The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 177 - Why The F＊＊＊ Is Everybody So F＊＊＊in’ Profane？

00:00:00.000 Why do those frazzling, dadgum, mainstream media muck spouts constantly use such filthy 0.98

00:00:05.300 consarn language? Senator Marco Rubio calls out the potty mouths on the left, and we will 0.98

00:00:09.920 analyze why the left has made our culture so much coarser. Then, socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

00:00:16.780 lies about where she's from and grew up in order to score victim points. We will analyze because

00:00:22.420 I'm from the town right next to where she grew up. Then, Jennifer Rubin drops all pretense of

00:00:27.100 being a Republican. Finally, we celebrate the great unsung hero president, James Garfield,

00:00:32.860 one of the great presidents on this day in history. Most important of all, Jeremy, the

00:00:37.460 God King Boring, drops by from our sister network, Daily Wire 2, with an update on the World Cup.

00:00:43.200 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:45.100 We got a lot going on today, and I want to ask why the F people are so effing profane these days. 1.00

00:01:00.000 But before all that, in a special live stream, July 2nd at 7 p.m. Eastern, we will be joined

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00:04:01.740 the World Cup. We turn now to our sister network and Daily Wire 2 sports correspondent, Jeremy,

00:04:07.640 the God King, boring. Scaramooch! Scaramooch! Will you do the fandango, Michael? Enormous news from

00:04:20.820 the bear of the north. As for the second time in less than a century, Germany's dreams of global 0.83

00:04:25.740 conquest collapsed in Western Russia with their 2-0 defeat at the hands of South Korea, a nation with 0.99

00:04:31.700 roughly half of Germany's GDP. Speaking to the BBC, former German champ Jurgen Klinsmann said,

00:04:38.080 quote, it's always difficult when you win to repeat it four years later. An admittedly strange

00:04:43.760 declaration from a nation that has made failure look easy in every generation since the Franco-Prussian 0.75

00:04:49.120 War of 1870. Of course, Germany, who brought us the fall of Rome, the Dark Ages, nihilism, Nazism, 0.97

00:04:56.140 two world wars, trance music, and the failed project that is the EU, is never truly defeated,

00:05:01.700 and will undoubtedly rise again from the ash heap of history and prove that they can, in fact,

00:05:06.580 put a small ball roughly the size of a human head through an enormous net without the use of the

00:05:11.320 hands that God gave them, as well as any third world nation or France. In other World Cup news,

00:05:17.640 this week marks the close of the tournament's group stage and the beginning of the quarterfinals.

00:05:22.340 What this means is, frankly, anybody's guess. This sportscaster, for one, stopped reading the

00:05:27.680 Wikipedia entry pretty early on, if I'm being honest, because, as a God-fearing American,

00:05:33.420 I just couldn't be moved to give a flip about what kind of archaic rules govern this socialist

00:05:37.200 non-sport, I having far more exciting things to do with my time, like dozing lightly in my armchair

00:05:42.180 or literally anything else. I did ask several people in my office who have repeatedly assured me

00:05:48.240 that I'm wrong to criticize so beautiful a game if they could give me a quick rundown of how it all

00:05:52.720 works before airtime. But they all reluctantly confess to never having actually watched a match

00:05:57.360 before the current World Cup started, even though they think it's a hugely important cultural event

00:06:01.580 and I should be ashamed of myself for blowing it off as nothing more than a deliberate attempt to

00:06:05.700 reduce America from its status as shining city on a hill down to parity with the lowest common 0.99

00:06:10.480 denominator equatorial hellhole from which the soul of man used to cry out for freedom and deliverance

00:06:15.420 to so great a nation as this, but who now see that we're not really all that great if you really think

00:06:20.180 about it because without our hands and the complexity with which we conquered war, poverty, disease,

00:06:25.200 and death since the last world war, we're really just like everybody else. Also, men are not stronger

00:06:31.100 than women, the Millennium Falcon was never all that fast, and Batman could totally take Superman in a 1.00

00:06:35.860 fight even though the latter is invincible and can literally shoot laser beams at the speed of light

00:06:40.780 from his eyes from space, a place that none of the countries that have ever won the World Cup have ever

00:06:46.320 been to. Probably, probably because they haven't figured out how to use their hands. To be clear,

00:06:53.240 to be clear, however, it's not the position of this self-entertained journalist that the admittedly handsome

00:07:03.920 men who run around and fake injuries on the soccer field are not athletes. On the contrary, they are clearly

00:07:09.340 quite fit and able to run around, if aimlessly, for long periods of time with no breaks. The issue is not that they

00:07:15.480 aren't athletes. It's that soccer is not a sport. It's an admittedly mesmerizing bit of choreography

00:07:20.900 in which colorful objects move back and forth across your screen and then nothing happens.

00:07:25.940 Here's a clip of one of the weekend's more interesting matches by way of example.

00:07:29.720 Mesmerizing. That's it for this week's World Cup recap. Michael, scaramooch! Scaramooch! Will you do the

00:07:46.220 Fandango? Back to you. Jeremy, that was such an informative recap of the World Cup. I really

00:07:52.460 appreciate that. You know, we were talking a little bit there about Germany's strategy.

00:07:56.840 I was under the impression that Germany's strategy was to have their competition in the World Cup

00:08:06.640 last a thousand years, but it seems to have been cut short. Should we fear the German soccer team

00:08:13.600 rising up again within, say, I don't know, four to seven years? Well, Michael, historically, they always

00:08:18.840 have. Fortunately for us, the brave men and women of Western Europe who formerly gave the world the British 0.75

00:08:24.760 empire and complex manly sports such as cricket and wealthy sports such as polo will undoubtedly seek

00:08:31.720 a peace for our time and appease Germany all the way to future catastrophe. One does wonder if we 0.90

00:08:38.080 should just dismantle the German soccer team once and for all, but it seems to me that the international

00:08:43.020 community just won't let that happen. No, no, no. They have the right to pride as a nation and we

00:08:48.400 shouldn't stand in their way. All they're looking for is a little breathing room. That's absolutely right.

00:08:52.580 You know, Jeremy, we've heard a lot from the left about how awful Russia is these days and the United

00:08:58.760 States colluded with Russia, but they're hosting this most wonderful and important international

00:09:04.640 sporting event. Shouldn't we just give them a free pass? Well, obviously this sportscaster doesn't

00:09:09.920 know much about politics, but I will say that of all the things that Donald Trump has done that have

00:09:16.120 offended those in the former Never Trump contingent, perhaps winning the World Cup for the United States

00:09:21.800 America eight years hence is the worst and the greatest proof that he seeks to follow in the 0.79

00:09:26.560 footsteps of mass murderer Vladimir Putin in reducing the world down to a sort of pre-civilizational hell

00:09:34.240 from which even Jordan B. Peterson's philosophy may not be able to save us. I'll have to reread

00:09:40.100 Alexander Solzhenitsyn. It's been a while since I've gone into Gulag Archipelago. Jeremy, the God King

00:09:45.200 Boring from Daily Wire 2, a very important update and basically has convinced me now to go Never

00:09:50.740 Trump. Jeremy, thanks for being here. We'll talk to you soon.

00:09:53.060 Stare a mooch! 1.00

00:09:56.200 You know, I think on this episode, I want to talk about just how profane our culture has gotten

00:10:03.220 and specifically the left, why the left has just become so profane. They just have terrible potty

00:10:08.660 mouths and there is no more profane way to begin than talking about soccer. So I'm glad we could get

00:10:13.860 that out of the way. Really, really informative. On the question of profanity, you might have seen

00:10:20.800 Marco Rubio tweet out over the weekend about how bad the culture has gotten, how coarse the culture

00:10:27.900 has gotten. And I'm not saying it's because people say naughty words. People have always said naughty

00:10:32.320 words. It's because they're doing it so publicly now and that the left has really embraced this.

00:10:36.740 Marco Rubio, he tweeted out, quote, sign of our times, the F word is now used routinely in news stories,

00:10:42.620 tweets, etc. It's not even F star, star, star anymore. Who made that decision? And it's funny,

00:10:50.520 like, as he says this, I was thinking about that. I said, you're right. It used to be F star, star,

00:10:55.420 star, asterisk, asterisk, asterisk. Try to say that three times fast. But now they don't even do

00:11:00.280 that. They just say it. And as I'm doing that, Kathy Griffin, the former comedian, the alleged

00:11:05.760 comedian Kathy Griffin starts tweeting at me and calling me a mother effer. And I actually I this

00:11:12.280 people didn't understand this, but I tweeted that out. I said, oh, hey, everybody, Kathy Griffin just

00:11:17.000 called me a mother effer, but without the asterisks. And people thought I was like whining about that.

00:11:22.020 I was referencing Marco Rubio because she proved the left always does this. The right makes an

00:11:26.940 observation and they say, no, we're not like that. And they immediately prove the right's point.

00:11:31.140 So I got into this this little Twitter fight for a while with Kathy Griffin because I pointed out

00:11:37.500 all she does now is scream profanity on Twitter and on television at former Republican officials. 1.00

00:11:44.140 So she she sent out this tweet. She said, F you, Ari Fleischer. Ari Fleischer was the first press

00:11:49.940 secretary for President Bush. I said that, you know, that isn't comedy. You can probably get an

00:11:55.920 audience doing that. You can probably endear yourself to angry Democrats, but it isn't comedy. It's

00:12:00.020 kind of just cheap. It's like a cheat in entertainment. So she responds. She goes,

00:12:04.560 I just did two big shows at Radio City Music Hall in Carnegie Hall, along with shows in San Francisco,

00:12:09.880 Seattle, Portland and Boston. So someone disagrees with you, mother effer to me. I said, you're

00:12:14.460 actually kind of showing my point. I'm not saying you can't sell shows. Jimmy Kimmel has now made a

00:12:19.800 career on claps, not laughs, to use Owen Benjamin's phrase. He's you know, they're going out there and

00:12:25.720 instead of actually working up jokes and trying to be funny, they're just going out and saying mean

00:12:31.140 things about Republicans. And that's supposed to substitute for a joke. And this has been going on

00:12:35.740 for a long time. It's just a cheapness. And what it shows is that the culture has gotten a little

00:12:40.220 stupider and a little coarser and a little shallower. But we'll explain why, because this isn't just about 0.98

00:12:44.680 Kathy Griffin. This isn't just about Donald Trump. This isn't about this has been going on for a long

00:12:48.820 time. And it's been brought up by the left. So obviously, it's all over TV. It's all over music.

00:12:55.500 I'm sure even for, you know, our audience, I think, is 99.7% millennial. And then the rest is

00:13:02.220 whatever comes after millennial. But even growing up, when millennials grew up, you didn't hear these

00:13:07.040 things really on TV. But now they're all over TV. The much more profane words than were when we were

00:13:14.400 kids. Or all over music, every other word is the F word, right? I was riding the subway in New York.

00:13:20.220 This was a couple months ago. And I'm sitting there. And some guy was, he had his boom box or

00:13:25.780 speakers or whatever. And he's blasting out this very profane gangster rap where every other word

00:13:31.360 is the F word or the N word. And that's all it is. He's sitting next to these like nice little old 1.00

00:13:35.220 women. And I would have intervened, except he was big and scary and wearing sort of gang-colored 0.99

00:13:41.380 paraphernalia. And listen, man, I don't need to be a hero, okay? I don't need to die on the

00:13:45.120 4 train. But everyone was just looking at him. And he was staring at everybody else like a sort

00:13:49.360 of challenge, you know. This is the culture now. This is what we're going to put out here.

00:13:53.660 And when did this start? Why did this begin? A lot of people blame South Park. But I really want

00:13:59.120 to defend South Park here. Trey Parker and Matt Stone's show, you know, since the late 90s. And the

00:14:05.040 kids had potty mouths. But South Park sort of cursed ironically. Like these kids were showing

00:14:11.920 something about the culture, right? But they would even joke about swear words. They did an episode

00:14:16.400 where they said if everybody just starts swearing in public all the time, then the swear words don't

00:14:22.360 have any meaning. They don't do anything. Like in order for profanity to be profane, you have to have

00:14:29.120 the sacred. Because it has to counter the sacred. It has to undercut the sacred. So I actually think

00:14:34.200 South Park have been the great observers of this trend. I don't think they caused it. It's been

00:14:37.900 happening for a long time. Why did it happen? Part of this is freedom. So part of this is that,

00:14:44.800 you know, in the old days when everything was just network television, then you could have

00:14:50.760 people come out, standards bureaus, and say, you can't use this word on TV. You can't use this word

00:14:56.040 on TV. George Carlin had the seven words you can't say on TV. Special, right? All these naughty words.

00:15:00.740 But then once you have all of the streaming platforms, once it's all really just part of

00:15:04.700 the internet or new media, you can't do that anymore, right? You can't go to every blog and

00:15:11.140 to every web series and say, no, you said a naughty word. Same thing with music. Music used to censor

00:15:18.100 their naughtiest words, you know, and a lot of that was Walmart. So, you know, Walmart was a major seller

00:15:25.480 of CDs. They would say, we're not going to sell explicit CDs. And so the producers and the studios

00:15:31.180 would say, okay, I guess we have to put out a cleaner version too if we want to actually sell

00:15:35.860 them. Now that we have streaming, now that music is just free and everyone just puts it right into

00:15:40.260 their cars or right into their homes, that doesn't exist anymore. And so there is this

00:15:44.540 impulse in human freedom and in a libertine culture to just constantly do whatever people say

00:15:54.200 that you can't do. We'll explain how this has infected politics and why it probably doesn't

00:15:59.020 spell a good end for the Democrat party. And we'll also make fun of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for lying

00:16:05.600 about her, where she's from. And it is a lie. People are trying to say it isn't a lie now. It is.

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00:18:20.820 even in, in movies, this is the case. All the great movies ever made were made in 1939.

00:18:25.900 Somehow, you know, phenomenal films, Gone with the Wind, Wuthering Heights, I believe.

00:18:30.240 Uh, uh, uh, what's the most famous movie ever made? The Wizard of Oz. The Wizard of Oz,

00:18:37.260 made in 1939, when there was sort of, not censorship, but there were standards boards

00:18:42.340 that you had to watch out for. And then when those went away, the quality declined. Uh,

00:18:47.940 this isn't just the case in pop culture. Uh, so part of the reason is like, you know, uh, sonnets,

00:18:54.380 like poetry is good when there are constraints on it because then the creativity comes out and you're,

00:18:59.520 you're working within constraints. But slam poetry is the death of art. It is the worst thing

00:19:04.820 ever invented. It is one of the great plagues to ever reflect mankind. Why? Because there are no

00:19:09.580 constraints. So it's just nothing. Uh, we're seeing this in politics. We're seeing the slam

00:19:14.260 poetry of politics brought to you courtesy of the Democrat party. Here is not a random activist,

00:19:20.040 not a random resistance fighter, not any of that. This is the head of the Democrat party,

00:19:25.140 Tom Perez. Here's just a little clip of his soaring rhetoric. Those Republican leaders

00:19:30.160 and president Trump don't give a shit about the people they were trying to hurt. 0.99

00:19:35.660 You're God right. He's a liar. That's my friends. Budget is another example of broken promises. 1.00

00:19:45.320 The budget is bankrupt. They call it a skinny budget. I call it a budget.

00:19:50.580 I don't want people to think I'm being a prude here or something, or I'm being too, uh,

00:19:56.160 formal or something. Obviously when guys hang out, they frequently use salty language.

00:20:02.260 They frequently talk like Tom Perez. I don't begrudge any guy that, uh, there, there is a kind

00:20:07.360 of social impulse for that. The difference here is, is the public nature of all of this because it

00:20:13.380 isn't just the head of the DNC. It's senators. It's the activists. It's the rank and file. It's,

00:20:18.720 uh, uh, pundits on television. It's cultural figures and commentators. They're all using

00:20:24.620 filthy language in public. And, uh, what it shows is a decay in the ability of these people to think,

00:20:31.000 a decay in how they think, a decay in their respect for themselves, for their country, for their

00:20:35.280 party, for what they're doing, and for other people around them. You know, there's a reason that,

00:20:39.960 that, uh, you don't swear in front of little old ladies. You can talk in a bar with your pals and,

00:20:46.060 you know, speak in a certain way and you don't speak that way with little old ladies. It's about 1.00

00:20:50.140 respect. Uh, I'll, I'll just compare. Uh, have you ever listened to Pod Save America? I had never

00:20:56.960 listened to it. Pod Save America are those guys from the Obama administration. Uh, and so they created

00:21:02.660 their own podcast. It's like the left wing daily wire, sort of, right? I mean, it's this kind of these

00:21:07.560 political guys. He started these big podcasts. I had never listened to it. Pod Save America

00:21:13.900 is so bad, but it's so beautifully bad. Like there are so many things bad about it. It made me feel

00:21:21.280 much better. Sometimes you wonder, you say, Oh, I wonder how are the guys on the left are doing this

00:21:25.020 or we is good, whatever. Oh my goodness gracious. Every single daily wire show is like a Shakespearean

00:21:31.420 tragedy compared to the drivel glib nonsense put out by Pod Save America. Here is just a little

00:21:38.200 clip to underscore a few points that we're talking about here from whatever random episode I listened

00:21:42.880 to of Pod Save America. We're not, there are things we can do. And so I think about this as like,

00:21:47.280 what can we do in the short term, the medium term, and the long term to deal with this massive

00:21:52.040 problem? So short term is blow up the phone lines at the Senate. We've said this before. Now it's

00:21:58.140 really true. Literally the most important election of our lifetime ever more than a presidential

00:22:03.500 election at this point. This is like the last call for democracy. Um, because here's how the

00:22:09.500 Supreme court thing shakes out. So that you, you know, he's serious, right? You know, he's serious

00:22:14.000 because he said the F word. He said he's right. And also just even, I hate to, I don't want to like

00:22:18.780 get into just personal insults or psychobabble or whatever, but the guy sounds like a Democrat,

00:22:24.600 doesn't he? He has the voice of just like, well, I can't even do it. I don't even know how, I don't

00:22:29.800 know how many years of conservatory training I have. I can't do that voice of a Democrat. That's

00:22:34.960 sort of like Marlon Brando. When he did the Godfather, he put cotton balls in his mouth to

00:22:39.540 listen, Tom, this is right. And they would create that sound. I, you would have to put little like

00:22:45.920 soy balls in your mouth to, you'd have to have the soy in there too. That's, that's too mean. I'm not

00:22:51.720 going to go down that road, but he said, they get really serious. Lefties do this a lot. So I'm

00:22:55.820 really serious. I'm going to say the F word. That's how, you know, I'm serious. I'm, if I had just

00:23:00.680 spoken like an adult, then you wouldn't know, you know, and it's just this whining, but all they,

00:23:05.420 you listen on Pod Save America and all it is, is like talking point innuendo. So all they, they say

00:23:12.260 the Supreme court seat was stolen. How was it stolen? They can't, they don't know. They didn't.

00:23:17.500 And Trump is colluding with Putin. They have, can you explain that at all? No, of course not. You're

00:23:22.540 just going, right. It's all this, but, but it's the, the reliance on the F word is though that makes

00:23:28.440 you smarter or wittier or funnier or more insightful, but it doesn't. It's a substitute for that. It's

00:23:34.660 when you don't have insight or wit or, or whatever that you can, that you have to rely on those sorts

00:23:40.780 of words. And it's really sad, you know, some people now, whenever I point this out, they send

00:23:46.160 around these, these surveys that show allegedly that people who swear are smarter. They have a

00:23:52.000 higher IQ and there, there might be something to this, but really the way these studies are done

00:23:57.880 is that they're just about people's facility with language. So they'll see how people can swear or

00:24:03.640 what, you know, what sort of ways they use language. And it's true. If you, if you can swear 0.95

00:24:08.140 or if you can use regular language on non-profane language, if you can use it very well,

00:24:13.640 that's a sign of a high IQ. That's why, you know, I think nobody has ever matched the

00:24:19.380 concision, which is a brevity being the soul of wit of my number one bestselling book, reasons

00:24:24.020 to vote for Democrats, a comprehensive guide. I mean, that's really the most concise and

00:24:28.100 fluid use of language in modern literature. And so I thank everybody, you know, for reading

00:24:33.580 that. And clearly they're all scholars and scientists too. The, but the, the ability to

00:24:39.460 use profanity and to move these words around might be evidence of a high IQ, but use it.

00:24:44.840 But it's, it's, the question is when is it appropriate to use it? Because the people that

00:24:49.320 I hear using profanity in public or next to little old ladies on the train, they don't 1.00

00:24:54.360 seem to have a very high IQ. I don't think that they, you know, I don't think they go home

00:24:58.280 at night and read Aristotle or something. I think they're, you know, they're, they're public

00:25:03.760 louts basically. I mean, they're just vulgar people who don't show a lot of respect. So 0.54

00:25:09.060 sure, you can have a great command of language. And I know plenty of people who speak very

00:25:13.520 properly and politely in public who can talk like a sailor sometime with the boys. That's

00:25:18.120 all fine. What it, what it means when you use language like Pod Save America does or the

00:25:23.720 head of the DNC or these other left-wing pundits, it means that you don't have any self-control.

00:25:29.540 You don't have any discipline. You, you can't control yourself. You don't, it actually shows

00:25:34.500 the opposite of what those apparent IQ studies are supposed to show. You, you aren't able

00:25:39.360 to control your language. You, you, what it also shows is this lack of respect for the

00:25:43.440 audience, the people around you, people who might not want to hear that. You know, someone

00:25:47.280 says, well, who cares? It's all over the place. Do, do you, do I really clutch my pearls

00:25:50.760 when I hear the F word? And no, I mean, you hear it a lot, but it's sort of like a person

00:25:56.360 with perfect pitch. This is it with like civilized people, polite people and civilized people

00:26:00.840 who don't say a lot of naughty words. Uh, when they hear a lot of profane language, it does

00:26:06.080 bother them in the way that it might not bother other people who deal in that all the time.

00:26:10.640 Just like when someone who has perfect pitch, here's a note, that's just a little bit off.

00:26:14.420 It really bothers them because they know where the pitch is supposed to be. Whereas someone

00:26:18.240 who has bad pitch, you know, who can't really hear the difference in pitch and tone, it won't

00:26:23.680 bother them at all because they're just less cultured. They're less attuned to that. Uh,

00:26:27.640 same thing with profanity. Uh, just compare some of this rhetoric that we're hearing. You

00:26:32.140 hear it on Pod Save America. You hear it from the head of the Democrat party. Compare that

00:26:36.160 to, oh, I don't know, the Gettysburg Address. You know, one of the great, uh, pieces of rhetoric

00:26:40.940 in American history. I'll just read it. It's a short speech. So it's pretty quick. Just compare

00:26:44.980 what that, what this language does to you compared to what Tom Perez does to you. Uh, the Gettysburg

00:26:49.800 Address reads, four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent,

00:26:53.940 a new nation conceived in Liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

00:26:58.640 Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing, whether that nation or any nation so conceived 0.55

00:27:03.760 and so dedicated can long endure. We're met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to

00:27:09.340 dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives

00:27:14.100 that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this,

00:27:18.380 but in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate. We cannot consecrate. We cannot hallow this ground.

00:27:25.120 The brave men living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to

00:27:30.100 add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never

00:27:34.560 forget what they did here. It is for us, the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work

00:27:40.260 which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here

00:27:46.340 dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased

00:27:52.940 devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion, that we here highly

00:27:59.160 resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth

00:28:05.760 of freedom, and the government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the

00:28:11.200 earth. What if he had sprinkled in just a couple F-bombs, you know? Wouldn't that have really shown

00:28:16.020 he cared? He was really passionate? Kirsten Gillibrand, people blame this on Trump. They say,

00:28:21.900 well, Trump uses naughty language in public, and sometimes he does, much less so since he's been

00:28:26.440 in office because he's getting better about this. But sure, this long predates Donald Trump. This is

00:28:33.360 not exclusive to him, and it's really been brought up by the left. Kirsten Gillibrand was talking to New York

00:28:37.960 Magazine a few years ago. She said, if we're not helping people, we should go the F home.

00:28:44.540 When she started in the Senate, she said she had no F-ing clue how to pass a bill. Why say that?

00:28:50.420 Look, sometimes people use swear words in private. Sometimes they accidentally say them in public,

00:28:56.180 and they say, oh, pardon my French. Sorry, I shouldn't have said that. People do. They make that

00:28:59.920 mistake. But she's trying to say it. She's taking pride in saying it. In 2004, long before Donald Trump

00:29:06.460 was a presidential candidate, Kerry, John Kerry, running for president, said that George W. Bush

00:29:11.880 effed the country up, effed up the country. He said, he just, publicly, why would you try to say

00:29:19.060 that publicly? There's clearly something going on here with the way that people are approaching

00:29:23.420 respect and the way that they're talking about their fellow countrymen. This is the same reason,

00:29:31.100 by the way, to use titles. Some people think it's crazy to say Mr. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. John

00:29:36.560 Smith or something. This was a big issue when I was doing wedding invitations. Everyone now wants

00:29:41.300 weird, wacky titles, so they'll say, you know, you have to say Mr. and Mrs. John Smith or Mrs. Jane

00:29:48.700 Sue and Mr. John Smith or whatever, all these things. They said, why are you using Mr. and

00:29:53.280 Mrs. and doctorates so old school? Just now we get rid of these. I learned this from a seminar

00:29:59.480 with Leon Kass, the great bioethicist, where in the seminar, we're all 18, 20-year-old kids.

00:30:05.180 We would say, okay, instead of saying, hey, John, you had this idea about the book and I think it's

00:30:10.640 this, use Mr. Smith, Mr. Jones, Mr. whatever. And it does elevate the conversation. That formality

00:30:17.920 elevates things. It's why in Congress and in Parliament and even in little debating societies,

00:30:24.240 people use Robert's Rules of Order. It's why there is etiquette. You know, the word etiquette,

00:30:28.300 the French word etiquette appears in its modern use in around 1750. And coincidentally, that's the

00:30:35.020 height of our civilization, right? That's sort of the peak of modernity. And it all really declines

00:30:40.080 from there. Etiquette are these formal rules, these manners, this civility that we all agree to

00:30:47.840 do. Not because we love them, not because we're pearl clutching, not because we're prude,

00:30:50.820 but because it makes the world more pleasant, makes things nicer and it facilitates communication.

00:30:56.340 And it's a little nice, you know. Today, there's no respect for the culture. Profanity

00:31:02.420 is the profane, right? It shows irreverence for the sacred. There's the profane and there's the

00:31:08.020 sacred. So to show that irreverence for this culture is because you don't like it, because you

00:31:13.780 hate it. Because, you know, if you have manners, it means you are raised right. It means you have

00:31:18.040 respect. You were taught respect from a young age. The people who, little kids who, every little kid

00:31:24.440 says curse words and usually their parents say, stop saying that, right? And don't say, that isn't

00:31:28.960 polite to do. People don't like that. You don't see that as much anymore. And that isn't just a,

00:31:35.300 you know, look, there are a lot of problems with the family, but it's this deeper cultural problem. 0.97

00:31:39.100 People don't have any respect for their country. They, people need to stop this. The reason not

00:31:44.860 to use swear words in public, I suppose you can use them in private and then you sound like a cool

00:31:49.800 guy, is because they, they just coarsen everything around you and they lose their power. So when you,

00:31:55.700 a really well-placed F-bomb in a private conversation at a bar is a beautiful thing and it really, you know,

00:32:01.120 can really liven up a story. But when it becomes the mode of the culture, it's just, it's just gross

00:32:06.780 and unpleasant. No one wants to live like that. The reason not to use swear words is because you

00:32:10.460 have respect for yourself. You know, the, the left tends to hate Western civilization because they

00:32:16.140 hate their country because they hate themselves. They, they, there is a self-hatred that comes

00:32:20.680 out of that left-wing self-flagellation. Don't do it. You know, when you're in public,

00:32:26.780 just have respect for people around you. You show respect for yourself. Someone who doesn't have any

00:32:31.560 respect for herself is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the socialista who won in Queens. Uh, she's posing 0.98

00:32:38.820 herself as this, a city girl. Let's see. Do I have to sign off? I'll get to this story. Then I'll

00:32:43.480 have to sign off. Uh, Alexandria, uh, Ocasio-Cortez just unseated Joe Crowley, big upset. She's running 1.00

00:32:51.100 as an open socialist. And she says, president Trump has never had to deal with a girl from the Bronx 0.84

00:32:55.720 like me. I said, okay, girl from the Bronx, huh? Let me do like three seconds of a Google search.

00:33:01.560 And, oh, and that's a lie. She's not, uh, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was born in the Bronx.

00:33:07.260 And then before elementary school, she moved up to the suburbs to Yorktown Heights, which is in

00:33:12.040 Westchester County. And she grew up in a very privileged position. And, uh, now people are

00:33:16.880 saying, uh, she's, she's been trying to, by the way, pose herself as this, you know, she never really

00:33:22.660 moved up. She just went to school there, whatever. It's a lie. And even people on the right right now

00:33:27.080 are, are trying to defend her from this. I have a unique perspective in that I also lived as a baby

00:33:32.700 in a poor part of New York city. And then I also, before elementary school moved up to Westchester

00:33:38.300 County, coincidentally to the town right next to the town that she is from. And actually the only

00:33:43.580 difference here is that she was born in Parkchester in the Bronx. And I lived my first baby moments

00:33:50.620 in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, which is slightly, uh, less affluent and less, uh, and more racially

00:33:56.800 diverse. And then she moved up to Yorktown Heights in Westchester. I moved up to Bedford Hills,

00:34:01.360 which is much more racially diverse and much less affluent than the town she grew up in.

00:34:06.080 So these are almost parallel stories. And I can tell you, man, we grew up a pretty posh childhood.

00:34:12.200 It is hard to beat that in terms of safety, in terms of school districts, in terms of relative

00:34:18.300 affluence, even if our families, I can't speak for her family, but even if we didn't have a ton of

00:34:23.320 money, you know, you're just in such an affluent area. That is a privileged upbringing. People go

00:34:28.520 to great universities from there because it's a good place to be with good education. She's trying 0.92

00:34:33.480 to spin it. I've, I've never denied how great it was. I'm very grateful to have had a relatively

00:34:39.540 pleasant childhood. She's denying it. And here's how she's denying it. People are saying she's just

00:34:44.320 using language creatively. It's a, it's a flat out lie. She writes on her campaign website from an

00:34:49.420 early age, Alexandria grew up with a deep understanding of income inequality. The state

00:34:54.320 of Bronx public schools in the late 1980s and early 1990s sent her parents on search for a

00:34:59.860 solution. She ended up attending public school 40 minutes North in Yorktown. And much of her life

00:35:03.800 was defined by the 40 minute commute between school and her family in the Bronx. It was clear to her

00:35:09.720 even then that the zip code a child was born into determined much of their destiny. The 40 minute

00:35:13.720 drive represented a vastly different quality of schooling, economic opportunity, and health

00:35:17.820 outcomes. That's true. She didn't commute. She didn't commute. She didn't. What she is saying,

00:35:23.580 what makes it a lie is the commute part. A commute is a regular journey that she lived in the Bronx 0.55

00:35:28.780 and she went to school in Yorktown, which is not possible by the way. To access these public schools,

00:35:33.160 you have to live in the town where the school is. So that's obviously a lie. She lived in Yorktown

00:35:37.220 Heights. She didn't live in the Bronx. If she means that she went to visit relatives in the Bronx,

00:35:40.880 okay, you and every other person in Westchester County, I went to visit relatives in the Bronx

00:35:46.100 when I was a kid. Everybody did. That's not a commute. That's going on a trip to grandma's house.

00:35:50.460 You don't commute to grandma's house. I didn't go on. I commuted to Florida to see my grandparents.

00:35:55.240 That's not a commute. That's a lie. She's lying. And John Podhoretz, whom I like, but he's wrong about

00:36:01.500 this. He tweeted out at some conservative commentator who observed this lie. He said, good God,

00:36:07.120 you're a know-nothing schmuck. Yorktown Heights is an ethnic suburb, the most modest in the county. 1.00

00:36:12.220 Now go be a pig somewhere else. I disagree with Cortez on everything, but you're a repellent 1.00

00:36:16.700 slime bucket of a person. I don't know where all that anger came from, but what he said about

00:36:21.300 Yorktown Heights just flat out is not true. Not only is it not the most modest town in Westchester

00:36:26.060 County, it's one of the more affluent ones. The median household income is, I believe, more than double

00:36:34.060 what the median household income was in my hometown in Westchester right next door. And my hometown was

00:36:39.020 pretty nice. Yorktown, if he's talking about an ethnic neighborhood, the ethnicity would have to be 0.98

00:36:44.000 white. That's the ethnicity of that neighborhood. Yorktown Heights is 88% white. I believe in those

00:36:49.420 days it was even higher. 88% white, some Asian then, I think five to 6% Asian, and a little bit

00:36:56.860 Hispanic. My hometown, one town over, Bedford Hills, 53% white, 40 some odd percent Hispanic, and two or

00:37:05.380 three percent black, one to three percent black. Much more ethnically diverse, much less affluent, 0.59

00:37:12.080 but they're all defending her on this. Don't defend her on this. It's a flat out lie. And this is going

00:37:17.040 to dog her, by the way. It won't matter in the seat. I mean, the seat is basically a lock. It's not that

00:37:22.020 a Republican is suddenly going to flip this district that nominated a socialist. But it's

00:37:27.140 going to dog her in the way that Pocahontas has dogged Elizabeth Warren. Because especially at this 0.97

00:37:31.680 time in politics, authenticity matters. We talked about that in the Elvis Donald Trump segment last

00:37:37.820 Thursday. Authenticity matters here. And what we now know about her is she's a liar about her identity. 1.00

00:37:43.800 She tweeted at some conservative talking about this. She said, you're trying to rob me of my identity. 0.94

00:37:48.420 The only person robbing you of your identity is you, because you're utterly lying about it.

00:37:53.260 Pocahontas, Elizabeth Warren is not a Native American, and you were not raised in the Bronx. 0.61

00:37:58.120 You were raised in a very affluent suburb. You should be grateful for that, and you should try

00:38:01.460 to spread abundance and prosperity to your fellow countrymen, instead of lying and playing the victim

00:38:06.020 and pretending that you're something that you're not, and trying to spread poverty and misery,

00:38:11.340 division and victimhood to your constituents to win an election. It's a cynical misrepresentation.

00:38:16.620 It's very disrespectful to people who didn't have the privileges that she had, and she should be

00:38:20.800 ashamed. She'll probably win this seat, but it's going to dog her. This is her Pocahontas moment. 0.98

00:38:26.080 Okay, I've got to say goodbye. I'm running really late to Facebook and YouTube. By the time we get

00:38:29.940 back, I've got to talk about the greatest president, one of the great presidents in American history.

00:38:33.820 I also have to make fun of Jennifer Rubin. If you want to see all that, you've got to go to

00:38:37.400 dailywire.com. It's $10 a month, $100 for an annual membership. You get me, you get the Andrew

00:38:41.920 Klavan Show, you get the Ben Shapiro Show, you get to ask questions in the mailbag, you get to ask

00:38:45.460 questions in the conversation that we're just about to have with the one and only Jordan B. Peterson.

00:38:51.740 None of that, none of that matters. This, we're doing local batches now of leftist tears. We're

00:38:58.700 doing little, it's kind of micro brews, and this is a lovely little batch from Yorktown Heights.

00:39:04.100 They're known for their beautiful blend of salt and water. A really good leftist, I'll just take a

00:39:10.740 little sip. That's good. If I were on the left, I would say that's effing good so that you know

00:39:17.980 that I'm serious. Go to dailywire.com. We'll be right back to make fun of Jennifer Rubin and talk

00:39:24.520 about President Garfield. All right, really quickly in our last moments here, some good

00:39:40.480 moves over the weekend for the culture, for the politics. Jennifer Rubin, the favorite fake 0.99

00:39:46.600 Republican of the mainstream media, more than Anna Navarro, more than Steve Schmidt, Jennifer Rubin,

00:39:52.620 who has pretended to be a conservative for many, many years now, is calling for lifelong mob

00:39:59.080 harassment of Sarah Huckabee Sanders because she had the audacity, the villainy to be a press 0.99

00:40:05.800 secretary in a Republican administration. Here is fake Republican Jennifer Rubin.

00:40:10.260 But we're not going to let these people go through life unscathed. Sarah Huckabee has no right to live 0.61

00:40:15.240 a life of no fuss, no muss, after lying to the press, after inciting against the press. These people 0.85

00:40:21.720 should be made uncomfortable, and I think that's a life sentence, frankly.

00:40:26.440 A life sentence. You heard it. Jennifer Rubin said it. You heard it from her, folks.

00:40:31.400 This is, I'm glad she's finally really showing her colors here because the left does this. We don't

00:40:37.700 really get a lot of fake Democrats, unfortunately, other than Joe Manchin. We have one in the Senate.

00:40:42.680 But, you know, we don't. Unfortunately, the Republicans haven't gathered our own fake Democrats,

00:40:46.860 but they gather their own fake Republicans. Steve Schmidt, Anna Navarro, Jennifer Rubin,

00:40:52.700 and more kind of come in and out. I'll be nice and not call out some of the people who I think are

00:40:58.500 being used for Democrat purposes. But Jennifer Rubin is really one of the worst. And listen to what 0.99

00:41:04.580 she's calling for here. Sarah Sanders is one of the most competent people in the administration and

00:41:10.080 maybe in the country. I mean, she is really, really good at her job. She's a clear communicator.

00:41:13.820 She doesn't lie. They try to accuse her of all sorts of wickedness and evil. She seems like a

00:41:19.420 total straight shooter. She's all around a good woman. She always had a good reputation until she 1.00

00:41:25.320 had the great audacity to work for the Republican president. She's calling for her to be harassed for 1.00

00:41:29.460 the rest of her life. There is no difference between Jennifer Rubin and Maxine Waters right now.

00:41:34.660 There's no difference between the craziest, insane, left-wing Democrat congresswoman and the person 1.00

00:41:41.160 that Washington Post pretends is their conservative columnist. It's a total farce. And this is one of 0.99

00:41:46.400 the tricks of the mainstream media is they put out their own conservatives who aren't really

00:41:51.220 conservative. So they say, we're balanced. We're presenting both sides of the opinion. The New York

00:41:56.720 Times does this. They have David Brooks. He's the conservative. He's not a conservative. He endorsed

00:42:00.300 Barack Obama because of the crease of his pants. That's not a conservative. Washington Post has

00:42:05.380 Jennifer Rubin. But there isn't actually intellectual diversity here. There is just the pretense of

00:42:10.860 intellectual diversity. There's the pretense of political diversity. It seems to have worked well

00:42:15.600 for these mainstream outlets for a long time. I wonder if the right shouldn't try to emulate that.

00:42:20.320 Because even Fox News, there have been a few kind of squishy Democrats who have gone on there,

00:42:24.620 but not really. At least Fox is generally pretty honest about this. And when they bring a lefty on,

00:42:29.380 they let that lefty go crazy and humiliate himself. But when the left-wing outlets bring a 0.63

00:42:35.020 conservative on, it's always conservatives who aren't really conservatives, who just say

00:42:39.940 Democrat talking points. And that really shows you something. It shows that the right is not afraid

00:42:45.220 to hear different points of view. Why? Because we're confident in our message and in our argument.

00:42:50.340 And if someone presents a different argument that's better, I guess we'll change our mind. But

00:42:54.200 that's probably unlikely because we are right most of the time. The left is terrified of hearing the

00:43:00.700 conservative argument. They don't let it come on their shows. They don't air it. I've never once been

00:43:04.920 invited on a left-wing network. And a lot of my friends who also sometimes go on Fox News or other

00:43:12.600 media outlets do not get invites on CNN or on Pod Save America, that horrific podcast. They would

00:43:18.200 never do it. I would have Pod Save America guys come on this show anytime. I'd love to talk to them.

00:43:22.620 I've begged Democrats to come on this show. Tom Arnold is the only one with the guts to do it,

00:43:26.740 basically. Which is why I like Tom Arnold. He gave one of the wilder interviews,

00:43:31.120 maybe in the history of broadcasting. But at least the guy had the guts to come on.

00:43:36.220 The left will not have Republicans on. It's because they're afraid. It tells you everything

00:43:40.280 you need to know. So good. I hope Jennifer Rubin gets two columns now. I hope she gets to call for

00:43:45.480 mob terror against Republicans in two separate columns. It shows them for what they are.

00:43:51.120 Phonies who can't stand up to the light of scrutiny. Okay. Before we go, we're already running late.

00:43:56.600 I've got to get to this day in history with one of the great unsung American presidents,

00:44:03.760 James Garfield. James Garfield on this day in history was shot. He didn't die. He didn't die

00:44:11.160 until September, I believe. And this was this day in history in 1881. James Garfield only really

00:44:20.140 served as president for four months because then he was shot and really kind of out of it,

00:44:24.340 though I guess technically he served for six months. James Garfield was a forgettable president

00:44:29.200 in if you talk to history teachers and you look at mainstream history curricula. He was a good

00:44:35.020 president. He was a very promising president. He had a good start. He was devoted to liberty.

00:44:39.560 He was a Republican not only from the beginning of his career. He was a Republican from the beginning

00:44:43.620 of the party. The Republican Party was founded in 1856 to free the Democrat slaves. And by 1857,

00:44:50.440 when he entered into politics, he was 22 years old, he became a Republican for that reason. He was

00:44:55.740 deeply committed to civil rights for all Americans, including black Americans. He was a cleaned up 1.00

00:45:03.640 government. He was an anti-corruption candidate. And he was nominated by accident in this really great

00:45:08.200 American way. At the 1880 GOP presidential nomination contest at the GOP convention, he was the campaign

00:45:16.780 manager for then Secretary of the Treasury, John Sherman. And he gave the nominating speech for

00:45:23.100 this guy, John Sherman, for president. And Sherman, Ulysses S. Grant, and James Blaine were vying for it

00:45:29.820 and they couldn't get enough votes. None of them could meet the threshold to become the nominee of

00:45:34.100 the party. So as a compromise candidate, on the 36th ballot, James Garfield was able to get the

00:45:41.540 nomination. And his vice president was Chester Arthur. The 36th ballot, you know, now the

00:45:46.660 nominating conventions are all sort of a farce. They're decided beforehand or whatever. This was

00:45:52.060 the real deal. This is actually where they picked their nominee. It wasn't just the appearance of

00:45:55.380 the thing. It actually did what it said it was doing, which is figuring out how to nominate a

00:45:59.840 candidate. And so James Garfield gets it on the 70 or on the 36th ballot. The reason I really have a

00:46:06.160 soft spot in my heart for him. I'll have to lean back to one of my great literary works.

00:46:12.800 James Garfield invented the blank book as an American literary genre. You know, I have a certain

00:46:19.080 affinity for blank political books. The first blank book in American political history is a book called,

00:46:25.360 I'm going to get the title a little bit off, but the statesmanship and political achievements of

00:46:31.120 General Winfield Scott Hancock, the regular Democrat nominee for president. So, you know,

00:46:38.260 it would be like Trump saying, here, here's my book, the accomplishments of Hillary Clinton. And

00:46:43.140 it's all blank. It was a five page blank book in 1880. And obviously now, you know, paper is a lot

00:46:50.300 cheaper. Printing is a little bit easier. So I was able to have 200 some odd pages. They could only do

00:46:54.800 five back then, but it was so great because the first blank book in American political history

00:46:58.720 was a Republican trolling a Democrat. And not just any Republican, the nominee for president

00:47:04.200 trolling a Democrat. Really, really good. He was killed within, you know, or was shot within four

00:47:09.660 months, killed within six. And nevertheless, in that very short amount of time, now these days it takes

00:47:14.740 two years to get anything done if you're president, other than if you're Donald Trump. But

00:47:19.660 this guy was able to pull back presidential appointment power from the Senate in those four

00:47:26.360 months, rebuild America's Navy, make it great again, and purge corruption from some federal

00:47:31.700 agencies, from the post office. He was able to purge corruption. Not an easy thing to do. He was

00:47:35.880 very big on education. He was very big on civil rights. Good president. Would have been a really

00:47:40.060 good president if he lived longer. He gave us Chester Arthur afterward, another great president.

00:47:45.380 But a guy who is forgotten on his deathbed or near his deathbed, he said, will I have made any mark

00:47:51.880 on history? Will history remember me? And he did. He turned the country a little bit in the right

00:47:56.100 direction. And he was a good man. And he gave us Chester Arthur. We'll go into him some other day,

00:48:01.260 but he's an important president too. And a salute to President Garfield because he changed history

00:48:07.680 in a very important way. He made me a lot of money. And that's a very important thing. And he gave us

00:48:15.280 one of my favorite trolls of the year 2017 and a mark of the exuberance of the right after the

00:48:22.420 election of Donald Trump. So you made your mark, President Garfield. And your book was all

00:48:27.480 inspiration for mine. Okay, that's the show. We have some amazing guests coming up this week. I don't

00:48:32.040 want to say when. I did interview Ji Seung-ho, the North Korean defector, who famously at the State of

00:48:39.380 the Union, he raised his crutches and he was totally maimed and disfigured in Korea. He trekked

00:48:44.520 thousands and thousands of miles as that tyranny, you know, tortured his family to death. I sat down

00:48:51.040 with him. He's the most heroic person probably I'll ever meet. We'll have that interview coming

00:48:54.420 for you in a few days. So be sure to tune in. In the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles. This is The

00:48:57.880 Michael Knowles Show. And I'll see you on Daily Wire backstage in like, I don't know, five minutes.

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The Michael Knowles Show - July 02, 2018

Ep. 177 - Why The F＊＊＊ Is Everybody So F＊＊＊in’ Profane？

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