The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 237 - The Devil In The Details

00:00:00.160 A Saudi journalist and former intelligence operative turned dissident goes missing at the Saudi embassy in Turkey

00:00:07.560 with reports that a Saudi death squad chopped him up while still alive.

00:00:11.940 And for some reason, I have been assured by the mainstream media, this is all Donald Trump's fault.

00:00:17.420 We will analyze the devil in the details, how this is being totally misreported, and what the U.S. response should be.

00:00:23.480 Then the Me Too movement boomerang swings back and clobbers Democrats on the head. 0.66

00:00:28.140 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, like, um, totally, you know, reveals why millennials don't understand anything. 1.00

00:00:36.460 Kleenex says women are just as disgusting as men, and Thomas Jefferson gets accused of a sex scandal on this day in history. 0.96

00:00:42.800 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show. 0.99

00:00:51.760 So much to get to today.

00:00:53.460 This story about the Saudi journalist, intelligence operative, former politico, Islamist, whatever,

00:01:00.580 uh, the, the story about him being disappeared and probably killed at the Saudi embassy in Turkey

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00:02:48.500 Uh, let's get to this, uh, Saudi journalist, you know, dissident type guy, uh, Jamal Khashoggi.

00:02:55.560 What do we know?

00:02:56.440 He's a Saudi guy.

00:02:57.980 Uh, he worked for the Washington Post.

00:02:59.740 He lived in the United States briefly.

00:03:01.140 Um, but he had worked previously with the Saudi Royal family and, uh, he walks into the Saudi

00:03:06.880 embassy in Turkey.

00:03:07.680 He doesn't walk out.

00:03:09.740 We also know that I think 15 members of the Saudi government arrived in, uh, Turkey that

00:03:15.400 day.

00:03:15.920 They, they left pretty quickly.

00:03:17.700 And, uh, there are claims that he was, uh, killed in the Saudi embassy and chopped up

00:03:22.620 while still alive.

00:03:23.460 Doesn't sound great.

00:03:24.580 The way this is being spun by the mainstream media, first of all, is that this is somehow

00:03:29.000 Trump's fault.

00:03:30.060 That Trump needs to like do something about this.

00:03:32.140 Trump needs to, uh, get rid of our, uh, uh, agreements with Turkey with regard to selling

00:03:38.200 weapons, a hundred billion dollar arms deals, whatever, uh, Saudi Arabia rather.

00:03:43.760 Um, so, uh, this is how it's being spun.

00:03:46.340 He, and, and the guy, Jamal Khashoggi, he's being spun as a left wing progressive liberal

00:03:52.860 pro-democracy, you know, reformer guy against the Saudi Royal family, which is, uh, not willing

00:03:59.700 to reform and is oppressive.

00:04:01.160 The real truth is far more complicated than that.

00:04:04.800 The first question that you have to ask yourself when you hear about this story is why am I

00:04:09.380 supposed to care?

00:04:10.660 Why am I supposed to care that the Saudi government, uh, took out this guy that took out this former,

00:04:17.760 he formerly worked with them.

00:04:19.420 I guess Jamal Khashoggi was aligned with other, with another faction of the Saudi Royal family

00:04:24.720 than the one that is currently in power under Mohammed bin Salman.

00:04:28.380 So, you know, a guy whose political fortunes have changed has been killed by the Saudi government.

00:04:34.940 Why am I supposed to care about that?

00:04:36.520 I don't mean to sound callous or cold hearted or anything like that, but we know that the

00:04:41.720 Saudi Royal family commits heinous acts all the time and has for decades and decades. 1.00

00:04:46.340 We know that it's one of the most repressive regimes on earth.

00:04:49.520 Um, why am, why am I supposed to care about this one?

00:04:52.420 They do it all of the time.

00:04:54.100 My question for those who would call us callous for asking that question is why don't you care

00:04:57.960 about the, the beheadings that are happening all the time, the, uh, clamping down on political

00:05:02.620 dissidents?

00:05:03.280 Why don't you care about that?

00:05:04.700 Why is it this one in particular?

00:05:06.660 I'm not, I don't really understand.

00:05:08.700 What new information is being conveyed by this killing of a dissident guy?

00:05:14.260 Is there anything new?

00:05:16.060 If we had our arms deal with Saudi Arabia two weeks ago, why would we change it now?

00:05:20.720 It's not like the government has changed its stripes.

00:05:23.180 If anything, the government is getting a little less repressive.

00:05:25.840 They're, they're liberalizing certain laws.

00:05:27.440 They're letting women drive for the first time in a very long time.

00:05:30.220 They're opening up certain movie theaters.

00:05:32.040 They're, you know, little, little, uh, freedoms are, uh, being opened up.

00:05:36.600 Even economic freedoms.

00:05:38.040 They're now starting to do a little bit of business with Israel.

00:05:41.100 And that is the biggest issue.

00:05:43.440 That's actually where this gets down to.

00:05:45.060 And it shows that Jamal Khashoggi being put up by the left wing as this messianic figure,

00:05:50.480 you know, this, this progressive, secular Westerner is, uh, was far from that.

00:05:56.140 So what does this actually prove to me?

00:05:59.160 It proves to me that if you pal around with jihadists, things aren't going to turn out very 0.99

00:06:03.740 well.

00:06:04.420 That's, that's the only conclusion I can draw from this because we know that Jamal Khashoggi

00:06:09.520 palled around with Islamists for decades.

00:06:11.880 Um, and by the way, now the left, now that we're pointing this out, that this guy palled

00:06:17.020 around with Islamists, with radicals, even with Osama bin Laden.

00:06:20.280 Now that people are pointing this out, the left is saying, this is a smear campaign by

00:06:24.860 right wingers trying to defend President Trump's relationship with the Saudis.

00:06:29.380 President Trump didn't develop the U S relationship with the Saudi Royal family.

00:06:32.440 We've had it for a very long time, but to call us smear merchants, it's, it's not the right

00:06:37.280 wing, which is coming up with these, uh, connections between Khashoggi and terrorists in Hamas,

00:06:43.420 terrorists in Al Qaeda, terrorists like Osama bin Laden.

00:06:47.460 Uh, this has been known for decades and actually it's left wing papers too.

00:06:50.420 Haaretz in Israel is reporting on all of this.

00:06:52.800 So, uh, don't really buy any of that.

00:06:55.040 Um, what do we know?

00:06:56.060 We know that Jamal Khashoggi was an Islamist.

00:06:58.560 He's, he was a lifelong member of the Muslim Brotherhood.

00:07:01.180 He favored radical aspects of the Muslim Brotherhood.

00:07:05.520 Uh, we know that he was a regime insider as well.

00:07:07.760 So not, it's not just as simple as a journalist.

00:07:09.960 It's a guy who worked with the Saudi Royal family for a long time.

00:07:13.460 And we know that he was working on their behalf in the 1980s when he was palling around with

00:07:17.460 Osama bin Laden.

00:07:18.540 By all reports, when he was hanging out with Osama bin Laden, he was trying to end the feud

00:07:22.860 between the Saudi Royal family and Osama bin Laden, but he was hanging out with them for a long time.

00:07:27.520 There was a photo that was uncovered, I believe by Haaretz, uh, which shows Jamal Khashoggi holding

00:07:34.380 an RPG, a rocket propelled grenade with terrorists in Afghanistan in the 1980s.

00:07:41.400 Um, we, we know that Jamal Khashoggi defended supporters of suicide bombings, that he vigorously 0.98

00:07:47.880 defended Hamas, the brutal terrorist group in the Middle East.

00:07:51.460 Uh, we know that, uh, that, uh, according to Al Arabiya, he tried to get Osama bin Laden

00:07:58.660 to be a little less violent, but when Osama bin Laden died, uh, Jamal Khashoggi apparently

00:08:03.500 cried and talked about how he wept when Osama bin Laden died.

00:08:07.580 Now he, after September 11th, he, he turned away from Osama bin Laden.

00:08:11.320 He said, that's no good.

00:08:12.160 Okay, fine.

00:08:12.680 But he, he wept when bin Laden died.

00:08:14.600 Um, so again, uh, Turkey says that it has the audio recording of Jamal Khashoggi being

00:08:22.980 killed by the Saudis. 0.99

00:08:24.140 Maybe it does.

00:08:25.040 Maybe it doesn't.

00:08:25.660 I have very little reason to believe Turkey, but in this case, I have very little reason 1.00

00:08:28.860 to disbelieve Turkey because the Saudis commit heinous crimes all the time. 1.00

00:08:33.100 Um, there are now also reports that Saudi Arabia is looking for a replacement for the crown

00:08:39.000 prince Mohammed bin Salman.

00:08:40.720 He's the, he's the new guy in town.

00:08:42.480 He's been hailed in the West as a reformer.

00:08:45.140 He actually has instituted certain reforms and pretty major reforms in so much as doing

00:08:49.900 a little bit of business with Israel.

00:08:51.840 Um, you know, obviously the kind of headline grabbing ones, letting women drive, but he 1.00

00:08:55.840 does seem to have an eye toward the future.

00:08:58.020 It would be a very, very bad idea for Saudi Arabia to replace this guy right now.

00:09:03.200 I really think it's a bad idea.

00:09:04.860 The arguments against, uh, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia are that he's not in favor of

00:09:09.980 democracy in the kingdom.

00:09:13.340 Great.

00:09:13.920 Uh, why on earth would we be in favor of democracy in Saudi Arabia?

00:09:17.180 How has, uh, have our experiments in democracy panned out in other repressive Islamist countries?

00:09:22.840 Not very well.

00:09:24.160 Why, why are we supposed to conclude now that, uh, a democratic Saudi Arabia would be any

00:09:29.020 more peaceful for the kingdom, for the region, and for the United States than a democratic Saudi 0.66

00:09:33.660 Arabia?

00:09:33.960 I don't really buy that.

00:09:34.980 And, you know, some of the so-called pro-democracy, uh, agitators in Saudi Arabia have pretty radical

00:09:41.400 Islamist ties, even more radical than the Saudi royal family.

00:09:44.580 Okay.

00:09:45.440 Um, what else?

00:09:47.040 Uh, the other thing he's being dinged for is that he's developed a pretty good relationship

00:09:50.580 with Donald Trump.

00:09:51.380 Again, this is nothing new.

00:09:53.080 The Saudi royal family has had a relationship with the U.S. for a long time, but, uh, because

00:09:57.760 everyone hates Trump, uh, on the left, they're trying to ding him for that as well.

00:10:01.740 I, I highly recommend you read a piece today, co-written by Michael Duran.

00:10:05.900 Michael Duran is an excellent, uh, foreign policy analyst.

00:10:09.100 It's in the New York Post.

00:10:11.180 Um, it, I think, presents a fair take on who Khashoggi is, who Mohammed bin Salman is, and

00:10:20.100 what the relationship is between those families.

00:10:21.960 You know, uh, to call him a dissident journalist who fled to America, that, that presents one picture.

00:10:28.660 But it's not like he fled to America 10 or 15 or 20 years ago.

00:10:32.000 It's not like he fled to America after he was palling around with bin Laden, and he suddenly 0.74

00:10:35.620 had an awakening.

00:10:36.600 He fled to America after the political tides turned in Saudi Arabia, and, uh, there's a

00:10:41.340 new crown prince in town.

00:10:42.280 Okay.

00:10:43.080 Um, here are some other things, by the way, that Jamal Khashoggi wrote about that paint

00:10:47.120 a different picture.

00:10:47.800 He said, quote, Saudi Arabia now believes its interests lie in facing Islamists who were supposed

00:10:55.160 to be its historical allies.

00:10:56.900 I often hear Saudi Arabian intellectuals on television attacking political Islam, and my

00:11:02.500 answer to them is that Saudi Arabia is the mother and father of political Islam.

00:11:06.880 So, you've got this guy Khashoggi who was killed extolling the virtues of Islamism, of 1.00

00:11:13.100 political Islam, the vicious ideology that we've been fighting now, uh, explicitly for 1.00

00:11:18.120 15 years.

00:11:18.800 And yet the left in America is expecting us to rend our garments and gnash our teeth because

00:11:25.280 a defender of political Islam has been killed by his government.

00:11:29.720 I'm not saying that I'm happy about the killing.

00:11:32.000 I'm not saying I'm devastated about the killing.

00:11:34.020 I'm saying when you pal around with jihadists and radical Islamists, bad things are going to

00:11:38.900 happen to you.

00:11:39.460 He, he, he goes on, uh, he, he criticizes the, uh, the leftist project of opposing political

00:11:46.800 Islam.

00:11:47.140 And, uh, he says that Saudi Arabia has lost its moral compass.

00:11:51.100 It lost its moral compass, not because it's, uh, embraced political Islam, but because it 0.99

00:11:56.760 opposes political Islam.

00:11:58.300 This is not something that's being presented in the mainstream media.

00:12:01.400 We also know that, uh, Khashoggi supports, uh, uh, Erdogan in Turkey, strong pro-Islamist

00:12:08.500 leader of Turkey.

00:12:09.620 And he was hoping for an alliance between the Sauds and, uh, Turkey.

00:12:13.740 Uh, I don't see how this benefits the United States.

00:12:16.860 I don't see how it's in the interest of the United States.

00:12:19.040 Oh, part of the reason why Khashoggi is getting this red carpet treatment and this killing is

00:12:24.840 being presented is totally unprecedented, horrifying, shocking, as if we didn't know that this

00:12:30.200 was, this sort of thing was going on for decades.

00:12:32.240 Part of the reason is that when he got to the United States, he allied with certain former

00:12:36.480 Obama administration officials.

00:12:38.100 He allied with the, uh, political left in the United States from his post at the Washington

00:12:43.580 Post, which he's had for a little while.

00:12:46.260 And, uh, so, uh, part of that was hiding his, I think, true political beliefs and his

00:12:52.040 demonstrable political activity for decades.

00:12:55.240 Um, all of, all of which, I don't want this to be misconstrued.

00:12:59.540 I don't want it to seem as though I'm defending the Saudi Royal family, uh, killing some dissident.

00:13:07.620 I don't share a religion with the Saudi Royal family.

00:13:10.460 I don't share a views of government with the Saudi Royal family.

00:13:13.300 I don't share views of political philosophy with the Saudi Royal family.

00:13:17.560 I don't care.

00:13:18.480 I, you know, I have no intention of ever going to Saudi Arabia.

00:13:22.040 What I'm saying is this is nothing new.

00:13:26.180 And, uh, the people who are opposing the Saudi regime can be pretty awful people too.

00:13:32.300 They may actually even be worse.

00:13:34.480 You know, one of the arguments for defending the Saudi Royal family, for maintaining an alliance

00:13:38.860 with the Saudi Royal family, is that the devil we know is better than the devil we don't. 0.94

00:13:43.520 But, uh, throughout our encounters in the Middle East, this has very often proven to be the

00:13:49.100 case.

00:13:49.940 Just take the case of Mubarak in Egypt.

00:13:52.160 Do we really believe that, uh, Egypt is better off now, that the United States relationship

00:13:57.280 is better off now after we, uh, hoisted our longtime ally Hosni Mubarak years ago?

00:14:04.040 Do we really believe it's, how is that better off?

00:14:06.160 How are we better off if, uh, pro-democracy forces enter some of these oppressive countries

00:14:11.860 and then, uh, through democracy, through voting, institute even more oppressive, even more

00:14:18.600 tyrannical, even more anti-Western, uh, regimes?

00:14:23.100 How is that in our interest?

00:14:24.440 How is that in anybody's interest?

00:14:26.340 If one of, uh, Khashoggi's chief criticisms of the Saudi Royal family is that they're too

00:14:31.900 pro-Israel and they're not supporting Hamas enough or something like that.

00:14:36.220 Why on earth should we be defending that?

00:14:38.360 Why should we be horrified?

00:14:39.500 Why should we be clutching our pearls?

00:14:41.460 I don't get it at all.

00:14:42.760 I think the reason it's getting so much play is because there's a midterm election coming

00:14:46.760 up.

00:14:47.640 They got nothing.

00:14:48.700 The Democrats have nothing to attack Trump for.

00:14:51.300 So they're just grasping at straws.

00:14:53.380 They're trying to grasp anything at all that they can use to cudgel him with.

00:14:56.760 But people need to take a real view.

00:14:58.940 We talked yesterday about how when people get angry, they go mad. 1.00

00:15:02.140 And when they go mad, they get stupid. 1.00

00:15:03.520 They start behaving in really stupid political ways. 1.00

00:15:06.340 This is a good example of that. 1.00

00:15:08.180 You know, we, we, people don't know anything, myself included.

00:15:11.560 People do not know anything relatively about the political machinations of Saudi Arabia,

00:15:17.060 Turkey, and Iran.

00:15:18.140 People don't know the players involved.

00:15:20.060 They don't know how deep this runs.

00:15:21.580 And everybody wants to pretend that they're an expert on this issue and Saudi's bad and 1.00

00:15:26.700 Mohammed bin Salman bad and Jamal Khashoggi good. 1.00

00:15:29.420 The reality is so much more complex.

00:15:32.120 And when we, when we just buy a shallow narrative of this, we can get ourself into a lot of

00:15:36.720 trouble, both as a matter of foreign policy and for domestic politics.

00:15:40.580 Don't buy into it.

00:15:42.480 Is it, is it bad when a government kills its people without due process?

00:15:46.360 Yes.

00:15:47.080 Governments do it all the time.

00:15:49.040 It's happened for decades.

00:15:50.520 Certainly it's happened in Saudi Arabia.

00:15:52.240 There is no new information here.

00:15:53.860 Now, how can we react to this?

00:15:55.640 The killing was extrajudicial.

00:15:58.880 What can we do?

00:15:59.920 We can hopefully leverage this killing to get some concessions out of Saudi Arabia.

00:16:05.240 You know, there was the famous Saudi Arabian textbook controversy, which is emblematic of

00:16:09.540 the education of young Saudis into anti-Western, anti-American, anti-Israeli, obviously, ideologies. 0.68

00:16:17.160 Perhaps we can leverage this situation to gain some concessions from them to turn the stance

00:16:23.680 of the regime, a little less anti-Western, turn it a little bit more in the direction

00:16:27.680 that we want it to go in the interest of the United States.

00:16:30.700 I'm all for that.

00:16:31.660 I'm all for leveraging this.

00:16:33.140 I have no sentimentality, no saccharine love of the Saudi royal family.

00:16:37.840 But let's be clear-eyed.

00:16:38.980 The people who are opposing the Saudi royal family are pretty awful themselves.

00:16:43.220 And in many ways, they oppose our interests in a far greater way.

00:16:46.780 And fortunately, we have the Saudis there to oppose the influence of Iran in the Middle East. 0.99

00:16:50.680 Just keep all of those things in mind.

00:16:53.360 And most importantly, as you're, what are we now, 18 days out or something from the midterm elections,

00:16:59.860 don't let the Democrats take this bizarre, random incident that happened in Turkey and

00:17:06.860 try to use it for political leverage coming 18 days out.

00:17:10.580 It's a cynical political ploy by the left.

00:17:13.260 And it could have consequences both politically and for our foreign policy.

00:17:18.080 Don't buy it.

00:17:19.240 You know, the people I think who are screaming about the Saudi royal family the most,

00:17:24.280 I don't know that they've ever even Googled the guy who was killed.

00:17:27.660 I don't know.

00:17:28.340 You've got to view these things pretty clearly.

00:17:30.780 But we don't have a lot of clear thinking anymore.

00:17:33.740 We'll get to that in a second with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. 0.98

00:17:37.520 I do want to turn back to the midterms because this Me Too thing

00:17:41.540 has totally boomeranged back and clobbered Democrats.

00:17:45.180 You know, this is another example of why you shouldn't let your passions run away with you

00:17:48.900 in politics.

00:17:49.780 You should get all of the information first because this Me Too thing is clobbering them.

00:17:54.440 There is now an ad out supporting the GOP congressman French Hill.

00:17:59.500 Now, French Hill says he wasn't behind this ad.

00:18:01.960 He's condemned the ad.

00:18:02.780 He says it's outrageous.

00:18:03.560 But the whole premise of this Me Too movement and specifically the Kavanaugh part of it

00:18:09.120 is that all women must be believed regardless of any evidence they have.

00:18:15.100 All women, all claims of sexual misconduct should be believed.

00:18:19.000 All men accused of sexual misconduct should be presumed guilty until proven innocent.

00:18:24.420 And this has huge effects on and huge relation to American history,

00:18:30.880 specifically American racial history.

00:18:32.420 Don't forget the book To Kill a Mockingbird is about a false rape allegation of a white woman

00:18:38.560 against a black guy. 0.54

00:18:40.620 And she made it up and it was a hoax and it had serious racial consequences.

00:18:46.400 So there's this great ad out now supporting GOP congressman French Hill.

00:18:51.140 Just take a listen.

00:18:52.900 What do you think about what's happening in Washington?

00:18:55.660 Our congressman French Hill and the Republicans know that it's dangerous to change the presumption

00:19:00.600 of innocence to a presumption of guilt, especially for black men.

00:19:04.640 If the Democrats can do that to a white justice of the Supreme Court with no evidence,

00:19:09.580 no corroboration, and all of her witnesses, including her best friend, say it didn't happen,

00:19:15.480 what will happen to our husbands, our fathers, or our sons when a white girl lies on them? 1.00

00:19:21.020 Girl, white Democrats will be lynching black folk again. 1.00

00:19:24.620 Honey, I've always told my son, don't be messing around with that. 1.00

00:19:28.740 If you get caught, she will cry rape. 1.00

00:19:31.500 I'm voting to keep congressman French Hill and the Republicans because we have to protect

00:19:36.480 our men and boys.

00:19:38.160 We can't afford to let white Democrats take us back to bad old days of race verdicts, 0.99

00:19:43.500 life sentences, and lynchings when a white girl screams rape. 0.98

00:19:47.060 Paid for by black Americans for the president's agenda, not authorized by any candidate or 0.99

00:19:51.740 candidate's committee.

00:19:53.540 That is too real.

00:19:56.140 That is, I think that has been disqualified from the public airwaves for being too real.

00:20:00.640 They say, I'm sorry, you're not allowed to have political ads that are that real.

00:20:03.740 You're not allowed to have political ads that go back, one, to really the heart of this matter,

00:20:08.600 but also that refer to Democrats' long history of racial violence and demagoguery.

00:20:13.720 So, a really good ad, obviously, it is outrageous that the congressman has had to distance himself

00:20:19.880 from it, but it makes a great point.

00:20:22.640 You know, this regime, this political movement of Me Too is lawless.

00:20:30.400 It's anti-law and it's lawless.

00:20:32.740 It says that any allegation, you can destroy a man's career with just a few words, no corroboration,

00:20:38.360 no evidence.

00:20:38.820 In the case of Christine Ford, not only did she have no evidence, she kept changing her

00:20:43.120 story and all the people she named there, including her lifelong female friend, said

00:20:47.020 it didn't happen.

00:20:48.300 They never met the people there.

00:20:49.900 It just didn't happen.

00:20:52.160 And yet, how many people in America still believe Christine Ford's story, or one of Christine

00:20:56.580 Ford's stories?

00:20:57.140 I don't know.

00:20:57.400 She kept changing them.

00:20:58.380 How many believe that Brett Kavanaugh is not only a groper, or was a groper when he was 0.96

00:21:02.980 16, but was an attempted rapist and even almost a murderer because the story, you know, 0.97

00:21:08.020 kept changing.

00:21:08.760 How many people believe that?

00:21:09.920 It's very, really long lasting effects and you see it all around and there is a racial 1.00

00:21:15.820 component to it.

00:21:17.060 Don't just believe the ad for French Hill. 0.99

00:21:20.200 Go back to, to kill a mockingbird.

00:21:22.200 Go back to 19th and early 20th century American history.

00:21:25.400 This is not, this is not a joke.

00:21:27.960 And because all nature is but art unknown to thee, because everything, every time the Democrats

00:21:34.400 try to make a point, reality swings back and punches them in the face, this has actually

00:21:39.120 happened.

00:21:40.060 You know, the lynching of Emmett Till came about because Emmett Till allegedly, 14 year

00:21:45.700 old black boy, allegedly hit on a white woman and a lynch mob came and killed him for it,

00:21:52.260 for that allegation. 0.77

00:21:53.940 And now you've got the left denying that this would ever happen.

00:21:57.520 Not, it was not a chance.

00:21:59.160 It would never happen.

00:22:00.580 In Brooklyn, in New York, a nine-year-old black boy was accused by a white woman of 0.94

00:22:07.420 grabbing her derriere in a, in a supermarket. 0.98

00:22:11.460 Um, the woman's clearly unhinged. 0.99

00:22:14.520 She ended up calling the police and saying, he assaulted me.

00:22:17.500 He grabbed me. 0.95

00:22:18.260 He grabbed my derriere. 0.98

00:22:20.020 And a nine-year-old boy. 0.74

00:22:21.340 And, uh, then they looked at security camera footage.

00:22:24.800 Never happened.

00:22:25.420 They can, they can prove that it didn't happen. 0.99

00:22:28.780 She's a nut. 1.00

00:22:30.020 She called the cops on the kid. 0.98

00:22:31.860 It's not like she just said, oh, you don't do that.

00:22:34.120 Or say, said to his mother, don't do that.

00:22:36.320 Uh, she called the police on him and then it turns out it was fake.

00:22:39.280 It didn't happen.

00:22:40.000 It was a hoax.

00:22:41.180 So one, I just want to point out for the believe all women thing.

00:22:45.720 There are hoaxes.

00:22:46.900 Jackie Coakley, Tawana Brawley, countless, uh, sexual assault hoaxes in recent years.

00:22:52.240 The reason that you can't believe all women just because they're women is that it is unfair

00:22:56.900 to actual victims of sexual assault. 0.99

00:23:00.300 It actually doesn't take sexual assault seriously when you believe crazy people. 0.72

00:23:04.880 And we should take sexual assault seriously because it is a heinous crime.

00:23:08.360 Uh, so I love this kid. 0.93

00:23:10.460 Um, he, uh, the woman, the crazy woman who accused him of this is named Teresa Klein.

00:23:15.820 The nine-year-old kid is Jeremiah Harvey.

00:23:17.920 And, you know, she's trying to ruin his life at this Brooklyn deli. 0.98

00:23:21.620 Uh, the ABC news interviewed the, the nine-year-old kid and said, uh, do you forgive this woman?

00:23:27.820 I love his answer.

00:23:29.780 Do you forgive this woman?

00:23:32.200 How do you feel about her?

00:23:33.840 I don't, I don't forgive this woman at all. 0.97

00:23:35.620 I think she was crazy. 0.60

00:23:37.080 I think she had something going on with her. 0.98

00:23:40.020 I think she had a special ill.

00:23:41.740 Well, and she needs help and she really needs help for life.

00:23:46.720 You, you tell him, you tell him, Jeremiah.

00:23:50.040 Now, you know, I think he, he should forgive in time, but this is a perfectly appropriate

00:23:55.340 answer in the moment.

00:23:57.160 Yeah.

00:23:57.360 She has a special kind of ill. 1.00

00:23:59.040 She's crazy. 0.99

00:24:00.040 She needs help. 1.00

00:24:00.960 She needs to get help.

00:24:01.980 Play it again.

00:24:02.780 Tell him again, Jeremiah, because all the Democrats need to hear this.

00:24:05.440 You're talking to all of them.

00:24:06.980 Do you forgive this woman?

00:24:09.280 How do you feel about her?

00:24:10.740 I don't, I don't forgive this woman at all. 0.97

00:24:12.700 I think she was crazy. 0.60

00:24:14.240 I think she had something going on with her. 0.98

00:24:17.180 I think she had a special ill.

00:24:19.640 Well, and she needs help and she really needs help for life.

00:24:23.520 She does need help.

00:24:24.420 And thank goodness that there was security camera footage because look, it's funny.

00:24:27.700 The kid is stating this perfectly.

00:24:30.700 He's really spelling out what, uh, the left needs to hear, but thank goodness there was

00:24:35.500 security camera footage because if not, who knows what would have happened at the very

00:24:39.240 least, his mother would have yelled at him and spanked him and sent him to time out. 0.53

00:24:43.500 I don't know.

00:24:44.040 He would have gotten in trouble for this.

00:24:45.940 And this is a particular incident that also represents a lot of other incidents.

00:24:51.340 You've got kids getting expelled from college because of uncorroborated, unverified allegations,

00:24:56.300 not taken to the police, not taken to the justice system, but, uh, tallied up by kangaroo

00:25:02.140 courts of professors who have no business investigating and prosecuting serious crimes.

00:25:07.840 You've got Supreme court justices having their characters assassinated because of unverified

00:25:12.760 claims.

00:25:13.160 It goes all the way up.

00:25:14.180 It's, you know, this nine year old kid in a Brooklyn deli is a great example and symbol

00:25:20.060 of, uh, of the dangers of what could happen if we take away due process and we take away

00:25:25.200 the presumption of innocence.

00:25:26.740 And me too is striking back.

00:25:28.600 It is striking back against Democrats, specifically Democrats on the judiciary committee.

00:25:34.180 This is just too delicious.

00:25:35.820 Let me take a little sip of my Tumblr first before I get to this wonderful story.

00:25:39.240 Mm.

00:25:40.240 Mm.

00:25:41.200 Just as good as I remembered them.

00:25:43.280 Uh, uh, Senator Sherrod Brown, Democrat from Ohio, uh, running against, uh, Jim Renacci.

00:25:49.700 Um, Jim Renacci and his campaign is now coming out with an allegation that Sherrod Brown,

00:25:56.720 member of the Senate judiciary committee, sexually harassed and assaulted a woman in the eighties.

00:26:03.520 I love this.

00:26:05.200 I love that it's 30 years later.

00:26:08.500 I love that it allegedly happened in the 1980s.

00:26:11.140 I love that it's a political opponent bringing it against a Democrat.

00:26:14.360 And I love that it's a Democrat on the judiciary committee.

00:26:17.780 Very rarely do we see perfect examples of karma.

00:26:21.020 Very rarely do these things hit exactly the way that they came out.

00:26:25.240 And that's, that's what's happening here.

00:26:27.040 So according to the Renacci campaign, quote, this encounter, oh, this is actually according

00:26:32.480 to the, uh, uh, accuser purported victim.

00:26:35.860 She said this account happened after Sherrod Brown's divorce.

00:26:40.340 Uh, she described, quote, an unexpected, uninvited, unwanted, and sudden advance,

00:26:45.660 roughly pushing her up against a wall.

00:26:47.500 It did not stop after she expressed dismay and very firmly pulled away, explaining that

00:26:53.880 was not her style nor why she was there.

00:26:56.140 Although she was able to defuse the situation, she got out, it did shake her up and she told

00:27:01.320 friends about it as soon as she got home.

00:27:04.380 This allegation is about a thousand times more credible than anything Christine Ford has

00:27:09.500 said regarding Brett Kavanaugh.

00:27:11.600 Uh, and I, and this doesn't sound that credible either.

00:27:15.540 I'll be perfectly frank.

00:27:17.240 Uh, this accusation against, uh, Sherrod Brown, unless, uh, they can, uh, bring some more evidence

00:27:23.660 isn't terribly credible.

00:27:24.840 It is a thousand, 10,000 times more credible than anything Christine Ford said.

00:27:30.820 It's almost a one-to-one.

00:27:32.100 It happened in the 1980s.

00:27:33.560 Okay.

00:27:34.360 Uh, except that Sherrod Brown in this case was an adult who had been divorced.

00:27:37.540 In the case of Christine Ford's accusation, Kavanaugh was 17 years old.

00:27:42.100 Then Sherrod Brown, according to this accusation, pushed her up against a wall, pinned her, used

00:27:47.940 his body.

00:27:48.760 It was unwanted and it was rough.

00:27:50.980 That was the same allegation against a teenage Brett Kavanaugh, except in this case, Sherrod

00:27:56.960 Brown was apparently stone cold sober.

00:27:59.000 And in the case of the Ford allegation, Kavanaugh was drunk.

00:28:01.360 Maybe if he was even in the room, then she expressed dismay, Ford expressed dismay, both

00:28:06.720 of them expressed dismay.

00:28:07.700 And in both cases, they didn't stop.

00:28:09.740 And in, and then in both cases, the women just got out of there. 1.00

00:28:13.260 They were able to get out of there, fortunately.

00:28:15.340 And, uh, but it still shook them up.

00:28:17.760 The difference here is that the woman accusing Democrat Sherrod Brown of this kind of conduct

00:28:22.500 apparently told her friends immediately after it happened.

00:28:25.520 And the, and the friends are corroborating it.

00:28:27.560 In the case of Christine Ford, she didn't tell anybody for 30, 30 years, over 30 years.

00:28:32.100 And then her story changed a million times.

00:28:33.980 And then the friends that she said could corroborate it, didn't corroborate it and actually refuted

00:28:38.740 it.

00:28:39.280 This is so much.

00:28:41.000 Oh, also both of them wanted to remain anonymous.

00:28:43.660 The woman accusing Sherrod Brown is anonymous.

00:28:46.160 The woman, uh, Christine Ford wanted to remain anonymous until the Democrats leaked the story. 1.00

00:28:51.480 And what is Sherrod Brown?

00:28:53.000 How has he responded to this? 1.00

00:28:54.580 This dirty, rotten hypocrite. 1.00

00:28:56.480 He said, this is character assassination. 1.00

00:28:58.760 You're damn right. 0.93

00:28:59.620 It's character assassination. 0.93

00:29:00.600 Absolutely.

00:29:01.880 And I hope you enjoy every second of that character assassination.

00:29:05.100 I mentioned this during the Ford thing.

00:29:07.080 I said, if, uh, we, we actually want to stop this sort of baseless smearing that these things

00:29:13.340 that discourage good people from going into politics, that make a mockery of our system

00:29:17.220 of justice, that make a mockery of the presumption of innocence, Democrats have to feel it too.

00:29:21.740 And one of the perfect Democrats to feel it is feeling it now.

00:29:25.040 Sherrod Brown, a Democrat.

00:29:27.240 Enjoy your character assassination.

00:29:28.400 Enjoy this perfect one-to-one.

00:29:30.260 Can't wait to see how Democrats respond.

00:29:31.820 You probably haven't heard about this story because nobody is covering it.

00:29:34.760 Surprise, surprise.

00:29:35.700 Well, maybe it'll be covered in Ohio before the midterm elections.

00:29:39.420 Uh, I also have to thank Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, as always, occasional cortex, as, uh, Steve Hayward

00:29:47.340 says, because she has perfectly exemplified why millennials don't understand anything at all.

00:29:54.900 She was doing an interview with Jimmy Kimmel.

00:29:56.600 Here is just a quick clip of, uh, of the poetic diction of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

00:30:02.880 You beat a 10-time incumbent, a guy who just assumed that he was going to win, and you came

00:30:09.480 out of nowhere, you were working as a bartender, and decided that it would be a good idea to

00:30:15.220 run for office.

00:30:16.120 It's really one of the most remarkable stories I've ever heard.

00:30:19.560 He's stopping, think about this from time to time, and go, I can't believe this is happening.

00:30:23.800 Yeah.

00:30:24.140 A year ago.

00:30:24.740 Oh, yeah.

00:30:25.300 People just lose their money.

00:30:26.320 They're like, wait.

00:30:27.380 It's like back in the day when, yeah, yeah.

00:30:29.620 Like, I mean, people will be like, is this real?

00:30:31.840 And it's like, yeah, no, it's, yeah.

00:30:33.540 In the party.

00:30:34.760 Yeah, yeah, they, they do.

00:30:36.360 And it's, yeah, yeah.

00:30:36.980 In their own hometown.

00:30:38.260 Yeah, absolutely.

00:30:39.360 And, you know, I don't know, I don't know if it's because we're from the Bronx, it's like

00:30:42.120 exotic to us or something.

00:30:44.180 She was like, yeah, no, my husband is a, is a huge fan of yours.

00:30:47.860 Motion activated tchotchke behind me that's like singing jingle bells, actually.

00:30:52.880 Yeah, like, like, yeah, yeah.

00:30:54.520 Like the thing, you know, like about that clip, like, is it shows like how, uh, uh, clear

00:31:00.820 speech is reflective of clear thinking, like, you know, and that's why, you know, like it's

00:31:05.180 so totally hard, you know, you know, do you know, do you know, do you know, yeah, yeah,

00:31:10.980 man, I know this is how millennials talk.

00:31:15.200 We all do it.

00:31:16.100 Even I do it.

00:31:16.740 Sometimes I'll occasionally slip in a like or a, yeah, or a, you know, sometimes I'll do

00:31:22.820 it for comic effect, sometimes I'll do it just in my speech, and this is a very bad

00:31:27.680 thing.

00:31:28.800 People should refrain from doing this.

00:31:30.980 To write well is to think clearly.

00:31:32.920 To speak well is to think clearly.

00:31:35.720 When you don't speak well, when you don't write well, you're not thinking clearly very

00:31:39.580 often.

00:31:39.960 It's reflective of how you're thinking.

00:31:41.520 You must avoid all of these likes and ums and yes.

00:31:45.260 The other thing it's reflective of is the relativist presumptions and premises and culture

00:31:51.940 that millennials are in.

00:31:54.540 You know, man, like, yeah, millennials no longer say, I think they say, what do they

00:32:01.360 say?

00:32:01.560 They say, I feel like they don't say, I think they don't say, I believe they say, I feel

00:32:06.240 like, well, I just feel like blah, blah, blah.

00:32:08.940 You know, I feel like blah, blah, blah.

00:32:11.040 They won't say, that was a delicious dinner.

00:32:13.840 They'll say, that dinner was like really good.

00:32:16.060 You know, it was like really good.

00:32:17.060 It wasn't really good.

00:32:18.400 I'm saying it was like really good.

00:32:20.160 The reason that people do this subconsciously, unconsciously, or consciously is because they

00:32:25.380 want to distance themselves from making a claim because there's no such thing as the

00:32:29.600 truth to these people.

00:32:31.120 There is only your truth and my truth and like, who am I, man, to say what like the truth

00:32:36.340 is, you know?

00:32:37.080 So it's always like.

00:32:38.220 It's always a simile.

00:32:39.080 It's always similar to this thing, but not quite that thing.

00:32:43.220 I'm never making a claim.

00:32:45.040 I'm always explaining my feelings about the claim.

00:32:47.920 I feel like it's a really bad way of thinking.

00:32:50.940 And the way that you speak is going to dictate how you think because the words are the stuff

00:32:56.680 of our consciousness.

00:32:57.840 The words are the medium of how we think.

00:33:00.820 So if you use debased language, if you use vague language, if you use squishy language,

00:33:05.280 you're going to think in a vague, debased, and squishy way.

00:33:07.960 Do not be like occasional cortex.

00:33:10.940 Be like, like, you know, like man, a serious thinker and use precise language and use hard

00:33:17.300 language and use blunt language.

00:33:19.060 Do it as best you can.

00:33:20.280 The culture is stacked against you and trying to get you not to do that.

00:33:23.800 Try to do that on your own.

00:33:24.960 Now, I've got so much more advice and so many more pearls of wisdom on these things and a

00:33:30.800 lot more to cover on this day in history on how Kleenex is finally capitulating to feminists 0.99

00:33:36.060 and admitting that feminists are disgusting as any man and this caravan at the border. 1.00

00:33:40.620 All of that will just happen at dailywire.com. 0.98

00:33:42.660 If you're on Facebook and YouTube, go over.

00:33:44.980 Come on, man.

00:33:45.580 Go over there.

00:33:46.240 Like.

00:33:46.600 Come on.

00:33:47.040 You know, yeah, it'll be really fun.

00:33:48.500 Yeah.

00:33:49.440 You'll get me.

00:33:49.900 You'll get the Andrew Klaven show.

00:33:50.760 You get the Ben Shapiro show.

00:33:52.020 You get to ask questions in the mailbag.

00:33:53.900 You get to ask questions in the conversation.

00:33:55.860 None of that matters.

00:33:56.880 You'll also get to see us at Politicon.

00:33:58.200 You'll get to stream our appearance at Politicon over the weekend.

00:34:02.420 But you'll get this.

00:34:03.920 And this, these leftist tears, they're like, oh, they're like, oh, yeah.

00:34:10.580 Oh, yeah.

00:34:11.120 They are like so, so good.

00:34:12.460 And they're really important.

00:34:14.000 This is the Sherrod Brown vintage.

00:34:16.400 This is the Democrat Senate Judiciary Me Too Boomerang vintage.

00:34:20.860 And it's, it's a young vintage.

00:34:22.560 It's only going to mature.

00:34:23.980 It's only going to get better.

00:34:25.020 Go to dailywire.com.

00:34:25.880 We'll be right back.

00:34:36.680 There's a French expression.

00:34:38.200 Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

00:34:40.560 The more things change, the more things stay the same in the American idiom.

00:34:45.180 Obviously, some things get worse.

00:34:48.240 The language gets worse.

00:34:49.140 Ocasio gets worse.

00:34:50.280 The Me Too movement descends into these awful things.

00:34:53.760 But so many things stay the same.

00:34:55.880 I just came across this clip from 1991.

00:34:59.120 It's an appearance of Robin Williams, the late, great Robin Williams, on The Johnny Carson

00:35:03.720 Show, and he's describing the confirmation hearings of Justice Clarence Thomas, one of the great

00:35:11.000 justices on the court, a brilliant guy.

00:35:14.000 Here is how Robin Williams describes him.

00:35:17.420 How are you doing?

00:35:18.180 It's always been...

00:35:18.680 I'm good.

00:35:18.940 I'm a little...

00:35:19.340 I've been watching the Supreme Court hearings.

00:35:21.500 It's a little amazing.

00:35:22.160 Mr. Thomas, your opinion of Roe versus Wade?

00:35:25.820 I'd prefer to float.

00:35:27.000 Okay.

00:35:27.280 Come on now.

00:35:30.360 Come on, give us an opinion.

00:35:32.440 Tell us something.

00:35:34.520 They bring in all sorts of witnesses.

00:35:35.980 He was a good boy.

00:35:38.740 It's amazing.

00:35:39.580 They can't get real answers out of him.

00:35:41.060 I mean, how do they get people there?

00:35:42.340 People have no legal opinions, no written opinions.

00:35:44.860 They basically...

00:35:45.580 Four short weeks ago, I was driving trucks.

00:35:48.940 Now I'm sitting on the highest court in the land.

00:35:52.540 Thanks to the George Bush home study courts, you two can be a Supreme Court judge.

00:35:57.700 You get it? 1.00

00:35:58.420 He was an idiot. 1.00

00:35:59.280 What an idiot. 1.00

00:36:00.120 He doesn't... 1.00

00:36:00.680 Clarence Thomas, he doesn't even have any opinions.

00:36:03.020 He doesn't...

00:36:03.520 I mean, he's a judge.

00:36:04.660 He's a judge and he has a lot of written opinions and he ran a lot of important offices.

00:36:08.440 But...

00:36:08.600 And he went to Yale Law School, by the way, a top law school in the country. 1.00

00:36:11.400 But he's like an idiot. 1.00

00:36:12.560 You know, he's like a... 1.00

00:36:13.540 You know, like... 1.00

00:36:14.280 Like he's an idiot. 1.00

00:36:15.580 And this was the attack. 1.00

00:36:16.600 They always do this. 1.00

00:36:17.560 And when Clarence Thomas wasn't an idiot, he was a sexual assailant. 1.00

00:36:21.440 He was a black man in a high-tech lynching being accused without any evidence of sexual assault. 1.00

00:36:28.840 An over-sexed black man was the image that was being painted by the left. 0.98

00:36:32.700 And they would go back and forth on this. 0.98

00:36:34.540 You heard...

00:36:34.940 Even Robin Williams alludes to it there.

00:36:36.380 Oh, he was a good boy.

00:36:37.600 Oh, he was a good boy.

00:36:39.080 Making fun of the character witnesses that came up for Clarence Thomas.

00:36:42.800 The same exact thing.

00:36:44.160 Making the same jokes 27 years ago.

00:36:47.540 For the same reason.

00:36:48.840 And Robin Williams even admits the same reason.

00:36:51.360 Roe versus Wade.

00:36:52.460 Why did he bring up Roe versus Wade?

00:36:54.300 Was it to make a fairly lame joke?

00:36:56.740 Get it?

00:36:57.200 Roe versus Wade.

00:36:58.500 I prefer to float.

00:37:00.580 Eh?

00:37:00.940 They weren't all winners.

00:37:02.060 You know, sometimes Robin Williams is very funny.

00:37:03.760 Sometimes he had some clunkers.

00:37:04.780 That was one of them.

00:37:05.720 But it's Roe versus Wade.

00:37:06.820 That's what it was all about.

00:37:07.700 It's what it's going to be about.

00:37:08.800 We like to flatter ourselves.

00:37:10.600 Especially on the left.

00:37:11.860 They like to flatter themselves and say, this is the moment.

00:37:14.440 This is the crisis.

00:37:15.500 It's always a crisis.

00:37:16.940 The Saudi Arabia thing.

00:37:18.200 It's always a crisis.

00:37:19.160 The new crisis.

00:37:19.860 That's the view of politics on the left.

00:37:23.200 That's the view of politics from rationalists.

00:37:25.300 There's always a new crisis that we have to fix.

00:37:27.800 That's not the view of politics from conservatives.

00:37:30.720 And it shouldn't be.

00:37:32.140 It's not a crisis.

00:37:33.360 Saudi Arabian government behaving like the Saudi Arabian government is not a crisis.

00:37:38.040 If that's a crisis, you need to do a little more homework.

00:37:40.400 You've got to calm down.

00:37:41.920 A justice who interprets the Constitution as it was to be interpreted at the time of ratification,

00:37:50.980 that's not a crisis.

00:37:52.400 That's the opposite of a crisis.

00:37:53.600 But they'll always try to make it up that way.

00:37:55.400 They're going to do it for the next judge that we put up to the Supreme Court.

00:37:58.280 They're going to do it for the federal judges as well.

00:38:00.260 It's not a crisis.

00:38:01.060 Calm down.

00:38:01.500 Don't be fooled by that kind of language. 1.00

00:38:03.780 Oh, Clarence Thomas, he's an idiot. 1.00

00:38:05.180 Because Robin Williams said so. 1.00

00:38:06.480 Some comedian on Late Night said so.

00:38:08.380 Oh, Kavanaugh, he's impassioned.

00:38:11.200 He's this, he's that.

00:38:13.100 No.

00:38:13.460 He's a frat boy.

00:38:14.280 He doesn't know anything.

00:38:14.900 No.

00:38:15.920 Don't buy it.

00:38:16.940 It's so tired.

00:38:18.680 They do it all the time and they whip people up into a frenzy.

00:38:21.400 There's no frenzy to be had there.

00:38:24.860 Consider the new crisis that they've made, the feminists have made out of Kleenex. 1.00

00:38:28.700 If you've heard this story, Kleenex has had various sizes of tissues.

00:38:33.320 And for the last 62 years, they've had a man-sized tissue.

00:38:37.040 If I say man-sized tissue, what does that bring to mind?

00:38:40.600 Bigger, stronger, capable of dealing with grosser things and more disgusting things.

00:38:45.920 Yes, that's what the man-sized tissue was. 0.99

00:38:48.240 Because men are bigger and they're stronger and they're more disgusting. 0.97

00:38:52.180 That's a biological fact. 0.99

00:38:53.760 Feminists have taken issue with this. 1.00

00:38:55.680 It was one of the most popular products at Kleenex.

00:38:58.080 3.4 million customers per year, according to Kleenex.

00:39:00.920 But it's very bad.

00:39:02.200 It's very bad, you know.

00:39:03.280 Because it's gendered. 0.99

00:39:06.500 Are we, who are you to say that men are bigger than women?

00:39:11.980 They are, obviously.

00:39:13.120 But who are you to say it?

00:39:14.360 Who are you to say that men are stronger than women?

00:39:16.800 They are, obviously.

00:39:17.680 But who are you to say it?

00:39:18.660 It's a denial of reality and Kleenex has capitulated to it. 0.99

00:39:22.420 And it's ironic because what feminists want, the implicit claim of feminists who take issue with man-sized tissues is that women are just as big and gross and disgusting as men. 1.00

00:39:33.400 And when it comes to feminists, I can't disagree. 1.00

00:39:38.020 On the whole, on average, I can't disagree.

00:39:40.560 So congratulations, feminists. 1.00

00:39:42.280 You've gotten rid of the man-sized tissues. 1.00

00:39:45.000 You've proven that some women are just as disgusting as men. 1.00

00:39:48.100 And you've fought reality on the latest battlefront. 0.99

00:39:52.960 Congratulations.

00:39:54.980 There is a caravan coming up to the border.

00:39:56.780 There are 4,000 illegal aliens who promise to cross over it.

00:40:00.840 This is sponsored in large part by Pueblo Sin Fronteras, People Without Borders, a left-wing group that gets funding from George Soros.

00:40:09.480 Plus se change, plus c'est la même chose.

00:40:11.900 Of course, these things are constantly happening.

00:40:14.620 This is a bigger one, though.

00:40:15.720 This has happened before.

00:40:16.900 There are 4,000 people.

00:40:18.660 Now, on average, the United States Border Patrol arrests 1,000 people a day.

00:40:22.880 It can be as high as 2,000 people.

00:40:24.420 It can be a little shorter.

00:40:25.400 There were actually 16,658 family members, people who are coming here in families, who were arrested in September by Border Patrol.

00:40:35.020 Those are just the ones that they caught.

00:40:36.600 A lot of people pouring over this border.

00:40:38.580 President Trump responded.

00:40:39.780 He said, we're going to cut off aid to El Salvador.

00:40:41.920 We're going to cut off aid to Honduras.

00:40:43.320 We're going to ding Mexico. 0.99

00:40:45.160 This was a perfect response.

00:40:46.320 And I've talked to friends who are real Trump critics, real never-Trumpers, whatever, and they agree this is the perfect response.

00:40:53.740 He actually could go a little farther with this because these guys should never make it to the U.S. border.

00:41:00.220 They should be stopped at the Mexico southern border.

00:41:02.980 And absolutely, we should threaten to cut off aid with all these guys.

00:41:05.600 We should also threaten to tax or cut off remittances from the United States from Mexican nationals who make it into the United States and send money back into Mexico through Western Union, through telegram services, through money order services. 0.86

00:41:20.800 We should threaten to cut that off or tax it heavily.

00:41:24.640 If President Trump threatened a 50% tax on those remittances, you would see Mexico do something about this.

00:41:29.980 And he should do it.

00:41:30.820 He should be pitiless about it.

00:41:32.420 It is such an affront to our sovereignty, to our democratic republic, to the ability of Americans to govern themselves when you have people pouring over the border, invading the country, and you can't do anything about it. 1.00

00:41:44.180 You, we the people, who govern ourselves, who are supposed to govern ourselves, can't do anything about it.

00:41:49.300 It's an affront, and it's a huge winner for Republicans. 0.51

00:41:52.040 I think something like the majority of Democrats, depending on which poll you look at, the majority of Democrats oppose this and are horrified by so many aspects of illegal immigration.

00:42:01.420 Even down to the so-called dreamers, you know, these kids who didn't choose to be here.

00:42:06.500 Even down to that level, the majority of Democrats oppose making amnesty for them a top priority.

00:42:13.300 This is a slam dunk for Republicans.

00:42:15.520 They should turn it up to 11, especially as the midterms approach.

00:42:18.360 Trump should send the National Guard down there.

00:42:20.520 He should cut off, he should tax remittances.

00:42:23.220 He should threaten to cut off aid.

00:42:24.700 Do it.

00:42:25.140 All it could do is help Republicans, and it's the right thing to do, and it would be good for the country.

00:42:29.580 On this day in history, in 1796, just to remind you that plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose, the more things change, the more things stay the same.

00:42:39.180 Our third president, Thomas Jefferson, was accused of a sexual affair, sexual misconduct.

00:42:47.460 The original Me Too, the 19th century Me Too movement.

00:42:51.100 There was an editorial that came up in a number of newspapers and a series of editorials written by somebody named Focion, P-H-O-C-I-O-N. 0.99

00:43:01.240 This was when Thomas Jefferson was running against John Adams to become the second president of the United States,

00:43:06.040 and it accused Thomas Jefferson of sleeping with his slave and having children with his slave, a concubine slave, Sally Hemings,

00:43:15.680 which it seems from the historical record is true.

00:43:19.760 Who is Focion?

00:43:20.880 None other than Alexander Hamilton.

00:43:23.020 Is it any wonder that people wanted to kill that guy, that they wanted to challenge him to duels and shoot him?

00:43:27.460 No wonder at all.

00:43:28.240 He wrote, I think, 25 essays against Jefferson under this pen name Focion,

00:43:32.880 and it was a sex affair allegation.

00:43:36.960 So I do want to point out, now that we're responding against the Me Too movement, this has long happened.

00:43:42.760 There's always been sexual dirt in politics.

00:43:45.000 Why?

00:43:45.460 Because sex is a primal, major drive for men especially,

00:43:50.440 and so it's a good way to attack your political opponents when you can.

00:43:54.020 This has happened for a long time.

00:43:55.420 That said, when you've got, you know, the entire national news media supporting these unfounded charges,

00:44:05.100 when you've got no evidence for those charges, there was evidence for the charge against Jefferson.

00:44:09.800 There are a lot of kids who look like Thomas Jefferson on that plantation,

00:44:12.560 and Sally Hemings' kids would always pop out about nine months after Thomas Jefferson visited,

00:44:18.360 and there weren't any kids that came out nine months after Jefferson was away from home.

00:44:22.940 So there was some evidence here.

00:44:26.840 I'm not saying that sex scandals are unfair or they're off the table.

00:44:30.720 Of course, you know, they're going to be on the table as long as politics exists,

00:44:33.980 but there are degrees here.

00:44:35.520 There's some devil in the details.

00:44:37.240 I know that ideologues want things to be black and white.

00:44:40.560 They want to say, Saudi Arabia bad, Turkey good now for some reason,

00:44:44.580 or all sex scandals are unfair, all this is off the table, all this, all that.

00:44:48.780 Not quite.

00:44:49.260 You've got to look into the details.

00:44:50.980 You know, all shallows are clear.

00:44:54.240 All shallows.

00:44:54.680 Dr. Johnson pointed this out when people are talking about religion or philosophy or politics or whatever.

00:44:59.900 They say, well, that isn't, this isn't clear.

00:45:01.620 Your point of view isn't clear.

00:45:02.960 It's not ideological.

00:45:04.080 I can't write it down in one doctrine on one pamphlet of one book or something.

00:45:08.540 Right.

00:45:09.240 Shallows are clear.

00:45:10.500 Reality is complex.

00:45:11.800 Reality is complicated.

00:45:13.300 And, and, and also Jefferson lost that election.

00:45:16.860 It was a good attack, though he won four years later.

00:45:20.360 So political wins can always change.

00:45:22.980 They are changing now.

00:45:24.060 We will see how they will change for the midterm elections, but we'll have to get to that next week.

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The Michael Knowles Show - October 19, 2018

Ep. 237 - The Devil In The Details

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