The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1695 - Libs PANIC as Poll Names AOC the Face of the Democratic Party

00:00:00.000 A new CNN poll asked Democrats which politician best reflects the views of their party.

00:00:05.500 With a leadership vacuum among Democrats right now, these kinds of surveys are crucial

00:00:09.320 to figuring out who will lead the Democrat party in the future.

00:00:13.800 And can you guess who won? Can you guess who won? You're going to have to wait

00:00:17.580 until the stinger is over to get the answer. But I'll give you a hint.

00:00:22.040 If this poll is accurate, Republicans will rule for a thousand years.

00:00:26.700 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:30.000 Welcome back to the show. Libs have a new campaign, an official campaign,

00:00:51.580 to decolonize Stratford-upon-Avon, the birthplace of William Shakespeare.

00:00:57.820 The only way I can think of decolonizing Stratford-upon-Avon is by kicking out all of the Normans. 0.99

00:01:04.340 I don't think that's what they have in mind.

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00:01:36.500 Okay, you have your guesses.

00:01:38.800 CNN poll, so this is a liberal outlet doing a poll of liberals.

00:01:42.500 Poll conducted March 6th through 9th.

00:01:45.280 Poll surveying Democrats and Democrat-leading independents.

00:01:48.920 Who is the Democrat who best reflects the views of the Democratic Party?

00:01:54.220 Don't forget, the Dems just went down in flames in the 2024 elections

00:01:57.680 because the party had lost the common sense, moved way too far to the left.

00:02:01.000 Drumroll, please.

00:02:02.380 The Democrat who best reflects the views of the party, have they learned their lesson?

00:02:06.660 No, it's AOC.

00:02:11.040 AOC tops out the poll.

00:02:12.760 There are a lot of people, a lot of people listed on the poll,

00:02:15.560 so no one gets a majority or anything close to it.

00:02:18.100 But the one with the biggest numbers on the board, AOC with 10%,

00:02:22.860 followed by Kamala Harris.

00:02:27.420 Even putting ideology aside for a second, I don't know that Kamala Harris has an ideology. 0.98

00:02:31.520 I don't know that she thinks about very much of anything other than

00:02:34.340 just attaining the next political office.

00:02:36.580 But regardless of her ideology,

00:02:38.740 Kamala Harris, one of the least popular politicians in the country.

00:02:41.960 Good at advancing herself in politics, bad at convincing people to vote for her. 0.98

00:02:47.880 She comes next with 9%, followed by, all right, are we going to get a moderate in here?

00:02:52.880 Are we going to get a popular person in here?

00:02:54.300 No!

00:02:55.220 We got Bernie Sanders next at 8%, followed by, come on,

00:02:59.760 we got to get a moderate in here somewhere, right?

00:03:01.400 No, Hakeem Jeffries, the leader of the House.

00:03:06.020 For the Democrats, 6%, followed by Barack Obama.

00:03:09.660 Okay, that's a little bit more normal.

00:03:10.640 He's still the most left-wing ideological president we've ever had. 0.98

00:03:14.940 Followed by Jasmine Crockett, that complete lunatic, 1.00

00:03:18.340 that woman who makes a big spectacle of herself in the House. 1.00

00:03:22.160 I think she's a freshman.

00:03:23.300 I don't know.

00:03:23.620 She's pretty new on the scene in terms of her national media presence, at least. 0.97

00:03:27.620 4%, followed by, then you get to Gavin Newsom, who is trying to position himself as a moderate.

00:03:34.260 He's not a moderate.

00:03:35.520 He is avant-garde when it comes to left-wing social issues.

00:03:39.360 He was officiating so-called gay marriages in 2004 as mayor of San Francisco,

00:03:43.720 but he is trying to moderate himself now.

00:03:45.880 But he's all the way down there at 2%.

00:03:48.160 Pelosi, 2%.

00:03:49.860 It's crazy to think Nancy Pelosi is now a relative moderate in the Democrat Party.

00:03:54.240 Alyssa Slotkin wants to portray herself as a moderate, 2%. 0.93

00:03:56.700 Chuck Schumer does effectively portray himself as a moderate, 2%.

00:04:00.480 So the poll is clear, and it's not just one example,

00:04:03.820 or you can't just blame it on charisma or something like that.

00:04:06.860 The leftists, the radicals, the generally unpopular people are toward the top of this poll.

00:04:13.940 They're the ones that the Democrat base says, yes, that person represents me.

00:04:18.040 And the relative moderates and the relatively popular people who can sort of reach across the aisle,

00:04:25.080 they're at the bottom.

00:04:26.380 This is a huge problem for Democrats because the issue, I was just discussing this yesterday with a comedian.

00:04:33.620 The issue that dominated the election that the Democrats still haven't come to grips with is transgenderism.

00:04:41.800 Or just broadly, because forget, I'm so sick and tired of talking about transgenderism. 0.73

00:04:46.740 Broadly, it's the notion that the Democrats have lost the common sense,

00:04:49.400 which is represented by transgenderism because you're telling people to believe that a man is a woman.

00:04:53.820 But it's this notion that the Democrats have just lost the common sense.

00:04:56.840 They are not speaking to reality anymore.

00:04:59.440 They are totally disconnected from the real problems people have on the ground.

00:05:02.760 So that's why you're seeing people like Gavin Newsom launch a podcast where he's inviting on all these big MAGA Republicans,

00:05:08.900 MAGA Republicans who were part of the coalition that just won the popular vote,

00:05:12.580 trying to move a little bit more toward the center.

00:05:14.840 And yet the Democrat base says, yeah, we don't want you.

00:05:18.240 We don't want you.

00:05:19.780 Even as elites in the Democrat Party are begging, they're saying, please, we want to win an election in 2028.

00:05:24.800 Bill Maher interviewing Josh Shapiro, the relatively moderate Democrat governor of Pennsylvania.

00:05:30.680 Pennsylvania, a crucially important state in the Rust Belt.

00:05:34.240 He's saying, hey, I think you're going to run.

00:05:36.100 I think we need one of these moderates to run.

00:05:38.220 And then the Democrat Party is going to regain the common sense.

00:05:40.480 And then maybe we'll win an election again.

00:05:42.920 OK, well, the way I see it now, if you're running, and I think you are.

00:05:48.680 You're not letting this go, are you?

00:05:50.020 No, no, no.

00:05:50.820 No, and I think it's good you are.

00:05:52.280 I like the field so far.

00:05:53.680 Or Rahm Emanuel, I think it's going to run, it looks like.

00:05:56.680 Our governor here, Gavin Newsom, I think it's going to run.

00:05:59.080 Pete Buttigieg, those are the people I see.

00:06:01.100 And they're all sort of on the same page, which is the Democrats, they're either people who are moving to the center, have moved to the center.

00:06:09.280 They got the memo, I think.

00:06:11.420 What I fear is the Democratic primary voter, who doesn't want that kind of person.

00:06:17.300 Yeah.

00:06:17.620 They want the firebrand.

00:06:19.280 What do you do in the Democratic primary?

00:06:21.080 OK, and Bill Maher's prediction, which actually came out before this poll did, Bill Maher's prediction proven totally right.

00:06:28.340 He says, I fear the Democrat primary voter.

00:06:30.280 He's not going to let us have one of these moderate so-called Democrats, or at the very least charismatic Democrats, who can win over the other side.

00:06:37.260 And Bill Maher is right about that.

00:06:39.880 For now.

00:06:40.760 For now, the Democrat primary voter just wants a radical leftist, even more left wing than Newsom, Shapiro, Buttigieg, give me a break, and the rest of them.

00:06:51.580 Now, this is not just a Democrat problem.

00:06:53.700 Republicans have faced this problem, too.

00:06:55.240 It's kind of trite political analysis to say, you know, well, if you can survive the primary, then you, as a moderate, will have an easier time winning the general election.

00:07:05.180 That's conventional wisdom.

00:07:06.560 And I suppose that's, there's enough truth to it.

00:07:09.360 You tack to the extreme during the primary, you tack to the center during the general.

00:07:14.160 So how did the Republicans overcome this?

00:07:16.740 This is the lesson that Democrats need to learn if they want to win an election again.

00:07:19.980 And I don't, I'm not even afraid to tell it to them.

00:07:21.960 I'm not even afraid that, that I'm going to give them the secret because I don't know that they can actually do anything about it.

00:07:26.640 The way that the Republicans overcame this problem, how do you, how do you get through the primary, but then have a good enough candidate to get to the general election?

00:07:34.980 How do you get those, those are sometimes opposed to one another.

00:07:38.680 It's because we had this political genius, Donald Trump, who was able to form a new coalition.

00:07:46.000 That's what did it.

00:07:48.400 Trump, when he ran in the GOP primary in 2016, would you call him the most conservative candidate by the conventions of 2016 politics?

00:07:57.540 Certainly not.

00:07:59.560 Certainly you would say that Ted Cruz was more conservative than Donald Trump.

00:08:05.960 You might say that Rand Paul was more conservative than Donald Trump.

00:08:10.140 I'm actually sort of forgetting now who was even running in 2016.

00:08:14.300 Ben Carson ran, didn't he?

00:08:15.260 Yeah, Ben Carson ran in 2016.

00:08:17.000 I think you would say he was more conservative conventionally than Donald Trump.

00:08:21.740 And yet Trump dominated the primary because in some ways he signaled that he was more right-wing and just in a different way.

00:08:28.760 By shaking up the way the GOP thought about things like tariffs, by shaking up the way the GOP thought about things like foreign policy, by attracting new people to register as Republicans first in the primary, and then he makes it into the general election. 0.87

00:08:43.300 And on the one hand, he's the most extreme right-wing Republican calling illegal aliens rapists and murderers.

00:08:51.120 On the other hand, he's a billionaire from New York who's soft on certain social issues at least and was a Democrat for much of his life.

00:09:00.460 What is it?

00:09:02.460 How do you make sense of a political party that includes in it Ted Cruz and Bobby Kennedy?

00:09:10.400 Well, the way you make sense of it is you say Trump did not just play according to the rules that were tough for Republicans in the 20-teens.

00:09:20.280 It was very hard to make it through a primary and then make it through a general election.

00:09:24.180 We weren't that good at it.

00:09:25.100 We went down twice.

00:09:27.840 McCain, Romney.

00:09:29.460 So what do you do?

00:09:31.560 Well, you change the rules.

00:09:33.100 When you're not winning according to the rules, you got to change the rules.

00:09:37.140 You got to change the game.

00:09:38.580 That's what Trump did.

00:09:39.580 That's what the Democrats have to do.

00:09:41.880 If their best candidates, this is sad, if their best candidates are people like Gavin Newsom and their base hates Gavin Newsom for bad reasons, not even for the good reasons that you shouldn't like Gavin Newsom.

00:09:54.080 If your base want candidates who are definitely going to go down in flames, you need to change your coalition.

00:09:59.980 Trump was able to do that.

00:10:01.000 The Republicans were able to do that.

00:10:02.080 I see no evidence that the Democrats are able to do that.

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00:11:41.380 Okay, one last point on the Dems going down, and then we'll get to the really important political stories like decolonizing Stratford-upon-Avon.

00:11:50.140 But before we move on from the Dems, James Carville, legendary Democrat, political consultant, big Clinton man, the first Clinton, famously said, 0.99

00:11:59.620 It's the economy, stupid. 1.00

00:12:00.800 New Orleans. 1.00

00:12:05.820 James Carville, he just gave dating advice, not just political advice, dating advice to young progressives.

00:12:13.240 He says, the thing that is hampering young progressives in their personal lives, in their romantic lives,

00:12:19.560 is the same thing that is affecting them at the political level.

00:12:23.500 It's their preening moral superiority.

00:12:26.780 get over your preening and your moral superiority and be more pragmatic in how you approach life

00:12:38.440 and you you'll you end up being a lot happier and you'll actually win an election and therefore you

00:12:44.660 can actually do things and you can do some of the things that you want because if you lose

00:12:49.420 it doesn't do any good it's just it's about nothing and that was just what i would tell

00:12:55.560 so carville famously is married to a republican political consultant mary matlin and they get

00:13:03.260 along great and he says yeah we don't really talk about politics very much we talk about other things

00:13:06.040 there are other things in our lives i don't i don't look down on her for being a republican she 1.00

00:13:09.520 doesn't look down on me for being a democrat get over your preening moral superiority and that will

00:13:14.060 help you not only to win elections that will help you in your personal life and your romantic life

00:13:17.580 so true this gets to a really important political point that even on the right we don't talk about

00:13:24.320 enough that is the political virtue of love i'm not just talking about love like you're reading a

00:13:30.840 hallmark card i'm talking about love as a political virtue described by the great political philosophers

00:13:37.920 aristotle in the nicomachean ethics book 8 chapter 7 writes as friendship appears to be the bond of the

00:13:45.700 state and lawgivers seem to set more store by it than they do by justice for to promote concord which

00:13:53.160 seems akin to friendship is their chief aim while faction which is enmity is what they are most

00:13:57.980 anxious to banish and if men are friends there is no need of justice between them whereas merely to

00:14:03.060 be just is not good enough a feeling of friendship is also necessary indeed the highest form of justice

00:14:09.920 seems to have an element of friendly feeling in it okay i think that's probably clear enough but

00:14:15.760 for those who got lost in some of the translation of aristotle's writing here he's saying you think that

00:14:21.040 politics is all about justice and you just have certain you have the laws and the laws are applied

00:14:25.860 by some kind of robot automatic process that is blind and just uh we all operate like we're cogs in

00:14:35.240 a machine that's not how the state works friendship is the bond of the state love is the bond of the state

00:14:42.480 where men are friends and have charity and have love you don't even really need to think that much

00:14:49.420 about justice you don't need to get litigious all the time you can you can work it out with a

00:14:53.600 handshake deal you don't need to bring the lawyers in all the time and in fact if all your state has

00:14:58.700 is lawyers and has no bonds of love and no connections between people then even the law is going to fail

00:15:04.280 even justice is going to fail because you won't even have the mutual respect to uphold justice

00:15:09.820 crucial insight backed up also by cicero cicero and de officis book one chapter seven of the three

00:15:20.800 remaining divisions the most extensive in its application is the principle by which society and

00:15:24.780 what we may call its common bonds are maintained of this again there are two divisions justice in

00:15:31.020 which is the crowning is the crowning glory of the virtues and on the basis of which men are called

00:15:34.880 good men and close akin to justice charity which may also be called kindness or generosity so here

00:15:42.860 cicero says much the same thing he places perhaps slightly more emphasis on justice but he says what

00:15:49.960 what really matters here in society yes you have your justice but also charity kindness generosity

00:15:55.500 you need to without those things you cannot have a society it's the political virtue of love which gets to

00:16:04.000 a line i think i was mentioning on the show this week i was mentioning on this show or on some other

00:16:08.000 podcast that i was a guest on i was just reading the political philosopher john gray pointing out that

00:16:15.060 politics is less like an argument and more like a conversation when you're actually doing politics i'm not

00:16:21.980 talking about having some public debate to sway public opinion or to convince people to vote for one

00:16:27.000 candidate or the other talking about when you're actually doing politics writing laws putting laws

00:16:33.740 into effect getting through the common day-to-day business of the state that is much less like a

00:16:39.740 formal argument where you make an argument with perfect crystal clear unassailable logic and then you

00:16:45.460 totally vanquish the other side they are cast into the outer darkness and then you get everything you

00:16:49.860 want is much less like that it is much more like a conversation where all politics comes

00:16:56.840 about is means of compromise and if you want politics to actually work if you want the state

00:17:00.720 to actually flourish it's not enough to compromise in a transactional way okay you get this thing that

00:17:06.560 i hate and i get this thing that you hate but you have to actually come to some conception of the

00:17:11.000 common good and you actually have to love the other person if you if you win an election and then you

00:17:18.400 vaporize half of your country you will still be in a worse spot even if half the country are big libs 0.90

00:17:25.480 big democrats who are wrong about everything if they just go away if you just deport all the

00:17:29.880 democrats your country will be weaker your economy will be weaker your your i don't know but will

00:17:36.860 will it be weaker do the democrats actually work no they do work they do everything will be weaker

00:17:40.160 your polity will be weaker it'll just break down you need to do politics together that's the political

00:17:46.140 virtue of love james carville he's not right about much but he is he is very much right about that

00:17:51.220 and he understands it very well he puts it into practice in his marriage okay speaking of preening

00:17:55.340 and moral superiority shakespeare's birthplace stratford upon avon is is undertaking a campaign

00:18:04.120 to decolonize itself this here i've got it it's being reported by the daily mail it's a british paper

00:18:13.780 shakespeare's birthplace to be decolonized over fears his success benefits the ideology of white

00:18:20.480 european supremacy

00:18:22.180 the strat the shakespeare birthplace trust owns a bunch of buildings in stratford upon avon it wants

00:18:32.960 to quote create a more inclusive museum experience announced it will move away from western perspectives

00:18:38.420 after concerns were raised by whom i don't know that shakespeare's ideas were used to advance

00:18:44.160 white supremacy ideas it's got to move away from western perspective

00:18:49.400 western perspectives which are not only reflected in the work of shakespeare but are in some ways

00:18:54.220 created by the work of shakespeare those need to go away in the shakespeare museum and in shakespeare's

00:19:01.680 birthplace the trust also said that some of its items within this trust could contain language or

00:19:09.320 depictions that are racist sexist or homophobic we got to get rid of those i don't know what those items

00:19:16.300 are i assume some of those items are within the text of shakespeare himself within the merchant of

00:19:24.640 venice therefore jew though justice be thy plea consider this that in the course of justice none of us 0.91

00:19:28.300 should see salvation we got to get we got to delete that line in shakespeare right is that anti-semitic

00:19:33.680 plenty of sexism in shakespeare you gotta you gotta delete i don't know most of a midsummer night's

00:19:39.740 dream you gotta delete what else there is speciesism in uh what's the oh i can't believe the play the

00:19:48.720 name of the play is escaping me now but it's got the most famous stage direction in shakespeare

00:19:52.420 when the character exits the stage pursued by a bear that's very speciesist i can't believe the name

00:19:58.500 of that play escapes me well clearly shakespeare the the classrooms in america have already been

00:20:04.300 decolonized of shakespeare because people don't read them anymore and i forget the name of the play

00:20:07.240 what does it mean to decolonize stratford upon avon i guess literally right now if you were to

00:20:15.500 decolonize these small towns in england you would just be throwing out the muslim pakistanis who are the 1.00

00:20:20.100 ones who have actually colonized in recent decades but if you want to go back further i guess the way to

00:20:25.580 decolonize stratford upon avon would be to throw out the normans who conquered england in 1066 0.96

00:20:30.460 is that what they mean no they're not talking about getting rid of the pakistanis who run the 1.00

00:20:36.320 grooming gangs and they're not talking about getting rid of the normans they're talking about getting 0.99

00:20:41.120 rid of all the white people including the normans but also the saxons and the angles and that's that's 0.96

00:20:45.320 what they mean when they say they want to decolonize stratford upon avon what they're really saying is

00:20:51.600 they want to colonize it to to de-center whiteness in shakespeare's birthplace is to impose some 0.56

00:21:02.180 outside racial ideology on stratford upon avon which is to say it's to colonize it they want to colonize

00:21:08.660 it which people who have been paying attention in recent years know they know that that is what that

00:21:16.140 is always about these racial justice programs which sound great in theory in practice are just

00:21:24.320 about getting rid of anything that is vaguely european on the basis that all racial identity

00:21:30.860 is good except for the racial identity of white people all the contributions of different races are

00:21:36.040 good except for the contributions of white people which do not exist or alternately are terrible and 0.98

00:21:41.020 they want to damage the world they want they want to rip they not only want to rip shakespeare out of 0.99

00:21:48.580 england they want to rip shakespeare out of shakespeare that is culturally suicidal there's so much

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00:23:16.560 not a brat this the story is not about the color of anyone's skin however that is i guess tangentially

00:23:23.760 related because a professor at brown is to be deported after attending the funeral of a hezbollah

00:23:30.800 leader you think you know whatever happened to academic freedom you know whatever whatever

00:23:36.960 happened to freedom of speech you can't it is america isn't it you can't even go pay your respects to a dead

00:23:43.680 terrorist leader in the middle east anymore by golly whatever happened to my rights this professor's name is

00:23:49.440 rasha alouyeh an assistant professor brown university's medical school who has been deported

00:23:57.120 to lebanon after attending the funeral of former hezbollah leader hassan nasrallah the department

00:24:03.920 of homeland security has commented on this deportation said a visa is a privilege not a right glorifying

00:24:11.760 and supporting terrorists who kill americans is grounds for visa issuance to be denied this is common

00:24:16.320 sense security so this opens up a big debate are we deporting this person on national security grounds

00:24:25.040 or are we deporting this person for his or her i don't know if rasha is a man's name or a woman's

00:24:30.880 name and i don't really care that much are we deporting this person on national security grounds or on

00:24:36.800 because of this person's opinion that's the big debate here even on on the right certainly on the left

00:24:42.320 they're saying these people are being deported for their opinions that guy who used to be a columbia

00:24:47.600 graduate student but then graduated and he was just deported because he's pro-palestine and he was

00:24:52.640 making a nuisance of himself around new york city it has nothing to do with security or crimes it has

00:24:57.280 everything to do with his opinion and some people on the right even are saying well you shouldn't be

00:25:02.240 deported for your opinion especially people on the right who don't like israel and who are more

00:25:05.680 sympathetic to the palestine liberation cause they say well that person definitely shouldn't be deported for

00:25:10.400 his or her opinion but i just want to zoom out for a second take israel out of it take palestine out

00:25:18.160 of it take the protests out of it to even take the national security out of it someone who has

00:25:27.120 sympathy for the leader of a terror group and who goes to that terror leader's funeral probably does

00:25:31.200 raise some red flags for national security but i want you to take that out of it for a second

00:25:34.400 we absolutely can and should deport foreigners or prevent them from coming into the country 1.00

00:25:43.740 for their opinions of course we should i'm not saying we should deport american citizens for their

00:25:49.060 opinions if i believed that i would certainly believe we should deport the entire faculty of

00:25:54.440 brown university and columbia university and most of the ivy league i'm not saying that not american

00:25:59.600 citizens but foreigners who have crazy opinions that are contrary to american opinions and the 0.99

00:26:06.620 american tradition and the american way of life of course we should deport them for their opinions why 1.00

00:26:11.060 would we not what's the point of these various visas and this various legal residency status that

00:26:17.480 is far short of citizenship the purpose of that is not about any rights that the foreigners have to 0.91

00:26:24.400 be in america and enjoy the privileges that attend to being in america the purpose of that is to make america

00:26:29.000 better it's for us that we allow these people into the country if they are likely to make america worse 1.00

00:26:34.840 if they hold opinions and do things that are contrary to the way we want to live get them out why would

00:26:41.600 we keep them that's insane now republicans don't want to deal with this they just only want to talk

00:26:47.120 about the national security grounds for the deportations and maybe those exist but let's be honest here folks

00:26:51.840 i think it's actually better to be honest about it tell to tell the whole truth because i think it will

00:26:57.280 give us a greater handle on the political order yeah these people should be deported for their opinions

00:27:03.760 i don't want radicals leftists islamic revolutionaries i don't want them coming into the country needlessly 1.00

00:27:10.540 i've already got to deal with enough of that among american citizens why would i import foreigners to do 0.96

00:27:15.160 that and give them cushy positions at ivy league universities where they can poison the minds of another 1.00

00:27:19.960 generation of americans why would i do that that's crazy well be it all because of their their rights

00:27:25.780 what rights they don't have these rights they're not american citizens well because of the principle

00:27:31.060 of absolute freedom of speech i don't that's not real well because of academic freedom academic

00:27:35.740 freedom's fake that's a hoax william f buckley jr launched the conservative movement with a book

00:27:40.340 called god and man at yale these superstitions of academic freedom your your jedi mind tricks don't work

00:27:46.580 on me libs get rid of these people crazy marco rubio was just defending the deportation specifically

00:27:53.940 of mahmoud khalil the former columbia graduate student who just got canned uh on cbs this is on

00:28:00.500 face the nation listen to the line of questioning from cbs's margaret brennan but is there any evidence

00:28:07.740 of a link to terrorism or is it just his point of view yeah they take over i mean do not i mean you

00:28:15.260 should watch the news these guys take over entire buildings they vandalize colleges they shut down

00:28:19.960 i'm asking about the well then you should know justification for the revocation of his visa

00:28:23.420 was there any evidence of material spokesperson was the negotiator on negotiating on behalf of

00:28:28.640 people that took over a campus that vandalize buildings negotiating over what that's a crime in

00:28:33.560 and of itself that they're involved in being the negotiator the spokesperson this that the other

00:28:37.300 we don't want it we don't need these people in our country that we never should have allowed

00:28:40.260 him in in the first place if he had told us i'm going over there and i'm going over there to become

00:28:44.920 the spokesperson and one of the leaders of a movement that's going to turn one of your allegedly

00:28:49.320 elite colleges upside down people can't even go to school library buildings being vandalized we never

00:28:54.860 would have let him in we never would have let him in to begin with that's the right point so i actually

00:29:00.120 have to give margaret brennan credit here because she's asking a legit question she goes is there any

00:29:06.420 evidence you're you're going to deport this guy on the grounds that he's providing material support

00:29:10.740 to terrorism is there any evidence that he really did that and and rubio responds he says this guy

00:29:16.920 was leading protests he was making a big nuisance of himself he was articulating views that are

00:29:22.580 totally contrary to what we want in america and she says yeah yeah but what what about the terrorism

00:29:27.600 thing and then rubio moves he says these people have no right to be here you know it's a privilege

00:29:33.320 to come over to america on these kinds of pieces it's not a right and so her question is legit and

00:29:39.060 rubio is admitting without quite doing it explicitly saying no look what he is supporting movements that

00:29:47.180 are associated with terrorism so in that way i guess the claim is real but he doesn't need to be

00:29:51.960 sending ak-47s to hezbollah for us to deport him we never would have let this guy in in the first place 1.00

00:29:57.700 if he knew what what a nuisance he was he has no right to be here as of now we can't deport aoc 1.00

00:30:04.120 pity that is but we can't she's an american citizen we can't deport bernie sanders we can't deport who's

00:30:13.040 the new one jacklyn crockett is that her name whatever it is we can't deport any of these people 0.56

00:30:17.400 but you know what we can deport this wacko who we've invited into america he's he's been a bad guest 0.97

00:30:25.480 and we're going to kick him out and that that's the right attitude i think don't stake everything 0.82

00:30:30.700 on proving that someone is the next of sama bin laden you don't have to they have no right to be 0.99

00:30:35.040 here and we have the our political liberty to determine who comes into our country and who gets 0.99

00:30:42.040 to stay here trumps a false individual liberty of foreigners to come to america 0.99

00:30:47.140 now speaking of contentious journalism there's a piece in the new york times i don't oh man

00:30:56.240 the new york times had been doing a little bit better they had been since the election they had

00:31:02.800 been a little bit more self-reflective they had been they they ran that piece about the podcast

00:31:09.200 election how the legacy media were losing some of their mojo they ran that piece about how trump

00:31:14.780 might have a point on birthright citizenship actually the wong kim arc decision that established

00:31:20.080 the notion that birthright citizenship from the 14th amendment pertains to a wide swath of american

00:31:27.060 citizens that that maybe then you know as we've applied that to illegal aliens maybe that's not

00:31:32.300 legit the court hasn't distinctively ruled on that we're doing well and then we get this where is it

00:31:40.480 where is it there it is headline this new york times opinion zeynep tufexi

00:31:48.720 we were badly misled about the event that changed our lives that could what what could that be

00:31:57.100 so you know 9-11 is that if you go further back the jfk assassination those those two things have

00:32:05.700 been in the news no no it's not that covid i'm just going to quote a little bit and you don't

00:32:12.880 read the whole article you'll pull your hair out in 2020 when people started speculating that a

00:32:17.660 laboratory accident might have been the spark that started the covid 19 pandemic they were treated like

00:32:23.520 kooks and cranks that's true by whom were they treated like kooks and cranks was it by the daily

00:32:30.980 wire no was it by the blaze no was it by fox news no it was by the new york times you guys treated us

00:32:37.720 like kooks and cranks many public health officials and prominent scientists dismissed the idea as a

00:32:42.440 conspiracy theory insisting that the virus had emerged from animals in a seafood market in wuhan

00:32:46.700 china also bat and pangolin are not seafood so they even get that detail wrong when a non-profit

00:32:52.160 called eco health alliance lost a grant because it was planning to conduct risky research into bat

00:32:55.600 viruses with the wuhan institute of virology research that if conducted with lax safety standards

00:33:00.280 could have resulted in a dangerous pathogen leaking out into the world no fewer than 77

00:33:04.340 nobel laureates and 31 scientific societies lined up to defend the organization so the wuhan research

00:33:10.440 was totally safe and the pandemic was definitely caused by natural transmission it certainly seemed

00:33:14.820 like consensus we have since learned however that to promote the appearance of consensus some

00:33:20.700 officials and scientists hid or understated crucial facts misled at least one reporter conducted

00:33:26.120 campaigns of supposedly independent voices and even compared notes about how to hide their

00:33:30.380 communications in order to keep the public from hearing the whole story as for that wuhan

00:33:34.740 laboratories research the details have since emerged show that safety precautions might have been

00:33:39.900 terrifyingly lax okay yeah i remember this new york times i was there and you guys told me that i was

00:33:46.540 crazy and you guys went along with all of those lying public health officials and you guys

00:33:51.560 unquestioningly listen to the 77 nobel laureates and 31 scientific societies even this excuse here 0.80

00:33:56.560 and actually you know even a reporter was misled how could this have happened

00:34:01.240 because you because you didn't do your job well you did do your job which is to be a propaganda

00:34:08.400 arm from the democrat party but the job you think you have that you pretend to have where you're

00:34:12.200 going to speak truth to power and you're not just going to accept propaganda from the established

00:34:16.680 authorities you're going to really you're going to stick it to the man and find out the truth and

00:34:20.600 you didn't do any of that we did i did that i did that you didn't do that new york times i did that

00:34:26.860 on the michael knolls show if you watched the michael knolls show through covid you knew much more about

00:34:31.440 what was really going on in covid than if you read the new york times every day was it where's my

00:34:37.620 pulitzer prize is it so hard this is no false modesty i'm not some shoe leather reporter okay i just

00:34:43.780 have common sense and i'm willing to accept facts when they appear to me you couldn't even do that

00:34:48.340 now you guys can you imagine we were all misled no you misled us i didn't mislead anybody during

00:34:54.580 covid daily wire didn't mislead people the blaze didn't mislead people the independent journalists

00:35:00.100 on the right didn't mislead people you did and then they they still haven't learned this is the crazy

00:35:07.300 part because i think okay maybe they're coming to terms with it five years late but okay they're

00:35:10.600 coming to terms with it no last piece i'll read of this article they actually excuse their

00:35:18.320 incompetency it's not hard to imagine how the attempt to squelch legitimate debate might have

00:35:23.820 started some of the loudest proponents of the lab leak theory weren't just earnestly making inquiries

00:35:29.040 they were acting in terrible faith using debate over pandemic origins to attack legitimate beneficial

00:35:34.700 science to inflame public opinion to get attention for scientists and public health officials

00:35:40.440 circling the wagons and vilifying anyone who dared to dissent might have seemed like a reasonable 1.00

00:35:45.280 defense strategy

00:35:46.420 no it wasn't no it wasn't can you imagine these people who were telling us that we were all wrong

00:35:54.000 during covid they wanted to get attention for their ideas yeah that's called the media that's

00:35:59.520 called doing journalism and these people they they weren't acting in good faith when they told us the

00:36:06.320 truth they were acting in bad faith when they told us the truth how do you know the faith of the

00:36:09.500 people that were that were telling you the truth i'll trust the faith of the people who tell the

00:36:14.300 truth much more than the faith of the people who lie actually you know when all of the public health

00:36:19.700 officials and scientists lied to us maybe it was fair because if they didn't lie to us they would

00:36:23.580 have given credit to people on the right yeah okay so you you've learned nothing you've learned

00:36:29.740 nothing at all you are not what you say you are are you hey new york times are you intrepid shoe

00:36:35.620 leather journalists speaking truth to power or are you youtube commenters this is it is a youtube

00:36:40.960 comment that's what this is this is an after the fact wow that was crazy huh boy didn't see that

00:36:46.420 one coming wow wacky huh that's what this that's what this column is that's what the new york times

00:36:50.480 is saying so what are you are you are you the intrepid shoe leather serious edward r murrow you know

00:36:56.180 even though he was kind of a problem too but that's a historical point for another time are you

00:37:00.820 the real fourth estate doing a great public service to americans or are you just a youtube

00:37:07.940 commenters posting lib comments i think you're the latter okay well if you're the latter then don't

00:37:14.840 whine when we take away all of your prestige and your privileges with 20 years reporting on the markets

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00:38:10.640 a five-part investigative series exposing the full truth beyond one of the most politically charged

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00:38:28.480 listen to ben shapiro show today on daily war plus my favorite comment yesterday is from the drummer's

00:38:34.720 workshop norm's music says bukele basically gave judge bosberg the urkel response did i do that

00:38:45.280 that's great great nice pop culture reference to bukele there who's who's now a u.s contractor to

00:38:54.020 receive our worst criminals and to give him the old salvadoran treatment the old bukele treatment 1.00

00:38:59.220 judge says you have to return all these criminals to america we what will we do without the face tattooed 0.99

00:39:06.520 gangsters they are our strength they are face tattooed venezuelan criminals rapists and murderers 0.99

00:39:13.160 they are our strength what will we do without them you cannot land that plane in el salvador and then 0.99

00:39:18.860 bukele comes in too late did i do that oops oopsie speaking of problems from foreigners a french member

00:39:28.400 of parliament has an audacious proposal he wants the french to take the statue of liberty back from

00:39:36.900 america here is what white house press secretary carolina levitt had to say thing different there 1.00

00:39:43.260 is now a member of the european parliament from france who does not think the u.s represents the

00:39:48.240 values of the statue of liberty anymore they want the statue of liberty back so is president trump

00:39:54.520 going to send the statue of liberty back to france absolutely not and uh my advice to that unnamed

00:40:02.680 low-level french politician would be to remind them that it's only because of the united states

00:40:08.380 of america that uh the french are not speaking german right now so they should be very grateful

00:40:13.140 uh to our great country take that france you know what we're gonna do we're gonna send you the flag of 0.99

00:40:20.360 the french army it's a white handkerchief take that you jerks you're not getting your statue back 1.00

00:40:25.600 so good enough answer stupid proposal from the french member of parliament good answer from caroline 0.99

00:40:30.960 levitt however i just want to this is going to be controversial 0.98

00:40:35.520 i don't love the statue of liberty can i say that i don't love that i like liberty i like true liberty

00:40:43.280 i love america i have a cigar company called mayflower cigars which is you know about the

00:40:47.940 founding of america don't but the statue of liberty what is the statue of liberty what does the

00:40:55.520 statue of liberty symbolize what was it intended to symbolize the statue of liberty look i'm a new

00:41:00.500 yorker okay i grew up in new york which means i've never visited the statue of liberty never

00:41:05.020 visited the empire state building never visited the statue of liberty that's what happens when you

00:41:08.540 grow up in new york but i've i've gone by it on the staten island ferry plenty of times

00:41:12.360 the statue of liberty is a liberal enlightenment symbol that's what it is what does the statue of

00:41:20.540 liberty symbolize statue of liberty symbolize statue of liberty symbolizes enlightenment liberal ideas

00:41:26.440 it was sculpted by a freemason and received by a freemason and it was dedicated by the grandmaster of

00:41:33.280 the new york masons and i'm not knocking the masons look i've got some great friends who are

00:41:38.160 freemasons i'm just pointing out freemasonry is largely an enlightenment era practice and organization

00:41:46.540 that really really reaches its heights of power and social influence during the enlightenment

00:41:53.680 and on top of all that the statue of liberty was given to us by the post-revolution french

00:41:58.840 not even the good french regime the old regime good old king louis who helped us win the american

00:42:04.720 revolution but by those crazy bloodthirsty jacobin radicals who were lopping off people's heads it was 1.00

00:42:11.420 that that post-revolution french so if even if they took it back it wouldn't bother me too much

00:42:18.080 but it would bother me a little bit in that what do you do this is a deeper political problem

00:42:22.840 what do you do with things that were intended for one purpose that you don't support namely the

00:42:30.400 promotion of liberalism french enlightenment values you know kinds of all wacky modern ideas

00:42:38.240 what do you do with something that is intended to represent something you don't support but which

00:42:43.620 has come to represent something you do support because now the statue of liberty is a symbol of

00:42:47.780 america whatever it was initially intended to be people think of the statue of liberty there's a copy of

00:42:52.220 the statue of liberty in france you can walk right by it in the the luxembourg garden but we think of

00:42:59.160 america what do you do well i don't think it's a big problem you just recognize that the meaning of the

00:43:04.980 symbols changes you've got to kind of rededicate the symbols and this has happened in our civilization

00:43:09.820 one of the great works of western architecture is the pantheon in rome the pantheon in rome was a

00:43:15.400 pagan temple and then in 609 pope boniface the fourth received permission from the emperor to

00:43:22.240 rededicate the temple to consecrate the temple to saint mary and the martyrs and then it became a church

00:43:30.020 it's okay to do that it's okay to take things that are pagan in this case the statue of liberty

00:43:35.240 is literally a pagan symbol it's the goddess libertas though it's the pagan symbol understood

00:43:41.780 in the revival of classical paganism that came up in the enlightenment so it's got all these liberal

00:43:45.860 enlightenment ideas associated with it but we should just we should i don't know just 0.52

00:43:50.540 rededicate it let's take it take that stupid poem off the bottom of it that that the libs always 1.00

00:43:56.840 used to justify mass migration ignore the constitution ignore federal statute there's that stupid poem on 0.99

00:44:01.320 the bottom that says give me your poor unwashed masses okay that means that the entire world can 0.97

00:44:06.540 come into america regardless of the law get rid of that poem and then i i sometimes refer to the

00:44:12.420 statue of liberty as the statue of lib mary it's like in christendom we had statues of mary the holy

00:44:19.060 mother all over the place and then now it's like pagan goddesses and enlightenment symbols but

00:44:23.160 okay that's fine it's a new symbol now represents the american version of liberty very different from

00:44:28.920 the french version of liberty and they don't get it back they wouldn't they the french wouldn't know

00:44:33.480 what to do with american liberty even if we did give it to them all right there's a line that the

00:44:39.060 democrats are advancing now speaking of dishonesty there is a line i've heard this from my lib friends

00:44:44.520 i've heard this from conservatives who are talking to their lib family members and they don't know what

00:44:48.220 to do with this the accusation that president trump is threatening social security have you heard this

00:44:55.680 is saying that president trump and elon and doge are threatening social security they're going to cut 1.00

00:45:03.300 your social security benefits granny is going to be thrown off a cliff this is one of the stupidest 1.00

00:45:09.740 arguments i have heard from the libs for the entirety of the trump movement going back 10 years now 1.00

00:45:16.080 why is that how do we respond to it what are the facts what is trump really doing

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The Michael Knowles Show - March 18, 2025

Ep. 1695 - Libs PANIC as Poll Names AOC the Face of the Democratic Party

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