The Michael Knowles Show - July 10, 2024


Ep. 1527 - 109 Shot & 19 Killed In Chicago, The Mayor Blames A Dead White Guy


Episode Stats

Length

49 minutes

Words per Minute

173.62038

Word Count

8,632

Sentence Count

691

Misogynist Sentences

16

Hate Speech Sentences

8


Summary

Over 100 people were shot in Chicago last weekend, and when the mayor of the Windy City was asked to explain the shocking and constant bloodshed in his streets, he placed the blame squarely at the feet of Richard Nixon.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Over 100 people were shot in Chicago last weekend, and when the mayor of the Windy City was asked to
00:00:05.580 explain the shocking and constant bloodshed in his streets, he placed the blame squarely at the feet
00:00:11.620 of Richard Nixon. Black death has been unfortunately accepted in this country for a very long time.
00:00:20.980 We had a chance 60 years ago to get at the root causes, and people mocked President Johnson,
00:00:26.820 and we ended up with Richard Nixon. I'm going to work hard every day to transform this city.
00:00:34.920 That's what it takes to build a better, stronger, safer Chicago and everybody to step up.
00:00:39.220 Richard Nixon left the White House 50 years ago. Since he left office, there have been four
00:00:44.880 Democrat presidents across six presidential terms, and the city of Chicago has been governed by
00:00:50.820 Democrats for 93 years. But the president's state of Chicago is not, according to the current mayor,
00:00:56.820 the fault of any of them. It is the fault of a Republican from California who died 30 years ago.
00:01:03.500 But no one really believes that, probably including the mayor of Chicago, who simply doesn't want to
00:01:08.840 take responsibility for his particular failures and for the failures of his party. It's just the
00:01:14.740 best argument they've got. We hear the same nonsense from Democrats at the national level.
00:01:19.380 All their failures are really Trump's fault, or Bush's fault, or Reagan's fault, or now apparently
00:01:26.500 Richard Nixon's fault. Next, it will be Chester Arthur's fault, and then perhaps Abraham Lincoln's
00:01:31.780 fault. But it isn't, and people know it isn't. And if these are the best arguments that Democrats are
00:01:40.160 making, led by a president who probably knew Abraham Lincoln personally, the people will not
00:01:45.000 be persuaded otherwise between now and November. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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00:04:29.760 Bank. Members of DIC. Terms and conditions apply. The Democrats are bringing out the big guns right now.
00:04:35.300 Not the corpse of Richard Nixon, which is what they're dragging out to try to explain away their
00:04:40.900 failures in the city of Chicago. The Democrats realize they have got nothing, especially at the
00:04:46.500 national level. They can't run on Joe Biden's three years in office. They can't run on any of
00:04:52.980 their particular policy positions right now. They can't even really run against Trump because
00:04:58.060 everybody knows Trump. Everyone's known Trump for 40 years, but everyone's known Trump even in
00:05:02.840 politics because he was already the president and things were a lot better under him. So they're
00:05:07.840 looking at the polls. They see Biden is senile. They see he flopped in the debate. They see his
00:05:12.280 numbers, which were already bad, continue to decline. So they want him out, but he doesn't
00:05:16.920 want to get out. So they keep trying to push him out. He's not taking the bait now. They are leaking
00:05:21.900 that Joe Biden has Parkinson's. That's the insinuation. A Parkinson's doctor visited the White
00:05:28.220 House some 10 or 12 times over the course of 20 months. Now on MSNBC, we've got breaking news.
00:05:37.160 A Parkinson's expert goes on to say that it is clear as day Joe Biden has the disease.
00:05:45.360 Have you noticed anything that gives you a red flag as a doctor?
00:05:49.060 Oh yeah, I see him 20 times a day in clinic. I mean, it's ironic because he has just this classic
00:05:53.820 features of neurodegeneration. I mean, word finding difficulties and that's not, oh, I couldn't find
00:05:58.280 the word. That's from degeneration of the word retrieval area. He's also overcome stuttering
00:06:02.600 though. Could that, could that be part of that too? No, this is not a palatal issue or a speech
00:06:06.900 discrepancy, which is very different from a limino dysfunction, actual word retrieval, where you pick
00:06:11.600 a similar question or talk around the issue. Plus the rigidity, um, monotone voice.
00:06:17.120 Wait, go back to that, the rigidity. What do you mean?
00:06:18.960 Rigidity, loss of arm swing, standing up lordotically. You notice when he turns,
00:06:23.400 it's kind of end block turning. It's not a quick turn. Um, so that's one of the hallmarks of
00:06:28.600 Parkinson's is rigidity and bradykinesia, slow movement. And he has that hallmark, especially
00:06:34.100 with the, uh, low voices that was a cold hypophonia, a small monotone voice like this over time
00:06:41.300 is a hallmark of Parkinsonism. I could have diagnosed him from across the mall.
00:06:45.120 This guy could have diagnosed Biden's Parkinson's from across the mall. It's so obvious.
00:06:52.100 Well, then why didn't you? Why didn't anyone on the liberal media admit this at any point over
00:07:02.240 the last three years? All of these signs that suddenly have, have shocked Democrats, all of
00:07:09.220 these signs have been visible for years now. The slow speech and the low tone and the rigidity
00:07:15.100 and the forgetting words. And you saw that journalist try to explain it away with the
00:07:22.100 old excuse that the Democrats came up to make up for, for Biden's senility. They said, oh,
00:07:26.680 well, he had that childhood stutter. And then the doctor laughs. He says, a childhood stutter,
00:07:30.440 you're only, you're blaming his obvious senility on a childhood stutter. What's the matter with you?
00:07:34.320 And then the journalist backs down because it's so absurd. But if it's absurd today,
00:07:39.280 why wasn't it absurd three years ago? I misspoke earlier when I said this was MSNBC. This is just
00:07:44.360 NBC news. This is even more mainstream. This, this should be even more buttoned up. And yet now
00:07:51.680 it's all open. Oh no, it's so clear. Biden has Parkinson's. Well, how come when conservatives
00:07:56.280 said this exact thing three years ago, you called us all crazy conspiracy theorists and maniacs and
00:08:03.400 irresponsible and reckless. What has changed? What's changed is Joe Biden looked like he could
00:08:11.040 beat Donald Trump so long as you changed all the voting rules in 2020. And he doesn't look like he
00:08:16.480 can beat Trump now. They could, they could try to rig the thing 10 ways from Sunday. It doesn't look
00:08:21.240 like there's any way for, for Joe Biden to beat Trump now. So party leaders in the political apparatus,
00:08:27.620 but also in the media, also these propagandists, also the campaign flex,
00:08:30.860 they're all trying to get Biden out. And these are the big guns.
00:08:35.940 When you say the guy's brain is decaying, there's no way to walk that back, which is why
00:08:41.900 this is basically a game of chicken between the white house, between Biden and the Democrat
00:08:48.920 establishment. The Democrat establishment is saying, we're going to keep criticizing you and attacking you
00:08:55.580 until you feel that you couldn't beat Trump and you have to step out. And, and Biden is saying,
00:09:01.440 oh yeah, well, I'm going to stay in and I'm going to keep doubling down. And I have the delegates and
00:09:07.700 I'm going to, I'm going to put you in a position that there's no way that you can get me out. And
00:09:11.600 then you're going to have to, then you're going to lose because you've made me unelectable.
00:09:16.660 No, I'm going to, I'm going to win. No, I'm going to win. No, I'm going to win. And they're,
00:09:21.120 they're just in this game of chicken right now. Parkinson's that's, that's the big gun,
00:09:25.940 but don't fool yourself into thinking that the Democrats are bringing this up based on some new
00:09:31.160 information. If it's so obvious that you could diagnose Biden across the mall, then they could
00:09:38.120 have diagnosed Biden across the mall three years ago. They chose not to now they're getting desperate
00:09:42.620 because they want them out. Leaves the white house in a terrible spot. The white house has now
00:09:47.980 officially been caught lying. Two articles here. Both, both came out yesterday. NBC news.
00:09:57.580 Biden has not seen neurologist outside annual physicals. White house doctor says in letter
00:10:03.360 addressing Parkinson's expert visits. Joe, but you remember yesterday, I played the clip
00:10:07.940 of Karine Jean-Pierre being smarter than this white house doctor. And green jump here was
00:10:12.480 asked, is Biden seeing a neurologist? The neurologist came 10 times, a dozen times.
00:10:18.800 What's, what's going on with the president's friend? She goes, Joe Biden, the president has
00:10:22.060 seen a neurologist at each of his annual physicals. That's three visits with the neurologist. He's
00:10:28.100 seen a neurologist three times. And I thought this was a clever answer because I'm sure he has seen
00:10:33.860 the neurologist three times. I'm sure he's also seen the neurologist four, five, six, seven, eight,
00:10:37.420 nine and 10 times. To say he's seen a doctor three times does not mean he hasn't seen the doctor four
00:10:43.160 times. If you've seen the doctor four times, you've also seen the doctor three times. To say,
00:10:47.320 oh, he goes at the annual physical. That's true. It doesn't mean he doesn't go some other time of
00:10:50.340 the year. So this white house doctor takes it further. They, they tell this to the press,
00:10:54.800 but then the associated press same day says, president Biden saw a neurologist at the white
00:11:00.400 house on January 17th for a neurological exam. The results of which were later reported as part of
00:11:04.860 his annual physical more than a month later. Hold on. The, the reports of, of Biden's annual
00:11:11.080 physical came out something like February 28th. You're telling me he saw this neurologist on January
00:11:15.960 17th. Now you're telling me that's part of his annual physical came out a month later. What is
00:11:25.560 that? You might say, well, it was a really long physical. Yeah, it was a, it was a six week long
00:11:28.960 physical. No, no. Yeah. Maybe he saw a neurologist. Who knows? Maybe last October, but that's sort of,
00:11:34.020 it's all part of the annual physical. They only release one report on the president's health per
00:11:38.220 year. Okay. Well, it's obvious he's seen the neurologist more than just within the context of
00:11:42.560 his, his physical. And I've served as a political spokesman before on political campaigns.
00:11:50.920 You always want to spin for your candidate. You always want to present your candidate in the best
00:11:54.240 light. But if you're good at it, there is one big no, no. There is one big rule that you got to
00:11:59.340 follow. And that is don't lie to the press. Don't put yourself in a position where you are going to
00:12:06.400 be exposed for having obviously lied. One, because it's immoral, but two, you're going to look ridiculous
00:12:11.640 and you're going to lose all your credibility. And that's what happened to the White House.
00:12:15.320 Absolutely no credibility on this. And the journalists usually don't care. They'll usually
00:12:20.760 just carry water for whoever the Democrat president is. But we're in a particular
00:12:25.880 strange moment right now where the Democrat establishment is at war with the Democrat
00:12:33.060 figurehead, with the nominee of the Democrat party. And so in that rare context, and they're
00:12:40.840 only at war, by the way, because the Democrat establishment has lost faith in the Democrat
00:12:45.620 nominee. They want to replace him with someone who's more likely to win. But don't think that now
00:12:50.940 all of a sudden these journalists are doing their jobs out of their deep sense of integrity and
00:12:56.720 speaking truth to power. No, no, no. They're only doing their jobs now because Joe Biden won't fold.
00:13:04.600 Joe Biden has wanted to be president since he was in the womb. He's not giving it up
00:13:07.760 because George Stephanopoulos wants him to. And we'll get to that. George Stephanopoulos,
00:13:12.320 who conducted that long interview with Biden just the other day, he just got caught on a hidden camera
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00:14:34.820 news anchor. But more importantly, George Stephanopoulos was the White House Communications
00:14:39.660 director under Bill Clinton. He conducted this long interview with Biden the other day. Now,
00:14:46.220 some random guy in the streets walking up secretly filming him. Runs into Stephanopoulos, says,
00:14:50.780 hey, man, you just talked to Biden. Do you think he should drop out?
00:14:55.220 Hey, how you doing? Good. What do you think? Do you think Biden should step down?
00:15:00.080 You talk to him more than anybody else have lately. And you can be honest.
00:15:04.500 You don't think he can start four more years? All right. That's an answer.
00:15:07.480 And Stephanopoulos keeps walking. And he didn't see, you can see Stephanopoulos,
00:15:14.740 you only see him on camera there at the end from the back. So it's unclear if it even is George
00:15:18.480 Stephanopoulos. But we know it is because Stephanopoulos and his employer both acknowledged it. ABC News
00:15:26.120 released a statement about this. Earlier today, says Stephanopoulos, I responded to a question from
00:15:32.420 a passerby. I shouldn't have. And then ABC News says, George expressed his own point of view,
00:15:35.880 not the position of ABC News. Now, part of me is wondering, but probably it was just some random
00:15:41.660 guy in the street, asks him, it leaks. It's a little bit embarrassing. But the way that the
00:15:46.580 Democrat establishment is coming out so hard, they're throwing everything they can to get Biden
00:15:50.960 out of this race right now. Part of me wonders if that passerby wasn't just a little bit too
00:15:57.520 convenient to have yet another voice. George Stephanopoulos would never come out on his
00:16:02.660 show and say, I think Biden should drop out of the race on television. But was this a strategic leak?
00:16:09.660 I don't know. Again, simplest answer is Stephanopoulos just got caught on a hidden camera.
00:16:15.280 But political operators have been known in the past to strategically leak information that looks
00:16:23.120 accidental. Why does it matter that Stephanopoulos did this? As I mentioned, it's not just because
00:16:28.320 he's a very prominent news anchor and establishment journalist. He was the top propagandist for a
00:16:38.140 Democrat president of the United States. He was the White House communications director.
00:16:42.140 He knows what he's talking about.
00:16:44.060 He does not believe that Biden can serve another four years. In a way, some people think George
00:16:52.460 Stephanopoulos doesn't have a lot of credibility as a journalist because he made his career as a
00:16:59.360 propagandist for the Democrat Party. But on this question, at least to me, that bolsters his
00:17:05.060 credibility. The guy knows what he's talking about. And he's right. There is no way that Joe Biden could do
00:17:10.940 the job for another four years. I don't know that he's doing the job now. He probably is not.
00:17:15.720 So you're seeing this reflected in the polling. A poll just came out, shows that Trump beats Joe
00:17:20.900 Biden today pretty significantly. But that same poll shows that Kamala Harris is doing better than Biden.
00:17:28.740 That same poll shows that Hillary Clinton is doing better than Biden. And that same poll shows that
00:17:34.180 Kamala and Hillary both would beat Donald Trump in a head-to-head matchup. Poll conducted by Ben
00:17:40.380 Dixon and Amandi shared exclusively with Politico. Obviously, this is a poll designed to
00:17:46.940 lead to a political outcome, which is Biden dropping out of the race. So do I really buy it? It's a
00:17:54.200 little convenient. I certainly buy that Trump is beating Biden right now. Do I buy that Kamala
00:17:58.740 Harris beats Trump? Do I buy that Hillary beats Trump? I do not. Right now, the poll shows Biden 42,
00:18:06.660 Trump 43. So it's, you know, within the margin of error. Kamala running ahead of Trump 42 to 41,
00:18:13.780 Hillary beating Trump 43 to 41. Even if the poll methodology is totally on the up and up,
00:18:21.680 that's nonsense. That's totally nonsense. Kamala Harris couldn't beat anybody.
00:18:26.100 That's why Kamala Harris was the first out in the Democrat primary in 2020. She hasn't gotten better
00:18:30.080 politically since then. Since then, all she's done is cackle and fall into gaffes and repeat
00:18:36.660 that one weird line. We have to, we must move into the future unburdened by what has been. We must dream
00:18:43.620 of what could be unburdened by what has been. That's that line. That's the only thing she says.
00:18:48.140 It's a total joke. She can't beat Trump. She can't beat anybody. Can Hillary beat Trump? No. We
00:18:55.600 actually know for a fact Hillary can't beat Trump. She lost to Trump. So candidates poll better when
00:19:01.600 they're not in a race. This is one of the allures for candidates to get into the race.
00:19:07.900 No one's really been attacking Hillary for now, what, seven years? So Hillary's poll numbers go up.
00:19:14.680 But the minute you start turning the attack machine on her again, those poll numbers crater.
00:19:18.220 Kamala, no one even thinks about Kamala Harris. The minute you start putting a spotlight on her again,
00:19:23.040 her poll numbers are going to crater. Biden probably is the Democrats' best shot.
00:19:29.220 And you don't need to take my word for it. Even Kamala's own staff knows this is nonsense.
00:19:33.180 There was an article came out yesterday written by a former staffer for Kamala's presidential campaign
00:19:39.000 2020 who says, look, I love Kamala. Getting that job on her campaign was a dream come true.
00:19:47.220 However, an automatic coronation of Harris would be a grave mistake if Biden drops out.
00:19:53.040 The number two spot has never been a guarantee of promotion to the top job. Only six vice
00:19:56.860 presidents have been elevated to the presidency via an election. Twelve have run and lost. Twice
00:20:01.960 as likely to lose if you're the vice president than you are to win. Five have even failed to get
00:20:08.860 their party's endorsement. Yet some are arguing Harris's nomination should be a fait accompli if
00:20:12.860 Biden steps aside. Primary campaigns are tests. And Harris, who ultimately dropped out before the
00:20:17.900 Iowa caucus, failed hers. That doesn't mean she can never be president. Many unsuccessful presidential
00:20:23.260 candidates have performed better in a subsequent campaign, but they had to beat out the other
00:20:28.100 candidates. I think that the staffer is totally right here. I think Kamala is mostly a joke.
00:20:33.760 It's not that Republicans should be totally complacent, but Republicans should be feeling
00:20:38.960 pretty good right now. We have the Democrats on the ropes.
00:20:41.940 I know some doomer Republicans want to believe constantly that everything is always lost and
00:20:47.600 Democrats are always playing 17D chess and they've always got another trick up their sleeve.
00:20:51.560 But I think they are genuinely in crisis right now. They don't know what to do. They lied to us for a
00:20:56.180 long time. They covered up Joe Biden's obvious senility that everybody could see. And now they got caught
00:21:02.120 with their pants down because Biden made a risky offer to debate Donald Trump, hoping that Trump would
00:21:07.300 argue over the rules and they wouldn't have to debate. Trump accepted all of the rules that Biden
00:21:11.620 proposed and Biden suffered rigor mortis on stage. And now they don't know what to do. So I'm feeling
00:21:16.920 pretty good if I'm a Republican. Until I turn to Capitol Hill, because another ironclad rule of
00:21:26.300 politics, never underestimate Republicans' ability to clutch defeat from the jaws of victory. I like Mike
00:21:32.620 Johnson. He seems like a good guy. He's got a lot of great priorities in order and everything. I don't
00:21:37.100 mean to. Mike Johnson has just come out and said that the 25th Amendment to remove Biden from office
00:21:46.260 and then obviously remove him from running again might be warranted here. He's asked if he's
00:21:54.220 supporting Chip Roy's resolution to call on VP Harris to remove Biden via the 25th Amendment. I love Chip
00:21:59.980 Roy. I think he's a great congressman. Here again, I got to. What's the argument here?
00:22:07.660 According to Mike Johnson, there's a time to every purpose under heaven. Desperate times call for
00:22:11.160 desperate measures. I think the 25th Amendment is appropriate here.
00:22:16.420 One, Mike Johnson and Chip Roy are right. The 25th Amendment would be called for. It would be
00:22:24.120 justifiable to remove the president from office for mental incapacitation. It would be.
00:22:28.620 And two, and I can't stress this enough. Shut up. Shut up. What? I say this out of love. I like
00:22:37.540 these guys very much. But what? We've got a potato, a potatoes, I guess. The POTUS potato is sitting there
00:22:49.140 in the Oval Office. He obviously hasn't been a particularly active president at all during his
00:22:53.940 administration. And now everyone knows it. And the Republican is going to beat him
00:22:58.660 pretty much any way you slice it right now. And all we need to do is just get to November
00:23:06.520 with Biden as the nominee. Biden's not even officially the Democrat nominee yet. Don't
00:23:10.140 forget, he hasn't officially been nominated by his party, which will happen probably sometime in late
00:23:15.680 July, then be celebrated in late August at the Democrat National Convention. All we have to do is
00:23:22.400 just keep Joe Biden alive and on the ticket. And there are Republicans who want him to step down.
00:23:31.740 I get it. I know it's, and I understand. We'll get into some of the arguments as to why
00:23:36.640 they want to do that. But just because you're right in principle doesn't mean
00:23:42.460 you should be saying it out loud, guys. We're so close to winning. What are we doing?
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00:25:02.160 now. In defense of Mike Johnson and Chip Roy, the reason I think they're saying that it's time to
00:25:10.840 invoke the 25th Amendment is because, you know, putting aside the 2024 election, Biden is the
00:25:15.760 president right now, but he can't really be the president right now. So what happens? Joe Biden
00:25:20.940 goes to bed. He watches an episode of Matlock. He goes to bed at 6 p.m. What happens if Russia or China
00:25:28.300 or someone launches a nuke after 8 p.m.? Who's going to answer that call? Here's what White
00:25:35.140 House Press Secretary, Green Jean-Pierre, has to say. Well, he also says he's sharpest before 8 p.m.
00:25:41.260 So say that the Pentagon at some point picks up an incoming nuke. It's 11 p.m. Who do you call?
00:25:48.040 The first lady? He has a team that lets him know of any news that is pertinent and important to the
00:25:55.400 American people. He has someone that is decided, obviously, with his National Security Council and
00:26:02.120 who gets to tell him that news. He has a team. Okay. Yeah, I'm sure he has a team. But
00:26:09.400 the answer that KJP should have used here is if a nuke starts flying at 11 p.m.,
00:26:20.400 we call the president and the president makes a decision and he can make a decision. He's totally
00:26:25.320 able to and you're blowing this all out of proportion and he's the decider and he's the
00:26:28.600 president. He's in charge of the White House. She doesn't say that and she can't say that
00:26:34.040 because we don't have a president right now. We have a team. The president is effectively
00:26:43.120 incapacitated and there is a team of people around him. And some are saying that that team is led by
00:26:47.920 Jill Biden. Some are saying that team is led by Hunter Biden. Boy, doesn't that ease your anxieties?
00:26:53.320 Some are saying the team is led by, I don't know, the NSC or the White House Chief of Staff or this
00:26:59.640 person or that. Who knows? Barack Obama. I don't know. Anybody in the Democrat establishment.
00:27:03.260 Somebody's running and obviously isn't Joe Biden because Joe Biden can't speak anymore.
00:27:08.740 That, I understand why that would give some Republicans pause and call on them to
00:27:13.960 invoke the 25th Amendment. However, the government has obviously been run this way for the last three
00:27:19.240 years. It's been bad, but it's been bad toward the extreme, but still within the normal confies
00:27:25.040 of Democrat policy. Bad foreign policy that leads to more war abroad, mass migration. That's been a
00:27:30.760 Democrat policy, at least since Obama now, trying to rig the elections. They've been doing that a long
00:27:36.560 time now too. Bad economic policies. Democrats have had those since forever. I think Green Jump here is
00:27:42.980 right. There's a team of Democrat establishment flaks who are running the White House right now.
00:27:48.000 I'm not convinced that by invoking the 25th Amendment, you put Kamala Harris in place,
00:27:52.760 that would make Americans any safer. It would probably make us significantly less safe. And
00:27:57.480 it would perhaps make us less likely to win the election.
00:28:04.400 While I believe that Joe Biden is still, oddly enough, the strongest Democrat,
00:28:08.900 there's more unpredictability when it comes to someone like Kamala Harris or anyone else that
00:28:13.940 the Democrats could nominate. And there's not a ton of unpredictability with Joe Biden.
00:28:19.280 Joe Biden, we've known Joe Biden since 1972. He hasn't changed. He's not going to change other
00:28:25.020 than he's going to remain in an accelerating decline. And his poll numbers are going to remain
00:28:29.280 in a decline. Republicans, I'm imploring you, do not clutch defeat from the jaws of victory. Leave
00:28:37.280 the man. Can you please just leave the man on the ballot? When the alternative is replacing him with
00:28:43.700 Kamala Harris, who would probably be worse than the current cadaver in the Oval Office,
00:28:50.460 just leave him there. Leave him till November. Let us win. We can win. It's okay. We can take the win.
00:28:55.500 It's not too bad. Who is running the country? Not Andy McCarthy. Kevin McCarthy, the former
00:29:02.560 Republican Speaker of the House, has just come out and spilled a little bit of tea.
00:29:07.760 He seems to think it's the First Lady. I will tell you, it's much different of why I know that
00:29:13.260 they're going to stay in this race. Jill doesn't want to leave either. Many times when we had meetings
00:29:17.880 in the Oval Office, Jill was there as well. Interesting. Wait, so the First Lady was in some
00:29:23.580 of your meetings about policy? Many times Jill would come in. There was one time when I'd sit
00:29:30.840 there and the president said something on this famous tour down to the pool saying, do you want
00:29:36.160 to go outside? Jill turns very quickly when she hears that and says, no, they don't want to go
00:29:42.860 outside because she knew exactly what position he was in and what he was doing. And then he just turns
00:29:48.240 around. You don't want to go outside? And then let us outside. Many times, I don't think she's there
00:29:52.660 for policy. I think she's there to give him comfort and direct the meetings.
00:29:58.140 I think that's a charitable and probably accurate take from Kevin McCarthy. I don't think she's
00:30:02.900 power hungry. I don't think she wants to run for president herself. She just knows that her husband
00:30:06.420 is incapacitated and she's trying to help him out. She's actually just being a good wife, probably.
00:30:12.840 This has happened before. This exact thing has happened before.
00:30:16.140 October 2nd, 1919. Picture it. Back in time. President Woodrow Wilson has a stroke. It's a
00:30:25.820 very serious stroke. He's left paralyzed on his left side. I think he's left partially blind and he's
00:30:32.860 bedridden. And the only people who could regularly see him were his wife and his doctor. And so his
00:30:42.520 wife, Edith Wilson, was effectively the president. People refer to her as the first woman president
00:30:48.740 in America. That's exactly what's happening here. In a way, that should give you a little bit of
00:30:55.420 comfort. Woodrow Wilson was maybe the most disastrous president we've ever had, perhaps
00:31:00.080 until Joe Biden. But it's happened before. And it's happening again. And the Democrats have known,
00:31:07.880 the elite Democrats have known that it's been happening for a long time. Imagine you're in,
00:31:13.020 you're in these Oval Office meetings and the president's wife is there and the president's
00:31:16.320 wife is contradicting the president or, or, you know, whispering into his ear.
00:31:22.400 The circle around Biden knew this. The senior White House staff obviously knew this. They are lying to
00:31:28.360 you when they say, oh, we didn't realize how far gone he was. No, they did. They were just hoping you
00:31:32.600 would never notice so that they and their little team could continue to run the country. And now
00:31:37.760 they're going to say, oh no, hey, Republicans do our dirty work for us. And, you know, call,
00:31:42.440 call for the invocation of the 25th amendment. Nope. You made your bed. You should lie in it. And we
00:31:47.700 should have a new president come January. Now, who else is running the country? Turn away from
00:31:53.800 Washington for just a moment. Big tech is running the country because we have a constitutional republic.
00:32:03.180 And in a republic, the way that you govern yourself is through speech. You persuade one
00:32:10.520 another, you campaign, you lobby, you, you garner votes, you win elections and you pass laws. That's
00:32:17.460 how it's supposed to work. So in a republic in particular, whoever controls the public square
00:32:22.400 controls politics. And right now it's, it's about three big companies that control the public square,
00:32:29.220 Facebook, Google, Twitter, I guess, X to some degree, it's a bit smaller.
00:32:37.420 Few other players in there, but it's pretty much it. Google and Facebook are the, are the two really
00:32:41.320 big players. And we at the Daily Wire have many times seen Facebook and Google, Google, especially
00:32:48.200 through YouTube, trying to limit our reach, to suppress us, threaten to take our channels off
00:32:54.180 the air. And, you know, sometimes it's a little more damaging than other times. We're still,
00:33:00.820 we're still broadcasting for now, but, but it's been clear they've been going after us.
00:33:05.120 And it's very hard to prove that they've been going after us. But, you know, if you, if you're in the
00:33:08.600 business and if you, if you look at the analytics, you can, you can see it, you know, it's going on.
00:33:12.700 Well, now we have a little bit more hard evidence. Thanks to the House Judiciary Committee,
00:33:18.920 major new report just came out this morning from the House Judiciary Committee. There's going to be
00:33:25.040 a hearing later. Ben is actually going to be testifying at the hearing, along with some big
00:33:29.340 tech muckety mucks. Can't wait to watch the fireworks. Here's just a little bit from the
00:33:33.420 report that was just released this morning. The Committee on the Judiciary has jurisdiction over
00:33:39.820 the, quote, protection of trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies.
00:33:44.760 In exercising oversight of the adequacy and sufficiency of existing U.S. antitrust laws,
00:33:49.220 the committee has been investigating apparent collusion within the World Federation of Advertisers,
00:33:53.620 and specifically its Global Alliance for Responsible Media initiative. I started ringing
00:34:01.060 the warning bell on, on the Global Alliance for Responsible Media, GARM, I think something like a
00:34:06.020 year ago at this point. GARM, this is, I'm reading from the report, through GARM, large corporations,
00:34:12.420 advertising agencies, and industry associations participated in boycotts and other coordinated
00:34:16.500 action to demonetize platforms, podcasts, news outlets, and other content deemed disfavored by GARM
00:34:22.180 and its members. This collusion can have the effect of eliminating a variety of content
00:34:25.480 and viewpoints available to consumers. They have tremendous market power. WFA members represent
00:34:33.300 roughly 90% of global advertising spend, or $1 trillion annually. So these activists,
00:34:40.600 these leftist operatives, have gotten together, virtually all of the advertisers, in a political
00:34:49.060 organization, and they've started deciding which media outlets they're going to try to kill
00:34:54.220 by restricting advertising dollars, which is the lifeblood of media. So where does Daily Wire come
00:35:00.520 into this? Daily Wire is specifically mentioned in this report because Daily Wire is specifically
00:35:07.960 mentioned by the political operatives who are trying to control speech. Based on a 2022 study
00:35:13.660 conducted by GDI, the Disinformation Index, the group identified the riskiest sites or those that
00:35:20.520 showed the greatest level of disinformation risk. Those 10 sites included the New York Post, Reason
00:35:24.680 Magazine, Reuters Politics, the Daily Wire, the Blaze, the American Conservative, the Federalist,
00:35:29.580 and the American Spectator. On the contrary, the list of least risky sites included left-leaning news
00:35:35.880 outlets such as BuzzFeed News and Huffington Post. You've got well-established outlets,
00:35:43.000 the Daily Wire, about as mainstream as it gets, Reuters Politics, about as mainstream as it gets,
00:35:46.840 New York Post founded by Alexander Hamilton. Super-duper risky. We've got to choke off their
00:35:51.980 advertising dollars. We've got to suppress their reach. Least risky, totally above board sites.
00:35:57.880 Huffington Post? Huffington Post? Huffington Post specifically has defamed me. I know I have
00:36:05.600 experienced firsthand the disinformation from the Huffington Post when they lied about what I said
00:36:11.060 at CPAC two years ago. No, no, but they're the least risky. They get all the advertising dollars.
00:36:15.160 They get all the reach. GARM is led by a number of people, but initiative lead Rob Rakowitz. John
00:36:24.080 Montgomery is the executive vice president of Global Brand Safety. We've got their internal documents,
00:36:28.560 according to this House report. Internal GARM documents produced by the committee show a clear
00:36:32.320 bias that infiltrates GARM's work and favors left-wing sources. In 2021, when Mr. Rakowitz received a
00:36:39.840 question about the Daily Wire, he contacted two individuals from Group M. This one guy, this other
00:36:45.680 guy. Rakowitz asked about the position on the Daily Wire, and he told the two men that GARM is,
00:36:51.660 quote, explicitly nonpartisan and will not deplatform people that might run counter to GARM's
00:36:55.820 worldview. Mr. Montgomery, however, explained how Group M monitors media it does not support,
00:37:02.060 like the Daily Wire, to find something wrong. So they'll say in their documents,
00:37:05.320 oh, no, no, we're nonpartisan. We're not going to try to destroy you just because we disagree
00:37:09.120 with your political views. But you know what we are going to do? We're going to watch you real
00:37:12.840 closely, and then we're just going to find something. It's like if a cop starts following
00:37:17.680 a guy driving down the road. Any cop will tell you, you follow a guy for two miles,
00:37:23.200 the cop can find some reason to pull you over. That's what this is, which is why on certain big
00:37:30.460 tech platforms, when political pressure has gotten intense, they will suppress my reach.
00:37:36.180 I'm speaking personally here. Or they'll try to take my channel off air entirely.
00:37:41.480 And very often, the way they'll do it is not based on anything that I've said recently.
00:37:46.540 It'll be something I said a year ago, two years ago. They'll have some operative dig all the way back
00:37:52.820 to find something that also was totally unobjectionable, but they can find a way that
00:37:57.560 it somehow violates some policy ex post facto. That would appear to be what GARM is doing.
00:38:04.240 Why is this all happening now? Because it's 2024. And this is only going to get worse,
00:38:08.700 and especially that we've got a Democrat nominee whose brain is applesauce.
00:38:13.360 The only thing that the Democrats can do, I guess they can try to imprison Trump. That'll only help
00:38:18.640 him. The Democrats can try to rig the election. At this point, I just don't, I mean, I don't even
00:38:23.300 think it's possible. Even Democrats are good at rigging elections. I just, the gap in polling is just
00:38:28.220 too great at the moment, especially in the swing states. So I guess the last thing they can try to do,
00:38:34.240 other than banish Trump to St. Helena, is to cut off all the sources of information
00:38:38.940 to conservatives and to people in the middle and even people on the center left.
00:38:44.060 It worked with the Hunter Biden laptop story. After the big tech colluded to shut down the
00:38:48.040 Hunter Biden laptop story, all of a sudden, Joe Biden, I guess, wins the election. And then there's
00:38:54.920 a poll conducted afterwards, which shows that 12% of Biden voters said, had they known about the
00:39:00.820 Hunter Biden laptop story and seen all the crimes that the Biden family appears to have committed,
00:39:05.660 they would not have voted for Biden. So the big tech censorship worked. They want to do it again.
00:39:10.220 We need political action to stop it. The survival of the Daily Wire perhaps depends on this.
00:39:16.060 The survival of conservative media perhaps depends on this. But even beyond any of these businesses,
00:39:21.380 the survival of a free public square of the American political order depends on this. Great work from the
00:39:26.180 Judiciary Committee. And I look forward to seeing our big tech overlords raked over the coals. And I
00:39:31.120 really hope that something actually is done to stop them from doing what they're doing.
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00:40:50.020 95. The real question is, why that wasn't a felony already? I think this is referring to
00:40:55.660 this proposal in California to raise soliciting sex from kids from a misdemeanor to a felony.
00:41:04.340 Why wasn't that a felony already? Because the liberals in California are too busy trying to
00:41:07.880 decriminalize such actions. Are you kidding me? State Senator Anthony Weiner made his political
00:41:15.960 notoriety on trying to reduce punishments for pederasts. California is going a very different
00:41:23.280 direction, amigo. Speaking of big tech, totally outside of the partisan political fight right now,
00:41:32.020 there's a new report out of England that 94% of AI-written college exams go undetected.
00:41:41.320 And I've wondered about this for a while. I don't work in the education field. I graduated college
00:41:49.200 before artificial intelligence was around. But I wondered, how do professors run their classes now?
00:41:57.960 It seems, if I can go into AI and say, write me an epic poem in the style of Tasso with these five
00:42:10.500 elements to it. And then also put it to music and then also make a music video out of it and have
00:42:17.760 it star Scarlett Johansson. And I can click a button and in about seven minutes, I can get all of those
00:42:23.500 things. Does anyone write papers anymore in school? There were AI detectors, or at least plagiarism
00:42:32.480 detectors, but those don't even really work according to this report. And furthermore, according to the
00:42:38.520 report, the AI does better on college exams than the actual students do. So what does this mean for
00:42:45.580 education? It means either that university education is going to become even more preposterous,
00:42:53.680 that you're going to pay $60,000, $70,000 a year to go and party. And then every so often,
00:42:58.720 you'll have to click a button to generate some paper. And then, I don't know, probably the teacher
00:43:02.780 will then plug the paper into AI and have the AI grade the paper. And everyone, just computers will do
00:43:07.020 everything and the people will just be superfluous so they can go around and, I don't know, the kids
00:43:12.240 can party and the professors can go to conferences and party and no one really does any work. Or, I have
00:43:19.520 actually a more hopeful view of it. The answer, if you still want to educate students, the answer is,
00:43:27.780 you're going to need much more in-person learning. Which runs counter to the liberal narrative. We were told,
00:43:33.740 especially after COVID, all education, man, it's going to go online. What do we need university
00:43:39.180 campuses for anymore? We can just do it all online. What do we need papers and pencils and physical
00:43:47.500 books and, yo, you don't need any of that stuff anymore, man. We just do it all online. What do
00:43:50.640 we need our bodies for? We don't need our body. You can just plug your brain into the matrix and
00:43:54.260 you can pretend to be the opposite sex or an orangutan or, I don't know, you can just,
00:43:59.400 you can do it. Just everything will be virtual, right? No. Because if that's the case, you won't
00:44:04.360 know anything. I remember even when I was a kid, we were flattered by our teachers. We said, you have
00:44:09.560 more information at your fingertips than Plato or Aristotle did. I thought that's true, but we don't
00:44:14.940 know anything. I know much less than Plato and Aristotle, even though I have a magical iPhone,
00:44:21.420 even though I have a calculator, even though, yeah, but I still know much less than them because I don't
00:44:26.000 really know it. And one of the crises of education is people don't even know how to know anymore.
00:44:31.740 They don't even know how to go about asking the questions that will lead you to information that
00:44:38.080 you don't even think to inquire into. So the hopeful bit to me is AI has completely destroyed
00:44:46.060 whatever last remnant of a serious education existed in the modern university system. That's over.
00:44:54.640 So ironically, what we're going to need is more in person. What we're going to need is more
00:45:03.060 physical presence in education. What we're going to need is more time. What we're going to need is
00:45:08.140 we're going to need more physical books and physical pens and paper and exam rooms and timers and meeting
00:45:14.480 together and to one, to prove that you're not just plugging stuff into AI. But two, you need that
00:45:20.940 because that's how human nature works. We are bodies and souls. And so much of the last few decades has
00:45:29.700 been a denial of the body. So much so now that we pretend that a man can really be a woman, that the
00:45:33.660 body has nothing to do with who we are. But the body is really part of it. Time, contingency, flesh,
00:45:42.360 stuff. That's part of your life. And you won't be an educated person without it. You'll say,
00:45:47.960 oh, I've got every lecture in the world is available to me on YouTube. I could be the most
00:45:51.820 educated person in the world. But you won't be because that's not how we really learn. We learn
00:45:54.700 by being in physical contact with people and imitating them and picking up their impulses
00:45:59.340 and asking questions off the cuff and being forced to memorize things and being forced to recite things
00:46:04.220 and being forced to write them down in little blue books in exam rooms. The future, it turns out,
00:46:09.160 is the past. Or it's a lot closer to the past than people imagine the future to be.
00:46:12.540 Now, speaking of proper education, this is a story I meant to get to last week, and I do want to get
00:46:18.640 to it now. Pope Francis, he said some things that raise a lot of eyebrows. He said some things that
00:46:25.620 make one chuckle, like when he was calling for fewer homosexuals in seminaries a few weeks ago
00:46:33.540 because there was, c'è già troppa frociagine. La frociagine, basta con la frociagine. Frociagine
00:46:41.020 being the word for it. We'll probably have to bleep this out in the show. But the nearest translation
00:46:45.220 from the Italian is faggotry. So he's, it's, you know, you never know exactly what you're going to
00:46:50.860 get in these political statements of the Pope. But he just made an important point. He was addressing
00:46:56.740 United Nations International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. And he twice said
00:47:05.180 that drug dealers are murderers. He said drugs trample on human dignity, that reduction in drug
00:47:12.920 addiction is not achieved by liberalizing drug use, as many of the leftists and the libertarians would
00:47:18.160 say. He said that that's a total fantasy. He's absolutely right. He says it's like this, you liberalize
00:47:23.720 and drugs are consumed even more. That's true. He calls drug traffickers, traffickers of death,
00:47:28.640 driven by the logic of power and money at any cost. It's true. Trade human life for just a little bit
00:47:33.680 of money, not even all that much money. And the scourge, he says, which produces violence and so
00:47:37.900 suffering and death demands an act of courage from our society as a whole. Very true. We all know people
00:47:42.420 who've died from illegal drugs. I agree that drug dealers should be treated as akin to murderers. And
00:47:48.140 tying it back to what we were just talking about. We have this idea that in the future,
00:47:54.680 everything's going to be totally different. Oh, you don't understand the future. It's going to be,
00:47:58.800 you're just, you fogey, fuddy-duddy conservatives, you're stuck in the past. The future's going to be
00:48:03.360 totally different. Eternal truths remain, which is why conservatism, traditionalism endures,
00:48:12.380 because it's not about old dusty stuff. It's about the truths that have endured. And this is true.
00:48:17.760 The modern liberal people, they say, no, actually, we've just discovered that when you legalize
00:48:22.800 bad things and you even incentivize bad things in some cases, you get less of it somehow through
00:48:27.320 some magical economics or something. No, you don't. Those basic truths are still, drugs are bad.
00:48:34.060 Being an addict is bad. Government exists to set the conditions for human flourishing,
00:48:40.380 do good and avoid evil. It's all still true. And hearing this from the sole institution in the West
00:48:46.620 to survive since antiquity and continue to thrive in modernity should make us listen.
00:48:54.340 For more information about what's about to happen, you're not going to come to the member block.
00:49:00.060 Because right now, Ben is testifying on behalf of the Daily Wire before Congress
00:49:04.940 about how big tech is trying to destroy us. Go to dailywire.com, click on the banner to watch,
00:49:09.820 get the latest updates. I'm Michael Knowles. We'll see you tomorrow.
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