The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 231 - Did Everyone Forget The U.N. Doesn’t Matter？

00:00:00.000 Nikki Haley has resigned as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations,

00:00:04.100 prompting tears and panic among conservatives who seem to have forgotten that the U.N. does not matter at all.

00:00:10.240 We will examine the unexpected resignation.

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00:02:34.420 All right, Nikki Haley has resigned.

00:02:36.680 She's out at the UN.

00:02:38.400 People are rending their garments, gnashing their teeth.

00:02:41.640 I want to make two points on this.

00:02:43.180 One, Nikki Haley did an excellent job as the UN ambassador. 0.80

00:02:48.080 She's actually not officially out until after the new year, so she'll continue to do a good

00:02:52.920 job, presumably.

00:02:53.900 She did an excellent job as UN ambassador. 0.95

00:02:56.500 The second point I want to make, I don't really care that she's moving on.

00:03:00.540 I don't care.

00:03:01.480 I don't, I mean, it's the UN.

00:03:03.780 Have we all forgotten that the UN does not matter at all?

00:03:06.440 You know, two things can be true at once.

00:03:10.060 So, but let's focus on point one first.

00:03:12.400 She really did do an excellent job. 0.99

00:03:14.680 She had these great breakout moments.

00:03:17.040 Here is one right after the UN decided to censure the United States for moving the U.S.

00:03:24.920 embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.

00:03:26.560 Here is Nikki Haley's response.

00:03:28.040 I think it really summed up her entire tenure at the United Nations.

00:03:30.860 Unlike in some UN member countries, the United States government is answerable to its people.

00:03:39.400 As such, we have an obligation to acknowledge when our political and financial capital is

00:03:44.940 being poorly spent.

00:03:46.960 We have an obligation to demand more for our investment.

00:03:51.400 And if our investment fails, we have an obligation to spend our resources in more productive ways.

00:03:58.640 The United States will remember this day in which it was singled out for attack in the

00:04:05.300 General Assembly for the very act of exercising our right as a sovereign nation.

00:04:11.100 We will remember it when we are called upon to once again make the world's largest contribution

00:04:16.220 to the United Nations.

00:04:18.500 And we will remember it when so many countries come calling on us, as they so often do, to

00:04:25.020 pay even more and to use our influence for their benefit.

00:04:30.440 Absolutely beautiful.

00:04:31.740 And it does remind me of that clip of Cocaine Mitch from 2013, you know, where he says,

00:04:37.440 we will remember this and the Democrats are going to regret this in the near future.

00:04:43.200 You know, and like his demon eyes open up and he's like, I'm coming for you.

00:04:47.280 And the same thing with Nikki Haley here.

00:04:49.540 And she's saying, we're going to remember this when we set up a foreign aid.

00:04:53.400 We're going to remember this when we continue to be the lion's share contributor to the United

00:04:59.640 Nations.

00:05:00.220 We'll remember your ingratitude, but we frankly, we don't care what you have to say.

00:05:04.060 That was beautiful, beautiful stuff from Nikki Haley.

00:05:08.760 Now, I must say, I have had some disagreements with Ambassador Haley in the past, really only

00:05:14.540 one.

00:05:15.240 I had this one major disagreement with her.

00:05:17.620 She was speaking at a conference for Turning Point USA.

00:05:20.580 This was maybe six months ago or something like that.

00:05:23.280 Maybe a little bit less.

00:05:24.580 And she spoke out against owning the libs. 1.00

00:05:28.200 This was kind of the low point, I think, in her tenure as UN ambassador.

00:05:31.680 Here is Nikki Haley.

00:05:32.460 Raise your hand if you've ever posted anything online to, quote unquote, own the libs.

00:05:39.620 I know it's fun and that it can feel good.

00:05:44.440 But step back and think about what you're accomplishing when you do this.

00:05:53.100 Are you persuading anyone?

00:05:55.660 Raise your hand if you've ever done anything on the internet to own the libs.

00:05:59.020 Raise your hand if you've ever done a bestselling blank book to own the libs.

00:06:02.460 Raise your hand if most of what you think about when you wake up in the morning is how you

00:06:05.980 can own the libs.

00:06:09.020 So, yeah, we have a disagreement over this.

00:06:11.300 And the disagreement is mostly stylistic, but it is strategic as well.

00:06:16.820 And I actually spoke in D.C. about a week after this to give an answer to this speech.

00:06:21.620 And the idea is she says that you're not persuading anybody when you're owning the libs.

00:06:27.040 But I think it really is persuasive when you own the libs.

00:06:29.760 I think it's very persuasive.

00:06:31.360 What is owning the libs?

00:06:32.400 Owning the libs is largely using humor and just propelling your political agenda with 1.00

00:06:38.460 confidence and not getting bogged down in all of the stupid criticisms from the left. 0.99

00:06:42.660 That's what owning the libs is. 1.00

00:06:44.120 It's using humor to advance your political agenda.

00:06:46.620 And it's not really caring when the left shrieks and howls and moans.

00:06:50.620 I think this is wonderful.

00:06:51.920 I think that is leadership.

00:06:53.380 I think it is persuasive.

00:06:54.680 I think the Trump administration, the Trump victory, all the way up through this Kavanaugh

00:07:00.860 confirmation displays this perfectly, the great strategic advantage of owning the libs.

00:07:06.360 And I think it's nice.

00:07:07.300 It makes people like us more.

00:07:08.580 If we can smile a little, have a sense of humor, laugh a little bit.

00:07:12.000 So that was an actual point of disagreement on strategy.

00:07:15.540 But it certainly didn't affect Ambassador Haley's performance at the United Nations.

00:07:19.540 And I think maybe she just she doesn't fully appreciate yet what owning the libs can do. 0.88

00:07:24.300 You know, it's a really lovely thing to do.

00:07:25.720 But but that blind spot aside, she did a wonderful job at the UN.

00:07:29.820 I'm glad she did it.

00:07:30.980 She basically nailed it, stuck the landing. 1.00

00:07:34.120 Now she's going to do something else. 0.94

00:07:35.400 That's fine.

00:07:36.280 It it doesn't matter that she's leaving.

00:07:38.920 I know, you know, we talk a lot in politics how everybody is so reflexively outraged.

00:07:45.380 This is the big problem on the left and the right.

00:07:47.440 We're all reflexively outraged.

00:07:48.740 We're all in the news cycle.

00:07:49.740 We're all on Twitter.

00:07:50.600 The latest thing addicted to outrage is the title of Glenn Beck's book.

00:07:54.100 This is a good example to avoid being addicted to outrage or shock or horror or hysteria.

00:08:01.240 It does not matter who the UN ambassador is in this administration.

00:08:07.000 It doesn't in this because the White House sets the policy.

00:08:10.040 It sets our policy toward the United Nations.

00:08:11.620 It sets our foreign policy.

00:08:13.120 So the ambassador to the United Nations needs to be a good face for America to the world.

00:08:17.120 Needs to be able to stare down the worst people in the world.

00:08:19.480 OK, all great.

00:08:20.540 Nikki Haley did that very well.

00:08:21.920 But who's actually making the policy here?

00:08:23.820 It's guys in the White House.

00:08:25.200 It's John Bolton.

00:08:26.520 It's Mike Pompeo over at State.

00:08:28.600 It's Dunford, the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

00:08:31.980 It's James Mattis, Defense Secretary.

00:08:34.980 Those are the guys who are actually making the policy.

00:08:37.620 The UN ambassador isn't really doing that.

00:08:40.220 You know, the UN ambassadorship has gone back and forth from being a cabinet level position

00:08:44.400 for decades now.

00:08:46.360 It is right now a cabinet level position.

00:08:48.520 The only reason it was in the first place is because Dwight Eisenhower really liked Henry

00:08:53.320 Cabot Lodge.

00:08:54.880 And after John Kennedy beat out Henry Cabot Lodge in, I think it was 1952, I think it was

00:09:01.840 52, he decided to appoint him UN ambassador and make it a cabinet level position just so

00:09:06.860 that Lodge could talk to the president, just so he wouldn't have to go through the Department

00:09:10.180 of State.

00:09:10.940 But it's gone back and forth over the years.

00:09:12.860 It remained a cabinet level position through the Reagan administration.

00:09:16.000 George Bush Sr. demoted it and made it no longer a cabinet level position, which is

00:09:21.560 kind of funny because George Bush had been the UN ambassador before, but he said there

00:09:25.900 was no reason for it to be a cabinet level position.

00:09:28.700 Bill Clinton then reinstated it as a cabinet position.

00:09:31.580 George Bush demoted it again.

00:09:34.140 And during Bush's tenure, we had the greatest UN ambassador in American history, John Bolton,

00:09:39.180 the current national security advisor.

00:09:40.460 Obama made it a cabinet level position again, and Donald Trump has maintained it as a cabinet

00:09:46.260 level position.

00:09:47.380 Interestingly, too, John Bolton, who was the UN ambassador, does not believe that this should

00:09:52.360 be a cabinet level position because it's a little awkward.

00:09:55.420 You shouldn't have two people from the same department, both at cabinet level positions,

00:09:59.840 Secretary of State and the ambassador to the United Nations.

00:10:04.020 So I agree with that.

00:10:05.380 I don't think that the position matters at all.

00:10:07.800 I think it's a glorified spokesman, and that's fine.

00:10:10.940 A lot of politics is being a glorified spokesman, but it doesn't mean we need to worry and say,

00:10:16.140 oh, gosh, everything's falling apart.

00:10:17.940 Also, I will point out, when people have left this administration, it's either the people

00:10:24.220 they've been replaced by are either just as good or better.

00:10:27.380 Have you noticed this?

00:10:28.060 You know, McMaster goes away, and we get John Bolton.

00:10:32.940 Tillerson goes away.

00:10:33.820 Tillerson was pretty good.

00:10:34.900 And then we get Mike Pompeo.

00:10:36.020 He's even better.

00:10:37.240 The people who, Reince Priebus goes away, and you get John Kelly.

00:10:41.960 John Kelly's been an excellent chief of staff.

00:10:44.880 Sean Spicer goes away.

00:10:45.840 You get Sarah Sanders.

00:10:46.800 I thought Sean Spicer was good, but Sarah Sanders was even better.

00:10:50.020 So I do trust President Trump on personnel matters broadly, the amoroses of the world

00:10:55.640 aside.

00:10:56.080 I think he's done very well in appointing people, in putting people in good positions, and being

00:11:00.220 able to delegate to them.

00:11:01.440 And this was an amicable exit.

00:11:04.060 So if they stormed out, and he said something mean to Haley, and she said, you know, I'm running

00:11:08.780 in 2020, that would be a disaster.

00:11:11.220 That really would not be great at all.

00:11:12.900 But that's not what happened.

00:11:14.800 He tweeted out.

00:11:15.440 He said, my friend Nikki Haley is, you know, going to leave now, but she can always come

00:11:20.520 back.

00:11:21.080 We always want her to come back.

00:11:22.220 She said that she needs a break from politics.

00:11:24.460 And fair enough.

00:11:25.220 Maybe she does need a break from politics. 1.00

00:11:29.860 There is a lot of speculation as to why she left, but I will, before we speculate, before

00:11:36.080 we go on and try to figure out what's going to happen next, who's coming up next, why she's

00:11:40.200 leaving, I do just want to leave you with a very important point.

00:11:43.100 From the current National Security Advisor, the former Ambassador to the United Nations,

00:11:48.780 John Bolton, as to why this is all going to be okay.

00:11:52.680 The point that I want to leave with you in this very brief presentation is where I started.

00:11:58.620 If there is no United Nations, there is an international community that occasionally can be led by the

00:12:08.200 only real power left in the world, and that's the United States, when it suits our interest, 0.92

00:12:14.700 and when we can get others to go along.

00:12:16.720 The secretariat building in New York has 38 stories.

00:12:19.980 If you lost 10 stories today, it would make a bit of difference.

00:12:24.260 The United States makes the UN work when it wants it to work.

00:12:27.620 And that is exactly the way it should be, because the only question, the only question

00:12:33.080 to the United States is what's in our national interest.

00:12:35.840 And if you don't like that, I'm sorry, but that is the fact.

00:12:39.300 Yeah, get him!

00:12:40.380 My only question in all this is if it's possible to simultaneously serve as the National Security

00:12:47.400 Advisor and the Ambassador to the United Nations.

00:12:50.240 I am running the Make John Bolton UN Ambassador Again campaign, or the M-J-B-U-N-A-G.

00:13:00.200 That's not going to look as good on a hat, but that's what I want.

00:13:02.520 That would be terrific.

00:13:03.300 So to round that out, good job, Nikki Haley, excellent job, job well done, we're going

00:13:09.960 to be okay.

00:13:10.600 Now, why did she leave? 0.99

00:13:11.700 The timing is pretty weird, because typically, if you're going to have a personnel change,

00:13:16.180 you would wait until after the midterm elections.

00:13:19.520 Look, I'm not saying this is going to throw races in Missouri or something like that, but

00:13:23.900 it is a little weird.

00:13:25.420 Politics is very volatile.

00:13:27.100 Any change can have a dynamic effect, especially a month or two before an election.

00:13:32.320 So why is she leaving now?

00:13:34.260 I'm not quite sure about that.

00:13:35.820 One would think maybe it's because she's going to run for president. 1.00

00:13:38.480 She's going to primary Trump. 1.00

00:13:39.720 This would be a very stupid idea. 1.00

00:13:41.560 I mean, this would be political suicide for her. 1.00

00:13:43.600 She took the job in the first place to shore up her bona fides among the conservative base

00:13:51.260 and among Trump supporters.

00:13:53.460 During the presidential campaign, Nikki Haley was broadly never Trump.

00:13:57.800 Then, obviously, she served very well and ably during the administration.

00:14:01.340 I don't think she's doing that.

00:14:03.120 She said explicitly, I am not running in 2020.

00:14:05.500 I look forward to campaigning with President Trump in 2020.

00:14:08.460 I really don't think that's what's going on.

00:14:10.220 One theory is that she's going to replace Lindsey Graham in the Senate, and Lindsey Graham 1.00

00:14:17.300 is going to become the attorney general and replace Jeff Sessions.

00:14:21.680 I also don't really believe that.

00:14:23.580 I suppose that's more likely, but I don't really believe that whatsoever because, one,

00:14:28.280 why would Lindsey Graham ever want that job? 1.00

00:14:30.500 Lindsey Graham is living his best life now.

00:14:32.900 Cocaine Lindsey.

00:14:33.900 Lindsey Graham-bo unleashed in the Senate, just excoriating his fellow members. 0.85

00:14:40.320 So I don't think he's going to do that.

00:14:41.860 Why would he leave that relative job security for the apparent difficulties of working as

00:14:47.780 President Trump's attorney general?

00:14:49.020 Don't really buy it.

00:14:50.060 And also, why would Nikki Haley want to be in the Senate? 0.99

00:14:53.360 She seems to really enjoy executive roles.

00:14:55.660 Governor of South Carolina, ambassador to the UN, has her little fiefdom there at the

00:14:59.620 UN.

00:15:00.200 So I don't really buy that one either.

00:15:02.700 Maybe it's the Kavanaugh stuff.

00:15:04.960 This is, I don't know if it's likely, but it's at least plausible.

00:15:08.600 The timing is so weird she waited until just after Judge Kavanaugh was confirmed, and then

00:15:13.540 she decided she's out.

00:15:16.440 Does this have something to do with I am woman, hear me roar solidarity?

00:15:19.840 Again, I don't really buy this because, again, the majority of Americans wanted Kavanaugh

00:15:26.800 confirmed after that FBI investigation.

00:15:29.660 Certainly, the majority of conservatives, Christine Ford's allegations have fallen apart.

00:15:33.660 The other ones have fallen apart, too.

00:15:35.520 So I don't know what stand she's making.

00:15:38.300 It could be politics that are a little too clever by half, which is resigning, announcing

00:15:43.180 your resignation right at this time, right after Kavanaugh, and then not running immediately.

00:15:48.200 And so later on, you can either say, I resigned because of Kavanaugh, or you can say, I didn't

00:15:53.780 resign because of Kavanaugh.

00:15:54.920 And either way, you get the benefit of the doubt.

00:15:57.380 I suppose that's possible.

00:15:58.680 In any case, that would allow her to go and just, you know, hang out at home and chill on

00:16:05.140 the sidelines.

00:16:05.680 And that's perfectly fine.

00:16:06.620 She's got a son.

00:16:07.780 She's, you know, she's worked very hard.

00:16:10.200 It's very hard working in these administrations.

00:16:12.380 And do I think this is normal turnover?

00:16:14.340 Not quite.

00:16:15.540 The timing's too weird for that.

00:16:16.960 But she might have other ambitions that she doesn't need to jump on right now.

00:16:21.140 The final possibility is that she's just being sidelined.

00:16:25.720 And this, I think, is probably the most likely.

00:16:28.140 You've got some very big personalities in the foreign policy room.

00:16:32.140 You know, Mattis, John Bolton, certainly, Pompeo.

00:16:38.040 These are big personalities who have distinct points of view on certain crucial matters.

00:16:43.140 They tend to butt up against Nikki Haley, particularly on Russia and, you know, America's

00:16:48.280 greater and lesser geopolitical threats.

00:16:51.120 So perhaps it's just that her views are being sidelined.

00:16:53.560 Part of the UN ambassador role is to advise the president.

00:16:56.100 If you've got a guy like John Bolton in the room, who's a former UN ambassador and has

00:17:00.240 a very well thought out and determined foreign policy plan, maybe there's just no place for

00:17:06.880 her there.

00:17:07.180 I don't know.

00:17:07.700 It could be that.

00:17:08.860 But again, I don't really care.

00:17:11.400 She did a good job. 0.72

00:17:13.020 The circumstances of her exit don't change that she did a good job.

00:17:16.340 The UN continues not to matter whatsoever.

00:17:18.580 It should be abolished, demolished, and turned into waterfront condominiums on the east side

00:17:23.140 of Manhattan.

00:17:24.020 It's fine.

00:17:24.480 Who cares?

00:17:25.500 Who cares?

00:17:26.400 Good work, Nikki.

00:17:28.360 We're going to keep on telling the rest of the international community of the worst people 1.00

00:17:33.760 on earth, Iran.

00:17:34.860 You know, Iran, China, Russia.

00:17:38.240 We're going to continue to tell them where they can stuff it.

00:17:41.200 And this does bring up the question of who will replace Ambassador Haley.

00:17:45.820 Unfortunately, I don't think you can serve simultaneously as NSA and ambassador to the

00:17:50.620 United Nations, which means probably we're going to have to reach somewhere else in the diplomatic

00:17:55.400 core or from some, you know, political supporter.

00:17:58.920 One name that has been floated now is Richard Grinnell.

00:18:03.860 He is the ambassador to Germany.

00:18:05.960 He seems like a fairly likely candidate.

00:18:08.600 He has a few things going for him.

00:18:09.900 He spent eight years as a spokesman and as a political appointee to the United Nations.

00:18:14.740 That is the longest tenure of any U.S. appointee to the UN in history.

00:18:21.140 He's also very close with John Bolton.

00:18:23.000 We know John Bolton has the ear of the president and John Bolton's former UN ambassador.

00:18:28.020 So it might be him.

00:18:29.100 He sounds like a pretty good guy.

00:18:30.340 Anybody who can get up there and tell the United Nations and the international community

00:18:35.880 where to stuff it is good by me.

00:18:38.300 Nikki Haley did a good job at that. 0.82

00:18:39.760 I wish the next person a lot of luck and I wish Nikki Haley luck in whatever she's going

00:18:43.240 to do next.

00:18:44.540 I would like to spike the football one more time with regard to Kavanaugh.

00:18:47.660 I know we haven't done it enough, have we?

00:18:49.600 We have, I've been doing it for like a week and a half now.

00:18:51.580 I just, I just want to, yep, still delicious.

00:18:58.060 So we're going to spike it again.

00:18:58.800 Here is President Trump in a very unconventional and extraordinary press conference on the confirmation

00:19:06.280 of Brett Kavanaugh.

00:19:07.780 I would like to begin tonight's proceeding differently than perhaps any other event of such magnitude.

00:19:14.240 On behalf of our nation, I want to apologize to Brett and the entire Kavanaugh family for

00:19:22.280 the terrible pain and suffering you have been forced to endure.

00:19:28.700 Those who step forward to serve our country deserve a fair and dignified evaluation, not a

00:19:36.700 campaign of political and personal destruction based on lies and deception.

00:19:41.280 What happened to the Kavanaugh family violates every notion of fairness, decency, and due process.

00:19:50.100 Our country, a man or a woman, must always be presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty. 0.98

00:19:59.580 Bingo, absolutely right.

00:20:04.900 You know, a lesser man, a weaker president would go out there and say, oh, I feel really bad for the accusers.

00:20:10.860 And well, we'll just see.

00:20:12.000 Actually, I think what a lot of presidents would have done is withdrawn the nomination, probably.

00:20:17.020 And so, oh, well, I don't know.

00:20:18.080 But this guy has a moral clarity.

00:20:20.720 He really does.

00:20:21.320 I know how insane that sounds.

00:20:23.400 I know how unexpected that sounds.

00:20:26.060 He has a moral clarity, a gut-level moral clarity.

00:20:31.260 Look at the Columbus Day thing yesterday.

00:20:34.140 What does Donald Trump know about Christopher Columbus?

00:20:36.320 Probably not very much.

00:20:37.480 But he knows what counts.

00:20:38.640 He knows what matters.

00:20:39.580 He was a great man who discovered America.

00:20:41.800 And he was a good guy.

00:20:43.120 And he's been unfairly maligned by leftist, revisionist, activist historians.

00:20:47.520 And we should celebrate him.

00:20:49.360 And to oppose Christopher Columbus is to oppose our own civilization.

00:20:52.800 And it's anti-American.

00:20:53.740 And that's what all of that stuff is about.

00:20:55.100 He knows that.

00:20:56.160 And he knows that he should support Columbus.

00:20:58.940 On this, what does he know about what happened 36 years ago?

00:21:01.860 Not very much.

00:21:02.820 But what does Donald Trump know about BS?

00:21:06.020 Everything.

00:21:06.720 He knows a lot about it.

00:21:08.500 You know, you don't BS a BSer.

00:21:11.180 I think that's the line.

00:21:12.700 Donald Trump knows that.

00:21:14.040 He can smell it.

00:21:14.880 When Christine Ford's storyline was changing, she was contradicting herself. 0.83

00:21:19.440 She was being exposed for lies that she had said.

00:21:22.400 Key details that have not only been changed, but changed in such a way that they were unfalsifiable.

00:21:27.580 President Trump, a lot of Republicans and conservatives said, oh, well, I don't know.

00:21:31.580 And I believe.

00:21:32.620 And please, I don't know.

00:21:33.660 Don't make me answer.

00:21:34.780 And what did President Trump do?

00:21:35.840 He said, yeah, that story keeps changing.

00:21:37.740 No, we're sticking by Brett.

00:21:39.240 And you should all apologize to Brett.

00:21:40.980 Absolutely right.

00:21:42.340 That is a moral clarity.

00:21:43.920 And he should have done exactly what he did at that press conference and say, I would like to apologize on behalf of the country for what happened to you, Brett, and what happened to your family.

00:21:53.480 Totally right.

00:21:54.540 How does he have this moral clarity is what I want to know.

00:21:57.300 This is a guy who's worked in pretty mucky industries, you know, network television, reality TV, construction in New York, casinos, beauty pageants, politics, pretty gross stuff.

00:22:12.100 So how does he have this kind of moral clarity?

00:22:14.200 He doesn't have it on everything.

00:22:15.400 You know, he's been a little liberal when it comes to the ladies, for instance.

00:22:19.780 But where it counts, and especially where it counts in his role as president, he's got it, I think of it as akin to the ability to skim a book.

00:22:28.420 You know, this is an important skill to learn when you go to college, because especially if you're taking a lot of classes or graduate level classes, you're going to have an amount of reading that is not possible to complete, especially if you want to go out and, you know, like go to Beach Week 2019, you know, and just go like boothing and throwing ice cubes at bars.

00:22:46.200 You're not going to have time to read it all.

00:22:47.420 So one of the skills that you have to learn is how to power skim.

00:22:51.800 You need to be able to skim for the information, because you're going to be tested on the information.

00:22:56.340 You're going to be tested on what matters.

00:22:57.560 You have to be able to, like, scan hundreds and hundreds of pages per week, or sometimes, you know, 200 pages or 300 pages in a day, and pluck out the information that matters.

00:23:08.680 I think that's how President Trump sees the world.

00:23:10.880 I think he's constantly consuming information.

00:23:13.040 They're always saying, you know, that he just sits in his room and watches Fox and Friends all morning.

00:23:18.040 Yeah, maybe he does.

00:23:19.260 And he's consuming all of that information, filtering out the nonsense, and identifying what really matters.

00:23:25.200 He's able to do that time and time again on key policy matters, on moving the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, on how to deal with ISIS, on how to deal with North Korea, on how to deal with trade in China, how to renegotiate NAFTA.

00:23:41.600 He's been able to identify things where we say, oh, President Trump, he's not an ideological conservative.

00:23:47.320 He's never read Edmund Burke or Michael Oakeshott or Russell Kirk or whatever.

00:23:51.940 He's never read these books.

00:23:52.880 Sure, maybe he hasn't.

00:23:54.600 I know he's read Reasons to Vote for Democrats, a comprehensive guide.

00:23:57.260 I know that for a fact because he blurbed it.

00:23:59.300 But I don't know if he's read those other books.

00:24:01.180 But he's able to identify what matters, the practical things that matters.

00:24:06.220 That's a wonderful quality in a president.

00:24:08.860 Because, you know, I bet Barack Obama has read all those books.

00:24:12.120 In fact, I'm almost certain of it.

00:24:14.300 He's read all of those books and he's learned nothing from them.

00:24:17.540 President Trump watches Fox and Friends and he learns so much more than Barack Obama ever learned.

00:24:22.720 That's fine.

00:24:24.000 Fine by me.

00:24:24.720 I really appreciate that.

00:24:25.800 You know, some people on the right also, but certainly on the left, they criticize Trump.

00:24:33.480 They criticize Kavanaugh because they say, oh, well, he's not behaving the way I want him to. 0.97

00:24:38.160 Oh, we accused Kavanaugh of being a rapist. 0.95

00:24:40.620 And then he got emotional. 0.98

00:24:42.160 Oh, he shouldn't do that.

00:24:43.900 You know.

00:24:44.200 By the way, that Sicilian expression means, I don't care.

00:24:50.200 Some people think it means a more vulgar thing.

00:24:51.880 It means, I don't care.

00:24:53.020 Antonin Scalia spelled that out very well before his death.

00:24:56.080 But that's what I say to them.

00:24:58.160 That's what I say.

00:24:59.260 For those of you who are listening, I'm scratching my four fingers underneath my chin.

00:25:03.580 Who cares?

00:25:04.400 And how dare you?

00:25:05.080 Who are you to say?

00:25:06.500 Because Barack Obama sips his shabblee with the pinky out.

00:25:09.460 He knows.

00:25:10.520 He knows.

00:25:11.700 He has all of the information and he knows nothing.

00:25:14.200 President Trump, I don't know.

00:25:15.180 He just manages to pluck out these things and have some moral clarity.

00:25:18.520 It's really refreshing.

00:25:20.160 Speaking of Brett Kavanaugh, before we get off this point, there has been a cash surge for Democrats after the Kavanaugh nomination.

00:25:29.460 That's the headline, at least.

00:25:30.820 Actually, both parties have raised money on this.

00:25:32.940 But there's been a cash surge according to, you know, all of the mainstream media.

00:25:38.000 And one in particular stands out.

00:25:40.080 But Kamala Harris sent out one fundraising email for Heidi Heitkamp, who is an imperiled Democrat running for Senate. 1.00

00:25:47.260 And with that one email, she raised $400,000.

00:25:50.160 It was an anti-Kavanaugh email.

00:25:51.380 She raised $400,000 for Heitkamp.

00:25:53.420 That is pretty impressive.

00:25:55.700 But you've got to compare that with another number that came out of this whole Kavanaugh thing, which is that the more the Kavanaugh thing dragged on, the further behind Heidi Heitkamp fell.

00:26:05.460 So I think now she's like 12 points behind or something like that.

00:26:08.580 But she was able to raise all that money.

00:26:11.160 What does that mean?

00:26:11.700 It means that a small number of lefties have been whipped up into a frenzy and are giving money, even as the candidate is losing support overall.

00:26:19.140 What is that about?

00:26:20.480 Why are these small number of lefties getting whipped up into such a frenzy and giving so much money?

00:26:25.980 It's because the left treats politics like religion.

00:26:29.440 This is a form of tithing for leftists.

00:26:32.880 Giving money to Heidi Heitkamp is a form of tithing. 1.00

00:26:36.360 It may be a form of indulgence.

00:26:38.020 You hear them on the left all the time talk about white privilege and male privilege and mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.

00:26:44.900 I think it's an indulgence to make good for your sin of being a straight white guy who knows that he's a guy or whatever aspect of that you might possess by giving to some imperiled Democrat running for Senate.

00:27:01.540 I see it as religion.

00:27:04.240 And Hillary Clinton, my third cousin-in-law once removed, I always forget which one she is, third or fourth cousin-in-law once removed, she is underscoring this.

00:27:14.780 She says, she just came out and said, you can't be civil with a party that opposes everything that you stand for.

00:27:22.320 That you stand for.

00:27:23.400 It's always, you know, rationalists in politics.

00:27:25.340 They're always standing.

00:27:26.580 I'm standing for this.

00:27:27.720 They're not doing anything.

00:27:28.700 They stand.

00:27:29.300 And Hillary is standing. 0.99

00:27:30.480 But consider what she said.

00:27:31.600 You can't be civil with these people because they oppose everything that we stand for.

00:27:38.140 Is the Democratic Party everything that Hillary Clinton stands for? 0.97

00:27:41.200 Yes, actually.

00:27:42.000 Yes, it is.

00:27:42.840 But that's very sad because I don't think conservatives treat politics as everything that we stand for.

00:27:49.180 I certainly don't.

00:27:50.600 I mean, I work in politics.

00:27:52.060 I love politics.

00:27:52.940 I read a lot about politics.

00:27:54.260 But when I think about what I mostly read about religion, when I'm reading books, you know, at night, before bed, or in the morning, I'm usually reading theology, philosophy, history.

00:28:04.720 I'm not really reading about politics per se.

00:28:07.240 I don't go to, like, crazy screaming marches and rallies and wear some genitalia-themed hat on my head on the weekends.

00:28:16.240 I don't do that at all.

00:28:16.960 I go to a cigar bar, hang out with my friends or something, you know, go to dinner parties.

00:28:20.660 I think that's much more true of conservatives.

00:28:24.440 Conservatives have other things going on, but for the left, they treat it like religion.

00:28:29.640 So, in this case, it's true.

00:28:31.560 If you were to treat politics like religion, then if you're a member of the opposite party, it's like you're an infidel. 0.81

00:28:37.860 You're a jihadi, you know. 1.00

00:28:39.080 There's a crusade that's being waged against you or that you are waging against them. 1.00

00:28:44.780 It's pretty pathetic. 0.98

00:28:46.140 And speaking of religious leftism, you see this all the way at Google. 0.98

00:28:49.900 You know, Google used to have the saying, don't be evil, and then they dropped that saying about six months ago, presumably because their new one is just be evil.

00:28:59.220 Don't be evil.

00:29:00.500 Well, now they're being evil.

00:29:01.940 They are coming out really strongly in an anti-American fashion.

00:29:06.960 We'll get into that in one second.

00:29:08.960 But before we do, I've got to say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube.

00:29:12.080 And you have to stick around because we are going to dismantle the dumbest article on the Internet today, which happens to be about us, about the Daily Wire, and about Pod Save America. 0.99

00:29:22.300 It is so, so stupid. 0.99

00:29:25.180 We will get to that in a bit. 1.00

00:29:26.500 And then on this day in history, Che Guevara is executed.

00:29:30.300 Got to go to dailywire.com.

00:29:31.940 Why?

00:29:32.840 Because you get me.

00:29:34.040 You get the Andrew Klavan Show.

00:29:34.800 You get the Ben Shapiro Show.

00:29:35.860 You get to ask questions in the mailbag.

00:29:37.140 You get to ask questions in the conversation.

00:29:39.080 That will be coming up soon.

00:29:41.200 None of that matters.

00:29:42.580 You know what matters.

00:29:43.420 I mean, really, I'm preaching to the choir right now because if you don't have your Leftist Tears Tumblr right now, you're already drowned.

00:29:49.400 And I'm sorry.

00:29:50.680 May the good Lord have mercy on your soul because you are floating somewhere after that Kavanaugh confirmation.

00:29:57.320 For the rest of you, get another Leftist Tears Tumblr.

00:29:59.340 I don't know what to tell you.

00:30:00.040 You could use two or three these days.

00:30:01.480 Go to dailywire.com.

00:30:02.620 We'll be right back.

00:30:07.080 You know, I really want to talk about this Google being evil story. 1.00

00:30:18.640 But more than that, I want to talk about how stupid the Washington Post is today. 0.99

00:30:22.660 So we're going to have to save the Google story for tomorrow. 0.99

00:30:24.720 Sorry.

00:30:25.180 Sometimes we don't get to things.

00:30:27.980 It's an important story.

00:30:29.220 We'll get to it. 0.97

00:30:29.880 But this, you know, I like to focus on the dumbest article on the internet on any given day. 0.98

00:30:35.260 This one takes the cake. 0.97

00:30:36.400 I woke up to this one and lucky me, it was about us.

00:30:41.900 It was about Ben particularly and about the Daily Wire and about those Obama flunkies at Pod Save America.

00:30:48.080 And I want to go through this in depth. 0.97

00:30:50.800 I want to take a deep dive into this stupid article by a guy named Dan Zak because I think it shows you what the fake news is. 0.99

00:30:57.880 I want to analyze this line by line because it's going to show you why the Washington Post is fake news, why they're liars, why you can't trust that stupid rag, Pravda on the Potomac, the Washington Post, because it's so insidious. 0.99

00:31:13.120 It's actually a little bit subtle. 0.98

00:31:14.800 You might miss it if you're not taken through it.

00:31:17.680 So it's about us and it's about these Pod Save America guys.

00:31:22.460 If you don't remember the Pod Save America guys, here's just a little refresher of their serious political commentary. 0.97

00:31:27.960 Tell us what the f**k is going on. 0.98

00:31:31.580 What the f**k is going on? 0.99

00:31:33.340 In the state of our country. 0.98

00:31:34.860 Really, they're super serious guys.

00:31:36.500 I mean, they're so serious they wear t-shirts on Chelsea Handler's show.

00:31:40.020 They're so serious, you know, they use the F word because they're like really serious.

00:31:43.540 They really mean it.

00:31:44.540 You know, that's how you know when people use the F word a lot.

00:31:46.960 That's how you can, they're really super duper serious.

00:31:49.160 So there are these guys, I think they're about 16, 18, and 19, all Obama alumni from that failed White House.

00:31:58.940 And, but they're so self-congratulatory.

00:32:02.120 This is the thing about the left.

00:32:03.360 You know, the left likes to have the appearance of the thing, but they don't want to have the essence of the thing.

00:32:07.380 That's like these guys.

00:32:08.800 The main one, I forget his name, but the good looking one.

00:32:11.760 He looks, Jon Favreau is his name.

00:32:15.480 Not the actor, but the political guy, Jon Favreau.

00:32:17.720 You know, he looks like he should play a White House aide in the West Wing.

00:32:23.640 Like he's the guy who would play a White House aide in the West Wing.

00:32:26.700 Unfortunately, he's not the guy who should be a West Wing aide because he doesn't know anything.

00:32:31.460 And he, obviously the proof of the pudding is in the tasting.

00:32:34.220 He worked for a failed administration and he himself was a flunky of that failed administration that no longer has any legacy.

00:32:41.120 But, but he looks the part.

00:32:42.940 And that's always the left.

00:32:43.680 They always look the part.

00:32:44.540 And he looks like he's 12 years old.

00:32:46.160 I mean, I don't know how old he is.

00:32:47.720 I think, you know, I'm, I'm probably younger than he is, but I look about 10 years older than he does.

00:32:52.900 So anyway, okay, let's get to the, let's get to the article.

00:32:55.460 The title, The Battle in Your Earbuds, The Bros of Political Podcasting, and Their Quest to Reinvent Punditry by Dan Zak.

00:33:05.660 Dan Zak, a fake news reporter.

00:33:08.640 Okay, so it begins, Los Angeles.

00:33:10.820 In a drab office building across from a used car lot in the San Fernando Valley, the host of the nation's most popular conservative podcast, Ben Shapiro, was preparing to interpret reality for his listeners.

00:33:25.400 Let's begin there.

00:33:27.900 Drab office building.

00:33:29.420 Drab.

00:33:29.740 Now, you've, you've actually seen the inside of our building because you've seen us on the cigar show.

00:33:34.460 Would you call that drab?

00:33:35.880 I don't know.

00:33:36.320 I've got, I have multiple tuxedos hanging in my wardrobe right now.

00:33:40.700 We have a 4,000 cigar humidor replete with the greatest cigars on earth.

00:33:45.620 Full bar.

00:33:46.420 It's pretty posh, man, is what I'm telling you.

00:33:48.800 It's pretty posh.

00:33:50.420 This, you know, so I don't, a drab.

00:33:53.300 Okay, that's, that's what she says.

00:33:54.720 She says it's across from a used car lot.

00:33:57.200 It is, I don't want to give away our location.

00:34:01.580 It, it's across the street from like a, how would you call these cars used?

00:34:06.200 It would be like calling a 1940 Patek Philippe watch a used watch.

00:34:10.940 That'd be like, those are the kind of cars.

00:34:12.720 You know, LA is a car culture.

00:34:14.140 There are places that sell very, very nice, classic, beautiful vintage cars here.

00:34:19.400 That, so that's one way of describing it.

00:34:21.780 Or if you're a dishonest hack at the Washington Post, you say it's a used car lot.

00:34:25.760 Okay, that's how they begin.

00:34:27.040 It goes on.

00:34:28.820 These are one of those days where you think maybe I should have gone to Wall Street,

00:34:31.600 joked Ben Shapiro, glaring at a torrent of tweets on his laptop in a cramped windowless studio.

00:34:38.780 Just listen to how they said the cramped windowless studio.

00:34:41.460 Virtually every studio is windowless.

00:34:45.120 The reason for that is that you need to soundproof studios, especially when you're doing podcast and radio, you dummy. 0.94

00:34:53.400 So, but I don't think he's dumb. 0.79

00:34:54.700 I think he's trying to be insulting and he's using something that is a truism.

00:34:59.380 Yes, virtually all studios are windowless.

00:35:01.700 Some of the big ones at Fox, you know, they kind of deal with it and they have these big, thick windows.

00:35:05.500 But, you know, virtually every other studio is windowless.

00:35:08.700 Okay.

00:35:09.480 This news cycle is, and it cuts to another quote, the wildest thing since Trump winning, said Jon Favreau.

00:35:16.600 The former speechwriter for Barack Obama was just a few miles away from Shapiro in an airy, sunlit Hollywood office

00:35:23.240 as he, too, processed the day's news into analysis and talking points for his own podcast listeners on the liberal end of the spectrum.

00:35:32.520 So when Shapiro does it, he's interpreting reality.

00:35:34.960 When Favreau or whichever one that was does it, he is, he's giving analysis.

00:35:41.460 And the airy, ooh, the sunlit airy office.

00:35:44.880 Okay.

00:35:45.380 He says it's in Hollywood.

00:35:46.520 So obviously they're comparing the San Fernando Valley.

00:35:48.720 That's supposed to be like bad and mucky to Hollywood.

00:35:51.700 As someone who lives out here, all of the studios, all the major studios, Disney, ABC, they're in the San Fernando Valley.

00:36:00.040 That's where the studios are.

00:36:01.580 Hollywood is where homeless people are.

00:36:03.840 That is what they say.

00:36:05.120 Oh, it's airy.

00:36:05.980 It's sunlit.

00:36:06.580 Okay.

00:36:07.560 Moving.

00:36:08.080 Moving right along.

00:36:09.200 How much time?

00:36:09.660 I could go on this all day.

00:36:10.900 So then the article continues.

00:36:12.660 Of the crooked media guys, Ben Shapiro says.

00:36:15.720 Now, I just want to point something out.

00:36:17.400 Whenever the Washington Post is talking about Pod Save America and all those people, they refer to them as the crooked media guys.

00:36:26.100 But when Washington Post is talking about us, they only refer to Ben Shapiro.

00:36:31.060 Now, the Daily Wire, not to toot our own horn here, we get a lot of views.

00:36:37.440 We get a lot of listens.

00:36:38.460 Pretty big shows.

00:36:39.320 Even from the broom closet here, we get a good amount of views.

00:36:41.680 Certainly, Andrew Klavan does.

00:36:42.900 The website does very well.

00:36:44.140 The Daily Wire is, I mean, the Daily Wire is, I think, one of the biggest publishers on Facebook, if not the biggest in its space.

00:36:50.120 Okay.

00:36:50.460 So you got that.

00:36:52.140 And then, but they say, no, no, no, there's no such thing as that.

00:36:54.880 It's just Ben Shapiro.

00:36:55.580 But the crooked media guys, quick, really quick, name me three crooked media guys.

00:37:00.520 I can't do it.

00:37:01.260 I couldn't do it.

00:37:01.840 I didn't even know the one guy, Jon Favreau.

00:37:03.420 I can remember him because it's the name of an actor.

00:37:06.000 That's why I can remember him.

00:37:07.560 Okay.

00:37:07.820 But so I actually just that fact alone tells you everything you need to know about the Washington Post's take here.

00:37:12.940 Okay.

00:37:13.520 Of the crooked media guys, Ben Shapiro says, I disagree with everything they say, but I think they're good at what they do.

00:37:20.740 Fair enough. 0.92

00:37:21.420 I mean, if they're, if what they do is spout idiocy to their frivolous audience, then I think they're very good at what they do. 0.90

00:37:29.560 I think they're superb at what they do, but a very charitable take from Ben. 0.86

00:37:34.360 Told that a visiting journalist is seeing Shapiro first, Tommy Vitor, I guess he's one of the other guys, says, please tell baby Steve Bannon I say hello.

00:37:45.040 So, look, I'm all for making insults.

00:37:47.840 Obviously, I've just been insulting these guys the whole time, but they should be good insults.

00:37:51.820 So if he's, if they're calling Ben Shapiro baby Steve Bannon, do they not, do they not even Google Ben, Ben and Steve Bannon hate each other?

00:38:01.400 That's like the worst nickname you could give to, I mean, you know, the right is much better at nicknames in the era of Trump to begin with.

00:38:07.740 But it's just, it's not a good insult because it doesn't have anything to do with reality.

00:38:13.000 There are a lot of names that you could call Ben.

00:38:14.800 I'm not going to do that because I want to keep my job for the next two weeks, but, but that isn't one of them.

00:38:20.640 It goes on.

00:38:21.220 Fans wearing friend of the pod t-shirts crowd the front rows at live events with the crooked guys who are greeted like rock stars instead of the political nerds that they are.

00:38:33.100 On liberal college campuses, lonely conservatives draw strength from YouTube clips of Shapiro dismantling progressive arguments like a hunter field dressing an elk.

00:38:44.400 Are you kidding me?

00:38:46.340 So what does he say?

00:38:47.420 They say, uh, fans wearing friends of the pod crowd the front rows of live events with the crooked guys who are greeted like rock stars.

00:38:53.740 Oh, you mean live events like when we packed that 4,000 seat house in Dallas for the Ben Shapiro live show?

00:38:59.280 Is that, you mean live event?

00:39:00.500 Or no, maybe when we did the same thing in Arizona the next night.

00:39:03.520 Is that what you're, oh, those, no, they don't mention those live events.

00:39:05.900 Instead of talking about our massive sold out live events, what they do is they say that lonely conservatives on campuses are in their bedrooms,

00:39:16.020 you know, in the dark downloading Shapiro videos on YouTube.

00:39:19.340 Or every time Ben goes to a school, the city shuts down.

00:39:22.720 It's so popular.

00:39:23.600 He had to shut down Berkeley, California.

00:39:26.040 $600,000 of security was needed for all of the people that came out. 0.70

00:39:30.480 You dishonest hacks.

00:39:32.700 But then also it goes on.

00:39:33.920 It says, you know, the guys at Crooked, they're greeted like rock stars instead of the political nerds that they are.

00:39:39.420 To be a nerd, you have to be smart and educated.

00:39:42.020 That does not describe our compatriots over there or our opposite of compatriots at Crooked Media.

00:39:50.980 Their show, look, say what you will about Ben.

00:39:53.560 He talks very fast.

00:39:54.940 When you listen to his show, you get a lot of information.

00:39:57.600 When you listen to Pod Save America, you get a lot of whiny profanity.

00:40:01.540 That's what you get.

00:40:02.360 Those, that's, if you want some whiny profanity from guys who dress in really tight jeans and wear t-shirts in public and think that that's acceptable, then you go to Pod Save America.

00:40:12.600 If you want information and commentary and analysis, you go to the Daily Wire.

00:40:16.540 That's how it works.

00:40:17.560 So, okay, it goes on.

00:40:20.080 On his show, Shapiro reads ads from, this is the best one.

00:40:23.720 On his show, Shapiro reads ads from a sponsor that sells a three-month emergency food supply, plus seed packets for when things finally go south.

00:40:32.220 Pod Save America shills for a company that delivers fresh ingredients to your doorstep so that you can cook yourself a single healthy meal.

00:40:39.680 Lentils and quinoa dressed in tahini, perhaps, as the world burns.

00:40:43.540 So, what they're saying is, Ben has, you know, some survivalist advertisers, and the Pod Save America has Blue Apron.

00:40:52.340 We also have Blue Apron.

00:40:53.820 We have the same sponsor. 0.95

00:40:55.560 You dishonest hacks.

00:40:57.180 We have these same, I virtually only eat Blue Apron because they sponsor all of our shows. 1.00

00:41:02.360 You freaking hacks.

00:41:04.560 It goes, also, like, so really what you're saying is, like, if you were to write that honestly, you'd say, Ben and, you know, Daily Wire and Pod Save America both have Blue Apron, but Daily Wire has more advertisers because they're better shows. 0.97

00:41:19.580 Okay, yeah, great.

00:41:20.640 Cool.

00:41:21.000 I'm glad we have more advertisers.

00:41:22.660 It goes on.

00:41:23.860 Shapiro's headquarters has the look of a think tank and the feel of a refurbished doctor's office.

00:41:29.940 A reproduction of Washington crossing the Delaware hangs in the waiting area.

00:41:34.780 An issue of Cigar Aficionado sits on the coffee table.

00:41:38.080 Yes, Cigar Aficionado sits on the coffee table to exemplify the experience of sitting next to your 4,000 cigar humidor in your beautiful several lounges that you have in your studio.

00:41:53.540 You hacks.

00:41:54.540 So, it goes on.

00:41:55.120 About 55 employees work for him under the banner of Forward Publishing, producing his Daily Wire website, and three other podcasts, all hosted by conservative men.

00:42:04.720 We won't even, we won't even dare to mention Andrew Clavin and Knowles and Walsh.

00:42:10.200 No, those men.

00:42:12.980 Okay.

00:42:14.300 I would just like to point out, first of all, Pod Save America, we can, we know that podcast.

00:42:19.720 Name any other crooked media podcast.

00:42:22.520 Quick.

00:42:23.140 Do it really quick.

00:42:23.860 Can't, can't do it?

00:42:24.740 Okay.

00:42:25.160 I actually can, because I've, I've listened to them a couple times.

00:42:28.000 Um, one is from John Lovett.

00:42:30.460 It's called Love It or Leave It, I think.

00:42:32.860 That's it.

00:42:33.360 That's the only one, other one I can name.

00:42:35.060 Apparently, they have like 10 podcasts that not a soul listens to other than Pod Save America.

00:42:39.980 But they're all hosted by men.

00:42:42.200 There are a couple, a couple of the little podcasts have a female host.

00:42:45.560 But like, I am telling you, not a soul listens to these things.

00:42:49.780 How many people work at Crooked Media?

00:42:51.260 Like 10 people.

00:42:52.180 10 people listen to these podcasts.

00:42:53.540 All of the other ones are hosted by liberal men.

00:42:56.140 So they don't say they say, oh, those other ones are hosted by conservative men.

00:42:59.440 Yeah, theirs are hosted by liberal men.

00:43:01.700 Men, maybe I'm stretching it a little bit.

00:43:03.340 Maybe men, I'm stretching the definition a little bit.

00:43:05.840 Uh, it goes on.

00:43:06.380 Whereas the Crooked Podcasts are playful, pondering conversations, Shapiro lectures sternly with sermons that paint the world as black and white, good versus evil.

00:43:17.060 His prevailing on-air tone is one of scorn and disgust.

00:43:21.620 Could we get a clip of Pod Save America, please?

00:43:24.700 It's literally the most important election of our lifetime, ever.

00:43:29.340 More than a presidential election at this point.

00:43:30.960 This is like the last call for democracy.

00:43:32.960 That's what we said on the last call.

00:43:34.320 Um, because here's how the Supreme Court thing shakes out.

00:43:37.540 This is the end.

00:43:38.180 This is the last call for America, for democracy.

00:43:40.840 And that was, that was one of the few clips I could find where he doesn't use profanity to articulate the points that he isn't making.

00:43:46.380 So, uh, so he's saying, oh, you know, Shapiro's doom and gloom, but Pod Save America, they're all happy-go-lucky, except for when they say that democracy is ending.

00:43:55.380 This is the most important thing.

00:43:56.580 It's all falling apart. 0.99

00:43:57.600 We're all going to hell in a handbasket. 0.95

00:43:58.840 Give me a break.

00:43:59.680 Also, you know, Ben is a fairly serious guy, but doesn't he?

00:44:02.420 He does, like, Bernie Sanders impressions.

00:44:05.200 He's giggles halfway through a lot of his shows.

00:44:07.740 You know, I was with him on election night in 2016.

00:44:09.780 We had to, we just sat there, the rest of us in silence, because he was giggling for, like, 40 seconds when Trump won, and he said, because he used the phrase President Trump.

00:44:19.600 Okay, uh, it goes on.

00:44:21.960 It's working for him, meaning Ben.

00:44:24.220 His podcast was number eight overall for August.

00:44:27.380 Pod Save America, while the second most downloaded new show on Apple Podcasts in 2017, didn't rank in the top 20 that month.

00:44:37.060 Let me interpret that for you.

00:44:38.400 Let me translate that for you.

00:44:40.260 Ben's show is super popular and one of the biggest in the country, and Pod Save America isn't.

00:44:45.280 That was what that, that's how that sentence, if this were an honest article, that's what that sentence would have read.

00:44:49.660 But, unfortunately, it's not an honest article.

00:44:51.960 So they say, how do they phrase it?

00:44:54.140 The Pod Save America, while the second most downloaded new show on Apple Podcasts in 2017, well, while we're citing irrelevant statistics, what is the, uh, what is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?

00:45:04.840 What is that?

00:45:05.260 You know, Pod Save America, while the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow in 2017, didn't rank in the top 20 that month.

00:45:13.520 Yeah, right, it didn't.

00:45:15.100 Right, it's not that popular.

00:45:16.420 Exactly.

00:45:16.880 And we're much more popular.

00:45:18.020 Cool.

00:45:18.800 I bet you give the stats for the other shows, too, by the way.

00:45:20.640 Compare the other shows at The Daily Wire to the other shows at Crooked Media.

00:45:24.020 I have a feeling that The Washington Post will be surprised.

00:45:27.320 They actually won't be surprised.

00:45:28.260 They know the answer to that.

00:45:29.640 They're just, uh, they're just trying to be dishonest. 0.98

00:45:31.820 Really pathetic, but really fun to go through anyway. 0.99

00:45:34.880 Thanks a lot, Washington Post, for exposing yourself for the lying hacks that you are. 0.99

00:45:40.660 I hope you're watching my, I know you're watching my show.

00:45:42.680 I know you're watching Dan Zak, or what's his name?

00:45:45.440 Is it Dan Zak?

00:45:46.380 Dan Zak, right?

00:45:47.140 Yeah, okay.

00:45:47.520 Dan Zak.

00:45:48.280 Dan Zak, Jon Favre.

00:45:49.360 I'm learning a lot of new names today.

00:45:51.380 Okay, we got five seconds left, so I'm just going to wrap up with this really quickly.

00:45:55.340 Che Guevara was killed on this day in history.

00:45:58.120 Normally, I would skip it since we're running this late, but I don't want to skip such a

00:46:01.360 wonderful occasion as this.

00:46:02.720 In 1967, U.S.-backed Bolivian forces captured the Cuban communist revolutionary Che Guevara,

00:46:09.840 and he executed him.

00:46:11.660 Then they cut off his hands as proof that they killed him, and then they buried him in an 0.94

00:46:15.340 unmarked grave.

00:46:16.620 Unfortunately, this treatment was a little too nice for Guevara.

00:46:20.040 This was a little better than Guevara deserved, but whatever, that's what happened, and then

00:46:25.240 he was dead. 1.00

00:46:26.660 Che Guevara, he's the guy who's on the t-shirts that lefty, useful idiots wear to apologize for 1.00

00:46:31.980 slavery and communism. 1.00

00:46:34.560 He is this, he was born as a rich kid in Argentina.

00:46:37.860 His family had a lot of money.

00:46:39.540 He was born in 1928.

00:46:41.340 He met Fidel Castro in the 1950s and overthrew the Cuban government and turned that island

00:46:45.760 into a slave state that destroyed the lives of countless people over 50, 60, 70 years. 1.00

00:46:53.980 He's also a psychopath and an idiot, Che Guevara. 1.00

00:46:56.460 I got to see some of his journals when I was in Cuba last year. 1.00

00:46:59.640 They do not reflect a great mind.

00:47:01.560 But on the psychopathy, he wrote in his diary,

00:47:03.960 The situation was uncomfortable for the people and for Utimio, so I ended the problem giving

00:47:09.680 him a shot with a 32-millimeter pistol in the right side of the, 32 pistol in the right 0.90

00:47:15.660 side of the brain with exit orifice in the right temporal. 0.87

00:47:20.260 He gasped a little while, and then he was dead.

00:47:25.060 He really liked to go into that detail, didn't he? 0.99

00:47:27.420 Because he was a psychopath. 0.85

00:47:28.440 It's estimated that he killed hundreds of unarmed civilians during his life. 1.00

00:47:32.380 He enslaved an entire island, and now useful idiots wear his face on a t-shirt. 0.99

00:47:37.140 But we got him, 1967, on this day in history, a beautiful day to celebrate. 1.00

00:47:42.840 That's our show.

00:47:43.800 Come back tomorrow.

00:47:45.200 Oh, I'm going to be hosting that radio show again on KTTH today, so I'll be on the air

00:47:48.480 for three hours.

00:47:49.440 I think that subscribers will get to watch that on the websites.

00:47:53.620 That'll be fun.

00:47:54.280 If you want three more hours, a little old me.

00:47:56.320 Otherwise, you can listen if you're in the Pacific Northwest, KTTH 770.

00:48:00.780 And if I don't see you there, I'll see you tomorrow.

00:48:03.540 In the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles.

00:48:04.620 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:48:05.600 The Michael Knowles Show is produced by Senia Villareal.

00:48:14.260 Executive producer, Jeremy Borey.

00:48:16.340 Senior producer, Jonathan Hay.

00:48:18.160 Our supervising producer, Mathis Glover.

00:48:20.760 And our technical producer is Austin Stevens.

00:48:23.400 Edited by Jim Nickel.

00:48:24.460 Audio is mixed by Mike Coromina.

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00:48:29.780 The Michael Knowles Show is a Daily Wire Forward Publishing production.

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The Michael Knowles Show - October 09, 2018

Ep. 231 - Did Everyone Forget The U.N. Doesn’t Matter？

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