The Michael Knowles Show - September 27, 2018


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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00:00:00.260 Democrats and the media gang rape Brett Kavanaugh, President Trump gives a wonderful and hilarious press conference,
00:00:06.580 then Glenn Beck stops by, and finally, the mailbag. I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:00:20.160 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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00:00:42.200 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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00:02:22.380 Okay, so we've got to get right into the news today.
00:02:25.300 If you haven't been watching, lucky you.
00:02:28.220 Oh, lucky you if you've missed out on some of the stupidest hearings ever.
00:02:33.240 Sure. So, Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate today, the Judiciary Committee.
00:02:41.020 Brett Kavanaugh is set to testify, though I think that either that's happening right now or that's about to happen.
00:02:45.120 I have not seen it yet.
00:02:47.320 What have we had? Since last we spoke, we have now had people coming out.
00:02:51.460 This new woman, Julie Swetnick, accusing Brett Kavanaugh, milquetoast Federalist Judge Brett Kavanaugh, of participating in gang rapes, of facilitating gang rape. 0.98
00:03:03.920 Brett Kavanaugh.
00:03:05.860 Oh, by the way, this woman, this new accuser, her ex-boyfriend filed a restraining order against her.
00:03:10.960 Apparently she's a total looney tune. 1.00
00:03:12.600 Her lawyer is Michael Avenatti, so we know that she's a looney tune. 1.00
00:03:15.520 She sued her previous employer for sexual harassment using the law firm run by Deborah Katz, who is also the lawyer for Christine Ford.
00:03:23.560 Are you catching a theme here? Are you sensing a pattern?
00:03:26.620 All these people seem to be connected.
00:03:29.000 I watched all of that, all of those testimonies earlier.
00:03:34.500 Christine Ford, I saw it point by point.
00:03:36.860 I won't subject you to the clips, but it's a total circus.
00:03:41.320 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.
00:03:51.480 You know, I mean, this guy is really like Lindsey pulled through on the leather jacket, you know, got the brass knuckles on.
00:03:57.820 Here is Senator Lindsey Graham reacting to Christine Ford's testimony today.
00:04:02.900 When they say that she wasn't sure we were willing to go out there, that's a bunch of bull.
00:04:08.680 I don't know what they told Ms. Ford, but we were willing to go to California.
00:04:13.120 We were told she couldn't fly.
00:04:15.380 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.
00:04:27.540 I believe that now more than ever.
00:04:29.480 I don't know who paid for a polygraph, but somebody did, and here's what I'm more convinced of.
00:04:35.480 The friends on the other side set it up to be just the way it is.
00:04:39.700 I feel ambushed as the majority.
00:04:43.100 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.
00:04:51.040 When it comes to where it happened, I still don't know.
00:04:54.660 I don't know when it happened.
00:04:55.980 She said she's 100% certain it did happen.
00:04:59.320 I bet you Judge Kavanaugh will say I'm 100% sure I didn't do it.
00:05:04.340 The people named say they don't know what Ms. Ford's talking about.
00:05:08.000 She can't tell us how she got home and how she got there.
00:05:10.820 And that's the facts I'm left with.
00:05:12.620 A nice lady who has come forward to tell a hard story that's uncorroborated, and this is enough.
00:05:20.220 God help anybody else that gets nominated.
00:05:22.280 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.
00:05:31.040 Yeah, you give it to him, Lindsey, you bulldog. 1.00
00:05:34.060 Bulldog Lindsey Graham, here he is.
00:05:35.760 He's absolutely right.
00:05:37.540 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.
00:05:50.580 Well, if you anticipated that, why didn't you bring a cup of coffee with you?
00:05:53.880 Or better yet, have a cup of coffee before you sat down.
00:05:56.240 Is it because you want the television coverage to only cover your statement and not cover up any of those pesky questions?
00:06:04.320 Is that what happened?
00:06:05.100 She's asked these questions.
00:06:06.180 Her story has been changing.
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00:06:18.420 She's changed her story, Christine Ford, at various points.
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00:08:02.320 It is not credible.
00:08:03.880 These allegations that she's making are not credible.
00:08:07.180 Why?
00:08:08.200 Lindsey Graham said it.
00:08:09.800 She didn't tell us the year.
00:08:11.940 She can't tell us how she got there.
00:08:13.160 She can't tell us how she left.
00:08:14.140 She can't really tell us where it was.
00:08:15.740 She can't tell us the circumstances.
00:08:17.400 The people that she's named as having been there say they weren't there.
00:08:20.220 They say that Brett Kavanaugh wasn't there.
00:08:21.700 There is no corroborating evidence.
00:08:24.200 Now, what the Democrats are trying to do is make a circus out of this and say,
00:08:27.600 well, there was another accusation.
00:08:29.480 They say, yeah, but that other accusation was from some total wackadoodle whose boyfriend got a restraining order right on her. 1.00
00:08:34.100 He says, yeah, but it was another one.
00:08:35.400 It's with all these accusations, you know.
00:08:37.520 I mean, you know, accusations, right?
00:08:39.080 I mean, no, I don't know.
00:08:40.860 What?
00:08:41.060 Are any of the accusations credible?
00:08:42.780 Well, no, but there's so many of them.
00:08:46.080 Yeah, but they're all...
00:08:47.020 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,
00:08:57.720 that doesn't mean the sky is going to rain down purple donuts.
00:08:59.920 It means you've got a lot of unsubstantiated claims.
00:09:03.180 That was an analogy I made on the fly.
00:09:04.700 I don't know how much it totally holds up.
00:09:06.060 But it doesn't mean that.
00:09:08.920 Just because you have a lot of people saying something, you need evidence to back that up.
00:09:12.600 By the way, there were a few really important moments here.
00:09:15.180 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?
00:09:28.700 And the lawyer jumps in.
00:09:30.240 He said, oh, you don't know.
00:09:30.980 Don't answer that.
00:09:31.500 You don't have to answer that.
00:09:32.380 Don't know.
00:09:32.780 But no, no, no.
00:09:33.820 She says, well, I don't know.
00:09:36.100 I don't...
00:09:37.180 So what do you mean you don't know?
00:09:38.200 So it turns out that Christine Ford's short-term memory is as bad as her long-term memory.
00:09:42.220 Because it's not like asking her what you had for lunch a dozen days ago or two weeks ago.
00:09:48.400 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?
00:10:01.300 And she says, I don't know.
00:10:02.900 That was less than eight weeks ago that she would have done that.
00:10:05.380 You don't remember less than two months ago?
00:10:07.420 Really, really smells fishy.
00:10:09.040 I don't know what she thinks.
00:10:10.240 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.
00:10:16.380 But we have no evidence for it.
00:10:18.040 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.
00:10:25.840 And a lot of people now are saying he's too tarnished.
00:10:30.520 He's not too tarnished.
00:10:31.200 You're trying to tarnish him, but he's not too tarnished.
00:10:33.320 And by the way, I've got to tell you something.
00:10:34.400 I was watching this on CNN this morning because I'm at a hotel room, you know, so I got CNN.
00:10:38.520 If I watched CNN, I probably would believe that this guy is like a super Nazi rapist killer.
00:10:46.740 I would.
00:10:47.380 I actually empathize now because I had to watch CNN.
00:10:50.420 I empathize with a lot of America.
00:10:52.480 If you are getting your news from CNN, they had a whole panel.
00:10:55.200 And all they did after every little bit of testimony, they would just go one by one.
00:10:58.520 Jake Tapper, whoever the other people are, say, oh, well, very credible testimony.
00:11:02.720 Oh, yes, it was very credible.
00:11:03.940 It was, you know, one thing that struck me about it, the credibility of it.
00:11:06.700 Credible, credible, credible, credible, credible, credible.
00:11:09.820 Didn't seem credible to me.
00:11:12.120 Didn't present any evidence.
00:11:13.260 She contradicted herself several times.
00:11:15.200 She actually admitted to changing aspects of her story.
00:11:18.220 She appears to have contradicted the guy who gave her the polygraph test.
00:11:21.280 She wouldn't answer questions about who she's met with.
00:11:23.540 We know the lawyer comes from Dianne Feinstein.
00:11:25.940 We know it stinks to high heaven.
00:11:28.660 Credible, credible, credible, credible.
00:11:30.160 Give me a break.
00:11:31.460 And I got to tell you, these moments, you know, I wish we're going to run out of time.
00:11:36.540 But I do, I think Donald Trump explained this very, very well.
00:11:39.340 Because you've got these guys like Jeff Flake who's saying, well, we need to hear them out.
00:11:42.880 I won't vote.
00:11:43.660 These kind of fake, squishy, vishy Republicans.
00:11:47.420 But he had this great line in this press conference outside the UN where he talked about George Washington.
00:11:53.280 He compared the treatment of Brett Kavanaugh to the kind of treatment George Washington would get
00:11:57.640 if he were up for a job these days.
00:11:59.620 Here he is.
00:12:00.120 Look, if we brought George Washington here and we said we have George Washington, the
00:12:07.920 Democrats would vote against him, just so you understand.
00:12:11.220 And he may have had a bad past.
00:12:12.780 Who knows?
00:12:13.140 He may have had some, I think, accusations made.
00:12:18.220 Didn't he have a couple of things in his past?
00:12:20.280 George Washington would be voted against 100% by Schumer and the con artists.
00:12:26.100 I mean, 100%, 100%.
00:12:27.760 So it really doesn't matter from their standpoint.
00:12:29.720 That's why when John asked about the FBI, if the FBI did the most thorough investigation in the history of the FBI
00:12:37.040 and they found him to be 100% perfect, he would lose every single vote.
00:12:41.120 Now, if the Republicans win tomorrow, I think you're going to get some votes from the Democrats.
00:12:46.480 You know why?
00:12:47.180 Because we all know why.
00:12:48.280 Because it's called politics.
00:12:49.360 Then you'll probably get some votes.
00:12:50.600 There it is, the honesty of the Donald.
00:12:55.980 He's going out and he says, you know what it is?
00:12:57.320 It's politics.
00:12:58.820 That's what it is.
00:12:59.880 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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00:14:36.460 This last bit, Trump was asked his opinion on what's going on with Brett Kavanaugh today.
00:14:42.680 And a lot of other, you know, like the Dianne Feinstein, Kamala Harris, Cory Booker,
00:14:47.160 you know, ridiculous types would play it up really sanctimoniously.
00:14:51.780 Cory Booker right now is questioning the girl, Christine Ford.
00:14:57.340 And all the Democrats are opening their testimony.
00:14:59.380 They say, I just want you to know this isn't a trial.
00:15:03.080 And I just want you to know I believe you.
00:15:05.740 I believe you.
00:15:07.260 And they all do it because they all,
00:15:09.040 all this thing is about is getting clips for them for their 2020 campaign
00:15:12.380 and clips for the midterm ads that they're going to run on it.
00:15:15.800 Donald Trump, because he's a more honest broker than these guys,
00:15:19.720 he just goes right for it.
00:15:21.480 Here is President Trump on the hearings.
00:15:24.640 I can only say that
00:15:26.440 what they've done to this man is incredible.
00:15:31.720 I think when you really look at it all,
00:15:35.340 it's not going to change any of the Democrats' minds.
00:15:37.980 They're obstructionists.
00:15:40.080 They're actually con artists because they know how quality this man is
00:15:43.780 and they've destroyed a man's reputation
00:15:45.580 and they want to destroy it even more.
00:15:48.220 And I think people are going to see that in the midterms.
00:15:50.220 What they've done to this family,
00:15:51.420 what they've done to these children,
00:15:53.600 these beautiful children of his,
00:15:55.080 and what they've done to his wife
00:15:57.120 and they know it's a big, fat con job.
00:16:02.100 And they go into a room and I guarantee you,
00:16:05.520 they laugh like hell at what they pulled off on you
00:16:08.760 and on the public.
00:16:10.820 They laugh like hell.
00:16:12.540 People are going to have to make a decision.
00:16:14.200 36 years, there's no charge.
00:16:16.800 All of a sudden, the hearings are over
00:16:18.940 and the rumors start coming out.
00:16:22.000 And then you have this other con artist,
00:16:26.280 Abinadi, come out with another beauty today. 1.00
00:16:31.660 He's got another beauty today.
00:16:33.360 I love it.
00:16:33.920 I mean, this is the Donald Trump that I think really resonates.
00:16:36.740 If you showed the American people,
00:16:38.180 you say, okay, a woman who for 36 years 0.54
00:16:42.020 never mentioned anything,
00:16:43.960 can't recall any of the details of the event,
00:16:45.860 all the other people that were allegedly there deny it,
00:16:48.560 men and women,
00:16:51.260 you know, the guy's been a federal judge forever,
00:16:53.580 six FBI investigations.
00:16:55.140 Now all of a sudden this comes out.
00:16:56.320 What do you believe, that?
00:16:57.940 Or do you have Donald Trump's take?
00:16:59.280 It's a con job.
00:17:00.220 It's obvious.
00:17:01.040 It's transparent.
00:17:02.220 Obviously, it's going to be the latter.
00:17:04.140 We got to get to Glenn Beck.
00:17:05.160 You know, I've got Glenn Beck coming by for an interview.
00:17:07.300 He's going to come to my hotel room.
00:17:08.260 No, I'm just kidding.
00:17:08.900 He's not coming.
00:17:09.300 That would be so weird.
00:17:10.760 I could meet to him for that.
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00:17:26.680 Glenn, thank you for being here.
00:17:29.880 Really?
00:17:30.480 Okay.
00:17:30.960 All right.
00:17:31.480 Thank you.
00:17:32.480 No, I have to tell you,
00:17:33.220 I only did that because I've been here all week.
00:17:35.460 And Michael, I don't know if you know this,
00:17:37.660 but they treat you like garbage.
00:17:38.700 They do.
00:17:39.180 They do.
00:17:40.120 You didn't want to feel left out.
00:17:41.880 I did.
00:17:42.540 Well, no.
00:17:43.040 I mean, it's just a habit.
00:17:44.040 You know, hanging around with Ben,
00:17:45.440 he just trashes you personally.
00:17:48.440 I mean, it's not even professional.
00:17:49.540 My family, my looks.
00:17:51.200 Yeah.
00:17:51.660 I know.
00:17:52.180 Yeah.
00:17:52.400 I was kind of, I was wondering.
00:17:53.480 I figured now would be a good opportunity.
00:17:56.700 How's it looking at the blaze?
00:17:57.900 Are you guys hiring?
00:17:58.660 I mean, you'd always be welcome.
00:18:00.040 Yeah, maybe.
00:18:01.180 We wouldn't.
00:18:01.620 He said he was going to call ice on you the other day.
00:18:03.640 He said.
00:18:04.480 I thought he was going to call ice this on you.
00:18:05.900 I mean, he's like really got a vendetta out.
00:18:08.540 Yeah, yeah.
00:18:09.420 I mean.
00:18:09.580 You know why he's got the vendetta?
00:18:11.220 No.
00:18:11.760 Well, you can understand this because you and I were authors.
00:18:14.900 Yeah.
00:18:15.060 We're best-selling authors.
00:18:15.940 Right, right, right, right.
00:18:16.540 So I, it's because I wrote this book, this best-selling book.
00:18:19.280 He's been very upset.
00:18:19.960 And the writing is brilliant.
00:18:21.020 Thank you very much.
00:18:21.800 You're very lucid.
00:18:22.560 It's brilliant.
00:18:22.800 Very clear.
00:18:23.380 No, it's good.
00:18:24.140 It's good.
00:18:24.700 Really good.
00:18:24.980 Yeah, it's pithy.
00:18:26.160 That's what I like about it.
00:18:27.000 It's just, it gets right to the heart of it.
00:18:29.260 Brevity is the soul of wit.
00:18:30.620 And so therefore, I'm the wittiest guy.
00:18:32.280 Even though it's 200 some pages.
00:18:34.160 It's very brief.
00:18:36.220 Now, you have also come out with a book.
00:18:38.400 You made a different choice, though.
00:18:40.600 You put words in your book.
00:18:41.660 I put words.
00:18:42.260 I put words in mine.
00:18:43.420 Addicted to outrage.
00:18:44.280 I actually wrote this book twice.
00:18:46.220 Did you?
00:18:46.720 No, literally I did.
00:18:47.940 I wrote it the first time.
00:18:49.720 And I learned so much while I was writing it that by the time I got to the end, I was
00:18:54.800 like, no, okay, that, that's all not right.
00:18:57.600 That's, that's too elementary.
00:18:59.600 Wow.
00:19:00.260 And so I went back and I rewrote the entire book, which was a little brutal.
00:19:06.040 Was it, was it just your thinking that changed your process?
00:19:09.640 Or was it something about the news or the, the, the, no, it's, it's my
00:19:14.040 thinking, I, you know, it's been, it's really strange because, um, when I left Fox, uh, that
00:19:21.460 was on a prompting.
00:19:22.380 I mean, I went to, I went to Billy Graham and talked to him about it.
00:19:25.340 Right.
00:19:25.840 And, uh, Billy Graham said, I said, I'm leaving Fox and I wanted to talk to you about it.
00:19:32.120 And he said, uh, that sounds like something I would do if I were the adversary, uh, convince
00:19:39.860 you to leave Fox.
00:19:41.120 And I said, uh, well, I don't think it was, I think it's prompting, uh, from Lord.
00:19:48.280 And he said, tell me about it.
00:19:51.840 And so we sat and talked, we were supposed to spend about 20 minutes.
00:19:54.460 We ended up spending about five hours together.
00:19:57.540 Um, and, um, he, in the end agreed with me and my thinking.
00:20:04.220 Um, but I knew that I had done my best and I believed in what I said.
00:20:12.280 Um, but the country was spiraling out of control.
00:20:16.380 And was that, that's what convinced Billy Graham and to convince Billy Graham of something.
00:20:20.420 That's, that's a, yeah, I mean, I don't want to, I don't want to, you know, but it was,
00:20:24.800 it was spiritual in nature and it was about reconciliation.
00:20:30.060 And, um, um, um, he said, you know, reluctantly, I, I, I, okay, I think you're right.
00:20:39.300 And, um, because I was very upset when that show, I loved that show.
00:20:43.880 I watched it.
00:20:44.840 I loved it all the time.
00:20:46.020 That was so fun.
00:20:46.780 It was on when I was in college.
00:20:47.980 We, we would insist on having your show on all the time.
00:20:52.880 Fox was on a lot, but we would sit around the TV in the common room.
00:20:56.840 Yeah.
00:20:57.080 It was a great show.
00:20:58.240 Fun.
00:20:58.440 Yeah.
00:20:58.980 It was, um, it scared the crap out of Fox because it was, it was ad lib.
00:21:04.300 Right.
00:21:04.820 And we would turn in a script every day, uh, and they would pour over it.
00:21:10.260 And then I'd get in and I'd say, um, yeah, turn off the teleprompters.
00:21:15.680 And, you know, so they, they were just freaked out.
00:21:19.960 I had every, I mean, I had the, I know, cause I know people at the white house.
00:21:23.960 I had people at the white house senior watching every episode.
00:21:29.380 We had media matters watching episode.
00:21:31.560 We had everyone watching every episode going, God, what is he going to do?
00:21:37.780 What's he going to do?
00:21:38.340 It's kind of an early, an early understanding of podcasts, right?
00:21:42.940 Cause when you go on to, even if I'll go on Fox and friends for a three second hit and
00:21:47.260 everything bulleted, it's laid out, the chyrons, everything's really set podcast though.
00:21:51.780 I mean, we don't have a script.
00:21:53.660 You'll might, you notice that there are no, no papers here.
00:21:56.220 And it's, and it was, um, you know, it was just speaking from the heart and just, and
00:22:03.140 just laying it out and not caring, um, you know, caring that we did a good job and that
00:22:09.540 we got it right.
00:22:10.140 But I don't, I mean, I, you know, uh, what, what I loved about that show and all of your
00:22:16.140 work is it wasn't, it wasn't talking points.
00:22:19.560 It, you would bring in history, you would bring in what, everything and, and you had
00:22:23.700 fun with it.
00:22:24.460 I mean, it was, fun isn't a dirty word for conservatives or it shouldn't be.
00:22:28.280 When, when September 11th happened, I had no idea.
00:22:34.060 I mean, I had just signed a deal with, um, uh, with Premier and, but I wasn't national yet
00:22:42.000 and I was supposed to start January, 2002, excuse me.
00:22:46.300 And I had just signed the deal in August and, um, and what I was doing was a parody of talk
00:22:52.280 radio.
00:22:52.780 It wasn't serious.
00:22:54.000 Okay.
00:22:54.640 Um, most people don't know this, but I mean, I used to, you know, I used to do 40, 40 nights
00:23:00.460 on the road with comedy.
00:23:03.080 Um, and, um, uh, and so when September 11th happened, they called me and said, we need you
00:23:10.660 on the air now nationally.
00:23:12.220 And honestly, Michael, I spent, I spent about three days solid beforehand on my knees going,
00:23:20.420 I'm the wrong guy, Lord.
00:23:21.520 What am I doing?
00:23:22.100 I don't know.
00:23:22.520 Why are you making me do this?
00:23:23.540 I don't know any of this stuff.
00:23:25.260 Okay.
00:23:25.720 I mean, I paid attention somewhat.
00:23:28.180 Um, you know, when I was in New York and, uh, at WABC in 98 or 99, I remember, um, we bombed
00:23:37.880 an aspirin factory.
00:23:39.100 I'm not sure what the date was, but Clinton built on this as he needed to get Lewinsky
00:23:42.920 out of the headlines.
00:23:43.920 That's what everybody said.
00:23:45.360 And I got, I was on the air that day and I had done my homework.
00:23:49.260 Yeah.
00:23:49.540 He was going after a guy that nobody had ever heard of.
00:23:53.120 And I started doing my research on him and I said, okay, I know everybody thinks he's
00:23:59.280 trying to get, but I want you to listen to this guy.
00:24:01.860 And I read all of his words and he was coming to New York and he was going to kill us.
00:24:08.300 And, um, the phones blew up.
00:24:11.040 Everybody's saying, you're just love Clinton.
00:24:13.460 I'm like, I don't like, what are you talking about?
00:24:16.500 Have you met me?
00:24:17.220 Yeah.
00:24:17.520 Have you met me?
00:24:18.020 I don't like Clinton.
00:24:19.200 No, it's not his policies.
00:24:20.580 I'm telling you, he's right on this one.
00:24:22.480 And, uh, um, I remember saying on the air within 10 years in this city, buildings, bodies
00:24:30.280 and blood in the street, and it'll have this man's name on it.
00:24:34.860 I forgot about that until September 11th.
00:24:38.320 The name was Osama bin Laden.
00:24:40.320 Wow.
00:24:40.920 And, uh, all you have to do is take people seriously and read.
00:24:45.180 So I had done some, but not really.
00:24:48.360 I mean, somebody called me up and said, where do you stand on, you know, the, the Israelis
00:24:53.220 and the Palestinians?
00:24:54.540 And I'm like, I don't know.
00:24:55.300 Beats me.
00:24:55.900 I don't know.
00:24:56.420 I mean, as far as I was concerned at that time, I don't know, the whole thing could go
00:25:00.060 into a sinkhole.
00:25:00.840 They're never, they're never going to solve it.
00:25:03.100 Right.
00:25:03.440 You've been battling forever.
00:25:04.680 I've got the answer.
00:25:05.400 I've got the answer.
00:25:06.520 Yeah.
00:25:07.140 Just don't talk to each other.
00:25:08.700 Yeah.
00:25:09.220 Um, so I had no idea.
00:25:12.000 And all of a sudden this big burden of responsibility, um, you know,
00:25:17.480 Ezekiel, um, 33, um, comes, I think it's 33, 37, 33, um, where he says, you know, I will
00:25:27.860 place watchmen on the, on the towers and the gates.
00:25:30.760 And if that watchman sees trouble coming and doesn't blow his trumpet, the blood on everyone
00:25:37.840 that could have been rescued is on his hand.
00:25:41.160 Well, that's millions for me.
00:25:45.340 And if I really, truly believed it, I had to say it.
00:25:48.940 So when I got to Fox, I wanted to say it because I knew that nobody wanted to eat that because
00:25:55.840 I had just gone through 2008.
00:25:58.380 Right.
00:25:58.960 And, uh, man, I lost stations and money and everything else because 2006, I was saying
00:26:05.620 financial crisis could collapse the entire economy, could collapse the European economy
00:26:13.500 because this is all bogus.
00:26:15.620 I don't even know how it works.
00:26:17.720 And, you know, at the time I was up reading about the fricking money supply on a prompting
00:26:22.960 and I got so mad at God.
00:26:25.140 I'm reading about the M1, M2, M3 money supply.
00:26:27.900 And it's like 2006 and I'm in bed.
00:26:32.160 But it's at three o'clock and I'm reading this, trying to understand it.
00:26:35.920 And I kind of have kind of an Israel, you know, relationship with God.
00:26:41.640 Yeah, a little association.
00:26:42.480 Yeah, a little struggle with him.
00:26:45.000 And, uh, I remember and I pulled the book aside and said, get off me. 0.66
00:26:49.120 I am never going to need this.
00:26:50.680 I don't know what you're making me read this for.
00:26:52.540 And, uh, and then the economy collapses and Barack Obama gets in and Roger Ailes had been
00:27:01.180 courting me for a while.
00:27:03.040 And I kept saying no, and I didn't want to do cable news, but I knew then that it was,
00:27:11.100 it was kind of too divine to be that, that platform to be available.
00:27:17.380 And, uh, so I, I signed a deal for two years and, um, decided to entertain the folk.
00:27:27.060 A spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down.
00:27:30.140 That's, and that point is, I think it's really lost on people.
00:27:33.400 And maybe it was lost in, to some people in the Fox audience, because if you go out,
00:27:39.740 if you use a little humor, if you go out and have a little, I've been using a little
00:27:43.260 covfefe, you know, if you have a little bit of that and then you get some eyeballs and
00:27:49.240 you get a real message through.
00:27:50.860 As long as you don't violate the principles, my, my problem was in some ways the press,
00:27:59.540 um, and the fact that Jon Stewart, now this is a really delicate, um, line that I don't
00:28:07.200 see there's a difference, but I think others do.
00:28:09.340 Uh, Jon Stewart did with a whole bunch of writers, what I was doing every day for an
00:28:18.240 hour with one.
00:28:20.380 Uh, and, uh, it's just, the difference was I was on a news channel.
00:28:25.360 He was on the comedy channel.
00:28:27.340 Now I contend if I did it on the comedy channel, they still wouldn't have been okay with it.
00:28:33.000 Well, certainly they wouldn't have hired you also.
00:28:34.600 Yeah.
00:28:34.860 Right.
00:28:35.160 So it doesn't matter, but that's, that was the excuse.
00:28:39.320 Uh, that it was, um, mocking, you know, the news and in a way that's true.
00:28:46.020 I mean, you know, when you know that an industry, it's, it literally, if you look back when someone
00:28:54.560 comes to the inside and mocks it and ridicules it from the inside, it's over.
00:29:02.300 Right.
00:29:02.620 Uh, and I think, I think I was the sign that news is over.
00:29:06.880 It was, and it, it ushered in this totally different world.
00:29:09.640 I mean, we are in a totally different world now.
00:29:12.420 No millennial I know has cable.
00:29:14.980 They don't even pay for cable.
00:29:16.300 No.
00:29:16.660 It is all internet.
00:29:17.880 It's all new media.
00:29:18.480 It's all podcasts, Netflix, whatever streaming.
00:29:21.360 I'm not doing any, uh, mainstream media for this book.
00:29:25.400 You're not going on TV or.
00:29:28.220 He'll sell more copies.
00:29:29.580 No, because you know what?
00:29:30.160 Joe Rogan, Joe Rogan to me was the, I said this a couple of weeks ago when, uh, Elon Musk
00:29:36.540 was on.
00:29:37.000 Yeah.
00:29:37.500 Uh, and you know, the stock market goes down.
00:29:39.700 Now I, I, I'm, I put in my calendar, Rogan, Elon Musk.
00:29:44.440 I don't want to miss it.
00:29:45.440 Right.
00:29:45.520 Okay.
00:29:46.780 That morning.
00:29:47.580 And you brought, uh, that, that great little bong the other day. 0.99
00:29:50.100 Yeah.
00:29:50.380 I don't know what you're talking about.
00:29:51.180 So, so, um, but, uh, so he's on with Rogan and the stock market goes down and I'll bet
00:30:00.540 you 60% of the people in the media industry had no idea.
00:30:05.480 And a good portion of that didn't even know who Joe Rogan was.
00:30:09.200 And a portion of that didn't know what a podcast was.
00:30:11.680 Right.
00:30:12.060 They're just so arrogant, out of touch.
00:30:14.340 It's over.
00:30:15.200 It's over.
00:30:15.700 That's right.
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.
00:30:25.540 So give me a happy note.
00:30:28.220 Give me something here.
00:30:29.440 Do you see.
00:30:30.460 Happy.
00:30:32.100 Do you see.
00:30:32.980 I'm an optimistic catastrophist.
00:30:36.060 There's, there must be a, like a Gilbert and Sullivan song.
00:30:38.580 Yes.
00:30:38.820 An optimistic catastrophist.
00:30:41.420 This seems like a good thing to me.
00:30:43.500 The new media, at least this part.
00:30:45.240 The new media allow conservatives, especially to get our message out there, unvarnished,
00:30:50.420 undistorted, unperverted.
00:30:52.020 You're, you're selling books on new media because that's where the eyeballs are.
00:30:56.300 People are tuning out of CNN.
00:30:58.120 They're tuning.
00:30:58.380 So I absolutely agree with you, but it, it requires us in it.
00:31:02.180 And I urge you to read the book sincerely.
00:31:04.160 You will enjoy it.
00:31:05.160 I look forward to it.
00:31:06.040 You will enjoy 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.
00:31:35.480 Um, and they learned it in the sixties.
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. 0.97
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?
00:31:54.920 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.
00:32:16.300 Oh, you know, on the left too.
00:32:17.960 Right.
00:32:18.180 I know a lot of people that vote differently than me that don't want to lose capitalism.
00:32:22.060 Capitalism has been pretty good to us.
00:32:22.840 It's been pretty darn sweet.
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.
00:32:39.680 Um, you have Russia.
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 1.00
00:33:04.840 starting, um, a time bomb in one.
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 1.00
00:33:26.040 turning that into a police state.
00:33:27.820 Targeting their people. 0.94
00:33:28.280 That's right.
00:33:28.860 Yeah.
00:33:29.000 It's 1984.
00:33:30.100 It's, you know, it's horrible.
00:33:31.860 Um, what's coming there.
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.
00:33:45.520 I don't care who you voted for in the past.
00:33:47.660 I don't care.
00:33:48.820 I don't care what you've done in the past.
00:33:51.480 Well, I mean, unless you're Brett Kavanaugh.
00:33:52.860 Unless you're Brett Kavanaugh.
00:33:53.920 That's a whole different story.
00:33:55.880 You're out.
00:33:56.260 Hang him up by his neck.
00:33:57.600 Oh yeah, yeah.
00:33:58.040 We'll hang him.
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.
00:34:31.760 Seriously.
00:34:32.240 Well, that, that is a happy note to end on.
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
00:34:44.520 at dailywire.com.
00:34:45.860 Glenn, thank you very much for being here.
00:34:47.900 Thank you.
00:34:48.220 And once Shapiro finally runs me out of town on a rail.
00:34:50.700 Oh, he's going to do it.
00:34:51.580 Well, then I'll be able to go to Texas.
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.
00:34:58.240 It is profane, pornographic, vulgar.
00:35:01.480 I say to him, you're orthodox?
00:35:04.340 Really?
00:35:05.180 And he just goes off.
00:35:06.860 Ben, I didn't even know that was a word.
00:35:08.300 Yeah.
00:35:08.340 I can't, that mental image that I, well, thank you for telling me.
00:35:11.540 I appreciate it.
00:35:12.120 You bet.
00:35:12.400 In the privacy of our own show.
00:35:13.900 Yeah.
00:35:14.160 I mean, we're not on the air now, are we?
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,
00:35:19.200 wait, what?
00:35:22.020 Glenn, thanks for being here.
00:35:22.900 Thank you.
00:35:23.280 All right.
00:35:23.640 I'll see you.
00:35:23.860 Thanks, man.
00:35:24.400 Appreciate it.
00:35:26.760 All right, Glenn, get out of my hotel room.
00:35:28.920 So I have, that whole time that we've been airing that, I have been watching the live testimony
00:35:33.500 of Judge Kavanaugh.
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 0.78
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, 0.89
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.
00:43:36.920 From Sean.
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 0.91
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 0.70
00:45:04.540 serious crime. It should be taken very seriously. It should not be tried by a bunch of bumbling 1.00
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
00:45:55.580 either tonight or tomorrow.
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