying it. Jerry Nadler, who is the top

00:16:41.240 Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, he is a huge lib. He's a Jew himself. He came out and he said,

00:16:47.300 this bill threatens to chill constitutionally protected speech. He goes further, speech that

00:16:54.520 is critical of Israel alone does not constitute unlawful discrimination. The bill sweeps too

00:16:59.100 broadly. Yeah, I hate to agree with Jerry Nadler. It drives me crazy. But he's completely right.

00:17:05.220 This bill is insane. So what is the definition? The bill actually doesn't even quite define

00:17:13.200 anti-Semitism. It's the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act. It doesn't define anti-Semitism. It says,

00:17:18.040 hey, we're going to defer to this other group, the International Holocaust Remembrance Lies.

00:17:21.420 We're going to defer to their definition of anti-Semitism. Okay, well, I guess the IHRA could

00:17:27.720 change the definition of anti-Semitism as they like. So we're now outsourcing a major provision

00:17:34.520 of the Civil Rights Act of Title VI. This is, I mean, Christopher Caldwell has called the Civil

00:17:39.420 Rights Act, a kind of second constitution. This is a big law that really affects the way Americans

00:17:45.060 live. The IHRA defines anti-Semitism. It says, anti-Semitism is a certain perception of Jews,

00:17:52.880 which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of

00:17:56.640 anti-Semitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and or their property toward

00:18:00.660 Jewish community institutions and religious facilities. Okay, yeah, I guess I agree with that.

00:18:06.600 That's so vague. Anti-Semitism is a certain perception of Jews. Yeah, it is. It is a

00:18:12.520 perception, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews, but may not. So it's either hatred or not

00:18:17.320 hatred of Jews. And it's rhetorical or it's physical. And it's directed toward Jews or non-Jews

00:18:23.120 or the property of Jews or non-Jews or the Jewish community or religious facilities. So it's just

00:18:28.640 nothing, right? That is not a definition. It says, yeah, anti-Semitism can be anything.

00:18:33.140 But then it gives examples. Okay, at least we're getting some examples. Now we know what we're

00:18:38.800 banning as a matter of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. What is it? First one. This list goes

00:18:43.660 on and on. It's like 10 or 11 bullet points. Calling for aiding or justifying the killing or

00:18:49.440 harming of Jews in the name of a radical ideology or an extremist view of religion. Yeah, okay. I think

00:18:54.700 we all say that's bad. If that's the definition of anti-Semitism, I guess you'd have to define

00:19:02.220 harm. Do we mean harm in the sense of actual harm or do we mean harm in the sense that the liberals

00:19:07.620 now mean it of offending anyone's feelings ever about anything? But yeah, generally, I think we

00:19:12.420 would all say, yeah, that's okay. If you're calling for aiding or justifying the killing or harming of

00:19:16.660 Jews in the name of some ideology, yeah, that's obviously bad. That should not be tolerated. That's

00:19:22.060 terrible. Okay. Number two, making mendacious, dehumanizing, demonizing, or stereotypical

00:19:28.300 allegations about Jews as such, or the power of Jews as a collective, such as, especially,

00:19:32.900 but not exclusively, the myth about a world Jewish conspiracy or of Jews controlling the media,

00:19:37.820 economy, government, or other social institutions. Okay, now hold on.

00:19:42.780 So there, just the Jews controlling the media thing. I'm pretty sure every host on the Daily Wire

00:19:49.700 has, like, on backstage made jokes about that, you know, the Jews in Hollywood or something like,

00:19:56.300 including our Jewish hosts. So are they not allowed to make jokes about that?

00:20:02.120 Andrew Klavan, ethnically Jewish, religiously Christian, he's a convert, wrote an excellent

00:20:06.460 book about it. He's not allowed to make that joke. That's illegal now. That's unlawful discrimination.

00:20:12.480 If it became subject to a Title VI investigation, Drew would be in violation of the law.

00:20:17.260 I think Ben has probably made the joke before. Ben's not allowed to make that joke, and none of us,

00:20:22.340 really? Can we make those kinds of jokes about other people? If we make a joke about the Italians

00:20:27.160 running the mob, is that now again, it's the exact same kind of joke. The Italians do run the mob,

00:20:35.240 actually. Are we, you're not allowed to do that? No, that part, really? That seems very unfair.

00:20:44.340 It seems very extreme. It seems like that would criminalize all sorts of speech that all sorts of

00:20:50.160 people make, that can be perfectly anodyne and, you know, non-hateful and all the rest.

00:20:56.620 Number three, accusing Jews as a people of being responsible for real or imagined wrongdoing

00:21:01.240 committed by a single Jewish person or group, or even acts committed by non-Jews. Yeah, I think it's

00:21:05.560 wrong to blame a whole group of people for things that just individuals or a smaller subset of them

00:21:10.240 have done, sure. But the left doesn't believe that. The left does that all the time. Every single

00:21:14.420 white person in the country and in the world is supposedly now responsible for slavery, you know,

00:21:19.440 that took place in just one part of the country, or that persisted and grew in just one part of the

00:21:25.660 country, and was really only, really only involved one to two or three percent of the population there.

00:21:33.480 But every single white person ever is responsible. So we, we don't follow the, I'm fine with this in

00:21:40.440 principle, but we don't apply that to any other group. That's, that's totally selective in its

00:21:47.100 enforcement. Then, then we get on at a certain, by the end of this list, we come to realize the

00:21:57.080 Republicans are, are now actually censoring the Bible. We'll get to that in one second. First,

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00:23:18.160 today. What else is the House going to ban? What other aspects of speech are House Republicans going

00:23:28.500 to ban now? Well, according to the examples of the new definition of anti-Semitism that will be

00:23:35.760 prohibited under Title VI, we find denying the fact scope mechanisms, for example, gas chambers,

00:23:42.840 or intentionality of the genocide of the Jewish people at the hands of the National Socialist

00:23:46.560 National Socialist Germany and its supporters and accomplices during World War II. So we're

00:23:51.060 talking about the Holocaust. And number five is related, accusing the Jews as a people or Israel

00:23:55.400 as a state of inventing or exaggerating the Holocaust. Okay, I think most people, I would say the vast

00:24:01.080 majority of people, don't deny any of those things. But this is America. There are laws against that in

00:24:10.600 Germany. In Germany, if you question any aspect of World War II, you could be in violation of the law,

00:24:18.320 you could be jailed. Most Americans accept the historical account. I mean, there's some fringe

00:24:24.080 people, I guess, who don't. But most Americans don't. But this is America. We're now going to adopt,

00:24:29.060 Germany has been criticized, I think rightly, for the severity of these sorts of laws.

00:24:33.300 We're going to import that into America, where this doesn't really seem to be much of a social

00:24:39.620 problem? I don't know. That seems kind of extreme. It seems like it kind of comes out of nowhere.

00:24:45.780 Number six, accusing Jewish citizens of being more loyal to Israel or to the alleged priorities of

00:24:50.320 Jews worldwide than to the interests of their own nations. Okay, so I agree it's wrong and very

00:24:58.200 impolite to accuse a guy who's a Jew just because he's a Jew of not being loyal to America. That's

00:25:03.460 very impolite. It's very unjust. But let's say a guy's a dual citizen. And let's say it's not the

00:25:08.940 state of Israel. Let's say a guy's a dual citizen of America and China. And let's say that the guy

00:25:14.740 really supports China. Is it, well, I guess this doesn't mention China, but would it not be at least

00:25:20.880 reasonable to raise the question of, hey, man, if you're a dual citizen of America and China,

00:25:25.700 maybe, do you have some loyalty to China? You're a citizen. You haven't renounced your

00:25:31.060 citizenship of that country. Is it possible that that would come into conflict? Maybe.

00:25:35.420 So I agree. I mean, if this were written a little bit better, you could say, yeah, that's quite wrong.

00:25:40.620 But then again, you just see how broad, how obviously unconstitutional this is and how selective.

00:25:47.660 We can ask that about other dual citizens, but we, I don't know. It doesn't even really get into

00:25:54.100 citizenship or Jewish citizens. It doesn't get into, do they have Israeli citizenship or this or

00:25:59.040 that? Again, so broad. Then denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, for

00:26:04.540 example, by claiming that the existence of a state of Israel is a racist endeavor. Okay.

00:26:11.860 Not to be too pedantic about this. Most nation states are racist endeavors.

00:26:18.480 This isn't singling out Israel at all. This is actually just broadening it to most nation states.

00:26:24.280 Most nation states revolve around some ethnic group that makes it, I mean, the word racism doesn't

00:26:32.900 really mean very much anymore, if it means anything at all, but it's about a group of people.

00:26:39.460 The state of Israel was founded 70 years ago. The modern nation state of Israel was founded 70 years

00:26:43.880 ago to be a state and homeland for a specific, not even race tribe of people like an actual tribe

00:26:51.960 that you, can you not say that now? Can we not, can we not say that England was a country founded for

00:27:00.260 the descendants of the angles, the English people? Can we not, or the Irish is a country for the Irish

00:27:07.120 people. I guess you can't say that, or maybe you can say that about those countries, but you can't

00:27:11.980 say it about the state of Israel, nuts. Applying double standards by requiring of it a behavior

00:27:17.540 not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation. Okay. So first of all, I'm talking about

00:27:22.280 double standards here. Are you kidding me? This whole list. But second of all, no two nations are

00:27:28.000 alike. So for instance, we expect things of the United States that we don't expect of other democratic

00:27:33.380 nations because we're the global hegemon. We're the, we're the world empire. We are surrounded by two

00:27:38.480 devotions. We have certain geographic protections. We have certain cultural, uh, habits that just make

00:27:45.300 us different. We're an, I know in, in modern liberal life, we want to pretend every nation's

00:27:49.380 the same. You go to the United Nations and, you know, our country and the nation of Mauritius or

00:27:55.840 something are, are put on the, the same, uh, pedestal. We're considered to, we're all just equal among

00:28:02.580 the nations, but like, not really. That's not how nations have ever worked. So that very vague. Number

00:28:08.760 nine, using the symbols and images associated with classic antisemitism, for example, claims of Jews

00:28:13.980 killing Jesus or blood libel to characterize Israel or Israelis. Okay. As I've mentioned on this show

00:28:21.280 before, it is actually theologically important that our Lord is executed by the Roman state, by a

00:28:27.700 representative of Caesar, because the sacrifice of Christ on the cross is a sacrifice for the whole

00:28:33.160 world, for all of mankind. And Rome in the fullness of time, our Lord is born under the reign of Caesar

00:28:38.440 Augustus, the emperor, uh, the prince of peace of terrestrial peace. He's the true prince of peace, our

00:28:44.060 Lord. Uh, he has the right to rule. Dante writes about this in monarchy. So, uh, he, the, the sacrifice by the

00:28:53.380 civil authority that has the right to rule the whole world is a sacrifice for the whole world. All of

00:28:57.520 that's very important. Also, the scripture is very clear that our Lord is, is handed over to the Romans

00:29:02.760 by the Jewish high priests. That St. Paul writes explicitly that the Jews killed Jesus in the sense

00:29:10.500 that they, the representatives of the Jews, the Jewish high priests handed him over to the Romans. And then

00:29:17.000 when Pontius Pilate says, I've washed my hands of this, I, I, I don't think we should kill this guy. He's

00:29:21.500 innocent. Uh, nevertheless, uh, they insist that he'd be killed. Uh, this is not a cause to blame

00:29:27.980 modern Jews for killing Jesus. In fact, the crucifixion and the harrowing of hell and the

00:29:33.920 resurrection we sing on Easter is, uh, we, we, we actually celebrate the, the fall of man that gave

00:29:39.920 us the crucifixion and the resurrection because we say, oh, happy fault that one for us so great,

00:29:43.500 so glorious a redeemer. All of that said, if, if this law goes into effect, if this modifies the title

00:29:51.040 six of the civil rights act, then when we look on college campuses, that's what we're talking about

00:29:54.960 here with title six. If there is a, um, there's a Bible study on a campus that reads the Bible,

00:30:02.580 that reads first Thessalonians, that reads the writings of St. Paul, that reads the gospel of

00:30:05.940 St. John, that reads the passion account. Is that Bible study going to lose funding? Is that school

00:30:10.460 going to lose funding? The, the, some of the most important Catholic masses of the year, good Friday

00:30:15.840 Sunday and, uh, Palm Sunday, which reads the passion narrative, talk about this, would, would violate

00:30:21.580 the letter of the law here. So are, are, are the Catholic groups on campus going to lose funding

00:30:25.720 now? Are the schools going to lose funding because of this? Just completely insane. And then the final

00:30:30.300 provision, drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis. So you can't

00:30:35.420 criticize a foreign government, one specific foreign government, according to this new definition,

00:30:39.800 according to title six of the civil rights act, if the house Republicans get their way.

00:30:43.900 Are you kidding me? Now you might say, okay, look, you can, that you can criticize the Israeli

00:30:48.540 government, but you can't compare them to the Nazis. And I think Nazi comparisons are extremely

00:30:54.120 overdone and stupid and evidence that someone has not, doesn't know any other historical event besides

00:30:59.440 World War II, maybe the fall of Rome, but that's about it. Uh, but still that's how we argue. I mean,

00:31:04.920 they call Trump Hitler. Every, every modern political rhetorical, uh, jibe somehow gets back to

00:31:13.080 Hitler and the Nazis. So, so what this law would say is, yeah, you're not allowed to criticize Israel

00:31:18.780 in the way that we all criticize anything in politics. Completely nuts. A terrible law,

00:31:26.920 manifestly unconstitutional, terrible for America, terrible for the state of Israel,

00:31:31.980 terrible for Jewish people all over the world. Just completely idiotic. I can't,

00:31:37.200 and it's such a dumb time. Like, ah, oh man, guys. I don't, and it's, it's so painful to me

00:31:46.700 because I wrote a book encouraging conservatives to recognize that the American speech tradition

00:31:51.400 does permit standards and norms and we can enforce these things. And we actually should limit

00:31:55.820 some of the speech that's gotten out of control, like obscenity and threats and all the rest of it.

00:32:01.540 Yeah. I, and, and so I say, Hey, Hey, Republicans, do you think maybe we could start enforcing the

00:32:07.520 regular American speech tradition and limit? So yeah, best we can do is ban the Bible and

00:32:11.420 criticism of Israel. What? No, what? It doesn't, it doesn't even accomplish the thing that it should

00:32:18.480 accomplish, which is they say, look, we're at a moment of rising Jew hatred. I think that's true.

00:32:23.640 And we like the Jews. I like the Jews. I mean, there's some, the left doesn't seem to like the Jews.

00:32:27.040 And there's some fringe people on the right who don't like the Jews. I quite like the Jews,

00:32:29.880 rather philo-Semitic myself. So they say, okay, so what we're going to do is we're going to ban

00:32:35.860 criticism of the state of Israel and the Bible. Okay. Okay, man. Well, I guess the Republicans

00:32:41.640 just can't win for losing. Now what you can do is you can subscribe to the Michael Knowles YouTube

00:32:49.260 channel, smash the like button and ring the bell. Speaking of religious issues, the Associated Press

00:32:56.360 is shocked, horrified, I think, by the shift among American Catholics toward tradition, toward

00:33:06.140 orthodoxy. Headline, a step back in time. America's Catholic church sees an immense shift

00:33:13.600 toward the old ways. And then here's the, I love this open. It was the music that changed first.

00:33:21.100 Or maybe that's just when people at the pale brick Catholic church in the quiet Wisconsin

00:33:25.720 neighborhood finally began to realize what was happening. The choir director, a fixture at

00:33:30.780 St. Maria Goretti for nearly 40 years, was suddenly gone. Contemporary hymns were replaced by music

00:33:36.980 rooted in medieval Europe. So much was changing. Sermons were focusing more on sin and confession.

00:33:45.500 You know, like the central reason of our need for a savior and a sacrament of the Holy Catholic

00:33:51.800 Church. They were focusing on that. They were focusing on the sacraments. Priests were rarely

00:33:56.340 seen without cassocks. Priests, all of a sudden, were wearing the things that priests are supposed

00:33:59.900 to wear. They weren't wearing tank tops and board shorts. Altar girls, for a time, were banned.

00:34:06.440 A feminist sexual revolution novelty, a social fad, went away for the tradition of 2,000 years.

00:34:13.980 It's so strange. At the parish elementary school, students began hearing about abortion

00:34:18.500 and hell. They began hearing about the fundamental non-negotiable right to life and about hell,

00:34:25.200 which is the place that we're going to go if we don't have a savior, which is, again,

00:34:30.320 the central mystery of the faith or the central fact of the faith.

00:34:34.340 It was like a step back in time, said one former parishioner, still so dazed by the tumultuous

00:34:40.580 changes that began in 2021 with a new pastor that he only spoke on condition of anonymity.

00:34:46.100 It's not just St. Maria Goretti. It goes on. Across the church, all these trads are coming up.

00:34:52.920 All these people who don't like the hippie 1970s saccharine hymns and the denial or suppression

00:35:01.200 of orthodoxy and tradition in 2,000 years. Okay. What does this mean? I love this. This guy goes,

00:35:08.120 Father Reverend John Forliti, he's 87. He goes, they say they're trying to restore what us old

00:35:14.940 guys ruined. Doug Kessel, another 72-year-old priest, says they're just waiting for us to die.

00:35:20.240 These are the boomer priests who tried to usher in the age of Aquarius, basically, who

00:35:26.780 sneered at tradition and tried to suppress aspects of orthodoxy and disregarded many of the sacraments.

00:35:34.940 And it turns out they did all this in the wake of Vatican II in the 1960s because they said,

00:35:40.760 this is how we're going to bring the youth back into the church. And guess what happened? The

00:35:43.800 pews emptied out. No one came. And now the youth are actually telling them, no, you know what we

00:35:47.420 want? We want the truth. We want orthodoxy. We want tradition. We don't want these saccharine,

00:35:52.580 insipid, effeminate hymns and the denial of the faith or denial of so much visible aspect of the

00:36:01.120 faith. And then someone goes, this is the last bit of this article I'll read. I don't want my

00:36:05.980 daughter to be Catholic, says Christine Hammond, whose family left the parish when this new outlook

00:36:11.620 spilled into the church's school. Not if this is the Roman Catholic church that is coming.

00:36:18.440 I don't want my daughter to be Catholic if people are going to start practicing the faith

00:36:23.080 that was practiced for 1965 or 1970 years. Then there was kind of a little interruption after

00:36:31.840 Vatican II when some Catholic groups went kind of crazy. And then I don't want, if Catholicism

00:36:37.540 means practicing the Catholic faith, I don't want any part of that. What is this about?

00:36:41.780 At a theological level, it's a vindication of the promise from our Lord, which is that the gates of

00:36:47.020 hell will not prevail against the church. We're going to try to mess it up as best we can. And still,

00:36:51.540 and still the church will endure because our Lord promises never to leave the church. And that's why

00:36:56.960 the church is the enduring institution in our civilization. 2000 years, no one else can claim it.

00:37:01.980 What else is this about? Even beyond the religious level, we are in a free-floating, subjectivist,

00:37:09.240 liberal, individualist moment in our culture where we want to be liberated, where people say they want

00:37:15.060 to be liberated from everything, where we can't know anything for certain. Everything is just up in the

00:37:20.040 air. We can't even really say what a woman is. And people want to liberate themselves from their very

00:37:23.720 own bodies. And reasonable people recognize this is immiserating us. It's completely nuts. And we

00:37:29.760 want something to hold on to. There is a major wave of religious conversion going on. A lot of it is

00:37:35.640 focused on the Catholic church because it's the oldest one. It's the most enduring. It's just the

00:37:43.720 most inertia there. And even, you know, I think there are theological reasons for that too, but

00:37:47.640 it's just, that's the, it's the most grounded one, right? And people, we are all floating in outer

00:37:53.180 space in this culture and people want to be grounded again in the truth, in just anything that they can

00:38:01.060 hold onto. That's why. The libs will cry, but that's what's going on. My favorite comment yesterday

00:38:07.140 is from James P7478, who says, the protesters went from, we want an intifada to bring us some

00:38:11.900 enchiladas. RIP campus intifada. It was really, it was really stupid. Well, it lasted, you know,

00:38:23.080 I can't say it was totally fun because they did, you know, cause a nuisance and shut down classes and

00:38:27.840 stuff. And I can't, I can't say it was even all that dangerous in the sense that they were such

00:38:33.740 losers and so hapless, but I can say it was really stupid while it lasted. And that, and that is kind

00:38:42.040 of amusing. Speaking of tradition, this story is a few days old, but I have to get to it because no

00:38:47.240 one is defending Chris Pratt. Chris Pratt, the movie star is in a lot of trouble. He and his wife,

00:38:53.780 Arnold Schwarzenegger's daughter, they just bought a home in Brentwood, California.

00:38:58.220 The home is a mid-century modern home. So it looks just like a kind of a flat

00:39:05.780 modernist, not a cube. It's not like the modern cube house. It's like a flat little rectangle

00:39:11.900 and it's mid-century modern and it's ugly and it's inefficient. And it's just, they bought it for

00:39:23.240 like 12 or 13 million bucks and they're going to knock it down and build a nice house. And everyone's

00:39:28.660 up in arms. Outrage, according to a news report, after actor Chris Pratt destroys iconic, iconic,

00:39:36.200 one of the most overused words in the world, mid-century home in LA. Architectural preservationists

00:39:44.180 were outraged last week as word spread that actor Chris Pratt and his wife, Catherine Schwarzenegger,

00:39:47.900 daughter of a former governor, had demolished the Zimmerman house. Mid-century home designed by

00:39:54.080 Greg Elwood that our advocates argue was an icon of 20th century residential construction in the

00:39:59.660 state. I know this is unpopular. This might be as unpopular as my Christine Ohm dog take.

00:40:06.800 I don't really see a problem with it. There are two reasons why people like mid-century modern

00:40:15.440 architecture. The first reason is nostalgia. The second reason is bad taste and it's bad taste

00:40:21.280 that reflects perverse desires and a perverse outlook. Okay. Cause mid-century modern, I have

00:40:29.040 an affection for it. You know, I have an affection because I remember my grandparents' house and I,

00:40:34.140 some of that mid-century architecture, even in a different architectural style, the doo-wop style of

00:40:39.040 like the, um, the motels down the Jersey shore in the wild woods. I have a great affection for it

00:40:44.540 because I, I have nostalgia. I went there a lot and I, and I, I agree with the preservationists.

00:40:50.740 We should preserve examples even of ugly architecture, but we don't need to preserve

00:40:55.620 them all. Okay. We can, you know, we'll save some of the nice ones, but, or that not even none of them

00:40:59.840 are nice, I guess, but save some of them, but we don't need to save all of them. And we can bring

00:41:05.960 in a little objectivity here. Mid-century mod was bad. It's lib. It's bad. It's clinical. It's ugly.

00:41:13.040 I know there's something kind of fun about role-playing that you're Dick Van Dyke and

00:41:16.380 Mary Tyler Moore, you know, sipping a martini on an Eames chair in your mid-century modern house.

00:41:20.660 So I, but it's nostalgia guys. It's not, it's not beautiful. And we don't, they accuse us

00:41:28.860 conservatives of wanting to just go back to the 1950s. I don't want to go back to the architectural

00:41:33.140 styles. I know there are plenty of things and you can't go back in time anyway. I just,

00:41:37.460 I want a culture that is beautiful and good and cares about the truth is pleasant and nice to live

00:41:45.120 in. And mid-century mod actually is not, ain't doing that. It, mid-century modernism in America

00:41:52.060 is the, it's the American expression of other modernist movements like the Bauhaus movement

00:41:56.800 from Walter Gropius, the international style. And here are some of the things that these guys would

00:42:00.580 say. Gropius in 1927 said that there, there have been four great social epochs. The, the epoch of

00:42:08.320 the tribe. And these, these will be reflected in art and architecture. The epoch of the tribe,

00:42:14.000 the epoch of the family, the epoch of the individual. And then what Gropius said we were

00:42:20.340 moving into in modernism was the epoch quote, which is to be socialistic in its orientation.

00:42:26.520 So the, the, the flattening of homes, the removal of ornamentation from homes that you see in mid-century

00:42:33.900 modernism. That Gropius said no quote, sentimental hanging on to a past that is no longer alive. So

00:42:41.000 no, no ornamentation. He described ornamentation as a blight. Okay. I like ornamentation. I go to

00:42:46.680 Grand Central Station in New York, which is a part of the Beaux-Arts movement, you know, Beaux-Arts,

00:42:51.860 Art Nouveau, even, even some of Art Deco, which is moving a little more modern. There's, there's

00:42:56.100 ornamentation, especially in, in Beaux-Arts. It's, it's, it's beautiful. It's lovely. It's rich.

00:43:01.060 There are many, you go down the street there and you see the Gothic Cathedral of St. Patrick's.

00:43:05.400 That's beautiful. And then you get to modern architecture and it's just flat and clinical

00:43:09.920 and sterile and ugly. And just, it makes you feel inhuman. Makes you feel, it, I don't know.

00:43:18.780 It just makes you feel, it leaves you cold is what it does. A true modern architect,

00:43:23.420 writes Gropius, is one who tries to shape our new conception of life. One who refuses to live

00:43:28.280 by repeating the forms and ornaments of our ancestors. Very lib, very modern. I like the

00:43:32.720 forms and ornaments of our ancestors. I like tradition. I don't want a radical break with

00:43:36.540 all of my forebears who, who preceded me. How about Le Corbusier? Says the new architecture,

00:43:42.480 quote, has for its first duty in this period of renewal, that of bringing about a revision of values,

00:43:47.700 a revision of the constituent elements of the house. That even, even down to the roof,

00:43:53.120 you look at that house that Chris Pratchett just knocked down. The roof is flat. This is,

00:43:56.820 this is one of the defining characteristics of mid-century modern. What does that say? It means

00:44:00.620 that we're not pointing up to anything. We're not, we're not, it's not a traditional roof that

00:44:04.560 points up to heaven, lifts your eyes up. It's flat. There ain't no heaven here in, in modernism.

00:44:11.140 It's, I, maybe, maybe I'm reading too much into it, but I don't think I am. I think that,

00:44:15.340 that other people are not reading enough into it. And it's an, it's an important moment for

00:44:19.880 conservatives to, to remember, we don't just want to go back. I guess there are some who do this.

00:44:25.440 And this is really the problem with the Republican party and the conservative movement

00:44:28.420 is we want to conserve the liberalism of 20 years ago. That's really what it comes down to.

00:44:34.000 The conservatives today, we, today, I guess we want to conserve what, 1999.

00:44:40.360 And in the nineties, they wanted to conserve what? The seventies and the seventies, they wanted to

00:44:45.720 conserve the fifties. I, it's, that ain't going to do it though, man. That just, that just means

00:44:50.540 you're slow liberals. It just means you're not hip liberals. Okay. But I don't, I don't want to get

00:44:56.920 in a time machine. Time machines don't exist. And I don't, I got in trouble once for saying,

00:45:01.260 I don't want to return to 2012. I want to return to 1220 by which I meant, I probably want to go a

00:45:06.600 little further back actually before those nominalists and William of Ockham started

00:45:10.240 getting high-handed. I want to preserve things that are true, that are, that are grounded, that are,

00:45:16.800 that, that, that will stand the test of time. Tradition is not just something old. It's actually

00:45:21.420 something that is durable. We have a tradition today because that old thing was so durable and

00:45:27.200 lots of other old things passed away. We are not merely slow liberals. At least I'm not,

00:45:34.880 I'm not any kind of liberal. I, I'm a conservative. I want, I want good, true, beautiful things that

00:45:44.020 allow me to flourish, that allow my political order to achieve the basic charge of any state

00:45:49.580 and any society, which is do good and avoid evil and cultivate good tastes and impel people to be their

00:45:55.720 very best selves. And you're not going to be your very best self in an ugly clinical house designed

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