The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 303 - And The Oscar Goes To…The Leftist Narrative!

00:00:00.000 In a year defined by flops, from Roma to Jussie Smollett, from vice to Russian collusion,

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00:01:38.020 The leftist narrative is falling apart here from politics up through the culture, all the way up

00:01:44.800 through the left's religion, which is global warming. And it's all happening right now at the

00:01:48.820 same time, coincidentally right at awards season. And we will get to the Oscars, but first we have

00:01:55.660 got to get to the greatest scene that I have seen in any medium, film, television, social media,

00:02:03.040 the greatest scene of the whole year. Shockingly, unexpectedly care of, Dianne Feinstein.

00:02:09.720 We are trying to ask you to vote yes on the Green New Deal.

00:02:14.480 No, please.

00:02:15.360 Okay, I'll tell you what. We have our own Green New Deal.

00:02:20.240 Some scientists have said that we have 12 years to turn this around.

00:02:25.620 Well, it's not going to get turned around in 10 years. What we can do is put ourselves...

00:02:30.040 Senator, if this doesn't get turned around in 10 years, you're looking at the faces of

00:02:33.900 the people who are going to be living with these consequences.

00:02:36.660 The government is supposed to be for the people and by the people and all for the people.

00:02:40.340 You know what's interesting about this group is I've been doing this for 30 years.

00:02:46.420 I know what I'm doing. You come in here and you say it has to be my way or the highway.

00:02:52.800 I don't respond to that. I've gotten elected. I just ran. I was elected by almost a million vote

00:03:01.660 plurality. And I know what I'm doing. So, you know, maybe people should listen a little bit.

00:03:10.700 I hear what you're saying, but we're the people who voted you. You're supposed to listen to us.

00:03:15.380 That's your job. How old are you? I'm 16. I can't vote.

00:03:18.320 Well, you didn't vote for me.

00:03:19.800 It doesn't matter. We're the ones who are going to be impacted.

00:03:24.740 Devastating. And it actually only gets worse for those exploitative adults and that teenager

00:03:32.260 and those kids because Dianne Feinstein doesn't miss a beat. First of all, the girl is wrong.

00:03:37.020 The teenager is wrong. She says, your job is to do exactly what we tell you to do. That's not true.

00:03:40.900 We have a representative republic. We don't have a direct democracy. It is not the job of these

00:03:47.100 people to do exactly according to exact polling data. 50% plus one of people want this, so we have

00:03:53.540 to do it. That's not the purpose of a congressional representative. We elect people to go to Congress

00:03:58.820 for their judgment. And then they use their judgment regardless, hopefully in the best case

00:04:05.320 scenario, regardless of what public opinion polls say. But then Dianne Feinstein won't even hear it. 0.96

00:04:09.560 She just goes, where are the people who voted for you? How old are you? Well, I'm 16. You didn't

00:04:14.140 vote for me. Boom. Done. I love this. I mean, this reminds me obviously of Lindsey Graham 2.0 or

00:04:20.160 Lindsey Grahambo. We're seeing this with Dianne Feinstein. I don't know what her cool Sylvester

00:04:24.220 Stallone nickname is going to be. But, you know, we often hear, oh, the senators are so old. Oh,

00:04:30.300 they're so old. They can't pop. We need young blood, younger. No. Uh-uh. The minimum age for 0.75

00:04:36.760 senators should be about 90, I think. I love this. If older incumbent senators are giving us

00:04:42.500 Grahambo and New Feinstein, good. Have the minimum age be 100. And actually, this is a half serious

00:04:50.020 point because this is the leftist narrative. You know, the left gets everything backwards. We talk

00:04:55.940 about this all the time. And for the left, children have greater moral teaching authority than adults.

00:05:02.700 In reality, when you're a little kid, you think like a little kid. And then when you're a teenager,

00:05:09.640 you think a little bit clearer. You have a little bit more access to reason. You've got a little bit

00:05:14.160 more education, but you still basically know nothing. Then you go to college. You still basically know

00:05:19.060 nothing, but you're learning a little bit. You're thinking a little more deeply. Maybe in your 20s,

00:05:23.040 you're formulating some ideas. Again, not a ton of experience of the world. I'll be the first to admit it.

00:05:27.740 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

00:05:34.160 tradition, when it comes to our intricate system of politics. As you get older, you increase in wisdom.

00:05:41.720 You grow in wisdom. That's a virtue of time. For the left, they think it's exactly the opposite.

00:05:46.440 They think that as people get older, they get stupider. They get less educated. They become less wise. 0.99

00:05:52.240 They become less mature. I know this is by definition not possible, but the left doesn't

00:05:58.160 let itself get tied up with silly little things like logic and the definitions of words.

00:06:03.400 So for the left, really, a group of little children is the font of wisdom. This is why the left exploits

00:06:09.460 kids all the time. When they're not killing them on tables an hour after they're born, the left

00:06:14.040 exploits children immediately. You saw this in that video during the election of all these kids saying

00:06:20.720 foul-mouthed language. F this, F that. They put them on camera to show how fired up the little 1.00

00:06:27.020 kids were. You see all the time they bring these kids to the rallies. F Trump, F this. Then you see

00:06:33.480 they bring them into the office. What do these kids know about global warming? If we're to be told

00:06:38.200 that global warming is settled science, don't you think you'd bring some scientists in rather than

00:06:44.980 little children? They say, stop politicizing science and listen to these little children.

00:06:51.220 That doesn't make a whole lot of sense, does it? I mean, really shame on these adults because they're

00:06:56.340 doing two. They're exploiting the kids for one, putting them on camera when they shouldn't be on 0.99

00:07:00.700 camera, making them famous when they should know better than to do that. And then they're

00:07:06.220 terrifying these kids. I mean, these kids very well might believe that they're all going to be dead in

00:07:10.000 12 years. These kids very well might believe that global warming is going to kill all of them

00:07:15.420 within 12 years. They're terrifying these little kids. For what? Nobody's going to be dead in 12

00:07:21.120 years because of global warming. Nada. Nobody. Ain't going to happen. Let's make a bet right now. Any

00:07:26.800 amount of money, you write it in. Put it in in the comments. Write it in. Tweet at me. I'm happy to take

00:07:32.200 that bet with anybody. Of course, no one would seriously make that bet, including these shameless adults who 0.95

00:07:38.120 are exploiting the kids because it's not about protecting the environment. It's not about protecting

00:07:42.360 people. It's never about protecting kids. It's about taking power. It's about implementing socialism.

00:07:50.520 That's why the Green New Deal, ostensibly about the environment, so urgent, we have to do it right now,

00:07:56.160 gives us socialist health care, rebuilds every edifice in the country, has government takeovers of

00:08:01.820 industry, has a universal basic income for some. Why is all that? Because it's all just about seizing

00:08:07.740 power for socialism. Now, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez did not like this video of Dan Feinstein smacking

00:08:15.120 around these exploitative adults and these kids, so she, for some reason, videotaped herself cooking

00:08:22.180 again because she's a serious person. And she gave her latest urgent plea for the Green New Deal,

00:08:29.940 a performance of the year.

00:08:30.740 Our planet is going to make disaster if we don't turn this ship around. And so it's basically like

00:08:38.980 there's scientific consensus that the lives of children are going to be very difficult. And it

00:08:44.780 does lead, I think, young people to have a legitimate question, you know, should, is it okay to still have

00:08:53.860 children? And I mean, not just financially, because people are graduating with 20, 30, 100,000 dollars

00:09:03.200 worth of student loan debt. And so they can't even afford to have kids in a house, but also just this

00:09:10.840 basic moral question, like, what do we do? And, and even if you don't have kids, there are still children

00:09:17.440 here in the world and we have a moral obligation to them, uh, to leave a better world for them.

00:09:23.180 Hmm. The, of course, not to belabor the point, but when you have a sitting Democrat governor calling

00:09:30.520 for killing children after they're born, when you have another Democrat governor calling for killing

00:09:36.100 children as they're being born and taking away protections if they are killed while they are being

00:09:41.700 born, if they're murdered while they're being born, then you have to raise the question, how much does the

00:09:45.600 left really care about children? And, and listen, this is the mark that something has gone really wicked

00:09:51.360 in your politics. This is always the mark. Uh, this is the mark throughout history. When you want to stop

00:09:58.660 creating children or begetting children, when you want to cut off life, when you want to cut off life at

00:10:06.580 birth, when you want to cut off life at the end through euthanasia, doctor assisted suicide, legalizing

00:10:13.460 suicide, when you want there to be fewer people, when you say it's moral for there to be fewer

00:10:19.400 people, when you say we have overpopulation, when you say any number of excuses to squeeze off

00:10:27.460 human life, that is the sign that your politics has delved into something wicked. And that's what

00:10:33.520 she's talking about. I've heard people say this. They say, well, we can't bring kids into this world

00:10:38.760 because the world is so terrible. There's so, there's global warming. And then they'll say we

00:10:45.500 can't bring kids into this world because it'll cause global warming. Well, which is it? It's just,

00:10:50.440 it's a conclusion looking for an argument. And that's, that's, I don't know if Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

00:10:58.520 is, is even remotely conscious enough to realize that, but she is being used by fairly wicked 0.95

00:11:05.260 ideologies. And then, and then she is using these ideologies in, in a really manipulative

00:11:12.040 way. Whenever politicians say, think of the children, you know that you are dealing with

00:11:16.540 a demagogue. There is only one exception to this, which is when politicians are actually calling

00:11:21.860 for the slaughter of babies an hour after they're born, as is happening now. But when they talk in

00:11:26.280 the abstract, say, think of the children, you are dealing with a demagogue. And AOC is silent by the

00:11:33.740 way, on the killing of children. But that's what this is about. This is about demagoguery. And it is

00:11:39.860 about exploiting and terrifying kids to destroy our Republican system of government, which is what

00:11:46.100 will happen. That's what the Green New Deal does. It destroys our Republican system of government. 1.00

00:11:51.860 And she makes this point even more acutely. She makes this point even more on the nose, but

00:11:57.160 quickly. Because I actually, this video in particular, the last week or so, has me doubting

00:12:02.500 whether AOC is actually a good politician. I've really defended her political chops. I think she's 0.98

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00:13:46.380 apply. I'm beginning to seriously doubt if AOC is a good politician. So I'll actually, I'll just show

00:13:56.620 you what started to make me wonder, and maybe you'll be able to get it too, a little bit later

00:14:01.700 in that exact same clip. This idea that if we just, you know, I've been working on this for X amount

00:14:08.400 of years, it's like not good enough. Like we need a universal sense of urgency, and people are trying

00:14:17.240 to like introduce watered down proposals that are frankly going to kill us. They're going to kill us.

00:14:25.180 Actually, and it's not that the conservatives are going to kill us. It's that Democrats who also 0.95

00:14:30.260 ostensibly believe in global warming, who also are trying to regulate industry to stop certain

00:14:36.680 types of pollution or whatever, that's probably not actually going to do that, but that's ostensibly

00:14:41.300 the purpose of it. Those politicians are the ones who are going to kill us. Democrats are the ones who

00:14:46.280 are going to kill us. The left is what's going to kill us, according to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. 0.98

00:14:52.040 Dianne Feinstein talking to those kids, she could have been talking straight to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. 0.99

00:14:57.200 She said, you know, when you come running in here, you who know nothing, you who are perfectly 0.98

00:15:03.240 ignorant, come running in here and you scream and you yell and you say, my way or the highway, 0.99

00:15:07.620 I don't respond very well to that. And it's not just Dianne Feinstein. It's not just senators. 1.00

00:15:12.400 We, the American people, don't respond very well to that. When you come in, when you make, by the way,

00:15:18.040 she has a demonstrable record of egregious errors. She knows nothing. She doesn't even know how taxes 0.97

00:15:24.880 work. She thought that a $3 billion tax incentive in her district was meant that there was $3 billion 1.00

00:15:32.420 sitting around that the city of New York was just going to hand over to Amazon. She doesn't know 0.68

00:15:36.340 what taxes are. It's the main function of Congress, right? Raise money and spend money. 0.84

00:15:42.140 She doesn't even know that. And she's coming in here and saying, I understand the world.

00:15:48.420 I understand everything in the material world. I understand the most complex system we can possibly

00:15:54.660 even imagine on earth. And I can predict to the year when that system and why is going to end all

00:16:03.140 of human life. And it's in a dozen years. And if you don't do exactly what I tell you to do,

00:16:07.100 you are evil and you're responsible for the destruction of humanity. That's what she's saying.

00:16:12.560 Now, she sounds here, obviously, in this clip. She doesn't sound smart. She says,

00:16:18.320 and, um, and like, like, and teehee, and like, like, like, like, like. It's both inarticulate

00:16:24.500 and ignorant. But who cares? Maybe that's good politics among millennials who talk like that too. 0.99

00:16:31.700 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

00:16:36.100 myself to talk like that. And I don't think other people should too. But maybe it could be good

00:16:40.960 politics, except I know, I'm no longer certain that she's this brilliant politician. People 1.00

00:16:46.420 compare her to Trump. They say AOC is just like Trump. They both speak in a sort of lower level

00:16:53.480 manner in public. They both are very good at manipulating the media. They're both very good

00:16:59.640 at riling up their bases. Okay. Maybe. Except Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a professional activist 0.97

00:17:07.660 who was, according to voter records, living with her parents as recently as two and a half years ago.

00:17:12.160 Donald Trump is a billionaire who's built a ton of businesses, who has dominated the most difficult

00:17:17.160 industries in the world for 40 years. Television, New York real estate, casinos, politics. Obviously,

00:17:25.220 he ran for one political office in his whole life and he won it on the first try, the most powerful

00:17:29.380 office in the history of the world. Not much of a comparison. The other thing is AOC is choosing

00:17:36.080 issues that are very unpopular. Open borders, 70%, 80% tax rates, spending $40 trillion, outlawing

00:17:43.560 planes, trains, and automobiles, and knocking down people's houses, printing money out of nowhere.

00:17:48.620 Those are not popular issues. President Trump chooses popular issues. Border security, strong economy,

00:17:56.500 job creation. Those are very popular issues. And now she's making this really difficult

00:18:04.080 play, which is to alienate all of her potential allies. What allies does she have? Her first 0.89

00:18:12.120 action as an elected congresswoman was to invade Nancy Pelosi's office and protest about global 1.00

00:18:18.860 warming. Now she's going after Dianne Feinstein. Now she's going after all. She's really alienating a lot

00:18:24.480 of allies. And you're seeing pushback now. You're seeing pushback from Democrats who are realizing that

00:18:30.200 democratic socialism, as they call it, socialism in all of its forms, is probably not working. This

00:18:36.780 narrative isn't doing very well among the American people. The Democrats are realizing maybe socialism is

00:18:43.320 not a winning issue. Now you hear Kamala Harris is changing her tune. She was calling for the abolition 1.00

00:18:48.900 of our entire healthcare system not one month ago. And now she's saying, I'm not a Democrat socialist.

00:18:54.300 Who said I was a, no, not me. I'm, no, no, no, no. You misunderstood. I'm a Semicrad doshalist. I'm,

00:19:00.780 no, now you heard it was a mistake. No, no, no. I'm just a progressive is what she's now saying.

00:19:06.140 She's changing her tune. And Kamala Harris, by the way, is the weather vane of 2020. She's probably

00:19:11.080 leading the pack right now. She has the most similarities to Hillary, even that horrific laugh. 1.00

00:19:15.980 And she has the most to lose. So she's really playing at various, no, I want to abolish the U.S. 1.00

00:19:21.160 healthcare system. No, no, I didn't really mean that. I am embracing the policies of democratic

00:19:25.560 socialism. Oh, no, no, no. I didn't, didn't really mean that. She's the weather vane. So you watch her

00:19:30.840 to see where the field is shaking out. A lot of polls show that Americans are warming up to

00:19:36.340 socialism. And this is, this is certainly true among Democrats and millennials. Democrats and

00:19:41.720 millennials, but I repeat myself, have a warmer view of socialism than they do of capitalism.

00:19:47.360 And so the polls show us, as Gallup shows us this, I'm not so sure it's happening in real life. And I

00:19:53.840 think the evidence of this is Kamala Harris. The evidence of this is not just Kamala Harris, by the

00:20:00.100 way, not only are the candidates backing off, even the DNC chairman, Tom Perez, who said that

00:20:05.600 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democrat socialist is quote, the future of our party. Listen to how he's

00:20:11.940 talking about socialism now. How do you defend against President Trump's charge and effort to

00:20:18.280 portray the Democratic Party, your tax and spend policies as socialist? This is one of the oldest

00:20:24.460 tricks in the playbook, Chris. You go back 75 years when Republicans don't want to discuss the

00:20:31.020 issues that matter to real people. They call it socialism. Social security, when it was being

00:20:36.000 debated, you had Republicans calling it socialism. The minimum wage in 1938, you had Republicans calling

00:20:41.840 it socialism. Medicare. Ronald Reagan said, and I quote, Medicare will lead to socialized medicine.

00:20:49.180 Medicare will lead to socialism in America. The Affordable Care Act, the Children's Health

00:20:54.300 Insurance Program, all of those things were socialism, socialism. Why do they do that? Because

00:20:59.580 they're wrong on the issues. They don't want to talk about preexisting conditions. We're right on

00:21:03.820 that issue. We want to make sure if you're diabetic, you can keep your coverage. They don't want to.

00:21:07.420 So they change the subject. Okay. That's what they do. Talk about projection. You just changed the

00:21:13.340 subject. Chris Wallace asked you how you're going to defend against charges of socialism.

00:21:19.860 You called a socialist the future of your party. Your darling of the Democrat congressman is a

00:21:25.880 self-described socialist. One of the leaders of the PAC for the presidential race, at least on paper,

00:21:30.580 I don't think he'll really win, is a self-described socialist. There were 40 candidates run, over 40

00:21:36.080 candidates in 2018 running as Democrats with the backing of the Democratic socialists. You had

00:21:41.060 candidates all across the country embrace socialism. And now every presidential candidate for the

00:21:46.240 Democrats is embracing the Green New Deal, which is by definition socialism. It's the government

00:21:51.480 taking over industries. It's the government instituting tax rates of 70, 80%. It's the government

00:21:58.420 printing money out of nowhere, $40 trillion of costs, taxing people when they can't tax anymore. They

00:22:04.400 just pull the money out of thin air. You're the one who's using the word socialism. And then you have

00:22:10.280 to change the subject because you can't defend it. So he says, well, you know, Republicans are always

00:22:15.260 calling us socialist. No, no, no. You're calling yourself socialist. And then you realized that that's not a

00:22:20.720 winning strategy. So you're trying to pretend that you didn't, but you did and you are. And by the way,

00:22:26.220 he uses this example, he says, you know, Reagan said Medicare would lead to socialism.

00:22:30.560 Show me the lie. Reagan was exactly right. In fact, the socialist healthcare policy that is now

00:22:37.860 being advocated by virtually every Democrat presidential candidate, I actually, I think all

00:22:41.920 of them, is called Medicare for all. It is saying, oh yeah, that Medicare was a pretty good

00:22:49.400 baseline for socialism. So now we're going to apply that to everybody and then we'll have full

00:22:55.240 socialist healthcare. Now, look, we have to be grateful. This is a good sign that this is cracking

00:23:00.560 up. In the old days, Democrats would lie and they would say, no, we're not really socialists.

00:23:05.180 Then within the last two years, they've said, no, no, no, we are socialists. Socialism is a good word. 0.89

00:23:09.640 And now it's swinging back again. They say, maybe that was a little too bold. Maybe we revealed

00:23:15.660 ourselves a little too much. Maybe that narrative is running up against reality and nowhere is the

00:23:20.700 left-wing narrative running up against reality more than in the Russia collusion hoax. Adam Schiff,

00:23:28.820 the biggest spokesman for this, this non-traversy is now all but admitting that. CNN all but admitting

00:23:36.820 collusion didn't really happen. They're setting the stage for the next scene. We will get to that.

00:23:41.080 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 0.78

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

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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

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00:24:49.220 narratives, the Oscars. We will get to all of it in just a second. Make sure you have your

00:24:53.440 Tumblr ready. We will be right back.

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,

00:29:54.280 no collusion?

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. 0.99

00:34:24.140 He said, the man's father is a wonderful human being. I think this guy's a loser. He said, 1.00

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. 0.87

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, 0.97

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 0.67

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 0.93

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 0.92

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 1.00

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 0.99

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 0.73

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 1.00

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 1.00

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 0.87

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, 0.97

00:45:42.020 wouldn't it? If the point of the film was that the black servant should serve the white family and 0.75

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. 0.98

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.

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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

00:48:22.680 Wall Show.

The Michael Knowles Show - February 25, 2019

Ep. 303 - And The Oscar Goes To…The Leftist Narrative!

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