Ep. 255 - Trump Was Right! It’s An Invasion
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Summary
Trump pardons the Thanksgiving Turkey, Carrots refuses to concede the election and demands a recount, and the rest is history. The Department of Homeland Security warns that the migrant caravan at the San Diego border contains over 500 known criminals, prompting Tijuana residents to protest what they are calling an "invasion." Then, video kills the TV star, Trump beats the White House Correspondents Association, and Mohammed celebrates his 1,447th birthday.
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The Department of Homeland Security warns that the migrant caravan at the San Diego border
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contains over 500 known criminals, prompting Tijuana residents to protest what they are
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calling an invasion. Then, video killed the TV star, Trump beats the White House Correspondents
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Association, and Mohammed celebrates his 1,447th birthday. I'm Michael Knowles,
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The Department of Homeland Security, I'm sorry, I'm getting breaking news in here.
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I'm sorry, just one second. Yes, we can now confirm, the Daily Wire can confirm,
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Donald Trump has pardoned the Thanksgiving turkey. We cut now to a live shot from the White House.
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In this grand tradition, I am pleased to announce that today's lucky bird and guest of honor is
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named Pease, along with his alternate named Carrots. The children will understand that.
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The winner of this vote was decided by a fair and open election conducted on the
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White House website. This was a fair election. Unfortunately, Carrots refused to concede
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and demanded a recount, and we're still fighting with Carrots. And I will tell you,
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we've come to a conclusion. Carrots, I'm sorry to tell you, the result did not change.
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It's too bad for Carrots. Too bad for Carrots. Too bad for Stacey Abrams in Georgia. Too bad for
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Andrew Gilliam in Florida. I love him so much. I love when Trump does this. He's at his best. He's
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funny. And he's not missing any opportunity to just get a little dig in there at the left,
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a little dig at these Democrats who won't give up elections, even at the turkey pardon, one of the
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stupidest, most frivolous traditions in the presidency. He takes the opportunity to just
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So according to the Department of Homeland Security, in news that does not relate to
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whether peas or carrots or whichever Turkey is being pardoned by the president, when you look
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to our southern border, the Department of Homeland Security is now saying that that caravan,
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which has been moving from Honduras through Guatemala to Mexico, now to the U.S. southern
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border, now has about 500 known criminals in it. These are people who are wanted for aggravated
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assault with a deadly weapon, armed robbery, sexual assault on a child, assault on a female.
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We're not talking about somebody stealing a Snickers bar from the newspaper stand.
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We're talking about dangerous criminals, about 500 of them. Right now, I think it's about 7,000
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people. It's expected to swell again to 10,000 people. So again, obviously, it's not the majority
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of these people are violent criminals, but it's not an insignificant portion either. When you're
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talking about 500 people out of 5,000, 7,000, that's a pretty significant chunk.
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Obviously, the left doesn't want to admit this. They want to say that it's perfectly normal
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for people to cross national borders illegally, to just wander around other countries without
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any right to do so. They want to pretend that that's normal, and they want to pretend that
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Americans are wrong and evil for saying, no, thank you. We have a border. You have to follow
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our laws. One issue right now that the left has to deal with is that citizens of other countries
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are admitting that this is insane. Because you've got to remember, these migrants are coming
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from Honduras. They go all the way up. Now they're in Mexico. The Mexicans aren't any happier
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about this than the United States is. They've now got 10,000 people wandering around their country
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causing mayhem in the streets. So there was a group of protesters, Mexican national protesters
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in Tijuana. Here's what they were chanting just the other day.
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For those who don't speak Spanish, I don't speak Spanish either, but I could at least make that
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out. He's saying this is an invasion. I am saying Donald Trump was right. This is an invasion. Of
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course it's an invasion. If this isn't an invasion, then what is an invasion? What's the definition
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of an invasion? It's when another group comes into your territory in a hostile manner and does
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whatever they want regardless of laws, regardless of the demands of the people who are in that
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territory. So this is obviously happening. The Tijuana mayor, Juan Manuel Gastelum, is calling
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these people bums. And bums is what they are. They're breaking laws. They're not just breaking
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the laws of the United States or trying to. They're breaking the laws of Mexico. They're
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breaking the laws of other countries along that route. What the left is trying to pretend now
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is that it's all women and children. That's what they always say. It's women and children coming
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through. They're just looking for a better life. They're fleeing violence. It isn't. The best estimates
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we have are that of the 7,000 people there, maybe 1,000 of them are women and children. The rest,
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6,000 or so, are young men. No surprise. This happened in 2015 when Muslim migrants from Syria,
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from Afghanistan, from other places in the Middle East, when they flooded into Europe,
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we were all told it was women and children. It was refugees. And yet virtually all of these people
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were young, unvetted, single men. And that's what we're seeing here now. The Department of Homeland
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Security is also warning, quote, citizens of countries outside of Central America, including countries in
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the Middle East, Africa, South Asia, and elsewhere, are currently traveling through Mexico toward the
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U.S. So again, not a spontaneous uprising. We never believed that it was. But this shows you the
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national security threat. They just arrested a number of Bangladeshi nationals who were found
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to have made it into Mexico and were trying to get up into the United States. People from all over
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the world, why wouldn't they? The president of Guatemala said that he's deported a number of
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ISIS-related Islamic terrorists who made it into his country. Some of us think that's far-fetched
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because we don't expect to see Islamic terrorists on the other side of the globe in Central America.
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But if the plan here is to damage the United States, to invade the United States, why wouldn't
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they go to Mexico? Why wouldn't they go to Guatemala or Honduras or El Salvador or other failed
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states that can allow them to slip in and slip up into the United States, especially when half of the
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United States is encouraging the invasion, is saying that if you oppose the invasion, that you're
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somehow racist or bigoted or hateful or whatever. On top of all of this, a judge has ruled that
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President Trump cannot turn away illegal immigrants who have crossed at places that are not official
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ports of entry. So what we've got now, because the United States is so generous in its immigration
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policy, if you show up to a port of entry and you've got no papers, you're not vetted, you're not
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being offered citizenship, you're not being offered immigration, and you just say, I'm here to be a
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refugee, they'll process you. They'll bring you through refugee proceedings and see if you can be
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granted political asylum. Now, some people don't want to wait in line. Some people don't want to
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wait that long. So they'll cross over illegally between ports of entry. If they're then arrested
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by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, President Trump was saying they have forfeited their right
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to be granted asylum. They're already breaking our laws. We've got to kick them out. This federal
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judge, John Tiger, is saying absolutely not. Even those people have to be processed. Even people
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that we are catching in a crime, their first act in the United States is a crime, even they will be
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processed and possibly given asylum. So this strikes down, or at least halts, President Trump's
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executive order, his recent executive order to get those people out of the country. The left is
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claiming that Donald Trump is anti-immigrant, that he's isolationist, that Republicans are
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xenophobic, that we want to kick people out of the country. Where do you see this? Show me the
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specific example. President Trump himself has said, we want immigrants, we just want them to come
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legally. But show me the example. Where is this happening? We can't stop immigrants between ports
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of entry. We're now seeing 2,000 people per day illegally flooding into this country. Even with
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the United States military, we've sent the military to the border, even then we can't enforce our laws.
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Where is this isolationist, cruel United States? What it seems to me is that we're impotent.
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We're not able to enforce our basic laws. We're being held back at every turn by creative
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interpretations of immigration law, by half of the country, the radical left, which wants open
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borders, and by judges who are insisting that we can't even enforce laws that are on the books.
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So open borders seems to be the only, that's the, that's the only option that the left is willing to
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give us. We have to remind ourselves, no nation on earth has open borders. No nation with open borders
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has ever remained a nation very long. It's insane. Why would we tolerate this? Mexico won't tolerate
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this. There are protests in the streets in Mexico. Why? Show me the example of the United States being
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especially cruel to immigrants. From all I can see, the United States is the most generous country in
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the world when it comes to an immigration regime. The left can't show an example, so they just talk in
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these slogans. Nobody is illegal. They're dreamers. They use all of these various euphemisms. Undocumented
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future Americans, undocumented dreamers, whatever. It's all slogans. Ask them to cite you a specific
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example of the United States having a cruel immigration policy. They say, well, the reason that
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people are entering illegally is because our immigration regime is too restrictive. We right now in the United
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States have something like 19% of the population foreign born. This is the highest number since the
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1890s. What number would you prefer? If 19 or 20% of the population being foreign born is too low,
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what would you prefer? 30%, 40%, 60%? At what point is so much of your country foreign born that the
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country itself no longer has a claim to its own identity? I'm not suggesting that we should cut off all
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immigration, but especially, especially at a time when half of the country is saying we can't
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assimilate anybody. We shouldn't assimilate anybody. They should maintain their exact same culture and
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their exact same language and not change a single thing to come to America. At what point do you not
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have a country anymore? What other countries on earth have 20% foreign born populations? 19%. I don't
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see a lot of them. You've got to drill down to the specifics and they'll fall silent because all they
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will fall silent. Nobody has shown this better in recent days than Dan Crenshaw. You know Dan
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Crenshaw? He's the war hero. He was injured. He was just elected to Congress. He wears an
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eye patch, and SNL made fun of him. So Dan Crenshaw was on Face the Nation. And this whole
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left-wing cabal on Face the Nation. They were talking about how Donald Trump is ruining
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democracy, threatening democracy, threatening our freedoms. We've heard this. We see this
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in the Washington Post, in the New York Times, on CNN, at the coffee cooler. Do we have coffee
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coolers? No, we have coffee machines and water coolers. We're going to hear this at our Thanksgiving
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table with our left-wing in-laws. And Dan Crenshaw asks a very simple question. Show me an example.
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I mean, precisely that. I think some of our democratic freedoms and the principles that
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we live by have been under attack for the better part of the last two years.
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Congressman-elect, do you want to respond to that since the president is the leader of
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Yeah. Well, I always ask the question, like, what? You know, like, what is he undermining
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exactly? You know, what democratic freedoms have been undermined? We just had an election
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where we switched power in the House. Democracy is at work. People are voting in record
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numbers. I always ask for examples, and then we can hit those examples one by one. And
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if it's worth criticizing, it's worth criticizing. But just kind of this broad brush criticism
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that the president is somehow undermining our democracy, I always wonder what exactly we're
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I love that approach because this guy, this is a pretty tough hombre. Obviously, you can
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see the patch on his eye. This is a warrior. This is a fighter. But when he presents himself
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in front of left-wingers and in front of the public, he is so reasonable. He just, he kind
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of sits back. He says, well, what are you talking about? This is what, whenever you see
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right-wingers in those videos on the internet, you know, so-and-so destroys so-and-so, usually
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it's not because the guy is yelling at whatever stupid college kid it is. It's because he allows
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his adversary to tie the noose around his own neck, rhetorically speaking. He allows his
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adversary to stumble and expose the shallowness of his ideas. It's not usually a slam dunk.
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It's a question. You say, I think there was one of Ben, right? He said, how many genders
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are there? Maybe it was, I forget. He said something about gender. But he asks the question.
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And this is a good example. There was someone on Twitter the other day tweeted out, there are
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more than two genders. This is just a fact. You ask them, how many are there? You give me
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the number. You tell me, and we'll talk about it. They fall silent. That's what he says. He says,
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what freedoms are being limited? So they jump in. One guy says, well, freedom of the press.
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Freedom of the, why? Because Jim Acosta was kicked out of a press room. CNN didn't lose its press
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credentials. CNN has other reporters in there. Jim Acosta was disrupting the press conference. He was
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taking up a lot of time from other reporters who could ask questions. He was challenging the president.
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He wasn't asking any questions. He wasn't asking challenging questions. He
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was debating him. He was making assertions. He was stating his own opinion. He was being
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disruptive. So he was kicked out. If Donald Trump were threatening the freedom of the press,
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he would have thrown CNN out of there. Or he would stop having press conferences. This
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president has been totally open to the press. He's constantly talking to them. They love him
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for it because they get good ratings. And he loves it because he gets to slam them and make them look
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like the partisan hacks that they are. How about freedom to vote? We just had a historically high
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turnout for a midterm election. We never have high turnout in both parties at midterm elections.
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Usually for the first midterm after a president is elected, there's high turnout among his adversaries,
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but there's low turnout among his own party. This time there was very high turnout among both sides.
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People were going out to vote in record numbers. Democrats were so excited to vote. They voted on
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Wednesday and Thursday and Friday. I think some of them are still voting down there in Georgia.
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How about freedom of education? You've got the president supporting school choice,
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supporting charter schools, supporting the ability for students to get out of bad,
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failing schools that are determined by their zip code and go to places where they could succeed.
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And you've got Democrats like Andrew Gillum in Florida was talking about this. He said,
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we got to kill the charter schools. We got to kill school choice. We've just got to force kids to
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go to the failing schools that they're districted into. So it seems on that question of freedom,
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Trump and the Republicans are, are far more advanced than the left. How about freedom of
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religion? You had under the Obama administration, the little sisters of the poor suing the Obama
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administration because the, because he was trampling over their religious freedom. He was forcing
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Americans to pay for abortions. He's forcing Americans to, he was forcing Catholic and Christian
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employers to pay for abortion inducing drugs. He was trampling over religious freedom. How about
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under president Trump? None of that, an expansion of religious liberty. You're seeing fortunately,
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finally, some of the courts allowing people to have, to practice their religion, to have their
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own exercise of conscience, to not violate their religious views, not to bake cakes in, in certain
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designs and participate in, in activities that they find morally objectionable. That's a great expansion
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of religious liberty. You, there was just a Muslim woman elected to the house of representatives.
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She wants to wear the hijab. There's a rule against headwear in chambers of Congress and
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they're lifting that for her. They're doing it as a courtesy to her. We're seeing an expansion of
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religious freedom. How about economic freedom? Obviously among the Republicans, under Republican
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governance, there is a great expansion of economic freedom. Tax cuts and deregulation. Your taxes
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represent your freedom. They're your money. They're the time that you spend working. They're your industry.
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And when the government takes away your money, they're taking away your time. The, the average
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American, if you're paying a 40% tax rate, then that means you're working almost half the year
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for the federal government. You're working, say you're working five months a year for the government
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as their wage slave, you know, giving as a, as a vassal, as some serf in their feudal scheme.
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And under President Trump, we're seeing this greatly expanded. All of this talk, he's undermining
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our freedoms. He's undermining democracy. It's lies. It's fake news. It's a BS. This is a great
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strategy from Crenshaw and we should, we should all keep it up because it cuts the narrative. It
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shows how empty all of this is. The left is so good at narrative. It's why they own the culture.
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It's why they own Hollywood. And the right is not as good at it because we're usually so
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scandalized by the lies that they're telling us in this narrative. But finally, we're taking it back.
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We're taking it back from the Turkey pardon. We're taking it back in little cultural moments
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where we can twist and show the narrative and, uh, and we're, we're able to fight that and expose it.
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Speaking of fake news, did you know it's Muhammad's birthday? Muhammad, I'm talking about the
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27th century religious figure from Arabia. It's Muhammad's birthday. It's his, uh, 1,447th birthday.
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And speaking of fake news, the New York times today ran a doozy. They ran one of the fake
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newsiest pieces I've seen in the New York times in a long time. And that is really saying something.
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They ran a piece called happy birthday Muhammad. Now this is an op-ed piece. This was an opinion
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piece, not a news article. Some people have, uh, responded to my criticism of this piece and say,
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well, it's opinion. Opinions can't be right or wrong. It's just opinion. No, let me try to explain
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this to you postmodern leftists. Opinions can be wrong and frequently are wrong. What you're thinking
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of is a preference such as I prefer chocolate ice cream to vanilla ice cream. You're not saying
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chocolate is objectively better than vanilla or sweeter or more delicious or whatever. You're saying,
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you prefer it. And a preference can't be wrong because it's just your taste. It's a subjective
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statement of taste. An opinion is a statement of fact as you see it. So if I say, I think the
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leftist tears tumbler is the greatest and safest vessel for the transportation of leftist tears.
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That is a true opinion because it is, there is no greater vessel for the safe transportation of
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leftist tears than this. The FDA agrees with me. That is a true opinion. If I say, I think it is my
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opinion that two plus two equals seven, that's a wrong opinion. It's, but hey man, that's just your
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opinion. Right. It's your opinion, but it's wrong. All of that is prefaced to say it's Muhammad's
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birthday. This guy, Harun Mogul wrote this glowing ode to Muhammad in the New York times. He gets a few
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things wrong. So he says, quote, when he, Muhammad first proclaimed prophecy, even his own uncle laughed at
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him, but he never laughed back. His followers were reviled, beaten, and killed. He didn't strike back.
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If you're still with me, I, this is a little bit of a spoiler alert. If you haven't read the Quran,
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he struck back. Muhammad struck back. He was actually famous for striking back. He struck back
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all the time. Here are just a few verses from the Quran to remind you of him striking back. Quote,
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but when the forbidden months are past, then fight and slay the pagans wherever you find them
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and seize them, beleaguer them and lie in wait for them. Strike back. Kill them wherever you find them
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and drive them out from where they drove you out. Strike back. When you meet the unbelievers, smite
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their necks. This is a verse quoted by terrorists who behead people. Strike back. Strike them at the
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necks and cut off their fingers. That actually has the word strike in them. He says he never struck back.
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As to those women from whom you fear disobedience, give them a warning. Send them to separate beds
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and beat them. Which is to say, strike back. Hashtag me too. Strike back. So this is just in the
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Quran. I am just quoting the Quran. How am I quoting the Quran? Because when I was a young boy, I was I
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think about 14, I read the Quran. I read the Quran before I really seriously read the Bible. Not because
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I was thinking of converting to Islam, but because atheist leftists in America kept telling me that
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Islam was a religion of peace and it was purely a religion of peace and it never condoned violence
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and violence was against the teachings and practices of Muhammad. And I just sort of suspected
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that might not be correct. I don't know. I was looking around the world. I thought maybe this isn't
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the whole story. So I read the Quran and obviously you can find many, many more verses like that. But
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you don't just have to look to the Quran. You can look to the life of Muhammad. Muhammad was a conqueror.
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He was a warlord. He was a warrior. Muhammad personally led troops in battles where a thousand
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people were killed. This is not, he would lead the slaying of whole tribes of people, whole tribes of
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people around the Middle East. It is true at various points in his life, especially in the early portion
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of his life, he talked a very good game on peacefulness. He did this because he was constantly
00:24:25.640
under siege. At the later periods of his life, Muhammad dropped a lot of that peace talk and
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became much more aggressive in his personal actions and in his religion that he created. So why on earth
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would the New York Times fall for this nonsense that Muhammad never struck anybody back? He turned
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to the other cheek is basically what they're saying. It's because of the secular Western impulse to turn
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Muhammad into Jesus Christ. It's because of the secular Western impulse to pretend that Islam is
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really Christianity. Because of the religion that defines our civilization is Christianity. And sometime
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in the modern era, we rejected our religion and we said that religion is wrong and it's superstition
00:25:11.780
and it's hocus pocus and it's ridiculous. And we reacted against that religion and we made the huge
00:25:17.520
mistake of believing that all religions are the same. Oh, really, what's the difference between
00:25:22.720
Christianity and Islam or non-theistic religions like Buddhism or Hinduism? Oh, shucks, what's the
00:25:30.500
difference? There are major differences, but nobody in the secular West is going to take those
00:25:35.860
differences seriously because they don't take religion seriously. We should clear this up. It's a real
00:25:41.500
irony, really, that in order to sanitize the history of Islam for a Western audience, what these
00:25:50.800
left-wingers do and left-wing secular publications like the New York Times do is they turn Muhammad
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into Jesus Christ. Because I thought that they hated Christianity, they don't like it, they reject
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Christianity. And yet when they're trying to make a religion look good, they try to make it look like
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Christianity. But there are major differences here. Ibn Hazm, who's a leading 11th century Islamic
00:26:10.000
scholar, pointed out a major, a fundamental difference between Christianity and Islam.
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He showed that in the God of Islam, Allah, Allah is not even bound by his own word. He's not bound
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by his own logic. Nothing would oblige him to reveal the truth to us. If it were God's will,
00:26:31.260
Allah, if it were Allah's will, we would even have to practice idolatry. It is a God of pure will.
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It is a God who is only will, not intellect and will, not reason and will, but will.
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This, if you want to hear a good description of this, Pope Benedict spoke about it in one of the
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greatest, I think probably the single greatest speech of the 21st century, the Regensburg lecture.
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And this difference is that the God of Islam is a God of pure will. The God of Christianity
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is a God of will and intellect, logic and will. It is a God bound by his own logic, a God who is
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logic itself. In the beginning was the Logos, and the Logos was with God, and the Logos was God,
00:27:19.100
that divine logic. That is a fundamental difference. The God of Christianity cannot make you
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an idolater, and would not that you would be an idolater. It is will and intellect and desire
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all together. Dante writes about this, where what one can do and what one wills are exactly united in
00:27:42.860
the heaven and the God of Christianity. That is not the case in Islam. These distinctions tell you the
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whole story. These distinctions are why horrific acts can be committed in the name of Islam with
00:27:54.940
greater justification, with greater impunity among certain religious circles. Why the founding of
00:28:01.280
Islam required the sword, and why that religion was spread by the sword. Whereas in the founding of
00:28:06.900
Christianity, it was the early Christians who were killed by the sword themselves. They were crucified
00:28:11.480
upside down, they were fed to lions, and they were named and killed. A major distinction, exactly the
00:28:17.320
opposite experience of spreading that religion. The New York Times doesn't see it. I don't know if
00:28:23.020
they're being obtuse, or if they're ignorant. Probably a little bit of both. The New York Times
00:28:26.760
is known to be both, but we shouldn't fall for it. And the next time that somebody tells you that
00:28:31.860
the New York Times doesn't spread fake news, point them to that article. I mean, really, what you could
00:28:35.560
do is open up any newspaper of the New York Times, and just point to any random article, and you would
00:28:39.880
find it. But this is a keen example of it. How an editor didn't at least question that ridiculous claim
00:28:46.660
is beyond me, but it's because probably the New York Times just doesn't have very much
00:28:51.660
dignity anymore. Okay. We've got a lot more to get to, but first, today at 5.30 Eastern,
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00:29:48.120
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00:29:59.220
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00:30:05.260
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00:30:09.540
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00:30:17.560
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00:30:21.900
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00:30:35.260
Speaking of floods that will destroy the earth, Barack Obama is talking about global warming again.
00:30:49.480
Do you remember Barack Obama? He's back. I was playing this earlier. Someone came into my office.
00:30:54.800
They said, who is that? Who is that guy? Why is that guy still talking? Shouldn't he have stopped
00:30:59.200
talking a while ago? Probably he should have, but he didn't. He's off on global warming, but then he's
00:31:03.780
using global warming to attack Donald Trump because he is a very disrespectful person. Here is Barack
00:31:11.140
Obama rambling on and on and on. The reason we don't do it is because
00:31:16.340
we are still confused, blind, shrouded with hate, anger, racism, mommy issues.
00:31:35.380
That's it. That's why. That's why we're not raising carbon taxes. That's why we're not
00:31:43.640
destroying the global economy over the sun monster that's going to kill us all. That's
00:31:50.360
why we're not signing on to the Paris Climate Agreement, even though we are fulfilling all
00:31:54.700
of the criteria of the Paris Climate Agreement and the signatories to that agreement are failing
00:31:59.380
to fulfill their criteria. That's why. That's the irony, by the way, in his comments. We actually
00:32:04.820
are fulfilling all of these environmental criteria. We actually are fighting the great
00:32:09.820
menace of global warming in a much more serious way than any of those periclimatist countries.
00:32:15.500
But he's really using it to take a shot at Donald Trump. He says we. He says we're not doing anything
00:32:21.760
because we might have this, we might have that. He's using we to mean Donald Trump. Donald Trump is
00:32:25.500
the leader of the country and he's saying Trump won't fight global warming. And why? Because of
00:32:30.520
racism, because we're filled with hate and because of mommy issues. Barack Obama does not get to talk
00:32:39.340
about mommy and daddy issues. Barack Obama wrote an entire self-adoring book about himself called
00:32:45.620
Dreams from My Father, titled after the father that he didn't know. Nobody gets to talk about mommy and
00:32:51.920
daddy issues when you do that, Barack. But this is the classic Obama thing. It's he pretends to be
00:33:00.080
high-minded. Michelle pretends to be high-minded. When they go low, we go high. We go high. We're so
00:33:05.920
ethereal. We're up here in this sophisticated area. And yet, whenever anybody criticizes them,
00:33:12.060
whenever they don't like what one of their opponents is doing, whenever they have an honest
00:33:15.100
disagreement and difference of opinion with somebody, they accuse that person of being a racist,
00:33:20.440
a bigot, a sexist, hateful, mean. That's all they do. And obviously, he must be very angry because
00:33:30.000
his entire legacy has been wiped out by Donald Trump. But he's making himself look even more
00:33:35.400
shallow than he did as president. A question comes up, why be so mean to Barack Obama? He doesn't
00:33:41.700
matter anymore. He's out of it. Who cares? His legacy has been erased. The reason is because these ideas
00:33:48.120
of his have consequences. They can lead to a lot of human misery, and you've got to refute them at
00:33:55.240
every chance you get. Even his health care policy, upending one-sixth of the economy, depriving people
00:34:01.800
of the doctors that they liked, increasing the cost of health care for everybody, threatening our freedom
00:34:06.920
when it comes to health care. Even that is a major threat to the country, and we have to refute these
00:34:12.860
ideas because they're going to come back. Barack Obama is not going quietly into the sunset to go
00:34:17.820
write some books and teach a class at UChicago or something. He is out there. He's trying to remain
00:34:22.980
a player. He's trying to undermine the duly elected president of the United States. He's calling half
00:34:27.440
the country hateful, awful, terrible bigots with mommy issues. And we've got to fight back. We've got to
00:34:32.400
push him back. This is exactly the same with Ocasio-Cortez. We have to fight stupid ideas.
00:34:38.880
If you missed this, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is on it again. I actually had a priest right into the
00:34:46.400
show, a very nice man, who said, Michael, I like the show, but you're too mean to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,
00:34:53.460
and you've got to watch it. You don't want to seem like you're being cruel or unnecessarily mean.
00:34:58.320
You don't want to fall into sin while you show this left-wing lunacy. And it's a good warning.
00:35:04.080
It's a good warning to keep in mind, but it is very important. It is our moral obligation
00:35:09.260
to point out Ocasio-Cortez's political idiocy at every chance we get. She is now, I think,
00:35:17.420
the youngest member elected to Congress. She speaks for a huge number of people. She is the darling of
00:35:23.480
the Democrat Party. They trot her out to fundraise. She is representing a lot of people,
00:35:27.440
and she doesn't know anything. Her head is entirely empty. It is made of air. It is such
00:35:33.640
a vacuum, I'm surprised it doesn't collapse in upon itself. If you were to fire a little
00:35:38.640
ping-pong ball in there, here's what you would hear. Maybe it would fall out her ear at some
00:35:44.700
point. She doesn't know a thing, and we have to point this out. Or the infection, the disease
00:35:50.840
of socialist ignorance and envy will spread like a poison. How do I know that she doesn't know
00:35:57.900
anything? Here's the latest nonsense that Ocasio-Cortez is spouting.
00:36:01.540
If we work our butts off to make sure that we take back all three chambers of Congress,
00:36:07.120
rather all three chambers of government, the presidency, the Senate, and the House in 2020,
00:36:11.780
2020, we can't start working in 2020. All three chambers of Congress, all three chambers of our
00:36:19.580
bicameral legislature. Now, you might say there, oh, she just misspoke. Michael, you misspeak sometimes.
00:36:25.280
Yeah, we all misspeak. Sometimes Barack Obama said there are 57 states in the country. Nobody ever
00:36:30.420
covered that. Every time George Bush sneezed, they would make him out to be a dunce. But Barack Obama
00:36:35.220
says there are 57 states. Ocasio-Cortez says that there are three chambers of our bicameral legislature
00:36:41.820
and nobody really talks about it. But she doubles down and she still got it wrong. She said, no,
00:36:48.180
no, I'm sorry. I mean the three chambers of government, you know, the White House and the
00:36:52.000
House of Representatives and the Senate. Those are not our three chambers of government. We don't have
00:36:57.320
three chambers of government. We have three branches of government and she still got those wrong.
00:37:02.160
We have the executive branch. That is the White House. That is the president. We have the
00:37:06.860
legislative branch. That is bicameral. It has the House and the Senate. And we have the judiciary,
00:37:12.940
the judicial branch. Supreme Court on top, appellate courts, federal courts, all these courts.
00:37:19.480
Three branches, bicameral legislature and a presidency and a court. Okay, that's how our government is set
00:37:28.160
up. Does Ocasio-Cortez know that? I'm skeptical. I'm skeptical that she knows that. Look, this cuts
00:37:33.800
both ways sometimes. Donald Trump, an excellent president, he once referred to bills that a judge
00:37:40.000
would sign. Was he misspeaking or has he just not spent much time analyzing the way that our
00:37:46.300
government is set up? I assume it's the latter. It's okay. What is the practical effect of that?
00:37:50.740
Not very much. What is he doing in politics? Excellent stuff. So I'll let him off the hook.
00:37:54.720
What does she want? She wants to spread the poison of socialism, destroy the greatest engine of
00:37:59.360
prosperity and peace and justice in the entire world. You don't let her get away with that.
00:38:04.300
You don't let her get away with some stupid comment because it's all charming until she's
00:38:07.760
running the government. You know, it's all charming and funny and farcical until President Ocasio-Cortez
00:38:14.420
is elected, you know, and we're at the inauguration. I don't know who her vice president
00:38:20.660
would be. I'd maybe Debbie Wasserman Schultz and then you'd have the Ocasio-Cortez-Wasserman
00:38:26.320
Schultz administration. It'd be a real mouthful. It's all funny until she's got real power.
00:38:31.000
Fortunately, she doesn't yet, but she's trying to raise it. She's protesting Nancy Pelosi. She's
00:38:36.240
going into her office. She is clearly an ambitious person and she's not intelligent and she's not
00:38:41.900
educated whatsoever. She's not knowledgeable, but she is shrewd. You don't get yourself elected
00:38:47.080
president. You don't upend a many-term incumbent if you're not politically shrewd. She is. You got
00:38:52.120
to watch her. She's a snake in the grass. She's a fraud. She's a liar. She pretends to be Jenny
00:38:56.660
from the block. She's not. She's from a ritzy suburb. She's from the richer town right next to the
00:39:01.480
town that I grew up in. You really got to watch her and we don't want to be mean to her, but you
00:39:06.220
can't let her off the hook either. Okay. All right. This is important with millennials. Millennials don't
00:39:11.240
know civics. They do not know civics. Study after study shows this. The millennials don't know
00:39:16.220
anything about civics. They did a study. They did a poll of a thousand people to see who could name
00:39:21.680
the five rights enshrined in the First Amendment. Do you know how many people got all five of them?
00:39:27.040
One. One out of a thousand. A huge proportion of them couldn't name any of the rights.
00:39:33.780
They couldn't name free speech or freedom of religion or freedom of assembly.
00:39:38.140
They couldn't name any of those. So this is a big worry. One third of American millennials think
00:39:42.240
George Bush killed more people than Joseph Stalin did. I think the majority of American millennials
00:39:48.520
have never heard of the... No, that's not true. But a huge number of American millennials have never
00:39:52.540
heard of the Holocaust. Don't know what Auschwitz is. Really scary stuff. You got to watch out when
00:39:57.840
people are ignorant. An aspect that will cut both ways, that helps to educate people, but also cuts
00:40:05.860
away at our common cultural education, is a major news story that is not really being covered.
00:40:10.240
Weird. TV is over. Video killed the TV star. Videos like this. We're not on TV right now. We're not
00:40:17.420
on linear TV. We're on the internet. We're on Facebook. We're on YouTube. Maybe you're watching
00:40:21.180
us on a TV, but it's because you're streaming it from somewhere else. You're watching it on Daily Wire.
00:40:25.420
TV is over. I obviously have a personal interest in this. I like that TV is over because it means more
00:40:30.440
people are watching this. But there's some pretty crazy political lessons here. In the third quarter of
00:40:34.640
2018, the largest number of people ever cut their subscriptions to cable and satellite television.
00:40:40.880
This has been, obviously, this trend's been going on for a long time. And analysts predicted that it
00:40:44.740
would slow down, it would stop, and then people who have TV would just maintain it. That's not
00:40:49.780
happening. It was the largest number ever in the third quarter. Cable and satellite companies lost
00:40:54.500
more than a million subscribers from July to September. Why is this? In part, it's because TV is
00:41:01.040
very overpriced. You're paying $100 a month on average. That's the average cost of a cable
00:41:06.920
subscription to watch three channels. You get a million channels, but nobody watches a million
00:41:12.560
channels. You only watch two or three, really. Maybe you watch the news. Maybe you watch sports.
00:41:17.340
And you can get sports for free on antenna TV. But the other reason for this is choice. You get
00:41:24.080
choice. How many shows do I watch? At any given time, maybe I watch two or three shows,
00:41:28.740
and I listen to podcasts or I listen to audio books or whatever. I'm not sitting there watching
00:41:36.280
the primetime lineup on NBC or something like that. We want what we want, and we can get it
00:41:40.900
through other services. This is a huge win for conservatives. More choice, more freedom. This
00:41:46.180
is an unqualified good for conservatives. The way that the left has dominated our culture
00:41:51.520
is they've force-fed us all of their tripe for years and years, and we've just had to deal with
00:41:56.940
it. Now conservatives have their own platforms. We're not in the giant soundstage over in Studio
00:42:04.060
City or something, but we're getting huge numbers, huge audiences of people who want a message that
00:42:12.800
they're not getting, who want information that they're not getting from the left-wing media. This is
00:42:17.440
an unqualified good for conservatives. It will further erode the common culture. We don't have
00:42:22.560
a lot holding us together, and now we don't watch the same sitcoms. I think in part this is caused by
00:42:27.220
greedy, corrupt, hack Hollywood that turns out a lot of trash, that politicizes their shows.
00:42:34.520
You know, there are shows that have political message, like All in the Family, for instance,
00:42:39.580
had, obviously it was largely about politics, the conservative Archie Bunker character against the
00:42:45.820
left-wing meathead character, but it used politics at least to advance the plot of the show. Now what
00:42:52.340
Hollywood does is uses the shows to advance their politics to the detriment of the entertainment.
00:42:57.320
This erosion of the common culture is a big worry because we don't have a single language in the
00:43:03.180
United States. The left doesn't want Spanish speakers to learn English, doesn't want other
00:43:09.280
immigrant groups to learn English. They don't want an official language. There's no common religious
00:43:13.080
basis in the U.S. anymore. The fastest growing group are the nuns, the religiously unaffiliated.
00:43:18.740
It's people who are spiritual but not religious. It's not that rock-solid Christian culture that the
00:43:24.840
United States once had. We are increasingly polarized politically and put greater importance
00:43:30.600
into politics, largely because of the erosion of religion and culture. So we're having that common
00:43:36.660
culture ripped apart. This is accelerating it. All I can say is this is what freedom looks like.
00:43:42.640
This is freedom. Safety, sweet, nice, all together, common culture, leave it to beaver,
00:43:49.960
which never really existed, by the way. But that idea, that's nice, but that's not freedom.
00:43:56.720
That's not when you're free to say what you want, consume what you want, explore ideas that you want.
00:44:02.120
That's not freedom. This is what freedom looks like. It's not as nostalgic. It's not this thing
00:44:09.080
that we're nostalgic for in the 1940s and 50s. Fair enough. But nostalgia is history after a few
00:44:14.200
drinks, as they say. So I'm skeptical that it ever happened. This is freedom. Conservatives should
00:44:18.440
celebrate it. Cut the cord some more. Cut, cut, cut. Go for it. Before we go, I really have to play this
00:44:24.240
clip. This was made by our own Paul Cardinal Bois and Donovan Fowler. They came up with this.
00:44:31.140
You know Paul Cardinal Bois. He would come on the show all the time. If we still had the panel,
00:44:35.900
he'd be coming on every day. They were looking at that Megyn Kelly blackface saga. Megyn Kelly
00:44:41.960
suggested that sometimes if he puts dark makeup on, it's not the end of the world. NBC summarily
00:44:47.520
fired her. Here is a PSA from Bois and Fowler on the fallout. We interrupt this program to deliver
00:44:54.220
you a special public service announcement from NBC. We at NBC care deeply about diversity and
00:45:02.620
racial sensitivity. We were appalled when Megyn Kelly recently questioned whether it's okay to
00:45:08.060
wear blackface or use dark makeup to impersonate a black person. And she made her skin look darker
00:45:13.300
than it really is. And people said that that was racist. To be clear, it has never been okay for
00:45:18.340
someone to darken their skin to appear black. Like Daryl Hammond did to play Jesse Jackson on NBC.
00:45:24.260
And like Fred Armisen did to play President Obama on NBC. And like Fred Armisen did to play Prince
00:45:29.520
on NBC. And like Fred Armisen did to play David Patterson on NBC. And like Jimmy Fallon did to play
00:45:36.320
Chris Rock on NBC. And like Ted Danson did after starring on Cheers on NBC. And before starring in
00:45:42.840
The Good Place on NBC. And like Rachel Dolezal did during an interview on NBC. We at NBC wish to
00:45:50.100
assure you that Megyn Kelly has been fired. Because at NBC, you are not allowed to discuss blackface.
00:45:57.120
The more you know, get your questions in for the conversation that's coming up today
00:46:05.440
and for the mailbag tomorrow. And I will see you, what, the conversation's coming. I'll see you in
00:46:09.860
like an hour. Until then, I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:46:12.960
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