The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 28 - Everything Is Worse On TV： Emmys, St. Louis Blues, and the Rapture

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00:00:30.000 Stephen Colbert and the formerly glamorous Hollywood former elite turned out Sunday night to grab the lowest hanging fruit and shriek about Donald Trump for two hours at the Emmys.

00:00:41.280 Then, YouTube's Red Pill Black, The Daily Wire's Jacob Berry, and his eminence Paul Bois joined the panel of deplorables to discuss Trump's first speech at the UN,

00:00:51.240 the imminent rapture, which a Christian numerologist predicts will occur in five days, hide your kids, hide your wife, and the St. Louis blues. 0.86

00:00:58.680 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:09.200 Now, listen, we always try to be as mean as possible to Marshall on this show.

00:01:13.520 It's one of our favorite aspects of the show and one of the reasons we wake up every morning.

00:01:18.020 But today, today is Marshall's birthday.

00:01:20.620 I don't know if you know that.

00:01:21.380 Happy birthday, Marshall.

00:01:22.800 He's 14 this year.

00:01:24.980 Big one for starting high school.

00:01:26.920 Yeah, one four plus 13.

00:01:27.640 Good luck, man.

00:01:28.380 You're going to be great.

00:01:29.240 Good luck trying out for the football team and all that.

00:01:31.900 He is going to be great.

00:01:33.220 That little baby face, Marshall Benson.

00:01:35.300 Happy birthday.

00:01:36.200 We got to get right into this.

00:01:37.840 I had actually, I watched the Emmys yesterday because Clavin made me, and for that, he will have to answer to St. Peter's someday.

00:01:44.980 And I, before that, I had seen Mother, which we'll talk about a little bit more later.

00:01:49.740 Mother is basically two hours of Jennifer Lawrence being tortured. 0.80

00:01:52.680 I found the Emmys much more torturous than Mother, than watching Jennifer Lawrence go through hell, literally.

00:02:00.320 So, here, let's begin at the very beginning.

00:02:04.200 Here is Stephen Colbert's opening.

00:02:06.920 Dear friends, the next time, the world's problems make you feel the blues.

00:02:12.780 Turn on any channel.

00:02:15.300 Well, accept the news, because troubles aren't so troubling.

00:02:19.220 When you see them in HD, the world's a little better on TV.

00:02:24.400 The world's a little better on TV.

00:02:28.000 That is the thesis here.

00:02:29.860 And it's kind of frustrating that Colbert is such a good performer.

00:02:33.680 He's a great showbiz performer, and all he does is he's just a hack the whole time.

00:02:37.440 He's just telling these super hacky drum jokes.

00:02:39.440 It's such a waste, Michael.

00:02:39.940 It is.

00:02:40.260 It's a huge waste of talent.

00:02:41.740 And so, that's the contention.

00:02:43.540 Everything is better on TV.

00:02:45.820 Well, is it?

00:02:47.160 Let's see how the world looks through the lens of TV.

00:02:50.180 Let's kick it off.

00:02:51.280 Who are you rooting for tonight?

00:02:52.980 I'm rooting for everybody black.

00:02:55.960 I am.

00:02:57.400 That is Issa Rae.

00:02:59.140 That is a YouTuber turned into a TV star.

00:03:02.340 And in this world, she is representing the black people who are deeply oppressed by Hollywood. 0.85

00:03:10.120 Black people cannot get a break in Hollywood. 1.00

00:03:12.600 And so, we have to have racial solidarity. 0.86

00:03:15.140 One can only imagine if I said, I'm rooting for all the white people in the Emmys. 0.96

00:03:20.200 But that is what she's saying.

00:03:22.400 And so, is it reality?

00:03:24.220 Absolutely not.

00:03:25.340 Ethnically, this is the most diverse Emmys that has ever been had from the performers to the presenters.

00:03:31.320 Last year was also quite diverse.

00:03:33.200 It was so ethnically diverse, meaning there were so many minorities, in particular black actors there,

00:03:38.960 that the hashtag EmmysSoBlack actually started trending last night in response to the Oscars So White claims of a couple years ago.

00:03:49.240 So, reality seems a whole lot better than the world of TV in that instance.

00:03:53.700 But let's keep going.

00:03:55.200 Stephen Colbert, what else have you got?

00:03:56.500 Americans has hotter spies than the Russia Inquiry.

00:04:02.660 Even treason's better on TV.

00:04:06.600 Treason.

00:04:07.080 And right before that, Julia Louis-Dreyfus accuses Donald Trump of sympathizing with Nazis. 0.99

00:04:12.540 So, in the world, according to TV, Donald Trump is a Nazi and a traitor. 0.98

00:04:17.180 Now, I think separately. 0.99

00:04:18.180 One might imply the other. 0.96

00:04:19.120 But he is separately a Nazi and a traitor. 0.94

00:04:21.940 Now, in reality, of course, Donald Trump has repeatedly disavowed Nazis, the handful of neo-Nazis who apparently support his campaign. 0.93

00:04:29.640 By comparison, Democrats never have to disavow Antifa or Black Lives Matter riots that have occurred in cities across the country.

00:04:37.980 And those people who support them, they never have to acknowledge it.

00:04:40.760 On the Russia story, on the treason story, even Van Jones, a far-left winger and commentator and political analyst, says that the Russia story is, quote, a nothing burger.

00:04:52.280 But, of course, nobody with two brain cells to rub together would think that Donald Trump is a Manchurian candidate for Russians. 0.99

00:04:59.060 In the world of TV, he's a Nazi and a traitor. 1.00

00:05:01.640 In reality, he's just some guy. 0.98

00:05:03.280 It's not a big deal.

00:05:04.260 Speaking of traitors, here is Jane Fonda giving her little speech to the Emmys last night. 1.00

00:05:10.760 Well, yeah, well, back in 1980, in that movie, we refused to be controlled by a sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot. 0.99

00:05:21.560 Really? 1.00

00:05:23.360 And in 2017, we still refused to be controlled by a sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot. 1.00

00:05:36.960 Where's the puke bucket? 1.00

00:05:38.240 I need the puke bucket. 0.99

00:05:39.060 The virtue, it's tremendous. 0.68

00:05:41.020 It's sickening me, all of the virtue signaling. 0.98

00:05:43.560 Now, that, for those who are either listening or who couldn't get a good glimpse, that woman who was speaking is a traitor. 0.93

00:05:49.760 That woman is an actual traitor, Jane Fonda, who aided and abetted our enemies during Vietnam while they were killing and imprisoning and torturing American soldiers. 0.97

00:05:58.600 She sat on top of anti-aircraft guns and took photos, anti-aircraft guns simulating shooting down American planes. 0.97

00:06:06.220 That's what that woman is. 1.00

00:06:07.100 And she's saying that in this country, Donald Trump is a sexist, misogynistic bigot who's pushing everybody around. 0.98

00:06:15.280 Who's pushing you around, Jane Fonda? 1.00

00:06:17.000 Nobody is pushing you around.

00:06:18.400 But perhaps somebody should because this traitor to her country, this seditious actress, gets to give absurd speeches lambasting the president, wrongly lambasting the president, slandering him on national television. 1.00

00:06:32.040 Nobody's pushing her around. 0.79

00:06:34.320 Nobody's stopping her from doing that, unfortunately, perhaps.

00:06:37.760 But that's the world of TV and the world of TV and the world of imagination. 0.83

00:06:41.840 Then President Trump is a tyrant who is oppressing everybody, including traitors like Jane Fonda.

00:06:49.360 Now, apparently we're not living in such authoritarian times. 0.83

00:06:53.260 At least Chance the Rapper shows up to finally bring a little levity and to entertain us, just like Stephen Colbert promised, right?

00:07:01.440 Wrong. I'm just kidding.

00:07:03.280 He came out and just gave another stupid political speech. 0.99

00:07:06.400 So Chance the Rapper, from what I could understand from his rap performance, asked, one, why cops on television shows aren't convicted as murderers, why men with psychological disorders like transgenderism cannot serve in the military openly. 1.00

00:07:21.340 And he insists that we DVR our televisions so that we can go and protest Donald Trump.

00:07:27.480 By the way, this attack came within the first two minutes of the broadcast.

00:07:30.860 This was Chance the Rapper.

00:07:32.900 So at least we can hope, at least we can hope that the big awards for the night will make good on that promise of lighthearted fun, that everything's better on TV, right?

00:07:43.180 Right? Isn't that?

00:07:44.100 No, absolutely wrong.

00:07:44.900 Here's what's won.

00:07:45.440 I was asleep before.

00:07:48.040 That's how we let it happen.

00:07:50.080 When they slaughtered Congress, we didn't wake up.

00:07:52.620 When they blamed terrorists and suspended the Constitution, we didn't wake up then either.

00:07:58.540 Now I'm awake.

00:08:02.300 My name is Offred.

00:08:03.680 I had another name.

00:08:05.420 Ladies, I have to let you go. 1.00

00:08:07.700 It's the law now.

00:08:08.640 I'm sorry.

00:08:12.260 I fell asleep during that trailer as I did through every single episode of that tedious and pedantic show, which Norm MacDonald rightly called subpar science fi trash.

00:08:23.340 It won everything.

00:08:25.480 It won Best Drama, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, a couple other awards as well.

00:08:29.800 We do need to clarify.

00:08:30.520 This was in the same category as The Crown.

00:08:32.860 It was.

00:08:33.240 Oh, my gosh.

00:08:33.800 It was The Crown.

00:08:35.040 It beat out Stranger Things.

00:08:36.680 It beat out Westworld.

00:08:37.600 This was a year of good shows.

00:08:39.400 Unbelievable.

00:08:39.640 This was a year of good shows, and they won.

00:08:42.560 And the reason that Handmaid's Tale won, it really is not a good show.

00:08:46.120 It's poorly written.

00:08:47.000 It's poorly conceived.

00:08:48.140 The acting is fine, I suppose.

00:08:49.760 It's absurdly slow.

00:08:51.560 You really can't watch it and maintain any interest.

00:08:54.200 But the reason it won is because Donald Trump is living rent-free in all of their heads in Hollywood.

00:08:58.960 And so they had to give it to the show to send a message, to send a message about the alleged oppression, right?

00:09:05.160 So in that show, the women, Elizabeth Moss, they're living in a world in which women are subjugated by radical Christians. 0.97

00:09:16.100 Now, this is ironic because in our world today, the only place where women are not subjugated is in traditionally Christian nations. 0.97

00:09:23.960 But if the show had any guts, they would portray female oppression in a Muslim world. 0.97

00:09:29.760 They would portray female oppression in a world where there are consequences to making such claims. 0.97

00:09:34.580 But, of course, they can't do that.

00:09:36.300 So they have to make it about radical Christians oppressing women. 1.00

00:09:39.240 When I look around, in reality, that does not appear to be the case.

00:09:43.320 So that's the world according to TV.

00:09:45.000 In that world, Trump gets pretty negative coverage, you might say.

00:09:48.760 Obviously, the coverage from the Emmys.

00:09:50.500 But there was a Harvard University study that showed that CNN and NBC gave Trump 93% negative coverage.

00:09:57.800 93%.

00:09:58.680 Now, to put that in perspective, that same study showed that Barack Obama got 41% negative coverage, George W. Bush 57% negative coverage, and Bill Clinton 60% negative coverage because of all of the sex scandals.

00:10:11.500 But Donald Trump, 93%.

00:10:13.500 Now, what about reality?

00:10:15.320 How does reality look?

00:10:16.500 In reality, the economy is growing.

00:10:18.620 There was accelerated economic growth during Trump's first full quarter.

00:10:21.640 The White House is repealing the unconstitutional executive amnesty and possibly addressing it by legislation.

00:10:28.180 There are stronger lobbying bans for ex-White House employees than we've seen in recent memory.

00:10:32.660 There is the repeal of one mandate forcing taxpayers to fund Planned Parenthood, another one forcing taxpayers to fund abortions overseas.

00:10:39.920 Looks like good news to me.

00:10:41.400 Major reduction in regulations and delays in our energy sector to get the economy going again.

00:10:47.140 Some reports show that there have been 16 regulations repealed for every new regulation added.

00:10:53.080 There's a decline in illegal immigration since Donald Trump was inaugurated.

00:10:56.580 And we have a Supreme Court justice who respects the Constitution.

00:11:00.840 Seems to me like everything is worse on TV.

00:11:04.120 Let's bring on our panel to discuss.

00:11:06.240 We're very lucky making her debut on the Michael Knowles Show panel of deplorables.

00:11:10.820 We have Candace Owens, better known by her YouTube name, Red Pill Black.

00:11:14.360 Candace, thank you for being here.

00:11:15.300 We have, from the Daily Wire, Jacob Airey.

00:11:18.780 And from Lepanto Live, we have, his eminence, Paul Bois.

00:11:23.680 Now, before we begin, I should be fair.

00:11:27.260 There was one moment of levity during the telecast.

00:11:30.380 That was when Sean Spicer made a surprise appearance.

00:11:33.160 And here he is.

00:11:34.240 Of course, what really matters to Donald Trump is ratings.

00:11:38.780 You've got to have the big numbers.

00:11:41.040 And I certainly hope we achieve that tonight.

00:11:43.320 Unfortunately, at this point, we have no way of knowing how big our audience is.

00:11:48.560 Is there anyone who could say how big the audience is?

00:11:52.800 Sean, do you know?

00:11:53.820 This will be the largest audience to witness an Emmy's period, both in person and around the world.

00:12:13.660 Wow, that really soothes my fragile ego.

00:12:19.720 I can understand why you'd want one of these guys around.

00:12:23.160 Melissa McCarthy, everybody, give it up.

00:12:25.160 So, it was a knock on Trump, but it was actually a pretty funny moment.

00:12:30.800 You know, it was a little bipartisan, at least.

00:12:33.960 They had a Republican kind of making fun of himself and having a nice little moment.

00:12:38.040 But, of course, Hollywood and the mainstream media hate it.

00:12:41.860 CNN ran the headline today, quote,

00:12:43.620 The Huffington Post ran angry viewers are in no mood to laugh at Sean Spicer's Emmy jokes.

00:12:51.460 And the Washington Post's Democracy Dies in Darkness said Spicer's yucky cameo at the Emmys.

00:12:58.260 That is why we can't have nice things.

00:13:00.260 Hollywood used to be glamorous, and now it's crass and vulgar.

00:13:03.860 Paul Bois, should Sean Spicer have shown up?

00:13:07.080 Was it a nice moment?

00:13:08.380 Or was he sucking up to Hollywood limousine leftists?

00:13:11.860 I mean, I agree with the spirit of the act.

00:13:15.220 It's fun. It's a joke.

00:13:16.660 But, at the end of the day, this is Hollywood.

00:13:18.960 They're not there.

00:13:19.860 They're not going to go,

00:13:20.660 Oh, yeah, that's so funny.

00:13:21.980 Spicer's laughing at himself.

00:13:23.460 They're just going to laugh in that moment

00:13:25.360 and then go back to just being mean-spirited 0.96

00:13:27.940 and bashing him behind his back.

00:13:30.540 And that's why Colbert later in the night made that joke against Spicer.

00:13:34.740 I forget exactly what he said.

00:13:36.260 So, I mean, it's just... 0.99

00:13:38.980 I don't agree with sucking up to people that just basically want to punch you in the face. 0.95

00:13:42.880 You think you shouldn't have shown up? 0.97

00:13:43.960 Yeah.

00:13:44.500 Red Pill Black, gone are the days of Bob Hope.

00:13:48.440 What has made Hollywood so leftist and so screechy in just the last few years?

00:13:54.600 Honestly, I don't know.

00:13:55.740 I think it's the first time ever we're seeing what it looks like

00:13:58.800 when these spoiled toddlers don't get what they want. 1.00

00:14:02.000 And they didn't get what they wanted, who they wanted in the White House.

00:14:05.520 And now we have to endure this super long four-year, hopefully eight-year whine

00:14:10.880 that doesn't seem to be going away.

00:14:12.880 And when you watch the show, it's like they're just in this echo chamber

00:14:16.220 laughing at themselves and they just can't get enough of themselves.

00:14:19.200 They have no idea what's going on outside in the real world.

00:14:21.760 I see that.

00:14:22.960 And you bring up a great point, which is that it's all about the presidential election.

00:14:26.420 We saw all of this after George Bush won the presidency. 1.00

00:14:29.280 You had Michael Moore ruining the Oscars and making stupid speeches. 1.00

00:14:33.240 And it just seems to be when they get their way, then they basically behave. 1.00

00:14:37.920 And when they don't get their way, then they have to ruin every bit of fun

00:14:42.380 and entertainment that we can ask for out of Hollywood.

00:14:44.920 Jacob.

00:14:45.380 Right.

00:14:45.940 The whole show was about Trump.

00:14:47.400 The entire thing.

00:14:48.180 I mean, I pulled out a handful of clips.

00:14:50.680 I could have shown the whole two-hour telecast.

00:14:54.240 Isn't that exactly what Trump wants?

00:14:56.280 Doesn't he want the attention?

00:14:57.340 Doesn't he want to live rent-free in their head?

00:14:59.600 And if so, why do they give him what he wants?

00:15:02.500 I think it's just part of their bubble, right?

00:15:04.820 So they think, we're just going to keep hammering,

00:15:06.960 because they expect Trump to act like George W. Bush.

00:15:10.780 So he's going to be passive.

00:15:13.560 He's going to ignore it because President Bush thought the president should be above

00:15:17.900 all this Hollywood criticism.

00:15:20.040 So they're shocked when Trump just goes after them.

00:15:23.800 You can tell their feelings were very hurt when he totally ignored them on Twitter.

00:15:28.240 That was the best part of this whole thing.

00:15:30.720 He is so wily, especially on Twitter.

00:15:33.280 And speaking of Donald Trump driving people crazy,

00:15:36.800 President Trump has just given his first speech to the UN this morning,

00:15:40.420 and he claimed in typical Trumpian fashion that the organization that's been around for 72 years

00:15:45.860 has, quote, tremendous potential, which I love.

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00:16:56.080 So I could not love President Trump's U.N. insult anymore.

00:17:08.140 As far as I can tell, the U.N. is an organization where we invite the worst people on earth to come to our best city.

00:17:15.140 We pay for the lion's share of the whole thing.

00:17:17.300 They give speeches trashing us and telling us how terrible we are for a few days.

00:17:21.720 And then they go back to their countries and oppress their own citizens. 0.99

00:17:24.560 So President Trump has taken a harder line with them. 0.92

00:17:27.360 Red pill black.

00:17:29.160 Why do we tolerate the U.N.?

00:17:30.720 We shouldn't.

00:17:32.560 I have absolutely no idea why we've ever tolerated the U.N.

00:17:36.060 And I think that this is sort of what Trump excels at.

00:17:39.460 This is what sort of got people behind him in the first place is that he's willing to not play this PC role and he's willing to call stuff out.

00:17:46.780 And the U.N. has needed to be called out for a very long time.

00:17:49.760 They're a waste of time.

00:17:51.580 They're a waste of money and they're a waste of resources.

00:17:53.940 And they do absolutely nothing.

00:17:56.300 They accomplish nothing.

00:17:57.680 I couldn't have said it better myself.

00:17:59.400 Paul Bois, tell Red Pill Black why she's wrong. 1.00

00:18:02.580 Is there any role for the U.N., period?

00:18:05.360 Or at least is there any role in Donald Trump's America?

00:18:08.460 Well, certainly not the America that he promised us.

00:18:11.000 I mean, my opinion of the U.N. is simply that I think it's good as an idea to give people a neutral forum, countries just come and debate their grievances.

00:18:24.420 And that's it.

00:18:25.040 As far as everything that it does organizationally around the world, it's a complete disaster.

00:18:30.360 And all of that should be disbanded.

00:18:31.900 But in terms of the idea of it, okay, let's have a forum for countries, you know, this country is mad at this country.

00:18:38.780 Okay, let's let them talk it out and debate it.

00:18:40.380 Okay, fine.

00:18:41.320 But other than that, it's worthless.

00:18:43.760 Maybe. 0.89

00:18:44.340 How about they just keep their mouths shut? 0.97

00:18:45.760 How about these awful dictators and these terrible human rights abusers keep their mouths shut and stop telling us how to run our country, which is the greatest force of national good in the history of the world? 0.89

00:18:55.560 Who knows?

00:18:56.000 Jacob, conservatives don't like the U.N., generally speaking.

00:18:59.400 The left loves the U.N.

00:19:01.380 It doesn't matter how many times you show them that the U.N. has been ineffective.

00:19:04.660 It has not established world peace.

00:19:06.860 It's not able to really push any consequences onto people who are abusing their own citizens.

00:19:11.860 But the left, nevertheless, loves it.

00:19:14.680 They at least love the theory of the U.N.

00:19:16.500 Why is that?

00:19:17.540 I think it's because it represents what they want.

00:19:20.500 You know, it's John Lennon's Imagine, right?

00:19:22.600 Imagine if there were no countries.

00:19:24.520 Was that Donald Trump singing Imagine?

00:19:26.260 I don't know.

00:19:26.700 Yes, it was exactly.

00:19:27.580 It wasn't the fact that I have a terrible singing voice.

00:19:30.900 But, no, in all seriousness, no, it's their vision of a perfect world.

00:19:35.500 It doesn't matter how evil you are.

00:19:37.380 It doesn't matter that your country abuses human rights.

00:19:40.760 They still want you to be able to come and talk it out because we're all good on the inside.

00:19:45.940 All of us are.

00:19:46.980 And who cares if it works in practice?

00:19:48.880 Does it work in theory?

00:19:50.540 Yeah, exactly.

00:19:51.580 That's the real question.

00:19:52.320 In theory, the U.N. might be fine, but in reality, it's a complete waste of time.

00:19:57.640 Now, most importantly, we have to get to Armageddon.

00:20:00.440 The end is nigh.

00:20:02.280 A self-described Christian researcher named David Mead predicts that it will all end in five days.

00:20:09.000 Jacob, will you be hiding your kids and your wife?

00:20:12.120 No, this happens.

00:20:13.900 Anytime there's an eclipse, anytime there's a blood moon, anytime there's this constellation appearing,

00:20:22.300 these kooks come out of the closet and they're like, oh, look, we have the date.

00:20:26.720 I hate to bring it to you.

00:20:27.580 Matthew 24, 36 says no one knows the day or the hour of Christ's second coming.

00:20:33.440 Not even the angels of heaven.

00:20:35.080 Not even the angels.

00:20:35.520 Not even David Mead, the Christian researcher in America. 0.65

00:20:37.840 And Jesus even goes a step further and says, I don't even know.

00:20:41.360 Only God the Father knows.

00:20:43.180 So I think that this is just going to all blow over, just like the last guy and the guy before him.

00:20:50.760 No one knows the day or the hour.

00:20:52.500 And when it comes, we won't be ready for it more than likely.

00:20:55.700 Oh, ye of little faith.

00:20:57.100 You know, the metaphor that comes to mind whenever we talk about this, when Christians come out of the woodworks to predict, 1.00

00:21:02.320 is a lot like Lego Batman's batarangs, where he's just going to keep throwing batarangs at the rapture until they finally get it.

00:21:07.380 And they're going to say, first try.

00:21:09.220 Did I tell you he was 14 or did I tell you he was 14?

00:21:12.160 Paul Blatt, Jacob makes a very good point.

00:21:15.320 Of that day or hour, no man knows, not even the angels of heaven, only God the Father.

00:21:20.960 Why is it that this guy missed the message?

00:21:23.320 Why do some kooky Protestant sects always insist on predicting the end of the world? 0.99

00:21:29.200 Well, as a Catholic, Michael, I have my own perspective on this.

00:21:33.400 But out of charity, I'll withhold that.

00:21:37.060 Mostly it's because what you have is these individual religious leaders,

00:21:41.440 and they're reading in a scripture, and they have absolutely no outside authority to give them any sort of check and balances on what they're reading.

00:21:48.740 And they read it, and then they come up with their own weird ideas about, you know, when the end of the world is going to come,

00:21:55.860 and then they get followers to follow them.

00:21:57.420 And it always ends with people disappointed and sad.

00:22:00.200 I mean, the last big one was in 1844 with Pastor William Miller.

00:22:04.760 Yeah, yeah.

00:22:05.160 Yeah, the Millerites.

00:22:06.460 So, you know, just basically another William Miller.

00:22:09.480 And, Paul Blatt, can you confirm, are you speaking ex-cathedra when you make that statement about the end of the world predictors?

00:22:18.000 I'm speaking as someone who believes in the authority of the Pope.

00:22:23.080 Such humility.

00:22:24.080 Such humility from his eminence.

00:22:25.960 Red pill black.

00:22:27.400 I don't think it's just the Christians who are predicting the end of the world.

00:22:30.600 I think it is the American left.

00:22:32.580 And I think you saw it last night during that Emmy Awards telecast.

00:22:36.840 They, every single thing is a sign of the end of the world for them.

00:22:40.920 Now, you, very famously, to borrow your own phrase, took the red pill and completely changed your mind.

00:22:47.000 What made that happen?

00:22:49.920 You know, it was a ton of things, but it was mainly, I always say I was force-fed the red pill.

00:22:54.920 I ended up in a situation where the left press was trying very hard to smear me when I stumbled upon an internet lie,

00:23:02.200 which was the Gamergate non-scandal that they made up to support Hillary Clinton.

00:23:07.680 And I openly tweeted about it, and I got attacked by the left.

00:23:11.520 And once you actually see that these corporations are, these news organizations are really just businesses,

00:23:17.420 and Jeff Bezos outright purchased the Washington Post for the sake of smearing people and taking down businesses and building other businesses up,

00:23:24.400 you can't unsee it.

00:23:26.340 He's really done a terrible job with WAPO, too.

00:23:28.560 I mean, that thing is, it used to be pretty bad, but it's unreadable now.

00:23:32.060 I know.

00:23:32.940 Yeah, it really is.

00:23:34.120 It's so bad.

00:23:35.220 But, you know, I have no regrets about being red-pilled.

00:23:38.800 I love it.

00:23:39.380 And I'm just happy that I get to spread the knowledge to other people in the black community.

00:23:43.140 It's amazing that it was a non-troversy that did it for you.

00:23:46.800 It was one of these things about video games.

00:23:49.340 It wasn't a major political issue.

00:23:51.300 It was something personal where you thought, hmm, I don't quite agree with the politics on this.

00:23:56.500 Right, exactly.

00:23:57.920 And, listen, everything happens for a reason.

00:23:59.940 It was pretty crazy falling down the rabbit hole at first and realizing that everybody that you thought was, like, a white supremacist, you know, is actually, like, on your side.

00:24:08.980 Except for a few.

00:24:09.560 There are a few white supremacists.

00:24:10.980 You know, there are some, but it's not, like, half the country, like Hillary says.

00:24:15.240 Yeah, 66 million of them, I'm not so sure.

00:24:17.440 Yeah.

00:24:19.340 Well, then, speaking of race relations and people who are behaving because they haven't had any red pills, St. Louis residents hate to see that evening sun go down because that's when the rioters have been attacking police, flipping trash cans, and breaking windows on the streets of St. Louis over the acquittal of Jason Stockley, a white cop on trial for killing 24-year-old Anthony Lamar Smith, a young black man.

00:24:44.760 Now, Smith had apparently been seen completing a drug deal, and he then rammed his car into Stockley's police vehicle twice, they engaged in a high-speed chase, he resisted arrest, and then, allegedly, he reached for a gun, though some have claimed that the gun was planted by Stockley, whose DNA, his own DNA, was found on the weapon.

00:25:03.840 Red pill black.

00:25:04.520 As our expert, red-pilled, realized that race relations weren't as bad as everybody said, expert, was this a setup?

00:25:13.800 Is there good reason to protest this verdict?

00:25:17.000 No.

00:25:17.860 Everything that they are doing is absolutely animalistic, and it's saddening for me to see because this is what I hate the most about the African-American community right now, is that they are constantly rioting, they are constantly acting like animals to no end. 1.00

00:25:30.500 And you cannot go on a high-speed chase with a police officer and expect that you have rights.

00:25:35.900 If you are doing that, you are playing with your own life.

00:25:39.120 They have every right in that scenario.

00:25:41.300 He wasn't just walking down the street, you know, and got shot by a police officer.

00:25:45.520 He was engaging in a very dangerous, illegal act. 0.95

00:25:48.280 And I'm not saying that he deserved to die, but I'm saying that these protests as a result of him dying are absolutely ridiculous, and it needs to stop. 0.97

00:25:59.080 And it's, again, just shows you how absolutely warped the media has African-Americans. 1.00

00:26:04.700 We are killing ourselves far more. 0.99

00:26:07.120 You know, nobody ever riots when a black person kills a black person, but God forbid a white person kills a black man. 0.99

00:26:13.740 Chicago would not exist if there were riots when there's black-on-black gang violence or something like that. 0.99

00:26:21.280 Right. It would be perpetual.

00:26:22.740 It would just be perpetual rioting.

00:26:23.960 But they don't care. 1.00

00:26:24.560 Only if a white person kills us, then we need to act like animals. 1.00

00:26:27.880 So it's disgusting and it's sad. 1.00

00:26:29.520 So is your point, because the way I look at this case, it may well be the case that Jason Stockley is a terrible guy. 0.68

00:26:35.180 He might have planted that gun.

00:26:36.920 He might be a racist for all I know.

00:26:38.860 I'm not sure.

00:26:39.580 But the question is, in this trial was justice served, and does it merit going out and protesting and breaking windows?

00:26:49.560 Jacob Ayer, I must ask you, is there a nationwide epidemic of racist cops killing innocent black suspects?

00:26:57.360 No, I don't think so.

00:26:58.420 The statistics do not bear that out.

00:27:00.200 In fact, I believe it was Harvard University.

00:27:03.080 I could have the university wrong.

00:27:04.480 I can't exactly recall, but they did a study where they examined police officers and their encounters and when they used deadly force.

00:27:13.440 And they were more likely to draw and shoot a Caucasian male than any other race, ethnicity, or even gender. 0.63

00:27:24.120 Because they were so worried about causing problems like that, they were least likely to draw their weapon.

00:27:30.400 And they were more likely to draw their taser, I believe, but less likely to draw their gun on someone who was of minority or a person of color.

00:27:37.860 And it's hard to tell.

00:27:38.860 I read that study.

00:27:39.740 That was Harvard Economist published that.

00:27:41.960 There was a Bayesian analysis that was going around a while ago saying that really there is race discrimination from white cops to black suspects.

00:27:50.840 It depends what criteria you're looking at, too.

00:27:54.060 In particular, with deadly force, it may be the case that there's no race discrimination in respect to black suspects being pulled over more often.

00:28:03.740 That may possibly be the case, though.

00:28:05.340 Of course, that has to do with bad neighborhoods.

00:28:08.140 That has to do with poverty.

00:28:09.180 That has to do with the inner city.

00:28:10.560 So basically, one side has their statistics.

00:28:13.340 The other side has their statistics.

00:28:15.040 It does not appear that the question will be resolved by statistics.

00:28:19.240 So, Paul Bois, just flat out, was justice served?

00:28:23.800 Yeah, I think so.

00:28:24.900 After looking at the evidence and everything that took place, I don't see any evidence that the young man was murdered by the police officer and what took place took place.

00:28:39.080 I mean, I think the worst thing that the officer did was the recordings of him, what he was saying in the car.

00:28:42.660 But, I mean, look.

00:28:43.980 He was saying in the car, I'm going to kill this guy or I'm cleaning up the language a little bit. 0.96

00:28:48.100 It seemed like he was out for blood. 0.78

00:28:50.500 But, again, the guy had just hit his car twice.

00:28:52.240 Yeah, I mean, you know, look.

00:28:53.360 When you're in that situation, you could end up dead and your adrenaline is pumping at a very, very, very high rate.

00:28:59.260 And you're just going to be saying things that you shouldn't be saying.

00:29:03.580 But, look.

00:29:04.820 It's a life or death situation.

00:29:06.220 We have no idea what it's like to be in that for the police.

00:29:09.720 Red Pill Black, there are bad cops.

00:29:11.500 There are definitely bad cops out there.

00:29:14.160 And the question is, are we being too hard on our police officers?

00:29:19.360 They're in these very difficult situations.

00:29:21.260 It's the thin blue line.

00:29:22.460 They protect us from crime.

00:29:24.000 They allow us to live peaceful lives.

00:29:25.720 Are we being too hard on the cops?

00:29:27.460 Or is more oversight required?

00:29:29.080 We are absolutely being too hard on the cops.

00:29:32.760 The truth of the matter is that officers save Black lives.

00:29:36.340 And the fact that the media has kind of facilitated this attack on police officers is actually going to cause more harm to Black communities.

00:29:43.520 Like you said, they are more hesitant now to pull the trigger.

00:29:46.300 They're more hesitant to do their job because they're afraid of creating this outrage and becoming the subject of national debate if they do.

00:29:53.340 Well, all we're doing is creating a divide between the Black and white community, and that divide is very serious when it comes to white police officers.

00:30:01.180 Think about what they're doing in these cities like Chicago.

00:30:04.800 I actually went out to Chicago and met with the officers in District 11.

00:30:09.040 Those are Black officers.

00:30:10.200 It's amazing that people have not figured out that police officers aren't just white.

00:30:14.040 So when you create this narrative, what about these police officers that are all Black, like they are in Chicago in District 11,

00:30:21.080 which is where they have the highest rate of crime, people don't think this way.

00:30:25.640 What they're actually doing is creating a harder job for these people.

00:30:30.860 So I'm staunchly against this villainizing of police officers.

00:30:35.760 You see that in New York.

00:30:36.660 A few years ago, the stop and frisk policy was criticized by the left.

00:30:40.900 They said it was racist and discriminatory.

00:30:42.080 And what they forgot is in these instances of stop and frisk, it's usually Black or Hispanic officers being called to Black or Hispanic communities and neighborhoods by Black or Hispanic victims to protect them from very often Black or Hispanic suspects. 0.62

00:31:00.460 But this isn't white cops going in and shooting people.

00:31:04.800 Race appeared to have no role in it whatsoever.

00:31:07.060 Right. And it's just something that, like I said, the media doesn't talk about.

00:31:11.940 They make it, according to the media, every police officer is white.

00:31:14.900 I don't understand how people haven't realized, like you said, that there are a lot of Black officers and there are a lot of Hispanic officers.

00:31:20.380 And all of them that I've spoken to, they say the same thing.

00:31:23.980 You know, we're the ones committing the crimes.

00:31:25.460 The truth of the matter is the reason why Black people, you know, get stopped more and get shot more by police officers, if they are being shot more by police officers, is because we actually are committing the most crimes. 0.95

00:31:37.540 We only represent this much of the population.

00:31:40.400 But if you look at the crime statistics, we represent it.

00:31:42.760 It's unbelievable.

00:31:43.400 And that's something people don't want to talk about.

00:31:45.820 They don't want to talk about the fact that we're committing all these crimes, that we're involved in these drug crimes and these murder rates and that we're killing ourselves. 0.88

00:31:51.180 They only want to talk and they only want to riot when a white police officer shoots a Black man. 0.73

00:31:56.600 And do you know why the media refuse to, or why the media insists on perpetuating these divisive narratives? 0.88

00:32:02.540 Do you know why?

00:32:03.200 Because everything is worse on TV.

00:32:05.080 That's why.

00:32:05.820 Red Pill Black, excellent to have you here.

00:32:07.900 We've got to have you back.

00:32:08.880 Thank you for coming on.

00:32:09.740 We have his eminence, Paul Bois, and Daily Wire's Jacob Berry.

00:32:12.340 Now it is time to put on my Stephen Colbert smart glasses and give the final thought.

00:32:22.560 For today's final thought, I'm going to do the unthinkable.

00:32:25.500 I am going to defend Hollywood, the horror, the horror.

00:32:28.940 Specifically, I'm going to defend Darren Aronofsky's movie Mother, starring Jennifer Lawrence, which I just saw yesterday.

00:32:35.540 I think I am the only conservative in the country who enjoyed Mother.

00:32:39.440 Right-wingers have been excoriating this film.

00:32:41.340 A writer in National Review called it the vilest film Hollywood has ever produced.

00:32:46.240 And the great John Nolte even said that it's an environmentalist, anti-Christian, anti-human screed.

00:32:52.560 Now, with respect to my friends in the conservative movement, conservatives are Philistines, and they have missed the rich narrative of this movie. 0.97

00:32:59.300 Now, Jennifer Lawrence and Aronofsky himself might misunderstand it, too.

00:33:04.200 Artists often get their own work wrong.

00:33:06.840 But the movie doesn't really make sense if Lawrence's character is seen as Mother Earth.

00:33:11.960 It makes much more sense if we realize that Jennifer Lawrence's character is Satan.

00:33:16.440 It is a Miltonian allegory for Christianity, much like Paradise Lost.

00:33:21.420 Now, the movie is difficult to watch, particularly its depiction of mankind and the blessed sacrament.

00:33:27.280 But that's the point.

00:33:28.380 The movie is told from the point of view of Jennifer Lawrence, who is Satan. 0.99

00:33:32.960 A Mother is a theologically serious movie that presents a thorough and disconcerting portrait of the insidiousness of sin and the unfathomable magnitude of God's love and inventiveness.

00:33:43.780 We have a sympathetic Satan character here, just like we do in Paradise Lost.

00:33:48.200 And Mother's sympathy, Jennifer Lawrence's character's sympathy for the devil, should startle Christian audiences out of the sentimental complacency and shallowness that Aronofsky assails in his humans. 0.84

00:34:00.380 It's worth a watch.

00:34:01.180 You should go see it.

00:34:02.240 That's our show.

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The Michael Knowles Show - September 18, 2017

Ep. 28 - Everything Is Worse On TV： Emmys, St. Louis Blues, and the Rapture

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