Ep. 224 - The Gang-Raping Of Brett Kavanaugh
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On today's episode of The Michael Knowles Show, Michael talks about Christine Blasey Ford's testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee and Glenn Beck's appearance on the Glenn Beck Show. He also talks about the Democrats and the media's attempt to gang rape Brett Kavanaugh.
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Democrats and the media gang rape Brett Kavanaugh, President Trump gives a wonderful and hilarious press conference,
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then Glenn Beck stops by, and finally, the mailbag. I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Oh, what a day. What a day. First of all, welcome to my boudoir. I know that I often bring you into my boudoir on different ads.
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I'm here, obviously, in Pittsburgh. I'm giving a speech tonight at Franciscan University of Steubenville.
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We have so much to talk about. I've been glued to my screen all morning watching the stupidest miscarriage of justice that I have seen since Anita Hill.
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Okay, so we've got to get right into the news today.
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Oh, lucky you if you've missed out on some of the stupidest hearings ever.
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Sure. So, Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate today, the Judiciary Committee.
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Brett Kavanaugh is set to testify, though I think that either that's happening right now or that's about to happen.
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What have we had? Since last we spoke, we have now had people coming out.
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This new woman, Julie Swetnick, accusing Brett Kavanaugh, milquetoast Federalist Judge Brett Kavanaugh, of participating in gang rapes, of facilitating gang rape.
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Oh, by the way, this woman, this new accuser, her ex-boyfriend filed a restraining order against her.
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Her lawyer is Michael Avenatti, so we know that she's a looney tune.
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She sued her previous employer for sexual harassment using the law firm run by Deborah Katz, who is also the lawyer for Christine Ford.
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Are you catching a theme here? Are you sensing a pattern?
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I watched all of that, all of those testimonies earlier.
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I won't subject you to the clips, but it's a total circus.
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The one thing that's come out of this, which is really shocking, is that we're actually seeing Lindsey Graham be just a hardline, bad MF-er.
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You know, I mean, this guy is really like Lindsey pulled through on the leather jacket, you know, got the brass knuckles on.
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Here is Senator Lindsey Graham reacting to Christine Ford's testimony today.
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When they say that she wasn't sure we were willing to go out there, that's a bunch of bull.
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I don't know what they told Ms. Ford, but we were willing to go to California.
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All I can say is that we're 40-something days away from the election, and their goal, not Ms. Ford's goal, is to lay this past the midterms so they can win the Senate and never allow Trump to fill the seat.
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I don't know who paid for a polygraph, but somebody did, and here's what I'm more convinced of.
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The friends on the other side set it up to be just the way it is.
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We're going to hear from Mr. Kavanaugh, Judge Kavanaugh, and I've been a judge, a prosecutor, and a defense attorney, and here's what I'll tell you.
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When it comes to where it happened, I still don't know.
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I bet you Judge Kavanaugh will say I'm 100% sure I didn't do it.
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The people named say they don't know what Ms. Ford's talking about.
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She can't tell us how she got home and how she got there.
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A nice lady who has come forward to tell a hard story that's uncorroborated, and this is enough.
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Based on what I heard today, you could not get a search warrant or an arrest warrant because you don't know the location, you don't know the time, and you don't have any corroboration.
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Yeah, you give it to him, Lindsey, you bulldog.
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From the beginning of her testimony onward, she got there, she sat down, she said, you know, after my opening statement, I anticipate I'm going to need a little caffeine, so we're probably going to have to break.
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Well, if you anticipated that, why didn't you bring a cup of coffee with you?
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Or better yet, have a cup of coffee before you sat down.
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Is it because you want the television coverage to only cover your statement and not cover up any of those pesky questions?
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The Senate Judiciary Committee appointed a prosecutor to ask these questions because none of the men want to seem like they're angry and asking her questions, so they got this nice-looking woman to ask the questions instead.
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She's changed her story, Christine Ford, at various points.
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Because she's, you know, I don't know what happened to her.
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But from this testimony, we cannot conclude that any of this is credible.
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These allegations that she's making are not credible.
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The people that she's named as having been there say they weren't there.
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Now, what the Democrats are trying to do is make a circus out of this and say,
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They say, yeah, but that other accusation was from some total wackadoodle whose boyfriend got a restraining order right on her.
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So if one crazy person tells me that, you know, the sky is about to rain down purple donuts and then four other crazy people tell me the same thing,
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that doesn't mean the sky is going to rain down purple donuts.
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It means you've got a lot of unsubstantiated claims.
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Just because you have a lot of people saying something, you need evidence to back that up.
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By the way, there were a few really important moments here.
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So the prosecutor asked her, said, did you give your medical record, the medical record of you talking about this assault, the diary entry from the therapist, did you give that to the Washington Post?
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So it turns out that Christine Ford's short-term memory is as bad as her long-term memory.
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Because it's not like asking her what you had for lunch a dozen days ago or two weeks ago.
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It's asking her the only piece of even quasi-evidence, sort of resembling evidence that you have, that when you were talking to the Washington Post, did you hand that to them?
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That was less than eight weeks ago that she would have done that.
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I don't know what she thinks happened or if she's mistaken or if she's lying or even if it really did happen.
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And what these people like Maisie Hirono, the senator or the Democrat senator from Hawaii, what they're saying is he's guilty until proven innocent.
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And a lot of people now are saying he's too tarnished.
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You're trying to tarnish him, but he's not too tarnished.
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And by the way, I've got to tell you something.
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I was watching this on CNN this morning because I'm at a hotel room, you know, so I got CNN.
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If I watched CNN, I probably would believe that this guy is like a super Nazi rapist killer.
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I actually empathize now because I had to watch CNN.
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If you are getting your news from CNN, they had a whole panel.
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And all they did after every little bit of testimony, they would just go one by one.
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Jake Tapper, whoever the other people are, say, oh, well, very credible testimony.
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It was, you know, one thing that struck me about it, the credibility of it.
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Credible, credible, credible, credible, credible, credible.
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She actually admitted to changing aspects of her story.
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She appears to have contradicted the guy who gave her the polygraph test.
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She wouldn't answer questions about who she's met with.
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We know the lawyer comes from Dianne Feinstein.
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And I got to tell you, these moments, you know, I wish we're going to run out of time.
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But I do, I think Donald Trump explained this very, very well.
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Because you've got these guys like Jeff Flake who's saying, well, we need to hear them out.
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These kind of fake, squishy, vishy Republicans.
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But he had this great line in this press conference outside the UN where he talked about George Washington.
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He compared the treatment of Brett Kavanaugh to the kind of treatment George Washington would get
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Look, if we brought George Washington here and we said we have George Washington, the
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Democrats would vote against him, just so you understand.
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He may have had some, I think, accusations made.
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George Washington would be voted against 100% by Schumer and the con artists.
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So it really doesn't matter from their standpoint.
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That's why when John asked about the FBI, if the FBI did the most thorough investigation in the history of the FBI
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and they found him to be 100% perfect, he would lose every single vote.
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Now, if the Republicans win tomorrow, I think you're going to get some votes from the Democrats.
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He's going out and he says, you know what it is?
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We've got one other excellent point that he made because this press conference was the answer to his UN speech.
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He gave this stately, incredible, erudite, sophisticated UN speech.
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Obviously, it was totally misreported in the media.
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So then he has to do what Trump does, which is give this wacky, zany, I think it was a 91-minute or 81-minute press conference
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where he goes all colorful and then he gets all of the coverage again.
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But there were some really great moments to it.
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This last bit, Trump was asked his opinion on what's going on with Brett Kavanaugh today.
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And a lot of other, you know, like the Dianne Feinstein, Kamala Harris, Cory Booker,
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you know, ridiculous types would play it up really sanctimoniously.
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Cory Booker right now is questioning the girl, Christine Ford.
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And all the Democrats are opening their testimony.
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They say, I just want you to know this isn't a trial.
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all this thing is about is getting clips for them for their 2020 campaign
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and clips for the midterm ads that they're going to run on it.
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Donald Trump, because he's a more honest broker than these guys,
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it's not going to change any of the Democrats' minds.
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They're actually con artists because they know how quality this man is
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And I think people are going to see that in the midterms.
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they laugh like hell at what they pulled off on you
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I mean, this is the Donald Trump that I think really resonates.
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all the other people that were allegedly there deny it,
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you know, the guy's been a federal judge forever,
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You know, I've got Glenn Beck coming by for an interview.
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We hung out with Glenn Beck back around the studio.
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And we'll be right back after that with the mailbag.
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I only did that because I've been here all week.
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He said he was going to call ice on you the other day.
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I thought he was going to call ice this on you.
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Well, you can understand this because you and I were authors.
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So I, it's because I wrote this book, this best-selling book.
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And I learned so much while I was writing it that by the time I got to the end, I was
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And so I went back and I rewrote the entire book, which was a little brutal.
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Was it, was it just your thinking that changed your process?
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Or was it something about the news or the, the, the, no, it's, it's my
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thinking, I, you know, it's been, it's really strange because, um, when I left Fox, uh, that
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I mean, I went to, I went to Billy Graham and talked to him about it.
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And, uh, Billy Graham said, I said, I'm leaving Fox and I wanted to talk to you about it.
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And he said, uh, that sounds like something I would do if I were the adversary, uh, convince
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And I said, uh, well, I don't think it was, I think it's prompting, uh, from Lord.
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And so we sat and talked, we were supposed to spend about 20 minutes.
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We ended up spending about five hours together.
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Um, and, um, he, in the end agreed with me and my thinking.
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Um, but I knew that I had done my best and I believed in what I said.
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Um, but the country was spiraling out of control.
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And was that, that's what convinced Billy Graham and to convince Billy Graham of something.
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That's, that's a, yeah, I mean, I don't want to, I don't want to, you know, but it was,
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it was spiritual in nature and it was about reconciliation.
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And, um, um, um, he said, you know, reluctantly, I, I, I, okay, I think you're right.
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And, um, because I was very upset when that show, I loved that show.
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We, we would insist on having your show on all the time.
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Fox was on a lot, but we would sit around the TV in the common room.
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It was, um, it scared the crap out of Fox because it was, it was ad lib.
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And we would turn in a script every day, uh, and they would pour over it.
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And then I'd get in and I'd say, um, yeah, turn off the teleprompters.
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And, you know, so they, they were just freaked out.
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I had every, I mean, I had the, I know, cause I know people at the white house.
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I had people at the white house senior watching every episode.
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We had everyone watching every episode going, God, what is he going to do?
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It's kind of an early, an early understanding of podcasts, right?
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Cause when you go on to, even if I'll go on Fox and friends for a three second hit and
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everything bulleted, it's laid out, the chyrons, everything's really set podcast though.
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You'll might, you notice that there are no, no papers here.
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And it's, and it was, um, you know, it was just speaking from the heart and just, and
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just laying it out and not caring, um, you know, caring that we did a good job and that
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But I don't, I mean, I, you know, uh, what, what I loved about that show and all of your
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It, you would bring in history, you would bring in what, everything and, and you had
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I mean, it was, fun isn't a dirty word for conservatives or it shouldn't be.
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When, when September 11th happened, I had no idea.
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I mean, I had just signed a deal with, um, uh, with Premier and, but I wasn't national yet
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and I was supposed to start January, 2002, excuse me.
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And I had just signed the deal in August and, um, and what I was doing was a parody of talk
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Um, most people don't know this, but I mean, I used to, you know, I used to do 40, 40 nights
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Um, and, um, uh, and so when September 11th happened, they called me and said, we need you
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And honestly, Michael, I spent, I spent about three days solid beforehand on my knees going,
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Um, you know, when I was in New York and, uh, at WABC in 98 or 99, I remember, um, we bombed
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I'm not sure what the date was, but Clinton built on this as he needed to get Lewinsky
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And I got, I was on the air that day and I had done my homework.
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He was going after a guy that nobody had ever heard of.
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And I started doing my research on him and I said, okay, I know everybody thinks he's
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trying to get, but I want you to listen to this guy.
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And I read all of his words and he was coming to New York and he was going to kill us.
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I'm like, I don't like, what are you talking about?
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And, uh, um, I remember saying on the air within 10 years in this city, buildings, bodies
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and blood in the street, and it'll have this man's name on it.
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And, uh, all you have to do is take people seriously and read.
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I mean, somebody called me up and said, where do you stand on, you know, the, the Israelis
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I mean, as far as I was concerned at that time, I don't know, the whole thing could go
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They're never, they're never going to solve it.
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And all of a sudden this big burden of responsibility, um, you know,
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Ezekiel, um, 33, um, comes, I think it's 33, 37, 33, um, where he says, you know, I will
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place watchmen on the, on the towers and the gates.
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And if that watchman sees trouble coming and doesn't blow his trumpet, the blood on everyone
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And if I really, truly believed it, I had to say it.
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So when I got to Fox, I wanted to say it because I knew that nobody wanted to eat that because
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And, uh, man, I lost stations and money and everything else because 2006, I was saying
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financial crisis could collapse the entire economy, could collapse the European economy
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And, you know, at the time I was up reading about the fricking money supply on a prompting
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But it's at three o'clock and I'm reading this, trying to understand it.
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And I kind of have kind of an Israel, you know, relationship with God.
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And, uh, I remember and I pulled the book aside and said, get off me.
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I don't know what you're making me read this for.
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And, uh, and then the economy collapses and Barack Obama gets in and Roger Ailes had been
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And I kept saying no, and I didn't want to do cable news, but I knew then that it was,
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it was kind of too divine to be that, that platform to be available.
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And, uh, so I, I signed a deal for two years and, um, decided to entertain the folk.
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A spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down.
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That's, and that point is, I think it's really lost on people.
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And maybe it was lost in, to some people in the Fox audience, because if you go out,
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if you use a little humor, if you go out and have a little, I've been using a little
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covfefe, you know, if you have a little bit of that and then you get some eyeballs and
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As long as you don't violate the principles, my, my problem was in some ways the press,
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um, and the fact that Jon Stewart, now this is a really delicate, um, line that I don't
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see there's a difference, but I think others do.
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Uh, Jon Stewart did with a whole bunch of writers, what I was doing every day for an
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Uh, and, uh, it's just, the difference was I was on a news channel.
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Now I contend if I did it on the comedy channel, they still wouldn't have been okay with it.
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Well, certainly they wouldn't have hired you also.
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So it doesn't matter, but that's, that was the excuse.
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Uh, that it was, um, mocking, you know, the news and in a way that's true.
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I mean, you know, when you know that an industry, it's, it literally, if you look back when someone
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comes to the inside and mocks it and ridicules it from the inside, it's over.
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Uh, and I think, I think I was the sign that news is over.
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It was, and it, it ushered in this totally different world.
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I mean, we are in a totally different world now.
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It's all podcasts, Netflix, whatever streaming.
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I'm not doing any, uh, mainstream media for this book.
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Joe Rogan, Joe Rogan to me was the, I said this a couple of weeks ago when, uh, Elon Musk
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Now I, I, I'm, I put in my calendar, Rogan, Elon Musk.
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And you brought, uh, that, that great little bong the other day.
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So, so, um, but, uh, so he's on with Rogan and the stock market goes down and I'll bet
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you 60% of the people in the media industry had no idea.
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And a good portion of that didn't even know who Joe Rogan was.
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And a portion of that didn't know what a podcast was.
00:30:16.260
That's so Glenn, the, you know, you get knocked for catastrophizing.
00:30:20.180
You get, but the trouble is that you're often right about the catastrophes that you're seeing.
00:30:36.060
There's, there must be a, like a Gilbert and Sullivan song.
00:30:45.240
The new media allow conservatives, especially to get our message out there, unvarnished,
00:30:52.020
You're, you're selling books on new media because that's where the eyeballs are.
00:30:58.380
So I absolutely agree with you, but it, it requires us in it.
00:31:06.780
And because it talks about what's happened to us, why it's happened to us.
00:31:11.680
And what's happening right now is, uh, the, the, uh, post-modernists, they are changing,
00:31:19.620
they're changing everything because they have, since the Paris riots in the sixties and seventies,
00:31:27.100
they realized they could not take the Western, uh, world and destroy it just through culture.
00:31:37.880
So they came back and they looked at post-modernism and said, okay, how do we make this to destroy
00:31:43.000
the West entirely, all of it, bring it down at the same time.
00:31:48.480
So then you're free to start Marxism or a new, whatever you want.
00:31:52.220
Some people see things that never were and ask, why not?
00:31:55.800
So, um, if you, if you understand that, then you can start to change your argument because
00:32:02.320
the more you throw it back in anger, the, you're throwing accelerant on the fire.
00:32:09.660
Uh, and I think they're going to scare a lot of people that don't want to lose capitalism.
00:32:18.180
I know a lot of people that vote differently than me that don't want to lose capitalism.
00:32:25.160
The problem is we are up against the clock now.
00:32:29.840
I think our economy is, it's a matter of time before that comes apart.
00:32:36.300
I'm hoping that it keeps lasting as long as it can.
00:32:41.660
Nobody's paying attention to a guy named Alexander Dugan and everyone your age should be paying
00:32:47.660
attention to him because he is targeting people like you.
00:32:51.800
Um, and, uh, uh, it's a very dangerous philosophy.
00:32:56.180
You have the Middle East and worst of all, you have tech, you have high tech, which is
00:33:08.780
Uh, and, and also as they start that time bomb, they are gathering more and more information,
00:33:15.960
which is more and more power information and knowledge is power.
00:33:19.580
Uh, and, and then doing strange things like working with the Chinese who are literally
00:33:33.360
We have to remain Americans, remain calm, find as many like-minded people that want to
00:33:41.940
live in capitalism and freedom and understand the bill of rights.
00:33:58.940
But, um, uh, but let's start looking to the future.
00:34:02.420
And if we, if we hold together and we begin to talk about the ethical uses, uh, of technology,
00:34:11.880
we're going to enter a time that will be, will have freedom beyond any of our expectations.
00:34:19.760
The world in the next 10 years is going to change so dramatically that 10 years from now,
00:34:28.320
you'll watch this and it will feel like watching I Love Lucy.
00:34:34.740
And it does remind me that you are truly the master broadcaster because that is the greatest
00:34:38.800
possible segue I have ever heard for the ethical use of technology to go over and subscribe
00:34:48.220
And once Shapiro finally runs me out of town on a rail.
00:34:53.140
I'm only telling you this as a friend of yours and his, what he says privately about you is horrible.
00:35:08.340
I can't, that mental image that I, well, thank you for telling me.
00:35:15.460
Well, no, I'm sure they must have cut this, right?
00:35:17.300
You've seen the, she's, she's, she's, she's, she's, she's, she's, she's, she's,
00:35:28.920
So I have, that whole time that we've been airing that, I have been watching the live testimony
00:35:35.320
It was stunning. We came for the drama. We got the drama. I will be going over some immediate
00:35:44.280
reactions to that right now. It was really something else. Plus, we're going to have
00:35:48.980
the mailbag, by the way. We're going to have to fit a lot of that in. Maybe we'll have to do a
00:35:51.920
little mailbag tomorrow. But before we do that, I have got to say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube.
00:35:56.840
Sorry, guys. Go to Daily Wire. If you're at dailywire.com, thank you very much. You help us
00:36:00.400
keep the lights on. You keep covfefe in my cup. Usually, right now, I've just got a hotel room
00:36:04.620
coffee, but usually, I have a leftist years tumbler, which is really what you need to sign
00:36:07.880
up for. You get all the shows. Ben Shapiro, Andrew Klavan, me. You get to ask questions in the mailbag,
00:36:12.020
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. You're going to need the leftist years tumbler for when Judge
00:36:14.640
Kavanaugh gets confirmed to the Supreme Court. Go to dailywire.com. We'll be right back.
00:36:25.680
Okay. Okay. So we've got some immediate reactions to this. I had it on. The TV is right over here.
00:36:34.620
I was watching that live testimony. Judge Kavanaugh, there was some debate among analysts
00:36:39.900
earlier. Is Kavanaugh going to come and be very staid and quiet and judicial and let it go? Or is
00:36:46.880
he going to bring it? Is he going to defend his reputation and fight back? He fought back. Oh my
00:36:53.540
goodness. He punched back. He talked about how unfair it was. He hit them hard. He had calendars from the
00:37:02.180
damn summer. Where did he find these calendars? He talked about it. He said, oh, my father kept all
00:37:07.200
the calendars from like the seventies, which is, by the way, all nature is but art unknown to thee,
00:37:13.400
a divine providential strike of luck. It was really incredible. And by the way, it was convincing.
00:37:20.520
It was, I mean, at this point, if Judge Kavanaugh is lying, this guy is one hell of a psychopath.
00:37:27.700
It was, he looked like a man who was wrongly accused. It looked like the crucible, you know,
00:37:33.360
John Proctor and the crucible or something. Really, it was a stunning testimony. I want to
00:37:39.620
really analyze this when we've got video because it's still going on right now. So we're going to
00:37:43.680
get to that more tomorrow. But a stunning performance. My takeaway is, all in all, Christine
00:37:49.440
Ford did fine. She didn't do bad. She did contradict herself a little bit. She did seem a little kind of
00:37:56.080
one minute. She was kind of laughing. And then the next, she was really serious and shaky voice.
00:37:59.760
It was a little weird, but it was fine. It wasn't, it actually wasn't bad. She sort of did well by her
00:38:04.500
and her Democrat friends, but Kavanaugh did really, really well. He did really well. So obviously,
00:38:09.820
if there's any justice in the world, you give it to Kavanaugh. You can, I mean, there's no,
00:38:14.140
no evidence at all. He called it, he called the, the Swetnik allegations that he was running a
00:38:20.120
gang rape syndicate. He called it a farce and a joke. It was really excellent, excellent stuff.
00:38:25.900
I'm going to vote for this guy for president. I don't know what it is in the last couple of years
00:38:28.840
that Republicans have grown a backbone, but I'm really pleased to see it. This is really good.
00:38:32.980
We can't let them do this. If we let them get rid of Kavanaugh, who's left? Who goes up? Who goes up
00:38:39.020
to the Supreme Court? The guy is virtually perfect. He's got this unimpeachable record. And if you can't
00:38:45.920
get him through, who do you get through? We can't let them do it. Really good stuff. Okay. We got to get to
00:38:49.820
the mailbag. I probably only have about five minutes left, but c'est la vie. We'll do it. First question
00:38:55.020
from Madeline. Hi, Michael. I used to identify with liberals in my college days, but my views have
00:39:01.020
since swung to the right since my mid twenties. While I strongly agree with almost everything the
00:39:07.320
left does, I don't think that everyone who identifies with the left is a bad person. I think
00:39:12.760
many on the left are coming from a place of genuine compassion for others. With that said, who do you
00:39:17.040
believe is strategically behind the evil ideologies and policies that are supported by the left? Yeah,
00:39:22.620
I don't think that many, or certainly not most, and probably even, I don't think very many lefties
00:39:28.700
are bad people. I think that they're misguided or overly emotional or wrongheaded. GK Chesterton
00:39:36.920
put it very well when he was talking about his friend George Bernard Shaw. He said that it's not
00:39:42.700
that Shaw doesn't have a heart. He's got a very big heart. It's just a heart in the wrong place. And I
00:39:47.920
think lefties' hearts are in the wrong place. They're progressive. So they're progressing toward
00:39:52.760
utopia. The idea is that mankind is perfectible. There's an obvious progress that we're going
00:40:00.060
toward. And so therefore, if you stand in the way of progress, if you stand with word history yelling
00:40:05.520
stop, if you're a conservative, then you are either very stupid or evil. You have bad intentions.
00:40:11.420
And for smart conservatives, for conservatives who can even string a few words together,
00:40:16.300
it's not the former. So it has to be the latter. That's why they impugn our ideas, but we don't
00:40:22.720
really impugn, or they impugn our motives, but we don't really impugn their motives. And so that's
00:40:27.660
the ideology. I mean, who's behind the ideology? Name your pick. Karl Marx, Nietzsche, I don't know.
00:40:33.740
It's bad ideas. Bad ideas are behind it. And, you know, the devil's behind it. When you trace bad ideas
00:40:39.240
back far enough, you get to the devil. But it's, I think it's caused by pride. And it's no coincidence
00:40:43.240
that the left embraces pride all over. Not just gay pride, but all, you know, fat pride, thin pride,
00:40:49.140
racial pride. Not white pride, obviously, but other racial prides. You know, a lot of pride.
00:40:53.400
That's where it comes from. From Seth. Hi, Michael. I've been watching the Kavanaugh confirmation
00:40:58.660
process as closely as most. Something's bothering me. Clearly, the Democrats are doing whatever they
00:41:02.880
can to delay his confirmation with the hope of retaking the Senate in November, stalling it
00:41:06.920
indefinitely. My question, isn't it hypocritical for Senate Republicans to complain about these
00:41:12.180
blatant political tactics, considering that in 2016, they did virtually the same thing in delaying
00:41:18.080
Merrick Garland's confirmation? One thing that has driven me crazy about the modern American left
00:41:23.460
is its inconsistency in ideology and approach to issues. So when so-called conservatives have
00:41:27.980
engaged in similar behavior, it's troubling. Thanks. And keep up the good work. Thank you for the
00:41:31.360
question, Seth, but you are totally wrong. I'm sorry to say. Totally wrong. Yeah, it's true.
00:41:36.780
Republicans politically stalled Merrick Garland's nomination. We knew it. We knew we could do it.
00:41:42.600
We knew that the election was going to decide it. So we just stalled it forever. What we didn't do
00:41:46.880
is call him a rapist crime syndicate mob don who just goes around raping women from 36 years ago.
00:41:55.080
We didn't do that at all. We just delayed it like civilized human beings, like people who aren't wicked
00:42:00.440
little hysterical child monsters. But what they have done, what the left has done here, is based on
00:42:06.300
nothing, nothing, they have tried to ruin a good man's reputation with no evidence. If they had any
00:42:12.920
evidence whatsoever, if they had any corroboration, then maybe you could consider it. But there's no
00:42:18.140
corroboration. There's nothing. Actually, the people who would be called on to corroborate it
00:42:21.620
deny that any of it ever happened. They'd have been called on by the accuser. It's total nonsense,
00:42:26.640
and it's really, really wicked. And look, if they had just said, we're not going to confirm
00:42:31.620
Kavanaugh, fine, but they couldn't get away with that because they don't have the votes.
00:42:36.040
I mean, that's politics. Politics is a blood sport. But what they've done to this man is purely wicked.
00:42:42.580
For how much more time do I have? I can probably do one or two more, right? From Samuel.
00:42:47.200
Dear Michael, I have a moral question regarding hacking. I've learned a way to observe other people's
00:42:52.860
network activity via packet sniffing. My question is this. Is it moral to spy on another person if
00:42:58.800
they leave tier information unprotected to spy on their computer searches? I don't know. Is it moral
00:43:04.060
to spy on someone if they leave their bathroom window open? Do you think that's moral? So you see a
00:43:09.100
cute little girl in the shower and you look through a window? What are you, Brett Kavanaugh? I'm kidding.
00:43:13.120
I'm kidding. It's a very heated subject today. Well, it depends on what the spying is. If you're spying on
00:43:19.160
some bad guy to achieve a certain good who's doing something illegitimate or something criminal,
00:43:24.420
then I suppose it's fine, especially if you're a civil authority. But if you're just spying because
00:43:28.320
you're a little curious, yeah, that's not fine at all. It's no better than being a peeping Tom in
00:43:32.520
someone's bathroom window. Can I do one more? I want to do one more. I'm going to do one more.
00:43:38.100
Hello, Michael. Love the show. I just had a question regarding all of these claims of sex allegations.
00:43:42.540
Listening to people like you, Ben, Andrew, Matt Crowder, and Levin help keep me sane. I'm not the
00:43:47.500
only person wanting evidence. I just want to ask why colleges are canceling classes and leftist
00:43:52.160
mobs surrounding Ted Cruz over allegations when these same people are doing nothing over the
00:43:56.840
allegations of Keith Ellison that has police reports and medical evidence of his abuse of
00:44:00.720
his ex-girlfriend because they don't care because they don't care about rape and they don't care
00:44:04.500
about sexual assault. They did this to George Will when he was contradicting the reigning orthodoxy
00:44:12.120
and ideology about sexual abuse on college campuses. And they said, you don't take it seriously,
00:44:16.800
a bunch of idiot senators, including Liz Warren, I think. And his response was perfectly right,
00:44:21.960
which is that he said, I think that I take sexual assault much more seriously than you
00:44:27.400
do because he's unwilling to make a political circus out of it because he's unwilling to
00:44:31.900
use it as a cudgel against people that he happens not to like because he's unwilling to
00:44:35.700
use it as a wedge to affect a certain political agenda. And that's exactly what these Democrats
00:44:40.200
are doing today. It's disgusting. It offers no advantage or consolation to victims of rape and
00:44:49.300
sexual assault. It trivializes it. They do this on campus when they try to take sexual assault out
00:44:54.740
of courtrooms and put it into campus tribunals. Obviously, it tramples on the rights of the accused,
00:44:59.540
the rights to due process, but it tramples on the, it diminishes the crime itself because rape is a
00:45:04.540
serious crime. It should be taken very seriously. It should not be tried by a bunch of bumbling
00:45:09.520
professors or doddering Democrats trying to angle themselves for 2020 campaigns in a kangaroo court
00:45:17.380
circus before the Senate Judiciary Committee. It's a real crime and it should be taken seriously. And if
00:45:22.140
you're not going to take it seriously, that's my show. I'm a little angry about these Kavanaugh things.
00:45:26.920
I will be tonight at the Kavanaugh, or the Kavanaugh, at the Franciscan University of Steubenville. So
00:45:34.600
we're going to be talking about the simple joys of being right. I'll be able to channel all of my
00:45:38.780
frustration into an understanding of the joys of being conservative. And we've got other speeches
00:45:43.780
coming up too, October 24th, October 25th. We'll release more information about that soon. In the
00:45:49.380
meantime, we're going to have to get to more mailbag tomorrow. That's just the way it is. Too bad.
00:45:52.880
In the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. I'll see you
00:46:02.040
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