The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 232 - The Kavanaugh Effect

00:00:00.000 Looking toward the midterms, the GOP is bouncing back in states that Democrats were all set to pick up.

00:00:06.440 It's time to toast more beers for Brett, baby.

00:00:09.420 We will examine the Kavanaugh effect taking place all over our country.

00:00:13.480 Then, Hillary Clinton pontificates on how to treat sexual assault accusers.

00:00:17.860 CNN puts on a modern-day minstrel show.

00:00:20.260 And Cocaine Mitts turns the Pablo Escobar all the way up to 11.

00:00:24.240 Sebastian Gorka stops by to discuss why we fight.

00:00:26.680 And finally, on this day in history, the phrase going postal enters the American lexicon.

00:00:31.880 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:40.720 The Kavanaugh effect. Hip, hip, hooray! Hip, hip, hooray! Oh, how delicious.

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00:02:44.520 So we've been talking about the Kavanaugh effect now for two weeks.

00:02:48.720 Meaning the...

00:02:49.420 Well, we've been talking about the effect of Democrats on the Kavanaugh confirmation,

00:02:52.420 which is shameful and disgraceful.

00:02:54.040 But now we're seeing the Kavanaugh effect on the midterm elections.

00:02:57.000 And this is hurting Democrats in races across the country.

00:03:00.480 Not just the swing states, but races that we were pretty certain that we were going to lose

00:03:04.260 are now looking like they might flip.

00:03:06.920 For a reaction, we turn to Corey Spartacus Booker.

00:03:10.980 I hurt when Dick Durbin called me.

00:03:13.940 I had tears of rage when I heard about this experience in that meeting.

00:03:16.980 And for you not to feel that hurt and that pain.

00:03:21.860 Wow.

00:03:22.560 Could we...

00:03:22.860 I'm sorry.

00:03:23.160 Could we just, one more time, before we really get into the show here,

00:03:27.240 could you tell me, Senator Spartacus, what did you feel?

00:03:32.160 I hurt when Dick Durbin called me.

00:03:35.040 I had tears of rage when I heard about this experience in that meeting.

00:03:38.100 And for you not to feel that hurt and that pain.

00:03:47.160 Very good.

00:03:47.840 Thank you.

00:03:48.200 Thank you very much.

00:03:49.180 Tears of rage.

00:03:49.900 That's what Democrats are feeling all around the country here.

00:03:52.540 The Kavanaugh effect is affecting a lot of races.

00:03:55.040 So we've got Dean Heller in Nevada.

00:03:57.300 That race is turning around. 0.96

00:03:58.700 Martha McSally right now in Arizona has a six-point lead over her Democrat opponent, 1.00

00:04:03.420 Kirsten Sinema.

00:04:05.340 So this is the race, you know, with... 0.99

00:04:07.620 We thought Arizona was probably going to flip with John McCain dying, with, you know,

00:04:12.960 Flake stepping down.

00:04:14.000 And right now, Martha McSally is leading.

00:04:16.060 There's also in that race a Green Party candidate, Angela Green.

00:04:19.560 That coincidence is just too much, right?

00:04:23.420 She must have just...

00:04:24.580 She was probably like some random street person. 1.00

00:04:27.140 She thought, oh, I know what I can do.

00:04:28.220 I know how I can make some money for the next two months.

00:04:30.140 The Green Party, Angela Green.

00:04:31.940 So she's going to play a role too.

00:04:33.480 She's going to pull some votes away from the Democrat, it seems. 0.89

00:04:36.560 Why is that the case?

00:04:37.820 Why aren't the Democrats united?

00:04:39.340 Because they overplayed their hand on Brett Kavanaugh.

00:04:42.980 You know, it's very easy to separate people by race.

00:04:47.260 It's much harder to separate people by gender because the genders are constantly unified and 1.00

00:04:53.520 together.

00:04:54.260 We all have mothers.

00:04:55.820 Many of us have wives and girlfriends.

00:04:58.860 You know, women have fathers and sons and husbands and boyfriends. 1.00

00:05:02.420 So it's much harder if you overplay your hands.

00:05:05.100 If it seems that you're being unfair and you're assassinating the character of a guy

00:05:09.680 just for being a guy, just because you can, that's a real problem.

00:05:14.600 So, and we're seeing that, you know, we're seeing this play out not just in the Senate.

00:05:17.280 We're seeing it on campuses as well.

00:05:19.060 We'll get to that a little bit later.

00:05:20.640 Marsha Blackburn is up 18 points on Democrat Phil Bredesen in Tennessee.

00:05:26.280 A little note of warning on this.

00:05:28.100 This is according to the New York Times that she's up 18 points.

00:05:30.300 I don't really believe this before the race showed her up just, I think, six points, according

00:05:35.560 to even the most ambitious polls.

00:05:37.240 Right now they have polls in real time on the New York Times.

00:05:40.840 You're seeing numbers come in as they are contacting people.

00:05:44.040 I don't know.

00:05:44.900 This is obviously about the entertainment aspect of elections, but I'm a little skeptical

00:05:50.680 still.

00:05:51.080 18 points is pretty, pretty good.

00:05:53.180 So even if she's really only up eight points or nine points or even six points, pretty good.

00:05:57.720 And, and those numbers were not looking that way before.

00:06:00.440 In Texas, remember, we were told that Beta O'Rourke, Robert Francis O'Rourke, he goes

00:06:06.080 by Beto or Beto, but he's, he's colloquially known among Republicans as Beta.

00:06:11.440 Beta O'Rourke is now down to 44 points.

00:06:14.160 Cruz looks at he's up at 53.

00:06:16.480 I mean, that's a, that's a sizable lead.

00:06:18.660 Again, it's, it's still close.

00:06:20.340 He's still within striking distance, but those numbers, that, that gap really widened because

00:06:24.460 of Kavanaugh right now, Nate Silver has dropped his prediction that Democrats will take the

00:06:30.140 Senate, uh, down to 19.4% likelihood.

00:06:33.580 So that's the, that's, this is an all time low for this midterm cycle, uh, really not looking

00:06:38.680 good.

00:06:38.920 Now, a word of caution.

00:06:40.060 I don't want Republicans to get complacent.

00:06:41.620 The Democrats, according to Silver, have a 78% chance of taking the house, uh, which,

00:06:47.280 you know, historically speaking, they're likely to take the house.

00:06:49.700 They probably, as a, as a matter of trends, they should take the house, um, but their chances

00:06:54.900 to take the, the Senate are much lower now. 0.52

00:06:57.080 And then that brings us to North Dakota.

00:06:58.920 This race is one of the most beautiful ones.

00:07:01.060 Heidi Heitkamp, ever since this Kavanaugh thing has dragged on, her numbers have been falling.

00:07:06.860 And then she finally decided she was going to vote no on Kavanaugh.

00:07:10.440 And, you know, Joe Manchin ended up voting yes.

00:07:12.620 Another swing state Democrat, a Democrat in a state that voted for Trump.

00:07:17.220 Heidi Heitkamp said no.

00:07:18.480 Why?

00:07:19.120 Because she's got a lot of pressure on her from the left. 1.00

00:07:21.480 Money is going to, uh, go away.

00:07:23.920 Donor, donor money, of course, also foundations, organizations that are donating to her.

00:07:29.140 Um, that money will dry up.

00:07:31.080 Those activists will dry up.

00:07:32.500 Those ground game supporters will dry up if she voted for what she thinks about, uh,

00:07:38.060 you know, if she voted for what is just and also what probably would be politically right 0.50

00:07:42.700 in a general election, that would have all gone away.

00:07:44.960 So, look, the Kavanaugh thing was exposed as a total farce.

00:07:49.920 And, uh, Heidi Heitkamp, however, now is trying to have it both ways. 1.00

00:07:54.120 She was always trying to have it both ways. 0.93

00:07:55.820 We'll talk about politicians who try to have it both ways.

00:07:58.400 Now, so she votes no on Kavanaugh.

00:08:00.400 Here's Heidi trying to explain this away. 0.69

00:08:02.920 Make sure I understand.

00:08:03.960 You listened to his testimony.

00:08:05.340 Yeah, I listened to his testimony.

00:08:06.620 And then I went back and watched his testimony.

00:08:09.960 With the sound turned off, what does that do for you?

00:08:12.520 Because I think that there's so many different ways that you communicate, um, and you learn

00:08:18.340 a lot by doing that.

00:08:19.740 It's, it's a, it's an, it's an old trick that I use to really try and understand what's

00:08:25.100 being communicated.

00:08:27.040 That's the, that's the, that's the old, the old trick that I try to use.

00:08:29.700 This is the old trick that I, so when reality doesn't agree with my preconceived, ideological,

00:08:34.500 convenient notions, this is a little trick that I use.

00:08:37.460 I take my two fingers and I plug them into my ear and then I close my eyes really tight

00:08:42.340 and I make this sound.

00:08:43.660 La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, I can't hear you.

00:08:45.920 La, la, la, la, la, la.

00:08:46.780 That's the Heidi Heitkamp trick. 0.99

00:08:48.740 This is the worst excuse she could have possibly come up with.

00:08:53.240 It says, you know, you heard Kavanaugh and you found his testimony compelling, right?

00:08:58.860 Yes.

00:08:59.360 Oh yeah, totally.

00:09:00.200 No, what he said, when he said what he said, then I, I believed it.

00:09:03.160 So then I did this little trick.

00:09:05.400 I, I muted him.

00:09:06.980 I put, I muted him.

00:09:08.380 I listened with the sound off.

00:09:10.420 Oh, okay.

00:09:11.380 This is something, by the way, sometimes, sometimes at night, sweet little Elisa will, will say

00:09:15.720 to me, I'll, I'll mention something and I'll say, you know, I talked about this on the show

00:09:19.680 today.

00:09:19.900 She goes, oh, Mac, I listen to your show every day on mute.

00:09:23.340 I, every day I take it up on my iTunes and I click the mute button and I listen to the

00:09:27.800 whole show.

00:09:28.420 That's, that's Heidi Heitkamp talking about Brett Kavanaugh.

00:09:31.060 Oh, I listen to Brett Kavanaugh all the time on mute.

00:09:33.180 Okay.

00:09:34.000 Really sad.

00:09:34.640 It's the best that they've got.

00:09:36.080 This, this obviously is an emperor has no clothes moment.

00:09:39.000 I mean, she was just totally caught with it.

00:09:40.660 The best she could say is, yeah, well, I listened to him and he was compelling.

00:09:43.940 So then I forgot.

00:09:45.000 Then I tried to forget.

00:09:45.880 But, um, but also it, you know, it shows the difference between conviction politicians and

00:09:52.380 convenience politicians.

00:09:53.580 And this is an important distinction because when you look throughout history, history has

00:09:58.400 a, probably many more convenience politicians than conviction ones, but history doesn't look

00:10:03.820 kindly on convenience politicians.

00:10:05.440 People who just go with the wind, don't stand for anything at all, just want people to like

00:10:10.820 them, just want to aggrandize as to self aggrandize.

00:10:14.120 So just look around the second world war.

00:10:16.580 You've got, uh, Lloyd George or Lloyd George Neville Chamberlain, these squishy, wishy, wishy

00:10:23.000 washy people.

00:10:23.600 And then you've got Winston Churchill who, look, Winston Churchill had major election

00:10:29.540 losses.

00:10:30.140 He had major victories for civilization, but he was a conviction politician.

00:10:33.900 He knew what he believed.

00:10:35.520 He knew what he believed about the Soviet union, what he believed about Hitler, what he believed

00:10:38.920 about Nazi Germany, all these other guys, squishy, wishy Neville Chamberlain, Lloyd George, history 0.98

00:10:43.420 looks on them like total cowards. 0.98

00:10:45.200 In modern parlance, they'd be called cucks. 0.98

00:10:47.380 You know, it's just, nobody wants to be that.

00:10:49.860 Uh, Dante puts, uh, the apathetic in, in the first, first circle of hell.

00:10:55.180 When he, when Dante goes into hell, when he passes through the gates of hell, the first

00:10:58.820 people he encounters are the apathetic, the people, the angels who didn't rebel against 0.95

00:11:04.380 God, but they didn't defend God.

00:11:06.120 They just were always in it for themselves.

00:11:08.300 They'd kind of a little wishy washy.

00:11:10.040 They didn't have any convictions.

00:11:11.900 Uh, those guys, he sometimes is misquoted.

00:11:14.460 You know, there's that quote, uh, all it takes for evil to succeed is for good men to

00:11:18.860 do nothing.

00:11:19.340 And this is variously attributed to Edmund Burke and, and Dante and all of these people,

00:11:23.680 none of whom said those precise words.

00:11:25.460 Uh, but that's where it comes from.

00:11:26.660 And Dante, it's the first souls that he encounters and they're damned.

00:11:30.300 Mercy doesn't want them. 1.00

00:11:31.880 Justice doesn't want them.

00:11:33.160 Heaven doesn't want them.

00:11:34.300 Hell doesn't want them.

00:11:35.300 They're just, they're just in it for themselves.

00:11:37.780 And that is politicians like Heidi Heitkamp. 1.00

00:11:40.940 They're just, and it's so pathetic. 0.99

00:11:42.260 I mean, nobody, why would you put yourself through this? 0.99

00:11:44.880 Why would you put yourself through the grueling, awful experience of running for office, sitting

00:11:49.900 in office, going to all those spaghetti dinners, going to constituent town halls?

00:11:54.740 Why, why would you do that if it's for nothing other than yourself?

00:11:59.120 What is the point of that?

00:12:00.940 Uh, you know, the, the convenience politician par excellence is Bill Clinton.

00:12:05.380 He, of course, he is the one he's back in the news now as well.

00:12:08.200 Uh, but he, you know, Bill Clinton actually had a basically good presidency.

00:12:13.580 He had a lot of good things come out of his presidency, not in the first couple of years,

00:12:17.940 but only after Newt Gingrich and the Republicans won the Congress and Clinton went along with

00:12:21.640 them.

00:12:22.080 There was, there were many achievements of welfare reform, tax reform, uh, free trade

00:12:27.380 deals.

00:12:27.900 There were a lot of good things that came out of the Clinton presidency.

00:12:30.640 Um, his wife is a little less so, you know, his, his wife too goes along with the spirit

00:12:36.900 of the age.

00:12:37.500 You remember in 2008, she said abortion should be safe, legal, and rare.

00:12:40.680 Then she came around and said, uh, abortion, you know, should be a sacrament basically when 0.99

00:12:45.760 she's running in 2016.

00:12:47.420 And she just, you know, safe, legal, and rare never made any sense.

00:12:50.340 If abortion is just some meaningless medical procedure, why should it be rare?

00:12:54.840 If it's tantamount to murder, why should it be legal?

00:12:57.520 You know, just trying to be mealy mouthed, have their cake and eat it too.

00:13:00.880 Bill Clinton would say this.

00:13:02.020 I think he was asked about the Gulf War, what he would have done with regard to sending in

00:13:06.280 American troops in the Gulf War, the first Gulf War.

00:13:08.640 And I, I, I'm, I'm only slightly misquoting him when he said, well, I would have, uh,

00:13:15.020 gone along with the opinion of the majority, but I would have felt, uh, empathy with the

00:13:20.940 feeling of the minority.

00:13:22.940 Uh, I feel your pain.

00:13:26.000 I feel your pain.

00:13:26.740 That's the, that's his campaign.

00:13:27.920 I feel your pain.

00:13:29.220 And so now the Clintons are back in the news because history doesn't look kindly on those

00:13:33.420 people who stand for nothing.

00:13:35.180 And, uh, the, the other problem, by the way, with people who stand for nothing is they can

00:13:39.420 really become radicalized.

00:13:41.000 Hillary, more than her husband had leftist convictions.

00:13:43.680 She wrote her whole college thesis on Saul Alinsky on rules for radicals.

00:13:47.940 She loved the guy.

00:13:48.900 She would write to him all the time.

00:13:50.320 And the trouble is when the spirit of the age moves far left, moves in a radical direction,

00:13:55.080 they are there.

00:13:55.880 They become radicals.

00:13:57.400 And Hillary, more than her husband, tried to push the spirit of the age in that direction

00:14:00.760 as well.

00:14:01.100 So now they're going on this big stadium tour, uh, to do, I don't know, to do a two, two

00:14:06.240 man show, to do a little vaudeville act, uh, probably a bad idea though, during the me

00:14:11.940 too age.

00:14:12.800 Cause do you, uh, look, I don't know if you're a history buffs or not, but, uh, Bill Clinton

00:14:16.620 had a few accusations thrown against him and they were much more credible than Brett Kavanaugh.

00:14:21.120 So Christiane Amanpour, to her credit, she's a terrible journalist, but to her credit, she

00:14:25.840 asks Hillary Clinton, what, what about the allegations against your husband?

00:14:30.260 Here's what she has to say.

00:14:31.840 Obviously, you're going to be prepared to have questions about that moment in 1998,

00:14:36.160 the impeachment, um, the allegations of sexual harassment against your own husband.

00:14:41.060 Are you prepared to answer those questions?

00:14:43.460 Is he prepared to answer them?

00:14:44.960 And how do you see that similar or different from what President Trump is being accused

00:14:50.160 of and Kavanaugh and others today?

00:14:51.980 Well, there's a very significant difference.

00:14:55.200 Uh, and that is the intense, long lasting, partisan investigation that was conducted in

00:15:04.540 the nineties.

00:15:05.180 If, um, you know, the Republicans, starting with President Trump on down, uh, want, uh, a comparison,

00:15:13.520 they should welcome such an investigation themselves.

00:15:15.940 Excuse me, what, you were asked about the allegations.

00:15:20.600 You were asked about the allegations. 0.99

00:15:22.520 And she says, oh, it's the difference is that darn monster Ken Starr. 0.99

00:15:27.160 That's the difference. 1.00

00:15:28.000 The vast right wing conspiracy.

00:15:30.340 So, well, maybe you could talk about the allegations first.

00:15:32.600 Also, if you want an investigation, Brett Kavanaugh just testified more than all other Supreme

00:15:37.340 Court nominees combined.

00:15:39.300 And he, uh, he also had a seventh FBI investigation into him.

00:15:42.720 So even that doesn't make any sense.

00:15:44.220 But just look at that.

00:15:45.540 She learns nothing.

00:15:47.320 First of all, she doesn't believe anything.

00:15:48.680 That's why for her, it always just goes back to this investigation and they wronged me and

00:15:52.520 me, me, me, me, me.

00:15:53.660 But she, she was singing this exact same tune in the 1990s.

00:15:58.620 Here is Hillary Clinton. 0.99

00:16:00.200 It could have been yesterday, though it was actually 20 years ago, talking to Matt Lauer

00:16:05.080 on the Today Show about the allegations against her husband.

00:16:07.880 First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton candidly answered questions with NBC's Matt Lauer on

00:16:12.760 the Today Show this morning.

00:16:14.320 She wasted no time in slamming special prosecutor Kenneth Starr, accusing him of being behind the

00:16:19.620 allegations that have rocked the presidency.

00:16:22.000 We get a politically motivated prosecutor who is allied with the right wing opponents of

00:16:27.460 my husband, who has literally spent four years looking at every telephone.

00:16:32.340 $40 million.

00:16:33.340 More than that now.

00:16:34.340 But looking at every telephone call we've made, every check we've ever written, scratching

00:16:39.100 for dirt, intimidating witnesses, doing everything possible to try to make some accusation against

00:16:45.540 my husband.

00:16:46.300 If he were to be asked today, Mrs. Clinton, do you think he would admit that he again has

00:16:50.520 caused pain in this marriage?

00:16:51.620 No, absolutely not.

00:16:53.840 And he shouldn't.

00:16:54.960 The great story here for anybody willing to find it and write about it and explain it

00:17:00.060 is this vast right wing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband since the

00:17:06.000 day he announced for president.

00:17:08.760 That's that's the story.

00:17:10.440 The vast right wing conspiracy.

00:17:12.600 That was her phrase.

00:17:13.140 By the way, I had to change the clip there at the end.

00:17:15.260 Talk about conspiracies.

00:17:16.440 When you watch that first clip on YouTube, the audio cuts out when you get to the money

00:17:20.560 line, when you get to the vast right wing conspiracy, I don't know.

00:17:23.280 There might be a vast left wing conspiracy there, but that's what she said.

00:17:26.120 It's all about the vast right wing conspiracy.

00:17:28.540 Forget the allegations she was singing that same tune then.

00:17:30.580 She doesn't learn anything.

00:17:31.620 She doesn't learn that you can't call half the country deplorable and irredeemable.

00:17:35.120 She's still doing it two years later.

00:17:36.800 She doesn't learn any of these things.

00:17:38.740 She's unable to see the hypocrisy too of the investigations.

00:17:41.580 You heard there, you know, Matt Lauer chiming in.

00:17:43.780 Oh, it's been $30 million.

00:17:45.280 Oh, it's been so blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:17:46.900 And now I wonder what Hillary Clinton thinks about the Mueller investigation into Trump. 0.99

00:17:51.980 I wonder what she thinks about special counsels, independent counsels.

00:17:55.740 Obviously, it would have flipped.

00:17:56.780 And she can't see the hypocrisy because of the defining feature of the Clintons, which 0.92

00:18:00.540 is shamelessness and pride, hubris. 0.87

00:18:03.820 They go hand in hand.

00:18:04.760 If you're very, very prideful, you can't see your own flaws and you can't feel any shame.

00:18:11.140 So the defining feature of the Clintons, they could look you in the face and say, I did not 0.96

00:18:14.720 have sex with that woman. 0.99

00:18:16.200 Two seconds later, yeah, I think I might've had sex with that woman, but listen, you should 1.00

00:18:21.020 still believe me. 0.98

00:18:23.740 No shame at all.

00:18:25.060 And that's what's motivating this tour.

00:18:27.920 Look, it's going to be a stadium tour.

00:18:29.800 All of the questions are going to be highly vetted, of course.

00:18:32.800 They're not, no one's going to be able to get in their face with a camera or anything

00:18:35.360 like that.

00:18:35.900 But even so, they can't see that in the Me Too era, in the era that was made possible

00:18:42.960 because Hillary Clinton lost, they were finally, Democrats were finally able to talk about

00:18:47.440 the sexual misconduct typified by the Clinton administration.

00:18:52.840 In the Me Too era, maybe it's not a great idea, Hillary, for you and Bill to be out there

00:18:56.980 doing a little soft shoe on stage.

00:18:58.520 They can't see it.

00:18:59.300 It's so much pride and it's so dishonest.

00:19:02.340 And speaking of conspiracies, speaking of the vast right-wing conspiracy, I will point

00:19:09.220 out at least our conspiracy is honest.

00:19:12.460 At least the vast right-wing conspiracy, not what she's talking about and not the left-wing

00:19:17.300 conspiracy, but the actual right-wing conspiracy, you know, that we're all a part of here.

00:19:20.820 Welcome to the conspiracy.

00:19:22.360 At least we're honest about it.

00:19:23.600 We're not pretending.

00:19:24.740 We're not being sanctimonious.

00:19:27.120 Cocaine Mitch was really excellent about this.

00:19:29.880 He's turned the covfefe up to like Pablo Escobar levels.

00:19:34.200 Here's Cocaine Mitch explaining why he's completely ready to confirm a Supreme Court justice or

00:19:39.940 implying that he's completely ready to confirm a Supreme Court justice, even in the election

00:19:45.080 year of 2020.

00:19:46.320 If Donald Trump were to name somebody in the final year of his first term in 2020, are you

00:19:53.680 saying that you would go ahead with that nomination?

00:19:56.180 Well, I understand your question, and what I told you was what the history of the Senate

00:20:01.060 has been.

00:20:01.620 You have to go back to the 1880 to find the last time a vacancy created in a presidential

00:20:07.400 election year on the Supreme Court was confirmed by a Senate of a different party than the

00:20:13.780 president.

00:20:14.220 That's the history.

00:20:14.820 So if you can't answer my direct question, are you saying that if Donald Trump...

00:20:18.740 Well, the answer to your question is we'll see whether there's a vacancy in 2020.

00:20:24.500 I love that answer. 0.83

00:20:26.660 So don't you think it's a little hypocritical? 0.82

00:20:29.940 Well, you know, I just...

00:20:32.020 I just...

00:20:32.620 Well, do you remember in 1492, Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue?

00:20:37.500 It's actually even less deceptive than that because what McConnell is saying is, yeah,

00:20:42.740 that's not how it works.

00:20:44.780 And nobody knows how the Senate works better than Mitch McConnell.

00:20:47.520 This guy knows how the machinery of the Senate works.

00:20:51.000 And he's saying, yeah, of course, in an election year when the Senate is controlled by the party,

00:20:57.840 by a different party than the White House, of course they're not going to confirm a nominee.

00:21:02.120 Why would they?

00:21:02.700 They haven't done it since 1880.

00:21:04.260 He's not saying...

00:21:05.200 He's not coming up with some sanctimonious hubbub.

00:21:07.560 He's not dragging out women and, you know, manipulating women who may or may not have suffered

00:21:13.220 any assaults and putting them on TV and using them as tearful human shields.

00:21:17.520 He's saying, no, that's just the way politics works.

00:21:19.440 I'll be very honest about it.

00:21:20.720 I love it.

00:21:21.800 And, but, you know, he doesn't quite answer the question. 0.97

00:21:23.460 So then Chris Wallace says, well, don't you think it's hypocrite? 0.92

00:21:26.400 Are you going to confirm somebody in 2020? 0.78

00:21:28.740 And Mitch McConnell says, well, just one second, Chris, if you would excuse me for one second.

00:21:33.240 Oh, we're going to have to see you in 2020.

00:21:37.980 Oh, hoo-ha. 0.99

00:21:39.420 And, and he's exactly right.

00:21:42.200 That's exactly the right answer.

00:21:43.400 Chuck Grassley is kind of playing games and being a little deceptive, but Mitch is being

00:21:46.700 spot on honest about it and honestly political.

00:21:49.860 Great.

00:21:50.260 I'll take that any day.

00:21:51.620 President Trump is honestly political.

00:21:53.880 He's honestly political in what he says.

00:21:55.900 And I think people like that.

00:21:56.980 You know, some, some sanctimonious people want to pretend that there's something unpleasant

00:22:03.280 about it.

00:22:03.760 I don't think, I find that much more pleasant than Hillary Clinton smearing her husband's 1.00

00:22:07.660 victims and her husband's accusers, and then talking about vast right-wing conspiracies

00:22:11.940 and being so sanctimonious, quivering lip on, on Matt Lauer.

00:22:15.360 Absolutely.

00:22:16.220 Speaking of why we fight, I have got the great Sebastian Gorka coming on the show today.

00:22:21.460 He's got a wonderful book, Why We Fight, Defeating America's Enemies with No Apologies.

00:22:27.020 He is, he gives us a great insight, having worked in the White House with the administration,

00:22:31.860 without further ado.

00:22:32.840 Dr. Gorka, we got a lot more coming up after that.

00:22:35.940 Dr. Gorka, thank you for being here.

00:22:38.840 My pleasure, Michael.

00:22:39.880 My pleasure.

00:22:40.680 You know, I mean, you know I'm a big fan of yours.

00:22:42.960 I'm a big fan of everything you write and tweet and when you're on television.

00:22:47.180 I really like the book, Why We Fight.

00:22:49.560 And in this moment, this Kavanaugh moment, I'm thinking not just of why we fight abroad,

00:22:55.440 but why we fight at home as well.

00:22:57.400 This was a brutal fight.

00:22:59.480 You're an insider.

00:23:01.000 You've been in the administration.

00:23:04.180 What lessons do you think conservatives can take away from this bloody Kavanaugh battle?

00:23:08.640 Very, very simply that the Democrats have made their Faustian bargain when they want power.

00:23:20.340 They will do whatever it takes to get the power.

00:23:24.280 They take a man. 0.93

00:23:25.860 I mean, look, this is not an insult.

00:23:27.480 I love the man.

00:23:28.220 He's a godly man.

00:23:29.380 But he's actually a boring boy scout.

00:23:31.600 I mean, you couldn't find a more milquetoast, decent guy than Brett Kavanaugh. 0.98

00:23:38.600 And they're prepared to accuse him of serial rape and attempted murder. 0.88

00:23:43.140 It means they have no morals.

00:23:44.860 I mean, it's not immoral, Michael.

00:23:46.620 It's amoral.

00:23:47.940 Yeah.

00:23:48.080 It's a sociopathic level of greed for power.

00:23:54.100 And it also demonstrates that they've never given up.

00:23:58.180 They lost the election, but they will grasp at anything to maintain power.

00:24:03.740 And if that means turning the Supreme Court into a legislating radical body, then that's

00:24:10.400 what they're going to do.

00:24:11.500 But I have to say one thing.

00:24:12.840 I know he's my old boss and we stay in touch.

00:24:15.320 What the president did yesterday was epic.

00:24:19.880 It was terrific.

00:24:21.620 I mean, just to the whole world to say he is innocent in front of his mother, his wife,

00:24:27.940 his daughters.

00:24:28.680 It was the right thing to do.

00:24:31.140 And it's pure Trump.

00:24:32.180 It was it was total moral clarity as well.

00:24:35.080 This is something I'm constantly surprised by is people say, oh, President Trump, he never

00:24:40.560 has read a book.

00:24:41.500 He doesn't go to church.

00:24:42.500 He doesn't.

00:24:43.060 I say, OK, regardless of any conjecture you might have, he is able to identify clear

00:24:49.280 moral issues.

00:24:50.160 His tweet about Christopher Columbus was excellent.

00:24:54.060 I mean, even from that, even from these issues, he really does seem to cut through the fog.

00:25:00.160 I want to know.

00:25:00.720 Do we elect a president to give us epistemological discourse and ontological debate?

00:25:08.800 No, we'll leave that to Drew Clavin.

00:25:10.700 I mean, seriously.

00:25:11.720 That's right.

00:25:12.500 And I would like to know, too.

00:25:14.600 Speaking of epistemological debate, we're even reading the tea leaves.

00:25:19.060 You know, Ambassador Nikki Haley has stepped down at the UN.

00:25:22.460 Everybody is rending their garments, gnashing their teeth.

00:25:25.400 I think I'm the only person who, like, doesn't really care that much.

00:25:29.140 She did a good job and now she'll do something else. 0.99

00:25:31.280 We'll get another guy in there.

00:25:32.420 The UN doesn't matter.

00:25:33.960 As an insider, what is your take on this?

00:25:36.020 It's so funny.

00:25:37.540 So I'm in New York because Why We Fight came out today.

00:25:41.580 I'm doing back-to-back media.

00:25:43.380 I went on a conservative radio show that was trying to hypothesize, is she the author of

00:25:50.240 Anonymous?

00:25:51.020 Is that what?

00:25:51.540 And I said, on live radio, I said, guys, take the tinfoil hat off.

00:25:56.120 I mean, seriously.

00:25:57.620 Look at the body language of the president and Nikki in that oval.

00:26:04.260 This is the oval office presser.

00:26:07.500 You don't get press.

00:26:08.260 I mean, you know, Rex Tillerson finds out from a tweet that he's been capped, okay?

00:26:13.680 Nikki gets the oval office presser.

00:26:16.660 The body language is, I respect you.

00:26:19.360 I like you.

00:26:20.240 You like me.

00:26:21.620 You've been a great trooper.

00:26:23.660 I've got teenage kids.

00:26:25.600 I'm going to take a break now.

00:26:27.280 It's, look, sometimes, and I know you like them, a cigar is just a cigar, right?

00:26:33.120 That's a very good point.

00:26:34.820 That's a very good.

00:26:35.480 And, you know, on the role of the UN, which I can't wait until that becomes the Donald

00:26:41.120 Trump presidential condominiums in six more years, but before they knock it to rubble.

00:26:46.520 Someone just tweeted to me, they should turn it into a veteran's home, a VA veteran's home

00:26:51.800 with a nice view of the river.

00:26:53.180 Wouldn't that be great?

00:26:53.880 That would be so beautiful.

00:26:55.420 Yeah.

00:26:55.780 Our veterans deserve waterfront views in Manhattan, I think.

00:26:59.180 Certainly more than Iran and China. 0.84

00:27:02.200 When you look around at the geopolitical threats, one thing I've always loved about you is you

00:27:07.720 speak very bluntly.

00:27:09.760 You don't pull your punches, and then you can back it all up.

00:27:13.380 And I love at the end of Why We Fight, toward the end of Why We Fight, you dedicate a chapter

00:27:18.200 to Whitaker Chambers.

00:27:19.520 And I think young conservatives don't even know who Whitaker Chambers is.

00:27:23.020 They've never read Witness.

00:27:24.840 Why include Chambers?

00:27:26.260 And what should conservatives remember from our not-so-distant past?

00:27:32.840 So I put three heroes in there who wore uniforms.

00:27:37.380 So the book's about strategic threats, what Donald Trump's going to do about them, and

00:27:41.580 then stories about real heroes.

00:27:43.400 And I thought to myself, hang on, you don't have to wear a uniform or carry a gun to be a

00:27:48.340 hero.

00:27:49.220 And Whitaker Chambers is that man.

00:27:51.460 And Justice Kavanaugh is that man.

00:27:55.600 And the really, I mean, I didn't plan this because the book went to the printers before

00:28:00.080 this ordeal he went through.

00:28:03.160 But Whitaker Chambers speaks to what we've just witnessed over the last month.

00:28:09.240 Because the Democrats have done this before.

00:28:12.820 1948, this man stood up for the truth. 0.92

00:28:15.840 He was accused of being homosexual, a drunk.

00:28:18.520 He was accused of killing his brother. 0.99

00:28:21.320 All of it were lies. 0.97

00:28:22.740 Total and utter Democrat lies.

00:28:24.860 Why?

00:28:25.380 Because the man he accused of being a Soviet agent was a darling of the Democrat Party,

00:28:31.280 Al-Jahis, who had to be defended at all costs. 0.88

00:28:35.020 We now have the proof, because after Chambers died, we have the Venona decrypts that Hiss was 0.99

00:28:41.220 a Soviet agent.

00:28:42.840 But this was 1948, Michael.

00:28:45.700 So, you know, Whitaker Chambers is important because he was Kavanaugh before Kavanaugh was

00:28:51.540 born.

00:28:52.480 And it tells you everything you need to know about the Democrats.

00:28:56.200 It's so true. 0.84

00:28:56.880 And that history in particular is so important.

00:28:59.120 I'm so glad you included Chambers in there because so much of what happened to Richard Nixon

00:29:03.920 comes out of that moment.

00:29:05.120 Because Nixon believed Chambers, opposed Hiss.

00:29:08.020 And I think that's just been lost, even to young conservatives.

00:29:12.760 So I've got to let you go.

00:29:13.640 I know you're doing a ton of media, you know, right now, back-to-back media.

00:29:18.200 What should we take away now, forgetting about the inner personnel fights in the administration,

00:29:24.820 looking at the United Nations, looking around at all of our geostrategic threats?

00:29:28.620 What should we be paying attention to, especially as we go into the midterms?

00:29:31.980 OK, this isn't meant to be flipped, but the Donald will take care of all the international 0.88

00:29:43.020 stuff.

00:29:44.060 I mean, he'll just deal with it.

00:29:45.680 It doesn't matter.

00:29:46.580 Russia, North Korea, China, China.

00:29:50.500 He'll deal with it.

00:29:51.340 I mean, the guy is just his strategic, intuitive sense is spooky.

00:29:56.760 My one message is, never give up on him and never give up on the country.

00:30:03.360 He is taking the brickbats for us.

00:30:08.000 He stood up for Kavanaugh because he's been through it.

00:30:13.240 He's walked through the valley in the last two years, everything they've accused him of.

00:30:17.760 So the president will never be a neoconservative.

00:30:20.540 He's doing what he's doing for love of country.

00:30:22.800 My one message is really simple.

00:30:24.260 If you like what you've seen in the last two years, if you were shocked by what the

00:30:29.840 Democrats did to Kavanaugh, get out and vote and get everybody you know who's going to

00:30:36.000 sit at home to vote because the stakes, it's not an exaggeration, exaggeration.

00:30:42.620 The stakes are more important than anything else you could do in your lifetime right now.

00:30:50.060 And while you're going out to vote, you should also stop at a bookstore.

00:30:53.340 I actually don't think bookstores exist anymore, but you know, at least stop in your car and

00:30:57.160 order on Amazon or something.

00:30:58.940 Why we fight.

00:31:00.000 It's really terrific.

00:31:01.140 It's great to read.

00:31:01.820 You should read it before the midterms.

00:31:03.720 As you're getting your subscription to the other kingdom.

00:31:07.360 That's right.

00:31:08.180 That's very important.

00:31:10.440 You have to, while you're on your phone, open up two windows, subscribe, another kingdom

00:31:14.980 coming out this week and why we fight.

00:31:17.860 A wonderful book.

00:31:19.320 Good luck on the media blitz.

00:31:20.500 Dr. Gorka, always good to have you here and we'll have to have you back soon.

00:31:24.280 God bless.

00:31:26.300 I love talking to that guy.

00:31:28.240 I also just want his voice.

00:31:30.540 I want to, if I can't do his voice, unfortunately, I'll have to work it up.

00:31:34.460 I've finally been able to do my Mitch McConnell impression.

00:31:36.880 So maybe I'll have to work up my Dr. Gorka voice.

00:31:39.880 Still a lot more to get to.

00:31:40.940 Before I do that, before we talk about Rand Paul's predictions that someone's going to

00:31:45.420 be assassinated in this insane, hysterical leftist climate and Kanye West prompting CNN

00:31:51.660 to do a minstrel show, I've got to say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube.

00:31:54.880 Go to dailywire.com.

00:31:56.120 Why?

00:31:56.420 You get me.

00:31:56.880 You get the Andrew Klavan show.

00:31:57.660 You get the Ben Shapiro show.

00:31:58.780 You get to ask questions in the mailbag.

00:32:00.420 None of that matters.

00:32:01.100 There are tears of rage that are coming across this country.

00:32:08.160 Tears of rage.

00:32:09.400 Tears of rage.

00:32:11.460 And if you don't have your FDA approved leftist tears vessel, you're going to drown.

00:32:15.940 Take precautions now.

00:32:17.100 I can only do so much.

00:32:18.100 I can only warn you.

00:32:19.300 I can't save you if you won't help yourself.

00:32:21.640 Go to dailywire.com.

00:32:22.980 Get the pumpkin spice, Cory Booker, Spartacus spice, leftist tears tumbler, and we'll be right

00:32:28.500 back.

00:32:31.100 Rand Paul is predicting that this insane climate, ginned up by the left, by Democrats, I don't

00:32:47.920 want there to be any confusion.

00:32:49.620 I don't think there is any moral equivalence.

00:32:51.840 I don't think both sides are to blame.

00:32:54.300 I think the left is to blame.

00:32:56.040 I think the people who fund the left are to blame, like George Soros and others.

00:33:00.400 I think the hysterical elected officials of the Democratic Party, like Maxine Waters,

00:33:06.000 who calls for violence against Republicans and Trump supporters.

00:33:08.880 I think the leaders of the Democrat Party who encourage people to chase down Republicans

00:33:14.140 in their restaurants and public spaces, in their homes where their children sleep.

00:33:18.760 I think they are to blame.

00:33:19.960 They're the ones who are creating this awful climate.

00:33:22.560 And Rand Paul is suggesting that somebody might get hurt or killed from this.

00:33:27.640 Here he is.

00:33:27.980 I think what people need to realize that when people like Cory Booker say, get up in their

00:33:33.320 face, he may think that that's okay.

00:33:36.140 But what he doesn't realize is that for about every thousand person that might want to get

00:33:40.040 up in your face, one of them is going to be unstable enough to commit violence.

00:33:43.460 When I was at the ball field and Steve Scalise was nearly killed, the guy shooting up the ball

00:33:48.540 field and shooting, I think five or six people were shot.

00:33:52.640 Steve Scalise was almost killed.

00:33:53.880 He was yelling, this is for health care.

00:33:55.800 He had a list in his pocket of conservative Republicans that he wanted to kill.

00:33:59.880 You know, when I was attacked in my yard and had six of my ribs broken, pneumonia, lung

00:34:05.900 contusion, all of that.

00:34:07.280 These are people that are unstable.

00:34:08.900 We don't want to encourage them.

00:34:10.240 We have to somehow ratchet it down and say, we're not encouraging that violence is ever

00:34:14.880 okay, ever a reason for or a means for trying to resolve things.

00:34:19.540 I feel that there's going to be an assassination.

00:34:22.240 I really worry that someone is going to be killed and that those who are ratcheting up

00:34:27.860 the conversation, those who are ratcheting up saying, get in their face, they have to

00:34:32.320 realize that they bear some responsibility of this elevates to violence.

00:34:36.380 Absolutely right.

00:34:37.360 100% right.

00:34:38.640 And it's not, I think some people are hearing what Rand Paul is saying.

00:34:42.600 They're saying, oh, well, that's hyperbolic rhetoric.

00:34:45.480 It's not when it's coming from Rand Paul.

00:34:47.620 I mean, this guy, talk about bad place, wrong place at the wrong time.

00:34:51.440 This guy was at the congressional baseball shooting when that lefty tried to shoot up

00:34:55.260 the game.

00:34:56.180 He was at, he was just mowing his lawn when his neighbor broke six of his ribs, really

00:35:01.620 put him down for the count for a long time.

00:35:04.820 This is not idle chatter.

00:35:06.280 The guy's been attacked twice and his life has been threatened both times.

00:35:10.400 And this is a, this is a real problem.

00:35:12.420 You know, there, there have been assassinations in this country.

00:35:15.020 Presidents have been assassinated.

00:35:16.980 Many presidents have been assassinated, have been shot.

00:35:21.020 Just in the 1960s, people were getting shot.

00:35:23.680 Major political figures were getting shot.

00:35:25.500 Presidents were being killed.

00:35:27.780 There's no reason to think that this can't happen again.

00:35:30.340 You know, we're, we're in this complacent moment because everything is so easy and our

00:35:34.060 culture is so decadent and everything is so convenient.

00:35:36.700 We don't ever have to even leave our couches if we don't want to.

00:35:39.740 Things can go south real fast.

00:35:41.440 You know, everything stays pretty nice until it all plummets south real fast.

00:35:46.400 And, and people are careless with their rhetoric.

00:35:48.720 I'm not saying that you shouldn't be strong, that you shouldn't say exactly what you think,

00:35:53.240 that you shouldn't be perfectly blunt.

00:35:54.720 I think you should.

00:35:55.460 I'm, I'm advocating that much more than mealy mouthed, milquetoast, uh, echo, not a voice

00:36:02.580 politics, but you've got to know what you're talking about.

00:36:06.280 You've got to be precise in your language.

00:36:07.660 The left wants to be imprecise in its language so that it can encourage hysterical little

00:36:12.980 children to go out and shriek and scream in the gallery of the Senate.

00:36:18.120 Well, Brett Kavanaugh is being confirmed to the court.

00:36:20.960 Wah, rah, Kavanaugh.

00:36:22.600 What have you to do with us?

00:36:23.840 Brett of Maryland.

00:36:25.100 Wah, rah. 1.00

00:36:25.820 No, nobody, you shouldn't be doing that.

00:36:28.640 You should be, act like an adult.

00:36:30.460 I mean, it is a real immaturity.

00:36:32.700 It's a, it's a true immaturity here.

00:36:34.840 That word hasn't even really been used to describe the left, but that's what it is.

00:36:38.440 It's an intellectual immaturity, a political immaturity and a spiritual immaturity, a moral

00:36:44.060 immaturity.

00:36:44.780 They don't know that much.

00:36:46.540 They're not educated, meaning they haven't been brought up the right way and they're not

00:36:50.660 behaving like adults and they really should because children can be, can do really reckless

00:36:55.220 things and I hope, I hope it doesn't come to that, but Rand Paul might have a good point.

00:37:00.120 Before we end here, this is my favorite story of the entire day.

00:37:04.120 CNN debasing itself as, as best it can.

00:37:07.700 And I know that that's a really high bar.

00:37:09.420 They have a panel on, on Don Lemon's show.

00:37:13.760 And here is, look, you know, Kanye West has stated his political views.

00:37:17.980 He likes the president.

00:37:18.960 He likes him for a number of reasons.

00:37:20.660 Uh, he, as far as, uh, pop musicians and actors and actresses go, Kanye West is one

00:37:27.560 of the more thoughtful and articulate of them.

00:37:29.440 You know, I mean, when you listen to like, who's, who's the girl, uh, not, um, uh, no,

00:37:35.740 not Apatow.

00:37:36.360 I forget one of those girls though. 0.99

00:37:37.980 She was going to run for the Senate. 0.88

00:37:39.220 I mean, she like screeching and screaming. 1.00

00:37:41.780 Uh, no, nobody wants that.

00:37:43.520 And then, uh, how do you narrow it down to just one?

00:37:45.740 Uh, Kanye West on the whole actually is in the, probably the upper 50% of the

00:37:50.540 pack.

00:37:51.440 Here is how CNN treats him. 0.98

00:37:53.360 Kanye West is what happens when Negroes don't read. 1.00

00:37:55.820 Um, and, and we have this now. 0.97

00:37:58.040 And now Donald Trump is going to use it and pervert it.

00:38:00.320 And he's going to have somebody who can stand with him and take pictures.

00:38:02.720 I'm just looking at Scott's movies.

00:38:07.140 Listen, black folks are about to trade Kanye West in the racial draft, okay? 1.00

00:38:13.940 They've had it with him and he's an attention whore like the president. 0.99

00:38:17.580 He's all of a sudden now the, the, the model spokesperson. 0.99

00:38:20.540 He's, he's the token Negro of the, of the Trump administration. 1.00

00:38:24.340 This is ridiculous. 0.98

00:38:25.400 And no one should be taking Kanye West seriously. 0.99

00:38:28.160 He's clearly has issues.

00:38:30.240 He's already been hospitalized. 0.98

00:38:32.520 This is what happens when Negroes don't read books. 1.00

00:38:35.760 That's a Don Lemon. 0.96

00:38:37.060 And then the other people on the panel just going right along with it.

00:38:40.140 Oh yeah. 0.87

00:38:40.500 He's the token Negro. 1.00

00:38:41.820 He's the he, he, he, ha, ha, ha. 0.89

00:38:43.800 And what this amounts to, what CNN amounts to is a, is a modern day minstrel show.

00:38:48.640 That's what it is.

00:38:49.340 That's, that's what they're doing.

00:38:50.720 They are, because what is a minstrel show?

00:38:52.800 A minstrel show is when you go on camera, you go on stage and you perform a caricature

00:38:58.000 of what your audience expects you to look because of your race, because of your gender,

00:39:03.460 because of someone else's race, someone else's gender.

00:39:05.200 And you play that caricature and you do that soft shoe. 0.86

00:39:08.240 Well, that's what a Negro looks like when he doesn't read books. 1.00

00:39:10.820 Ha, ha, ha. 0.95

00:39:11.680 Tee, hee, hee. 1.00

00:39:12.200 That's what that is.

00:39:12.840 It's really, it's really despicable because it's so, it's so narrows what people are,

00:39:17.800 not just as individuals, not just within their communities.

00:39:20.540 It, it narrows what whole races are. 0.56

00:39:22.900 It shrinks them.

00:39:23.740 It makes them shallow.

00:39:25.160 I, I had this experience.

00:39:27.100 I was in New Orleans when I was moving out from New York to Los Angeles and I stopped in

00:39:31.340 New Orleans and I got tricked by some hustler on the street.

00:39:34.200 And the guy says, uh, he comes up, he actually comes up to my buddy and he says, Hey man, I'll

00:39:40.480 bet you $10 that I can tell you where you got your shoes, both city and state.

00:39:45.900 So my buddy, I think he bought his shoes in Maine or something.

00:39:48.600 He said, Oh, there's no West and easy $10.

00:39:50.660 Okay.

00:39:50.880 Yeah.

00:39:51.060 Okay.

00:39:51.360 Fine.

00:39:51.680 I'll, uh, yeah, you can tell me where I got these shoes, city and state.

00:39:54.360 I'll give you $10.

00:39:55.820 He said, you got them in New Orleans, Louisiana.

00:39:58.760 I said, no, I actually got them in Maine.

00:40:00.940 He said, Nope.

00:40:01.720 You got them on your feet right now in New Orleans, Louisiana.

00:40:04.360 Ha, ha, ha.

00:40:05.020 You know, and then my buddy had to pay him 10 bucks.

00:40:07.300 And so, all right, that was a funny joke.

00:40:08.920 So later on, we're walking through, uh, walking down Bourbon street or something.

00:40:12.620 And some guy turns to us and he does this same shtick.

00:40:15.420 He goes, Hey man, I'll bet you $10 that you can't tell me where you got the shoes, New

00:40:19.400 Orleans, blah, blah, blah.

00:40:20.480 And I cut him off.

00:40:21.640 I was like, yeah, I know where I got my shoes.

00:40:22.880 I got them in New Orleans, Louisiana, no money.

00:40:25.380 And, uh, and then he dropped the whole show.

00:40:28.020 He said, okay, all right, no worries.

00:40:29.440 And he starts behaving like a normal person.

00:40:30.960 And it was really jarring because the line is pretty funny.

00:40:34.000 I'm probably going to use the line myself, you know, that I tell you where you got your

00:40:36.500 shoes, but it was the, it was the performance of it that because this guy, you know, he's

00:40:42.280 hanging out on the streets of New Orleans.

00:40:44.000 He looks a certain way.

00:40:45.140 He's a certain age.

00:40:46.320 He's in a certain place that he's got to put on a show.

00:40:49.040 He's got a, he's got a kowtow to a certain line that we expect him to, to behave like.

00:40:54.540 And that's exactly what CNN is demanding Kanye West.

00:40:57.880 That's exactly what Democrats are demanding. 0.70

00:40:59.520 That's exactly, and it's not a race thing either.

00:41:01.940 Uh, white, white Democrats are demanding this as well.

00:41:04.940 They're saying, who was it?

00:41:06.300 Uh, some actress tweeted out a picture and said, make Kanye Kanye again. 1.00

00:41:12.440 He's got to stop being Republican.

00:41:13.800 He's got to start, he's got to stop being independently minded.

00:41:17.540 He's got to start kowtowing to the line. 0.53

00:41:19.700 Black people are supposed to be Democrats. 1.00

00:41:21.460 That's what we're telling you. 0.99

00:41:22.340 You have to perform this way.

00:41:23.560 It's really narrow.

00:41:24.660 It's really shallow.

00:41:25.420 And I'm really pleased that no less a pop icon, a pop star, that word is abused, icon,

00:41:31.120 but pop star Kanye West is, uh, is the one who's breaking out of that.

00:41:35.920 It was, yeah, it was Alyssa Milano.

00:41:37.240 That's right.

00:41:37.560 It was Alyssa Milano who said, make Kanye Kanye again. 1.00

00:41:40.360 He's got to behave a certain way.

00:41:41.780 He's a, he's misbehaving.

00:41:43.320 Do what we tell you to do.

00:41:44.440 Behave the way we tell you to behave.

00:41:45.720 And CNN is doing the same thing.

00:41:47.240 It's a minstrel show. 0.62

00:41:48.040 It's really, really despicable.

00:41:49.460 But that's CNN, isn't it?

00:41:50.460 We don't have time for this day in history because I got to go too bad.

00:41:53.040 We'll get to it tomorrow.

00:41:54.000 Make sure you get your mailbag questions in.

00:41:55.600 We have, uh, a lot to talk about.

00:41:58.320 This has been a whirlwind of a week and it's only Wednesday.

00:42:01.640 So make sure you get those in.

00:42:03.040 In the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles.

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The Michael Knowles Show - October 10, 2018

Ep. 232 - The Kavanaugh Effect

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