The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1820 - Jimmy Kimmel Returns After More Left-Wing Terrorism

00:00:00.000 Four days after ABC took Jimmy Kimmel off the air for covering up left-wing terrorism,

00:00:06.120 the network has decided to reverse course and reinstate Kimmel

00:00:09.740 after being targeted with more left-wing terrorism. I'm Michael Knowles, this is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:30.000 Welcome back to the show. I am still in Minneapolis. Last night, we had an amazing, amazing event.

00:00:42.120 It was the first tour stop of the American Comeback Tour, Charlie Kirk's tour. Since he was

00:00:48.880 assassinated one day after the memorial, TPUSA decided that the tour would go on. I thought

00:00:54.640 that was certainly the right decision. Charlie and I had been scheduled to have a conversation

00:00:59.260 together in Minneapolis. Instead, we had a tribute to Charlie to a completely packed auditorium,

00:01:06.080 thousands and thousands of students shown up. And we will have the chairman of the TPUSA chapter

00:01:12.300 at the University of Minnesota coming up to describe what student activism looks like moving

00:01:19.280 forward in the face of all these threats. We'll get to that. First, though, I want to tell you about

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00:02:45.240 values. Kimmel's back after the left-wing freak out over free speech where the American left was

00:02:53.580 much, much more concerned about the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel than it was over the assassination

00:02:58.500 of Charlie Kirk, simply for speaking his mind and having conversations. Four days later, Jimmy Kimmel

00:03:05.480 is back. Sort of. ABC, Disney, they have decided to reinstate Kimmel. According to Disney,

00:03:15.500 quote, we made the decision to suspend production on the show to avoid further inflaming a tense

00:03:21.340 situation. It is a decision we made because we felt some of the comments were ill-timed and thus

00:03:29.640 insensitive. Absolute nonsense. We'll get to the reinstatement and the suspension and everything

00:03:37.900 it means, but just this statement on its face is nonsense. The problem with what Jimmy Kimmel said

00:03:44.700 is not that it was ill-timed and therefore insensitive. The problem with what Jimmy Kimmel said

00:03:51.420 is that he told an egregious and malicious lie about left-wing terrorism that assassinated the

00:03:59.460 most prominent, civil, generous, peaceful debater on the American right. Lest you forget what Jimmy

00:04:07.420 Kimmel actually said. Here are the comments. We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang

00:04:14.560 desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of

00:04:19.920 them and doing everything they can to score political points from it. That comment was not

00:04:27.700 just insensitive. That comment was not just poorly timed. It was a lie. He said that the Charlie Kirk

00:04:36.920 assassin was a MAGA Republican when there was zero evidence of that. When the assassin wrote Antifa far-left

00:04:47.460 slogans on the bullets when the assassin admitted in a text exchange with his trans furry boyfriend

00:04:55.960 that he was motivated by a left-wing ideology to kill Charlie Kirk. It was an egregious lie on public

00:05:05.180 airwaves that the federal government has a right and responsibility to regulate, but the ouster of Jimmy

00:05:12.860 Kimmel came from the affiliates, from all the local affiliates that carry ABC after massive pushback from

00:05:20.700 the audience because of a lie about a recent left-wing terror attack. A lie in furtherance of the left's

00:05:30.320 broader campaign of political violence against the right. That's what it was. Don't tell me it was ill-timed.

00:05:35.780 And he could say that today. He could say that tomorrow. He could say that 10 years from now.

00:05:40.220 It would be just as bad because it was a lie, not because of the timing. And according to reporting

00:05:46.420 from Politico, he was planning to double down on that, which was reportedly the final straw.

00:05:52.320 So ABC and Disney walk it back. Why? Why did they walk it back? Is the audience any less furious?

00:05:57.640 Is the lie any more true? No. I'll tell you why they walked it back. In my humble read of the

00:06:04.960 situation, here's some reporting. Man who fired a gun into ABC affiliate office had note to do the

00:06:14.760 next scary thing, prosecutors say. After Jimmy Kimmel's ouster, a man showed up to an ABC affiliate in

00:06:25.280 Sacramento and shot the place up. The man was rather clearly not a left-winger. The man was

00:06:33.800 yelling all sorts of left-wing things. And according to reporting from NBC News, Jimmy Kimmel's suspension

00:06:39.020 might have been a factor at Sacramento ABC affiliate. Quote, we believe that there was a political motive

00:06:45.180 behind his intention, the county prosecutor said. So Jimmy Kimmel was ousted by the audience and by the

00:06:54.760 affiliates and ultimately by Disney and ABC because he lied about left-wing terrorism. He lied to cover

00:07:00.480 up left-wing terrorism. And he was reinstated after more left-wing terrorism pressured ABC to do so.

00:07:08.180 So once again, the left gets what it wants through political violence. This is a pattern we've seen

00:07:16.400 a lot. Despite Libs lying and saying that most of the political violence in America comes from the

00:07:24.000 right, a claim that they can make by not counting the political violence on the left. We've given

00:07:29.180 examples ad nauseum in recent days. We now see, yet again, the left gets what it wants through

00:07:36.280 political violence. We saw it through the BLM movement, quite obviously. We've seen it through a 0.96

00:07:40.740 lot of the LGBT movement, a lot of the trans violence, even just in recent weeks. And now we're

00:07:46.260 seeing it here. Give us what we want or we'll shoot you. We'll shoot you if you're a right-wing 1.00

00:07:54.080 speaker having civil debates on college campuses. We will shoot you if you, or we'll at the very least 1.00

00:08:00.460 pressure you, push back on you, attack you, assault you, crowd outside your house if you're a left-wing 1.00

00:08:06.700 politician who's not sufficiently far to the left. And we'll shoot you if you're a liberal news station, 1.00

00:08:13.580 a liberal TV station, that in any way gets on our bad side. Left-wing terrorism has become a major 0.98

00:08:24.040 urgent public concern. And the government has to do something about it. It is a dominant factor in

00:08:35.440 American politics right now. It threatens the very core of our country. The government has to do

00:08:40.780 something about it. And happily, the government will do something about it. Here is the White House

00:08:44.340 Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt explaining how President Trump will make good on his promise

00:08:49.920 to declare Antifa a domestic terror organization.

00:08:54.740 But there have also been more examples than I could read off for you here in this briefing room

00:08:59.920 today of violence from Antifa. I will just read a few. In July 2025, several members of an Antifa cell

00:09:07.060 ambushed and opened fire on officers at an ICE facility in Alvarado, Texas, shooting one officer

00:09:13.120 in the neck. Also in July 2025, three Antifa members were charged with assaulting a police officer during

00:09:19.620 a violent riot outside an ICE facility in Portland, which for weeks prior had been under siege from the

00:09:26.520 local Antifa terror cell. In February 2024, a transgender Antifa terrorist detonated an explosive device

00:09:33.760 outside of the office of the Republican Attorney General of Alabama. In July 2023, Antifa members

00:09:40.560 linked to abortionist group Jane's Revenge, firebombed pro-life facilities and vandalized

00:09:45.920 churches. In January 2022, a suspected Antifa member was arrested for bringing a pipe bomb to a pro-Trump

00:09:53.340 event. In January 2021, an Antifa supporter threatened to shoot police officers and Trump supporters

00:09:59.140 outside of the Florida State Capitol building. Again, I could continue to list many more examples.

00:10:06.220 The list goes on and on. Notice, Caroline Levitt didn't even mention some of the more

00:10:11.700 prominent examples that we've all been talking about in recent weeks. The University of Pittsburgh

00:10:18.060 and so on. The list goes on and on. She would have been there all day if she listed every example.

00:10:21.900 So, the president is following up on his Truth Social post with an executive order. That means

00:10:29.840 that they'll be able to mobilize prosecutors, at least at first, to go after these groups. And

00:10:36.160 they're going to deal with Antifa in the same way that federal authorities have dealt with other

00:10:41.000 domestic terror groups, with other organized crime groups. It has to happen. And it's very important for

00:10:48.260 the White House to lay out this evidence at first. Because I know what happens. You go into your school

00:10:53.860 and your teacher says there's no such thing as left-wing terrorism in America. Most of the terrorism

00:10:58.940 comes from the right. You can't point to any examples of left-wing terrorism. Okay, maybe one here or

00:11:02.920 there, but it's very, very rare. Well, listen to that list. That was a very partial list. You go to the

00:11:07.620 water cooler and your co-workers are going to say there's no such thing. Antifa's not real. Antifa just means

00:11:13.800 anti-fascist. What, are you a fascist or something? They don't understand what Antifa is.

00:11:18.060 They don't understand that it's a coalition of anarchists and communists who are united by two

00:11:25.660 things, a far-left ideology and the willingness to commit political violence. They just don't know.

00:11:31.980 I mentioned earlier, I think it was last week, I said, I have a family member, very close to,

00:11:37.600 who legitimately believed that the Charlie Kirk assassin was a MAGA Republican. He listens to all the

00:11:47.140 mainstream news. He's, he, I guess you would have to call him a low information voter, but he consumes

00:11:52.820 plenty of news. It's not, it's not for lack of availing himself of the news websites of, of the

00:11:58.800 popular media. Places like NBC news, places like Jimmy Kimmel show. The problem is those guys are

00:12:06.780 lying. They're lying as you just heard, as we've just seen with our very eyes. So great that the White 1.00

00:12:13.140 House is, is taking this seriously, laying out the case. Now we need to see some action, certainly from

00:12:17.960 the prosecutors, but it'd be good to see some action from corporate America as well. As I, as I

00:12:24.860 mentioned shortly after Charlie was assassinated, we, we need to restore some health to the public

00:12:31.740 square. We need to refortify it. We need to reassert order. We need to recognize that, that we all have to

00:12:38.420 agree on certain axioms in order to defend the public square. We actually have to exclude certain

00:12:43.980 ideas and certain antisocial behaviors, the kinds of ideas and behaviors that undermine the public

00:12:48.880 square, such as, uh, direct threats, such as political violence, such as in Chesterton's word,

00:12:57.780 the stop that, the thought that stops thought. That's what we have to exclude. And, and unfortunately

00:13:02.860 the government is doing its part. ABC went squishy after four days, four days. This also totally

00:13:09.040 debunks the left-wing narrative that the FCC was fascistically threatening ABC if they didn't cancel

00:13:16.280 Jimmy Kimmel. Well, if that were the case, if ABC really feared some undue encroachment by the FCC,

00:13:22.480 why did they reinstate Kimmel after four days? Total nonsense, total nonsense, but something does have

00:13:28.020 to be done. You can't go from our current situation of constant left-wing terrorism 0.61

00:13:33.280 back to the, the free robust marketplace of ideas immediately. There has to be an intermediary step

00:13:40.960 and the intermediary step is the reassertion of order. Nevertheless, the left is ratcheting up all

00:13:47.740 of the rhetoric. Jasmine Crockett has a novel theory on patriotism in America. We'll get to her in one

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00:15:17.600 Yeah. Jasmine Crockett, the new AOC, makes AOC look like James Madison. She has just come out

00:15:24.860 with clever, but a little too clever by half messaging. I think Jasmine Crockett is a pretty 0.91

00:15:32.980 shrewd politician. She pretends that she can't speak the English language, but she can. And I

00:15:37.720 think she's a pretty shrewd politician. She realizes that the left's overt disdain for America, 0.71

00:15:44.660 contempt for their own country, is not playing very well in Peoria. And so she's trying to flip

00:15:50.200 the script with the claim that MAGA is the least patriotic group in the country.

00:15:55.460 You can wave all the flags you want to, but I am telling you right now that the most unpatriotic

00:16:02.160 people that we have in this country are MAGA and this president. We are the real patriots. And it is

00:16:08.740 time for us to take our flag back and show people what America is about. You can't say that you love

00:16:14.980 the Constitution while decimating it with every single stroke of a pen for an executive order,

00:16:21.280 while decimating it, while you are disrespecting our troops that have signed up to protect our

00:16:27.040 freedoms, not just here, but abroad. And then you're taking people's freedoms away using those

00:16:32.880 exact same troops.

00:16:36.740 Come again. I might have to retract a statement. I said that she had a command of the English language. 0.73

00:16:43.160 Well, look, that was clearer than she usually sounds when she's on stage playing to the Democrat

00:16:49.500 audience. I think I can get the point she's trying to make. She's trying to say MAGA, the right, the

00:16:57.180 conservatives hate America and Democrats are the true patriots. But she gives away the game. Did you

00:17:03.120 catch how she gives away the game? How she admits that her premise is faulty? She says, we need to

00:17:08.500 take our flag back. We Democrats need to take the American flag back and wave it. What happened to the

00:17:17.100 flag in the first place? Why do you have to take it back? Because you surrendered the flag. Because

00:17:23.700 you don't wave the American flag right now. Because you don't like your country. Go to a left-wing

00:17:30.800 rally. How many American flags are you going to see? You're going to see a lot of flags. You're going to

00:17:35.500 see the rainbow flag, the gay flag. You're going to see the rainbow with the triangle and the BLM 0.99

00:17:41.820 symbols. I caught that that's the terrorist gay flag. You're going to see the Palestinian flag. 0.99

00:17:49.380 You're going to see a lot of flags. You're going to see Mexican flags. But you know one flag you're

00:17:55.720 probably not going to see, you're certainly not going to see very often, is the American flag.

00:18:00.920 Why is that? Jasmine Crockett's, oh, it's just a coincidence. I don't know. We just, we, I don't

00:18:08.820 know why. For some reason, we put that American flag down. We should probably pick it back up again,

00:18:11.900 right? We should probably wave it. She gives away the game. It's smart to try to pivot if you're a 1.00

00:18:18.240 Democrat. Because right now, most Americans have the impression that Democrats don't like their

00:18:22.080 country. Because they don't. It's smart to try to pivot. She's on Gavin Newsom's show. Gavin Newsom

00:18:27.360 is trying to make this pivot. He was trying to befriend Charlie Kirk before Charlie's murder.

00:18:32.660 He is trying to befriend Steve Bannon. He's trying to seem like a centrist and a moderate

00:18:36.460 and the new Bill Clinton or something. The problem is, it's not going to work because it's not true.

00:18:44.360 Democrats, broadly speaking, don't like their country very much. We saw this explicitly when

00:18:51.440 Trump ran the first time. And he ran with the slogan, Make America Great Again, which was an old

00:18:55.440 political slogan. Ronald Reagan used it. He said, we're going to make America great again. And how

00:18:59.420 did prominent Democrats react to that? How did Andy Cuomo, then governor of New York, a potential

00:19:04.340 Democrat presidential candidate, how did he respond to it? He said, America was never that great.

00:19:09.640 And that is obviously the mainstream Democratic view. That's the view of left-wing educators. That's

00:19:17.500 the view of left-wing outlets. You think of the 1619 Project. It says America was founded to defend

00:19:22.620 slavery or something. That's the view of mainstream Democrat politicians. It's certainly the view of

00:19:27.640 the rank and file. They say America wasn't that great. It really isn't that great. Everyone's

00:19:31.220 oppressed. It's awful. We're an imperial terror. We're the greatest cause of instability in the

00:19:35.660 world. Blah, blah, blah. You've all heard it before. So what are they going to do? It's fitting that

00:19:43.740 Jasmine Crockett was on Gavin Newsom's show here because Newsom's caught between a rock and a hard 1.00

00:19:47.860 place. He needs to be a bleeding heart leftist. He needs to be on the avant-garde of the left.

00:19:54.460 Remember when he was mayor of San Francisco, he illegally performed so-called gay marriages.

00:19:58.760 This guy is a bona fide leftist, but he realizes he's got to play to the center to have any shot of

00:20:05.260 a Democrat winning the general election. So he plays up that he's a handsome white man who, I don't know,

00:20:10.860 wears nice suits, goes to the French laundry. He's trying to play up his bougie centrist cred,

00:20:16.100 and it doesn't work. There's no path right now in the Democrat party for that.

00:20:24.620 There's no path for patriotism right now. And the more honest liberals are admitting it.

00:20:31.220 There was a really telling tweet from Thomas Chatterton Williams. Do you know Thomas Chatterton

00:20:36.000 Williams? Probably not. He's a staff writer for The Atlantic. He's a bougie liberal writer,

00:20:44.600 par excellence. He goes to all the fancy, bougie, left-wing things. And Thomas Chatterton Williams

00:20:50.400 wrote this. I've spent half of my adult life living in one foreign country or another, and I don't think

00:20:57.480 I've ever felt so estranged from the surrounding culture as I am from the aesthetics and sensibilities

00:21:03.000 of this movement. He's specifically posting pictures of Charlie Kirk's memorial service.

00:21:07.880 Not even a criticism. I just feel more at home in Greece than in these images.

00:21:15.340 And what are the images? It's people praying. It's people coming together. It's people forgiving

00:21:19.640 their enemies. It's people waving the American flag, singing the Star-Spangled Banner, praise and

00:21:24.520 worship music, proclaiming the gospel. And he says, I just feel so alienated from it. It's just so weird.

00:21:31.380 I just feel so much more at home, sipping my Greek coffee in Santorini. Oh, this is just so icky in

00:21:41.060 America. I just don't understand it at all. There's a term for this. It's a term popularized by Roger

00:21:47.860 Scruton. Or I suppose this is the opposite of the term popularized by Scruton, which is oikophobia.

00:21:56.420 Oikophobia. Roger Scruton, the late conservative philosopher, he promoted this term oikophilia,

00:22:04.200 which is love of one's home. He said conservatives were oikophiles. We have to love our home. We have

00:22:10.540 to want to be in a good and beautiful place and have an attachment to our country. Well, the opposite

00:22:14.960 of that is oikophobia. Fear, disdain, hatred of one's home. Oikophobia and liberalism go hand in 0.95

00:22:26.400 hand. I often observe that liberalism basically boils down to screw you, dad. It's three words. 0.99

00:22:34.580 Well, related to that is a contempt for home, a desire to leave home as quickly as possible. Move

00:22:41.820 out. Go to a college as far away as you can. Go get that apartment on your own. Live alone away from

00:22:48.080 home. It permeates the entire culture. I'm not really even merely pointing to one political

00:22:54.480 party or the other, but it's a product of liberalism. Liberalism, which is constantly

00:22:59.180 seeking abstraction, constantly seeking to maximize individual autonomy. Liberalism,

00:23:06.540 which feels a kind of shame for tradition, for inherited circumstances, a shame for the duties and

00:23:15.760 the relationships that we just come by naturally, that are not chosen. That's what he's expressing.

00:23:21.900 It's the same thing. You know, you know, the person, you might've been the person who says,

00:23:26.560 oh, you know, I was born in the wrong era. Oh, I was born in the wrong place. Oh, I really,

00:23:33.140 I should have been born in the 1920s or the 1940s or on the 1960s say, oh, I really should have been

00:23:41.200 born in Italy. I should have been, but no, this is, I certainly don't belong here. People say this all

00:23:47.460 the time. When they say this, what they are confessing is not some, uh, is not their own

00:23:54.860 sophistication. What they're confessing is a character defect. What they're confessing is an

00:24:01.220 insecurity. What they're confessing is a lack of self-knowledge because you're, you're, you are born in

00:24:09.360 the right time and you are born in the right place because we are to a large degree products of our

00:24:16.640 circumstances. We are, uh, we find our identity in fact, in our circumstances, in our families,

00:24:26.180 in our homes, in our nations. That's not all that our identity is, but it's a lot of it.

00:24:32.000 This, this is why Socrates preferred to drink the hemlock rather than be exiled from Athens

00:24:38.100 because to, to lose one's place within the community is, is to suffer a kind of a death

00:24:44.580 and liberalism being an ideology ultimately that inclines toward death

00:24:50.420 prefers that hates a fixed place, hates limits, hates the limits that are imposed by a country or a

00:24:58.960 home, four walls of a house. That's what, that's what he's expressing. That is intrinsic to liberalism

00:25:04.580 and the further along liberalism advances into these modern forms of leftism, the worse it gets.

00:25:12.360 Jasmine Crockett wants the Democrats to reappropriate the American flag. 0.92

00:25:16.320 Good luck, good, good luck convincing your own followers to do it.

00:25:21.140 Now, I want to get back to Jasmine Crockett because she said one of the most mind-numbingly

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00:27:12.980 Well, I don't want to move on from Jasmine Crockett too fast. She provides too much good 1.00

00:27:18.380 content. Here, Jasmine Crockett explains her visceral reaction when she sees federal immigration 0.60

00:27:26.660 enforcement. But as somebody who understands history, when I see ICE, I see slave patrols.

00:27:34.520 Now, I never lived through the slave patrol period. But if you know the history of policing in this

00:27:40.260 country, then you understand that they were born out of slave patrols.

00:27:47.020 ICE is like slave patrols.

00:27:51.720 First of all, I just want to get to her preface. She said, as someone who understands history,

00:27:58.200 and I think I'm going to start prefacing my comments with, as a big fat Vietnamese woman, 1.00

00:28:04.040 I believe such and such. That would be more plausible than Jasmine Crockett starting her 0.98

00:28:10.040 sentences with. As someone who knows history, as someone who's. Jasmine Crockett says that ICE

00:28:16.800 is like slave patrols. Do you see the problem there? Do you see maybe the one reason that that

00:28:24.680 comparison is inept? Slave patrols stopped people from escaping. ICE stops people from invading.

00:28:38.720 They do exactly the opposite thing. It's not just that the similarity is not quite perfect. The

00:28:46.680 comparison is just, it's that they do literally the opposite thing. But other than that, great,

00:28:52.800 great comparison. It's like when people would compare the border wall, the southern border wall

00:28:59.740 to the Berlin wall or something like that. It's, oh, you know, the Soviet Union built a big wall too.

00:29:04.260 Yeah, the Soviet Union, the evil empire built the wall to stop people from leaving. We built the wall 0.98

00:29:11.420 to stop people from coming in. I think that tells you that there's a difference between the two

00:29:16.260 countries, wouldn't you say? I think that tells you there's a bit of a difference between ICE and

00:29:21.560 slave patrols. Goodness gracious. Speaking of federal law enforcement and confounding Democrat 0.85

00:29:28.500 women, Maisie Hirono, who is a Democrat member of the U.S. Senate, just accidentally hoisted herself 0.85

00:29:35.900 on her own petard, trying to grill FBI Director Cash Patel. See if you catch the flaw in her logic.

00:29:43.020 Move on to my, you know, you've been asking some questions about changes to your hiring standard,

00:29:53.860 including college degrees and possibly the age. But, you know, one question I had is that you are now

00:30:03.700 requiring applicants to be able to do a certain kind of pull-ups, which a lot of women cannot because 1.00

00:30:14.480 of physiological differences. Are you requiring these kinds of pull-ups?

00:30:21.640 We are requiring a physical program at BFTC at Quantico because FBI agents carrying guns in the field

00:30:28.640 have to chase down bad guys and do really hard work. The physical fitness standards of those agents...

00:30:33.640 So are you requiring these kinds of pull-ups? We are requiring everybody to pass the 1811 standards

00:30:40.500 at BFTC. If you want to chase down a bad guy and put him in handcuffs, you better be able to do a

00:30:47.040 pull-up. The reason I ask is that there are concerns about whether or not being able to do these kinds of

00:30:53.680 harsh pull-ups is really required of FBI agents. Doing one pull-up is not harsh and there are always

00:31:00.240 medical exemptions to that. Okay, so premise. Women should be FBI agents because women are just 1.00

00:31:11.880 the same as men and they can do everything that men can do and there's no difference between men and

00:31:16.080 women. So if you don't hire women for this job, you are unjustly discriminating against them based on

00:31:23.220 their sex, which is irrelevant to their ability to do the job. That's step one. Step two, hold on. 1.00

00:31:32.440 Are you requiring women to live up to the same standards as the men who do the job? You can't do 1.00

00:31:38.680 that. Men and women are totally different. Men and women can't do the same thing. Women cannot do 1.00

00:31:43.980 the same things that men can do. That's crazy. Where'd you ever get that idea? Well, Maisie,

00:31:48.560 I don't know if you remember five seconds ago when you were telling, no, no, no, forget about that.

00:31:52.700 How dare you suggest that women can do the same thing as men? They obviously can't, which is why 1.00

00:31:59.380 they need to be hired to do the exact same jobs as men because there's no difference between men and 0.99

00:32:03.300 women. I rest my case. Now, even Maisie Hirono, who is absolutely impervious, immune to all logic, 1.00

00:32:13.220 even Maisie Hirono realized that there might be a problem with what she was saying.

00:32:19.280 So right there at the end, she, she tried to save herself. She says, well, because there,

00:32:25.780 I don't know. There is a real question as to whether or not FBI agents need to be able to do a single

00:32:31.720 pull up. Is there, is there, who's, who has that question? I'm not an expert. I've never worked in law

00:32:42.920 enforcement. I'm not much of an athlete even. Seems to me, federal law enforcement officers

00:32:50.500 should, should probably be able to do a single pull up. And in fact, here's, here's my evidence for

00:32:57.480 that. There are physical standards in the first place. There is a physical test that the agents have

00:33:05.900 to take. That's the thing you're taking issue with. So then my rejoinder to Maisie Hirono is, okay,

00:33:11.820 you're trying to save yourself there at the end. Why does the test exist in the first place?

00:33:18.400 She would not have an answer to that. And after a while, what would probably come out is what has

00:33:25.080 happened in all of these places that the left has infected, all of these institutions, which is they

00:33:31.880 would probably just lower the standards. They'd probably just get rid of the test or, or severely

00:33:37.580 reduce the test in the first place. That's what they would have to do, which leads you to a society

00:33:44.120 of Harrison Bergeron. So Harrison Bergeron, great story by Kurt Vonnegut of, of this dystopia that

00:33:51.100 increasingly we appear to be living in, which rather than trying to build people up, rather than, than

00:33:56.660 observing people's natural talents, the natural diversity among people, trying to play to people's

00:34:02.040 different strengths. They just try to handicap all the people who excel at anything. And so you have a

00:34:08.320 society that intentionally cripples everyone. And in this case, you would have federal law enforcement

00:34:15.240 made up of people who cannot possibly enforce the law, who like physically cannot enforce the law.

00:34:23.160 People who can't do a single pull up. 0.99

00:34:24.920 Is that the kind of society you want to live in? Do you think that's going to play well

00:34:30.140 in the midterm elections, in the next presidential election, when crime and disorder and law enforcement

00:34:35.800 are top issues for people? And you got the left saying, we need to reduce all standards for law

00:34:42.460 enforcement? I don't think so. But I don't see how they get out of that problem. If they maintain

00:34:49.040 their radical, individualist, liberal, egalitarian ideology, all the things we've been talking about

00:34:55.520 all day, if they are to maintain that, they cannot then pivot and say, no, you're right,

00:35:00.980 actually, we should have standards for law enforcement. It doesn't work. They have to pick

00:35:05.200 one. If they're going to maintain their oikophobic ideology, which has them waving every flag other 0.97

00:35:11.460 than the American flag, then they cannot immediately turn around and say, we're actually the party of

00:35:16.240 patriots. MAGA hates America. It doesn't work. You have to pick one. And right now, the left is

00:35:22.260 clearly a prisoner to its own ideology. Speaking of subpar female federal employees, Kamala Harris 1.00

00:35:29.580 just went on MSNBC. She's promoting her book that not a soul is going to read. I'm not sure Kamala

00:35:36.180 Harris has read her book. And she goes on MSNBC to promote the book. This is as friendly an interview

00:35:42.780 as there could possibly be. And she blows it. She, she can't even do a friendly interview. 1.00

00:35:49.460 She is asked about, about her own claim that she couldn't pick Pete Buttigieg to be her running mate 0.91

00:35:57.160 because he's gay. She was just asked to defend her own claim that she volunteers in her book.

00:36:03.300 Here's her response.

00:36:07.980 You're the first woman elected vice president. You're a black woman and a South Asian woman

00:36:12.240 elected to that high office, very nearly elected president to say that he couldn't be on the ticket 0.99

00:36:17.340 effectively because he was gay. It's hard to hear. No, no, no. That's not what I said, that that's 0.97

00:36:21.960 that he couldn't be on the ticket because he is gay. My point in as I write in the book is 0.92

00:36:28.460 that I was clear that in 107 days, in one of the most hotly contested elections for president 0.97

00:36:39.740 of the United States against someone like Donald Trump, who knows no floor to be a black woman 1.00

00:36:47.780 running for president of the United States. And as a vice presidential running mate, a gay man 0.99

00:36:55.340 with the stakes being so high, it made me very sad. But I also realized it would be a real risk.

00:37:06.620 No matter how, you know, I've been an advocate and an ally of of the LGBT community my entire life.

00:37:14.320 So it wasn't about it wasn't about it. Right. So it wasn't about any any prejudice on my part. But.

00:37:19.360 But. But I didn't pick him because he's a light in the low for his tap dance and homosexual. 1.00

00:37:31.520 She goes on, he goes on to sell a book that she ostensibly wrote. I assume she did not actually

00:37:39.020 write it, but in principle, the ideas that she wrote it and she goes on the friendly news network,

00:37:44.620 the friendliest news network. And they say, hey, can you just explain a sentence you wrote?

00:37:50.480 She goes, hold on. I didn't say that. He goes, hey, you said you didn't pick Pete Buttigieg to be

00:37:59.380 a running mate because he's gay. I didn't say that. What I said was what I what I said was I didn't pick 0.67

00:38:09.060 him because he is a gay man. And people are saying I didn't pick him because he's gay. I didn't pick 0.81

00:38:17.020 him. OK, you understand because he is a homosexual. I didn't say that. I didn't say what I said. 1.00

00:38:25.480 Why do you think I said what I said? Did a coconut just fall on me out of a tree? Crack me on the

00:38:31.440 head. This woman, they picked her. They they booted out Joe Biden, who was senile, possibly

00:38:41.800 dead. I get there were problems, but they booted out Joe Biden, who was actually a successful

00:38:46.640 politician for half a century, who got himself elected to the U.S. Senate before he was even

00:38:50.800 legal, even before he was constitutional. OK, a very talented politician. They booted him out

00:38:55.940 and then they had their pick of the Democrat Party and they picked this woman 0.55

00:38:59.840 who who can't read her own book. She can't read her own book.

00:39:07.320 And why did they do it? I don't want to beat up on him too much. I want to say that. Oh,

00:39:09.940 they made a mistake and they should have picked someone else. Maybe they would have done better

00:39:13.960 with Biden. He probably would have lost, too. They picked her because they're prisoners to their 0.82

00:39:21.640 own ideology. Joe Biden admitted it. He said, I have to pick a black woman to be my running 0.89

00:39:26.560 mate. And there were three prominent choices. Susan Rice, who was the fall man for Benghazi. 0.91

00:39:31.580 She was out. Karen Bass, a literal communist. And Kamala Harris, who was who was the first 0.95

00:39:38.160 person to drop out of the presidential primary when she ran. But she had a pulse and she had

00:39:43.660 a suntan, a year long suntan, and she had lady parts. So therefore, therefore they picked 0.53

00:39:50.640 Okay, before we get to the very excellent, very courageous student chairman of the TPSA chapter

00:39:57.560 at the University of Minnesota, I do have to make one more point on lady parts. I guess 1.00

00:40:03.040 actually speaking of sexual controversies, it is being reported that the first lady of France,

00:40:09.280 Brigitte Macron, is going to present photographic evidence to court that she is a woman because

00:40:17.380 of her ongoing defamation lawsuit against Candace Owens. You know, I, I have not really weighed

00:40:24.460 into this controversy very much. I generally try not to get involved in in these affairs when they

00:40:32.980 when they involve friends of mine and associates of mine and colleagues of mine. I try to have a

00:40:37.180 lighter touch, but I have to weigh in here. Brigitte Macron is potentially moments away from releasing

00:40:46.820 photographic evidence of her sex. I am imploring everyone involved with this lawsuit to please drop it

00:40:56.300 before I have to look at those photographs. I'm imploring, I will, I will chip in. I don't know, I'll chip

00:41:02.860 into who, whichever side, I don't, whatever, whatever has to happen to make this lawsuit stop

00:41:09.280 before we see, it's no knock on Brigitte Macron. She's a lovely woman, you know, she's a woman of a

00:41:16.580 certain age, and it's just, even that, I think certain things are best left to the imagination.

00:41:23.460 I think clothing is good on statesmen and their spouses, and please, don't, don't release the

00:41:35.180 photos, please, please. That's all I'm saying. I just want some decorum in public life. Is that so

00:41:39.940 much to ask? Is that, these days it is so much to ask. Okay, I am very pleased to be joined momentarily

00:41:47.180 by the TPSA chairman from University of Minnesota, who I spent last night with. Our very own Mary

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00:42:04.520 Operation Midnight Hammer, dropping over 420,000 pounds of bunker-busting bombs to obliterate Iran's 1.00

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00:43:06.320 My favorite comment yesterday is from Aaron Johnston, 1584, who says,

00:43:09.940 the irony is that Trump doesn't hate anyone, including his enemies. It's funny, because after

00:43:13.940 that amazing, stirring speech, one of the best speeches I've ever heard from Erica Kirk, Charlie's

00:43:20.460 widow, in which she forgave her husband's murderer, Trump gets up there and he says, you know,

00:43:27.460 it's so beautiful what Erica said. It's so, I know Charlie would always say, love your enemies and all

00:43:31.680 he goes, but this is where I disagree with Charlie. I hate my enemies. I hate them. I don't want what's

00:43:36.140 best for them. You know, and I know it's Erica needs to talk to me and Charlie, he's looking down,

00:43:40.640 he's angry at me. And it was, it was, I think, a bit of a joke. I think it was a bit self-deprecating,

00:43:47.220 as Trump has done many times before. But, but he was, he was pilloried for this, including in parts

00:43:54.420 of the right. And I think that comment is actually more to the point. I, I, the irony of it all is,

00:44:00.580 I don't think Trump really hates his enemies. He forgives people on a dime. He doesn't really take

00:44:06.200 things all that personally. He has, he has political rivalries. He beats people up in public

00:44:10.780 and they beat him up and he's a tough guy. But I don't really see him staying up all night,

00:44:15.240 red in the face, steam coming out of his ears. I mean, he was palling around with Elon Musk

00:44:19.120 at Charlie's memorial and they had a pretty rough falling out. This is the irony. You know, Trump,

00:44:25.400 part of Trump's charm is, is he admits his faults. We all are human. We all have faults. And in some

00:44:31.180 ways he plays up his faults. He, he makes himself out to be worse than he actually is. Okay.

00:44:38.380 Speaking of Charlie, uh, last night was the first stop on, on Charlie's speaking tour,

00:44:43.540 the American comeback tour since he was assassinated. And there was of course a question as to whether

00:44:47.300 or not that tour would continue or could continue. Uh, I, when I was, uh, filling in one day last week

00:44:54.040 on, on Charlie's show, uh, TPUSA asked me, they said, when, when is your tour date? And I said,

00:45:00.400 well, Charlie and I were supposed to speak in Minneapolis on Monday. And they asked me,

00:45:05.040 are you going to do it? I said, let's get your decision. You tell me. And, and, uh, they said,

00:45:10.700 we want to do it. If you're willing to do it, we want to do it. Now I agreed. I said, I think we

00:45:14.940 should. I, I, I think that you can't back down. You can't let the left win. You can't let them

00:45:21.300 silence us. And so we had the first stop of it last night. It was a tremendous event. Uh, there will be

00:45:26.260 other friends of Charlie's who are going to fill in for the rest of the tour and it's going to go on

00:45:29.760 all around the country. I am joined right now by Elizabeth Pleckner, who is the chairman of the

00:45:35.860 TPUSA chapter at the university of Minnesota and who organized the event last night. Elizabeth,

00:45:40.320 thank you for coming on the show. Thanks for having me, Mr. Knowles. It's a pleasure to be here.

00:45:47.820 Elizabeth, I think we should tell the audience, not only did I see you yesterday evening,

00:45:51.940 but I saw you this morning. You and I were supposed to go on Fox and Friends this morning. They

00:45:57.400 requested that we come on to, to talk about the event last night and I'm sitting there and I have

00:46:02.400 an empty chair next to me. And I said, Oh, I don't know. Maybe, maybe Elizabeth, uh, slept in or 0.95

00:46:07.700 something like that. Maybe, uh, college kids, you know, she was up late partying or something. No,

00:46:12.200 no. Uh, I ended up doing the news hit myself, but the, the affiliate, the Fox affiliate had accidentally

00:46:19.860 sent you to the wrong green room. I said, well, you know, frankly, it's more important that she comes

00:46:24.140 on and gives her perspective than, than just me. I was, I was on the show, uh, the day before anyway.

00:46:29.360 So I said, it's very important that people hear from you. I'm glad you could make it onto my show.

00:46:33.300 Just tell, give us a little insight into how students are feeling after the assassination of

00:46:39.140 Charlie, after the subsequent celebration of Charlie's assassination, after all of the threats

00:46:44.100 that we've seen on campus that have really, really ramped up to now a deadly degree. How are the

00:46:49.540 students feeling? Right. So September 10th, um, me and my peers were, um, you know, very upset as,

00:46:57.980 as all of you were. Um, we went to several vigils. I've been to three myself since the assassination,

00:47:03.480 um, and our club has gone to several together. Um, but after that, we all kind of convened and

00:47:09.720 were talking and, you know, we wanted you to still come and speak because this was the plan. Um, he was

00:47:15.200 supposed to be here. I met him over the summer. He said he wanted to be here. Um, so we wanted to do

00:47:19.400 an event no matter what. And that was sort of the, um, like the mentality that everyone had.

00:47:24.960 So last night was, um, exhilarating to say the least. It was very successful. Um, we had a line

00:47:31.400 out the door, um, down the block. It sounded like I didn't see it myself, but, um, I was very impressed

00:47:37.400 by the turnout. Um, when I was able to address everyone, I actually couldn't see all the way up

00:47:43.240 the top of the auditorium, which was amazing. Um, and we just appreciate having a conservative

00:47:49.260 voice on campus since there hasn't been one in several years. Um, and it was an honor to host

00:47:54.080 the first tour stop since his passing. Oh, it was a great pleasure to be able to come out and do it.

00:48:00.360 Uh, to the, your point on, on how many people showed up the auditorium, I think held about 2,700,

00:48:06.600 not, not a seat in that open in the house. And then I heard there were another thousand or 1300

00:48:11.560 outside. I think it was a total of about 4,000 people tried to make it out, which in some ways

00:48:16.700 did not surprise me because it was a very important moment for not just the American right, not just

00:48:22.180 campus conservatives, but for, for the whole country. But on the other hand, I was somewhat

00:48:26.520 surprised because there was the real credible threat of violence. And I, I wondered if students

00:48:32.100 were going to turn out. I did an interview with a liberal news outlet yesterday and they raised this.

00:48:36.200 They said, well, is anyone going to show up? Aren't they going to be afraid that, that someone is going

00:48:40.180 to shoot them? I mean, that, that really was the point of the political violence against Charlie,

00:48:45.020 which was the peak of all of the other political violence that we've seen from the left against

00:48:49.500 conservatives, especially on campus in recent years. So are the students afraid or are you afraid?

00:48:55.440 Is there, uh, is there any trepidation or no?

00:49:00.800 Absolutely not. Um, of course we had a few students ask about security and the,

00:49:05.640 the university and, um, all the security was great. All the law enforcement officers that were

00:49:10.460 there. Um, but when I, I kind of want to reference Erica's speech about a week ago,

00:49:15.600 when conservatives get, you know, pushed down, we come back stronger, more confident. Um,

00:49:23.000 and when you know, you're in the right, it's easy to sort of be set and stubborn and we're going to do

00:49:27.820 this. Um, and nothing was going to stop us. You could actually hear, um, the protestors outside

00:49:33.140 being drowned out by USA chance. I thought that was amazing. So it was just, um, everyone,

00:49:38.820 everyone was in the right mindset last night. It was beautiful. I think you showed tremendous

00:49:45.040 courage and clarity of vision. Uh, you did a great job pulling off the event. Uh, I think, uh, you

00:49:51.180 know, I, I mentioned in the speech last night, I don't like it when people are trying to speak for

00:49:55.400 Charlie now. And so, well, he would have said this about this issue. He would have said that

00:49:59.440 on some controversial issue that he, he maybe hadn't weighed in on. And I think people should,

00:50:04.080 should really avoid doing that, uh, on something like this, however, on something like on the

00:50:09.120 courage of, of conservative students on campus, not to be deterred, not to be cat. I think we can

00:50:14.060 all say with 100% certainty, he, he would have absolutely loved it. He would have been very,

00:50:18.660 very proud of it. So Elizabeth, thank you so much. Uh, keep up the great work, keep up the courage

00:50:22.900 out there. All of the students who will not, will not back down. Wonderful to see you.

00:50:27.520 Awesome. Thank you so much for having me. Have a good day.

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The Michael Knowles Show - September 23, 2025

Ep. 1820 - Jimmy Kimmel Returns After More Left-Wing Terrorism

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