The Michael Knowles Show - December 13, 2018


Ep. 268 - How The Left Gets Everything Backwards


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Dennis Prager was at the Prager U. Christmas party last night, and he had a very astute observation. He was talking about how the left is getting everything exactly backwards, and how God makes chaos into order.

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00:00:37.660 New evidence emerges that disgraced FBI employees used ugly, if not illegal, tactics to entrap former Trump NSA Michael Flynn,
00:00:46.300 while Democrats admit they want to censure speech and a mother imagines the lullaby that her child sang to her right before she aborted him,
00:00:54.040 all of which highlights the defining feature of modern leftism.
00:00:57.620 It gets everything exactly backwards.
00:01:00.620 We will analyze the inverted, perverted politics of the left.
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00:01:05.020 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:01:13.360 You know those days when every single news story lines up to illustrate one central fact about politics?
00:01:20.900 Today is one of those days. We are talking about the central fact of the left getting everything exactly backwards.
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00:03:27.700 So much to get to today.
00:03:29.020 I was at the Prager U Christmas party last night, and Dennis Prager gets up there, and he made a very astute observation.
00:03:36.940 He was talking about his biblical commentary, and he said one thing he notices is that God brings things from disorder, from chaos, into order.
00:03:46.400 You see this in the creation.
00:03:47.620 You see this in the Genesis story.
00:03:49.820 And what the left does is it takes order and creates chaos out of order.
00:03:53.840 It's constantly breeding chaos.
00:03:55.580 It's constantly breeding confusion.
00:03:57.040 One good example here is that, you know, God makes man, male and female, he makes them.
00:04:03.380 And what the left does is confuses and says there's no such thing as a man, there's no such thing as a woman, men are women, women are men.
00:04:09.040 He's exactly right.
00:04:10.120 I thought it was a great point.
00:04:11.760 It occurs to me this goes further than that.
00:04:14.660 I mean, that's totally right.
00:04:15.940 But the logical conclusion of that idea is that the hallmark of leftism is that it gets everything precisely backwards.
00:04:23.400 It gets it all exactly backwards.
00:04:25.540 Nowhere is this more evident than the creepiest, most disturbing news story that I have.
00:04:31.040 I don't I don't know how long this this is certainly the creepiest news story I've seen in months, maybe years.
00:04:37.340 It is a woman who is singing the lullaby that she imagines that her baby was singing to her before she aborted it, before she killed the baby.
00:04:48.740 You have to see it to believe it.
00:04:50.180 In my faith, there is only a thin veil or door that separates the living from the other side. 0.98
00:04:58.700 And so about two weeks before my abortion was scheduled, I started having visions and talking to the spirit of the child that I believe had come to me.
00:05:11.640 And I remember in the clinic when I was waiting for the operation or the procedure, a song came to me in my head and out of nowhere.
00:05:23.380 And it was a pretty little lullaby that came to me and I just want to sing it to you.
00:05:29.440 And I knew it was from the spirit of that child saying, it's okay.
00:05:35.540 So you may recognize the song.
00:05:37.320 Who knows how long I've loved you, you know I love you still, I will wait a lonely night time, if you want me to, I will love you forever and forever.
00:05:58.380 Love you with all my heart, love you whenever we're together, love you when we're apart.
00:06:11.120 And I truly felt that it was a blessing from the spirit to make the decision that I need to make.
00:06:17.400 It was a blessing from the spirit of the baby that she was about to kill to make the decision to kill the baby.
00:06:24.620 Just listen to all this.
00:06:27.120 We're told by the left that abortion, it's a simple surgical procedure.
00:06:30.400 Oh, it's no different than getting your appendix taken out.
00:06:32.540 It's all physical.
00:06:33.540 It's not a religious issue.
00:06:35.340 It's not a spiritual issue.
00:06:36.820 This woman sure thinks it is. 1.00
00:06:38.600 Listen to, I mean the only way to describe it is as demonic.
00:06:42.440 I know that these days in our very enlightened, sophisticated society, we mock all of the smartest people throughout all of human history who have believed in demons and the personification of evil.
00:06:53.460 But this must be demonic.
00:06:55.460 This woman says, before I got my abortion, I started having visions.
00:06:59.200 And in my religious view, there's not much difference between the living and the dead.
00:07:03.980 They're all sort of the same.
00:07:05.300 And in these visions, the spirit of the baby was singing to me about how wonderful it was that I was going to kill it.
00:07:11.640 Truly disturbing stuff and the sort of stuff that you read about in narratives of demons, that you would read about in the personification of evil.
00:07:20.480 So, whenever someone tells you abortion, it's just a physical, it's just a little surgery.
00:07:25.760 It's no big deal.
00:07:27.580 That tells that lie.
00:07:29.040 That shows that lie to be what it is.
00:07:31.060 There is a physical act, but it is a metaphysical and spiritual act as well.
00:07:35.560 And what's so striking about it is how it gets the natural order of the world totally reversed.
00:07:43.800 Obviously, we know men are not women and women are not men. 0.94
00:07:47.440 The left tells us men are women and women are men. 0.57
00:07:49.740 The left tells us that good is evil and that evil is good.
00:07:52.600 The left tells us that strength is weakness and weakness is strength and manly virtue is toxic and weak and awful.
00:07:58.900 It tells us that taking somebody else's money is generous and letting everybody keep their own money is greedy.
00:08:05.940 And here we see the peak of that, which is in the natural order, parents sing lullabies to their babies to comfort them and to lull them to sleep to wake up the next morning.
00:08:19.200 And in this perversion and total inversion of that, you have an imagined, a fantasy, a vision of the baby singing a lullaby to the mother to encourage the mother to put that baby to sleep forever.
00:08:33.120 So it won't wake up an exact inversion of the natural order.
00:08:38.140 I think this is the hallmark.
00:08:39.560 I think this is how you know when politics has gone totally wrong, when politics and things beyond politics, things in the philosophical and religious and spiritual realm, have gone wrong.
00:08:51.180 As you look at it and you see it's a mirror image of reality.
00:08:54.340 It's an exact mirror image.
00:08:58.020 You hear the left, RFK would say this all the time.
00:09:00.940 He would say approvingly that George Bernard Shaw said, some people see things that are and ask why.
00:09:07.400 I dream things that never were and ask why not.
00:09:10.760 This was the democratic ideal, the left-wing ideal.
00:09:14.580 What he doesn't say is that when the playwright George Bernard Shaw wrote those words, he put them in the mouth of the serpent, tempting Eve.
00:09:21.560 Those are the words of the devil to say, ignore what is.
00:09:25.680 Ignore reality as it is.
00:09:27.460 Imagine fantasies.
00:09:28.800 Have a vision of your baby singing you a lullaby to encourage you to kill it.
00:09:32.780 That is a fantasy.
00:09:34.640 That's a fantasy that comes from evil and it comes from the personification of evil.
00:09:39.500 And we can pretend that that doesn't exist.
00:09:43.160 We can try to ignore the moral order.
00:09:45.260 But when you see, I know that clip was pretty long, but when you see it in the full length, when you hear that haunting voice, that haunting voice.
00:09:54.200 I mean, this is a haunted woman.
00:09:55.820 This is a woman who is certainly not in her right mind. 0.73
00:10:00.080 And she shows us that in her speech and in her song.
00:10:03.420 How scary that is, how much it makes us want to run away from the inversion of the natural order.
00:10:10.100 It's not always that spiritually clear.
00:10:12.680 There are also comedic versions.
00:10:14.240 There are also light versions of the left inverting the natural order.
00:10:17.560 So Sports Illustrated every year gives away its inspiration of the year award.
00:10:22.180 And this year it's giving it to Rachel Denhollander.
00:10:26.060 She's the first woman to publicly accuse the U.S. gymnastics doctor, Larry Nassar, of sexually abusing her.
00:10:32.820 Larry Nassar abused scores of other women.
00:10:36.240 And so she's winning the award.
00:10:37.900 Who is Sports Illustrated picking to give this award out to Rachel Denhollander? 0.98
00:10:44.040 I'll let you see for yourself.
00:10:46.580 Good evening.
00:10:47.540 I am honored to speak with you from afar about a woman I admire so much.
00:10:52.980 A woman who suffered abuse as a vulnerable teenage athlete who found the courage to talk publicly to stop the abuse of others.
00:11:02.820 Her courage inspired other survivors to end their silence.
00:11:08.040 And we all know the result.
00:11:10.080 Rachel Denhollander, I am in awe of you.
00:11:13.700 And I will always be inspired by you.
00:11:16.380 In stepping forward, you took a huge risk.
00:11:19.900 And you galvanized future generations to come forward.
00:11:23.820 Even when the odds are seemingly stacked against them.
00:11:27.040 The lasting lesson is that we all have the power to create real change.
00:11:33.080 And we cannot allow ourselves to be defined by the acts of others.
00:11:38.100 Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome this year's Sports Illustrated Inspiration of the Year, Rachel Denhollander.
00:11:47.520 I am a totally normal person who doesn't have any designs on getting famous or making money.
00:11:55.240 I'm just a normal, regular person without a crazy, creepy voice who doesn't constantly seek the cameras in the spotlight.
00:12:05.980 What a terrifying video.
00:12:08.600 Also because the video, you know, it's terrifying at least in a comedic way.
00:12:12.460 It's not terrifying in the way of that previous video of the woman singing that perverse lullaby. 0.81
00:12:18.340 But this is terrifying in a way that mocks the obliviousness of this woman.
00:12:24.700 So if you couldn't see it, the camera keeps cutting in and out in these really weird cuts.
00:12:28.320 And the reason it has these weird cuts is probably she needed to do multiple takes of this.
00:12:31.700 But I hope that this video, I hope the good thing that comes out of Sports Illustrated picking Brett Kavanaugh's accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, to present this award.
00:12:40.980 I hope that this dispels the ridiculous fiction that this is just a woman who wants to tell her story.
00:12:47.780 And she doesn't want fame. 0.99
00:12:49.420 She doesn't want money. 1.00
00:12:50.760 She doesn't want adulation. 1.00
00:12:52.140 She just wants to.
00:12:53.180 It was so hard for her to tell her story.
00:12:56.520 B.S.
00:12:57.260 Total B.S.
00:12:58.000 I don't know if she's a lunatic or a liar, but she's one of those two things. 1.00
00:13:01.040 We know that she contradicted her story countless times.
00:13:04.980 First, there were four people in the room.
00:13:06.880 Then there were two people in the room.
00:13:08.500 Everybody who she named as being there, including her lifelong friend, this female friend of hers, said that it didn't happen.
00:13:15.820 She never met Brett Kavanaugh.
00:13:17.100 It didn't happen in her life.
00:13:18.580 Ford kept changing her story to make it more convenient.
00:13:21.160 And the line that everybody said to defend her was, what does Christine Ford have to gain from this? 1.00
00:13:26.780 What on earth could she gain?
00:13:28.780 I don't know.
00:13:29.480 A lot of fame.
00:13:30.540 She's got a ton of celebrity. 0.99
00:13:32.080 She is virtually a celebrity.
00:13:36.540 It's not that she did anything to deserve it other than going and testifying against a good man.
00:13:40.840 She's also gained a number of book deal offers.
00:13:43.200 It's unclear who she's going to go with, but a lot of offers.
00:13:45.160 That can be very lucrative.
00:13:46.260 And she gained $850,000 in GoFundMe campaigns.
00:13:49.900 So I don't know.
00:13:50.660 She gained nearly a million bucks.
00:13:52.380 She got a bunch of fame, and she's now got her own little career out of this. 1.00
00:13:55.500 And the adulation of the crowds.
00:13:57.080 That's what she's got.
00:13:57.780 So everybody now, what an inspiration Christine Blasey Ford is.
00:14:01.780 Christine Ford, a fraud, either a fraud or a liar or a lunatic or some combination of the three.
00:14:07.880 Demonstrably so.
00:14:08.600 Contradicted her lines, contradicted by the people who she said could corroborate it.
00:14:13.040 She is now given the spotlight over this girl, Rachel Denhollander, who actually is an inspiration, who actually did go out and blow the whistle on this guy, Larry Nassar, and get him thrown in the clink.
00:14:24.240 She is the inspiration.
00:14:25.460 But the left completely flips it.
00:14:27.020 And now we've got this fraud who makes light of people who have actually suffered sexual abuse because she made up some ridiculous story from 35 or 36 or 37 years ago. 0.99
00:14:37.280 We don't know because she doesn't know the date.
00:14:38.700 That either happened here or there or somewhere.
00:14:40.400 It might have involved this guy or that guy or who knows where a guy allegedly pushed her onto a bed. 0.92
00:14:45.020 That totally makes light.
00:14:46.360 It totally takes away and detracts from people who have actually suffered sexual abuse like the gymnast at the hand of Larry Nassar.
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00:16:24.380 So you have two spectra here.
00:16:27.240 You're two ends of the same spectrum.
00:16:29.060 You've got this insane case of the abortion lullaby. 0.82
00:16:32.620 You've got the frivolous and ridiculous case of Christine Ford. 1.00
00:16:36.660 Now we get into the nuts and bolts of politics and how things go exactly wrong.
00:16:40.300 We now have pretty decent evidence that the FBI entrapped Michael Flynn.
00:16:46.280 Michael Flynn, the national security advisor for Donald Trump.
00:16:48.900 The FBI got him to make a misstatement to them about his interactions with the Russian ambassador to the U.S., who he was perfectly entitled to talk to.
00:16:59.680 It was part of his job to talk to this guy.
00:17:01.180 They got him to make a false statement.
00:17:03.120 They forced him into a plea deal, into a saying that he did it, pleading guilty.
00:17:09.500 And now it's looking like everything that led up to that was a big, ugly campaign.
00:17:15.940 Andy McCabe, the disgraced FBI agent.
00:17:19.020 This is all under James Comey, by the way.
00:17:20.700 James Comey was still the FBI director.
00:17:23.000 James Comey, who says that he has ethical leadership.
00:17:26.040 That's in his Twitter bio, ethical leadership.
00:17:28.000 And just listen to how unethical all of this was.
00:17:31.200 Andy McCabe, disgraced FBI agent, booted out of the agency in disgrace.
00:17:35.760 He calls up Michael Flynn, Michael Flynn, national security advisor.
00:17:39.060 He says, hey, I got some FBI agents want to talk to you.
00:17:42.320 Look, you really shouldn't bring that White House counsel around.
00:17:45.040 If you bring a lawyer around, it's just going to mess everything up.
00:17:48.420 Just, you know, they're going to sit down with you.
00:17:50.360 It's no big deal.
00:17:51.200 So Flynn stupidly says that he's willing to do this.
00:17:54.540 Who does he send over?
00:17:55.320 He sends over Peter Strzok, that crooked FBI agent, the lover boy who was texting how
00:18:00.800 he was going to undo the presidential election, prevent Trump from becoming president, texting
00:18:06.020 that to his adulterous lover, Lisa Page.
00:18:09.200 So Peter Strzok goes over there and he entraps Michael Flynn in lies.
00:18:13.440 He had already seen Michael Flynn's conversations with the Russian ambassador.
00:18:17.580 How had he seen them?
00:18:18.440 Because the Obama administration unmasked those conversations with the Obama administration
00:18:23.980 spying on the Trump campaign, spying on private Americans.
00:18:27.460 Peter Strzok had already seen that.
00:18:29.140 And he gets Michael Flynn to make some misstatements to the FBI.
00:18:33.340 Worth remembering, nothing wrong at all with Michael Flynn talking to this ambassador.
00:18:38.000 And so what Michael Flynn says is he made those misstatements because he misremembered what
00:18:43.300 had been discussed.
00:18:44.940 Maybe Flynn's lying.
00:18:46.000 Maybe that's true.
00:18:46.680 I don't know.
00:18:47.280 I could certainly misstate plenty of conversations that I've had on the phone.
00:18:51.420 The reason we know this is a big deal, the reason we know that this corruption and these
00:18:56.640 ugly tactics are finally coming to light.
00:18:58.880 You got to remember, Peter Strzok dismissed from the Russia investigation in disgrace.
00:19:03.100 Andy McCabe dismissed from the FBI in disgrace.
00:19:05.600 At the time that Flynn is giving this conversation with the FBI agents, it's not even public that
00:19:11.540 there is a Russia investigation to begin with.
00:19:14.180 Judge Emmett Sullivan, who's apparently a pretty straight shooter, is now demanding
00:19:17.900 the documents that were related to Michael Flynn's interview.
00:19:21.840 He's demanding it to see if the FBI used ugly, dirty, possibly illegal tactics to entrap
00:19:27.560 this guy in making a false statement.
00:19:30.060 We'll see.
00:19:30.800 What they did to Michael Flynn was awful.
00:19:32.680 Why did he plead guilty?
00:19:33.960 Well, he doesn't have a lot of money.
00:19:35.220 Michael Flynn spent almost all of his career in the public sector serving our country as a
00:19:39.980 three-star general.
00:19:42.240 They were threatening to go after his son.
00:19:44.620 They were threatening to embroil him in legal battles, would have bankrupted him.
00:19:47.600 So he pleads guilty to this.
00:19:48.920 He probably shouldn't have.
00:19:50.000 But I hope that President Trump pardons him.
00:19:53.420 I hope he gets a full pardon.
00:19:54.660 It was disgusting how the investigation began.
00:19:57.640 The people who did it were corrupt to their core, all the way up to James Comey.
00:20:01.220 And he should be pardoned for it.
00:20:03.000 This is the bad news for President Trump today.
00:20:06.360 The good news, though, is we're talking about the wall.
00:20:09.380 We've been encouraging President Trump to shut down the government and get the money
00:20:12.620 to build the wall.
00:20:13.420 So President Trump just tweeted out.
00:20:15.140 He said, quote,
00:20:17.060 I often stated one way or the other, Mexico is going to pay for the wall.
00:20:20.440 This has never changed.
00:20:21.800 Our new deal with Mexico and Canada, the USMCA, is so much better than the old, very costly
00:20:27.900 and anti-USA NAFTA deal that just by the money we save, Mexico is paying for the wall.
00:20:34.340 OK, OK, that's fine.
00:20:37.320 Maybe the US is going to get a lot more money because of this.
00:20:40.740 Maybe tax receipts to the government will increase.
00:20:43.000 Maybe whatever.
00:20:43.720 OK, that's fine.
00:20:44.360 He's trying to twist it around.
00:20:45.760 Again, nobody cares if Mexico actually pays for the wall.
00:20:48.380 The wall is not that expensive.
00:20:49.600 We just want it to be built.
00:20:50.680 We have a record high number of illegal aliens crossing over, 3,000 a day right now.
00:20:55.020 We just want the damn wall to be built.
00:20:56.860 And hopefully President Trump will do that before Nancy Pelosi takes over leadership of 1.00
00:21:00.980 the House of Representatives.
00:21:02.300 But what I what I actually want to point to in this is the name of the trade deal.
00:21:06.560 You all know NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement.
00:21:10.000 The new one is called the USMCA, the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement.
00:21:15.260 Now, I was I was reading some commentary on this and I noticed left wingers hate the new name.
00:21:19.580 I got left winger writing on Mediaite said that he hates USMCA.
00:21:23.720 We should just call it new NAFTA.
00:21:25.100 New NAFTA is so much better.
00:21:26.340 But listen, there's actually a very subtle but important distinction here.
00:21:31.560 The USMCA is the better name because it acknowledges what the trade agreement actually is.
00:21:37.160 The trade agreement is an agreement between the United States, Mexico and Canada.
00:21:42.500 Three distinct nations, three sovereign nations who are deciding to have a certain trade regime
00:21:48.760 with one another.
00:21:49.420 Compare that to NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement, as though there is some overarching
00:21:56.580 political entity called the North American government, the North American Federation,
00:22:01.560 the North American whatever that is governing this trade between, I don't know, the North
00:22:05.940 America people, the North Americans. 0.72
00:22:07.920 It's a subtle distinction, but it's an important one.
00:22:10.640 And it's how the left gets these things backwards.
00:22:12.380 The point of the free trade agreement is to make all of these countries better, to make
00:22:17.280 them stronger, to make them more prosperous, to make them more equitable and just, to make,
00:22:22.600 to strengthen all three countries, the US, Mexico and Canada.
00:22:25.320 The idea behind NAFTA is to invert that, to diminish the importance of the individual countries
00:22:32.500 and to have trade for the sake of trade, to wipe away these national distinctions.
00:22:36.800 It's backwards.
00:22:37.880 And the Trump administration, I don't know who came up with the name, but they get that
00:22:41.260 exactly right.
00:22:41.980 That's a subtle point, but it's very good.
00:22:43.400 They get it in the correct order.
00:22:45.700 They don't flip it around.
00:22:48.120 The left, by the way, just in the last day, has tipped its hand on its inversion of free
00:22:53.420 speech as well.
00:22:54.060 Here is Ted Lieu, one of my favorite Democrats.
00:22:58.020 He's not quite as good as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, but he says pretty stupid things as well.
00:23:02.160 He's pretty close.
00:23:03.020 He's up there.
00:23:03.900 Here is Ted Lieu on CNN describing his view of free speech.
00:23:08.520 I would love to be able to regulate the content of speech.
00:23:13.440 The First Amendment prevents me from doing so.
00:23:16.200 And that's simply a function of the First Amendment.
00:23:18.620 But I think over the long run, it's better that government does not regulate the content of
00:23:23.700 speech.
00:23:24.320 I would urge these private sector companies to regulate it better themselves.
00:23:29.480 But it's really nothing that I believe government can do.
00:23:33.040 And so that's been my position all along.
00:23:35.320 OK, three things here.
00:23:37.060 One, what does he literally say?
00:23:38.380 He literally says, I would love to regulate the content of speech, which is great.
00:23:43.860 I can't wait for every Republican to chop that up, put that in their commercials for 2020.
00:23:48.660 It's going to look really good.
00:23:49.840 Ted Lieu's primary opponents, or rather his general election opponents, are certainly going
00:23:53.540 to use that because that is what he said.
00:23:55.600 Now, two, what is the point he's trying to make?
00:23:58.080 The point that he thinks he's making is we all want to regulate everybody's speech.
00:24:02.240 I don't want you to say this.
00:24:03.340 You don't want me to say that.
00:24:04.360 And the government shouldn't regulate speech because you want to regulate my speech.
00:24:10.100 I want to regulate your speech.
00:24:11.220 So the government shouldn't regulate speech.
00:24:13.920 And therefore, private companies should regulate speech because we all ultimately want to regulate
00:24:20.020 speech.
00:24:20.960 That is what he thinks he's saying.
00:24:22.460 That's what he's trying to say.
00:24:23.660 That's the most generous version of what he's saying.
00:24:26.440 And it's totally backwards.
00:24:28.060 It gets it exactly wrong.
00:24:30.120 I don't want to regulate speech.
00:24:31.540 I don't want to regulate what Ted Lieu says.
00:24:34.320 I want Ted Lieu to go on CNN and spout his inanity all the time.
00:24:38.840 It makes it easier to write my show.
00:24:40.680 It gives me a lot of lulls, and I'm here for the lulls.
00:24:43.820 So fine by me.
00:24:44.800 He can do whatever he wants.
00:24:46.500 He genuinely, expressing the true view of the left, thinks that we all want to regulate
00:24:50.340 that speech.
00:24:51.160 But so he's saying the government shouldn't regulate speech.
00:24:54.200 It's unconstitutional for the government to regulate speech.
00:24:58.020 Therefore, the companies should.
00:24:59.380 But what I'm saying is, I don't want to regulate speech.
00:25:03.700 It's unconstitutional.
00:25:04.800 The government should not regulate speech.
00:25:06.720 And therefore, private companies, even though they may regulate speech in many instances,
00:25:12.220 should not because it cuts against the ethos of the American nation and of the American project
00:25:17.920 and of our principles and of our traditions and of our constitutional underpinning of our
00:25:23.080 entire country.
00:25:23.680 So therefore, the private companies should follow our traditions and not regulate speech.
00:25:29.680 Ted Lieu says, because we can't regulate speech as a government, therefore, the private
00:25:33.680 companies should.
00:25:34.300 It's a perfect inversion.
00:25:35.660 It gets it exactly wrong.
00:25:37.280 We have to get to the most egregious story, the most egregious story of the last two weeks.
00:25:44.140 It's about that attack in Strasbourg.
00:25:45.880 A Muslim terrorist came out and killed people in the streets at a Christmas market right around
00:25:51.140 Christmas time, shouting Allahu Akbar, the takbir, the saying that Muslim terrorists say
00:25:58.980 right before they kill a lot of people.
00:26:00.480 And CNN responded to that by running a piece titled What Allahu Akbar Really Means and
00:26:08.220 blaming everyone else for misinterpreting it.
00:26:11.100 We will explain what Allahu Akbar really, really means.
00:26:14.040 We got to do that after the break.
00:26:15.160 Plus, we have the mailbag coming up.
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00:27:03.820 We'll be right back with Allahu Akbar in the mailbag. 0.89
00:27:06.480 A terrorist attack in Strasbourg, a Muslim terrorist screams Allahu Akbar, kills two people, leaves
00:27:22.620 another one brain dead, injures a bunch more on the run.
00:27:26.220 And CNN responds by defending the phrase Allahu Akbar.
00:27:30.200 Here's how they begin.
00:27:31.500 Contrary to what many people seem to think, the words Allahu Akbar simply mean God is greater.
00:27:38.260 It is a powerful declaration used by Muslims on many occasions and in many prayers.
00:27:43.280 It is a celebration of life.
00:27:44.860 I can't even get through this without laughing.
00:27:48.340 The first words fathers whisper in the ears of their newborns.
00:27:52.060 They are used to indicate gratitude when God bestows something upon you that you would have been incapable of taining were it not for divine benevolence.
00:27:59.640 I assume he means his enemies' decapitated heads.
00:28:03.000 Maybe not.
00:28:03.680 He goes on.
00:28:04.160 It is a prayerful phrase that reminds us that no matter what our concerns may be, God is greater than them.
00:28:11.340 Okay.
00:28:11.680 God is greater than them.
00:28:12.580 That's actually a true statement.
00:28:14.160 This is a constant canard that we hear on the left because what the left does is they defend the literal phrase, God is greater.
00:28:23.440 God is greater than what?
00:28:25.200 Allah is greater than what? 0.98
00:28:26.240 They don't finish that statement.
00:28:28.020 But just on the, okay, sure.
00:28:29.380 To say God is great, of course, of course we all defend that.
00:28:32.800 Absolutely.
00:28:33.200 Right.
00:28:34.080 But how is the phrase used?
00:28:35.920 And how tone deaf is this?
00:28:37.280 A Muslim terrorist has just shrieked this phrase before killing people, as has happened now 70 times in Europe, just in Europe, in just the last two years.
00:28:48.180 Countless more times around the world and in previous years.
00:28:51.620 We know that in Europe right now they have five and a half million largely unvetted Muslim migrants who have come in between 2010 and 2016.
00:28:59.380 This has obviously increased this problem, this massive widespread problem of Islamic terrorism. 0.95
00:29:05.780 Why are they all yelling Allahu Akbar?
00:29:08.200 What this CNN article would have us believe is, oh, people don't use that in terrorist attacks.
00:29:13.720 No, it's a celebration of life.
00:29:15.260 No, it's not this.
00:29:16.220 That's a fringe.
00:29:17.320 It has nothing to do with that.
00:29:18.640 The takbir, the Allahu Akbar, is a battle cry.
00:29:21.880 That is its earliest usage.
00:29:23.920 The earliest use.
00:29:24.700 So, obviously, we know the modern usages.
00:29:27.160 The hijacker, Muhammad Atta, from the 9-11 terrorist attacks, had a checklist on him.
00:29:32.160 The checklist included yelling Allahu Akbar right when the attacks began.
00:29:36.580 The Flight 93, you could hear them yelling Allahu Akbar as the plane went all the way down.
00:29:40.900 The first time it was used, it was used by Muhammad, the founder of the Islamic religion.
00:29:44.980 It was used by him during the Battle of Badr in 624.
00:29:49.000 It wasn't used when he was greeting his newborn child.
00:29:52.500 It wasn't used in moments celebrating life.
00:29:55.160 It was used in battle.
00:29:56.540 At the Battle of Badr in the early 7th century by Muhammad himself.
00:30:01.200 The CNN piece goes on.
00:30:02.380 Worshippers at a mosque in Quebec reportedly heard the phrase Allahu Akbar, the very phrase
00:30:08.660 they recite in morning prayers, uttered by their white supremacist attacker just before
00:30:13.380 he opened fire and killed six Muslims in January.
00:30:16.120 And Muslims at a mosque in Minnesota were reciting Allahu Akbar during their morning prayers
00:30:20.320 when their mosque was firebombed in August.
00:30:22.560 Is Allahu Akbar sometimes used as a battle cry?
00:30:25.800 Yes.
00:30:26.540 Though Senator John McCain has argued on Fox News, that does not make the phrase itself
00:30:30.460 abhorrent.
00:30:30.940 Well, noting that moderate Muslims also say Allahu Akbar, McCain said the phrase is no more
00:30:35.460 troubling than a Christian saying thank God. 0.94
00:30:38.120 Except it is, because thank God is not a battle cry.
00:30:42.080 It's not a battle cry.
00:30:44.260 Christians don't say thank God while they commit terrorist attacks. 1.00
00:30:48.460 Doesn't happen.
00:30:49.500 That's not how it works.
00:30:51.400 It is totally different.
00:30:54.180 Is Allahu Akbar sometimes used as a battle cry?
00:30:56.200 Yes, from the very earliest usage that we know of it.
00:30:59.340 Now, have white supremacists attacked Muslims?
00:31:02.300 Yes.
00:31:02.660 Is that bad?
00:31:03.380 Yes.
00:31:03.720 Should they not do it?
00:31:04.460 Of course they shouldn't.
00:31:05.740 Of course not.
00:31:06.960 Notice they can't even say Christians because these guys who attacked those mosques were
00:31:10.660 not Christians. 0.83
00:31:11.920 And were they, they were using Allahu Akbar as a battle cry then, which is, they were using
00:31:18.380 the battle cry ironically when they were attacking these people.
00:31:20.980 Of course those people should be condemned.
00:31:23.060 But how obtuse for CNN, just as a Muslim terrorist in Strasbourg, kills people on the run to mention 0.97
00:31:29.860 the vanishingly few number of white supremacist attacks on mosques and on Muslims.
00:31:36.460 You say, well, what about that?
00:31:37.420 That is the definition of whataboutism.
00:31:39.260 What about the 70 Muslim terrorist attacks in the last two years in Europe?
00:31:43.180 What about the thousands of terrorist attacks around the world in just the last 25 years,
00:31:48.040 28 years since 9-11?
00:31:49.300 What about those?
00:31:51.080 How obtuse to point that out.
00:31:53.300 What, what the left wants to do though, this is the perfect example of them inverting reality,
00:31:58.580 is they want to make Islam into Christianity.
00:32:01.080 They want to turn Christianity into Islam, but there is a fundamental difference.
00:32:04.680 They want to say, but you hear this all the time from generally left-wing politicians,
00:32:09.020 they say Islam is the religion of peace.
00:32:11.500 Islam is, well, no. 1.00
00:32:14.120 Christianity is a religion of peace.
00:32:15.880 That's true.
00:32:16.940 Islam is not one. 1.00
00:32:17.760 In Christianity, you have Christ say, turn the other cheek. 0.68
00:32:21.180 Pray for those who persecute you.
00:32:22.320 In Islam, you say, find your enemies where they pray and hack at their necks and be not 1.00
00:32:25.860 friends with the Jews or the Christians for they are each other's friends.
00:32:28.580 Don't take my word for it.
00:32:29.940 Barack Obama thought it was up to him to describe what the Islamic religion really said,
00:32:34.940 contrary to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the head of ISIS, who holds a PhD in Islamic theology
00:32:40.220 from Baghdad.
00:32:42.040 No, we don't get to forcibly change a religion.
00:32:46.480 We don't get to make Islam into Christianity or Christianity into Islam, as the CNN article
00:32:51.980 wants to do.
00:32:52.780 There is a fundamental difference between those two religions, which is the question of
00:32:56.320 voluntarism.
00:32:57.640 Voluntarism is the philosophical notion that the will is primary, that my will and my willing
00:33:04.820 things to happen, is primary.
00:33:07.280 So in Christianity, our God is a God of will and intellect.
00:33:11.360 Our God is the word, is the logos, is the divine logic of the universe.
00:33:16.300 The God of Islam, Allah, is a God of pure will.
00:33:19.880 Don't take my word for it.
00:33:21.180 Take it from some of the greatest Islamic theologians.
00:33:24.240 The medieval Islamic theologian Ibn Hazm says,
00:33:27.740 God is not bound even by God's own word.
00:33:30.960 Nothing would oblige God to reveal the truth to us, and if it were God's will, God could
00:33:36.360 even will us to practice idolatry, because he is pure will.
00:33:40.880 He is not answerable or bound by logic.
00:33:44.080 Pope Benedict XVI laid this out marvelously in one of the great orations of our modern era,
00:33:49.720 the Regensburg Address.
00:33:51.480 Voluntarism is the issue here.
00:33:53.740 Are we bound by a logic?
00:33:55.760 Is God the divine logic of the universe, or is there simply will, pure will, opposed
00:34:02.700 to logic?
00:34:03.840 Voluntarism is not just a question of Islam versus Christianity.
00:34:07.900 Voluntarism, I think, is the primary cause of our cultural confusion today.
00:34:11.880 It is the definition of self-definition.
00:34:15.420 It is to say, there is no logic that I am answerable to.
00:34:18.060 There is no the truth.
00:34:19.020 There is only my truth and my will forcing my self-definition.
00:34:23.100 You say, by all lights of logic, that I am a man, but I say that I am a woman.
00:34:28.600 I will myself to be a woman in the face of all logic.
00:34:31.840 That is what voluntarism is.
00:34:34.280 Our historic religion in the West, our religion that our culture is based on, worships a God
00:34:41.500 who is not pure will, but who is divine logic.
00:34:44.460 There is a huge movement led by the left today to undercut that line, to undercut the notion
00:34:52.140 of truth, of objectivity, of moral standards, of mathematical standards, of biological realities,
00:34:59.020 who says that some people see things that are and ask why, but I dream of things that
00:35:04.160 never were and ask why not.
00:35:05.740 There is a world of reality and there is a world of fantasy, of a fantasy that inverts
00:35:10.680 and perverts that reality.
00:35:12.240 We have to reject that.
00:35:14.340 We must reject that fantasy.
00:35:16.780 It leads to horrific outcomes because we are living in the world.
00:35:22.620 We are living in truth.
00:35:23.580 If you follow the truth, the truth will set you free.
00:35:25.740 But if you follow fantasy, you will only drive yourself into madness.
00:35:30.960 Now let's get to the mailbag.
00:35:32.140 I know we're going to be running late, but I'm going to burn through all these questions.
00:35:34.480 From Paulson to the Catholic one who writes better books than the Jewish one. 1.00
00:35:42.820 Why do we use the name Jesus as opposed to Yeshua?
00:35:46.500 Yeshua being the Hebrew word for Jesus.
00:35:49.660 I've heard some rather conspiratorial ideas about it from people who use the Hebrew name.
00:35:54.520 They'll say pagans did it so that they could pray to Zeus.
00:35:58.900 I just was wondering if you could clear that up.
00:36:01.000 Yeah, some people are very confused about this.
00:36:03.620 The word for Jesus in Hebrew is Yeshua or Yesu and this is related to Joshua.
00:36:11.100 But the reason that we get Jesus out of that is because when you translate Yeshua into Greek,
00:36:15.480 you get Jesus and in Latin, Jesus, J-E-S-U-S. 0.99
00:36:20.320 The J is pronounced Ye and from that we get Jesus when we anglicize it.
00:36:24.600 So it's not anything about Zeus.
00:36:26.640 You're not praying to some pagan deity.
00:36:28.520 It is simply the translation of Yeshua into our languages.
00:36:32.360 And that's perfectly fine because in Christ there is no Jew nor Greek nor slave nor bond nor male nor woman, 0.61
00:36:38.520 but all are one in Christ Jesus.
00:36:39.920 And so we can translate his name just fine and he's the same guy.
00:36:43.600 From Michael.
00:36:45.440 Michael.
00:36:46.380 I hate to continue bringing up baby it's cold outside ad nauseum,
00:36:49.860 but I have a separate take on it.
00:36:51.420 I find that there are two camps, one that says it promotes rape
00:36:54.460 and another that it's a wonderful song that should be celebrated.
00:36:58.120 I find the lyrics to the song, while not a rape song,
00:37:01.000 is certainly about promiscuous behavior and almost certainly outside the context of marriage.
00:37:06.840 Shouldn't we find the song to be morally objectionable on those grounds?
00:37:10.940 Thanks so much, Michael.
00:37:12.880 Well, it's promiscuous, certainly.
00:37:15.540 But is your suggestion that pop music is promiscuous?
00:37:19.500 Oh heavens, grab my pearls.
00:37:20.980 No, that's just the way it is.
00:37:22.900 And it's not necessarily promiscuous.
00:37:25.060 Get your head out of the gutter.
00:37:26.460 I don't know what they did when he convinced her to stick around.
00:37:29.760 All we know is you've got a man and a woman canoodling by the fire
00:37:33.160 and the woman is teasing the man and saying, 0.98
00:37:35.620 oh, I really should go because my mother's going to wonder where I am.
00:37:38.960 I really shouldn't stay here by this cozy fire and canoodle with my little honey.
00:37:42.320 And then the guy says, oh, please let me seduce you. 0.77
00:37:45.180 Please stick around.
00:37:46.460 But I don't know, they might have just canoodled, maybe necked, maybe kissed in the French way.
00:37:51.280 You don't know what they were doing.
00:37:52.680 Get your head out of the gutter.
00:37:53.940 Maybe they took it a little further than that.
00:37:55.700 But romance is not a terrible thing.
00:37:57.860 Romance is a very good thing.
00:37:59.680 Doesn't mean we should be getting wild outside the confines of marriage.
00:38:04.160 But romance is something that leads us into marriage.
00:38:06.740 Romance is something.
00:38:07.500 The attraction of a man for a woman and a woman for a man is an essential fact of our lives,
00:38:13.080 an essential fact of the world.
00:38:15.200 I'm very glad that we live in a world where I can say, hey, baby, it's cold outside.
00:38:18.700 Come on over here.
00:38:19.660 And that can lead to marriage. 1.00
00:38:21.300 Then some puritanical world where we have to pretend that men are not attracted to women.
00:38:27.340 Forget about that.
00:38:28.440 Give me baby, it's cold outside all day.
00:38:30.180 And then once you do, when the girl sticks around, I mean, that's on you and your soul.
00:38:34.260 And that's between you and your confessor and God.
00:38:37.340 But, you know, have a nice time.
00:38:38.800 It's cold out there.
00:38:39.740 The fire feels really nice.
00:38:40.720 Just have half a drink more, you know.
00:38:42.460 From Rodolfo.
00:38:43.880 Hi, Michael.
00:38:44.800 How do I defend my stance against illegal immigration and myself when my family illegally entered the U.S. when I was two?
00:38:53.020 Now, 27.
00:38:54.400 Me and my whole family are U.S. citizens.
00:38:56.600 I love the U.S. and swear my allegiance to it over my native Mexico.
00:39:00.720 I think I'm an Uncle Pablo now.
00:39:04.260 I guess that's the Mexican version of an Uncle Tom. 1.00
00:39:06.720 Thanks.
00:39:07.180 Love the show.
00:39:08.420 That's fine.
00:39:09.060 Do you think illegal immigration is good? 0.96
00:39:11.340 Do you think it's a good thing?
00:39:12.380 Do you think a country has the right to its borders and to decide who comes in and out?
00:39:16.940 Do you think it's good that 60 to 80 percent of women and girls who cross the border illegally are sexually assaulted or raped?
00:39:22.520 Do you think it's good that in certain areas illegal aliens commit crimes at higher percentages than native-born citizens?
00:39:27.940 Do you think it's good that nationally illegal aliens take from the welfare system at a much higher rate than native-born citizens, put a burden on what people pay in taxes, take people's labor from them illegally? 0.78
00:39:43.440 No, of course you don't.
00:39:44.480 Of course you don't do that.
00:39:45.440 Did you benefit from an illegal immigration?
00:39:48.080 An illegal immigration at a different time, I should point out. 0.98
00:39:51.220 At the time, it sounds like 25 years ago, when your family came to this country, it was less of a problem.
00:39:56.620 There were fewer people here.
00:39:57.760 They were crossing the border at a much lower rate.
00:40:01.780 The country was able to absorb them more easily. 0.58
00:40:04.740 Unfortunately, the awful ideology of multiculturalism had not totally taken hold, so there was the encouragement of assimilation. 0.80
00:40:12.260 That was before the terrorist attacks of 9-11, which raised major national security concerns about illegal immigration.
00:40:19.480 I'm not saying it was good when your parents did it, but they did it, and they committed that crime, and now they're American citizens, and that's a good thing.
00:40:26.900 They did what they were supposed to do afterward to become American citizens.
00:40:30.120 You're an American citizen.
00:40:31.540 You watch my show, which means you must be a great, brave, patriotic American.
00:40:36.040 I mean, you seem to have vaguely conservative, patriotic leanings, at least, and maybe very much so.
00:40:43.100 So that's a good thing.
00:40:46.360 Bad activities can be turned to good.
00:40:49.740 And I wonder, for every one of you who comes out and loves America and becomes a citizen and is rah-rah patriotic as apple pie,
00:40:56.340 how many illegal aliens are not doing that, don't want to assimilate, don't want to learn English, continue to commit crimes, 0.90
00:41:03.220 continue to prioritize their native country over the United States?
00:41:07.700 Probably very many.
00:41:08.960 It's fine to turn a bad thing for good, but we shouldn't pretend that the bad thing is now a good action.
00:41:16.300 As Roche-Foucault says, hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue.
00:41:19.540 That's perfectly fine.
00:41:20.700 You can have those standards, and you can celebrate that you're in America.
00:41:23.060 And I'm glad you're in America, because you're clearly a good, patriotic citizen.
00:41:27.860 From Carlos.
00:41:29.340 My friend keeps saying that God only brings good things, and therefore, any sickness, tragedy, or bad event has nothing to do with God.
00:41:38.040 That, to me, makes no sense.
00:41:39.320 If he created everything, does not that mean he created the bad things, too?
00:41:43.660 What are the theological arguments for the existence of tragedy and evil?
00:41:47.200 Any book you recommend would be appreciated.
00:41:49.440 Thanks.
00:41:49.720 Yes, people think that the existence of evil and suffering is an argument against God's existence.
00:41:56.800 And it's true that it's probably the best argument against God's existence, but actually it's an argument for God's existence.
00:42:04.100 The reason that evil is permitted to exist is because of freedom, because we have free will.
00:42:10.200 There is the grace of God, but there is also free will.
00:42:12.460 And so God creates man with free will, and man can choose to obey God or choose to disobey God.
00:42:19.220 And in the creation story in Genesis, Adam disobeys God.
00:42:24.620 He eats of the apple.
00:42:25.980 The way that John Milton paints this in Paradise Lost is a pretty beautiful way to visualize this.
00:42:31.780 How does death and suffering and sin come into the world?
00:42:35.620 The way that he pictures this is that Satan births from his own head sin, and that sin comes into existence in that way.
00:42:46.820 Satan being the rebellious angel who turns away from God.
00:42:51.260 And then Satan has an incestuous affair with his begotten sin, and the product of that is death.
00:43:00.300 And this is how we see this described by St. Paul.
00:43:03.000 We see it in the scriptures.
00:43:05.180 Because of the disobedience toward the will of God, we find sin, and because of sin, death pervades all of humanity.
00:43:12.580 And this is an imperfect world.
00:43:14.400 Now, why might God permit evil and suffering to be in the world?
00:43:19.560 Maybe it's for a greater good.
00:43:20.740 Maybe it's because life isn't a tragedy after all.
00:43:23.240 Maybe it has a happy ending.
00:43:24.480 The Latin phrase to describe the fall is the felix culpa, the happy fall, because there is redemption in Christ, in the incarnation and the resurrection of Christ.
00:43:33.580 When Pope, I think it was Pope Benedict XV died, he quoted Pagliacci, the opera Pagliacci at the end.
00:43:39.260 He says, la comedia è finita.
00:43:41.300 The comedy is finished.
00:43:42.600 This life has a happy ending.
00:43:43.820 Dante writes the divine comedy, that it has a happy ending.
00:43:46.500 That maybe the world in which there is total perfection but no free will is a worse world than the one in which there is freedom and therefore sin and therefore suffering and therefore death.
00:43:58.840 But maybe that world ultimately is the greatest possible world after all.
00:44:03.540 This is not an argument against God's omniscience.
00:44:05.580 It's not an argument against God's omnipotence.
00:44:07.840 It's not an argument against God's omnibenevolence, that God is all good.
00:44:12.000 It's an argument for this full wonderful world that we have where even evil can be turned for good.
00:44:19.220 That God does not create evil but he permits it to even give us the greatest possible world.
00:44:23.260 That's certainly what I believe and I think that is if you follow those ideas to their logical conclusions that you must conclude that.
00:44:30.820 From Chuck.
00:44:32.000 Michael, is it unconstitutional for partisan government insiders to target people based on ideology?
00:44:37.180 If they were targeting people based on skin color, it would be rightly called racism. 1.00
00:44:41.400 How is the Mueller probe not an unconstitutional partisan probe by actors trying to push a partisan conclusion?
00:44:48.840 Great question.
00:44:49.980 Isn't that a great question?
00:44:51.920 They were able to do it.
00:44:53.280 They were able to start the probe and they were able to use the mechanisms of our government laid out in the Constitution to do it.
00:45:00.240 But I do think it's illegitimate.
00:45:02.080 I think the entire Russia investigation is illegitimate.
00:45:05.080 I think it was based on lies.
00:45:06.400 It was based on partisan, truly partisan evidence because the Steele dossier, which was the basis for starting to surveil the Trump campaign, was bought and paid for by the Clinton campaign and by the DNC.
00:45:19.280 We know that the FBI would not have gotten the FISA surveillance warrants without the Steele dossier.
00:45:26.800 We know that over 40,000 FISA warrants had been granted.
00:45:30.100 Only 85 have ever been denied in the history of the FISA court.
00:45:33.520 And the warrants to tap the Trump campaign were denied.
00:45:36.900 So they must have been totally weak before they got that unverified report, which James Comey himself has admitted was unverified even during the Trump administration.
00:45:45.880 They never took the time to verify it.
00:45:47.640 I think it's illegitimate and I think that people who have been caught up in this ridiculous partisan witch hunt should be pardoned.
00:45:54.160 It's been permitted to go on because of the mechanisms of our government, but we should not respect it.
00:45:59.060 It's not worthy of respect.
00:46:00.860 One more before we go from Jacob.
00:46:02.420 Hi, Michael.
00:46:03.080 My wife and I have been married for just over a year and we also had the pleasure of welcoming triplets in September.
00:46:07.640 My wife and I are both very fortunate to have great parents that are nothing but supportive.
00:46:11.460 My parents even offered to let us move in with them, which we hesitantly accepted, realizing it was our only realistic option financially.
00:46:18.960 My wife and I feel bad about creating an extra burden for my parents.
00:46:22.160 I can't help but feel guilty for not being able to support my family.
00:46:25.400 Is my guilt justified or should I go easy on myself?
00:46:28.760 Thanks.
00:46:29.120 First of all, congratulations.
00:46:32.680 Congratulations on the triplets.
00:46:33.940 That's a wonderful thing.
00:46:35.100 Your guilt is justified.
00:46:37.040 It is justified, but everybody needs help sometimes.
00:46:40.460 That is the purpose of family.
00:46:42.140 That is what family is for and babies are a blessing.
00:46:44.540 You shouldn't feel bad that you had one kid or two kids or three kids.
00:46:46.860 That's a wonderful thing.
00:46:47.860 You shouldn't feel bad that your family is helping you out in a brief period of time when you need a leg up.
00:46:52.860 That's not the cause of the guilt.
00:46:54.340 The reason that you should feel, if not guilt, then an urgency is that now you need to figure out how to support them.
00:47:01.240 Now it's on you.
00:47:02.420 You should do it.
00:47:03.120 You should not persist in this forever or even for much of a time at all.
00:47:06.620 You've got to figure out how to make more money.
00:47:08.400 You've got to figure out how to work harder.
00:47:09.740 You've got to figure out how to get a better job.
00:47:11.300 You just need to figure it out.
00:47:12.980 This is okay.
00:47:13.940 This is what happens to many parents.
00:47:16.300 I think people now put off having kids because they want to have a ton of money before they have kids,
00:47:20.180 and that's why the West is dying and nobody is having children at all anymore.
00:47:24.780 But it's perfectly fine.
00:47:27.060 Have the kids.
00:47:27.700 Go do it.
00:47:28.200 We need more babies. 1.00
00:47:29.080 That's a wonderful thing.
00:47:30.320 And now you, like so many people before you in our civilization,
00:47:33.680 needs to figure out how to make more money and work harder and support your family.
00:47:37.560 I'm sure you can do it.
00:47:38.660 Believe in yourself.
00:47:39.400 This is a big country.
00:47:40.500 We've got more jobs than people looking for jobs right now.
00:47:44.180 The economy is doing well.
00:47:46.160 Go out and do it, buddy.
00:47:47.320 I believe in you.
00:47:48.260 Go support those kids.
00:47:49.140 Okay, that's our show.
00:47:50.980 We now will not see you until next week.
00:47:54.380 That's fine.
00:47:54.940 You've got to catch up on all of Another Kingdom.
00:47:56.640 All of Season 2 is out.
00:47:57.780 It is really good.
00:47:59.700 I can say that because I didn't write it.
00:48:01.620 It is superb.
00:48:02.820 It's excellent.
00:48:03.500 Go check out Another Kingdom.
00:48:05.300 All the artwork is beautiful.
00:48:06.800 The writing is great.
00:48:07.800 So go check it out.
00:48:08.500 In the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles.
00:48:09.600 This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:48:10.640 I'll see you next week.
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00:48:42.480 we're going to be talking about the government shutdown.
00:48:44.140 The media wants us to panic over it,
00:48:45.940 but I'm looking forward to it,
00:48:47.220 only I'm disappointed that it's partial and temporary.
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