The Michael Knowles Show - December 11, 2018


Ep. 266 - The Real 'Person of the Year'


Episode Stats

Length

47 minutes

Words per Minute

185.03552

Word Count

8,700

Sentence Count

711

Misogynist Sentences

10

Hate Speech Sentences

30


Summary

Time named Jamal Khashoggi Person of the Year, and it was a big mistake. The mainstream media chose him as the person of the year because he was a liberal journalist who stood up to the Saudi regime and spoke out against them.


Transcript

00:00:00.160 Time Magazine reports the fakest news of the year.
00:00:03.180 The Oscars may not have any host at all,
00:00:05.620 and Chuck and Nancy make a huge mistake
00:00:07.740 during an explosive Oval Office meeting.
00:00:10.520 Finally, a heartwarming moment at a Nashville airport
00:00:13.040 on This Is America.
00:00:14.320 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:00:23.400 The mainstream media, Time Magazine,
00:00:26.220 has decided that for the person of the year,
00:00:29.200 they are going to select the mainstream media.
00:00:32.960 Here they are.
00:00:34.600 Who holds governments accountable now?
00:00:37.040 We cross these lines.
00:00:38.880 We sound the alert.
00:00:40.600 There are now people in power who see journalism as a threat.
00:00:48.040 Freedom of the press starts at the local level.
00:00:56.200 It is violence, fear, and lies.
00:00:59.200 We don't have the luxury to lose our freedom.
00:01:02.940 What are you going to stand for?
00:01:04.480 What is the line that you won't cross?
00:01:07.600 The Guardians, the war on truth,
00:01:10.300 Jamal Khashoggi, and basically anyone who doesn't like Donald Trump.
00:01:13.560 We will explain why the mainstream media continues to be distrusted,
00:01:17.960 why everybody just despises them,
00:01:20.120 and why they are the most self-aggrandizing people on planet Earth.
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00:02:52.560 The time person of the year.
00:02:54.620 I woke up today and I knew it was going to be a fun show.
00:02:58.000 I just knew.
00:02:59.200 I looked.
00:02:59.940 I always look right when I wake up.
00:03:01.180 I look at the news.
00:03:02.200 Person of the year, Jamal Khashoggi.
00:03:05.040 But not just Jamal Khashoggi.
00:03:05.920 You'll remember Jamal Khashoggi is the Islamist former Saudi insider
00:03:09.300 who was brutally killed, truly brutally killed,
00:03:12.280 by the Saudi regime in an embassy in Turkey.
00:03:15.120 And the mainstream media tried to paint this guy as a liberal Western democratic reformer journalist.
00:03:22.200 Total bunk.
00:03:23.580 And they made him the person of the year and all of the guardians,
00:03:27.740 the mainstream media, the defenders of truth,
00:03:31.440 the most fictional group of people I've ever heard of in my life.
00:03:33.980 Here's how the piece begins.
00:03:35.540 Quote,
00:03:36.920 The stout man with the gray goatee and the gentle demeanor dared to disagree with his country's government.
00:03:43.400 Talking about Jamal Khashoggi.
00:03:44.680 He told the world the truth about its brutality toward those who would speak out.
00:03:49.520 And he was murdered for it.
00:03:51.480 Every detail of Jamal Khashoggi's killing made it a sensation.
00:03:57.380 Virtually nothing about that statement is true.
00:04:00.180 He's a stout man with a gray goatee and a gentle demeanor.
00:04:03.040 I'm not sure about this.
00:04:04.060 He regularly propagandized for Hamas.
00:04:07.740 He was a defender and a member, certainly at one time and maybe for his entire life,
00:04:13.400 of the Muslim Brotherhood.
00:04:14.940 He didn't just dare to disagree with his country's government.
00:04:17.880 The Saudi government has been brutal, has been vicious, has murdered dissonance,
00:04:22.420 has trampled on human rights for a very, very long time.
00:04:26.200 And for most of the time that the Saudi government was doing it,
00:04:28.720 Jamal Khashoggi was helping them to do it.
00:04:30.580 He was a Saudi insider.
00:04:31.620 He was a royal advisor.
00:04:33.120 He was a spy for the Saudi government.
00:04:35.160 It was only when a new faction of the Saudi regime came to power that he fell out of favor
00:04:41.440 and the mainstream media painted him as this democratic reformer.
00:04:44.620 He never, ever was that.
00:04:46.360 It is simply a lie.
00:04:47.980 There are photos of him holding assault rifles in Afghanistan
00:04:51.140 when he was there with Osama bin Laden in the 80s.
00:04:54.380 This is not a gentle guy who happened to finally blow the whistle on the excesses of his government.
00:05:01.200 Everybody knows how awful the Saudi regime is and Jamal Khashoggi helped them in their excesses.
00:05:07.380 He helped the regime until his side of the government fell out of power.
00:05:10.560 And ironically, actually, the new side of the Saudi government, run by Mohammed bin Salman,
00:05:15.400 is much more reforming, is much friendlier toward Western powers and Western interests.
00:05:22.900 One of Jamal Khashoggi's major complaints against the Saudi regime was they were too nice to Israel.
00:05:28.060 They were dealing with Israel too much.
00:05:30.200 They shouldn't be so nice to all those Jews.
00:05:31.840 Jamal Khashoggi also blamed the United States for bringing 9-11 on itself.
00:05:39.880 Very few people have written about this.
00:05:41.940 But Jamal Khashoggi, in the wake of 9-11, said,
00:05:45.240 Saudis tend to link the ugliness of what happened in New York and Washington
00:05:48.540 with what has happened and continues to happen in Palestine.
00:05:51.940 That's the fictional country between Wakanda and Narnia.
00:05:54.700 It is time that the United States comes to understand the effect of its foreign policy
00:05:58.520 and the consequences of that policy.
00:06:00.460 But unfortunately, such rationalization is still not part of the American reality,
00:06:05.380 saying this is the consequence of supporting Israel,
00:06:08.900 is that Muslim terrorists fly planes into your buildings and kill 3,000 civilians.
00:06:13.880 That's what Jamal Khashoggi said, the democratic, wonderful, reformer, American resident.
00:06:18.940 He wasn't even a permanent resident.
00:06:20.620 This is what they're trying to make it out.
00:06:22.160 This is Time Magazine's Person of the Year.
00:06:24.000 What is the real story behind Khashoggi?
00:06:25.820 We've said a number of aspects of it before.
00:06:28.260 Worth pointing out, he was officially a royal advisor.
00:06:32.900 He traveled with King Abdullah, the previous king of the kingdom.
00:06:37.780 He was very close with Prince Turkey al-Faisal.
00:06:40.780 That's how we know that he very likely worked as a Saudi spy.
00:06:44.540 In 2015, this all turned around because King Salman rose to power
00:06:48.160 and Mohammed bin Salman became the heir apparent, the crown prince of the kingdom.
00:06:53.180 Why has the mainstream media jumped to elevate this guy?
00:06:57.600 Look, I'm actually not defending his killing.
00:07:00.360 Some people have accused me of defending the killing of Jamal Khashoggi.
00:07:03.700 I'm not doing that at all.
00:07:04.800 It's awful to kill people in embassies and chop them up while they're alive.
00:07:08.600 I'm not defending that.
00:07:10.160 What I'm saying is when you play around with awful regimes,
00:07:14.280 when you're a close advisor to awful regimes,
00:07:16.600 when you support Islamist movements throughout the Middle East and radical Islamism,
00:07:21.400 when you weep over the death of Osama bin Laden,
00:07:24.620 you're known by the friends you keep and bad things might happen to you.
00:07:27.380 That's my entire thesis on Jamal Khashoggi.
00:07:30.560 So why is the mainstream media defending him so much?
00:07:33.660 In part, this is just a side war in defending Barack Obama and attacking Donald Trump.
00:07:40.300 Barack Obama tried to cozy up to Iran.
00:07:42.660 Donald Trump is protecting our alliance with Saudi Arabia as a power that is contrary to Iran.
00:07:50.220 Donald Trump ripped up the Iran nuclear deal.
00:07:53.400 Donald Trump is standing by the Saudis as a stave against Iranian hegemony in the region.
00:08:00.540 So that's a little bit of what's going on with the mainstream media.
00:08:03.240 Now, the Time magazine article doesn't get everything wrong.
00:08:06.580 It names a few real journalists.
00:08:07.960 Her name is Maria Ressler, who is a journalist in the Philippines covering the Duterte regime.
00:08:13.780 She might go to jail for doing her job.
00:08:16.520 Obviously, that's a real journalist.
00:08:18.560 They cover a Capitol newspaper in Maryland.
00:08:22.640 And the Capitol newspaper, you'll remember, they had those five staffers gunned down in June.
00:08:27.620 But even covering this, which is, you know, it was such an awful shooting that happened there.
00:08:33.740 Time magazine is covering it to attack Donald Trump.
00:08:36.220 Listen to what they write.
00:08:37.240 Quote, in Annapolis, Maryland, staff of the Capitol, a newspaper published by Capital Gazette Communications,
00:08:42.940 which traces its history of telling readers about the events in Maryland to before the American Revolution,
00:08:48.000 press on without the five colleagues gunned down in their newsroom on June 28th.
00:08:53.060 Still intact, indeed strengthened after the mass shooting,
00:08:56.760 are the bonds of trust and community that for national news outlets have been eroded on strikingly partisan lines,
00:09:04.100 never more than this year.
00:09:07.220 What an astounding statement to say.
00:09:11.420 What Time magazine is doing here is accusing Republicans of being responsible for the shooting in Maryland,
00:09:16.380 which has no basis in reality.
00:09:19.700 And even their line that trust of American news outlets has broken down on partisan lines isn't true.
00:09:25.820 The majority of Americans, Democrats, independents, and Republicans, distrust the mainstream media.
00:09:31.960 The majority of Democrats, too.
00:09:33.240 It is not eroded on strikingly partisan lines.
00:09:35.840 That is fake news.
00:09:36.800 That is just as fake news as calling Jamal Khashoggi a Western liberal reformer journalist
00:09:43.320 and making him person of the year.
00:09:45.300 There were a couple other real reporters.
00:09:49.000 Two reporters for Reuters in Myanmar were thrown in jail for documenting the deaths of Rohingya people there.
00:09:56.320 They were named in the article, OK.
00:09:57.980 Bangladeshi photographer was jailed for 100 days for criticizing the prime minister.
00:10:02.940 So what they do, they're so smart about this,
00:10:05.980 is they mix in real journalists who are actually being persecuted for shedding light on corrupt governments.
00:10:11.520 They're mixing that in with fake news stories to attack Donald Trump,
00:10:17.060 to try to pretend that a Bangladeshi photographer being thrown in jail for criticizing the prime minister
00:10:21.700 is the same thing as Jim Acosta grandstanding and not giving up the microphone
00:10:26.720 and not letting other reporters ask questions, losing his press pass for five minutes.
00:10:31.080 That's what they're trying to do.
00:10:32.700 And they're trying to compare a Saudi spy insider Islamist
00:10:36.720 who wants the whole Middle East to be run by an Islamic theocracy
00:10:40.640 and who wants Israel blown off the map.
00:10:42.760 They're trying to make him seem like some wonderful Western journalist.
00:10:46.840 He's out there, you know, working the beat for the Washington Post.
00:10:50.940 Unbelievably not true.
00:10:55.180 You know, if Time Magazine really wanted to put journalists up front,
00:10:59.400 which they can, especially international journalists
00:11:01.440 who actually are up against corrupt regimes,
00:11:03.900 lead with them.
00:11:05.340 Lead with those guys, but they don't lead with them.
00:11:07.100 They lead in their video, in their story.
00:11:08.840 They lead with Donald Trump and Jamal Khashoggi.
00:11:12.700 Just no, no credibility at all.
00:11:15.280 What are the takeaways here?
00:11:17.000 Obviously, the mainstream media have a very overinflated view of themselves.
00:11:21.460 The other takeaway is that the only unifying theme right now on the left
00:11:26.360 is hatred of Donald Trump.
00:11:28.660 That's all that's unifying them.
00:11:29.940 They can't pick some activist or some politician
00:11:32.440 or some businessman who would be person of the year.
00:11:35.400 All they can do is take the opponent of Donald Trump,
00:11:38.860 which is the lying media, like Time Magazine,
00:11:41.720 and say that's the person of the year.
00:11:43.320 It's all about Trump.
00:11:44.380 He's living rent-free in their heads.
00:11:46.380 And then what it shows is this obliviousness of the mainstream media.
00:11:50.480 They're saying that Republicans hate the media
00:11:53.820 and trust is at an all-time low,
00:11:55.440 but Democrats love the media.
00:11:57.260 That isn't true.
00:11:58.500 Trust in the media is at an all-time low.
00:12:01.680 According to Axios SurveyMonkey, the majority of Americans believe,
00:12:05.960 72% believe, quote,
00:12:07.880 traditional major news outlets report news
00:12:09.960 they know to be fake, false, or purposely misleading.
00:12:14.680 A huge majority of Americans, 92% of the GOP,
00:12:18.580 79% of independents, and 53% of Democrats,
00:12:22.420 even the majority of Democrats,
00:12:24.100 think that major mainstream news outlets
00:12:26.120 knowingly lie and present fake news.
00:12:29.340 And this didn't just start with Trump.
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00:14:06.340 This didn't begin.
00:14:08.080 There's a distrust in the media.
00:14:10.080 This didn't begin with Donald Trump.
00:14:12.220 People want to say,
00:14:12.840 well, yes, people distrust the media now
00:14:14.480 because Trump is using the bully pulpit
00:14:16.080 of the presidency to attack the media every day.
00:14:18.860 No way.
00:14:19.200 It goes back way before Trump.
00:14:20.600 It goes back to before Barack Obama was the president.
00:14:23.700 A 2008 Princeton survey showed
00:14:25.840 just how far trust in the media had fallen.
00:14:28.940 According to one survey in 1956,
00:14:31.700 the strong majority of Americans
00:14:33.760 thought that newspapers were fair.
00:14:36.020 66% of Americans thought the newspapers were fair.
00:14:40.020 By 2004, 10% of Americans
00:14:43.300 had a great deal of confidence in the press.
00:14:45.220 66% down to 10%.
00:14:49.540 That is a massive drop-off.
00:14:53.760 The media did this to themselves.
00:14:55.580 The media did this to themselves
00:14:56.920 because they lied,
00:14:58.420 because they were hacks,
00:14:59.780 because they carried water
00:15:00.960 for their favored politicians,
00:15:02.720 and they pretended that they were objective.
00:15:05.280 If they were just pushing aside,
00:15:07.200 if they were activists,
00:15:08.100 if they had a point of view,
00:15:09.360 if they were giving commentary
00:15:10.680 or punditry or opinion or whatever,
00:15:13.200 I do that.
00:15:14.280 I have a side.
00:15:15.280 I have opinions about the world.
00:15:16.700 I have a particular viewpoint.
00:15:18.640 I'm honest about that.
00:15:20.060 And if they were to do that,
00:15:21.260 I highly suspect
00:15:22.480 that their approval ratings
00:15:24.740 and their trust in them
00:15:26.340 would not have dropped so much,
00:15:27.920 but it certainly did.
00:15:28.920 So who should be the person of the year?
00:15:30.540 Who should get it?
00:15:31.960 I was really upset
00:15:33.140 because I think it was People Magazine
00:15:34.660 decided that Michael B. Jordan
00:15:37.000 was the sexiest Michael of the year,
00:15:38.880 and then Michael Avenatti was number two
00:15:41.260 or something like that.
00:15:42.600 Are you kidding me?
00:15:43.420 I get it.
00:15:44.020 I get it that I'm not Michael B. Jordan.
00:15:46.220 Okay, I'm willing.
00:15:47.380 I'm self-aware enough.
00:15:49.080 Michael Avenatti.
00:15:50.280 I don't beat out Michael Avenatti.
00:15:51.700 Real nice, guys.
00:15:53.320 But we're not talking about
00:15:54.100 the sexiest person of the year.
00:15:55.060 We're talking about
00:15:55.440 the Time Magazine person of the year.
00:15:57.620 Who should get it?
00:15:59.260 There are a few options.
00:16:00.200 If they wanted to do this
00:16:02.120 sort of dissident theme,
00:16:05.180 if they wanted to do this
00:16:06.300 someone speaking truth to power,
00:16:08.280 being unfairly targeted
00:16:09.660 by those in power,
00:16:10.700 okay,
00:16:11.140 then they should have really made it
00:16:12.580 the dissident,
00:16:13.400 and they should have made it
00:16:14.200 conservatives on social media.
00:16:16.040 All of the conservatives
00:16:17.000 who are being banned,
00:16:19.120 censored,
00:16:19.920 thrown out,
00:16:21.120 silenced by social media.
00:16:22.520 And it's not just Alex Jones
00:16:23.740 and the shirtless vitamin salesman
00:16:25.660 and the gay frogs.
00:16:26.940 It's not just that.
00:16:28.320 It's Gavin McGinnis,
00:16:29.180 conservative comedian,
00:16:30.520 has been thrown off of YouTube,
00:16:31.820 has been thrown off of his platforms.
00:16:34.220 Jesse Kelly,
00:16:35.660 who is a totally mainstream guy,
00:16:37.320 congressional candidate,
00:16:38.300 radio host,
00:16:38.860 he was kicked off
00:16:39.660 until the outcry was so large.
00:16:41.520 It should be conservatives
00:16:42.360 on social media.
00:16:43.160 That would be a,
00:16:43.660 that's a real dissident.
00:16:44.740 Not Jim Acosta
00:16:45.960 or Saudi regime insiders.
00:16:47.840 That's a real dissident.
00:16:48.600 If they wanted to do
00:16:52.120 another group one
00:16:52.920 and they don't want to do
00:16:54.480 the dissident,
00:16:55.020 because frankly,
00:16:55.920 you know,
00:16:56.660 the dissident thing
00:16:58.000 has been done.
00:17:00.380 Who could they have done?
00:17:01.440 If they were to do
00:17:02.000 a good group one,
00:17:02.960 it probably should be
00:17:04.020 the American worker.
00:17:06.260 They do this sometimes.
00:17:07.140 Sometimes they'll pick
00:17:07.740 individual people,
00:17:08.580 then sometimes they will pick,
00:17:09.760 you know,
00:17:10.980 you.
00:17:11.500 In 2006,
00:17:12.200 it was you
00:17:12.800 because of YouTube
00:17:13.620 and the rise of social media.
00:17:15.420 They should have done this year
00:17:16.400 for a group person of the year.
00:17:18.420 The American worker,
00:17:19.340 the American worker
00:17:20.040 is doing better right now
00:17:21.560 than he has done in decades.
00:17:24.340 His real wages are going up.
00:17:25.720 His real income is going up.
00:17:27.540 Unemployment basically
00:17:28.540 does not exist.
00:17:29.540 There are more jobs to fill
00:17:30.720 than people to fill them right now.
00:17:32.520 This is especially true
00:17:33.700 at black unemployment.
00:17:35.340 Black unemployment
00:17:35.900 is at record lows.
00:17:37.120 Hispanic unemployment
00:17:38.060 has plunged.
00:17:39.480 The American worker
00:17:40.440 is doing very well.
00:17:41.440 Why is the American worker
00:17:42.480 doing well?
00:17:42.900 Because the economy
00:17:43.460 is doing well
00:17:43.980 under President Trump
00:17:44.860 because people are allowed
00:17:45.720 to keep more of their
00:17:46.380 money and invest more
00:17:47.220 of their money
00:17:47.620 in the economy
00:17:48.280 and because the president
00:17:50.420 has taken measures
00:17:51.820 to fight trade wars
00:17:53.460 that we are already in.
00:17:54.940 We are already
00:17:55.640 in a trade war with China.
00:17:57.140 President Trump
00:17:57.660 is defending American workers
00:17:59.140 against that trade war,
00:18:01.800 against the assaults
00:18:02.880 by the Chinese government
00:18:03.760 on the American worker.
00:18:05.380 Even with some of our allies,
00:18:06.840 you know,
00:18:07.020 America's hat,
00:18:07.800 Canada,
00:18:08.500 they have their
00:18:09.040 protective tariffs
00:18:09.880 but they don't want us
00:18:10.760 to have our protective tariffs.
00:18:11.900 They want to protect
00:18:12.440 their workers
00:18:12.980 but they don't want us
00:18:13.800 to protect our workers.
00:18:14.740 President Trump
00:18:15.140 has gone in
00:18:15.660 and renegotiated
00:18:17.940 some of those trade deals.
00:18:19.340 This was a big benefit.
00:18:20.360 It's a big benefit
00:18:21.020 to the worker.
00:18:21.660 We'll see in the long run
00:18:23.160 how this fares
00:18:23.940 for the economy.
00:18:25.000 I think we're on
00:18:25.460 the longest bull run
00:18:26.440 in history
00:18:27.060 or something like that.
00:18:28.220 We're on a historically
00:18:29.060 long bull run
00:18:30.920 for the markets
00:18:31.560 so eventually
00:18:32.220 there will be a correction
00:18:33.220 but that would have been
00:18:34.360 a good group effort
00:18:35.060 for the person of the year.
00:18:36.320 The real individual
00:18:37.280 of the year
00:18:37.840 because I don't think
00:18:38.740 that there should be
00:18:39.220 group persons
00:18:40.820 of the year.
00:18:41.500 We're talking about
00:18:42.020 the person of the year.
00:18:42.860 We're talking about
00:18:43.360 individuals who have done
00:18:44.860 important things
00:18:45.660 in the year
00:18:45.980 and define the year
00:18:46.720 is Brett Kavanaugh.
00:18:48.960 He is the person
00:18:49.760 of the year.
00:18:50.640 He showed more than anybody
00:18:52.480 the fault lines
00:18:53.700 in American politics.
00:18:55.280 You have an unimpeachably
00:18:56.520 dignified federal judge
00:18:59.060 for a dozen years,
00:19:00.700 impeccable credentials
00:19:01.660 and the left
00:19:03.040 was so furious
00:19:04.200 that their fictitious
00:19:05.860 constitutional right
00:19:06.940 to an abortion
00:19:07.540 might be threatened
00:19:08.320 possibly by a change
00:19:10.440 in the swing of the court
00:19:11.340 that they tried
00:19:12.120 to paint Brett Kavanaugh
00:19:13.240 to be a gang rapist
00:19:14.640 based on nothing,
00:19:17.100 based on less than nothing
00:19:18.240 and some of the people
00:19:19.320 who made those false claims
00:19:20.960 against him
00:19:21.420 are now being
00:19:22.180 criminally investigated.
00:19:23.660 Brett Kavanaugh
00:19:24.200 should be the person
00:19:24.840 of the year.
00:19:25.220 What he endured,
00:19:26.760 what he showed
00:19:27.420 about the significance
00:19:28.460 of presidential elections
00:19:29.680 and how elections
00:19:30.580 have consequences,
00:19:31.900 what he has shown us
00:19:32.880 about the constitution
00:19:34.320 and what the constitution
00:19:36.360 means for the judiciary
00:19:37.460 and what it means
00:19:38.320 for our system
00:19:38.880 of government
00:19:39.400 and what he showed
00:19:41.840 about how far
00:19:43.240 and how low
00:19:44.380 the left is willing
00:19:45.180 to go to attack
00:19:46.260 American constitutional governments.
00:19:49.240 That guy is the person
00:19:50.120 of the year
00:19:50.540 but he won't get it.
00:19:51.640 They're instead
00:19:52.080 going to give it
00:19:52.560 to an ex-Saudi spy
00:19:54.200 Islamist friend
00:19:55.780 of Osama Bin Laden
00:19:56.620 and to Jim Acosta
00:19:58.940 basically.
00:19:59.720 Okay.
00:20:00.540 Speaking of things
00:20:01.680 that are equally frivolous
00:20:03.600 as Jim Acosta
00:20:04.780 and the American
00:20:05.420 mainstream media,
00:20:06.740 the Oscars
00:20:07.400 might not have
00:20:08.320 any host at all.
00:20:10.480 So you know the Oscars,
00:20:11.360 they had this big blow up
00:20:12.240 because they selected
00:20:13.300 Kevin Hart,
00:20:13.960 who's a comedian,
00:20:14.740 to be the host
00:20:15.380 of the Oscars
00:20:16.020 and then they attacked him
00:20:17.200 for a 10-year-old joke,
00:20:19.080 a joke he told 10 years ago
00:20:20.500 about how he didn't want
00:20:22.020 his son to be gay
00:20:22.860 and he is now out.
00:20:25.800 So now no comedian
00:20:26.880 who's ever told a gay joke
00:20:28.000 can be the host
00:20:28.680 of the Oscars,
00:20:29.640 which is every single comedian.
00:20:31.080 So there is no comedian
00:20:32.160 that they can do.
00:20:33.260 Now they have a suggestion
00:20:34.520 that they're not going
00:20:35.080 to have any one host.
00:20:36.120 They're going to have
00:20:36.460 a bunch of different
00:20:37.160 little people come up
00:20:38.180 and do little bits
00:20:39.320 of the show.
00:20:39.780 This is a horrible idea.
00:20:40.860 It totally typifies leftism.
00:20:42.520 But just to show you
00:20:43.680 how insane it was
00:20:44.840 to kick out Kevin Hart,
00:20:46.020 because we've all read
00:20:46.960 about the comedy routine
00:20:49.480 that he did
00:20:50.080 about his gay son,
00:20:51.780 how he didn't want
00:20:52.420 his son to be gay.
00:20:53.340 We all read it
00:20:54.100 and we say,
00:20:54.520 oh, that's not funny.
00:20:55.420 Ooh, that's not,
00:20:56.080 no, no, no.
00:20:56.860 Here is the actual clip
00:20:58.280 from the comedy special
00:20:59.480 of Kevin Hart's joke.
00:21:01.280 This is why
00:21:02.120 the Oscars
00:21:03.060 will not have a host
00:21:03.780 this year.
00:21:04.120 I got a lot of fears,
00:21:06.840 man.
00:21:07.640 I got a lot of fears
00:21:08.340 as a parent.
00:21:09.480 I'm going to tell you guys
00:21:09.920 one of my biggest fears.
00:21:10.760 One of my biggest fears
00:21:11.620 is my son growing up
00:21:13.160 and being gay.
00:21:14.600 That's a fear.
00:21:15.860 Keep in mind,
00:21:16.440 I'm not homophobic.
00:21:17.380 I have nothing
00:21:17.740 against gay people.
00:21:18.420 Be happy.
00:21:19.180 Do what you want to do.
00:21:19.920 But me being
00:21:20.480 a heterosexual male,
00:21:21.980 if I can prevent my son
00:21:23.080 from being gay,
00:21:23.840 I will.
00:21:24.640 Now, with that being said,
00:21:26.080 I don't know
00:21:26.920 if I handle my son's
00:21:28.560 first gay moment
00:21:29.580 correctly.
00:21:30.400 Every kid has a gay moment.
00:21:34.020 Okay?
00:21:34.280 Every kid.
00:21:34.820 But when it happens,
00:21:35.620 you got to nip it in the bud.
00:21:36.620 You got to stop it
00:21:37.120 right there.
00:21:37.960 Hey, stop.
00:21:39.100 That's gay.
00:21:39.740 It's quick.
00:21:41.380 No.
00:21:43.000 I don't know.
00:21:44.820 I don't know
00:21:45.440 if I handle my son's
00:21:46.400 situation right.
00:21:47.460 Okay?
00:21:48.060 He's at a birthday party,
00:21:48.960 right?
00:21:49.460 My son at a birthday party.
00:21:50.740 He's playing.
00:21:51.500 You know when kids play,
00:21:52.700 they just play.
00:21:53.280 You don't know
00:21:53.600 what they're doing,
00:21:54.320 but they're having a good time.
00:21:55.400 They're just doing
00:21:55.840 a bunch of stuff.
00:21:57.000 Right?
00:21:57.980 They're moving around.
00:21:58.800 I said, okay,
00:21:59.480 he's good.
00:22:00.080 I finished talking.
00:22:01.260 I turned back around
00:22:01.920 and checked on my son again.
00:22:03.180 A little boy
00:22:03.840 was grinding
00:22:04.820 on my son's ass.
00:22:07.300 He was like this.
00:22:08.260 I didn't know what to do.
00:22:09.140 I panicked.
00:22:09.600 I knocked them both down.
00:22:11.540 Hey,
00:22:12.060 what's going on here?
00:22:13.540 What kind of party is this?
00:22:16.080 So the bit,
00:22:17.380 it's important to watch it
00:22:19.020 because when we read
00:22:20.340 the news reports,
00:22:21.380 this is how they're reported.
00:22:22.460 They say,
00:22:22.880 and then Kevin Hart said
00:22:24.520 he knocked his son
00:22:25.960 and the other boy
00:22:26.900 to the ground
00:22:27.740 and he yelled at him,
00:22:30.420 don't be gay.
00:22:32.000 No,
00:22:32.260 he did a comedy routine
00:22:33.460 in a movie.
00:22:35.000 He did a comedy special
00:22:36.420 in his stand-up comedy show
00:22:38.800 because he's a comedian.
00:22:41.580 You read it.
00:22:42.320 You don't hear the laughs
00:22:43.180 when you read it.
00:22:43.720 So back then,
00:22:44.440 10 years ago,
00:22:45.200 in that long,
00:22:46.380 those halcyon years
00:22:47.500 of the 2000s,
00:22:49.660 Kevin Hart did this bit
00:22:51.360 and the audience loved it.
00:22:52.700 Of course,
00:22:53.120 it's a funny bit.
00:22:53.720 People like it now.
00:22:54.760 But now we all have to pretend
00:22:55.980 that it's not funny.
00:22:57.040 And what is the joke about?
00:22:58.380 The joke is about
00:22:59.620 how much the culture
00:23:00.960 has changed.
00:23:01.700 So much of comedy
00:23:02.440 depends on incongruity.
00:23:04.040 So you have
00:23:04.680 our present culture
00:23:06.160 which is so gay affirming
00:23:08.240 that there is almost
00:23:10.180 no greater good
00:23:11.100 than gay sex,
00:23:13.020 gay relationships.
00:23:14.020 When the Supreme Court
00:23:15.040 invented the new definition
00:23:16.860 of marriage
00:23:17.480 because of Justice Kennedy,
00:23:19.040 Barack Obama
00:23:19.660 didn't just say
00:23:20.320 good decision.
00:23:20.860 He painted the White House
00:23:22.920 in rainbow light colors.
00:23:24.940 That's how affirming
00:23:26.460 our culture is
00:23:27.300 of gay relationships
00:23:29.000 and gay sex.
00:23:30.640 And what Kevin Hart
00:23:31.400 is doing
00:23:31.780 is comparing that
00:23:32.700 to people's natural reaction
00:23:35.280 to that,
00:23:35.740 he says,
00:23:36.200 as a heterosexual male.
00:23:37.800 What he's comparing it to
00:23:38.780 is every other culture
00:23:40.260 and religion
00:23:40.860 in the history
00:23:41.720 of the entire world
00:23:42.660 which has held homosexuality
00:23:44.620 and homosexual acts
00:23:45.760 in moral opprobrium.
00:23:47.140 And what he's saying is,
00:23:48.320 even at the top,
00:23:49.040 he says,
00:23:49.440 look,
00:23:50.360 I'm not homophobic.
00:23:51.840 I want people
00:23:52.560 to be doing whatever
00:23:54.460 they want
00:23:54.860 and have a good time
00:23:55.480 and have a good life.
00:23:56.580 But,
00:23:57.440 I know that intellectually,
00:23:58.660 but deep down
00:23:59.580 in this visceral part of me,
00:24:01.220 I don't want my son
00:24:02.140 to be gay.
00:24:02.980 That's the joke.
00:24:03.980 It actually wouldn't work
00:24:05.200 if he were just
00:24:05.860 going on some diatribe
00:24:07.040 about how he hates gay people.
00:24:08.280 That wouldn't be a joke,
00:24:09.280 it would just be a diatribe.
00:24:10.380 He's setting up the joke
00:24:11.500 with the juxtaposition
00:24:12.440 of those two things
00:24:13.260 and that's why people
00:24:14.060 are laughing.
00:24:14.800 But now we're not allowed
00:24:15.720 to laugh at jokes
00:24:16.460 because that's not funny
00:24:17.580 because it's that meme
00:24:18.420 of Sandra Fluke,
00:24:19.840 the Democrat abortion activist,
00:24:22.100 you know,
00:24:22.280 the one of her
00:24:22.680 with her arms crossed.
00:24:23.720 That's not funny.
00:24:25.260 So,
00:24:25.740 Kevin Hart is out.
00:24:27.240 Now,
00:24:27.780 they are saying
00:24:28.520 that they're not
00:24:29.780 going to have any host
00:24:30.700 and this is
00:24:31.780 the typical cowardice
00:24:34.600 of our day and age.
00:24:36.060 This is it.
00:24:36.880 This completely embodies it.
00:24:39.600 Everyone is so afraid
00:24:40.780 of asserting anything
00:24:41.840 that we need
00:24:42.800 to be everything
00:24:43.700 to everybody.
00:24:45.880 Especially the left.
00:24:46.780 We want to be everything
00:24:48.220 to everybody.
00:24:49.360 Don't box me in.
00:24:51.080 Don't pin me down.
00:24:52.180 Don't call me.
00:24:53.160 Don't ask me if I think this
00:24:54.400 or I think this
00:24:54.980 or I believe in this
00:24:55.620 or I believe in that.
00:24:56.600 Don't call me a conservative.
00:24:58.000 Don't call me a Christian.
00:24:59.380 Don't say I think.
00:25:01.200 Don't make me think
00:25:02.040 or say that I believe
00:25:03.100 or this or that.
00:25:04.340 I just feel like.
00:25:06.180 I just,
00:25:06.720 oh,
00:25:06.920 don't box me in.
00:25:07.900 Don't pin me down.
00:25:09.100 I don't exactly like this.
00:25:10.160 I don't support this politician.
00:25:11.940 I'm a Republican
00:25:12.800 but not that kind of Republican.
00:25:13.860 I'm a conservative
00:25:14.260 but not that kind.
00:25:15.120 It's this wanting
00:25:16.440 to please everybody.
00:25:17.500 You're so desperate
00:25:18.320 that you can't do that
00:25:19.780 because particularity
00:25:22.200 can be pinned down.
00:25:23.880 When you pin somebody down,
00:25:25.860 you are making an assertion.
00:25:27.860 You are,
00:25:28.100 which is a manly thing to do.
00:25:30.360 It's a manly thing
00:25:30.960 to assert something
00:25:32.140 that you think on the world.
00:25:33.160 Well,
00:25:33.280 we will not do that now.
00:25:35.760 Anyone,
00:25:36.380 this is why whenever
00:25:37.260 they have presidential candidates,
00:25:39.360 they'll say,
00:25:39.980 the generic Democrat
00:25:41.220 is going to beat Donald Trump.
00:25:44.300 Okay,
00:25:45.520 fine,
00:25:46.180 maybe,
00:25:47.000 but there's no such thing
00:25:47.940 as a generic Democrat.
00:25:49.020 There are only individual Democrats
00:25:50.700 who are running for office
00:25:51.780 against Donald Trump
00:25:52.820 and none of them
00:25:54.100 are polling better than Trump.
00:25:55.940 It's only the generic.
00:25:57.860 Hillary Clinton,
00:25:58.720 when she was Secretary of State,
00:26:00.240 she was the hypothetical candidate
00:26:02.180 Hillary Clinton,
00:26:03.120 right?
00:26:03.360 She was no issues,
00:26:05.240 no campaign addresses yet,
00:26:07.840 no,
00:26:08.660 she didn't say
00:26:09.480 where she stood
00:26:09.960 on all of these issues.
00:26:10.780 She was just
00:26:11.320 hypothetical candidate Hillary
00:26:13.040 and her approval ratings
00:26:14.140 were very high
00:26:14.700 the minute she declared
00:26:15.620 that she was running for office
00:26:16.620 and she said,
00:26:17.420 I think this,
00:26:17.920 I believe this,
00:26:18.500 I want to do this,
00:26:19.140 I'm going to do that.
00:26:19.900 Her approval ratings plummeted.
00:26:22.680 Particularity pins people down.
00:26:24.600 This is why we can't say
00:26:25.360 Merry Christmas.
00:26:26.020 It's the same reason.
00:26:27.580 You can't say what,
00:26:28.880 but particular,
00:26:29.720 it could be offensive.
00:26:31.020 You just say holidays.
00:26:32.860 There's only one holiday.
00:26:34.980 It's not Hanukkah
00:26:35.760 is way earlier.
00:26:37.260 The new year
00:26:37.980 is in the new year.
00:26:39.880 Kwanzaa is a socialist contrivance
00:26:41.980 that nobody celebrates.
00:26:43.040 It's just Christmas.
00:26:44.360 You see,
00:26:44.560 you can't say Christmas.
00:26:45.440 It's too particular.
00:26:46.840 You have to be vague.
00:26:47.860 We have to be vague
00:26:48.680 about everything.
00:26:50.000 Where does this come from?
00:26:50.960 This comes from
00:26:51.500 an unrealistic view
00:26:53.380 of the world.
00:26:54.520 That's what this really comes from.
00:26:55.820 This comes from a worldview
00:26:57.180 that is bereft of grace
00:26:59.140 and forgiveness
00:27:00.140 and tolerance
00:27:01.280 and the appreciation
00:27:02.400 of diversity
00:27:03.620 within the world.
00:27:04.340 That worldview
00:27:06.620 begets this sort of thing
00:27:08.720 where any individual comedian
00:27:10.340 now that they put up there
00:27:11.460 will not be acceptable.
00:27:13.900 No comedian
00:27:14.740 has not made a gay joke.
00:27:16.020 No person
00:27:16.500 has not made a gay joke.
00:27:17.820 No straight person,
00:27:18.800 no gay person.
00:27:19.800 No human being
00:27:20.740 on the face of the earth
00:27:21.620 has not made
00:27:22.660 or laughed
00:27:23.200 at a gay joke.
00:27:24.240 So now they have
00:27:24.780 an impossible standard
00:27:25.860 that they have to live up to.
00:27:27.200 What the left
00:27:27.560 doesn't understand
00:27:28.280 is that everybody
00:27:29.460 is fallen.
00:27:31.400 Everybody
00:27:31.800 is imperfect.
00:27:34.560 You can always
00:27:35.320 find something.
00:27:36.520 You can always find
00:27:37.560 that one little tweet
00:27:38.840 that the Heisman Trophy winner
00:27:40.580 sent 10 years ago
00:27:42.120 when he was 12
00:27:42.980 and you can rip him
00:27:44.520 to shreds
00:27:44.980 because of that.
00:27:45.800 But what kind of society
00:27:47.180 is that?
00:27:47.620 Is that the society
00:27:48.400 that you want to live in?
00:27:49.980 That's leftism for you.
00:27:51.560 It's ironic
00:27:52.100 because the left
00:27:52.620 talks about diversity
00:27:53.440 and they hate diversity.
00:27:54.980 But the left for you
00:27:56.320 is no grace,
00:27:57.500 no particularity,
00:27:58.380 no diversity,
00:27:59.600 and no humor.
00:28:01.760 That's the world
00:28:02.640 they're offering.
00:28:03.220 Do you want that world
00:28:03.820 or do you want something else?
00:28:04.960 I want something else.
00:28:06.520 And nowhere was this
00:28:07.840 exhibited more clearly,
00:28:09.980 demonstrated for all
00:28:11.000 the world to see
00:28:11.580 on the biggest stage
00:28:12.320 in the whole world
00:28:13.060 than in this bombshell,
00:28:15.020 amazing press conference
00:28:16.180 between President Trump,
00:28:18.160 Vice President Pence,
00:28:19.660 Leader Pelosi,
00:28:21.440 and Leader Schumer,
00:28:23.400 Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
00:28:24.700 They were all there.
00:28:25.900 They were just discussing
00:28:27.560 the spending bill.
00:28:28.420 They were talking
00:28:28.840 about border security.
00:28:29.720 And Nancy Pelosi
00:28:31.420 made one of the
00:28:32.760 classic blunders.
00:28:35.300 I'll let her show you herself.
00:28:38.440 I think the American people
00:28:39.900 recognize that we must
00:28:41.760 keep government open,
00:28:43.080 that a shutdown
00:28:44.040 is not worth anything,
00:28:46.040 and that you should not
00:28:47.260 have a Trump shutdown.
00:28:48.920 You have the White House,
00:28:50.500 a Trump shutdown.
00:28:52.020 You have the White House.
00:28:53.160 You have the Senate.
00:28:55.140 You have the House
00:28:55.840 of Representatives.
00:28:57.140 You have the votes.
00:28:58.220 You should pass it right now.
00:28:59.120 No, we don't have the votes,
00:29:00.000 Nancy, because in the Senate
00:29:01.140 we need 60 votes.
00:29:01.980 No, no, but in the House.
00:29:02.680 And we don't have it.
00:29:03.280 You could bring it up
00:29:03.900 right now today.
00:29:04.280 Yeah, but I can't,
00:29:05.020 excuse me,
00:29:05.860 but I can't get it passed
00:29:07.180 in the House
00:29:07.860 if it's not going to pass
00:29:08.740 in the Senate.
00:29:09.240 I don't want to waste time.
00:29:09.900 Well, the fact is
00:29:11.300 you can get it started
00:29:12.360 that way.
00:29:13.180 The House,
00:29:13.800 we can get passed
00:29:14.460 very easily.
00:29:15.020 Okay, then do it.
00:29:15.720 Then do it.
00:29:16.020 But the problem is
00:29:17.000 the Senate,
00:29:17.540 because we need
00:29:18.160 10 Democrats to vote,
00:29:19.600 and they won't vote.
00:29:20.580 The point is
00:29:22.680 is that there are
00:29:23.820 equities to be weighed,
00:29:25.460 and we're here
00:29:26.140 to have a conversation
00:29:27.240 in a prayerful way,
00:29:28.580 so I don't think
00:29:29.180 we should have a debate
00:29:29.920 in front of the press
00:29:30.760 on this,
00:29:31.880 but the fact is
00:29:32.920 the House Republicans
00:29:34.740 could bring up this bill
00:29:35.960 if they had the votes
00:29:37.080 immediately
00:29:38.160 and set the tone
00:29:39.540 for what you want.
00:29:41.140 Oh, this is what
00:29:41.880 they always do.
00:29:43.020 This is what the left
00:29:43.860 always does.
00:29:45.260 They pick a fight,
00:29:46.480 and then they can't
00:29:47.360 win the fight,
00:29:48.040 and then they tell you
00:29:49.140 that they don't want
00:29:49.740 to fight.
00:29:50.920 I saw this at Politicon.
00:29:52.540 I was on stage
00:29:53.220 at Politicon.
00:29:54.140 There were all these
00:29:54.620 lefties on stage.
00:29:55.820 They make some stupid point.
00:29:57.720 They throw out
00:29:58.120 some stupid attack.
00:29:59.280 I knock down the attack,
00:30:00.540 and then they say,
00:30:01.140 stop, we're not
00:30:01.600 talking about that.
00:30:03.040 Yeah, you don't want
00:30:03.700 to talk about it.
00:30:04.620 Five seconds ago,
00:30:05.680 you wanted to talk about it.
00:30:06.660 Now you don't,
00:30:07.220 because you don't know
00:30:07.780 anything,
00:30:08.180 and we've just
00:30:08.720 embarrassed you.
00:30:09.480 That's what happened
00:30:10.200 here with Nancy Pelosi
00:30:12.540 and Donald Trump.
00:30:13.980 Nancy Pelosi made an error
00:30:16.980 so egregious,
00:30:18.380 I actually don't,
00:30:19.640 there must be
00:30:20.340 something wrong
00:30:20.980 with her.
00:30:21.740 She thought that
00:30:22.600 she could beat
00:30:23.260 Donald Trump
00:30:23.900 at a game
00:30:24.340 of reality television.
00:30:26.400 She can't.
00:30:27.000 Maybe she can beat him
00:30:28.120 at a legislative maneuver.
00:30:30.120 Maybe she can beat him
00:30:31.240 at a sort of
00:30:31.900 political speech
00:30:33.500 kind of whatever.
00:30:35.400 She will never
00:30:36.260 beat Donald Trump
00:30:37.080 at reality television.
00:30:38.360 Donald Trump
00:30:38.880 is reality television,
00:30:40.560 and she decided
00:30:41.500 that during this
00:30:42.100 nice little press conference,
00:30:43.480 she was going to
00:30:44.240 throw a bomb down
00:30:45.220 and say that
00:30:46.080 the government shutdown
00:30:46.820 would be a Trump shutdown.
00:30:48.980 And Donald Trump
00:30:49.700 isn't,
00:30:50.400 do you think you can
00:30:51.180 surprise him on television?
00:30:53.120 Do you actually think
00:30:54.160 that you can,
00:30:55.080 you're going to win a game
00:30:56.160 of the Real Housewives
00:30:57.440 with Donald Trump
00:30:58.240 or The Apprentice
00:30:58.960 or Jersey Shore?
00:30:59.880 No chance.
00:31:00.760 He knows every camera angle.
00:31:02.360 He knows every response.
00:31:03.520 It's just not going to work.
00:31:05.060 But the other thing
00:31:05.840 that's at play here
00:31:06.620 is that Nancy Pelosi
00:31:07.920 is living in an old
00:31:09.220 political world.
00:31:10.460 She is living
00:31:11.240 in the political world
00:31:12.400 of 2009,
00:31:15.080 2010.
00:31:16.280 She's living
00:31:16.860 in this political world
00:31:17.900 where,
00:31:18.320 and I know it
00:31:19.080 because I've worked
00:31:19.820 on these campaigns
00:31:20.480 and I've seen
00:31:20.900 the focus groups
00:31:21.540 and I've seen
00:31:21.920 all the testing.
00:31:22.760 What you do
00:31:23.500 is you focus test
00:31:24.680 certain phrases.
00:31:27.140 So you focus test
00:31:27.980 Trump shutdown
00:31:29.060 or you focus test,
00:31:31.660 you know,
00:31:32.400 you have the votes,
00:31:33.860 right?
00:31:34.040 She keeps trying to say
00:31:34.780 that he has the votes
00:31:35.740 to pass his border funding,
00:31:37.940 which he doesn't.
00:31:38.680 He doesn't have the Senate.
00:31:39.600 But you focus test
00:31:40.580 those lines
00:31:41.200 and then you see
00:31:41.860 how they perform
00:31:42.400 and then you just
00:31:43.100 repeat them on TV.
00:31:44.400 Even if they don't
00:31:45.040 make any sense,
00:31:45.720 you repeat them
00:31:46.280 and they get into
00:31:46.760 the popular consciousness.
00:31:48.160 The reason this
00:31:48.760 doesn't work anymore
00:31:49.660 is because President Trump
00:31:51.480 is an improviser.
00:31:52.840 President Trump
00:31:53.340 is ad-libbing.
00:31:54.540 He's really light
00:31:55.420 on his feet
00:31:56.040 so he can knock it down.
00:31:57.800 And because he doesn't
00:31:59.160 take the typical care
00:32:00.580 of the office,
00:32:01.580 he doesn't take
00:32:02.100 typical care
00:32:02.920 of how the cameras
00:32:04.320 are perceiving him,
00:32:05.360 he'll just shut her up
00:32:06.700 on the spot.
00:32:07.400 He'll say,
00:32:07.580 what are you talking about?
00:32:08.520 I don't have the votes.
00:32:09.400 I don't have the Senate.
00:32:10.800 You'll say,
00:32:11.000 well, you have the votes.
00:32:13.080 My advisors
00:32:13.920 gave me this sheet
00:32:14.940 and said,
00:32:15.300 Nancy, where do I have the votes?
00:32:17.440 I don't have the Senate.
00:32:18.600 What are you talking about?
00:32:20.220 So she goes on with this.
00:32:22.020 Obviously,
00:32:22.500 the shutdown thing
00:32:23.100 didn't work very well.
00:32:24.180 So then they start
00:32:25.200 going back and forth
00:32:25.940 over the wall
00:32:26.620 and still she gets it.
00:32:28.320 Chuck Schumer,
00:32:29.020 for his part,
00:32:31.620 actually knows
00:32:32.560 to stick out of this one
00:32:33.560 because he knows
00:32:34.240 that Pelosi's losing
00:32:35.140 and that Trump is winning.
00:32:36.300 So for the first time
00:32:37.180 in Chuck Schumer's entire life,
00:32:38.320 he keeps his mouth zipped.
00:32:39.240 Here they are
00:32:39.900 talking about the wall.
00:32:42.000 But there are no votes
00:32:43.100 in the House,
00:32:44.680 a majority of votes,
00:32:45.760 for a wall,
00:32:46.800 no matter where you start.
00:32:47.800 That's exactly right.
00:32:48.300 You don't have the votes.
00:32:48.640 If I needed the votes
00:32:49.860 for the wall in the House,
00:32:51.000 I would have them
00:32:51.720 in one session
00:32:53.080 would be done.
00:32:53.880 Go do it.
00:32:54.300 It doesn't help
00:32:55.000 because we need
00:32:55.620 10 Democrats in the Senate.
00:32:57.000 No, don't put it on the Senate.
00:32:57.860 Put it on a negotiation.
00:32:59.740 Okay, let me ask you this.
00:33:00.780 And we're doing this
00:33:01.620 in a very friendly manner.
00:33:02.800 It doesn't help for me
00:33:04.280 to take a vote
00:33:05.120 in the House
00:33:05.620 where I will win easily
00:33:06.760 with the Republicans.
00:33:07.620 Who will not win?
00:33:08.160 It doesn't help
00:33:09.200 to take that vote
00:33:10.060 because I'm not going
00:33:11.280 to get the vote
00:33:12.280 of the Senate.
00:33:13.340 I need 10 senators.
00:33:14.740 That's the problem.
00:33:15.260 You have the White House.
00:33:17.100 You have the Senate.
00:33:17.940 I have the White House.
00:33:18.760 The White House is done.
00:33:20.220 And the House would give me
00:33:21.240 the vote if I wanted it.
00:33:22.580 But I can't
00:33:23.180 because I need,
00:33:24.080 Nancy, I need 10 votes
00:33:25.120 from Chuck.
00:33:26.400 She keeps trying.
00:33:28.000 She said,
00:33:28.320 but my focus tested lines.
00:33:30.080 You have the White House.
00:33:31.160 You have the Senate.
00:33:32.440 You have the Congress.
00:33:34.240 No, Nancy, I don't.
00:33:35.840 I don't have it.
00:33:36.900 You're right
00:33:37.280 that I have the White House
00:33:38.140 and I have the House
00:33:39.000 of Representatives
00:33:39.640 because other politicians
00:33:41.160 would not lower themselves
00:33:43.640 to engage in this bickering match
00:33:45.520 with Nancy Pelosi.
00:33:47.020 Donald Trump will
00:33:47.960 and it's to our benefit.
00:33:49.120 It is to the great benefit
00:33:50.080 of our country
00:33:50.640 that he's willing
00:33:51.380 to get down there
00:33:52.400 where Nancy Pelosi is
00:33:54.100 and go back and forth with her.
00:33:56.120 And it is truly astounding.
00:33:57.520 The only peep you heard
00:33:58.400 out of Chuck Schumer
00:33:59.000 is he says,
00:33:59.840 oh, that's right,
00:34:00.580 you know,
00:34:00.800 to Pelosi or something.
00:34:01.820 But he's sticking out
00:34:02.920 of this one
00:34:03.380 because he knows
00:34:04.440 that Donald Trump
00:34:05.040 is going to win over this.
00:34:06.380 And the other aspect of Trump,
00:34:08.040 because he's willing
00:34:09.140 to assert himself,
00:34:10.700 he is the exact answer
00:34:12.140 to this cultural problem
00:34:13.560 we have
00:34:13.940 where we're unwilling
00:34:14.600 to assert anything.
00:34:15.980 It's probably why
00:34:16.660 we got Donald Trump
00:34:17.760 is nature abhors a vacuum
00:34:19.520 and we're so used
00:34:22.420 to this culture now
00:34:23.440 of nobody willing
00:34:24.340 to make any assertion
00:34:25.460 that Trump comes in
00:34:26.440 and he will just
00:34:27.480 put it right on the table.
00:34:28.840 He uses very blunt language
00:34:30.860 and he totally
00:34:32.760 just refutes these points.
00:34:35.240 A more polite person
00:34:36.340 would say,
00:34:36.740 oh, well,
00:34:37.100 we agree to disagree.
00:34:38.420 The kind of,
00:34:39.020 I hate to knock Jeb,
00:34:40.480 you know,
00:34:40.660 knock a man when he's down,
00:34:42.320 but he's been down
00:34:43.640 for two years.
00:34:44.600 But this is kind of
00:34:45.280 the Jeb answer of,
00:34:46.300 you know,
00:34:46.460 well, I mean,
00:34:47.560 okay, well,
00:34:48.160 you know,
00:34:48.520 okay, well,
00:34:49.080 agree to disagree.
00:34:50.100 Trump, no,
00:34:50.620 agree to disagree.
00:34:51.540 You are wrong, Nancy.
00:34:53.160 I am right.
00:34:54.680 We win, you lose.
00:34:56.120 Ha ha ha.
00:34:57.080 Chuck Schumer does get
00:34:58.060 in a pretty good jab here,
00:34:59.140 though,
00:34:59.380 and it's worth pointing out
00:35:00.460 because there's another
00:35:01.180 exchange with Chuck
00:35:01.960 where they both kind of
00:35:03.840 get what they want.
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00:35:57.340 Chuck Schumer
00:36:08.000 is much better at this
00:36:08.980 than Nancy Pelosi is,
00:36:10.220 obviously.
00:36:10.780 I mean, Chuck Schumer,
00:36:11.360 for all intents and purposes,
00:36:12.720 is a television star.
00:36:14.120 The most dangerous space
00:36:15.480 in New York or Washington
00:36:16.520 is the area between
00:36:17.560 Chuck Schumer
00:36:18.060 and a TV camera.
00:36:19.280 So he's well-practiced
00:36:20.400 at this, too.
00:36:21.720 He's a pretty impressive
00:36:22.960 tactician in the Senate.
00:36:25.840 And so he waits
00:36:26.600 for his moment.
00:36:27.540 And then he springs on Trump.
00:36:29.040 And this showdown
00:36:30.120 was a little less clear.
00:36:31.660 I think they actually
00:36:32.500 both sort of got
00:36:33.300 what they wanted here.
00:36:34.100 But I'll let you decide.
00:36:36.280 One thing I think
00:36:37.200 we can agree on
00:36:37.980 is we shouldn't shut down
00:36:39.020 the government
00:36:39.520 over a dispute.
00:36:40.940 And you want to shut it down.
00:36:42.200 You keep talking about it.
00:36:43.200 The last time, Chuck,
00:36:44.180 you shut it down.
00:36:44.920 No, no, no.
00:36:45.500 And then you opened it up
00:36:46.560 very quickly.
00:36:47.500 I don't want to do
00:36:48.480 what you did.
00:36:49.060 20 times you have called for
00:36:50.640 I will shut down
00:36:51.520 the government
00:36:51.980 if I don't get my wool.
00:36:53.380 None of us have said...
00:36:53.960 You want to know something?
00:36:54.900 You've said it.
00:36:55.340 Okay, you want to
00:36:55.940 put that in my head.
00:36:56.380 You've said it.
00:36:57.020 I'll take it.
00:36:57.720 Okay, good.
00:36:58.360 You know what I'll say?
00:36:59.480 Yes.
00:37:00.220 If we don't get
00:37:01.040 what we want
00:37:01.780 one way or the other,
00:37:03.020 whether it's through you,
00:37:04.320 through a military,
00:37:05.260 through anything
00:37:05.800 you want to call,
00:37:06.880 I will shut down
00:37:07.680 the government.
00:37:07.920 Okay, fair enough.
00:37:09.060 And I am proud.
00:37:10.120 We disagree.
00:37:10.620 And I'll tell you what.
00:37:10.800 We disagree.
00:37:11.120 I am proud
00:37:11.900 to shut down
00:37:12.700 the government
00:37:13.240 for border security, Chuck,
00:37:14.800 because the people
00:37:15.680 of this country
00:37:16.440 don't want criminals
00:37:17.760 and people
00:37:18.900 that have lots of problems
00:37:20.200 and drugs
00:37:21.280 pouring into our country.
00:37:22.500 So I will take the mantle.
00:37:24.080 I will be the one
00:37:25.400 to shut it down.
00:37:26.200 I'm not going to blame you for it.
00:37:27.460 The last time you shut it down,
00:37:28.880 it didn't work.
00:37:29.560 I will take the mantle
00:37:30.680 of shutting down.
00:37:31.420 And I'm going to shut it down
00:37:32.880 for border security.
00:37:35.360 This was a pretty interesting
00:37:37.000 little chess match here.
00:37:38.200 If you just watch
00:37:39.220 the exchange,
00:37:40.720 Chuck Schumer
00:37:41.200 sees his opening,
00:37:42.220 he comes in,
00:37:43.140 and he says,
00:37:43.720 what we should agree on
00:37:44.760 is we don't want
00:37:45.620 to shut down
00:37:46.360 the government.
00:37:47.020 So he's establishing
00:37:47.960 that premise.
00:37:49.160 I don't know
00:37:49.580 if I believe that premise.
00:37:50.520 Shut it down.
00:37:51.860 This is the only chance
00:37:52.700 we have to get
00:37:53.220 border wall funding,
00:37:54.160 so shut it down.
00:37:54.920 Who cares?
00:37:55.900 When you shut down
00:37:56.500 the government,
00:37:57.180 only essential services
00:38:00.120 are preserved.
00:38:01.360 Non-essential services
00:38:02.300 are defunded,
00:38:03.400 which raises the question,
00:38:04.620 why do we have
00:38:05.040 non-essential services?
00:38:06.300 That's fine.
00:38:06.960 Shut it down.
00:38:07.640 It never lasts that long.
00:38:09.660 And this is our last chance
00:38:11.160 to get that wall built.
00:38:12.140 So okay, that's fine.
00:38:13.720 He establishes that premise
00:38:15.460 so that he can then say,
00:38:17.120 you will be responsible
00:38:18.420 if you shut down
00:38:19.100 the government.
00:38:19.540 So then Trump responds
00:38:21.300 to that.
00:38:22.400 This is Trump's
00:38:23.440 little misstep here.
00:38:24.340 He says,
00:38:24.560 I won't be responsible.
00:38:25.520 You shut down
00:38:26.000 the government, Chuck.
00:38:26.640 I didn't shut down
00:38:27.260 the government.
00:38:27.900 You shut down
00:38:28.460 the government.
00:38:29.120 And Chuck Schumer
00:38:29.740 sees that and he's
00:38:30.860 already ready to go
00:38:31.900 with 20 times you promised
00:38:34.600 that you would shut
00:38:35.820 down the government.
00:38:36.840 So Schumer,
00:38:37.620 in setting up that premise,
00:38:38.860 knows that Trump
00:38:39.640 has already taken
00:38:40.400 responsibility for
00:38:41.300 government shutdowns
00:38:42.220 and so he's going
00:38:43.020 to spring that on him
00:38:44.020 and it boxes Trump
00:38:45.180 into a corner.
00:38:46.560 Trump made that
00:38:47.300 first misstep,
00:38:48.140 but then he realized
00:38:49.000 the misstep,
00:38:49.540 and I think he
00:38:50.520 ultimately won the
00:38:51.500 exchange because he
00:38:52.600 took the strongest
00:38:53.500 position, which is,
00:38:55.360 shoot, I can't say
00:38:56.360 that I'm not going to
00:38:56.940 shut down the government
00:38:57.580 since I've already
00:38:58.140 said I'll shut it
00:38:58.680 down.
00:38:59.300 So what I've got to
00:39:00.000 do is double down
00:39:01.000 on it.
00:39:01.300 I will double down
00:39:02.040 on the assertion
00:39:02.740 and I will tie it
00:39:03.940 to the security
00:39:04.820 of our country.
00:39:05.820 So he says,
00:39:06.640 you know what?
00:39:07.080 You're right.
00:39:07.840 I'll take it.
00:39:08.940 I will shut down
00:39:09.960 the government
00:39:10.460 for border security.
00:39:13.420 And now Chuck Schumer
00:39:14.060 got what he wanted.
00:39:15.220 Chuck Schumer wanted
00:39:15.920 Trump to take
00:39:16.440 responsibility for the
00:39:17.340 shutdown.
00:39:17.620 Now they've got
00:39:18.760 their clip for their
00:39:20.620 television ads or
00:39:21.640 whatever they're going
00:39:22.140 to run.
00:39:24.140 But what Donald Trump
00:39:25.400 gets is breaking out
00:39:27.580 of that political
00:39:28.420 stasis, that decrepit
00:39:30.960 status quo, and saying,
00:39:32.480 you're right, I'll shut
00:39:33.360 it down, and I'll do it
00:39:34.920 for border security.
00:39:35.980 What Donald Trump is
00:39:36.960 betting on here is that
00:39:38.600 the conventional wisdom
00:39:39.560 is wrong, that government
00:39:40.860 shutdowns aren't that big
00:39:42.080 a deal, the public
00:39:42.860 doesn't care that much
00:39:43.860 about them, they aren't
00:39:45.380 going to blame Republicans
00:39:46.320 for 50 years about them,
00:39:47.720 that it doesn't really
00:39:48.500 matter, and he's
00:39:49.840 betting that border
00:39:51.040 security is a very
00:39:52.160 important issue for
00:39:52.920 Americans, which we
00:39:53.660 know that it is, not
00:39:54.900 just among conservatives
00:39:55.880 and Republicans, but
00:39:57.040 among the left as well,
00:39:58.400 especially among
00:39:59.080 independents.
00:40:00.600 So Schumer got what he
00:40:01.820 wanted, and he's
00:40:03.420 trying to use this
00:40:04.640 issue to scare some
00:40:06.920 more suburban voters
00:40:07.840 who Donald Trump is
00:40:08.640 going to need in 2020.
00:40:10.140 And what Donald Trump
00:40:11.200 gets out of it is
00:40:11.900 border security, which
00:40:13.400 while not as popular
00:40:14.580 are among the suburban
00:40:15.900 housewives, that's the
00:40:18.340 byword for moderate
00:40:19.540 white people, that's
00:40:20.800 what we use when we
00:40:22.020 say, Trump is losing
00:40:22.880 moderate whites, they
00:40:23.600 say he's losing suburban
00:40:25.120 housewives, but that
00:40:26.800 issue does really play,
00:40:27.860 I think that issue does
00:40:28.680 play with the silent
00:40:30.200 majority, with middle
00:40:31.100 America, I think it
00:40:32.140 plays with just about
00:40:33.240 everybody, and a lot of
00:40:34.500 polling backs that up.
00:40:35.820 So they both walk away
00:40:36.900 with what they wanted, I
00:40:37.780 think Trump ultimately
00:40:38.580 gets the better of that
00:40:39.340 exchange.
00:40:40.040 But Nancy Pelosi, I
00:40:41.100 mean, you know, you
00:40:41.900 can't teach a house
00:40:47.180 minority leader who's
00:40:48.560 been around for a long
00:40:49.300 time new tricks, how's
00:40:50.600 that for diplomacy?
00:40:51.380 That's a little nicer
00:40:52.100 than what I was going
00:40:52.620 to say.
00:40:53.400 So she's probably not
00:40:54.180 going to learn it, but
00:40:54.660 she should learn from
00:40:55.880 President Trump and
00:40:56.820 Chuck Schumer, because
00:40:57.460 they're both very good
00:40:58.440 at this.
00:40:59.180 Let's talk about this
00:40:59.780 Brexit vote.
00:41:00.780 Brexit is, you remember
00:41:02.420 Brexit, they took the
00:41:03.780 vote two years ago, there
00:41:04.700 was a popular referendum
00:41:05.720 among Britons to leave
00:41:08.400 the European Union, it
00:41:09.960 won the Brexit leave
00:41:12.700 voters, won 52 to 48, it
00:41:15.660 was a clear win, it was
00:41:16.840 a decisive win.
00:41:18.300 Two years later, finally,
00:41:19.860 Theresa May came to an
00:41:21.400 agreement with Brussels
00:41:22.920 and with the European
00:41:26.320 Union, but the agreement
00:41:28.940 is awful, the agreement
00:41:30.000 does not achieve Brexit.
00:41:32.660 It leaves the UK subject
00:41:34.820 to a lot of EU regulations,
00:41:37.180 it leaves them subject to
00:41:38.180 the European Court of
00:41:41.020 Justice, rather, it
00:41:42.280 leaves them in the
00:41:43.800 customs union, it leaves
00:41:44.740 them in a common rule
00:41:45.640 book, it's just a total
00:41:47.000 fake.
00:41:47.380 So they were supposed to
00:41:47.940 vote on this deal today
00:41:49.180 and it just couldn't
00:41:50.780 happen.
00:41:51.180 So here's Theresa May
00:41:52.280 saying that Brexit isn't
00:41:54.660 going to work.
00:41:55.060 We've now had three days
00:41:57.160 of debate on the
00:41:58.200 withdrawal agreement,
00:41:59.560 setting out the terms of
00:42:00.820 our departure from the
00:42:01.880 EU and the political
00:42:03.260 declaration setting out our
00:42:04.760 future relationship after
00:42:06.480 we have left.
00:42:07.220 I've listened very
00:42:08.940 carefully to what has
00:42:09.840 been said in this
00:42:10.620 chamber and out of it
00:42:11.900 to what has been said
00:42:18.440 in this chamber and out
00:42:19.980 of it by members from
00:42:21.180 all sides.
00:42:22.460 From listening to those
00:42:23.780 views, it is clear that
00:42:25.080 while there is broad
00:42:25.880 support for many of the
00:42:26.960 key aspects of the deal,
00:42:29.000 on one issue, on one
00:42:32.720 issue, the Northern
00:42:33.460 Ireland backstop, there
00:42:35.120 remains widespread and
00:42:36.540 deep concern.
00:42:38.360 As a result, if we went
00:42:39.700 ahead and held the vote
00:42:40.840 tomorrow, the deal would
00:42:41.940 be rejected by a
00:42:43.600 significant margin.
00:42:46.220 We will therefore defer the
00:42:47.980 vote schedule for tomorrow
00:42:49.080 and not proceed to divide the
00:42:52.260 House at this time.
00:42:54.140 You know, the Brits really
00:42:55.360 put Trump and Nancy Pelosi
00:42:57.120 into perspective.
00:42:58.100 We talk about the decline of
00:42:59.480 civility, but whenever you
00:43:01.520 look at Parliament, they're
00:43:02.820 always shouting and laughing
00:43:04.060 and screaming and making fun
00:43:05.420 of whoever's speaking.
00:43:07.020 So she's saying that Brexit
00:43:09.080 isn't going to work.
00:43:10.180 We'll see what happens now.
00:43:11.400 They're going to either
00:43:12.100 renegotiate it or they're
00:43:13.820 going to leave the EU
00:43:14.920 without a deal, which in the
00:43:16.780 short run will be really
00:43:17.680 hard.
00:43:18.140 It'll disrupt air travel.
00:43:19.600 It will disrupt trade.
00:43:20.480 It will disrupt a lot of
00:43:21.280 things.
00:43:21.740 In the long run, I don't
00:43:22.660 think it will matter that
00:43:23.520 much at all.
00:43:24.020 Or they're going to try to
00:43:27.000 push for another referendum
00:43:27.880 vote and just like the left
00:43:29.700 in America, they'll just keep
00:43:31.600 voting and keep voting until
00:43:32.920 they get the outcome that
00:43:34.440 they want.
00:43:35.280 The reason I bring it up is
00:43:36.420 to show just how dangerous
00:43:38.380 these transnational,
00:43:40.160 international unions can be.
00:43:41.860 Once you're in them, it is
00:43:43.320 virtually impossible to get
00:43:45.300 out of them.
00:43:46.280 And when we consider things
00:43:47.300 like the United Nations or
00:43:48.480 the International Criminal
00:43:49.280 Court or whatever, you got
00:43:51.540 once you enter into these
00:43:53.300 disagreements, it is
00:43:53.980 virtually impossible to get
00:43:55.380 out of them.
00:43:55.760 That's why our founding
00:43:57.460 fathers, all the way back to
00:43:58.420 George Washington and many
00:43:59.520 other great American leaders
00:44:00.640 have been so wary about
00:44:02.660 entering into those
00:44:03.400 entangling arrangements.
00:44:05.180 Britain is figuring that out
00:44:07.580 right now.
00:44:08.800 And we'll see if ultimately
00:44:09.960 the will of the people is
00:44:11.380 going to be trampled by
00:44:12.200 bureaucrats who won't let
00:44:13.160 them out.
00:44:13.680 Before we go on this,
00:44:14.980 this is America, a genuinely
00:44:17.200 heartwarming moment at the
00:44:18.520 Nashville airport, a group
00:44:19.520 of kids whose parents were
00:44:21.500 killed in combat.
00:44:23.300 Who are American servicemen
00:44:24.760 was being flown to Disney
00:44:26.580 World as part of, you know,
00:44:29.120 it was a nice organization
00:44:30.220 flying these kids down to
00:44:31.280 give them something nice to
00:44:32.160 look forward to.
00:44:33.280 And there was an announcement
00:44:34.680 over the loudspeaker that
00:44:35.880 they were coming through the
00:44:36.580 airport and everybody stopped
00:44:38.560 and played the national anthem
00:44:39.740 and servicemen saluted them.
00:44:41.780 And it's just a great video.
00:44:42.860 Thank you.
00:45:05.880 Better give it away
00:45:09.460 For the land and the free
00:45:14.880 And the home of the free
00:45:22.060 Beautiful video.
00:45:25.820 It shows you what happens
00:45:28.340 when you don't just look at yourself
00:45:29.960 and you're not only wrapped up in yourself
00:45:31.800 and your own interests and your own needs
00:45:33.520 and you look at other people,
00:45:35.000 what sort of compassion and charity
00:45:37.460 and sacrifice and suffering,
00:45:40.120 but at least some community and suffering,
00:45:43.260 some moral interactions going on,
00:45:46.600 what sacrifice means for our freedom,
00:45:49.360 for our country,
00:45:50.580 and what it means to love your country
00:45:53.060 and to focus on something outside of the self,
00:45:55.880 focus on something greater
00:45:57.040 and something that you really can love.
00:45:59.560 Beautiful moment.
00:46:00.920 Obviously, it's going to be a hard Christmas
00:46:02.140 for these kids
00:46:03.040 and just a really nice exchange
00:46:05.820 that didn't have to happen
00:46:06.880 but flowed naturally from people's love
00:46:09.180 of their country and their countrymen.
00:46:10.400 Really nice thing to see
00:46:12.000 and a really nice way to end
00:46:14.780 so that we don't need to end
00:46:15.840 on Nancy Pelosi yapping about nothing.
00:46:18.380 That's our show for today.
00:46:19.600 I'm Michael Knowles.
00:46:20.280 This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:46:21.220 Come back tomorrow and I'll see you again.
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