The Michael Knowles Show


Ep. 329 - Of Course Bernie Is A Millionaire


Summary

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.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 After years and years of vilifying millionaires, socialist gadfly Bernie Sanders prepares finally
00:00:06.860 to release his tax returns. And guess what? Turns out he's a millionaire. We will analyze
00:00:11.640 why socialists always seem to be so interested in accumulating wealth. Then Candace Owens
00:00:17.360 humiliates Democrats Ted Lieu and Jerry Nadler during congressional testimony. Bibi Netanyahu
00:00:22.920 wins an historic third term in Israel. Ilhan Omar says more awful things. And the bloom
00:00:28.340 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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00:02:26.000 The time finally comes for Bernie Sanders to come clean. If you had to describe Bernie
00:02:36.720 Sanders' campaign, Bernie Sanders' entire political career in just one word, how would
00:02:43.780 you describe him?
00:03:00.600 Enough is enough. Enough is enough, Bernie. Enough of the lies. Guess what? It turns out,
00:03:08.000 Bernie Sanders is a millionaire. Of course he's a millionaire. He did an interview with the New
00:03:15.620 York Times and he says that now as he's preparing to run for president 2020, he is finally going to
00:03:21.640 release 10 years worth of his tax returns. Now you might say, Michael, Bernie Sanders ran in 2016.
00:03:29.040 They all made such an issue about the tax returns. Surely Bernie Sanders has already
00:03:34.060 released his tax returns, right? Wrong. No, no, no. As with everything when it comes to socialism,
00:03:40.920 it's always different rules for you than they are for me. Tax returns for thee, but not for me.
00:03:46.840 So Bernie Sanders, while he's been running for president now since what, 2015, basically nonstop,
00:03:54.180 he has released not even one tax return. He released a two-page summary of one year of his
00:04:02.860 tax returns. That's all we know about Bernie's tax returns right now. By the way, I don't care
00:04:07.960 about tax returns. I don't care at all what any of the candidates have done in their tax returns.
00:04:12.880 It does not interest me in the least. I don't think candidates should release their tax returns.
00:04:18.580 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
00:04:24.580 really wealthy and want to run for office. I think that's a noble thing that you've made a lot of money
00:04:28.580 and then decide that you're going to stop making money for a period of time. You're actually going to
00:04:32.020 lose some money to serve your country. I think that's a wonderful thing. I don't ever discourage
00:04:36.600 rich people from running for office. Now, for the Democrats, of course, especially for socialists
00:04:41.720 like Bernie Sanders, they ostensibly hate when wealthy people run for office. They're oligarchs.
00:04:48.620 They're millionaires. They're billionaires. Until it turns out that you're one of those millionaire,
00:04:55.480 billionaire, plutocrat oligarchs as well, aren't you, Bernie?
00:04:58.520 Bernie. So now the Democrats have made tax returns a big deal. Bernie Sanders is in this
00:05:03.860 corner. He has to release his tax returns. So he's now trying to let it leak a little bit slowly.
00:05:08.600 Bernie is a millionaire. I always knew Bernie was a millionaire. There were a number of reasons.
00:05:14.960 In a very personal way, I know that Bernie Sanders has three houses. He has three homes. It's hard to
00:05:20.800 have three homes if you're not a millionaire. I guess by definition, you're a millionaire,
00:05:24.660 especially where Bernie Sanders is living, if you have three homes.
00:05:29.900 But the excuse is what's really incredible. So he says, I'm a millionaire. Yes, I'm a millionaire.
00:05:37.300 Quote, I wrote a bestselling book. If you write a bestselling book, you can be a millionaire too.
00:05:44.260 First of all, by the way, I have to say not to tell tales out of school or anything. I did write a
00:05:48.580 bestselling book. I wrote a number one bestselling book. It was number one on Amazon, total charts
00:05:54.760 everywhere for a week and a half. I haven't made a million dollars on that book. Bernie Sanders has
00:06:00.300 made more money on his books than I have. Now, I assume his books were just bought by various
00:06:04.860 Democrat political action committees and that sort of thing to float his presidential campaign. But
00:06:09.560 still, the statement he made is not true. I wrote a bestselling book. If you write a bestselling
00:06:13.140 book, you can be a millionaire too. I guess you can be. But how come that's okay for Bernie,
00:06:19.660 but it's not okay for other people? How come it's okay when Bernie makes a million dollars on the
00:06:25.100 private market, or in the open market rather, in private enterprise, but it's not okay when other
00:06:31.340 people do? It's okay if you write a bestselling book, then it's okay to be a millionaire. But if you
00:06:36.800 start a company that makes widgets, then it's not okay to be a millionaire. If you're a plumber who has a
00:06:42.040 successful plumbing company, then it's not okay to be a millionaire. If you work in finance and you
00:06:48.000 add liquidity to markets, then it's not okay to be a millionaire. Any other field, it's not okay.
00:06:54.240 It's terrible. The millionaires are destroying this country. Too many millionaires and billionaires
00:06:57.940 unless you write a bestselling book. What is it about bestselling books? Let me tell you something.
00:07:02.320 There are a lot of bestselling books. Most of them are completely worthless. Bernie Sanders's book
00:07:06.900 is completely worthless. He has added very little to society by producing that book. He's probably
00:07:13.800 just damaged some forests by wasting trees. Does anyone really believe that Bernie Sanders's book
00:07:19.700 has made a greater contribution to society, has improved the lives of people more than the car
00:07:25.900 company or the vacuum cleaner company or any of the other companies, any enterprise that allows people
00:07:35.840 to thrive and buy goods and services for their friends and family? That's an amazing excuse.
00:07:41.380 So I knew Bernie was a millionaire. I mean, I knew he wrote the book, so I knew he was a millionaire.
00:07:46.220 But moreover, I knew Bernie was a millionaire because he just, he just protests a little too much
00:07:53.100 about socialism. This is the funny thing with socialism. The other, we were talking about this. I was talking
00:07:58.320 to sweet little Elisa about this and she said, but Mac, if Bernie's a big socialist, shouldn't he give
00:08:03.960 away all of his money? Of course he should. Sweet, sweet, sweet little Elisa. Of course, you're thinking
00:08:11.140 too rationally. You're thinking too logically. You're accepting the premises of socialists at face
00:08:17.780 value and following their ideas to a logical conclusion. That's not what socialism is about at
00:08:22.600 all. That is certainly not what socialism is about. Socialism is not about giving away wealth.
00:08:28.160 Socialism is about the acquisition of wealth. It is never about sharing wealth. Sharing wealth is
00:08:35.740 called charity. People who want to share their wealth give money away to charity. They give it to
00:08:41.220 the bum on the street. They give it to their church. They give it to non-profit organizations and
00:08:44.800 charities. Socialism is about accumulation. It's about the accumulation of wealth and the accumulation of
00:08:51.580 power. It's about saying, ooh, too many people have too many things out there. We are going to not give
00:08:59.000 anything away. We're going to take that wealth away from them and concentrate it in the hands of a small
00:09:04.840 number of people, also known as the government. That's socialism. Conservatives think there's some
00:09:11.140 contradiction with millionaire socialists. No, of course a socialist is going to be a millionaire.
00:09:16.760 All a socialist is concerned with is taking money, bringing in money, accumulating money. You'll
00:09:23.920 notice most of the people who are pushing socialism are extremely wealthy. Bernie Sanders is a millionaire.
00:09:29.640 All of the leaders of the Democrat party are millionaires. Hillary Clinton, multi-multi-millionaire,
00:09:35.920 huge slush funds, basically used a non-profit organization as a personal slush fund. How about
00:09:42.820 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez? She's just 29 years old. She was a bartender living in her parents' house not
00:09:48.260 three years ago. She's been in government for two months. She's already taking $1 million out of her
00:09:56.660 campaign and funneling it to her own uses. She is already embezzling a million dollars. She's been
00:10:03.660 in office for two months. That's what socialism does. It's about taking in, bringing in. That's not
00:10:10.540 even an irony. We know it from the beginning. This is what Winston Churchill said. He said that
00:10:16.660 socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy. It's all about
00:10:23.840 greed. It's not about charity at all. If you like charity, then you give to charity. You actually
00:10:30.260 don't want someone stealing your money because you know that they're not going to put it to nearly as
00:10:34.300 good a use as you are going to put it to. Socialism at no point engages the faculties of charity or
00:10:42.560 empathy or generosity. None of those things. It exclusively engages avarice, greed, and envy,
00:10:51.020 and acquisitiveness. The great example, Dinesh D'Souza used to use this example all the time.
00:10:56.020 If I'm walking along the street, I'm walking on the sidewalk here, and I see some bum, and he's some
00:11:03.840 just degenerate, drug-addled, lazy bum, and I'm eating a sandwich, and he says, hey, can I have that
00:11:10.900 sandwich? I like my sandwich. I've got my sandwich here. But I say, you know, here. Here's half my
00:11:16.580 sandwich. Now, I am glad that I have done some charity. I've treated you with compassion. You have a
00:11:24.800 gratitude toward me because I've given you a sandwich that I didn't need to give you, and there's a nice
00:11:29.340 moral exchange that happened. On the flip side, I'm walking down the street, do-do-do-do-do, eating my
00:11:35.860 sandwich. Then millionaire Bernie Sanders comes up on his white horse, and he points a gun at my head,
00:11:41.200 and he says, give him that sandwich. I say, you give him your sandwich. You're the millionaire. You give
00:11:45.600 him a sandwich. No, no. You give him your sandwich right now. So then I've got to give the bum my sandwich.
00:11:52.700 sandwich. I resent the bum for taking my sandwich. I certainly resent Bernie Sanders for making me do
00:11:58.740 it. The bum isn't grateful to me. The bum, I guess, is sort of grateful or at least dependent on Bernie
00:12:04.020 Sanders, and he feels entitled to my sandwich. His only attitude toward me is one of entitlement,
00:12:11.840 as though he deserves my sandwich. And Bernie Sanders, it cost him nothing. Millionaire Bernie.
00:12:17.360 Bernie. That's socialism for you. And Bernie is exposing it. And by the way, it is not going to
00:12:25.800 change one single voter's calculation. People who think, ha ha, yes, now Bernie's exposed as a
00:12:35.340 millionaire. Yes, this will show that he's a hypocrite. No, it won't. In a narrow way, it will.
00:12:42.000 But socialists don't care about that. Socialists do not want to share the wealth. Socialists want to
00:12:51.740 take the wealth. And Bernie is a prime example of that. Take the wealth by any means necessary,
00:12:58.880 even if it means contradicting your public statements for 40 years. When the leftists are
00:13:04.500 not exposing themselves as Bernie Sanders is doing, Candace Owens is doing it for them. Candace Owens
00:13:11.660 testified. Our friend Candace, we've had her on the show a number of times. She testified before
00:13:18.780 Congress yesterday. It was so beautiful. She was testifying on white nationalism. You might say,
00:13:25.520 that's a little strange. Why is Candace Owens testifying on white nationalism? Well, I think
00:13:30.020 it was a masterstroke by Republicans. She can tell you why she did it. But the question of white
00:13:35.000 nationalism is totally ginned up by Democrats. What is white nationalism? What is it? A white
00:13:43.720 nationalism actually does have a meaning. It means that you advocate for a white ethnic state,
00:13:51.480 and specifically in America. That's what white nationalism in America means. Okay,
00:13:54.980 that has a specific meaning. You want a white ethnic state. Depends on exactly the definition of
00:14:02.080 white, but broadly speaking, we know what we mean by white people. You want a white ethnic state.
00:14:06.360 You want everybody else to leave. How many people in this country actually advocate for that?
00:14:14.460 Like five? Maybe a dozen people in this country? How many people actually are advocating for a white
00:14:22.200 ethnic state and the deportation of everybody else in the country? Nobody. Virtually nobody,
00:14:30.080 statistically nobody in this country is advocating that. It is not a problem. It is a non-issue,
00:14:36.340 except the Democrats need to make this an issue. So the Democrats are using this phrase all the time.
00:14:44.240 I'm telling you, white nationalism actually does have a precise meaning,
00:14:47.720 except in our popular culture today, it has no meaning. It has been totally robbed of meaning.
00:14:53.100 Whenever anybody says it to you, it means nothing. It means, well, you're a meanie. You're bad.
00:14:57.340 You're bad. You're bad. You're bad. It's the new racist. Racist used to have a meaning. Now it
00:15:02.720 doesn't. White supremacist used to have a meaning. Now it doesn't because they call everybody to the
00:15:07.980 right of Hillary Clinton, a white nationalist or a white supremacist or a white racist or this or that
00:15:13.620 or the other thing. Ilan Omar called Stephen Miller, a white nationalist. Stephen Miller, I will remind
00:15:21.640 you, is a Jew. White nationalists, generally speaking, not huge fans of the Yamaha. But
00:15:32.560 she'll call Stephen Miller a white nationalist. And why does she do that? Because what you really
00:15:36.500 mean by white nationalist, when the left uses it, is somebody with whom I disagree on basically
00:15:43.060 anything. That's white nationalism. So they bring this term up. They've made this term very popular.
00:15:49.520 They've been popularizing it a lot since 2016. And they bring Candace Owens before Congress.
00:15:56.480 Democrats did not know what hit them when the tornado of Candace Owens tore through the Capitol.
00:16:04.940 There isn't a single adult today that in good conscience would make the argument that America
00:16:09.180 is a more racist or a more white nationalist society than it was when my grandfather was growing up.
00:16:15.220 And yet we're hearing these terms sent around today because what they want to say is that brown
00:16:20.440 people need to be scared, which seems to be the narrative that we hear every four years right
00:16:25.920 ahead of a presidential election. Here are some things we never hear. 75% of the black boys in
00:16:31.960 California don't meet state reading standards. In inner cities like Baltimore, within five high
00:16:37.120 schools and one middle school, not a single student was found to be proficient in math or reading
00:16:41.040 in 2016. The single motherhood rate in the black community, which is at 23% in the 1960s when my
00:16:48.500 grandfather was coming up, is at a staggering 74% today. I am guessing there will be no committee
00:16:54.040 hearings about that. There are more black babies aborted than born alive in cities like New York.
00:17:01.360 And you have Democrat Governor Andrew Cuomo lighting up buildings to celebrate late-term abortions.
00:17:07.220 I could go on and on. My point is that white nationalism, white nationalism does not do any
00:17:12.120 of those things that I just brought up. Democrat policies did. Let me be clear. The hearing today
00:17:18.060 is not about white nationalism or hate crimes. It's about fear-mongering power and control.
00:17:25.260 Absolutely devastating and such a brilliant tactic. So she acknowledges the issue here,
00:17:35.760 which is that white nationalism barely exists in America. It is virtually non-existent as an
00:17:43.240 ideology in the United States. They're holding a big hearing because Democrats want to pretend that
00:17:48.960 Donald Trump is some anti-black bigot or anti-Hispanic bigot or whatever. She goes up and she doesn't just
00:17:57.600 refute their argument. She doesn't just say, no, but it's not because of this, because of this,
00:18:03.320 and no, and then Trump did this and see, so it's not that. No. What Candace understands is what
00:18:08.260 Ronald Reagan used to say, which is that when you're explaining, you're losing. In a political
00:18:12.680 battle, in a political debate, when you are explaining, you're explaining yourself away. You
00:18:18.460 are losing. So what she does is she goes on the attack. She says, why is it the case that out of
00:18:27.040 wedlock births, single motherhood among black Americans was 23, 25% decades ago? Now it's 74%.
00:18:36.740 Why is, is that white nationalism's fault? Why is it that in, in New York city today,
00:18:44.980 more black babies are killed in the womb than are born? And white liberals are cheering on that policy.
00:18:51.660 Oh, they're donating millions to Planned Parenthood. Kill those black babies. We don't want too many
00:18:57.620 of those young, poor black babies running around. Kill all the, what is that white nationalism or is
00:19:04.140 that the policy of the Democrat party? And is that the policy of leftists? Is that white Nash? I don't
00:19:11.620 think so. She goes on and on. Obviously she could go on and on and on. Thomas Sowell has written several
00:19:17.160 books on this exact point, which I suspect is where she got her arguments from. And, and Candace has
00:19:25.080 all of the rhetorical abilities to convey this message. She obviously is black. She has a certain
00:19:34.220 ethos here. She has a certain credibility because she's speaking from the black experience in America.
00:19:39.160 She has the pathos. She's, she's very good at connecting emotionally to people. And she has the
00:19:47.820 logical side of the argument too. She's just pointing to statistics. She's pointing to different
00:19:52.480 periods of history. She's showing before and after. She's saying, what's the difference? Is the
00:19:56.880 difference the Ku Klux Klan? Is the difference David Duke? Is the difference Richard Spencer? Or is
00:20:02.500 the difference left-wing policies from the federal government, from the federal level, all the way on down?
00:20:09.160 And particularly accentuated in cities that are run by left-wing Democrats, such as New York.
00:20:21.320 Brilliant opening, totally shuts it down. And she just comes out swinging. She's just punching,
00:20:27.000 punching, punching. So now the Democrats are, are on their toes. They don't, they did not expect this.
00:20:33.080 So now they, they start to go after her.
00:20:36.540 The biggest scandal, this is my last sentence, in American politics is that Democrats have been
00:20:41.280 conning minorities into belief that we are perpetual victims, all but ensuring our failure.
00:20:46.640 Racial division and class warfare are central to the Democrat party platform. They need blacks to
00:20:51.860 hate whites, the rich to hate the poor. And soon enough, it'll be the tall hating the short.
00:20:56.280 Oh my gosh. We didn't, we'll get to the Democrats hitting her in a second.
00:21:00.760 That last line that is, they want the blacks to hate the whites. They want the rich to hate the
00:21:05.980 poor and the poor to hate the rich. They want the tall to hate the short. They want to divide
00:21:10.240 everybody. And it's Democrats who have done it. She is taking the fight right to them. She's not
00:21:14.460 speaking in nice, polite political campaign terms. She's speaking in blunt terms. This is a lesson
00:21:20.720 that a lot of people can learn from Donald Trump. Before that, they could learn it from Ronald Reagan,
00:21:25.680 actually. Ronald Reagan spoke in blunt terms. He spoke actually in these exact terms. He said,
00:21:30.280 well, we've gotten to a point in our society where, I'm paraphrasing, obviously, we've gotten to a
00:21:35.920 point in our society where you can't look at a rich, a fat man and a skinny man and not think that the
00:21:43.580 fat man got that way by taking from the skinny man. Well, Nancy, I'll get fat on jelly beans.
00:21:50.140 Mm-hmm. That, this, it's from a time for choosing, right? Not the jelly bean part. This is from Ronald
00:21:56.260 Reagan's most famous address. It's what launched him as a national political figure. And Candace is
00:22:01.140 learning this exact rhetorical lesson. And that, that, and by the way, she has the advantage of being
00:22:07.500 correct. So she's right about that point on Democrats. So now the Democrats, they just have to use
00:22:12.720 everything they've got on her. The one thing they've got is at one of these campus speaking events,
00:22:18.100 Candace Owens was asked a question about nationalism and Nazism and Hitler. And isn't,
00:22:25.160 if you're a nationalist, aren't you a, a Hitler supporter? And so Candace Owens here draws a
00:22:31.720 distinction between nationalism and Nazism. And this went viral. It was taken out of context.
00:22:39.180 The, the Democrats honed in on a few words that were not cautiously arranged to, to try to pretend
00:22:48.920 that Candace Owens is some Nazi or something, to try to pretend that she's defending Hitler or
00:22:55.340 something like that. Here, here is the clip that Ted Lieu played on his cell phone, Democrat
00:23:00.740 representative Ted Lieu, before the entire committee to try to shut down Candace Owens.
00:23:06.420 I actually don't have any problems at all with the word nationalism. I think that it gets,
00:23:11.100 the definition gets poisoned by elitists that actually want globalism. Globalism is what I,
00:23:17.240 what I don't want. So when you think about whenever we say nationalism, the first thing people think
00:23:21.040 about in, at least in America is Hitler. You know, he was a national socialist, but if Hitler just wanted
00:23:26.540 to make Germany great and have things run well, okay, fine. The problem is, is that he wanted,
00:23:31.260 he had dreams outside of Germany. He wanted to globalize. He wanted everybody to be German,
00:23:35.780 everybody to be speaking German, everybody to look a different way. That's not to me,
00:23:39.160 that's not nationalism. Um, so I'm thinking about how it could go bad down the line. I don't really,
00:23:45.300 I don't really have an issue with nationalism. I really don't.
00:23:48.180 Okay. There it is. There's the big line. Now we will explain exactly what she was actually saying
00:23:55.420 in just a second. We'll get to the rest of her excellent testimony, but first you got to go to
00:23:58.880 dailywire.com. You know what you get. You get all the shows, the Andrew Klayman show, the Ben Shapiro show,
00:24:02.840 my show, the Matt Wolfe show. You get to ask questions in the mailbag, get those in for
00:24:06.200 Thursday. You get to ask questions on backstage. You get another kingdom. You get everything. You
00:24:11.680 get the leftist tears Tumblr and you need this baby before we get to the rest of Candace's testimony
00:24:17.360 before Congress. You need this Tumblr or you will drown. Stick around. We'll be right back.
00:24:23.440 Okay. So Ted Lu plays this. This is supposed to shut it down. Oh, you saw what Candace said about
00:24:40.100 Hitler. This person, she talked about Hitler. What did she actually say? Let's say, because what Ted
00:24:49.840 Lou wants to do is say, see, she said the word Hitler, huh? She's awful. What did she actually
00:24:53.580 say? What she said was the overall point that she's making is that nationalism is different
00:25:00.480 from imperialism. This is the point that Joram Hazoni makes in his recent book, excellent book,
00:25:06.520 The Virtues of Nationalism. She's saying very often when we use the word nationalism, what we really mean
00:25:12.940 is imperialism. And a good example of this is Hitler in Nazi Germany. Because we use nationalism to describe
00:25:23.600 the Nazi movement. But in fact, the movement is better described as an imperial movement. What did they do?
00:25:30.740 They took over Czechoslovakia. They took over Poland. They took over Austria. They took over France. It was
00:25:38.100 entirely about conquest. And so what Candace is saying there is that there is a difference between
00:25:45.520 those two things. We are reversing the two terms. We're inverting the two terms. And actually,
00:25:52.880 what I oppose is imperialism or globalism, which actually better describes Nazi Germany.
00:26:00.140 That's what she's saying. Fair point. Now, where she misspeaks, where she
00:26:07.460 could have phrased her language better, is she said, look, if Hitler just wanted to stick around
00:26:12.420 Germany, that would have been fine. But it's only because he tried to expand beyond Germany that it
00:26:17.240 was bad. Now, what that statement ignores is, of course, the effect of Hitler's policies on religious
00:26:25.320 and ethnic minorities in Germany itself. Yes, she missed that. She ignored that. She misspoke.
00:26:32.160 Unless you think that Candace Owens is advocating for the Night of the Long Knives. She's advocating for
00:26:40.480 anti-Jewish policies all throughout Germany. If she's advocating for oppressing the Jews and other
00:26:48.640 minorities in Germany. Unless you think that, I think you have to conclude she misspoke. She's making a
00:26:55.240 point that domestic policy is different than international policy. And the issue, by the way,
00:27:04.320 she actually sort of addresses this point later, which is that the issue for Hitler is that the
00:27:10.440 domestic policy is inextricable from the international policy. The domestic policy is an
00:27:16.000 international policy. It's about expanding the size of Germany. That is the broader point.
00:27:20.440 And by the way, when we think of the essence of the Nazi agenda, what do we think of? Do we think
00:27:27.840 about certain policies within Germany? No, we think about the international policies. All of Nazism was
00:27:34.900 fueled by imperialist ambitions. When you think of the Holocaust, what do you think of? You think of
00:27:39.700 the smokestacks of Berknau. You think of Auschwitz. Those places are not in Germany. Those places are in
00:27:47.000 Nazi-occupied Poland. Some of the worst, most notorious concentration camps were in Poland,
00:27:55.600 Czechia, France, Austria. Some as far as Ukraine, right? Some as far as Latvia, right? Those are quite
00:28:07.840 far away from Germany. That is the point she's making. No one on earth believes that Candace Owens is
00:28:12.880 defending Hitler. And yet, this is the best argument that the Democrats on this committee had against
00:28:20.120 Candace Owens. And she, oh, I mean, obviously she didn't have time to kind of explain it as we just
00:28:27.020 did. She shuts this guy down in a way that really only she can. Nobody does this better than Candace Owens.
00:28:38.580 Ms. Owens, I'm sorry. We just started a recording. Would you like time to respond to that?
00:28:44.320 Yes. I think it's pretty apparent that Mr. Liu believes that black people are stupid and will
00:28:48.820 not pursue the full clip in its entirety. He purposely presented an extract, an extracted clip.
00:28:55.360 Witness will suspend for a moment. It is not proper to refer disparagingly or to a member of the
00:29:03.120 committee. The witness will not do that again. Witness may continue. Sure. Even though I was
00:29:09.440 called despicable. Witness may not refer to a member of the committee as stupid. I didn't refer
00:29:14.820 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
00:29:19.700 said. May I continue? Please. As I said, he is assuming that black people will not go pursue the full
00:29:28.340 two hour clip and he purposefully extracted. He cut off and you didn't hear the question that was
00:29:33.360 asked of me. He's trying to present as if I was launching a defense of Hitler in Germany, when in
00:29:37.860 fact, the question that was asked of me was pertaining to whether or not I believed that Hitler
00:29:42.380 was a whether or not I believed in nationalism and that nationalism was bad. And what I responded
00:29:47.480 to was that I do not believe that we should be characterizing Hitler as a nationalist.
00:29:52.080 Oh my gosh. She's the best part of it, really. So again, this is such a lesson. You have to learn
00:29:59.820 this from Candace. Ted Lieu goes up. He's got his best shot. He's got this little tight clip where he's
00:30:05.700 trying to make it look like Candace Owens is going out, giving a speech, defending Hitler.
00:30:09.800 And instead of trying to explain and explain and explain right away, she said, well, I think it's
00:30:14.400 pretty apparent that Ted Lieu thinks blacks are stupid. I think that's pretty apparent.
00:30:18.280 Devastating. He also does. She's completely right. He is assuming not just that black people are
00:30:24.740 stupid, but the American people are stupid. He's at least assuming that his constituents are stupid
00:30:29.620 because they're not going to go look up the clip. They're stupid or they're lazy, I guess is what he
00:30:33.780 thinks. And so she calls him out on that, puts him on the defensive. Jerry Nadler, chairman of the
00:30:38.820 committee, has to come out and say, no, no, no, I've got to defend Ted Lieu here. So he comes out and he
00:30:43.240 says, you, you can't do that. You can't, you can't, that's not appropriate to use words like that.
00:30:49.900 You can't disparage people. She says, I was just called despicable. What are you talking about?
00:30:54.440 Is it appropriate to call a witness despicable? You, oh, you just can't call a Congress. Okay.
00:31:00.060 And he says, well, you can, you called him stupid. Hey, Buster, you got, you got wax in your ears.
00:31:07.220 When did I call him stupid? Stupid is as stupid does Jerry Nadler. When, show me on the tape where
00:31:13.120 I called him stupid. She didn't. She said, Ted Lieu clearly thinks black people are stupid.
00:31:20.640 And Nadler said, you can't call Ted Lieu stupid. Now you have to wonder here is, is Jerry Nadler
00:31:26.300 stupid or is he just being obtuse? Is he trying to conflate those two things? And I'm not sure.
00:31:31.620 Jerry Nadler is a local New York politician. Jerry Nadler is not the brightest bulb in the pack. Okay.
00:31:37.000 His entire career, he just came up through local corrupt machine politics in New York.
00:31:42.020 This guy is not, uh, not one of the leading, leading lights of statesmanship. We'll put it that
00:31:47.600 way. So he actually may just not understand the difference. If I say that person thinks that that
00:31:55.840 person is stupid, he might not understand how that is different from saying you are stupid,
00:32:01.060 even though they're obviously completely different things. But then Candace, because she's really good at
00:32:06.600 this, she actually lets him sit there. She's like a good, good prosecutor. She, she puts him in the
00:32:14.100 place where he has to answer and she's willing to tolerate some silence. So she goes, that's not what
00:32:18.420 I said. You, you are misrepresenting what I said. You're lying about what I said. And then she just sits
00:32:26.440 there silently staring at him and Nadler is staring back like, you know, weebles wobble, but they don't
00:32:32.300 fall down. He just looks like this sad little doll. And he just looks at her and you couldn't see the
00:32:37.520 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
00:32:54.480 the truth is. That's what the shrug is. She said, you are lying. You are lying about what happened
00:32:59.400 not 10 seconds ago. And he goes, I don't know. What is truth? I don't know. Give us Barabbas. I don't
00:33:05.900 know. What is truth? That's what, that's what that shrug is. That shrug, we did that whole show
00:33:12.000 yesterday on Democrat BS, on what BS means, why the left spews BS. It's not that they're
00:33:19.880 necessarily intentionally lying or intentionally talking. They don't care about the truth.
00:33:25.320 And then she goes on. You can look up the rest of it. It's a fabulous exchange. She does very,
00:33:33.280 very well. Some people are nitpicking little points here and there. She should have said this
00:33:37.360 better. She said, you know, listen, you're under a lot of pressure here to, to testify before these
00:33:42.720 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
00:33:54.360 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
00:34:05.280 don't also don't really remember about her, she herself was the victim of what you would call a
00:34:09.940 hate crime in high school. This was kind of a well-attested to, well-reported story.
00:34:17.580 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
00:34:27.820 for Candace Owens. It really humiliated Ted Lieu and Jerry Nadler, two guys who deserve to be
00:34:34.500 humiliated. Speaking of nationalism, turning not to our own nation, but to a nation in the Middle East,
00:34:42.080 Bibi Netanyahu wins again in Israel. Bibi Netanyahu wins an historic fifth term as prime minister of
00:34:49.040 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.
00:35:02.920 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
00:35:15.000 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.
00:35:44.600 I'm very... Taking it back this evening. It's an amazing success that we've had.
00:36:04.580 And we have come to this time.
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
00:37:08.380 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
00:38:00.380 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,
00:39:05.200 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,
00:39:41.520 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
00:40:00.740 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.
00:40:46.560 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.
00:41:13.140 Some people did something.
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
00:42:13.820 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 on the rise. I say their real object is silencing conservative speech. We'll talk about that.
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