The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1564 - First Kamala Harris Interview EXPLAINED In 2 Mins

00:00:00.000 Kamala Harris sat down for her first interview since stealing the Democrat presidential nomination 0.98

00:00:04.660 from Joe Biden. The purpose of the interview was to demonstrate that she's steady, she's stable,

00:00:11.580 she's ready to lead. Kamala's values do not change. The most important and most significant

00:00:18.360 aspect of my policy perspective and decisions is my values have not changed. Cool, cool,

00:00:25.300 great news. So Kamala, where do you stand on the important issues like, say, energy?

00:00:33.100 When you were in Congress, you supported the Green New Deal. And in 2019, you said, quote,

00:00:38.820 there is no question I'm in favor of banning fracking. Fracking, as you know, is a pretty big

00:00:43.880 issue, particularly in your must-win state of Pennsylvania. Do you still want to ban fracking?

00:00:49.980 No, and I made that clear on the debate stage in 2020.

00:00:53.260 Kamala's values do not change. Well, except for that one. Except, and this is where her answer

00:01:01.360 gets even weirder. Kudos to Matt Whitlock for digging up this clip. Except, Kamala didn't even 0.99

00:01:09.600 change her values, even when she said she did. Do you still want to ban fracking?

00:01:15.240 No, and I made that clear on the debate stage in 2020, that I would not ban fracking.

00:01:21.080 There's no question I'm in favor of banning fracking. So yeah, so it changed in that campaign?

00:01:28.340 In 2020, I made very clear where I stand. We are in 2024, and I've not changed that position,

00:01:33.280 nor will I going forward. I kept my word, and I will keep my word. There's no question I'm in

00:01:37.560 favor of banning fracking. Kamala's values do not change. Yes, she changed her values on energy, 1.00

00:01:44.860 on a really key energy question. But listen, don't worry. She's not changing them now.

00:01:49.520 She changed her values in 2020. Except when you go back and look at the debate stage in 2020,

00:01:54.480 she actually didn't change her values then. She's changed her values now. Kamala

00:01:57.780 did not inspire confidence. And the interview did not get any better from there.

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00:03:38.660 Kamala was asked a lot of very easy questions. You saw there was a pretense of asking her tough

00:03:47.800 questions. You've changed your views on fracking. Will, what do you say about that? It's not the

00:03:53.300 hardest way to phrase that. It's the minimum that Dana Bash, the CNN journalist, could do to even

00:03:58.920 remotely seem like a serious reporter. Kamala should have had answers to all of these questions prepared, 1.00

00:04:06.220 and she didn't. On the fracking question, she lied. And then on probably the most basic question that

00:04:14.380 any presidential candidate could be asked in an interview. Incredibly, she didn't have an answer.

00:04:21.820 You have less time to make your case to voters than any candidate in modern American history.

00:04:29.940 The voters are really eager to hear what your plans are. If you are elected, what would you do on day

00:04:35.780 one in the White House? Well, there are a number of things. I will tell you, first and foremost,

00:04:41.980 one of my highest priorities is to do what we can to support and strengthen the middle class.

00:04:49.160 When I look at the aspirations, the goals, the ambitions of the American people,

00:04:56.160 I think that people are ready for a new way forward

00:05:00.800 in a way that generations of Americans have been fueled by hope and by optimism.

00:05:07.840 I think, sadly, in the last decade, we have had in the former president someone who has

00:05:17.380 really been pushing an agenda and an environment that is about diminishing the character and the

00:05:26.660 strength of who we are as Americans, really dividing our nation. And I think people are

00:05:33.300 ready to turn the page on that. So what would you do day one?

00:05:38.480 Right. But what about my question that I asked you? What are you going to do on day one?

00:05:43.560 She doesn't have an answer. Day one, I'm going to repeal this executive order. Day one,

00:05:48.900 I'm going to walk over to the EPA and do this thing. Day one, I'm going to propose this piece of

00:05:55.760 legislation. It's not difficult. Every president has that. Kamala Harris never thought about what

00:06:00.880 she's going to do on day one. And then she goes on this rambling diatribe about, well,

00:06:06.880 I will strengthen the middle class. That's not a day one thing. That's a whole administration thing.

00:06:12.580 That's a grand vision. But how are you going to do that? Well, because we're going to be fueled by

00:06:17.900 hope and optimism. This is a woman who has never grown past BS essays in the seventh grade. In the 0.97

00:06:27.020 seventh grade, when you don't read the book and you're told to write an essay about it and you just

00:06:30.120 try to use flowery language to get around your lack of knowledge and lack of a thesis, that doesn't

00:06:37.040 cut it in middle school. This woman thinks it's going to cut it at 1600 Pennsylvania. 1.00

00:06:41.260 She memorized, whatever that gobbledygook was, she memorized it. She's used that kind of, that's,

00:06:48.220 you know, we're going to be unburdened by what has been. Think of yellow school buses. So that's,

00:06:52.400 that's campaign fluff. What's most appalling to me here is that she didn't even anticipate this basic

00:07:03.100 question. What are you going to do on day one? That is, that is presidential campaigning 101.

00:07:07.760 She didn't even prepare an answer, that she's that unprepared. She didn't even prepare an answer

00:07:14.380 to that basic question. Now, Tim Wall's got some questions too. Here is Tim Wall's receiving a

00:07:22.900 question on his stolen valor. The country is just starting to get to know you. I want to ask you

00:07:30.920 a question about how you've described your service in the National Guard. You said that you carried

00:07:36.060 weapons in war, but you have never deployed actually in a war zone. A campaign official

00:07:42.160 said that you misspoke. Did you? Well, first of all, I'm incredibly proud. I've done 24 years of

00:07:48.180 wearing the uniform of this country. Equally proud of my service in a public school classroom,

00:07:52.700 whether it's Congress or, or the governor. My record speaks for itself, but I think people are

00:07:58.300 coming to get to know me. I speak like they do. Um, I speak candidly. I wear my emotions on my

00:08:03.020 sleeves and, uh, I speak, uh, especially passionately about, uh, about our children being shot in schools

00:08:08.880 and around, around guns. So, uh, I think people know me, they know who I am. They know where, uh,

00:08:14.180 where my heart is. And again, my record has been out there for over 40 years to speak for itself.

00:08:19.240 And, uh, the, the idea that you said that you were in war, did you misspeak as the campaign has said?

00:08:25.700 Yeah, I said, we were talking about, in this case, this was after a school shooting, the ideas of

00:08:29.680 carrying these weapons of war. And, uh, my wife, the English, she told me my grammar is not always

00:08:34.000 correct. My grammar is not always correct. These are the weapons I carried in war. Oh, oopsie daisy.

00:08:41.980 I just got my syntax wrong. I, what I meant to say was I've never served in war ever, but, uh, you know,

00:08:47.740 me, duh, Tim Walls. Ooh, I guess I didn't study my English textbook so well. Got to go back to

00:08:54.620 Strunk and White. This is my favorite new euphemism for a lie. Oh yes. Um, I don't always use the right

00:09:02.100 grammar. Reach into the cookie jar, eat a cookie, have chocolate all over my face. Mama comes into 1.00

00:09:09.040 the room. Michael, did you steal a cookie from the cookie jar? No, I did not. Mama, Michael, I have

00:09:16.880 proof that you took that cookie. Oh, sorry, mama. I just don't always use the right grammar.

00:09:20.960 I meant to say, yes, I did. Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me? And then it's another,

00:09:28.400 there are two great excuses for lying here. One, I don't always use the right grammar. And two,

00:09:32.140 oh, look, I speak like ordinary Americans do. You know, ordinary Americans who lie about their 0.98

00:09:36.900 military service all the time. You know, all those ordinary Americans who steal valor every day. 0.99

00:09:40.760 Yeah. I'm just like them. I don't know. I know a lot of ordinary Americans and they don't talk

00:09:45.540 like that. Actually, he's, he's still lying about his military service in this answer.

00:09:50.580 What does he say? He says, I wore the uniform for 24 years. He served in the national guard,

00:09:54.760 though he quit immediately before he would have had to deploy to a war zone, but he,

00:09:59.640 he did serve in the national guard. That's great. That's fabulous. Love it when people do that,

00:10:03.720 but that's not wearing the uniform for 24 years. That's wearing the uniform.

00:10:08.340 What about once a month? And then a couple of weeks during, during the course of the year.

00:10:14.040 I have friends in the national guard. I think it's fabulous. Wonderful patriotic service. I think

00:10:18.600 it's great. I really applaud everyone who does it, but you know, my, my grandfather was a Navy

00:10:23.320 captain. He served in the Navy for 30 years. He wore a uniform for 30 years, meaning consistently

00:10:28.780 for 30 years, that was his job. Tim Walls was, has been called to something else. He was a public

00:10:33.520 school teacher. Then he was a terrible governor and he was a terrible member of Congress. Okay.

00:10:37.120 So he, he was called to do other things and he stole valor. And he said, I carried weapons in war

00:10:43.000 and he got caught lying about it. And as J.D. Vance has pointed out, he retired immediately as

00:10:48.940 soon as he found out he might have to deploy to a war zone. And so, okay, people are raising all

00:10:53.000 sorts of questions about that, but he shows no regret whatsoever for lying about his, his actual

00:10:58.520 military service. He's trying to sneak out of it and he continues to lie. There's so much more to say.

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00:12:26.620 Kamala interview, still, it worked. I hate to say I told you so. This one though was pretty easily 1.00

00:12:35.060 predicted. I said, the Kamala interview is not going to help her. It might hurt her a little bit

00:12:41.280 for people who are paying attention. You know, she's not going to, she's not going to sound good. She's not

00:12:45.260 good at talking. Speaking is the one skill you have to have if you're a politician and she's not 1.00

00:12:49.800 good at it. So even with a soft interviewer on a friendly network, she's, she's not going to do

00:12:57.800 great. She might hurt herself a little, but overall it'll be fine. She just has to show up and check the

00:13:03.020 box. And that's true. The Associated Press has this headline, the interview, Kamala Harris's

00:13:10.120 inaugural sit-down was most notable for seeming, dot, dot, dot, ordinary. That was it. I'm sure

00:13:18.000 they wrote that headline before the interview ever took place. That was the point of the interview.

00:13:23.260 Oh yes, of course. Oh, Kamala's not avoiding the press. Kamala hasn't consistently avoided the press

00:13:28.240 and sitting down for an interview since she stole the nomination from Biden. No, no, no. No, it's,

00:13:32.340 this is all just so ordinary. No, there wasn't a palace coup. Kamala didn't become the Democrat

00:13:37.260 nominee without winning a single vote in the primary. No, it's just, it's so ordinary.

00:13:43.320 No, no, this is all normal. Yeah. Don't watch. You don't need to watch the interview,

00:13:48.160 but it wasn't disastrous. And anyway, it's just so, it's just so ordinary. Okay. Okay. You want to see

00:13:56.380 media bias? Let's turn away from the Associated Press. Let's turn away from CNN. Let's turn to NBC.

00:14:02.000 Here is Anna Cabrera of NBC News reporting on the exact same policy from Trump versus Kamala. This

00:14:13.560 by way of the excellent video editor, Mays. It's not even something that all Republicans agree with,

00:14:21.340 this idea of not taxing tips, Susan. In fact, several Republicans telling NBC News that they're

00:14:27.400 skeptical of the idea, citing the rising national debt and questioning whether this would be fair

00:14:32.560 to earners who don't make tips. So do you think it is realistic or is this something Susan more akin to

00:14:39.100 Trump saying he's going to build the wall? Last part, Trump previously announced a similar plan when

00:14:44.060 it comes to taxing hospitality workers and their tips specifically. Obviously that one policy that

00:14:49.400 Trump had put out there was pretty popular, Brendan, and Trump still leads on the economy,

00:14:53.880 but a series of recent polls show that gap is narrow. Yeah. And look, obviously it's really,

00:14:58.720 really popular now that Kamala supports it. Back when Trump supported it, it was really unpopular

00:15:03.380 and stupid and terrible and unjust. But now that look, Kamala, look, she's just, yeah, of course, 1.00

00:15:08.420 it's a popular policy and she's going to do it a lot better than Trump anyway. So, you know,

00:15:13.120 you want to see another example of this? So Time Magazine runs a piece. This is January 9th of last

00:15:18.720 year. Headline, why ultra processed foods are so bad for you. January 9th of last year. Then

00:15:28.020 August 27th, so just a few days ago, Time Magazine runs another piece. Why ultra processed foods,

00:15:39.140 what if ultra processed foods are not as bad as you think? Same magazine, about a year,

00:15:45.520 a year and a half apart. What changed? Well, January 9th, 2023 to about a week or so ago,

00:15:52.680 nothing really changed. So you got, you know, why ultra processed foods are so bad for you.

00:15:56.540 Then August 23rd, Bobby Kennedy Jr. endorses Trump and he endorses Trump specifically on a platform of

00:16:02.180 making America healthy again. He called out specifically the dangers of ultra processed foods

00:16:06.900 and other aspects of big agriculture and big pharma that are contrary to Americans' health.

00:16:13.260 And then four days later, no, ultra processed foods are good again. Because back when opposition to

00:16:20.480 ultra processed foods was a left-wing thing, that was good and wonderful and important. Now that

00:16:26.100 opposition to ultra processed foods is a right-wing crunchy thing, well, now that's actually, no, 1.00

00:16:30.900 that's stupid. That's dumb. That's ignorant. It might even be dangerous. Ultra processed foods are 1.00

00:16:35.000 great. Eat McDonald's and Twinkies for every single meal. We can't have anyone thinking that Bobby

00:16:39.320 Kennedy might know something. No, sir, we can't have anyone in any way inclined to vote for Donald

00:16:45.060 Trump. It doesn't matter. I hope conservatives take this conclusion from all the media stuff.

00:16:53.940 It doesn't matter what the Republicans say.

00:16:56.580 It is always wrong if the Republicans say it. That's it. I'm not pointing out the media bias just

00:17:06.900 to, you know, bemoan the hypocrisy and say, if the shoe were on the other foot, can you imagine or

00:17:11.240 whatever? That's, that way lies the death of conservatism. I show it to remind you that when

00:17:18.260 Republicans receive criticism from the establishment media over various policies, over various running

00:17:24.020 mate choices, over various neckties, for anything, the media are never criticizing the conservatives

00:17:31.860 because what the conservatives have said and done is objectively wrong. Sometimes Republicans say and

00:17:39.600 do things that are objectively wrong. We'll get to that in a moment. But, but it's, that's not why the

00:17:43.800 media are criticizing them. It's the other way around. Whatever the Republicans say and do must be

00:17:51.340 wrong because they are Republicans. That is how the left, that is how the media, but I repeat myself,

00:17:58.240 is going to report on it. Now, speaking of public health matters and right and wrong,

00:18:03.140 President Trump just unveiled a new policy yesterday. His, his promise is to not only support IVF,

00:18:12.600 in vitro fertilization, not only to make it legal, perhaps even wider spread, but to involve the

00:18:20.460 government in it, to have the government through taxpayer dollars support IVF. And furthermore,

00:18:28.980 to mandate that private insurers cover IVF, meaning Trump's policy proposal, his promise is to mandate

00:18:39.240 that every single American through their taxpayer dollars and through their private health insurance

00:18:44.360 premiums support IVF. I'm announcing today in a major statement that under the Trump administration,

00:18:53.180 your government will pay for, or your insurance company will be mandated to pay for all costs associated

00:19:03.160 with IVF treatment. Because we want more babies to put it very nicely. And for this same reason,

00:19:16.940 we will also allow new parents to deduct major newborn expenses from their taxes so that parents

00:19:24.100 that have a beautiful baby will be able. So we're pro-family. Nobody's ever said that before.

00:19:33.100 Okay. But the IVF treatments are expensive.

00:19:36.920 You know, I love the guy. You know, I love the guy. I have supported Trump since 2016. Consistently,

00:19:44.000 I love him. So this observation comes very much from a place of love and wanting to help President

00:19:50.680 Trump. You can tell sometimes when President Trump's speaking, he's just going off the cuff. He's,

00:19:55.400 you know, kind of moving around. He's looking everywhere. In this case, he's reading this

00:19:58.860 directly from the teleprompter, which leads me to conclude that this policy promise is coming from

00:20:05.920 some staff members, some advisors on the campaign. I would just observe the two largest religious

00:20:14.100 groups in America, the Catholics and the Southern Baptists, both formally oppose IVF. The Southern

00:20:20.880 Baptists declared their opposition quite recently, actually, just two months ago. Catholics are politically

00:20:25.940 split between the Republicans and the Democrats. Southern Baptists are not. Southern Baptists are 0.92

00:20:31.120 overwhelmingly Republicans, about 64% Republican, only 26% Democrat. It would seem ill-advised for a

00:20:43.000 political campaign to mandate that the two largest religious groups in the country, to say nothing of

00:20:51.720 the many other Americans who are not Catholic, not Southern Baptists, but who nevertheless have some

00:20:56.500 moral objections to in vitro fertilization, to mandate that they support it. It's difficult to

00:21:04.920 see what the political upside is here. Some people have asked, what could be the opposition to IVF?

00:21:11.820 Because IVF is great. Couples who want to have a baby and who are struggling, it allows them sometimes,

00:21:15.840 actually, not nearly as effective as the IVF industry would tell you. Sometimes it allows them,

00:21:21.880 though, to have a biological child. Or they'll say, well, more babies is always a good thing. So, what could

00:21:28.000 the opposition be? The broadest opposition to IVF is that, practically speaking, the vast majority of

00:21:37.260 persons who are created through IVF are destroyed or frozen indefinitely to be destroyed at a later date. The

00:21:44.460 vast, vast majority. That's probably the broadest opposition to IVF. Other moral reasons to oppose

00:21:53.580 IVF are, one, it establishes the domination of science and technology over the origin and destiny

00:21:58.720 of human life. This is why you're seeing all sorts of lawsuits because, you know, scientists swap the

00:22:05.160 test tube. So, they create a human being with the sperm from one couple and the egg from another couple,

00:22:10.220 and oopsie-daisy, mom and dad have never met each other. They don't know each other. Whose baby is it?

00:22:13.600 Which leads to a kind of commoditization of human life because now there will be some lawsuit over

00:22:20.080 a product. You know, you go and, I mean, it's an industry. And so, there's a question of, do we want

00:22:24.980 human beings to be the product of an industry? Like, you go to the, you know, that's one opposition to

00:22:30.140 it. Some other reasons to oppose it is that it separates the unitive from the procreative act.

00:22:40.300 Some other reasons to oppose it is it asserts a perverse right to a child, as though people have a

00:22:47.720 right to a baby. But of course, we don't, you can't have a right to another person. It's the same

00:22:52.360 reason we don't support slavery, you know, because people are not objects to be owned and traded and

00:22:57.160 purchased, but are proper subjects with rights in themselves. You might agree with one of those

00:23:02.780 objections. You might agree with all of those objections. You might agree with none of those

00:23:06.680 objections. I'm just making the political observation here that this is an extraordinarily

00:23:12.400 fraught, novel kind of bioethical issue where increasingly you're seeing people coming out

00:23:17.720 against it. The opposition to IVF is growing. If you look at, you know, the Catholics have been

00:23:23.080 opposed to it for a very long time, but the Southern Baptists have just come along to it. The

00:23:26.540 largest Protestant denomination in the country. That maybe there's no political upside here. 0.90

00:23:33.080 This is an issue on which the Catholics, the Southern Baptists, the traditionalists, even the

00:23:36.420 libertarians who don't want federal government mandatory funding for this sort of thing, can all

00:23:41.360 agree. What's the upside? To say nothing of the fact that if this policy were to go into effect,

00:23:47.640 it would then mandate that people pay for IVF for homosexual couples. I think a lot of people are 0.97

00:23:52.640 going to have some opposition to that. That's just under our current law, following our current

00:23:57.400 jurisprudence, following Obergefell and the logic of the Bostock decision at the Supreme Court.

00:24:01.680 It would probably mandate that single individuals, unmarried individuals, have the right to create 0.94

00:24:08.800 a child paid for by you with all of those other problems. It just, it raises a lot of questions.

00:24:14.600 And so I get, I totally get why people support IVF. I have a rather firmly established opposition

00:24:23.800 and religious opposition to IVF. Sweet little Lisa and I struggled for two years with our first

00:24:29.240 child. I was tempted by it. I totally get, I get why people support it. I get why politicians do not

00:24:33.960 oppose IVF. I don't think the Republican party should be running on a platform against IVF as a top

00:24:40.100 of the ticket issue. I think probably Republicans shouldn't even mention IVF, certainly in this

00:24:46.640 election and probably for the foreseeable future. I grant all of that. And therefore, at the same time,

00:24:54.060 it seems to me prudent, seems to me politically advantageous to say nothing of being morally

00:25:01.420 advantageous to just kind of let, let the issue go, hold off a little bit and debate it as it

00:25:08.160 remains a very hot issue. Can anyone explain to me the political upside here of, of President Trump

00:25:14.540 mandating that some of, some of his biggest supporters engage in something that they consider

00:25:21.940 to be gravely immoral? I don't, what's, what new voters is this policy going to win over by

00:25:28.480 mandating this at the government and the private level? It's, I say this totally from a place of

00:25:33.660 love because I've supported, I've got pretty good bona fides on supporting Trump here. I've done it for

00:25:37.600 his entire presidential political career since 2015. I guess maybe even earlier since he, since he was

00:25:43.780 running, this probably is ill-advised. And if he's reading this so closely off the teleprompter that

00:25:49.600 maybe this is something that was cooked up in a committee of advisors, maybe those advisors

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00:27:16.520 PragerU.com. Your gift will be tripled. My favorite comment yesterday is Braun

00:27:22.100 do the thirst mutilator, who says they've been suing to keep RFK Jr. off the ballot.

00:27:29.380 Now they are forcing him to stay on the ballot. That's true. It's almost as though

00:27:33.020 the machinations against Bobby Kennedy Jr. have nothing to do with the law or election procedures

00:27:40.940 and everything to do with who he seems to be helping at any given moment. That's almost as

00:27:46.300 though that were the case. Speaking of things that are ill-advised, the acolyte has been canceled.

00:27:53.340 What is the acolyte? The acolyte is the Star Wars show that is extremely expensive,

00:27:57.920 comes from after Disney bought Star Wars. Star Wars is some of the most expensive intellectual

00:28:02.120 property in the world. I, of course, have not watched the acolyte. I've not watched Star Wars

00:28:05.780 in some time. I liked it when I was a kid. I haven't watched it much recently. But my associate

00:28:10.380 producer, Professor Jacob, is a huge nerd. So he gave me the skimmy on it. How did this thing get

00:28:16.180 canceled? Well, the tomato reader, if you look on Rotten Tomatoes, puts the acolyte at about 78%.

00:28:24.080 So you say, well, that's not bad. It's a C plus. Not great. Not a B or an A or an A plus. But okay,

00:28:30.180 you know, it's not 78%. But that's the critics rating. The audience rating is 18%. The audience

00:28:36.900 hated this show. Huge flop. Disney spent 180 million bucks on the show. If you break that down

00:28:42.880 according to the length of the episodes, that's about $630,000 per minute of screen time.

00:28:49.260 Disney and all of these other lib outlets kept insisting for the duration of this season

00:28:57.420 that the viewership was great. And forget about Rotten Tomatoes. Forget about the audience numbers

00:29:02.480 because this was just being flooded by right-wing trolls who hate to see strong people of color

00:29:10.160 spouting brave left-wing ideology on the screen. And don't believe your lion eyes. People love the show. 0.74

00:29:17.020 It's got strong viewership. Well, okay, if it really had strong viewership, why would they cancel it?

00:29:22.260 Doesn't make a lot of sense. Just to get, you don't even need to watch The Acolyte if you just want

00:29:28.100 to get a sense of the people who are working on The Acolyte. Here's the lead actress, Amanda Stenberg,

00:29:33.920 who released a diss track against the fans of the show. Here's what she had to say.

00:29:38.960 Trevor asked what I want the people to know. I said white people cry. What's the call? 0.96

00:29:45.000 If the truth is the power, keep an eye out for you silly racists. 0.98

00:29:50.040 We so bored don't have video discourse, which is kind of jiggling around like she's doing some kind of 0.99

00:29:56.360 pagan ritual or something. Huh.

00:29:59.620 All you people are racist. I want white people to cry. That's my goal. You people are silly racists. 1.00

00:30:07.520 I've been oppressed for 400 years. I, some young Hollywood starlet. Yeah, can't believe it didn't 1.00

00:30:13.620 work, huh? Can you imagine? Can you even imagine? They tried it. Rolling Stone posted a piece. This

00:30:21.140 was just a few days ago. Can the best of Star Wars survive the worst of its fans? It's the fans' fault.

00:30:27.220 It's like Principal Skinner in The Simpsons. Is it possible that I'm out of touch? No,

00:30:31.340 it's the children who must be wrong. Of course. This is all good news. Maybe not good news for

00:30:37.900 a nerd like Professor Jacob who wanted to watch more lightsaber people, you know,

00:30:41.960 swinging the sword at each other. But this is good news for conservatives in the culture.

00:30:47.060 The good news here, whether you like Star Wars or don't like Star Wars or whatever,

00:30:50.940 the good news is it reminds us that ultimately the libs can't take over things. The libs can't just

00:30:59.540 appropriate things and take it as their own and succeed with it. The libs can destroy things. 0.91

00:31:06.220 They're very good at destroying things. The libs were given Star Wars, some of the most valuable

00:31:12.140 intellectual property in Hollywood on a silver platter. They said, here you are. You've got this

00:31:17.320 built-in fanatical fan base, this beloved franchise for half a century now. Here you are.

00:31:23.040 And they blew it. They blew it in one season of this stupid show. 1.00

00:31:27.780 They can't, because the audience understood that what they were doing was not Star Wars. 1.00

00:31:33.440 They weren't giving, they took Star Wars. They took Star Wars and like Han Solo with that tauntaun on

00:31:39.860 hoth. They cut open its guts. They spilled out all of its innards. Then they crawled inside of the

00:31:47.340 tauntaun like Luke Skywalker did when he was half asleep. But the libs were very much awake. They

00:31:52.280 were woke, I guess you might say. And they kind of danced around wearing the skin suit of Star Wars and 0.90

00:31:57.120 said, oh, Wookiee Wookiee, Jabba Jabba, we're Star Wars. Vote for Joe Biden or Kamala Harris or whatever.

00:32:03.000 White people are terrible. Make them cry. Waka Waka. Mishigushi Gashi, Jar Jar Binks or whatever. I don't know, 1.00

00:32:08.260 whatever they say. And the audience didn't buy it. The audience said, wait, this isn't Star Wars.

00:32:14.100 This is just some stupid left-wing political lecture. This is just they-thems and LGBT 1.00

00:32:19.640 ideology and politically correct racial grievance. We don't want this. We're going to give it low

00:32:27.240 ratings on Rotten Tomatoes. We're not going to watch. And we're going to make you blow 180 million bucks.

00:32:31.540 Sorry. Give us Star Wars. We'll watch Star Wars. But the left can't do Star Wars. The reason that

00:32:39.700 Star Wars worked in the 70s and continued to work throughout subsequent decades is because it's a

00:32:45.080 story about the fight between good and evil. And good ultimately is going to triumph over evil,

00:32:50.740 even though evil can be very tempting sometimes. And often it looks like evil is going to win.

00:32:54.820 But the good is ultimately going to win. That's a good story. It's a traditional story. That's not a

00:32:59.140 story the libs like. The libs say there's no difference between good and evil. The libs say,

00:33:03.600 we got to play with this yin and yang, man. We got to embrace sometimes the evil within us, man. It's

00:33:07.580 all blurry. We're non-binary. Come on, man. And that doesn't work. So good news, bad news for Star 0.97

00:33:15.920 Wars fans in the short term, but good news for the culture in the long term. The libs can't continue

00:33:23.180 to be libs and take away beloved stories. Now, speaking of institutions that the libs are

00:33:31.080 destroying, I mentioned last week on the show that the Young America's Foundation called to my

00:33:36.340 attention that the University at Buffalo, this is a public university in New York,

00:33:42.260 devoted a considerable amount of space on one of their academic department homepages to denouncing me.

00:33:48.520 The second paragraph on the University at Buffalo Media Study Department homepage was dedicated to

00:33:56.100 me. It was three or four sentences denouncing me and accusing me of calling for genocide and inciting

00:34:02.440 violence and all sorts of crazy things. I mentioned I'm not a graduate of the University

00:34:06.460 of Buffalo. I've never been employed by the University of Buffalo. I gave one speech there on

00:34:10.580 a different topic. It had nothing to do with transgenderism. I mean, it had something to do with

00:34:14.600 transgenderism in as much as it had to do with feminism, but it wasn't even specifically on

00:34:19.380 that topic. And they had this permanent denouncement of me on the homepage for a different speech I gave

00:34:26.580 more than two years ago in a totally different location, not even on a campus. It was really,

00:34:30.580 really weird. So we were all laughing about this, but I pointed out this was defamation of me.

00:34:35.820 And I also pointed out that this was actionable defamation. They were lying about me. I obviously

00:34:41.060 have never called for genocide. I'm not a huge genocide kind of guy. So the media study department

00:34:48.480 here, I discovered, has removed me from the homepage. And I can't help but notice, it was up there for

00:34:55.920 almost 18 months. And then I tagged the chairman of the department. And I observed that what they had

00:35:01.920 up there on this public school's homepage was defamatory and actionable. People might be legally

00:35:07.440 liable for that. And then I don't know. Less than 48 hours later, they took it away. Maybe they got a

00:35:15.480 call from their lawyers. I don't know what it was. I do know that we won. I do know that these libs at

00:35:21.160 the University of Buffalo folded like a cheap suit. And I didn't even send them a letter. Okay, I just

00:35:27.440 posted a tweet with a vague legal threat and they folded. This is a reminder to the right.

00:35:33.600 There is still something akin to the rule of law in America. Lawfare does work. These people,

00:35:41.840 they pretend to be very strong and serious. They don't have logic or reason on their side.

00:35:47.300 Often, they don't even have the politics, the support of the people at least on their side. And

00:35:52.880 frequently, they don't have the courts on their side. If we fight back at all, at all, even the

00:35:59.020 slightest little inkling of fighting back, we can win. The libs are not omnipotent. 0.99

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00:36:33.160 Finally, finally, we've arrived at my favorite time of the week when I get to hear from you in

00:36:37.060 the mailbag. Our mailbag is sponsored by PureTalk on puretalk.com slash Knowles today. Switch to a

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00:36:46.560 Hello, Michael. My name is Jordan. I live in Little Rock, Arkansas, and my question today concerns the

00:36:51.400 three branches of government. I find it fascinating that the three branches are all simultaneously

00:36:57.760 making radically different decisions. You have an executive branch run by radical people,

00:37:05.680 super hyper-liberal people, heading in a very dangerous direction. And yet, at the same time,

00:37:11.840 you have the judicial branch that is making some fairly conservative decisions, like dropping some

00:37:16.360 cases against Trump, overturning Roe v. Wade, things like that. And then, of course, in the

00:37:21.800 legislative branch, you have kind of a mixed bag. My question then is, how do you explain all of

00:37:28.280 these radically different decisions being made all at the same time? Thank you, Michael. Have a

00:37:33.720 wonderful day, and God bless you. Thank you so much. Really good question. The way that that is

00:37:39.160 possible is because we have a system of government in which there is a triple sovereignty. So we call

00:37:46.340 it the separation of powers. There are checks and balances, but it means that there is real

00:37:51.760 sovereignty established within each of the branches. None is really supposed to be subservient to the

00:37:58.880 others. Right now, the legislature and the executive are trying to make the judiciary

00:38:02.040 subsidiary to at least the legislature and probably the executive too. This is the court packing threats,

00:38:10.380 the insistence on a new code of conduct, erasing life tenure for the justices. So they're trying to

00:38:15.100 destroy that triple sovereignty, but it nevertheless, for now at least, remains. The reason we have this

00:38:22.100 triple sovereignty comes from Montesquieu. Montesquieu, the 18th century writer who probably had a far

00:38:28.880 more significant effect on the American Revolution and the form of government we got afterward than,

00:38:34.080 say, John Locke, who was given a lot more credit for it. So Montesquieu divided, in the spirit of the

00:38:39.780 law, is the government between the executive, the legislature, and the judiciary. And this has worked

00:38:46.920 out relatively well for us for more than a couple centuries now. It's unclear, though, if this is the ideal

00:38:53.460 form of government in that—I was reading a good essay on this somewhat recently on a blog. I think

00:38:59.100 the blog's called Throne and Altar or something like that. But it points out that St. Augustine,

00:39:06.620 when he's thinking of the Trinity, he compares it to the mind, the mind which has three aspects.

00:39:12.080 You think of your mind as it's a unitary thing, but it also has three aspects, which is memory,

00:39:17.000 intelligence, and will. All three of those things are functions of the mind, but they're different.

00:39:24.940 They're distinct from one another. And so you can understand a government as embodying these three

00:39:31.520 things. The memory, you could imagine the memory embodied in a monarchy. You know, King Charles in

00:39:36.460 the United Kingdom is a symbol of memory, of tradition. He, in his very person, is an expression

00:39:44.240 of historical political memory. Then you've got intelligence. That would be in the legislature,

00:39:51.840 probably. You know, the understanding in the legislature that's crafting all the laws and

00:39:55.740 deliberating. And then you would have the will, which in other forms of government would be

00:40:00.980 in the bureaucracy, say, in the administrative part of the government.

00:40:07.340 In America's government, it's a little more confused. The memory is not really—the executive is

00:40:12.480 kind of like the American monarch, but he's the head of state. But actually, the memory is more in

00:40:16.880 the judiciary, not really in the executive. And the intelligence is also probably in the

00:40:21.840 judiciary. I mean, maybe you could say it's in Congress. I don't know. And the will, the will is

00:40:26.200 in the executive through the administrative agency. So it's a little bit confusing. But in any case,

00:40:32.820 that's a long-winded answer to a relatively simple question. It's because our sovereign is really

00:40:39.960 divided into three. All sovereign. Next question.

00:40:44.440 Mr. Michael Knowles, I'm calling regarding your opinion in a matter of judicial judgment

00:40:51.100 regarding my family's reading through of the Bible. We've been reading a chapter of the Bible

00:40:55.720 every night at prayer for years. And that was fine until we turned the page and realized the next book

00:41:01.620 was the Canticle of Canticles. Now, my children are aged two to 13. And while my husband and I

00:41:08.320 appreciate and understand the beautiful allegory about God's love for his people,

00:41:12.440 I'm afraid my children might find it a little salacious. My question is, should we skip this

00:41:19.980 book? And if we do skip it, what can we say to our children to help them understand when we haven't

00:41:26.000 skipped anything else in the Bible up until this point? Thank you so much for your opinion. Have a

00:41:30.640 great day. You can skip it if you like. I don't think you have to skip it. You know, I think you can

00:41:36.120 read Song of Songs, Song of Solomon, Canticle of Canticles. There's a lot of names for this

00:41:41.020 rather evocative and even erotic book of the Bible. You know, I would recommend reading the Bible

00:41:49.420 liturgically. So rather than straight through, I've started reading it many times going straight

00:41:55.040 through. I find reading it liturgically is a little better. So that way you see the figures

00:41:59.100 in the Old Testament that are fulfilled in the New Testament, you know, with relevant Psalms in there.

00:42:05.740 But I think you're okay if you wanted to read Song of Songs to your kids. I mean, the parts of the

00:42:12.640 Bible you would have already read do include episodes of rape, incest, murder. There's a lot

00:42:20.940 of pretty saucy stuff in there too. But the Bible is not obscene in any way. So, you know, if the Song

00:42:27.320 of Songs appealed to the prurian interest or something, you know, that would be one thing. But

00:42:30.560 God forbid, I mean, that, you know, we're talking about the Word of God here. So that's not how it

00:42:34.180 works. Next question. Hi, Michael. My husband and I are huge fans of your show. We are also

00:42:40.940 mackerel snapping papists and are invigorated by how you speak about the Catholic faith. We would love

00:42:47.020 your help navigating the following. About one year ago, my sister married my husband's cousin. They dated

00:42:54.140 for around two years prior to getting married and have known each other for a while through mine and

00:42:59.240 my husband's relationship. My husband's cousin is in the army and my sister unfortunately has a

00:43:05.440 chronic illness and cannot work, but worked previously in fashion. After only three months

00:43:11.320 of living together, he has asked her for a divorce. It has been awful for my sister and for our families.

00:43:18.380 My sister does not believe in divorce and thought that he shared this belief as well, as they are both

00:43:24.200 Catholic. The reason he gives is that they do not value money the same way and he believes she should 1.00

00:43:30.500 be working and isn't contributing unless she is, even though he knew about her condition and not working

00:43:37.100 since day one of their relationship. He unfortunately wasn't willing to try longer or participate in more

00:43:44.500 than a few sessions of counselling before ending it. Although many conversations have been had between us

00:43:51.240 with him, no change of mind has occurred and a divorce settlement is proceeding. We have found

00:43:58.340 this very disturbing to witness and want to do our best to support my sister and advise my husband's

00:44:05.120 cousin while also standing by our beliefs. Thank you, Michael. Keep up the good fight.

00:44:11.640 Really, really sorry to hear all that. What a disgusting reprobate. He sounds just absolutely 1.00

00:44:16.080 awful. And if he were my family, I'd probably take him, take him up back and have a tough conversation

00:44:21.900 with him, you know, maybe, maybe a real tough conversation with him. That is completely disgusting 0.97

00:44:26.920 and derelict behavior. So I don't know what to do. I mean, I'd tell him, I'd probably shake him a little

00:44:34.480 bit and tell him to act like a man and stop sounding like a whiny feminist cock, you know. But if he's not 0.99

00:44:41.420 going to do that, if he's going to insist on divorce, it shows that he obviously did not

00:44:46.760 understand, especially if you're, you know, you guys are mackerel snapping papists, you're Catholics. 0.76

00:44:50.180 I mean, we don't, we don't permit divorce. We don't, we don't acknowledge any sacramental reality

00:44:55.000 to divorce. So, you know, I suppose the consolation here would be, this might be cause at the real

00:45:00.940 least for an annulment inquiry to, you know, I would speak to a priest about it and say, you know,

00:45:05.600 was, was this man withholding something at the, at the wedding? Did he, was there something that

00:45:11.300 invalidated the sacrament before? Cause that, you know, it's, wouldn't be a divorce. You can't get

00:45:16.600 divorced if you're Catholic, but you, it's unclear if maybe if this was a valid marriage in the first

00:45:23.160 place, if he's going to behave this way. But I, you know, I suppose ideally what you do is just tell

00:45:28.100 him that he sounds just like a complete modernist, feminist, whiny cuck. I mean, just, you know, 0.98

00:45:36.340 it's an important term. I know the term, the, that word, which is short for cuckold has become

00:45:41.480 popular in recent years. But for those of us who are children of the Mezzogiorno Cornuto,

00:45:45.640 that word cuckold is a very old insult. And I think it's apt here. I mean, this is just,

00:45:51.140 he's willing to just give his wife away and live in adultery. What a completely disgusting thing. 0.99

00:45:57.360 So anyway, maybe show him this clip, you know, tell him to shoot me a message if he wants any

00:46:02.360 advice. And otherwise I'd talk to a priest about an annulment inquiry. I'm not, I don't know. I'm not

00:46:08.340 qualified to say that an annulment would be merited here, but I'd at least look into it.

00:46:13.680 Okay. It is Fake Headline Friday. I have more voice mailbag to get to. I have written mailbag to get to

00:46:19.340 Sunday, 7 PM. Craney Company is going to have a college football live stream and the rest of the

00:46:24.460 show continues. Now go to dailywire.com promo code Knowles, check out for two months free on all

00:46:28.600 annual plans. Republicans are Nazis. You cannot separate yourselves from the bad white people. 0.98

00:46:46.240 Growing up, I never thought much about race. Never really seemed to matter that much. At least not to 0.97

00:46:50.560 me. Am I racist? I would really appreciate it if you love. I'm trying to learn. I'm on this journey.

00:46:54.660 I'm going to sort this out. I need to go deeper undercover.

00:47:00.900 Joining us now is Matt, certified DEI expert. Here's my certification. And what you're doing

00:47:06.080 is you're stretching out of your whiteness. This is more for you than this for you. Is America 0.53

00:47:09.860 inherently racist? The word inherent is challenging there. I want to rename the George Washington

00:47:14.060 Monument to the George Floyd Monument. America is racist to its bones. So inherently. Yeah, 0.88

00:47:18.960 this country is a piece of... White. Folks. White. Trash. White. Supremacy. White woman. White boy. 1.00

00:47:25.300 Is there a black person around? What's a black person right here? Does he not exist? They don't say

00:47:28.920 I'm racist. Hi, Robin. Hi. What's your name? I'm Matt. I just had to ask who you are because you have

00:47:34.700 to be careful. Never be too careful. They gonna say you racist. Buy your tickets now in theaters September 13th.

00:47:39.880 Rated PG-13.

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