The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 264 - 2020 Is Already Small and Petty

00:00:00.000 The knives are out and 2020 Democrat presidential aspirants are already shivving each other.

00:00:05.740 Meanwhile, over at the Democrat press office of CNN, Chris Cuomo correctly calls Don Lemon small

00:00:11.880 and petty. Rumors swirl that Donald Trump will ditch Mike Pence as vice president. A university

00:00:18.260 in Texas says that being respectful is now racist. And a new study shows just how much

00:00:24.420 illegal aliens love welfare. I'm Michael Knowles and this is The Michael Knowles Show. 1.00

00:00:30.000 So much to get to. The 2020 race for the Democrat nomination is already on. This has nothing to do

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00:02:42.760 because of the 2020 Democrat nomination race for president. We know who the likely contenders are.

00:02:50.380 Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders. He'll be about 175 at that point.

00:02:58.120 People are talking about Kirsten Gillibur, all these people. We know they're all, I think every single

00:03:02.420 Democrat in America thinks that he has a chance to become president in 2020. And so the big mistake

00:03:09.440 that these guys are making, and I knew that they were making it, they've been making it for six

00:03:13.900 months, is that they are all attacking Donald Trump. They're all running right now as though

00:03:19.760 they're running against Donald Trump. The theory here is that all Democrats care about right now is

00:03:24.980 how much they hate Trump. That's the only motivating, unifying issue. So whoever can take the fight to

00:03:29.760 Trump the hardest is going to be the one that gets the nomination. Okay, I see that theory.

00:03:36.240 The trouble is that as they go after Trump, they are exposing themselves to other attacks

00:03:41.760 that their Democrat opponents are going to use to try to knock them off before the nomination is

00:03:47.240 wrapped up. The case in point of this is Elizabeth Warren. She's been in a personal feud with Donald

00:03:53.680 Trump for a while now because Donald Trump calls her Pocahontas. She's the whitest lady in the country. 1.00

00:03:58.660 She's less Native American than the average white person in America. And she pretends to be 1.00

00:04:04.760 Native American to advance her professional career. Donald Trump makes fun of this, calls her

00:04:09.020 Pocahontas, and she says, I'm going to put this issue to rest. Once and for all, I'm going to prove

00:04:13.420 that I'm Native American. She takes a DNA test and it shows that she's only one 1,000th Native American,

00:04:20.660 one 1,024th. So she got so warped by her hatred of Trump and by trying to run against Trump that she

00:04:28.080 opened up this huge vulnerability. She thought that only Trump would go after her as a fake Native American.

00:04:32.740 And she's finding out that that isn't true. Her Democrat competitors are now using this to go 0.62

00:04:38.740 after her. The New York Times today came out and said, quote, the headline, Elizabeth Warren stands

00:04:43.580 by DNA test, but around her worries abound. So it goes through how she took the test and it was

00:04:50.700 originally well received by her people. But then the New York Times admits, quote, nearly two months

00:04:56.840 after Mrs. Warren released the test results and drew hostile reactions from prominent tribal leaders. 0.97

00:05:02.520 The lingering cloud over her likely presidential campaign has only darkened. Conservatives have

00:05:07.660 continued to ridicule her. More worrisome to supporters of Ms. Warren's presidential ambitions,

00:05:12.680 she has yet to allay criticism from grassroots progressive groups, liberal political operatives,

00:05:18.360 and other potential 2020 allies who complain that she put too much emphasis on the controversial field of

00:05:25.160 racial science and in doing so played into Mr. Trump's hands. That's exactly right. You'll rarely see that

00:05:33.620 the New York Times report something exactly right. That is exactly what happened. Elizabeth Warren, if she were

00:05:41.320 smart, she would have just ignored the issue. She she fraudulently pretended to be Native American for decades to 0.79

00:05:46.960 advance her career. Then she was exposed. She would stop talking about it if she were smart. What she is instead

00:05:52.500 doing is doubling down on her premise and Donald Trump's premise that her heritage, her ethnic heritage, is the

00:06:01.460 essential fact of her campaign. She's buying the premise. Now, she said, I'm a Native American. That's why I should be

00:06:06.760 promoted in my professional career. Donald Trump pointed out how absurd it was that she's not a Native American, and

00:06:12.900 she's doubling down. Instead of saying, I have all of this other stuff to offer to the country,

00:06:16.320 what that other stuff is, I have no idea. But instead of saying that, she's saying, yes, I agree. It's all

00:06:21.740 about the race. Where are these news reports coming from? You'll remember that was not how the news

00:06:28.380 reported it when she initially declared that she had taken this DNA test. The initial story that came

00:06:34.880 out right when she admitted, she said, I'm one 1000 Native American. Boston Globe runs, quote, Warren reveals test

00:06:41.640 confirming ancestry. And then the subheader, DNA analysis provides evidence of Native American

00:06:48.700 heritage for Senator who has faced Trump's ridicule. This is when they all thought it was going to work.

00:06:53.820 This is when Warren thought it was going to work. It's when her hack, Pravda shop at the Boston Globe

00:06:58.780 thought it was going to work. They tried to pretend that a test that showed she might be one 1000 Native 0.80

00:07:03.260 American was evidence of her ancestry, validated her claims, and proved Donald Trump wrong.

00:07:09.560 They've now realized how absurd that is because of the other people. Kamala Harris, Cory Booker,

00:07:16.220 Kirsten Gillibrand, Joe Biden, who the people running against her don't want to go along with

00:07:22.600 this absurd narrative. Maybe Liz Warren could keep a straight face. Maybe her supporters could keep a 0.97

00:07:28.280 straight face. Maybe the Boston Globe, which is her personal Pravda, could keep a straight face. But

00:07:32.900 those other Democrats aren't going to deal with it. So those other Democrats are going to be picking

00:07:36.760 up on Donald Trump's line and saying she's Pocahontas and she's a fake and she's a fraud. 0.99

00:07:42.220 This was the obvious one. And her presidential hopes, I think, are done. I don't think there's 0.90

00:07:47.220 any way for her to come back from this. There are going to be a lot of other candidates in the race. 1.00

00:07:53.720 So the Democrats are going to have a lot of choices. This isn't going to be a repeat of 2016

00:07:58.300 for the Democrats. It's going to be more of a repeat of 2016 for the Republicans on the Democrat

00:08:03.660 side. And there was Camille Paglia, who's an excellent feminist, anti-feminist type. She's 1.00

00:08:10.640 so far left, she's right. I think she voted for Bernie Sanders for president, but she defended Donald

00:08:16.220 Trump in many ways. And she said that Elizabeth Warren does not appeal to anybody. What she appeals

00:08:21.900 to are left-wing, Ivy League-credentialed urbanites, the coastal people living in a couple of cities

00:08:29.000 in America. And that's right. That's the only group of people that she appeals to. The reason

00:08:33.820 that she's still considered a viable entity is because those are exactly the people who write all

00:08:38.740 of the news stories. So they're the guys who are working at the Boston Globe or wherever. Even that

00:08:43.120 seems to be cracking. The even more nefarious one looks like it's coming from Kamala Harris.

00:08:47.920 So Kamala Harris, senator from California, former attorney general of California, 0.90

00:08:51.900 she has been an early lead. I've said that she's probably the scariest person right now. She's

00:08:58.880 scariest in that we don't know much about her. She's clearly pretty intelligent. She checks off 0.95

00:09:04.200 the intersectional boxes of the left. She doesn't have the baggage that all of these other people

00:09:08.520 do. Creepy Joe Biden, Pocahontas, Liz Warren, all of the rest of them. So Spartacus, Cory Booker.

00:09:15.980 So that's the fear. Just today, just out today, there's a negative news story about her. It turns

00:09:23.180 out that Larry Wallace, who worked for Kamala Harris as attorney general of California and was a senior

00:09:29.200 advisor to her in the Senate, may have sexually harassed an employee of his or an underling of

00:09:35.640 his. And this occurred during the transition from the AG of California office to the Senate.

00:09:42.740 And so California has had to pay out $400,000 to settle the lawsuit. That's my tax money. Anyone

00:09:50.140 else who's listening in California, that's your tax money paying that out. And where it gets pretty

00:09:54.740 dicey for her is that they asked Kamala Harris, what about this major lawsuit, almost half a million 1.00

00:10:00.640 dollars for one of your senior advisors sexually harassing some woman? And the Harris office said

00:10:05.540 they had no awareness of it. They had no idea what was going on. This is not believable.

00:10:11.280 This is not believable at all. The guy has worked with her in all of her major jobs and the lawsuit

00:10:17.020 occurred on her watch. So either she's lying, which obviously she is, or she's totally incompetent. 0.91

00:10:22.780 The office is totally incompetent if they've never heard of this, but it's just not possible.

00:10:27.780 So if the lawsuit's being handled by California, what has happened is she goes to the Senate.

00:10:33.060 She takes this guy, Larry Wallace, with her. He has since left. And the new attorney general of

00:10:39.680 California, Xavier Becerra is the one who had to handle the settlement of this lawsuit.

00:10:45.520 And so he settled the lawsuit. Does anyone really believe that Becerra didn't talk to the Harris

00:10:53.740 office? It's not even possible because Becerra would have had to talk to Wallace about the lawsuit. 0.98

00:10:59.280 And Wallace was a senior advisor on the Senate staff at that time. So just simply not believable.

00:11:03.920 But what's really going to hurt her in this is not the lawsuit that she had some employee who 0.99

00:11:09.060 maybe sexually harassed somebody. I mean, I think that's true of every single political office in

00:11:14.480 the entire country. What's going to hurt her is that part of the settlement was that this woman, 0.99

00:11:19.820 Danielle Hartley, the employee making the accusations, is not allowed to speak to the media,

00:11:25.280 is not allowed to talk about her experience as part of the settlement. Okay, that's fine.

00:11:29.580 She's getting half a million dollars almost. I guess she can keep quiet from about whatever

00:11:35.000 demeaning comments the guy made to her or harassing comments. But Kamala Harris positioned herself as 0.76

00:11:42.240 the champion of the Me Too movement. Kamala Harris was there going after Brett Kavanaugh during all of

00:11:48.240 those hearings. She believes Christine Blasey Ford. She opposes Brett Kavanaugh, all but painted Brett

00:11:56.140 Kavanaugh out to be some gang rapist. And we need the truth to be heard. And they've got 0.96

00:12:01.420 Alyssa Milano sitting in the rows. We need to be heard. Women's March, Me Too. And then you find out 0.76

00:12:09.960 that one of her employees, the office settled this sexual harassment lawsuit by shutting up the women, 1.00

00:12:16.660 saying don't talk about it. You can't go to the media. The major mechanism of the Me Too movement

00:12:20.880 is the media. Without the women going to the media, there is no such thing as a Me Too movement. 1.00

00:12:25.600 The whole point of the Me Too movement was these women feared professional reprisal. They had been 0.99

00:12:30.740 backed into settlements where they couldn't talk about anything. They were afraid of all of these

00:12:37.040 sort of things, afraid for their careers. And then they go to Ronan Farrow at the New Yorker. And then

00:12:41.480 there's a big expose. And enough of these exposés take down the guys in question. This one is going

00:12:47.180 to require some answering. I think Kamala Harris will basically get over her poor demeanor at those 1.00

00:12:54.200 Kavanaugh hearings. I don't think people are going to remember that really in 2020. They will remember

00:12:58.280 this because this is going to dog her with her own base. It doesn't matter if Kamala Harris could 1.00

00:13:04.060 win the general if she can't win the nomination. And the big question is, where did this story come

00:13:10.240 from? I mean, this is so in the weeds. We're supposed to care about Larry Wallace, the senior

00:13:16.660 advisor for the Senate in a lawsuit that was then paid out by the California Secretary of State,

00:13:22.760 I'm sorry, the California Attorney General. Where is this coming from? This is not coming from

00:13:28.000 reporters. Reporters rarely do their jobs anymore. This is not coming from conservatives. Conservatives

00:13:32.720 don't care about her yet. This is coming from either Elizabeth Warren or Cory Booker or Kirsten

00:13:40.140 Gillibrand or Sherrod Brown or any of these people. And you don't know which ones it's coming from.

00:13:46.700 People forget that in 2008, the whole birther controversy, whether Barack Obama was born in

00:13:56.000 the United States or not, that was pushed by associates of the Hillary Clinton campaign. 0.96

00:14:00.700 That wasn't invented by Donald Trump. That wasn't invented by Fox News. That was initially pushed

00:14:06.020 by the people who push these things, which are the Democrat opponents or the people within your own

00:14:12.200 party who are trying to get the nomination to then go to the general election. This is just a little

00:14:16.920 taste. Ooh, we're just going to get, we're going to get so much more of this because all of the names

00:14:21.780 that I've just mentioned, they're all running. Joe Biden has all but said he's running. Obviously,

00:14:27.860 Booker and Kamala Harris are basically already out on the campaign trail. But now we know Andrew

00:14:32.280 Gillum, who is the failed socialist candidate for Florida governor. He just was beaten out

00:14:38.160 by Ron DeSantis. We know that he's eyeing a run. He was asked whether he's going to run or not. And

00:14:45.000 all he said was, well, the only thing I'm planning now is to be at home with my wife. That's the only

00:14:50.760 thing I'm planning now. And I'm going to help out whoever the Democrat nominee is. He doesn't say

00:14:56.680 he's not going to be the Democrat nominee. And he says, I'm not. So it looks like he's trying to do

00:15:00.200 it. And Andrew Gillum just met with Barack Obama at Obama's office. So they're all trying to get

00:15:06.540 the blessing of Barack Obama. It wasn't just Gillum who met with him. Another failed Democrat

00:15:12.400 2018 candidate, Robert Francis Beto O'Rourke, just met with Obama as well. CBS is super duper

00:15:20.020 excited about this one. Here's CBS on the prospect of candidate Beto. Beto O'Rourke lost the race to

00:15:25.660 become the next U.S. senator from Texas. But his campaign excited Democrats across the country.

00:15:31.440 And some would like to see him run for the presidential nomination in 2020. That excitement

00:15:37.020 around a potential O'Rourke candidacy is complicating matters for other potential candidates.

00:15:43.280 Politico reports that key donors and strategists are waiting to see if O'Rourke runs before committing

00:15:49.140 to any one candidate. Oh, they're so excited. The drunk driving, hit and run, cross-dressing, 1.00

00:15:55.120 loser congressman. Ooh, he could be the nominee. They're so excited. He's another one. There are 1.00

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00:17:44.600 Message and data rates may apply. They're so excited, the mainstream media, about candidate Beto. So he's

00:17:52.640 meeting with him too. They're all meeting. It is going to be chaos. If you thought, if you thought

00:17:59.720 that the 2016 Republican presidential nomination was crazy and wild, and ooh, we have Trump, and ooh, 0.99

00:18:06.080 we got these, and little Marco, and he's making penis jokes during national debates, and he's doing 0.95

00:18:12.540 a Rickles routine in Florida, and ooh, Ted Cruz, his father is being accused of killing JFK, and ooh, 0.94

00:18:18.860 this, and I mean, there's so much, and John Kasich is being John Kasich. I don't know, he's eating like

00:18:23.740 a slob and doing whatever. Okay, if you thought that was crazy, oh, baby, just wait until 2020. 0.99

00:18:30.940 Christmas is coming early. These are the first little pricks, the first little knife

00:18:35.620 jabs of the 2020 race. It is going to get ugly really fast. There are already so many candidates. 0.97

00:18:42.620 Don't count out Hillary. You'd be crazy to count out Hillary. Hillary is behaving as though she's 1.00

00:18:48.020 running. Unfortunately, she's trying to sell out these 20,000 seat auditoriums for her tour with her 1.00

00:18:52.580 husband, and the tickets are now selling for $6 apiece. They're canceling dates. It's not going

00:18:57.340 well. This floating of the 2020 Hillary race is not looking too good, but it is going to be

00:19:02.780 a bloodbath, and it's going to be so much crazier than 2020 because you've still got the Trump.

00:19:08.460 You still have the Trump factor there, and Donald Trump has whipped these Democrats into such a frenzy 1.00

00:19:13.880 that they're making really stupid mistakes like the Liz Warren DNA test. They're not covering their 0.99

00:19:19.940 bases like Kamala Harris trying to cover up this sexual harassment lawsuit in her office. 1.00

00:19:25.180 They're really not playing smart. When you get angry, you get mad, and you get stupid. You start 1.00

00:19:30.420 playing really stupid politics. We're going to get a whole year's worth of stupid politics, so 1.00

00:19:36.240 stay tuned and get excited. But speaking, you know, talk about a perfect segue. Speaking of stupid 0.99

00:19:44.120 politics, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has a lot to say on the climate. I've been getting a lot of hate mail 1.00

00:19:50.680 for my stance on Fox News and on this show yesterday about the moral incoherence of veganism

00:19:57.700 and how leftist environmentalism is an inversion of the natural order. I'll just let Ocasio-Cortez

00:20:06.000 explain to you, demonstrate to you that moral incoherence.

00:20:09.740 It's not just possible that we will create jobs and economic activity by transitioning to

00:20:17.160 renewable energy, but it's inevitable that we are going to create jobs. It's inevitable that we're

00:20:22.140 going to create industry, and it's inevitable that we can use the transition to 100% renewable energy

00:20:28.800 as the vehicle to truly deliver and establish economic, social, and racial justice in the United

00:20:34.780 States of America. Environmental, social, and racial justice by making gasoline more expensive?

00:20:45.080 Environmental, which ironically will disproportionately hurt black people. It will disproportionately hurt

00:20:50.160 black people who are at the lower end of the socioeconomic ladder, and which disproportionately

00:20:54.480 includes racial minorities. So that's going to bring about, how is that going to bring about 0.67

00:20:59.160 racial justice by not driving gas-guzzling cars? What they're using environmentalism for

00:21:08.600 is to replace all other religious and moral systems. This is the virtue. This is the evidence

00:21:16.140 of virtue. What's funny is what she said doesn't make any sense. Obviously, if you think about the

00:21:21.580 words for two seconds, she hasn't said anything. She hasn't explained how making gas more expensive

00:21:27.780 is going to bring about all of this justice. She hasn't explained how it's even going to help

00:21:31.340 the environment. We actually know it won't help the environment. There was that study out about

00:21:36.400 the impacts of the Paris Climate Accord. It said it wouldn't reduce warming in any significant way at

00:21:41.320 all, even over the course of a century. So they haven't even made the argument that helping the

00:21:45.220 environment will help the environment, but certainly they haven't made the argument that helping the

00:21:50.200 environment is going to bring about racial and economic and social equality, when actually there's a lot of

00:21:56.880 evidence that it will exacerbate inequalities and injustices. But one thing that I have really admired

00:22:03.740 about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and I think a real key for her success, is that she says things with utter

00:22:12.680 confidence. She says words that don't mean anything with such confidence that I think probably 98% of

00:22:21.360 people just buy it, just believe her. She could sit there and say, banana, banana, flim-flam, flim-shimity-doo-dah,

00:22:29.220 oranges, bicycles, aeronautical engineers. And she would say it with that seriousness, and she'd hit the

00:22:39.580 table to emphasize her point. And most people who kind of tune out politics, they would just get the

00:22:45.700 impression of a serious person making a serious point. And she does that. The left does that 0.97

00:22:51.120 disproportionately. And I think that is a key to her success. But the moral significance with which

00:22:59.980 they are imbuing this environmental cause is truly an inversion, because you don't hear them talking

00:23:06.140 about people. You would think that the power to the people type socialist, populist demagogues,

00:23:13.620 they would celebrate that we have radically dwindling black unemployment, radically dwindling 0.93

00:23:19.560 Hispanic unemployment, virtually no unemployment in the country. We have more jobs than people to

00:23:23.760 fill that. The people's checkbooks are increasing. Their wealth is increasing. Their real wages are

00:23:29.060 increasing. You would think that this would be a good thing, and they would celebrate that. They don't

00:23:33.640 care about the people. They think that the people are there to serve the natural environment.

00:23:38.020 They're imbuing the natural physical environment with divine qualities. They're trying to serve it

00:23:43.100 as an idol, as a false and substitute religion. And it is bizarre. But that is what happens.

00:23:50.160 Because when you get rid of traditional religion, it's not that you now don't have religion.

00:23:54.920 Everybody's got to serve somebody. Nature abhors a vacuum. And that will be replaced by something else,

00:23:59.640 like the president left-wing slate of nature worship. Nature worship. And by the way, apropos of nothing,

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00:25:00.860 on real politics, not on Ocasio-Cortez fantasy politics. There's a rumor swirling around that

00:25:06.380 President Trump will replace Mike Pence as vice president. These rumors have been swirling for

00:25:11.480 a little while. I basically ignore them. I don't take them very seriously. The reason that they're

00:25:16.020 getting more buzz now is you saw that meeting with Nikki Haley when she announced she was going to

00:25:20.940 leave as UN ambassador. She got an Oval Office meeting. He talked about how great she was,

00:25:25.760 how she could come back to any role in the administration that she wants. And so now she's 1.00

00:25:31.980 about to actually leave her post by the end of the year as UN ambassador. And she's been meeting

00:25:36.560 secretly with Donald Trump in the last days of her term as UN ambassador. What's raised a number

00:25:43.680 of eyebrows is that these meetings with the president have not been on the public schedule.

00:25:48.740 So what are they talking about? What are they talking about that they haven't already talked about?

00:25:52.580 And why aren't these meetings being made public? Vanity Fair is reporting this. So again,

00:25:58.120 take it with a grain of salt. The argument for Nikki Haley replacing Mike Pence is one,

00:26:04.220 it would be absolutely just delicious if Republicans got the first female vice president in there. 1.00

00:26:09.680 That would just be so great. Not, I mean, who cares? I don't care if it's a man or a woman 1.00

00:26:13.640 exactly, but it would be great because the left would be very angry about it that they didn't get

00:26:18.040 the opportunity to do it. I would really enjoy that. She's also pretty hard charging. She's 1.00

00:26:23.900 obviously camera friendly as it were. And she is an executive type in the sense that many people

00:26:32.060 think she would make a viable presidential candidate. Okay. And now is she the most conservative? 0.96

00:26:37.560 It doesn't seem like it. She seems fine though. Whatever. She's been a good UN ambassador and

00:26:42.680 President Trump shouldn't do it. He should not replace Mike Pence. The argument for replacing

00:26:48.920 Mike Pence is that Mike Pence, while he may have added something in 2016, he doesn't add anything

00:26:53.580 now. They're not worried about losing Indiana. He doesn't add evangelical Christians. Trump already

00:26:59.840 has the evangelical Christians. So he doesn't add that. Do not replace Mike Pence. It is a very,

00:27:05.040 very bad idea to replace Mike Pence. Mike Pence has been supremely loyal. He has been maybe the most

00:27:10.660 loyal member of this administration. He is, he's excellent. He's really, really conservative.

00:27:16.420 He's, he was a really effective governor. He was a really good congressman. He's just terrific. He's

00:27:20.600 one of my favorite politicians in the country. But also the, the benefit that President Trump would get

00:27:25.960 by replacing Pence on the ticket, you know, having this super hot UN ambassador lady, uh, who's also smart 1.00

00:27:34.060 and, you know, does very well on the campaign trail. Any benefit that you would get would be decimated

00:27:39.940 by the, by the chaos and the instability and the apparent, uh, playing from a position of losing

00:27:47.720 of ditching your vice president. It just doesn't look good. It would irritate a lot of conservatives.

00:27:52.320 It would irritate a lot of Christian voters and it would, it would just make Donald Trump seem

00:27:57.400 desperate. It would make him seem like he thinks he's going to lose, like he's got to change something

00:28:01.600 or, or he's not going to win reelection. Really bad idea. I assume it's nothing more than nonsense,

00:28:07.740 but if it is more than nonsense, don't do it. Do, Mr. President, I know I usually have to make these

00:28:12.700 arguments on Fox and Friends if I want President Trump to hear them. But if you're watching, if

00:28:17.200 anybody in the White House is watching, do not do it. Okay. Uh, now speaking of news stations that I

00:28:23.200 never, ever watch and that nobody watches over on CNN, uh, Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon are exposing

00:28:29.560 themselves. Uh, unfortunately not physically exposing themselves, but Don Lemon is being

00:28:35.420 exposed by Chris Cuomo for being frivolous, for being petty, for being small, for being mean. Here's

00:28:41.580 the exchange. I don't think I would shake hands with him. I don't know. I would just, nope, couldn't do

00:28:47.660 it. I'm not that big a person. I would hope that I would be, but I don't, uh, I can't fake the funk as

00:28:55.280 I say. I'm not saying the Obamas did that, but there, there they go. Let me show you. I want to

00:28:58.620 show you something. Let me show you what I would have done. Okay. Come here. Come here, Don. Come

00:29:01.780 here, Don. Oh, poor Don. You're petty and small. Not petty and small. That's real, brother. That's

00:29:10.880 real. And, and it shows you this is not, I don't have to shake your hand. Yeah, it's true. But again,

00:29:16.840 you keep saying me, me, I, I, there are former presidents. I'm talking about a lot of folks.

00:29:21.500 Two thoughts. One, this is the first truthful thing that has been uttered on CNN in a long

00:29:25.740 time. Don Lemon is petty and small, and he probably wouldn't shake the hand of President

00:29:30.240 Trump. That's, that's true. Um, but also just look at this. This is CNN. This is facts

00:29:36.400 first. This is that apples aren't bananas. These are the serious news guys. What is this

00:29:41.320 bit? What is that? Like what shtick were we just watching there? It's, it's actually pretty

00:29:47.380 entertaining TV, but what on earth is that's facts first. That's real journalism. Give me

00:29:52.460 a break. Don Lemon is small and petty and weird though. There is no question about that. Don

00:29:57.200 Lemon also yesterday, I think made an oral sex joke on the air, uh, totally gratuitously. 0.99

00:30:04.440 Here he is. John Dean. He's the bee's knees. Oh, shoot. I don't know if that's okay. I think 0.99

00:30:09.880 it passes. I'll be seeing you in a second. Don't be so, um, don't be a chicken head. Okay. I don't 0.97

00:30:15.220 know what that means. I just said it. Yeah, no, most of what you say offends logic more

00:30:19.100 than it does Peter. I'll talk to you later. Take him off the screen. For those who don't

00:30:22.820 know, a chicken head is somebody who likes to perform fellatio at a high frequency. That's 1.00

00:30:28.980 what a chicken head is. And by the way, the people who know the word chicken head know

00:30:33.340 what chicken head means. The Venn diagram of people who know the word and who know what

00:30:37.380 it means is, is just a circle. It's one circle. So Don Lemon said that he makes an oral sex

00:30:41.680 joke. He immediately knows that people like me are going to call him out for it. So then 0.99

00:30:45.920 he says, I don't know what that means. Yes, you do. You know what it means. And the way

00:30:49.080 we know that this is true, by the way, is that CNN has a long history of making oral sex jokes. 0.99

00:30:54.380 Here is other super serious journalist, Anderson Cooper, calling Republicans, uh, uh, fellatio 1.00

00:31:01.960 giving deviance. Here he is. Republicans have got away. They still haven't found their voice, 0.98

00:31:06.680 Anderson. They're still there. This happens to a minority party after it's lost a couple 0.80

00:31:10.520 of bad elections, but they're searching for their voice. It's hard to talk when you're

00:31:14.220 teabagging. Uh, David Gergen, appreciate it very much. Ellie Velshi as well. Thanks very

00:31:18.200 much. It's hard to talk when you're teabagging. If you don't know what that is, beato too. 0.61

00:31:23.360 Good. Lucky you. Don't Google it. Uh, but that's the, I mean, he's making a very graphic,

00:31:28.420 uh, very graphic sex joke on the air. So this is what CNN does. I'm just glad that they're

00:31:32.840 admitting that they're small and they're petty and they're mostly meaningless and they're there.

00:31:37.700 They do not rise to any standards of dignity because certainly they do not. We've got a whole

00:31:42.240 lot more to get to, but I guess we're not going to too bad. We'll get to that next week. Uh,

00:31:46.000 we've got a lot of mailbag to get to. So if you're on dailywire.com, thank you very much.

00:31:50.740 You keep covfefe in my cup. You keep the lights on. If you're not go to dailywire.com. It's 10

00:31:54.320 bucks a month, $100 for an annual membership. You get me, you get the Andrew Klavan show,

00:31:57.760 you get the Ben Shapiro show, you get to ask questions in the mailbag. You get to ask questions in the

00:32:01.920 conversation. You get to ask questions in the backstage. You get so much stuff, but none of

00:32:08.340 that matters. This is what matters. This is what matters. Elizabeth Warren getting called out by the

00:32:14.080 New York times, Kamala Harris having to answer for a me too sexual harassment scandal.

00:32:22.980 Oh, it's just, I'm just getting the little aperitif of that. The aperitif of leftist tears.

00:32:28.500 We're going to get the whole cocktail pretty soon. And as the 2020 race moves on,

00:32:32.420 make sure you have your leftist tears tumbler for it. Come on right back. We'll be right back with

00:32:36.880 the mailbag. I'm going to burn through these questions today from Zachary Magic Mike. You so

00:32:52.300 often kindly invite us into your boudoir. So I'd like to invite you into mine. Okay. My fiance,

00:32:58.480 and I are to be married one month from today. We have strictly followed the church's teachings

00:33:03.560 on premarital relations. What do I need to know about the marital embrace before our bodies become

00:33:09.720 one in the sacrament? Love the show, Zachary. Think about baseball. Think about baseball. You've got

00:33:17.880 a runner on second. You've got a batter at the plate. All right. The batter hits a, it's a line drive,

00:33:23.960 goes right up between the third baseman and the shortstop. The runner on second is going around,

00:33:28.540 he's okay. You've got the guy, he's rounding first. The left fielder fields the ball. He throws it,

00:33:34.220 shortstops the cutoff. They're trying to make a play at the plate because the guy's rounding third. 0.89

00:33:37.520 He goes, he's safe. He's safe. And the batter goes in with a standup double. At this point,

00:33:43.760 if you have made it this far, congratulations. I hope you've enjoyed your first experience of this

00:33:49.440 blessed union. Next time, try to get through an inning. Maybe you've conceived a child. I don't know.

00:33:53.900 That's the only advice that I'm willing to give on this program. I wish you the many blessings in

00:33:59.680 your marriage and the rest of your lives together. From Margo, dear Pope Kofefe, did you watch Ben's 0.82

00:34:06.800 recent Sunday special with Pastor MacArthur? How would you respond to MacArthur's erroneous claims

00:34:13.080 regarding the Catholic church and the dark ages? Why do some Protestants seem to have such a negative

00:34:17.720 perspective toward Catholicism? Is there any hope of unity among Christians? God bless and happy

00:34:21.900 Advent. Yes, I did listen to that. I felt there was much of it that was worthwhile. And on many topics,

00:34:29.040 John MacArthur is quite educated and makes interesting and good points. On the topic of the years

00:34:35.240 zero to 1500, he made some mistakes, some things that were clearly not true, that were demonstrably wrong.

00:34:43.400 I encourage everybody to go listen to it. It's a really good conversation. He says that the church

00:34:50.580 was good for the first few hundred years, but then around the time of Constantine, it got really bad

00:34:55.500 and the West was thrown into dark ages for a thousand years, almost until coincidentally the

00:35:02.080 Protestant revolution. And this is just not true. The so-called dark ages never existed. If Pastor

00:35:11.220 MacArthur were right in that claim, then I guess Thomas Aquinas never existed. If he were right in 0.82

00:35:16.840 that claim, I guess Dante Alighieri never existed. In his comments, he says that people didn't have a

00:35:22.280 personal relationship with God for a thousand years. I think Dante would beg to differ. I think

00:35:28.940 the countless saints of the church during that period would beg to differ. He says that until the

00:35:37.040 time of Constantine, there was no infant baptism, that isn't true. Peter calls for the baptism of

00:35:43.560 children, or at least permits it in Acts, he says, for the promise is to you and to your children

00:35:50.600 that all are to be welcomed, that all are to be welcomed into Christ. Every one of you, this doesn't

00:35:57.080 exclude children. We know Christ touches even infants in Luke. We know that Paul, St. Paul says the

00:36:03.460 baptism has replaced circumcision, and obviously circumcision occurs, I think, eight days after

00:36:08.900 birth, something like that. Obviously, that occurs on infants. Origen, writing long before the third or

00:36:15.040 fourth century, writing, Origen was born in the second century, in the 100s, says that infant baptism

00:36:20.460 is traditional. Irenaeus refers to infant baptism as traditional in the second century. So that claim 0.95

00:36:28.840 isn't quite right. He talks about how the church would not allow anyone to read the Bible in any

00:36:36.440 other language. That isn't true. The reason why that Bibles were not commonly held in households is

00:36:41.440 because the printing press didn't exist yet. Bibles were extraordinarily expensive. The Bible was under

00:36:46.480 lock and key because the Bible was very, very valuable. Once the printing press came around, that was

00:36:51.560 just fine. Before the Luther German translation of the Bible, there were 18 other German translations of

00:36:57.580 the Bible. So you're right. There was a lot of commentary that came on Twitter. I received a lot

00:37:03.260 of it saying that MacArthur was totally wrong in his conversation. And I think that takes it too far.

00:37:10.780 His comments about the so-called dark ages are not true. But there's so much else in that conversation

00:37:16.120 that is so worthwhile and interesting to get his perspective on that I highly encourage you not to

00:37:21.400 be deterred by that and to go listen because he's got a lot of interesting things to say. And I think the

00:37:26.360 back and forth between him and Ben was really, really good. From Carl. Hi, Michael. Assuming you

00:37:32.540 and little old Elisa end up having kids, would you want them to go to your alma mater for undergraduate 1.00

00:37:37.040 where they can get plan B from a vending machine, apparently? Or would you prefer at 17 or 18 years

00:37:41.900 old that they not be thrown into an environment away from home that's hostile to Judeo-Christian values?

00:37:48.480 Thanks. This is a really tough question. I've been around. I spoke at Franciscan University of

00:37:54.100 Steubenville, which is very Catholic, very conservative. I was so impressed by those

00:38:00.380 students. Obviously, there's Hillsdale is a great conservative-leaning college. Thomas Aquinas

00:38:05.080 College out here. There are a handful of them. So where do you want them to go? Do you want them

00:38:08.820 to go to a place where they probably would get a better education or a fuller education or a more

00:38:13.580 classical education or a less wacky education? Or do you want them to go to the place with the name

00:38:19.780 brand, Yale, Harvard, Princeton, where they can get a job on Wall Street and make a zillion dollars or

00:38:25.380 get into med school or something like that? It depends on the kid, I think. I benefited greatly

00:38:31.280 from being in a place where I was surrounded by left-wingers. You can make a Yale education

00:38:36.460 whatever you want. I could have made a better use of it, certainly. I could have taken more rigorous

00:38:44.760 classes in some regard. In my senior year, I took a class called the physics of dance

00:38:48.720 because I had to fulfill a science requirement. So, you know, you can kind of make of it what you

00:38:54.520 will. What I found was being around all those left-wingers made me really think through my

00:38:58.760 views, made me much stronger in my views. I went into Yale basically an atheist, and I came out of it

00:39:05.300 open to theism. And a couple years later, I was a professing Christian. So I think it really

00:39:11.360 depends on the kid. If I think the kid can benefit from, and the kid is a little contrarian,

00:39:17.480 and the kid could benefit from being around all those bullets, I'd probably send him there.

00:39:20.660 If he wants to become a seminarian or something like that, then probably he should go

00:39:26.960 to a more conservative place. From Jeremy, where did you get your smoking jacket? I got it from my

00:39:32.920 godmother for Christmas. It's from Paul Stewart, and they don't make it anymore because apparently

00:39:37.620 nobody buys smoking jackets. Apparently, the only customers are me and 19th century English

00:39:44.360 dandies. So you can't even buy the jacket anymore. It's too bad. If you can find a smoking jacket,

00:39:49.060 they're a great investment. They really do work. They actually keep the smoke off of your other

00:39:52.120 clothing. From Darren, does the church offer any insight as to why Jesus arrived on earth during

00:39:57.940 the specific time when he did? Thanks, love the show, Darren. It's a very good question. The god king,

00:40:03.500 lowercase g, lowercase k, Jeremy Boring made this great point the other day

00:40:06.700 on backstage, which is the bizarre similarities between Christ who arrives, the prince of peace,

00:40:15.620 arrives signaled by a star. He is the son of God who ushers in an era of peace for man.

00:40:24.920 And you've got at the same time, Caesar Augustus, Octavian ascending to the throne in Rome.

00:40:31.680 When Julius Caesar died, there was a comet that they saw going by, and they took this to mean that

00:40:38.160 Caesar was, in a sense, divine. And so Caesar Augustus, his adopted son, was called Filius Dei,

00:40:48.380 son of the divine. Christ is Filius Dei, son of God. And Octavian, Caesar Augustus, ushers in the

00:40:56.460 Pax Romana, the period of peace on earth. Those similarities are really beautiful. The Christian

00:41:04.020 view of the world is a semiotic view. It appreciates the symbolism throughout the world.

00:41:08.800 That symbolism is really hard to deny. And there's that great Alexander Pope line,

00:41:13.940 all nature is but art unknown to thee, all chance direction which thou canst not see.

00:41:19.040 From Noah. Hi, Michael. He who smells of potpourri. Ah? Ah? All right, it's kind of weak.

00:41:27.800 I was curious about the inverted cross and other cross variants. Having listened to metal music

00:41:32.900 for some time, I'm familiar with its use as a purportedly satanic symbol, but was recently

00:41:36.980 inspired to look into its meaning within Christianity. Could you elaborate on the

00:41:40.060 symbol and meaning, the history and meaning of the symbol? Yes, a very misunderstood symbol.

00:41:44.200 It's an upside down cross. So it's the, it's called the Petrine cross and it's the cross of St. Peter

00:41:49.520 because when Christ tells Peter in the Bible, you are going to stretch out your arms, you're going to

00:41:56.320 be crucified and you're going to, I think it's in the gospel of John. And at this point, Peter would

00:42:03.200 have already been crucified and you are going to go down the road and you're going to follow me in my

00:42:08.620 crucifixion. And when St. Peter was crucified, and this is attested to by a number of ancient sources,

00:42:13.260 he would, he asked to be crucified upside down because he didn't feel that he was worthy of

00:42:18.360 being crucified in the same manner as the master. So he was crucified upside down. And that is why

00:42:23.300 some people wear the Petrine cross, the upside down cross. This is not the same as an upside down

00:42:27.400 crucifix. If you were to have the crucifix, which is the cross with Christ's body on it and to wear

00:42:32.560 that upside down, that would be a satanic symbol. That's trying to invert the cross, but the cross

00:42:37.420 itself upside down is a, is a symbol of St. Peter and St. Peter's humility and devotion.

00:42:43.260 Now, as with symbols, it depends how you're using them. If somebody is using the upside down cross as

00:42:50.300 a satanic symbol, then that is what that symbol is going to connote. But it has a long history in

00:42:55.340 Christianity and in good faith should be embraced. From Zachary, to the best podcast host. I've been

00:43:03.260 listening to your podcast for quite some time now, and the Thursday shows are always my favorite because

00:43:07.380 of the mailbag. Now I'm sure you get tons of mailbag questions. How do you choose which ones you

00:43:12.380 respond to? I would love to know how you pick them. Sincerely, the guy who thinks you are much

00:43:16.800 better than Ben. The way that I pick them is I look for people who sign their emails, the guy who

00:43:22.820 thinks your show is better than Ben's, and then that's the question that I use. That's the answer.

00:43:28.200 From Catherine, dear Michael, do you have any recommendations for Advent readings or resources

00:43:32.440 for someone who is new to the traditional observance of Advent? Thank you very much. Yes. The book that I

00:43:38.440 read last year is the book that you should all read for Advent. It's incredible. It's by Pope

00:43:43.060 Emeritus Benedict XVI, and I think it's Jesus, the infancy narrative. I think that's what it's called.

00:43:51.340 He has a trilogy on Jesus, and it's the first one. I think it was actually written last, but

00:43:55.680 sequentially it's the first one, which is about the nativity and the infancy of Christ. It's a very

00:44:01.680 short book. It's eminently readable. It is so profoundly moving. That is what everybody should be reading

00:44:06.900 for Advent. That was recommended to me as Advent reading by Andrew Klavan, and that's a man who has

00:44:13.000 written books with words so you know that you can trust the recommendation. From David, Mr. Knowles,

00:44:18.080 I feel like you've answered this question previously. Well, then why are you asking me, dude? I'll go on.

00:44:23.640 But what translation of the Bible would you suggest a new reader start with? I've been to church plenty

00:44:28.220 of times. I've watched Jordan Peterson's lectures on the Bible multiple times, but it struck me that I

00:44:32.460 haven't actually sat and read it front to back. Thanks. Love the show, DJ. I recommend the revised

00:44:38.040 standard version, the Catholic edition specifically, not the regular RSV, but the Catholic edition.

00:44:44.040 That's important. Or the English standard version, the ESV. And the KJV is the most beautiful,

00:44:50.580 the King James version. But if you want one that's a little more modern and readable, the RSVCE or the

00:44:57.040 ESV, those are the two best. From Rosemary, I'm a female evangelical dating a male Catholic.

00:45:03.360 What do I need to know? We're both conservatives that love Jesus. You need to watch his wrist when

00:45:10.460 he's pouring the wine. The conservatives, I notice, more than the evangelicals. They got a pretty liberal

00:45:15.620 pour, you know, when they're out on dates. You got to watch out for that. That's my only advice.

00:45:22.620 Take it from someone who knows. Take it from an expert. All right, that's all I've got.

00:45:26.560 Enjoy your dates. You'll have a wonderful life together, I hope. That's our show. Come back.

00:45:32.080 That's all for the weekend, so make sure you binge Another Kingdom because Another Kingdom

00:45:35.940 season two is coming to an end. I think the last episode is coming out on Monday, and it is really

00:45:42.000 good. I can say this because I didn't write it. Even Drew said it, though. You know, we were doing

00:45:46.780 the recording of it, and he comes and he says, I got to tell you, the ending of this season is really

00:45:52.260 good. And then I read it, and it is really good. So if you aren't caught up, catch up on it.

00:45:56.560 It's exceptionally moving. I really, really like it. And then we'll have to get ready

00:46:01.420 for season three, God willing. That's our show. In the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles.

00:46:05.080 This is The Michael Knowles Show. Have a good weekend.

00:46:26.560 Hey, everyone. Over on the Matt Wall Show today, we're talking about the disturbing case of an

00:46:40.780 apparently innocent, law-abiding gun owner who was shot in the back by police and killed. And his case

00:46:46.560 is just one of several like it in recent months. Is there a problem with the way that police deal

00:46:51.680 with the public? I haven't always thought so, but now I do. And we'll talk about why

00:46:56.540 on The Matt Wall Show today. Come and check it out.

The Michael Knowles Show - December 06, 2018

Ep. 264 - 2020 Is Already Small and Petty

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