The Michael Knowles Show - October 26, 2018


Ep. 241 - Worst Bomber Ever


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A Florida man has been arrested in connection with a slew of bomb threats sent out over the past few days, and the media is quick to point the finger at Donald Trump. Is this guy a racist? Is he a narcissist? Is this a weirdo?

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00:00:37.680 A Florida man has been arrested in connection with a slew of bomb packages mailed over the past few days.
00:00:44.900 Of course, why didn't we think of it first?
00:00:46.980 A Florida man, it makes perfect sense.
00:00:48.980 As the mainstream media jump to blame Donald Trump,
00:00:52.700 the New York Times buries one very important detail about the bomber.
00:00:56.220 We will discuss, then, all of the polls that matter 12 days out from the midterm elections,
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00:01:11.620 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:01:13.620 More bombs.
00:01:23.780 More bombs being delivered.
00:01:24.900 They finally got the guy.
00:01:26.960 He seems like a total weirdo, as you might imagine.
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00:03:09.740 Let's talk about the bombs.
00:03:11.280 They got this guy.
00:03:12.660 They arrested him.
00:03:13.980 Honestly, there are more questions than answers at this point.
00:03:17.260 But good job on law enforcement for tracking him down.
00:03:19.600 It was reported at first that he was a white man.
00:03:24.520 Now it is being reported that he is Native American.
00:03:27.240 Although, as Senatrix Elizabeth Liawatha Warren taught us last week, even if you're entirely
00:03:32.740 white, you still can be Native American.
00:03:34.940 So we haven't figured out exactly which it is yet.
00:03:37.740 But the guy seems like a total looney tune.
00:03:40.600 Obviously, he's just accused right now.
00:03:42.620 But if it's him, he's made bomb threats before.
00:03:46.460 In 2002, he threatened to blow up the Florida Power and Light Corporation and said that it
00:03:53.560 would be worse than 9-11.
00:03:55.740 He's apparently not very good at making bombs.
00:03:58.540 He's been arrested many times before for theft and burglary.
00:04:03.020 So definitely seems like a weirdo.
00:04:05.980 There are some questions to be raised here.
00:04:09.340 One is why none of the bombs worked.
00:04:12.980 None of them.
00:04:13.640 I mean, this guy, I'm glad to say, Mirabile Dictu, is the worst bomb maker ever.
00:04:19.120 He's just not good at it.
00:04:20.640 He's the worst bomb maker for a few reasons, actually.
00:04:23.060 One, because he might be screwing up all of the momentum going to Republicans in the midterms.
00:04:27.600 And he's screwing up our jobs, not mobs narrative.
00:04:31.040 But two, none of the bombs worked.
00:04:32.660 And this does raise some questions.
00:04:34.700 Why did none of the bombs work?
00:04:36.080 We were told by law enforcement that they were all sent through the mail.
00:04:38.900 But the images that we've seen of some of the packages don't have any mail markings on them.
00:04:44.600 They seem that stamps were placed on them.
00:04:47.200 But it doesn't look as though they were processed by the post office.
00:04:50.460 Law enforcement is telling us that they were.
00:04:52.560 But there are a lot of questions there.
00:04:55.620 So there were a few theories.
00:04:57.100 I felt there were four theories about who was doing this.
00:05:01.760 We still don't really know much about this guy.
00:05:04.340 So I guess all of them are still in play.
00:05:06.080 The most generous theory for the left is that it's a wacky right winger who doesn't want to cause actual harm.
00:05:14.160 So when he was found, he was found in like the creepiest van you could ever imagine.
00:05:18.820 And the van had all of these stickers on it.
00:05:21.340 All of these right wing pro-Trump stickers on it.
00:05:24.460 And they were all really nicely done.
00:05:26.680 Seemed quite new.
00:05:27.600 And it seemed a little on the nose, not to be a conspiracy theorist or anything, but you just think, all right, if you want a guy to seem like a right winger, you know, you'd put all of these brand new stickers like, I voted for Trump on it.
00:05:39.180 So I felt that was the most generous to the left.
00:05:43.400 And probably, though, that's unlikely that he doesn't want to cause actual harm.
00:05:50.300 I think the much more likely scenario, which is also pretty generous to the left in this, is that he's some wacky populist type on the right or the left, kind of like the Bernie bro who shot up the congressional baseball game.
00:06:02.980 This guy would be the Trumpy version of that.
00:06:05.080 And because all of the people that were targeted are establishment people, the Clintons, Soros, Eric Holder, John Brennan, you know, they weren't going after the Bernie Sanders side of the Democratic Party.
00:06:17.780 They weren't going after Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
00:06:20.760 So I could see it, you know, as a populist type.
00:06:23.440 And that's what the evidence seems to suggest now.
00:06:25.540 Then the less generous idea for the left is that it was some lefty who wanted to make conservatives look bad.
00:06:32.880 It doesn't seem that that's likely anymore.
00:06:35.440 But who knows?
00:06:36.100 Again, we don't really know anything about this guy.
00:06:37.960 Plausible.
00:06:38.440 I think it's still too wild, though.
00:06:40.140 And then the most conspiratorial tinfoil hat theory, the most, you know, they're turning the frickin' frogs gay theory, is that it's some plot, you know, by bureaucrats to undermine President Trump.
00:06:54.080 That also doesn't seem likely.
00:06:57.440 And the reason it doesn't seem likely to put a damper on some of my more conspiratorial right-wing friends is that there were so many states involved.
00:07:06.020 There were so many law enforcement agencies involved that if it were some grand conspiracy, I think somebody would have leaked it.
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00:07:14.360 So, again, I don't think that's likely.
00:07:16.000 It seemed to me number two or number three were the most likely, some wacky lefty, or that it's some wacky Trump populist or left-wing populist.
00:07:26.680 Looks like that.
00:07:27.640 But we did forget the great possibility, the most obvious answer.
00:07:32.620 Somehow we forgot about it, which is that it's a Florida man.
00:07:36.200 You know, it's always Florida man.
00:07:38.840 That guy, he must never sleep.
00:07:40.520 Florida man just flits about doing the craziest things, including sending horribly constructed bombs to politicians.
00:07:49.680 And what's weird, too, about the bombs is that they had a digital clock on a number of them.
00:07:55.060 Some of them, apparently, weren't even able to explode.
00:07:58.940 So, we'll get to this in a second, because the New York Times even admits this and buried the lead.
00:08:04.300 But just to wrap it up on Florida man, there was a story that came out last week about these two girls in Florida, an 11-year-old and a 12-year-old, who were Satanists planning to murder their classmates and eat them.
00:08:16.940 That's true.
00:08:17.380 That's not hyperbolic.
00:08:18.560 The story came out.
00:08:19.380 Here's a quote from the news headline.
00:08:21.060 When asked about motivation, the girls reportedly told police that they were Satan worshipers.
00:08:26.880 According to police, the girls planned to drink their victims' blood out of the goblet they were found with.
00:08:31.620 They also discussed eating their victims' flesh and leaving body parts at the school's entrance before killing themselves.
00:08:38.100 Florida man.
00:08:38.900 Florida girls.
00:08:39.500 These girls were 11 and 12.
00:08:42.640 Florida man.
00:08:43.460 Right before Halloween.
00:08:44.260 By the way, for anybody out there who doubts the existence of personified evil, who laughs at people for believing in the devil or believing in personified evil, how do you explain that?
00:08:55.600 How do you explain 12-year-old girls who want to participate in a satanic ritual like that?
00:09:01.140 A little bit of a sidebar.
00:09:02.660 But Florida man.
00:09:03.960 Unsurprising.
00:09:04.680 So, we don't know a whole lot right now.
00:09:06.760 I do get a kick out of the fact that after these multiple weeks of Liz Warren, the whitest woman in America, pretending to be a Native American, this suspect may actually be a Native American, like a real Native American. 0.80
00:09:19.140 He apparently lists tribal affiliation in certain documents.
00:09:22.740 So, we'll have to see how that plays out.
00:09:24.800 But the one thing I think that we can all conclude, we know it for sure, is that this is Donald Trump's fault.
00:09:31.580 Right?
00:09:32.400 I think we have to conclude that.
00:09:34.080 Because, look, I've been watching a lot of CNN.
00:09:35.820 I've been in airports a lot this week.
00:09:37.800 And when you're at airports, the only place that CNN has played in the entire world is on airport televisions.
00:09:42.920 And they told me it's Trump's fault.
00:09:44.880 Because apparently, I don't know if you know this, Trump has had a lot of violent rhetoric.
00:09:49.400 He's been very violent in his rhetoric.
00:09:51.540 He's calling for a lot of violence.
00:09:53.520 And have you heard?
00:09:53.960 I mean, I Googled it and I found a video.
00:09:56.360 Here is all the violent rhetoric from President Trump recently.
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00:10:54.760 Wow, that's so weird.
00:10:56.200 Donald Trump sounds a lot like Spartacus, doesn't he?
00:10:59.020 I've never heard President Trump sound so much like tears of rage.
00:11:02.880 Spartacus, oh no, wait a minute, that wasn't Donald Trump.
00:11:05.100 That was all Democrats.
00:11:06.700 That was all major Democrat officials, including their most recent presidential nominee, calling for violence.
00:11:11.740 Nevertheless, all we're hearing from the mainstream media is that President Trump has created a culture of violence.
00:11:18.140 We'll get in a minute to why that is so insidious.
00:11:21.120 But here is what Donald Trump is actually saying.
00:11:23.940 More broadly, there's much we can do to bring our nation together.
00:11:28.680 For example, those engaged in the political arena must stop treating political opponents as being morally defective.
00:11:38.900 Have to do that.
00:11:39.840 The language of moral condemnation and destructive routine, these are arguments and disagreements that have to stop.
00:11:51.920 No one should carelessly compare political opponents to historical villains, which is done often.
00:12:00.760 It's done all the time.
00:12:02.320 Got to stop.
00:12:03.180 We should not mob people in public spaces or destroy public property.
00:12:12.360 He's exactly right.
00:12:20.420 It was exactly what he should have said.
00:12:22.100 Got it right.
00:12:22.640 Who could possibly object to it?
00:12:24.420 We know who does.
00:12:25.500 CNN and the New York Times object to it.
00:12:27.080 We'll get to that in a second.
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00:13:53.820 President Trump is exactly right here.
00:13:56.420 He's exactly right.
00:13:57.480 The media have been egregious about all of this.
00:14:00.140 First of all, he's right that we should all come together.
00:14:02.660 He recently just gave a statement, too, just within the last few moments on how we have
00:14:09.500 to prosecute this guy to the fullest extent of the law.
00:14:12.260 We cannot have political violence take hold in the United States.
00:14:15.700 Obviously, political violence takes place on the right and the left.
00:14:19.240 It's taken place a lot more on the left these days.
00:14:21.720 But, you know, maybe this guy is a right winger.
00:14:23.400 I don't know.
00:14:24.400 I haven't decided how far down the conspiratorial rabbit hole I want to go.
00:14:28.880 But let's take everything at face value.
00:14:31.060 Let's say he's a registered conservative Republican.
00:14:33.840 He subscribes to the National Review.
00:14:35.980 I don't know.
00:14:36.620 Whatever it is.
00:14:37.900 Let's say that he is an actual Republican.
00:14:41.340 Look at the response from politicians.
00:14:43.700 That's what actually matters here.
00:14:45.160 When the left was being violent, going to Republicans' houses, going to assault them
00:14:52.220 in public, at restaurants where they eat, where they sleep, how did the Democrat Party
00:14:57.680 respond?
00:14:58.880 They encouraged it.
00:15:00.100 All of them.
00:15:00.800 So many of them.
00:15:01.540 Maxine Waters, Hillary Clinton, Eric Holder, Cory Booker.
00:15:04.400 They encouraged the violence.
00:15:06.500 When there's some wacko Republican who sends poorly made bombs that fortunately didn't hurt
00:15:11.280 anybody, when that happens, how did the Republican leader respond to that?
00:15:15.560 He said, we've got to prosecute this guy to the fullest extent of the law.
00:15:18.140 We can't have any political violence in America.
00:15:20.440 Two starkly different responses.
00:15:22.820 You can't control everybody.
00:15:24.000 Obviously, people are going to be wackos. 1.00
00:15:26.000 Let's say this guy is a registered, hardline, conservative Republican.
00:15:29.760 Who knows?
00:15:30.560 If he is, it seems more like he's a wacky criminal Florida man.
00:15:33.720 But let's say that he is.
00:15:35.220 Fine.
00:15:36.060 What really matters is how the parties are responding to it.
00:15:39.360 The left, the mainstream media, which is just the talking, the microphone, the loudspeaker
00:15:44.680 of the Democratic Party, they're encouraging the violence.
00:15:47.820 The conservatives and Republicans are discouraging the violence and encouraging prosecuting people
00:15:53.100 who commit violence.
00:15:54.660 Absolutely.
00:15:55.780 CNN today, before they caught the guy, they ran a headline.
00:15:59.060 This is maybe the most egregious one I've seen in the last week.
00:16:03.680 I don't know.
00:16:04.000 CNN always outdoes themselves week over week.
00:16:05.980 Take a look at this clip and just look at that chyron. 0.96
00:16:10.040 We definitely see a pipe-shaped figure in the x-rays.
00:16:14.300 We definitely see wires surrounding and within the devices themselves.
00:16:18.440 A clock.
00:16:19.040 That clock could have been used to actually activate the device.
00:16:22.960 One thing I'm not seeing in the x-rays, and I'm just seeing my x-rays on...
00:16:26.680 So you see that there, quote, 10 packages sent to Trump targets.
00:16:37.120 Trump targets.
00:16:38.560 What do they mean?
00:16:39.340 They mean Democrats.
00:16:40.380 There were 10 packages sent to Democrats, but they say Trump targets as if Trump is there
00:16:45.120 masterminding the bomb plot.
00:16:47.100 That's the implication.
00:16:47.820 That's what they want their viewers to take away.
00:16:50.100 That's plainly what the language says.
00:16:51.880 Trump has targeted these people, and now this guy is sending poorly constructed bombs to
00:16:57.100 them.
00:16:58.040 That's the implication.
00:16:58.600 And that's just a flat lie.
00:17:00.140 And the New York Times complains when we call them fake news.
00:17:02.760 They say, we're an apple.
00:17:03.660 We're a banana.
00:17:04.320 Whatever that stupid...
00:17:05.560 Whatever that commercial was.
00:17:07.340 That is fake news.
00:17:08.340 That's a lie.
00:17:09.200 And it's libel.
00:17:10.220 I mean, that is true calumny against the president.
00:17:13.980 The New York Times was a little better.
00:17:15.440 Their headline was just as egregious, but you got to watch how the New York Times writes.
00:17:19.380 So the New York Times headline on this was, quote, pipe bombs sent to Democrats and Trump
00:17:23.900 critics.
00:17:24.640 What we know and don't know.
00:17:27.440 Yeah, that's true.
00:17:28.520 Trump critics, sure.
00:17:30.080 They could have just said pipe bombs sent to Democrats because all the Democrats are
00:17:32.900 Trump critics.
00:17:34.360 Every single one.
00:17:35.040 Can you name a Democrat who isn't a Trump critic?
00:17:37.380 No.
00:17:37.840 But they wanted to get that in there to link Trump to it.
00:17:39.900 At least it's a little better than CNN.
00:17:42.160 But the way the New York Times writes is they bury the lead.
00:17:45.240 They do it as the structure of the newspaper.
00:17:47.120 They always have the most sensational propaganda on page one.
00:17:50.260 And then they have all of their corrections on page 1075.
00:17:54.000 But what they do in the articles, too, is they bury the lead.
00:17:57.260 They have all their sensationalist propaganda.
00:17:59.440 And then 25 paragraphs down, they give you the information.
00:18:02.700 So I've skimmed this ridiculous article.
00:18:05.440 And then 25 paragraphs down, or wherever it was, I read this, quote,
00:18:08.740 None of the devices have detonated, leading some officials to question whether they were
00:18:13.140 designed not to explode or if they were even capable of doing so.
00:18:17.940 Some bomb technicians who reviewed photos of the device that circulated on social media
00:18:21.840 on Wednesday suggested that it resembled the kind of fake device often portrayed on television
00:18:27.680 and in movies.
00:18:28.540 That's not from Daily Wire.
00:18:30.540 That's not from some right-wing website.
00:18:32.900 That's from the New York Times admitting as much.
00:18:35.600 Very good.
00:18:38.120 Then they go on and they say law enforcement officials determined all of the devices were
00:18:43.660 likely sent through the mail.
00:18:44.900 This does raise questions about why we didn't see processing on those packages.
00:18:49.440 But even the New York Times admits this may have been some sort of a hoax.
00:18:53.740 Now, what was the motivation of the hoax?
00:18:55.420 Was it a hoax to have some political effect on the midterm elections?
00:18:59.060 Was it a hoax to scare Democrats?
00:19:01.180 It easily could have been that sort of hoax.
00:19:03.180 We just don't know.
00:19:04.260 We should wait to get those answers.
00:19:06.080 But I'm very pleased that in the reactions to it, broadly speaking, conservatives have been
00:19:12.560 sane, have been grounded.
00:19:13.720 I said the other day on the show, you've got to remain calm and remain clear, especially
00:19:18.320 when things get really heated, because when people get emotional, when they get angry,
00:19:21.520 when they start jumping to conclusions, they go mad and they make mistakes.
00:19:24.640 Don't make mistakes.
00:19:25.560 We're 12 days out from an important election, so you've got to stay clear-headed.
00:19:29.200 And I'm glad that the president has refrained from being sensationalist about this.
00:19:33.900 He said exactly the right things.
00:19:35.700 And let's hope that conservatives continue to do that.
00:19:38.820 We also have seen Megyn Kelly get fired. 1.00
00:19:41.160 I go away for one day and the news media falls apart.
00:19:44.960 There are bombs going around the country.
00:19:46.280 Megyn Kelly, former darling of Fox News, got into a spat with Donald Trump, actually, during 1.00
00:19:52.840 the 2016 election, goes over to NBC for a record contract over there.
00:19:58.920 She's out.
00:19:59.600 Why is she out?
00:20:01.020 She's out because during a program, she asked the question of whether or not it's okay to
00:20:07.960 darken your skin in a Halloween costume to pay tribute to somebody. 0.58
00:20:11.620 So somebody on The Real Housewives dressed up like Diana Ross, you know, and she darkened 1.00
00:20:18.800 her skin a little bit.
00:20:19.540 This caused an uproar.
00:20:20.640 And Megyn Kelly said, well, is it really blackface if you admire the person?
00:20:24.600 Who doesn't like Diana Ross?
00:20:26.340 It just, is it okay or is it not okay?
00:20:28.560 She makes those comments. 0.93
00:20:29.960 People pretend to be outraged.
00:20:31.480 Nobody's actually outraged.
00:20:32.780 People just pretend to.
00:20:34.160 And then she apologizes.
00:20:36.360 She said, oh, I didn't realize it would cause that stir, but I see that I was wrong.
00:20:39.980 And then they fire her. 1.00
00:20:42.160 They can her.
00:20:43.380 For reaction, we now turn to NBA Hall of Famer Carl Malone.
00:20:47.440 Sometime at night, Carl Malone will look up in the sky and say, what the hell going on
00:20:56.060 up there?
00:20:57.080 Do UFO live on another planet, phoning home like E.T.?
00:21:01.240 Carl Malone will read on TV about white people getting deducted by aliens, sticking all kind 0.98
00:21:06.000 of hell up their butt. 0.98
00:21:07.100 And that's a damn thing.
00:21:09.020 Now, Carl Malone never seen no flying saucer himself.
00:21:12.020 But if he do, that's going to be a spooky time.
00:21:15.700 That's why Carl Malone say government got to step up and give 102% to keeping them little
00:21:21.160 green men off this here earth. 0.98
00:21:22.840 Because the day them dudes stick something up, Carl Malone, butt, that's going to, well,
00:21:27.680 that ain't going to be no good time for nobody, especially Carl Malone, butt.
00:21:33.220 Oh, I'm sorry.
00:21:34.240 That wasn't Carl Malone.
00:21:35.260 That was Jimmy Kimmel wearing blackface.
00:21:37.160 That was Jimmy Kimmel wearing blackface specifically to put on a minstrel show. 0.50
00:21:43.580 Because this is not him putting on Carl Malone's skin tone because he's admiring Carl Malone
00:21:50.020 or talking about what a great guy Carl Malone is.
00:21:52.040 He does it here to make fun of Carl Malone for being stupid and to make fun of him for
00:21:56.560 speaking in Ebonics and for speaking inarticulately.
00:22:00.480 If anything, is a minstrel show, a modern day minstrel show, that is it.
00:22:05.840 So he does this.
00:22:07.300 But Jimmy Kimmel, he's the toast of Hollywood.
00:22:09.440 Jimmy Kimmel, he's the host of the Oscars.
00:22:12.500 Jimmy Kimmel has a late night show.
00:22:14.240 Okay.
00:22:14.560 Now, at the time, that was on Comedy Central.
00:22:17.060 And what was it?
00:22:17.680 15 years ago, 20 years ago that that came out.
00:22:21.260 So he goes, he wears blackface, no reaction whatsoever, including now, no reaction. 0.98
00:22:26.940 But fine.
00:22:27.560 You could say, well, it was a different time.
00:22:29.660 It was on a comedy channel that was always provocative and it was a cable network.
00:22:34.120 It's not the same.
00:22:34.760 So that's fine.
00:22:35.840 I do hear that point.
00:22:37.520 For reaction, for real reaction, we turn now to comedian Chris Rock.
00:22:42.680 Oh, they want to be millionaires.
00:22:44.480 But you got to ask that kind of question.
00:22:46.060 Like, in 1981, how many guys have cracked in Rick James smoke when he recorded Super
00:22:50.220 Free?
00:22:52.740 Regis, you think the only way to get a brother on the show is to name it, who wants $50 cash
00:22:57.180 and a pair of poopers?
00:22:58.080 Oh, no.
00:23:01.120 Wait, that wasn't Chris Rock.
00:23:02.800 That was Jimmy Fallon wearing blackface.
00:23:04.920 Okay.
00:23:05.160 Jimmy Fallon on NBC, on the network that just fired Megyn Kelly for asking if it's okay to
00:23:12.720 darken your skin for a Halloween costume if you admire a person.
00:23:16.380 That is Jimmy Fallon wearing blackface, putting on a show, doing actually a pretty good Chris 0.99
00:23:22.320 Rock impression, and no problem whatsoever.
00:23:27.040 He hosts, I believe, the longest running program in television history, The Tonight Show, on
00:23:33.560 NBC.
00:23:33.980 No issue, no problem, doesn't get fired, it's okay.
00:23:36.940 So why was she fired? 1.00
00:23:38.520 I don't think she was fired for this comment.
00:23:40.960 She was fired for her poor ratings.
00:23:43.180 Her ratings haven't been great.
00:23:44.540 She's being paid record amounts of money over there at NBC.
00:23:47.460 I think they still owe her $69 million on her contract.
00:23:50.640 And even that, I think, doesn't explain it.
00:23:54.240 I think she's being fired because of her politics. 1.00
00:23:57.280 Not just that she's a conservative.
00:23:59.280 I don't know if she's really a conservative.
00:24:00.880 She's certainly more conservative than people at NBC.
00:24:03.060 But she's gone pretty hard after NBC during the Me Too movement.
00:24:08.580 NBC has had a lot of Me Too experiences, and certainly Matt Lauer.
00:24:12.520 Matt Lauer was the biggest example of this, would lock women in his office and harass them.
00:24:17.800 And she was pretty hard on this.
00:24:19.240 She went pretty hard after them, while other people on that network went very soft on Matt
00:24:23.860 Lauer.
00:24:24.480 I think that's why.
00:24:25.400 I think it poisoned the relationship between her and NBC, because she wasn't going to go
00:24:29.540 soft.
00:24:30.000 She's a pretty hard-hitting journalist. 0.98
00:24:31.320 She left Fox after a very tense relationship with Donald Trump.
00:24:36.960 And so she's pretty hard-hitting. 0.64
00:24:38.840 I don't think they wanted that.
00:24:40.240 I didn't think she was a good fit over there anyway. 1.00
00:24:42.680 I think she's better doing this hard-hitting journalism and being a prosecutor and going 1.00
00:24:46.760 hard after people.
00:24:47.840 I don't think she should be Katie Couric.
00:24:49.200 She's a lot more interesting than Katie Couric. 0.65
00:24:50.800 So she's gone.
00:24:52.220 Who knows where she'll land?
00:24:53.000 Maybe she'll go back to Fox.
00:24:54.600 But the double standard is absurd.
00:24:56.620 She asked a question about blackface and was fired for it. 0.96
00:25:00.940 Jimmy Fallon, whom I like, who I don't think he should be fired for doing that sketch, but
00:25:05.260 he actually performed in blackface.
00:25:07.900 And Jimmy Kimmel, who's on a different network, but he's still a late-night star and he's still
00:25:12.040 the toast of Hollywood, actually put on a minstrel show, actually did blackface in the 0.82
00:25:17.400 way that blackface is described historically, actually did all of that.
00:25:21.540 No consequences whatsoever.
00:25:23.420 Hmm.
00:25:23.840 He thinks politics has something to do with this.
00:25:26.920 So honing in on NBC, over on MSNBC, Lawrence O'Donnell listened to President Trump's speech
00:25:36.100 the other day.
00:25:36.900 We talked about it on the show where President Trump said, I am a nationalist.
00:25:39.900 I know you're not supposed to say that anymore.
00:25:42.100 It's not politically correct.
00:25:43.600 I am a nationalist.
00:25:45.500 Okay, we know what that means.
00:25:46.580 He's juxtaposing it with globalism.
00:25:48.560 And he says, I'm going to protect the rights of Americans to govern themselves, American
00:25:52.340 sovereignty.
00:25:53.740 I'm not a globalist.
00:25:55.060 When I say nationalist, it means I'm not a globalist.
00:25:58.460 But Lawrence O'Donnell on MSNBC, he has the real end.
00:26:01.500 He knows what that really means.
00:26:03.640 Take it away, Mr. O'Donnell.
00:26:05.280 Donald Trump knows exactly why you're not supposed to use that word.
00:26:08.500 And that is why, exactly why he is using that word.
00:26:12.440 And by telling his audiences that he knows he's not supposed to be using that word, he
00:26:16.800 is telling them that he is brave enough and bold enough to use the word.
00:26:21.820 He is brave enough and bold enough to use a 21st century variation of the word racist
00:26:26.480 because he wants Trump voters to know that he hates the people they hate.
00:26:32.400 A majority of Americans reject all of this vile Trumpism.
00:26:37.660 All of it.
00:26:40.940 Nationalist apparently means racist to Lawrence O'Donnell because to the left, anything they
00:26:47.140 don't like is racism.
00:26:49.440 Racist is just the word that they substitute for evil.
00:26:52.640 They think of them as synonyms.
00:26:54.180 So they say, oh yeah, it's evil.
00:26:55.100 If Trump does it, it's evil.
00:26:56.400 Now, of course, this isn't the case.
00:26:57.560 Moses was a nationalist.
00:26:59.620 Nationalism has a long history.
00:27:02.360 We talked to Yoram Hazoni, who wrote that great book, The Virtues of Nationalism.
00:27:06.580 But that's what they're saying.
00:27:07.540 They're saying it's racism, it's racism, it's racism.
00:27:09.280 They're always playing the race card.
00:27:10.900 I don't think it really works.
00:27:12.300 One, the Democrat Party is losing its hold on racial minorities.
00:27:16.260 And two, we're seeing the failure of globalism hurtling toward us in this migrant caravan 1.00
00:27:24.160 that's coming toward the border.
00:27:25.380 This is a big winning issue for the GOP and for conservatives.
00:27:30.380 If we can, can we check in right now on the migrant caravan?
00:27:33.860 We'll see you next time.
00:28:03.860 The juxtaposition between that, oh, it's just the caravan.
00:28:12.640 It's the caravan's painted red and white.
00:28:14.220 It's not.
00:28:14.800 It's actually painted with some criminals.
00:28:16.500 It's painted possibly with people who want to do harm to this country.
00:28:19.280 It's painted with cynical leftists who are going to exploit our extremely generous immigration policy.
00:28:25.000 That's what I think.
00:28:25.600 Whenever I hear this caravan, I just think like, la, la, la, la.
00:28:30.080 But that's certainly not what it is.
00:28:31.440 It's a horde of thousands of people invading this country, and we can't deal with it. 0.94
00:28:35.860 We don't want them to invade our country and have their first act in the country be to violate an important and essential law. 0.99
00:28:45.060 This is true of both parties.
00:28:46.760 And so it's a winning issue.
00:28:48.160 I mean, I think, you know, when people start calling you names, when people like Lawrence O'Donnell say,
00:28:53.280 that's racism, that's just racism, that's how you know you're on to something.
00:28:57.220 Unless it's actually racial bigotry, but obviously this is not.
00:29:01.100 That's how you know you're on to something, because they're saying, that's evil, that's evil, don't do it, don't do it, don't do it.
00:29:05.380 He knows that this is a winning issue for conservatives.
00:29:08.880 He knows that this will get a lot of Americans.
00:29:10.580 We don't.
00:29:11.260 This would have been a winning issue for Democrats 10 years ago.
00:29:13.620 Barack Obama was talking about this 12, 13 years ago.
00:29:16.720 He was saying we cannot have people come over illegally.
00:29:20.340 This is why, by the way, a lot of people, I think, are skeptical or were skeptical about this bombing campaign of all the fake bombs that didn't explode or harm anybody.
00:29:31.140 Because there are so many issues going so well for conservatives right now, right before the midterm elections,
00:29:38.220 that this really throws a bizarre wrench into it for apparently no purpose at all, other than some lunatic criminal Florida man.
00:29:47.740 But this is a big issue.
00:29:49.060 You know, you've got jobs, not mobs.
00:29:50.940 Now the Democrats are going to turn that into mobs, not bombs. 0.66
00:29:54.420 I guess mobs are better than bombs, but mobs are not better than bombs if the bombs don't work.
00:29:59.000 So I don't know.
00:29:59.580 I have to do the math on that.
00:30:01.800 They also were running on the Kavanaugh effect, and they can also run on this migrant caravan coming.
00:30:08.340 Hopefully that won't be slowed down.
00:30:10.100 The momentum won't be slowed down by this failed bombing attempt.
00:30:14.940 We're going to have to see.
00:30:15.980 I mean, there's a lot of momentum moving.
00:30:17.680 We don't have any new polls, obviously, from after the arrest that just happened a couple hours ago.
00:30:21.280 But even in New Jersey, Bob Menendez, who had a safe seat, is now being seriously challenged by his GOP opponent, Bob Hugen.
00:30:31.480 Hugen is now within five points, within striking distance of Menendez.
00:30:35.040 And the Kavanaugh effect is really hurting Bob Menendez, because the whole Kavanaugh premise was, we don't need to know if they're innocent or guilty.
00:30:44.260 We just need to know if enough questions are asked about somebody's sexual history.
00:30:48.820 That is disqualifying for public service.
00:30:51.920 And I don't know if you follow the news, it's been blacked out from a lot of mainstream media, but there's an allegation that Bob Menendez paid underage hookers to have sex with him.
00:31:00.520 And, you know, he finally got off.
00:31:02.580 He wasn't, they weren't able to convict him of this.
00:31:05.660 But I'm sure that when they were saying, all that matters are the questions being asked, you saw Bob Menendez sitting in the Senate like, well, yeah, well, yeah, okay.
00:31:13.960 I'm going to, hey guys, I'm going to be over here at the, I'm going to be at the coffee pot for until you stop talking about this.
00:31:19.420 They're nailing him with these campaign ads.
00:31:21.400 Here's one of the, one of the greatest ads of the season against Bob Menendez.
00:31:24.580 Let the American people make their judgment, not whether the person's guilty or innocent, but whether the person deserves to have the office.
00:31:32.320 What about the underage girls who accused Bob Menendez, according to the FBI?
00:31:36.940 Not whether he's innocent or guilty.
00:31:38.400 This is not a trial, but ultimately has enough questions be raised.
00:31:42.480 New Jersey's Bob Menendez is being forced to deny allegations of an engaging with prostitutes, sex with underage prostitutes in the Dominican Republic.
00:31:49.900 Is he the best we can do?
00:31:51.680 Good question, Senator.
00:31:53.120 Senator, it's time for Bob Menendez to go.
00:31:58.960 Brutal ad, absolutely devastating.
00:32:01.400 Well done to whoever the ad maker was.
00:32:03.440 We're not going to have good numbers on this for a few days.
00:32:06.240 One, the arrest of the bomb guy was on a Friday, so you're hitting the end of the news cycle.
00:32:12.520 We don't really know that much about him.
00:32:14.260 I'm sure more is going to come out over the next few days.
00:32:16.140 People are going to be out of the news over the weekend.
00:32:18.220 People probably aren't going to be processing this until Monday,
00:32:20.720 so you're probably not going to get reliable polling information on how this is going to affect the midterms until, I don't know, Tuesday or Wednesday at the earliest.
00:32:28.900 This is a little scary for Republicans.
00:32:31.940 All that matters are the trend lines when you're looking at polling.
00:32:35.140 It doesn't matter what the numbers are when you're two weeks out from the election.
00:32:38.420 It's all about the trend lines because unless somebody starts sending bombs to people,
00:32:43.860 and unless that really matters to voters, the trend lines aren't going to reverse.
00:32:47.800 The trend lines were all going in the GOP direction.
00:32:50.200 Who knows?
00:32:50.780 I don't know what's going to happen now.
00:32:52.400 If you'd asked me before they caught this bomb guy, and it looks like he's a populist right-winger, whatever that means,
00:32:59.700 and he's obviously deranged too and probably living in a van,
00:33:02.440 but before that happened, I would have said everything.
00:33:05.560 It's unstoppable for the Republicans to stop this blue wave.
00:33:10.360 Now I don't know.
00:33:11.360 If the trend lines reverse because of this bomb thing, I can't see them reversing again.
00:33:16.020 It's hard to outdo a dozen fake bombs being sent around.
00:33:19.180 So we're just going to have to see what happens with that.
00:33:20.720 We've got to get to the mailbag, but first, don't miss our next chapter of Another Kingdom performed by little old me.
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00:33:57.420 That's not what this is.
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00:34:29.540 We'll be right back with the mailbag.
00:34:43.620 From Aaron.
00:34:44.700 Hey, Michael.
00:34:45.720 I've been dating this girl for coming up on a year now, and I have to say that objectively
00:34:49.780 she seems like the kind of girl I should be proposing to.
00:34:53.520 Uh-oh.
00:34:53.940 Here we go.
00:34:54.680 Where's this going?
00:34:55.220 Um, but I find myself constantly with the urge to look elsewhere for female attention 0.99
00:35:00.460 because I feel less and less attracted to her physically.
00:35:03.660 I don't want to be the kind of guy that breaks up with a girl because she's not the body type 0.99
00:35:07.400 I'm looking for.
00:35:08.320 In a way, I think I'm looking for permission.
00:35:11.800 I'm permission to what?
00:35:13.840 Permission to break up with her is what you're saying.
00:35:15.680 I'm 22 if that info is necessary.
00:35:18.600 Okay.
00:35:20.100 You should break up with her.
00:35:22.140 That's the simple answer.
00:35:23.300 You should break up with her.
00:35:24.160 This is what you, I know you tried to put it in this nice language.
00:35:27.340 What you just said to me is, in theory, I'm in love with this girl, but in reality, I'm not.
00:35:34.780 Go for the reality, man.
00:35:36.100 You're going to be married in real life to your wife, and you should be physically attracted to her.
00:35:41.840 You really should.
00:35:42.640 I don't want to tell any tales out of school, you know.
00:35:44.980 I don't want to, you know, I invite you into my boudoir enough when I'm selling you purple mattresses.
00:35:50.120 Sweet little Elise is a real looker, you know. 1.00
00:35:51.980 I mean, that's a big deal.
00:35:54.080 That's a big deal.
00:35:54.760 You're a man.
00:35:55.280 You have red blood.
00:35:56.420 You have to be attracted to your future wife or fiance or girlfriend.
00:36:01.260 You have to be attracted to her.
00:36:02.560 That doesn't mean, by the way, that she's got to be a supermodel or she's got to have one particular body type or this or that. 0.99
00:36:07.920 That's not how attraction works.
00:36:10.300 You can find yourself extraordinarily attracted to some aspect of her personality that maybe overwhelms physical attributes that you're not as physically attracted to.
00:36:21.860 Okay, fine.
00:36:22.380 That totally makes sense.
00:36:23.780 But there has to be an attraction.
00:36:25.600 You're not starting a business with somebody.
00:36:28.400 That's not all you're doing, at least.
00:36:30.200 You know, there's one part of marriage where physical attraction really matters.
00:36:34.540 So you can ask your parents about that one.
00:36:37.000 So you've got to be physically attracted to her.
00:36:39.740 That doesn't make you shallow.
00:36:41.000 You'll be physically attracted to someone else.
00:36:42.580 And it's not fair to her.
00:36:43.940 Like you're pitying her.
00:36:45.620 Like she's a charity case or something.
00:36:47.740 No, she sounds like a great girl.
00:36:49.320 I'm sure that she'll meet some other guy.
00:36:51.500 But if you really find that you're unattracted to her, then you shouldn't marry her.
00:36:55.620 Now, maybe, I don't know, maybe you're exaggerating it.
00:36:57.920 Maybe it's this.
00:36:58.740 I don't know.
00:36:59.520 Don't try to plan out your marriage on paper like you're writing a doctrine.
00:37:04.080 Like you're, here's my marriage.
00:37:05.180 This is what my marriage is going to look like.
00:37:06.840 There's that great Yiddish expression.
00:37:08.560 Mensch tracht got lacht.
00:37:10.100 Man plans and God laughs.
00:37:12.280 You know, Cole Porter didn't sing.
00:37:14.340 Let's do it.
00:37:15.540 Let's be in a relationship where you have all of these attributes that I think will go well in a wife. 1.00
00:37:21.080 He didn't.
00:37:21.440 He said, let's do it.
00:37:22.780 Let's fall in love.
00:37:24.260 That's what you should do.
00:37:25.020 You should fall in love.
00:37:25.900 If you haven't fallen in love, find somebody else.
00:37:28.260 From Wesley.
00:37:30.500 Hello to the excreble Michael Knowles.
00:37:33.580 Hey, Wesley.
00:37:34.960 Great job at Politicon.
00:37:36.060 I watched both your panels and you did an amazing job of staying composed when antagonized.
00:37:40.040 I occasionally have discussions with those on the left and I have a hard time staying composed
00:37:44.580 when they fling lies and idiocy.
00:37:46.800 My question is, was that always part of your demeanor or did you have to learn it?
00:37:50.880 If the latter, how'd you go about that?
00:37:53.420 I usually keep my cool.
00:37:55.560 I've always been able to keep my cool, just about.
00:37:58.100 Occasionally I've lost my temper.
00:37:59.860 That's the Sicilian, I think, coming out.
00:38:01.780 But for the vast majority of my life, I'm able to keep my cool.
00:38:05.840 And this is a very important trait and it requires practice and you should do it
00:38:10.000 because being a man requires being a gentleman and living in civilized society.
00:38:14.580 It means that you need to be civilized.
00:38:16.360 So you should always keep your cool.
00:38:18.000 The other question, when you're talking to somebody about politics or philosophy or theology
00:38:21.900 or whatever is, what's the purpose of the conversation?
00:38:25.720 If I'm on a panel where people are being antagonistic and it's really sort of a debate,
00:38:31.120 then I'll slam them.
00:38:32.260 I'll try to score points because I'm trying to demonstrate for an audience
00:38:35.180 why their view is incorrect and why my view is correct.
00:38:38.280 If I'm sitting down having coffee and I'm just trying to talk to my friend and hear his point of view
00:38:42.180 and give him my point of view, then I won't slam him.
00:38:45.040 I'll have a different demeanor.
00:38:46.440 In all of those cases, though, I am emotionally detaching myself.
00:38:50.320 When you get angry, you go mad.
00:38:52.060 When you go mad, you get stupid.
00:38:53.880 And you behave stupidly and you make stupid arguments.
00:38:56.280 So don't do that.
00:38:57.820 Part of the other reason why I keep my cool is that, as John Height showed a few years ago,
00:39:04.180 the right understands the left much better than the left understands the right.
00:39:07.920 So I'm not usually surprised by arguments that people on the left are making.
00:39:12.280 I think I could probably tell them their arguments before they could tell me them themselves.
00:39:16.980 The left is surprised by what the right says because they don't understand the right.
00:39:20.440 So when you tell arguments to them, they don't really understand them
00:39:23.540 or they haven't thought about them before, and they get very irate.
00:39:26.040 They get very angry about what they don't understand.
00:39:28.620 You should seek to understand it.
00:39:29.840 If you find yourself getting angry all the time,
00:39:31.460 it might be because you don't understand their point of view.
00:39:34.180 So you should read up on it.
00:39:35.460 I assure you it's wrong, but you should read up on it at least
00:39:38.140 so that you can tell that yourself and remain civil.
00:39:41.280 You know, other people yelling idiocy at you cannot degrade you.
00:39:46.800 Only you can degrade you.
00:39:48.260 Only you can compromise your integrity.
00:39:50.260 Only you can make yourself look foolish and humiliate yourself.
00:39:53.460 So don't do it.
00:39:54.780 Always stay composed.
00:39:56.020 Always be the bigger guy.
00:39:57.420 Be tough.
00:39:57.980 Be hard.
00:39:58.620 Bring them a fight.
00:39:59.260 But don't be nasty.
00:40:00.680 Don't be brutish.
00:40:02.680 That doesn't serve anybody.
00:40:04.720 From William.
00:40:07.820 Halloween is upon us.
00:40:09.460 Ofrid, Halloween is upon us.
00:40:11.280 And a very serious question arises.
00:40:13.020 Are ghosts real?
00:40:14.640 Love the X-Criple show, William.
00:40:16.540 This is a very good question and hotly debated by theologians.
00:40:20.580 I tend to believe that ghosts are real.
00:40:24.140 But I'll give you two fathers of the church.
00:40:27.180 St. Augustine, the guy who wrote City of God, Confessions, broadly he rejected the existence
00:40:33.960 of ghosts.
00:40:35.120 St. Thomas Aquinas, who wrote the Summa Theologicae, believed that ghosts exist.
00:40:41.180 And that they come, you know, a ghost is a disembodied spirit, a disembodied soul.
00:40:45.760 Human beings are soul and flesh.
00:40:48.720 When you die, you lose your flesh, and the soul is separated.
00:40:51.760 At the end of time, at the end of the ages, at the second coming, Christian theology states
00:40:59.780 that we will be united, our souls and our bodies, and the redeemed will have glorified
00:41:04.100 bodies, and things don't go as well for the people who are damned. 0.79
00:41:06.800 But, before the end of time, can a disembodied spirit or soul come back and show itself?
00:41:15.900 From Scripture, certainly that seems to be the case.
00:41:18.140 We know at the transfiguration of Christ, he's standing up there with Moses.
00:41:21.300 Moses wasn't standing there in his flesh, was he?
00:41:24.160 That was a disembodied spirit.
00:41:26.740 We know that angels can manifest themselves, demons can manifest themselves.
00:41:33.680 In Christian theology, we see this.
00:41:35.860 So, I tend to side with Thomas Aquinas, but I don't go looking for ghosts.
00:41:41.120 Also because there are spirits in this world.
00:41:44.560 I know it's very unfashionable to say that in our materialist times, but there are spirits.
00:41:48.900 There are principalities and powers.
00:41:50.540 There is spiritual wickedness in high places.
00:41:52.600 There is personified evil, and there is personified good.
00:41:55.840 And so, don't go looking for ghosts.
00:41:57.860 Don't go trying to communicate with the dead.
00:42:00.020 And don't go trying to talk to demons, you know.
00:42:02.040 I mean, that story about Satanism in Florida, where the 11 and 12-year-old girls are going to murder and eat their classmates as a sacrifice to Satan.
00:42:11.680 That should remind you that there is personified evil in the world.
00:42:14.880 Don't go looking for it, you know.
00:42:16.320 So, just keep your eyes up, looking at God, and do the right thing, and don't be worried about where you're going afterward.
00:42:24.180 And watch out for ghosts.
00:42:26.020 From Robert.
00:42:28.860 Oh, no, I'm sorry.
00:42:29.480 First question from Lewis.
00:42:30.740 Michael, knower of all the reasons to vote blue.
00:42:33.720 Will you be dressing as Rachel Maddow for Halloween this year?
00:42:37.060 Thanks, Lewis.
00:42:38.160 No, I will be wearing a costume for Halloween this year.
00:42:40.520 From Robert.
00:42:42.620 Dear Marginalized Knowles, do you believe that humans are created to need God?
00:42:47.260 If so, do you think this is why doing the wrong thing without God seems easier?
00:42:53.760 Humans are required to need God.
00:42:55.740 By definition, we need God.
00:42:56.960 You didn't create yourself.
00:42:58.120 This is why libertarians sometimes go a little wrong in their ideology.
00:43:01.560 You did not create yourself.
00:43:02.880 You are not responsible for the creation of your life.
00:43:05.180 Your life is a gift given to you by your creator, who is God.
00:43:08.140 So you do need God, and humans have a longing for God, a natural longing.
00:43:12.080 At all times, in all cultures, throughout all of history, we have a longing for God.
00:43:16.100 We have longings for other things, too.
00:43:17.960 We have a longing for food, and there's food to eat.
00:43:20.500 We have a longing for water, which is called thirst, and there's water to drink.
00:43:24.680 We have a longing for sex, and there are beautiful women walking down the street, everywhere you look. 1.00
00:43:29.420 So it seems unlikely to me that we have a longing that doesn't find satisfaction in something,
00:43:35.860 which is an argument for God.
00:43:37.140 This is also why doing the wrong thing is a little bit easier.
00:43:41.280 Part of that is because of the fall, because we're not perfect creatures,
00:43:44.940 because we have free will, and we've used our free will to reject God.
00:43:49.640 So it's easier in the short run.
00:43:51.080 It's always very tempting, but it doesn't work out well.
00:43:54.640 You want to, and what we strive to do is to align our wills to the will of God.
00:43:59.220 But St. Paul writes about this.
00:44:00.520 The things I want to do, I don't do.
00:44:01.940 The things that I don't want to do, I do constantly.
00:44:05.140 I do frequently, and this is why mankind needs redemption.
00:44:09.800 But we certainly do need God.
00:44:12.280 Even if you're skeptical or doubtful of Christian orthodoxy or Judaism or any other religious tradition,
00:44:20.440 it is simply a material fact.
00:44:23.020 You didn't create yourself.
00:44:24.480 You need God.
00:44:25.080 From James.
00:44:27.080 Mr. Knowles, no matter what Shapiro says, I enjoy your show.
00:44:30.460 I need advice on running for local office in a difficult area.
00:44:33.180 I live in Portland, Oregon.
00:44:34.140 I want to run in local elections, but being under 25, Christian and Republican, basically means I'm ineligible.
00:44:40.140 How do I run for office in a hostile territory?
00:44:42.140 Why on earth do you want to do that?
00:44:45.580 Why on earth do you want to subject yourself, not just to politics, not just to running for office, which is miserable,
00:44:54.580 and not just being in office, which is miserable, but to local politics, which is the most vicious of all,
00:45:00.180 in an extraordinarily left-wing place that Antifa is currently running?
00:45:04.620 I believe Antifa is the occupying martial force now in Portland.
00:45:09.780 And why would you want to do that when you're under 25?
00:45:11.980 You have a life.
00:45:12.760 You've got a life to live, man.
00:45:14.240 You can go out.
00:45:15.160 You can have fun.
00:45:16.160 You can make money.
00:45:17.420 You can talk to girls.
00:45:19.140 What are you doing?
00:45:20.380 Don't run for office.
00:45:21.500 Don't run for office.
00:45:22.440 Don't do it.
00:45:23.560 I'll give you some advice that I got from a prominent politician and a member of the current administration,
00:45:29.300 so I won't say who it is.
00:45:30.920 I was driving around with him in New Hampshire one time on a campaign, and he turned to me and said,
00:45:37.480 you know, Michael, do you want to go into politics?
00:45:40.340 And I said, well, you know, I'm in a car with you in New Hampshire, so what do you think?
00:45:43.840 And he said, okay, here's my advice.
00:45:45.420 Don't run for office when you're young.
00:45:47.100 Don't run for Congress when you're 25.
00:45:49.180 You'll ruin your life.
00:45:50.180 You'll ruin your family.
00:45:51.120 You won't accomplish anything there, and you'll lose money.
00:45:54.120 You'll lose all your friends.
00:45:55.020 Don't do it.
00:45:55.560 Don't do it.
00:45:56.000 You have to ask yourself, why are you running for office?
00:45:57.880 Is there one particular issue you want to solve in Portland, Oregon?
00:46:02.020 Is there one, is there this or is that, or is it just because you have some political ambition
00:46:07.100 and you want to get up to a higher office and that seems like the thing to do?
00:46:10.540 If it's the latter, don't do it.
00:46:12.760 There are better ways to make an impact, and there are better ways to have a life,
00:46:17.840 and there are better ways than to run for office right away.
00:46:20.560 And if you do want to run for office, which can be a noble calling,
00:46:23.680 you should do it when you've got some experience and when you can do it yourself
00:46:27.260 and you don't have to dial for dollars and you don't have to make yourself beholden to a lot of other interests.
00:46:32.380 Just my two cents.
00:46:33.240 Do we have time for one more?
00:46:34.700 I'll do one more.
00:46:35.420 We don't, but I'll do one more anyway.
00:46:38.100 From Patrick.
00:46:39.560 Knowles, I heard some person arguing the other day that people who are pro-life
00:46:42.660 and are also for the death penalty are hypocrites. 0.59
00:46:46.160 How do you object to this?
00:46:47.420 Thanks.
00:46:48.520 Hashtag came for Ben, stayed for Knowles.
00:46:50.300 Yeah, good man.
00:46:51.020 Anyway, it's a stupid point.
00:46:53.500 I don't know.
00:46:53.800 How do I respond to that?
00:46:54.760 How do I respond when people say to me,
00:46:56.140 I don't respond to it.
00:46:58.480 I say, okay, yeah, that has no semantic value what you've just conveyed.
00:47:04.640 I think the confusion among people is from the slogan, pro-life.
00:47:09.080 It's a good slogan, and it says broadly what we mean.
00:47:13.200 But what we really mean is that we object to the killing in the womb of unborn babies without due process who are utterly innocent.
00:47:23.760 We object to that.
00:47:25.340 Of course we object to that.
00:47:27.640 There is no refutation of that objection.
00:47:31.440 It's an evil, awful thing that is indefensible.
00:47:35.280 So we object to that.
00:47:36.860 They say, well, but so you support punishing criminals?
00:47:41.040 Yes, I support punishing criminals.
00:47:42.380 You think that the state has the ability, has the right to punish criminals?
00:47:48.640 Yes, of course.
00:47:49.300 That's the definition of government.
00:47:50.680 That's the definition of a justice system.
00:47:52.540 Well, okay, you can punish them, but they shouldn't be able to kill them, should they?
00:47:56.200 Why is it okay for the state to take someone's entire life away, keep them in prison for 60 years behind bars in solitary confinement, but it's not okay to kill them?
00:48:07.760 If anything, death is a far more just and merciful punishment than life imprisonment or life in solitary confinement or something like that.
00:48:17.560 The latter actually is cruel and unusual.
00:48:20.020 At the time of the ratification of our Constitution, the punishment for a felony was hanging, was death.
00:48:25.100 That was virtually the definition of a felony.
00:48:28.060 Everyone had capital punishment.
00:48:29.360 Nothing unusual about it.
00:48:30.480 Keeping somebody in prison for 50 years, 30 years, whatever the sentence is, that is unusual and I do find it cruel.
00:48:39.480 I think it's much harder to make the case for that than to make the case for the death penalty.
00:48:42.960 There are three different kinds of punishment.
00:48:46.040 Punitive punishment, rehabilitative punishment, therapeutic, trying to reintegrate them into society, and deterrent punishment to try to deter other people in society from committing that crime.
00:49:01.940 Right now, we only focus on rehabilitation.
00:49:04.120 We say we're going to rehabilitate these criminals.
00:49:06.300 Okay, that's fine, but also justice demands punitive punishment and it demands deterrent punishment to protect the rest of society, all of which are accomplished with capital punishment, including rehabilitation, because it focuses the mind precisely when you know you're to hang.
00:49:24.600 It probably changes your point of view and where you're looking and what you're prioritizing in your life.
00:49:28.640 So there's no contradiction whatsoever and I think the confusion comes from that slogan, which is 98% correct, but you can clear it up by explaining precisely why you object to killing unborn babies in the womb, innocent of any crime, without due process.
00:49:45.940 Shouldn't take too long to explain that.
00:49:47.480 Okay, that's our show.
00:49:48.240 I'm going to Alabama on Monday and we're going to have a very cool speech.
00:49:50.940 I haven't spoken about this topic publicly until this tour and it is how to write nothing and sell 100,000 copies.
00:49:59.420 It should be a very fun speech, so check it out on Monday, but we'll have a show before then.
00:50:04.360 In the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles.
00:50:05.700 This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:50:06.960 I'll see you then.
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