The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1507 - The Liberal Attacks On Alex Jones & Fox News Explained

00:00:00.000 I've got good news and I've got bad news. Two huge news stories broke over the weekend.

00:00:05.840 Which do you want first? I'll start with the good news. The good news is that right-wingers

00:00:10.380 scored huge wins across Europe yesterday. France, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands,

00:00:16.460 even Spain, all scored big wins. They are preparing for more big wins in upcoming

00:00:22.080 national elections, and it all bodes extremely well for Trump's chances in America in 2024.

00:00:28.100 2024. That's the good news. The bad news, which broke right around the same time,

00:00:33.760 is that just as right-wingers are on the brink of major victories,

00:00:38.080 a ton of right-wing media outlets are collapsing under political pressure.

00:00:43.200 And the really bad news is that I suspect that those two stories are related.

00:00:48.840 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:58.100 Welcome back to the show. London Roberts, who is Hunter Biden's baby mama,

00:01:13.840 just came out with some explosive details about her time with Hunter on The Megyn Kelly Show.

00:01:21.740 She says that the night she found out she was pregnant with his child, both of her cell phones

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00:02:52.960 Good news is Europe is making a rightward political shift in Belgium. I'll just go through all these

00:02:59.720 elections real quick. The liberal prime minister in Belgium has resigned. He's resigned after right-wing

00:03:05.740 wins in the European elections. Don't forget, there are European elections for the European Parliament,

00:03:10.920 for the European Union, and then there are the national elections, too. So the conservatives, the

00:03:17.120 right-wingers, did very, very well in the European elections, and that bodes well for the national

00:03:22.400 elections also. The PM is down. Why? Because of the right-wing anti-immigration Vlaams Belong Party.

00:03:29.360 I'm sure I'm mispronouncing it, but we've talked about that party on the show before. They took second

00:03:32.940 place in the election with 17.5% of the vote. Don't forget, in the European elections, there are lots of

00:03:38.400 different little parties. It's not like in America where there's just Republicans and Democrats.

00:03:41.920 So the number two top party in these elections, the hard anti-immigration party, the other right-wing

00:03:52.560 parties gained a lot of seats, and the prime minister says, okay, I'm out. What was the number

00:04:01.480 one party? This is the best part. So the hard anti-immigration was the number two party. The number

00:04:05.780 one party is the other nationalist right-wing party, the New Flemish Alliance. How about in

00:04:10.240 France? In France, Emmanuel Macron, president of France, has just said that he will dissolve

00:04:15.640 the parliament and call for new national elections. This because right-wingers won the European races.

00:04:22.620 Le Pen's populist nationalist party, which used to be called the Front National, now I think it's called

00:04:27.560 the National Rally. Same party, though. It got twice as many votes as the governing group of

00:04:34.020 Macron's acolytes, the globalist liberal party. So now he's dissolved the parliament. They're going

00:04:41.860 to have national elections. And Le Pen, the leader of the right-wing party, says, great, bring it on.

00:04:46.040 We just did a bang-up job in the European elections. Let's go. Let's take back and make France great

00:04:51.480 again. In Austria, the right-wing Freedom Party won the European elections for the first time ever and

00:04:57.520 pledged that same day to carry the momentum into a national election. Germany, the right-wing

00:05:04.280 alternative for Deutschland, got second place in the EU elections. And so they're ready to go for

00:05:12.180 new federal elections. And the first place, again, like Belgium, was the more centrist conservative

00:05:17.680 party. But it wasn't the left-wing party and it wasn't the socialists. In the Netherlands,

00:05:21.580 the anti-immigration Prime Minister Geert Wilders increased his seats in the European Parliament.

00:05:28.400 That's good. Even in Spain, the center-right party, the People's Party, came out on top in the

00:05:35.360 European elections. So what's going on here? Why is this all happening at once? And what does it mean

00:05:39.600 for America? Because most people don't really care that much about Belgium. Most people don't think

00:05:42.720 Belgium's a real country anyway. But it means good news for America because there are civilizational 0.93

00:05:49.480 trends that happen in elections. It can be the case that one country goes far left and one country

00:05:56.580 goes far right. But more often, we see trends. Maggie Thatcher and Ronald Reagan come to prominence

00:06:03.580 at the same time. They're basically the same kind of politician. And they rise up in the UK and in the

00:06:09.740 US at exactly the same time. And actually, their reigns were almost identical. Thatcher held on a 0.99

00:06:16.620 couple years longer than Reagan, who was term limited. But Reagan would have been elected to

00:06:20.600 a third term. And effectively, he was in the person of George Bush. Nobody was really that

00:06:24.260 passionate about George Bush, but they wanted to give Reagan a third term. So you see that kind of

00:06:28.200 thing. The rise of Tony Blair shortly after the rise of Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton ran as a new

00:06:33.180 Democrat. He's a new kind of Democrat, not a socialist far-left Democrat. He's the kind of Democrat who's

00:06:37.940 going to show up to Jesse Jackson's political rally and give a moderate speech and say the Democrats need

00:06:45.000 to become more of a centrist party. And Tony Blair did the same thing in the UK with New Labor. Same

00:06:50.120 thing happened at the same time. How about Brexit? Brexit happens just months before the election of

00:06:54.660 Donald Trump. Both represent nationalist turns, anti-immigration, anti-trade, had been out of the

00:07:01.800 mainstream in Western politics for decades at that point. They both happened about the same time. So

00:07:07.700 I'm hopeful that this is what we're seeing in Europe now, a sign of things to come in America,

00:07:13.240 unless the American political system is just so corrupt that they send Trump into an orange jumpsuit

00:07:18.540 and he can't win the election. The other thing this signifies, and I haven't seen all that many

00:07:24.660 people talking about this, is a fundamental political shift. Not just the left-right pendulum

00:07:31.640 swinging back and forth, but a fundamental political shift that we're not always aware of.

00:07:36.960 These elections are about migration. That's what it's about. That's why the right is rising in Europe.

00:07:42.560 That's really why the right is rising in America too. It's about migration. People don't like their 0.97

00:07:46.280 country being flooded with foreigners. And the elite, the liberal elite who govern our country 0.92

00:07:51.140 call us racist and bigoted and stupid and uneducated for objecting to the country being

00:07:57.700 flooded with foreigners, but people still don't like it. People on the right, people in the middle,

00:08:02.040 even some people on the left don't like the erasure of borders and the abolition of customs and

00:08:08.780 traditions and a national sense of identity. So that's what this is about, which means that

00:08:13.340 what we are seeing here is a return of an old kind of politics, the normal kind of politics.

00:08:19.680 In our ideological age, we think that every political battle is about the right versus the

00:08:26.220 left, or we think that every kind of political battle is about the ideology of socialism versus

00:08:32.020 the ideology of libertarianism or the ideology of ideology of ideology. But there's a more basic

00:08:38.360 kind of politics, which is the defense of territories and peoples and the maintenance of traditions and

00:08:44.980 ways of life. That's the real basic form of political antagonism. And so it is no surprise,

00:08:52.940 it's frankly inevitable, that with the rise of mass migration over the last several decades,

00:08:58.520 really in America over the last six decades, you're going to see a turning away of the neat, 0.98

00:09:04.140 clean ideological, from the neat, clean ideological politics toward that more basic kind of politics.

00:09:08.920 We want to preserve our national identity. We want to preserve our borders. We want to preserve

00:09:14.840 our traditions and our language and our way of life. Language is key here. Press two for English

00:09:21.040 really irritates people. It's not just your crotchety old grandma who doesn't like that. No one likes 1.00

00:09:26.260 that. It's deeply offensive that I have to press a separate button to hear customer service in my own

00:09:33.160 language in my own country, especially because language is what separates us from animals. Okay,

00:09:39.320 language is a distinguishing feature for human beings. It cuts right down to the core of who we are as

00:09:45.360 the rational animal. And it's really, really annoying when we lose that because it signifies that we're

00:09:53.080 losing something much deeper, our whole culture and our whole country. That's what this is about.

00:09:58.000 And it's why the anti-immigration further right political parties did better than the center right

00:10:04.200 squishy kind of liberal conservative parties, you know, in virtually all of these elections.

00:10:10.400 People want to keep their country. It's basic stuff. You actually don't need an 800 page

00:10:16.520 tome from some political philosopher dork on this. People want to keep their own countries and their ways

00:10:21.720 of life. And the politicians who cater to that are going to do better in public opinion.

00:10:25.540 Now, at the same time that you're seeing a turn rightward in European and I think also American

00:10:32.440 politics, you're seeing right-wing media collapse. This is really strange. I'm just going to go down

00:10:41.760 the list here. Gateway Pundit, which is a right-wing blog, filed for bankruptcy now about a month and a

00:10:49.780 half ago. Why did they file for bankruptcy? Not just because the business model didn't work, but because

00:10:55.820 of defamation lawsuits. And it was defamation lawsuits surrounding the 2020 election and claims

00:11:02.660 that there was fraud in the 2020 election. OAN, One America News, is getting creamed in a defamation

00:11:12.740 lawsuit from Smartmatic, an election company that had questions raised about it because there were

00:11:23.200 questions raised about the legitimacy of the 2020 election. Fox, we all know what happened to Fox.

00:11:28.380 Fox had to pay out almost $800 million in a defamation lawsuit to Dominion, another company

00:11:33.300 involved in the 2020 election. They canned Tucker Carlson, according to reports, based on this

00:11:39.060 settlement. And now they're facing another $2.7 billion defamation suit against Smartmatic. So

00:11:43.160 Fox is a behemoth. It can probably survive, but it's facing a lot of political pressure and certainly

00:11:49.340 a lot of pressure not to talk about election integrity issues. Newsmax, similar lawsuit from

00:11:54.120 Smartmatic. Salem, Salem Media was forced to pull Dinesh's very popular movie, 2000 Mules, because it

00:12:00.980 raised questions about the election and specifically questions not even about the Smartmatic or Dominion or

00:12:07.380 whatever, but questions about the ballot drop boxes, which were demonstrably in some cases illegally

00:12:12.880 placed. And there was pressure to place drop boxes at illegal distances from county clerk's offices

00:12:19.020 by left-wing organizations that were funded by Mark Zuckerberg to the tune of $400 million.

00:12:23.480 So you can follow that money, regardless of any other claims made in the movie.

00:12:28.860 That movie had to be pulled. Why? Because of that kind of political pressure. The Epoch Times,

00:12:33.520 this one seems totally unrelated. The Epoch Times, a right-wing outlet, the feds just arrested the CFO

00:12:39.160 of the Epoch Times for supposed financial crimes. And then the big story that you probably saw trending

00:12:43.840 is that Alex Jones is being forced to liquidate Infowars to pay out a $1.5 billion defamation

00:12:49.660 judgment against him. And in all of these cases, in pretty much all of these cases, I'm sure you can

00:12:56.700 point to business practices and say, oh, yeah, actually, the CFO did cook the books. Or, oh, yeah,

00:13:01.060 actually, Alex Jones was too loose with his words. And he opened himself up to a defamation claim.

00:13:04.840 And, oh, yeah, actually this. Or, oh, yeah, actually that. Or, oh, yeah, actually this. Sure.

00:13:10.900 But isn't it kind of weird that it's all happening right now at the same time that all of these media

00:13:15.960 companies are facing intense pressure? I haven't even talked about our own company here, which we've

00:13:20.980 been, I think, not to toot our own horn, we've tried to be very, very precise from the beginning.

00:13:26.340 You know me. I like precision with words. I wrote a whole book about it called Speechless,

00:13:29.220 Controlling Words, Controlling Minds. Thank you. And we have faced intense pressure from big tech

00:13:34.920 companies that have taken us, have tried to demonetize us, have tried to take us off the

00:13:39.480 air, have tried to do all sorts of things. And I have noticed, at least, from my little advantage

00:13:43.620 here in conservative media, that that pressure campaign from the big tech companies has gotten

00:13:48.020 much, much more intense in recent months. And you know it's going to get much, much more intense

00:13:51.520 because we're five months out from an election, a very consequential election.

00:13:54.600 The libs are celebrating this. Headline, right-wing media reckoning. Some outlets pay a price after

00:14:01.500 spreading 2020 election misinformation. Quote, right-wing media has finally faced the consequences

00:14:08.100 of running disinformation campaigns, says Yun Kang Yang, an assistant professor at Texas A&M.

00:14:13.920 Some of them are finally being held accountable for the lies that they spread.

00:14:17.640 More here about this is what happens. Misinformation contaminates our information environment,

00:14:21.940 leads to real harms to people, and erodes trust in an institution. These right-wing,

00:14:27.060 these recent lawsuits, rather, against those who made a career of spreading lies and falsehoods will

00:14:31.660 hopefully help limit the spread and amplification of some misinformation we can expect in 2024.

00:14:37.780 And yet, can't help but notice in all this kind of stupid reporting from NBC and the rest,

00:14:44.540 you don't see left-wing media companies being held to account for the lies that they spread.

00:14:50.300 The lies about Trump, the lies about Russia, Russia, Russia, the collusion hoax,

00:14:55.940 the lies about Trump calling Nazis fine people at Charlottesville. That never happened. Joe Biden

00:15:00.340 launched his presidential campaign on that. Where's the defamation judgment? Where are the

00:15:04.620 lawsuits? The lies about January 6th, that we were told the worst insurrection in the history of the

00:15:09.260 world. Poor left-wingers and law enforcement officers were killed by the violent mob. Didn't happen.

00:15:14.520 The only person who died in the political violence of that day was one of the right-wing

00:15:18.240 demonstrators. What about the lies about COVID? The lies about COVID, how many people COVID would

00:15:24.380 kill, the premise for locking down our whole country, not seeing our loved ones, not hugging

00:15:29.460 grandma one last time before she died, postponing weddings, canceling graduations, canceling education. 0.99

00:15:36.220 What about those lies? What about the lies being spread by the liberal media? They were never held

00:15:40.520 to account. That led to real harm for real people. There was real consequences to that misinformation.

00:15:44.440 What about the lies about the vaccine? People died because of that. As we were told, the vaccine,

00:15:49.120 100% safe, 100% effective. And then certain vaccines actually had to be pulled because they

00:15:54.000 were causing blood clots. Or vaccines were causing cases of myocarditis or pericarditis.

00:16:01.000 And then all of a sudden, later on, we heard from the same authorities who told us the vaccines

00:16:05.020 were 100% safe, 100% effective. Oh, actually, they're not 100% safe. No, actually, they're not 100%

00:16:09.760 effective. And no, they don't actually stop you from catching the virus or spreading the virus or

00:16:13.620 really doing all that much of anything. What about the lies about the 2000 election? Remember when

00:16:17.520 the libs pretended that they won that election? And there are still some Democrats who maintain

00:16:22.600 that. Where are the defamation suits against them, huh? Or the 2016 election, they said Trump's

00:16:26.780 election was illegitimate. Or the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election, where they say Stacey

00:16:30.420 Abrams, the governor of Georgia, or on and on and on. You don't see any judgments against them.

00:16:34.900 You don't see NBC News going down. You don't see CNN going down. You don't see Hillary Clinton

00:16:38.520 being thrown in court for a defamation case. It's only the right. Did some of these right-wing

00:16:44.880 companies play a little loose with the legality or their finances or whatever? I don't know. Maybe

00:16:53.440 they did. I don't know anything about their cases. But I know that they did not play anywhere near as

00:16:58.280 loose with the facts as the left-wing companies do every single day. And the reason that these guys

00:17:02.740 are all going down right now seems to me, if I were a gambling man, might have something to do with

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00:17:13.820 stuff right now, the American left, is trying to throw a former president and current presidential

00:17:20.760 nominee in prison, okay? There is nothing they will not do to win this election. Now, what else are we

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00:19:53.160 intelligence. James Clapper is one of the guys who signed that letter in October of 2020

00:20:00.740 claiming that the Hunter Biden laptop story was Russian disinformation. Clapper was one of 51

00:20:09.580 former intelligence officials who said, do not believe the New York Post reporting on the Hunter

00:20:16.400 Biden laptop story. This has, quote, all the classic earmarks of a Russian information campaign.

00:20:23.560 And in part, based on the supposed expertise of these intelligence officials who would never lie to

00:20:29.860 us, big tech was able to censor that story. And after the 2020 election, there was a poll that was

00:20:35.840 taken that showed that 12% of Biden voters would have changed their vote had they known that the

00:20:40.420 Hunter Biden laptop was real. Not just because of the drugs and the sex and the weird stuff on the

00:20:44.180 laptop, but because of the evidence and texts and emails that the Biden family was corrupt and that

00:20:50.160 Hunter Biden was the bag man for the Biden family and that he was giving kickbacks to the guy at the

00:20:54.280 top, the big guy, Joe Biden. It had not only the suggestion of all of these sorts of crimes, it had

00:21:02.080 direct evidence, text and video evidence in some cases of major, major crimes. And the intelligence

00:21:08.580 officials said, oh, it's Russian disinformation. Now we know it was not. We know it was not in part

00:21:14.720 because the prosecutors who were finally forced to actually prosecute Hunter Biden by a judge,

00:21:19.720 they came out and they submitted the laptop as evidence and they said, we've checked it out,

00:21:24.020 we've assessed it. It's legit. So James Clapper, full circle, James Clapper, former director of

00:21:30.420 national intelligence for the Libs, was asked, do you regret signing that letter saying it was

00:21:35.900 disinformation? He gave a one word answer. What do you think that answer was? No, no, he doesn't.

00:21:43.740 People are shocked by this. You don't regret saying something that was not true, that played a pivotal

00:21:52.660 role in the outcome of the 2020 election based on disinformation, ironically. Says no, of course he

00:22:01.760 doesn't regret it. And here's why. The purpose of that letter from the intelligence community

00:22:07.940 was not to warn of actual Russian subterfuge. The purpose of that letter from the intelligence

00:22:16.460 community was to stop Trump. The purpose of that letter from the intelligence community,

00:22:21.360 the reason they signed it, was because the Hunter Biden laptop story was damaging to Biden

00:22:26.300 and could have tilted an already tight election to Trump, even with all the rigging,

00:22:30.400 could have tilted that election to Trump. And so these people in the IC who have hated Trump and

00:22:36.460 tried to undermine his candidacy since he came down the golden escalator in 2015, these people who

00:22:42.460 cooked up a fake steel dossier, ironically enough, with Russian intelligence to try to undermine Trump

00:22:48.360 with the Hillary Clinton campaign, they said, okay, we're going to sign this letter and that's going

00:22:54.480 to stop the spread of this Hunter Biden laptop story, even through private messages on some social

00:22:58.840 media apps. And that is going to help Biden squeak through this election and beat Donald Trump.

00:23:03.320 That was the purpose. And the letter achieved its purpose. So of course, James Clapper has no regrets.

00:23:08.820 Why would he have any regrets? He won. The letter did exactly what he intended for it to do.

00:23:17.080 The confusion here is that people never understood what that letter was intended to do. Some people

00:23:22.020 understood it, but most did not because the intelligence community lied. Because the letter itself

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00:24:38.840 here? Is the solution to all these deep state shenanigans? For the conservatives to get in there and

00:24:44.640 then wield the deep state to our advantage? That is what the momentary White House communications

00:24:52.140 director, Anthony Scaramucci, who reigned over White House communications for precisely 11 days,

00:24:59.260 this is what he's suggesting on CNN.

00:25:03.100 He's saying he doesn't want revenge, revenge is success. And on the other side of his mouth,

00:25:08.000 he's letting people know, hey, I can't wait to get this job because I'm going to seek retribution

00:25:12.900 through the justice system. He's also told friends of mine that have defended him in court,

00:25:18.980 defense attorneys, that he wants to use the FBI as the Gestapo. He probably doesn't know what that

00:25:23.580 means, but he has said that. Trump's going to use the FBI as his Gestapo if he gets elected.

00:25:31.760 No, he won't. Probably some people would like him to do that, but he won't. He won't do that.

00:25:39.060 How do we know he won't do that? Because he's been president before. And what did he do?

00:25:42.820 He said, we're going to lock her up. We're going to lock her up, lock her up. That was one of the

00:25:45.580 big chants of the 2016 race. Second only to build the wall, build the wall. And during a debate with

00:25:50.840 Clinton, Clinton said, I don't want to live in an America where Trump is president. He said, yeah,

00:25:53.500 because you'd be in jail. It was a great zinger. But then he didn't prosecute her.

00:25:57.100 And of course, he wasn't going to be the one to break the 230 some odd years of American tradition

00:26:04.920 where we don't prosecute our political enemies, at least at the top of politics.

00:26:10.220 But it means he's not going to do it. He's not going to do it for that reason.

00:26:13.400 And the even deeper reason that Trump is not going to use the FBI as his Gestapo is because

00:26:17.560 it is not possible to do that if you're a Republican, because the institutions themselves

00:26:22.800 are liberal. That's the problem. That's why the libs get to wield the deep state, 1.00

00:26:29.200 the administrative agencies pretty effectively. Obama did a very good job wielding the administrative

00:26:33.860 agencies, not only to advance his agenda, but also to persecute his opponents. You think about

00:26:40.860 the lowest learner IRS scandal under Barack Obama, where he used the IRS to go after his enemies

00:26:47.940 through the tax law. The conservatives aren't quite as able to do that because the institutions

00:26:55.060 themselves are liberal. Even if Trump marched down to the FBI, he just saunters into Quantico,

00:27:00.920 day two of his presidency, and he says, hey, you need to go after my enemies. They just wouldn't do it.

00:27:07.680 And guess what? The career bureaucrats, not just at the FBI, but throughout the administrative

00:27:12.720 agencies, they're going to be there a lot longer than Trump is. Trump is term limited, one term.

00:27:16.100 Even if you're there for two terms, it doesn't matter. The career people are going to outlast

00:27:19.720 the elected people. It's just not going to happen. Now, Anthony Scaramucci is not exactly known for

00:27:26.740 the top tier of political analysis in the world, but it's just preposterous. Oh yeah, Trump's going

00:27:32.560 to use the FBI as a Gestapo. Yeah, as if he could. He doesn't want to, but as if he could. He couldn't

00:27:39.500 actually do it, even if he did. That's just not how the institutions are set up. Now, speaking of

00:27:44.340 personnel matters, turning away from the government toward the private sector for a moment is a

00:27:48.560 disturbing story out here. Zoomers are bringing their parents on job interviews. I didn't believe

00:27:58.240 it myself, but there's a survey. There's a poll. You know, polls would never lie. In a resume template

00:28:03.780 survey of almost 1,500 U.S. Gen Z Zoomers, 70%, 7-0, said they had asked their parents for help

00:28:14.140 during their job search. That seems typical to me. You at least ask a little advice. Hey,

00:28:19.380 mom and dad, what do you think? Should I do this or that? But then 26%, that is by my rough calculations,

00:28:26.840 a little over one in four Zoomers, said they had brought a parent to a job interview.

00:28:35.300 For the Zoomers who said they brought a parent to an in-person interview, 0.99

00:28:40.280 I almost can't believe this, and I certainly can't get through without laughing. 37% said they had the

00:28:45.720 parent come into the office. 26% said the parent physically sat in the room while the interview took

00:28:54.580 place. 18% said that their parents introduced themselves to the hiring manager, and then here's

00:29:02.660 the kicker. 7% said the parent even answered questions for the job applicant. Let me just

00:29:15.020 try to find the nice thing here. You know I'm a glass half full kind of guy. It is good that Zoomers 1.00

00:29:22.900 have respect for their parents. It is good that Zoomers seem more inclined to remain close 1.00

00:29:30.280 to their parents than some prior generations have. This is completely insane. Those are the only good

00:29:40.900 things I can really see in this. I know Pendula, they swing back and forth. Some generations,

00:29:46.740 they basically want nothing to do with their parents. Now Zoomers are sitting in mom's house up 0.99

00:29:52.360 until the age of 45 eating chicken nuggets. That's probably the pendulum swinging too much in the

00:29:56.800 other direction. At least it's good that they want to get a job, but to bring your mom on a job 0.96

00:30:01.020 interview, not the smartest idea. What is this a sign of? It's a sign, obviously, that Zoomers are 1.00

00:30:08.820 having trouble growing up. Millennials, my own generation, famously, has had some trouble growing up.

00:30:13.240 Zoomers seem to be even a little worse off than that. And the reason that that's really bad is that 1.00

00:30:20.840 not growing up is a sign of despair, and despair is a sin. Despair is a loss of hope. If you're not

00:30:30.760 growing up, if you want to stay in perpetual adolescence, you don't want to move out of mommy's

00:30:35.480 and daddy's house. You don't want to date people. You don't want to get married. You don't want to have

00:30:40.260 kids. Millennials and Zoomers are just not having kids. They're not getting married. They're not 1.00

00:30:44.760 having kids. That is a sign of despair because it means you don't have any hope for the future.

00:30:49.780 You're comfortable in the status quo. You wish against hope and against the way that reality works

00:30:58.540 that you can just freeze in time and space forever. And when you do consider the future,

00:31:03.740 it's only with trepidation and fear, which is why you don't want to take any risks.

00:31:08.000 Get married, have kids, even go on a job interview alone. This is one of the reasons why

00:31:17.520 I would never vote for a politician who's not married, pretty much under any circumstances.

00:31:24.480 No River So Long doesn't contain a bend, to quote Norm MacDonald, but I almost certainly would not

00:31:29.000 vote for a politician who was not married. I would not follow any kind of political leader

00:31:33.880 who's not married. And the reason for that is the marriage is the fundamental political unit. 0.52

00:31:42.340 It's the basic building block of all of politics. If a political leader has not demonstrated that they

00:31:47.840 can do even that, even the most basic aspect of politics, then I should have no confidence whatsoever

00:31:54.300 that they can do anything grander in politics. This is why a political, a would-be political leader,

00:32:02.860 you know, pontificating from his parents' basement is not a good sign, okay? Even, we were talking

00:32:08.660 about Europe a little earlier, these European leaders who, many of them are married, but they

00:32:14.240 refuse to have children. It's not even that necessarily they're caught in infertility. They just

00:32:17.560 don't want to have children. They don't want to adopt children. That's a bad sign because it means

00:32:21.320 they have no skin in the game for the future. They are not exemplifying the basic political unit.

00:32:29.000 Why on earth should I believe that they have any ability to help construct a political future on a

00:32:36.620 broader scale? Now, speaking of children, explosive new information has come out from Hunter Biden's

00:32:43.660 baby mama, London Roberts. I've broadly stayed out of the Hunter Biden tabloid stuff. I've mentioned,

00:32:50.760 you know, the drugs and the sex and everything, obviously, because he's being tried for that right

00:32:53.960 now. But I haven't tried to get too in the weeds on it because it's gross and I don't really want

00:32:58.180 to look at it. And it seems ugly to gossip about. But some of it has real political implications.

00:33:05.960 For instance, Hunter Biden impregnates a stripper during a period where he's smoking crack all the

00:33:12.840 time. And this stripper gets pregnant and she finds out she's pregnant. She's telling Hunter Biden.

00:33:21.660 And then stuff starts getting really weird.

00:33:24.120 I had two cell phones, which is also, I still do to this day, but I had two cell phones at the time

00:33:30.960 because my Arkansas phone had a cellular data that didn't pick up at the place that I was living in

00:33:36.980 DC. So, um, I got a different, um, I got sprint and AT&T to even out the data and everyone could

00:33:44.160 reach me. But, um, that night they both at the same time crashed and in front of me and my friends,

00:33:54.800 a lot of stuff is, is gone from, um, my iCloud had it not been backed up or whatever, but just about

00:34:02.060 everything with Hunter was gone. So what do you think happened there? That is still up in the air.

00:34:09.140 That's something that, um, I can't, I can't explain. I don't know exactly what happened.

00:34:15.560 I don't know exactly what happened. You could say, well, maybe it was AT&T. Well, hold on. She said she

00:34:19.460 had two cell phones with different service because there was different coverage in her hometown and in

00:34:24.800 DC. Well, maybe it was an iPhone problem. Yeah, maybe I don't, she had two different, it was two

00:34:31.260 different phones though. Yeah, sure. An iPhone can glitch out every now and again. What are the odds

00:34:35.040 that two iPhones or Android or whatever phone she has would glitch out at exactly the same time? And

00:34:39.340 what are the odds that that would happen just coincidentally, coincidentally, when she gets

00:34:46.620 the information that she's pregnant with the illegitimate child of the son of the vice president?

00:34:53.720 What are the odds? What are the odds? Well, now you might say, Michael, you sound like a conspiracy

00:35:00.360 theorist. You don't have any proof that Biden and the liberals would do this. You're right. I guess

00:35:08.200 I don't have any hard proof. But if you're asking me, is this really possible? Would the government

00:35:15.000 really do this? Would the ruling liberal class really do this? They're trying to imprison the 0.67

00:35:20.700 Republican nominee. They are right now actively trying to imprison the former president and current

00:35:28.600 leader of the opposition who, according to polls, is slated to beat the current president in November.

00:35:34.120 And they're trying to throw him in prison four different ways at the same time. Yeah, I think

00:35:39.780 they would do this, Nan. Maybe 20 years ago, they wouldn't have done this. Maybe 30 years ago. We are

00:35:44.880 living in a different political climate than then. We were living in a different political order than then.

00:35:52.060 The right seems poised for major victories. This is borne out in actual elections that are taking

00:35:56.800 place all over the West. And at the same time, a ton of right-wing media companies get attacked and

00:36:03.680 face collapse or bankruptcy because of political pressure driven by defamation lawsuits from the

00:36:10.260 left and federal investigations. That happens at exactly the same time. Is it possible that it's

00:36:18.240 some mere coincidence? Yeah, I guess that's possible. But guys, they're trying to throw the Republican

00:36:23.420 nominee in prison. There is nothing they won't do. The rational, I think, humble and modest conclusion

00:36:33.060 to come to when we see these sorts of things happening is, yeah, duh, of course they would do it.

00:36:38.740 The only question is, do they actually have the wherewithal? Did they actually get their act

00:36:43.380 together enough to do it? In this case, it seems pretty persuasive. Now, speaking of men and women,

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00:37:32.700 is from CoolPapaJMagic. Wow. Again, it's not that I'm always reading the names of the people,

00:37:39.420 but some of these guys just pop up again and again, like CoolPapaJMagic. She says, Michael,

00:37:43.620 look what they're doing. Please stop calling them liberals. Oh, I've gotten this criticism before

00:37:50.340 where when the political establishment is trying to take our stuff and imprison us and lock us down

00:37:57.540 and take away our businesses and stop us from seeing family, and they say, Michael, there's nothing

00:38:00.880 liberal about these people. They're leftists. They're Marxists. They're communists. They're

00:38:05.860 thisists. They're thatists. But they're not liberal. Don't call them liberal. You know,

00:38:10.580 say the left. Don't say the liberals. The reason I say liberal is because I fundamentally disagree

00:38:18.220 with that distinction because I don't think liberalism is good. When people say, call them

00:38:24.040 leftists, not liberals, the premise is that leftists are bad and liberals are good. I don't think

00:38:29.320 liberalism is good. I think liberalism is really bad. I think liberalism leads naturally to leftism.

00:38:34.440 I think it's true of all liberalism, the new modern kind and the classical kind, which is

00:38:38.460 supposedly good. It's all based on a false understanding of human nature and a fundamental

00:38:44.020 rebellion against God and an exaltation of pride, which is why it's no surprise that liberal societies

00:38:49.040 end up having actual parades to pride the queen of vice and the deadliest of the seven deadly sins.

00:38:54.300 So liberalism itself is bad, and that's why I call them the libs. I think it's just the broadest

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00:39:45.520 Now, speaking of questions of political justice, the other big news story that came out this weekend

00:39:52.980 was another foreign news story. After the European elections, and I guess the media collapse,

00:39:58.300 there was this big story that came out of the Israel-Gaza war. The story is that,

00:40:02.540 it's good news and bad news, I guess, right? Another good news and bad news. The good news is

00:40:06.420 the Israeli defense forces rescued four hostages. So there were still, people forget that there are

00:40:14.740 still hostages. I think most people assume the hostages who Hamas took on October 7th of last

00:40:19.740 year are dead by now. I think a lot of people have lost hope that they're still alive. Well,

00:40:23.800 some of them are still alive, and the state of Israel just rescued four of them. Bad news is,

00:40:28.880 in rescuing four of them, according to the Palestinians at least, over 200 civilians were

00:40:34.920 killed. Now, again, some of those numbers are a little tough, and even international bodies have

00:40:39.260 revised down some of the numbers on civilian casualties. But let's just say it's true. 0.99

00:40:42.760 Palestinian officials say more than 200 people were killed in this raid.

00:40:49.100 This took place in central Gaza's Al-Nusrat. I'm sure I'm mispronouncing that. And people are

00:40:54.840 attacking the state of Israel for this. And, you know, I've been pretty even-handed, I think,

00:40:59.000 on the Israel-Gaza war. And I've said, oh, this I think was justified. This I don't think was 0.99

00:41:03.360 justified. I have defended the state of Israel for certain actions. I've also criticized the state 0.58

00:41:08.720 of Israel pretty pointedly. As I've said repeatedly, I'm quite irked at the state of Israel's 1.00

00:41:14.060 defense of Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan, which is now arming up to commit another genocide against

00:41:19.740 Armenia, Armenia being the earliest Christian nation in the world, which converted more than a decade

00:41:23.980 before Emperor Constantine legalized Christianity throughout the Roman Empire. All I'm saying is, 0.94

00:41:29.560 I have a nuanced view of the conflict, okay? And yet, in the case of this raid,

00:41:35.840 it seems to me basically the most justified raid of the entire Gaza war.

00:41:41.920 As I've said, both while I am defending and criticizing the state of Israel,

00:41:49.040 the lens through which I'm viewing this is just war theory. It's not that all war is justified or

00:41:56.660 that all war is evil. War can be justified if certain conditions are met in going to war.

00:42:02.040 And then war must also be justified in the conduct of war. And a war might be just in terms of going to

00:42:08.460 war, but not just in how the war is conducted. And so, I'm just going through the list here.

00:42:13.360 To be a just war, the war has to be called and conducted by a sovereign authority. I think

00:42:18.860 the state of Israel satisfies that criterion. It has to have a just cause. So, I think this raid,

00:42:25.540 the just cause is Hamas took civilian hostages. Yeah, I think that's probably a just cause. You're 0.90

00:42:30.960 going to go get the hostages. It has to have right intentions. So, it's not just to commit some

00:42:36.840 atrocity. Obviously, the intentions were to rescue the hostages. And in fact, the IDF succeeded at

00:42:41.100 doing that. And you have to not intend things that are intrinsically evil. And this is the rub,

00:42:49.220 right? Because 200 civilians died. But does anyone believe that the intention of this raid

00:42:54.440 was to kill 200 civilians? How could you say that when the IDF actually rescued four hostages?

00:43:03.460 Not only tried to rescue the hostages, but actually succeeded at doing that. So, we have

00:43:07.460 living proof that the intention of the raid was to get hostages. So, through the principle of double

00:43:14.160 effect, which is very important to the philosophy and theology of, say, St. Thomas Aquinas, and also

00:43:21.100 just war theory, which is developed greatly by St. Thomas Aquinas, that the intention of the raid was to

00:43:28.960 get the hostages, the unintended secondary effect of that was to kill civilians. That doesn't therefore

00:43:36.040 suggest that the war is not justified. And then the war has to be proportional. The good to be

00:43:41.460 achieved has to outweigh the evil of war. I think the good to be achieved by rescuing hostages and

00:43:46.740 disincentivizing the future taking of hostages certainly suggests that this raid was proportional.

00:43:53.120 I don't know. It's crazy to me that people would criticize. There are plenty of reasons to

00:43:58.080 criticize the state of Israel. But this raid, it seems crazy. If you criticize this raid as being

00:44:04.260 unjust, I think you unintentionally have to gut all of just war theory, and then you're kind of

00:44:09.780 floating in outer space. Then you really don't have any way to ascertain the moral goodness or

00:44:15.780 wrongness of any kind of war. Anyway, speaking of the war in Gaza, these four hostages were

00:44:23.040 happily rescued. Three of them, male hostages, we now know were held by a Palestinian quote-unquote

00:44:32.940 journalist who reported for the Palestinian Chronicle and for Al Jazeera. I mention this little

00:44:39.420 coda to the story because it's difficult in war. It's very easy when you're an armchair quarterback

00:44:46.640 to distinguish between civilians and combatants in wars. But in reality, it's not.

00:44:55.220 A way to think about it, if Americans were taken hostage by a terror group, taken to a foreign

00:45:03.040 territory, first of all, that territory would not exist within a matter of days. But second of all,

00:45:08.520 we would all consider this kind of a military operation to be totally justified,

00:45:15.540 even if civilians were killed as an unintended consequence, especially because we know it's

00:45:23.240 very difficult. In Afghanistan, it was very difficult to distinguish between civilians and

00:45:28.740 combatants. In Iraq, it was also difficult. Vietnam, famously, it was difficult to distinguish between.

00:45:34.880 We're not talking about redcoats marching onto a battlefield, okay? We're talking about places where

00:45:40.300 the distinction between soldier and civilian gets a little bit blurrier. But furthermore,

00:45:46.480 when we're talking about journalists here, journalists are never neutral. I'm not calling

00:45:50.360 for open season on journalists, but journalists are not neutral. Journalists are not neutral because

00:45:56.240 language is not neutral. So journalists are always advocating some kind of side, whether they're

00:46:01.540 willing to admit it or not. It's propaganda. Language is simply weaponized because language expresses

00:46:13.440 views. Language is just signifiers that have a relation to something that is signified, and that

00:46:20.360 is advancing some kind of idea. It's painting some kind of picture which will be better or worse,

00:46:25.560 more or less favorable to one belligerent or another. So in this case, you see it literally occur that

00:46:34.680 the so-called journalist was holding these people hostage. Yeah, okay. That is an extreme version of a

00:46:40.340 fact that we all need to acknowledge. Talk about liberalism being mistaken and full of lies. We believe,

00:46:47.480 according to liberalism, that journalists can be neutral. There is no neutrality. Of course not.

00:46:52.880 Certainly not when we're talking about sending words onto the rhetorical battlefield within politics.

00:47:01.660 Of course that can't be neutral. You want to see an example of the impossibility of neutrality.

00:47:06.480 Look at Old Town Alexandria. Old Town Alexandria, according to some reporting from Mary Margaret

00:47:13.360 Olihan, has replaced crosswalks with the Pride Progress flag. Now, the Pride Progress flag isn't even just

00:47:21.720 the regular Pride flag. It's like the terrorist Pride flag. It's the rainbow with that triangle, 0.67

00:47:28.220 with some transgender stuff, and I think some racial stuff in there. And it's a little bit more

00:47:33.620 aggressive even than the Pride flag. That's the crosswalk now. And you might say, okay, well, 0.75

00:47:37.700 that's because it's the month of June, and that's just how it goes. No. According to Mary Margaret,

00:47:46.200 the Alexandria City Council voted to permanently install the new Pride crosswalks a year ago.

00:47:58.300 Permanent. It's just there. So what do you do? In part, I like the idea that you can just drive

00:48:02.980 your scooter or whatever, even your car, I guess. But even if you're walking in the crosswalk,

00:48:07.020 you know, just kind of do donuts in there and kind of really scuff that up. Though you'll probably go to

00:48:11.420 jail if you do that. I like the idea that you're trotting this thing underfoot and you're stomping

00:48:16.640 all over it. But no, what they're really forcing you to do is walk across this. Make this part of

00:48:20.780 your daily life. Participate in the Pride ideology. If we do not suppress a powerful ideology,

00:48:30.120 we will get more of it. The Pride ideology is powerful in as much as the people who are in power,

00:48:35.940 who are enthralled to the principalities and powers of this world, spiritual wickedness in high places,

00:48:40.420 they have some mojo. You know, they've got some political power. And they are advancing this

00:48:47.980 ideology. And if you don't suppress that, you're going to get more of it. Liberalism tells us,

00:48:53.460 no, man, you do you. Just do whatever you want. You know, don't yuck my yum. But no,

00:48:58.360 an ideology is going to grow or it's going to diminish if it's got any power behind it at all.

00:49:03.900 The liberals know this. This is why the liberals, looking even beyond ideology,

00:49:08.300 see Christianity, which is religion. And not only religion, it's true religion.

00:49:12.860 And they suppress it every chance they get. They spy on Catholic churches. That's what Obama's,

00:49:18.540 or that's what Joe Biden, that was a Freudian slid because it's basically the same administration.

00:49:22.140 That's what Biden's FBI was up to. They go in, they sue nuns for advancing Catholic teaching.

00:49:28.780 They try to prohibit Catholic schools and institutions from upholding Catholic teaching.

00:49:34.500 More broadly, they suppress any kind of flavor of Christian belief in public life because they know 0.98

00:49:41.780 if you don't suppress it, you're going to get more of it. And then what do they do? They exalt their

00:49:46.080 own anti-religion, the pride religion, the anti-religion that caused Adam and Eve to fall 1.00

00:49:52.140 out of the Garden of Eden and Satan to fall like lightning from heaven. They promote that in the public

00:49:55.880 square. In part because they know that the conservatives are not going to suppress it

00:50:00.120 because we still believe all the lies and the myths of liberalism, whereas the libs understand what

00:50:07.040 that ideology is really about. The rest of the show continues now. It's Music Monday. You don't

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The Michael Knowles Show - June 10, 2024

Ep. 1507 - The Liberal Attacks On Alex Jones & Fox News Explained

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