The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 197 - The Frogs Are Only Going To Get Gayer

00:00:00.000 Big Tech has banned Alex Jones and his website InfoWars from virtually all of their platforms.

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00:00:08.760 Conservatives are split on how to react.

00:00:10.780 I will explain why we should vigorously defend the conspiratorial, frequently incoherent, shirtless vitamin salesman.

00:00:17.120 Then, a look at all of the other conservatives being censored.

00:00:20.200 How the rot runs so deep, it's even infected the Bachelorette and the Purple Heart on this day in history.

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00:02:15.420 So, okay, they banned Alex Jones.

00:02:18.480 The biggest corporations on earth decided that the way that they were going to disprove

00:02:24.440 the crazy conspiracy theorist guy was to all gang up and ban him

00:02:29.320 seemingly arbitrarily on the same day at exactly the same time.

00:02:33.200 That way to disprove the conspiracy theories, guys, really, really good thinking.

00:02:37.600 So, for those of you who have been living under a rock or who don't drive around and listen to the

00:02:42.460 radio at three in the morning, Alex Jones, I mean, he's a little kooky.

00:02:46.740 He's a little kooky.

00:02:47.520 I think we can all agree with that.

00:02:49.200 But he's a pretty entertaining broadcaster.

00:02:51.340 I actually enjoy listening to him sometimes because he's so, uh, uh, I'll just let you,

00:02:56.820 I'll just let you see it.

00:02:57.720 Now that we can't see Alex Jones anymore, I'll just, Alex, take it away. 0.99

00:03:00.600 I don't like them putting chemicals in the water that turn the frigging frogs gay. 1.00

00:03:05.380 Ugh, ugh, serious crap. 1.00

00:03:06.980 Liberty is rising. 0.99

00:03:09.320 You understand how good it feels out here right now?

00:03:12.140 You understand how high I am off being out here?

00:03:14.280 This feels awesome.

00:03:15.820 This feels fantastic.

00:03:17.480 This is what it is to be alive.

00:03:18.440 Her ancestors running around and stuff a lot colder than this, taking animals down and

00:03:21.860 hauling them back to the women with big fires in the caves. 0.95

00:03:24.460 Rah, yeah, living.

00:03:25.960 So, again, am I a beach body?

00:03:27.600 No.

00:03:27.840 Am I Tarzan?

00:03:28.700 No.

00:03:29.000 Am I, you know, some Olympic swimmer?

00:03:31.060 No.

00:03:31.600 The point is, I'm a big guy.

00:03:33.240 I got big muscles.

00:03:34.460 I've always been strong.

00:03:36.220 And I've got that in-between body size.

00:03:38.760 What's it called?

00:03:39.420 You've got the three different body sizes?

00:03:41.260 Yeah.

00:03:41.820 But I'm the middle size, so I can gain muscle really fast, you name it.

00:03:44.860 It's hard for me to lose weight.

00:03:46.520 But it has just come off of me.

00:03:48.320 And soon, there'll be nothing left.

00:03:51.380 Again, I'm not Mr. Beachbody.

00:03:52.860 I don't have all the answers.

00:03:53.860 I don't claim I'm Mr. Sexy.

00:03:55.080 The point is, compare this to some photos we'll show with me five years ago.

00:03:58.380 There might have been a little bit of fake news in there.

00:04:02.360 The in-between body and I'm high on life.

00:04:07.180 I don't know.

00:04:07.980 I don't know.

00:04:08.400 There may be some things that are of questionable credibility.

00:04:12.300 But he's a really entertaining performer.

00:04:14.360 And, you know, this is his shtick, right?

00:04:15.900 He goes out and he's this sensationalist, wacky, tabloid, conspiracy theorist kind of guy.

00:04:22.260 They decided to shut him down uniformly.

00:04:25.000 Apple Podcasts, Twitter.

00:04:27.320 No, Twitter, I think he's still on.

00:04:28.760 Facebook, YouTube.

00:04:30.600 They decided to shut this guy down.

00:04:32.780 Why?

00:04:33.460 A lot of people, what they're talking about is that he spreads fake news.

00:04:37.060 This is the popular defense of shutting down Alex Jones.

00:04:40.280 He spreads fake news about conspiracy theories and false flags and vitamins.

00:04:46.920 I don't know.

00:04:47.560 He's lying and we need to stop all of the fake news.

00:04:51.660 Okay.

00:04:52.240 I mean, I don't find that to be a very compelling argument, first of all, because, you know,

00:04:56.640 who's to say who the judge of truth and news is?

00:04:59.380 Maybe if you're talking about aliens and tinfoil hats and things, it's easy.

00:05:02.820 But what happens when you get down to questions of domestic politics?

00:05:06.120 What happens when you get down to questions of what certain policies will do?

00:05:09.020 What happens when you get down to what foreign governments are doing, where there's conflicting information?

00:05:13.760 Who's going to decide what the real news is?

00:05:16.640 Alex Jones is an easy target.

00:05:18.180 That's why they picked him.

00:05:18.960 That's why they're trying to get all of us to say, oh, that's fine.

00:05:22.440 You can take Alex Jones.

00:05:23.600 But, you know, when they came for the shirtless vitamin salesman, I was silent.

00:05:27.540 And then they came for me, right?

00:05:28.740 Because they weren't coming for me.

00:05:30.320 That, okay, that's the popular understanding of it.

00:05:34.340 But that's actually not why they kicked him off.

00:05:36.600 Fake news is not why they kicked him off.

00:05:38.260 Explicitly.

00:05:38.660 They actually admit this.

00:05:39.800 He was banned not for fake news, but for hate speech.

00:05:42.780 Five out of six of Jones's podcasts have been removed by Apple.

00:05:48.140 Why?

00:05:48.640 What was the explanation that Apple gave?

00:05:50.260 Quote, Apple does not tolerate hate speech. 0.96

00:05:53.220 And I don't know about you, but I don't think that they're turning the frickin' frogs gay. 0.58

00:05:57.640 I don't think that qualifies as hate speech. 0.91

00:05:59.460 I don't know.

00:06:00.040 Maybe it's homo tadpole phobic or something like that. 1.00

00:06:03.920 But I don't think it qualifies.

00:06:06.020 Facebook said the same thing.

00:06:07.080 Well, much of the discussion around InfoWars has been related to false news, which is a serious issue.

00:06:14.080 And we are working to address it by demoting links marked wrong by fact checkers.

00:06:19.340 Which fact checkers?

00:06:20.400 I don't know.

00:06:20.700 All the left-wing ones.

00:06:21.440 Shh, don't tell.

00:06:22.400 By fact checkers and suggesting additional content.

00:06:24.560 None of the violations that spurred today's removals were related to this.

00:06:27.860 So at least they're being honest.

00:06:29.140 Typically, Facebook is very opaque.

00:06:31.200 They're very untransparent.

00:06:33.200 But this time they're actually saying, no, this was hate speech.

00:06:35.560 This was not fake news.

00:06:38.060 So what was the hate speech?

00:06:40.280 They said, quote, specifically using dehumanizing language to describe people who are transgender, Muslims, and immigrants. 0.97

00:06:48.820 So all of the conservatives, all the people who don't like Alex Jones, they're reacting to this and they're saying, well, look, this guy's a wacko. 0.99

00:06:56.200 I don't want to be associated with him.

00:06:58.020 So I'm not going to protest this.

00:06:59.740 It doesn't matter.

00:07:01.200 They didn't kick him off for talking about the frogs.

00:07:03.480 They kicked him off for his comments about transgenderism, Islam, and immigration.

00:07:09.520 What does that mean?

00:07:10.480 Does that mean that I can't criticize transgenderism anymore? 1.00

00:07:13.100 That certainly seems to be the direction that they're going into.

00:07:16.160 What if Ben were on that TV show with Zoe Turr this year and referred to Zoe Turr as a man?

00:07:21.640 Would he be banned?

00:07:22.480 Would he be kicked off?

00:07:23.160 Would our company be shut down?

00:07:24.700 Maybe.

00:07:25.440 What if someone wants to criticize the religion of peace?

00:07:28.720 Capital R, capital P, trademark sign over it.

00:07:31.420 What if someone has a legitimate gripe with the religion of peace?

00:07:35.360 You know, Islam says that they crucified Christ not.

00:07:39.500 Islam explicitly denies the cross of Christ.

00:07:41.680 So if a Christian points this out, is that hate speech?

00:07:44.680 Is that Islamophobic?

00:07:46.020 Are we going to lose our Facebook accounts?

00:07:47.600 What about immigration?

00:07:48.660 What about immigration? 0.99

00:07:49.660 If we don't refer to illegal aliens as future-dreaming, undocumented, beautiful-dreaming Americans, whatever, if we don't use their stupid euphemisms, if we refer to them as they are, illegal aliens, are we going to lose our Facebook pages? 0.99

00:08:05.740 Are we going to lose our YouTube accounts? 0.99

00:08:07.560 They are setting the stage for that.

00:08:09.180 That's what this is all about.

00:08:10.740 They're using a wacky-looking guy so that we allow them to establish the principle that they can kick you off of their services for making criticisms of transgenderism, Islam, and illegal immigration.

00:08:22.400 Or legal immigration, for that matter.

00:08:23.880 You know, Stephen Miller apparently, reportedly, has a policy that he's pushing now from the Trump administration to limit legal immigration.

00:08:30.680 This is, you're not allowed to speak about this, ever, that perhaps we should change our immigration policy and bring in people who have certain skills and not other skills from certain places and not other places.

00:08:41.480 You're not allowed to say this anymore.

00:08:42.820 I'm old enough to remember when Firing Line had a major debate, Bill Buckley's show, on whether or not we should limit legal immigration.

00:08:49.280 This was a totally valid point of view at one time.

00:08:52.160 Now, I think you'd be tarred and feathered if you said that in polite company, in so-called polite company on the coasts or something like that.

00:08:59.320 That's what they're establishing.

00:09:00.720 And, by the way, this is why Facebook was so honest about this.

00:09:04.340 Facebook was very honest.

00:09:05.380 They said, no, no, no.

00:09:06.660 Make no mistake.

00:09:07.820 It's about transgenderism, Islam, and illegal immigration.

00:09:11.700 It's about immigrants.

00:09:13.000 Make no mistake.

00:09:13.780 Because then when they come after my show or Ben's show or Drew's show or whatever, when they come after us for saying something politically incorrect, 0.97

00:09:21.480 we say, well, we're not talking about the gay frogs. 0.98

00:09:23.520 They say, that's not what this is about. 0.84

00:09:24.820 That's not what this is about at all.

00:09:26.080 It clearly is not.

00:09:27.360 And all you need is the Democrat Senator Chris Murphy to show you this.

00:09:30.900 Chris Murphy, Senator from Connecticut, for a time my Senator, I'm sorry to say, he tweeted out, quote,

00:09:35.960 I know Facebook and Apple and YouTube have gotten so big they sometimes seem like the government, but they aren't.

00:09:42.380 They are private companies that shouldn't knowingly spread lies and hate.

00:09:47.760 They took a good first step today by removing Infowars.

00:09:50.720 Did you catch that?

00:09:53.360 They didn't say they did a good thing by removing Infowars.

00:09:55.400 They said they took a good first step.

00:09:58.420 I wonder what that next step is, huh?

00:10:00.220 Looking around my room closet here waiting for the walls to start falling down.

00:10:03.360 What's the next step?

00:10:04.400 Because hate, you might be confused.

00:10:06.760 You'd think hate means hate.

00:10:08.020 Hate doesn't mean hate.

00:10:09.040 Hate to the left, I mean, in reality it does, but to the left, hate means something with which I disagree.

00:10:15.160 That's what hate is defined as.

00:10:16.480 So they use this all the time.

00:10:17.480 They say, well, yeah, you can have free speech, but not hate speech.

00:10:21.260 Well, what's hate speech?

00:10:22.860 Is Alex Jones taking his shirt off hate speech?

00:10:24.840 It's not a very attractive speech, but it's not hate speech, is it?

00:10:28.000 That's what they're saying.

00:10:28.760 They're establishing this and they say it's a good first step.

00:10:31.280 So, okay.

00:10:32.160 Also, first of all, he says that they're a private company.

00:10:34.360 And you hear conservatives say this sometimes.

00:10:36.200 They're private companies.

00:10:37.400 We can't tell them what to say.

00:10:38.980 We can't force them to publish certain people.

00:10:41.300 They're private companies.

00:10:42.500 Yes, I'm sympathetic to that point of view.

00:10:44.520 However, they're trying to play two sides right now.

00:10:48.620 They both want to present themselves as an open platform, a technology company, a simple

00:10:53.600 platform that just allows people to publish what they want.

00:10:58.020 And they're also behaving like a publisher.

00:11:00.200 They're saying, no, this will stay up.

00:11:02.180 This will go down.

00:11:03.160 This will not exist.

00:11:04.180 We'll delete this.

00:11:05.040 They're acting.

00:11:05.840 They're curating their content like a publisher.

00:11:07.960 Which are they?

00:11:08.700 Because there are different laws, different regulations that apply to each.

00:11:12.500 And they're trying to have their cake and eat it, too.

00:11:13.940 And they're not allowed to.

00:11:14.860 Are they a publisher or a platform?

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00:13:03.280 So Chris Murphy goes on.

00:13:04.980 Chris Murphy says, so he said, you know, he said this is the first step.

00:13:08.200 Okay.

00:13:08.600 Next tweet, quote,

00:13:10.220 InfoWars is the tip of a giant iceberg of hate and lies that uses sites like Facebook and YouTube to tear our nation apart.

00:13:19.180 These companies must do more than take down one website.

00:13:22.900 The survival of our democracy depends on it.

00:13:26.940 Tears of rage.

00:13:28.440 It was Cory Booker.

00:13:30.060 That wasn't Chris Murphy.

00:13:31.260 But the first part was Chris Murphy.

00:13:32.700 He said, the survival of our democracy depends on it.

00:13:36.440 Oh, boy.

00:13:37.800 This is how you know when a demagogue is speaking.

00:13:40.080 And right now, the left is full of demagogues.

00:13:42.400 Every one of them who spoke at that Netroots conference, demagogue, Chris Murphy, demagogue, they say, they always say two things.

00:13:49.800 They say, the survival of our democracy.

00:13:52.120 And they say, think of the children.

00:13:54.400 Those are the two things.

00:13:55.040 And when they say that, you know, you're talking to a demagogue and you've got to question their motives.

00:14:01.540 They'll always say, by the way, I don't want this to be confused with an abortion argument, which is legitimately like, think of the children because you're killing them.

00:14:08.620 I'm talking about this. 0.99

00:14:10.000 The survival of democracy because a guy's talking about the gay frogs. 0.99

00:14:14.980 Give me a break. 0.97

00:14:16.900 This, by the way, I'd like to point this out.

00:14:18.960 I mentioned this yesterday that the Democrats are always projecting.

00:14:21.940 The left is always projecting. 0.96

00:14:23.140 You've got little white girls shrieking at a black woman because she won't behave the way they demand that she behave. 1.00

00:14:30.400 And they're saying, you're promoting white supremacy to the black woman because she won't do what they're telling her to do. 0.99

00:14:36.860 They are the white supremacists. 0.98

00:14:38.600 They're the one promoting white supremacy. 0.97

00:14:40.320 With these guys here, the iceberg of hate that's dividing the country, who's it coming from?

00:14:45.060 Is it coming from the shirtless vitamin salesman or is it coming from a United States senator who is demanding that we censor the people who disagree?

00:14:53.140 When it comes to attacking the media, by the way, you always hear Donald Trump is attacking the media.

00:14:59.700 He's going to repeal the First Amendment.

00:15:02.180 He's taking away freedom of the press.

00:15:03.760 He went, went, went.

00:15:04.380 What about Chris Murphy?

00:15:06.840 What about Chris Murphy?

00:15:07.620 Because Chris Murphy just called this website that he doesn't like the tip of a giant iceberg of hate and lies that tears our country apart.

00:15:15.940 That is as bad as anything that Donald Trump has ever said about CNN.

00:15:19.680 And by the way, at least InfoWars is kind of honest with its point of view, right?

00:15:23.000 I mean, InfoWars is a conspiracy website.

00:15:25.700 It doesn't, you know, it doesn't, they don't, they don't put on the tie really nice and talk really seriously.

00:15:30.360 He takes his shirt off.

00:15:31.480 They're pretty honest about where they're coming from.

00:15:33.680 But CNN is utterly unserious.

00:15:36.180 CNN, you get Fredo Cuomo looking in the camera, you know, all doe-eyed and like a mook, just, you know, that they're not serious about, they're not honest about where they come from. 1.00

00:15:47.120 Trump attacks the media, sure.

00:15:49.340 These Democrats are attacking the media that they don't like.

00:15:51.720 Just the other day, Bill de Blasio, the Bolshevik mayor of New York City, he went on a long rant attacking Fox News, attacking news corporation Rupert Murdoch and Fox News.

00:16:01.220 He said the country would be much better off if we hadn't had Fox News for a quarter of a century.

00:16:06.520 If only, you know, if only, if only we didn't have Fox News for a quarter of a century.

00:16:09.740 Did you read about that one in the newspaper?

00:16:11.380 No, you probably didn't because it isn't being reported because the media projects.

00:16:16.140 They just project and they only cover Trump hate.

00:16:19.140 They only cover what fits their narrative.

00:16:22.300 It's all the news that fits their narrative.

00:16:24.260 But they're doing it just the same.

00:16:26.020 Now, so Chris Murphy says, okay, this is the tip of a giant iceberg of hate.

00:16:30.500 We've got to kick him off of YouTube.

00:16:32.200 We've got to kick him off of Facebook.

00:16:34.280 We've got to kick him all these things. 0.99

00:16:36.580 I, look, I could throw a dart at a wall. 0.99

00:16:40.460 I could hit anything to use as an example of the people who are allowed to stay on social media who are actual hate mongers.

00:16:47.080 So let's just use Louis Farrakhan.

00:16:49.280 Louis Farrakhan is usually the easiest one.

00:16:51.680 I go to Louis Farrakhan's Twitter account.

00:16:54.600 I just looked at the first tweet.

00:16:56.680 I just, I didn't even scroll.

00:16:58.720 I didn't even take the time to scroll.

00:17:00.100 Just the first tweet pinned right up there.

00:17:02.500 Louis Farrakhan says, quote, thoroughly and completely unmasking the satanic Jew and the synagogue of Satan.

00:17:10.320 Full video.

00:17:11.420 So you watch the video.

00:17:12.420 This is the sort of thing that you see in that video. 0.89

00:17:14.960 I'm talking about the wicked ones in the Jewish community that run America, run the government, run the world, own the banks, own the means of communication. 1.00

00:17:31.320 They are my enemies. 0.98

00:17:33.400 But as sure as I am alive, my enemies will be made my footstool.

00:17:47.720 And so will yours. 0.97

00:17:51.080 The Jews will be made my footstool. 1.00

00:17:56.300 Louis Farrakhan.

00:17:57.300 Louis Farrakhan allowed to have his YouTube page.

00:18:00.440 Nobody.

00:18:00.780 Has anyone even threatened his YouTube page?

00:18:02.600 Has there ever even been the question that Louis Farrakhan is going to lose his YouTube page?

00:18:06.860 How about Facebook?

00:18:07.620 Is he going to lose his Facebook?

00:18:08.840 He's on Twitter.

00:18:09.600 I was just on his Twitter account.

00:18:11.420 He has his own YouTube channel.

00:18:12.780 He has a lot of subscribers.

00:18:13.940 He's the head of the Nation of Islam.

00:18:15.780 He's the head of this, what you would call a hate group.

00:18:18.700 But the left wouldn't call it a hate group because to the left, hate is only when you disagree with the left.

00:18:22.900 Louis Farrakhan poses no problem to the left.

00:18:25.380 They want to play nice with Louis Farrakhan.

00:18:26.940 They do.

00:18:27.260 They play nice with Farrakhan.

00:18:28.760 They play nice with a number of his followers, a number of people who are associated with him.

00:18:33.280 They say, oh, they don't want to rock the boat because Louis Farrakhan can play nice with them, so they'll play nice with Louis Farrakhan.

00:18:40.200 Who else is on Twitter?

00:18:41.300 I mean, who isn't?

00:18:42.440 You know, it's so arbitrary, and this is the part that conservatives really should worry about because I understand the point of view, the conservative point of view.

00:18:50.280 They're companies.

00:18:51.020 They can do what they want.

00:18:52.300 Fine.

00:18:53.300 That isn't really our criticism.

00:18:54.940 That isn't the most important conservative criticism.

00:18:57.100 The criticism is that they're not transparent.

00:18:59.920 It's totally arbitrary.

00:19:01.880 They're pretending to be one thing, but actually they're another thing.

00:19:05.060 They're pretending that this is this open space, but then they go in and they pluck out individuals that they don't like.

00:19:13.320 And they pick out the easiest ones.

00:19:15.020 You know, Alex Jones, it's really easy to pluck him out.

00:19:17.060 Who's going to defend Alex Jones?

00:19:18.480 Me.

00:19:18.860 I will defend the wacky shirtless vitamin salesman from being censored by the left.

00:19:24.120 I'm perfectly willing to.

00:19:25.360 I'll explain in a second why other conservatives sometimes are not willing to do that.

00:19:29.480 But, you know, they'll go in.

00:19:30.620 Who's Richard Spencer?

00:19:31.660 They'll go in and take the neo-Nazi type Richard Spencer, and they'll take away his Twitter checkmark.

00:19:38.020 Why?

00:19:38.460 Is he no longer Richard Spencer?

00:19:39.780 But they haven't kicked him off, but they've kicked other people off.

00:19:42.120 They kicked off that other white supremacist kid, James Alsup.

00:19:45.820 They kicked him off.

00:19:46.700 They didn't kick off Richard Spencer.

00:19:48.640 Why? 0.94

00:19:49.320 And why do they let the crazy lefties, why do they allow that fringe, that hateful fringe? 0.98

00:19:54.240 Why do they let that exist? 0.97

00:19:55.660 But they go after the right.

00:19:56.820 It's totally arbitrary.

00:19:58.040 And when we ask for clarification, their terms of use are totally opaque, and they're changing all the time.

00:20:03.040 So you never know who's, you know, they'll pluck out Alex Jones, and then they'll censor my show.

00:20:08.540 Maybe I should take my shirt off.

00:20:09.740 At least then I'd have a little fun while they're censoring my show.

00:20:12.140 At least I'd get my money's worth, you know.

00:20:14.780 Next time.

00:20:15.460 I only have a few buttons on this shirt, so I can't do all of it.

00:20:18.200 But it's totally arbitrary.

00:20:20.440 It's totally unfair.

00:20:21.960 And so the question we have to ask them, because what are the threats that we're going to make?

00:20:25.500 Are we going to make our own YouTube as conservatives?

00:20:27.720 It sounds kind of ghettoizing, doesn't it?

00:20:29.600 Are we going to make our own Facebook or Twitter?

00:20:32.020 Are we going to try to threaten them?

00:20:34.200 Are we going to, with the government?

00:20:35.140 What are we going to do?

00:20:35.880 The question we have to ask is, is big tech, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, are they a platform, or are they a publisher?

00:20:43.660 Because they're behaving like both.

00:20:44.820 They want to have it both ways.

00:20:45.700 Right now, according to a new study, Google consumes one-third of our digital time and our digital minds.

00:20:51.280 That's according to Pivotal Research.

00:20:52.880 One-third.

00:20:53.900 Facebook use has declined slightly, 10%, including Messenger, down from a full hour per day.

00:20:59.840 So it's still a pretty big number.

00:21:02.260 Use of WhatsApp, use of Instagram have also declined recently.

00:21:06.020 Google holding pretty strong.

00:21:07.600 Google owns YouTube.

00:21:09.000 Are they a publisher or are they a platform?

00:21:12.340 If they're a platform and they're open for speech and they're just allowing people to use it, then they need to be open.

00:21:18.400 And they need to at least be clear in their rules and they need to be less arbitrary.

00:21:21.280 If they're a publisher, if they're going to start curating content and they're going to shadow ban people and promote other posts and take certain people off and take away people's check marks and all this mishmash of craziness.

00:21:34.240 If they're going to curate their content like a magazine or a newspaper, then they need to be regulated like publishers.

00:21:39.040 One of the reasons that they haven't been is because they would shut down, basically.

00:21:44.320 They would be responsible for everything that was posted on their platform.

00:21:48.920 And so all the libel, all of the copyright infringement, intellectual property theft, all of that they would be liable for, they'd shut down right away.

00:21:56.360 Which is why they're very insistent on remaining a tech platform.

00:22:00.440 And they always say this, we are a tech platform.

00:22:02.420 We're a tech platform.

00:22:03.420 Okay, good.

00:22:04.000 I hope you're a tech platform.

00:22:05.340 They're a wonderful opportunity.

00:22:06.660 They're a great way for conservatives to get our message out.

00:22:10.160 But if you're not going to behave like a tech platform, then you're not going to get the legal benefits of being a tech platform.

00:22:16.260 This is all about 2016.

00:22:18.040 It still comes back to 2016.

00:22:20.180 The left hasn't gotten over it.

00:22:21.920 Before recent years, the left had a monopoly on the media, on the traditional media.

00:22:26.960 And they could shut out conservative voices or they could bring them on for a little bit. 0.99

00:22:30.680 And if it were a pre-taped interview, they could edit it to make us look stupid. 0.99

00:22:33.780 Or if they were just covering a story, they could distort it. 0.98

00:22:39.380 They could pervert that story to fit their narrative.

00:22:42.160 They can't do that with new media.

00:22:43.780 They can't do that with speaking directly to the American people.

00:22:48.480 Donald Trump's Twitter account is the great example of this.

00:22:50.920 And they've gone after it.

00:22:51.760 It shut down, remember that rogue employee they said, who knows what actually went on.

00:22:56.160 Shut down Donald Trump's Twitter account for 11 or 20 seconds or something like that.

00:23:00.840 If you can speak directly to the American people, your message will get out.

00:23:05.000 Think about how incredibly well politics has gone for conservatives in the last two years.

00:23:09.220 We have won on virtually everything.

00:23:11.340 The one public policy area we haven't won on yet is shrinking the entitlements, shrinking the unfunded entitlements, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security.

00:23:19.500 It's the one area that we haven't really progressed on.

00:23:21.400 Everywhere else we've done very, very well.

00:23:23.920 And we've done well in the culture.

00:23:25.340 Among certain demographics, black voters have been in the news recently.

00:23:28.360 Unfortunately, President Trump's support among them has almost doubled in just a few months.

00:23:33.640 This is great news.

00:23:34.420 It's because the conservative point of view can go out unfiltered to the audience.

00:23:39.300 They want to start filtering it again.

00:23:41.320 That's fine.

00:23:41.740 You've got to play by the rules.

00:23:43.660 Some conservatives still are refusing to defend Alex Jones.

00:23:48.060 I see why.

00:23:49.120 It's the same.

00:23:50.520 It's like the logical conclusion of not wanting to defend Donald Trump.

00:23:55.800 I'm not comparing Trump and Jones, though they're both quite entertaining, a little sensationalist.

00:24:00.740 But it's the same thing, which is, why do I have to?

00:24:03.900 Why do I want to?

00:24:04.700 I'm a refined person.

00:24:06.320 I'm a refined.

00:24:06.780 I sip my Chablis glass the right way.

00:24:08.420 I drink my tea on top of a saucer so that I don't leave a little ring on my table.

00:24:12.600 I have a saucer.

00:24:13.360 I'm a civilized person.

00:24:15.180 I'm a sophisticate.

00:24:16.320 Don't lump me in with them.

00:24:17.580 I read the Atlantic sometimes.

00:24:19.420 Come on, man. 0.71

00:24:20.260 I don't want to be one of those crazy people.

00:24:24.160 Right.

00:24:24.520 Who cares, though?

00:24:25.580 Who cares what these people think of you?

00:24:27.260 They're trying to silence you.

00:24:28.360 They're trying to shut you up. 0.99

00:24:29.860 They're telling everyone you're a racist and a bigot and all manner of evil. 0.99

00:24:34.500 They're slandering you. 0.99

00:24:35.500 They're libeling you.

00:24:36.280 And they want to gut your reputation.

00:24:38.300 They want to shut you up.

00:24:40.060 Why are you so eager for their affection?

00:24:42.900 Why are you so eager for their approval?

00:24:45.060 On the left, the New York Times, the mainstream media.

00:24:47.300 Why?

00:24:48.200 Who cares?

00:24:49.580 Look, I get it.

00:24:51.200 You're not Alex Jones.

00:24:52.580 You're not the same as Alex Jones.

00:24:53.840 That's fine.

00:24:55.280 I'm not either.

00:24:57.160 I'm not concerned about that.

00:24:58.480 I'm not worried about that.

00:24:59.340 I don't think, well, maybe I am, though.

00:25:00.940 Am I really?

00:25:01.420 No, I'm not.

00:25:01.940 I'm confident.

00:25:02.760 You should be confident, too.

00:25:04.160 But we have to defend Alex Jones because this is the left's trap.

00:25:08.360 This is the trap they're setting for conservatives.

00:25:10.580 They're saying, hmm, well, if we go after, I don't know, Ben Shapiro, maybe they'll defend him.

00:25:16.940 We can't do that.

00:25:17.840 If we go after Rush Limbaugh, hmm, they're going to defend Rush.

00:25:21.160 We can't do that.

00:25:21.900 How about National Review?

00:25:24.280 No, they won't.

00:25:25.040 How about, I don't know, Washington Freebeak?

00:25:28.040 No, they'll don't.

00:25:29.680 But Infowars.

00:25:30.800 There will be enough conservatives who don't want to even touch that with a 10-foot pole that

00:25:35.560 we can start there, establish the principle, then we'll go after them.

00:25:39.320 Don't let them do it.

00:25:41.040 Ask yourself, do you think that this conspiracy website should actually be off the internet,

00:25:46.760 that it has to be off the internet?

00:25:47.840 It's going to destroy our democracy?

00:25:49.860 No, of course not.

00:25:50.780 Nobody thinks that Alex Jones is going to destroy democracy. 0.78

00:25:53.580 Nobody, even people who don't think that the frogs are turning gay, don't think that 1.00

00:25:58.040 Alex Jones is going to destroy our democracy.

00:25:59.940 So then why are the Democrats so dead set on doing it?

00:26:03.600 Why is the left so dead set on doing it?

00:26:06.560 You know, someone tweeted at me yesterday, said something to the effect of, well, well,

00:26:11.760 Michael, maybe if everyone on the left is telling you not to do something, maybe you shouldn't

00:26:16.880 do it.

00:26:17.520 I think you've got that backwards, buddy.

00:26:19.940 When everyone on the left is telling me I'm doing something wrong, I am almost certain

00:26:24.660 I'm doing something right.

00:26:26.200 I'm almost certain.

00:26:26.840 Because they do that thing.

00:26:27.660 They say, oh, it's for your own good.

00:26:28.620 No, look, I'm just, what do I care?

00:26:31.200 I'm just concerned for you.

00:26:32.380 You shouldn't defend Alex Jones from censorship.

00:26:35.360 Yeah, I'm a little skeptical.

00:26:36.800 They did this to Kanye West, all of his friends, when he came out and endorsed Trump.

00:26:41.660 They all texted him.

00:26:42.540 They said, well, I'm really concerned for you, man.

00:26:44.360 I'm concerned for you and for the fans.

00:26:46.560 And Kanye very maturely responded.

00:26:48.960 He said, you're bringing up my fans and your supposed care for me because you're trying

00:26:54.060 to emotionally manipulate me.

00:26:55.360 I won't be manipulated.

00:26:56.620 It's not going to happen.

00:26:57.580 I will not do it.

00:26:58.980 That's the trap that they're setting.

00:27:00.260 And we shouldn't fall for it.

00:27:01.300 Who cares what they think of you?

00:27:04.360 Who cares?

00:27:04.860 I certainly do not.

00:27:05.920 You know, they've already banned Tommy Robinson from Instagram.

00:27:09.300 Do you remember him?

00:27:10.040 He was the British political activist and journalist who was jailed for 13 months, spent 13 months 0.76

00:27:15.880 in, or sentenced to jail for 13 months because he was reporting on Muslim child rapists. 0.54

00:27:21.900 He just had a video, a live stream of the proceedings outside the courtroom where Muslim 0.87

00:27:26.840 child rapists were being tried and the British authorities put him in jail for it.

00:27:33.380 Now, why?

00:27:33.800 Because Islam is a touchy issue.

00:27:36.440 In the UK, in London.

00:27:38.380 We can't talk about that.

00:27:39.340 We can't talk about disproportionate rates of certain crimes among certain immigrant groups.

00:27:43.640 We're not allowed to talk about that.

00:27:44.960 So they've already banned him from Instagram.

00:27:46.960 Why?

00:27:47.240 I don't know.

00:27:47.520 I don't know what Tommy was posting to Instagram.

00:27:49.600 Probably videos of these sort of proceedings.

00:27:52.160 They've already throttled a GOP campaign ad.

00:27:55.420 Check this out.

00:27:55.940 Elizabeth Heng, running in California's 16th congressional district.

00:27:59.620 She made an ad about her parents' escape from the Khmer Rouge communists in the 1970s.

00:28:06.120 That's an important thing, especially as socialism is on the rise in America.

00:28:08.900 Here's the ad.

00:28:09.880 In Cambodia, under Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge, being young and single often meant a gruesome life

00:28:22.320 and likely death.

00:28:24.780 They approached my father, and in order to save his life, he said he was about to be married.

00:28:33.740 They asked him, to whom?

00:28:36.580 He pointed to the prettiest girl that he saw, having never spoken to her before.

00:28:43.680 The soldiers approached her, and she said yes.

00:28:48.760 They got married the very next day.

00:28:53.380 41 years later, they're still the happiest couple I know.

00:28:59.900 That's hate speech.

00:29:01.300 It's banned.

00:29:02.580 Facebook would not allow her to run that ad.

00:29:05.560 Now, I don't know.

00:29:07.020 It sounds nice, doesn't it?

00:29:08.120 For those of you who couldn't see, there were some photos of the Cambodian Civil War,

00:29:11.700 where the communists killed 300,000 people, displaced 2 million people.

00:29:15.620 And you're not allowed to do that.

00:29:17.040 That's hate speech.

00:29:18.500 That's inappropriate.

00:29:19.580 You're not allowed to do that.

00:29:21.000 Facebook also deemed diamond and silk, you know, those two black women who were Donald Trump supporters, 1.00

00:29:26.240 that they were, quote, unsafe to the community.

00:29:30.900 If you saw them, you're walking down an alley at night,

00:29:34.320 and you turn a corner and, oh my gosh, it's diamond and silk.

00:29:38.460 Oh no, run for your life.

00:29:40.040 Are you kidding me?

00:29:40.820 Unsafe to the community.

00:29:42.060 Marsha Blackburn, a Republican candidate for Senate and a sitting congressman, 0.63

00:29:47.060 Twitter pulled her ad for being inflammatory. 0.99

00:29:49.420 Here's the reason that they pulled it.

00:29:50.860 Here's that part of the ad.

00:29:51.600 Are you offended?

00:30:04.840 Are you shocked and horrified that she says she's pro-life?

00:30:07.860 And she stopped Planned Parenthood from selling baby body parts,

00:30:11.960 which they were doing, which they admitted to multiple times on video that we all saw.

00:30:17.600 How about you ban Planned Parenthood for selling the body parts? 0.93

00:30:20.900 Oh my gosh, are you people kidding me?

00:30:23.960 Yeah, they wouldn't let her run that ad.

00:30:26.160 It was inflammatory.

00:30:27.780 No, you know what's inflammatory?

00:30:29.580 Selling baby body parts.

00:30:30.720 That's inflammatory.

00:30:31.860 Ban Planned Parenthood for that.

00:30:33.100 But they won't.

00:30:33.620 They only go after the right on these sorts of things.

00:30:36.000 Twitter now is going after libertarians.

00:30:37.800 Daniel McAdams, the director of the Ron Paul Institute.

00:30:40.420 He's been banned from Twitter.

00:30:41.680 Scott Horton, editorial director of antiwar.com.

00:30:45.100 He's been banned.

00:30:45.940 Antiwar.com.

00:30:46.640 That now is too offensive.

00:30:48.520 You can't be antiwar.

00:30:49.800 You're going to get banned because that's hate speech.

00:30:51.520 If you don't want to kill people, it's hate.

00:30:53.520 It's hate speech.

00:30:54.500 If you want to stop killing people.

00:30:56.540 Oh my gosh.

00:30:57.580 Meanwhile, the lefties are trying to change the rules for themselves.

00:31:00.560 So, you know, we've heard of the fake news and the fake accounts

00:31:03.220 and the bots and all that.

00:31:04.520 So, while they're talking about how we have to purge all of those,

00:31:07.420 journalists, a bunch of journalists out of Colombia,

00:31:10.520 sent a written letter, a request to Mark Zuckerberg

00:31:13.080 to allow them to make fake accounts and use bots.

00:31:17.380 I kid you not.

00:31:18.480 This just happened.

00:31:19.540 They want them, because they say it's easier to do journalism

00:31:21.780 if you have fake accounts.

00:31:23.320 You're the ones who have been agitating for us to get rid of all the fake accounts,

00:31:26.560 to get rid of all the bots.

00:31:27.700 But no, no, it's okay.

00:31:29.160 We have one set of rules for thee and another set of rules for me.

00:31:32.580 That's what they want.

00:31:34.080 They're now, by the way, trying to control the internet.

00:31:36.540 They're trying to control the internet.

00:31:37.700 There's a policy paper being circulated among Democrats,

00:31:40.160 starting with Mark Warner,

00:31:41.840 that advocates a new government takeover of the internet.

00:31:44.940 This is not the same as net neutrality.

00:31:46.720 They want far more regulations now.

00:31:49.040 To save American trust in, quote,

00:31:51.240 our institutions, democracy, free press, and the markets.

00:31:54.280 There they are again, folks, saving America.

00:31:57.440 There is that language.

00:31:58.740 That's how you know they want to control your life.

00:32:00.600 It's always to save, right?

00:32:02.100 It's always another crisis.

00:32:03.380 We have to do it.

00:32:04.800 They're trying to take it over. 1.00

00:32:05.920 So they're utter hypocrites on this. 0.99

00:32:07.580 Conservatives should not be under the impression 1.00

00:32:09.360 that it's somehow hypocritical of us

00:32:10.880 to criticize Facebook and YouTube

00:32:12.460 for their absurd policies,

00:32:14.860 for their censorious policies,

00:32:16.280 for their unfair, untransparent, unjust policies.

00:32:20.060 There's nothing hypocritical about that.

00:32:21.820 And the Democrats, in fact, 0.98

00:32:23.400 the left are being utterly hypocritical 0.99

00:32:25.440 every step of the way. 0.99

00:32:26.620 No surprises there.

00:32:27.540 We have a lot more to get to.

00:32:28.320 We've got to talk about The Bachelorette.

00:32:30.560 You know, I've got to talk about my favorite show.

00:32:33.600 After Jersey Shore, Flora, Bama Shore,

00:32:35.680 The Bachelorette, then that one comes up.

00:32:38.200 And we've got to talk about

00:32:39.380 a little bit more of the left's attack on freedom.

00:32:41.620 Trump, Mueller, Russia.

00:32:42.540 Man, we have so much to get to.

00:32:43.740 And this day in history,

00:32:44.680 because it's Purple Heart Day.

00:32:45.840 And I want to, I'll talk about my grandfather.

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00:33:10.300 Get them in.

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00:33:17.640 And then this.

00:33:18.820 This is the one.

00:33:19.580 The Chris Murphy, Save Our Democracy,

00:33:23.320 Cory Booker, Tears of Rage,

00:33:25.160 Leftist Tears Tumblr.

00:33:26.060 You need it because we need to save our country.

00:33:29.340 Tears of Rage, Lies, and Hate.

00:33:31.980 You can cram all of that in this Leftist Tears Tumblr.

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00:33:37.280 We'll be right back.

00:33:48.060 Speaking of tears of rage,

00:33:50.680 scripted tears of rage,

00:33:52.060 we've got The Bachelorette.

00:33:53.320 So, this last episode of The Bachelorette

00:33:56.120 has created quite a hubbub,

00:33:57.400 also about censoring people on social media.

00:34:00.000 Take it away.

00:34:01.420 We're engaged!

00:34:02.500 We just got engaged!

00:34:03.940 We saw it all go down on the season finale.

00:34:06.820 Rebecca Jokufrin, my Becca,

00:34:09.580 will you marry me?

00:34:10.420 Wow.

00:34:14.760 It brings a tear to my eye.

00:34:16.040 A tear of rage.

00:34:17.740 I've never watched this show.

00:34:20.380 That is the most of The Bachelorette

00:34:22.040 or Bachelor that I've ever seen.

00:34:23.780 I don't ever intend on watching it.

00:34:25.640 But a good news story came out,

00:34:27.220 so we've got to talk about it.

00:34:28.300 I'm going to butcher these names.

00:34:30.640 On the premiere of The Bachelorette last year,

00:34:33.260 Garrett Irigoyen got the first impression rose

00:34:38.540 from Becca Kufrin.

00:34:41.440 And this apparently is a big deal

00:34:43.080 because then at the season finale,

00:34:45.660 he proposed to her

00:34:46.680 and they're going to go live happily ever after.

00:34:49.140 And isn't that lovely?

00:34:52.280 But then,

00:34:53.280 but then,

00:34:53.960 the Huffington Post found out

00:34:55.260 that he liked some conservative jokes

00:34:58.000 on Instagram.

00:34:59.800 That's right.

00:35:01.020 Garrett Igauga Higa Haga

00:35:02.620 liked some conservative jokes on Instagram

00:35:04.760 and now they're in turmoil.

00:35:07.140 ABC, by the way,

00:35:08.060 the network that hosts The Bachelorette,

00:35:09.520 same network that canceled Roseanne.

00:35:11.780 Just reminding you of that.

00:35:13.440 So they got engaged

00:35:14.440 and he was forced to apologize.

00:35:16.440 What was he forced to apologize for?

00:35:17.940 He liked a variety of pictures.

00:35:19.860 You can see some of them on the screen.

00:35:21.920 You know,

00:35:22.500 pictures joking about how

00:35:24.360 David Hogg is a crisis actor

00:35:26.840 that, you know,

00:35:27.660 that little kid from Parkland,

00:35:29.780 the one who keeps yapping about

00:35:31.340 and calling Republican senators

00:35:33.320 terrorists and stuff.

00:35:34.900 By the way,

00:35:35.460 the way I know that he's not a crisis actor

00:35:37.340 is he's a terrible actor.

00:35:38.640 Crisis actors are good actors 0.63

00:35:39.780 and he's awful on screen.

00:35:41.800 You know,

00:35:42.380 joking about how Tommy Lauren is really hot.

00:35:44.380 The funniest one,

00:35:45.920 kind of a dark humor,

00:35:48.020 is that it's a picture of a soldier

00:35:49.740 swinging a little kid around

00:35:51.680 and then the caption was,

00:35:53.880 what happens when an illegal alien kid 0.90

00:35:56.120 jumps the border

00:35:57.260 and you've got to throw him back over?

00:35:59.640 It's really not funny at all

00:36:02.540 is what it is.

00:36:03.160 That's what I think it is.

00:36:04.000 Not funny.

00:36:04.540 That's why Garrett Hoogie Hoggie

00:36:06.080 had to apologize.

00:36:07.480 And so he apologized.

00:36:10.080 His apparent fiancee from the show

00:36:13.000 is a big Hillary supporter,

00:36:14.800 lefty.

00:36:15.240 She went to the Women's March 0.96

00:36:16.280 and so she accepted his apology,

00:36:19.980 sort of.

00:36:20.320 She said, quote,

00:36:20.840 the Instagram situation,

00:36:22.620 I don't condone that.

00:36:24.400 First of all,

00:36:24.980 if you are asking your wife

00:36:26.340 to condone things,

00:36:28.100 like asking permission

00:36:29.260 to you condone this,

00:36:31.600 there better be a Garrett-shaped hole 0.57

00:36:33.220 in that wall.

00:36:33.860 Get out of there, buddy.

00:36:34.920 This is not a good situation.

00:36:36.740 Probably the first tip-off

00:36:39.100 was that she went to the Women's March

00:36:40.400 for the pink hat still.

00:36:42.020 She goes on,

00:36:42.540 I know he stands by his apology

00:36:44.220 and he feels so bad for everyone

00:36:45.380 that he did offend.

00:36:46.460 And you know,

00:36:46.940 he didn't mean it,

00:36:47.740 but I just want to move forward

00:36:49.040 and learn and grow

00:36:50.060 and continue to educate ourselves.

00:36:52.380 Okay, right?

00:36:53.180 This seems fine, right?

00:36:55.120 But the left can't let it go.

00:36:56.440 They can't let it go.

00:36:57.320 If you even intimate

00:36:58.980 that you are sort of

00:37:00.100 moderately amused

00:37:01.640 by any sort of conservative humor, 1.00

00:37:03.740 they have got to kill you. 0.99

00:37:04.900 They're so upset right now. 1.00

00:37:06.860 It's always,

00:37:07.600 and this ramps up, by the way,

00:37:08.900 this crisis,

00:37:09.920 this urgency,

00:37:10.660 we have to shut down Alex Jones,

00:37:12.360 we have to shut down

00:37:13.300 this guy in The Bachelorette,

00:37:14.360 we've got to do it.

00:37:15.260 It ramps up.

00:37:16.440 The better things are going

00:37:17.460 for the country.

00:37:18.500 That's how it works.

00:37:19.500 If things weren't going great

00:37:20.440 for the country,

00:37:20.960 they could just run on that.

00:37:21.760 They can't run on that.

00:37:22.420 So if they have to gin this up,

00:37:23.980 they have to run on Alex Jones

00:37:25.240 and The Bachelorette.

00:37:26.340 That is what,

00:37:27.440 that's how you know

00:37:28.460 that the country is going well.

00:37:29.320 That's how you know

00:37:29.740 the administration

00:37:30.220 is doing something right.

00:37:31.420 It's all about freedom.

00:37:33.180 The left has never been

00:37:34.200 this openly tyrannical

00:37:35.260 in my lifetime.

00:37:36.460 I've had a short lifetime.

00:37:37.540 I haven't been around very long,

00:37:38.620 but I've never seen them

00:37:39.840 embrace censorship in this way,

00:37:41.680 censorship all over the universities,

00:37:43.280 on the media,

00:37:43.980 on television.

00:37:44.920 I've never seen socialist candidates

00:37:46.880 running this openly.

00:37:48.260 The Democrat Party,

00:37:49.200 which has been running away

00:37:50.180 from socialism for 100 years,

00:37:51.760 now openly embracing it.

00:37:53.880 You've got Bill de Blasio,

00:37:55.360 the comrade Bolshevik mayor

00:37:56.860 of New York.

00:37:57.620 He's griping about Airbnb, Uber.

00:38:00.640 He's trying to shut them down

00:38:01.840 constantly.

00:38:02.820 All this economic freedom.

00:38:04.220 He's trying to shut down

00:38:04.960 the gig economy.

00:38:05.960 The gig economy,

00:38:07.040 which sprung up largely,

00:38:08.340 by the way,

00:38:08.940 because of the terrible

00:38:10.460 economic policies of Barack Obama,

00:38:12.420 because people couldn't get

00:38:13.240 full-time jobs,

00:38:13.880 so they had these gig jobs.

00:38:15.200 He's trying to shut that down.

00:38:16.340 No economic freedom.

00:38:17.460 No side hustle.

00:38:18.500 None of that.

00:38:19.420 On the universities,

00:38:20.340 at Harvard right now,

00:38:21.120 they're banning fraternities

00:38:22.260 and sororities,

00:38:23.440 and sororities are getting

00:38:24.280 really upset about this

00:38:25.200 because they now are saying

00:38:27.060 every club has to be co-ed.

00:38:28.640 Every club has to have

00:38:29.360 both sexes.

00:38:30.240 The sororities are saying,

00:38:31.080 wait, what about our safe space?

00:38:32.420 I don't want men in my sorority.

00:38:34.920 So now some of them

00:38:35.540 are just shutting down

00:38:36.660 as a result of that.

00:38:38.720 I've never seen them

00:38:39.560 this tyrannical.

00:38:40.260 It's really about freedom.

00:38:41.500 It seems funny. 0.99

00:38:42.280 It seems like it's about gay frogs 1.00

00:38:43.740 and the bachelorette 1.00

00:38:44.660 and senators saying stupid things 1.00

00:38:46.720 and sororities and all that. 1.00

00:38:48.760 These are all symptoms

00:38:49.580 of this huge problem,

00:38:50.760 which is about freedom.

00:38:51.740 You've got a real choice

00:38:52.520 in these midterm elections

00:38:53.540 and in 2020.

00:38:54.800 A choice, not an echo,

00:38:55.920 to use Barry Goldwater's line.

00:38:58.080 Do you want freedom

00:38:58.680 or do you want slavery?

00:38:59.860 That's what it's about.

00:39:00.620 That sounds hyperbolic.

00:39:01.760 Maybe I sound like I'm Alex Jones,

00:39:03.300 but it is that clear.

00:39:04.680 Do you want the government

00:39:05.560 to take over more and more

00:39:06.800 and more of your life?

00:39:07.920 Do you want small,

00:39:09.680 technocratic, bitter interests

00:39:11.760 to take over your life

00:39:13.720 or do you want to have

00:39:14.600 some freedom

00:39:15.040 and assume the risk of freedom

00:39:16.500 and take on the rewards

00:39:17.680 of freedom?

00:39:18.120 Those are your choices.

00:39:19.560 And that's the question

00:39:21.320 that we're going to see

00:39:21.880 play out not just in tech,

00:39:23.580 but in politics

00:39:24.460 and the economy

00:39:25.140 and foreign affairs.

00:39:26.000 What do you want?

00:39:26.600 Do you want freedom

00:39:27.080 or do you want slavery?

00:39:28.200 Me?

00:39:28.560 I want freedom, baby.

00:39:29.560 I want to paint my face

00:39:30.340 like I'm Mel Gibson.

00:39:31.500 We've only got a few minutes left.

00:39:32.900 I've got to talk about

00:39:33.840 Mueller and Russia

00:39:35.140 and all that nonsense

00:39:35.840 and then I do want to talk

00:39:38.100 about the Purple Heart Day

00:39:40.220 because it is Purple Heart Day.

00:39:42.840 By the way,

00:39:43.520 if you had to ask me

00:39:45.100 a prediction of which way

00:39:45.960 we're going to go

00:39:46.500 or are we going to go

00:39:47.100 for freedom or slavery,

00:39:48.320 I think we're going for freedom.

00:39:49.440 I think you're seeing it

00:39:50.220 in all of these public polls.

00:39:52.440 Even, you know,

00:39:53.080 Brett Easton Ellis,

00:39:54.380 the novelist who did

00:39:55.240 American Psycho,

00:39:56.220 he's coming out now.

00:39:57.180 He said, quote,

00:39:59.060 I've never seen liberals 0.64

00:40:00.140 more annoying in my lifetime.

00:40:02.300 And it's not like

00:40:03.020 this is some arch-conservative guy.

00:40:04.860 He's saying they are

00:40:05.440 annoying right now.

00:40:06.580 They're really tedious

00:40:07.360 and self-serious

00:40:08.180 and it's turning people off.

00:40:09.560 You're seeing that

00:40:09.920 in the public polling

00:40:10.660 and I think it's probably

00:40:11.860 happening even beyond

00:40:12.820 the public polling.

00:40:13.820 So, my hope is still

00:40:15.260 for freedom

00:40:15.640 but you've got to stay vigilant.

00:40:17.160 And one of the ways

00:40:17.980 they're trying to get

00:40:18.840 at this administration

00:40:19.480 is this Russia stuff.

00:40:21.640 The Mueller probe,

00:40:22.820 the Manafort investigation.

00:40:25.140 Wah, wah, wah, wah, wah.

00:40:27.800 What do we know?

00:40:28.800 Manafort is on trial now.

00:40:30.300 We've seen a few days

00:40:31.360 of this trial.

00:40:32.560 We've seen a very zealous

00:40:33.640 prosecution.

00:40:35.020 And Rick Gates,

00:40:35.820 Paul Manafort's old aide,

00:40:37.880 old employee,

00:40:39.020 has now taken the stand

00:40:40.020 to testify against him.

00:40:41.560 Which is really

00:40:42.200 not an admirable thing

00:40:43.840 from an interpersonal perspective.

00:40:46.000 You know,

00:40:46.540 you don't wear a wire

00:40:47.560 if you're clean.

00:40:48.480 You don't testify

00:40:49.880 against somebody

00:40:50.580 if you're innocent.

00:40:51.420 You do it 0.89

00:40:52.140 if you're a crook. 0.99

00:40:53.360 And you flip 0.98

00:40:54.140 and then you say,

00:40:55.000 I'll cooperate

00:40:55.500 with the prosecution

00:40:56.540 if you don't throw me in jail

00:40:57.600 or not in jail for as long.

00:40:59.000 So that's what you're seeing here.

00:40:59.980 They're going to try to make out

00:41:00.860 Rick Gates

00:41:01.360 as some honest fella. 0.99

00:41:02.820 No, he's an admitted liar 1.00

00:41:04.120 and an admitted crook. 1.00

00:41:05.620 And so you've got to take

00:41:06.580 his testimony

00:41:07.060 with a grain of salt.

00:41:08.220 But what are they getting

00:41:09.140 Manafort on?

00:41:10.640 You would expect

00:41:11.640 after all the buildup

00:41:12.620 they'd get him on,

00:41:13.520 you know,

00:41:14.480 going on yacht trips

00:41:15.680 with Vladimir Putin

00:41:16.680 plotting out the 2016

00:41:17.940 Trump campaign, right?

00:41:19.340 That's not what

00:41:19.760 they're getting him on.

00:41:20.380 They're getting him on

00:41:21.140 having nice suits.

00:41:22.920 He buys suits

00:41:23.820 that are too expensive.

00:41:25.000 Even the judge said,

00:41:25.880 you gotta,

00:41:26.360 guys, you gotta quit

00:41:27.080 talking about these suits.

00:41:27.900 Who cares?

00:41:28.760 And they're getting him on,

00:41:30.080 they're getting him on

00:41:31.380 some tax evasion.

00:41:32.380 They're getting him on

00:41:32.920 hiding some money.

00:41:34.080 Some of his lobbying work

00:41:35.100 wasn't acknowledged.

00:41:36.620 Okay.

00:41:37.200 Not good.

00:41:37.840 I'm not excusing that.

00:41:38.680 That's certainly not a good thing.

00:41:40.620 Lobbyists are pretty oily people

00:41:41.980 a lot of the time.

00:41:43.340 That said,

00:41:44.140 this is happening

00:41:44.820 a lot of places.

00:41:46.100 It's not like Paul Manafort

00:41:46.940 was the only one doing this

00:41:47.980 and this trial

00:41:48.480 wouldn't be happening

00:41:49.220 if not for the Trump campaign.

00:41:50.860 Almost certainly.

00:41:52.000 Why Bob Mueller

00:41:53.120 is involved in this,

00:41:53.920 the special counsel

00:41:54.580 investigating Russia,

00:41:55.740 why he's involved

00:41:56.460 in Manafort

00:41:57.020 not paying his taxes,

00:41:58.340 really unclear.

00:41:59.420 There's been no

00:42:00.060 Russia aspect of this

00:42:01.940 really presented

00:42:02.580 at this trial.

00:42:03.320 It's just a distraction

00:42:04.920 it seems.

00:42:06.140 It's just nonsense.

00:42:07.140 You know,

00:42:07.320 they're talking about

00:42:08.000 the Trump Tower meeting

00:42:09.540 and the alleged

00:42:10.860 Trump Tower meeting

00:42:11.820 where Don Jr.

00:42:14.000 met with some Russians

00:42:15.120 to get dirt on Hillary. 1.00

00:42:16.420 Trump finally tweeted

00:42:17.200 about this.

00:42:17.660 He said,

00:42:17.980 fake news reporting,

00:42:18.880 a complete fabrication

00:42:19.660 that I'm concerned

00:42:20.740 about the meeting

00:42:21.360 my wonderful son Donald

00:42:22.880 had in Trump Tower.

00:42:23.940 This was a meeting

00:42:24.580 to get information

00:42:25.420 on an opponent,

00:42:26.200 totally legal

00:42:26.760 and done all the time

00:42:27.480 in politics

00:42:27.980 and it went nowhere.

00:42:29.160 I did not know about it.

00:42:31.500 That's fine.

00:42:32.140 Now they're saying,

00:42:32.760 he's admitted to a crime.

00:42:34.020 He's admitted to a crime.

00:42:34.940 What the left

00:42:35.400 doesn't seem to understand

00:42:36.480 is that that tweet

00:42:37.660 has just baited them.

00:42:39.120 It just baited them

00:42:40.380 into confessing

00:42:41.620 something themselves

00:42:42.320 because if Donald Jr.

00:42:45.280 going to meet

00:42:45.920 with somebody

00:42:46.480 who said they had dirt

00:42:47.400 on the opponent's campaign,

00:42:50.420 if that's a crime,

00:42:51.340 if going to meet

00:42:52.000 with someone

00:42:52.540 who's a foreign representative,

00:42:54.260 maybe comes

00:42:54.700 from a foreign government,

00:42:56.120 if going to them

00:42:56.780 for dirt is a crime,

00:42:58.140 then Hillary committed 0.98

00:42:58.940 the crime

00:42:59.420 because she's the one

00:43:01.200 who paid for all

00:43:02.260 that Russian intelligence

00:43:03.340 on the Steele dossier

00:43:04.800 on Donald Trump.

00:43:06.120 She's the one

00:43:06.660 who paid for that.

00:43:07.820 She commissioned that.

00:43:09.340 The Trump campaign

00:43:10.220 didn't pay for anything.

00:43:11.140 They left the meeting, right?

00:43:12.580 But Hillary actually ordered it, 0.99

00:43:14.240 commissioned it,

00:43:14.860 paid for it.

00:43:15.780 Foreign intelligence

00:43:16.720 from a,

00:43:17.620 Christopher Steele's

00:43:18.120 a British guy

00:43:18.900 and he's getting

00:43:19.960 information out of Russia.

00:43:22.220 She did it.

00:43:23.440 If that Trump meeting,

00:43:25.000 if that Trump Tower meeting

00:43:25.780 is where they're going

00:43:26.280 to lay their hand,

00:43:27.220 then it all goes down

00:43:28.160 to Hillary 0.99

00:43:28.500 and we'll see

00:43:29.040 if any of Hillary's people

00:43:30.140 are called in.

00:43:31.020 I suspect that will not be the case.

00:43:32.680 In the last few minutes here,

00:43:34.040 let's talk about

00:43:34.740 this day in history.

00:43:35.740 On this day in history,

00:43:36.800 in 1782,

00:43:38.100 the Purple Heart

00:43:39.100 was established

00:43:40.200 by George Washington.

00:43:41.620 You know the Purple Heart.

00:43:42.520 It's the medal for people

00:43:43.300 who've been wounded

00:43:43.820 or killed in battle

00:43:44.840 or who have had bad treatment

00:43:46.980 as POWs.

00:43:48.740 Initially,

00:43:49.200 it was established

00:43:49.940 just for merit.

00:43:51.440 So it was a little

00:43:51.940 Purple Heart badge

00:43:52.960 and it said merit

00:43:54.060 written across it.

00:43:54.840 George Washington

00:43:55.460 established it

00:43:56.160 and it was given

00:43:57.320 to just three people

00:43:58.180 in the Revolutionary War

00:43:59.160 to Elijah Churchill,

00:44:00.760 William Brown,

00:44:01.440 and Daniel Bissell Jr.

00:44:03.860 After that,

00:44:04.460 it fell into disuse.

00:44:06.680 People didn't really

00:44:07.460 use it afterward.

00:44:08.280 It kind of disappeared.

00:44:09.940 It reappeared

00:44:10.800 100 years later,

00:44:12.220 over 100 years,

00:44:12.860 150 years later,

00:44:14.060 130 years later,

00:44:15.240 when General Charles Summerall

00:44:17.440 sent a bill to Congress

00:44:18.460 to revive the badge

00:44:19.480 of military merit.

00:44:20.960 General MacArthur

00:44:21.800 took up this cause afterward.

00:44:23.040 He was Summerall's successor

00:44:24.000 in 1931

00:44:25.260 to reinstate it

00:44:26.120 for the bicentennial

00:44:26.940 of Washington's birth.

00:44:28.640 And in 1932,

00:44:29.580 the War Department

00:44:30.020 created the Order

00:44:30.640 of the Purple Heart.

00:44:31.940 And that is what we now

00:44:33.460 know it as,

00:44:34.520 the Order of the Purple Heart,

00:44:35.360 which is awarded

00:44:35.780 to people who were injured

00:44:38.000 in the line of duty

00:44:38.780 defending their country.

00:44:41.100 My own grandfather,

00:44:42.060 George Knowles,

00:44:42.700 won the Purple Heart.

00:44:44.020 He was awarded

00:44:44.720 the Purple Heart

00:44:45.260 for his service

00:44:45.820 in the Vietnam War

00:44:46.680 and so wanted to wish

00:44:48.240 a special Purple Heart Day

00:44:50.720 to him and to all

00:44:52.020 of the people

00:44:52.840 who have served

00:44:53.600 and who have been injured,

00:44:54.940 who have been killed,

00:44:55.900 who have been mistreated

00:44:57.220 in the line of work.

00:44:58.620 And thanks for defending

00:44:59.620 our freedom

00:45:00.040 and defending our country.

00:45:01.040 That's a nice,

00:45:01.760 I think a nice button

00:45:02.880 on what all the rest

00:45:04.120 of us can do

00:45:04.640 who don't have the guts

00:45:06.100 to go out into the line

00:45:07.060 of fire and risk

00:45:08.120 our necks for the country,

00:45:09.080 how else we can defend

00:45:10.600 freedom here

00:45:11.200 in the United States.

00:45:12.340 All right, that's it.

00:45:13.100 That's my show.

00:45:14.060 Get your mailbag questions

00:45:15.460 in on Thursday.

00:45:16.200 In the meantime,

00:45:17.160 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:45:17.960 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:45:19.060 See you tomorrow.

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00:45:32.080 our supervising producer

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The Michael Knowles Show - August 07, 2018

Ep. 197 - The Frogs Are Only Going To Get Gayer

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