The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 295 - Klobuchar？ I Hardly Know ‘Er!

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00:00:37.600 Two more leftist Democrat ladies entered the 2020 presidential contest over the weekend, 1.00

00:00:43.220 prompting America to respond,

00:00:46.320 We will analyze the official Liz Warren kickoff, as well as Klobuchar's snowy global warming warning.

00:00:56.140 Then, John Kasich does yoga, Virginia politicians do minstrel shows,

00:01:01.040 and the Grammys award people for neither singing nor dancing.

00:01:04.800 Finally, the Pope pals around with the Grand Sheik in Arabia, 0.99

00:01:08.120 while Democrat Congresswoman Ilan Omar defames the Jews.

00:01:12.300 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:14.280 Really interesting religious realignment going on right now in America and throughout the world.

00:01:27.520 This story is probably the most under-reported news story.

00:01:31.660 It happened last week.

00:01:33.340 The Pope visited the Arabian Peninsula for the first time in 2,000 years.

00:01:37.800 No Pope has ever gone down there.

00:01:39.660 This is all, I think, finally a Western reckoning on scientific materialism,

00:01:46.840 on atheism, on the religion or irreligion that came out of the Enlightenment.

00:01:52.080 This is a huge news story.

00:01:53.540 It really, really matters.

00:01:54.900 And so, of course, the mainstream media are not reporting on it.

00:01:58.120 But we will report on what looks to be an alliance between the Muslim world

00:02:03.240 and the religious Western world against atheism.

00:02:06.800 But first, we have got to cover 2020.

00:02:10.460 We have got to cover Liz Warren's, I think, seventh campaign kickoff.

00:02:14.580 How many times has she kicked off this campaign already? 1.00

00:02:16.560 I don't know.

00:02:17.160 We'll cover that.

00:02:17.860 We'll cover Klobuchar.

00:02:18.680 We'll cover the dark horse Democrat.

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00:03:40.920 Elizabeth Warren is officially running for president.

00:03:44.540 Again, I know she officially was doing it three months ago and then officially this.

00:03:48.660 She has another campaign kickoff and here she is kicking off her first day on the trail

00:03:54.820 by trying to be Donald Trump.

00:03:57.660 Every day, there's a racist tweet, a hateful tweet, something really dark and ugly.

00:04:09.040 And what are we, as candidates, as activists, as the press, going to do about that?

00:04:20.840 We're going to chase after those every day?

00:04:25.380 Are we going to let him use those to divide us?

00:04:28.940 You know, here's what bothers me.

00:04:30.880 By the time we get to 2020, Donald Trump may not even be president.

00:04:36.200 In fact, he may not even be a free person.

00:04:51.760 Oh, no, she didn't.

00:04:53.900 Oh, wow.

00:04:55.160 Here she is coming out swinging, feisty Elizabeth Warren. 1.00

00:04:59.120 And she's going to fight back against Donald Trump by doing a really lame version of his 1.00

00:05:06.160 original joke.

00:05:07.560 That's, wow, that's our gal, Liz Warren, a woman who, I mean, she is a lecturer, so the

00:05:14.900 fact that she's lecturing people is not surprising.

00:05:17.800 We should expect that.

00:05:18.640 But it's so tedious.

00:05:20.800 It's so grating.

00:05:22.080 I can't imagine anybody really likes the sound of this.

00:05:24.900 She can't pull off doing Trump.

00:05:27.460 She's not Trump.

00:05:28.280 She's very much not Trump.

00:05:30.140 For one, I don't think Donald Trump is even one one thousandth Native American.

00:05:34.140 She is obviously not Trump.

00:05:35.340 She's trying to do that great Trump moment from the debate with Hillary Clinton.

00:05:38.480 Here it is.

00:05:39.500 Just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law

00:05:45.200 in our country.

00:05:46.360 Because you'd be in jail.

00:05:47.880 Secretary Clinton.

00:05:48.560 When Liz Warren does it, it's not even close. 1.00

00:05:54.520 He does it right on the cuff.

00:05:56.640 Says, I don't want to be in a world where Donald Trump is president.

00:05:59.440 Yeah, you'd be in jail.

00:06:00.780 That's why.

00:06:01.620 Boom.

00:06:02.100 Mic drop.

00:06:02.920 Whereas she does it. 1.00

00:06:03.980 It's obviously planned.

00:06:05.140 It's obviously contrived.

00:06:06.200 And it's in this weird language.

00:06:07.340 He might not even be a free person in 2020.

00:06:14.120 Yeah?

00:06:15.440 Huh?

00:06:16.660 Am I right?

00:06:17.980 She can't do it.

00:06:18.880 She's the definition of a limousine liberal. 1.00

00:06:20.960 She's a racial fraud. 1.00

00:06:22.700 The race stuff is dogging her. 1.00

00:06:24.440 It's going to keep dogging her.

00:06:25.760 MSNBC.

00:06:26.780 Joe Scarborough seems to think that by the spring, all of that Native American stuff will 1.00

00:06:31.080 be behind her.

00:06:32.080 It won't be.

00:06:33.040 I'm telling you.

00:06:33.840 It will not be behind her.

00:06:35.220 Why not?

00:06:36.120 Because if she could have figured out a way to put this behind her, she would have done

00:06:39.680 it already.

00:06:40.220 She would have done it for the two years now that Donald Trump has been calling her Pocahontas.

00:06:44.760 And for even longer than that, that these allegations have been around, that her fraud

00:06:49.640 has been exposed.

00:06:51.280 If she had an answer, she would have given an answer.

00:06:54.440 But she doesn't have one.

00:06:56.320 She doesn't have an answer.

00:06:57.820 And so this is, by the way, why she keeps doing all of these campaign kickoffs for, okay, 0.60

00:07:02.880 she made a whole huge deal about the exploratory committee. 1.00

00:07:06.200 She's making a whole huge deal about the beer video. 1.00

00:07:09.660 She's trying to get a fresh start. 1.00

00:07:12.920 She needs a fresh start because she knows that her racial fraud is going to destroy her 1.00

00:07:17.080 campaign, if it hasn't already, which obviously it has.

00:07:20.740 So she keeps saying, okay, well, we're going to do a clean break.

00:07:23.880 We're going to address the racial fraud first. 0.92

00:07:25.920 And then once that's taken care of, then we're going to start a new campaign.

00:07:29.700 So actually, before she even announced the first announcement, she released that genetic

00:07:34.640 test.

00:07:35.340 She thought, okay, I'm going to release this genetic test.

00:07:37.780 It's going to show that I'm maybe one 1,024th Native American.

00:07:41.240 And then people will say that it's okay that I called myself Native American.

00:07:45.620 And then we can announce fresh start.

00:07:48.860 Whoops, didn't work.

00:07:49.920 And then, okay, the beer.

00:07:51.760 Now I'm getting into a social media campaign.

00:07:54.320 All that official stuff is behind.

00:07:55.700 Now I'm going to have a fresh start.

00:07:57.860 I like beer.

00:07:58.680 I still like beer.

00:08:00.020 I'm not a robot.

00:08:01.100 I hug my husband.

00:08:02.200 I, mm, total flop.

00:08:03.740 People made fun of her for days because she's not Ocasio-Cortez because she's just so stiff 0.98

00:08:10.220 and not credible.

00:08:11.920 And okay, well, that's been now the official launch of the campaign.

00:08:16.840 There's no fresh start.

00:08:17.820 There's no fresh start for Elizabeth Warren.

00:08:20.500 It's not going to happen.

00:08:22.160 She also just doesn't have the qualities that make for effective candidates. 1.00

00:08:25.880 I have seen candidates, otherwise good candidates, who, like, their face didn't look great.

00:08:33.260 There may be a little bit when they spoke, their nose pinched up too much.

00:08:37.440 Maybe it really, these things really matter.

00:08:40.440 It seems superficial.

00:08:41.620 But look, it's democratic politics.

00:08:43.440 This is superficiality.

00:08:44.940 You're talking about a popularity contest here.

00:08:47.340 They're, of course, going to accuse Republicans and conservatives who criticize Liz Warren of

00:08:53.100 chauvinism or sexism or misogyny or whatever.

00:08:57.040 It's not misogyny.

00:08:58.960 It's applying the same standard to male and female candidates. 0.96

00:09:01.940 You hear, how many times did we hear during the 2016 race that Ted Cruz was facially challenged?

00:09:07.440 I think Ted Cruz himself joked about this.

00:09:09.920 This is just the sort of scrutiny that public candidates are up for, especially in a democratic

00:09:16.180 republic where people are voting for you.

00:09:18.460 She just doesn't have it. 0.80

00:09:20.920 There's a more interesting candidate who is now also officially running for president.

00:09:24.960 I'm actually, I mean, I'm damning with faint praise here because most candidates are more

00:09:29.120 interesting than Liz Warren. 1.00

00:09:30.380 But Amy Klobuchar, senator from Minnesota, actually makes a much stronger case than Liz Warren. 1.00

00:09:36.800 In our nation's heartland, at a time when we must heal the heart of our democracy and

00:09:44.620 renew our commitment to the common good, I stand before you as the granddaughter of an iron

00:09:52.900 or a minor, as the daughter of a teacher and a newspaper man, as the first woman elected

00:10:00.240 to the United States Senate from the state of Minnesota to announce my candidacy for president

00:10:09.600 of the United States.

00:10:15.400 All right.

00:10:16.160 Before I make fun of this announcement, there's a lot to make fun of here.

00:10:19.220 I do want to point out the positives.

00:10:21.180 She comes across as a much stronger candidate.

00:10:25.660 Just in general, she looks stronger.

00:10:27.640 She looks better.

00:10:28.760 She's smiling in a way that Liz Warren, Hillary Clinton, all the time they would be scowling.

00:10:34.280 The only time they weren't scowling is when they do that awkward forced laugh, that Hillary,

00:10:38.620 ha ha, oh, well, we're going to run and I'm going to, ha ha.

00:10:43.940 You know, and there's that, just that brief moment.

00:10:46.060 Amy Klobuchar much more naturally gets it. 1.00

00:10:49.200 She gets Democrat politics, she's better on the stump, she's better with voters, and she 0.99

00:10:54.240 comes across as stronger.

00:10:56.560 Liz Warren comes across as a frail college lecturer. 1.00

00:10:59.820 Amy Klobuchar, she is a career politician. 1.00

00:11:02.900 This lady has been running for office for a very long time. 1.00

00:11:05.940 She was a, you know, county executive or something in Minnesota.

00:11:09.400 She's taken the long way up and she's learned a thing or two on the trail.

00:11:13.860 So that's all good for her.

00:11:15.640 The downside for her is she also doesn't have a great voice. 1.00

00:11:19.880 The other downside for her is that she's from true blue Minnesota. 0.94

00:11:23.520 Minnesota has voted for the Democrat in every single presidential election since 1976.

00:11:28.440 Even in 1984, when Ronald Reagan won 49 states, he won the whole country, Minnesota still managed

00:11:36.940 to go blue.

00:11:38.440 So she doesn't bring a whole lot with her and she doesn't have much of a reason to moderate. 1.00

00:11:43.540 She doesn't have much pushing her toward the center, which might help her in a general election. 1.00

00:11:48.920 But then she has one really awful thing going for her.

00:11:52.540 She has one really awful thing going for her that actually every other Democrat candidate 1.00

00:11:57.400 has to deal with.

00:11:58.980 We'll get to that in a second.

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00:13:36.280 Okay, the one really bad issue that Amy Klobuchar has to deal with, that all of them have to

00:13:45.260 deal with, is timing.

00:13:48.300 The timing is the issue.

00:13:50.540 Because broadly, things are all breaking in Donald Trump's direction right now, one after

00:13:56.140 another.

00:13:56.440 Even right down to this beautiful moment from the announcement speech, Amy Klobuchar standing

00:14:02.420 there as snow is pouring down, covering her head.

00:14:06.080 And what does she choose to focus on?

00:14:07.840 Global warming.

00:14:09.140 Here is another one.

00:14:10.720 Climate change.

00:14:11.780 The people, the people are on our side when it comes to climate change.

00:14:17.500 Why?

00:14:18.080 Because like you and I, they believe in science.

00:14:24.140 That's why in the first 100 days of my administration, I will reinstate the clean power rules and the

00:14:32.820 gas mileage standards and put forth sweeping legislation to invest in green jobs and infrastructure.

00:14:41.460 And on, and on day one, we will rejoin the international climate agreement.

00:14:55.320 We will do all of that on day one just as soon as I dig myself out of the blizzard that

00:15:01.580 I am certainly finding my, it must be caused by global warming.

00:15:05.120 In the global warming blizzard that is coating my hair in snow, day one we will do it.

00:15:10.980 But really bad timing, I mean, in this case, really particularly bad timing because she's 0.92

00:15:16.020 giving a speech in part on global warming.

00:15:19.140 I mean, she's made this a big issue.

00:15:21.160 This is the big left-wing issue.

00:15:25.160 We talked about this a little bit.

00:15:26.740 I was in Raleigh, North Carolina yesterday giving a speech at the Young America's Foundation.

00:15:32.300 Environmentalism, global warming is the issue for the left.

00:15:35.600 I know it just seems like a pet issue.

00:15:37.140 It just seems like, okay, environmentalism is one, raising taxes is another, health care.

00:15:41.980 No, environmentalism is the whole thing because it's the religion.

00:15:45.900 The religion is the religion of global warming, and the religion is then totalizing.

00:15:50.980 It takes in part everything.

00:15:54.020 So this Green New Deal is the great example of that. 0.97

00:15:57.980 The Green New Deal, for some reason, includes a jobs program, a mandatory universal basic income.

00:16:03.800 It destroys 88% of the American energy industry.

00:16:08.260 It destroys and then rebuilds every single residential and non-residential building in America.

00:16:14.320 It takes over a sixth of the U.S. economy and forces a socialist health care program that

00:16:19.520 destroys private insurance and eliminates patient choice.

00:16:22.440 Why is all of that in an environmental bill?

00:16:25.040 What does that have to do with the Delta smelter, the polar bears?

00:16:27.560 Seemingly nothing, unless you realize that this is not about protecting the natural environment.

00:16:33.360 This is the totalizing religion of the left, and through this religious bill, they'll get everything they want.

00:16:39.280 The Green New Deal sets up a mechanism, a select committee, such that they can pass any law they want.

00:16:46.820 Without the committee, without any accountability to voters, without any campaigning, without any democratic or republican politics.

00:16:56.300 Just pure tyranny.

00:16:59.120 They get everything through.

00:17:00.460 It's the whole system.

00:17:01.700 And so that's why they all have to focus on global warming.

00:17:04.400 And like every other false religion, no amount of data are going to convince them to drop it. 0.99

00:17:11.260 Like all other false religions, they can be standing. 1.00

00:17:13.760 They're waiting for the world to end.

00:17:15.120 The world's going to end at midnight on Tuesday.

00:17:17.860 They're all out there waiting for the world to end.

00:17:20.120 Midnight comes.

00:17:20.880 It's 12.02.

00:17:22.320 Everybody's still alive.

00:17:23.320 What happens to their faith?

00:17:25.140 Their faith doesn't go away.

00:17:26.240 They double down on it.

00:17:27.960 They say, oh, it's going to be really bad when it happens tomorrow.

00:17:31.140 They're going to double all down on this.

00:17:32.820 So what you're hearing now, this is the left-wing response to, President Trump made the same joke about Amy Claw.

00:17:39.300 He said, oh, not a great look, and you're covered up in snow.

00:17:41.700 You look like a little snowman talking about global warming. 1.00

00:17:43.920 And they say, you idiot, weather isn't climate. 1.00

00:17:51.160 Weather, weather is when one discrete weather event happens, and climate is the totalizing religion that we believe in. 1.00

00:18:01.000 That's basically the difference.

00:18:02.400 So they say one single event in the weather doesn't move the needle on global warming one way or the other.

00:18:08.900 It's the totality of events.

00:18:11.560 Except they don't abide by that rule when the weather helps their position.

00:18:17.400 When there's some big flood, they say it's global warming.

00:18:20.940 When there's a heat wave, they say it's global warming.

00:18:24.740 When one year is hotter than the previous year, they say that is global warming.

00:18:28.860 When there's a heat spell in the middle of summer, that is global warming.

00:18:32.880 And now, because it's a totalizing religious system, it's unfalsifiable. 0.93

00:18:36.280 So when the weather's too cold, it's global warming.

00:18:39.440 When the weather's too hot, it's global warming.

00:18:41.120 When the weather doesn't move at all, as it didn't for a very long period of time between the late 90s and today,

00:18:47.840 when the global mean temperature doesn't increase, they say that's global warming too.

00:18:53.860 Extreme weather, moderate weather, any kind of weather is global warming.

00:18:57.200 So then they lecture us.

00:19:00.320 They say the weather isn't climate.

00:19:01.880 You've got to pick a lane.

00:19:03.480 You can't have it both ways.

00:19:05.060 So despite the fact that global warming predictions have not come true,

00:19:09.080 despite the fact that New York is not underwater, Florida is not underwater,

00:19:13.520 it's like Al Gore predicted, it hasn't been underwater for 10 years,

00:19:16.400 no evidence that it's catastrophic.

00:19:18.740 Despite all of this, they're going to stick to it.

00:19:21.540 And Amy Klobuchar on day one is going to rejoin the Paris Climate Accord. 0.91

00:19:25.280 Except, what about that evidence?

00:19:26.920 We're not in the Paris Climate Accord.

00:19:28.580 A lot of other countries are.

00:19:30.140 We are leading the way on meeting the goals of the Paris Climate Accord.

00:19:34.180 We actually are reducing air pollution.

00:19:36.580 And the other signatory countries to the Paris Climate Accord are not.

00:19:41.000 It's just words to them.

00:19:44.280 It's just joining in on an ideology that has nothing to do with the reality.

00:19:47.800 Even though we are already exceeding the other nations who actually joined the Paris Climate Accord,

00:19:52.920 it doesn't matter.

00:19:53.480 It's just that sort of radicalism.

00:19:56.160 And they need to be this radical.

00:19:57.900 The left, Democrats, need to be this radical.

00:20:00.500 This is the part of the campaign where everybody is really far left wing to shore up the Democrat base,

00:20:05.820 especially because there are early primaries now.

00:20:07.960 California moved up the Democrat primary.

00:20:10.080 So they've got to be really radical now.

00:20:11.680 Then they'll try to moderate in the general election.

00:20:13.880 Except there's this awful confluence of now the Democrats are currently especially radical.

00:20:21.480 The Democrat Party is now today especially radical.

00:20:24.740 You had the Green New Deal. 0.86

00:20:26.060 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez actually wiped the Green New Deal frequently asked questions sheet off of her website. 0.60

00:20:34.260 She took it off because we all made fun of it so much.

00:20:37.020 She took it off her website.

00:20:38.420 And then her strategists went around and said that Republicans had made it up.

00:20:42.920 The strategists went around and said, oh, they were hoaxes from Republicans.

00:20:47.020 It was on your website.

00:20:48.980 We have screenshots.

00:20:49.900 You can't gaslight us forever.

00:20:52.840 And the Democrats, by the way, for that matter, can't actually back down from the policies that were included in the Green New Deal.

00:21:00.520 They have to remain this radical.

00:21:02.200 All of this is redounding to President Trump's benefit.

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00:22:59.540 Okay, everything is breaking in President Trump's direction here.

00:23:03.320 So now the Democrats have to own post-birth abortion. 0.99

00:23:06.320 They have to own destroying American energy, 88% of it.

00:23:09.660 They have to own rebuilding every single building in the entire United States of America.

00:23:13.540 They have to own a $40 trillion program where the best guess they have on how they can pay for it is to print money.

00:23:20.120 That was in the Green New Deal. 0.61

00:23:21.840 Quantitative easing.

00:23:22.660 We're just going to print money at the Federal Reserve.

00:23:24.520 They have to own radical health care laws which were so disastrous to the Obama administration in 2009.

00:23:32.120 This is why all of these campaigns have come hobbling out of the gate.

00:23:36.900 Which Democrat campaign have we thought, wow, that's the one?

00:23:40.060 That's the one.

00:23:40.560 Is it Spartacus?

00:23:41.620 No.

00:23:42.540 Kamala Harris?

00:23:43.660 Uh-uh.

00:23:44.220 She started with a mood mix.

00:23:45.540 She can't even run on her own record.

00:23:47.520 Liz Warren?

00:23:48.280 She's started her campaign like seven times already. 0.98

00:23:51.200 Amy Klobuchar?

00:23:52.740 Klobuchar?

00:23:53.660 I don't think so.

00:23:55.260 Ultimately, what this is going to be is a referendum on President Trump.

00:23:59.920 But what are they going to run on?

00:24:02.920 So you say, okay, here's what President Trump is doing.

00:24:05.560 President Trump, because here, what they're going to do is say President Trump is terrible on race.

00:24:11.660 He's terrible on race issues. 1.00

00:24:13.040 He's a racist. 0.99

00:24:14.740 And then who are the Republicans going to point to? 0.98

00:24:17.360 Hmm?

00:24:18.340 Do you remember that little guy over in Virginia?

00:24:21.320 Oh, I'm sorry.

00:24:21.660 The two guys in Virginia who wore blackface?

00:24:24.480 The two, the Attorney General and the Governor?

00:24:26.580 Are they going to point to him?

00:24:27.420 Doesn't look great. 0.92

00:24:28.420 They're going to talk about Donald Trump being a racist.

00:24:30.940 Elizabeth Warren, her entire career defrauded the Texas bar. 1.00

00:24:34.620 Defrauded Harvard University.

00:24:35.960 Pretended to be a Native American.

00:24:37.800 So that issue is out.

00:24:40.880 What are they going to say?

00:24:41.880 They're going to say that he's radical on policy.

00:24:44.780 Radical on policy.

00:24:45.600 The Democrats want to rebuild every building in the United States.

00:24:49.560 How's that for radical on policy?

00:24:51.200 They can't.

00:24:51.760 The economy is still doing very well.

00:24:54.280 People's tax returns are actually looking pretty good.

00:24:56.780 The Democrats are trying to pretend they're not.

00:24:58.600 People are getting a tax break.

00:24:59.880 This is a big win.

00:25:01.940 We will get to how Virginia, how the Virginia Democrats could have stopped the bleeding,

00:25:08.020 could have helped them going into 2020, but they failed.

00:25:10.640 We'll drink up those leftist tears.

00:25:12.140 We'll also get to the Grammys, what the Grammys say about our culture.

00:25:15.660 Hint, it's not great.

00:25:16.780 John Kasich does yoga.

00:25:18.320 Yuck.

00:25:18.920 And we will talk about the papal visit to Abu Dhabi.

00:25:21.720 The Christian-Muslim interfaith dialogue that really does have a chance of reshaping the

00:25:30.940 way that we talk about religion all around the world.

00:25:33.120 That really does stand a chance to reshape certain religious alliances.

00:25:37.600 But first, you've got to go to dailywire.com.

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00:25:50.520 You get the Andrew Klavan show.

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00:25:58.580 You get the leftist tears tumbler.

00:25:59.940 If you have not yet watched Governor Northam's interview on CBS, where he doubles down on

00:26:08.360 everything and says that slavery was just indentured servitude where people showed up as if voluntarily

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00:26:33.460 Also, if you're in Atlanta tonight, I'm going to be speaking at Emory University.

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00:26:47.820 We'll be right back.

00:26:59.460 So, obviously, the Democrats have this broad political problem.

00:27:04.360 They have the national political problem, which is that everything is breaking in Trump's

00:27:08.020 direction.

00:27:08.780 They have the discrete national political problem, which is that all of their candidates

00:27:13.700 are terrible.

00:27:14.620 They don't have any good candidates.

00:27:16.540 Even the leaders like Beto have kind of blown themselves up with those weird, angsty blog

00:27:22.120 posts he put on Medium.

00:27:23.860 Even Joe Biden now, polling isn't looking great for him.

00:27:26.680 Political advisors are saying he'd be even weaker than Hillary Clinton.

00:27:31.760 Cory Booker, Senator Spartacus, not looking great.

00:27:34.840 Kamala Harris may be the best of the bunch. 1.00

00:27:37.020 Still not a strong candidate.

00:27:39.040 Not necessarily a national candidate.

00:27:41.320 She is a far-left California ideologue.

00:27:45.860 Then they have this regional problem, which is the entire state of Virginia, entirely run 1.00

00:27:50.800 by Democrats, are all racist, rapist, infanticidal clowns. 1.00

00:27:57.820 Really tough time. 1.00

00:27:59.180 And Ralph Northam, instead of stepping down as the governor, which I guess would elevate

00:28:03.840 an accused rapist, and then if he stepped down, I guess that would elevate another guy 0.77

00:28:07.580 who wore blackface, which is ostensibly the whole problem in the first place, because 0.91

00:28:10.880 no one's talking about the genocide.

00:28:12.660 The guy who won't step down, he went on CBS, and he made things worse.

00:28:17.200 Indentured servants from Africa, laying it on our shores in Old Point Comfort, what we 1.00

00:28:22.460 call now Fort Monroe and Wild.

00:28:24.280 Also known as slavery.

00:28:25.620 Yes.

00:28:26.720 Yes, yes.

00:28:28.340 What was that word you said?

00:28:30.840 Slavery?

00:28:31.680 Yes.

00:28:32.500 When the Africans voluntarily came to America in, I think the year was 1927, when they,

00:28:41.520 no, Governor Northam, they volunteered, hold on, I'm riffing here.

00:28:44.280 Listen, this guy cannot win for losing. 1.00

00:28:49.640 What a maniac. 0.98

00:28:52.200 If anything, come on, go a little in the other direction. 0.97

00:28:56.100 Go a little, you know, really make clear that you do not harbor racial resentment or racial

00:29:03.480 animus or that you're not denying facts of history.

00:29:07.420 Indentured servants from Africa landed on our shore.

00:29:11.940 Ahoy there!

00:29:13.220 Ahoy there!

00:29:13.980 What is your vessel doing here in Virginia?

00:29:17.460 How did you all get here from Africa? 0.99

00:29:20.580 Not, not great.

00:29:22.420 And nobody is having it, even on the left.

00:29:24.720 Some cynical Democratic strategists are really trying to spin this.

00:29:28.820 They're trying to put it on Trump.

00:29:30.380 You remember CNN tried to call Ralph Northam a Republican for a while.

00:29:34.840 They just said, well, if we just call him a Republican, maybe he will be a Republican.

00:29:38.540 CNN analyst, though, Nina Turner, very left-wing woman, she is having none of it. 1.00

00:29:44.080 And I think she is expressing a lot of the frustration, even among leftist Democrats.

00:29:49.020 In recent time, until the president has really made this a race issue, whether it's about

00:29:55.600 African Americans, certainly he's doing it all over the board with immigrants.

00:29:59.900 But we need to have this conversation.

00:30:01.880 I cannot.

00:30:02.840 What?

00:30:03.500 I just can't.

00:30:05.720 1984, 1980, Gucci, just a few days ago.

00:30:10.880 This is not about President Donald Trump.

00:30:13.980 This is about racism in the United States of America.

00:30:17.340 Congresswoman, I hear you, but on this, we're not blaming President Trump.

00:30:20.900 I'm saying that he has divided this country.

00:30:23.840 No, let me just say this.

00:30:25.340 He is using race as an issue.

00:30:26.580 I am not going to let, continue to let politicians use this man as the excuse to deal with racism

00:30:32.920 in this country.

00:30:33.760 It's been going on for far too long in the United States of America.

00:30:38.480 Preach.

00:30:39.160 I mean, she's half right. 0.98

00:30:40.580 She's basically indicting America as this hopelessly awful bigoted place where black people 1.00

00:30:46.300 don't have any opportunity. 0.98

00:30:47.380 That part's not true.

00:30:48.400 She is correct, however, that Democrat politicians are never held to account for their obvious

00:30:54.420 bigotry.

00:30:55.180 And I love this here.

00:30:56.260 She goes, oh, please, I just can't.

00:30:58.780 I can't.

00:30:59.900 Not everything is Donald Trump's fault.

00:31:03.640 You can't.

00:31:04.160 The man is a Democrat governor.

00:31:07.280 A sitting Democrat governor is sitting there.

00:31:10.220 He wore blackface 35 years ago.

00:31:12.640 He calls African slaves indentured servants.

00:31:15.460 He won't step down.

00:31:16.460 He doesn't really apologize.

00:31:18.620 Just, you can't make that guy Donald Trump.

00:31:22.420 He isn't Donald Trump.

00:31:24.780 You can't do it.

00:31:26.740 And I think the, I think left-wing identity politics groups are going to have a lot of

00:31:31.400 trouble going along with the Democrat party this year when some of their leading candidates

00:31:37.360 are racial frauds. 0.67

00:31:40.220 Senator Elizabeth Warren, she might as well be Senator Rachel Dolezal. 1.00

00:31:43.940 Senator Blackface.

00:31:44.880 You've got Senator, would it be red-faced? 0.93

00:31:47.140 Senator red-faced, Governor blackface, two extremely white people pretending to be a 0.87

00:31:53.040 different race. 0.93

00:31:54.660 Not a great look.

00:31:56.460 Not going to help you rile up your base.

00:31:58.460 So at the same time that they're trying to turn out their very far left-wing progressive

00:32:02.220 base, they are turning them off with this obvious fraud.

00:32:05.740 And Northam says he won't step down.

00:32:07.820 Why won't he step down?

00:32:08.940 Because he's just the man to make his state, his commonwealth rather, heal.

00:32:15.040 You think you still deserve this job when so many people are calling for you to step down?

00:32:19.500 Well, again, we have worked very hard.

00:32:22.200 We've had a good first year.

00:32:23.600 And I'm a leader.

00:32:25.760 I've been in some very difficult situations, life and death situations, taking care of sick children.

00:32:31.940 Because you're a doctor.

00:32:33.020 Right now, Virginia needs someone that can heal. 1.00

00:32:36.520 There's no better person to do that than a doctor.

00:32:39.620 Virginia also needs someone who is strong, who has empathy, who has courage, and who has a moral compass.

00:32:46.960 And that's why I'm not going anywhere.

00:32:49.860 I have learned from this.

00:32:51.260 I have a lot more to learn.

00:32:52.700 But we're in a unique opportunity now, again, the 400-year anniversary of the history, whether it be good or bad, in Virginia, to really make some impactful changes.

00:33:04.500 A lot of slavery in this country, in this state, yeah.

00:33:07.380 He took care of sick children.

00:33:10.360 Oh, he took care of them, all right.

00:33:12.240 He took it.

00:33:12.940 Just the language. 0.98

00:33:14.240 What a maniac to say, I'm a healer.

00:33:17.880 I'm a healer. 0.56

00:33:18.880 And so that's why I'm going to heal our state. 0.99

00:33:22.640 Your most famous medical opinion is that we should kill babies lying on the table crying after they've been born. 0.99

00:33:30.560 That's your most famous medical opinion, that you're a healer. 0.94

00:33:34.640 And then to use the phrase, I took care of the sick children.

00:33:38.080 Oh, I took care.

00:33:39.080 Oh, don't worry.

00:33:39.680 I took care of it.

00:33:41.060 I took care of those children.

00:33:42.640 You're not going to be having any problems with those sick children anymore.

00:33:46.040 I took care of them.

00:33:47.240 I'm a leader. 1.00

00:33:47.840 What a wacko maniac. 1.00

00:33:52.500 Every single wrong thing, every single wrong move he could possibly make, he's making. 1.00

00:33:59.060 He's doubling down on staying in office.

00:34:01.800 He's silent on the abortion question.

00:34:04.320 He's doubling down on the racial issues.

00:34:08.700 A disaster.

00:34:09.800 But then the guy after him is a bigger disaster.

00:34:11.580 He now has two claims of rape against him, Justin Fairfax, the lieutenant governor, two claims.

00:34:17.020 One at the 2004 Democrat National Convention, the other from the year 2000 from Duke.

00:34:22.200 Now, again, these are just coming out now.

00:34:25.180 They're certainly, they hold together more than the allegations against Brett Kavanaugh, but we are just hearing about them now.

00:34:31.120 So I actually do urge some caution.

00:34:33.820 I don't want to rush to judgment.

00:34:35.600 The guy is entitled to due process.

00:34:38.080 He is entitled to the presumption of innocence.

00:34:41.560 However, given the political situation, it's no surprise that Virginia legislators want to impeach him.

00:34:47.760 The trouble is they just don't have the political guts to do it right now.

00:34:51.520 So the Virginia legislature pulled a possible move to impeach Justin Fairfax.

00:34:56.580 The issue with Fairfax, by the way, is not even these allegations.

00:35:00.780 Who knows if these allegations are true?

00:35:02.640 I guess they should be investigated.

00:35:04.700 The issue with Justin Fairfax is he's even more radically pro-abortion than Ralph Northam. 1.00

00:35:10.000 Ralph Northam is an idiot. 1.00

00:35:11.760 Ralph Northam is not an intelligent man. 1.00

00:35:14.380 He's also a cynical politician.

00:35:16.280 And he spoke the logic of his position on abortion on radio accidentally, which is killing babies after they've been born.

00:35:23.400 However, he hasn't made his whole career on supporting abortion.

00:35:28.500 He hasn't made his whole career as an abortion activist.

00:35:30.860 Justin Fairfax, the lieutenant governor of Virginia, is a major abortion activist.

00:35:35.380 He was the vice chairman of Planned Parenthood of the metropolitan D.C. area.

00:35:39.780 For years, Fairfax is a radical abortion activist.

00:35:44.600 So you've got race issues, rape issues, and late-term abortion, all very unpopular with the American people.

00:35:51.440 So this is not a big win.

00:35:54.360 So every attack on Trump that they're going to make in 2020, he's a misogynist. 0.99

00:35:59.480 He's a racist. 0.99

00:36:00.740 Gone. 1.00

00:36:02.020 Gone.

00:36:02.560 That is gone.

00:36:03.900 He's a misogynist?

00:36:04.920 Well, I don't know.

00:36:05.900 Is he the lieutenant governor of Virginia?

00:36:08.180 Does he have two somewhat credible rape allegations against him made within a week of each other?

00:36:14.380 How about if President Trump is extreme on abortion because he's so pro-life?

00:36:18.060 Well, I don't know.

00:36:19.640 The American public is a little bit in the middle on abortion.

00:36:22.620 The vast majority of people don't believe in outlawing all forms of abortion immediately from the moment of conception.

00:36:29.260 But the vast, vast, vast majority of the American people oppose late-term abortion.

00:36:33.720 They think it should be illegal.

00:36:35.620 They're going to point right to Virginia, right to Governor Healer, Governor Blackface, infanticidal maniac Healer. 0.94

00:36:43.620 Not going to work.

00:36:44.160 And then you have the dark horse candidate, the dark horse Democrat Party candidate.

00:36:47.160 Where is he?

00:36:48.440 The one and only John Kasich.

00:36:51.700 Well, I took my first yoga class today right beside my wife. 0.68

00:36:57.040 You know, it was pretty hard, pretty challenging.

00:36:58.920 But I kind of figured out it's not about me versus the world.

00:37:02.160 It's trying to get the most out of what I've got.

00:37:05.500 And that's going to stay patient.

00:37:08.680 Don't get frustrated.

00:37:09.920 And I've got to continue because change is really good.

00:37:14.520 It keeps you young.

00:37:16.180 It has you looking into the future.

00:37:19.900 How was this man ever a Republican governor?

00:37:24.180 Also, is it possible for him to say more incorrect things in that short period of time? 1.00

00:37:30.880 Is it actually possible to disagree with every single syllable a man utters as one disagrees with that stupid, oh my gosh, he's there like a little child. 0.99

00:37:41.180 He's wearing, you know, this clothing in public, this yoga clothing. 1.00

00:37:45.720 He said, I just came from yoga.

00:37:47.400 And, you know, I don't want to compete against anybody.

00:37:50.580 It's just I'm just competing against myself.

00:37:53.020 And I really like yoga.

00:37:54.560 And you know what I love?

00:37:55.580 You know what conservatives love?

00:37:57.800 You know what?

00:37:58.280 This is really, this is going to help him in the primary campaign, I think.

00:38:01.000 You know what conservatives love?

00:38:02.620 Change.

00:38:03.260 I think that's conservatives' favorite thing. 0.99

00:38:05.600 Change, you dummy. 0.98

00:38:06.780 What are you thinking? 1.00

00:38:08.200 It's like, oh my God.

00:38:09.640 The only thing that I can think.

00:38:12.500 The first thing I thought when I saw this actually is it validates Matt Walsh entirely.

00:38:16.540 Matt Walsh is just completely correct.

00:38:18.560 He is a prophet.

00:38:19.940 He said yoga is satanic.

00:38:22.020 It's always wrong.

00:38:23.300 It's always terrible.

00:38:24.160 Yeah, he's right.

00:38:25.080 John Kasich proved that.

00:38:25.920 Uh, also, the only thing I could think when I thought of the implications of this video

00:38:33.740 are, is John Kasich going to run in the Democrat primary?

00:38:36.900 I'm serious.

00:38:37.580 I'm not actually making a yoga joke here other than to say he is exclusively saying things

00:38:43.520 that Democrats like.

00:38:45.020 He is saying that change is really, really good.

00:38:48.420 And we need to change, like maybe our political parties.

00:38:52.120 I would not be surprised if this man jumps into the Democrat primary for president.

00:38:56.700 He obviously won't last very long.

00:38:58.560 But I would not be surprised.

00:39:00.140 Talk about rudderless.

00:39:02.220 Talk about opportunistic.

00:39:03.940 Talk about a cautionary tale.

00:39:06.180 Does anybody, whenever anyone from wide-eyed optimists to people who genuinely want to serve

00:39:14.940 their country to those weird sociopaths who are, you know, start running for Congress at

00:39:20.760 the age of 24 and a half and immediately insist on being in Congress the earliest they possibly

00:39:26.100 can?

00:39:26.760 All of those people.

00:39:29.820 Does anybody say, I want to be John Kasich when I grow up?

00:39:33.140 Talk about a cautionary tale.

00:39:34.700 If you marry yourself to the spirit of the age, you will find yourself a widower in the next.

00:39:40.660 We've got to get to the Grammys.

00:39:43.020 The Grammys wrap, we always talk about politics, culture, and religion.

00:39:46.880 We're actually going to follow that exact path today because there's a lot of interesting

00:39:50.740 movement on all of them.

00:39:51.920 And I'm not talking about John Kasich's movement into the Democrat Party.

00:39:55.300 I'm not talking about Amy Klobuchar's movement into the 2020 race.

00:39:59.620 I'm talking about this movement, this reaction against the Democrat Party with some weird

00:40:07.600 politics going on.

00:40:08.700 With some weird, you don't know, you've got identity politics people on the left criticizing

00:40:12.680 the Democrats.

00:40:13.500 You obviously have the Republicans.

00:40:15.100 And in the Grammys, this confusion comes out clearly because our culture is very confused.

00:40:20.080 Michelle Obama opened up the night and she opened up with comments that are exactly correct. 0.99

00:40:25.020 From the Motown records I wore out on the South Side to the Who Run the World songs that fueled

00:40:40.940 me through this last decade.

00:40:42.600 Music has always helped me tell my story.

00:40:47.120 And I know that's true for everybody here.

00:40:49.980 Whether we like country or rap or rock, music helps us share ourselves.

00:40:57.660 She's absolutely right.

00:41:00.220 I'm not the biggest fan of Michelle Obama, as we all know.

00:41:03.040 She got that exactly right.

00:41:04.200 First of all, they love her there.

00:41:06.260 She is Hollywood's darling. 0.60

00:41:08.740 She could become the next media mogul. 0.76

00:41:11.020 She could probably run for president and raise a lot of money at George Clooney's house. 0.99

00:41:14.800 They love her.

00:41:16.040 And what she said is right.

00:41:17.240 Music does tell our story.

00:41:18.740 It's the most important art form.

00:41:20.500 We have known this since the ancient Greeks.

00:41:23.040 Music stirs our soul.

00:41:25.080 Hearing is the most important sense.

00:41:27.680 That's why we always hear the word of the Lord.

00:41:30.180 That's why we have to have perfect pitch.

00:41:32.180 That's why there's always, you hear the voice of God, the breath, the music tells our story.

00:41:39.040 It shares ourselves.

00:41:40.120 It shares who we are.

00:41:41.880 What story are we telling?

00:41:44.020 If this is our Grammys, if this is our music award, what story are we telling?

00:41:51.200 Music really does matter.

00:41:52.820 Music really can define a people.

00:41:54.660 Culture defines our politics.

00:41:56.420 And music is the most important cultural form.

00:41:58.900 Just to give you a glimpse of what our story is, of what our culture is, the breakout performance

00:42:05.160 of the night, trending all over Twitter, considered the most magnificent thing all night at the

00:42:10.680 Grammys, it involved neither singing nor dancing.

00:42:15.220 Ladies and gentlemen, Cardi B.

00:42:16.560 I got fans in the room. 0.87

00:42:20.480 Touch me, I'll shoot. 0.95

00:42:22.220 Shake it, oh yeah. 1.00

00:42:23.620 You get in the back.

00:42:24.720 You get in the back.

00:42:25.860 You get in the flash.

00:42:27.300 You shake the room fast.

00:42:28.340 You get in the room.

00:42:29.260 I got fans in the room.

00:42:31.620 Something not to do.

00:42:32.960 I got fans in the room.

00:42:35.260 Something not to do.

00:42:36.620 I got a mouse.

00:42:37.560 I need a jack. 0.96

00:42:38.820 I need poop on my legs. 0.99

00:42:40.380 I got a penny. 0.95

00:42:41.280 I need some money.

00:42:42.240 Yeah.

00:42:42.620 I need teeth on my eggs. 0.90

00:42:44.080 All y'all girls in trouble. 0.99

00:42:45.220 What on earth is that?

00:43:03.920 I know I sound like a fuddy-duddy, but I'm right, so I don't really care.

00:43:08.680 There's no singing that occurred.

00:43:11.640 There's very little music at all.

00:43:14.120 There's percussion.

00:43:15.220 Which arouses the bass passions.

00:43:17.340 But there's very little music.

00:43:19.100 Very little melody.

00:43:20.080 Very little harmony, if any.

00:43:22.020 And there wasn't even dancing.

00:43:24.040 At least if it's just percussion, but there's dancing.

00:43:26.460 At least there's something artistic about that.

00:43:28.700 There's not even dancing.

00:43:29.760 It was just her sitting around, lying around, humping the floor briefly.

00:43:34.720 I heard her yell something about money. 0.84

00:43:37.660 There was no music in the music.

00:43:39.560 And it was the breakout performance of the night.

00:43:41.120 What story does that tell?

00:43:44.480 What culture is that?

00:43:46.000 And if politics is downstream of culture, as we always talk about, what sort of politics comes out of that culture?

00:43:53.220 What sort of government is a people who define themselves by that culture?

00:43:58.280 What sort of government are they capable of?

00:43:59.960 Is anyone capable of self-government?

00:44:04.780 If that's your culture?

00:44:07.560 How?

00:44:08.080 I mean, this is...

00:44:08.880 Cardi B is our defining pop culture.

00:44:10.840 We're in it.

00:44:11.920 She's there.

00:44:13.160 This is...

00:44:13.620 And this is...

00:44:14.140 Obviously, our culture has been declining for a very long time now.

00:44:17.580 What story is that?

00:44:20.320 What art form?

00:44:21.700 What veneration?

00:44:23.860 What tradition are we really talking about here?

00:44:27.080 It's just tripe.

00:44:29.940 Now, there was one upside to the Grammys.

00:44:31.680 I have to say my friend Joy Villa.

00:44:33.520 She came out...

00:44:34.540 She always does this. 0.70

00:44:35.360 She comes out in a crazy dress that's right-wing. 1.00

00:44:38.260 She's done this for the past few years.

00:44:39.580 So one year, she wore a MAGA dress.

00:44:42.620 Then the next year, she wore a pro-life dress,

00:44:44.800 which was like a picture of a little baby in the womb

00:44:46.580 and said, choose life.

00:44:47.540 Great dress.

00:44:48.160 This year, she outdid herself.

00:44:50.660 It was her best one yet.

00:44:51.900 She wore the wall.

00:44:53.540 It was the wall.

00:44:54.700 She had barbed wire going around her neck. 1.00

00:44:57.760 And then on the back, it said, build the wall.

00:44:59.940 But it was written like Pink Floyd's The Wall,

00:45:02.760 you know, another brick in the wall.

00:45:04.440 It was all done in the spirit of that album.

00:45:08.060 Really funny.

00:45:08.720 And now, some conservatives won't talk about this.

00:45:11.160 Some conservatives have written Joy Villa off

00:45:13.020 because they think that she's a fraud. 0.99

00:45:15.840 They say...

00:45:16.360 And I've seen...

00:45:17.080 I've read all of the pieces about this.

00:45:18.560 They say, well, she's a Scientologist. 0.88

00:45:20.540 Well, she used to be a Bernie bro. 0.98

00:45:21.960 Well, I think she's being disingenuous.

00:45:24.100 Well, my thought is, who cares?

00:45:28.440 Who cares?

00:45:29.060 What we're talking about here is you've got this woman, 0.88

00:45:32.960 Joy Villa, wore a right-wing dress to the Grammys, 0.99

00:45:37.300 got a ton of attention for it.

00:45:39.220 If that helps her out, great.

00:45:40.700 If it helps out the cause, great.

00:45:42.720 I really get a huge kick out of that.

00:45:44.340 I really like the dress.

00:45:45.880 I think it was clever.

00:45:47.400 It was smart.

00:45:48.240 It was very funny.

00:45:49.420 It was cheeky at a wild cultural event.

00:45:51.940 Great.

00:45:52.320 I love it.

00:45:53.300 Wonderful.

00:45:54.100 Give me more of that.

00:45:55.120 Give me more of that dress. 0.99

00:45:55.960 Well done to Joy.

00:45:57.340 Before we go, we have to talk about the papal visit to Abu Dhabi.

00:45:59.880 I was actually supposed to go to this last week,

00:46:02.940 but I had pre-scheduled speaking engagements,

00:46:04.760 so I wasn't able to go to it.

00:46:06.640 It was the first ever visit by a pope to the Arabian Peninsula.

00:46:10.880 For so long, there has been a movement to expel Jews and Christians from Arabia,

00:46:16.800 the birthplace of Islam.

00:46:18.520 But the United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi,

00:46:21.080 invited Pope Francis to come to meet with Sheikh Ahmed el-Tayyib,

00:46:25.420 the grand imam of Al-Azhar in Cairo,

00:46:28.820 and to have there was an open-air papal mass for 120,000 people.

00:46:33.800 This was a huge moment.

00:46:35.640 Nobody really reported on it.

00:46:37.720 And what Pope Francis railed against here was it wasn't against global warming

00:46:44.420 or wasn't against capitalism per se.

00:46:46.420 What it was against was faithless modernity.

00:46:49.460 And the imam talked about this too.

00:46:52.000 They were railing against hyper-individualism.

00:46:54.140 They were railing against utilitarianism.

00:46:56.980 They were both railing against the radicalism that led to the atheism

00:47:01.340 that we've been dealing with for the last 300 years or so.

00:47:05.060 This is really cool.

00:47:06.700 It was predicted, the Catholic Herald pointed this out,

00:47:09.280 this was predicted in Pope Benedict's 2006 Regensburg lecture,

00:47:14.120 the most important oration of the 21st century.

00:47:16.940 Pope Benedict, obviously considered widely a very conservative figure,

00:47:20.100 he predicted this, that the real threat to our civilization is faithless modernity.

00:47:28.680 This narrow scientism that ignores all of the grand questions.

00:47:34.680 The idea that man's origin and destiny,

00:47:38.140 the questions raised by religion and ethics,

00:47:41.520 have no place within the purview of collective reason.

00:47:45.020 End quote.

00:47:45.500 So that's what they were railing against.

00:47:48.260 And so what you're seeing here is,

00:47:51.160 one, after so much Christian persecution in the Middle East,

00:47:54.780 you have an Arab government inviting the Pope in.

00:47:58.700 This is historic.

00:47:59.820 The UAE should be commended for this. 1.00

00:48:01.400 This is a big deal.

00:48:02.340 This is really good.

00:48:03.300 But what you also have is an interesting discourse going on

00:48:08.020 between Christians and Muslims against faithlessness, against modernity. 0.98

00:48:13.840 I think this is exactly right.

00:48:16.300 I think they've got this right.

00:48:17.960 I think the great threat to the West that will corrode us and eat us out from within

00:48:22.220 is atheism, is this shallow rationalism, 0.96

00:48:26.380 is this pathetic culture of nihilism that has created anxiety, depression, 0.98

00:48:31.360 over-prescription, suicide, epidemics all over the West. 0.99

00:48:37.260 There are some people who fear invading Muslim migrants or something in Europe.

00:48:42.580 Sure, that is an issue.

00:48:44.000 You have an issue when you have huge populations invading countries. 0.97

00:48:47.080 But what allowed the countries to be eaten out from within?

00:48:49.940 It is that faithless modernity.

00:48:52.020 It is cutting away the tradition on which you have built your civilization.

00:48:55.820 The very ideas that allow you to have Western science, Western philosophy, Western thought.

00:49:03.080 By cutting those off at the root, that is the great threat to our civilization.

00:49:06.980 I think it's why the mainstream media won't cover this event.

00:49:09.260 It was a very good event.

00:49:10.320 And you know I've been very harsh on the Francis pontificate

00:49:13.260 when I thought it's necessary to criticize it.

00:49:16.060 I thought this was a very good move.

00:49:17.560 So I'll end on a happy note.

00:49:19.160 Happy note for the West.

00:49:20.560 Happy note for the church.

00:49:21.960 Happy note for conservatives.

00:49:23.620 Sad note for Democrats.

00:49:24.600 Tough beginning to the week.

00:49:26.300 Tough beginning to 2020.

00:49:27.580 All right, that's our show.

00:49:29.400 I will be at Emory tonight.

00:49:31.220 I hope to see you there.

00:49:32.020 If I don't see you there, I will be back in the studio coming up soon.

00:49:35.580 No show tomorrow.

00:49:36.320 We'll have a show on Friday.

00:49:37.860 In the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles.

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00:50:09.040 Hey guys, over on the Matt Walsh Show today, we're going to talk about this very disturbing

00:50:14.140 report about the sex abuse crisis in the Southern Baptist Church.

00:50:19.800 So there's a lot to discuss there, and we'll get to that today.

00:50:22.600 Also, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, you know, she unveiled that insane Green New Deal proposal 1.00

00:50:28.780 back last week.

00:50:30.000 And ever since then, she's been trying to backpedal and come up with excuses for some of the craziest

00:50:33.960 stuff in there. 1.00

00:50:35.000 But the excuses are dishonest and pathetic. 0.97

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