Ep. 303 - And The Oscar Goes To…The Leftist Narrative!
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In a year defined by flops, from Roma to Jussie Smollett, from vice to Russian collusion, the Academy still gives out its top prizes to the leftist narrative. We ll analyze the biggest fails of 2018 and early 2019.
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In a year defined by flops, from Roma to Jussie Smollett, from vice to Russian collusion,
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the Academy still gives out its top prizes to the leftist narrative. We will analyze the
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biggest fails of 2018 and early 2019. I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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All right, we've got to dole out the Knowlesies, the biggest prizes for narrative fails.
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The leftist narrative is falling apart here from politics up through the culture, all the way up
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through the left's religion, which is global warming. And it's all happening right now at the
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same time, coincidentally right at awards season. And we will get to the Oscars, but first we have
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got to get to the greatest scene that I have seen in any medium, film, television, social media,
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the greatest scene of the whole year. Shockingly, unexpectedly care of, Dianne Feinstein.
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We are trying to ask you to vote yes on the Green New Deal.
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Okay, I'll tell you what. We have our own Green New Deal.
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Some scientists have said that we have 12 years to turn this around.
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Well, it's not going to get turned around in 10 years. What we can do is put ourselves...
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Senator, if this doesn't get turned around in 10 years, you're looking at the faces of
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the people who are going to be living with these consequences.
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The government is supposed to be for the people and by the people and all for the people.
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You know what's interesting about this group is I've been doing this for 30 years.
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I know what I'm doing. You come in here and you say it has to be my way or the highway.
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I don't respond to that. I've gotten elected. I just ran. I was elected by almost a million vote
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plurality. And I know what I'm doing. So, you know, maybe people should listen a little bit.
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I hear what you're saying, but we're the people who voted you. You're supposed to listen to us.
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That's your job. How old are you? I'm 16. I can't vote.
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It doesn't matter. We're the ones who are going to be impacted.
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Devastating. And it actually only gets worse for those exploitative adults and that teenager
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and those kids because Dianne Feinstein doesn't miss a beat. First of all, the girl is wrong.
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The teenager is wrong. She says, your job is to do exactly what we tell you to do. That's not true.
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We have a representative republic. We don't have a direct democracy. It is not the job of these
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people to do exactly according to exact polling data. 50% plus one of people want this, so we have
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to do it. That's not the purpose of a congressional representative. We elect people to go to Congress
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for their judgment. And then they use their judgment regardless, hopefully in the best case
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scenario, regardless of what public opinion polls say. But then Dianne Feinstein won't even hear it.
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She just goes, where are the people who voted for you? How old are you? Well, I'm 16. You didn't
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vote for me. Boom. Done. I love this. I mean, this reminds me obviously of Lindsey Graham 2.0 or
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Lindsey Grahambo. We're seeing this with Dianne Feinstein. I don't know what her cool Sylvester
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Stallone nickname is going to be. But, you know, we often hear, oh, the senators are so old. Oh,
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they're so old. They can't pop. We need young blood, younger. No. Uh-uh. The minimum age for
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senators should be about 90, I think. I love this. If older incumbent senators are giving us
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Grahambo and New Feinstein, good. Have the minimum age be 100. And actually, this is a half serious
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point because this is the leftist narrative. You know, the left gets everything backwards. We talk
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about this all the time. And for the left, children have greater moral teaching authority than adults.
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In reality, when you're a little kid, you think like a little kid. And then when you're a teenager,
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you think a little bit clearer. You have a little bit more access to reason. You've got a little bit
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more education, but you still basically know nothing. Then you go to college. You still basically know
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nothing, but you're learning a little bit. You're thinking a little more deeply. Maybe in your 20s,
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you're formulating some ideas. Again, not a ton of experience of the world. I'll be the first to admit it.
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I'm in my 20s. That's why I try to have a little bit of awe and humility when it comes to the vast
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tradition, when it comes to our intricate system of politics. As you get older, you increase in wisdom.
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You grow in wisdom. That's a virtue of time. For the left, they think it's exactly the opposite.
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They think that as people get older, they get stupider. They get less educated. They become less wise.
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They become less mature. I know this is by definition not possible, but the left doesn't
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let itself get tied up with silly little things like logic and the definitions of words.
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So for the left, really, a group of little children is the font of wisdom. This is why the left exploits
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kids all the time. When they're not killing them on tables an hour after they're born, the left
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exploits children immediately. You saw this in that video during the election of all these kids saying
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foul-mouthed language. F this, F that. They put them on camera to show how fired up the little
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kids were. You see all the time they bring these kids to the rallies. F Trump, F this. Then you see
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they bring them into the office. What do these kids know about global warming? If we're to be told
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that global warming is settled science, don't you think you'd bring some scientists in rather than
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little children? They say, stop politicizing science and listen to these little children.
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That doesn't make a whole lot of sense, does it? I mean, really shame on these adults because they're
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doing two. They're exploiting the kids for one, putting them on camera when they shouldn't be on
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camera, making them famous when they should know better than to do that. And then they're
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terrifying these kids. I mean, these kids very well might believe that they're all going to be dead in
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12 years. These kids very well might believe that global warming is going to kill all of them
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within 12 years. They're terrifying these little kids. For what? Nobody's going to be dead in 12
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years because of global warming. Nada. Nobody. Ain't going to happen. Let's make a bet right now. Any
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amount of money, you write it in. Put it in in the comments. Write it in. Tweet at me. I'm happy to take
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that bet with anybody. Of course, no one would seriously make that bet, including these shameless adults who
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are exploiting the kids because it's not about protecting the environment. It's not about protecting
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people. It's never about protecting kids. It's about taking power. It's about implementing socialism.
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That's why the Green New Deal, ostensibly about the environment, so urgent, we have to do it right now,
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gives us socialist health care, rebuilds every edifice in the country, has government takeovers of
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industry, has a universal basic income for some. Why is all that? Because it's all just about seizing
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power for socialism. Now, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez did not like this video of Dan Feinstein smacking
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around these exploitative adults and these kids, so she, for some reason, videotaped herself cooking
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again because she's a serious person. And she gave her latest urgent plea for the Green New Deal,
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Our planet is going to make disaster if we don't turn this ship around. And so it's basically like
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there's scientific consensus that the lives of children are going to be very difficult. And it
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does lead, I think, young people to have a legitimate question, you know, should, is it okay to still have
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children? And I mean, not just financially, because people are graduating with 20, 30, 100,000 dollars
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worth of student loan debt. And so they can't even afford to have kids in a house, but also just this
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basic moral question, like, what do we do? And, and even if you don't have kids, there are still children
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here in the world and we have a moral obligation to them, uh, to leave a better world for them.
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Hmm. The, of course, not to belabor the point, but when you have a sitting Democrat governor calling
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for killing children after they're born, when you have another Democrat governor calling for killing
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children as they're being born and taking away protections if they are killed while they are being
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born, if they're murdered while they're being born, then you have to raise the question, how much does the
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left really care about children? And, and listen, this is the mark that something has gone really wicked
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in your politics. This is always the mark. Uh, this is the mark throughout history. When you want to stop
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creating children or begetting children, when you want to cut off life, when you want to cut off life at
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birth, when you want to cut off life at the end through euthanasia, doctor assisted suicide, legalizing
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suicide, when you want there to be fewer people, when you say it's moral for there to be fewer
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people, when you say we have overpopulation, when you say any number of excuses to squeeze off
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human life, that is the sign that your politics has delved into something wicked. And that's what
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she's talking about. I've heard people say this. They say, well, we can't bring kids into this world
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because the world is so terrible. There's so, there's global warming. And then they'll say we
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can't bring kids into this world because it'll cause global warming. Well, which is it? It's just,
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it's a conclusion looking for an argument. And that's, that's, I don't know if Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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is, is even remotely conscious enough to realize that, but she is being used by fairly wicked
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ideologies. And then, and then she is using these ideologies in, in a really manipulative
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way. Whenever politicians say, think of the children, you know that you are dealing with
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a demagogue. There is only one exception to this, which is when politicians are actually calling
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for the slaughter of babies an hour after they're born, as is happening now. But when they talk in
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the abstract, say, think of the children, you are dealing with a demagogue. And AOC is silent by the
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way, on the killing of children. But that's what this is about. This is about demagoguery. And it is
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about exploiting and terrifying kids to destroy our Republican system of government, which is what
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will happen. That's what the Green New Deal does. It destroys our Republican system of government.
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And she makes this point even more acutely. She makes this point even more on the nose, but
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quickly. Because I actually, this video in particular, the last week or so, has me doubting
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apply. I'm beginning to seriously doubt if AOC is a good politician. So I'll actually, I'll just show
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you what started to make me wonder, and maybe you'll be able to get it too, a little bit later
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in that exact same clip. This idea that if we just, you know, I've been working on this for X amount
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of years, it's like not good enough. Like we need a universal sense of urgency, and people are trying
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to like introduce watered down proposals that are frankly going to kill us. They're going to kill us.
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Actually, and it's not that the conservatives are going to kill us. It's that Democrats who also
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ostensibly believe in global warming, who also are trying to regulate industry to stop certain
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types of pollution or whatever, that's probably not actually going to do that, but that's ostensibly
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the purpose of it. Those politicians are the ones who are going to kill us. Democrats are the ones who
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are going to kill us. The left is what's going to kill us, according to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
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Dianne Feinstein talking to those kids, she could have been talking straight to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
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She said, you know, when you come running in here, you who know nothing, you who are perfectly
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ignorant, come running in here and you scream and you yell and you say, my way or the highway,
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I don't respond very well to that. And it's not just Dianne Feinstein. It's not just senators.
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We, the American people, don't respond very well to that. When you come in, when you make, by the way,
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she has a demonstrable record of egregious errors. She knows nothing. She doesn't even know how taxes
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work. She thought that a $3 billion tax incentive in her district was meant that there was $3 billion
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sitting around that the city of New York was just going to hand over to Amazon. She doesn't know
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what taxes are. It's the main function of Congress, right? Raise money and spend money.
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She doesn't even know that. And she's coming in here and saying, I understand the world.
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I understand everything in the material world. I understand the most complex system we can possibly
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even imagine on earth. And I can predict to the year when that system and why is going to end all
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of human life. And it's in a dozen years. And if you don't do exactly what I tell you to do,
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you are evil and you're responsible for the destruction of humanity. That's what she's saying.
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Now, she sounds here, obviously, in this clip. She doesn't sound smart. She says,
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and, um, and like, like, and teehee, and like, like, like, like, like. It's both inarticulate
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and ignorant. But who cares? Maybe that's good politics among millennials who talk like that too.
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Maybe. I don't think it is. I don't talk like that. I don't think it's, I don't want to degrade
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myself to talk like that. And I don't think other people should too. But maybe it could be good
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politics, except I know, I'm no longer certain that she's this brilliant politician. People
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compare her to Trump. They say AOC is just like Trump. They both speak in a sort of lower level
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manner in public. They both are very good at manipulating the media. They're both very good
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at riling up their bases. Okay. Maybe. Except Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a professional activist
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who was, according to voter records, living with her parents as recently as two and a half years ago.
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Donald Trump is a billionaire who's built a ton of businesses, who has dominated the most difficult
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industries in the world for 40 years. Television, New York real estate, casinos, politics. Obviously,
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he ran for one political office in his whole life and he won it on the first try, the most powerful
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office in the history of the world. Not much of a comparison. The other thing is AOC is choosing
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issues that are very unpopular. Open borders, 70%, 80% tax rates, spending $40 trillion, outlawing
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planes, trains, and automobiles, and knocking down people's houses, printing money out of nowhere.
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Those are not popular issues. President Trump chooses popular issues. Border security, strong economy,
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job creation. Those are very popular issues. And now she's making this really difficult
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play, which is to alienate all of her potential allies. What allies does she have? Her first
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action as an elected congresswoman was to invade Nancy Pelosi's office and protest about global
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warming. Now she's going after Dianne Feinstein. Now she's going after all. She's really alienating a lot
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of allies. And you're seeing pushback now. You're seeing pushback from Democrats who are realizing that
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democratic socialism, as they call it, socialism in all of its forms, is probably not working. This
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narrative isn't doing very well among the American people. The Democrats are realizing maybe socialism is
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not a winning issue. Now you hear Kamala Harris is changing her tune. She was calling for the abolition
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of our entire healthcare system not one month ago. And now she's saying, I'm not a Democrat socialist.
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Who said I was a, no, not me. I'm, no, no, no, no. You misunderstood. I'm a Semicrad doshalist. I'm,
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no, now you heard it was a mistake. No, no, no. I'm just a progressive is what she's now saying.
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She's changing her tune. And Kamala Harris, by the way, is the weather vane of 2020. She's probably
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leading the pack right now. She has the most similarities to Hillary, even that horrific laugh.
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And she has the most to lose. So she's really playing at various, no, I want to abolish the U.S.
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healthcare system. No, no, I didn't really mean that. I am embracing the policies of democratic
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socialism. Oh, no, no, no. I didn't, didn't really mean that. She's the weather vane. So you watch her
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to see where the field is shaking out. A lot of polls show that Americans are warming up to
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socialism. And this is, this is certainly true among Democrats and millennials. Democrats and
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millennials, but I repeat myself, have a warmer view of socialism than they do of capitalism.
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And so the polls show us, as Gallup shows us this, I'm not so sure it's happening in real life. And I
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think the evidence of this is Kamala Harris. The evidence of this is not just Kamala Harris, by the
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way, not only are the candidates backing off, even the DNC chairman, Tom Perez, who said that
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democrat socialist is quote, the future of our party. Listen to how he's
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talking about socialism now. How do you defend against President Trump's charge and effort to
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portray the Democratic Party, your tax and spend policies as socialist? This is one of the oldest
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tricks in the playbook, Chris. You go back 75 years when Republicans don't want to discuss the
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issues that matter to real people. They call it socialism. Social security, when it was being
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debated, you had Republicans calling it socialism. The minimum wage in 1938, you had Republicans calling
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it socialism. Medicare. Ronald Reagan said, and I quote, Medicare will lead to socialized medicine.
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Medicare will lead to socialism in America. The Affordable Care Act, the Children's Health
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Insurance Program, all of those things were socialism, socialism. Why do they do that? Because
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they're wrong on the issues. They don't want to talk about preexisting conditions. We're right on
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that issue. We want to make sure if you're diabetic, you can keep your coverage. They don't want to.
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So they change the subject. Okay. That's what they do. Talk about projection. You just changed the
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subject. Chris Wallace asked you how you're going to defend against charges of socialism.
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You called a socialist the future of your party. Your darling of the Democrat congressman is a
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self-described socialist. One of the leaders of the PAC for the presidential race, at least on paper,
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I don't think he'll really win, is a self-described socialist. There were 40 candidates run, over 40
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candidates in 2018 running as Democrats with the backing of the Democratic socialists. You had
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candidates all across the country embrace socialism. And now every presidential candidate for the
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Democrats is embracing the Green New Deal, which is by definition socialism. It's the government
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taking over industries. It's the government instituting tax rates of 70, 80%. It's the government
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printing money out of nowhere, $40 trillion of costs, taxing people when they can't tax anymore. They
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just pull the money out of thin air. You're the one who's using the word socialism. And then you have
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to change the subject because you can't defend it. So he says, well, you know, Republicans are always
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calling us socialist. No, no, no. You're calling yourself socialist. And then you realized that that's not a
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winning strategy. So you're trying to pretend that you didn't, but you did and you are. And by the way,
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he uses this example, he says, you know, Reagan said Medicare would lead to socialism.
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Show me the lie. Reagan was exactly right. In fact, the socialist healthcare policy that is now
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being advocated by virtually every Democrat presidential candidate, I actually, I think all
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of them, is called Medicare for all. It is saying, oh yeah, that Medicare was a pretty good
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baseline for socialism. So now we're going to apply that to everybody and then we'll have full
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socialist healthcare. Now, look, we have to be grateful. This is a good sign that this is cracking
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up. In the old days, Democrats would lie and they would say, no, we're not really socialists.
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Then within the last two years, they've said, no, no, no, we are socialists. Socialism is a good word.
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And now it's swinging back again. They say, maybe that was a little too bold. Maybe we revealed
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ourselves a little too much. Maybe that narrative is running up against reality and nowhere is the
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left-wing narrative running up against reality more than in the Russia collusion hoax. Adam Schiff,
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the biggest spokesman for this, this non-traversy is now all but admitting that. CNN all but admitting
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collusion didn't really happen. They're setting the stage for the next scene. We will get to that.
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And then we will get to the literal narratives that are breaking apart in the terrible movies of 2018,
00:23:47.160
the awards shows, the Spirit Awards, the Oscars, and why Roma is, is just, why it's getting all of
00:23:54.520
this hype, even though it's a simply terrible movie that I actually watched this morning.
00:23:58.640
But first, tonight, tune in to our next episode of Daily Wire Backstage, where we will be talking
00:24:04.440
about everyone's favorite award show. Daily Wire God King, Jeremy Boring, Ben Shapiro, Andrew Klavan,
00:24:09.780
and Elisha Krause, and little old me will be smoking stogies, drinking whiskey, and laughing at the
00:24:15.460
dumpster fire known as Hollywood's most important night. As always, only Daily Wire subscribers get
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questions backstage, you get another kingdom, you get a ton of stuff. And you get this.
00:24:37.580
I even, I took the lid off so I could get an even better, mmm. That is the smell of narratives
00:24:44.300
breaking down. That's what it sounds like. All culminating on the night that celebrates
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narratives, the Oscars. We will get to all of it in just a second. Make sure you have your
00:24:55.160
Nowhere has a leftist narrative flopped more than on the Russia collusion hoax. Here is
00:25:10.780
Adam Schiff, obviously a current Democrat hack, speaking to George Stephanopoulos, who
00:25:16.900
pretends he's not a Democrat hack. Now, George Stephanopoulos, chief political guy over at ABC
00:25:21.440
News, Network News, uh, George Stephanopoulos is a career Democrat operative. He was the
00:25:28.240
communications director for the Clintons in the White House. And here they're, they're
00:25:33.880
speaking, oh, it's just, just a congressman talking to a journalist. Even Schiff is spinning
00:25:38.200
his wheels because the Russia collusion narrative is falling apart.
00:25:41.960
Do you have any evidence at all that the president colluded?
00:25:45.660
George, there's ample evidence of collusion of the campaign, and it's very much in the public
00:25:50.580
record. Uh, and it's everything from what we have seen recently about Paul Manafort meeting
00:25:56.040
with someone linked to Russian intelligence and sharing polling data and not top line data,
00:26:01.100
not this is why we think Trump is going to win data, but raw data, complicated data. Uh,
00:26:06.540
we've seen, uh, evidence of Roger Stone in communication with WikiLeaks. We've seen the president's
00:26:12.160
son having a secret meeting at Trump Tower, uh, that was presented to him as part of the Russian
00:26:17.360
government's effort to help the Trump campaign. Uh, his acceptance of that help, his interest
00:26:22.680
in getting that. All of this is evidence of collusion and there's much, much more. Whether
00:26:28.400
that will amount to, uh, a criminal conspiracy that can be proved beyond a reasonable doubt,
00:26:34.040
we will have to wait, uh, for Bob Mueller to tell us. But to, to not see what is plainly
00:26:39.680
in front of us, uh, means you, you basically don't want to see the evidence of collusion because
00:26:44.980
it is quite abundant. In a sense, Adam Schiff is right to not see all of the evidence that
00:26:52.360
is plainly in front of us. The evidence of collusion, which is abundant is absurd. And
00:26:59.360
there is a lot of evidence in front of us. We know for a fact that the Democrat party and
00:27:05.700
the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Obama DOJ colluded with foreign intelligence, specifically
00:27:13.540
Russian, that evidence is called the Steele dossier. We know it happened. We know that the
00:27:19.540
Democrats and the Hillary campaign paid Fusion GPS to use a foreign intelligence analyst, to use
00:27:27.000
intelligence contacts in Russia, to compile the Steele dossier, which was then passed along to the
00:27:32.960
Obama DOJ. It was used as a pretext, a flimsy pretext to spy on the Trump campaign. We know
00:27:40.300
that that collusion happened. That is in the public record. That is the only evidence of
00:27:45.440
collusion that we have. It's not collusion between Trump and Russia. It's evidence of
00:27:50.440
collusion between the Democrats and the federal government and Russia. Now, Adam Schiff, you see
00:27:59.420
how he shifts there at the end. He says, now, now, whether that will, uh, will lead to criminal
00:28:04.700
conspiracies or that, we don't know. We're not so sure about that. Hmm. Okay. You're kind of moving
00:28:11.160
the goalposts here. I thought we had two years of investigations because you were going to throw
00:28:17.180
Trump in the clink. You were going to, there was some crime that was committed. If there's no crime
00:28:20.660
that was committed, why are we investigating this at all? And it's really not looking good for
00:28:26.100
this yet. The Senate Intelligence Committee concluded its investigation on Russian collusion.
00:28:31.760
No evidence of any nefarious activities between Trump and Russia. That's not just according to
00:28:37.580
the Republicans on the committee. That's according to the Democrats as well. We have Bob Mueller just
00:28:42.580
today released an 800 page report on Paul Manafort. I haven't gotten to read the whole report yet.
00:28:47.640
Just happened before the show. According to analysis of that report, there is no mention of Trump
00:28:55.240
or collusion or Russia. There's no evidence. There's nothing in that report. You would expect
00:29:00.980
if collusion were real, if this hoax were real, if it were to be found, it would be found in the
00:29:08.260
Manafort file. Manafort was the link. Remember? Manafort had all these shady connections to Russia
00:29:13.740
and Russian interests in Ukraine. And he was brought in by Trump to collude with it. Remember all that?
00:29:19.140
But it's not in the Manafort report. Where else would it be? Maybe in Roger Stone. Are they getting
00:29:24.640
Roger Stone on colluding with Russia? No. Here's even CNN admitting this.
00:29:29.320
If a collusion conspiracy case is to be made, you'd think that Roger Stone would factor in it.
00:29:36.600
But he wasn't indicted for that. He was indicted for these so-called process crimes. You can say,
00:29:41.160
okay, well, the feds can charge successively. But now comes word that Mueller is finishing up.
00:29:47.180
So doesn't the absence of additional indictments against Stone suggest, as the president would say,
00:29:56.480
Well, it does. I mean, you have to call them as you see them. There is no evidence thus far of
00:30:03.100
collusion between the Trump campaign or President Trump and the Russians in hacking these computer
00:30:08.560
systems. And moreover, it's really quite unlikely, right? If you were a KGB spy master, would you
00:30:15.760
really collude with Donald Trump and put yourself one tweet away from destruction on perhaps the most
00:30:21.600
secret operation in its recent history? Of course, it's laughable. It was always laughable. That's
00:30:27.880
why I've been referring to it as Boris and Natasha, Rocky and Bullwinkle. It's cartoonish,
00:30:33.300
the image that they've presented of Donald Trump and the Russian government. Now, CNN is admitting
00:30:39.040
that. They're starting to shift. They have to shift because this Mueller report is going to come
00:30:46.200
out. The indictments against Manafort for whatever, buying nice suits in the 90s. These indictments
00:30:53.820
against Roger Stone for, I don't know, telling some lie at some point in his life, which he brags
00:30:59.680
about doing. It's going to come out and then you're going to see that Donald Trump is not Boris and
00:31:04.980
Natasha, and then they're going to have egg on their face. So they're starting to pivot now. Schiff
00:31:08.880
is trying to pivot now. He's saying, oh, well, no, no, no. The very fact that Donald Trump's
00:31:15.440
Jeff Sessions talked to a Russian once on the intelligence, there's just, there is evidence.
00:31:22.140
It's just, it's out there. We all know it. It's out there. Forget, don't pay no attention to the man
00:31:26.660
behind the curtain. In a broader sense, the greatest obstacle for conservatives is the
00:31:36.120
people are constantly trying to screw everything up. We have something good going, but nothing gold
00:31:40.900
can stay. Nature's first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower, but only so
00:31:46.280
an hour. Then Eden, then, uh, leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief. So dawn goes down today,
00:31:53.120
nothing gold can stay. As Robert Frost said, that, that constant churning of innovation,
00:31:58.620
constant churning of progress is frustrating to conservatives because people are always
00:32:03.380
messing up a good thing and they don't know a good thing when they see it. The greatest advantage
00:32:07.160
to conservative is that reality reasserts itself eventually. This is why Russell Kirk didn't name
00:32:13.740
his book, The Conservative Mind. He didn't call it the conservative route, which he initially wanted to
00:32:18.700
because it might be a route in the short term, but reality reasserts itself. This is the ultimate
00:32:25.460
political hope and cause of hope for conservatives. And that's what we're seeing now. Reality is
00:32:30.940
reasserting itself two years later, two years of these investigations, two years of Adam Schiff
00:32:37.400
babbling around, the Senate Intelligence Committee, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Andy McCabe, Paul,
00:32:43.740
Bob Mueller, all the investigations. But eventually you got to put up or shut up. Eventually reality
00:32:52.200
reasserts itself. And so what that's going to do, it's already doing it, I guess, is cause a major
00:32:59.380
credibility problem for Democrats. They have a major credibility issue now. It's kind of like when
00:33:06.820
presidents bet on the economy. President Trump has done this sometimes. They say, look at how great the
00:33:11.120
economy is doing. See, the economy is doing really well, so I'm a good president. But just by the
00:33:15.620
nature of economic cycles, eventually the economy is going to collapse. It's a similar thing when
00:33:22.020
Democrats say, look at the fantasy. Look at the narrative we've created. See, the narrative is
00:33:26.760
internally consistent. See, believe the narrative. You can't rely on fantasy forever. And then you've
00:33:32.760
got egg on your face and then you've got no credibility. It's not just shift with the credibility
00:33:36.640
problem. It's all of them. Harry Reid, former Senate majority leader, shameless Democrat.
00:33:43.300
Harry Reid is now saying, he did an interview. He said, Trump is not doing anything right.
00:33:48.500
He's just so awful that he doesn't get credit for anything. He's just, everything he's done is
00:33:52.320
terrible. He misses George Bush, he says. Oh, he misses the days of George Bush. He says,
00:33:59.280
Donald Trump, he says, in hindsight, I wish every day for a George Bush again. He says,
00:34:09.260
Bush was like Babe Ruth compared to President Donald Trump. He and I had our differences,
00:34:13.960
but no one ever questioned his patriotism, except for Harry Reid, who did question his patriotism
00:34:19.000
himself. He said, President Bush is a liar. He betrayed Nevada and he betrayed the country.
00:34:24.140
He said, the man's father is a wonderful human being. I think this guy's a loser. He said,
00:34:28.200
Bush was the worst president of America ever. Betrayed his country. That's what he says.
00:34:34.600
Now, what the left is relying on is that we have short memories. Maybe we do, but you'll get
00:34:42.400
reminded of this. This will come back. Reality will reassert itself. They said all the same things
00:34:48.300
about George Bush. They said all the same things about Ronald Reagan. Reality comes back again and
00:34:53.980
again. We're seeing reality come back now. Even, you know, this was, this is so amazing. Even Farid
00:34:59.860
Zakaria, far left, CNN commentator, even he is making this point about what he calls the Democrats'
00:35:08.760
dream world. In their zeal to match the sweeping rhetoric of right-wing populism, Democrats are
00:35:16.080
spinning out dramatic proposals indeed, but in which facts are sometimes misrepresented. The numbers
00:35:22.600
occasionally don't add up. An emotional appeal tends to trump actual policy analysis.
00:35:28.480
That's right. That is what's happening. He's trying to say, oh, the right always does this,
00:35:32.280
but the left shouldn't do this. Of course, it's the opposite. The right doesn't really,
00:35:36.220
the right does it sometimes, but not much. The right has a lot of inner controls that stop it from
00:35:41.480
going too far into fantasy land. For one, a lot of different competing philosophies and ideologies
00:35:46.720
on the right keep people in check. On the left, it's only progressivism leading towards socialism.
00:35:52.400
And even Farid Zakaria is recognizing this problem. This is a big flop. This is a narrative cracking up.
00:35:59.800
It's cracking up right around the Oscars, as good a time as any for narratives to crack up.
00:36:04.600
And it's not just happening in politics. It is happening in show business too.
00:36:07.420
There, this influx of socialism, even communism on the left. This was reflected in the culture this
00:36:16.000
year. Maybe it was caused by the culture. Boots Riley, he did this movie, Sorry to Bother You. I
00:36:21.880
said it was one of the worst movies I've ever seen, and it is. Sorry to Bother You is a communist movie.
00:36:28.120
Boots Riley, the guy who's made the movie, is a communist filmmaker. An outspoken communist. He's
00:36:34.640
been a member of the communist party, I think, since he was 15. Or maybe he's gone in and out, but he was
00:36:38.560
attracted to it since he was a young man. Boots Riley cannot admit, he's a great example of this.
00:36:45.420
He can't admit that his fantasies are not jibing with reality. This is why Sorry to Bother You isn't a
00:36:50.760
good movie. Why it's a thin movie. It's a shallow movie. It's a cheap movie. Because it just, it's
00:36:55.840
doctrinaire. It's dogmatic. It doesn't actually speak to the human condition. Here is Boots Riley, not at
00:37:02.600
the Oscars, but at the IFC Spirit Awards, the Independent Film Awards, giving his acceptance
00:37:09.360
speech and defending the dictatorship, starving its people and killing its people in Venezuela.
00:37:17.320
Look at how far ideology leads this guy astray.
00:37:20.480
I also want to say that the CIA is trying to have a coup in Venezuela. I haven't been watching
00:37:29.620
the, since I've been here, so they might be doing it right now. And we should all be putting our
00:37:36.700
voices out to stop the U.S. from having regime change for oil in Venezuela.
00:37:49.120
He's defending a brutal socialist dictator who is now killing his own people, who has starved his
00:37:56.760
people for well over a year. What is it? Two years now. And a regime, a socialist regime that
00:38:02.160
took one of the wealthiest countries in the world and destroyed its economy, destroyed its people,
00:38:09.560
took even an oil rich nation and wrecked it. People eating rats in the street. And this guy is defending
00:38:16.140
them. This guy is saying, no, no, no, forget about those starving people. No, no, no. Forget about
00:38:21.380
reality. No, no, no. We have to defend the ideology that is starving them. Because that's how committed
00:38:27.560
he is to the narrative. It's why his movies are terrible. And it's why his politics are terrible.
00:38:34.100
Even Bernie Sanders, even the mac daddy socialist in the United States, admits that socialism has
00:38:39.960
failed in Venezuela. He tweeted this out today. He said, quote, the people of Venezuela are enduring a
00:38:45.060
serious humanitarian crisis. The Maduro government must put the needs of its people first. Allow
00:38:50.880
humanitarian aid into the country and refrain from violence against protesters. He, Bernie
00:38:57.240
Sanders, also defends Maduro. But even Bernie is admitting tacitly, implicitly, that socialism
00:39:04.980
has failed in Venezuela. And the Oscars are a victim of the leftist fantasy too. The Oscars
00:39:12.140
award shows. Nobody's watching it. People are tuning out. People are trying to stop these crazy
00:39:16.880
political speeches. And actually, they did a better job this year. I did watch the Oscars.
00:39:22.580
Very few people watched the Oscars. I was one of them. They had no hosts. It wasn't over. It was all
00:39:26.800
kind of shallow leftist stuff, bad movies. Spike Lee was basically the only one who was able to sneak a
00:39:33.000
political speech in there. Here he is. The word today is irony. The date, the 24th, the month,
00:39:39.920
February, which also happens to be the shortest month of the year, which also happens to be Black
00:39:46.140
History Month, the year 2019, the year 1619. History, her story, 16, 19, 2019, 400 years.
00:39:56.880
Come again? What was that? It was Spike Lee doing the worst free association slam poetry I've ever
00:40:04.800
heard. Spike Lee doing his Rain Man impression there at the Oscars. 16, 20, 22, 20, 22 plus 5, 27,
00:40:11.820
27, had the numbers done. It's 9, 9, 9, 2, no, no, it's not. Dustin Hoffman did it better than
00:40:17.260
Spike Lee did. He goes on then. He goes on after he does weird free association with numbers. He goes on,
00:40:23.000
on, on what should be the biggest night of his life. A director who is not a good film. Spike Lee
00:40:27.540
is not a good filmmaker. And yet he's made himself into this political figure. So they felt they had
00:40:32.660
to give him an Oscar. He got a pity Oscar. He got a participation trophy. He should be grateful. He
00:40:37.820
should be thankful. And what does he do? He complains about everything. He's complaining about the
00:40:42.900
length of the month of February. He's complaining that it's some racist conspiracy that February only
00:40:49.020
has 28 days. 30 days had September, April, June, and November. And when short February is done,
00:40:53.940
all the rest have 31 because of racism or something. He goes on to rant about other things.
00:40:59.020
400 years, our answer was stolen from Mother Africa and brought the James, South Virginia
00:41:03.520
enslaved. Our answers worked from the land from Kansas City in the morning to Kansas City at night.
00:41:11.720
My grandmother, Zimmy Sheldon-Retha, who lived 100 years young, who was a Spelman College graduate,
00:41:19.060
even though her mother was a slave. My grandma, who saved 50 years of social security checks,
00:41:25.180
to put her first grandchild, she called me Spikey Poo. She put me through Morehouse College
00:41:31.780
and NYU grad film. NYU. Before the world tonight, I give praise our ancestors who built this country
00:41:44.000
and was today along with the genocide of its native people.
00:41:49.220
How about, first of all, the genocide of the native people. We don't have enough time for me to get
00:41:52.500
into all of the nonsense in that speech. But how about, just to start out, how about you thank the
00:41:56.620
country that freed the slaves? How about you thank the country that is so great that it could
00:42:01.340
give an Oscar. It could make a world-famous guy out of the great-grandson of a slave,
00:42:08.640
that the daughter of a slave could go to college, that that woman could then put her grandson through
00:42:14.020
a very expensive film school. Unfortunately, because he clearly didn't learn very much at
00:42:19.880
that film school because he's not a very good filmmaker. And then they could give that kid a pity
00:42:24.040
trophy because he whined enough and they felt bad for him, so they gave him an Oscar.
00:42:27.520
How about you say thank you? This is the best night of your life and all you can do is whine
00:42:32.640
and complain. You're a zillionaire who is not even really talented, is not even a really skilled
00:42:39.080
filmmaker. You still became a zillionaire. You're handing gold trophies to one another. You're receiving
00:42:44.580
a gold trophy. You've lived with the greatest material success of virtually anybody in all of the
00:42:50.660
history of the world. Say thank you. But they can't say thank you because of the narrative.
00:42:57.720
The left cannot say thank you because of the narrative. Now, the Oscars broadly, we only have
00:43:03.180
a couple minutes left. Basically, this was a better year for the Oscars than most. Why? I mean,
00:43:13.140
the movies were worse than most years. The movies were all pretty dreadful. There were some good
00:43:17.760
performances out there. Rami Malek, Olivia Colman were good performances. Rami Malek as Freddie Mercury
00:43:25.120
in Bohemian Rhapsody did a good job. Olivia Colman did a great job in The Favorite. Both movies kind
00:43:31.180
of whatever, but the performances were good. Roma won Best Foreign Film and one or two other awards,
00:43:40.640
too. It did not take a home Best Picture. It won Best Director. I watched it this morning because
00:43:46.620
this was the favorite. It's a movie. It's supposed to be a masterpiece. It's about a Mexican
00:43:54.260
housekeeper and it's shot in black and white and it's really long and there's not a lot of dialogue
00:44:01.700
and nothing really happens, but it's really so profound. So I decided to watch it this morning
00:44:09.280
because I didn't want to knock it without watching it, obviously. Roma is everything that's wrong with the
00:44:15.800
Oscars. Roma is everything that's wrong with the film industry. Roma is everything that's wrong
00:44:20.400
with the left's politics. Politics is down of culture. We should expect this. Roma is self-indulgent
00:44:29.640
tripe. They say that nostalgia is history after a few drinks. This whole movie is just totally self-indulgent,
00:44:38.840
totally pretentious nostalgia. I think the reason people like it or pretend to like it is because
00:44:46.280
it's people who have never seen a good film and they think that this is what a good film is supposed
00:44:50.620
to look like. You know, it's in black and white and it's really long and it's really slow and it's,
00:44:56.240
did I mention it's in black and white and it's foreign and it's in foreign languages? It's pretentious,
00:45:01.540
it's uncultured and it's pointless, much like the left. Ross Douthat at National Review points out
00:45:06.620
the film's actually quite bourgeois. The whole point of the film, spoiler alert, but who cares,
00:45:11.260
is that a housekeeper who was working for a basically rich family, which is the family of
00:45:19.520
the filmmaker, that she dedicates her whole life to serving them and that that's a good thing.
00:45:25.980
It's fairly bourgeois. It's not a terribly radical movie in that way, but because it's got the patina
00:45:30.760
of intersectionality, progressives like it. Ross Douthat says, if the movie were about an upper middle
00:45:36.260
class white family and it's black servants in suburbia in America, there would be very problematic,
00:45:42.020
wouldn't it? If the point of the film was that the black servant should serve the white family and
00:45:45.420
that's a great thing, probably that movie wouldn't win an Oscar, but Netflix very, very cleverly made
00:45:51.060
it intersectionally appropriate. Now we all have to pretend that it's good. This can't go on forever.
00:45:58.080
There is a cost to a shallow culture. We have this present bias where we think everything now is
00:46:03.460
good. Everything old is bad. We know better. We are better than all the old timey people.
00:46:08.320
It's what angsty teenagers think. Spike Lee is an angsty teenager. Oh, everything before us was
00:46:12.900
terrible. It was all bad. Now we're finally maybe doing something good. Dad doesn't know anything.
00:46:18.300
The trouble is the longer this persists, the harder it will be to recover the wisdom of the ages.
00:46:22.960
The harder it will be to make a good movie. When was the last time we made a good movie?
00:46:27.240
When was the last time we had a good innovation in politics?
00:46:30.620
The longer we allow this lack of culture, this lack of education, this lack of seriousness,
00:46:37.040
this ingratitude, this lack of humility, this pride to persist, the harder it will be,
00:46:42.100
if not impossible, to recover the wisdom of the ages in our religion, in our culture, and in our
00:46:48.200
politics. That's the message. Now the narrative is breaking up a little bit at award season. That's
00:46:54.800
good. But what comes next? We can dread or we can hope for something better in the future. But we're
00:47:01.580
going to have to take it seriously from religion to culture to politics. And are we capable of that?
00:47:06.620
I'm not so sure. We'll have to find out. Check out backstage where we're talking about the Oscars
00:47:10.280
again. In the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. I'll see you later.
00:47:13.580
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00:47:23.960
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00:47:28.860
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00:47:35.060
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00:47:41.620
Hey guys, over on the Matt Wall Show today, we're going to talk about how environmentalism
00:47:46.200
has become a doomsday cult. There's this apocalyptic fever that has taken over the climate alarmist.
00:47:53.860
So we got to discuss that. Also, a basketball announcer has been suspended for making a completely
00:48:00.740
innocuous comment that disingenuous people have interpreted as racist, even though they know
00:48:05.920
it's not racist. So this keeps happening. We'll talk about that. And finally, Bill Maher,
00:48:11.620
is sneering at small-town Americans and doing so in a way that's embarrassing for him
00:48:17.080
and shows how completely out of touch he is. So we'll talk about all that today over on the Matt