The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 194 - Cry Me A River, Jim Acosta

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00:00:30.320 Now you say you're sorry for being so untrue, huh, mainstream media?

00:00:35.120 Well, you can cry me a river, cry me a river, cry me a river, Jim Acosta.

00:00:42.320 As confidence in the mainstream media drops to record lows,

00:00:45.560 President Trump's approval rating hits a new high of 50%,

00:00:48.960 five points higher than Barack Obama's at this point in his presidency.

00:00:53.000 We will analyze why the media's crocodile tears are not working.

00:00:56.660 Then, why these midterm elections, 2018, are the most honest elections that we've had in a long time.

00:01:03.340 And also, why God isn't a socialist.

00:01:06.220 Finally, the mailbag.

00:01:07.240 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:09.100 All right.

00:01:17.560 Just got back in from our nation's capital.

00:01:19.960 Had a good time.

00:01:20.840 Walked around the gold house, you know.

00:01:22.860 Got to visit with YAF, Young America's Foundation.

00:01:26.000 Gave a speech there on owning the libs and how wonderful it is.

00:01:29.080 I think you can probably catch that online.

00:01:30.820 YAF might be streaming it somewhere.

00:01:32.060 And I left my compatriots there in D.C.

00:01:35.360 We were like ships passing in the night.

00:01:38.120 Didn't get to see one another.

00:01:39.620 I don't know if I'm more tired because I just got off the airplane and I came here

00:01:44.180 or because I closed down Shelley's back room with Allie Stuckey last night.

00:01:48.160 It was one of those two things.

00:01:49.420 I'm not sure which one.

00:01:50.500 But a lot of fun anyway.

00:01:51.540 I really enjoyed seeing YAF.

00:01:53.080 And, you know, we're doing this tour in the fall with YAF, Covfefe on campus.

00:01:56.220 So if you would like me to come spread the simple joys of Covfefe to your campus,

00:02:02.160 put in a request through the YAF website, yaf.org.

00:02:05.340 I think there should be a link for my tour there.

00:02:07.980 And you can just put in a request and we'll set it up.

00:02:09.940 We're going to be picking those schools and dates soon.

00:02:12.440 So get that in pretty fast.

00:02:13.760 But there's a lot to get to.

00:02:15.160 This was really fun.

00:02:16.300 You know, talk about a good news cycle to be hanging around D.C.

00:02:19.280 We have the one and only Jim Acosta.

00:02:22.200 If Jim Acosta did not exist, conservatives would have to create Jim Acosta.

00:02:27.240 The future Daily Wire White House correspondent Jim Acosta,

00:02:29.680 he got into a little heat because he was at a Trump event.

00:02:33.960 He was at a Trump rally and some Trump supporters were heckling him.

00:02:37.500 I wonder why.

00:02:38.400 I wonder why they would do that.

00:02:39.660 That seems so crazy.

00:02:41.020 So then Jim Acosta went on television and started crying those mainstream media crocodile tears.

00:02:47.080 Here is Mr. Acosta.

00:02:48.720 He's covered countless of these and has become one of the president's favorite human punching bags.

00:02:54.760 CNN chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta.

00:02:57.500 Jim, we've seen your videos and I've been to these events too.

00:03:00.940 I've met with countless Trump supporters.

00:03:03.400 Even I was shocked at the level of vitriol that was aimed your way last night.

00:03:08.100 Give us an idea of what it felt like to be in the middle of it.

00:03:10.740 Well, Essie, I mean, honestly, it felt like we weren't in America anymore.

00:03:18.220 I don't know how to put it any more plainly than that.

00:03:21.740 Americans should not be treating their fellow Americans in this way.

00:03:25.880 But unfortunately, what we've seen, and this has been building for some time since the campaign,

00:03:29.840 I've been talking about this as an issue since the campaign, when the president during the campaign referred to us as the dishonest media, 0.99

00:03:36.260 the disgusting news media, liars, scum and thieves and so on. 0.99

00:03:38.840 And then he rolled that right into the Oval Office and started calling us fake news and the enemy of the people. 1.00

00:03:44.260 He is whipping these crowds up into a frenzy to the point where they really want to come after us.

00:03:51.240 And, you know, we have these these bike rack like barriers around the press cage, as we call it, to protect us essentially from people who might take things too far.

00:04:00.900 It's unfortunate because and I try to calmly talk to a lot of these folks at the rally last night to say, listen, hey, you know, tell me what you want to talk about here.

00:04:08.660 Why are you guys so upset with us? And they would kind of go through a list of questions.

00:04:13.140 Most of most of the questions were about why don't you guys report positive news about the president?

00:04:17.220 And I said, hey, you know what? We do that. We were reporting on this positive job numbers in the economy last Friday.

00:04:23.020 And my sense of it, S.E., is that the that these opinions that these folks have at these rallies,

00:04:29.060 they're shaped by what they see in the primetime hours of Fox News and what they hear from some conservative news outlets that just sort of give them this daily diet of what they consider to be terrible things that we do over here at CNN.

00:04:43.320 It's very unfortunate, but it's it's it's a pitting of American against American.

00:04:47.880 And honestly, it needs to stop. Honestly, it needs to stop. And I'm Ron Burgundy.

00:04:53.880 I'm Ron Burgundy. I'm Jim Acosta, Ron Burgundy. You never see him and Will Ferrell in the same room at the same time, do you?

00:05:00.620 So he felt like he wasn't in America anymore. And this is I actually kind of like Jim Acosta.

00:05:06.060 I'm very serious. Someone asked me if The Daily Wire could send a representative to the White House, who would it be?

00:05:11.380 I'd say it would have to be Jim Acosta because there's a sort of guilelessness to him.

00:05:16.440 You know, they report the most absurd fake news all the time.

00:05:21.280 And by fake news, I mean certain dishonest lines, certain actually inaccurate stories. 0.91

00:05:27.520 And then also they just harp on constant negative nonsense.

00:05:31.480 President Trump has the most negative press coverage in modern presidential history, despite the fact that his approval rating in the country is 50 percent.

00:05:39.080 And it's actually quite, quite high. And despite the fact that we have a booming economy, that we've got peace abroad, that we've got low unemployment, record low joblessness, crime down, hate crime down, all of these great statistics that we can tick off.

00:05:52.820 But the mainstream media harp on issues that the American people don't care about.

00:05:56.840 They harp on the Russia investigation.

00:05:59.560 They harp on these issues that Americans rank in the bottom percentages of what they care about, what matters to them, what should be newsworthy, what should be politically newsworthy.

00:06:09.640 But the other thing to point out here is you've got this video of Ron Burgundy, Jim Acosta, standing there in the press cage.

00:06:16.880 And you've got all these Trump supporters just making fun of him, you know, because they don't like the mainstream media. 0.74

00:06:22.880 The mainstream media are unpopular because they're liars. 0.86

00:06:25.600 They carry water for Democrats. They're dirty, rotten liars. 1.00

00:06:28.780 But they're not like punching him in the face. 1.00

00:06:31.620 They're not climbing over the cage to stab him or something like that.

00:06:34.620 There haven't been political attacks on journalists in America in recent history.

00:06:40.960 There have been some where there are personal gripes between people and certain local journalists.

00:06:45.380 That's happened a handful of times.

00:06:47.160 But there haven't, you know, there isn't an epidemic of Trump supporters going out and physically attacking members of the mainstream media.

00:06:53.940 That doesn't exist.

00:06:55.000 What does exist, however, is members of the media and also lefties riling up and inciting violence against Trump supporters.

00:07:03.340 Everybody from media types in the Democratic Party and on the left all the way to elected officials ginning up attacks on Trump supporters, on people who work for President Trump.

00:07:16.060 Just look at a few of these tweets.

00:07:17.600 Talk about dehumanizing.

00:07:20.120 From PBS and NPR composer Christopher O'Reilly, quote,

00:07:23.920 Calling them deplorables is euphemizing them.

00:07:27.300 Maybe better to euthanize. 0.64

00:07:30.040 Get it?

00:07:30.500 We shouldn't euphemize them.

00:07:31.880 We shouldn't give them a little nickname. 1.00

00:07:33.880 We should kill all of them. 1.00

00:07:36.200 You don't see that. 1.00

00:07:36.980 You don't really see that with Jim Acosta, with Trump supporters to Jim Acosta.

00:07:40.400 We make fun of Jim Acosta because he's eminently mockable. 0.96

00:07:43.340 But you don't see that sort of let's kill them all. 1.00

00:07:45.540 Let's euthanize them. 1.00

00:07:46.900 How about TV host John Murray says, 0.97

00:07:50.040 This scene, referring to Jim Acosta's experience at the Trump rally,

00:07:54.260 This scene looks like a modern day Ku Klux Klan rally.

00:07:58.140 Amazing to see that Donald Trump, the man occupying the White House, is so comfortable in his atmosphere of hateful hostility, bigotry, and deplorable language.

00:08:08.480 God bless America.

00:08:09.260 Where's the hostility coming from, sir?

00:08:12.000 Where is that?

00:08:12.560 How is this like a Ku Klux Klan rally?

00:08:15.320 Because that's the easiest.

00:08:16.340 That's the easiest insult.

00:08:17.520 It's the worst thing you can say about a person to say that they're bigots, that they're racists.

00:08:21.260 It's the worst thing you can say in modern America.

00:08:24.300 What's the evidence?

00:08:25.180 What's really funny is in the clip, in that clip of Jim Acosta there,

00:08:28.360 The first group of people, the most prominent group on camera, is a big group that says Blacks for Trump. 0.85

00:08:34.280 So just like all those old Ku Klux Klan rallies, Blacks for the Klan. 0.90

00:08:37.880 You don't see that a lot.

00:08:38.700 That's not true.

00:08:39.640 It's just an insane slander.

00:08:42.300 It's insane libel to say that about Trump supporters.

00:08:44.680 And it really does gin up hatred.

00:08:46.240 Because what you're saying is, 0.96

00:08:48.280 These Trump supporters are domestic terrorists, and we've got to take care of them. 0.97

00:08:52.380 Obviously, this is, you know, they're oblivious to what they're saying themselves. 0.97

00:08:57.860 How about Will Potter, the author Will Potter?

00:09:00.240 He said on Twitter, quote,

00:09:01.800 I'm truly ashamed that this is what America has become.

00:09:05.200 Replace the MAGA hats and Trump signs.

00:09:07.680 And this is straight out of any number of authoritarian regimes where journalists are killed.

00:09:12.620 I feel like a foreign correspondent in my own country.

00:09:15.280 Okay, just replace the MAGA hats and the Trump signs and the president and the press and the country

00:09:20.960 and the era and the location and the weapons.

00:09:24.840 And if you replace everything, then it's like another thing.

00:09:26.880 Okay, that's fine.

00:09:28.120 That makes sense.

00:09:29.040 I feel like, what does he say?

00:09:31.360 This is like when journalists are killed.

00:09:33.940 Which journalists have been killed because of Trump supporters?

00:09:37.300 Which ones?

00:09:38.340 Any?

00:09:38.800 No?

00:09:39.200 Okay, that's what I thought.

00:09:40.360 From author Khaled Diab.

00:09:42.560 Diab?

00:09:43.060 Diab?

00:09:43.440 Trump's endless vilification of the media will almost certainly lead to vigilante violence against journalists.

00:09:50.500 If Trump succeeds in weakening American institutions sufficiently,

00:09:54.300 he could wage an Erdogan-style crackdown on his media critics and independent journalists.

00:10:00.820 Did you know that?

00:10:01.440 Did you know that Donald Trump is like the dictator of Turkey?

00:10:03.840 The Islamist dictator of Turkey? 0.77

00:10:05.100 I didn't know that.

00:10:05.660 I didn't even know Trump was an Islamist.

00:10:08.300 That guy really can slip through the cracks, you know.

00:10:10.860 He really pulled the wool over all of our eyes.

00:10:15.080 That's what you're seeing from the supporters of Jim Acosta,

00:10:18.720 the people who believe these crocodile tears,

00:10:20.860 the supporters of the mainstream media.

00:10:22.860 Does any Trump supporter want there to be violence on media figures?

00:10:28.700 No.

00:10:29.460 Have you heard one Trump supporter in the media, in elected office,

00:10:34.780 call for violence against the mainstream media?

00:10:37.380 No.

00:10:37.820 You can't.

00:10:38.260 You can't show me an example of that.

00:10:40.420 And there's no epidemic.

00:10:41.660 Point to the epidemic.

00:10:43.240 Point to the incidents.

00:10:44.060 Doesn't exist.

00:10:44.700 But have you heard even elected Democrats calling for violence against Trump supporters?

00:10:50.640 Absolutely you have.

00:10:51.560 Maxine, baby, take it away.

00:10:53.820 We want it done now.

00:10:55.720 We're going to insist on it.

00:10:57.580 If you think we're rallying now, you ain't seen nothing yet.

00:11:05.780 Already, you have members of your cabinet that have been booed out of restaurants.

00:11:13.900 We have protesters taking up at their house.

00:11:18.100 Who sang, no peace, no sleep.

00:11:20.820 You are either complicit in the evil.

00:11:24.320 You are either contributing to the wrong, or you are fighting against you. 0.98

00:11:29.940 You're evil. 0.98

00:11:30.880 Did you hear that? 1.00

00:11:31.600 You're evil. 0.97

00:11:32.320 And that's why we've got to go to Republicans' houses, 0.99

00:11:35.400 so that we can keep them up and terrorize their families and swarm them in public.

00:11:40.580 Go out, you know, I think of Mitch McConnell and his wife,

00:11:45.120 when the swarming mob goes up there and starts screaming in Elaine Chao's face. 1.00

00:11:48.340 That's what they're asking for.

00:11:49.860 That's what the left is saying.

00:11:51.060 They're the ones turning up the rhetoric.

00:11:52.480 It's unbelievable to see these headlines.

00:11:54.440 They say, President Trump won't condemn rhetoric.

00:11:57.560 He won't stop rhetoric against journalists.

00:11:59.640 Sarah Sanders won't stop rhetoric against journalists. 0.97

00:12:02.080 What about Maxine Waters?

00:12:03.060 What about Cory Booker?

00:12:04.280 What about all of these major Democrats?

00:12:05.780 What about the people who are actually swarming, physically intimidating, attacking Trump supporters,

00:12:11.480 while Jim Acosta sends out his crocodile tears?

00:12:14.560 Cry me a river. 1.00

00:12:15.800 Absolutely ridiculous. 0.99

00:12:17.280 And how else, by the way? 0.98

00:12:18.280 We're talking about this culture of hatred, ginning up hatred and attacks against our fellow Americans.

00:12:24.220 Because these news cycles are almost parodies of themselves at this point,

00:12:28.920 the New York Times has just hired a new member of the editorial board, Sarah Jiang.

00:12:33.680 They just hired Sarah Jiang, and all of a sudden, some old tweets are coming to light.

00:12:38.540 But when I'm talking about old tweets, I'm not even saying like James Gunn, you know,

00:12:42.260 tweets from 2006, 2005, over 10 years ago, 13 years ago.

00:12:46.900 I'm talking about tweets from just a couple years ago, a few years ago,

00:12:49.940 where this woman, this reporter, this journalist,

00:12:53.920 who was hired by the New York Times to be on the editorial board,

00:12:57.180 says horrific things about white people. 0.96

00:12:59.580 Not individual white people, horrific things about white people as a category. 0.98

00:13:04.560 Here are just some of the quotes.

00:13:06.660 And I'm going to have to censor them.

00:13:08.360 I'm going to have to like, I'm going to be silent for half of all of these quotes,

00:13:11.140 because they're really profane. 1.00

00:13:12.760 Dumb, effing white people marking up the internet with their opinions like dogs urinating on fire hydrants. 1.00

00:13:21.040 Okay, I guess that's what I'm doing right now. 1.00

00:13:25.100 I'm just marking up the internet with my opinions.

00:13:27.760 Sorry.

00:13:29.100 Another one. 0.92

00:13:30.020 Are white people genetically predisposed to burn faster in the sun, 0.97

00:13:34.800 thus logically being only fit to live underground like groveling goblins? 0.96

00:13:39.780 That was actually Ben's justification for putting me in the broom closet.

00:13:43.700 He said, you're only fit to broadcast like a groveling goblin.

00:13:46.700 Maybe, wow, maybe Sarah Jiang is onto something here.

00:13:48.740 Another tweet. 0.95

00:13:49.560 Hashtag cancel white people. 0.55

00:13:52.220 That's actually, well, Ben was using that justification to get rid of this show.

00:13:55.400 I don't know.

00:13:55.660 Maybe there's really something to her media strategy. 0.96

00:13:58.180 She goes, quote, oh man, it's kind of sick how much joy I get out of being cruel to old white men. 0.97

00:14:05.080 Yeah, I think that is sick. 0.97

00:14:07.360 She goes on. 0.96

00:14:08.360 I dare you to go to Wikipedia and play things white people can definitely take credit for.

00:14:14.860 It's really hard.

00:14:17.840 Is it?

00:14:19.140 Well, all right.

00:14:19.960 Well, maybe we'll try that later.

00:14:21.720 Next one. 0.95

00:14:22.400 Quote, white men are BS. 0.88

00:14:26.240 Okay. 0.90

00:14:26.900 Next one.

00:14:27.560 Quote, at Rep Dan mode, white people have stopped breeding. 0.99

00:14:32.400 You'll all go extinct soon. 0.98

00:14:34.180 This was my plan all along. 0.99

00:14:36.000 I guess that is just statistically true because whites don't have a lot of kids. 0.63

00:14:40.680 So, all right.

00:14:41.000 Maybe one of those is almost defensible.

00:14:43.380 She just spews all of these. 1.00

00:14:45.100 This is just a handful.

00:14:46.060 This isn't even all of them.

00:14:47.400 The really incredible thing.

00:14:50.180 So, we've seen this concerted effort for some people to just attack their character, go back, find some joke they made 10 years ago and try to get them for it.

00:14:58.740 This is not that.

00:15:00.200 This woman is being hired for her opinions. 1.00

00:15:03.200 She's being hired for her writing, for the writing that she's put out publicly.

00:15:07.760 And in the very recent past, these are the opinions that she writes down that she thinks are worthy of publication and of being put out for the public.

00:15:17.580 And they're horrific.

00:15:18.480 I mean, they're really, really wicked. 0.99

00:15:20.220 I dare you to read all of those tweets and just replace white with black. 1.00

00:15:25.500 Just go through and read them.

00:15:26.980 Now, I know some lefties are going to object to this.

00:15:29.040 They say, oh, stop it, Michael.

00:15:30.600 There's no such thing as reverse racism, which is true.

00:15:33.320 There's no such thing as reverse racism.

00:15:34.840 There's just racism.

00:15:35.560 That's all just racism.

00:15:37.960 But one thing the lefties on campus say is because they break everybody down into these racial categories and sex categories and all of this.

00:15:45.860 And they say, no, no, no.

00:15:46.780 Racism is when you are mean to a certain race, you judge a certain race categorically, and you have power and privilege.

00:15:55.560 So, you know, they always rank them.

00:15:56.720 They say, okay, Native Americans have this amount of privilege and Mexicans have this amount of privilege and black people have this amount of privilege, whatever.

00:16:02.860 But the irony of this is that Sarah Jong, this woman who was just hired by the New York Times, checks every privilege box, right? 0.56

00:16:11.200 If you're going to use the logic of the left, she's Asian in America. 1.00

00:16:16.360 And statistically, that puts you at an advantage, right?

00:16:19.300 Because Asians in America categorically do better on an academic standing in universities.

00:16:25.640 That's actually why there's discrimination against Asians in universities is because they do so well.

00:16:30.740 This is what this Harvard lawsuit is about now.

00:16:33.300 Harvard was discriminating in part against white people, but even more so against Asian students because they didn't want to fill up the whole class with Asians, many of whom were qualified to go to Harvard.

00:16:42.260 Harvard, how about, where else did she go?

00:16:44.140 Oh, she went to Harvard Law School.

00:16:45.440 That's probably a pretty good privilege checkmark.

00:16:48.160 She's written for The Atlantic.

00:16:49.220 She's written for Motherboard.

00:16:50.140 She's written for Washington Post.

00:16:51.660 She's written for New York Times Magazine.

00:16:53.180 If you're going to use the logic of the left, the privileged logic, it does not get more privileged than this girl, than this woman.

00:17:00.860 And she is saying these horrifically racist statements.

00:17:04.060 So what does the New York Times say when this all comes to light?

00:17:07.860 First of all, obviously they knew about these tweets. 0.99

00:17:10.480 They're not that stupid at the New York Times, I don't think. 0.98

00:17:12.980 They've seen what she's been writing for the past few years. 0.99

00:17:15.760 And what do they do?

00:17:17.460 They hire her anyway, and then they defend her. 1.00

00:17:19.440 They sent out a statement about this.

00:17:21.000 They said, look, she's a victim. 1.00

00:17:23.560 She's really a victim.

00:17:25.080 This is always what they do.

00:17:26.360 Whenever you find somebody, some leftist bully, and you call them out for being bullies, they play the victim.

00:17:31.320 So they said, oh, Sarah Jong was being harassed by people for her gender and her race and her this and for that and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. 0.89

00:17:40.000 And so she responded, and it wasn't good.

00:17:42.580 It wasn't nice.

00:17:43.220 But, you know, she's really the victim here.

00:17:45.500 No, she's not. 1.00

00:17:46.080 She's a vicious racist. 1.00

00:17:47.480 She said horrible and indefensible things. 1.00

00:17:49.680 And I don't want to ruin her life for that.

00:17:51.560 She can still go get another job. 1.00

00:17:52.940 But she should not have a job spouting these awful opinions.

00:17:57.140 The one job she is now prevented from having is offering her opinions in a mainstream publication.

00:18:04.340 So this offers a couple directions.

00:18:05.860 One, the New York Times can fire her if they want to remain a mainstream, not terribly radical organization.

00:18:12.700 Or by keeping her on staff, by saying, no, Sarah Jong is part of the editorial board.

00:18:18.260 They are saying, we are radical.

00:18:20.920 We are radical.

00:18:22.140 We are racist.

00:18:23.380 We defend all of these things.

00:18:25.380 That's who we are now.

00:18:26.460 That's who we are.

00:18:27.060 And I think most of us have known that the New York Times has been this way for a long time.

00:18:30.820 So it's not surprising at all.

00:18:32.480 But I guess now they're just forced to be honest.

00:18:36.640 This is a really incredible aspect of the Trump era in politics, in culture, in politics.

00:18:42.300 People are being more honest.

00:18:44.480 You know, for years, how long have we said the Democrats are socialists?

00:18:47.820 They're functionally socialists.

00:18:49.120 They're embracing socialism.

00:18:51.020 And they said, no, we're not.

00:18:52.040 I remember I was advising a campaign in 2010.

00:18:55.960 And there was a rumor going around that our opponent, the incumbent in the race, was a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.

00:19:03.520 Just a rumor.

00:19:04.600 Someone sent it in.

00:19:05.940 We researched this like crazy because that would have killed his whole campaign.

00:19:10.440 It would have killed it.

00:19:11.320 That would have been the end of it right there.

00:19:13.020 He came out strongly against me.

00:19:14.740 He said, I've never been part of the Democratic Socialists.

00:19:16.800 No way, no how.

00:19:17.660 Don't you dare say that.

00:19:19.560 Now they're being honest.

00:19:20.700 Look, that candidate did advocate socialist policies.

00:19:24.120 Now they're being honest about it.

00:19:25.380 They say, yeah, we're socialist.

00:19:26.400 You got it.

00:19:27.020 You got me.

00:19:27.680 Yeah.

00:19:28.160 Yeah. 1.00

00:19:28.620 We at the New York Times, this girl Sarah Jong, yeah, I hate white people. 1.00

00:19:31.740 I don't like white people. 1.00

00:19:32.680 I want them to go extinct. 1.00

00:19:33.980 I don't like them.

00:19:35.440 But at least she's being honest.

00:19:36.660 She's not harboring her biases and her prejudices and being deceitful about it.

00:19:40.500 She's putting it out there in the open.

00:19:41.600 The New York Times is saying, yeah, this is the kind of stuff we are.

00:19:44.800 These are the people we hire.

00:19:45.740 These are the opinions that we put out there.

00:19:47.660 Okay, that's fine.

00:19:48.440 We've known that for years that they've been subversive and awful and just a radical left

00:19:52.800 rag.

00:19:53.500 Now they're being honest about it.

00:19:54.780 And even Vox.com.

00:19:56.500 Vox.com is being pretty honest about their socialism.

00:20:01.340 So there was a writer at Vox.com, Megan Day.

00:20:04.680 She writes in this piece, quote, I'm a staff writer at the socialist magazine, Jacobin,

00:20:09.460 and a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, and here's the truth.

00:20:13.120 In the long run, Democratic Socialists want to end capitalism, and we want to do that by

00:20:19.100 pursuing a reform agenda today in an effort to revive a politics focused on class hierarchy

00:20:25.200 and inequality in the United States.

00:20:27.380 The eventual goal is to transform the world to promote everyone's needs rather than to

00:20:32.160 produce massive profits for a handful of citizens.

00:20:35.140 That last part is not how it's going to play out, but she's being honest.

00:20:40.980 And I really appreciate that.

00:20:42.620 You can knock her for holding just a pernicious and awful ideology, but you can't knock her 0.99

00:20:47.920 for being deceitful.

00:20:48.800 At least she's putting those ideas out there.

00:20:50.780 That's really what they're saying.

00:20:51.820 Yeah, we...

00:20:52.680 No, no, no.

00:20:53.320 Democratic Socialists, we're not just regular old liberals.

00:20:56.780 We're not even regular old American lefties.

00:20:59.100 We want to undo capitalism.

00:21:01.900 We want to fundamentally transform America.

00:21:04.660 I'll give her credit for that because that is going to make this election honest.

00:21:08.720 You've got 42 candidates right now running state, local, federal in the United States

00:21:14.460 with the official endorsement of the Democratic Socialists of America.

00:21:17.620 They're being honest.

00:21:18.420 They're saying these are the ideas, a real battle between markets, between economic freedom,

00:21:22.700 and between socialism.

00:21:24.140 Listen, Rudy Giuliani, the excellent mayor of New York and also now the lawyer for the

00:21:29.800 president, he is saying that this investigation, the Mueller investigation, is all about impeachment

00:21:34.540 and therefore the midterm elections are about impeachment.

00:21:37.920 Alan Dershowitz came on the show the other day.

00:21:39.460 He said the Democrats won't be able to impeach Trump because they can't accuse him of a real

00:21:44.900 crime.

00:21:45.580 There's no evidence of a crime.

00:21:47.280 But the Democrats who are now running for office are running on an impeach Trump ticket.

00:21:51.780 They think that impeachment is simply a political matter.

00:21:54.380 It's not a legal matter.

00:21:55.440 And they're going to run for that.

00:21:56.580 And those are the stakes.

00:21:58.000 I really like it between Meghan Day at Vox.com and Rudy Giuliani.

00:22:02.960 They're saying, look, these are the stakes in this election.

00:22:05.380 Impeachment and socialism.

00:22:08.080 There's the political aspect of it.

00:22:09.900 Do you want to lose Trump?

00:22:10.860 Do you want to impeach Trump?

00:22:11.740 Or do you want Trump to keep remaining in office and keep making America great again?

00:22:15.560 And then the political and the philosophical side is, does America want to go down in the

00:22:19.980 direction of socialism, down in the direction of big government telling you what to do,

00:22:24.520 having control over your life, being able to give you anything you want, and therefore

00:22:28.440 being able to take away everything that you have.

00:22:30.860 Do we want to go down that path?

00:22:32.140 Or do we want to go down the path that we're currently on of deregulation, of economic freedom,

00:22:37.520 of strength abroad and peace through strength?

00:22:39.860 Do we want that making America great again, going back to essential aspects of our American

00:22:46.340 tradition that have made this country great, that have made this country prosperous, that

00:22:50.540 have made this country charitable?

00:22:51.700 Do we want to go to that?

00:22:53.360 Well, if we want to go to that, then we need to vote for Republicans because they're not

00:22:57.520 socialists and they're not going to impeach Trump.

00:22:59.440 If you don't want that, if you want to become a socialist, there's an easy way to do it in

00:23:03.900 this election.

00:23:04.760 Vote for the people who are honestly telling you they're socialists.

00:23:07.420 Vote for the people who are honestly telling you they want to impeach Trump.

00:23:11.360 You've got a real choice.

00:23:12.660 You know, Barry Goldwater, at the beginning of the modern conservative movement, Barry

00:23:16.140 Goldwater said, you need a choice, not an echo.

00:23:19.840 You don't want there to be two parties that basically resemble one another.

00:23:23.900 There isn't much of a philosophical or ideological distinction.

00:23:27.420 What you need is a choice.

00:23:28.900 If you give Americans a choice, conservatives have a much better chance of winning.

00:23:33.320 When we nominate squishy people, Mitt Romney comes to mind, or John

00:23:37.340 McCain comes to mind, when you nominate squishy Republicans, not very conservative Republicans,

00:23:43.000 they lose because you're not giving people a choice.

00:23:45.180 It's Democrat or Democrat-like.

00:23:47.160 But now there's some real honesty here.

00:23:49.840 Barack Obama ran as a moderate.

00:23:51.620 He wasn't a moderate guy.

00:23:52.520 He's a radical guy.

00:23:53.280 He painted the White House in rainbow lights.

00:23:55.360 He is a radical guy.

00:23:56.340 He wants to fundamentally transform America.

00:23:58.400 But when he would say those things, he would always back off them.

00:24:00.760 He would always try to explain them away.

00:24:03.060 These guys today, I think in part because of the raucousness of President Trump, are being

00:24:08.040 honest for the first time in a while.

00:24:09.520 That's a beautiful thing.

00:24:10.660 I've got to get to the mailbag pretty soon, but I don't want to lose that aspect.

00:24:14.820 Because the only people now who are still being dishonest are the mainstream media.

00:24:19.000 They're the ones who are crying.

00:24:20.180 They're the Jim Acostas who say, wah, wah, wah.

00:24:22.920 Stop doing this.

00:24:25.040 Stop inciting violence.

00:24:26.740 The violence is against Trump supporters.

00:24:28.880 It's not Trump supporters against the media.

00:24:30.540 The violence is the left wing, the violent left wing against Trump supporters, media

00:24:36.760 figures, and elected officials, and activists.

00:24:40.580 There was a, I mean, there are so many examples of this.

00:24:43.060 Just one that I read before, before the show is there was an angry Trump critic who allegedly

00:24:48.020 punched a homeowner in Boynton Beach, Florida for having a Trump flag in his front yard.

00:24:53.020 He punches this guy right in the face and then he drags the homeowner 30 feet while driving

00:24:57.840 away.

00:24:58.200 That is real violence and that's not people saying mean things to Jim Acosta and some 1.00

00:25:03.300 people heckling him while he's doing his stupid report for CNN. 1.00

00:25:06.660 That is actual violence. 1.00

00:25:08.340 And it's also not just the crazies. 0.90

00:25:11.120 Because even if there were some crazy Trump supporters at these rallies who were making 0.91

00:25:16.980 threats to Jim Acosta, you might say, well, those are just the crazies and we should deal 0.98

00:25:21.220 with them. 0.98

00:25:21.520 But they're just the wackos. 0.93

00:25:23.100 You know, they don't represent anything.

00:25:25.640 But for the left, the people calling for violence are elected officials.

00:25:28.620 They're Maxine Waters.

00:25:30.120 Cory Booker saying that if you support Judge Kavanaugh, if you support the most staid constitutional

00:25:37.160 aspects of this administration, you are evil.

00:25:40.440 You are complicit in evil. 0.88

00:25:42.400 It's all on them.

00:25:43.320 When the Democrats and when the left accuse you of something, they are projecting.

00:25:47.600 This is almost always true.

00:25:49.280 They're projecting.

00:25:50.140 They call you a racist.

00:25:51.480 They're projecting their own racism.

00:25:52.980 Just read Sarah Jong.

00:25:54.340 Just read who the New York Times is hiring to be on their editorial board.

00:25:57.900 When they're yelling at you to tone down the rhetoric, listen to their rhetoric.

00:26:01.900 When they say, stop being so hostile.

00:26:04.000 Notice that their face is red.

00:26:05.580 They've got veins popping out of their neck.

00:26:07.540 They've got steam coming out of their ears.

00:26:08.920 They say, stop being so hostile.

00:26:10.660 I'm just trying to sit my covfefe over here.

00:26:13.140 What would make you think that I'm being hostile?

00:26:15.480 They are projecting all of that.

00:26:17.900 And when they say, don't get violent.

00:26:20.080 So you're the one who's dragging the guy 30 feet in your car.

00:26:22.720 You, lefty.

00:26:23.720 It's not the Trump supporters.

00:26:25.200 Trump supporters have jobs.

00:26:26.460 Well, everybody in America has jobs now because we have record low joblessness.

00:26:29.940 Things are going very well.

00:26:31.260 And we have an honest election.

00:26:32.880 And we're getting conflicting reports in.

00:26:35.780 A lot of reports from esteemed analysts are saying that Democrats are poised to take the House.

00:26:42.840 They very well might take the House.

00:26:44.360 Historically speaking, they probably should take the House.

00:26:46.500 And we could expect that.

00:26:48.080 But President Trump's approval rating, amidst all of this, amidst all the constant harping,

00:26:53.040 92% negative media coverage of Donald Trump, harping on issues nobody cares about,

00:26:57.720 amidst all of this Russia, Mueller, collusion, evil, amidst all of that,

00:27:02.800 President Trump's approval rating is at 50%.

00:27:04.960 Record highs, much higher than Barack Obama's at this time in his presidency.

00:27:10.340 Five points higher.

00:27:12.240 That is really big.

00:27:14.060 That's really big news.

00:27:15.140 And I hope it bodes well for the future.

00:27:17.900 The one thing we need to know is that Republicans have stakes in this election.

00:27:22.800 It's an honest election.

00:27:24.020 It will determine the ideological future of the country to some degree for some period.

00:27:29.840 And everything is on the table.

00:27:32.600 Impeachment to socialism.

00:27:34.560 The future of our country.

00:27:35.400 So you've got to get out there and vote.

00:27:36.500 Because a lot of times we think, well, our guy's in office.

00:27:39.500 We don't need to get out there.

00:27:40.360 You really do.

00:27:41.080 This is an honest election.

00:27:42.580 History is going to look back on this election and say, wow, they were really being pretty honest about what they wanted.

00:27:46.940 And it would be a real shame if we lose it.

00:27:49.280 Okay, I've got to get to the mailbag.

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00:28:40.780 All right.

00:28:47.760 Let's get into it.

00:28:48.340 I always run so late in the mailbag that today let's try to burn through it.

00:28:52.080 Let's try to see if we can get some more questions in.

00:28:53.920 First one from Evan.

00:28:55.760 Dear great distributor of covfefe and drinker of leftist tears,

00:28:59.680 can you explain what separation of church and state means for Americans?

00:29:03.000 I find it hard to explain that this separation doesn't and shouldn't mean that government workers

00:29:08.200 and elected officials cannot be religious or influenced by their religion,

00:29:12.380 but I am being told by my leftist uncle that people should keep their religion between them and God.

00:29:18.560 I find this absurd.

00:29:19.880 What was the original intention of this concept for our country?

00:29:22.780 Has it gone too far?

00:29:23.720 Thank you, Evan.

00:29:24.680 Yes.

00:29:25.500 The establishment clause, the First Amendment,

00:29:28.760 says there won't be an established religion in the United States.

00:29:32.240 We can refer to this as the separation of church and state,

00:29:35.140 though I think that's a little misleading.

00:29:36.240 The purpose of that separation is to protect the church from the state.

00:29:41.000 It is not to protect the state from the church.

00:29:43.320 As John Adams said,

00:29:44.620 the United States is built for a moral and religious people.

00:29:47.600 It is unfit for the governance of anybody else.

00:29:51.280 It is to protect the church from the state.

00:29:54.160 You saw in other places, in other revolutions,

00:29:57.100 the French Revolution is a good counterexample of this.

00:30:00.780 The separation of church and state meant the destruction of the church.

00:30:04.020 They knocked down churches.

00:30:05.360 They confiscated church property.

00:30:07.320 They built temples to reason.

00:30:09.220 They practically insisted on atheism as a matter of course and as a matter of law.

00:30:15.140 And look what that did. 0.90

00:30:16.860 The people who say, keep your religion to yourself.

00:30:20.320 Don't, look, you can be religious.

00:30:21.900 I'm all for people being religious.

00:30:23.260 But don't ever let that affect anything that you do.

00:30:25.980 This is absurd.

00:30:26.960 St. Francis of Assisi said, preach the gospel and if you must speak.

00:30:31.540 What is he saying?

00:30:32.240 It means that if you've got the gospel, if you believe in Jesus, if you're a Christian,

00:30:36.500 this affects every aspect of your behavior.

00:30:39.440 This affects everything you do and it should affect everything you do.

00:30:42.420 It should transform your soul.

00:30:44.360 St. Paul wrote, it is no longer I who lives, but Christ who lives in me.

00:30:48.160 Well, St. Paul, that's fine, but don't let him live publicly.

00:30:50.860 Don't let us see him living in you.

00:30:52.640 That's crazy.

00:30:53.800 This gets to the other canard that people throw out.

00:30:56.540 They say, look, we can't legislate morality.

00:30:58.900 Stop legislating morality.

00:31:00.780 Get your religion out of these politics.

00:31:04.280 All political issues are essentially religious issues because they come down to first principles

00:31:08.420 and they come down to virtues and they come down to values and they come down to morals.

00:31:11.700 The question of raising taxes or lowering taxes is a moral question.

00:31:15.740 The question of health care certainly is one and you hear religious language about it all the time.

00:31:20.680 Human rights.

00:31:21.760 What do human rights come from?

00:31:23.020 Human rights come from natural rights.

00:31:24.340 Natural rights come from the natural law.

00:31:26.200 Where does the natural law come from?

00:31:27.280 From the natural law giver.

00:31:29.220 The person who created nature.

00:31:30.740 The person who created that natural law.

00:31:32.420 They all come from a religious background.

00:31:36.260 You know, St. Andrew Breitbart, the patron saint of modern conservatism.

00:31:40.620 He said politics is downstream of culture.

00:31:42.260 Culture is downstream of the cult.

00:31:43.740 It's downstream of what we worship.

00:31:45.160 It comes through all of that.

00:31:46.600 I talked about this a little bit yesterday at YAF.

00:31:49.200 For the left, politics is religion.

00:31:52.580 That's what they worship.

00:31:53.440 It's why they use these phrases, erasure.

00:31:56.380 When you disagree with a conservative, they say, okay, you disagree with me.

00:31:58.720 You don't like my opinion.

00:31:59.640 When you disagree with a lefty, they say, you're erasing my identity.

00:32:03.320 This is a real phrase they use on campus and in other circles and you're going to hear it become more mainstream.

00:32:08.260 You're erasing my identity.

00:32:09.580 You're invalidating my identity.

00:32:11.680 And in fact, you are because those politics are their religious identity.

00:32:16.820 Why do we need to put caps on certain carbon emissions?

00:32:20.880 Why do we need certain fuel standards in cars?

00:32:22.840 To save the planet.

00:32:24.160 That's religion.

00:32:25.020 Should we tell the left to get their religion out of politics?

00:32:27.840 No, of course you can't do that because it's all downstream of religion.

00:32:31.320 And it's a really shallow understanding of religion and philosophical thought and the religiosity that built the West to say we need to separate church and state.

00:32:42.900 You can't do it.

00:32:43.900 This form of government that we have comes out of the very religious convictions that built Western civilization.

00:32:49.060 So you tell your lefty uncle, not quite right.

00:32:51.680 From Alex.

00:32:53.280 Hello from Detroit.

00:32:54.500 This Tuesday is the primary in Michigan.

00:32:56.100 I'm torn who to vote for.

00:32:57.500 I'm a libertarian conservative for the most part and none of the Republican candidates align as such.

00:33:01.920 In fact, there is a large gap for the leading Republican candidate who is endorsed by Trump.

00:33:06.000 So I feel like my vote wouldn't matter.

00:33:07.640 I am, however, tempted to vote on the Democratic ticket because there's a woman running as a very centrist Democrat against Medicare for all. 0.73

00:33:14.260 That's just socialism and wants to reduce taxes on those in retirement.

00:33:17.340 The second place candidate on the Democratic ticket is a very progressive individual endorsed by Bernie and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who will both be in Michigan campaigning for him this Sunday.

00:33:28.580 Okay, so you've got the Republican candidate and then you've got the moderate Democrat candidate and then you've got the socialist candidate.

00:33:36.100 I'm tempted to vote for the centrist Dem in the primary solely to do my part to ensure the progressive does not win and redistribute pudding to all.

00:33:44.560 What are your thoughts?

00:33:45.340 I am all for strategic voting.

00:33:48.640 I am all for strategic voting.

00:33:50.020 Some people say this is unprincipled.

00:33:52.720 That isn't unprincipled at all.

00:33:54.200 Your vote is not primarily a religious action.

00:33:59.500 We're just talking about religion and politics.

00:34:01.700 Your vote is not primarily about you feeling really good about yourself.

00:34:05.420 Your vote is not primarily about you showing your virtue to the world.

00:34:09.180 Your vote is an instrument for governance.

00:34:11.580 That's all it is.

00:34:12.440 It's a way for you to participate in your government and try to get the best government that you can.

00:34:17.520 I don't know the details of this race.

00:34:19.520 From what you've told me, though, if the real threat here is that the super left-wing progressive candidate is going to win, win the primary, win the general election, and the only way to stop her is by voting for that centrist Democrat, fine.

00:34:33.280 If that's really the case, I don't know the particulars of this, but if that's really the case, do that.

00:34:38.060 Your vote is not a statement of your own virtue.

00:34:42.060 Your vote is a way to participate in governance and try to get the best governance that we can.

00:34:46.880 You should use it practically.

00:34:48.580 You should use it realistically.

00:34:49.780 This is not a moment to grandstand and tell everybody how wonderful and pure and great you are.

00:34:55.780 Now, if the Republican can win, vote for the Republican.

00:34:58.000 Absolutely.

00:34:58.860 But if this is really about somebody who's going to be a socialist and try to get rid of all of our freedom and somebody who's going to stem that tide a little bit until we can get a Republican in office, do that.

00:35:10.200 Do that.

00:35:10.760 Absolutely.

00:35:11.320 It's about the freedom.

00:35:12.360 It's about preserving liberty.

00:35:13.720 It's about preserving the country.

00:35:14.600 Do what will work and don't worry about seeming super-duper pure to all of your other friends.

00:35:22.000 From Matthew.

00:35:22.780 How much time do we have?

00:35:23.360 We have a little bit more time.

00:35:24.800 From Matthew.

00:35:25.660 Hey, Michael.

00:35:26.440 Do you like the Latin Mass or the Novus Ordo?

00:35:30.320 What do you think?

00:35:32.100 I'll give you one guess.

00:35:33.400 I want an Aramaic Mass.

00:35:35.260 I want it to go real traditional.

00:35:37.580 I really like the Latin Mass.

00:35:38.920 I don't relatively care for the Novus Ordo or the new liturgy that you've had after 1965 with all of the acoustic guitars and eagle's wings.

00:35:49.000 And, you know, it gets really frustrating.

00:35:52.160 Why is that, though?

00:35:53.140 Some people ask me about that.

00:35:54.600 They say, why do you want the priest speaking in a language that we don't really understand and facing away from you?

00:36:01.560 It's about the purpose of the Mass.

00:36:04.080 What is the Mass?

00:36:04.780 Is the Mass there to entertain you or is the Mass there so that you, led by the priest, can worship God together?

00:36:11.780 What is it?

00:36:12.640 What is it about?

00:36:13.300 Being in communion with God or being entertained?

00:36:15.940 And, obviously, it's about communing with God.

00:36:19.640 That's why the priest will face at Orientum.

00:36:22.240 So that he's leading you and you're all looking together toward God rather than him getting up there and doing a little soft shoe and telling jokes for people.

00:36:29.740 And during the homily, he comes down and he says,

00:36:31.400 Hey, guys.

00:36:32.400 Hey, so listen.

00:36:33.320 Here's the thing.

00:36:34.020 No, here's the thing.

00:36:35.780 No, hey, guys.

00:36:36.560 One should treat this seriously, especially in the Catholic Mass.

00:36:41.460 You've got the real presence of Christ right in front of you.

00:36:43.960 You've got God right before you on the altar.

00:36:46.700 Don't behave like you're at late night comedy.

00:36:49.480 And don't pretend it's open mic night at the comedy cellar or something like that.

00:36:53.360 It's not.

00:36:53.820 This is serious.

00:36:54.660 Father Rutler, who was on the show the other day, he had a great line about this.

00:36:58.600 I think I'm quoting it almost perfectly where he said that there are some priests who, like actors in a dying vaudeville show, tell jokes from the altar.

00:37:07.620 And those priests should limit their repertoire to the jokes that St. John told the Blessed Mother while her son bled on the cross.

00:37:14.580 That is my feeling on the traditional liturgy and the Novus Ordo.

00:37:19.600 And I hope what's interesting is that with the newer, more modernizing, more acoustic guitar masses, the pews empty.

00:37:27.120 People are not going to those.

00:37:28.560 But as beginning, I guess, really with Pope Benedict, beginning with the reintroduction of the popularity of Latin mass, those pews are filling.

00:37:38.060 That's where people want to go, mostly because those guys have like 15 kids.

00:37:41.300 You know, you look in the pew.

00:37:42.700 It's like boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.

00:37:44.100 You know, they are really filling in.

00:37:46.380 And that doesn't seem like a coincidence to me.

00:37:49.200 That seems like there's a real connection between that faith and an exuberance and a pro-life attitude and an embrace of God and a looking toward God.

00:37:56.680 So I highly recommend.

00:37:57.600 You can go to ecclesiadei.org and they will list some of the Latin masses if there's one in your area.

00:38:03.600 Even if you're not Catholic, even if you've never been to one, you should check it out.

00:38:06.700 Going to serious liturgy is a shocking experience and it fills you with awe, which is the beginning of wisdom.

00:38:14.260 Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

00:38:15.720 From Jacob, I'm having trouble with my faith and hoping you can offer some insight.

00:38:21.120 I was in the army for five and a half years serving as an infantryman. 0.98

00:38:24.500 My job was to hunt and kill people.

00:38:26.540 I know that a lot of translations of the Ten Commandments are wrong when it reads thou shalt not kill when it should be thou shalt not murder. 0.98

00:38:33.660 But in war, the line between murdering and killing is blurred.

00:38:37.820 Some of the times I shot someone, it was not clear if they were enemies or just civilians at the wrong place at the wrong time.

00:38:44.680 I often wonder if I murdered one of these people.

00:38:47.520 And if I did, do I truly deserve to live and seriously doubt I deserve to go to heaven even though I try to live my life according to the Bible?

00:38:56.180 I've attempted suicide twice since I left the army and I'm often depressed.

00:38:59.440 I do go see a counselor when I can get an appointment at the VA and take antidepressants, but I can't seem to shake the guilt that I may have murdered innocent people.

00:39:08.560 I guess my question is, does God give leeway to soldiers for what we do in war?

00:39:13.080 Thank you, Jacob.

00:39:14.520 The answer is yes.

00:39:16.240 Yes, he does.

00:39:17.460 I'm very sorry to hear that you went through that.

00:39:19.600 Thank you for your service.

00:39:20.400 Thanks for protecting our freedom and our country.

00:39:22.940 And I'm sorry that you're having these psychological afflictions afterward and these feelings of guilt.

00:39:29.500 Yes, God does give leeways to soldiers in times of just war.

00:39:33.820 Absolutely.

00:39:34.940 To quote General Patton, I don't need to tell you this, but I believe it was Patton who said,

00:39:39.260 War is a bloody killing business.

00:39:40.680 It's a really awful thing.

00:39:42.220 War is a terrible, evil thing.

00:39:43.800 And it will never be eradicated so long as human hearts are beating because that is the fact of life.

00:39:50.580 That is the worst, most extreme extension of politics and it is a defining feature of civilization.

00:39:57.880 There is war.

00:39:59.540 So in war, you can either choose to fight and protect your country and protect your freedom and protect your family,

00:40:04.580 or you can lay down arms and let the cruel rape the face of the earth.

00:40:08.360 And fortunately, we don't do that in the United States.

00:40:11.140 We don't do the latter.

00:40:11.800 We defend our freedom and we do it because people like you are willing to do that.

00:40:16.600 And in times of war, there is collateral damage.

00:40:19.140 There are blurry situations.

00:40:20.820 It's unclear sometimes if someone's a bad guy or if someone's in the wrong place at the wrong time.

00:40:25.420 That is not going to damn you to hell for that.

00:40:28.620 That does not happen. 0.98

00:40:29.640 And on that point, I should also like to point out, St. Paul was a murderer.

00:40:34.300 St. Paul wasn't participating in a just war. 0.98

00:40:36.620 St. Paul was a murderer who killed Christians and persecuted them. 0.64

00:40:39.880 And he is the apostle. 0.97

00:40:40.960 He is the great apostle who spread Christianity.

00:40:45.340 I can't begin to imagine the psychological difficulty that that comes with.

00:40:50.320 I'm not trying to make light of that.

00:40:51.820 But you asked me a question so that I can give you an outside perspective,

00:40:55.720 so I can give you a little bit more distance and a little bit of a more objective perspective here.

00:41:00.400 Of course God gives leeway for that.

00:41:04.060 It's a wonderful thing to defend your country.

00:41:05.980 Defending your country involves doing things that hurt and that might be wrong and that make mistakes because war is an evil, evil thing.

00:41:13.740 But you did the right thing defending your country and you're not going to go to hell for doing the right thing.

00:41:20.300 I hope that helps.

00:41:21.420 From Noah.

00:41:21.820 What's crack-a-lackin', my homie?

00:41:24.280 I bet this is going to be a lighter question than the last one.

00:41:26.600 What's crack-a-lackin', my homie Michael 99?

00:41:29.140 I haven't yet read but was given a copy of Howard Zinn's book, A People's History of the United States, by my more liberal parents.

00:41:35.680 Obviously, you're not a fan, but I've heard relatively conservative history podcaster Dan Carlin describe it as having been intended to provide a counterbalance to a hyper-patriotic narrative that was found in other textbooks of the time.

00:41:47.460 He also expressed a belief that it is a college-level textbook in terms of what it expects from its readers as well as that it should be read in conjunction with the works it was intended to counter

00:41:57.580 and considered with a heavy dose of critical thinking to provide a complete picture of history.

00:42:01.680 How do you feel about the validity of this position?

00:42:04.780 If it were used strictly in this fashion, do you believe it should be a useful part of an education about American history?

00:42:10.360 Thanks, Noah. 0.98

00:42:11.380 No, it's just trash. 0.99

00:42:13.180 It's an absolute trash book. 1.00

00:42:15.240 To use a line, to use a word rather, that Ben uses to describe me, Mitch Daniels described that book as excruple. 0.99

00:42:23.420 The former governor of Indiana, current president of Purdue.

00:42:26.080 It is an excruple book.

00:42:27.420 A truly excruple book. 0.74

00:42:28.640 It is awful.

00:42:29.240 It, first of all, I believe it was voted by a number of historians to be the worst history book or the second worst history book of modern times.

00:42:38.040 It's just really awful.

00:42:40.000 But it's awful for a few reasons.

00:42:41.180 One, it distorts the truth.

00:42:43.220 It presents a very perverse distortion of the truth of American history.

00:42:47.620 But also, what it does is it instills in its readers a hatred of their country, and it also ideologically instills in its readers an idea that leaders don't matter, that great men don't matter, that men who make the individual decisions that guide history, they don't matter.

00:43:05.000 All that matters is the great unwashed masses who have been oppressed and put upon. 0.98

00:43:10.520 It is an ideological, polemical work of trash. 0.97

00:43:13.080 If you want to read it, I read plenty of trash, and it's sort of interesting to read it as an intellectual exercise to realize just how viciously anti-American the left can be. 0.95

00:43:22.500 But it should not be considered part of a history education.

00:43:25.600 It is not a serious history book. 0.94

00:43:27.500 It's a left-wing ideological polemic, and it's trash, and it shouldn't be on a curriculum.

00:43:31.340 Because when I've seen it assigned in classes, and I've seen that firsthand, or excerpts of it assigned from classes, it's not there to provide a counterbalance. 0.97

00:43:39.440 It's there for the meat.

00:43:40.900 They tell you, oh, yes, this was to provide a counterbalance, but you're not really exposed to those primary and more serious and classical texts.

00:43:49.760 You just read this, and you say, this is the counterbalance.

00:43:52.140 No, forget it. 1.00

00:43:52.780 It is trash. 0.99

00:43:53.940 Do we have more time? 0.98

00:43:54.640 We've got time for like one or two more.

00:43:56.460 From Dale.

00:43:57.520 Dear Mr. Knowles, hey, man, I'm for abortions. 1.00

00:44:01.340 Yep, I'm an evil left-wing crazy who likes killing the unborn. 1.00

00:44:06.380 Not really, but I wish I could get on the right-to-life train. 0.98

00:44:09.380 Here is my problem in a nutshell.

00:44:11.160 Without abortions, unwanted children will be born to women who hated the idea of having a child so much that they're willing to remove the fetus from their body. 1.00

00:44:19.520 So my question is, who will take care of the unwanted?

00:44:22.460 The children being born from young girls make that children themselves. 0.99

00:44:26.160 You know, girls 14, 15, or 16 years old who thought that the young, handsome man was going to take her away but only left them pregnant.

00:44:33.080 What place will they end up at?

00:44:34.740 Because adoptions will at best take in 10%, reasonable guess.

00:44:38.180 Who will raise the rest?

00:44:40.020 By the way, your reasonable guess is you've plucked that out of thin air.

00:44:42.840 That does not come from anywhere.

00:44:45.520 Single moms or state-run orphanages. 0.65

00:44:47.600 Who will pay for all care?

00:44:49.200 And who will love the children?

00:44:51.020 Dale.

00:44:51.340 He keeps going on, but this is too long.

00:44:55.080 No.

00:44:56.720 So you're beginning with all of the objections that one would have to these babies.

00:45:05.120 You're beginning like three stages down the line.

00:45:07.860 Well, but what if no one wants them?

00:45:09.380 What if they're not raised right?

00:45:10.680 What if they're not loved?

00:45:13.460 That would all be terrible. 0.87

00:45:14.640 Would that be worse than murdering them? 1.00

00:45:16.380 No. 1.00

00:45:16.820 Nobody honestly believes that it would be worse than murdering them. 0.94

00:45:20.020 The question you have to ask yourself is, is this a human? 0.96

00:45:24.020 Yes, it's a human.

00:45:24.900 It's not a duck.

00:45:25.720 It's not a dog.

00:45:26.660 It's not a dinosaur.

00:45:27.620 It's a human.

00:45:28.540 Is this an individual or is this just a part of the mother?

00:45:33.000 It's an individual.

00:45:33.880 It has individual DNA.

00:45:35.220 It grows individually.

00:45:36.380 It grows separately from the mother.

00:45:38.500 It has its own organs.

00:45:40.300 It's not a part of the mother.

00:45:42.440 And is it alive?

00:45:44.080 Yes, it's alive.

00:45:44.920 It's growing.

00:45:45.680 It's consuming nutrients.

00:45:47.200 It will be its own person.

00:45:48.820 And left unimpeded, it will grow to a very ripe old age unless something terrible happens

00:45:54.500 or unless somebody murders it.

00:45:56.320 That's it. 0.99

00:45:57.040 So do you have the right to kill it? 0.93

00:45:58.200 No. 1.00

00:45:58.520 Should you kill it? 1.00

00:45:59.200 No. 1.00

00:45:59.560 Is it perverse to have a mother kill her child?

00:46:02.300 Yes.

00:46:02.780 Mother Teresa said that's the greatest source of evil in the world, and I'm likely to agree 1.00

00:46:06.780 with that.

00:46:07.660 Now, if you say, well, the child will be, the mother considered abortion, and so therefore

00:46:13.180 she'll be a terrible mother. 0.98

00:46:15.400 First of all, that's not necessarily true.

00:46:17.060 If you're a 14 or 15-year-old girl and you're scared because you're pregnant and the thought

00:46:20.560 crosses your mind, that doesn't mean you can't be a good mother.

00:46:23.280 People have fears all the time.

00:46:24.520 People think perverse things all the time.

00:46:26.200 People have temptations to evil all the time.

00:46:28.360 That doesn't mean you can't do good. 0.98

00:46:29.720 That's ridiculous.

00:46:30.860 As for adoption, there are a lot of people trying to adopt babies in the United States 0.78

00:46:34.580 and to adopt American babies in the United States.

00:46:37.740 I don't think the options are kill it or leave it on the doorstep of the fire department

00:46:42.800 or something.

00:46:43.380 That is not the case. 0.69

00:46:45.020 But the question, you're so far down the line, ask yourself the question, would you kill that 0.69

00:46:50.620 person? 1.00

00:46:51.220 Would you kill that little baby? 1.00

00:46:52.560 No. 1.00

00:46:53.320 Should you kill a little baby? 1.00

00:46:54.980 No. 1.00

00:46:55.340 Now, which of these arguments could you not use to take out whole other populations, elderly 1.00

00:47:01.700 populations, to use the example that, one of the examples that turned me pro-life, to

00:47:07.320 kill ethnic minority young men, 18 to 24 in urban areas?

00:47:14.300 Which of these arguments? 1.00

00:47:15.860 Well, they'll create problems for society. 0.66

00:47:17.780 Well, it's hard for the mother. 0.99

00:47:19.060 That, look, life involves suffering. 1.00

00:47:20.920 Is it worth killing that kid? 0.99

00:47:23.300 Absolutely not. 1.00

00:47:24.580 Unfortunately, we've got to go there.

00:47:25.660 We've got even more questions, but sad.

00:47:27.740 We'll get to it next time.

00:47:28.660 Okay.

00:47:29.340 Very good to see everybody.

00:47:30.620 Make sure we've got a second season of Another Kingdom coming up.

00:47:33.560 And, you know, Another Kingdom is the last time I'm ever going to work in Hollywood.

00:47:36.660 The only people who hire me anymore are Dennis Prager for his movie, Andrew Klavan for Another

00:47:42.580 Kingdom, and Ted Cruz for his commercials.

00:47:44.860 So, you know, go out there and make sure you check it out.

00:47:47.220 Binge.

00:47:48.180 And we've got an episode, by the way, coming out tomorrow.

00:47:51.480 There's just a little treat.

00:47:52.920 I know you're also, because I was gone in D.C. for Wednesday, we've got another episode

00:47:59.160 tomorrow.

00:47:59.800 So, listen to Another Kingdom, and then in the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles.

00:48:03.480 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:48:04.660 I'll see you tomorrow.

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The Michael Knowles Show - August 02, 2018

Ep. 194 - Cry Me A River, Jim Acosta

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