The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 267 - The Left Makes Trump Look Polite

00:00:00.000 A rough day for President Trump as his longtime personal lawyer goes to the clink for three years.

00:00:05.180 What does this mean for the Trump presidency?

00:00:07.480 Then, Ann Coulter gets in trouble for telling the truth, as she usually does. 0.68

00:00:11.600 Google helps Democrats win elections.

00:00:13.980 And the government might shut down.

00:00:16.140 I sure hope so.

00:00:17.080 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

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00:02:12.700 Where I want to begin today, I don't want to begin with Michael Cohen going to the clink

00:02:16.280 for three years.

00:02:17.480 I don't want to begin with Ann Coulter being right even.

00:02:19.780 And I don't even want to begin with the new politically correct version of Baby, It's Cold

00:02:23.860 Outside.

00:02:24.440 I want to begin with a ridiculous canard that we keep hearing in the mainstream media, which

00:02:30.380 is that Donald Trump is the reason why our political discourse is rude.

00:02:35.960 Donald Trump is destroying our discourse.

00:02:38.260 He's destroying the norms of our discourse.

00:02:40.720 Other politicians would never speak the way Trump does.

00:02:44.120 Other politicians would never pick the fights that Trump does.

00:02:47.040 Other media figures would never BS.

00:02:50.080 This started way before Donald Trump.

00:02:51.920 And even the fights that we're seeing now are being picked by the left.

00:02:55.860 And Trump is responding.

00:02:57.220 And then when Trump responds, he gets yelled at and the country's angry with him for starting

00:03:02.720 the fight.

00:03:03.080 He didn't start it.

00:03:03.900 He's just responding.

00:03:05.260 Case in point is Nancy Pelosi.

00:03:08.160 You saw that wonderful Oval Office meeting yesterday where it was Chuck and Nancy and then

00:03:12.520 President Trump and Mike Pence just shaking his head in pure misery thinking, how did

00:03:16.720 I get here?

00:03:17.400 What did I do wrong in my life that I'm sitting in this office right now?

00:03:20.740 And so they had their little fight.

00:03:23.140 So Nancy Pelosi comes out of that meeting and this is what CNN reports she said.

00:03:28.300 According to an aide in the room, Pelosi told colleagues behind closed doors the quote,

00:03:31.560 it's like a manhood thing for him, as if manhood could ever be associated with him.

00:03:35.740 This wall thing.

00:03:37.900 Ah, discourse in this country is at such a wonderful level, isn't it?

00:03:40.360 I share her sorrow that discourse has fallen to that level, but it's Nancy Pelosi who did

00:03:46.860 it.

00:03:47.600 It's Nancy Pelosi who's saying that Donald Trump only wants to build the wall because

00:03:51.560 he's insecure about his manhood.

00:03:53.780 Not because there are 3,000 illegal aliens pouring over our border every day.

00:03:57.680 Not because we have record high levels of illegal immigration into this country.

00:04:01.780 Not because illegal aliens access our welfare system at a much higher rate than native-born

00:04:06.940 Americans and we have a massive welfare system right now and we have over $20 trillion in

00:04:11.880 debt.

00:04:12.400 We have a high debt to GDP ratio.

00:04:14.100 Not because in certain areas, illegal aliens commit a disproportionate share of violent crime.

00:04:19.900 Not any of that.

00:04:20.920 It's because of his manhood.

00:04:22.700 Because Trump isn't a man, you see?

00:04:24.720 Ha ha ha.

00:04:25.660 And it's not just her.

00:04:27.620 It's not just her who did it.

00:04:29.200 You'll remember during the 2016 presidential primaries, Donald Trump brought up, he made a

00:04:35.080 penis joke at a presidential debate, except he didn't.

00:04:38.820 He's not the guy to bring it up.

00:04:39.860 The first guy to make a penis joke at a presidential debate was Marco Rubio, who was making it about

00:04:45.720 Trump.

00:04:46.080 Do you remember he said, Donald Trump has small hands and you know what they say about small

00:04:49.800 hands?

00:04:50.360 And then Donald Trump responded to that and he said, I'm doing just fine.

00:04:54.300 Thank you.

00:04:55.020 My body's looking just fine.

00:04:56.320 But it was Rubio who brought it up.

00:04:57.920 It was not Donald Trump who started the bickering in the Oval Office yesterday.

00:05:02.260 We played the clip.

00:05:03.120 Trump was being very nice.

00:05:05.100 He was playing relatively friendly in that Oval Office meeting.

00:05:08.300 It was Nancy Pelosi who said, we don't want a government shutdown. 0.99

00:05:11.540 We don't want a Trump shutdown.

00:05:13.940 And he said, what was that?

00:05:14.980 Come again?

00:05:15.560 The Trump shutdown?

00:05:16.420 And then she went after him.

00:05:17.760 She's the one who broke that cordial meeting up.

00:05:20.100 She's the one who tried to get her little line in. 0.99

00:05:22.340 And who made the comment afterward?

00:05:23.960 Nancy Pelosi.

00:05:24.900 She's who did.

00:05:26.360 And so I just don't want to hear it anymore.

00:05:28.620 It's true that Donald Trump is better at doing insults than the left is.

00:05:32.600 It's true that he's funnier at it and he gets more play.

00:05:35.520 And obviously he's the president, so he just has more of a bully pulpit.

00:05:38.680 But he's not the one who's starting this.

00:05:40.640 This has been true throughout Trump's career.

00:05:42.800 He gets critiqued for being mean or being brash or whatever.

00:05:46.920 But he is always responding.

00:05:49.380 Even with his big major fight against Rosie O'Donnell.

00:05:52.960 Rosie O'Donnell went on television and said Donald Trump is bankrupt.

00:05:55.700 He goes bankrupt all the time.

00:05:57.480 And after she said that, Donald Trump unleashed the furies of hell on her for months at a time

00:06:03.240 and called her fat and ugly and stupid and all of these awful things.

00:06:06.720 But it was her who started it.

00:06:08.720 And that's the same thing that's going on here.

00:06:11.200 There's another irony too, by the way, which is that Nate Silver, he's the pollster guy

00:06:16.060 whose entire career is based on predicting that Barack Obama would win elections.

00:06:19.760 And he tweeted out yesterday and said the only reason that Republicans don't like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

00:06:28.100 is her gender and her race, which I guess makes us anti-Semites because now she's a Jew. 1.00

00:06:34.420 She's a trans Jew. 0.96

00:06:35.560 I don't know.

00:06:36.180 I think she's about as Jewish as Elizabeth Warren is Cherokee.

00:06:39.200 But he's saying the only reason that Republicans don't like her is because of bigotry.

00:06:43.480 I thought it was Alexandria's Blythe ignorance, but apparently it's some sort of bigotry. 1.00

00:06:47.840 And he also said what they don't understand is that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez talks like a New Yorker. 0.99

00:06:54.100 She doesn't talk like D.C. people or Middle America people.

00:06:58.420 Okay, now do that for Trump.

00:07:01.180 Now do the same exact thing for Trump because Donald Trump actually does talk like a New Yorker.

00:07:06.920 And unlike Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who pretends to be Jenny from the block, 0.99

00:07:10.800 even though she grew up in an affluent Westchester suburb, one town over from where I grew up,

00:07:15.320 actually she grew up in a nicer town than where I grew up,

00:07:17.440 Donald Trump actually was raised in Queens.

00:07:19.620 He actually does talk like a guy from Queens.

00:07:22.020 But of course, Nate Silver wouldn't do that.

00:07:24.100 The left won't do that.

00:07:25.140 It is a hideous double standard.

00:07:27.120 And just the last point I want to make about Nancy Pelosi's comment is I'm very confused now.

00:07:32.780 Is manhood a good thing or a bad thing?

00:07:35.400 Because she's insulting Trump and saying manhood could never be associated with Donald Trump. 0.58

00:07:40.560 Okay, but I thought manhood was toxic.

00:07:43.140 Is manhood good or bad?

00:07:44.700 Is it a virtue or is it toxic?

00:07:46.600 Which one is it?

00:07:47.740 Is Trump manly or he's too manly?

00:07:50.140 He's a masculine machismo chauvinist or he's unmanly?

00:07:54.080 Which one is it?

00:07:54.620 I'm not quite sure.

00:07:55.820 I'm not sure they're quite sure either.

00:07:57.600 It isn't just bias though, by the way, among these politicians.

00:08:00.660 It has reached a fever pitch in the mainstream media when they go after not only President Trump, but after members of his administration.

00:08:09.500 Here was MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski, Joe Scarborough's most recent future wife, talking about the U.S. relationship with Saudi Arabia.

00:08:21.660 And specifically how Mike Pompeo is managing this very delicate relationship that is, what would you expect her to say?

00:08:30.640 She'd say, well, he's got to balance this because the new crown prince of Saudi Arabia is a reformer and he's being kinder toward the West and kinder toward Israel.

00:08:38.260 And he's balancing out the trouble and the grave nuclear threat of Iran in the Middle East. 0.79

00:08:42.740 No, no, no, no, no.

00:08:43.300 She didn't say any of that.

00:08:44.420 She called him a butt boy.

00:08:45.460 Here's Mika.

00:08:45.820 So, Joe, I just, I have to ask because I don't think there, I can't think of anyone here who could put it more clearly than you.

00:08:54.080 I understand that Donald Trump doesn't care.

00:08:57.200 Heilman makes a good point.

00:08:58.240 He doesn't care.

00:08:59.200 But why doesn't Mike Pompeo care right now?

00:09:02.420 Are the pathetic deflections that we just heard when he appeared on Fox and Friends, is that a patriot speaking or a wannabe dictator's butt boy?

00:09:12.500 And I'm dead serious.

00:09:14.360 I'm asking, are these the words of a patriot?

00:09:16.960 He's debased himself.

00:09:18.260 He once again has undercut the conclusions of our intel community.

00:09:23.520 So, if you were just listening, you might have assumed that was an SNL skit of the Morning Joe show.

00:09:31.240 It's not.

00:09:31.640 That was the real thing.

00:09:32.460 She really said it.

00:09:33.240 And if you heard that little skip in the audio, that wasn't on our end.

00:09:36.420 It's because MSNBC tried to catch that word, but they missed it.

00:09:40.160 It was too late.

00:09:40.640 She goes, he looks like a butt boy.

00:09:42.960 Beep.

00:09:43.900 Like, guys, maybe a little faster.

00:09:45.260 Maybe hire a producer who's got a faster trigger finger.

00:09:48.080 But look what was included in that.

00:09:50.780 She questioned his patriotism.

00:09:52.700 Whenever a conservative questions a Democrat's patriotism, what do we hear?

00:09:57.280 Oh, how awful.

00:09:59.040 Democrats are protesting the American flag.

00:10:02.560 Remember, Michelle Obama said she was never proud of her country.

00:10:05.760 Barack Obama said he doesn't believe in American exceptionalism.

00:10:08.400 He said it's no different than any other country's exceptionalism because he doesn't even understand what that term means.

00:10:13.680 And so, when we question their patriotism, that's how dare you?

00:10:17.320 How dare you?

00:10:18.300 But then when you have the Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, who is just trying to manage a very delicate situation and not blow up the whole Middle East.

00:10:26.480 She says he's not patriotic and he's a butt boy, which raises another question.

00:10:31.420 We were asked the question about Nancy Pelosi and Donald Trump's manhood.

00:10:34.900 What is it?

00:10:35.540 Is it good to be gay or is it bad to be gay? 0.50

00:10:39.260 Is it ridiculous to be gay? 0.70

00:10:41.460 Is it worthy of derision to be gay?

00:10:43.460 Because when you use a term like butt boy, you're referring to gay sex. 0.87

00:10:46.280 That's what she's referring to.

00:10:48.100 So, on the one hand, we're told that we're living in a culture that affirms homosexuality.

00:10:54.340 It's okay to be gay.

00:10:55.400 It's great to be gay.

00:10:56.420 Paint the White House in rainbow colors.

00:10:58.160 On the other hand, it's the left who is using gay slurs to make fun of their opponents.

00:11:03.920 And that's fine.

00:11:05.100 I'm all for telling jokes about every group of people.

00:11:07.260 That's just fine.

00:11:07.840 But which one is it?

00:11:09.320 Which is it?

00:11:09.780 They can't give an answer to that.

00:11:11.880 And it goes so much further.

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00:13:01.420 It's not just Mika Brzezinski.

00:13:03.700 This goes all the way to CNN.

00:13:05.740 The bias, some people lament the exposure of media bias.

00:13:10.420 They say, I wish we had this objective media like they imagine that we used to have.

00:13:15.480 We never had it.

00:13:16.360 They just hid it before.

00:13:17.620 Now they're not hiding it.

00:13:18.820 And here is Don Lemon on CNN thanking God for Nancy Pelosi.

00:13:23.760 I say that today because as I was laying, you know, taking the Theraflu daytime this morning

00:13:30.280 as I was laying in bed this afternoon and I saw this on television and just objectively

00:13:34.700 speaking, I was like, oh my gosh, Nancy Pelosi is a boss. 1.00

00:13:40.920 I mean, she handled herself amazingly.

00:13:44.240 A lot of people don't like Nancy Pelosi.

00:13:46.240 I'm sure Democrats are going all across the country tonight.

00:13:48.840 Thank God for Nancy Pelosi. 0.88

00:13:50.240 He's sure because he's a Democrat who said that last night because she's amazing and

00:13:54.480 she's a boss, just objectively speaking.

00:13:56.880 Just, we're not talking subjectively.

00:13:58.480 We're just saying objectively.

00:14:00.380 I like that he's coming out and saying this.

00:14:02.660 I actually get kind of a kick out of Don Lemon and Chris Cuomo because they're both total

00:14:07.340 partisan Democrats.

00:14:09.260 And, you know, Don Lemon is way out there.

00:14:12.280 I believe he was the guy at CNN speculating that the Malaysia airline that went missing was

00:14:17.280 abducted by aliens.

00:14:18.360 That's sort of the caliber of political analysis at CNN.

00:14:22.600 And he goes out there and he says, yeah, I love Nancy Pelosi.

00:14:24.920 She's amazing.

00:14:25.700 She's a boss. 0.99

00:14:26.780 Democrats are thanking God for Nancy Pelosi.

00:14:29.860 I go on Fox and Friends about once a week, once or twice a week.

00:14:33.240 And Fox and Friends gets dragged through the mud.

00:14:35.680 All of Fox News gets dragged through the mud because they say, oh, it's Trump's Pravda.

00:14:40.060 They're just cheerleaders for Donald Trump.

00:14:42.320 They have a relationship with Donald Trump.

00:14:44.580 First of all, that isn't true.

00:14:45.660 Shepard Smith, one of their main news guys, is a liberal Democrat.

00:14:49.280 Chris Wallace, who's there on Sundays on Fox, is a Democrat, I believe.

00:14:53.640 They have a number of Democrat commentators who are peppered throughout their shows.

00:14:59.880 They have a wide variety of political thought.

00:15:01.780 In the commentary, they lean right, obviously.

00:15:04.000 But in the news, they don't.

00:15:05.080 What's CNN's excuse?

00:15:06.760 That was supposed to be a news program that we were watching.

00:15:09.140 And they are actually cheering on Nancy Pelosi, thanking God for Nancy Pelosi, calling her objectively a boss and amazing.

00:15:16.680 I don't begrudge them, but they're pretending to be something that they're not.

00:15:20.480 If you want to talk about Fox and Friends being Donald Trump's breakfast companion, okay, that's fine.

00:15:26.560 But they bring different perspectives on that show.

00:15:28.740 What is CNN's excuse?

00:15:29.920 I never hear the left lamenting how CNN is nothing but a communication shop for Democrats.

00:15:36.120 And it's not that this is a new thing.

00:15:37.920 Again, it's not that Donald Trump started all of this.

00:15:40.740 This has been going on for years.

00:15:42.400 If you don't remember, back in those days before Donald Trump, when the news was objective and our political discourse was so elevated,

00:15:49.220 here's CNN's Anderson Cooper putting that myth to rest.

00:15:52.000 This happens to a minority party after it's lost a couple of bad elections, but they're searching for their voice.

00:15:57.520 It's hard to talk when you're teabagging. 1.00

00:15:59.500 David Gergen, appreciate it very much.

00:16:01.100 Ellie Velshi as well.

00:16:02.020 Thanks very much.

00:16:02.900 Hard to talk when you're teabagging. 1.00

00:16:04.840 So that's Anderson Cooper, who is gay, talking about teabagging, which if you don't know what it is, don't Google it. 0.93

00:16:10.600 You don't need to Google it, but it refers to gay sex. 0.72

00:16:13.060 And this was years ago.

00:16:15.240 This was long before Donald Trump.

00:16:17.220 This was during the height of the Tea Party.

00:16:18.660 You've got Mika Brzezinski talking about butt boys. 0.97

00:16:21.260 And so it's also a selective outrage.

00:16:24.800 Kevin Hart doesn't get to host the Oscars because he told a gay joke during a stand-up set 10 years ago.

00:16:31.080 But ostensibly objective news presenters make gay comments regularly on CNN.

00:16:38.280 Nobody says a thing.

00:16:39.400 Imagine if a conservative said butt boy on Fox News or on the Daily Wire or on any other conservative outlet.

00:16:45.180 Imagine what would happen.

00:16:46.840 Certainly they'd be kicked off Twitter.

00:16:48.820 They'd probably be kicked off YouTube.

00:16:50.040 They'd be kicked off of all of these platforms.

00:16:52.460 But there's a double standard now.

00:16:54.700 There's a double standard.

00:16:55.620 And we only blame conservatives.

00:16:58.160 We pretend that conservatives start it.

00:16:59.880 We pretend that Donald Trump starts the fights.

00:17:02.120 He doesn't.

00:17:02.820 He answers the fights.

00:17:03.680 He doesn't start them.

00:17:04.640 We pretend that right-wing political commentators start the fights.

00:17:08.240 They don't.

00:17:08.720 This has been going on for years and years.

00:17:10.500 And we are simply answering back.

00:17:12.340 And we should make no apologies for it.

00:17:14.300 If the left wants to fix political discourse, be my guest.

00:17:18.100 You started it.

00:17:19.020 You're leading.

00:17:19.940 You can fix it.

00:17:20.900 But we're not going to unilaterally disarm.

00:17:22.980 No chance, Buster.

00:17:24.280 And one of the people who best exemplifies this in the media is my friend, my imagined romantic ex-girlfriend, if you listened to the show when Ann Coulter was on my program.

00:17:38.200 Ann Coulter was on Fox News.

00:17:40.040 She is trending on Twitter.

00:17:41.740 She was getting dragged through the mud because of accurately describing leftist intersectional ideology.

00:17:51.220 She puts it succinctly.

00:17:53.000 And now they're accusing her of every this-ism and racism and that-ism and everything else.

00:17:58.160 I think we're going to be seeing a lot of these disputes in the Democratic Party base because they all hate one another.

00:18:07.500 I mean, you have the Muslims and the Jews and the various exotic sexual groups and the black church ladies with, you know, the college queers. 1.00

00:18:19.820 The only thing that keeps this, the Democratic base together is for them to keep focusing on, no, white men are the ones keeping you down. 1.00

00:18:27.960 You must hate white men.

00:18:29.500 It's the one thing they all have in common.

00:18:32.880 Show me the lie.

00:18:35.420 Show me the lie.

00:18:36.320 What the left is trying to do is, as they always do, they're trying to twist what she said and make it fit their agenda.

00:18:43.020 So they're saying, Ann Coulter just said that the Democrats are full of Jews and Muslims and queers.

00:18:49.100 But that isn't what she said.

00:18:50.660 She's making the point that the Democrat coalition, because of intersectional ideology and the politics of identity,

00:18:58.900 is now made up of groups of people who actually disagree with one another and have longstanding animosities toward one another.

00:19:07.420 And the only thing that is unifying them is their disdain for white men, particularly straight white men, particularly straight white men who think that they are men.

00:19:17.020 Because in this ideology, at the apex of the oppression hierarchy sits the straight white man who thinks that he's a man.

00:19:23.680 And therefore, if there are other groups who have longstanding ideological and historical animosities for one another,

00:19:29.960 they can all work together to fight the bad guy who is the straight white guy, who is the straight white guy who knows that he's a guy.

00:19:38.000 And this is absolutely right.

00:19:39.720 So she points out that you have Jews and Muslims within the coalition.

00:19:44.420 Jews and Muslims in the history of international politics tend to have some harsh disagreements with one another, but they sit together.

00:19:52.340 You have the black church ladies and you have the college queers. 1.00

00:19:56.260 Now, some people are deriding her use of the term queer.

00:20:00.000 Queer is now the term. 0.97

00:20:01.240 This is LGBTQ.

00:20:03.120 There's a Q for queer. 1.00

00:20:04.440 There are a couple of Qs, actually, in the acronym.

00:20:05.960 But queer is a term that has been embraced by people of, as she says, exotic sexualities.

00:20:12.080 And so she's using the term that they themselves are using.

00:20:14.860 And it is true. 0.71

00:20:15.660 It doesn't make any sense that the black church lady, you know, somebody who embraces at least a great deal of traditional Christian moral teaching,

00:20:26.640 would ally with people who want to tear down traditional Christian moral teaching and who disagree with traditional Christian moral teaching.

00:20:34.320 But they lie together because they are fed a lie that they are victims, that they are oppressed by this awful, evil, fantastical person called the straight white guy who thinks that he's a guy.

00:20:45.760 This is true across the board.

00:20:47.800 And it's why intersectional politics, identity politics, has been so successful.

00:20:54.520 I mean, the left has always done this to some degree.

00:20:57.340 They create class conflict or racial conflict or they try to create gender conflict. 0.52

00:21:02.040 They try to start a gender war, but that never works. 0.98

00:21:04.440 There will never be a gender war because in the gender war, everybody is sleeping with the enemy or almost everybody is sleeping with the enemy. 0.95

00:21:10.600 So that's not going to last.

00:21:11.380 But everyone else, they sow this division.

00:21:16.160 And the best way that they can do it is to isolate a very specific person, the straight white guy who thinks he's a guy, and say that he's harming everybody.

00:21:24.880 No evidence of that, of course.

00:21:26.140 And everyone has to band up against him.

00:21:28.440 This is why during Occupy Wall Street, they had their language of the 99% versus the 1%.

00:21:33.340 It's very politically useful to get an entire lynch mob to mob up on a very small minority.

00:21:40.460 I'm sure if they had thought of it, they would have made it the 99.9% against the 0.1%.

00:21:44.880 That 0.1% doesn't stand a chance when you just look at the plain numbers.

00:21:49.080 And so this is the point that Ann Coulter is making.

00:21:51.860 She's observing it.

00:21:52.620 And I hope that certain left-wing Democrats or people who have been taken in by intersectionality might listen to what she's saying because what she's pointing out is they're being tricked.

00:22:04.100 They're being used.

00:22:05.440 They're having their rage ginned up by people who don't want to address the actual issues that these groups care about.

00:22:12.960 But what they want to do is rile them up so much that they stop thinking and they blindly follow the left-wing and the Democratic Party because they are being fed a lie that they have an enemy in the oppressor and the patriarchy and the straight white guy who thinks that he's a guy.

00:22:31.680 Nobody's problems comes from the straight white guy who thinks that he's a guy.

00:22:34.520 It might come from an individual straight white guy who thinks he's a guy, but nobody's problems comes from that class of people.

00:22:41.300 It just does not happen.

00:22:43.720 They're fed that lie.

00:22:45.040 They're brought along blindly.

00:22:46.280 I hope that that Ann Coulter clip goes viral because maybe for at least some group of people, they'll be able to listen to what that really means and reconsider and say,

00:22:55.140 Huh, maybe if my main concern is advocating a traditional Christian morality, maybe I won't ally with people who want to redefine the definition of marriage.

00:23:04.940 Huh, if my main concern is the state of Israel, maybe I want to lie with people who want to wipe Israel off the face of the map, who want to boycott, divest, and sanction Israel.

00:23:14.560 Maybe that doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

00:23:16.740 And speaking of our interests, Google today, the CEO of Google, Sundar Pichai, testified before the House Judiciary Committee, and this is being totally misunderstood.

00:23:28.620 Ostensibly, the reason why Pichai is testifying is because there has been a major data breach at Google.

00:23:37.200 Google is shutting down its social media platform, Google+.

00:23:40.080 I know, however will we be able to communicate without Google+, add me to your circles, please.

00:23:46.000 This is a useless social media platform that nobody uses, but there was a data breach, and so ostensibly this hearing was about the data collection on the part of Google.

00:23:56.400 What data they have, what data, where it's going, who can see it, who can access it.

00:24:00.260 That isn't the point.

00:24:01.240 People don't care about that at all.

00:24:02.820 What people care about is censorship and Google using its vast resources to tip elections in favor of the Democratic Party against the Republican Party.

00:24:14.920 That's what they care about.

00:24:16.160 They care about political bias and censorship, and they don't care about data.

00:24:19.720 We all assume, if you live in the modern world, you assume that you have no privacy.

00:24:24.560 I've got the Alexa in my home.

00:24:26.600 I've got my iPhone.

00:24:27.580 Probably my refrigerator is listening to me.

00:24:29.680 I think we probably bugged the leftist here's Tumblr.

00:24:31.580 At this point, I don't know.

00:24:33.140 It's so cheap.

00:24:33.720 At least China's bugging the thing. 0.96

00:24:35.520 They're putting little spyware in all of our other hardware in the United States.

00:24:39.100 They've probably put it into this desk, into these note cards.

00:24:42.900 We don't expect privacy.

00:24:44.800 This is a concern that I think politicians and commentators think people care about.

00:24:50.360 They don't.

00:24:50.940 What they actually care about is censorship and political bias, and at least Republican Representative Jim Jordan was able to zero in on this.

00:24:58.400 This is a totally telling exchange between the Google CEO and Jim Jordan.

00:25:02.900 She said she paid for rides to the polls, and they configured their features in such a way as to get out the Latino vote.

00:25:11.080 Look, I actually think that's all okay.

00:25:13.640 But then there's three words at the end of each sentence that do cause me real concern.

00:25:17.300 And those three words are we push to get out the Latino vote with our features in key states.

00:25:23.840 Now suddenly it gets political.

00:25:26.380 We supported partners like Voto Latino to pay for rides to the polls in key states.

00:25:32.320 Now that makes everything different.

00:25:34.000 So I got really just one question for you.

00:25:37.000 Why?

00:25:38.500 Why did Google configure its features and pay for rides to the polls to get out the Latino vote only in key states?

00:25:48.940 Congressman, I said earlier, we found no evidence to substantiate those claims.

00:25:52.740 Listen, what a remarkable answer.

00:25:55.140 So as Jim Jordan lays out, we have the woman who's the head of multicultural marketing admit that she did this, admit that she used Google's vast resources, some of the most plentiful resources in the entire history of the world, to get out the vote of a demographic that votes overwhelmingly for Democrats in key states.

00:26:15.880 What makes them key states?

00:26:17.100 Democrats have to win them.

00:26:18.060 They could be swing states.

00:26:19.060 They're trying to push it for Democrats.

00:26:20.320 Democrats, you've got the head of multicultural marketing, whatever that is, admitting this.

00:26:26.320 You then have her referring to Sundar Pichai, the CEO, right there, praising her efforts.

00:26:31.720 And he's asked about this and he can't quite deny it.

00:26:35.160 He doesn't want to lie before the entire country and before the House Judiciary Committee.

00:26:38.780 So what he says is, well, we found no evidence.

00:26:42.920 We found no evidence.

00:26:43.620 Okay, how hard did you look?

00:26:45.260 Because I found evidence just in what Jim Jordan read.

00:26:47.780 There's the evidence.

00:26:48.400 The head of multicultural marketing admits it and you bragged about it.

00:26:52.940 That's the evidence.

00:26:54.080 We found no evidence.

00:26:55.340 Okay, I found no evidence that President JFK was assassinated.

00:27:03.460 I have no evidence of that.

00:27:05.380 I mean, obviously, I've seen Ted Cruz's father, so I suppose there's a little evidence there.

00:27:09.640 But I have no evidence that that happened.

00:27:12.120 I haven't looked into it.

00:27:14.020 I don't know.

00:27:14.460 I haven't seen John Kennedy in a long time, but I've got no evidence of it.

00:27:18.100 That it's totally obtuse.

00:27:20.280 He's trying to hide what he's really behind.

00:27:22.560 But it goes further than that.

00:27:24.160 Jim Jordan, to his great credit, presses on and Pichai doesn't get any better.

00:27:30.660 He's just as opaque and untransparent as his company is toward its political practices.

00:27:36.260 Your head of multicultural marketing, who you praised her work in this email, gave her a shout out, was lying when she said you were trying to get out the Latino vote in key states?

00:27:47.960 We, today, in the U.S., around elections, we make it, and this is what users look to us for, where to register to vote, where to find your nearest polling place, what are the hours they are open, and we do those things effectively.

00:28:03.680 I appreciate that, Mr. Pichai.

00:28:04.880 I already said that's just, that's being a good corporate citizen.

00:28:07.880 What I'm asking is, why did you only do it in key states?

00:28:10.600 We didn't do any such activity as Google on any of these key states.

00:28:16.340 We didn't do any such activity as Google.

00:28:19.860 Well, what's the parent company of Google is called Alphabet.

00:28:22.500 Did you do it as Alphabet?

00:28:24.260 You didn't do it as Google.

00:28:25.560 Did you do it as the Google office of multicultural marketing?

00:28:29.020 You didn't do it as, did you do it as YouTube?

00:28:30.800 Did you do it?

00:28:31.180 Google is one of the biggest companies in the history of the world.

00:28:33.680 I don't, who cares how they did it?

00:28:35.840 You've got the head of this major department and the CEO of the freaking company saying that it happened, and now you are looking me in the eye and telling me that it didn't happen, that there's no evidence of it, that you're not sure.

00:28:47.280 Give me a break.

00:28:48.740 I love that Jordan presses on, and he keeps, the way that you know that Pichai is guilty as sin here is that he answers a different question.

00:28:55.920 He says, why did you get out the vote in key states?

00:28:57.460 He said, well, we love busing people to the polls to do our civic duty.

00:29:03.040 He said, right, yeah, I didn't ask that.

00:29:04.780 I said, why'd you do it in key states?

00:29:06.680 And he gives another answer.

00:29:07.840 He tries to divert.

00:29:09.020 This is what people care about.

00:29:10.840 This is what people care about.

00:29:12.480 They care about the political bias because if Google is getting out the vote in key states, fill in the blank, key states for Democrats, then Google is making an in-kind contribution to Democrats, a massive in-kind contribution to Democrats.

00:29:28.920 This certainly would be in violation of election laws.

00:29:32.840 And we just saw the president's longtime personal lawyer sent to the clink for three years.

00:29:37.380 They're going to try to use this to impeach Donald Trump on the basis of a very minor campaign contribution, $130,000.

00:29:45.660 Very minor compared to what kind of money Google is laying out.

00:29:50.120 Very minor compared to the money that Barack Obama was caught illegally contributing to his campaign.

00:29:56.360 $2 million in that case, $1.8 million.

00:29:59.200 But they're throwing Trump's lawyer to the clink.

00:30:01.440 This is a very important point.

00:30:02.900 This is what people care about.

00:30:04.260 And they care about the bias when it relates to them personally.

00:30:07.300 Am I going to be kicked off YouTube like Gavin McGinnis was?

00:30:10.300 Why was Gavin McGinnis kicked off YouTube?

00:30:12.220 He's a funny conservative comedian.

00:30:14.540 Did he tell a joke?

00:30:15.440 Oh, heaven forfend.

00:30:16.540 They kick him off.

00:30:17.040 That's what we care about.

00:30:18.140 Because if Google comes out and says, we're going to kick all conservatives off our platform, okay, I guess.

00:30:24.060 At least you're being transparent.

00:30:25.560 At least we can all see you for what you are, which is partisan hacks.

00:30:28.500 We'll go try to find another place that won't kick us off because they're so upset that a Republican won an election.

00:30:34.380 But they won't do that.

00:30:35.360 So we've got to just keep pressing hard on this.

00:30:37.580 We've got to keep focusing and not lose sight and get mixed into Google's civic responsibility, into Google's data collection, into data.

00:30:46.160 That's not what we're concerned about.

00:30:47.760 We're concerned about what it means for politics.

00:30:51.080 And we will get into Michael Cohen's sentencing because it does say a lot about where this special counsel investigation is going to be going, especially once Democrats take the House with regard to Donald Trump.

00:31:03.180 Will Trump be impeached?

00:31:04.220 Will we have a government shutdown before Nancy Pelosi takes over? 1.00

00:31:07.580 And why are millennial men so embarrassing? 1.00

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00:32:11.880 So Cohen goes to the clink for three years, longtime lawyer to Donald Trump.

00:32:26.900 Nancy Pelosi is threatening all of these investigations once she takes over control of the House of Representatives, 0.98

00:32:33.540 which is going to be happening in just a month.

00:32:35.600 It's really close.

00:32:36.680 It's right around the corner.

00:32:37.460 The question is, when are we going to get the wall?

00:32:41.260 Donald Trump won the Republican presidential primary on the promise of building the wall.

00:32:46.140 He won the general election on the promise of building the wall.

00:32:49.380 He had the government for two years, the United Government.

00:32:52.640 Where is the wall?

00:32:54.440 Where is the money for the wall?

00:32:56.580 Ann Coulter.

00:32:57.200 We talked about her earlier.

00:32:58.560 She said the wall is not being built.

00:33:01.480 If anyone thinks the wall is being built, they're suckers.

00:33:03.740 Where is the wall?

00:33:04.560 This is the showdown fight.

00:33:06.260 And we'll know next Friday if the government is going to be shut down to get funding for the border wall.

00:33:11.680 I think that President Trump is bluffing.

00:33:15.060 Senator John Kennedy, Republican, thinks that he is not bluffing.

00:33:18.000 Here's Kennedy on CNN.

00:33:19.620 The issue here is, well, let me put it another way.

00:33:23.060 I think we're going to have a shutdown.

00:33:24.580 You do?

00:33:24.900 And I think I do.

00:33:26.320 And I think we're going to have a shutdown for two reasons.

00:33:28.440 Number one, President Trump does not look to me like he was bluffing or is bluffing.

00:33:33.980 And number two, I don't think Speaker Pelosi is going to agree to anything because she's worried about her speakership.

00:33:43.800 And are you comfortable if there's a shutdown next Friday over this border wall funding?

00:33:48.480 No, absolutely not.

00:33:50.220 I mean, I think the American people look to us up here to try to make things work.

00:33:55.500 And who gets blamed if there's a shutdown?

00:33:57.800 Do you think that it's the president or Congress?

00:34:00.120 As far as I'm concerned, if it's shut down, it's a pox on all of our houses.

00:34:04.380 I don't know politically who's going to win or lose this.

00:34:08.080 Who gets blamed?

00:34:09.000 Who gets the credit?

00:34:10.120 I'd love to.

00:34:10.820 Can I take credit for it?

00:34:11.780 Can I take responsibility?

00:34:13.060 Shut it down.

00:34:13.860 I would love to be the guy who shut down the government over the border wall.

00:34:17.120 Well, President Trump yesterday in that back and forth chess match with Chuck Schumer,

00:34:20.960 he finally arrived at that position, which is the correct position.

00:34:24.420 Own it.

00:34:25.000 Take responsibility.

00:34:25.980 It doesn't matter.

00:34:27.200 The conventional wisdom is that people get blamed and it's going to hurt them at the elections

00:34:30.320 if they shut down the government.

00:34:31.660 No way.

00:34:32.560 Shut it down.

00:34:33.260 Shut it down.

00:34:35.140 Do you remember?

00:34:35.760 Oh, no.

00:34:36.200 Do you remember when Republicans got blown out in the 2014 elections because they shut the

00:34:40.160 government down in 2013?

00:34:42.100 Oh, no, I don't either.

00:34:43.140 They took the Senate in 2014.

00:34:44.580 Doesn't matter at all.

00:34:45.240 People don't, it doesn't matter for a few reasons.

00:34:47.660 One, we're very angry that we don't have the wall.

00:34:50.380 We're very angry that 3,000 people a day are pouring over our border illegally.

00:34:54.940 Unvetted people, people that we can't track.

00:34:57.740 We don't know.

00:34:58.300 Many of them are criminals.

00:34:59.800 And this is true not just among conservatives, but it's true among independents and left-wingers

00:35:05.460 too, even among Democrats.

00:35:06.980 We don't like illegal immigration. 1.00

00:35:08.520 This is a totally winning issue.

00:35:10.320 And John Kennedy says that he's not bluffing and that we're going to shut the government

00:35:16.300 down.

00:35:16.580 I think he's bluffing.

00:35:17.860 I think President Trump is bluffing.

00:35:19.180 I'm sorry to say.

00:35:20.520 He threatened to shut the government down over this exact issue in February.

00:35:23.600 What happened?

00:35:24.120 Didn't happen.

00:35:25.060 He threatened to shut down the government over this exact issue in July.

00:35:27.800 What happened?

00:35:28.320 Didn't happen.

00:35:29.060 I think he's bluffing.

00:35:29.880 And I think he sent John Kennedy on TV to say he's super serious this time about shutting

00:35:34.320 it down.

00:35:34.700 And I think he's not going to shut it down.

00:35:36.740 I hope he does shut it down.

00:35:37.900 I hope someone in the White House is watching this show that this is the last chance.

00:35:42.040 And voters, look, voters have short memories.

00:35:45.280 They give you a lot of leeway.

00:35:46.980 This administration has been terrific on so many issues.

00:35:51.600 But now, when it matters most, you're looking at a House of Representatives controlled by Democrats

00:35:59.940 in just one month.

00:36:01.020 And we're probably not going to get that House back.

00:36:03.060 And we're not going to be able to push through legislation.

00:36:05.020 And what is President Trump focusing on now?

00:36:07.820 Criminal justice reform?

00:36:09.240 He's focusing on the First Step Act?

00:36:11.020 He's focusing on letting prisoners out of prison instead of building the wall?

00:36:15.840 Do you think, does anybody think Donald Trump won the election in 2016 because he said,

00:36:19.800 I'm going to let prisoners out of prison early?

00:36:22.360 Does anybody, does he think that Republicans want criminal justice reform, which is to be read

00:36:26.900 as letting people out of the clink?

00:36:29.320 No, of course not.

00:36:30.920 We don't want that.

00:36:31.800 Why on earth?

00:36:33.600 The gamble that the White House is making on criminal justice reform, quote unquote,

00:36:38.960 is that it's easy to get through because Democrats want it.

00:36:42.600 People don't realize that the criminal justice system exists to punish criminals for crime.

00:36:48.320 It is punitive.

00:36:49.400 It is retributive.

00:36:50.540 It is not primarily therapeutic.

00:36:52.520 It's not primarily about rehabilitating people and making people hug each other and having

00:36:56.300 a nice time.

00:36:56.820 It is primarily about punishing people for crime, and they're also betting that people

00:37:01.040 are going to think that we've got zillions of people in America in jail for nonviolent

00:37:05.180 minor drug offenses, when in reality, the people, even who are listed for that, very

00:37:09.400 often have just pled it down from selling drugs, from dealing drugs, from getting people hooked

00:37:13.720 on poison, and from carrying guns, from violent crimes, from bad associations.

00:37:19.040 They're focusing on that.

00:37:20.220 The White House wants to pass the First Step Act, criminal justice reform, and they're going

00:37:23.540 to let this wall issue just go away, and it is a huge, huge mistake.

00:37:29.400 They will get no credit for it in the elections, and it's just bad for the country.

00:37:33.800 You have the record-high illegal immigration pouring over the border.

00:37:37.540 Build the wall.

00:37:38.320 Shut it down.

00:37:39.180 You won't get blamed politically if you shut it down, and you'll get a huge reward, either

00:37:44.880 if you do get the funding and you're able to build it, or you call attention to this issue

00:37:49.420 and Democrats get dinged for it because they want open borders and they want to abolish

00:37:53.160 law enforcement.

00:37:54.260 Shut it down.

00:37:55.860 If that means tabling criminal justice reform, all the better.

00:37:59.800 Good.

00:38:00.080 I hope they do that.

00:38:01.720 But shut, this is the last chance.

00:38:03.360 This is do or die.

00:38:04.580 I hope John Kennedy is right.

00:38:05.640 I hope President Trump isn't bluffing.

00:38:07.220 If President Trump, if you think that you are bluffing, don't bluff.

00:38:10.220 Do it.

00:38:10.900 You will be rewarded for it.

00:38:11.940 It will be a good thing for the country.

00:38:13.200 We've got to get to these judicial rulings, by the way.

00:38:16.920 I mean, this is big news.

00:38:18.860 President Trump's longtime lawyer, Michael Cohen, is being sent to prison for three years

00:38:23.740 for a campaign finance violation, which means they are using this as the warning shot to

00:38:28.940 go after President Trump.

00:38:30.320 All the more reason to shut down the government and build the wall. 0.92

00:38:32.900 The walls, the proverbial walls, are closing in around the president right now.

00:38:36.720 All of the forces who were very upset about the 2016 election and want to undo it by anti-constitutional,

00:38:43.800 anti-democratic means of endless investigations and trying to get him on trumped up charges,

00:38:49.840 pun very much intended.

00:38:51.040 They are closing in on him.

00:38:53.160 So what's the ruling?

00:38:54.660 We know that Michael Cohen is getting three years.

00:38:58.280 He's the first member of the Trump inner circle to be sentenced and jailed over a special

00:39:02.560 counsel office inquiry.

00:39:04.200 Unfortunately, he was behaving like a woman. 0.89

00:39:08.820 I mean, I don't mean woman like womanly, like, you know, when women behave as women. 0.99

00:39:15.580 I mean when men behave as women, woman-ish, sort of inappropriate to his position, inappropriate 1.00

00:39:23.080 to how he should be behaving.

00:39:25.540 He was crying, apparently, in court.

00:39:28.600 He said that his weakness was his loyalty to Donald Trump.

00:39:31.940 He felt his duty to cover up Donald Trump's dirty deeds.

00:39:35.240 He's giving the office of the special counsel whatever they want.

00:39:38.440 He's singing their tunes now.

00:39:40.480 And he now knows he has no chance of getting a presidential pardon.

00:39:44.420 So he's weeping in court.

00:39:45.840 Oh, gosh, why did I ever do it?

00:39:47.540 This is the man who, on the other side, actually to use another gendered term on this, he had

00:39:52.620 this ridiculous machismo, this fake manliness two years ago when he said, I would take a

00:39:57.900 bullet for Trump, I'm not a rat, I would never sing on Trump.

00:40:01.440 And then what does he do?

00:40:02.100 He cries in court as he gives away everything and blames Trump for all of his own problems.

00:40:07.180 So he's going to jail for three years.

00:40:09.460 He'll probably get out early, though.

00:40:10.880 He's going to jail over a $130,000 campaign contribution.

00:40:15.680 Maybe campaign contribution.

00:40:17.360 Might have not even been an in-kind campaign contribution because President Trump regularly

00:40:21.820 paid off women. 1.00

00:40:22.940 Barack Obama's campaign in 2008 had $1.8 million in illegal donations.

00:40:29.660 Opaque, untransparent, fake signatures, fake donors.

00:40:35.240 Who went to jail for that?

00:40:36.280 Who went to jail for three years for that?

00:40:38.780 Nobody.

00:40:39.620 Nobody did.

00:40:40.480 $300,000 fine was put on them for $2 million in illegal contributions.

00:40:46.880 How about when Dinesh D'Souza donated $30,000 to his friend Wendy Long?

00:40:52.200 He donated a little bit too much money to his friend Wendy Long.

00:40:54.740 Went to a halfway house, threw him in the clink.

00:40:56.640 This is what this ruling means.

00:40:58.740 They're going to try to go after Trump.

00:41:00.160 But ironically, they probably can't really get him on this.

00:41:02.680 One, it's going to be really, really hard to say that he made an illegal campaign contribution.

00:41:08.360 He's the candidate.

00:41:09.100 He can donate what he wants to.

00:41:11.500 If he didn't disclose it, it's going to be really hard to get him.

00:41:14.120 Even ex-Senator John Edwards got off on this in 2012.

00:41:17.280 It's going to be really hard to get the sitting president.

00:41:19.180 Also, they can't get him on this until he's out of office.

00:41:21.960 And if he wins re-election, it actually is past the time of the statute of limitations for this.

00:41:25.880 So it's going to be a very interesting legal question to see what happens to him if he wins re-election,

00:41:30.360 how they can go after him.

00:41:31.700 It's just a way to scare Trump.

00:41:33.000 It's just a way to politically damage him.

00:41:36.540 I don't think that any of these sentences mean that they're going to legally damage him.

00:41:41.320 I think they're going to politically damage him, try to ruin his chances at re-election,

00:41:45.080 which is what this whole Russia investigation was really about.

00:41:47.880 Why on earth is the special counsel of the Russia investigation,

00:41:53.180 why is he sending Cohen to jail for campaign finance?

00:41:57.120 What does that have to do with Russian interference in the election?

00:41:59.720 Nothing is what it has to do with him.

00:42:01.100 But there was a great ruling that came out today as well.

00:42:02.980 Well, Stormy Daniels owes Donald Trump 300 grand and she owes it to him for a lawsuit that Michael Avenatti, 1.00

00:42:10.200 her creepy porn lawyer, as Tucker Carlson calls him, apparently filed without her consent at all.

00:42:17.060 So she now owes him 300 grand.

00:42:18.580 It's 75% of Trump's legal bill in this, to use the terms of the judge,

00:42:22.620 meritless defamation lawsuit against Donald Trump.

00:42:26.360 Avenatti still insists that they will win one and a half million dollars from Donald Trump

00:42:30.440 on a case regarding that non-disclosure agreement that Stormy Daniels signed.

00:42:35.720 Likely they will not.

00:42:37.460 It's a very shaky case.

00:42:39.480 So really tough day for Michael Avenatti and Stormy Daniels.

00:42:42.780 But good, make them pay up.

00:42:44.020 It's outrageous that people get off the hook for these frivolous lawsuits,

00:42:47.620 for these frivolous claims against Republican figures and conservative figures.

00:42:52.500 So take them to the cleaners. 1.00

00:42:53.780 And I hope Avenatti's got to pay it too.

00:42:55.160 So the popular take here is that, you know, wouldn't it be better if we didn't have all

00:43:01.460 these lawsuits swirling around?

00:43:03.340 Wouldn't it be better if we had an unimpeachable candidate, you know, a Mike Pence or somebody

00:43:07.380 in office instead of Donald Trump?

00:43:09.100 And we wouldn't have to deal with all of these lawsuit threats, legal threats.

00:43:13.160 Wouldn't it be better?

00:43:14.340 Come on, admit it would be better.

00:43:15.740 No, it wouldn't be better.

00:43:17.320 It would not be better.

00:43:18.440 Democrats and the left would treat any candidate exactly the way that they're treating Donald Trump.

00:43:23.500 They did it to Brett Kavanaugh.

00:43:24.880 Brett Kavanaugh is as milquetoast as they get.

00:43:27.200 They tried to paint him to be a gang rapist.

00:43:30.000 Federal judge for a dozen years.

00:43:31.880 No ever, no one has ever suggested he's got a poor character.

00:43:36.060 They did it to him.

00:43:36.660 They did it to Mitt Romney.

00:43:37.560 They said Mitt Romney was a gay bashing dog abuser.

00:43:41.260 Mitt Romney is like the squeaky cleanest guy in America.

00:43:45.940 It wouldn't matter.

00:43:47.060 It wouldn't matter.

00:43:47.700 It's a huge mistake for conservatives to say, well, Trump brought it on himself.

00:43:50.660 Yeah, maybe he did, but they'd go after a guy who didn't bring it on himself too.

00:43:54.860 It's exactly the same.

00:43:57.440 Those are the judicial rulings.

00:43:58.780 Before we go, we've got to talk about Baby, It's Cold Outside.

00:44:00.860 There is a new Baby, It's Cold Outside.

00:44:03.020 This is from songwriters Lydia Liza and Josiah Lemansky.

00:44:07.800 And they, quote, revised the lyrics to emphasize the importance of consent in sexual relationships.

00:44:14.080 When I heard this, I thought it was a parody.

00:44:16.560 I thought it was pretty funny.

00:44:17.340 It was a parody of PC feminist culture. 0.97

00:44:20.420 Come to find out, it's not.

00:44:22.500 They really did it to make the song more culturally acceptable.

00:44:26.880 If you haven't heard it, here it is.

00:44:28.120 I really can't stay.

00:44:31.000 Baby, I'm fine with that.

00:44:32.940 I've got to go away.

00:44:34.980 Baby, I'm cool with that.

00:44:37.040 This evening has been.

00:44:39.000 Hoping you'd get home safe.

00:44:40.060 So very nice.

00:44:41.900 I'm glad you had a real good time.

00:44:45.460 My mother will start to worry.

00:44:47.660 Call her so she knows that you're coming.

00:44:49.420 And father will be pacing the floor.

00:44:51.580 Better get your car a hurry.

00:44:53.460 So really, I'd better scurry.

00:44:56.100 Take your time.

00:44:57.320 Should I use the front or back door?

00:44:59.440 Which one are you pulling towards more?

00:45:01.600 The neighbors might think.

00:45:02.980 That you're a real nice girl.

00:45:04.840 Say, what is this dream?

00:45:07.240 Pomegranate LaCroix.

00:45:08.660 I wish I knew how to break this spell.

00:45:13.960 I don't know what you're talking about.

00:45:17.440 I ought to say no, no, no, sir.

00:45:19.680 You reserve the right to say no.

00:45:21.520 At least I'm going to say that I tried.

00:45:23.820 You reserve the right to say no.

00:45:25.560 I really...

00:45:26.120 You reserve the right to say no.

00:45:33.000 Well, not exactly Giacomo Casanova over there talking about pomegranate LaCroix and how she

00:45:40.800 should text her mother and just go. 0.92

00:45:44.520 The argument that the left is making is that the first song is about rape, but it's obviously

00:45:51.520 not about rape.

00:45:52.380 The woman wants to stay just as much as the man. 1.00

00:45:54.560 She says many times that she can have another half a drink or she can have another cigarette

00:45:58.820 more.

00:45:59.180 Or she is looking for excuses to get around the social mores that say that she should

00:46:03.560 have modesty and virtue and not stick around with the guy and canoodle on the first date.

00:46:07.420 But they both want to canoodle just as much.

00:46:09.960 This has been twisted by the left.

00:46:11.700 And so the answer right now is this awful clinical song.

00:46:18.300 It's this awful clinical relationship between men and women where the man doesn't pursue the

00:46:24.740 woman.

00:46:24.980 It is now considered a rape culture for a man to pursue a woman. 0.99

00:46:30.580 It should just...

00:46:31.220 It should only...

00:46:31.880 There should never be any pursuance.

00:46:33.040 If you try to kiss a woman, that can be called sexual assault under certain broad definitions

00:46:37.720 of this.

00:46:39.380 Is any man...

00:46:40.180 Is any woman rather attracted to that guy?

00:46:43.960 Of course not.

00:46:45.480 Not a single...

00:46:46.300 I don't care how feminist you pretend to be, how left wing, how I'm with her, whatever. 1.00

00:46:51.920 Nobody is attracted to that guy.

00:46:53.760 That guy is profoundly repulsive.

00:46:57.680 It's not because being effeminate is repulsive.

00:47:01.340 Just like earlier I said Michael Cohen cried like a woman. 0.99

00:47:04.420 The only reason that that is an insult is because Michael Cohen isn't a woman.

00:47:07.060 He's a man.

00:47:07.520 He's supposed to be a man.

00:47:09.520 He's supposed to behave like a man, but that guy won't behave like a man.

00:47:13.360 Compare that version to the Betty Carter, Ray Charles version of that song.

00:47:18.640 And listen, just listen if you can hear any difference at all.

00:47:20.760 I really can't stay.

00:47:24.140 Betty, it's cold outside.

00:47:27.640 I've got to go away.

00:47:30.140 Betty, it's cold out there.

00:47:33.760 This evening has been...

00:47:35.980 Been hoping that you drop in.

00:47:38.820 So very nice.

00:47:40.640 I'll hold your hand there just like ice.

00:47:45.800 My mother will start to worry.

00:47:49.480 Beautiful, what's your hurry?

00:47:51.860 And father will be pacing the Lord.

00:47:55.080 Listen to that fireplace roar.

00:47:58.360 So really I'd better scurry.

00:48:01.520 Beautiful, please don't hurry.

00:48:04.960 Well, maybe just to have a dream.

00:48:06.340 Why don't you put some records on while I pour?

00:48:10.520 Oh, listen to that fireplace roar.

00:48:14.060 It's getting so hot in here I can't...

00:48:16.080 That is a song that is seductive.

00:48:18.400 And you hear it in both of their voices.

00:48:20.460 It's this game.

00:48:21.580 The woman is teasing the man. 0.97

00:48:23.300 She said, I really should go.

00:48:24.920 What are you going to do?

00:48:25.620 What's that going to make you say?

00:48:26.920 Oh, you should stay.

00:48:28.280 No, well, I don't know.

00:48:29.400 I really should go.

00:48:30.360 No, don't you think?

00:48:31.280 This is a beautiful thing.

00:48:32.500 This is a beautiful dance.

00:48:34.000 The image that you have when you listen to this

00:48:35.760 is the dance of men and women

00:48:37.340 in a game of seduction and teasing and romance.

00:48:41.420 What you hear in the first left-wing version

00:48:43.840 are two apathetic, bored, depressed millennials 0.99

00:48:49.300 who are so socially awkward

00:48:51.800 they have no idea how men and women 1.00

00:48:53.680 are supposed to interact with each other

00:48:55.220 if the woman did stick around 1.00

00:48:57.520 because it's cold outside

00:48:58.460 the guy would have no idea what to do.

00:49:00.640 He's rushing her out the door

00:49:01.840 because he has no idea what to do.

00:49:03.180 He has no idea what romance is.

00:49:05.340 Which world do you want to live in?

00:49:07.120 Do you want to live in the world

00:49:08.040 of pomegranate, LaCroix, and sad millennials?

00:49:11.460 Or do you want to live in the world

00:49:12.560 of Betty Carter and Ray Charles?

00:49:14.440 Ooh, I know what I want.

00:49:15.320 I want that fireplace to roar.

00:49:17.380 All right, that's our show.

00:49:18.200 I ran late today.

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00:49:52.900 that dust-up between Donald and Chuck and Nancy

00:49:55.940 and how everything, after a while, becomes TV.

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The Michael Knowles Show - December 12, 2018

Ep. 267 - The Left Makes Trump Look Polite

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