The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 322 - The Left’s Last Defense： Cry Racism

00:00:00.000 The left's worst week ever concludes with them using the only weapon left at their disposal,

00:00:05.620 calling conservatives bigots. From The Economist to Eric Holder to Ilhan Omar,

00:00:11.000 when the left calls you a racist, you know you've won the argument.

00:00:14.580 Then Mike Lee gives a highly entertaining Green New Deal performance on the floor of the Senate.

00:00:19.600 David Brooks is wrong in the New York Times. Surprise, surprise.

00:00:23.300 And finally, the mailbag. I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:30.000 What a week, what a week, but all good things must come to an end,

00:00:36.860 and the way that the left is ending their week is by using their last resort, their last ditch.

00:00:43.220 When they have no argument, they have no evidence, they have egg on their face for two years,

00:00:48.100 what do they do? They call you a bigot. We will get to those very sad strategies,

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00:02:16.840 Bye. So I've got to give it to him. I held out for a long time, but Ben Shapiro's book,

00:02:29.000 The Right Side of History, has topped number one on the New York Times bestseller list.

00:02:35.020 We've been going back and forth. We've been talking about this. They say, oh, your book was number one

00:02:38.700 on Amazon. Oh, that's good. Mine was number one on Amazon for 11 days, but no, it's okay. No,

00:02:42.900 but that's good. That's good. Now we have, I thought there was no way that the New York Times

00:02:47.500 was going to give it to him because they hate his guts as we'll see in just one second. But this book

00:02:54.820 sold so many copies so fast. It reached number one on the New York Times bestseller list. It is

00:03:00.380 selling out like crazy. It is a really good book. I read it when it was in draft form. I've been going

00:03:06.420 to college campuses since the book is released. People bring me the book. I say, did you read that yet?

00:03:11.300 This is like an entire history of an intellectual history of Western civilization. They say, you

00:03:17.440 bet. I read it in two days. Couldn't put it down. Got to give it to the guy. Number one on the New

00:03:22.560 York Times bestseller list. It is a huge deal. That is really cool. So go out and buy the book if you

00:03:27.840 haven't bought it yet. The other reason you have to buy it is because the left is furious about this

00:03:35.140 book. They are so upset. The Economist published a headline today. Quote,

00:03:42.000 inside the mind of Ben Shapiro, the alt-right sage without the rage. Ben Shapiro, alt-right sage.

00:03:53.120 Now they went inside his mind apparently. They didn't look at his head on the top of which is a

00:03:57.620 yarmulke, which is good evidence that you're not part of the alternative right. This is, this has,

00:04:02.840 there's a lot going on in this headline. To begin, first of all, it's just not true, right? Ben has

00:04:08.580 been very clear in his condemnations of the alternative right. And they just use this smear.

00:04:15.060 So Anne McElvoy, I guess, is the editor of The Economist. And she said, Ben, in fairness,

00:04:22.080 we said, and then she has some misspellings or something. I think she's saying, you're like a

00:04:26.260 figure in alt-right thinking, but that's not really a label. She's saying, we didn't label

00:04:31.260 you alt-right. We're just saying it's sort of like you're in the alt-right thinking. So I would like

00:04:36.800 to point out that Anne McElvoy is a Nazi pedophile. Anne McElvoy, the editor of The Economist, is a Nazi 0.99

00:04:43.680 pedophile. But I'm not labeling her a Nazi pedophile. I'm just saying she's a Nazi pedophile. But don't you 0.99

00:04:49.660 accuse me of labeling her that way? Because this, first of all, that statement, Anne McElvoy

00:04:55.180 is a Nazi pedophile, is as much of a label and it's as accurate as The Economist headline that Ben 0.60

00:05:02.000 Shapiro is an alt-right sage. Now, this thing got ratioed into oblivion. People were both rightly quite 0.97

00:05:12.660 angry about this and just making fun of them for what shoddy, ridiculously sophomoric journalism they 0.57

00:05:18.800 made. So they did release a correction. They say, quote, a previous version mistakenly described 0.52

00:05:25.140 Mr. Shapiro as an alt-right sage and a pop idol of the alt-right. In fact, he has been strongly

00:05:31.480 critical of the alt-right movement. We apologize. So there it is. Big headline, big tweet, and then

00:05:40.300 hours and hours later when no one's going to read it, they have a little correction down there. That's

00:05:44.500 what they do. What's so funny, too, in this is they criticize Ben for using clicky headlines to get

00:05:50.620 people to come engage with his content. They did a far more egregious version of that than Ben or the

00:05:56.260 Daily Wire or any of us have ever done. But I don't, I'm not saying this to defend, Ben can defend

00:06:02.520 himself. He's a big boy and I'm not doing this just to make fun of The Economist. If we were going to do

00:06:07.040 that, we'd be here all day long. The reason I bring it up is because this is what the left does

00:06:13.220 with language. Ben is an alt-right sage. By the way that the left uses the term the alt-right, I guess

00:06:22.580 he is. I guess anybody to the right of Hillary Clinton is alt-right. This is what they do. This is

00:06:29.000 why I actually don't use that phrase anymore. I did a PragerU video when the alternative right was

00:06:34.540 being brought up as a new topic of discussion just to make clear what the alternative right is,

00:06:39.420 why it's wrong, and why we should move on. Then the left took that term and they watered it down to

00:06:46.420 mean nothing. So now I don't use the term. I try to be much more precise. I don't use the term racist

00:06:52.700 too frequently because what does it mean? It had a meaning, then the left robbed it of meaning. So now

00:06:58.700 I try to be more specific. I'll say racially bigoted. Bigotry at least has a meaning.

00:07:04.540 For now, at least it still has not been robbed of its meaning. This is what the left does. The

00:07:09.580 term alt-right has been robbed of its meaning. And it's too bad because there is an ideology

00:07:14.980 that that term once described, an alternative to conservative thought. And what it was really

00:07:22.680 specifically being used by, by its biggest proponents, is a politics that essentially boils

00:07:27.420 down to race and ethnicity without much regard for, well, on the one hand, without much regard to

00:07:36.280 values or traditional civic nationalism, whatever. Okay, that's one side of it. But what, where I

00:07:41.700 really object is it's without regard to culture and religion and God. So you're taking all the

00:07:47.620 trappings of Christendom, but you're robbing it of the Christ. And so what is that? That's a sick

00:07:52.280 perversion. I mean, that's why I, I reject it as I explained in my PragerU video. Now that term

00:07:58.340 has been robbed of any meaning. So I don't use it because I'm not going to give the left

00:08:03.240 any opportunity. I mean, people say this, I hear this every, everywhere from left-wing commentators,

00:08:09.100 they'll use it in passing conversation to dummies on the street. They'll say, this is alt-right,

00:08:14.420 alt-right. You don't know what that is. You don't know what that means. So they do it all the time.

00:08:19.360 And during the Bush years, they did this with the term neocon. Do you remember? Some of you

00:08:24.260 are too young to remember. All you'd hear during the Bush years, neocon, neocon, he's a neocon.

00:08:29.540 Neoconservative once had a meaning. It was a movement popularized by Bill Crystal, or Bill

00:08:36.120 Crystal, by Irving Crystal, Bill Crystal's father. And it was described as liberals who were

00:08:41.420 mugged by reality. Socialists who were mugged by reality. This turn during the 1960s of people

00:08:48.680 who would have called themselves liberals, some who were really far left to see the realities of

00:08:53.920 communism and international socialism to become more conservative, at least with the approach to

00:08:58.240 foreign policy. And many of them came along with a conservative approach to domestic policy as well.

00:09:03.660 This was robbed of meaning during the Bush years. And now the term is useless. To call someone a neocon,

00:09:08.920 what does that even mean anymore? Now, when they use the phrase, they mean bigoted,

00:09:13.680 dead, warmongers, people who want to bomb brown people. What does the term alt-right mean? It means 0.98

00:09:19.540 anyone to the right of Hillary Clinton is a racist bigot, bigot, bigot, bigot. And this 1.00

00:09:23.960 brings us to the best week ever for the right, the worst week ever for the left. And the last thing

00:09:29.080 they can possibly do, which is call everybody a bigot. You know, in conversations, you'll say,

00:09:35.720 yeah, I think we should, uh, I think we should lower the top marginal tax rate, bring it down a little.

00:09:40.620 I think that'll be good for the economy. That'll help everybody. They'll say, well, but, but, but,

00:09:44.700 and once they finally run out of arguments, they'll say, well, the reason you want to do that is

00:09:49.120 because you're a racist. Yeah, I think we should, uh, modify our environmental policy. I don't think

00:09:56.680 we should overregulate businesses too much, but, but, but, but, but, but, but you're a racist. 0.82

00:10:02.600 That's always the bottom of the, of the argument. And that's what you're seeing here. You're not just

00:10:07.480 seeing it from the economist, which can't argue with Ben, can't argue with the book.

00:10:12.780 So they just call him a bigot. You see this with Eric Holder, former attorney general,

00:10:18.360 Eric Holder came out. He was doing an interview on MSNBC and they were talking about the Mueller

00:10:25.120 probe, the Russia investigation, DOJ more broadly, and he couldn't defend his legacy. He can't defend

00:10:33.600 two years of ridiculous hoax narrative on the so-called Russian collusion. So what does he do?

00:10:41.780 He accuses everybody of racism. I'm thinking about the judges who assessed to Paul Manafort.

00:10:47.820 Uh, and as you know, there were people who said, oh, well, one of the judges was good and the other

00:10:51.840 wasn't, but both judges assessed him as this sort of courtly grandfatherly figure. Judge Jackson

00:10:59.620 said that he didn't seem likely to re-offend when Mr. Manafort had re-offended after his charges.

00:11:10.260 And I thought, would any judge, and again, I don't want to single a single judge out,

00:11:15.100 but would those judges be as likely to say that about a first time young black male offender?

00:11:21.760 You know, I don't want to talk about the judges, those judges in particular, but I do worry that

00:11:27.880 judges like everybody, all other Americans carry with them implicit biases, and especially in the

00:11:33.660 criminal justice sphere. How do you fix it? Well, you certainly have to have training. You have to

00:11:38.620 make people aware of the fact that they do carry these biases and make them understand that, you

00:11:43.760 know, if you see an African-American defendant in front of you, that's going to probably trigger things 1.00

00:11:48.360 in your mind unconsciously, subconsciously, and you're perhaps going to treat that person

00:11:53.840 differently than somebody who shows up in a tie and has, you know, a great lawyer that they have

00:11:58.680 paid for. You're going to maybe cut that person a break that you wouldn't otherwise give to a

00:12:03.500 Hispanic or African-American defendant. Implicit biases. This is, this is the great crown jewel of 1.00

00:12:11.220 smearing people as racist because they can't do anything about it because it's implicit. It's

00:12:15.300 subconscious. You can't consciously change it because it's subconscious. Also, by the way,

00:12:20.100 if you didn't catch that at the end, Eric Holder says the reason that you, that African-American

00:12:26.600 people and Hispanic people are treated unfairly is because if you see somebody wearing a tie,

00:12:32.040 you're going to give them a greater respect and credit. Because apparently, according to Eric

00:12:37.600 Holder, a black man who is wearing a tie, black people and Hispanic people can't put on a tie. 1.00

00:12:42.500 You see, it's conflating race and knowing how to dress in a respectful situation. Oh, black people 0.99

00:12:51.580 and Hispanic, they can't wear ties. Uh, Eric, you're wearing a tie. No, but this old, no, no, no, no, 1.00

00:12:56.740 nothing to see here. That's your implicit bias that thinks I'm wearing a tie. It's all implicit,

00:13:01.900 implicit, implicit. We'll see in just one second why this is the weakest of the racist arguments.

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00:14:43.760 The implicit biases. This is just, we're not aware of it. We're just kind of robots moving with our

00:14:52.400 racial bigotry inside of us. That's why anytime the left loses, it's because of that, because of this

00:14:58.480 mythical implicit bias. By the way, the studies on so-called implicit biases, very, very weak. Not a

00:15:04.500 whole lot of evidence for this phenomenon. But did you see what Eric Holder said? He said, well,

00:15:10.180 how do we combat these implicit biases? He says, well, you need a lot of training. You need a lot

00:15:15.080 of training. You need re-education. You need brainwashing. What this means is that in institutions

00:15:20.380 that the federal government touches, that the left touches, you are going to have to go through

00:15:26.680 mandated re-education and brainwashing of leftist ideology. And you see this everywhere. This happens

00:15:34.580 all over. Anywhere that there is an institution in America with any relation to the left or the

00:15:41.000 government, they have this. At universities, you have to go through mandatory trainings, diversity

00:15:46.160 training, sensitivity training, implicit bias training. In corporate America, the same is true.

00:15:51.420 Some of the things I see from my friends in the academy is absurd. You'll see they're constantly

00:15:59.540 getting emails about this, constantly getting trainings about this sort of thing. That's what

00:16:05.160 he wants. This is the, I mean, this is why the government is always trying to come in K through 12

00:16:09.360 education, pre-K education. They want, hey, we'll give you free education. Hey, we'll subsidize your

00:16:14.800 student loans. Hey, we'll give universities a ton of money, but come on, we're giving you all,

00:16:22.020 you've got to give us a little something. Do this training, do this re-education, do this brainwashing.

00:16:27.320 That's what he wants. That's what we're talking about. Why? Because they don't have the argument.

00:16:32.880 So they've got to come in. Nancy Pelosi said this the other day, we need to lower the voting age to 16

00:16:37.200 so that we can capture them when they're already in our grip in public education.

00:16:45.000 And so now we've got Eric Holder. This is not just some wacko elected official or just some wacko

00:16:52.180 activist. This is a guy who was the attorney general. This is a major political figure in the

00:16:56.340 country. Now we have Ilhan Omar. Ilhan Omar, elected Democrat, freshman Democrat representative,

00:17:03.240 doesn't like the Jews very much, has made many comments repeatedly with weak apologies and then

00:17:09.020 repeated slurs against Jews. Her communications director, what does he say? He posts on Twitter

00:17:16.140 the other day, Jeremy Slevin, quote, anti-seminism is a right-wing force. Anti-seminism is a right-wing

00:17:22.040 force. Anti-semitism is a right-wing force. This is what they do. This is the new left thing for

00:17:27.200 leftist tweets. They'll either repeat some empty slogan time and time again. They had one planned

00:17:33.040 parenthood tweeted out something like, some men have a uterus, some men have a uterus because they

00:17:38.360 think if they repeat it enough times, it makes fantasy true. And so they do this here. The other

00:17:44.020 one they do is they use the clapping sign. They do the clapping. Anti-semitism is a right-wing force.

00:17:50.120 And he's saying this because his boss is an anti-Semite. Again, language has been watered down so much,

00:17:55.660 I don't use the term a lot. I don't use it to apply to a lot of people. But she has expressed this time

00:18:01.260 and time again. She said Israel has hypnotized the world. She's prayed to Allah to wake people up to 0.74

00:18:05.560 the evils of Israel. She said the only reason anybody in America would support Israel is because

00:18:10.080 they're getting paid off by Jews. She has said that the only, the reason that we have to treat Israel

00:18:17.300 so differently is that Jews in America can't be trusted not to have dual loyalties. They can't be 0.59

00:18:22.740 trusted to be loyal to their own country. She is an anti-Semite. And what this guy, Jeremy Slevin, 0.92

00:18:28.840 is trying to do is convince everybody that it's opposite day. You're, I know you are, but what am

00:18:34.920 I? That's what he's saying. Because they've had the worst week ever. And for Ilhan Omar, this has been

00:18:40.380 the worst month ever. She has, she's been roundly condemned even by her own party. This is one of the

00:18:49.900 reactions to the best week ever that we noted last time, which is gaslighting. They're trying to gaslight

00:18:56.320 us. They're trying to say, no, no, no. The Russia probe that wasn't legitimate. It was caused by

00:19:00.940 racism. No, no, no. The bigotry of members of our own party. It's actually opposite day. It's

00:19:06.540 actually your bigotry. No, no, no. Ben Shapiro and his book, which is all just about Western

00:19:12.940 intellectual history and it's selling and it's number one on the New York times list. It's only

00:19:17.140 number one because he's a big racist and everybody's a racist. La la la. Every, everybody who doesn't agree 0.99

00:19:22.400 with me is a bigot. Everyone who doesn't agree with me is Hitler. La la la la. That is the only 0.82

00:19:26.940 conclusion that we could have expected from this week. It's a wonderful way to end the week.

00:19:33.340 We knew it was going to happen. So I'd just like to toast all of you who have your leftist

00:19:37.700 tears tumblers out. That is the natural conclusion. When the left calls you a racist, you know you've

00:19:44.960 won the argument. Speaking of race frauds, Jussie Smollett, the guy who gave a good acting

00:19:52.400 performance on Empire and a bad acting performance on the streets of Chicago, you know he just had

00:19:57.860 his charges dropped by the crooked Cook County state attorney's office. You know he's trying to

00:20:04.680 say he's been totally cleared now. I mentioned this just a day or two ago. I said this is not the

00:20:10.520 end for Jussie Smollett. They would be crazy to bring him back on that show Empire because he faces

00:20:16.400 federal charges. So okay, he gets off in crooked Cook County. The big issue is he sent himself a hate

00:20:22.880 hoax, a threat hoax. He sent it through the mail. That makes it a federal crime. And I said it the

00:20:28.220 other day, the feds are not going to take kindly to crooked Chicago politics. They're not going to let

00:20:32.940 this off the hook. And looks like I was right. We are now finding out that the feds are not only

00:20:39.440 looking into the deal that was reached in Chicago. They're also looking into federal

00:20:44.120 charges of mail fraud. The FBI is investigating whether or not Jussie Smollett sent the hate mail

00:20:49.780 to himself. This was laced with a white powder. So it was a real threat. And if he is convicted of

00:20:56.800 this, Jussie Smollett could face up to a decade in prison. What do they say? They get called out. 0.99

00:21:03.120 Jussie Smollett called out as a total fraud, a total hoax. And he, he says, no, no,

00:21:09.160 it was, no, it's racism. It's anti-gay. I would never do, I would never do that. And that works 0.97

00:21:12.840 a little bit. I can work in the short run. It will not work in the long run. Reality eventually

00:21:17.740 reasserts itself. We're seeing it again. And speaking of racial politics, this, this last one

00:21:22.840 might be the most ridiculous part of the whole day. Stacey Abrams, who is a failed gubernatorial 1.00

00:21:29.180 candidate in Georgia. Stacey Abrams, whose only job that she's ever had, as far as I can tell,

00:21:34.300 is being in the Georgia state government. That's her only political experience. She is now being

00:21:41.660 heralded by weirdos on the left as a potential 2020 candidate. Here's Andrea Mitchell asking why

00:21:48.900 she's not at the top of the pack. How do you feel about the, some of the white men who are running

00:21:54.540 being asked about a running mate and saying, well, that they would guarantee putting a woman on the

00:22:00.160 ticket? You and Andrew Gillum came way closer to winning your races than Beto O'Rourke did.

00:22:06.940 How do you feel about all the publicity, the campaign that Beto O'Rourke has, has gained by

00:22:13.660 the listening tour, you know, cooking at home, going to the dentist, his online presence, his fundraising?

00:22:20.860 Why Beto O'Rourke and not Andrew Gillum and not Stacey Abrams as, you know, the darling of the media?

00:22:26.980 Yeah. Yeah. Beto's a weirdo too, but why Stacey Abrams? She's nobody. She is nothing. She was in 0.96

00:22:34.800 the Georgia state assembly or something. Are you kidding me? That qualifies you to be president?

00:22:42.820 She lost an election. She lost her election for governor. She then didn't concede the election.

00:22:51.040 She then finally conceded, but she says it was all wrong. And now there's a rumor that Joe Biden

00:22:56.880 might announce her as his running mate. And oh, the mainstream media are so excited about this.

00:23:02.480 During that lunch with the vice president, let me ask you, did the conversation of a potential future

00:23:07.680 ticket between the two of you with vice president, you being his vice president on the ticket?

00:23:12.980 One quick other piece of political business. You said you've been meeting with and having drinks with

00:23:16.740 everybody who's thinking about running for president. When you drink alone, are you having drinks with

00:23:20.460 somebody who's thinking about running for president? There are a number of women. There 1.00

00:23:24.380 are a number of minority candidates running for this democratic nomination. Is this the year one

00:23:28.900 of them ends up being the nominee? I believe so.

00:23:31.200 This is it. This is the, yeah, I believe so. I'm Stacey Abrams. I was in the new, I was in the

00:23:35.000 Georgia state house in the state assembly for like a little while. So that's why I should be president.

00:23:40.000 This is how you know that not just on Russia, not just on Jussie Smollett, not just on Ilhan Omar,

00:23:48.280 this is how you know broadly nationally, the left has lost the argument is the only thing that can

00:23:52.200 play is racism. The fact that this woman who has done nothing in her life is being considered as a 0.98

00:23:57.940 legitimate presidential candidate, couldn't even win a governor's race down there, tells you

00:24:02.660 everything. Why is she being considered a serious candidate? Because she's a black woman. 1.00

00:24:07.440 There's nothing bigoted about pointing that out. These guys admit it themselves. All of those

00:24:12.980 interviews say, well, but you're, you're a racial minority. You're a woman. Why shouldn't you be 1.00

00:24:18.880 considered a candidate? You're, you're better than Beto O'Rourke. Shouldn't you, shouldn't you by virtue

00:24:23.360 of your sex and race become the presidential candidate? And this is really bad because this is 0.72

00:24:28.900 always the case. When you only focus on race and sex, when you, when that's the bottom of your

00:24:34.400 argument, you don't have an argument and the Democrats, if they want to win in 2020 need to

00:24:38.980 have an argument. They need to present some reason to the American people to vote for them. They need

00:24:43.320 to say, Trump has done this wrong. We're going to do this right. Here's what we're going to offer.

00:24:47.640 They have nothing to offer. They have nothing to offer other than the green new deal, which Mike Lee

00:24:52.200 came out yesterday and had one of the most hilarious, uh, uh, routines on the floor of the Senate. It's one

00:24:59.160 of the best presentations there ever. He started showing photos of Ronald Reagan shooting machine

00:25:03.800 guns on a velociraptor. He said, this is as serious as the green new deal. And he's right.

00:25:08.580 We've got to get to the mailbag. But before we go, I just want to point something out from David Brooks,

00:25:13.260 David Brooks. This is the real cap to the best week ever. He wrote a piece in the New York times

00:25:19.140 that said, we've all just made fools of ourselves again. We've all made fools of ourselves because of 0.98

00:25:24.440 all the Russia stuff and everything. He calls it the awful corruption of scandal politics. He says, 0.97

00:25:28.700 quote, maybe it's time to declare a national Sabbath. Maybe it's time to step back from

00:25:32.880 the scandal mongering and assess who we are right now. Democrats might approach this moment with an

00:25:37.340 attitude of humility and honest self-examination. It's clear that many Democrats made grievous

00:25:43.620 accusations against the president that are not supported by the evidence. It's clear that people

00:25:48.220 like Beto O'Rourke and John Brennan owe Donald Trump a public apology. Republicans and the Sean

00:25:54.300 Hannity style Trumpians might also approach this moment with an attitude of humility and honest

00:25:59.840 self-examination. For two years, they've been calling the Mueller investigation a witch hunt.

00:26:04.980 For two years, they've been spreading the libel that there are no honest brokers in Washington.

00:26:09.480 They should apologize for peddling that sort of deep cynicism that undermines our country's

00:26:14.120 institutions. No, no, no, no, you don't get to do this. The left doesn't get to do this.

00:26:21.460 There is no moral equivalence. The left has said for two years, Donald Trump is a stooge,

00:26:29.560 a tool of Russia, a traitor to his country who sold our whole country out. Now we're a satellite 0.99

00:26:34.700 state for the Kremlin. That was totally wrong. Every syllable of that was wrong and it was proven wrong.

00:26:42.000 Also for two years, conservatives have said there was no basis for this investigation. We know that

00:26:47.600 it was crooked from the beginning because it was based on a fake dossier funded by Hillary Clinton

00:26:52.100 with massive FISA abuse, massive collusion between the Democrats, the Obama DOJ and FBI and foreign

00:26:59.320 intelligence sources, including in Russia. We said this was crooked from the very beginning. And so we 0.50

00:27:05.340 are skeptical of the investigation because of hard evidence, which we still have, which is still

00:27:10.740 demonstrable that this investigation never should have been launched in the first place.

00:27:14.460 There is no moral equivalence. We were right. We were 100% exonerated, not just on Donald Trump

00:27:22.820 being, uh, uh, not being a stooge of Russia, not just on Donald Trump, not obstructing justice,

00:27:28.880 but us, we were exonerated in our deep skepticism and our deep opposition to this Russian hoax

00:27:35.200 investigation because it was wrong. It was a lie. It was a total fiction and fantasy from the very

00:27:41.380 beginning. No equivalence. The left owes an apology to us. We owe an apology to absolutely nobody,

00:27:48.500 including David Brooks. We win, you lose, deal with it. We've got to get to the mailbag. Go to

00:27:54.880 dailywire.com right now. Coming up at 7 p.m. Eastern, 4 p.m. Pacific. Tune into our next episode of Daily

00:28:00.460 Wire backstage where I'm going to smoke a cigar and have a glass of whiskey because I'm a little riled up by

00:28:05.860 this silly equivalence, this ridiculous attempt to say, well, we both did something wrong. Nope.

00:28:13.060 Best week ever for Republicans. Worst week ever for Democrats. Deal with it. We're going to celebrate

00:28:17.560 tonight. It's going to be me, Jeremy, Ben Shapiro, Andrew Klavan, and this week's special guest,

00:28:23.420 Matt Walsh. It's going to be a lot of fun. As always, only Daily Wire subscribers get to ask the

00:28:27.400 questions. And if you subscribe during tonight's live stream, you will be automatically entered to win

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00:28:37.700 We're going to have a great time. Subscribe to Daily Wire tonight during the live stream and be

00:28:42.560 automatically entered to win the sweepstakes. Trust me, we will have a very good time. You know what

00:28:46.940 you get. You get everything. If you weren't already a subscriber, you'd have drowned all week.

00:28:50.600 Go to dailywire.com. We'll be right back with the mailbag.

00:29:02.120 Running late as always, but we are going to get through this mailbag from Kamey. 0.96

00:29:07.700 Hi, Michael. My husband and I are having a problem in our marriage and would like your opinion.

00:29:12.720 While everything is mostly going well, we cannot decide who is at a greater risk of drowning given

00:29:18.300 all of the latest news. Unfortunately, we only have one leftist here's Tumblr. What should we do?

00:29:24.820 Please help. The obvious answer is to subscribe again. It's the only way to save both of you.

00:29:30.180 If you don't have time to do that, if you're not watching the backstage live stream tonight and

00:29:35.380 you're not subscribing to enter to win a chance to come out here and hang out with us during the

00:29:40.360 next backstage, women and children first. Sir, that's just the upright thing to do, especially 0.99

00:29:47.200 in a week like this with so many tsunamis. Next question from Elliot. Hi, Michael. At 29,

00:29:53.620 you have your life together and have achieved a lot more than many liberals do even into their

00:29:59.720 40s. It is true. Not writing a book is a far greater achievement than many of our friends

00:30:04.740 on the left will ever, will ever have while they're whining and screaming for two years

00:30:09.460 straight. What do you think separates you and many other young, successful conservatives from

00:30:15.080 liberals who at 29 are still figuring themselves out, whatever that means, and over 29?

00:30:21.080 It's funny you ask that. When I was a kid, I vividly remember this. I was eight or nine

00:30:28.060 years old and I was watching the wonder years and I heard the phrase about, uh, Kevin's older

00:30:33.460 sister. He said, she's just finding herself. I said, what the hell does that finding yourself?

00:30:39.900 Well, you got to look, you're right there. You got, you can find, find yourself right there.

00:30:43.180 I thought that was when I knew I was really a conservative. And so I appreciate the compliment

00:30:49.880 that, uh, things are, have, have gone well for me. The main reason things have gone well

00:30:55.900 is the holy unmerited grace of God. That's just wonderful providence before which I am awed.

00:31:05.240 That's the main answer. However, in so much as we can help, help ourselves out, God helps

00:31:12.380 those who help themselves. I think a big difference between conservatives and left wingers, we know

00:31:20.440 broadly that conservatives are more content, have more life satisfaction, are happier and

00:31:25.320 more joyful. This is, this is true. It has been seen in many, many social scientific studies.

00:31:31.160 It's not just true in the United States. It's true around the world. There was a huge meta

00:31:34.360 analysis of this taking into account 16 countries, tens of thousands of people, and it remained

00:31:39.120 true. Why is that? I think the main issue is that conservatives see purpose in the world

00:31:47.960 for conservatives who are drawing on the tradition. Even if you would call yourself secular or agnostic,

00:31:54.320 you're drawing on a tradition, which is Christian. And so you see purpose in the world. You are

00:32:01.060 accessing that even by way of your culture and your behavior. And it's, it's a far greater

00:32:08.740 encouragement to live life well or to try to live life well or to try to thrive and to try

00:32:15.620 to flourish if you understand that life has a purpose. And there is a moral law and there

00:32:22.200 is redemption and resurrection. And there is a, a God who created it all, who sees it all. And

00:32:33.420 the alternative view to that is that, as Hamlet says, life is a tale told by an idiot full of sound 1.00

00:32:41.880 and fury signifying nothing. That's a pretty depressing, why would you get out of bed? Why would you do 1.00

00:32:46.900 anything other than scream at the chaos? Why do conservatives, why are we resilient when we lose

00:32:52.000 elections? And why does the left never concede elections? Because to them, this is just total

00:32:57.660 chaos. This is just total, no, no, ripping their hair out. But for conservatives, we say, well, that's

00:33:04.940 the way of the world. It's a fallen world. These things happen, but ultimately there is a divine justice

00:33:09.800 that prevails. That's probably at the, at the base, the reason you can add on a lot of culture

00:33:17.520 and politics and behaviors on top of that. But I think that's what lays at the base of it. From

00:33:22.340 Peter, question, nickname for Beto, Plato, Beto. He is soft, childlike, and easily manipulated. What do

00:33:33.220 you think? And can you tweet this at the president? I don't have Twitter. It's clever, but it's a

00:33:39.080 terrible nickname. It's not going to work. It doesn't stick. This is what conservatives do a

00:33:43.800 lot. We overthink it. We are too clever by half. Senator Ted Cruz, whom I greatly admire,

00:33:51.920 he's a little too clever by half sometimes. Donald Trump understands not to be. Donald Trump,

00:33:58.840 the reason he's so great at nicknames is he just punches people right in the gut. A great example of

00:34:05.060 this is Elizabeth Warren. The nickname for her before President Trump adopted it was Faux Cahontas,

00:34:12.320 F-A-U-X, Cahontas. This is a play on words. Faux, meaning false, and Pocahontas. It's clever. It's 1.00

00:34:21.080 pretty good. Liawatha. That's pretty, it's Lai and Hiawatha. Okay. These are, these are good nicknames.

00:34:28.460 But President Trump didn't go for Faux Cahontas. He went for Pocahontas,

00:34:31.520 which is not a double entendre. It's just, he's just calling her the most famous Indian name,

00:34:38.940 and that's it. But that was the better nickname, even though it's less clever,

00:34:44.200 because that nickname paints a picture. It's direct. It doesn't require that you know what

00:34:49.380 the word faux means. It doesn't require you to put together this, this play on words to look at

00:34:55.680 the juxtaposition of those two words. It's clear. It's right to the point. Play Do-Bedo. Sure, he's soft.

00:35:01.520 He's weird, and he's childlike, but it's not going to go right to the point. We've got to wait for the

00:35:05.960 master of nicknames himself, President Trump, to get to it. From Alyssa. Hello, Michael. Do you have

00:35:12.120 any universities you're planning on speaking at in Texas in the near future? If so, where and when?

00:35:16.520 Yes, I'm going to be down at Texas A&M with none other than Andrew Klavan. We're going to be doing

00:35:22.160 a joint event down there. I think that's coming up in April. I don't have the exact date, but check it

00:35:26.760 out at Young America's Foundation. You can see my whole speaking tour there and figure out where

00:35:32.040 I'll be at a university near you. But I will be down, I think, next month with Drew, so check it

00:35:37.340 out. From Katya. Hi, Michael. I just turned 18 last Monday. I'm super excited because I get to vote,

00:35:44.860 even though I heard your explanation of why voting isn't inherently good. My co-workers, however,

00:35:50.080 think I'm naive because our votes don't mean anything. How would you respond to this?

00:35:53.280 I'd look at the Senate race down in Florida. Look at the governor's race down in Florida. Look

00:35:57.880 at the governor's race that beat out Stacey Abrams down in Georgia. Look at the 2000 presidential

00:36:04.760 election. Sometimes elections come down to hundreds of votes or less. Your vote often does matter quite

00:36:12.720 a lot. Voting is not the be all and end all. We don't have a republic so that we can vote,

00:36:17.380 but we do vote so that we can have a good republic. And if you've got good opinions and you're

00:36:22.960 supporting a good side of politics, you better make sure you go out there and vote. It certainly

00:36:27.040 can matter. And in recent years, it frequently has. From Bryce. Dear Michael, I'm currently writing

00:36:34.140 a book about my experiences as a male domestic abuse victim. And I'm trying to think of a great

00:36:39.180 title that not only will get attention, but will rile up the left. I'm considering naming it

00:36:43.800 hashtag me too. But friends I've discussed this with have given this a stern no. As a bestselling

00:36:49.860 book title author, what say you? I'm open to any and all suggestions. Thank you for acknowledging

00:36:56.640 my expertise. Obviously, I know nothing about writing a book, but I know a lot about writing

00:37:00.400 titles. I would say, I assume they objected to me too because it's so controversial. So I like,

00:37:07.860 keep that idea. I mean, you should be controversial if you want people to take a look at the content

00:37:12.300 and then hopefully you'll have good content. I would recommend not me too, but men too.

00:37:19.140 Hashtag men too. The male victims of female brutality or of sexual assault or something to

00:37:26.640 that effect. I think that's a good title. It would have the controversy. It gets your point across

00:37:32.960 directly. And no one's written it yet. So I think that would be a very interesting book.

00:37:37.560 From Michael. Brother Michael, I need your love guru advice. Two months ago, I started dating one

00:37:43.680 of my friends of three years. She moved to Nashville six months ago and agreed to start a relationship

00:37:48.940 only if I plan to move to Nashville. I agreed to eventually if it worked out. She wants me to give

00:37:54.480 her a date on when I plan to move, but I have so many responsibilities keeping me home. Is it too much

00:37:59.400 to ask of a significant other to move across the country after two months of a relationship? Best,

00:38:04.340 Michael. Man, what has happened to young love? What is wrong with you people? Listen to this

00:38:15.920 language. We agreed to have a relationship. We sat down. Would you have a negotiation? You sat across

00:38:22.540 the table. You said, okay, I'm willing. And then, but you've got to move and you have to give me a date,

00:38:26.100 but I've got responsibilities and I've got, what are you, are you kidding me? I think it was George

00:38:31.580 Will made fun of this one time from the perspective of Cole Porter. Cole Porter didn't sing, let's do

00:38:37.920 it. Let's be in a relationship that we negotiate. And eventually I'll plan to move once my responsibilities

00:38:43.660 are over. No, he said, let's do it. Let's fall in love. Come on, man. I don't know. Do you want to,

00:38:51.200 do you like her? First of all, you haven't been dating for two months. You've, you said your friends

00:38:55.120 were there for three years, three years, you haven't come to a conclusion. I'm not saying you

00:39:01.120 got to move there. I'm not saying you got to move there even to continue dating one another. I've done

00:39:06.920 long distance for a long time. I've done that. And I'm on the road all the time now. So I'm

00:39:11.300 practically long distance for half the week, but don't be motivated by, well, I've got these

00:39:17.320 responsibilities and well, I, you know, it's just really, we were planning and we negotiated and

00:39:21.200 what's the time. Don't do that. Do you, are you moved by a great feeling of love? Do you,

00:39:26.600 do you love the girl? Do you want to go? Yeah, then go do it. Go see her a lot and don't negotiate

00:39:31.600 it out. And if you're not, if it's just some kind of clinical thing and it was a love affair of

00:39:37.480 convenience, then break it off and do something else. But don't approach it in this cold way.

00:39:42.280 That's, that's like leftist rationalist types do this. They're weighing out the pros and cons.

00:39:46.820 Don't do that. Conservatives, don't forget, Edmund Burke inspired

00:39:51.040 all of the romantics. The conservatives were romantics in many ways. Be a romantic.

00:39:56.860 From Timothy, dear Michael, master of brevity, does the 13th amendment prevent us from owning the libs?

00:40:03.880 Regards, Chuck, this is a highly controverted issue of constitutional law. The 13th amendment,

00:40:10.820 which outlaws slavery, may in fact prevent us from owning the libs. This will probably make it up to

00:40:17.720 the supreme court eventually and, and they'll give us a final judgment on it. The one thing we do know

00:40:24.200 though, is that the 13th amendment does not prevent the libs from owning themselves at which they have

00:40:30.240 done all week long. They've done this for over two years. They've done it for longer than two years.

00:40:37.220 They are owning themselves. And I think this will be the great, great defense in this 13th amendment

00:40:45.280 argument over if they can own themselves, we might as well not be left out of the fun. I think that

00:40:53.460 actually would create a discrimination case because if they can own themselves, why can't we own them as

00:40:59.140 well when they're so obviously owned? Great question. Really thoughtful. From Brandon,

00:41:05.040 hey Michael, what would your opinion be about a conservative church as a business?

00:41:09.760 People would pay to hear a sermon and worship God, then learn about ideas and great people like

00:41:14.120 Aristotle. The reason being regular churches can't speak on politics. So they end up being an LGBQP, 0.96

00:41:20.940 LMNOP meeting sometimes where the heart of faith and ideology is never discussed because they have to

00:41:27.120 dance around everyone's feelings. I think it's probably a bad idea to turn churches into businesses.

00:41:34.100 I remember reading something about only being able to serve one master and not being able to serve God

00:41:39.500 and mammon at the same time. So that, and frankly, the problem with churches, many churches today,

00:41:46.220 is obviously many Protestant churches, but even many parishes of the Catholic church, certainly in America,

00:41:52.440 is that they are treating it like a business. They're treating it like they're responding to

00:41:57.040 market forces. And if the parish, the congregation, they're not really a congregation. They're just

00:42:03.140 the audience. And we've got to give the audience what they want. We've got to put on a show for them

00:42:06.260 and we've got to tell them exactly what they want to hear. That's the only way they'll fill up those

00:42:10.120 pews. That's the only way they'll fill up that donation basket. The problem is we're treating

00:42:16.380 churches too much like a business. Now, if you want churches to be able to talk about politics,

00:42:20.760 I agree. I think it's absurd that churches can't talk about politics and I hope they change that

00:42:25.660 soon. Hopefully they change it during the Trump administration. That has been bandied about as

00:42:29.840 an idea and I hope they do it. From Kyle, dear big Papa Knowles, is a hot dog a sandwich? Yes.

00:42:38.240 Yes, it is. From Nathan, Knowles, hello. I have recently been interested in the creationism versus

00:42:44.340 theistic evolution debate. Where do you come down on the issue and do you think churches should teach

00:42:48.640 one way or the other? Thanks, big fan of the show, Nathan. I know that the books of the Bible take

00:42:55.380 into account all genres. They're not just written like modern histories are written. That's just a

00:43:02.260 huge interpretive mistake of certain church movements in the last 60 years or so. Mostly,

00:43:09.200 I don't care though because as Cardinal Baronius said, the scripture teaches us how to go to heaven,

00:43:16.820 not how the heavens go. C.S. Lewis was of this opinion. G.K. Chesterton was of this opinion.

00:43:24.220 I mean, I'm interested as a matter of science as to how the human race has come to be as it is. I

00:43:31.720 suppose as a scientific matter, I'm interested. But as a theological matter, it doesn't change one

00:43:36.660 little thing for me. From Eric, hey Michael, you mentioned earlier this week that you believe

00:43:42.200 anarchy to be of the left. I've been trying to think it through and I'm just curious how you would go

00:43:46.680 about arguing that position. Thanks. Well, because anarchy takes on the primary premise of the

00:43:54.180 left, which is that the chief unit of society is the individual. It takes on the idea of social

00:44:01.700 contracts, which is an essentially leftist and rationalist idea with no relation to history

00:44:07.520 whatsoever. And so the anarchists take the idea that because the idol of society, the atomic unit

00:44:15.820 of society is the individual, then we're all just a bunch of individuals and there should be no

00:44:20.040 government whatsoever because we're all just individuals. The flip side of that argument is

00:44:24.500 that the atomic unit of society is all individuals and that's all we have. And there are no other,

00:44:29.780 there's no more atomic unit of society. And so because we're all individuals, we ought to be all

00:44:36.160 swept up together as individuals in the collective with a super collectivist state. Two sides of the

00:44:43.000 same argument. The conservative response to that is that the individual obviously is not the atomic

00:44:47.840 unit of society. We obviously are not born into just thin air from nothing with no bonds tying us to

00:44:56.180 anybody or anything. Obviously we're born from women, from our mothers. And we were conceived

00:45:03.400 because of the love between our mothers and our fathers. And they're not alone either. They've got

00:45:08.240 families as well. And they're in certain places with certain cultures and certain community

00:45:12.000 organizations and bonds of kinship and bonds of loyalty and bonds of patriotism and not just

00:45:17.680 entitlement and not just rights, but duty and responsibility to those things. Because we didn't

00:45:23.060 create our own lives. This is given to us as the greatest gift. And so we ought to be grateful for

00:45:28.780 that. We ought to have veneration for that. We ought to give some credence to the prescription of

00:45:34.040 the tradition, which is not the oldest thing. It's the newest thing because it survived through all of

00:45:38.300 the years. It's not anti-democratic. It's the greatest democracy of all because it's the democracy of

00:45:45.120 the dead that ties us as we are tied to our ancestors and to our future generations. That's the

00:45:51.000 conservative answer to two sides of a rationalist and ultimately left-wing argument. All right.

00:45:58.180 That's our show. We've got a lot more to get to, but too bad. We'll get to it later. Check us out

00:46:01.780 at Backstage Today. That'll be happening later on. In the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles. This is

00:46:05.100 The Michael Knowles Show. See you later.

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00:46:35.300 Hey guys, over on the Matt Wall Show today, a brutal assault of a pro-life activist by a pro-abortion

00:46:40.740 extremist is getting, of course, no attention in the media, but I want to give it some attention

00:46:45.580 today. And also I want to give some attention to the greater problem, the epidemic of pro-abortion

00:46:51.480 extremists assaulting pro-lifers. It happens all the time. And I will show you some evidence of that

00:46:56.560 today on the show. Also, Vox has come out, perhaps unsurprisingly, in defense of Cardi B, who admitted to

00:47:04.020 drugging and robbing men. We'll talk about the double standard there. Also, we have the latest

00:47:08.240 on Jussie Smollett. All of that today over on the Matt Wall Show.

The Michael Knowles Show - March 28, 2019

Ep. 322 - The Left’s Last Defense： Cry Racism

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