The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1603 - Democrats Try to #MeToo Trump Again

00:00:00.000 In what appears to be Democrats' final surprise before the election,

00:00:04.120 a woman has come out and accused President Trump of sexually harassing her

00:00:08.760 31 years ago in the presence of precisely one eyewitness who conveniently happens to be dead.

00:00:16.220 We will examine the super duper serious allegation

00:00:20.500 and what it means with only 11 days to go.

00:00:23.520 I'm Michael Knowles. It's The Michael Knowles Show.

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00:02:09.500 Before we get to any of those things, an egregious and outrageous betrayal from a top Republican.

00:02:20.880 I don't know how else to put it.

00:02:22.980 I have defended cocaine Mitch McConnell many, many times over the years.

00:02:28.460 I think he's done good things.

00:02:30.720 I have always given him the benefit of the doubt, pretty much.

00:02:35.140 This is a betrayal that is really hard to wrap one's head around.

00:02:42.800 A piece just came out from CNN yesterday.

00:02:46.240 Headline, McConnell says, quote,

00:02:48.560 MAGA movement is completely wrong and Reagan wouldn't recognize Trump's GOP.

00:02:55.640 This is a dozen days before an extraordinarily consequential presidential election.

00:03:03.300 With Senate elections up, with House elections, you've got Senator Cruz on the ropes in Texas

00:03:10.200 because Democrats have poured a ton of money and a lot of foreign nationals into Texas. 0.59

00:03:14.780 And this is what you come out with.

00:03:16.180 You're the Senate majority leader.

00:03:18.200 You come out with the MAGA movement's completely wrong and Ronald Reagan wouldn't recognize it.

00:03:23.180 What else did he say?

00:03:23.840 I think Trump, this is according to a book written by an AP reporter that I guess has been leaked

00:03:33.720 conveniently right before the election to CNN.

00:03:36.500 This is what McConnell supposedly told the reporter.

00:03:40.540 I think Trump was the biggest factor in changing the Republican Party from what Ronald Reagan viewed,

00:03:45.260 and he wouldn't recognize it today.

00:03:47.280 Trump is appealing to people who haven't been as successful as other people

00:03:50.520 and providing an excuse for that, that these more successful people have somehow been cheated

00:03:54.740 and you don't deserve to think of yourself as less successful because things haven't been fair.

00:03:59.120 He said, unfortunately, about half the Republicans in the country believe whatever he says.

00:04:06.960 I'm not at all conflicted about whether what the president did is an impeachable offense.

00:04:11.040 I think it is.

00:04:11.600 This goes back to when McConnell was attacking Trump during one of the two impeachment proceedings.

00:04:22.060 Apparently, Mitch calls Trump a, quote, sleazeball, a narcissist, not very smart, irascible, nasty,

00:04:29.160 just about every quality you would not want somebody to have.

00:04:33.140 I'm not going to keep reading it.

00:04:34.640 You can read the article if you want.

00:04:36.080 You can read the book if you want.

00:04:38.460 Here's the first thing I want.

00:04:40.460 I want Mitch McConnell.

00:04:42.360 This is what I'm hoping for.

00:04:43.260 I hope Mitch McConnell comes out and says this isn't true.

00:04:46.820 I didn't say these things.

00:04:47.920 I hope it's fake news from CNN.

00:04:50.080 It could be fake news from CNN or the Associated Press.

00:04:52.360 They run fake news all the time.

00:04:54.180 So I want, this is what my chief hope is in this story,

00:04:59.060 McConnell comes out, he says it's just not true.

00:05:00.640 If it is true, I don't know how you could possibly defend it.

00:05:08.780 McConnell could say, well, I gave the interview earlier.

00:05:11.060 You gave the interview earlier in an election year,

00:05:12.800 and you didn't think it would be trotted out right before the election?

00:05:15.400 Even if you did give it earlier, you're going to throw all your guys under the bus like this?

00:05:21.280 For what?

00:05:22.340 On top of McConnell's terrible behavior during this election cycle,

00:05:27.340 let's not forget that Mitch McConnell's super PAC has undermined Ted Cruz in Texas.

00:05:33.420 They've been withholding money.

00:05:34.800 This guy's supposed to be the leader of the Senate, the Senate Republicans.

00:05:37.760 He's been withholding money from Ted Cruz, a race that Democrats have been pouring money into.

00:05:42.940 Ted Cruz, one of the best senators we've had in my lifetime.

00:05:47.880 A really important race.

00:05:49.300 You're going to allow Texas to flip blue?

00:05:51.340 Why?

00:05:53.140 Because Ted's too conservative for you?

00:05:55.840 You don't like Trump because Trump's the head of the Republican Party now,

00:05:58.600 and he's made it more conservative in many ways?

00:06:01.600 I don't know what to say about this.

00:06:04.840 Rick Scott, Mitch McConnell's super PAC's been withholding money from?

00:06:09.320 Rick Scott, because what?

00:06:10.460 Because he's a little too conservative?

00:06:12.580 This is really bad stuff.

00:06:14.760 At this point, look, Mitch has done some good things.

00:06:17.400 I'm grateful for the good things.

00:06:18.760 He held up the vacancy for Scalia's seat, and that was really important.

00:06:22.440 That was great.

00:06:22.900 Thank you for it.

00:06:24.220 He's got to go.

00:06:25.560 He's got to go.

00:06:26.400 With Republicans like this, who needs Democrats?

00:06:30.620 This is, it's a reminder of a fact that a lot of Republicans don't want to acknowledge.

00:06:37.400 There are Republicans, disproportionately in party leadership,

00:06:42.480 there are Republicans who want Trump to lose.

00:06:45.580 There are Republicans who will feel better on November 6th if Kamala wins than if Trump wins.

00:06:53.220 There are Republicans who want Ted Cruz to lose in Texas, who want Rick Scott to lose,

00:06:58.280 who want some of these more contested races to go to the Democrat side rather than to the conservative Republican side.

00:07:06.860 Mitch has to go.

00:07:07.900 I know he's going to step down 25 years from now or something.

00:07:10.960 Remember, he had his retirement announcement.

00:07:14.200 He said, I'm stepping down in about 2052 or so.

00:07:18.100 Is it in January?

00:07:19.660 No, that's too far ahead.

00:07:21.060 And then for the Republicans who are vying to replace him, I don't know exactly who's up for it.

00:07:26.060 I'm not a member of the U.S. Senate.

00:07:28.340 According to news reports, it's people like John Thune.

00:07:31.240 It's people like John Cornyn.

00:07:33.860 It's only Johns are running to replace Mitch.

00:07:36.380 John Barrasso was in it.

00:07:37.740 I think he said he's not going to run for it.

00:07:39.320 So, okay, you've got John Thune, John Cornyn, whoever else is looking at it, maybe Rick Scott.

00:07:47.120 We need clear statements from them.

00:07:49.060 Mike Lee called for this just yesterday.

00:07:51.040 We need clear statements.

00:07:52.900 This is completely unacceptable behavior from Mitch McConnell.

00:07:57.460 Mitch has to go.

00:07:59.340 That's it.

00:08:01.240 Mitch McConnell seems to, it pains me because I like cocaine Mitch.

00:08:05.240 I've supported a lot of things he's done over the years.

00:08:07.620 He's probably not the most rock-ribbed conservative.

00:08:11.260 He undermines conservatives sometimes.

00:08:13.260 But I think he's been basically effective.

00:08:15.620 This is such a profound betrayal 12 days before an election.

00:08:21.360 I just don't see how you get over that.

00:08:23.420 He's going further than many Democrats are in helping Kamala and the Democrats here.

00:08:30.020 The Washington Post, left-wing establishment paper, as ever there was, the Washington Post thus far has not endorsed Kamala Harris.

00:08:39.400 You remember the LA Times has come out and actually said the LA Times will not endorse Kamala Harris, which is a pretty big deal.

00:08:47.600 The libs are trying to spin it and say, oh, it's just because the LA Times has new ownership.

00:08:52.300 So a new person bought the LA Times in 2018.

00:08:54.800 That doesn't explain it because the LA Times endorsed Joe Biden over Donald Trump in 2020.

00:09:02.840 So if you're trying to argue that the LA Times is somehow a right-wing paper, which is absurd, well, how do you explain 2020?

00:09:09.320 They endorsed Joe Biden over Trump.

00:09:12.020 They're just not endorsing Kamala Harris.

00:09:13.440 Why is the Washington Post not endorsed Kamala Harris now?

00:09:17.300 Oliver Darcy at CNN, a very, very liberal journalist.

00:09:21.500 Oliver Darcy is furious about this.

00:09:24.980 He wrote a piece on his blog, a puzzle at the Post.

00:09:27.640 With less than two weeks until ballots are cast in November, the Post has remained conspicuously silent on the highest-stakes election in recent memory.

00:09:33.700 Why?

00:09:34.160 Why is the LA Times explicitly not endorsing Harris?

00:09:37.260 Why is the Washington Post not endorsed Harris yet?

00:09:39.420 Why are people holding back?

00:09:40.560 Why did the Teamsters not endorse Harris?

00:09:42.140 Why are so many places that typically go for Democrats not endorsing Harris?

00:09:47.900 Two explanations.

00:09:49.680 Not mutually exclusive.

00:09:50.920 It could be both of them.

00:09:52.040 The one explanation, a lot of people think that Trump is going to win.

00:09:58.540 Things are looking good for Trump, and they don't want to get on the wrong side of that.

00:10:01.500 But even in elections that look like they're going to go for the Republicans, very often, the tried-and-true, dyed-in-the-wool libs will endorse the Democrat.

00:10:11.300 So what's the second explanation?

00:10:13.180 I think this is the more plausible explanation.

00:10:15.040 Because it looks ridiculous to endorse this woman.

00:10:19.920 This woman is obviously unfit to be president. 1.00

00:10:23.960 She doesn't know anything.

00:10:26.440 She's not popular.

00:10:28.580 She's never won a single vote in a primary while running for president.

00:10:31.500 Every time she speaks, her approval numbers go down.

00:10:35.320 She loses votes.

00:10:36.440 It's ridiculous.

00:10:38.420 And it makes you look ridiculous to endorse this woman.

00:10:41.880 It doesn't make you look ridiculous to endorse Biden in 2020 or even Biden in 2024.

00:10:46.900 Sure, he's got dementia and everything.

00:10:48.420 But he's still, he's proven himself in national politics.

00:10:52.420 The guy has staying power.

00:10:53.940 Okay?

00:10:54.100 The guy has gotten things done.

00:10:56.040 I'd say for better or worse, it's mostly for worse.

00:10:58.220 But at least, you know, if you're a Democrat, Joe Biden's a serious person.

00:11:02.320 Kamala Harris is not a serious person.

00:11:05.040 Even from the standpoint of Democrats, it just looks ridiculous to endorse her.

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00:12:31.380 Kamala Harris just sat down for an interview on NBC News. 0.99

00:12:35.760 Once again, a friendly outlet.

00:12:38.840 She was once again asked really simple, basic questions that even the liberal outlets have to ask her

00:12:44.840 if they want to maintain any facade of credibility.

00:12:48.400 And Kamala Harris once again totally flubs it. 1.00

00:12:51.800 Can you say that you were honest with the American people about what you saw in those moments with President Biden

00:12:57.260 as you were with him again and again repeatedly in that time?

00:13:00.860 Of course.

00:13:02.100 Joe Biden is an extremely accomplished, experienced, and capable in every way that anyone would want if they're president.

00:13:17.360 You never saw anything like what happened at the debate night behind closed doors with him?

00:13:20.940 It was a bad debate.

00:13:22.840 People have bad debates.

00:13:24.700 He is absolutely.

00:13:26.960 But that's the reason why you're here, and he's not running for the top of the ticket.

00:13:31.340 Well, you'd have to ask him if that's the only reason why.

00:13:35.100 What do you think?

00:13:37.100 I am running for president of the United States.

00:13:39.440 Joe Biden is not.

00:13:40.300 And my presidency will be about bringing a new generation of leadership to America that is focused on the work that we need to do

00:13:51.520 to invest in the ambitions and aspirations of the American people.

00:13:54.800 Okay.

00:13:55.440 Okay.

00:13:56.820 She still doesn't have an answer.

00:13:58.660 This should be the first question she has an answer to in her campaign, 1.00

00:14:02.020 because it's a question about why she is the nominee.

00:14:04.960 This should be the first thing they figured out.

00:14:06.340 They still haven't figured it out.

00:14:07.820 It's 11 days until the election.

00:14:13.240 Why can't she come up with an answer to this?

00:14:16.300 Because either way she answers, she looks bad.

00:14:19.340 So Kamala's maintaining Joe Biden is capable in every single way.

00:14:24.920 And then good on the reporter.

00:14:26.460 She goes, well, if he's capable in every single way, why are you here?

00:14:30.420 Why are you the top of the ticket?

00:14:31.560 Why was there a coup that undermined what all of the Democrat primary voters voted for just about

00:14:37.960 and put you there, someone who's never gotten a primary vote while running?

00:14:42.320 If Joe Biden is capable, Kamala Harris should not be the nominee.

00:14:46.080 If Joe Biden is not capable, then Kamala Harris needs to answer for why she covered up his dementia.

00:14:53.220 But either way, she's done something wrong.

00:14:58.000 Either way, it doesn't look good for her.

00:15:00.460 So you might ask, all right, if you're Kamala Harris,

00:15:03.480 if you just want to answer that question, your answer should be,

00:15:08.400 yeah, Joe is slipping.

00:15:09.720 He's in mental decline.

00:15:11.060 That's why we saw it at the debate.

00:15:12.760 It was so obvious to everyone, and that's why they replaced him with me.

00:15:20.300 And then the follow-up is, well, when did you first notice that he was in decline?

00:15:23.840 And she would say, you know, I didn't have a lot of face time with Joe.

00:15:28.020 I didn't see in my meetings with him, but you know how dementia is.

00:15:31.200 You have good days, you have bad days.

00:15:32.720 And so when I had face time with him, I didn't see this stuff, but it's clear he's in mental decline.

00:15:37.400 She could go even further, you might say, and say, look, I'm the vice president.

00:15:40.920 I'm not the president.

00:15:41.760 I don't really, I don't have much to do with this administration.

00:15:45.420 It's not like I was in all of these meetings with him.

00:15:47.300 But she can't do that for two reasons.

00:15:49.600 One, she's not qualified to be president. 1.00

00:15:51.900 So her chief qualification to be president is she can say, I'm the vice president.

00:15:55.440 I've been doing a lot.

00:15:56.260 Joe's imbued me with presidential authority on the border and on connecting rural Americans to high-speed internet,

00:16:02.000 both of which I totally failed at.

00:16:03.200 But whatever she say, I'm in the room.

00:16:05.400 I'm a decider.

00:16:06.020 I was the last person in the room with Biden when he decided on the botched pullout from Afghanistan.

00:16:10.980 All the particular examples make her look bad. 0.78

00:16:12.800 But the idea that she's been really involved in this administration is the only reason she can even semi-plausibly say with a straight face that she's ready to be president.

00:16:21.920 So she can't run away from the policies of Biden, even though politically it might help her because the Biden policies have failed and they're very unpopular with people on virtually every front other than maybe abortion.

00:16:32.560 But on all the real big issues that people care about, the economy, migration, foreign policy, you name it, Biden and Harris are underwater.

00:16:40.360 So she can't run away from it for that reason.

00:16:42.360 The other reason she can't run away from Biden is Biden already hates her.

00:16:48.100 Biden is already undermining her campaign.

00:16:50.700 When Joe Biden comes out and says, yeah, I've been talking to Ron DeSantis.

00:16:54.140 He's doing a great job handling this hurricane.

00:16:56.480 That undermines Kamala Harris, who was whining that DeSantis wouldn't take her call. 0.73

00:17:02.100 And then DeSantis says, why would I take her call?

00:17:03.920 She's not the president. 0.65

00:17:04.600 I'm talking to the president.

00:17:05.460 Joe Biden backs up who?

00:17:06.760 His vice president?

00:17:07.580 Does he back up Kamala?

00:17:08.560 No, he backs up DeSantis.

00:17:09.700 Biden already hates her for replacing him and for launching her presidential campaign in 2020 by calling him a racist.

00:17:16.120 So Kamala's in this tough position. 1.00

00:17:17.740 She's got to remain a little bit on Joe's good side because Joe Biden still wields some power in the Democrat Party.

00:17:23.340 So she's just trapped.

00:17:24.580 She has no answer on anything.

00:17:26.300 I mean, this isn't just on the relationships of the Democrat Party.

00:17:29.500 You see this on policy too.

00:17:31.600 Kamala was asked a question about the border wall.

00:17:34.220 And she was asked this question on CNN by Anderson Cooper.

00:17:37.480 The border wall was a big issue in 2020 when she was running for president. 1.00

00:17:43.120 And she said the border wall was a terrible idea, really dumb, really stupid.

00:17:47.100 She mocked it.

00:17:48.040 But then she came out and supported policies that would build a border wall in part because the wall worked. 1.00

00:17:54.940 And the migration crisis was was so out of control under Biden and Harris that they had to do something to stop the bleeding of their political support.

00:18:02.580 So Anderson Cooper, again, to his credit on CNN, asks Kamala about her her contradiction on the border wall.

00:18:08.880 Here's her non answer.

00:18:10.820 Under Donald Trump, you criticized the wall more than 50 times.

00:18:14.080 You called it stupid, useless and a medieval vanity project.

00:18:18.260 Is a border wall stupid?

00:18:19.700 Well, let's talk about Donald Trump and that border wall.

00:18:24.060 So remember, Donald Trump said Mexico would pay for it.

00:18:28.340 Come on.

00:18:29.020 They didn't.

00:18:30.400 How much of that wall did he build?

00:18:32.340 I think the last number I saw is about 2 percent.

00:18:34.760 And then when it came time for him to do a photo op, you know where he did it?

00:18:38.360 In the part of the wall that President Obama built.

00:18:41.160 But you're agreeing to a bill that would earmark $650 million to continue building that wall.

00:18:45.740 I I pledge that I am going to bring forward that bipartisan bill to fix the problem.

00:18:51.560 You're you're doing this compromise bill.

00:18:53.460 It does call for $650 million that was earmarked under Trump to actually still go to build the wall.

00:18:58.820 I'm not afraid of good ideas where they occur.

00:19:00.840 You don't think it's stupid anymore.

00:19:03.320 I think what he did and how he did it was did not make much sense because he actually didn't do much of anything.

00:19:09.980 I just talked about that wall.

00:19:11.920 Right.

00:19:12.180 We just talked about it.

00:19:13.020 He didn't actually do much of anything.

00:19:14.960 But you do want to build some wall.

00:19:17.560 I want to strengthen our border.

00:19:22.480 The wall is a bad idea.

00:19:25.560 It's a dumb medieval stupid. 0.90

00:19:27.220 It's a bad idea.

00:19:29.360 Anderson Cooper.

00:19:30.980 OK, but you you support allocating funds to build the wall.

00:19:35.740 Even though that was that was a Trump policy.

00:19:38.860 Well, yeah, I'm not afraid of good ideas wherever I can get them.

00:19:41.480 So you think the Trump border proposal is a good idea.

00:19:46.180 No, Trump's Trump's proposal is a bad idea.

00:19:51.660 But you support it now.

00:19:53.860 You support the wall.

00:19:56.260 Yeah, his was bad because he didn't build enough of the wall.

00:19:58.600 OK, so you want to build more of the wall.

00:20:01.440 I support.

00:20:03.320 I support the border.

00:20:07.440 She's running.

00:20:09.060 She's trying to run to the right of Trump. 0.86

00:20:11.140 He didn't build that wall big enough.

00:20:12.320 He didn't build that wall wide enough.

00:20:13.460 By the way, she picked a running mate who said that if if Republicans build a 25 foot wall, that he's going to build a 30 foot ladder factory to get over the wall. 0.92

00:20:22.680 But now she's running to the right of Trump on the wall.

00:20:25.220 Just, yeah, where's part about he didn't even build that wall big enough, that big, dumb wall.

00:20:28.980 But now it's good.

00:20:29.660 And he didn't.

00:20:30.240 He should have built more of a wall.

00:20:31.440 But then she's trying to run to the left of centrist Dems without ever explicitly saying, I support the wall. 1.00

00:20:37.680 She won't answer it.

00:20:38.780 Anderson Cooper presses her on it multiple times.

00:20:40.860 She said, I support.

00:20:42.840 I like security or whatever.

00:20:46.200 This is proof positive.

00:20:48.700 If you stand in the middle of the road, you will be hit by a truck.

00:20:54.360 Guaranteed in the long run.

00:20:57.380 She would be much better off right now.

00:20:59.360 If she said, I support border security, I don't support a wall.

00:21:05.360 It would be hard to explain why that is because walls obviously work, but she would be much better off if she said that.

00:21:10.500 Or if she said, no human being is illegal.

00:21:13.000 What Trump did is unconscionable.

00:21:14.760 It's cruel.

00:21:15.900 It's evil.

00:21:17.180 I don't support it.

00:21:19.260 I support.

00:21:20.200 And then she can make up some other ridiculous pseudo policy to deal with illegal immigration. 1.00

00:21:26.420 She'd be better off in that case.

00:21:27.540 She'd probably be better off if she said, I support open borders.

00:21:31.300 Maybe.

00:21:31.640 Maybe not.

00:21:33.240 But at least a little bit of clarity here would give people the impression that this woman is not just completely confused and incompetent, constantly contradicting herself, even within the same breath.

00:21:46.480 Really weak stuff.

00:21:47.420 So because the Democrats have nothing, they have nothing at this point in the campaign.

00:21:54.400 They have got to go back to the old playbook.

00:21:56.920 So they found some lady that no one's ever heard of who is going to claim that 31 years ago Donald Trump made a pass at her.

00:22:04.720 There's so much more to say.

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00:23:20.260 My favorite comment yesterday is from Henry Biamen, 8431, who says,

00:23:25.260 Don't forget about the silent Trump voters.

00:23:27.020 These are the people who say they love Kamala, but secretly vote for Trump.

00:23:31.880 It's a small group.

00:23:33.220 They're called the Biden family.

00:23:34.760 So true.

00:23:35.320 So true.

00:23:35.780 I wouldn't be surprised if Hunter voted for Trump at this point.

00:23:39.180 Dems are going back to the old playbook.

00:23:41.400 They found a lady, another lady, who says that 31 years ago, the early, in 1993, Donald Trump sexually harassed her.

00:23:54.460 And I'm making fun of this story because I don't believe her.

00:23:59.560 But I do take stories like this somewhat seriously.

00:24:03.540 I know a lot of people just write off the whole Me Too movement.

00:24:07.220 I actually do think that men can be predators.

00:24:10.820 And I do think a lot of women's stories, especially coming out of Hollywood, are true.

00:24:15.420 It's worth pointing out that most of the men involved are left-wing Democrats who are at the height of sectors that are totally controlled by the libs.

00:24:22.760 But even putting that aside, Republican men can do it too.

00:24:25.260 Conservative men can do it too.

00:24:27.260 So I don't reject the claims of sexual harassment totally out of hand.

00:24:32.260 I think there are reasons that women don't come forward for periods of time. 1.00

00:24:35.400 I think they can be embarrassed.

00:24:36.620 I think they're afraid of reprisals.

00:24:37.620 So I actually, I'm fairly moderate on this sort of issue.

00:24:42.340 On this woman's claims, I think there are some holes in her story.

00:24:48.100 Some reasons, at least, not to find her credible.

00:24:51.020 Here she is in her own words.

00:24:52.020 When Jeffrey looked at me and said, you know, let's go stop by and see Trump.

00:24:58.860 And so we went to Trump Tower and went up the elevator.

00:25:03.820 And moments later, Trump was greeting us.

00:25:07.060 And he pulled me into him and started groping me.

00:25:15.340 He put his hands all over my breasts. 1.00

00:25:22.020 My waist, my butt.

00:25:27.720 And I froze.

00:25:29.480 And I froze because I was so deeply confused about what was happening.

00:25:36.080 Because the hands were moving all over me.

00:25:38.120 Yet these two men were like smiling at one another and continuing on in their conversation.

00:25:44.320 That is why I am here tonight.

00:25:47.240 I figured it was time to share this.

00:25:49.420 And I am ready to win this election.

00:25:52.460 The thought of that monster being back in the White House is my absolute worst nightmare.

00:25:58.700 So thank you very much.

00:26:02.120 The thought of that monster being back in the White House is my absolute worst nightmare.

00:26:07.100 That's the line.

00:26:08.260 That's the big hole in her story.

00:26:09.940 Yes, this allegedly took place decades ago.

00:26:14.740 That's a red flag.

00:26:16.620 Yes, the only witness that she mentions here is a guy who quite famously is dead.

00:26:22.640 So dead men tell no tales.

00:26:24.700 Like, you know, there's no proof of this whatsoever.

00:26:28.260 But really the big hole in her story is right there.

00:26:31.020 The thought of that man being back in the White House is my worst nightmare.

00:26:33.960 Okay, then why didn't you come out in 2020?

00:26:39.280 Why didn't you come out in 1994?

00:26:42.600 That's one question.

00:26:43.860 Or 93, I guess, when it was.

00:26:45.980 But okay, you didn't want to.

00:26:47.380 You moved on.

00:26:47.860 You put it out of your mind.

00:26:49.400 The Jeffrey she's talking about here is Jeffrey Epstein, by the way.

00:26:52.020 I think most people picked up on that.

00:26:53.720 But okay, you were hanging around some dodgy people.

00:26:57.160 Okay.

00:26:58.460 I can even understand why in 2016 you might not come forward.

00:27:01.620 Oh, we don't think Trump's going to win.

00:27:03.140 And oh, it's no big deal.

00:27:04.720 Even if this really happened, you know, he's not going to be president.

00:27:08.280 All the smart models are saying 99% chance Hillary gets elected. 0.99

00:27:11.420 Okay.

00:27:11.880 Oh, wow.

00:27:12.380 We were all so surprised when Trump won.

00:27:15.140 But 2020, he looked pretty good.

00:27:19.640 Obviously, the Democrats changed all the election rules.

00:27:21.700 So it was difficult to predict exactly what would happen.

00:27:24.480 But Trump looked pretty good.

00:27:25.780 By the old election rules, he would have won.

00:27:27.500 Almost certainly.

00:27:29.180 Why wouldn't you come out then when there was such a risk of Trump getting reelected?

00:27:32.580 This is my worst nightmare.

00:27:33.840 Why not come out then?

00:27:35.960 Why not come out earlier in this cycle when Trump was looking pretty good?

00:27:39.740 Why not come out after the first debate with Biden when Biden collapsed?

00:27:43.700 Why wait until a dozen days before the election without any proof, any evidence really of your claims?

00:27:53.000 I mean, this woman makes Christine Blasey Ford look credible. 0.79

00:27:57.480 Christine Blasey Ford came out.

00:27:59.120 Remember, she was Kavanaugh's accuser, even though she had no proof that any of this stuff happened.

00:28:03.620 It was decades prior.

00:28:05.000 The eyewitnesses who were there contradicted her.

00:28:07.300 Even her friends, even her supporters contradicted her.

00:28:09.540 This woman, all we know about her is that she was a model in the 90s. 0.94

00:28:15.540 She claims to have dated Jeffrey Epstein, not a good sign.

00:28:18.940 And she very actively campaigned for Barack Obama.

00:28:23.880 Once again, you could say, well, actually, it was the predations of people like Donald Trump that led her into political activism.

00:28:29.680 No, you can't say that because she was actively campaigning for Obama long before Trump was a serious figure on the political scene.

00:28:37.120 Then she announces this on a Kamala Harris campaign call.

00:28:41.700 Not very credible stuff, folks.

00:28:44.320 This is the best Kamala's got.

00:28:45.880 This is just like her whole campaign.

00:28:49.540 It's not that it's so shocking.

00:28:51.960 Yeah, oh, well, you trot out some woman who, without any evidence, claims that a guy did something to her.

00:28:57.340 No, it's just not even effective.

00:29:01.700 They're not, just like the rest of the Kamala campaign, even this October surprise, it's not even competently done.

00:29:07.560 So, okay, that doesn't work.

00:29:09.020 Now they're going back to the well.

00:29:10.760 They're trying celebrity endorsements.

00:29:13.540 And what's their big celeb endorsement?

00:29:15.440 A lot of celebs have sat on the sidelines or given only mild support.

00:29:19.840 So, all right, they got to really dig back.

00:29:22.160 We're going back to the 90s, folks.

00:29:23.600 Going back to the 90s for the sexual harassment accusers.

00:29:25.920 We're going back to the 90s for the celeb endorsements.

00:29:28.440 They got one from Michael Keaton.

00:29:31.860 Hey, hi, Michael.

00:29:33.340 You know, for some of you folks who, guys mostly, I guess, who are thinking about attending a rally with Musk and Trump,

00:29:42.980 they don't really respect you.

00:29:47.380 They laugh at you behind your back.

00:29:49.520 They think you're stupid.

00:29:50.600 They don't want to hang out with you.

00:29:53.520 They have nothing in common with you.

00:29:55.520 They're not your bros.

00:29:58.060 And I'm telling you, when Trump, years ago, I guess, said, I could shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue and that still vote for me,

00:30:06.260 and basically what he's saying in parentheses is, these people are so stupid. 0.58

00:30:10.700 They're so dumb.

00:30:11.620 They'd still vote for me.

00:30:13.920 They have no respect for you.

00:30:15.480 Trust me.

00:30:16.860 Okay.

00:30:18.120 These Republicans, they have nothing in common with you.

00:30:22.400 I have a lot in common with you, working man.

00:30:24.440 I'm Michael Keaton, who have been a very rich, very famous Hollywood celebrity for decades.

00:30:29.760 Hi.

00:30:30.080 It's coming to you from sunny Southern California.

00:30:33.260 I'm your bro.

00:30:34.640 That's me.

00:30:35.480 How do you do, fellow poor men?

00:30:38.840 I'm, yeah, I don't think so.

00:30:40.300 Wynn Handman, the great acting teacher, observed that to be an actor, to be a good actor, you have to be a gullible fool, meaning you need to be suggestible.

00:30:49.160 You need to be able to give yourself to the imaginary circumstances and live truthfully within them.

00:30:55.720 I think Michael Keaton's a good actor.

00:30:57.860 Let's put it that way.

00:30:58.720 I don't think that's going to move a lot.

00:30:59.800 You know what kind of endorsements I think will move people?

00:31:02.380 The kind of endorsements Republicans are getting right now.

00:31:04.560 Republicans in Pennsylvania are focusing through two chief Republican surrogates, J.D. Vance and RFK, specifically for the Catholic vote.

00:31:14.820 Here is Bobby Kennedy, who, albeit perhaps a less observant Catholic for a lot of times, though he did attend the church that I was baptized in.

00:31:24.980 My grandmother went to the church that Bobby Kennedy would go to for 60 years.

00:31:28.200 So, you know, he actually does come around the church sometimes.

00:31:30.700 Here's Bobby Kennedy's ad targeting Catholics in Pennsylvania.

00:31:34.560 My Catholicism provided the foundation for a lifetime of striving to perfect my personal relationship with God.

00:31:42.320 Two features of Catholicism are the notions of original sin and the concept of a forgiving God.

00:31:48.040 Our job is to strive to perfect ourselves through conscious contact with our Creator, knowing that in human form, we're never going to achieve perfection.

00:31:56.160 We'll always slip, but each time we get to get up and strive again.

00:31:59.940 The same is true for America. 0.84

00:32:02.280 Even when we don't live up to our national ideals, we get to remedy our shortfalls through unified action.

00:32:08.280 That hope has led me to support Donald Trump.

00:32:11.020 President Trump has promised to take bold action on our economy on the border and on restoring children's health.

00:32:16.800 The Democratic Party has become the party of war, censorship, and corruption.

00:32:20.980 Catholics may disagree on many issues, but we must find a way to love our children more than we hate each other.

00:32:26.720 I hope you'll join me in supporting Donald Trump.

00:32:34.980 Great, great ad.

00:32:36.180 Really good ad with Kennedy.

00:32:37.560 And in a way, it's helpful for a lot of people, I think, listening to this ad, that RFK is not a super trad, totally observant Catholic.

00:32:49.620 He's like a lot of people.

00:32:50.620 Catholicism is a sticky identity from the perspective of politics.

00:32:53.580 Say, I'm Catholic, but, you know, I don't always go to church.

00:32:56.120 I don't always avail myself of the sacraments.

00:32:57.800 They should.

00:32:58.240 It's good.

00:32:58.680 You should do that.

00:32:59.920 You know, going to mass is an obligation on Sunday, and you must avail yourself of the sacraments.

00:33:03.880 But what I'm saying is Kennedy is meeting a lot of people where they are.

00:33:08.140 J.D. Vance just came out.

00:33:09.100 He had an op-ed also.

00:33:10.400 I think it's in the Pittsburgh Tribune, something like that.

00:33:13.160 Kamala Harris's prejudice against Catholics, pointing out all of the attacks and insults that Kamala's made on Catholics.

00:33:19.360 Why focus on Catholics? 1.00

00:33:20.300 Because one in four voters in Pennsylvania is Catholic.

00:33:24.200 And the Kamala campaign, in its brilliance, has decided to do everything that it can to offend Catholics in the final weeks of the campaign. 0.70

00:33:33.900 To say there won't be religious exemptions.

00:33:35.780 They're going to force Christian doctors to perform abortions against their conscience. 1.00

00:33:40.600 To mock the Blessed Sacrament in that Gretchen Whitmer video with the Doritos.

00:33:45.840 You remember that?

00:33:46.340 The governor of Michigan.

00:33:47.100 So they're focusing and they're saying, okay, Trump is doing much better among black men, according to the polls.

00:33:54.960 Kamala's really losing support among black men.

00:33:56.680 That's interesting.

00:33:57.500 Trump doing much better among Hispanics.

00:33:59.520 Doing pretty well among Arabs and Muslims broadly in places like Michigan.

00:34:04.120 Now doing well among Catholics.

00:34:05.700 Catholics had leaned Democrat for a long time.

00:34:08.380 Now we've got a Catholic VP.

00:34:09.700 We've got a Catholic top surrogate in Bobby Kennedy.

00:34:11.620 Obviously, wow, maybe you're seeing more evidence of an even fuller political realignment.

00:34:18.620 It's going to really hinge on Pennsylvania, which is a crucial state.

00:34:22.040 I mentioned at the top of the show that people, this follows from the previous topic, that people are being arrested for praying in their head in the UK.

00:34:30.900 And that's true.

00:34:31.540 We don't have time to get to that story right now.

00:34:33.260 So you know I'm a tease.

00:34:34.120 We'll have to get to it next week.

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00:35:25.360 Hi, Mr. Knowles.

00:35:26.180 My name is Abby, and I'm 15.

00:35:27.780 I've been listening to your show for almost two years now.

00:35:30.120 My question has to do with how dating should be handled at my age.

00:35:32.720 I met a guy through my homeschool co-op last year that I really enjoy spending time with.

00:35:36.480 He's 16 and a Christian, which is the number one requirement on my list, and he loves to read just like me.

00:35:41.280 We've even been swabbing books with each other over the last year.

00:35:44.240 Last week, he expressed that he has feelings for me and would love to ask me out.

00:35:47.480 He didn't speak up sooner because he didn't know if I would be allowed to.

00:35:50.120 I said I would absolutely love it, but my parents are against dating at a young age and want me to wait at least for another year.

00:35:55.380 How should I go about my friendship with him now because I don't think there's any going back to being just friends after what he said?

00:36:00.980 And how can I maybe convince my parents to let me date him or at least spend more time with him sooner?

00:36:05.060 Thank you so much.

00:36:05.900 Love the show.

00:36:06.580 That's very sweet.

00:36:08.560 That's really sweet.

00:36:09.440 Especially, you know, sweet little Elisa and I started dating when I was 16 and my much younger child bride was 15 and a half.

00:36:17.160 So, I think that's really great.

00:36:21.360 And I think your parents are right that you want to make sure there are real limits set on dating as teenagers.

00:36:26.980 That part is important too.

00:36:28.940 But you are dating is the thing.

00:36:32.180 The fact that you're speaking this way with him and you're exchanging books, it's really nice.

00:36:37.780 Compared to modern dating, this is really sweet and wholesome.

00:36:40.900 So, you are dating.

00:36:42.760 The question is, what kind of limits will be set on that?

00:36:47.040 Probably it would be imprudent for your parents to totally, well, probably it would just be ill-advised to stamp out this young love.

00:36:55.960 I mean, it seems like you're, he seems like a nice guy.

00:36:58.560 But also imprudent because you're still going to like each other and you're still probably going to talk to each other in some way.

00:37:04.680 And so, you know, it's not really possible to totally stamp that out.

00:37:09.480 You just want to set the proper limits so that you guys aren't going up to, you know, neck up at, you know, romance point in your, you know, Chevy or I don't know.

00:37:18.500 This is like scenes out of Happy Days or something.

00:37:20.320 But you want to make sure that you're doing this.

00:37:23.240 You are dating in an appropriate way that is appropriate both from your age and from the perspective of morality.

00:37:32.980 I mean, but also, you didn't meet this guy like Roland CeeLo behind the, you know, behind the club downtown or something.

00:37:40.700 You met this guy at a homeschool co-op.

00:37:42.020 So, he probably would wish for the same thing.

00:37:45.220 So, I would just, I would speak openly to your parents about this.

00:37:47.180 I, not to sound too much like a lib, but I do favor relatively open communication and make clear your point.

00:37:55.520 You know, you don't want to be doing anything that's untoward or inappropriate for your age or your station.

00:38:00.820 But you, you know, you like the boy and he's a nice boy.

00:38:03.520 And so, I don't know, you know, maybe have your parents invite the kid over for dinner or something like that.

00:38:08.580 It seems nice.

00:38:09.520 Also, because you're not, it's not like you're 12 and 13 here.

00:38:11.960 You know, you're 15 and 16.

00:38:13.960 Pretty soon you're going to be 16 and 17.

00:38:15.400 Pretty soon you'll be 17 and 18.

00:38:16.680 And then, you know, now you're, now you're almost adult.

00:38:19.440 So, that's what I would do.

00:38:20.460 Because young love can really be beautiful.

00:38:22.100 My, my grandparents were, they dated in high school, probably around 15, 16.

00:38:28.140 And they were married for almost 70 years before my grandfather died.

00:38:31.380 So, anyway, I think that could, that could be great.

00:38:33.980 Just set the right, right boundaries on it.

00:38:35.900 Next question.

00:38:37.360 There's something the polling is suggesting that I'd like your take on and perhaps a clarification.

00:38:41.000 The polls are showing, as they have for a while, that women are up for Harris and down for Trump.

00:38:47.260 But, contrary to what people might think, the polls are also showing that likely female voters care more about the economy than they care about abortion.

00:38:55.180 Although they care about both quite heavily.

00:38:59.440 They care more about the economy.

00:39:01.760 Since the economy is an issue that undercuts Harris's administration and Joe Biden's administration, and this is plain to see, wouldn't that suggest that women should be up for Trump?

00:39:10.840 So, how do you square those two things?

00:39:12.900 Thanks.

00:39:14.120 Well, they're lying or gaslighting themselves is the only way to explain it.

00:39:19.400 For some of the women who say the economy is really the most important issue for them, but they're going to vote for Kamala, who's completely destroyed the economy over Trump. 1.00

00:39:29.780 Either they're just really willfully, woefully ignorant about the economy, or they just recognize that it's unseemly to say that your top political issue is the ability to murder babies.

00:39:44.960 You know, I think even people who support legal abortion recognize that's a little unseemly.

00:39:49.700 It makes it appear that you have a real fanatical bloodlust for infants.

00:39:54.740 And so, you might say, no, that's on my list.

00:39:56.480 I, of course, support women's rights to do these things, but I really care about the economy.

00:40:01.420 You know, to say the economy is that your top issue is to make one seem very serious and moderate.

00:40:06.500 But, obviously, they don't really mean it if they're going to continue to vote for Kamala.

00:40:11.220 So, I think they're gaslighting themselves.

00:40:13.240 And I think women broadly gaslight themselves. 1.00

00:40:16.320 I was speaking with a young woman, pro-life woman, who pointed out that women on the issue of abortion, they just kind of gaslight themselves. 0.99

00:40:25.080 They know, especially if a woman's been pregnant, they know it's a baby. 0.98

00:40:29.980 It's a baby.

00:40:31.020 You know, it's not, can we be blunt, just us gals here talking, it's a baby, obviously.

00:40:36.680 What do you think it is?

00:40:37.400 It's a duck?

00:40:38.300 You think it's a telephone?

00:40:39.520 No, it's a baby that's inside of you.

00:40:41.340 An abortion kills a baby.

00:40:43.460 That's all it does.

00:40:44.900 What else could abortion possibly do? 0.54

00:40:48.100 That's why they use all sorts of euphemisms about reproductive freedom. 0.91

00:40:51.580 But it's just, they're just gaslighting themselves because they want the license to do that because being pregnant is very scary, even for pro-life women, even for women with a lot of kids. 1.00

00:41:00.840 Getting pregnant is very, very scary.

00:41:03.320 But, so they want the ability to kill their baby, but they don't want to acknowledge that because it's ghastly and obviously evil.

00:41:09.160 So they just, they just kind of gaslight themselves.

00:41:11.840 And I think that's probably what's going on with the, with the women who say, no, no, no, I, I care much more about the economy than the license to murder babies. 1.00

00:41:18.380 But, uh, I'm going to vote for Kamal anyway.

00:41:20.540 Don't ask me why.

00:41:21.600 That's why.

00:41:22.300 Next question.

00:41:22.780 Hey, Mike, recently on your show, you said that Jerry Seinfeld was right for recanting his assertion that wokeness is ruining comedy.

00:41:31.160 And you have agreed with him because comedians have always had to change their material to fit the current cultural climate.

00:41:36.140 And I agree with you on this, but here's the problem.

00:41:39.600 I'm a consumer.

00:41:40.720 So as a consumer, I can tell that the content is worse.

00:41:43.360 And I remember a time when the content was funnier.

00:41:46.700 And I'm pretty sure I'm not looking at the past through rose-colored glasses because every time I tune into a comedy podcast and I hear those PC comedians talk about this,

00:41:56.220 they insist with more passion and fervor than any missionary I've ever met that comedy has only gotten better.

00:42:02.200 And they are protesting about this so heavily that I just know that it's not true.

00:42:07.740 Anyway, what are your thoughts?

00:42:08.720 Thanks.

00:42:09.660 Good question.

00:42:10.500 You're just a little off in your premise.

00:42:12.940 I agree with Seinfeld that he should stop complaining about how the left has destroyed comedy.

00:42:18.520 That's what he said.

00:42:19.060 He said, you know, look, it's like a skier.

00:42:21.640 You got to make the gate.

00:42:22.600 Okay?

00:42:22.880 There's no excuses.

00:42:23.840 You just got to keep up with the culture.

00:42:26.180 So that's why I'm – and then as part of that, he recanted.

00:42:28.880 He said, I'm not saying the left destroyed comedy.

00:42:30.500 Forget about that.

00:42:31.100 I recant it.

00:42:32.200 Even that was kind of a joke, I think, that he was telling.

00:42:34.720 So, no, I think it's good – I think he's right not to make excuses and to just try to make the gate.

00:42:42.620 You know, you got to play in politics in the reality that you're in.

00:42:46.020 But the left certainly has destroyed comedy because they're humorless and divorced from reality.

00:42:49.920 So that, of course, is true.

00:42:51.280 But nevertheless, you can either whine about it and be taken out of the game, which is what Seinfeld was saying he did not want to do, or you can make the best with what you've got, which is what we're all called upon to do in politics, which is sometimes described as the art of the second best.

00:43:05.060 Next question.

00:43:05.880 Hey, Michael, Benji here.

00:43:08.200 Big fan of the show, but I have a question.

00:43:10.460 As a conservative evangelical, I have been raised by my parents, my church, and my seminary to be deep in history.

00:43:16.400 And when I read history, I see that as a Protestant, I am under an anathema from the Second Council of Constantinople, the Lateran Council, the Second Council of Nicaea, the Ecumenical Council of Florence, all the anathemas at Trent, Papal Bull in Ephabilis Deus, the First Vatican Council, and Munifici Tessimus Deus.

00:43:35.000 But then, when I read Vatican II, we Protestants are called separated brethren, part of ecclesial communities.

00:43:40.780 How can I be called a brother in the Lord when I am under so many anathemas?

00:43:43.560 And don't tell me anathema doesn't mean separated from God.

00:43:46.660 That is what the Koine Greek means, how the medieval church defined it, and to deny that is to use the same postmodern hermeneutics the libs used on the Second Amendment.

00:43:54.700 But how can I be a brother in the Lord when I am under so many anathemas?

00:43:58.480 Okay, well, that's a really, really good question.

00:44:01.420 However, I think you've anticipated my answer by trying to get me not to give the answer, which is that anathema is, well, putting aside its etymology for a moment.

00:44:13.560 Anathema was a juridical term within the Catholic Church that pertained to the episcopate.

00:44:20.380 So anathema is a punishment inflicted upon a member of the church by a bishop.

00:44:28.060 And so when you mention councils that occurred before the Protestant Revolution, notice you were mentioning councils from the 15th century or earlier.

00:44:38.620 How is it possible that you, for being a Protestant, would be considered anathema in councils that predate the Protestant Revolution, that predate Martin Luther?

00:44:49.340 Well, because you're saying, because you have certain ideas, right.

00:44:51.780 But the anathema would apply, as it applies just in practice, to Catholics.

00:44:57.580 And it's a form of excommunication.

00:44:59.300 It's not even really in the code of canon law anymore.

00:45:01.980 So that's why, because you're not under the jurisdiction of a bishop.

00:45:06.180 And it's just not in effect in the Catholic Church.

00:45:10.620 So how are you a brethren, one of the brethren in Christ, albeit separated?

00:45:18.060 Well, because you profess belief in Christ, you have some kind of faith in Christ.

00:45:22.960 But you're separated in that.

00:45:24.560 Obviously, you're separated from the church.

00:45:25.900 But also, you do not have access to the sacraments.

00:45:30.520 So sometimes Catholics describe it as wishing and praying that one comes into the fullness of truth.

00:45:38.720 If someone on a desert island somewhere could hear the name of Christ and say, wow, I believe in Christ.

00:45:43.280 I have faith in Christ.

00:45:46.400 There's an aspect of truth there, a lot of truth.

00:45:49.280 But it's not the fullness of truth, because our Lord gives us a church and gives us sacraments and gives us tools to grow with him and in him.

00:45:58.760 So anyway, that's why.

00:46:01.420 But I think you anticipated my answer a little bit by saying, don't tell me that anathema is a juridical term and procedure within the Catholic Church that does not even exist in the present code of canon law.

00:46:13.760 Well, no, that is what it is.

00:46:14.820 That is why.

00:46:16.080 It's something that would be applied to Catholics.

00:46:18.760 You, however, would say, I'm not a Catholic.

00:46:20.960 Okay, wouldn't apply.

00:46:22.360 Though it'd be great if you did become a Catholic. 0.55

00:46:23.800 So if you're interested, maybe write in again to the mailbag.

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00:47:03.160 I've been told because I'm a white male, kind of at the top of the pile, how do I get down from the top?

00:47:08.460 I don't think you necessarily can.

00:47:10.880 They get past all the talk about racism.

00:47:13.440 We have to love each other.

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00:47:24.000 I think you've got some journeying to do.

00:47:25.400 Just talk to me about the statistics.

00:47:27.020 We have an epidemic.

00:47:27.520 20 million crimes a year.

00:47:30.020 6,000, 7,000 hate crimes.

00:47:31.720 No, there's no epidemic.

00:47:32.700 Why are we talking about statistics?

00:47:34.180 This is not a matter of statistics.

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The Michael Knowles Show - October 25, 2024

Ep. 1603 - Democrats Try to #MeToo Trump Again

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