Ep. 329 - Of Course Bernie Is A Millionaire
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After years and years of vilifying millionaires, socialist gadfly Bernie Sanders prepares finally to release his tax returns. And guess what? Turns out he s a millionaire. We ll analyze why socialists always seem to be so interested in accumulating wealth.
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After years and years of vilifying millionaires, socialist gadfly Bernie Sanders prepares finally
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to release his tax returns. And guess what? Turns out he's a millionaire. We will analyze
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why socialists always seem to be so interested in accumulating wealth. Then Candace Owens
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humiliates Democrats Ted Lieu and Jerry Nadler during congressional testimony. Bibi Netanyahu
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wins an historic third term in Israel. Ilhan Omar says more awful things. And the bloom
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is off. The Pete, but-a-ga-ga-ga rose. I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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The time finally comes for Bernie Sanders to come clean. If you had to describe Bernie
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Sanders' campaign, Bernie Sanders' entire political career in just one word, how would
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Enough is enough. Enough is enough, Bernie. Enough of the lies. Guess what? It turns out,
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Bernie Sanders is a millionaire. Of course he's a millionaire. He did an interview with the New
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York Times and he says that now as he's preparing to run for president 2020, he is finally going to
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release 10 years worth of his tax returns. Now you might say, Michael, Bernie Sanders ran in 2016.
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They all made such an issue about the tax returns. Surely Bernie Sanders has already
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released his tax returns, right? Wrong. No, no, no. As with everything when it comes to socialism,
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it's always different rules for you than they are for me. Tax returns for thee, but not for me.
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So Bernie Sanders, while he's been running for president now since what, 2015, basically nonstop,
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he has released not even one tax return. He released a two-page summary of one year of his
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tax returns. That's all we know about Bernie's tax returns right now. By the way, I don't care
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about tax returns. I don't care at all what any of the candidates have done in their tax returns.
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It does not interest me in the least. I don't think candidates should release their tax returns.
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There's just no reason for it. Now, why don't I care? I don't care because I don't care if you're
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really wealthy and want to run for office. I think that's a noble thing that you've made a lot of money
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and then decide that you're going to stop making money for a period of time. You're actually going to
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lose some money to serve your country. I think that's a wonderful thing. I don't ever discourage
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rich people from running for office. Now, for the Democrats, of course, especially for socialists
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like Bernie Sanders, they ostensibly hate when wealthy people run for office. They're oligarchs.
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They're millionaires. They're billionaires. Until it turns out that you're one of those millionaire,
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billionaire, plutocrat oligarchs as well, aren't you, Bernie?
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Bernie. So now the Democrats have made tax returns a big deal. Bernie Sanders is in this
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corner. He has to release his tax returns. So he's now trying to let it leak a little bit slowly.
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Bernie is a millionaire. I always knew Bernie was a millionaire. There were a number of reasons.
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In a very personal way, I know that Bernie Sanders has three houses. He has three homes. It's hard to
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have three homes if you're not a millionaire. I guess by definition, you're a millionaire,
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especially where Bernie Sanders is living, if you have three homes.
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But the excuse is what's really incredible. So he says, I'm a millionaire. Yes, I'm a millionaire.
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Quote, I wrote a bestselling book. If you write a bestselling book, you can be a millionaire too.
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First of all, by the way, I have to say not to tell tales out of school or anything. I did write a
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bestselling book. I wrote a number one bestselling book. It was number one on Amazon, total charts
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everywhere for a week and a half. I haven't made a million dollars on that book. Bernie Sanders has
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made more money on his books than I have. Now, I assume his books were just bought by various
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Democrat political action committees and that sort of thing to float his presidential campaign. But
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still, the statement he made is not true. I wrote a bestselling book. If you write a bestselling
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book, you can be a millionaire too. I guess you can be. But how come that's okay for Bernie,
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but it's not okay for other people? How come it's okay when Bernie makes a million dollars on the
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private market, or in the open market rather, in private enterprise, but it's not okay when other
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people do? It's okay if you write a bestselling book, then it's okay to be a millionaire. But if you
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start a company that makes widgets, then it's not okay to be a millionaire. If you're a plumber who has a
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successful plumbing company, then it's not okay to be a millionaire. If you work in finance and you
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add liquidity to markets, then it's not okay to be a millionaire. Any other field, it's not okay.
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It's terrible. The millionaires are destroying this country. Too many millionaires and billionaires
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unless you write a bestselling book. What is it about bestselling books? Let me tell you something.
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There are a lot of bestselling books. Most of them are completely worthless. Bernie Sanders's book
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is completely worthless. He has added very little to society by producing that book. He's probably
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just damaged some forests by wasting trees. Does anyone really believe that Bernie Sanders's book
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has made a greater contribution to society, has improved the lives of people more than the car
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company or the vacuum cleaner company or any of the other companies, any enterprise that allows people
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to thrive and buy goods and services for their friends and family? That's an amazing excuse.
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So I knew Bernie was a millionaire. I mean, I knew he wrote the book, so I knew he was a millionaire.
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But moreover, I knew Bernie was a millionaire because he just, he just protests a little too much
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about socialism. This is the funny thing with socialism. The other, we were talking about this. I was talking
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to sweet little Elisa about this and she said, but Mac, if Bernie's a big socialist, shouldn't he give
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away all of his money? Of course he should. Sweet, sweet, sweet little Elisa. Of course, you're thinking
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too rationally. You're thinking too logically. You're accepting the premises of socialists at face
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value and following their ideas to a logical conclusion. That's not what socialism is about at
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all. That is certainly not what socialism is about. Socialism is not about giving away wealth.
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Socialism is about the acquisition of wealth. It is never about sharing wealth. Sharing wealth is
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called charity. People who want to share their wealth give money away to charity. They give it to
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the bum on the street. They give it to their church. They give it to non-profit organizations and
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charities. Socialism is about accumulation. It's about the accumulation of wealth and the accumulation of
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power. It's about saying, ooh, too many people have too many things out there. We are going to not give
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anything away. We're going to take that wealth away from them and concentrate it in the hands of a small
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number of people, also known as the government. That's socialism. Conservatives think there's some
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contradiction with millionaire socialists. No, of course a socialist is going to be a millionaire.
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All a socialist is concerned with is taking money, bringing in money, accumulating money. You'll
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notice most of the people who are pushing socialism are extremely wealthy. Bernie Sanders is a millionaire.
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All of the leaders of the Democrat party are millionaires. Hillary Clinton, multi-multi-millionaire,
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huge slush funds, basically used a non-profit organization as a personal slush fund. How about
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez? She's just 29 years old. She was a bartender living in her parents' house not
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three years ago. She's been in government for two months. She's already taking $1 million out of her
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campaign and funneling it to her own uses. She is already embezzling a million dollars. She's been
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in office for two months. That's what socialism does. It's about taking in, bringing in. That's not
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even an irony. We know it from the beginning. This is what Winston Churchill said. He said that
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socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy. It's all about
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greed. It's not about charity at all. If you like charity, then you give to charity. You actually
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don't want someone stealing your money because you know that they're not going to put it to nearly as
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good a use as you are going to put it to. Socialism at no point engages the faculties of charity or
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empathy or generosity. None of those things. It exclusively engages avarice, greed, and envy,
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and acquisitiveness. The great example, Dinesh D'Souza used to use this example all the time.
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If I'm walking along the street, I'm walking on the sidewalk here, and I see some bum, and he's some
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just degenerate, drug-addled, lazy bum, and I'm eating a sandwich, and he says, hey, can I have that
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sandwich? I like my sandwich. I've got my sandwich here. But I say, you know, here. Here's half my
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sandwich. Now, I am glad that I have done some charity. I've treated you with compassion. You have a
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gratitude toward me because I've given you a sandwich that I didn't need to give you, and there's a nice
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moral exchange that happened. On the flip side, I'm walking down the street, do-do-do-do-do, eating my
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sandwich. Then millionaire Bernie Sanders comes up on his white horse, and he points a gun at my head,
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and he says, give him that sandwich. I say, you give him your sandwich. You're the millionaire. You give
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him a sandwich. No, no. You give him your sandwich right now. So then I've got to give the bum my sandwich.
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sandwich. I resent the bum for taking my sandwich. I certainly resent Bernie Sanders for making me do
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it. The bum isn't grateful to me. The bum, I guess, is sort of grateful or at least dependent on Bernie
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Sanders, and he feels entitled to my sandwich. His only attitude toward me is one of entitlement,
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as though he deserves my sandwich. And Bernie Sanders, it cost him nothing. Millionaire Bernie.
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Bernie. That's socialism for you. And Bernie is exposing it. And by the way, it is not going to
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change one single voter's calculation. People who think, ha ha, yes, now Bernie's exposed as a
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millionaire. Yes, this will show that he's a hypocrite. No, it won't. In a narrow way, it will.
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But socialists don't care about that. Socialists do not want to share the wealth. Socialists want to
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take the wealth. And Bernie is a prime example of that. Take the wealth by any means necessary,
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even if it means contradicting your public statements for 40 years. When the leftists are
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not exposing themselves as Bernie Sanders is doing, Candace Owens is doing it for them. Candace Owens
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testified. Our friend Candace, we've had her on the show a number of times. She testified before
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Congress yesterday. It was so beautiful. She was testifying on white nationalism. You might say,
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that's a little strange. Why is Candace Owens testifying on white nationalism? Well, I think
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it was a masterstroke by Republicans. She can tell you why she did it. But the question of white
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nationalism is totally ginned up by Democrats. What is white nationalism? What is it? A white
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nationalism actually does have a meaning. It means that you advocate for a white ethnic state,
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and specifically in America. That's what white nationalism in America means. Okay,
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that has a specific meaning. You want a white ethnic state. Depends on exactly the definition of
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white, but broadly speaking, we know what we mean by white people. You want a white ethnic state.
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You want everybody else to leave. How many people in this country actually advocate for that?
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Like five? Maybe a dozen people in this country? How many people actually are advocating for a white
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ethnic state and the deportation of everybody else in the country? Nobody. Virtually nobody,
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statistically nobody in this country is advocating that. It is not a problem. It is a non-issue,
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except the Democrats need to make this an issue. So the Democrats are using this phrase all the time.
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I'm telling you, white nationalism actually does have a precise meaning,
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except in our popular culture today, it has no meaning. It has been totally robbed of meaning.
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Whenever anybody says it to you, it means nothing. It means, well, you're a meanie. You're bad.
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You're bad. You're bad. You're bad. It's the new racist. Racist used to have a meaning. Now it
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doesn't. White supremacist used to have a meaning. Now it doesn't because they call everybody to the
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right of Hillary Clinton, a white nationalist or a white supremacist or a white racist or this or that
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or the other thing. Ilan Omar called Stephen Miller, a white nationalist. Stephen Miller, I will remind
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you, is a Jew. White nationalists, generally speaking, not huge fans of the Yamaha. But
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she'll call Stephen Miller a white nationalist. And why does she do that? Because what you really
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mean by white nationalist, when the left uses it, is somebody with whom I disagree on basically
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anything. That's white nationalism. So they bring this term up. They've made this term very popular.
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They've been popularizing it a lot since 2016. And they bring Candace Owens before Congress.
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Democrats did not know what hit them when the tornado of Candace Owens tore through the Capitol.
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There isn't a single adult today that in good conscience would make the argument that America
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is a more racist or a more white nationalist society than it was when my grandfather was growing up.
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And yet we're hearing these terms sent around today because what they want to say is that brown
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people need to be scared, which seems to be the narrative that we hear every four years right
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ahead of a presidential election. Here are some things we never hear. 75% of the black boys in
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California don't meet state reading standards. In inner cities like Baltimore, within five high
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schools and one middle school, not a single student was found to be proficient in math or reading
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in 2016. The single motherhood rate in the black community, which is at 23% in the 1960s when my
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grandfather was coming up, is at a staggering 74% today. I am guessing there will be no committee
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hearings about that. There are more black babies aborted than born alive in cities like New York.
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And you have Democrat Governor Andrew Cuomo lighting up buildings to celebrate late-term abortions.
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I could go on and on. My point is that white nationalism, white nationalism does not do any
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of those things that I just brought up. Democrat policies did. Let me be clear. The hearing today
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is not about white nationalism or hate crimes. It's about fear-mongering power and control.
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Absolutely devastating and such a brilliant tactic. So she acknowledges the issue here,
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which is that white nationalism barely exists in America. It is virtually non-existent as an
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ideology in the United States. They're holding a big hearing because Democrats want to pretend that
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Donald Trump is some anti-black bigot or anti-Hispanic bigot or whatever. She goes up and she doesn't just
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refute their argument. She doesn't just say, no, but it's not because of this, because of this,
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and no, and then Trump did this and see, so it's not that. No. What Candace understands is what
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Ronald Reagan used to say, which is that when you're explaining, you're losing. In a political
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battle, in a political debate, when you are explaining, you're explaining yourself away. You
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are losing. So what she does is she goes on the attack. She says, why is it the case that out of
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wedlock births, single motherhood among black Americans was 23, 25% decades ago? Now it's 74%.
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Why is, is that white nationalism's fault? Why is it that in, in New York city today,
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more black babies are killed in the womb than are born? And white liberals are cheering on that policy.
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Oh, they're donating millions to Planned Parenthood. Kill those black babies. We don't want too many
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of those young, poor black babies running around. Kill all the, what is that white nationalism or is
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that the policy of the Democrat party? And is that the policy of leftists? Is that white Nash? I don't
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think so. She goes on and on. Obviously she could go on and on and on. Thomas Sowell has written several
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books on this exact point, which I suspect is where she got her arguments from. And, and Candace has
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all of the rhetorical abilities to convey this message. She obviously is black. She has a certain
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ethos here. She has a certain credibility because she's speaking from the black experience in America.
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She has the pathos. She's, she's very good at connecting emotionally to people. And she has the
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logical side of the argument too. She's just pointing to statistics. She's pointing to different
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periods of history. She's showing before and after. She's saying, what's the difference? Is the
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difference the Ku Klux Klan? Is the difference David Duke? Is the difference Richard Spencer? Or is
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the difference left-wing policies from the federal government, from the federal level, all the way on down?
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And particularly accentuated in cities that are run by left-wing Democrats, such as New York.
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Brilliant opening, totally shuts it down. And she just comes out swinging. She's just punching,
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punching, punching. So now the Democrats are, are on their toes. They don't, they did not expect this.
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The biggest scandal, this is my last sentence, in American politics is that Democrats have been
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conning minorities into belief that we are perpetual victims, all but ensuring our failure.
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Racial division and class warfare are central to the Democrat party platform. They need blacks to
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hate whites, the rich to hate the poor. And soon enough, it'll be the tall hating the short.
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Oh my gosh. We didn't, we'll get to the Democrats hitting her in a second.
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That last line that is, they want the blacks to hate the whites. They want the rich to hate the
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poor and the poor to hate the rich. They want the tall to hate the short. They want to divide
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everybody. And it's Democrats who have done it. She is taking the fight right to them. She's not
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speaking in nice, polite political campaign terms. She's speaking in blunt terms. This is a lesson
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that a lot of people can learn from Donald Trump. Before that, they could learn it from Ronald Reagan,
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actually. Ronald Reagan spoke in blunt terms. He spoke actually in these exact terms. He said,
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well, we've gotten to a point in our society where, I'm paraphrasing, obviously, we've gotten to a
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point in our society where you can't look at a rich, a fat man and a skinny man and not think that the
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fat man got that way by taking from the skinny man. Well, Nancy, I'll get fat on jelly beans.
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Mm-hmm. That, this, it's from a time for choosing, right? Not the jelly bean part. This is from Ronald
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Reagan's most famous address. It's what launched him as a national political figure. And Candace is
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learning this exact rhetorical lesson. And that, that, and by the way, she has the advantage of being
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correct. So she's right about that point on Democrats. So now the Democrats, they just have to use
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everything they've got on her. The one thing they've got is at one of these campus speaking events,
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Candace Owens was asked a question about nationalism and Nazism and Hitler. And isn't,
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if you're a nationalist, aren't you a, a Hitler supporter? And so Candace Owens here draws a
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distinction between nationalism and Nazism. And this went viral. It was taken out of context.
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The, the Democrats honed in on a few words that were not cautiously arranged to, to try to pretend
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that Candace Owens is some Nazi or something, to try to pretend that she's defending Hitler or
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something like that. Here, here is the clip that Ted Lieu played on his cell phone, Democrat
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representative Ted Lieu, before the entire committee to try to shut down Candace Owens.
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I actually don't have any problems at all with the word nationalism. I think that it gets,
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the definition gets poisoned by elitists that actually want globalism. Globalism is what I,
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what I don't want. So when you think about whenever we say nationalism, the first thing people think
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about in, at least in America is Hitler. You know, he was a national socialist, but if Hitler just wanted
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to make Germany great and have things run well, okay, fine. The problem is, is that he wanted,
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he had dreams outside of Germany. He wanted to globalize. He wanted everybody to be German,
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everybody to be speaking German, everybody to look a different way. That's not to me,
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that's not nationalism. Um, so I'm thinking about how it could go bad down the line. I don't really,
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I don't really have an issue with nationalism. I really don't.
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Okay. There it is. There's the big line. Now we will explain exactly what she was actually saying
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in just a second. We'll get to the rest of her excellent testimony, but first you got to go to
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Okay. So Ted Lu plays this. This is supposed to shut it down. Oh, you saw what Candace said about
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Hitler. This person, she talked about Hitler. What did she actually say? Let's say, because what Ted
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Lou wants to do is say, see, she said the word Hitler, huh? She's awful. What did she actually
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say? What she said was the overall point that she's making is that nationalism is different
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from imperialism. This is the point that Joram Hazoni makes in his recent book, excellent book,
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The Virtues of Nationalism. She's saying very often when we use the word nationalism, what we really mean
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is imperialism. And a good example of this is Hitler in Nazi Germany. Because we use nationalism to describe
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the Nazi movement. But in fact, the movement is better described as an imperial movement. What did they do?
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They took over Czechoslovakia. They took over Poland. They took over Austria. They took over France. It was
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entirely about conquest. And so what Candace is saying there is that there is a difference between
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those two things. We are reversing the two terms. We're inverting the two terms. And actually,
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what I oppose is imperialism or globalism, which actually better describes Nazi Germany.
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That's what she's saying. Fair point. Now, where she misspeaks, where she
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could have phrased her language better, is she said, look, if Hitler just wanted to stick around
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Germany, that would have been fine. But it's only because he tried to expand beyond Germany that it
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was bad. Now, what that statement ignores is, of course, the effect of Hitler's policies on religious
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and ethnic minorities in Germany itself. Yes, she missed that. She ignored that. She misspoke.
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Unless you think that Candace Owens is advocating for the Night of the Long Knives. She's advocating for
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anti-Jewish policies all throughout Germany. If she's advocating for oppressing the Jews and other
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minorities in Germany. Unless you think that, I think you have to conclude she misspoke. She's making a
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point that domestic policy is different than international policy. And the issue, by the way,
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she actually sort of addresses this point later, which is that the issue for Hitler is that the
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domestic policy is inextricable from the international policy. The domestic policy is an
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international policy. It's about expanding the size of Germany. That is the broader point.
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And by the way, when we think of the essence of the Nazi agenda, what do we think of? Do we think
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about certain policies within Germany? No, we think about the international policies. All of Nazism was
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fueled by imperialist ambitions. When you think of the Holocaust, what do you think of? You think of
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the smokestacks of Berknau. You think of Auschwitz. Those places are not in Germany. Those places are in
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Nazi-occupied Poland. Some of the worst, most notorious concentration camps were in Poland,
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Czechia, France, Austria. Some as far as Ukraine, right? Some as far as Latvia, right? Those are quite
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far away from Germany. That is the point she's making. No one on earth believes that Candace Owens is
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defending Hitler. And yet, this is the best argument that the Democrats on this committee had against
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Candace Owens. And she, oh, I mean, obviously she didn't have time to kind of explain it as we just
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did. She shuts this guy down in a way that really only she can. Nobody does this better than Candace Owens.
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Ms. Owens, I'm sorry. We just started a recording. Would you like time to respond to that?
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Yes. I think it's pretty apparent that Mr. Liu believes that black people are stupid and will
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not pursue the full clip in its entirety. He purposely presented an extract, an extracted clip.
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Witness will suspend for a moment. It is not proper to refer disparagingly or to a member of the
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committee. The witness will not do that again. Witness may continue. Sure. Even though I was
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called despicable. Witness may not refer to a member of the committee as stupid. I didn't refer
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to him as stupid. That's not what I said. That's not what I said at all. You didn't listen to what I
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said. May I continue? Please. As I said, he is assuming that black people will not go pursue the full
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two hour clip and he purposefully extracted. He cut off and you didn't hear the question that was
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asked of me. He's trying to present as if I was launching a defense of Hitler in Germany, when in
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fact, the question that was asked of me was pertaining to whether or not I believed that Hitler
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was a whether or not I believed in nationalism and that nationalism was bad. And what I responded
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to was that I do not believe that we should be characterizing Hitler as a nationalist.
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Oh my gosh. She's the best part of it, really. So again, this is such a lesson. You have to learn
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this from Candace. Ted Lieu goes up. He's got his best shot. He's got this little tight clip where he's
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trying to make it look like Candace Owens is going out, giving a speech, defending Hitler.
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And instead of trying to explain and explain and explain right away, she said, well, I think it's
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pretty apparent that Ted Lieu thinks blacks are stupid. I think that's pretty apparent.
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Devastating. He also does. She's completely right. He is assuming not just that black people are
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stupid, but the American people are stupid. He's at least assuming that his constituents are stupid
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because they're not going to go look up the clip. They're stupid or they're lazy, I guess is what he
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thinks. And so she calls him out on that, puts him on the defensive. Jerry Nadler, chairman of the
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committee, has to come out and say, no, no, no, I've got to defend Ted Lieu here. So he comes out and he
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says, you, you can't do that. You can't, you can't, that's not appropriate to use words like that.
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You can't disparage people. She says, I was just called despicable. What are you talking about?
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Is it appropriate to call a witness despicable? You, oh, you just can't call a Congress. Okay.
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And he says, well, you can, you called him stupid. Hey, Buster, you got, you got wax in your ears.
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When did I call him stupid? Stupid is as stupid does Jerry Nadler. When, show me on the tape where
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I called him stupid. She didn't. She said, Ted Lieu clearly thinks black people are stupid.
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And Nadler said, you can't call Ted Lieu stupid. Now you have to wonder here is, is Jerry Nadler
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stupid or is he just being obtuse? Is he trying to conflate those two things? And I'm not sure.
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Jerry Nadler is a local New York politician. Jerry Nadler is not the brightest bulb in the pack. Okay.
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His entire career, he just came up through local corrupt machine politics in New York.
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This guy is not, uh, not one of the leading, leading lights of statesmanship. We'll put it that
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way. So he actually may just not understand the difference. If I say that person thinks that that
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person is stupid, he might not understand how that is different from saying you are stupid,
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even though they're obviously completely different things. But then Candace, because she's really good at
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this, she actually lets him sit there. She's like a good, good prosecutor. She, she puts him in the
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place where he has to answer and she's willing to tolerate some silence. So she goes, that's not what
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I said. You, you are misrepresenting what I said. You're lying about what I said. And then she just sits
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there silently staring at him and Nadler is staring back like, you know, weebles wobble, but they don't
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fall down. He just looks like this sad little doll. And he just looks at her and you couldn't see the
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clip. He just sort of was there. He's kind of slumped over and he just goes, and he kind of just shrugs,
00:32:41.860
which is by the way, I mean, that actually, I guess is the answer to the question of whether he's being
00:32:48.000
obtuse or whether he's a little slow is that actually he's just a cynic. He doesn't care what
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the truth is. That's what the shrug is. She said, you are lying. You are lying about what happened
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not 10 seconds ago. And he goes, I don't know. What is truth? I don't know. Give us Barabbas. I don't
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know. What is truth? That's what, that's what that shrug is. That shrug, we did that whole show
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yesterday on Democrat BS, on what BS means, why the left spews BS. It's not that they're
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necessarily intentionally lying or intentionally talking. They don't care about the truth.
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And then she goes on. You can look up the rest of it. It's a fabulous exchange. She does very,
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very well. Some people are nitpicking little points here and there. She should have said this
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better. She said, you know, listen, you're under a lot of pressure here to, to testify before these
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committees. They're throwing in her face, these little answers completely out of context from
00:33:47.920
campus speeches. I thought she handled herself extraordinarily well. It really, really was
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a great advantage to conservatives around the country. Great testimony and a great call, by the
00:33:59.940
way, from Republicans on that committee to bring her in to testify. Because the thing that people
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don't also don't really remember about her, she herself was the victim of what you would call a
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hate crime in high school. This was kind of a well-attested to, well-reported story.
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And then she came out. Obviously, she's much better known now for the Blexit movement,
00:34:22.220
for her conservative commentary, for her conservative speeches. But she really, A plus, A plus outing
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for Candace Owens. It really humiliated Ted Lieu and Jerry Nadler, two guys who deserve to be
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humiliated. Speaking of nationalism, turning not to our own nation, but to a nation in the Middle East,
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Bibi Netanyahu wins again in Israel. Bibi Netanyahu wins an historic fifth term as prime minister of
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Israel. Bibi is the right-wing prime minister of Israel. He's the image of conservatism in Israel,
00:34:57.520
the image of nationalism in Israel. And we were told he's going to lose. Bibi's going down.
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Oh, first of all, you'd think he should at this point. He's already had four terms. Oh,
00:35:08.420
he's going down. The media, they were so sure. Oh, it's going to be, Bibi's going to lose. Trump's
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going to lose. Hillary's going to win. Oh, it's guaranteed. Guaranteed. Then they start reporting.
00:35:20.480
Oh, it looks like Bibi's losing. Bibi's about to lose. Then, oh no, it's kind of evening out.
00:35:25.500
No, then both candidates, Bibi Netanyahu and his opponent, Benny Gantz, both declare victory,
00:35:34.540
but only one of them actually gets victory. And so Bibi declares victory because he actually won.
00:35:39.380
Benny Gantz declares victory because leftists BS all the time. And here is Bibi celebrating.
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I'm very... Taking it back this evening. It's an amazing success that we've had.
00:36:07.360
Big win for Bibi. Big win for Bibi. He goes on, but if you don't speak Hebrew,
00:36:15.220
you know, it gets a little tedious. The mainstream media tell us that everyone is so sick of Trump,
00:36:23.580
Trumpism, conservatism, nationalism, right-wingism. They're so sick of it. Nobody wants that anymore.
00:36:33.020
There's no way. Nobody wants Trump. Nobody wants Bibi. Nobody wants any of the right-wingers who have
00:36:39.060
won in Europe. Then how come all the right-wing candidates keep winning? How's that? It doesn't.
00:36:46.300
It's so weird because I read about how everyone's so sick of the right and yet the right-wingers keep
00:36:52.240
winning at home and abroad. This is another big loss for the media. By the way, Bibi Netanyahu campaigned
00:37:01.760
on Trump and he campaigned with Trump. Big photos of him and Trump smiling. Big events
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geared right around election time with Trump. Very much hitching his wagon to Trump and he won.
00:37:18.320
By the way, by the way, let's not forget this. We talk about collusion. We talk about nationalism. We
00:37:23.780
talk about collusion in other people's elections. Let's not forget that Barack Obama used taxpayer money
00:37:30.320
to try to oust Bibi Netanyahu when he was president. Not that he used his own campaign money. Not that he
00:37:37.400
used his own personal money. Barack Obama, while he was president, used taxpayer funds to try to kick
00:37:42.980
Netanyahu out of office in Israel. Where's that investigation into meddling in people's elections?
00:37:49.940
Barack Obama did a lot more to meddle in that election than the Russians did to meddle in the
00:37:53.800
U.S. elections. At least in terms of spending money on, what did the Russians spend, $100,000
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on Facebook ad buys? Barack Obama spent $350,000 of taxpayer money through the State Department. He
00:38:08.260
funneled it to a group in Israel called One Voice, ostensibly a pro-peace group, BS as always. That group,
00:38:15.960
One Voice, took 350 Gs from the American taxpayer, used that money to build a voter database,
00:38:21.680
to train activists, and to hire a consulting firm that worked for Barack Obama in 2008 to hire that
00:38:29.820
firm to oust Bibi Netanyahu from office in Israel. That's not some crazy conspiracy theory. That's not
00:38:37.020
right-wing fake news. That's not looking down deep in the internet. That's according to the Senate
00:38:42.260
Subcommittee on Investigations. And still we hear from these BS Democrats that
00:38:50.960
interference in a foreign election, oh, heavens to Betsy, let me clutch my pearls. Oh,
00:38:57.680
oh, the horror. I can't even imagine. Oh, the collusion. Oh, my goodness gracious me. Oh,
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no. And by the way, guess what? Netanyahu won. Barack Obama used the force of the most powerful state
00:39:14.720
in the history of the world and the wealth of the most prosperous state in the history of the world
00:39:21.200
to try to oust this guy from office in Israel. And the guy won. And Obama lost. And then,
00:39:29.540
years later, you'd think people would be tired of this guy already.
00:39:33.780
Bibi Netanyahu wins running on Trump and with Trump, with the guy who beat Obama,
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he wins an historic fifth term. Great, great stuff. Speaking of the Jews and people who don't like the
00:39:47.720
Jews, we have to mention Ilhan Omar. Why do we have to mention her? I'd prefer not to mention her. I
00:39:54.340
don't like her very much. But we have to mention her because Newsweek just gave her another magazine
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cover. This is a really an amazing thing. All of these freshman congresswomen who have accomplished
00:40:05.740
very little in their lives. Magazine cover after magazine cover after magazine cover.
00:40:11.720
So she's on the cover of Newsweek. And by the way, this video just surfaced of Ilhan Omar
00:40:17.920
discussing the September 11th terrorist attacks.
00:40:22.040
CARE was founded after 9-11 because they recognized that some people did something
00:40:30.800
and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties.
00:40:38.520
Wow. First of all, I can't believe that this video hasn't made the rounds before.
00:40:43.920
I guess whoever had dug it up was waiting on it.
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This marks the first time a member of Congress has referred to the September 11th terrorist attacks
00:40:54.640
as some people did something. Could we play that again?
00:41:00.000
CARE was founded after 9-11 because they recognized that some people did something
00:41:07.340
and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties.
00:41:19.200
3,000 American civilians killed in a terrorist attack. Biggest terrorist attack in the history
00:41:25.720
of the United States. Civilians going around just doing work. Said goodbye to their kids in the
00:41:32.360
morning. Didn't come home. Some people did something. That woman, that horrible, horrible,
00:41:38.800
horrible woman is in Congress. Some people did something. And, and it's even, it's even worse than
00:41:47.400
that because she describes as the victim, the victim of 9-11 according to Ilhan Omar is Ilhan Omar.
00:41:57.980
She said, some people did something. Who cares about that? What thing? What is it? 3,000 people,
00:42:02.720
3,000 American civilians died. Oh, something happened. And then I lost my civil liberties.
00:42:09.180
By the way, no, you didn't. You're a member of Congress. You didn't lose any, you didn't lose one
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scintilla of a civil liberty. You lost nothing.
00:42:20.180
Some people did something. Ilhan Omar. What a horrible, horrible woman.
00:42:25.860
I can't, I should stop speaking about her because I'll say something that maybe I'll regret or
00:42:33.840
something. That is the most outrageous statement I have ever heard from an American politician in my
00:42:41.300
lifetime or in history. And I'm a student of history. That is so outrageous to hear that.
00:42:48.540
And this woman is being pushed, advocated by the left. She's being raised the cover of glossy
00:42:54.620
magazines. She's a spokesman for the Democrat party for the left wing. She's doing it to defend
00:43:02.760
the Council on American Islamic Relations, which has been defined and categorized by the government
00:43:09.760
of the United Arab Emirates as a terrorist group. It's got ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. It's got
00:43:14.320
ties to Hamas. There she is defending terrorists again. Again, she's done this before. She's defended
00:43:20.160
people who tried to join ISIS, tried to get them lenient sentences. She defends terrorists and then
00:43:27.180
she describes the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history. 3,000 American civilians dead as some
00:43:32.380
people did something. Behold the Democrat party. Behold the American left. Behold the Democrat party.
00:43:43.580
That's the face of it. You know, when you watch Candace Owens speaking, giving congressional
00:43:50.900
testimony, you think, wow, this woman's really fired up. Oh, why is she so fired up? And then you watch
00:44:01.060
her. You watch Ilhan Omar. You watch someone say something like that and you think, wow, the stakes
00:44:07.600
really are pretty high. Wow. There are some really wicked, wicked people saying vicious,
00:44:16.000
evil things, wicked things. Behold the Democrat party. That's our show. I'm flying out to Kansas
00:44:24.680
City, Missouri. I'm going to be giving a speech tomorrow night at University of Missouri, Kansas
00:44:30.320
City. Come check it out. The title is going to be Men Are Not Women. You would think you wouldn't have
00:44:35.360
to defend this sort of thing these days, but you do because it's 2019. So come check it out if you're
00:44:39.400
there. Hopefully, we'll be able to stream it. But if you're in town, I'd love to come see you. In
00:44:42.980
the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. See you then.
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00:45:15.140
Hey, everybody. It's Andrew Klavan, host of The Andrew Klavan Show. The left says white nationalism is
00:45:20.840
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