The Michael Knowles Show - December 10, 2018


Ep. 265 - I Sincerely Apologize For Those Things I Said


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USA Today has ruined the life of a young gay man named Kyler Murray, who won the Heisman Trophy this past weekend. They resurfaced a tweet he sent when he was 14 years old, in which he made a joke about gay people.

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00:00:00.000 I would like to sincerely apologize for everything I've ever said.
00:00:04.240 I apologize to my friends, my followers, and everyone I've hurt and let down.
00:00:09.840 I should never have said those things that I said, but I did say them.
00:00:13.460 I'm not the man I was when I said those things.
00:00:16.260 Those things I said do not reflect my values or the man I've become.
00:00:20.760 The man I've become will be silent just as soon as I finish apologizing for saying those things.
00:00:27.280 I hope you can forgive this unacceptable error in judgment.
00:00:31.600 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:00:40.720 It just occurred to me that if I were to stay silent for the rest of my show,
00:00:44.900 this would be very in keeping with my number one best-selling political tome,
00:00:48.540 Reasons to Vote for Democrats, a comprehensive guide.
00:00:51.360 But I guess we'll have to talk before I can remain silent.
00:00:54.700 We'll have to talk about all of the apologies for things that people have said 10 years ago
00:00:59.320 as the USA Today embraces the politics of personal destruction.
00:01:02.800 Also, we've got to talk about the Mueller bombshell that was not a bombshell,
00:01:06.740 the Mueller filings in the Southern District of New York,
00:01:09.260 and the special counsel office memo as well.
00:01:12.760 We have to talk about James Comey all but admitting that the FBI set up the Trump campaign to be surveilled.
00:01:18.780 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is now identifying as a trans Jew.
00:01:22.600 That's actually my favorite story from the weekend.
00:01:25.920 A group of aggrieved leftists are taking refuge from white people in Costa Rica,
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00:02:43.700 Okay, so much to get to today, including everything that I've ever said, which I have to apologize for.
00:02:49.300 I'm sorry that I said it, because now we're not allowed to have any opinions.
00:02:53.260 This comes to us via USA Today.
00:02:55.800 There's this guy, Kyler Murray, who won the Heisman Trophy.
00:03:00.920 Now, what do I know about Kyler Murray?
00:03:02.620 Nothing.
00:03:03.000 What do I know about the Heisman Trophy?
00:03:04.520 Nothing.
00:03:04.780 What do I know about most professional sports?
00:03:06.960 Nothing.
00:03:07.660 All that I know is that USA Today decided that on the best day of this kid's life, when
00:03:13.020 he won the Heisman Trophy, they were going to ruin his life by dredging up tweets that he
00:03:18.360 sent out when he was 14 years old, in which he said mean things about gays or something,
00:03:25.020 made a joke about gay people.
00:03:26.600 And now his life has to be ruined because he said something when he was 14 that is unacceptable
00:03:33.840 according to today's standards, so his life has to be ruined.
00:03:37.380 Really awful.
00:03:38.960 They started this.
00:03:40.300 USA Today started this national shaming campaign.
00:03:45.080 And this was Scott Gleason in USA Today.
00:03:47.540 Shameless, awful thing.
00:03:49.480 Dirty, rotten thing that he did.
00:03:50.800 This is what he wrote about the kid in USA Today.
00:03:52.720 Heisman Trophy winner Kyler Murray had a Saturday to remember, but the Oklahoma quarterback's
00:03:59.180 memorable night also helped resurface social media's memory of several homophobic tweets
00:04:06.320 more than six years old.
00:04:07.560 No, social media didn't help to resurface it.
00:04:10.740 You helped to resurface it.
00:04:13.160 This guy, Scott Gleason, resurfaced it so that he could get a lot of clicks on his article
00:04:17.280 and destroy this kid's, the best night of this kid's life.
00:04:20.940 And he decided to ruin it by dredging up six-year-old tweets that were about how he was making jokes
00:04:27.740 about gay people.
00:04:28.400 Now, there are a couple aspects to this.
00:04:30.740 One, I can't believe that someone was tweeting when he was 14 years old.
00:04:35.180 I've never felt older than that, that Twitter existed for a 14-year-old and he was sending
00:04:39.880 out these tweets.
00:04:40.760 They were six years ago.
00:04:41.980 Who cares?
00:04:42.380 This isn't the only time we've seen this recently.
00:04:44.980 Kevin Hart.
00:04:45.720 Kevin Hart lost his Oscars gig.
00:04:48.220 Kevin Hart, comedian, done very well for himself, made it all the way up in show business.
00:04:52.900 He was offered the Oscars and these monsters found a tweet that he sent out 10 years ago
00:04:59.960 and found jokes that he told 10 years ago about how he didn't want his son to be gay.
00:05:05.320 And he likes gay people, but he didn't want his son to be gay.
00:05:07.820 And this was the joke.
00:05:08.900 So the premise of that is that if a comedian has ever told a gay joke, he is now out. 0.70
00:05:14.920 He can't be hired.
00:05:15.880 He can't be employed.
00:05:16.740 He can't have a show.
00:05:17.840 He has to be ostracized from civil society.
00:05:20.080 Can you find me one comedian who has never made a gay joke? 0.51
00:05:26.020 Can you find me one human being who has never made a gay joke or laughed at a gay joke? 0.82
00:05:32.060 Find me one person on planet Earth who hasn't laughed or made a gay joke. 1.00
00:05:38.040 None.
00:05:38.560 Of course, none.
00:05:39.340 But it's this insane, Victorian, puritanical, neo-puritanical behavior that is now destroying this guy's career, kicking him out of the Oscars.
00:05:53.760 Obviously, the question is who cares?
00:05:55.520 Nobody cares.
00:05:56.160 We all have to pretend to care because as the great playwright William Inge observed,
00:06:01.240 if you marry yourself to the spirit of the age, you will find yourself a widow in the next. 0.89
00:06:05.560 So now, all of a sudden, the worst thing you can possibly do is make a gay joke.
00:06:11.720 In the old days, the worst thing you could possibly do was make a racial joke.
00:06:16.700 Pretty soon, the worst thing you can possibly do is say that men are not women and women are not men.
00:06:22.020 If you question the transgender movement already, you'll be kicked off of social media.
00:06:25.840 And it's constantly changing.
00:06:27.660 They're always changing.
00:06:28.940 And if you try to keep up with that, you're going to fall apart.
00:06:31.200 Twitter makes this very hard because you can't see when somebody said something.
00:06:36.960 Even I've fallen victim to this.
00:06:38.480 You're looking and you read through somebody's tweets.
00:06:41.080 And I saw this with Trevor Noah, the host of The Daily Show.
00:06:44.580 He made disparaging comments about Israel.
00:06:47.620 And when you see it on Twitter, it looks like he just did it.
00:06:50.240 But he didn't just do it.
00:06:50.960 He did it 10 years ago or 5 years ago, whatever it is.
00:06:53.940 And that time really does give you context because it means that you can never change.
00:06:59.640 A comedian has to change his act.
00:07:01.380 Someone like Kevin Hart has to change his act.
00:07:03.540 And I bet when he was telling those gay jokes 10 years ago, audiences were loving it. 1.00
00:07:07.140 Now audiences, they might not love those jokes, so he doesn't tell those jokes anymore.
00:07:11.040 Or, as he says, he's apologized.
00:07:12.760 He's a different guy.
00:07:13.760 He doesn't think that way anymore.
00:07:15.660 Whatever apology he had to give.
00:07:17.860 But in this world, you're never allowed to apologize.
00:07:21.700 Your apology is never good enough.
00:07:23.380 And actually, if you apologize, you're probably going to be destroyed because of it.
00:07:27.820 In the Me Too movement, we saw this.
00:07:29.460 The people who denied got to survive and continue in their careers.
00:07:33.180 The people who apologized lost everything.
00:07:35.800 Kevin Spacey hasn't been heard of in 18 months or something like that.
00:07:39.740 He's gone to a desert island somewhere.
00:07:42.180 This is really insane.
00:07:44.860 The worst part of it, though, the part that I care about, because I don't really care about these Hollywood people or whatever.
00:07:52.180 It's sad to me, but it doesn't affect my life.
00:07:54.840 What affects my life is that this neopuritanism from the left makes conversation terrible.
00:08:03.020 It destroys conversation.
00:08:04.680 I've seen this.
00:08:05.680 You know, I'll get invited to various events that are not explicitly in the right-wing conspiracy.
00:08:11.280 So I'll go out among everybody else.
00:08:13.080 I'll go to very left-wing events sometimes.
00:08:14.660 And one thing I've noticed at events that are populated primarily by left-wingers, not even bipartisan, not even people of differing political views, even events that are almost certainly all left-wing, is the conversation is terrible.
00:08:30.560 And the conversation is not terrible because the people are uninteresting or have nothing to say or don't have thoughts about things.
00:08:35.840 It's terrible because everybody is so afraid of being offensive to imaginary people.
00:08:42.980 Everybody is so afraid.
00:08:44.160 They're all walking on eggshells.
00:08:45.780 They won't say anything other than the most banal, bland, boring observations.
00:08:50.500 They'll talk about the chicken.
00:08:52.560 They'll say, oh, this is good chicken, isn't it?
00:08:53.800 Oh, yes, I like the chicken.
00:08:54.800 Yeah, it's very good.
00:08:55.520 They won't say anything.
00:08:56.540 They'll talk about their cats or something.
00:08:58.040 But they won't talk about anything even remotely of substance.
00:09:01.740 Not because they can't, but because they're so afraid of the mob saying, you're not allowed to say that.
00:09:08.020 And it just makes the whole world bland.
00:09:13.080 You know, look, Kevin Hart was telling a joke about gay people.
00:09:18.320 His job is to tell jokes.
00:09:20.200 This other guy, the Heisman Trophy winner, Kyler Murray, I don't know.
00:09:23.860 I sort of on principle don't want to read his tweets because they should never have been dredged up in the first place.
00:09:31.040 It was a total hit job.
00:09:32.820 But are we now saying that people can't disapprove of homosexual acts of homosexuality? 0.95
00:09:39.580 Is that what we're saying?
00:09:40.280 Because basically every major religion for all of history has morally disapproved of homosexual acts.
00:09:48.280 We now have a culture that does not, that actually disapproves of moral opprobrium, period.
00:09:54.820 And at various points throughout all of history, there has been various tolerance of homosexual acts for a period.
00:10:00.020 And I believe in Renaissance Italy, the phrase il modo italiano, the Italian way, referred explicitly to gay sex in different parts.
00:10:08.480 So there have been obviously variously tolerant societies.
00:10:14.380 In ancient Greece, of course, there's the famous debate between the ancient Roman and the ancient Greek.
00:10:20.800 And they're arguing over who has the best civilization.
00:10:22.840 And the Greek says, well, we built the Parthenon.
00:10:27.760 And the Roman says, well, that's true, but we built the Colosseum.
00:10:31.380 And then the Greek says, yeah, well, we invented soufflaki. 0.85
00:10:34.760 That's delicious.
00:10:35.560 They say, well, that's true. 0.98
00:10:36.500 The Roman says, but we invented pizza.
00:10:39.220 Okay.
00:10:39.860 And then the Greek says, yes, well, I've got the trump card. 0.86
00:10:43.820 We invented sex. 0.82
00:10:45.000 And the Roman says, yes, but we opened it up to women. 1.00
00:10:49.340 And this, you know, obviously throughout the ancient world, they're all fine.
00:10:53.660 Are you saying that right now you cannot disapprove of certain aspects of sexual morality?
00:11:01.380 Of course not.
00:11:01.920 Of course you can.
00:11:02.640 I want to hear some guy.
00:11:03.740 I want to hear from him.
00:11:04.580 If he says, I hold homosexuality and moral opprobrium.
00:11:07.740 Yeah, I want to hear from him.
00:11:08.540 And then some guy who says, all sex acts are great and you can do whatever you want.
00:11:12.560 I want to hear from that guy.
00:11:13.440 And some guy who defends polygamy or some guy who opposes polygamy.
00:11:15.980 I want to hear from all of these things because this informs the way that I think.
00:11:20.160 It allows me to bat around different ideas.
00:11:21.920 And just to get off of these two specific examples of Murray and Kevin Hart, forget sex
00:11:26.080 in the first place.
00:11:26.700 Let's talk about various political situations.
00:11:29.400 Let's talk about institutions.
00:11:31.040 Let's talk about various wars, various aspects of diplomacy.
00:11:35.340 I want to talk about everything.
00:11:36.900 That's what the right wants to do.
00:11:38.540 We want to battle around ideas and pick the best ideas.
00:11:41.340 What the left wants to do is censor everybody from Twitter to the Heisman Trophy winner all
00:11:46.520 the way up to the Oscars.
00:11:47.460 It's awful.
00:11:48.240 It makes our culture very bland.
00:11:50.120 I don't like bland things.
00:11:51.280 I want diversity.
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00:13:24.220 There was a bombshell Mueller filing that came out right at the end of the news cycle.
00:13:29.300 It was on Friday of last week being reported breathlessly, hysterically.
00:13:34.260 They've got Trump.
00:13:35.240 It's Mueller time.
00:13:36.820 Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:13:38.100 Okay.
00:13:39.220 What do we actually learn from it?
00:13:41.160 We learn a few things.
00:13:43.440 The main takeaway that I found is that the Mueller investigation has a conclusion,
00:13:48.900 which is that Trump is a bad guy and he should be removed from office.
00:13:53.340 I think that's the conclusion that they've reached.
00:13:55.640 I don't think they have anything to support that conclusion yet.
00:13:58.460 I think they started with their conclusion and they are working backwards.
00:14:02.300 They are filling in the blanks.
00:14:03.560 The reason that I think this is that this investigation was supposed to be about Russian
00:14:08.600 interference in the 2016 election.
00:14:10.900 Do you remember that?
00:14:11.940 Do you remember that was the whole point?
00:14:13.060 It's the Russia collusion investigation.
00:14:14.980 And now the only hope they have of getting this guy is on a campaign finance violation.
00:14:20.620 And even that is so weak.
00:14:22.380 It's so thin.
00:14:23.820 So let's start with that.
00:14:24.600 This is the best one that they've got.
00:14:26.400 Their best foot forward out of the Southern District of New York filing.
00:14:29.860 They said that, referring to Michael Cohen, the president's longtime lawyer, quote,
00:14:35.960 Cohen himself has now admitted with respect to both payments to women to cover up the affairs with women.
00:14:44.460 He acted in coordination with and at the direction of individual one.
00:14:49.040 And individual one in these filings refers to Donald Trump very clearly.
00:14:53.460 They say in the filings, they say, individual one managed to win election to the U.S. presidency over Hillary Clinton.
00:14:58.780 You say, OK, I think I know who individual one is now.
00:15:02.020 Cohen has admitted that he paid off these women at the direction and in coordination with Donald Trump.
00:15:08.840 OK, maybe he did.
00:15:11.700 Maybe he did.
00:15:12.340 Maybe he didn't.
00:15:12.920 I don't know.
00:15:14.340 What we know about this is that Donald Trump has paid off women for a long time.
00:15:18.400 This doesn't sound like a very good defense, but it actually is, because if Donald Trump paid off the women strictly because of his presidential campaign and because he was this was an important part of his campaign strategy, then it may have been an in-kind contribution to the presidential campaign.
00:15:37.140 And if Cohen made this in-kind contribution and if Trump was spending this money, they could have violated certain campaign finance laws because they didn't disclose the nature of the donation.
00:15:49.400 Because Donald Trump, as the candidate, he can give basically as much money as he wants to his own campaign.
00:15:54.260 There's no violation there.
00:15:55.980 The violation would be if Cohen did it out of his own pocket, if it was his own donation, and the other violation would be if it wasn't transparent, if they didn't make the donation clear.
00:16:08.360 Now, the reason why this is a very difficult case for the prosecution is that Donald Trump has been paying off women since before I was born.
00:16:16.420 Since I was a little glint in my father's eye, Donald Trump has been paying off women to avoid negative publicity.
00:16:21.580 And so, as a result, you could say this isn't just about the campaign.
00:16:25.460 This is just the modus operandi of the Trump organization.
00:16:31.180 He would be doing this even if he weren't running for president.
00:16:35.220 Again, all of this sort of misses the point.
00:16:39.340 People don't go down for campaign finance violations.
00:16:43.140 Ex-Senator John Edwards in 2012, you remember John Edwards, he ran for president against Obama and Hillary Clinton.
00:16:51.400 In 2008, he got caught.
00:16:53.100 He was using campaign funds to pay off his mistress.
00:16:55.820 And this was a big scandal.
00:16:57.940 This was a much clearer cut scandal than Donald Trump paying off these women.
00:17:02.060 And even for ex-Senator John Edwards, the prosecution couldn't convict him of the campaign finance violation.
00:17:08.720 He got off in 2012.
00:17:10.320 Does anybody really believe that an ex-Senator John Edwards in a much clearer case,
00:17:15.420 no questions of whether or not you can go after the president while he's in office or this or that or Edwards' history of paying off women?
00:17:22.580 If they couldn't even get John Edwards, do we really think that we're going to undo the 2016 election,
00:17:27.760 that we're going to remove a president from office because of a far less clear-cut version of this violation?
00:17:32.940 Of course not.
00:17:34.760 But what else about campaign finance?
00:17:36.220 They went after Dinesh D'Souza.
00:17:39.320 When Barack Obama was president, they went after Dinesh D'Souza for giving an extra $30,000 to his friend, Wendy Long,
00:17:46.440 a candidate for Senate from New York who was never, ever going to win.
00:17:50.140 I was working races during that time.
00:17:51.880 He gave a little extra money to her.
00:17:53.480 It obviously made no difference.
00:17:55.120 And they threw him in the clinker.
00:17:57.720 They threw him in a...
00:17:58.400 He had to go to a halfway house. 0.95
00:17:59.860 He was a felon.
00:18:00.780 He couldn't vote.
00:18:01.860 Donald Trump finally pardoned him over nothing, over $30,000.
00:18:05.220 But what about the Obama campaign?
00:18:08.360 People don't remember this.
00:18:09.420 The mainstream media don't report on this.
00:18:11.780 But the Obama campaign was caught with nearly $2 million of illegal, non-transparent donations.
00:18:19.960 So during the Obama campaign for president, $1.8 million of donations where there were fake contribution dates.
00:18:27.600 They were exceeding the legal limits of it.
00:18:29.980 They were doing what Trump is accused of doing or what Dinesh D'Souza did on orders of magnitude, higher scale.
00:18:38.940 And what happened to the Obama campaign?
00:18:40.260 Did Obama have to go to a halfway house like Dinesh D'Souza? 0.99
00:18:42.980 Did they threaten to throw Obama out of office like they're threatening to do to Donald Trump, take down the whole presidency?
00:18:49.240 No.
00:18:50.000 Nobody went to jail.
00:18:50.960 Nobody faced virtually any consequences whatsoever.
00:18:56.640 The FEC fined the Obama administration $375,000.
00:19:02.160 $2 million in illegal contributions.
00:19:05.380 The FEC fined him $375,000.
00:19:08.280 Nothing.
00:19:09.100 A drop in the bucket.
00:19:10.520 And why is this?
00:19:11.300 One of the arguments against Trump that you see is they say there are all of these indictments against Trump associates.
00:19:16.740 There are all of these people are getting indicted.
00:19:18.280 And Obama people didn't get indicted.
00:19:20.420 Right.
00:19:20.880 Obama people didn't get indicted that much because the Obama Justice Department was corrupt.
00:19:25.880 Because it was run by Eric Holder, who's a corrupt politician, and by Loretta Lynch, who Drew Klavan calls it blandly sinister.
00:19:34.640 Because of that, yes, that's true.
00:19:36.480 People weren't held to account.
00:19:37.760 That's right.
00:19:38.160 The DOJ, they didn't go after the Obama campaign for $2 million in illegal contributions.
00:19:43.300 Gosh, I wonder why.
00:19:44.460 I wonder why that is.
00:19:45.600 So, it's a totally selective issue whether or not they go after him.
00:19:51.980 But even then, it's so, so weak.
00:19:54.600 They're saying because Michael Cohen pled guilty to a campaign finance violation that now they've got Trump.
00:20:00.600 They don't have Trump.
00:20:01.520 Trump didn't plead guilty.
00:20:03.600 Michael Cohen's problem is Michael Cohen's problem.
00:20:05.700 If he pled guilty to something, it doesn't nab Trump on it.
00:20:09.360 So, I think that one's the best they've got, basically.
00:20:13.120 Still, it's pretty weak.
00:20:14.120 Also, pretty interesting in all of these filings is James Comey, then FBI director, admits now under oath that he used, the FBI used the uncorroborated Steele dossier, which was funded by Hillary Clinton and the Democrats, as the evidence that was required to get the FISA warrants to surveil the Trump campaign.
00:20:38.400 So, he's now admitting this under oath.
00:20:41.100 They used an unverified dossier.
00:20:42.680 It wasn't just unverified when they used it.
00:20:44.620 It was unverified months and months later when James Comey was fired to surveil the Trump campaign.
00:20:50.620 And how did the Steele dossier come around?
00:20:52.240 The Democrats cooked it up.
00:20:53.480 They paid for it, and then they used it as the way to spy on the Trump campaign.
00:20:57.320 That is pretty big news.
00:20:58.480 The only other thing that comes out of the Mueller filing is from the Office of the Special Counsel himself.
00:21:05.080 And I love this one.
00:21:06.120 The media have not reported this one at all.
00:21:08.040 From the filing on Friday, quote,
00:21:09.500 The defendant, meaning Michael Cohen, recalled that a Russian national repeatedly proposed a meeting between individual one, Donald Trump, and the president of Russia.
00:21:21.560 The person told Cohen that such a meeting could have phenomenal impact, quote, not only in political but in a business dimension as well.
00:21:29.840 Cohen, however, did not follow up on this invitation.
00:21:33.600 So, in other words, if he got lost in all of that, some guy, some Russian guy, goes up to Michael Cohen and says Trump and Putin should meet.
00:21:43.020 And then Cohen blows him off.
00:21:45.540 So, in the Mueller filing on Friday, you actually have evidence of non-collusion.
00:21:50.140 It's not just that you don't have evidence of collusion.
00:21:52.480 You have evidence now of them not colluding because Cohen didn't follow up on that invitation.
00:21:58.440 All of this leads to the question, is this all they've got?
00:22:01.440 Why is Mueller persisting when he's clearly got nothing on crimes with Russia and they're going after campaign finance?
00:22:09.600 Why is this?
00:22:10.540 I think this is just in the nature of the special counsel or the independent counsel investigations.
00:22:15.520 You're investigating these guys and you just grow to hate them.
00:22:19.680 One, you have to justify all of the money that's been spent on this investigation.
00:22:23.960 And two, when you're digging through people's dirty laundry, you realize what horrible people they are.
00:22:28.840 I have no doubt that Bob Mueller has read and seen a lot of things that make him think that Donald Trump is a no-good, dirty, rotten, terrible person.
00:22:36.760 Trump himself sort of admits this.
00:22:38.380 He says he's been in dodgy industries.
00:22:40.180 He says not being someone who drinks beer is one of his only good qualities.
00:22:45.540 You know, he kind of admits this.
00:22:46.840 He said he's had kind of a wild life.
00:22:48.960 And so what Mueller is trying to do is figure out a way to go back and fill in the gaps to let him reach the conclusion that Trump is a really, really bad guy and he shouldn't be in office.
00:23:00.740 That is not enough to undo an election.
00:23:04.180 That is simply not enough to undo a presidential election.
00:23:06.820 So I think for the right, basically this is good news.
00:23:11.240 They're going to go after him pretty hard on this campaign finance stuff.
00:23:15.500 It's very unclear if they can do it while he's in office.
00:23:18.000 It seems they can't do it while he's still the president.
00:23:19.880 So maybe they can do it once he's out of office.
00:23:21.840 But if he wins re-election, the statute of limitations will have passed.
00:23:25.020 So it's a really, really murky business.
00:23:27.220 And I think when you drill into the specifics, you see how totally cooked up and unfair the Mueller investigation is.
00:23:33.580 When you zoom out, that's really where you've got to look at it and say, what is the point of this?
00:23:38.780 What is the point?
00:23:39.600 Are we looking at Russian interference in the election?
00:23:41.780 Okay.
00:23:42.520 Why are we talking about Stormy Daniels and how many women Trump paid off in the 90s?
00:23:48.320 Oh, it's because you hate him and you want him out of office.
00:23:50.920 Not enough.
00:23:51.720 That does not justify an office of the special counsel investigation.
00:23:55.260 Speaking of women who are inserting themselves into politics in a strange way, 1.00
00:24:02.220 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is now a trans Jew. 0.90
00:24:06.600 In case you missed this, here she is. 0.98
00:24:08.720 People don't know about Brick Rico.
00:24:10.580 And one of the things that we discovered about ourselves is that a very, very long time ago,
00:24:16.000 generations and generations ago, my family consisted of Sephardic Jews.
00:24:20.700 And the story goes, during the Spanish Inquisition, so many people were forced to convert on the exterior to Catholicism,
00:24:45.320 but on the interior continued to practice their faith, continued to be who they were,
00:24:50.460 even though they were pressured to not be that on the outside world.
00:24:54.440 It's never occurred to me that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez might be a Jew.
00:24:58.380 I've never had so anti-Semitic a thought in my life as to accuse the Jews of being the people of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
00:25:06.480 It's really awful that this is running.
00:25:09.040 Where did she say this?
00:25:10.140 She was saying this at a Hanukkah event at Jews for Racial and Economic Justice.
00:25:15.580 So she's at some event for Hanukkah for a very left-wing group of Jews,
00:25:20.460 and she's now decided that she is going to be Jewish.
00:25:24.260 People are making comparisons, obviously, to Elizabeth Warren, Liawatha Warren.
00:25:29.200 Ocasio-Cortez did this in a much smarter way.
00:25:32.560 Why is she doing this? 1.00
00:25:33.520 Well, because she said very anti-Semitic things in public. 1.00
00:25:36.700 She does not seem to be a friend of Jews or of the Jewish state.
00:25:39.780 She referred to Israel as an apartheid state, I believe, or at least implied as much.
00:25:44.940 She referred to the Jewish occupation of Palestine.
00:25:48.820 Palestine, of course, being the fictional country to the east of Narnia and to the west of Wakanda.
00:25:54.300 And so she's got this kind of baggage on her.
00:25:57.300 So she goes there and says, you know, my ancestors were Jews.
00:25:59.760 I'm an ethnic Jew.
00:26:01.020 Is this true?
00:26:01.720 I'd probably not, but maybe, I guess.
00:26:05.060 She can take a DNA test, except she's probably learned a thing or two from Elizabeth Warren,
00:26:08.980 and she won't do this.
00:26:10.300 But this is an extension of the transgender ideology. 0.66
00:26:16.140 She can just say that she is, and it doesn't matter.
00:26:19.780 You know, Elizabeth Warren came out.
00:26:22.080 She said, I'm a Native American.
00:26:23.840 She used it for professional benefit.
00:26:25.800 She used it to advance her career.
00:26:27.100 She used it to pretend that she was the first Native American faculty member at Harvard or whatever she said. 1.00
00:26:34.660 And Ocasio-Cortez is not using it in that way.
00:26:38.160 She's just using it in this very nihilistic way, the way that words don't, they don't mean anything.
00:26:43.300 She's speaking at a group of Jews, and she says, oh, yeah, I'm Jewish somewhere back in the past.
00:26:48.600 And actually, the logic of it is exactly the transgender logic, because she says, my ancestors were on the outside Puerto Ricans or on the outside Spaniards or whatever, but on the inside, secretly, they were Jewish.
00:27:03.420 This is a logical extension of that sort of transgender ideology. 1.00
00:27:09.640 But the reason I bring this up is not to make fun of her for that.
00:27:13.340 It's probably a fairly shrewd strategy to sort of plant the seeds in a way that takes away any accountability to actually be Jewish.
00:27:21.140 The reason I bring this up is because Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has one of the greatest advantages in politics right now, which is that she is considered an idiot. 1.00
00:27:31.180 This is a big advantage.
00:27:33.780 Bill Clinton and George Bush were talking about this once at a, they were on stage having a conversation between the two of them, on the advantages of being underestimated.
00:27:43.640 President Bush, in different ways from me, but both of us, me, because I tend to look like I'm real nice, and him because he used to make fun of himself.
00:27:51.640 You always want to be underestimated by your adversaries.
00:27:55.160 He consistently benefited by being underestimated.
00:27:58.320 And so did I, for totally different reasons.
00:28:03.520 This is so true.
00:28:04.700 You see Bush on stage, they're kind of laughing because Clinton is calling him, is saying that he appears to be stupid, which, not very nice, but it's true. 0.85
00:28:13.500 This is certainly, what Bill Clinton said there is exactly true.
00:28:17.660 Bubba benefited from being seen as a really nice guy.
00:28:21.580 You know, he's not like Hillary.
00:28:22.780 He's really, I feel your pain.
00:28:24.660 You know, that's his whole shtick, playing saxophone on Arsenio Hall, a real cool, nice guy.
00:28:31.240 And Bush benefited from being perceived as stupid.
00:28:35.640 I mean, this was unbelievable that they called Bush stupid.
00:28:38.300 Bush, Yale graduate, Harvard Business School graduate.
00:28:41.200 He, you know, had a decent career in business, at least.
00:28:45.180 Bush was a successful governor of Texas.
00:28:47.820 When he was in the White House, George W. Bush had a game with some of his aides.
00:28:52.620 I think it was him and Karl Rove over who could read more books.
00:28:55.320 He's a voracious reader.
00:28:57.020 He has clearly a sophisticated inner life.
00:28:59.460 In his post-presidency, he's a painter.
00:29:02.020 And not just a painter, he's a pretty good painter.
00:29:04.460 There's that book of all of his paintings.
00:29:05.860 I have it on my coffee table.
00:29:06.920 It's very good.
00:29:07.660 Even New York Magazine, a left-wing outlet, admits that Bush is a pretty good painter.
00:29:11.460 He clearly has a sophisticated inner life, and people thought he was stupid.
00:29:15.520 I talked to people back in the day, back when Bush was president, who were not intelligent,
00:29:21.720 who did poorly in school, who did not do well on tests, who were not academically gifted.
00:29:27.320 And they said, oh, I'm so much smarter than George Bush.
00:29:29.720 Oh, I'm so much smarter.
00:29:31.000 George Bush is an idiot.
00:29:32.400 Christopher Hitchens famously went on Bill Maher's show, and he joked about this.
00:29:37.740 He said, you know, your audience is laughing at jokes about how George Bush is an idiot.
00:29:42.480 Anybody can make those jokes.
00:29:43.760 It's a joke for stupid people to laugh at.
00:29:45.920 All of your audience is mooing and booing and guffawing here, and not a single one of
00:29:52.040 them is smarter than President Bush.
00:29:54.140 And he's right.
00:29:55.040 But Bush benefited from that.
00:29:56.600 It really helped him maneuver pretty well.
00:29:58.440 Ocasio-Cortez is benefiting from this.
00:30:01.100 She's clearly a pretty shrewd politician. 1.00
00:30:03.140 She managed to get herself elected to Congress at 28.
00:30:05.380 She upended a longstanding incumbent because she saw an opening. 0.60
00:30:09.800 She saw that he, Joe Crowley, had not been campaigning.
00:30:13.000 He hadn't really gone out there, pressed the flesh, made relationships with people in 10
00:30:16.980 years.
00:30:17.840 And so she said, I can go in there and fill that spot.
00:30:20.040 And she's done it.
00:30:20.840 She's become a darling of the Democratic Party.
00:30:22.740 She constantly attracts press to herself. 0.99
00:30:25.560 She's a fundraiser now for the party. 0.90
00:30:27.560 She's even been a threat to Nancy Pelosi. 0.96
00:30:29.980 One of her first acts going to Congress was to go protest in Nancy Pelosi's office. 0.99
00:30:34.240 This is a shrewd politician.
00:30:36.360 She doesn't know anything.
00:30:37.620 I don't want to belabor the comparison here.
00:30:40.640 She's not like George W. Bush.
00:30:42.180 She's not reading a lot of books.
00:30:43.620 I don't know how sophisticated her inner life is.
00:30:45.780 But she's a shrewd politician. 0.99
00:30:47.340 And we're all laughing at her.
00:30:49.220 We shouldn't underestimate this woman.
00:30:51.680 She's pretty crafty. 1.00
00:30:53.440 She's pretty shrewd.
00:30:54.580 And she's advocating a terrible, vicious, left-wing, extreme ideology. 1.00
00:30:59.860 And I think some conservatives want to take the attitude toward her. 0.97
00:31:02.320 Or, oh, ha, ha, ha, how funny.
00:31:04.360 Oh, tee-hee-hee. 0.94
00:31:05.140 And that's fine.
00:31:05.700 She is very funny.
00:31:06.960 We do that at our own peril.
00:31:08.660 We should take this woman seriously in many ways.
00:31:11.720 Because she's been able to advance herself and her profile.
00:31:15.100 And we'll see if she'll be able to advance her agenda in Congress. 0.84
00:31:18.680 I suspect she probably will.
00:31:20.300 Conservatives did this with Bernie Sanders a while ago.
00:31:22.600 Bernie Sanders is a failure in his private life.
00:31:27.100 He basically never held a job until he got elected to office and went on the government dole.
00:31:31.380 He's a Looney Tune from Vermont, a socialist.
00:31:34.600 You know, he visited the Soviet Union to vacation.
00:31:37.200 I think he honeymooned there.
00:31:38.680 And so we made fun of him.
00:31:40.300 The man nearly got the Democratic nomination for presidency in 2016.
00:31:44.200 These things can happen fast.
00:31:46.740 These extreme political swings can happen very fast.
00:31:50.580 So we should watch out for her.
00:31:52.480 Trans Jew Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
00:31:56.080 Who knows?
00:31:56.780 She might be identifying as a senator soon. 0.98
00:31:59.020 She might be identifying as a presidential candidate if we don't watch it. 1.00
00:32:02.440 So we've got to pay attention.
00:32:04.160 I've got to say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube.
00:32:05.820 We've got to talk about the white people retreat.
00:32:08.060 The no white people retreat. 0.75
00:32:10.240 White people band.
00:32:11.260 This is people of color only yoga retreat in Costa Rica.
00:32:14.900 This is what the intersectional left has given us.
00:32:17.300 We've got to talk about Cabot Phillips' great new video.
00:32:20.080 He went down to the Savannah College of Art and Design.
00:32:22.440 And all the students want to take Clarence Thomas' name off a building.
00:32:25.680 Not one of them can explain why that is.
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00:33:07.320 Do you hate white people?
00:33:19.500 Do you not want to be around white people anymore? 0.98
00:33:21.660 Then head on down to the majority white country of Costa Rica.
00:33:24.880 Here is the No White People Allowed Vacation from the Whites retreat in Costa Rica. 0.95
00:33:31.360 Alexis Bromley is from Nebraska.
00:33:34.160 She needed a break from white people. 1.00
00:33:36.280 In Omaha, it's very segregated.
00:33:39.240 It can be very isolating if you're a person of color.
00:33:42.680 It's hard in Nebraska because it's a red state.
00:33:45.340 And so you just don't know who you interact with on a daily basis.
00:33:49.320 If they believe that you're lesser, if you're inferior, and how that in turn can affect me.
00:33:55.120 She says the current political climate has only made these feelings worse.
00:33:59.240 So she decided to go on a women of color healing retreat in Costa Rica.
00:34:03.740 Hi.
00:34:04.780 Such beautiful smiles.
00:34:06.280 Thank you guys so much for coming.
00:34:10.080 My blackness is bold.
00:34:12.920 My blackness is uninhibited.
00:34:14.940 My blackness is strength.
00:34:17.180 My whiteness is beige.
00:34:20.040 My tanness is oily.
00:34:22.920 My whiteness is swarthy.
00:34:26.860 I don't know.
00:34:27.400 I could go on and on.
00:34:28.780 I love the argument that she makes.
00:34:30.540 The woman there, she says, I live in Nebraska.
00:34:33.080 And Nebraska is really segregated and isolating.
00:34:36.380 So what I decided to do is segregate and isolate myself by going to Costa Rica and being away from all those damned white people. 0.93
00:34:43.820 The retreat, obviously, it bans white people.
00:34:47.080 Who was it founded by?
00:34:49.080 I'll give you five seconds.
00:34:50.940 Just describe to me the sort of person who would found this retreat.
00:34:55.880 You have a five, four, three, two, one.
00:34:59.980 If you didn't name a silly named hipster from Brooklyn as the founder of this retreat, you haven't been watching this show close enough.
00:35:08.800 This was obviously founded by a sillily named hipster from Brooklyn now living in Costa Rica.
00:35:15.600 Her name is Satya X.
00:35:17.540 That's her name.
00:35:18.200 Satya X.
00:35:19.640 And what do they do at this retreat?
00:35:21.240 They do a lot of yoga, proving Matt Walsh correct, that yoga is just pure paganism, purely a cultish ritual.
00:35:30.380 But there's a great irony here because they're leaving America and they're going to, which is, you know, how white is America? 0.76
00:35:38.460 It's only about 50% white, 60% white, maybe at most.
00:35:41.700 They go to Costa Rica, which is 83.4% white and mestizo. 0.99
00:35:47.960 That's the percentage of the population.
00:35:49.360 Blacks comprise or constitute 7% of the population.
00:35:53.320 It's 2.4% Indian, 0.2% Asian.
00:35:56.320 So they go to a very, very, very white place and they won't allow any white people to be there and they just focus on how beautiful they are.
00:36:03.860 Listen to how condescending that woman was at the beginning of that clip. 1.00
00:36:07.780 You saw she said, look at all these beautiful smiles.
00:36:10.600 Wow.
00:36:11.220 Like she's talking to them like they're three-year-olds.
00:36:14.420 How infantilizing is that?
00:36:16.960 It's so, I mean, this is the real danger of this racial intersectional ideology is that it's so infantilizing.
00:36:23.700 When they say that speech becomes violence, when they say that we need to separate, we need to re-segregate the races because people of color can't even bear to be around white. 0.74
00:36:34.740 Yes, they can.
00:36:35.320 You can bear it.
00:36:35.960 It's fine.
00:36:36.440 Everybody can bear it.
00:36:37.640 You can bear speech.
00:36:38.560 We can all bear speech.
00:36:39.640 We can all be around people who are different from us.
00:36:41.780 We can all be around people who look different from us.
00:36:43.680 It's okay.
00:36:44.540 You will be fine.
00:36:45.360 You are not an infant.
00:36:46.320 It's what I think it was Michael Gerson in the Bush administration referred to as the soft bigotry of low expectations.
00:36:55.340 That's what you're seeing.
00:36:56.420 You're seeing it from people who are coming out of the most absurd elitist white hipster culture.
00:37:03.840 Because that's what this is, this sort of thing, leaving your country, leaving your job for a little while, going to a tropical place, and doing yoga, and just thinking about yourself all the time, and turning in on yourself, and how special you are, and how wonderful you are.
00:37:20.960 That is the epitome of white hipster left-wing Brooklyn culture.
00:37:25.000 That's what it is.
00:37:25.480 So I'm not surprised at all that it was a Brooklyn hipster who founded the whole thing.
00:37:28.840 It is such an irony, though, this awful selfishness.
00:37:32.380 How do you get out of it?
00:37:33.840 I think the way that we get out of this awful culture of intersectionality is we stop thinking about ourselves so much.
00:37:41.760 A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small package indeed.
00:37:45.640 Stop thinking about yourself.
00:37:47.380 Stop thinking about your skin color.
00:37:49.160 Stop thinking about how beautiful you are.
00:37:51.360 Stop thinking about how special you are.
00:37:53.480 Stop thinking about how people are mean to you, and they're not fair, and it's just not fair.
00:37:58.180 Stop thinking about yourself, and start thinking about other things.
00:38:01.160 Start thinking about how can I make my community a better place?
00:38:04.000 How can I make my culture a little bit better?
00:38:06.120 How can I make my country better?
00:38:07.520 What can I do for my family, and my friends, and my people, and my country?
00:38:11.960 And how can I be a productive member of society?
00:38:14.140 Think about that.
00:38:15.000 Think about what you can do, not what everyone else can do for you and how you are just by being in the world.
00:38:20.800 You will be happier.
00:38:21.980 I promise you.
00:38:23.000 I promise you will be happier.
00:38:24.620 When you just sit around and think about yourself all day, you will become despairing, depressed, and miserable.
00:38:29.280 But if you do something out in the world, you won't be.
00:38:32.700 I think this has a lot to do with why millennials are so depressed, why they're anxious, why they're miserable, why rates of anxiety and depression and depression and drugs are skyrocketing.
00:38:43.400 It's because all we're doing is sitting around thinking about ourselves and thinking about our skin and thinking about how beautiful our smile is.
00:38:49.760 Stop it.
00:38:51.320 Stop it.
00:38:52.100 That is the definition of decadence.
00:38:54.260 This is why decadence and exorbitant luxury can make people miserable.
00:38:58.880 It's because you're just so focused in on yourself.
00:39:00.680 The world is a bright, beautiful place with a lot of diversity, with a lot of beautiful people who are black and who are white and who are this color and who have different ideas and who have this thought about religion and sexuality and comedy and who have a different thought and embrace the diversity.
00:39:15.620 It's a nice thing.
00:39:16.280 You can either – it's this great irony that the people who prattle on about diversity all the time are the ones segregating and isolating themselves.
00:39:24.200 Embrace the diversity.
00:39:25.460 Diversity is a wonderful thing.
00:39:27.400 Speaking of just totally homogenous thinking, Cabot Phillips from Campus Reform went down to the Savannah College of Art and Design because they want their – there is a petition to rename a building because it's named after Clarence Thomas.
00:39:42.420 Clarence Thomas, a black originalist Supreme Court justice.
00:39:45.860 They don't like this.
00:39:46.840 They want to take his name off the building.
00:39:48.580 Cabot Phillips goes down there.
00:39:49.780 He wants to see how many of them want the name off and how many of them can explain why.
00:39:55.040 There's a petition on campus to remove the name of Clarence Thomas, Supreme Court justice, from a building here.
00:40:01.500 What's your thought on the petition?
00:40:03.160 I honestly think he should be removed.
00:40:05.520 We should probably just take his name off the building.
00:40:07.900 It's not that big of a deal.
00:40:09.340 I agree that it should get removed.
00:40:11.320 What's your thought on the petition?
00:40:12.220 Uh, I agree.
00:40:14.940 I don't think he represents the student body.
00:40:17.040 Uh, I would sign it.
00:40:18.460 Um, I think I'd probably sign the petition.
00:40:20.700 And is there anything that you would point to as something that he's done that would warrant that?
00:40:25.880 I don't know.
00:40:26.980 Um, hmm.
00:40:31.180 Do you mind if I get back to you?
00:40:33.020 Hmm.
00:40:33.420 Uh, is there anything that comes to mind, um, that he's done that you would point to as something that you think disqualifies him?
00:40:42.700 I don't know.
00:40:43.300 I've done much research on this.
00:40:44.920 I just saw a Facebook petition about it.
00:40:48.220 And that's kind of the extent of it.
00:40:50.020 He is a historical figure, though.
00:40:53.320 Uh, so is Hitler. 0.90
00:40:55.520 Okay.
00:40:55.780 Is there anything that Justice Thomas has done that you would point to and say, that's why we shouldn't have him?
00:41:02.400 I mean, not in particular.
00:41:04.220 Not in particular.
00:41:04.940 Because I can point to a few things that Hitler did as reasons for which we shouldn't name a building after Hitler. 0.75
00:41:11.340 I can point to at least a few things that he did.
00:41:14.500 Um, talk about programming.
00:41:15.960 I mean, it is pretty scary to look at this.
00:41:18.760 Because all of them uniformly have the same opinion.
00:41:22.480 Clarence Thomas bad.
00:41:24.100 Take Clarence Thomas off building.
00:41:25.780 Clarence Thomas no good.
00:41:27.120 Mean, mean guy.
00:41:28.860 Why?
00:41:29.420 Not a single one of them can say it.
00:41:30.900 This is that new meme that's going around of the NPC, the non-player character, which depicts left-wingers as just bland, totally empty-headed automatons just going along without any will or agency of their own.
00:41:43.920 And, yeah, that's what it is.
00:41:46.340 That's what we're looking at right now.
00:41:48.400 Why are they all so sure that Clarence Thomas is a terrible guy?
00:41:51.540 Well, one, they've been probably taught it in school.
00:41:54.760 They've been taught that originalism is bad and Clarence Thomas especially is bad.
00:41:59.180 They've probably been taught that without any explanation of why exactly that is.
00:42:02.620 But the other, and that person at the end said that there had been a petition on Facebook.
00:42:07.660 And probably what happens is somebody sees a petition on Facebook.
00:42:10.140 They see that their friends like the petition and then they just decide, based on that social proof, that they are going to agree with that position as well, even though they don't know the opinion itself.
00:42:20.060 There is a lot of mobbing that goes on, which is in part because of social media and it's in part because of the nature of politics on campus and for millennials.
00:42:31.060 Really scary stuff.
00:42:32.200 I mean, whether they rename the building or not, they shouldn't rename the building, but whether they do or not, just to look at that back to back, all of those people dead certain that they should rename the building, none of them could explain why.
00:42:44.840 And they didn't seem even bothered that they couldn't explain why.
00:42:49.040 Really, I hope that seeing that would wake some of them up to say, hmm, maybe I should examine my own positions.
00:42:56.060 But what this means is that the right needs to reconsider how we persuade people.
00:43:00.740 This is why I'm a huge fan of owning the libs.
00:43:04.220 This is why I advocate it in a detached way, in an academic way.
00:43:08.680 It is a very good strategy because talking to those people, reasoned arguments are not primarily what they're basing their opinions on.
00:43:16.560 They're not.
00:43:16.960 I love reasoned arguments as much as the next guy.
00:43:19.380 I love reasoned arguments.
00:43:20.600 That's what compels me.
00:43:21.640 But it isn't primarily what is compelling those people.
00:43:24.380 Clearly not.
00:43:24.980 They couldn't recite one reasoned argument.
00:43:27.120 What is compelling them is culture.
00:43:29.480 As Andrew Breitbart said, politics is downstream of culture.
00:43:32.620 You've got to hit them on the culture.
00:43:34.760 You've got to hit them with the meme.
00:43:36.440 You've got to hit them with whatever, the tweet or the movie or the TV show or the song or whatever.
00:43:42.880 You've got to hit them on the culture.
00:43:44.420 That is what's going to lead down to politics.
00:43:46.680 It is not going to go the other way.
00:43:48.280 There are many reasoned arguments for how wonderful Clarence Thomas is.
00:43:51.640 There are no reasoned arguments for why he should be removed from a building.
00:43:54.980 Or his name should be removed from a building.
00:43:57.120 But that part comes later.
00:43:59.020 You've got to hit them first.
00:44:00.380 Because this generation of people is not being convinced primarily by the arguments.
00:44:05.160 Before we go, Pope Francis wants to rewrite the Lord's Prayer.
00:44:10.220 This is very frustrating.
00:44:11.580 The Lord's Prayer, the Our Father Prayer, Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
00:44:15.760 They specifically want to rewrite at the end where it says,
00:44:19.080 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
00:44:24.340 And Francis suggested that this be rewritten a while ago.
00:44:28.320 He said it was a bad translation.
00:44:30.620 He said that the lead us not into temptation is a bad translation.
00:44:34.600 Because God would never lead us into temptation.
00:44:37.460 So it must be a wrong translation.
00:44:40.000 They never make an argument from the original Greek text.
00:44:42.560 Which makes it clear that God is the one being referred to as leading into temptation.
00:44:48.360 But what Pope Francis said then was,
00:44:50.520 A father doesn't do that.
00:44:52.500 He helps you get up right away.
00:44:54.240 What induces into temptation is Satan.
00:44:56.620 So he wants to rewrite it to say,
00:44:59.000 Abandon us not into temptation.
00:45:02.100 And this is a terrible idea.
00:45:05.240 The word in question here is,
00:45:07.200 In the Greek, I'm going to butcher it, 1.00
00:45:08.700 Is parasmos.
00:45:10.560 Temptation.
00:45:11.080 It can mean temptation.
00:45:11.780 It can mean trial.
00:45:12.620 It can mean testing.
00:45:14.160 And so what is being said is,
00:45:17.900 Lead us not to the trial.
00:45:19.200 Lead us not to the testing.
00:45:20.600 Lead us not into temptation.
00:45:22.180 It is referring to God.
00:45:23.600 We are asking God not to lead us.
00:45:25.160 This current suggestion says that only Satan can lead us into temptation.
00:45:29.600 The reason we know that that isn't true,
00:45:31.920 Is because we find the Lord's Prayer in the Gospel according to St. Matthew.
00:45:36.860 In Matthew chapter 6.
00:45:39.080 Two chapters earlier.
00:45:40.660 In chapter 4.
00:45:42.420 Jesus is led by the Spirit to be tempted by the devil in the wilderness.
00:45:48.700 It's the devil doing the tempting.
00:45:50.020 But it is God the Spirit doing the leading.
00:45:53.500 Two chapters before we get the Lord's Prayer.
00:45:56.300 And the people who want to change this want to change it because they feel uncomfortable with the notion that God can lead us to a test or to a trial or to be tempted.
00:46:05.160 But it is clear from the Greek, and it is clear from two chapters earlier in Matthew, that that is the case.
00:46:10.920 Seems a really bad idea to rewrite a prayer known as the Lord's Prayer.
00:46:15.960 He doesn't like it when we contradict him.
00:46:19.680 And the reason that this is gaining traction is because of widespread theological illiteracy and apathy.
00:46:29.580 But we shouldn't do it.
00:46:30.600 Even some conservative Catholics and Christians I know said,
00:46:33.960 Oh, what's the issue?
00:46:35.220 This seems to make sense.
00:46:36.420 God shouldn't lead people into temptation.
00:46:38.880 Okay, I see why that intuitively makes sense to you.
00:46:41.500 But that doesn't make sense from the text.
00:46:43.360 There's a reason why every translation, every major translation of this uses the phrase lead us not into temptation.
00:46:48.720 We'll see how that is received by the Catholic Church and by Christians, Protestant Christians more broadly as well.
00:46:56.180 But not a great idea.
00:46:58.640 We'll have to have some prelates on soon to ask them how this is going to be instituted.
00:47:03.820 That's all.
00:47:04.480 Just rewriting, just rewriting the Lord's Prayer.
00:47:06.400 That's how we'll end today.
00:47:07.720 A lot more to get to.
00:47:08.620 We'll do it tomorrow.
00:47:09.280 In the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles.
00:47:10.360 This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:47:11.160 I'll see you tomorrow.
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00:47:51.300 Also, we'll talk about transgender pronouns and space aliens and dog worship. 0.58
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