The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 219 - Below The Belt

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00:00:30.120 Stormy Daniels continues to epitomize grace and class as she compares President Trump's genitals to cartoon fungus. 1.00

00:00:37.520 CNN dedicates a segment to Donald Trump Jr. I'm not talking about the President's son. 0.96

00:00:41.760 And Hillary Clinton says we need to give women accusers the benefit of the doubt. I kid you not.

00:00:48.080 Then the blazes Stu Burgier drops by to talk about the news and why it matters.

00:00:52.740 Finally, the meaning of life. All that and more. I'm Michael Knowles and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:00.000 Buckle up. We're going below the belt today. It is going to be a saucy, saucy show.

00:01:09.140 So the Brett Kavanaugh update. You know, Brett Kavanaugh, the absolutely unimpeachable, you know, without blemish Supreme Court nominee.

00:01:18.080 So they've made up some crazy stuff about him and they're trying to portray him as a rapist or something.

00:01:23.640 To catch you up on this, the accusation came from Christine Blasey Ford, who says that 36 years ago or somewhere thereabouts, when they were drunk teenagers, Kavanaugh tried to get her shirt off at a party.

00:01:37.500 And she doesn't remember where the party was or how it came together or exactly who was there.

00:01:42.160 And she's changed her story since she first mentioned it for the first time ever six years ago, 30 years after it allegedly happened.

00:01:48.400 And the other person who says that she was in the room or the other person who she says was in the room calls the accusations absolutely nuts.

00:01:56.740 Then another person who she says was at the party, a guy named, what's his name, PJ, Patrick Smith or Smythe, he says that he was not at the party.

00:02:08.500 She then said she would testify before a congressional hearing and now she says she won't do it.

00:02:14.040 Christine Blasey, more like Christine Blasey Ford, if you ask me, am I right?

00:02:18.220 Because she won't do it. She isn't going to show up now.

00:02:21.440 Surprise, surprise. I wonder why. I wonder why. Because the accusation is not credible.

00:02:25.960 Regardless of what happened or didn't happen, it really now looks like nothing like what she's describing happened.

00:02:33.140 Now one person came out on Twitter and said that she was there and she knows about this and she was at the high school at the time and that he's guilty as sin.

00:02:42.880 This tweet from this person said, I graduated from Holton Arms and knew both Brett Kavanaugh and Mark Judge.

00:02:49.200 Christine Blasey Ford was a year or so behind me. I remember her.

00:02:52.240 I signed the letter in support of her.

00:02:54.000 The incident was spoken about for days afterwards in school.

00:02:57.420 Kavanaugh should stop lying, own up to it, and apologize.

00:03:01.920 And then so people, they were running with this. The media were running and tweeting and yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:03:06.200 And then she deleted it. She deleted the tweet.

00:03:11.860 And then we now have the latest from, this is also being reported on Twitter.

00:03:16.420 She said, yeah, I wasn't there. I don't know. Please don't contact me. I don't want to testify.

00:03:19.900 So nobody wants to testify to this because, hmm, wonder why, wonder why.

00:03:24.260 And the Democrats are dragging it out and out and out.

00:03:28.080 So before we get into how all the politicals are reacting to this, I just want to show you the degradation of our culture.

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00:05:17.200 And speaking of a perfect segue, here is CNN.

00:05:20.900 CNN dedicated an entire segment to the most pressing news of the day.

00:05:24.900 She writes that her first sighting of Donald Trump in 2006 in his hotel suite in Lake Tahoe

00:05:31.780 was shocking.

00:05:33.320 Trump came swooping in wearing black silk pajamas and slippers, she writes.

00:05:37.160 What are you doing?

00:05:38.040 I yelled.

00:05:38.820 Go put some effing clothes on.

00:05:40.860 She writes that he changed and they both joked about his hair.

00:05:44.140 I pointed to his hair.

00:05:45.280 What's going on with this?

00:05:46.760 I know, he said with a smile. 0.99

00:05:48.080 It's ridiculous. 0.86

00:05:48.740 She says the two talked about family. 0.97

00:05:51.580 What would your wife think of you being here with me, Stormy writes.

00:05:55.000 Oh, don't worry about that, he said.

00:05:56.960 It's not a big deal.

00:05:58.080 And anyway, we have separate bedrooms.

00:06:00.640 She writes Trump then brought out a picture of Melania holding their son Barron, who was

00:06:05.740 just four months old at the time.

00:06:07.360 And when Daniels came out of the bathroom, she claims Trump was lying on the bed in his

00:06:13.280 underwear. 0.77

00:06:14.200 They had sex. 0.99

00:06:15.380 She then describes his genitalia in great detail. 1.00

00:06:19.340 His penis is distinctive in a certain way, she writes. 0.99

00:06:22.500 I'm going to cut it there. 1.00

00:06:23.320 I'm going to cut it there.

00:06:24.300 I'm going to spare you the rest of this.

00:06:26.320 I don't think I need to subject my audience to the rest of this.

00:06:29.480 This went on for four minutes.

00:06:32.480 That might not sound like a lot when you think about podcasts or whatever.

00:06:35.880 However, four minutes is an eternity on cable news.

00:06:39.620 You know, I go on Fox and Friends about once a week.

00:06:42.360 Usually these hits are like two minutes, maybe.

00:06:45.040 You know, if they give you four minutes, that is a lot of time.

00:06:48.920 And they spent four minutes talking about how distinctive it is in a certain way.

00:06:52.960 And Stormy said this.

00:06:54.000 And ooh, ooh, ooh, CNN, facts first.

00:06:56.680 I'm a banana.

00:06:57.480 Yeah, they are.

00:06:58.180 It's all bananas on CNN.

00:06:59.740 That's all CNN wants to talk about.

00:07:01.420 Remember the apple and banana ad?

00:07:03.100 A lot of bananas.

00:07:04.400 And it is bananas.

00:07:05.180 I mean, this is so, the next time that they're lecturing you, we have serious journalists.

00:07:10.720 Every journalist at CNN, because there are a couple ostensibly not so horrible people there,

00:07:17.120 they should speak out against this.

00:07:18.760 This is disgraceful.

00:07:20.020 I mean, this is so, so disgraceful.

00:07:23.160 Even, I get it.

00:07:24.360 If you want to mention the book for some reason, fine.

00:07:26.860 Four minutes on this?

00:07:28.180 Give me a break.

00:07:29.520 But that's all they're going to talk about now. 0.99

00:07:31.260 It's sex, sex, sex. 0.89

00:07:32.020 We're going to talk with Stu a little bit later about how the sex is just dominating our political 0.98

00:07:38.000 culture.

00:07:38.980 But there are incredible ironies now.

00:07:41.120 We're getting back to Kavanaugh, because that's the major story here. 0.58

00:07:45.300 Democrats are coming out in force in total hypocrisy, jumping on this. 0.97

00:07:49.760 It is pure hackery. 0.84

00:07:50.760 I actually had the privilege of sitting down last night with Hillary Clinton to discuss

00:07:56.020 Brett Kavanaugh.

00:07:57.720 The FBI is not conducting an independent investigation.

00:08:02.760 It's conducting a background investigation.

00:08:06.040 And the client, if you will, the requester, is the White House.

00:08:09.480 So the precedent that you just referred to is the precedent for getting the FBI to conduct

00:08:17.780 an investigation.

00:08:18.880 And that's what the White House should do. 0.51

00:08:20.760 Now, you can believe Hillary Clinton here. 1.00

00:08:23.240 You actually can.

00:08:24.380 In a certain respect. 0.96

00:08:26.560 If anybody knows about getting investigated by the FBI, it is that old crooked crone. 1.00

00:08:31.620 She has been the object of law enforcement since, what, the 80s, the 70s? 0.63

00:08:36.220 And we're going to be speaking with Ken Starr soon.

00:08:40.260 I mean, back deals in fraud and money laundering, hiding documents, stealing federal records.

00:08:48.340 This woman knows what it's like to be the subject of a federal investigation. 0.99

00:08:52.000 And she's pretty good at avoiding the consequences of that, too. 0.74

00:08:55.100 But then she gets into the purest hypocrisy of them all.

00:08:58.680 I'm so glad.

00:08:59.140 It was so nice of Hillary Clinton to come on my program last night. 1.00

00:09:01.940 Here she is in the most stunning sexual hypocrisy of all. 0.96

00:09:07.140 That's what the Republicans should be doing right now. 0.97

00:09:10.360 From the White House, down Pennsylvania Avenue, to the Senate.

00:09:14.220 Give the benefit of the doubt to the court and the country.

00:09:19.080 And that means have an investigation that will then lead to a hearing,

00:09:25.980 that will then lead to a vote, if appropriate.

00:09:28.900 So give women accusers the benefit of the doubt. 0.90

00:09:33.800 For those of you who are not familiar with Clintonese,

00:09:36.880 they're amazing at manipulating language,

00:09:38.980 because they're both very intelligent people, the Clintons,

00:09:41.020 and they're amazing at manipulating language to not just quite get around everything.

00:09:44.880 So she's saying, we need to give the benefit of the doubt to the court and the country.

00:09:48.440 What does that mean?

00:09:49.280 If we're going to give the benefit of the doubt to the court,

00:09:50.900 she should talk about how great Citizens United was, right?

00:09:53.360 If we're going to give the benefit of the doubt to the country,

00:09:55.000 she should talk about how great it was that they elected Trump.

00:09:56.880 What she's really trying to say without saying is give the benefit of the doubt to women accusers.

00:10:01.660 But she can't quite say that because she smeared and slandered all of the credible accusers 1.00

00:10:06.120 against her husband for decades.

00:10:08.380 Jennifer Flowers, Kathleen Willey, Juanita Broderick, 0.97

00:10:11.380 who accuses President Trump, President Trump, President Clinton of raping her. 0.65

00:10:16.120 We spoke to Juanita Broderick on the show. 0.99

00:10:17.980 She smeared them, trailer park trash, drag a hundred dollar bill through a trailer park, 1.00

00:10:24.140 and this is what you get. 0.90

00:10:25.520 The bimbo eruption, she smeared all of them. 1.00

00:10:28.060 So what we're now being told is that women who have credible accusations made in a timely manner

00:10:35.060 with evidence, with witnesses against a powerful figure, they should not be believed.

00:10:41.760 But a lady who shows up five minutes ago to say that a drunken teenager tried to take her top off 36 years ago 1.00

00:10:49.940 and she has no witnesses and can't give any details and won't speak,

00:10:54.140 that woman is to be believed. 0.72

00:10:56.500 I think that's the, it's obviously hypocrisy. 0.98

00:10:59.620 It's obviously pure hackery. 0.93

00:11:01.800 Anytime a Democrat does this, it's pure hackery.

00:11:03.640 The party of Jefferson, the party of Thomas Jefferson, poor Sally Hemmings.

00:11:08.700 The party of FDR who died in his mistress's arms.

00:11:11.680 The party of JFK, where do I begin?

00:11:13.860 How many, how many interns at once in the Lincoln bedroom?

00:11:16.700 The party of Bill Clinton.

00:11:18.040 Now they're lecturing us on Brett Kavanaugh, a totally unimpeachable character.

00:11:23.180 Are you kidding me?

00:11:24.540 That's absurd.

00:11:25.560 By the way, I was just naming the Democrat presidents who did this kind of stuff.

00:11:28.600 Let's not even get into the senators and the congressman, Ted Kennedy.

00:11:31.500 It's crazy.

00:11:32.040 Joe Biden jumped on the bandwagon too.

00:11:35.040 Joe Biden, former vice president of the United States.

00:11:37.240 He is saying with regard to the Kavanaugh allegations, quote,

00:11:40.040 for a woman to come forward in the glaring lights of focus nationally, 0.63

00:11:44.260 you've got to start off with the presumption that at least the essence of what she's talking about is real.

00:11:48.760 Whether or not she forgets facts, whether or not it's been made worse or better over time.

00:11:52.640 So presume that the accused is guilty.

00:11:56.200 Guilty until proven innocent.

00:11:57.400 That's what Joe Biden is saying.

00:11:58.600 Joe Biden, who, I don't know if you've ever Googled Joe Biden women. 0.97

00:12:03.020 Just go down that rabbit hole on YouTube for a while.

00:12:05.700 He's like smelling their hair.

00:12:07.260 Get away, Uncle Joe.

00:12:09.660 Guilty until proven innocent.

00:12:10.820 That's what they're saying now.

00:12:11.800 Until it's one of them that's accused.

00:12:13.460 Until it's Keith Ellison.

00:12:14.800 They're not talking about Keith Ellison, are they?

00:12:16.360 A woman credibly accusing him of beating her.

00:12:18.700 They don't talk about Bob Medendez.

00:12:20.300 They don't talk about, not those guys.

00:12:21.740 It's pure, pure hackery.

00:12:24.800 And we cannot tolerate this.

00:12:28.060 We've got to get to Stu in a second.

00:12:29.800 But we should not tolerate this as Republicans.

00:12:31.980 Because some conservatives are getting squishy on this.

00:12:34.260 Roth Douthat, who has an interesting perspective.

00:12:37.100 He is a conservative.

00:12:38.240 Never Trump conservative at the New York Times.

00:12:40.940 He's saying basically the same thing as Joe Biden.

00:12:43.740 He's saying almost the same thing today.

00:12:45.220 That we should, that it's incumbent on Brett Kavanaugh, unfair as it may be, to prove that he didn't do it.

00:12:53.280 To prove that he wasn't there, he didn't do it.

00:12:55.420 No, it's not.

00:12:56.440 No, it's not incumbent on him.

00:12:58.520 And it's absurd for Republicans and conservatives to try to hem and haw and say,

00:13:03.900 Oh, well, I don't know.

00:13:05.380 Well, maybe he should.

00:13:06.640 Who knows?

00:13:07.160 I didn't do it.

00:13:08.020 No. 0.97

00:13:08.940 It's a totally ridiculous charge. 0.99

00:13:11.360 It's pure hackery. 0.96

00:13:12.520 Even if he did try to get a girl's shirt off 36 years ago,

00:13:19.320 first of all, there should have been some sort of investigation.

00:13:22.560 And the same people who are saying that when you commit a crime as a teenager,

00:13:25.400 it shouldn't be held against you for the rest of your life.

00:13:27.140 If you commit a crime as a 25-year-old, it shouldn't be held against you.

00:13:29.900 A lot of people on the left.

00:13:31.560 Don't allow them to get away with this.

00:13:33.580 And first of all, there's no evidence when it comes to Brett Kavanaugh.

00:13:36.440 Don't allow them to get away with this.

00:13:38.180 It's so important.

00:13:39.320 I think there are some conservatives and Republicans and members of the administration

00:13:43.020 who just want to get rid of him and do someone else.

00:13:46.300 Ivanka, according to some report, which is probably bogus,

00:13:49.820 but Ivanka Trump is apparently saying that they should can Kavanaugh.

00:13:53.000 There are people who are saying we should cut bait here.

00:13:56.060 Jeff Flake is saying we need to hear her out.

00:13:58.120 No, we don't.

00:13:58.920 No, we don't.

00:13:59.880 Stop it.

00:14:00.360 If we lose on this, if we allow them to bork Brett Kavanaugh to slander this guy

00:14:07.120 who is apparently spotless, we're never going to get another judge through.

00:14:13.040 We can't win anything.

00:14:14.960 Why?

00:14:15.900 If we can't get Brett Kavanaugh through, we can't get anything through.

00:14:18.940 I don't know what we're even running for at this point.

00:14:21.900 It becomes a circus.

00:14:23.580 It is so much more important than they're having us believe.

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00:16:26.840 Give in on the nutrition.

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00:16:29.300 But don't give in on Brett Kavanaugh.

00:16:32.260 Where do we go from there?

00:16:33.220 First of all, any guy, any guy, whoever is up for any political position is dead.

00:16:40.000 If an unsubstantiated claim about trying to get a girl's top off 36 years ago with no evidence, no witnesses,

00:16:47.240 even the witness won't speak or the accuser won't speak, if that can torpedo your entire career,

00:16:54.140 every man is finished on both sides of the aisle.

00:16:56.420 It's not just affecting Republicans.

00:16:57.900 Every guy is finished.

00:16:58.720 Probably most women are finished. 1.00

00:17:00.360 Who can survive that?

00:17:01.520 You can't give in.

00:17:02.420 What they're going to try to say is, oh, well, Kavanaugh, he's compromised.

00:17:05.680 Get someone else.

00:17:06.760 Get, you know, just go for someone else.

00:17:08.560 Come on.

00:17:08.860 It's not a big deal.

00:17:09.640 There are plenty of other good judge candidates.

00:17:11.500 No.

00:17:12.220 No, no, no.

00:17:12.920 If it weren't a big deal, they wouldn't be pushing so hard at this.

00:17:15.380 Don't let them get away with this.

00:17:16.620 It is immoral to let them get away with this.

00:17:18.700 Do not let them do it.

00:17:21.600 And all right.

00:17:23.180 That's my important message to all conservatives and Republicans.

00:17:25.760 We've got to talk about all the important news, though, like gay Muppets and the ban of memes throughout Europe. 0.53

00:17:32.020 And for that, we bring on Stu Bergier, who is on the Glenn Beck program.

00:17:38.080 He's on the News and Why It Matters.

00:17:40.980 And the Glenn Beck guys are hanging around the studio this week.

00:17:43.960 And I love Stu.

00:17:44.740 He's got a great perspective.

00:17:45.940 So let's bring him in.

00:17:46.980 Stu.

00:17:47.440 Thanks for having me, man.

00:17:48.480 Quite an honor.

00:17:49.460 So, well, you know, you were just around here.

00:17:52.160 You figured, oh, gosh, I've got five minutes, three hours.

00:17:54.500 I'll go do Nulls' show.

00:17:55.720 That's fine.

00:17:56.580 Because I was on your show yesterday.

00:17:57.920 Yeah, yeah.

00:17:58.220 The News and Why It Matters.

00:17:59.140 Yeah, it was a lot of fun.

00:17:59.860 That was a ton of fun yesterday.

00:18:02.280 And especially in this news cycle, I'm actually beginning to question the premise of your show.

00:18:07.620 Yeah.

00:18:07.880 Which is that the news matters.

00:18:09.320 I don't really.

00:18:10.780 I'm not convinced at all.

00:18:11.940 We've got 35-year-old accusations.

00:18:14.540 We've got the president's Mario Kart.

00:18:17.180 I don't need any of that.

00:18:18.960 It's disturbing.

00:18:19.640 It's very disturbing.

00:18:20.780 The News and Why It's Disturbing is the new title.

00:18:22.860 The News and Why You Should Pay Attention to Something Else.

00:18:25.780 Because there are other very important news stories today.

00:18:28.260 Yes.

00:18:28.720 I would say after the Mario Kart and after the most important news stories are Bert and Ernie,

00:18:36.300 the well-known Sesame Street puppets.

00:18:38.160 There's a big debate on between different writers and creators of them as to whether or not they're gay.

00:18:44.060 Coincidentally, I don't know why this is, but in my notes for our interview, whoever taped this put a gay pride sticker on there.

00:18:51.520 So we have their vote.

00:18:52.620 Are Bert and Ernie gay?

00:18:54.200 Bert and Ernie, you know, they're a wonderful team.

00:18:57.840 And they've provided us so much happiness for so long. 0.66

00:19:01.720 I don't think they're gay.

00:19:03.440 And here's my premise for this.

00:19:05.180 Okay.

00:19:05.360 The guy who created them said they're not gay.

00:19:11.020 Is that all the evidence you have?

00:19:12.600 No.

00:19:13.140 I'm going to go deeper.

00:19:14.120 Okay.

00:19:14.860 They're made of felt.

00:19:16.480 Okay. 0.95

00:19:18.020 Most gay people are not made of felt. 1.00

00:19:20.300 Now, I don't want to overgeneralize. 0.90

00:19:21.560 They're made of gold gourmet, usually, or beads.

00:19:23.140 Right.

00:19:23.780 Something shiny, right?

00:19:25.400 Felt isn't shiny at all.

00:19:26.840 That's true. 0.86

00:19:27.740 Puppets don't usually have any genitals. 0.96

00:19:31.540 So it's difficult for them to engage in any sexual activity.

00:19:34.920 You know, I don't know.

00:19:35.360 I've never taken clothing off of a puppet.

00:19:37.020 Are you some kind of Brett Kavanaugh over here that you're checking out puppets?

00:19:39.660 There was an incident at a party.

00:19:41.400 75 years ago.

00:19:42.440 I don't want to go too deep into it.

00:19:42.900 During the Lincoln administration.

00:19:44.100 Yeah.

00:19:44.480 Miss Piggy was involved. 0.99

00:19:46.140 It was not pretty.

00:19:47.800 But, yeah, that's an interesting thing is that we have to come up now with sexuality for puppets.

00:19:53.560 You know, the guy, it was actually kind of sad.

00:19:55.700 The guy who kind of brought this to everybody's attention.

00:19:59.180 He said that he was a writer, I guess, for many years for Bert and Ernie, which I thought they came up with all their own material.

00:20:03.960 And I'm a little frustrated about that.

00:20:04.920 I know.

00:20:05.340 It's awful.

00:20:05.640 They have a whole staff.

00:20:06.180 Yeah, exactly.

00:20:06.740 This guy was Mark Saltzman, I think.

00:20:08.520 Mark Saltzman. 0.93

00:20:09.240 And he said he always considered them gay, and he wrote them as if they were gay. 0.92

00:20:15.120 And he modeled them after his own relationship, and he's gay.

00:20:19.780 But I thought that was really sad because Bert and Ernie sleep in separate beds.

00:20:23.260 Is this guy, what's happening at the house?

00:20:26.520 I'm into it.

00:20:27.200 I think he's got the right idea.

00:20:28.820 I want to stretch out.

00:20:30.000 I don't need somebody rolling over onto me.

00:20:32.220 Separate beds is fine.

00:20:33.360 Separate California kings, I'm into it.

00:20:35.240 Yes.

00:20:35.580 Well, that's the problem.

00:20:36.200 I think they had twins.

00:20:37.500 And you're an adult.

00:20:38.820 You know, I know you're on a kid's show.

00:20:41.740 I believe Bert and Ernie were full grown.

00:20:43.820 I don't believe they were ever getting any taller.

00:20:46.060 So, you know, I think the twin bed thing was a little rough.

00:20:49.640 It's just like we can't, you know, Glenn's book, he's out here to promote his book in

00:20:54.060 Attitude to Outreach.

00:20:54.880 And it's like this is the typical thing, the typical nonsense we have to get excited about

00:20:59.060 every day.

00:20:59.660 And it's, you know, on that point, because I got the book yesterday, really enjoying it

00:21:04.460 so far.

00:21:04.860 This is, people might have seen Glenn Beck was out, we were smoking cigars, he was puffing

00:21:08.940 out of a bong yesterday.

00:21:10.780 And, but there is this constant need to politicize everything, to be outraged at everything.

00:21:15.820 And when it comes to Bert and Ernie being gay, of course, the reasonable person would just 0.99

00:21:20.140 say, are you kidding me?

00:21:21.860 But there is a question, too, culturally, why does every friendship have to be gay now? 0.73

00:21:28.940 Like, you know, when guys are buddies, they're like, oh, man, that was really fun last night. 0.92

00:21:32.340 No homo. 1.00

00:21:33.100 You'd say, no, right, or no, we're not gay. 0.78

00:21:35.380 You just, you actually, I mean, I get, it can be funny or whatever.

00:21:38.100 It is weird that Bert and Ernie lived together for so long.

00:21:40.200 Yeah.

00:21:40.420 But what happened to friendship?

00:21:42.820 Like, can't people just be, guys be platonic friends and not everything be very sexual?

00:21:47.640 I go out of the limits and say, yes, I think they can be platonic friends.

00:21:50.200 I feel like I have several.

00:21:51.500 Now, they may make a move on me at any time.

00:21:53.260 That's true.

00:21:53.660 You might make a move on them.

00:21:54.580 I don't know.

00:21:55.000 Who knows?

00:21:55.520 Maybe we're sending each other.

00:21:56.320 Two drinks and a wink away from making any kind of decision.

00:21:57.860 You never know.

00:21:58.400 So, and it's like, I don't know, like, I can understand, like, there's part of me that understands this, right?

00:22:03.020 Like, if you've been around for a long time and you're gay and you feel like you haven't been accepted, you're looking maybe for cultural things that you can kind of attach yourself to.

00:22:12.160 But you don't get to force the creative abilities of the people who created these things.

00:22:18.540 I mean, you know, Frank Oz, he came up with us.

00:22:21.580 And he has an opinion about who these people are.

00:22:24.680 They're good friends.

00:22:25.940 You know, it was at a time in which we didn't try to force sexuality into kids' shows.

00:22:30.480 Children's programming wasn't the target for gay or straight sexuality.

00:22:35.420 That wasn't a great place for it.

00:22:37.000 And I feel like, in reality, everybody knows this, right?

00:22:40.120 But, like, we have to wake up every day.

00:22:42.700 And to find our reason to get through the day, to give ourselves a little bit of energy, a little bit of juice, to make our lives have a little meaning, we've got to get something to get pissed off about.

00:22:51.100 And, you know, that's nonsense.

00:22:52.520 It doesn't make me happy.

00:22:53.760 I don't know anybody it does make happy in the long run.

00:22:57.340 And I would rather go back to a time in which, you know, I have kids.

00:23:00.600 I have two small kids, five and seven.

00:23:02.660 And they're in, even though they, I don't think they watch, I don't think I've ever seen them watch Sesame Street.

00:23:06.620 They watch the Michael Knoll show, but they don't watch it.

00:23:08.240 Yeah, we just put Knolls on repeat all day.

00:23:11.140 But, and they learn a lot.

00:23:12.820 They learn a lot.

00:23:13.520 They're getting, they're saying interesting words.

00:23:15.240 Where'd you learn that?

00:23:16.200 No, I've got to destroy the television, I think.

00:23:18.580 But, you know, it's, I'd rather have them.

00:23:21.480 That's something you want to teach your kids.

00:23:22.820 You want to walk through that journey with them.

00:23:24.540 You don't need that taught to them by Sesame Street.

00:23:27.680 All, you know, if they're going to be taught by a puppet, I'd rather have control of what the puppet says, you know?

00:23:33.520 That's right.

00:23:34.080 And there is this part of outrage culture, which is, why are we always outraged over these sex things?

00:23:39.940 The Stormy Daniels, whatever.

00:23:42.000 I think in part, it's not because we've suddenly discovered sex.

00:23:45.720 You know, people have known about sex for a long time.

00:23:47.420 It's just that it's such a basic and fundamental passion that we just focus on it to the exclusion of other things because we're not capable of thinking of other things.

00:23:56.660 All people want to talk about in politics is gay marriage, gay sex, abortion, Roe versus Wade, this, that. 0.98

00:24:03.220 And it's all Donald Trump's flings with porn stories. 1.00

00:24:07.100 It's all sex, sex, sex all the time. 0.97

00:24:10.000 I think it might have to do with people not reading books or not having other interests or not maintaining other sorts of relationships.

00:24:17.540 Right.

00:24:17.980 I mean, like, it's hard to get people's attention, right?

00:24:20.560 You go into this, books are long.

00:24:23.020 They're hard.

00:24:23.580 They've got words.

00:24:24.380 They're all over the place.

00:24:25.180 There's almost no pictures in many of them.

00:24:26.780 Oh, no.

00:24:27.200 It's not, yeah, it's terrible.

00:24:28.060 Don't tell me that Glenn's book doesn't have any pictures.

00:24:29.760 Oh, you don't want to see the pictures in Glenn's book.

00:24:31.220 You never want to see pictures of Glenn.

00:24:33.000 That's a rule I always live by.

00:24:34.700 But, yeah, it's true.

00:24:35.640 It actually takes time.

00:24:36.700 And I think this happens so much in politics, right?

00:24:38.540 Like, where, you know, you can go through, how, I mean, how many times did you go, we went deep into, you know, under the Obamacare bill.

00:24:45.820 You're going deep into all these, like, really in-depth, you know, pieces of legislation that they're passing.

00:24:52.000 And you get about halfway through some of these sentences and you feel like you look up and, like, just everyone's, like, dazed.

00:24:57.180 They're on their phones.

00:24:58.300 They've gone to, you know, they're playing, you know, Candy Crush, whatever they're doing.

00:25:02.340 And sex can easily redirect that conversation. 0.93

00:25:05.560 I mean, you know, the Kavanaugh thing, like, they tried.

00:25:08.580 They tried going down the road of, well, he's, you know, what did they try?

00:25:11.960 They tried abortion.

00:25:12.660 He's too partisan.

00:25:12.860 They tried birth control.

00:25:14.120 He'll overturn the right.

00:25:15.160 Right.

00:25:15.340 Like, they went through all, no one was trying, and they weren't saying, hey, this guy doesn't know the Constitution.

00:25:20.840 They weren't saying, hey, this guy's not qualified.

00:25:22.800 They were like, hey, you know, 36 years ago, this guy may have done something at a party, which we don't know when it was or where it was or, you know, who was there.

00:25:31.700 And she doesn't really remember it.

00:25:33.500 Yeah, she doesn't really remember it.

00:25:34.700 I don't know.

00:25:35.060 Get rid of him.

00:25:36.020 Because that was the only thing that could get anyone's attention.

00:25:38.460 If you're talking about the things a Supreme Court justice should actually be judged on, you get no audience.

00:25:44.040 And it's frustrating, you know.

00:25:45.380 I mean, this happens way too much, and it happens on both sides at some level.

00:25:49.700 But the media in particular, like, they will take every Donald Trump tweet and try to make the biggest thing in the world out of it.

00:25:55.860 And it's like, you know, what is he doing?

00:25:57.700 Like, they'll make this big thing about how he's so easy on Russia, right?

00:26:00.880 Right.

00:26:01.020 You know, ignore his tweets.

00:26:02.960 Ignore what he says.

00:26:03.920 Ignore the actions of his administration.

00:26:05.500 Look at his actions.

00:26:06.380 He's been tough on Russia.

00:26:08.140 Sanctions all over the place.

00:26:09.400 Much tougher than Barack Obama.

00:26:10.400 Much tougher than Barack Obama.

00:26:11.860 And, you know, there's no recognition of that in the media, or at least it's very rare.

00:26:16.380 And I think it's because, well, a tweet is like the ultimate journalist lazy tool, right?

00:26:21.920 Like, think about, like, journalism 20 years ago.

00:26:24.100 You'd have to go to a place, and you'd have to find people who were there, and you'd have to ask them questions.

00:26:27.760 And they'd blather on about nothing for a while.

00:26:29.520 And then at the very end, they may say something that you have to pull out for TV.

00:26:32.820 Now, go to Twitter.

00:26:34.160 Search key terms.

00:26:35.400 Find someone who says they were there.

00:26:36.680 Put it on the screen.

00:26:37.360 Your quote's done.

00:26:38.000 You didn't even have to walk out of the room.

00:26:39.140 Yep, that's right.

00:26:39.600 And I feel like that's, now we're to the point where even when something of the presidency of the United States or any cultural issue, they'll just go on, and they'll find a few tweets to support their case.

00:26:47.020 And that's it.

00:26:48.060 It's honestly just lazy, but it reinforces, you know, that addiction that we were talking about.

00:26:53.240 People are just bouncing back and forth looking for that.

00:26:55.360 Because outrage is lazy. 0.86

00:26:56.760 Anybody can do it.

00:26:57.720 Anybody can pretend to do it.

00:26:59.300 How dare you?

00:26:59.900 How dare you?

00:27:00.920 Sorry, I'm offending all of the outraged Americans.

00:27:03.520 And there, I've noticed this on Twitter.

00:27:05.980 I can, I'm perfectly happy going hard, fighting for your team, fighting for your guys, not letting them railroad Kavanaugh, you know, being a pugilist, punching back twice as hard.

00:27:17.500 I'm all into that.

00:27:18.940 But one should have some perspective, right?

00:27:21.580 I always find on Twitter, if I'm genuinely getting angry, you have to get off Twitter.

00:27:25.040 Yeah.

00:27:25.260 You have to shut it down.

00:27:26.300 Nothing good will come of that.

00:27:27.940 But that seems like it's the whole media cycle now.

00:27:29.880 It's all of the, certainly on the left, it's true on the right as well.

00:27:35.520 And so, if our, now, if our news cycle has become outrage and tweets and memes, I want to focus on those last two parts, the tweets and the memes and the internet of it all.

00:27:46.380 In the European Union right now, they are debating the important issues.

00:27:50.620 Not Russia encroaching on their borders.

00:27:53.060 Not the Islamic invasion or the 65 terrorist attacks in the last four years.

00:27:57.680 None of that.

00:27:58.220 No, that's not true.

00:27:58.600 No, no.

00:27:58.920 No.

00:27:59.880 They're going to ban memes.

00:28:01.760 They're going to ban internet memes.

00:28:03.180 This is a real thing.

00:28:04.220 They're debating Article 13 to censor internet memes.

00:28:09.560 What is this about?

00:28:11.120 Well, I mean, they say it's about copyright, right?

00:28:13.860 And because, you know, if you have a meme of The Office, well, then The Office really owns that still shot that you're posting and putting print on.

00:28:21.820 I mean, but that seems to be just a scam, right?

00:28:23.980 Like, you know, first of all, I think we've learned over the years that trying to censor content on the internet does not go well.

00:28:31.240 You know, you lose control of your industry quite quickly when you do that.

00:28:34.500 But this seems to have more of a political motive, right?

00:28:39.960 Like, you know, they've seen the effectiveness of this stuff.

00:28:42.400 It does move people.

00:28:44.500 And in a way, I think going back to the previous conversation, it's sad, right?

00:28:47.680 Like, you shouldn't be moved politically by a meme.

00:28:51.140 But I think...

00:28:51.600 I don't know, but have you seen, like, really, really, really good memes?

00:28:54.120 Well, when they're really, really good, yeah, then I'm in. 0.67

00:28:57.020 But it's kind of ridiculous, right?

00:28:58.900 You should be moved by a book. 0.87

00:28:59.980 You should be moved by a Supreme Court argument.

00:29:01.420 You should not be moved by a picture from Parks and Rec with a funny quote.

00:29:04.520 What about the one of the guy with the girl, and he's looking at the one girl, but he's holding the hand of the...

00:29:08.760 I mean, I don't know.

00:29:09.200 That's very convincing.

00:29:10.000 That's an exception.

00:29:11.040 You bring up the one exception.

00:29:12.420 Yes, that is...

00:29:13.340 Hard cases make bad law.

00:29:14.740 I feel like our new constitution should just be that picture.

00:29:17.080 And we should just put, like, freedom on one side and communism on the other.

00:29:20.660 And that's just the whole thing.

00:29:21.500 Maybe if someone would read it, then it would be interesting.

00:29:23.640 But, yeah, I think that, like, they've seen the success of this and how they can get people to, you know, move really quickly.

00:29:31.820 A lot of times, too, ideas that weren't really considered, you know, kind of in the Overton window of politics before.

00:29:39.020 And that scares an organization like the EU, which I would argue should ban itself and just go away.

00:29:46.720 Right, of course.

00:29:47.360 Right, you know, like, that would be my idea.

00:29:49.300 But it's like they want to make sure that they have that control.

00:29:52.080 These things that come up, they're going to try to push them down however they can.

00:29:56.220 You know, that the closer they are to control over these arguments, the better and more secure they feel.

00:30:00.760 And I think it's connected to the outrage.

00:30:03.440 I think the two are because where the memes come from.

00:30:06.100 The reason I really defend the memes, I don't know, especially the one with the guy and the girl.

00:30:09.840 Yeah, well, that one, of course.

00:30:10.460 Especially that one.

00:30:11.660 Is because they're funny.

00:30:12.940 And they take on political issues with humor.

00:30:15.560 They might be shallow.

00:30:16.600 They might be partial.

00:30:18.700 But they are funny.

00:30:20.200 And the reason that they're allowed to be funny, the reason that the right is able to take a hold of humor,

00:30:25.160 is because the left is so angry and shrieking and pink hat.

00:30:30.700 No!

00:30:31.580 You know, because they're doing that right now.

00:30:33.300 Because they are living in such a fantasy.

00:30:36.920 We're allowed to make fun of them.

00:30:38.520 And it works.

00:30:39.460 It's really funny.

00:30:40.160 And so I see this move by the EU, which is the archetypal, tyrannical, you know, like octopus body as representative of the left,

00:30:51.740 which is trying to censor all of that.

00:30:53.360 Censor that humor. 0.87

00:30:54.220 Shut it down.

00:30:55.120 Shut down Twitter accounts.

00:30:56.480 Shut down conservative speakers on campuses.

00:30:59.440 I don't think that works for them in the long run.

00:31:01.580 I don't think that censorship is a winning platform.

00:31:04.380 It never is.

00:31:05.340 I mean, you know, look at Mubarak.

00:31:07.100 You know, he shuts down the entire internet.

00:31:10.060 And, you know, he's now no longer there, right?

00:31:13.080 I mean, it's a polite way to put it.

00:31:14.500 Yeah, it's one way.

00:31:15.740 But it's true.

00:31:16.460 I mean, I think, like, trying to shut people away from ideas draws them to them.

00:31:20.880 You know, I think it's more, in the long run, it gets you to a better place if people are debating these things in a way that creates more depth.

00:31:32.340 But you have to get people in the door.

00:31:33.800 You know, like, we did this going back, you know, I'm on the Glenn Beck program as well.

00:31:38.380 And it's like, you know, this is kind of the philosophy of the show from its very beginning, which was the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

00:31:43.580 It's like, you go in there and, like, you're going to grab the people at some level with being silly and having fun with these things.

00:31:49.840 But, like, I would imagine a lot of people came to real political positions and understanding of our foundational principles that started with memes.

00:32:00.100 You know, if you're 15 years old, you're not going to go freaking read the Constitution, you're not going to care what Ben Franklin was yapping about.

00:32:05.260 But if you get a meme, it's funny, and then it kind of brings you to, you know, a story, and then it brings you to, you know, something where they link into something with a little bit more depth.

00:32:13.900 Pretty soon you're reading Edmund Burke.

00:32:15.160 Exactly.

00:32:15.660 You're right there.

00:32:16.420 So, I mean, I do think that that's a process that actually happens now.

00:32:19.760 I have this tendency to, when these new things, you know, like when Twitter starts, it's like, to me, it's just like, wait, what?

00:32:25.140 You want to do 140 characters?

00:32:26.640 This seems ridiculous. 0.98

00:32:27.560 I liked, this is silly. 0.86

00:32:29.560 I mean, at the beginning when blogging started, like, that was, it was something that you kind of would, like, mock.

00:32:34.080 And, like, it's the same thing with talk radio. 0.99

00:32:35.960 I mean, the mainstream media looked at that and said, that's stupid. 0.99

00:32:38.660 But over time, these things turn into something real. 0.99

00:32:41.280 It really moves people.

00:32:42.680 It can really engage people.

00:32:44.860 And then that's positive as long as you take that extra step afterwards where you actually learn what the foundation is.

00:32:50.620 And, you know, hanging out with you guys the last few days, obviously we've known each other longer than this week.

00:32:55.400 But it's been so fun.

00:32:56.840 I mean, it's really fun going on the show.

00:32:58.840 I always forget how funny Glenn is, too, because I think of Glenn as this kind of serious guy.

00:33:03.340 He's, like, really, really funny.

00:33:04.580 Yeah.

00:33:04.700 So, because you're everywhere.

00:33:07.420 You're on the News and White Matters.

00:33:08.540 You're on the Glenn Beck program.

00:33:09.700 Where can people find you?

00:33:10.980 All over the Blaze.

00:33:12.060 What is the easiest way?

00:33:13.600 Yeah.

00:33:13.740 Tell people, go here now.

00:33:15.120 Well, I would definitely, on Twitter, since we're there, at World of Stew would be a great place to go follow.

00:33:19.980 You know, obviously Facebook and everything else.

00:33:21.740 But the Blaze, yeah, News and White Matters, Glenn Beck program every day.

00:33:25.360 And Wonderful World of Stew is another show.

00:33:27.480 There's a lot of stuff out there that I think you'd like on that as well.

00:33:29.400 So, check it out.

00:33:29.940 All right.

00:33:30.420 Stu, thanks for being here, man.

00:33:31.460 I appreciate it.

00:33:32.040 It was awesome.

00:33:32.440 Thanks.

00:33:32.600 Good to see you.

00:33:32.980 Thanks a lot.

00:33:33.800 That guy is so smart.

00:33:35.300 He really tells me how to understand all these really confusing news cycles.

00:33:40.740 So, right now, we've got a lot more to talk about.

00:33:44.700 I've got to talk about Cory Booker.

00:33:46.220 I've got to talk about the absurd mainstream media profile of him now and why he's not going to win the presidency.

00:33:52.500 I'm sorry.

00:33:53.600 He might be a nice guy, but he's not going to win.

00:33:56.680 We'll explain that.

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00:34:14.980 You'll get me, the Andrew Clayton Show, the Ben Shapiro Show, the questions of the mailbag, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:34:19.540 This is what you need.

00:34:20.940 This is what you need.

00:34:21.840 The leftist tears tumbler.

00:34:24.600 Because once we get Kavanaugh through, so long as those squishy little Republicans don't go soft on me, once we get Kavanaugh through, this is, mmm, this is, I can already smell the brew.

00:34:34.420 It's young.

00:34:34.760 It's not ripe yet.

00:34:35.600 You know, it's not quite ready, but it tastes like overturning Roe v. Wade.

00:34:41.160 It tastes like defending our Constitution and the original meaning of that document, which protects our freedom.

00:34:49.140 It tastes so good.

00:34:52.380 Go to dailywire.com.

00:34:53.760 We'll be right back with so much more.

00:34:55.540 When I wake up in the morning, you know, we're usually about 12.15 to 12.30, you know, supposed to be at the Daily Wire probably 10 minutes earlier.

00:35:14.980 When I wake up, one of the first things I like to do is read a Lefty Puff piece.

00:35:19.160 I find there, they, because then I start laughing in the day.

00:35:23.020 I start, I start my day with some joy.

00:35:25.140 I know Mark Wahlberg likes to start his day working out and praying.

00:35:27.640 That's one way to do it.

00:35:28.700 I like to read Lefty Puff pieces on New York Magazine, The Daily Beast, Fox.com.

00:35:32.980 So there's a new one out today on Cory Booker.

00:35:35.280 And this made me realize that Cory Booker will never, ever be the President of the United States.

00:35:41.540 Here's the piece.

00:35:42.560 There are a couple points I want you to notice here.

00:35:44.120 I want you to notice, one, the difference between how the left, how the left-wing media, which is to say the mainstream media,

00:35:49.760 how the media treat Democrat politicians and how they treat Donald Trump and Republicans.

00:35:55.040 The title is, Can I Get a Hug?

00:35:57.380 Cory Booker's got a lot to give, a lot of love to give, and he's betting that's what it will take to win in 2020.

00:36:04.420 Donald Trump had a lot of love to give, too, according to Stormy Daniels.

00:36:07.340 You don't see those fluffy titles for him, though, do you?

00:36:09.560 So I want you to notice that.

00:36:10.980 I want you to notice the treatment.

00:36:12.060 And then I also want you to notice what a horrible candidate Cory Booker is.

00:36:15.540 So here's just the first paragraph of the piece.

00:36:20.440 Anyone who thinks it's nothing but teeth-grinding, paranoia, and rank misery in Washington these days

00:36:25.960 hasn't been to the office of New Jersey Senator Cory Booker.

00:36:29.720 These people are happy.

00:36:31.160 Indeed, his staff are some of the cheeriest, nicest people you could ever hope to meet.

00:36:36.080 When I arrive on a hot, swampy morning just before Labor Day weekend, I'm greeted with hugs and candy.

00:36:41.720 An exuberant woman in a dashiki sits at reception.

00:36:45.280 What's a dashiki?

00:36:46.460 We'll get to that later.

00:36:47.800 Kristen Lynch, the communications director, greets me.

00:36:51.120 Okay.

00:36:51.960 Hugs me.

00:36:52.900 And takes me to Booker's office, where we say hello to his chief of staff, Matt Clapper, who also hugs me.

00:36:58.180 Booker has not hugged me yet, but give him time.

00:37:00.700 A young staffer comes in and hands Booker a brown paper bag and tells him she managed to score the last three in the cafeteria.

00:37:08.860 From the look of joy on his face, I imagine a bag of cheeseburgers.

00:37:12.600 But alas, it's just celery and carrot sticks in plastic deli containers.

00:37:18.240 Booker is a vegan.

00:37:19.220 He opens one up and munches on a carrot.

00:37:24.220 Munches on a carrot.

00:37:25.360 I am going to hold my tongue.

00:37:27.020 Hold my tongue, Michael.

00:37:28.120 That's what I'm going to do.

00:37:29.560 So where to begin?

00:37:32.340 Where to begin on the hugs and the love and the dashikis?

00:37:37.220 So they're painting this picture of him as this wonderful guy because there is a portion of the Democrats who want him to be the nominee,

00:37:44.960 especially in New York and New Jersey where Cory Booker is from, and they're angling for Cory Booker to be the nominee.

00:37:50.940 You remember six years ago, he was defending Mitt Romney, and he was the moderate normal guy.

00:37:55.440 Cory Booker is a very intelligent man, by the way.

00:37:58.580 And so what Cory did then was he was trying to be the moderate guy, and then he realized that that wasn't the ticket because his party has completely gone off the rails.

00:38:05.880 So now he's the crying guy with tears of rage, and, oh, I love you, and, oh, right, and he thinks that's going to help him.

00:38:12.760 It's not going to help him.

00:38:14.700 Moreover, though, I want you to realize how totally isolated the left-wing media has become, the elitist left-wing Democrat base has become,

00:38:28.120 because they actually think, the New York Magazine, they genuinely think that eating celery and carrot sticks is likable.

00:38:36.460 I think Cory Booker thinks that, that being a vegan makes you likable.

00:38:39.320 You're such a good person.

00:38:40.720 Because now in many ways, in a left-wing that has become post-Christian, that has become materialist in a certain way,

00:38:48.620 they've adopted other religious values like veganism or yoga, to borrow Matt Walsh's observation, or this or that.

00:38:57.140 Now, you've got to serve somebody.

00:38:58.980 So even if you're pretending to not worship God or not be a Christian or whatever, you're going to worship somebody.

00:39:04.720 You're going to worship humanity.

00:39:06.180 You're going to worship animals.

00:39:08.040 You're going to worship the environment.

00:39:09.440 You're going to worship somebody, and that's what they think is going to play.

00:39:12.200 This does not play.

00:39:14.180 Look at who we just elected.

00:39:15.440 We elected Donald Trump.

00:39:16.840 We elected a guy who takes photos in private jets, thumbs up while he's chowing down on KFC and slurping Diet Coke.

00:39:24.540 This is not going to play, but to them it does.

00:39:26.860 Because they don't know anybody who eats KFC.

00:39:29.580 They don't know anybody who does this.

00:39:31.940 I mean, the effete holes that these people come from, I've seen it.

00:39:37.460 I mean, I've lived in coastal places.

00:39:39.220 I've gone to elite institutions, and they really believe this.

00:39:42.760 They say, oh, you know, I just had my celery sticks.

00:39:45.720 Oh, I just love hummus.

00:39:49.220 I like hummus as much as the next guy, but oh, yes.

00:39:51.540 They would never consider eating like a pudding cup.

00:39:54.720 You know, they would never.

00:39:56.060 That does not play at all.

00:39:59.000 And they're making another big mistake, not just on the style that they're choosing, but thinking that the election is going to be about style and not policy.

00:40:06.540 This is from later in the article.

00:40:07.640 So, Robbie Mook, who was a Clinton aide, direct quote.

00:40:12.680 Robbie Mook, who managed Clinton's 2016 campaign, cautions against reading the upcoming campaign as a battle over policy issues.

00:40:20.120 So, what he thinks, what the left believes is that this is really going to be just about style.

00:40:25.880 That's why Cory Booker is pretending to cry and fight tears of rage and hold these weepy little press conferences.

00:40:33.240 One, he thinks that style is going to work because his party is very feminized and all the men are these little soy boys. 0.99

00:40:38.560 It doesn't work.

00:40:39.580 Nobody wants a man to behave like a woman. 1.00

00:40:41.800 They might say that they do.

00:40:42.860 They might pretend that they do.

00:40:43.800 They don't.

00:40:44.300 It doesn't look good.

00:40:45.000 We just elected Donald Trump, who is slightly more knuckle-dragging than Attila the Hun in his public statements.

00:40:51.440 And people like that.

00:40:52.520 They actually want that.

00:40:53.820 There might be other ways to do it, but they want a man to show strength.

00:40:57.980 And weeping and crying at press conferences with Liz Warren ain't going to do that.

00:41:01.980 But to Robbie Mook's point, to the Democrats' point that this is going to be about style and not policy, I think he's misreading the country.

00:41:08.780 I think they're totally misreading the country because they've drawn the wrong conclusions from Trump's election.

00:41:12.540 I hear this all the time from my lefty friends, New York friends.

00:41:16.400 They say Donald Trump was elected because of his worst stylistic instincts, because of his worst statements, because he's bad, bad, bad.

00:41:27.960 That is not true.

00:41:31.220 They might conclude that, but that's not true from the Trump voters I know, from the Trump voters that I talk to.

00:41:35.540 And Ann Coulter wrote a great book about this.

00:41:37.820 We're going to be talking with Ann Coulter soon.

00:41:39.120 Donald Trump was elected for policy purposes.

00:41:44.000 He was.

00:41:44.660 He was.

00:41:45.260 He was elected for the judges.

00:41:47.480 He was elected for immigration.

00:41:49.180 He was elected for tax cuts.

00:41:50.300 Here's a little bit of evidence for this, by the way.

00:41:52.800 Donald Trump, people say he has no ideological warings.

00:41:56.060 He has no beliefs.

00:41:57.840 He has no policy preferences.

00:41:59.400 I don't think that's true.

00:42:00.440 Donald Trump presented a legitimately unique policy platform in 2016.

00:42:06.420 He was talking about some of the dangers of free trade.

00:42:10.060 No Republican was doing that.

00:42:11.500 He was talking about immigration in a very blunt way, because it's very fashionable for Republicans to say,

00:42:16.720 oh, we really have to do something about immigration, and then give everybody amnesty and keep the floods coming in.

00:42:21.620 And Trump said, no, we're not going to do that.

00:42:23.040 We're not going to give anybody amnesty, and we're going to deport illegal aliens. 0.99

00:42:26.360 That was different.

00:42:27.500 People were not saying that before Trump.

00:42:29.120 He was offering a different policy platform, and he was elected for that platform.

00:42:34.820 Everybody that I talk to, I talk to a lot of people.

00:42:36.960 I travel around the country.

00:42:38.400 They say, oh, that Trump, he's really got to lay off those tweets, but I like what he's doing.

00:42:43.000 That's what it's about, and it's going to be about that.

00:42:45.260 The Democrats, they've whipped themselves up into the fantasy of what this election has become,

00:42:50.200 what the 2016 election has become in their meta-narrative, in their historical fiction.

00:42:55.780 And it's not going to serve them well.

00:42:58.320 This is about policy, and it's going to be about an honest debate.

00:43:01.860 And, you know, one of the great characteristics of Donald Trump is people view him as a blunt talker,

00:43:08.460 that he doesn't BS.

00:43:12.100 He tells you what he's thinking, and he's kept his promises.

00:43:15.160 He's one of the few politicians we've seen who's actually managed to keep his promises in office.

00:43:19.160 That's why we're all so shocked at him.

00:43:20.980 I think that's what it's going to be about.

00:43:23.020 Before we, oh, I've got to go.

00:43:24.400 Oh, this is really rough, because there's so much more to talk about.

00:43:26.920 I've got to talk about James O'Keefe and the Deep State.

00:43:28.980 I've got to talk about the novel solution to Venezuelan economic crises and starvation.

00:43:35.360 But we've got to just skip ahead to the meaning of life.

00:43:38.700 I promised you that we'd talk about the meaning of life.

00:43:40.920 At the Emmys, which you didn't watch, I know for a fact you didn't watch them,

00:43:45.120 some lady who I don't know was wearing a Nike-designed outfit on the red carpet, 1.00

00:43:51.340 because she was going to tell her message.

00:43:52.480 And she sums up a lot of what the left and maybe even parts of the center are thinking

00:43:58.580 right now in America.

00:43:59.720 And I want to show the conclusions of her thoughts and the errors of her thoughts.

00:44:03.720 Here she is.

00:44:04.120 Look at you, Sporty Spike.

00:44:06.800 Thank you, babe.

00:44:07.640 Why are you wearing Nike?

00:44:08.760 I am wearing Nike to applaud them for supporting Colin Kaepernick

00:44:14.040 and his protest against racial injustice and police brutality.

00:44:19.580 Is this custom Nike?

00:44:21.420 Absolutely.

00:44:22.340 Absolutely, honey.

00:44:23.220 I have some drag queens come over and put some beads on it. 1.00

00:44:26.000 Some sparkle.

00:44:27.080 You know how they roll.

00:44:28.400 They roll good.

00:44:29.540 Yes, Kate Marsden, DJ Pierce, Shangela.

00:44:33.420 Yes.

00:44:34.500 So when did you decide to do this?

00:44:36.900 You know, I was actually swimming the other day.

00:44:40.360 And I was like, what can I do?

00:44:43.840 What can I do that's meaningful?

00:44:47.200 I'll wear Nike.

00:44:48.640 I'll wear Nike.

00:44:49.880 That is the left.

00:44:53.140 They're in their swimming pool.

00:44:55.400 They're like sipping on their chi-chi or something.

00:44:57.720 And they say, what can I do?

00:44:59.340 What can I do that's meaningful?

00:45:01.680 I'll wear Nike.

00:45:03.180 That's what they're thinking.

00:45:04.280 They've got existential dread.

00:45:06.020 They feel meaninglessness in their lives because the worldview that they have adopted

00:45:10.760 and adopted militantly deprives their lives of meaning.

00:45:14.880 And they say, what can I do?

00:45:15.980 What can I do?

00:45:16.520 I'll wear Nike. 0.68

00:45:17.280 They end up with these absurd, ridiculous ways to try to give some meaning to their lives.

00:45:23.700 Also, regardless of their absurd politics, this does remind me why I like some showbiz

00:45:29.140 people.

00:45:29.880 It's just they're so wacky.

00:45:31.500 They're just like, and then the drag queens came over and they put beads on my, yeah. 1.00

00:45:36.100 You know, there's just this kind of innocent, sweet thing.

00:45:40.000 I don't know.

00:45:40.740 She doesn't seem like a political philosopher exactly.

00:45:43.100 So perhaps she can be forgiven some of her political ignorance.

00:45:47.280 But that really highlights everything.

00:45:50.040 You know, the hosts at the Emmys, the SNL guys, one of the jokes was, they said, you

00:45:56.240 know, white people never thank Jesus.

00:45:59.480 They never thank God in their acceptance speeches. 0.99

00:46:02.160 The only white people who thank God in their acceptance speeches are Republicans and ex-crackheads. 0.99

00:46:07.520 And this got a ton of outrage. 0.88

00:46:10.400 Everyone was so upset.

00:46:12.160 Show me the lie.

00:46:13.660 Show me the lie.

00:46:15.060 Show me the white person who thanks God in his acceptance speech who isn't a Republican 0.97

00:46:19.000 or an ex-crackhead. 0.86

00:46:20.520 I can't find one.

00:46:22.000 I don't know.

00:46:22.700 Where is he?

00:46:24.280 This gets to a real point about the modern left, which is that they have deprived themselves

00:46:28.840 of meaning.

00:46:29.960 They boo God at their national convention.

00:46:32.660 They remove God from their platform.

00:46:34.160 They try to remove God from their platform.

00:46:36.420 They don't have meaning on top of their lives. 0.99

00:46:39.880 So they have to find it in ridiculous places. 0.85

00:46:42.700 They're looking for love in all the wrong places. 0.96

00:46:45.240 That's the problem.

00:46:46.440 If you want the cure to outrage, first of all, take a look at the man in the mirror.

00:46:50.540 Because you might be complaining about everyone else on Twitter being outraged.

00:46:53.700 But take a look at the man in the mirror, especially if you're on the left these days.

00:46:57.580 But also then look up.

00:46:58.960 You know, look up.

00:47:00.220 The people who I know, we were at that backstage yesterday with Glenn and Ben and Drew and Jeremy

00:47:05.880 and everybody.

00:47:06.800 And we were all kind of laughing about politics and having a good time.

00:47:10.220 And it occurred to me, all of us believe in God.

00:47:12.260 All of us have, I think every one of us has different religious views.

00:47:16.320 But we all have a religious grounding in God, in a theistic vision.

00:47:21.820 Look at that. 0.86

00:47:22.920 Look at, if you make an idol out of politics, you're going to be really, really miserable. 1.00

00:47:26.640 And you're going to make yourself look ridiculous. 0.99

00:47:28.500 And you're going to wear a Nike shirt to the Emmy Awards. 0.98

00:47:31.800 And that's not going to age very well.

00:47:33.660 Don't do that.

00:47:34.480 That shouldn't be your God.

00:47:36.300 There is something more.

00:47:38.060 And if you look up, you're going to have a better time in politics.

00:47:40.980 And you're going to make yourself look less absurd.

00:47:43.000 Okay, that's the show.

00:47:43.900 I know we're running late.

00:47:44.720 Too bad.

00:47:45.160 I don't care.

00:47:45.980 We've got a lot more Get Your Malbec questions in.

00:47:47.600 We're going to do that tomorrow.

00:47:48.860 We've got some great interviews coming up.

00:47:51.440 People that I'm talking to.

00:47:53.520 I don't know.

00:47:54.000 Maybe Ken Starr.

00:47:54.860 I don't know.

00:47:56.120 Maybe a lot of people coming up.

00:47:57.860 So tune back in.

00:47:59.120 In the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles.

00:48:00.140 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:48:00.940 I'll see you tomorrow.

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The Michael Knowles Show - September 19, 2018

Ep. 219 - Below The Belt

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