The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 229 - Ha Ha, You Lost

00:00:00.000 The FBI has concluded its investigation into allegations against Brett Kavanaugh.

00:00:05.040 The White House finds no corroborating evidence for the charges.

00:00:08.160 Senators Flake and Collins say the investigation was thorough.

00:00:11.740 Cocaine Mitch sets the cloture vote for Friday.

00:00:14.540 And we could all have a confirmed Associate Justice Kavanaugh by Saturday.

00:00:19.200 Which leaves me with one very serious message for Senate Democrats.

00:00:24.060 Ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha ha! You lost! Ha ha ha ha ha!

00:00:28.320 Nice try, you shameless jackals. 0.98

00:00:30.760 We will examine the left's witch trial of Judge Kavanaugh as it passes into the rearview mirror. 0.99

00:00:36.600 Then a male feminist roundhouse kicks a pro-life woman. 1.00

00:00:40.060 Presumably because of how much he supports women.

00:00:42.320 Finally the mailbag and a psalm of life on National Poetry Day.

00:00:46.220 I'm Michael Knowles and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:55.140 Get your tumblers ready, folks. Get them ready.

00:00:58.320 Here we go.

00:01:01.000 So, it's all falling apart.

00:01:02.580 The FBI investigation is done.

00:01:05.000 Time Magazine is running a cover story.

00:01:07.800 This, it just came out yesterday, I believe.

00:01:10.720 How Christine Blasey Ford's testimony changed America.

00:01:15.260 Which, coincidentally, is going to be the title of my new book.

00:01:18.520 It's going to be a wonderful sequel.

00:01:19.960 Very similar content to my first book.

00:01:21.980 Didn't change nothing, baby.

00:01:23.320 I mean, it humiliated Democrats who really thought they had something.

00:01:27.240 They stooped even lower than they usually do.

00:01:29.020 And now, it looks like it's all turning out for the best.

00:01:31.860 Of course, anything could still happen in the next few days.

00:01:34.420 But right now, things are going pretty well.

00:01:36.220 Why do I think that?

00:01:37.380 Let's turn to Senate Democrat, Chris Coons, to explain the situation.

00:01:41.900 Do you believe this Brett Kavanaugh will be confined?

00:01:45.440 I know what you hope.

00:01:46.260 You hope he doesn't.

00:01:47.040 But do you believe he will?

00:01:48.840 I think this will be a very close vote.

00:01:50.860 It hangs by a few undecided Democrats and Republicans.

00:01:54.660 I haven't read this report yet.

00:01:56.780 If I were to just guess today, he will be narrowly confirmed.

00:02:01.120 Oh! 0.60

00:02:01.800 Oh, did you hear that at the end?

00:02:03.140 If I had to guess today, he will be narrowly confirmed.

00:02:05.280 Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.

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00:03:28.460 Well, sorry, Mr. Coons, he's going to be weeping into his sheets pretty soon. 1.00

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00:03:34.220 The FBI has completed that supplemental investigation.

00:03:38.100 Now, did they need to do the investigation?

00:03:39.960 No.

00:03:40.660 Judge Kavanaugh had already had six FBI investigations.

00:03:43.180 Uh, but after those hearings, you know, there were these new allegations that came out from

00:03:47.560 Christine Ford and that crazy person from Avenatti and all these other people.

00:03:52.180 And, uh, so the White House, or the FBI did this separate investigation.

00:03:55.640 The White House confirmed late last night, uh, it was reported in the Wall Street Journal

00:04:00.120 that they found no corroborating evidence whatsoever, sent it over to the Senate.

00:04:04.760 Chuck Grassley said there was no corroborating evidence whatsoever.

00:04:07.940 Uh, Mitch McConnell yesterday, Cocaine Mitch, set the vote for cloture.

00:04:12.580 Uh, crucially now, we've got Jeff Flake, that little quizling.

00:04:16.620 Jeff Flake is saying there's no corroboration, so it seems like he's going to vote for Kavanaugh.

00:04:21.500 Uh, Susan Collins, same thing, said the investigation seems very thorough.

00:04:25.880 So, looks like we can hope that, uh, uh, she'll vote for Kavanaugh,

00:04:30.420 which means that it looks like Mr. Kavanaugh is going to the Supreme Court of the United States

00:04:36.400 for reaction, we turn to the entire Senate Democratic Caucus.

00:04:52.820 That's about what I expected, but it's still very enjoyable to, uh, to see that again.

00:04:57.420 One second.

00:05:00.260 Very, very good.

00:05:01.560 Uh, they're still furious though.

00:05:02.980 The Democrats in the Senate are still furious, and the Democrat partisans around the country

00:05:07.080 are still furious.

00:05:08.240 Now, serious Democrats, and I've talked to a number of them, did not put a lot of stock

00:05:13.980 into these allegations for many reasons, which we'll get to a little later.

00:05:17.700 I mean, we've, we've gone over all of the reasons not to, and now we have no corroboration

00:05:22.360 whatsoever of any of them, even by the people who were named in the allegations.

00:05:26.500 So, I think serious Democrats didn't actually take the allegations seriously, but they used

00:05:31.020 them as a political tool. It's a little dirty, it's a little nasty, but understandable.

00:05:36.600 What really worries me are the Democrats who took them seriously in the first place, 0.93

00:05:40.980 who were so gullible or so willfully ignorant that they would go along with what were obvious 0.95

00:05:47.020 lies or misrepresentations and untruths and stories that have more holes in them than Swiss cheese. 0.97

00:05:52.980 Uh, that's, that's a little sad.

00:05:54.640 And so those people are now calling for all the same stuff.

00:05:57.380 They want another, a longer FBI investigation, a more thorough FBI investigation, because

00:06:02.740 now they say the supplemental FBI investigation didn't investigate Ford and Kavanaugh.

00:06:10.240 Okay. So this is their new line. It didn't investigate Ford and Kavanaugh.

00:06:14.920 To begin, what is an FBI investigation? I think people, you know, people throw that, that phrase

00:06:19.520 around. I don't think they know what it means. It's when the FBI comes and interviews you and

00:06:23.220 gets statements from you. And then they say, okay, what did this happen? Did this happen?

00:06:26.960 And then they just, the reports present those statements. The FBI investigations here don't

00:06:32.160 reach conclusions as Joe Biden famously said in 1991. So they didn't interview Ford and Kavanaugh.

00:06:40.660 Why not? Well, because we've already heard from Ford and Kavanaugh under oath before the Senate

00:06:46.300 Judiciary Committee for hours and hours and hours. Christine Ford testified for four hours before 0.98

00:06:51.520 the Senate Judiciary Committee. How about Brett Kavanaugh? He testified for 32 hours. We have a

00:06:57.080 lot of testimony. So I think what the left is suggesting now is that the FBI would go up to

00:07:02.220 them and say, so Dr. Ford, did you mean it? Did you mean everything you said? Yes, I meant it. Yeah.

00:07:10.040 Okay. And you sure though? Yes. What question are they going to ask her that wasn't asked during the

00:07:17.520 hearing or that wasn't given in the opening statements? What are they going to ask Brett

00:07:22.940 Kavanaugh that he didn't get asked or talk about in 32 hours of testimony? Is there anything like,

00:07:29.660 I think he went over everything. He went over his favorite drinks in college. You know, he went over

00:07:33.300 the definition of boofing. There is nothing left to talk about. So there's nothing new to get here.

00:07:39.600 Now they've, they've tried to have, they've saved their last minute desperate Hail Mary. Here it is.

00:07:45.680 They've got Brett Kavanaugh's old suite mate at Yale. I guess someone used to live with him or live near

00:07:50.300 him at Yale. His name is Kenneth Appold. And I guess, I guess life didn't treat Kenneth very well

00:07:57.260 after his halcyon days in New Haven. So he decides he needs to get 15 minutes of fame trying to dunk

00:08:03.180 on his former classmate. And so he says, now you remember the Debbie Ramirez allegation. This is

00:08:09.340 another one that came up like five seconds ago that no one had ever heard about for 30 years.

00:08:13.640 So what she said is that Kavanaugh was at a party and he whipped it out one time and whipped out

00:08:18.200 little Brett. And there was no corroboration of this. People refuted it. There's no evidence that

00:08:23.060 it happened. But now Kenneth Appold, the former suite mate or classmate of Brett Kavanaugh says that he

00:08:30.540 is 100% certain that some guy told him about that. Did you catch that last part? Because I know if you

00:08:38.960 only heard the first part, you'd think, wow, okay, there's a witness. No, no, no. He wasn't there. He

00:08:43.040 wasn't in the room where this alleged whipping out happened. He just is 100% certain that he heard

00:08:50.660 about it as a rumor from some guy later on who allegedly was in a room, but it gets better because

00:08:56.660 the New Yorker, you know, Ronan Farrow, who used to be a serious guy and now he's reporting these

00:09:01.260 ridiculous rumors to try to torpedo a Supreme Court nominee, a conservative Supreme Court nominee,

00:09:07.900 crucially. He reported this too. So the New Yorker reaches out to the guy that Appold allegedly heard

00:09:17.260 the rumor from because Appold couldn't get ahold of the guy. The New Yorker finally gets in touch with

00:09:21.720 them. And the guy that Appold heard the rumor from denies ever having said it or remembering it,

00:09:27.480 said, I have no recollection of that whatsoever. So he refutes the guy's claim, but Appold is 100%

00:09:32.960 certain that he heard a rumor 35 years ago from some guy who says it never happened.

00:09:40.380 It's so good. I'm sorry. It's so, so good. So now the new one they want, the new, the new,

00:09:46.420 uh, uh, demand. So the, the FBI thing, so it didn't work out. Uh, and I got to tell you something,

00:09:52.020 I've been really harsh on Jeff Flake this week. I'm still feeling pretty harsh on Jeff Flake

00:09:55.620 because he's a little squish and he got us into a very dangerous situation where crazy allegations 1.00

00:10:01.320 could have come out of the woodwork to delay, delay even more. Fortunately, public opinion was

00:10:05.300 against it, but the Flake thing did work out, right? The Flake extra week seems to have helped

00:10:09.880 Republicans in the polls. We'll get to that in a little bit. I don't know that that lets him off the

00:10:14.140 hook for, for pulling such a reckless move, but all in all it worked out. So I'm happy about that.

00:10:18.760 So the FBI thing didn't work out. The ice fight at the New Haven bar, that one didn't work out.

00:10:24.920 The New York times scoop that he, you know, raised a beer keg over his head didn't work out. So now,

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00:12:28.940 take a polygraph test. Now, this is very funny because there are, for years and years, we've known

00:12:35.520 that polygraph tests are unreliable. That's why we don't use them as a matter of ascertaining guilt

00:12:40.320 or innocence. And for so long, the left has talked about false memories. There are, one professor who

00:12:47.080 has been interviewed a lot about this is Elizabeth Loftus, who talks about false memories all the time.

00:12:52.880 Her take on these events has been a little leaning to the left, unfortunately. But a lot of her work,

00:12:59.260 and other people's work in this area, talks about how you can have false memories,

00:13:03.220 memories, but that you are dead certain of, you know. We've known that over time, not just over

00:13:09.820 the course of 30 years, but even over the course of a short period of time, people's memories can

00:13:13.520 change. And there are many ways to beat a polygraph test. There are many ways to be coached on a

00:13:19.220 polygraph test. So this is their Hail Mary pass. They say, okay, well, now, you know, okay, this is

00:13:24.600 like the second Hail Mary, the Hail Mary of the Hail Mary. They say, well, now he's got to take a polygraph

00:13:28.280 test. And here is brand new, brand spanking new cocaine. Lindsey Graham comes out to answer 1.00

00:13:34.960 this suggestion. Why don't we just dunk him and see if he floats? Why don't we, it's like a perfect

00:13:52.420 witch trial now. Let's bring back the Inquisition. That's what Lindsey Graham answers. And it's a great 1.00

00:13:58.280 way because just really quickly, let's sum up what we've got. Brett Kavanaugh is nominated

00:14:04.500 a couple months ago. He's got unimpeachable character. He, nobody has questioned his record

00:14:10.180 of integrity. He's been a federal judge for a dozen years. He was staff secretary to the president.

00:14:14.960 He was, uh, assistant, uh, independent counsel under Ken Starr or deputy independent counsel,

00:14:20.000 some title like that. Worked on the Starr investigation. Yale law graduate, Yale college

00:14:24.520 graduate, just a very serious guy, Georgetown prep graduate, as we've heard ad nauseum,

00:14:29.780 uh, just a very serious guy, totally milquetoast. If you, you know, that one wackadoodle, uh,

00:14:35.800 uh, Avenatti's liar client came out and said, she, she knows she remembers Kavanaugh at the party 0.91

00:14:40.980 because he has a distinctive face. He doesn't have a distinctive face. He has the least distinctive

00:14:44.560 face I've ever seen. He looked, if you just said, pick the most milquetoast federal judge you

00:14:48.520 could imagine, I would imagine Brett Kavanaugh. So that was him. He gets nominated and

00:14:53.180 everything goes fine. And they're all upset about abortion. They're all upset about Roe v. Wade.

00:14:58.400 They're all upset that he's an originalist who believes the constitution means what it says.

00:15:02.120 They're upset about, uh, his threat to Chevron deference, to the administrative state,

00:15:06.720 to out of control, big government. But remember the hearings went along just fine.

00:15:12.700 We didn't hear a peep about this nonsense until after the hearings were over.

00:15:17.860 However, they knew he performed very well. All of a sudden Senate Democrats decided the 11th hour,

00:15:24.140 they're going to spring some bogus, ridiculous accusations. So only after the hearings ended, 0.79

00:15:28.840 they spring Christine Ford, who says 36 or 35 or 37 years ago, Brett Kavanaugh was in a room with

00:15:35.800 four people or two people at a party with five people or six or seven people in some place.

00:15:40.460 She doesn't know where she didn't know when it happened or why, or how the party came about,

00:15:43.660 how she got home, how she got there. But anyway, the long and story short of it is he either

00:15:47.740 groped her or he tried to kill her or something like that. It kept changing. The story kept

00:15:52.120 changing on and on. She said, I, I know this is true because I'm afraid of flying. I have a fear

00:15:57.540 of small spaces, uh, and I never fly because of this incident that allegedly happened to me from

00:16:03.940 Brett Kavanaugh, except I fly all the time. I fly to the French Polynesia or to Hawaii or to here

00:16:08.360 or to there. I take trips all the time. I fly in little propeller planes. Okay. But I, the way you

00:16:12.680 know is that I'm, I'm so afraid of small spaces that I demanded we have a second door put on our

00:16:19.880 home in 2012 when it came up in marriage therapy with my husband, except actually it happened in

00:16:24.480 2008 and I did it for my marriage counseling office and to rent it out to college kids and

00:16:29.860 to Google interns. Okay. Well, that doesn't add up. Okay. Well, all right. That's a, Hey guys,

00:16:33.420 this Ford thing isn't really panning out. Is it? There's no corroboration. Well, all the people

00:16:37.200 that I say were there, just talk to them. All the people refute what she says. Let's move on to

00:16:41.300 someone else. Uh, okay. Uh, Julie Swetnick. Yeah. Okay. Uh, Brett Kavanaugh, he was, uh, he was a

00:16:47.120 gang rapist, a criminal mob boss in whenever it doesn't matter. You don't, it doesn't matter. 0.99

00:16:53.080 Nobody cares whether I'm true or not. We just want to torpedo Kavanaugh. Okay. So then it turns out

00:16:57.660 Julie Swetnick was actually in college during the high school parties. Actually, she's a known liar. 1.00

00:17:03.120 She's got a huge history of filing false harassment, sexual harassment, physical harassment claims. 0.99

00:17:08.540 Okay. That one's not going to work. Well, we need another FBI investigation. Okay. We got another

00:17:12.400 FBI investigation. They conclude nothing. Okay. Okay. Here, here we are. That's the same. If you want

00:17:17.960 to skip out on two weeks of the news, that's what happened. So, uh, now we are where we are and, uh,

00:17:24.580 this is what it's come to. And now all we have left is the left's evidence-free sanctimony. Uh, you know,

00:17:31.660 we treat women what we believe women. We believe all liars. Hashtag believe all liars. Uh, and the right 1.00

00:17:36.880 doesn't believe women. And then cocaine Lindsay comes back, you know, for the sucker punch right 1.00

00:17:41.240 behind. He goes right. Here's a jab. He goes back with the hook, uh, when he is speaking at, at, uh,

00:17:46.680 the Atlantic festival. Uh, here's what he says. Here's how it was misinterpreted. And here's why

00:17:51.920 it's a great jab against the left. So it was a personal degrading attack on someone who is a

00:17:57.040 private citizen. You know, here's what's personally degrading. Uh, this is what you get when you go

00:18:01.240 through a trailer park with a hundred dollar bill. Uh, you see, this is not the first time

00:18:06.340 this has happened. That's actually a reference to something somebody said in James Carvel.

00:18:11.160 So the guy who's interviewing Lindsay, he knows what he's doing, but the audience doesn't because

00:18:15.580 the audience are just regular run of the mill leftists who read the Atlantic. So what Lindsay

00:18:20.240 Graham here says, because they're saying it's so degrading what Trump and the Republicans have done to

00:18:24.800 these poor women. And Lindsay Graham says, you know, it's degrading. Drag a hundred dollar bill 1.00

00:18:30.000 through a trailer park and see what you get. The gasps. How well, that's a really awful thing to

00:18:33.960 say. The implication being that if you coax these, these on day class, say women with some money, 0.64

00:18:40.780 they'll make up allegations. How dare Lindsay Graham say this? The left went crazy. They start

00:18:44.940 running articles about this. They start tweeting about this, but then they realize that's not a

00:18:50.760 Lindsay Graham quote. That is a James Carvel quote when he was a top advisor to Bill Clinton. And that

00:18:57.280 was how he responded to Paula Jones's accusations that Bill Clinton sexually harassed her and whipped

00:19:02.580 it out. Uh, and, uh, to about all of the other women who came out and accused Bill Clinton of 1.00

00:19:07.780 sexual harassment and assault and rape said, drag a hundred dollar bill through a trailer park,

00:19:11.820 see what you get. So now all of a sudden you could see, I was watching it in real time on Twitter

00:19:16.580 yesterday. Everything starts to change. And the big shift, someone said, Lindsay Graham, this is,

00:19:21.280 he's actually saying just what James Carvel said. Oh, whoops. Oh, nevermind. Whoops. Because the

00:19:28.040 sanctimony is absurd. When Democrats have the opportunity to smear women who have a lot more 1.00

00:19:33.520 credibility, by the way, a lot more credibility than Christine Ford and Julie Swetnick or whatever

00:19:40.280 they're talking about now, whenever they have the opportunity to smear them, they do it. Hillary

00:19:44.240 Clinton was put in charge of bimbo eruptions, their words, not mine. Uh, they, they take that 0.98

00:19:50.180 opportunity. Republicans don't do that. We don't behave like that. And by the way, uh, when

00:19:54.860 Republicans have the opportunity to falsely accuse people of gang rape, criminal rings or

00:20:00.480 whatever, we don't do it. We never said Merrick Garland was some like leather daddy criminal or

00:20:06.180 something. We just said, we're not, we're not going to vote for him because they don't have the

00:20:09.240 votes and we're not going to confirm them. We're going to wait till the election, but they do that.

00:20:12.360 They don't, the Democrats do not take sexual assault very seriously at all. They don't take women

00:20:17.420 very seriously at all either. Now, Lindsey Graham is being accused of what about-ism here. 0.99

00:20:23.580 What about-ism is perhaps my least favorite phrase in politics. It's such a stupid word. 1.00

00:20:30.140 What about-ism it's look, there is a legitimate what about-ism it's, it's a description of the 1.00

00:20:34.400 two quote way fallacy, which is when you try to distract from somebody's point by bringing up some,

00:20:38.840 some point about them. That's a, I'm not saying that there is no legitimate what about-ism argument

00:20:43.540 or what, or a two quote way fallacy, but it's so abused. What about-ism is what about-ism.

00:20:50.620 What, when you, the word what about-ism is the what about-ism fallacy. It's especially in politics,

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00:22:12.960 C-O-V-F-E-F-E, keeps hair today, hair tomorrow. The whataboutism thing is really tired because

00:22:19.600 in, so when you bring up whataboutism, here's what happened. Someone said that, that Republicans are

00:22:28.020 being degrading to women and, and this is awful and Democrats are way better and that's why you 0.79

00:22:33.240 should vote for Democrats. So Lindsey Graham says, Democrats are awful to women and then the left 1.00

00:22:40.280 says, well, that's whataboutism. That's not whataboutism. I'm pointing out your hypocrisy

00:22:45.380 and in politics and journalism, the, the most important tool you have is setting the discussion, 0.58

00:22:51.520 setting the agenda, deciding what is going to be talked about. So if, if, if the Democrats are

00:22:58.460 just setting the agenda and you're not allowed to call out their own hypocrisy, then you have

00:23:02.260 no tools at your disposal. You lose one of the, the best tools that you have at your disposal,

00:23:07.660 which is why I totally erase these whataboutism claims. What about whataboutism? What about what

00:23:12.660 aboutism? Because the, the minute you bring up what, you know, they, they bring up the Republicans

00:23:16.740 are bad with women. Then the Republicans bring up that the Democrats are bad with women. And then 0.76

00:23:20.300 the Democrats say, well, whataboutism? What about whataboutism? Well, what about what about

00:23:24.240 whataboutism? What about what about what about? Let's focus on the issue at hand. Democrats are

00:23:28.480 being sanctimonious hypocrites right now. They have no credibility on this issue whatsoever. 1.00

00:23:33.320 We don't, we don't owe them a single answer. So, uh, that is, uh, that's Cocaine Lindsey for you. 0.94

00:23:38.620 Let's go down to Cocaine Mitch. Cocaine Mitch sums it all up. He says, we are not scared.

00:23:43.320 Beautiful display from Senator Scarface.

00:23:46.100 The far left tried to bully and intimidate members of this body. I'm not suggesting we're the victims

00:23:53.840 here, Mr. President, but I want to make it clear to these people who are chasing my members around

00:23:58.540 the hall here or harassing them at the airports or going to their homes. We'll not be intimidated by

00:24:05.260 these people. There is no chance in the world. They're going to scare us out of doing our duty.

00:24:15.480 I don't care how many members they chase, how many people they harass here in the halls.

00:24:21.060 I want to make one thing perfectly clear. We will not be intimidated by these people.

00:24:25.700 You tell them, Mitch. You tell them, Cocaine Mitch. That's absolutely right. And that's all it takes.

00:24:31.700 All it takes is conservatives standing up to the left and saying, you're not going to push us around

00:24:36.400 because the left is like the opposite of sand people, of sand people in Star Wars. You know,

00:24:41.520 the sand people in Star Wars, they march in single file line to hide their numbers. 0.99

00:24:45.720 What the left does is they get like three people to just jump around everywhere they can to make it

00:24:49.760 seem like they have a zillion people. They have George Soros at the top, but many other Democrat and left-wing

00:24:55.220 operatives create all these little fake accounts and fake organizations and fake protests,

00:25:00.400 astroturf campaigns to make it seem like they have a lot of people. This has been going on since,

00:25:04.760 by the way, the mid-20th century, since the left controlled all of the news media. They made it seem

00:25:10.520 like everybody had this consensus. Everybody was vaguely left-wing. Oh, never mind that Walter

00:25:17.540 Cronkite is a world federalist. Never mind that he's a strong left-wing activist. No, he's just the

00:25:23.820 voice of the American people. Oh, he says the Vietnam War is over. America must have lost faith

00:25:28.240 in Vietnam. No, these guys are a minority. They've been doing this forever. The Bolsheviks 0.99

00:25:32.800 say that they're the majority. They were the minority. They've been doing this. The left has

00:25:36.800 been doing this forever, but they're not. And the minute that in the television news media that Fox

00:25:44.320 News came out, Fox News became a huge smash hit. Why? Because there's a huge percentage of the

00:25:50.360 population, if not the majority of the population, that was not being represented by these left-wing

00:25:55.880 hacks. Same thing on new media. When the social media came out, all of a sudden the right was 0.98

00:26:00.880 totally emboldened. Why? Because that mainstream media, newspaper, network TV monopoly was cracked

00:26:08.000 up for the first time. We got to get our voices out there and people are listening. People tune in

00:26:12.760 and it rallies them. This is exactly right. You know, sometimes we get asked,

00:26:16.580 how does everybody come together again in America? People were never together in America. I mean,

00:26:22.160 you know, we love each other because we're each other's countrymen. At least the right feels that

00:26:26.100 way. I don't know if the left feels that way anymore when they're going and attacking

00:26:28.800 Republicans' children at their houses. But at least the right feels that way. But we didn't agree.

00:26:35.120 We didn't agree. From the beginning of the country, we had opposing ideas about the country,

00:26:39.220 Federalists and the Anti-Federalists, now the Republicans and the Democrats. The coming together

00:26:44.740 again is, you can do it two ways. You can do it with this fake political consensus, which is always

00:26:51.020 put on by the left. Or you can do it with the traditional values that undergird the country.

00:26:56.940 So I'm talking about religious values and cultural values and watching the same TV shows and listening

00:27:01.040 to the same movies. But when it comes to the politics of it all, the newspapers, the news media,

00:27:05.380 the politicians, if we all come together, what that means is shutting up conservatives. We had a half

00:27:10.600 century of that or more. We don't need any more of that whatsoever. Mitch says,

00:27:14.140 I'm not scared. Why is he not scared? Look at the polls. A new poll out of NPR, PBS NewsHour,

00:27:19.220 Marist shows the Democrats had a 10-point enthusiasm advantage before this Kavanaugh nonsense that has

00:27:26.160 evaporated. It is now statistically nothing. In July, 78% of Democrats and 68% of Republicans

00:27:33.520 said that this election was very important. Now the numbers increased slightly for Democrats to 82%,

00:27:39.300 but it shot up 12 points for Republicans to 80%. It's totally reinvigorated them. How about women 1.00

00:27:44.820 enthusiasm? For the Democrats, now after Kavanaugh, the Democrats thought that women were going to 1.00

00:27:50.980 become much more enthusiastic about voting because of this Kavanaugh circus. They've actually declined.

00:27:56.320 Democratic women are now two points less enthusiastic than they were before Kavanaugh. The GOP among women

00:28:02.300 shot up 12 percentage points from 71% to 83%. Quinnipiac poll shows a seven-point Republican gain

00:28:09.960 in local congressional races. GOP enthusiasm is now at levels equal to 2010. That was the last

00:28:15.980 gigantic wave for the GOP. Enthusiasm levels that high. Now I've got to temper that because

00:28:21.440 Democrat enthusiasm levels are also very high. They've taken a hit, but they're also quite high

00:28:26.900 right now. So I'm not predicting a 2010 election, but I am saying that cocaine Mitch has nothing to

00:28:32.100 be afraid of. Republicans and conservatives don't either. When you stand up, when you stand for

00:28:36.340 something, when you stand for what's right, even if you think it's unpopular, I'm telling you,

00:28:40.680 you will win. You'll win in the longterm. A strong majority of voters now of both parties,

00:28:46.560 across both parties, believe that Brett Kavanaugh should be confirmed to the Supreme Court.

00:28:51.260 Flake looks good. Collins looks good. We talked about that earlier. Right now, Heidi Heitkamp,

00:28:55.260 who is an embattled Democrat senator, she is saying that she's going to vote no on this.

00:29:01.100 This is not a surprise. This is not evidence of how other Democrats or swing votes are going to go.

00:29:06.240 She's down 12 points in the polls and Kavanaugh has really hit her. This whole Kavanaugh thing

00:29:10.520 has really hit her in the polls. She's down 12 points. Things are not looking good for her.

00:29:14.380 I think she's voting no because she's in for a penny, in for a pound. If she's going to go down,

00:29:18.620 she's going to go down swinging and try to protect her legitimacy in the Democrat party. 1.00

00:29:25.260 We've got to go really quick, but before we do that, I have to talk about this disgusting clip

00:29:29.340 that was going around the internet. I know we got to get to mailbag. I know we got to get to

00:29:32.520 National Poetry Day. Too bad because this clip is one of the, this sums it up. This sums up the

00:29:38.420 male feminist perfectly. A, there was a pro-life rally and some left-wing, he for she, I believe all

00:29:46.260 women, male feminist, decided to attack a pro-life woman. Here he is.

00:29:54.080 They actually had people filming you the whole time, which is why I say, kill Wakanda. 1.00

00:29:58.520 Guess what? Hey, if somebody gets raped by somebody and they're like, I'm a 16 year old and I can't 0.99

00:30:09.200 have this baby. Think you should keep it? It's a baby. If someone is raped and she gave birth and 0.75

00:30:16.180 she decided to kill her three-year-old child. I meant to kick your phone. Do not touch me. 1.00

00:30:26.900 Someone call the cops. For those who couldn't see, this male feminist dressed in his little hoodie 1.00

00:30:34.540 with his little, you know, signs and his backwards cap and his, his stupid facial hair. He's, he, 1.00

00:30:42.740 he winds up and roundhouse kicks this girl. And I don't know where, he might've kicked her in the 1.00

00:30:46.600 head because he, he kicked right in the screen, right in where the camera is. This, his name is

00:30:51.900 Jordan Hunt, by the way, if you want to find him authorities. I guess he's still on the run or who

00:30:57.200 knows? He's, I don't think he's been apprehended yet. Jordan Hunt. This was at a pro-life rally in

00:31:01.420 Toronto. That name again, Jordan Hunt, J-O-R-D-A-N-H-U-N-T. Just in case you come across the

00:31:07.840 guy. There's his picture. So this was a pro-life rally. And this guy, this wasn't a pro-abortion

00:31:13.840 rally. This wasn't like the pro-lifers crashed a pro-abortion rally. That wouldn't excuse it either

00:31:17.880 way. But apparently it's a pro-abortion rally. This guy shows up, he's vandalizing people's signs

00:31:23.360 because the left is afraid of free speech. And then he just starts harassing this woman. And

00:31:27.800 look, obviously this guy is a creep, but, and it's very creepy when men are big abortion 0.99

00:31:34.540 activists. Isn't that a little creepy? Isn't that a little, you think, well, what's your, 0.89

00:31:37.720 what's your interest in this here? Is that when you're trying to evade some responsibility? You

00:31:42.080 want to, I don't know what you want to pressure women. It's a little creepy, but there is nothing 0.63

00:31:46.120 creepier than the male feminist, nothing creepier under the sun than the male feminist. Because 1.00

00:31:51.100 what's so disgusting to us, even before he kicks her, is that this is, this is a girly 0.99

00:31:58.240 man. This is what Arnold Schwarzenegger means by a girly man. When we see a man behave like 0.98

00:32:05.520 a girl, it's really weird. We don't care when girls behave like girls. We don't care when 1.00

00:32:09.540 men behave like men. Maybe the left does. But when a man behaves like a girl, it's disgusting. 1.00

00:32:14.180 When he became like a little catty girl, the worst woman-ish, not womanly. Like this little 0.99

00:32:21.320 catty guy who thinks that he can beat up women. Because he, look, we know, civilized people know 0.95

00:32:26.940 that men should never hit women. Men, men who hit women should be taken out back, put down like old 0.94

00:32:31.760 yeller. We know that. Civilized people know that. But this guy doesn't know that because he thinks 0.99

00:32:36.200 men and women are the same, right? They're all the same. I can behave like a, like a hysterical little

00:32:41.000 girl. No, you can't. You shouldn't. It's much worse when you do that than when a girl does that, 1.00

00:32:45.360 than when a woman does that. Because male feminists like this guy, girly men, lack all of the natural 0.99

00:32:51.820 virtues of manliness. They don't have any of the virtues of being a woman, of womanliness. So they 1.00

00:32:57.000 have no virtues. They have none. The natural virtues that they could have, they abandon. It's,

00:33:01.440 it's really disgusting. That name again, Jordan Hunt, if you happen to be in Canada and come across him.

00:33:07.580 Okay. I got to think about Facebook and YouTube. We got a lot of mailbag to get to,

00:33:10.380 and then we've got the, we've got a lovely little poem that I think will invigorate all of us,

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00:35:01.060 You get all the shows and the mailbag and all that. You need this now. You need this now. The

00:35:05.980 vote for cloture is set for Friday. The vote to confirm Kavanaugh is Saturday. I don't want to hear

00:35:11.340 it. I don't want to hear it on Sunday. I don't care. The bubbles are going to stop, buddy. You got

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00:35:23.320 locker. Go to dailywire.com. We'll be right back with a mailbag and a little poetry.

00:35:31.060 Let's fly through them. From Robert, question. Golden Boy Knowles, I've always been against the

00:35:43.980 two-party system. I would like to see either no parties or multiple parties. With just two,

00:35:48.360 I feel that it's just a game of who has the bigger stick. For now, what are your thoughts on this,

00:35:52.200 Rob? I love the two-party system. It is the best party system that there is. I love it. I hear this

00:35:58.560 all the time on the right and the left. I hate the two-party system. I think it's great.

00:36:02.660 Which party system would you prefer? Would you prefer the one-party system? That's totalitarianism.

00:36:07.520 Would you prefer a multiple party, a three-party, four-party system where little spoiler parties

00:36:11.880 can go in and totally subvert the will of the people such that the least preferable party comes

00:36:18.620 into power? Would you prefer a zillion-party system where demagogues are able to take hold and 0.99

00:36:23.800 corruption inevitably takes hold? I don't think so. The two-party system goes back to the earliest

00:36:28.620 days of our country. It goes to before the country was technically even founded or before the

00:36:34.620 government was founded. We had the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists arguing over what our

00:36:39.440 government should look like. The Federalists, Hamilton, Madison, Jay, the Anti-Federalists led by

00:36:44.720 Jefferson. Then later, we had the Federalists and the Jeffersonian Republicans, the Democratic

00:36:50.960 Republicans. Then we had the Whig Party come in. Now we have the two-party system. I think it's

00:36:55.360 very good. It's good as long as you have a choice and not an echo. If the two parties believe the

00:36:59.180 same thing, then that's terrible. And we've gone through periods where that's the case. But I think

00:37:03.120 right now the two parties are genuinely offering you a different choice. The Republican Party, after

00:37:07.940 many hard-fought years of the conservative movement, is a home for conservative thought. And the

00:37:15.540 Democratic Party is a home to anti-American leftism. They're being honest at least. It's a choice

00:37:20.940 and not an echo. And I'm a big fan of that. And I think you should pick your party and you should

00:37:24.160 stick with the party so long as the party is sticking with you. From Jeffrey, hey, Michael,

00:37:28.940 I was wondering, do you believe you contribute to your salvation? It's an interesting question,

00:37:35.600 Jeffrey. I think we should be more specific in our language here. I certainly don't think that I

00:37:41.280 earned my salvation or that I deserve my salvation. But I do think that I can lose my salvation.

00:37:46.800 I do think that there is a, that my salvation can be taken away or that I can lose it depending

00:37:54.860 on how I behave. And I've got a lot of scriptural evidence for this. The gospel, according to St.

00:37:59.580 Matthew says, he who endures to the end will be saved. What if you don't endure to the end? What

00:38:06.160 if you say, okay, now I'm saved and then you don't endure to the end? It seems that you won't be

00:38:10.740 saved. How about this? See then the kindness and the severity of God, severity toward those who

00:38:15.460 have fallen. But God's kindness to you, provided you continue in his kindness, otherwise you too

00:38:22.480 will be cut off. That's from Paul's letter to the Romans. You too will be cut off if you don't

00:38:27.180 continue in his kindness. From Matthew, not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter the kingdom

00:38:31.420 of heaven. There seems to be something else that you have to do. We know that faith without works is

00:38:35.720 dead. There seems to have to be a fruit of the spirit. Not everyone who just says it gets into

00:38:40.520 heaven. From the first epistle of St. John, by this it may be seen who are the children of God and

00:38:47.280 who are the children of the devil. Whoever does not do right is not of God, nor he who does not

00:38:52.700 love his brother. So if you don't do right, then you're not of God. This implies that you have to

00:38:57.760 do something, that it's not all ethereal and abstract and happening in the mind, that there's

00:39:02.080 something that you're doing with your body. Also from first epistle of St. John, for this is the love

00:39:07.860 of God that we keep his commandments and his commandments are not burdensome. Sure, his yoke

00:39:12.380 is easy and his burden is light, but we must keep those commandments of God. What are those

00:39:16.920 commandments? You'll have to look into that, won't you? We could have a whole long discussion

00:39:20.360 about that. How about this? I have fought the good fight. I have finished the race. I have kept

00:39:25.460 the faith. Henceforth, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord,

00:39:29.700 the righteous judge, will award to me on that day. Second Timothy, because he finished the race

00:39:35.080 and he kept the faith. Also from St. Paul in the first letter to the Corinthians, or first

00:39:39.740 Corinthians, I pummel my body and subdue it, lest after preaching to others, I myself should 0.99

00:39:45.780 be disqualified. St. Paul certainly seems to think that he could lose his salvation, that

00:39:50.100 some participation was required. Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now,

00:39:55.680 not only as in my presence, but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with

00:40:00.520 fear and trembling with hopeful confidence in the promises of Christ. That's also from

00:40:05.280 the letter to the Philippians. Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. The reason 0.84

00:40:11.420 that I bring all that scripture in is because I think sometimes my very well-meaning friends

00:40:15.680 from various denominations try to make false dichotomies between faith and works, or by not

00:40:24.520 participating at all in the process of your salvation or in losing your salvation, or of suggesting

00:40:30.860 that we don't really have any free will. And this misreads all of the teachings of the church from

00:40:38.480 the very beginning. And it misreads scripture too. Freedom matters. And if someone thinks that it's

00:40:44.720 just so easy as to snap one's fingers and to be saved and never think about it again, I would recommend

00:40:49.500 rereading St. Paul who says that we, he urges us all to work out our salvation with fear and

00:40:55.740 trembling. Also a good book by Soren Kierkegaard. We'll keep doing a couple more before we get to

00:41:01.440 that poem. From Colleen, greetings to the Daily Wire's resident Catholic. I've been mulling over

00:41:06.200 comments that you've made in the recent past about young men sowing their wild oats and the indulgence

00:41:11.800 you appeared to give them for living a reckless youth. I firmly believe in forgiveness and letting

00:41:16.660 someone's past be the past. But wouldn't it be better for that past to not be there at all?

00:41:21.240 Also, if I'm remembering this correctly, you seem to have a boys will be boys attitude

00:41:24.820 toward porn in your Alex Jones trans porn segment a while back. If this is not your view toward porn,

00:41:30.700 please set me straight. In a nutshell, shouldn't sin still be called sin and not be poo-pooed as a

00:41:35.740 growing experience that makes me me? Or perhaps, I don't understand since my adolescent rebellion

00:41:40.720 amounted to getting a job to put myself through Catholic private school rather than be homeschooled.

00:41:45.720 Throughout my youth, I had the boring sin of pride to contend with and not the more exciting

00:41:49.680 sins of lust and intemperance. Well, you're missing out on something, let me tell you.

00:41:53.560 As someone who had a little bit more than pride in my reckless youth, yeah, I'm not, nobody is saying

00:41:59.200 that sin is a good thing. If I'm laughing at sin, I'm not praising sin. I'm not adoring sin. If I'm

00:42:06.000 saying that, you know, men are going to look at porn in a world where it's free and easily available

00:42:12.560 and is beamed into our homes, I'm not saying that's a good thing or that we shouldn't not look

00:42:17.460 at porn or that men, you know, I guess some women look at porn too, but I think it's mostly a male

00:42:21.540 thing or that we shouldn't, you know, take every opportunity to be led away from temptation and to

00:42:28.700 prevent ourselves from near occasions of sin. But I am laughing at sin because I don't spend my whole

00:42:35.820 life quaking in fear of sin. I don't, I don't really worry about it. I, uh, cause my, my redeemer

00:42:42.320 lives and has conquered death. And so I do what I can to avoid sin. And I recommend that everyone

00:42:49.280 does it, not just when they're in their twenties or thirties or forties, but also when they're kids

00:42:53.800 and when they're teenagers. But I am pointing out that, uh, especially in teenage years, people are

00:43:00.480 going to do stupid things. They're going to boof and they're going to have brewskies with PJ and 0.98

00:43:04.960 squee. And they're going to do, and they, they might even, you know, make an awkward pass at a

00:43:10.080 girl and they're going to do those things. And, uh, uh, I look no further for evidence of this than

00:43:16.600 St. Augustine, father of the church who famously said, Lord, make me chaste, but not yet. This isn't

00:43:22.780 to say that sinning is a good thing that we should encourage sin at all, but the good Lord can turn sin

00:43:28.020 and conquer it and turn it for good. He can do that. He can turn you away from sin and for good.

00:43:35.520 And you can participate in that as well with your free will. You know, the original sin, the fall of

00:43:40.100 man, that, that pride that caused man to fall out of the garden, we call it the felix culpa, the happy

00:43:44.920 fall because God redeems mankind because of the incarnation and because of the resurrection. So I just

00:43:52.480 don't spend my life fretting over it as much as, uh, uh, perhaps some people do.

00:43:58.260 It's a bad thing. I don't, I don't, uh, revel in the bad things that I've done in my life and that

00:44:04.940 I'll continue to do and that I'll probably do tomorrow too. I don't revel in them at all. I

00:44:08.600 don't think they're good at all. I think they're really bad. I look on them with shame, but one

00:44:13.620 must look at the, uh, the realities of how people behaved yesterday and today and how young boys and

00:44:20.300 young girls are going to behave tomorrow and for all of eternity because we're in a fallen 0.96

00:44:23.860 world. But fortunately Christ has conquered sin. And, uh, you know, some people are going

00:44:29.360 to, going to ask the Lord to make them chased sooner rather than later, just like St. Augustine.

00:44:34.480 One more, then we'll get to the poem from Jason. Dear Michael, I tremendously enjoy your show,

00:44:39.780 but I'm ashamed of you. Cocaine Lindsay. Really? Cocaine Lindsay? The man's last name is Graham.

00:44:46.620 Graham. G-R-A-M, Graham. You passed up the chance to call him Cocaine Graham for Cocaine Lindsay.

00:44:54.200 Oh, Jason. I feel you, Jason. I totally feel you. I, I get it. But I, I, one thing I've learned from

00:45:03.180 the Trump era in politics is that subtlety doesn't always play. I know the Cocaine Graham is better,

00:45:10.200 like a gram of cocaine, you know, but if I said Cocaine Graham or Lindsay Graham, people wouldn't

00:45:17.360 get it. It wouldn't make that connection right away. It's kind of like Focahontas. Focahontas is

00:45:22.540 the funnier name for Elizabeth Warren. F-A-U-X, Cahontas. Focahontas. But Donald Trump calls her

00:45:31.100 Pocahontas. And Pocahontas stuck. Why? Because Focahontas, first of all, you have to know the word

00:45:35.700 foe. Then you have to see how it's being spelled in that context. Then you have to realize you're actually

00:45:39.520 talking about two words. It just doesn't work. The left tried to do this actually also with foe,

00:45:43.640 with foe news for Fox News, and it just doesn't, it doesn't work. Sometimes you got to bludgeon

00:45:47.440 people on the head, especially in politics, especially when the politics are as murky as

00:45:51.640 this. So I got to stick with Cocaine Lindsay for now. But I agree. Cocaine Graham is funnier.

00:45:56.480 Lindsay Graham is funnier. I'll be able to think about that while I'm just, just celebrating

00:46:01.640 and, and, you know, doing my little Scarface dance for, for Lindsay Graham 2.0. Before we leave,

00:46:08.100 it's National Poetry Day. I love poetry. I love reading poetry. People don't really read

00:46:12.300 poetry anymore. I don't even know if it's really taught in school or if you have to memorize it

00:46:16.860 in school. But I, I was thinking, what poem should we read for National Poetry Day? What

00:46:22.040 speaks to our current culture? And there's a great one by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow called

00:46:26.540 A Psalm of Life, which speaks to this moment that we're in this scientism. You know, Longfellow

00:46:33.980 was writing this poem against the science, scientism of his age. And we've got a much

00:46:38.920 worse scientism. The idea that everything is material. Nothing really matters. There's

00:46:42.920 no moral order. There's no purpose to life. Life is a tale told by an idiot full of sound

00:46:46.900 and fury signifying nothing. And that just isn't true. And even on the other side, people 1.00

00:46:51.900 who say, oh, even if you're really religious and you realize that the soul exists, you say,

00:46:55.680 oh, freedom doesn't matter. It doesn't, who cares what we do? And this poem says, not quite.

00:47:00.540 It's a great poem to, to read and memorize and think about for our age. A Psalm of Life

00:47:05.220 by Longfellow. What the heart of the young man said to the psalmist, tell me not in mournful

00:47:11.200 numbers. Life is but an empty dream for the soul is dead that slumbers and things are not

00:47:17.620 what they seem. Life is real. Life is earnest and the grave is not its goal. Dust thou art

00:47:23.960 to dust returnest was not spoken of the soul. Not enjoyment and not sorrow is our destined

00:47:30.480 end or way, but to act that each tomorrow find us farther than today. Art is long and time is

00:47:37.600 fleeting and our hearts, though stout and brave, still like muffled drums are beating funeral

00:47:43.800 marches to the grave. In the world's broad field of battle, in the bivouac of life, be not like dumb 0.98

00:47:50.900 driven cattle. Be a hero in the strife. Trust no future, howe'er pleasant. Let the dead past bury 0.98

00:47:57.460 it's dead. Act. Act in the living present. Heart within and God or head. Lives of great

00:48:04.680 men all remind us we can make our lives sublime. And departing leave behind us footprints on the

00:48:10.860 sands of time. Footprints that perhaps another sailing o'er life's solemn main. A forlorn and

00:48:17.180 shipwrecked brother. Seeing shall take heart again. Let us then be up and doing with a heart

00:48:24.220 for any fate. Still achieving, still pursuing. Learn to labor and to wait. And now you will have

00:48:31.620 to wait until Monday when we come back. Although you'll get to see the second season of Another

00:48:35.920 Kingdom coming out tomorrow. Be sure to go to dailywire.com for that. In the meantime, I'm

00:48:39.360 Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. I'll see you Monday.

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The Michael Knowles Show - October 04, 2018

Ep. 229 - Ha Ha, You Lost

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