The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 208 - A Nation Of Dopes

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00:00:37.860 As markets surge after Trump shreds NAFTA, we have to ask ourselves,

00:00:42.320 is it possible that the smart people are stupid and the stupid people are smart?

00:00:46.400 Then, speaking of dopes, one in seven Americans smokes pot.

00:00:50.080 We will analyze the growing popularity of Haitian oregano in the U.S.

00:00:53.700 Left-wing shill Lanny Davis admits that admitted liar Michael Cohen is a liar.

00:00:58.440 CNN pays no heed.

00:00:59.940 Then, more demagoguery of dead people.

00:01:02.320 Hashtag MeToo Hollywood hypocrites.

00:01:04.220 Why everybody is suddenly transgender. 1.00

00:01:06.760 And bad parents.

00:01:07.920 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:09.800 We've got a lot to get to today, as you can tell.

00:01:20.000 And, oh, this?

00:01:21.500 This whole thing?

00:01:22.580 For those of you who are not listening, you might be confused.

00:01:24.540 I'm wearing an American flag bow tie right now.

00:01:26.740 That is, of course, because it is National Bow Tie Day.

00:01:29.540 I could not let that day pass unheeded.

00:01:32.440 This brings up a long-standing debate among American conservatives.

00:01:35.680 Is it super cool to wear the American flag as clothing, or is it disrespectful to the flag?

00:01:42.400 This always happens.

00:01:43.480 You wear, like, Chubbies has those little shorts, you know, the swim trunks, and they

00:01:48.180 look like an American flag, and then some conservatives say that's disrespectful, and

00:01:51.340 then others say it's awesome.

00:01:52.560 It's awesome.

00:01:53.140 It's great.

00:01:53.660 Wear the American flag.

00:01:55.500 The reason you should do it, this isn't true at all times in history and in all cultures,

00:01:58.940 but our culture is so anti-American right now.

00:02:02.280 Any way that you can get the flag out there, that's good.

00:02:04.480 Do it.

00:02:05.080 Wear it.

00:02:05.460 It's great.

00:02:06.400 There's another debate, of course, over bow ties, which is, are bow ties, you know, like,

00:02:11.780 American conservative mid-century cool, or do they always look terrible?

00:02:17.300 Is there just no acceptable time to wear them?

00:02:20.680 You know which side of that argument that I come down on, but I'd be interested to hear

00:02:23.820 your thoughts in the comments.

00:02:25.840 So we've got to talk about dopes today.

00:02:27.320 We've got a lot of dopes in America. 1.00

00:02:29.200 We've got stupid smart people, smart stupid people, and everybody is getting high.

00:02:33.560 There's a new study out that shows that one in seven Americans smokes pot and has smoked

00:02:38.920 pot within the last year.

00:02:40.600 For comment on this, we turn to Daily Wire pot correspondents Cheech and Chong.

00:02:45.160 Wow, man.

00:02:48.520 That's some heavy s***, man.

00:02:57.400 Pretty interesting.

00:02:58.380 Yeah, I would have to agree.

00:02:59.960 That is some heavy stuff, man.

00:03:02.440 That's some heavy stuff.

00:03:03.260 One in seven Americans.

00:03:04.860 The question is, who cares if we're smoking pot?

00:03:08.500 This is this perennial debate among not just the left and the right, but within the right

00:03:13.040 between the libertarians and the conservatives.

00:03:15.400 Hey, let's just legalize it. 0.98

00:03:17.140 And this issue, this issue of legal pot is one of the great examples of conservatives throwing

00:03:23.000 their hands up and saying, oh, who cares?

00:03:24.620 I don't want to fight anymore.

00:03:25.600 That's okay.

00:03:26.160 Blah, blah, blah.

00:03:26.600 I am going to make the point that perhaps we shouldn't be gung-ho about legalizing pot.

00:03:32.620 And there are a few reasons for this.

00:03:33.820 One, right now, in America, one in five people live in a state with legal pot because lefty

00:03:40.920 states with big populations are more likely to have legalized pot.

00:03:45.840 The pot industry is pretty big.

00:03:47.780 The legal pot industry was almost $6 billion last year.

00:03:51.180 I have no idea how big the illegal pot industry, which still accounts for the majority of it.

00:03:56.600 In America, 50% of people have tried pot at least once.

00:04:01.660 The majority, at least 50%.

00:04:03.200 The majority of Americans have tried pot at least once.

00:04:06.100 Judging by my outfit today, as you can guess, I too have tried the old Haitian oregano once

00:04:11.620 or a few times.

00:04:12.960 And so I'm not saying that I haven't done it.

00:04:15.380 A lot of people have done it and it leads to bizarre results as much as you're looking

00:04:19.660 at right here.

00:04:21.240 11% of Americans are regular users of pot.

00:04:25.020 And one in seven have had it within the last year.

00:04:28.220 They might not be regular users.

00:04:29.560 They might not be waking and baking or smoking every night or something, but they have it

00:04:33.980 every so often, you know, once or twice a year.

00:04:36.460 And that number is way, way up.

00:04:38.600 This number has doubled within either the last decade or the last few decades.

00:04:42.500 It breaks down by sex.

00:04:44.540 So for women, the number has doubled since 1984. 0.99

00:04:47.400 For men, the number has doubled since around the year 2000.

00:04:50.020 But the numbers are way, way up.

00:04:52.540 What does this mean?

00:04:55.220 Obviously, pot is being mainstreamed. 0.98

00:04:57.180 Why is it being mainstreamed?

00:04:58.240 It's being mainstreamed by the culture and it's being mainstreamed by the government.

00:05:01.920 A lot of states are pushing for legalization.

00:05:03.840 A lot of states have legalized medical marijuana.

00:05:05.500 A lot of states have legalized recreational marijuana.

00:05:07.580 In my own town of La La Land, Hollywood, there are giant billboards on the street that

00:05:11.640 say, get weed delivered to your door. 1.00

00:05:14.360 Come on, it's really, use an app and you get pot delivered to your door.

00:05:16.920 Uh, the, the debate around pot is very, very stupid.

00:05:21.780 I'm not saying that there aren't good points on both sides.

00:05:24.500 I'm saying that the debate is always extremely stupid because it usually goes something like

00:05:28.440 this.

00:05:28.880 Well, man, you know, man, pot is way better for you than, than booze because booze gets

00:05:36.780 you angry, man. 0.89

00:05:37.640 And pot just mellows you out.

00:05:39.080 Yeah.

00:05:39.480 And it's totally not addictive and it's, oh, and it really expands your mind.

00:05:45.420 You know, like what if the color you see is red, I see as blue, you know, man, it just

00:05:51.220 makes you so smart.

00:05:52.260 It doesn't make you smart.

00:05:53.380 Pot makes you stupider and less funny.

00:05:55.560 And, and the, and one of the really awful things about pot, and I can tell you this from

00:05:59.540 experience, it's not like I've never smoked pot before, is that you think, you think when

00:06:04.900 you're smoking pot that you're smarter and funnier, but you're not.

00:06:09.620 You just think that because you have become stupider.

00:06:12.440 I remember, you know, in, uh, I'll give examples of this because when I say that I've, I've,

00:06:18.100 uh, smoked pot on more than one occasion and I did inhale, I, it's actually very hard for

00:06:23.920 me to inhale though, cause I smoke cigars and I've smoked cigars since I was a kid.

00:06:27.180 So when I tried to smoke pot, which was much later, I couldn't do it.

00:06:31.340 Like I just, I, I still would cough, you know, dramatically, even I can't have a cigarette,

00:06:35.860 you know, for that reason.

00:06:36.920 But in, uh, I think it was chef on South Park who says that there is a time and a place for

00:06:42.000 everything and that place is college.

00:06:44.060 So there was this thing at Yale, which is spring fling.

00:06:47.220 And every, uh, every year on spring fling, you know, they bring bands in and, uh, you know,

00:06:52.380 it's a big party every year.

00:06:54.320 The, they treat pot brownies like it's a sacrament, you know, like it's just very popular.

00:06:59.540 At least it was when I was there.

00:07:01.360 And so, uh, I would try this and this put to rest a lot of my thoughts on pot because

00:07:06.560 we're always told, oh, it's not very potent.

00:07:08.680 It's not, it doesn't, it's not dangerous.

00:07:10.920 It's not whatever.

00:07:11.720 Like that is total nonsense.

00:07:13.780 That is total nonsense.

00:07:15.100 First of all, it is addictive.

00:07:16.680 There are new studies out that show that it is quite addictive.

00:07:18.820 It can be addictive in between 11 and 17% of users.

00:07:22.640 And also it can be very, very potent.

00:07:25.040 It actually can put you at risk, especially when you ingest it.

00:07:27.900 Um, so when you ingest, unlike, you know, you smoke a joint or something, if you ingest

00:07:32.120 pot, uh, depending on the concentrations of THC, which now are sold at your local dispensary

00:07:37.800 in Los Angeles, it can really mess you up.

00:07:40.860 You get, your heart rate gets much, much faster.

00:07:42.960 You get totally disoriented.

00:07:44.580 It can lead to a death of brain cells.

00:07:46.920 It can lead to memory loss, especially if you do it when you're young, especially if

00:07:50.160 you do it over time.

00:07:51.560 Um, so what does this have to do with the policy debate, which is, should we legalize

00:07:56.760 pot?

00:07:56.980 Shouldn't we legalize pot? 1.00

00:07:58.620 Obviously more Americans are using pot today than they did even a decade ago, dramatically

00:08:04.640 more.

00:08:05.020 This is coinciding with the laws being liberalized.

00:08:08.360 I think you have to look at it from the social perspective, from a broader social context,

00:08:14.060 not just some stupid libertarian talking point of, well, the government doesn't have a right

00:08:18.480 to tell you what the government tells you a lot of things to do, or, well, it doesn't

00:08:22.340 hurt anybody.

00:08:22.940 Well, it hurts you.

00:08:23.920 Well, it does.

00:08:24.520 It could hurt the guy that you run over in a car when you're driving high.

00:08:27.180 It can hurt people.

00:08:28.860 Um, but look at our particular point in time right now.

00:08:33.940 Americans are killing themselves. 0.84

00:08:35.220 They're killing themselves in record numbers with booze, with drugs, and with, uh, and,

00:08:41.360 and with weapons.

00:08:42.420 They're, they're committing suicide at very high rates right now in the United States.

00:08:45.260 Self-injury is, uh, self-injury is the seventh leading cause of death.

00:08:49.720 It's more deadly than diabetes at this point.

00:08:52.460 Um, and what the libertarians say here is, well, the government shouldn't intervene, but

00:08:58.560 the legalization of marijuana is the government intervening.

00:09:01.600 This is why the pot alcohol thing is so stupid.

00:09:04.700 Alcohol has been around our culture since the dawn of time.

00:09:07.860 We, you know, uh, Jesus Christ, his first miracle on earth, uh, after the incarnation was

00:09:14.540 to make really good wine for drunk people, for people who were already very drunk.

00:09:19.680 He made wine for them.

00:09:20.840 The booze has been around forever.

00:09:22.940 It's going to be around forever.

00:09:24.140 This is not an argument for booze, but it's, it's making a non-ideological point for conservatism,

00:09:30.440 which is that we are, we don't just pop out of nowhere.

00:09:33.320 We don't come into the world in floating in the air without any context.

00:09:36.220 We come within a social and historical context, and that social and historical context has

00:09:41.580 booze in it, for better or worse.

00:09:43.540 Rates of drinking have decreased dramatically since the 19th century, say, but it's just

00:09:47.780 around us.

00:09:48.280 We're not going to get rid of it.

00:09:49.520 I don't think we really would want to get rid of it entirely.

00:09:52.800 There's probably a reason it's stuck around so long.

00:09:55.140 The question is, why would you want to introduce a new drug?

00:09:59.080 Because in the West, pot doesn't come from our tradition.

00:10:02.600 It hasn't been around for 2000 years.

00:10:04.040 Jesus didn't perform the miracle of, I don't know, turning oregano into marijuana.

00:10:09.020 That's, that's not in our culture.

00:10:10.560 That's not in our history.

00:10:11.760 So why would you want to introduce a new one?

00:10:13.800 All of the arguments that the pro pot people say against alcohol are also arguments for

00:10:19.020 not legalizing marijuana.

00:10:20.360 By saying that one is better than the other, it's not saying that they're good, right?

00:10:23.460 They're both bad for you.

00:10:24.620 There's a lot of tar in marijuana.

00:10:26.180 It's bad for your health.

00:10:27.380 It makes you stupid or it makes you, it also, one thing about alcohol is it's a social lubricant.

00:10:33.460 So if you go, like, this is one of the reasons why it's persisted in culture for so long is

00:10:37.740 you don't just, unless you're very depressing, you don't just sit in your room alone and guzzle

00:10:41.580 whiskey, you know?

00:10:43.440 You, I mean, I do it for breakfast, obviously, but that's just to get ready to meet you for

00:10:47.420 my show.

00:10:48.640 I have a nice, nice short stack of pancakes and a gallon of room temperature gin.

00:10:54.020 But, you know, it's a social lubricant.

00:10:55.740 It kind of amps you up a little bit.

00:10:56.880 You get to talk to people, whereas pot is very much, it's best in solitude.

00:11:03.540 Because it makes you stupid and because it makes you less funny, it really just, they

00:11:06.920 always say, well, it really makes you think.

00:11:08.780 It really makes you, expands your mind.

00:11:10.880 Right.

00:11:11.200 It doesn't do that, but it's a drug for solitude.

00:11:14.700 So if we've got this problem, we've got this major drug problem, this major opioid epidemic,

00:11:19.360 these, these people killing themselves with stimulants and drugs and whatever, why would

00:11:25.420 we allow a new one to be introduced?

00:11:27.780 The government, the government just like us, doesn't come from nowhere.

00:11:30.560 It's not just floating.

00:11:31.520 It comes from a, an historical context.

00:11:33.740 Right now, pot is broadly illegal.

00:11:35.940 If pot is legalized, that is not the lack of government intervention.

00:11:39.380 That specifically is government intervention to legalize that.

00:11:42.920 Why would we want to do it?

00:11:43.920 Last year alone, 72,000 people died from drug overdoses in the United States.

00:11:48.920 This is a record number and 2018 is already on track to blow past that number.

00:11:55.040 Why would you want to do it?

00:11:56.540 You know, this is a, a big mistake of libertarianism.

00:11:59.440 I noticed this.

00:12:00.200 Whenever conservatives give up an issue, they always say, well, now I'm a libertarian on

00:12:04.220 this issue, but it's only after they lose the issue.

00:12:07.140 They say, well, now I'm a libertarian.

00:12:08.480 So they do this sometimes for the, for those who became, uh, uh, pro-choice in favor of abortion

00:12:14.920 during the, the height of abortion advocacy, you know, the 1990s.

00:12:18.660 It's really pro-choice.

00:12:20.380 Uh, they would say, oh, well, I'm a libertarian.

00:12:22.920 I'm a libertarian.

00:12:23.220 There's nothing libertarian about killing a baby.

00:12:26.180 There's nothing in the libertarian ideology or doctrine that says you have to be able

00:12:30.180 to kill babies. 0.98

00:12:30.860 Of course not.

00:12:31.900 Libertarianism protects life, liberty, and property.

00:12:34.480 Life comes first, not, not liberty.

00:12:37.160 The same thing, they did this on gay marriage.

00:12:39.280 They'll say conservatives who, who said marriage has a definition and sexual difference

00:12:44.100 inheres in marriage.

00:12:45.720 Sexual difference has something to do in marriage.

00:12:48.160 And that's why it's not that gay people can't get married.

00:12:51.320 It's that marriage does not involve, uh, marriage demands sexual difference.

00:12:56.540 Uh, now that the left seems to have won that battle at the Supreme Court and in the culture,

00:13:00.540 they say, oh, I'm a libertarian.

00:13:01.760 There's nothing libertarian about saying we have to adopt this very radical new definition

00:13:06.300 of marriage, but not previous definitions and not other definitions.

00:13:09.720 There's nothing libertarian about saying that marriage has to now be defined as a union of

00:13:15.480 two people, regardless of sex, who love each other for whatever purpose you want, rather

00:13:21.080 than the previous definition, which is it's the union of husbands and wives for family

00:13:25.480 or some other definition.

00:13:27.340 Why, why doesn't, why isn't it libertarian to say that marriage involves the polygamous 0.84

00:13:33.040 union of same-sex people?

00:13:34.740 Why is that?

00:13:35.320 Isn't, isn't that libertarian?

00:13:36.760 Why don't we have that?

00:13:37.320 No, it's just a total cop-out.

00:13:38.700 And they do this with drugs.

00:13:40.160 They say, well, when it comes to drugs, I'm a libertarian.

00:13:44.300 This is, this presents a very mistaken view of virtues and of the tradition that we come

00:13:49.960 out of and of political philosophy.

00:13:52.320 Drugs enslave you.

00:13:54.320 I'm not, I'm not saying that you can't have, you know, a glass of wine in moderation, some

00:13:58.860 whiskey in moderation, even a smoke of pot in moderation.

00:14:01.780 I'm saying that when you become addicted to drugs, when you use drugs, uh, excessively,

00:14:06.820 when you abuse drugs, they enslave you.

00:14:09.180 You're giving into your appetite.

00:14:10.800 You're not, you're not living, uh, rationally.

00:14:13.140 You're not living consciously.

00:14:14.440 You're not living in freedom.

00:14:15.920 There's nothing libertarian about that.

00:14:18.240 That's, that's libertine, not libertarian.

00:14:20.840 And, uh, it's a, it's a big mistake.

00:14:22.600 Conservatives shouldn't give this one up.

00:14:24.140 They shouldn't give up anything.

00:14:25.360 They shouldn't be, feel bullied and be intimidated by the left to give up points needlessly and

00:14:30.260 then pretend that that's libertarianism.

00:14:32.040 That creates a nation of dopes. 1.00

00:14:34.480 And this point was, uh, underscored beautifully by President Trump, uh, just this past week

00:14:40.900 because what were we told during the election?

00:14:44.400 Trump is, he's going to be terrible for the economy.

00:14:46.340 And if he, if he gets rid of NAFTA, the North American free trade agreement, the agreement

00:14:51.460 between Canada, the United States, and Mexico, the economy is going to implode.

00:14:54.880 It's going to be awful.

00:14:55.560 Prices are going to rise where it's going to be awful for Mexico, for Canada, especially

00:14:59.300 for the United States.

00:15:00.640 So President Trump rips up NAFTA.

00:15:03.500 He creates a bilateral trade agreement with Mexico and says, remember Mexico, we were never

00:15:09.600 going to be able to deal with Mexico.

00:15:10.820 Now we've got a great relationship with Mexico.

00:15:13.280 All the smart people told us it would be terrible.

00:15:15.080 We have a great relationship with Mexico.

00:15:17.400 And he, President Trump says, Canada is more than welcome to come in, but if they're not

00:15:21.680 going to agree to our terms, they can stay out.

00:15:24.460 What happened when this was announced?

00:15:26.540 NAFTA ripped up bilateral trade deal, all the smarts that predicted it.

00:15:29.740 Instead of the economy crashing, the markets reach record highs.

00:15:34.900 Record highs.

00:15:36.540 The S&P 500 was up almost 1% yesterday.

00:15:39.440 NASDAQ was up almost 1% yesterday.

00:15:42.320 The NASDAQ broke 8,000.

00:15:44.180 I think that's an all-time record.

00:15:45.560 The Dow jumped 259 points all the way up.

00:15:48.540 This was the first time yesterday that the Dow was above 26,000 since February.

00:15:52.500 The markets universally responded well to this news about NAFTA.

00:15:57.560 We also found out today that consumer confidence is at an 18-year high.

00:16:02.460 But remember this.

00:16:03.340 You've got to remember this because it always gets blown over in the media.

00:16:06.480 Nobody ever talks about this in the mainstream media.

00:16:08.640 So you just forget that these things happen.

00:16:10.100 You forget when these pundits, when the smart set, when the self-appointed bettors and sophisticates

00:16:15.420 and self-styled smart people, when they predict things, they get it totally wrong,

00:16:20.960 and then they get to go right on making predictions.

00:16:23.340 Here, just to refresh your memory, here is a little prediction from the self-appointed smart set,

00:16:28.800 the stupid smart people, of what was going to happen to the economy if President Trump was elected.

00:16:33.120 Are you saying that if Trump wins, then a deal or two after that, the markets are going down 15%?

00:16:38.580 10%. I think 10%.

00:16:40.480 It may actually, if it looks like he's close, it may drift a little before,

00:16:44.180 but the net effect will be about 10%.

00:16:46.240 He has no real strategy for creating jobs, just a string of empty promises.

00:16:51.560 And maybe we shouldn't expect better from someone whose most famous words are,

00:16:58.500 you're fired.

00:16:59.700 Donald Trump offers no real solutions for the economic challenges we face.

00:17:06.720 I have my Trump hedge on.

00:17:08.640 In the event Donald wins, I have no doubt in my mind the market tanks.

00:17:13.600 Donald Trump's ideas about the economy and the world

00:17:17.020 will cause millions of Americans to lose their jobs.

00:17:22.840 And what happened?

00:17:25.200 What, what, can we ask what happened?

00:17:27.340 And let's, let's, because these guys say, Hillary Clinton, who is that?

00:17:33.260 Mark Cuban, the billionaire who just goes, runs his mouth on TV, all these predictors.

00:17:38.400 Don't lose sight of what they're saying.

00:17:39.880 They're saying millions of jobs will be lost.

00:17:42.240 The economy will tank.

00:17:43.400 They're, they're making actual predictions, none of which happened.

00:17:46.480 And yet we still look to them.

00:17:47.920 They're the smart people.

00:17:49.020 They're the stable people.

00:17:50.200 Hillary Clinton, she's stable.

00:17:51.640 She's the stable. 0.99

00:17:52.480 She's the reasonable choice.

00:17:53.940 Oh, pish posh.

00:17:54.640 We can't vote for Trump.

00:17:55.820 He's crazy.

00:17:56.720 Hillary, she's stable.

00:17:58.180 She's, she's stably wrong.

00:18:01.180 She is, she's very, in a very stable way.

00:18:04.060 She's wrong.

00:18:05.060 Her predictions did not come true.

00:18:06.700 Here is what actually happened.

00:18:09.100 Confidence is the highest it's been in many years.

00:18:11.700 Just came out.

00:18:13.760 Manufacturing the highest level of confidence they've had since they started doing it many

00:18:17.540 years ago.

00:18:18.160 And business, it has the highest level of confidence.

00:18:22.580 That was President Trump in the cabinet room earlier today.

00:18:25.540 He also pointed out, which he likes to do, but it's a fact.

00:18:28.560 Look at the chart.

00:18:29.580 Dow's up more than 5,000 points in one year.

00:18:32.120 It's never done that before.

00:18:33.660 70 new highs for the Dow Jones industrials.

00:18:37.560 Remember when everyone said the market was just going to tank the day after the election

00:18:40.560 and fall through the floor?

00:18:42.400 Didn't happen.

00:18:42.940 Historic tax reform on top of that, 3% GDP growth and a forecast to potentially do 4%

00:18:49.800 in the third quarter.

00:18:50.760 We'll see if that happens.

00:18:51.760 Moments ago, the numbers for America's economic growth or GDP were just released.

00:18:59.120 And I am thrilled to announce that in the second quarter of this year, the United States economy

00:19:06.460 grew at the amazing rate of 4.1%.

00:19:11.340 We are on track to hit the highest annual average growth rate in over 13 years.

00:19:19.060 And I will say this right now, and I'll say it strongly, as the trade deals come in one

00:19:24.360 by one, we're going to go a lot higher than these numbers.

00:19:28.180 And these are great numbers.

00:19:30.620 During each of the two previous administrations, we averaged just over 1.8% GDP growth.

00:19:36.840 By contrast, we are now on track to hit an average GDP annual growth of over 3%, and it could

00:19:45.720 be substantially over 3%.

00:19:47.660 Remember those images.

00:19:51.020 Remember those two clips that you just saw.

00:19:53.400 Because I think sometimes, sometimes I get accused of being a little too favorable to President

00:19:59.380 Trump, to President Covfefe.

00:20:00.880 Sometimes people think I'm flacking for him or something like that.

00:20:04.020 I don't know why they would ever think that.

00:20:05.400 Fix my American flag bow tie.

00:20:08.420 I think I get accused of that.

00:20:09.840 I think that's totally unfair.

00:20:11.200 Because what I'd like to point out are those two clips.

00:20:15.100 All of the smart people, all of the serious, sophisticated, you know, they're stable leaders.

00:20:23.640 All of those people were totally wrong.

00:20:26.940 They have been totally wrong in their predictions.

00:20:28.760 And Donald Trump, who is regularly pilloried as an absolute idiot, not just by people on

00:20:34.340 the left, but also by people on the right, by a lot of people on the right, pillory him

00:20:38.080 as an idiot, an incompetent, political newbie, dummy, doesn't know what he's doing. 0.94

00:20:43.300 That guy, that person who has been pilloried on the left and the right as an idiot, has been

00:20:48.600 right about almost everything.

00:20:50.740 He's been right about virtually everything.

00:20:53.580 The numbers don't lie.

00:20:55.480 We're just talking about the economy right now.

00:20:57.140 This extends in many, many ways.

00:20:58.860 So I just want you to remember that.

00:21:00.320 When you see someone and say, oh, he's being too favorable to President Trump.

00:21:06.180 President Trump has been right about virtually all of these things.

00:21:09.380 And all the smart set on the left and the right have been wrong.

00:21:12.540 They have been wrong since the beginning.

00:21:14.800 This should cause us to maybe take a step back and have a little moment of reflection

00:21:19.800 here.

00:21:20.060 This is true, not just on the economy.

00:21:22.680 Another great example of the smart set, actually probably the perfect example, is global warming,

00:21:29.140 climate change, the Paris Accord.

00:21:31.280 Remember the Paris Accord?

00:21:32.560 If we didn't sign on to the Paris Accord, where all the nations are going to get together

00:21:36.940 and hug each other, and that's, for some reason, that's going to be really good for the environment.

00:21:41.300 If that doesn't happen, the world will implode.

00:21:44.500 That's what we were told.

00:21:45.420 We were told that even by some people on the right, but certainly by the entire left.

00:21:50.180 And President Trump said, I'm not going to sign on to that Paris Accord.

00:21:53.280 He was utterly pilloried for it.

00:21:55.660 Here's just one example.

00:21:56.980 President Trump announcing that he's going to pull out of the accord and a little example

00:22:00.240 of how the left reacted.

00:22:02.240 The rest of the world applauded when we signed the Paris Agreement.

00:22:09.600 They went wild.

00:22:11.100 They were so happy.

00:22:11.840 For the simple reason that it put our country, the United States of America, which we all

00:22:20.360 love, at a very, very big economic disadvantage.

00:22:25.740 What are you talking about?

00:22:28.400 They were happy because they secured a landmark victory for the future of the planet.

00:22:33.440 You f***ing egomaniac.

00:22:35.880 The whole world is not secretly conspiring against the United States.

00:22:42.040 So just keep that in mind.

00:22:44.000 Keep that, you f***ing maniac.

00:22:46.780 What are you doing?

00:22:47.720 Woo-hoo, yeah, woo-hoo, yeah.

00:22:49.840 Right, right.

00:22:50.360 Trump's the idiot and John Oliver, representing the entire left and the anti-Trump right, he's

00:22:55.180 the smart guy.

00:22:56.340 He's, are you so, are you an idiot?

00:22:57.860 Are you f***ing kidding me?

00:22:59.040 Well, it turns out Trump was entirely right and that guy was entirely wrong.

00:23:03.160 We have new numbers that have come out, which shows that the United States is leading the

00:23:07.620 world in reducing carbon dioxide emissions.

00:23:10.400 The United States, which pulled out of the Paris Agreement, which said, go pound sand,

00:23:14.860 international community.

00:23:16.860 You're trying to entrap us in an agreement that forces us to give up some of our freedom,

00:23:21.800 that forces us to play by unfair rules, that gives an international advantage to other people.

00:23:26.000 You're not serious about helping the environment.

00:23:28.340 We are serious.

00:23:28.980 We're going to do it on our own.

00:23:30.600 That's what President Trump said, pilloried by dum-dums like John Oliver and everybody 0.73

00:23:34.380 else, mocked, laughed by frivolous audiences on HBO.

00:23:39.560 And then what happened?

00:23:40.500 The United States is leading the world in reducing CO2 emissions and the signatories to the Paris

00:23:45.180 Accord are not only not keeping their promises, they are increasing their CO2 emissions, which

00:23:50.620 means that they weren't serious about the Paris Accord.

00:23:53.040 It means they didn't want to help the environment.

00:23:54.620 They weren't getting ready for this landmark international kumbaya moment.

00:23:58.980 They just wanted to entrap the United States in an agreement that they would not play fairly

00:24:04.240 by.

00:24:04.900 It means that Donald Trump was entirely right about this and the left and John Oliver in

00:24:09.120 particular were completely wrong.

00:24:10.640 Canada, Spain, the European Union, and China all increased their CO2 emissions since that

00:24:16.900 Paris Agreement.

00:24:18.120 All of them.

00:24:18.820 We were told this agreement, this is so landmark because India and China are finally going to

00:24:22.440 play along.

00:24:22.920 Well, they didn't.

00:24:23.940 We now know that they didn't.

00:24:25.340 And that guy, the stupid guy, the stupid orange mango Mussolini, what an idiot, he doesn't know 0.64

00:24:31.300 anything about anything, was completely right about this.

00:24:34.060 And all of the really smart people with glasses were completely wrong.

00:24:37.680 Imagine, just imagine that Hillary Clinton had won. 1.00

00:24:41.040 My third cousin once removed.

00:24:43.080 Just imagine that for a second.

00:24:44.200 I haven't watched a clip of Hillary in a while and I just watched her, you know, seeing it 0.94

00:24:48.720 on the show right now.

00:24:50.300 Imagine that.

00:24:51.700 Imagine how awful that would be because she was the responsible choice.

00:24:56.020 All of my friends who have lots of degrees, you know, they have PhDs and master's degrees

00:25:02.420 and law degrees and doctors and all do, do, do, do, do, do.

00:25:07.100 All of them, they were horrified that I voted for Donald Trump.

00:25:11.620 Horrified.

00:25:12.080 So you can't, that's irresponsible.

00:25:14.200 That's irresponsible.

00:25:14.720 He's not competent.

00:25:15.980 He's not smart.

00:25:17.240 He's reckless.

00:25:18.260 He's, that guy's been totally right.

00:25:21.940 All of Hillary's predictions were not, not only have not come true, but the opposite has

00:25:26.280 actually come true.

00:25:26.940 And then we got news today that her email server, that competent Hillary, expert Hillary,

00:25:32.680 stable Hillary, that her email server that we already know has been hacked by bad actors 1.00

00:25:36.840 was also hacked by the Chinese. 0.99

00:25:39.380 That information came out today.

00:25:41.140 Her email server was hacked by the Chinese. 1.00

00:25:43.240 They installed a code such that her emails, emails that were going to or from her were

00:25:49.020 being sent to these, to this Chinese entity in real time.

00:25:53.860 That's stable Hillary. 1.00

00:25:55.080 That's the smart person.

00:25:56.100 I don't, have Donald Trump's emails been hacked by multiple foreign adversaries?

00:26:01.640 Has that happened yet?

00:26:02.600 Maybe it'll happen.

00:26:03.420 I don't know.

00:26:03.720 That hasn't happened yet.

00:26:04.900 I haven't seen that.

00:26:06.520 That big, that big dummy who doesn't know anything, he's managed to avoid that.

00:26:10.260 But all the smart people like Hillary Clinton, then they get their emails hacked by multiple 1.00

00:26:14.320 major foreign adversaries.

00:26:16.880 Unbelievable.

00:26:17.320 And, and then the story gets better.

00:26:19.600 It gets like a, if, if someone wrote this movie and then pitched it to a Hollywood studio,

00:26:25.240 the studio would say, no, it's too on the nose.

00:26:27.660 That's too obvious.

00:26:28.660 That's too, you couldn't do it.

00:26:30.100 This, the, the hack by China was reported to the FBI multiple times and the FBI did nothing

00:26:36.700 about it.

00:26:37.220 And, and who was it at the FBI who did nothing about it?

00:26:41.460 Peter Strzok, ladies and gentlemen, that lover boy, disgraced FBI agent who testified

00:26:47.500 before Congress and looked like the devil incarnate, you know, that maniacal face and smile and all

00:26:52.340 the horns spreading out of his head.

00:26:53.940 Peter Strzok, it was that guy.

00:26:55.280 And the reason that this would be rejected if it were a Hollywood pitch is that it's like,

00:27:00.600 I thought there were more FBI agents than that.

00:27:03.260 How come this guy keeps popping up?

00:27:05.280 You think, aren't there, hold on a second.

00:27:06.720 Aren't there, there are more than like five people that work at the FBI, right?

00:27:09.920 But this guy, Peter Strzok seems to always crop up at the center of corruption at all

00:27:15.340 times.

00:27:15.720 The emails with his lover girl trying to nail Trump, investigating Trump based on faulty

00:27:20.620 paid for Democrat hack dossiers.

00:27:23.840 Then he's on the Mueller investigation trying to get Trump again.

00:27:26.960 He actually gets fired for that reason.

00:27:28.340 And he's the one who won't report that Hillary has been incompetently handling her emails.

00:27:34.080 Unbelievable.

00:27:34.520 You know, all of this should serve as a warning.

00:27:37.320 Then I've got to say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube.

00:27:39.180 All of this, I bring up to you all the way from the pot and those dope heads to the dope

00:27:44.640 heads on CNN and HBO.

00:27:46.560 The left always tries to intimidate us.

00:27:50.160 And I'll even go more broadly than the left.

00:27:53.720 The left and the preening anti-Trump right always try to intimidate us by making conservative

00:28:01.660 people think we're stupid.

00:28:04.180 They try to make us think that we're stupid.

00:28:06.920 They say, we're really smart.

00:28:08.120 Look, we wear tweed.

00:28:09.420 We have tweed jackets.

00:28:10.640 We have bow ties.

00:28:11.760 We have special glasses.

00:28:13.460 You know, we go, we sip Chablis.

00:28:15.820 You don't even know what Chablis is.

00:28:16.980 We sip Chablis.

00:28:18.140 We know.

00:28:19.260 We're the competent ones.

00:28:20.320 We're the stable ones.

00:28:21.020 You can't vote for Trump.

00:28:21.900 He's an idiot.

00:28:22.560 He's a fool.

00:28:23.080 He's a dummy.

00:28:23.780 He doesn't know what he's doing.

00:28:24.920 He's a blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. 1.00

00:28:26.560 Just remember that in a broad array of issues over just the last year or two years, that

00:28:33.240 self-appointed smart set has been utterly wrong, have been made to look like total fools.

00:28:39.080 And the stupid people, the hacks, the partisans, the Trump apologists, the lackeys, the MAGA

00:28:46.120 crowd, the blah, blah, blah, have been correct about everything.

00:28:49.340 Just keep that in mind.

00:28:50.160 I'd like people to remember that because I think sometimes this gets forgotten.

00:28:53.840 And we'll get to why that gets forgotten.

00:28:56.280 It's because not only are the news media stacked against us, but everything around the news

00:29:01.220 media are stacked against us.

00:29:02.620 This has just come out in the last day.

00:29:04.400 Before we get to that, I've got to say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube, don't I?

00:29:07.100 This is very frustrating because we've got so much more to talk about.

00:29:10.540 But we'll talk about it once we see you at dailywire.com.

00:29:13.380 If you're at dailywire.com, thank you very much.

00:29:15.640 You help keep the lights on.

00:29:16.680 You keep Covfefe in my cup.

00:29:18.240 You keep me in silly bow ties and tweed jackets.

00:29:21.300 If you're not there, if you're on Facebook and YouTube, you won't be for long because

00:29:24.560 they're going to censor us.

00:29:25.860 So go over to Daily Wire.

00:29:27.080 It's $10 a month, $100 for an annual membership.

00:29:29.080 What do you get?

00:29:29.780 You get me.

00:29:30.940 You get the Andrew Klavan show.

00:29:32.120 You get the Ben Shapiro show.

00:29:33.340 You get to ask questions in the mailbag.

00:29:34.840 That's coming up Thursday.

00:29:35.840 You get to ask questions in the conversation.

00:29:37.180 That's going to be the big boss, Ben Shapiro, coming up very soon.

00:29:39.880 None of that matters.

00:29:41.460 Here it is.

00:29:42.200 Here.

00:29:44.260 Mmm.

00:29:45.260 Mmm.

00:29:46.400 Was this brew, was this imported from Mexico or from Canada?

00:29:50.200 Or was this made right here in the United States?

00:29:51.900 I don't know, but this is the NAFTA brew.

00:29:53.800 This is the NAFTA brew and it, and it tastes like, yeah, it tastes like the NASDAQ hitting

00:30:00.140 8,000.

00:30:00.840 That's what it tastes like.

00:30:01.860 It tastes like the S&P hitting records and it tastes like, yeah, I'm getting a slight

00:30:08.740 hint on the top of the pallet of the Dow Jones breaking 26,000 for the first time since February.

00:30:14.640 I'm getting, just, you can kind of get a little hint on the nose.

00:30:17.380 Go to dailywire.com.

00:30:18.360 We'll be right back.

00:30:18.800 We got a lot more to talk about.

00:30:19.740 So why do we always forget that the smart people are stupid and the stupid people are

00:30:33.140 smart?

00:30:33.380 The reason is that the news media are not only totally turned against conservatives and the

00:30:39.760 Trump administration, but everything around the news media are as well.

00:30:43.740 There's a new piece out.

00:30:45.120 It's a PJ Media.

00:30:45.820 I suggest you go read it by Paula Bulliard that shows, she just searched Trump in Google

00:30:52.180 News, Google News, major news source.

00:30:55.200 I check it constantly and she just searched Trump.

00:30:58.700 96% of the results, even for her, who's a conservative, you would think they might be

00:31:02.880 more tailored to skew conservative for her. 0.97

00:31:05.960 96% of the results were from left-wing news sources.

00:31:11.280 96% of them.

00:31:12.480 Daily Wire doesn't seem to crop up, does it?

00:31:14.100 But Vox.com certainly does.

00:31:17.140 96%.

00:31:17.620 And the sources, by the way, are liars.

00:31:19.780 We have this story out today.

00:31:21.440 CNN ran a story about how Donald Trump knew about Russian collusion and knew of the Russia

00:31:27.480 meeting at Trump Tower and knew about all of this, knew about all of this.

00:31:31.360 The source for those stories was Lanny Davis, the left-wing hacky attorney for Michael Cohen.

00:31:38.580 So the source really is Michael Cohen through that.

00:31:40.840 But just within the last day, Lanny Davis has come out and said, oh, yeah, I was just kidding.

00:31:45.400 No, I was just kidding.

00:31:46.060 I don't, I can't say.

00:31:47.540 I don't know that Donald Trump knew ahead of time about the Russia meeting.

00:31:51.260 Oh, I don't, I can't say.

00:31:52.460 I don't, what do I know?

00:31:53.680 I don't know.

00:31:54.440 But last week he was saying, Bob Mueller should talk to Michael Cohen.

00:31:57.980 We've got damaging information on Trump and Russia.

00:32:00.060 We're, we, he's got a lot that he should hear.

00:32:01.840 And now he's completely changed his tune.

00:32:03.380 So Lanny Davis was the source for this story.

00:32:05.720 It was reported everywhere after it made it to CNN.

00:32:08.280 And all the confirming sources were Lanny Davis.

00:32:11.620 Turned out, turns out it wasn't true.

00:32:13.460 Lanny Davis himself is saying, yeah, I lied.

00:32:15.440 And who knows if he lied or if Michael Cohen lied.

00:32:17.280 I don't know.

00:32:18.020 But what I do know is CNN won't retract the story.

00:32:21.240 Some people are noticing that CNN worded their story in such a way that they can probably get

00:32:25.960 away with it because it's just extraordinarily misleading.

00:32:29.580 But it's, it's dishonest.

00:32:32.000 I mean, these are people who are lying by omission or misleading in such a way that it's a lie.

00:32:36.560 The Media Research Center is also showing the extent of big tech censoring us.

00:32:40.800 Because you hear it from us.

00:32:41.980 Look, we see our views fluctuate very wildly depending on changes in these social media

00:32:47.120 algorithms and depending on what, who they're censoring that week.

00:32:50.620 But these are just little anecdotes.

00:32:52.860 The Media Research Center went in and went past the insinuation to get to some specifics.

00:32:56.960 We know that Twitter specifically was shadow banning people whose profiles used the words

00:33:03.920 America or God because they thought they were robots.

00:33:06.940 Can you imagine for a second if you just, just pity the Twitter executives here?

00:33:14.460 Let's not ascribe it to malice.

00:33:15.860 Let's ascribe it to stupidity.

00:33:17.340 They think they're in such an anti-American bubble.

00:33:20.200 They're in such an absurd left-wing bubble that they think that if you use the words

00:33:23.760 America or God, you can't be a human being. 0.75

00:33:26.800 You have to be a robot.

00:33:28.320 And they're shadow banning people for that.

00:33:30.380 They also won't run ads for pro-life advocacy groups.

00:33:33.680 They will run ads for Planned Parenthood.

00:33:35.700 That's one specific area.

00:33:37.200 We know that they put specific care behind the trending hashtags Podesta emails and DNC

00:33:45.160 leak during the election.

00:33:47.680 They suppressed that.

00:33:49.020 They shadow banned those hashtags even though they were clearly making the rounds among

00:33:53.440 popular users.

00:33:54.940 On Facebook, Facebook shadow banned or suppressed trending stories from Mitt Romney, CPAC, and

00:34:01.320 Rand Paul.

00:34:01.900 On the flip side, when Black Lives Matter was not trending, Facebook bumped that up and

00:34:07.660 made it trending news to spread the message of Black Lives Matter.

00:34:10.120 That's another specific.

00:34:12.480 It's not just the news too.

00:34:13.900 It's not just these platforms.

00:34:14.900 It's not just Google News.

00:34:15.960 Google search also is favoring Democrats.

00:34:19.080 So when you search for any of these things, not in news, but in the regular google.com, you're

00:34:24.120 going to get a slew of left-wing articles over right-wing articles.

00:34:28.240 Is it any wonder that we think that the stupid smart people are smart and the smart stupid

00:34:32.760 people are stupid?

00:34:33.700 It's because all of the curation around our information is tailored to give us that false

00:34:39.280 impression.

00:34:40.560 Why else?

00:34:41.120 We know that YouTube is censoring videos.

00:34:42.780 We know that Google, YouTube, and Twitter are partnering with far-left organizations.

00:34:46.540 The Southern Poverty Law Center.

00:34:48.500 I have a great honor because it said that my PragerU video is the most egregious one.

00:34:52.160 That's a great, I want to frame that statement and make it a prize.

00:34:57.760 We know that Twitter's advisors on content are 12 to 1, skew leftist.

00:35:02.880 12 to 1.

00:35:04.180 And we know that they partner with these fact-checkers, which are far left-wing.

00:35:08.880 Facebook partners with Snopes, the fact-checker Snopes.

00:35:12.060 Snopes flagged the Babylon Bee, an obviously satirical publication, for criticizing CNN.

00:35:18.540 Flagged it on Facebook and it went through.

00:35:21.200 Outrageous.

00:35:22.280 We don't have a ton of time, but I want to call your attention to that because when

00:35:25.480 you're using Google, when you're using Google News, you have to be aware that there is a

00:35:29.380 very intentional narrative being built around you.

00:35:33.320 There is a force at work that is trying to convince you that the smart people are stupid

00:35:37.580 and the stupid people are smart.

00:35:39.240 And that's why you think that.

00:35:40.380 It's why it's a prejudice in public discourse.

00:35:42.580 It's because people sitting at these companies are creating it for you.

00:35:45.960 Speaking of fact-checks, speaking of fact-checks, we do need to fact-check the media and the

00:35:52.000 memes here.

00:35:52.820 We have to get to some more demagoguery of dead people.

00:35:55.940 I've tried to avoid talking about John McCain or Molly Tibbetts too much.

00:36:00.860 Two people who have died recently, who have become major news stories, obviously, and who

00:36:06.120 have been injected into public debate.

00:36:08.500 I don't really blame people for injecting them into public debate.

00:36:11.440 First of all, John McCain is a public figure, so that goes without saying, and that Molly

00:36:14.780 Tibbetts' news story was a major national news story before politics got involved at

00:36:18.420 all.

00:36:19.300 So I'm not really blaming people.

00:36:20.880 But right now, there is a debate going on because Molly Tibbetts was killed by an illegal

00:36:26.240 alien.

00:36:26.740 The left is so upset with this that they're trying to pretend that he wasn't an illegal 0.51

00:36:29.820 alien, but he was an illegal alien.

00:36:32.400 All of the evidence we have at our disposal says he was an illegal alien.

00:36:35.400 And this has been an obvious point for conservatives who say, if we enforced our laws, that guy

00:36:42.460 wouldn't have been in the country.

00:36:44.260 Simple as that.

00:36:45.260 If we enforced our laws, that guy wouldn't have been in the country.

00:36:48.320 That's not to say that illegal aliens murder more people than native-born people do.

00:36:52.740 That's not to say that illegal aliens murder more people than other immigrant groups, like

00:36:56.640 legal immigrant groups do.

00:36:57.980 It's not to say any of those things.

00:36:59.360 It's just to say, very simply, that person wasn't supposed to be in the country.

00:37:02.720 It was a failure of law enforcement and really a failure of politics that he was in the country.

00:37:07.360 And that girl would be alive today if he wasn't in the country, if we enforced our

00:37:11.240 border laws.

00:37:12.720 That's a simple observation.

00:37:14.040 Now the left is doubling down.

00:37:15.160 They're saying, how dare you?

00:37:16.060 This is awful.

00:37:16.800 And there's a statement that's floating around that people are purporting is from the Tibbetts

00:37:21.720 family writ large, or that it's from Molly Tibbetts' mother.

00:37:25.640 It's actually from a woman named Sandy Tibbetts Murphy.

00:37:28.540 And Sandy Tibbetts Murphy is not Molly Tibbetts' mother, even though that has been reported

00:37:34.760 in various social media platforms.

00:37:36.980 That isn't the case.

00:37:37.760 She's a cousin of Molly Tibbetts.

00:37:39.460 And she sent out this statement that was very left-wing, excoriated the GOP.

00:37:43.560 I just want to read this to show you how ridiculous it is.

00:37:46.940 I'm not really, I'm criticizing her statement.

00:37:48.980 I'm not criticizing her because she's grieving, a family member has died.

00:37:52.020 But we have to correct the record because you can't let this kind of actual fake news

00:37:56.180 fester.

00:37:56.520 Here, Sandy Tibbetts Murphy sent out this statement.

00:38:00.000 It reads this, quote, no, no, no, no, especially for those of you who did not know her in life,

00:38:06.080 you do not get to usurp Molly and her legacy for your racist, false narrative now that she

00:38:11.400 is no longer with us.

00:38:12.660 Molly was killed and a man has been arrested and charged with her murder.

00:38:15.800 Yes, that man is an immigrant to this country.

00:38:18.220 He's not an immigrant. 1.00

00:38:18.980 He's an illegal alien. 0.87

00:38:19.960 But I go on with uncertainty as to his legal status.

00:38:23.600 It's not really uncertain.

00:38:24.520 All of the evidence says he's illegal.

00:38:26.280 I go on.

00:38:27.360 But it matters not.

00:38:28.540 He could have been a citizen born in this country.

00:38:30.320 He could have been an older white man from anywhere.

00:38:32.700 He could have been a man from Molly's world.

00:38:35.920 I'll go on and then we can discuss this because the political propaganda in this statement

00:38:43.900 is very frustrating.

00:38:45.720 She goes on.

00:38:46.280 He is a man whose path in life crossed that of Molly's life with tragic results.

00:38:50.420 He is a man who felt entitled to impose himself on Molly's life without consequences.

00:38:54.560 He is a man who, because of his sense of male entitlement, refused to allow Molly the

00:38:58.540 right to reject his advances, the right to her own autonomy.

00:39:01.500 Molly was murdered because a man denied her right to say so.

00:39:04.380 Our national discussion needs to be about violence committed in society, mostly by men. 0.80

00:39:08.740 It is not your right to exacerbate this grievous act by hijacking Molly and all she believed

00:39:13.140 with your racist fear mongering.

00:39:15.120 You do not get to use her murder to inaccurately promote your permanently separated hyperbole.

00:39:19.860 You do not have permission to callously use this tragedy to demonize an entire population

00:39:24.320 for the acts of one man.

00:39:25.600 No, we reclaim our Molly.

00:39:26.720 Respectfully, respectfully, Sandy Tibbetts Murphy, you do not have the right to use this murder

00:39:34.160 to push your sexist propaganda.

00:39:38.040 Just like you're saying that we don't, we don't have the right to push an ostensibly

00:39:42.200 racist propaganda.

00:39:44.280 You don't have the right to push sexist propaganda.

00:39:46.180 Look at this.

00:39:46.740 She said, it's not because he was an illegal alien.

00:39:48.380 It's because he is a man.

00:39:50.840 Again, I'm not, I'm not really criticizing this girl.

00:39:53.500 I don't know this girl.

00:39:54.300 Well, she's probably very much in mourning because her cousin is dead, but we have to

00:39:58.660 correct this record because what she's saying is don't blame illegal aliens, blame all men.

00:40:03.560 How is that, how is that fixing the painting with a broad brush?

00:40:07.600 You're saying we're painting a small group with a broad brush.

00:40:09.320 You're painting a gigantic group with a broad brush.

00:40:11.340 That isn't true.

00:40:12.540 She says, well, it could have been a different man.

00:40:14.100 It could have been a white guy.

00:40:14.900 It could have been a middle-aged guy.

00:40:15.840 Right, but it wasn't.

00:40:17.480 It wasn't any of those things.

00:40:19.360 He was an illegal alien. 0.75

00:40:20.860 The reality, all of the probabilities collapse into this reality.

00:40:23.920 And that's the reality that we have to deal with.

00:40:26.840 She says that we shouldn't push the permanently separated hyperbole.

00:40:30.880 That's not hyperbole.

00:40:33.380 Molly Tibbetts has been permanently separated from her family.

00:40:36.040 We shouldn't have to tell a member of her family that.

00:40:38.660 I'm very sorry for those who are grieving.

00:40:41.480 That isn't hyperbole.

00:40:42.640 That's a real, that's a real fact.

00:40:44.120 And we have to deal in facts.

00:40:45.100 We have to deal in reality and not deal with a bunch of fake news and political propaganda.

00:40:49.520 If people aren't going to, if the family doesn't want this to be politicized, I totally understand that.

00:40:55.340 But then one should not be politicizing it on the other side as well.

00:40:58.600 We're running so late as usual.

00:41:00.440 So I do want to get to Louis C.K. and Michael Ian Black.

00:41:04.820 Speaking of toxic masculinity. 0.98

00:41:06.640 Talking of toxic masculinity.

00:41:09.920 Louis C.K.

00:41:10.460 You remember this?

00:41:11.020 You remember when Louis C.K. exposed himself to a bunch of women and co-workers and people?

00:41:14.960 Now he showed up recently in a comedy club and he started performing.

00:41:20.160 People were surprised.

00:41:21.140 You know, someone complained and said, I didn't know he was going to be here.

00:41:23.780 This is nine months after five women co-workers, you know, accused him of assaulting them.

00:41:29.960 So Michael Ian Black, lefty par excellence, he comes out and he tweets this, quote,

00:41:36.820 We'll take heat for this, but people have to be allowed to serve their time and move on with their lives.

00:41:40.700 I don't know if it's been long enough or his career will recover or if people will have him back.

00:41:44.700 But I'm happy to see him try.

00:41:48.660 Okay, so Michael Ian Black is the guy who previously tweeted, quote,

00:41:52.380 This is right after Trump was elected.

00:41:53.760 Tonight I explained sexual assault to my 13-year-old daughter, hashtag MAGA.

00:41:57.960 Okay, he also tweeted at Ted Cruz.

00:41:59.640 He said, Hi, Ted Cruz.

00:42:00.540 This was when the race was going on in Alabama for the Senate.

00:42:03.400 Hi, Ted Cruz.

00:42:04.260 Just wondering if you've seen the latest allegation of sexual assault of a 16-year-old by Roy Moore

00:42:08.620 and if you still endorse his candidacy.

00:42:11.120 So that's Michael Ian Black.

00:42:12.100 And now he's coming around when it's one of his, when it was a Republican who's been accused of sexual crimes.

00:42:17.240 Then he's on his high horse, he's sanctimonious.

00:42:20.640 When it's a friend of his, all of a sudden we need a little grace.

00:42:24.240 We need a little mercy.

00:42:24.960 We need to let people have, you know, come on, man, let them recover.

00:42:29.160 This is total hackery.

00:42:31.160 And it brings up this point that we've talked about a little earlier with the dupes.

00:42:34.840 I think sometimes people think that I'm advocating too much for Donald Trump or I play favorites or something like that.

00:42:42.240 That isn't the case.

00:42:43.520 I'm not being partisan here.

00:42:45.520 I'm just being honest.

00:42:47.320 And these people are not being honest.

00:42:49.600 People like Michael Ian Black, self-serious, on his high horse, sanctimonious, until it's his friend.

00:42:56.440 And then all of a sudden it's completely different.

00:42:58.500 Because Michael Ian Black obviously does not care about sexual assault.

00:43:01.860 He doesn't seem to care about it one little bit.

00:43:03.780 He's just scoring political points.

00:43:05.660 Had he not said that about Louis C.K., then perhaps we could take him seriously.

00:43:09.740 But he's trying to score political points.

00:43:11.560 And there are a lot of people, this happens in politics too.

00:43:14.660 When people try to tell you, oh, I don't have a preference here.

00:43:17.900 Oh, no, I don't.

00:43:18.680 No, no.

00:43:19.140 I'm just, I'm floating above it all.

00:43:21.460 I'm above it all and I'm just, you know, I'm self-righteous in this or whatever.

00:43:27.620 You can tell that those guys have a partisan agenda and they're just not being honest.

00:43:33.160 Ben has said this very well about the Daily Wire and CNN.

00:43:35.740 People say the Daily Wire is right wing.

00:43:37.140 He said, yes, we have a point of view, but we're open about our point of view.

00:43:41.240 CNN is not open about its point of view.

00:43:42.920 That's why they're fake news and we're not fake news.

00:43:44.660 This is very important because demagogues always do this.

00:43:49.840 They always try to say, oh, I'm floating above all this.

00:43:51.460 How dare you?

00:43:52.100 How dare you get on your high horse?

00:43:53.820 But honest people are going to deal honestly with you.

00:43:56.260 And President Trump does this very much in his daily politics,

00:44:00.900 which is he doesn't pretend to be something other than he is.

00:44:04.000 He doesn't pretend to have different goals than he has.

00:44:06.420 He doesn't pretend that his politics aren't his politics.

00:44:09.300 He is openly political.

00:44:10.800 He is guilelessly political.

00:44:12.660 This is horrifying to some.

00:44:14.660 Who have been soaked in this incompetent, mucky culture of lies and oiliness.

00:44:22.840 And it's refreshing to others who say, oh, at least I know where I stand.

00:44:27.420 Oh, he said he was going to rip up NAFTA and then he did.

00:44:29.940 Oh, he said he was going to lower taxes and then he did.

00:44:32.500 Oh, he said he was going to.

00:44:33.480 Oh, good.

00:44:33.900 I know where I stand.

00:44:35.120 This is a very good thing.

00:44:37.760 We have, you know, gosh, we have so much more to get to, but we're out of time.

00:44:41.260 We're out of time.

00:44:41.960 That's too bad because we have, I do want to talk about, there's a new study out of Brown

00:44:46.060 that shows that transgenderism, gender confusion is a social contagion.

00:44:51.600 And this has, of course, been suppressed by the PC crowd, the so-called party of science

00:44:56.460 that can't, that doesn't like when science contradicts their own ideological narratives.

00:45:00.820 And there are some very important reasons as to why this is happening in our culture.

00:45:07.780 It dates back to this day in history, which is when Prince Charles and Princess Diana got

00:45:13.200 divorced, not just their divorce, but divorced broadly.

00:45:16.080 I guess we're just going to have to talk about it tomorrow.

00:45:18.280 How's that for a cliffhanger, huh?

00:45:19.700 Is that good?

00:45:20.460 Because it's really politically incorrect.

00:45:22.740 In fact, you know what?

00:45:23.740 We've got to talk about it tomorrow so that this episode gets to stay up.

00:45:26.780 Then I'll say this.

00:45:27.480 It's probably the least politically correct thing you can ever say tomorrow.

00:45:30.160 And my show will get canceled, but at least we'll have gotten a good one in the can.

00:45:33.360 Okay, that's our show.

00:45:34.800 Get your mailbag questions in for Thursday.

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The Michael Knowles Show - August 28, 2018

Ep. 208 - A Nation Of Dopes

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