The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 239 - Running To Win vs. Running Not To Lose

00:00:00.000 The blue wave is reforming as a tsunami of leftist tears as Democrats fall behind in key midterm

00:00:06.500 election races. President Trump's approval rating hits an all-time high, and Republicans get the

00:00:11.320 highest score on the economy ever. Meanwhile, former community organizer Barack Obama reappears

00:00:18.300 on the campaign trail to remind us all what an absolutely insufferable, narcissistic, hypocritical 0.97

00:00:24.020 empty suit he is, all of which has the Democrats running safe and weak as the elections approach. 0.95

00:00:30.540 We will examine the difference between running to win and running not to lose. Finally, why the left

00:00:35.660 always seems to get Christianity wrong. I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show. 0.88

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00:00:53.860 left always gets Christianity so wrong, or why it willfully misrepresents it. We got a lot of good

00:01:00.040 news coming out on the midterm front. It is getting real, folks. Silly season is over. The elections

00:01:05.920 are two weeks away, and things are really heating up. You've got to see the side-by-side of our

00:01:11.860 dueling presidents, President Trump and former community organizer Obama. But first, we got to

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00:02:33.720 Great news for the GOP. I'm waiting for a piano to fall out of the sky. I cannot imagine,

00:02:40.100 I can't really fathom how much good news Republicans are getting as the midterms approach.

00:02:45.440 Right now, President Trump's approval rating has hit an all-time high. That's 47 percent. And it's

00:02:51.480 47 percent according to NBC, Wall Street Journal polls. You know, we've seen other polls that put

00:02:56.340 him on daily presidential tracking polls from more right-leaning firms that say that he's, you know,

00:03:01.840 he's doing even better. But 47 percent from NBC, Wall Street Journal is good. Crucially, it's better

00:03:07.080 than Barack Obama's at this point in his presidency. It's tracking. He's tracking a lot better than

00:03:12.120 Barack Obama. Now, this shouldn't make Republicans and conservatives too excited because if Barack

00:03:20.200 Obama was trending 46, 47 at this time during the second year of his presidency, don't forget,

00:03:25.860 he got absolutely clobbered in the midterms. He got destroyed in the midterms. That's the historical

00:03:30.620 precedent. But right now, the GOP has more going for them than just Donald Trump's popularity. It's

00:03:36.600 helpful because a lot of our local races now are just referenda on national figures. But also,

00:03:42.360 the GOP has the highest economic approval ratings ever, ever recorded. The GOP has a 15-point

00:03:49.520 margin on Democrats right now. It's unbelievable. I mean, it's 40-something, I think it's 48 to 23

00:03:55.860 or something like that in terms of where voters place their trust for handling the economy.

00:04:02.940 Republicans way outperforming them. You can tell that there's a feeling of exuberance on the right.

00:04:09.120 There still is. It hasn't gone away yet. So people are running hard. The right is hard charging. The

00:04:14.880 right seems to be running these elections to win. I don't think the left is running these elections to

00:04:20.700 win. I actually think they're just trying to keep to their historical advantage and try to rely on

00:04:27.240 that and be dependent. It isn't working for them. Just take a look at our two dueling presidents. 0.52

00:04:31.800 President Trump hit the campaign trail out with Ted Cruz. You know, he had been a little harsh to Ted

00:04:36.580 Cruz during the primary elections. Called him Lion Ted. Said some mean things about him. So a reporter

00:04:42.160 asks him about this. Here's how Donald Trump handles it.

00:04:44.920 What is he now? Beautiful Ted. Beautiful Ted. I call him Texas Ted. Ted Cruz. And I had a very,

00:04:56.360 very nasty and tough campaign. It was a very competitive, it was a very tough campaign.

00:05:02.620 Once it ended and we got together. And by the way, very late into the campaign, we lasted. People were

00:05:09.760 shocked. I said, don't worry, it's only a question time. And then ultimately what happened? We

00:05:14.540 fought it out. The outcome was obvious. And we have worked together very closely. I like him a lot.

00:05:21.960 I actually like him a lot. And he's a very smart guy. He loves the people of Texas, which I do.

00:05:27.920 Look at that turnaround. Is he still Lion Ted? No, he's beautiful Ted. What? Yeah, I call him Texas Ted.

00:05:35.800 I thought you called him beautiful Ted. Yeah, I don't know what I call him. I like him.

00:05:38.400 The point is he used to be bad and now he's good. I also love beautiful Ted because Donald Trump is

00:05:45.880 very good at these nicknames. And beautiful Ted, one, it's not an answer to lying Ted. So I guess

00:05:51.840 he could still be a liar, right? Now he's honest Ted. No, no, no. He's saying he's beautiful Ted also

00:05:57.200 because Ted Cruz has many wonderful attributes. I love Cruz. I did a commercial for Cruz. I voted for

00:06:04.980 Cruz. He's not, you know, Fabio. He's not the, he's not like going to ride in on the cover of a

00:06:11.180 romance novel on a white stallion or something like that. So I just love the image. Oh, he's

00:06:15.140 beautiful Ted. He's but what Donald Trump is doing here is pretty illustrative because we talk about

00:06:22.360 the politics of personal destruction. These are the politics usually taken up by Democrats, but we've

00:06:28.280 seen it from Republicans too. It's when things are really personal and nasty and brutal. This is

00:06:33.160 something people are misunderstanding about Trump. Trump gets nasty. He's boorish. He's brutal. 0.85

00:06:39.480 He's savage in his attacks, but it's actually not the politics of personal destruction.

00:06:45.240 If it were the politics of personal destruction, he would take it more seriously, but he doesn't

00:06:49.280 take it that seriously. He's going, he says, he's a liar. Cruz is a liar. He holds up his Bible and he 0.98

00:06:54.280 lies, lies, lies. And then now Cruz is fine. He's come around and he says, yeah, look, it was a tough

00:06:58.260 campaign. What do you want me to say? During tough campaigns, I say tough things and now he's good. I like it.

00:07:02.440 Vote for him. It's very clear. He's saying that's just about politics. It's just politics. Don't worry.

00:07:08.660 This is not what you're getting from Barack Obama. It's not what you're getting from any other

00:07:12.660 politicians, really. You know, it really, these guys take it personally. They stick with it. Barack Obama

00:07:18.500 has hit the campaign trail again to remind us all how extraordinarily annoying he is. He's theoretically

00:07:23.680 stumping for Nevada senatorial candidate Jackie Rosen. He's really just stumping for himself. Here's a quick

00:07:30.420 clip in case you missed it, which you did. First of all, I want you guys to give it up. You guys go

00:07:36.260 ahead and take a seat. I got a lot to say. First of all, I have to say that I miss you too.

00:07:47.100 I do. I'm not alone in saying I enjoy coming to Las Vegas. I was backstage. Fortunately,

00:07:55.680 there were no cameras going when I was jamming. That I want. I want. I'm here. I can remember in

00:08:03.640 my lifetime and that includes when I was on the ballot. When I walked into office 10 years ago,

00:08:08.900 I do think it's interesting. I just hope people kind of notice folks like me by the time I left

00:08:15.180 office and that's what I handed off to the next guy. Now I'd like to bring up George Harrison.

00:08:20.460 All through the night. I mean mine. I mean mine. I mean mine. Even those tears. I mean mine. I mean

00:08:27.300 mine. I mean mine. I mean me mine. I mean me. He just does. This clip goes on for two and a half

00:08:34.220 minutes. I played you like 20 seconds of it. He just, it's all about me, me, me. And you're just,

00:08:39.520 oh, good grief. Get over yourself. It reminds me that he's more narcissistic than Donald Trump.

00:08:44.860 And the thing about Barack Obama is he was a BS artist par excellence, but he would always keep

00:08:51.720 that serious face. And I think people really don't like that. You know, Donald Trump is also a BSer,

00:08:58.660 you know, from New York, but he's honest about it. He says, oh yeah, I called him a liar. Yeah, 0.98

00:09:03.400 that was because I didn't like him then, but now I like him. So he's not, he's beautiful now. He's

00:09:07.080 Texas Ted. Vote for him. That's not what Obama does. Obama has to believe the lie because it's about

00:09:12.500 him. He can't admit that he's just engaging in politics. It's so much more, uh, unctuous. It's

00:09:19.340 so much more disgusting when they do it. He also doesn't talk about Rosen. He talks about I, me,

00:09:22.860 mine, and he's rehashing all these old, when I was, when I was president, when I was, when we, I, I, I,

00:09:28.500 but he's, he's fighting old fights and he's, he is gaslighting Republicans. He's, please go to every

00:09:35.660 single state, Barack Obama, go to every state, go to every congressional district and remind us why we

00:09:40.700 threw you and your entire party out of office. He, he's even rehashing these scandals of his

00:09:46.420 administration and projecting them onto Trump and denying that he ever did them. Here he is.

00:09:51.800 It is not a democratic or a Republican idea that we are not supposed to pressure the attorney general

00:09:59.220 or the FBI to use the criminal justice system to try to punish political opponents. That's not how

00:10:05.500 America works. That's how some tin pot dictatorship works. That's not supposed to be America. 0.67

00:10:13.420 That's not supposed to be America. I mean, that's how my tin pot dictatorship worked.

00:10:17.900 That's how my, when I used the IRS to target my opponents, he used these agencies to target his

00:10:23.900 political opponents. First of all, we know that his executive agencies were spying on the Donald Trump

00:10:29.740 campaign and we're getting more and more information about that day by day. We also know that he's

00:10:34.380 selectively prosecuted his critics. He sent Dinesh D'Souza to live with criminals for months and

00:10:40.680 months because he made a, an extra donation to a friend of his in New York who was never going to

00:10:47.040 win. He broke a law that shouldn't be a law any in the first place and a law that is virtually never

00:10:53.060 prosecuted or a crime rather that is virtually never prosecuted. And Obama's administration threw the

00:10:59.240 book at him to send a message. Why? Because Dinesh D'Souza made a movie critical of Donald Trump.

00:11:04.220 How about the IRS? I was a member of an organization that was targeted by the IRS. He used

00:11:09.900 his IRS, his tax agency to intimidate his critics on the right, to intimidate the Tea Party, to

00:11:16.900 intimidate Tea Party organizations. And he's doing that political voice. I can't stand that voice that

00:11:23.160 I think we're all so sick of it. Donald Trump smashed that with his guttural screaming, you know,

00:11:30.360 Twitter voice. He has smashed that political voice. You hear him and it's just so fake. It's so

00:11:36.200 artificial. And this guy is such a failure. His administration failed. It failed on everything. And 0.99

00:11:43.980 then President Trump took office. Well, first the Republicans took control of the House and Senate.

00:11:48.040 Then Trump took office and everything got better. And that's just what happened. And now he's bitter.

00:11:53.700 He's trying to reclaim a legacy. I actually forgot about him. I kid you not. I had not thought about

00:12:00.420 this guy. And I don't know how long. Because his legacy doesn't matter. It's been dismantled. He

00:12:05.900 systematically lost the entire country for his political party. Probably a thousand seats around

00:12:10.920 the country. And now he's coming back stumping. Good on him. Please don't do it. It's this hypocritical

00:12:15.840 sanctimony that people are so sick of. And he won't admit. He's just stone cold about it. Oh yeah, 0.98

00:12:21.840 the DOJ. People shouldn't misuse the executive agencies. But what about, well, no, they shouldn't.

00:12:28.400 Yeah, they shouldn't. It's outrageous. You know, talk about tinpot dictatorship. First of all,

00:12:33.320 what happened to civility? Remember, they're always calling for civility when they're not,

00:12:39.180 you know, throwing rocks through Republican congressmen's offices or harassing Mitch McConnell

00:12:44.940 at dinner or harassing people at their houses or where their children sleep. They're always talking

00:12:49.440 about civility then. He called our president, our sitting president, a tinpot dictator. And he was

00:12:55.700 always awful this way. His attacks on Bush, I felt, were out of bounds. His attacks on Trump are

00:13:00.720 certainly out of bounds to call him a tinpot dictator. And ironic because Barack Obama behaved

00:13:06.260 in an authoritarian, autocratic way, much more so than his predecessors. And ironically,

00:13:12.380 much more so than President Trump. We've been told Trump is going to be an autocrat or a tyrant.

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00:15:02.840 President Trump goes out in Texas. He's holding a rally. You got a thousand people sleeping overnight

00:15:07.300 to get in. Barack Obama holds a rally. Many fewer people, not nearly as big. Orders of magnitude less

00:15:13.540 big than the Trump rally. What does that tell us? I don't know. You know, President Trump is the

00:15:18.800 sitting president. He's a much better showman than Barack Obama. We know the historic midterm

00:15:24.560 advantage is pronounced. Barack Obama in 2010 lost 63 seats to the Republicans. That was in his first

00:15:34.380 midterm after his election. Bill Clinton lost 54 seats in 1994 to the Republicans.

00:15:43.900 That isn't nothing. You know, Democrats only need 24 seats to retake the House.

00:15:49.200 Certainly history shows that they could do that. And yet, and yet, this is an uncommon election.

00:15:55.580 It's an uncommon president. It's certainly uncommon times. Economically speaking, we have virtually no

00:16:01.380 joblessness. The economy is screaming right now. The thing that you also got to remember is that,

00:16:08.180 what was it, two years ago, almost to the day, the New York Times predicted with 92% certainty that

00:16:14.300 former future president Hillary Clinton would be elected. 92 Hillary, 8% Donald Trump. What happened?

00:16:21.240 It was a Trump blowout. It was a Trump blowout in the election. So these things can change. The one

00:16:27.960 reason that I, obviously, some of these candidates, because they've gotten angry and they've gotten 0.98

00:16:32.640 mad and they've gotten stupid, certain races that Democrats should have won are now almost certainly 0.98

00:16:38.300 going to go to Republicans. I'm thinking especially of Heidi Heitkamp up in North Dakota. But the reason 1.00

00:16:43.080 I suspect Democrats don't really believe that they've got this huge advantage right now is they're not

00:16:48.800 talking like they're running to win. They're talking like they're just trying to keep whatever

00:16:53.280 advantage they have and just play it really, really safe. And that's not how you win. Here's

00:16:57.360 Nancy Pelosi explaining this to CNN. If the election were held today, the Democrats would 0.87

00:17:03.320 handily win the House. I could only speak in the present tense because you never know in another

00:17:11.040 couple of weeks. Look how she's hedging. I mean, they learned a lesson after 2016. You remember the New

00:17:17.700 York Times predicted 92% Hillary would win. The New York Times had to apologize because they got that

00:17:22.400 election so wrong. They actually had to apologize to their readers. Nancy Pelosi isn't making 0.99

00:17:27.560 predictions because she wants to hedge her bets. I mean, this by, by all political patterns, this

00:17:34.460 should be a blowout for Democrats, but it's not looking like a blowout for Democrats. Also, I'm not

00:17:39.020 convinced if the elections were held today that the Democrats would win. I suspect if the elections were

00:17:43.980 held today, Republicans might hold control of the House. We'll see. You know, she's on the trail right 0.79

00:17:50.160 now. I mean, she is the leader of the House Democrats and she's not using winning rhetoric. 1.00

00:17:55.820 There are these two differences. When you're playing to win, you are going hard. You are breaking

00:18:00.960 things. You are, you don't want to come in second. You don't have anything to lose. You have everything

00:18:07.120 to gain. The great example of this is the Trump 2016 campaign. He was breaking all sorts of taboos.

00:18:14.300 He was running hard on immigration, which conservatives had been mealy mouthed on. He was running hard

00:18:19.700 on issues of foreign policy, on issues of foreign trade, things that seemed a little taboo. And he

00:18:26.180 was going after them. He was going after political correctness and he wasn't speaking in a politically

00:18:30.180 correct way. The, the example of playing not to lose, the idea of just playing as safe as you

00:18:35.660 possibly can is Mitt Romney. Mitt Romney's, well, listen, do, do, do, and I, and he's talking in all

00:18:41.260 these long things that are very boring and he's constantly apologizing. He won't go after the

00:18:46.780 moderator. Do you remember Candy Crowley lied? The debate moderator, Candy Crowley lied during

00:18:53.300 the Romney Obama debate, interrupted the debate, lied on behalf of Barack Obama to millions of

00:18:59.800 people watching. And what did Romney do? He said, well, well, I, but, but, and Obama's laughing.

00:19:04.140 He's sitting there all go on, go on, Candy, go on governor. And she's in there just lying. And you 0.94

00:19:09.000 know, if Donald Trump had been there, can you imagine what would have happened? I, he would have blown

00:19:13.140 the roof off the building if she had tried to do something like that. Um, that's the difference.

00:19:17.280 And, you know, playing not to lose is not a great strategy. One, cause I don't think it works very

00:19:24.220 well, especially now in our age of 4k televisions and social media, authenticity is really, really

00:19:30.100 important. Uh, also, uh, I don't, I don't think she can really rely on these advantages right now.

00:19:36.720 I don't, I don't really see that advantage playing out in the races where people are really drilling

00:19:41.660 down. And since Brett Kavanaugh, all of the momentum has been with, uh, with the Republicans.

00:19:47.240 So what are they running on now? All they're running on is rhetoric and civility, rhetoric

00:19:50.520 and civility. This is ironic. There's a Democrat congressional candidate in Pennsylvania. He was

00:19:54.940 having a debate in a synagogue with, uh, uh, Scott, or rather with a GOP congressman, Brian Fitzpatrick.

00:20:02.400 And this guy, Scott Wallace told the Republican congressman to F off in the sanctuary of a

00:20:08.820 synagogue, but he said, Oh no, but civility, you know, civility, rhetoric, civility, rhetoric.

00:20:13.300 They can't even run on civility. They actually can't run on civility. Do you remember here is

00:20:18.340 Jim Acosta trying to pretend that, uh, the, the Republicans are the violent ones.

00:20:24.000 I have to tell you, Don, when the president made that joke about Greg Gianforte assaulting Ben

00:20:29.960 Jacobs, I looked over to the crowd. There was one gentleman, a Trump supporter in the crowd who was

00:20:34.700 doing pro wrestling moves, doing body slam type gestures in the crowd. So the crowd was

00:20:39.740 obviously eating this stuff up and people wonder whether or not there's a cause and effect, whether

00:20:43.880 or not the president's rhetoric, uh, you know, plant seeds of violence in his, in his own supporters,

00:20:49.240 in his own crowds.

00:20:51.140 You don't need the president's rhetoric to plant seeds of violence. You don't see seeds of violence

00:20:55.140 in the conservative side. You see, uh, two, uh, presumably left-wing vandals throwing a gigantic

00:21:00.920 rock through a GOP congressional leader, Kevin McCarthy's office window. That just happened.

00:21:05.900 That story just broke. You saw that hysterical man, baby screeching at Mitch McConnell in the

00:21:10.680 restaurants. Like, well, get out of the country. Get out of the hole. Please stop it. Uh, you see

00:21:15.280 Maxine Waters calling on Democrats. She's an elected Democrat calling on her supporters to assault, 0.97

00:21:20.100 harass Republicans in the street at restaurants where they live, where their children sleep.

00:21:24.400 Eric Holder did the same thing. Hillary Clinton did the same thing. Jim Acosta doesn't talk about

00:21:28.520 that though, does he? So they can't even run on civility. They can't even run on that.

00:21:33.440 And so they're, they're running vaguely on rhetoric. They're basically just running against

00:21:37.440 the tweets. They're running because they don't like Trump. And I'm telling you, I have been on

00:21:42.060 campaigns that have tried to run against the other guy. I've been on campaigns that have just

00:21:47.820 offered a negative vision. They don't go anywhere. They don't win. Even if the candidate's better than

00:21:52.480 the other guy, they don't win. You have to offer a positive message. You can ding them too. You can go

00:21:57.820 negative. You can hit people, but you have to offer them something. If you're just running against the

00:22:02.540 other guy, the other guy is going to win because the show is about him. Everybody is talking about

00:22:07.980 him. No press is bad press. If you're just running because he's a bad guy, who are you? Why should I

00:22:12.320 give you my vote? You're always, you're just voting for him. So they're making a huge mistake there.

00:22:17.460 The rhetoric thing is the last refuge of desperate politicians. It's playing it safe. It's,

00:22:24.240 it's playing not to lose. Say Nancy Pelosi, why should we elect you, you and the Democrats to 0.91

00:22:30.720 take control of the Congress? Well, because you have to, historically speaking, we're expecting you

00:22:38.480 to. And I'm sorry you asked that question. That's, that's her answer. She doesn't have an answer

00:22:43.120 because if you give an answer, you're taking a risk. If you're, if you give an answer, you have to

00:22:46.780 stand for something, but she doesn't want to. I think, you know, Mitt Romney tried to run the 2012

00:22:51.020 campaign on not being Barack Obama. He was trying to run it on Obama's economy is bad. I'm,

00:22:55.920 I'm the other guy. Elect me. Doesn't work. You've got to run for something. They're not doing that.

00:23:01.420 Even these minor Democrat candidates, these Democrat candidates that we haven't been talking about

00:23:05.520 are terrible on their rhetoric. If you want to talk rhetoric, the, the Georgia gubernatorial

00:23:09.700 candidate for the Democrats, Stacey Abrams, uh, they're just, she's, they're just about to have a

00:23:14.140 debate down there. They released a photo today of her burning the Georgia state flag. They got a photo of her.

00:23:20.800 I think she was in college and she's burning the Georgia state flag. And I, what is this with the

00:23:26.540 Democrats now of candidates running against their states? You saw this with Kyrsten Sinema in Arizona.

00:23:34.720 She's running, you know, all those videos popped over saying, yeah, I hate Arizona, man. I hope your

00:23:39.580 states don't turn out like Arizona. And that's why I want to represent you, Arizona in the U S Senate,

00:23:43.860 not a great, uh, campaign. So, uh, I don't know. I mean, a Democrat, uh, political operative should,

00:23:51.740 should take these candidates aside and shake them a little bit because we couldn't ask for more.

00:23:55.760 It's like when you get a gubernatorial candidate running who burned the state flag and you got a

00:24:01.500 photo of it, it's like she might as well take out a gun and start shooting apple pies and the American 1.00

00:24:07.240 flag. I mean, it's, it's insane. And they didn't learn their lesson. This flag issue really matters. 0.93

00:24:11.180 People are very offended by this. This is why people don't watch the NFL anymore. This was a

00:24:15.600 major issue. Another one, by the way, that President Kofefe got right, which is, it's,

00:24:20.920 it seems like a trivial issue to the people who are, you know, the people who are telling you to

00:24:25.840 stop caring are the ones who say it's a trivial issue. Well, if it's a trivial issue, why do you

00:24:30.280 care so much? Stop doing it. Well, if it's a trivial, it's not, it's a really important issue. And so

00:24:35.140 it's really hitting her. And then, then she comes out with this, this wasn't 20 years ago. This

00:24:40.280 wasn't 25 years ago. This was just on this campaign. Listen to Georgia governor candidate,

00:24:45.240 Stacey Abram talking about, uh, who her voter coalition is going to be.

00:24:51.020 But the thing of it is the blue wave is African American.

00:24:56.160 It's white, it's Latino, it's Asian Pacific Islander. It is disabled. It is differently 0.98

00:25:03.060 abled. It is LGBTQ. It is law enforcement. It is veterans. It is made up of those who've been

00:25:12.100 told that they are not worthy of being here. It is comprised of those who are documented and 1.00

00:25:17.340 undocumented. Yeah. Yeah. Wait, wait, what? Wait, what was the last one? You know, LGBT? No, 1.00

00:25:24.960 yeah, no. After that one, uh, documented people. No, yeah, no. Before that one,

00:25:30.120 you're saying that your electoral blue wave is comprising illegal aliens. You know, that thing

00:25:37.840 that we've been accusing you guys of doing for decades now, and you say it's ridiculous and 0.99

00:25:42.360 insane. Your Georgia governor candidate just admitted it that, yeah, we're going to round up 0.76

00:25:47.020 all those illegal aliens, all the ones that Trump hasn't deported, and we're going to get them to 1.00

00:25:51.060 illegally vote for us and put them in the government. Yeah, we, yeah, is that great?

00:25:56.060 Woo, yeah. I mean, those guys, they would applaud for anything in, in her, uh, her campaign office,

00:26:00.920 but it's really incredible. A Freudian slip, I think, where you say one thing and mean your mother

00:26:05.480 because she's probably caught herself here and say, oh no, I misspoke or something. That's what they

00:26:10.020 really mean. And, and voter fraud is an issue. Don't let anybody tell you it isn't an issue. There's a

00:26:14.880 great book out by Eric Eggers on this called Fraud, which you should read all the ways that the

00:26:19.580 left tries to steal elections. So I don't know what this is. Is this ignorance or is this lawlessness

00:26:24.340 or is this both? Either way, you've got a major Democrat candidate running on, uh, on some

00:26:31.240 combination of ignorance and lawlessness. No surprise. And they're projecting. I noticed this

00:26:36.380 at Politicon. I know, you know, all the time at Politicon, uh, you would see these, these left-wing

00:26:43.000 guys. I was on this one panel with a couple left-wingers and they would interrupt us, the right-wing

00:26:49.560 when we were speaking, they would constantly interrupt, mock, you know, cut in, interject.

00:26:55.140 And then the minute that you questioned something that they were saying, they would say, don't

00:26:58.880 interrupt. Stop interrupting. We need to be civil. But you just, you were just the whole, no, no,

00:27:04.420 now we got to be, come on, come on. We got to be civil. They project and they gaslight. I mean,

00:27:09.160 it really is gaslighting. When I, when I saw Barack Obama, I started to get a little PTSD almost,

00:27:14.340 you know, a little, a little PPTSD, political post-traumatic stress disorder. I just thought,

00:27:19.300 oh, that, uh, it's not one that really like affects your emotions. You're just kind of like,

00:27:23.300 oh, gross. Uh, gosh, can we move on from that? I thought that era was over. Um, and when Barack

00:27:30.300 Obama says that they're politicizing government agencies, you just think you did it. And he looks

00:27:35.740 at you stone cold gaslights. No, I didn't. No, I didn't. No, we didn't. What are you talking,

00:27:40.420 who are you going to believe me or your lion eyes? Who are you going to believe here? Dick Durbin

00:27:44.700 is doing exactly this. Dick Durbin, a Democrat on the Senate judiciary committee. Here's Dick

00:27:50.160 Durbin talking to Chuck Todd. Why don't you go after Republican leaders the way Republicans go

00:27:56.300 after democratic leaders? I don't think it's a message that really carries the day. Voters are

00:28:03.420 listening for both political parties to say something other than a political squabbles underway in

00:28:08.640 Washington. Is that, is that right? Dick Durbin is that they don't want personal attacks. They

00:28:15.000 don't want political squabbles in Washington. Dick Durbin helped lead the character assassination

00:28:20.820 into Brett Kavanaugh. Judiciary committee, Senate Democrat helped lead it. He was a leading voice,

00:28:28.480 unprecedented character assassination, petty, disgusting, baseless slander. And he's going 0.96

00:28:35.540 there. He says, we got, they got to stop attacking people. You know, we got to stop these petty

00:28:39.100 squabbles. It's so, this is actually the only thing that they do that genuinely infuriates me

00:28:45.540 because I hate it. You know, don't boof on my leg and tell me it's windy. Don't do it, man. Don't tell

00:28:51.980 me it's raining. You know, they, I understand they have stupid policy ideas. They have some confusion 1.00

00:28:58.820 about first principle, whatever. That's fine. I get it. I get the ignorance. I even get the lawlessness.

00:29:03.700 It's just that look in me in the eyes. It's so disrespectful when they do this. And I think,

00:29:09.800 I think voters do it too. You know, they're living in a fantasy right now. They're living in a fantasy

00:29:15.020 that they're conning people anymore. It isn't happening. Talk about living in a delusion.

00:29:19.380 Hillary Clinton was at an event. She was introduced as, uh, uh, you know, former secretary of state and

00:29:25.800 as the real president. Look at how she reacts.

00:29:27.980 The second, who needs no introduction, is former secretary of state and presidential candidate,

00:29:33.960 Hillary Clinton.

00:29:42.080 The real president.

00:29:43.720 She has become that meme of herself. The one where she's in a straight jacket, kind of looking all

00:29:54.800 wild eyed. And she says, I'm the president. I'm the real president. And the guards say, oh yeah,

00:29:59.520 sure you are Hillary. Yep. No, come with us. Come with us. That's what she's become. They say, 0.82

00:30:03.320 you know, she is the real president. Now a normal, civilized, sane person who actually cares about 0.98

00:30:08.700 our Republic would say, no, I'm not. I'm not the real president. I lost the election. I wish I

00:30:14.140 didn't lose, but I lost. I'm not the president. What does Hillary Clinton do to say? She's the 1.00

00:30:19.160 real president. She goes, ah, yeah, she takes off on her, on her, you know, broomstick. Uh, this is a

00:30:28.440 fantasy world they're living in and voters don't reward fantasies. They don't, not for long. You know,

00:30:33.760 to quote George W. Bush, fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice. The point is you're not going to

00:30:38.400 fool me again. Uh, they're not, they don't reward, uh, fantasies. They can sit there and Hillary can 1.00

00:30:44.380 say, I'm the real president. And, uh, Chuck Schumer can say, I'm the real majority leader.

00:30:49.460 And they can say, they can say that all day. It isn't true. It doesn't make it so. Even if,

00:30:54.360 even if the Democrats retake the house, even if they get their historical advantage,

00:30:58.180 they need to grapple with reality. If they want to rebuild as a party, this is a mission of mercy.

00:31:02.500 I'm giving them free advice. Um, president Trump radically reshaped politics. He really did. At

00:31:07.940 least the political media, at least political communication. He, he went in and he grappled

00:31:13.620 with reality. Part of that is admitting that you're wrong in the moment. Not that you were

00:31:19.120 wrong 30 years ago, but now you got it right. Admitting that you were wrong in the moment.

00:31:24.080 Donald Trump did this and it actually irked a lot of conservatives because he said, oh,

00:31:27.400 you were wrong about this. You were wrong about this trade deal. You were wrong about this war.

00:31:31.040 You were wrong about this. It was pretty radical. It actually was a real shaking up

00:31:34.960 and voters rewarded that. They rewarded a guy speaking bluntly and speaking directly and not

00:31:40.720 trying to, uh, just make excuses for things that haven't worked out. The Democrats won't do that.

00:31:46.340 They haven't done that. What they're starting to do is, uh, they're conveniently, uh, admitting that

00:31:52.300 they were wrong about certain things. So they'll say, oh, well, yeah, the Clintons, maybe they weren't

00:31:56.480 that great when it's only convenient for them. I will give you the answer as to how the Democrats

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00:32:46.400 but you get this, this is to prepare for the blue wave, the blue tsunami. This, you know,

00:32:52.260 we have the leftist years tumbler. It's always getting blue waves. There are always blue ripples,

00:32:56.400 salty blue ripples going through it. And as what we were told was going to be the Democrat takeover

00:33:01.240 of the entire government, as polling shows that it's going to be more of a trickle, if anything

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00:33:11.320 Okay. Don't come. You're, you're going to drown. Go to dailywire.com. We'll be right back.

00:33:14.800 They've got to grapple with reality. They've got to admit that they are wrong right now. What one,

00:33:31.980 what, what they're doing is this, uh, this fake posturing. I saw it today in the Washington Post

00:33:38.120 by, uh, Richard Cohen. He wrote this piece. He said, I thought Juanita Broderick wasn't credible.

00:33:43.460 I was wrong. Okay. Juanita Broderick, you know, Juanita Broderick, we've had her on the show. 0.99

00:33:47.940 She says that Bill Clinton raped her. I've talked to her. I read her book. If you want to talk about 0.94

00:33:53.080 credibility, this woman's got it. She's, she's got people at the time that she told about this.

00:33:59.440 Her story has never changed. Even NBC news admits her story has never changed. She just seems credible.

00:34:06.760 She doesn't seem kooky. She hasn't lied publicly about major things. Uh, she did, uh,

00:34:11.780 only one time. The only sort of hole in her story is she once said under oath that it didn't happen

00:34:18.840 when she wanted it to go away. Then once the story leaked, she admitted it happened. But that's the

00:34:22.840 only thing close to it. She's never changed her story since, but Democrats wouldn't talk about

00:34:27.080 her, wouldn't accept it. Uh, now all of a sudden we've got Cohen saying, Oh yeah, maybe I believe

00:34:32.920 her now. He says, quote, I remember refusing to deal with Broderick's allegation because I simply

00:34:37.620 chose to believe Clinton was not a rapist. Clinton, after all, was one of us college educated, modern,

00:34:43.560 urbane, and not some hooded monster preying on strangers. Men like that do not rape. My position 0.85

00:34:49.960 has proved naive. Violence can be in the sexual repertoire of any man. Sure. He goes on. I am no

00:34:56.860 longer certain that Clinton did not rape Juanita Broderick. Well, good job. Good job, Mr. Cohen

00:35:03.620 and Washington Post. Now that the Clintons are not only politically useless to you, to the party and 0.90

00:35:10.460 to the left more broadly, but actually now that the Clintons are a liability, now you're willing to

00:35:16.540 stand up and say, Oh yeah, maybe that guy did it. After decades of flying cover for these people,

00:35:22.860 after just two years ago, trying to put this man back in the White House and put this woman in the 0.96

00:35:29.320 Oval Office, the woman who smeared all of Clinton's accusers and victims as bimbos, after just doing 1.00

00:35:35.340 that, wasn't 20 years ago that you did that. That was two years ago that you all were doing that.

00:35:40.260 Now you say, Oh, you know, I'm starting to believe her. Great. Oh, great. Congrats. Let's throw him a

00:35:45.800 party. Wow. That now you must be super serious. No way. No way, Buster. I hear these things all the

00:35:52.060 time. People will ask, How can we unite the country? How can we be civil? How can we come together and

00:35:57.900 unite and agree on this and this and this? They got to come to the table. The left has to come to

00:36:01.780 the table. You know, we don't kick their speakers out of college campuses. We don't scream at them.

00:36:07.320 We don't even call them racist, even though many of their policies in fact are quite racist. We don't

00:36:12.360 call them evil. We don't call them wicked. We don't throw rocks into their houses. We don't harass them

00:36:17.120 in public. You got to come to the table guys. And if you're going to offer something, which is now a

00:36:24.460 political convenience for you from actions that happened 25 years ago, give me a break. Put up

00:36:30.380 or shut up. And don't, don't boof on my leg and tell me it's windy. You know, don't lie to my face. 1.00

00:36:36.160 Don't gaslight me. Give me something real. Until then, I don't believe it. It's just not believable.

00:36:42.220 You know, speaking of Politicon, I got to meet John Fugel Sang there. And I rather liked John Fugel Sang.

00:36:48.100 He's this lefty actor comedian guy, but he seems like kind of a nice guy. He's dead wrong about many

00:36:53.560 things. And this gave me the privilege or misfortune of coming across John Fugel Sang's

00:37:00.060 take down viral Occupy Democrats video about how Republicans are fake Christians. They're not real 0.94

00:37:08.960 Christians because Jesus was a left wing hippie. Don't you know? And I, I, it occurs to me that the 0.85

00:37:16.760 left always gets Christianity wrong, always misrepresents Christianity. Take a look at

00:37:20.960 this. We'll go through it point by point. I thought, wouldn't it be great if we could find a way to get

00:37:25.920 Jesus of Nazareth to come back and run for president on the GOP ticket? They can't pick a front runner

00:37:30.840 anyway. So wouldn't the GOP love to get behind a guy who was a peaceful, radical, nonviolent

00:37:35.820 revolutionary who hung around with lepers, hookers, and criminals who never spoke English, was not an

00:37:40.940 American citizen. A man who was anti-capitalism, anti-wealth, anti-public prayer. Yes, he was. 0.98

00:37:46.720 Matthew 6, 5. Anti-death penalty, but never once remotely anti-gay. Didn't mention abortion. Didn't

00:37:53.300 mention premarital sex. A man who never justified torture. Who never called the poor lazy. Who never

00:37:59.280 asked a leper for a co-pay. Who never fought for tax cuts for the wealthiest Nazarenes. And was a 0.90

00:38:04.740 long-haired, brown-skinned, that's in Revelations, homeless Middle Eastern Jew. Of course, that's only 1.00

00:38:11.860 if you believe what's actually in the Bible. Boom! Fugle sang out. Boom! Mic drop. Got you,

00:38:20.540 Christians. Got you 2,000 years of the Catholic Church. Boom! Except it just isn't true. So let's 1.00

00:38:26.080 go through point by point. He starts out, he says, Jesus was a peaceful, radical, nonviolent

00:38:30.520 revolutionary. He's probably referring to turning the other cheek. Jesus says to turn the other

00:38:36.340 cheek when somebody slaps you and offends you. What we see there is a personal humility and a

00:38:42.360 spiritual defiance. When somebody offends you, you will not let them control you. You will not let

00:38:47.660 them degrade you. And you will not retaliate in some irate revenge. You will have personal humility

00:38:54.580 and spiritual defiance. He is not talking about pacifism in a national sense. He was living in

00:39:01.600 an occupied country. The idea of abandoning one's right to self-defense, one's national right to

00:39:09.800 self-defense, or one's political right to self-defense, would have never even entered the

00:39:14.640 political lexicon of the times. He also told his apostles to sell their cloaks and to buy a sword

00:39:21.460 in only certain places. When you're like John Fugel sang and you just point to certain places

00:39:25.800 of the gospel, you can twist it and pervert it and make it look like a, you know, like you're

00:39:31.540 looking at the Bible into a shallow well and all you see is your own reflection in it. But when you

00:39:35.640 look in other places, Jesus says, sell your cloak and buy a sword. Jesus also says that he comes not to

00:39:41.320 bring peace, but a sword. How about being a radical? You know, Jesus is radical in salvation,

00:39:48.000 absolutely. But he's not radical in religion. He explicitly says he's not radical in religion. He

00:39:54.040 says, I have not come to abolish the law. I have come to fulfill the law that we will not change one

00:40:00.220 jot or tittle until the end of the ages. Okay. Then Fugel sang says, well, you know, Jesus hung around

00:40:06.180 lepers and hookers and criminals. Absolutely right. You're right. He, Jesus never once condemned 0.96

00:40:11.380 individuals as deplorable and irredeemable. Great point. What he did was save them. He also told

00:40:17.880 them to sin no more. So he hung around all of these people, but he didn't indulge in sin. He

00:40:23.140 didn't say, oh, you're, you're perfect just the way that you are. Stay exactly the same and keep

00:40:27.380 on sinning. He, he tells people what they sin. He doesn't condemn them for it. He saves them, but he

00:40:32.180 tells them to sin no more. He never spoke English and he's not an American citizen. That's true. He was 1.00

00:40:38.220 a citizen of his own country that was controlled by the Romans. And actually Jesus was born in Bethlehem

00:40:44.540 because, uh, his mother was on the road to go register with the government. That is a point

00:40:50.380 that I think Mr. Fugel sang missed. And it seems like the opposite of the point that he was trying

00:40:54.240 to make, but you're right. He didn't speak English and was not an American citizen, which I don't think

00:40:58.420 anybody has ever suggested. Um, everybody knows he was Italian anyway, right? Isn't that true? Uh,

00:41:03.520 Fugel sang says that he was anti-capitalism and anti-wealth. Um, Jesus doesn't talk very much about

00:41:10.420 capitalism. One reason for that is that modern capitalism didn't develop for 1900 years after

00:41:16.040 the incarnation of Christ. Uh, he's not anti-wealth though. He's not anti-wealth. People mistake this

00:41:21.240 all the time. Uh, money is not the root of all evil. The love of money is the root of all evil.

00:41:27.000 Being possessed by wealth, being possessed by your own possessions, that is evil. That is a danger.

00:41:32.960 That will make it harder, uh, to get into heaven than it is for a camel to pass through the eye of a

00:41:37.860 needle. Absolutely. But he doesn't tell everybody that he meets to sell all of their possessions.

00:41:43.300 He tells certain people who are possessed by their possessions. Some other people, he says,

00:41:47.520 go out and buy something. Go out, go to that fish and put, you know, go pull a coin out of a fish.

00:41:52.640 Um, and this also brings me to my, one of my favorite parables, the parable of the talents,

00:41:56.880 also the parable of the hedge fund manager, which is when, uh, the master goes out and he gives three

00:42:01.800 servants some money and then he goes away and he comes back after a time. And the one servant turned his,

00:42:07.860 his money into a lot of money. He invested it. He got a good return on his investment.

00:42:13.080 The second servant made a little bit of money. You know, he got a decent return. And the third

00:42:16.920 servant buried it underground because he was afraid of the master and, uh, didn't want to risk losing

00:42:22.160 the money. And what did the master do? He took the wealth from the poor servant and the unprofitable

00:42:28.800 servant and gave it to the rich servant because for he who has much more will be given. And from he who

00:42:35.160 has a little, even that little, which he has will be taken away. And then the master casts the

00:42:39.660 unprofitable servant into hell where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth. I am not suggesting

00:42:44.860 that this is a diatribe on modern economics. I'm just pointing out that John Fuglesang is

00:42:50.140 misreading the Bible and selectively quoting it to suit his own political purposes. Uh, he says that

00:42:55.160 Jesus is anti-public prayer. This is because Christ in the gospel says, do not be as the hypocrites

00:43:01.840 making a show of yourself and praying for the applause of men. Go into your closet when you 0.97

00:43:06.740 pray. Go into your closet, the closet of your closet and hide yourself and pray to God. Sure,

00:43:11.400 that's all true. You shouldn't be like the hypocrites. This doesn't mean that you can't 0.99

00:43:14.360 pray in public. In fact, Jesus prays in public many times through the gospel narratives. One wonders

00:43:20.420 if John Fuglesang has read them or if he's just misrepresenting them. And then he says he's

00:43:24.200 anti-death penalty. I assure you, Jesus is not anti-death penalty. Death, the death penalty

00:43:30.500 was the mechanism of salvation. Jesus came in the world to suffer the death penalty and on that cross

00:43:37.920 conquered death and redeemed mankind. This is the central joy of the world. The happy fall redeemed

00:43:44.760 in the resurrection of Christ. Uh, he, he later foretold Peter's death on the cross. Uh, he also

00:43:51.820 said, render to Caesar what is Caesar. And we have St. Paul writing extensively about how the civil

00:43:56.760 government has the authority of the sword. It has the authority of capital punishment in scripture,

00:44:02.180 which is inerrant. This has been affirmed time and time again by the greatest doctors of the church

00:44:07.340 for 2000 years. And John Fuglesang has no idea what he's talking about. Not scripturally,

00:44:12.980 not theologically, and, uh, not as a matter of the writings of the doctors of the church. Uh,

00:44:18.600 then Fuglesang says that Jesus was never anti-gay. Yeah, sure. Who is anti-gay? Who is anti-gay?

00:44:24.200 Point to someone who's anti-gay. I, uh, Muslim terrorists who throw gay guys off of buildings 1.00

00:44:29.060 in the Middle East, they would be anti-gay. I think that counts as anti-gay. Uh, Christ, 1.00

00:44:34.480 he comes, he hangs around with sinners. He redeems mankind. Now, what I think John Fuglesang probably

00:44:40.800 is attacking Republicans for is defending marriage, defending traditional marriage against redefinition

00:44:46.880 to include same-sex unions. You know, Christ speaks explicitly on very few, uh, pressing tangible

00:44:55.740 issues in the Gospels. There are a few things where he speaks explicitly, clearly, and one of those

00:45:00.980 things is marriage. He says it very clearly. A man and woman were created. They are meant to leave 0.99

00:45:06.620 their families, come together, and become one flesh. And what God has joined, no man can separate.

00:45:11.760 He defines marriage perfectly, and there's nothing hateful or unchristian about the way that Christ

00:45:16.440 defines it. Uh, he, then, uh, Fuglesang says, he doesn't mention abortion or premarital sex.

00:45:23.260 Uh, he does. He actually does do that. He says, whosoever shall offend one of these little ones,

00:45:28.200 it would be better for that man to have a millstone hung around his neck and for him to be cast

00:45:31.720 into the sea. And throughout the Gospels, or throughout the Bible, rather, we hear a God talking about,

00:45:37.780 uh, knowing people before they were even formed in the womb, knowing about them before, before they

00:45:43.040 were born, before they were formed in the womb. St. Paul writes about this, about being, uh, called

00:45:47.680 by grace, uh, while he was being formed in the womb. This is throughout scripture. And just in case

00:45:53.000 Mr. Fuglesang says, well, Jesus didn't say that thing from the Old Testament directly. Jesus is God.

00:45:59.860 The Trinity, I, I certainly am incapable of explaining the Trinity, uh, here or elsewhere, but God is three

00:46:07.000 persons in one divine unity. So he who, as it says in the Gospel, as Christ says, he who has seen me

00:46:12.680 has seen the Father. Uh, then he says he never justified torture. Again, torture justifies us.

00:46:18.720 The torture of the cross justifies we human beings and redeems us and saves us. Uh, he gets it entirely

00:46:25.580 backwards. Who would justify torture? He uses the cross to justify us. Uh, he then says that Christ never

00:46:32.140 called the poor lazy. Nobody calls the poor lazy. Nobody does. Some people on the right call lazy

00:46:37.080 people lazy. They certainly do that. Or they call timid people timid or scared people scared.

00:46:41.920 Absolutely. So does Christ. Christ was offended when the Gospels couldn't stay awake while he was

00:46:47.360 praying in the garden. He's constantly is speaking of endurance. He's saying you have to endure until

00:46:51.800 the end. Can't be lazy. Don't be lazy. Christ speaks against laziness, uh, countless times. And, uh,

00:46:58.100 again, he, he casts that poor unprofitable servant into the fire where there is wailing and gnashing

00:47:03.020 of teeth. Uh, Fugel Sang says that Christ never asked a leper for a copay. Right. Christ also never 0.91

00:47:09.140 demanded that Caesar render unto lepers the labor of others. He certainly never, uh, suggested that

00:47:14.980 anywhere. Neither did the apostles. Neither have the church fathers. It's absurd. And it's ridiculous to

00:47:20.120 make a shallow political point from that. Um, uh, he says that Christ never fought for tax cuts.

00:47:25.920 That's true, but Christ paid the minimum tax. He paid the minimum tax he possibly could. He was asked

00:47:30.720 to try to entrap him. They said, will you pay the tax? And he said, whose name is it on the coin?

00:47:36.100 Render to Caesar what Caesar's render to God, what is God? Plucks the tax out of a fish. And he also

00:47:41.160 didn't fight for tax hikes. And finally, he said that he was homeless. Uh, Christ was never homeless.

00:47:46.260 Uh, Christ was, uh, in this world to save mankind. Um, but he, his kingdom is of another world and we're

00:47:53.260 not homeless. We're pilgrims. And that distinction makes all the difference. And it really tells me

00:47:58.380 a lot of how the left, like John Fugel saying, misunderstand Christianity and misrepresent it

00:48:03.400 constantly. And there's this irony. They're always telling us, you know, at Christianity is a bunch 0.78

00:48:07.920 of fables and old, uh, tall tales told to shepherds thousands of years ago. And also, uh, you get it

00:48:16.940 wrong and here's what it really means. And I knew everything about it. And Jesus was a great guy.

00:48:19.880 Which one is it guys? Pick a lane, but the Democrats can't pick a lane. We got a lot more

00:48:23.460 to talk about, but I'm running too late. So we'll get to it tomorrow. In the meantime,

00:48:26.740 I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles show. I'll see you tomorrow.

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The Michael Knowles Show - October 23, 2018

Ep. 239 - Running To Win vs. Running Not To Lose

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